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Julian Bliss is the internationally known classical clarinetist leading the Julian Bliss Septet in a jazz concert titled A Tribute to Benny Goodman Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ford Center.

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Brad Paisley's concert last Sunday was a great starting point for The Pavilion at Ole Miss. It showed what the new facility could offer large musical artists looking to tour in the South.

University of Mississippi Museum opens exhibit featuring internationally recognized quilter, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry.

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Paisley concert at The Pavilion deemed a success

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Ever since the grand opening on Jan. 7, The Pavilion at Ole Miss has been turning heads. Basketball fans have been floored by the new $96.5 million facility, while TV broadcasters covering the games have raved about the venue at the same time.

Last Sunday, country music artist Brad Paisley and Cam performed the first concert in the new building, which was deemed to be very influential to land future acts.

“I think our perspective, it was a great success,” said Chris Helsel, the general manager of IMG Sports Marketing. “For one thing, we got the feel for the acoustics of the building which came off very well if you asked or polled the people that experienced it. Two, it gave us an opportunity

to see the layout and how The Pavilion would look as different artists would look to come here. All those people in that industry talk to each other and so it gave us the proving ground to say that we have this first-class facility that we attract some good entertainment and musical acts to in the near future.”

The concert was free, but Helsel said the estimate was between 6,500 and 7,000 who attended the concert.

“It was a free concert and we talked about having about 2,000 on the floor and then the rest of the seating bowl,” Helsel said. “I thought it was a good first showing for what was a free event on a Sunday night in Oxford and the students having just gotten back to campus. I think we had some things working against us, but it turned out to be a great event.”

Helsel didn’t talk with Paisley individu-

ally, but it was clear that he was having a great time up there, he said.

“He had fun interacting with the fans and inviting people on stage at various points throughout the night,” Helsel said.

“He has embraced the collegiate fan base with the fall that he did at various college campus the Friday nights before football games. I think this is technically going to be his only date in the college basketball circuit. He has really embraced the idea of bring music and college athletics together. He’s a great artist to put in front of our fan base.”

Paisley’s manager, Bill Simmons, is an Ole Miss graduate and Helsel give him most of the credit for getting him to Oxford.

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Students in Oxford School District will start the 2016-17 fall semester Aug. 8. New teachers will undergo orientation on Aug. 1, with other teachers beginning their work Aug. 2.

Dec. 20 will be the last day of the fall semester, and the second semester will resume Jan. 4 for teachers and Jan. 5 for students.

The last day of class for the school year will be May 25, and Graduation will be held May 26.

Holidays and breaks include Labor Day (Sept. 5), Fall Break (Oct. 7 and 10), Thanksgiving (Nov. 21-25), Christmas (Dec. 21-Jan. 3), Martin Luther King Day (Jan. 16), Spring Break (March 13-17), Good Friday and Easter (April 14 and 17) and Late Spring Break (May 5). In addition, students will be off on Feb. 20 while teachers have another professional development day.

If inclement weather forces school closings, makeup days will be April 17 and May 5.

Dementia support group The Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Caregiver Support Group will meet Feb. 8, 6 to 7:30 p.m., at Brookdale of Oxford, 100 Azalea Drive. Guest speaker Dr. Scott Wilks, Ph.D., LMSW, is the gerontology certificate program coordinator and associate professor with LSU School of Social Work. He will speak on “Grief, Guilt, and Bereavement: Now and Later,”

including a Q&A session.

In conjunction with the UM Department of Social Work and Brookdale of Oxford, the Support Group will ?commemorate the start of its 31st year of ongoing monthly group meetings with this program as the nation’s longest continually running dementia support group. Organizers thank Brookdale for graciously providing the Azalea Room and refreshments for the program.

Current caregivers who want to bring their loved one should contact joannoquin@gmail.com in advance, as Home Instead Senior Care has offered to provide a caregiver to be in the lobby if needed?.

YAC to host workshops The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council hosts a series of workshops for artists to help build the business side of their craft.

The next workshop, scheduled for Tuesday, provides visual artists with the chance to hear from regional gallery owners.

“This was one of our most popular workshops last year,” said Meghan Gallagher, who coordinates outreach and community programming for the Arts Council. “This workshop offered a networking opportunity for local artists with gallery owners, as well as some direct conversation about how to approach and present works for exhibit.”

The workshops are open and free to the public; those planning to attend should register for the event so the speakers can

plan for handouts and materials. Gallery owners will share their insights and how they program the gallery spaces.

Speakers this year will be Kim Caron from the Caron Gallery in Tupelo, Vivian Neill of Oxford Treehouse Gallery, Maker’s Market and nationally recognized artist and gallery owner, Herbert Pinkney of Marshall Arts in Memphis.

“We appreciate that owners and artists take this time to connect,” said arts council Director Wayne Andrews. “I think it is important for an artist to hear how various galleries sustain themselves while gallery owners get to hear input and ideas from regional artists.”

The event ends with a small reception so that there is an opportunity for networking.

“Our goal with this programs is to build a network that supports both the artist and art spaces,” Gallagher added.

The workshops are offered quarterly and are free. The Artist Retreat with regional gallery owners will be at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center on Tuesday, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Artists can register online for the free program at www.oxfordarts.com or by calling (662) 236-6429.

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Julian Bliss Septet to perform at Ford Center Thursday Julian Bliss is the internationally known classical clarinetist leading the Julian Bliss Septet in a jazz concert titled A Tribute to Benny Goodman Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ford Center. Bliss is 26 years old and has been playing the clarinet for 22 years.The England native has toured all over the world performing and has even played for the British Royal Family.

Bliss sat down with us for a phone interview while he was taking a break from the National Association of Music Merchants’ trade show in Los Angeles.

CHANING GREEN: How did you get started playing the clarinet?

JULIAN BLISS: I started when I was 4. A lot of people tend to think that I come from a musical family. Often when people start that young, everyone tends to think that their parents forced them in to it, but, in my case, that couldn’t be further from the truth. I come from a rather non-musical family, and one day I just decided that music was something I wanted to do. I don’t know where or how or why. I think I just must’ve heard music somewhere and decided I wanted to it.

At that age I didn’t know what instrument I wanted to play. I tried everything. I tried out pretty much every instrument under the sun. In the end someone handed me a clarinet and that was it.

I’m from England. Just north of London. It’s a very nice place for music and London has a huge music scene. It’s always great to go and listen to as many concerts as possible when I’m there. I spend a huge amount of my life traveling all over the world, which is fantastic. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I don’t get to spend a huge amount of time at home, but it’s a very nice place.

GREEN: When did you realize you wanted to be a musician?

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BLISS: When I was 12, I was asked to play for the Queen. That is such a huge honor. I had already been gravitating toward [this career choice] for a long time before that. I was well on my way to having a career as a musician and just didn’t know it yet. I took me a while to have that moment of realization that I could do this forever. It wasn’t until the moment I had finished the concert for the Queen and I looked out into the audience of 12,000 people and I thought, “Wow. This is special.”

That’s the moment I decided I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.

GREEN: Why this musician?

BLISS: I’ve always been a classical player and always will be. Classical is predominately what I have done and will do. But I started looking into the possibility of recording some of the works that Benny Goodman had commissioned from classical musicians. Then I started to think that it would be fun to arrange some of his pieces for clarinet and orchestra. That sort of took me on a journey. I rediscovered a CD I had got as a child in the US. I began listening to it and realized that the better idea would be to get together a group of musicians that are already firmly established in the jazz world. That’s where it started. I had never played a note of jazz in my life, to be honest. It was a steep learning curve. It was a challenge but I’ve always been one to search out challenges. It’s kinda what keeps you going as a musician, always trying to better yourself.

What happened after that was I met up with Neil Thornton, who’s the pianist in the band, and we got together and started talking. He’s been instrumental in helping me put this whole thing together.

We started with some ideas and arranged a few tunes and then it became a case of putting the band together and seeing what it sounded like. At this stage it was fairly new for me. With all these guys in the room, I didn’t compare to them. I didn’t know what I was doing, to be honest. These guys had been playing for years and are some of the absolute best. Some of the best jazz musicians we have in England and, in my opinion the world. They’re just phenomenal. It was eye opening and I loved it. I thought, “Hey, we’ve got something here.” This was back in 2010 or so.

GREEN:When did the band start to come together?

BLISS: We tried lots of different musicians trying to find the ones that worked well together. So much of jazz is the relationships of musicians on stage. There’s so much communication that goes on without talking to each other. I think it’s almost vital that you get along on a social level. It actually didn’t take long for us to find the right musicians and, once we did, we knew we were on to something.

We started to play and we went all over Europe and the UK and now is our first foray into the US. We’re all looking forward to it. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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MISTIE ROBINSON Mrs.Mistie Renee Carter Robinson, 48,passed away Wednesday,Jan.27, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. The funeral service was Saturday, Jan. 30 at First Baptist Church with Dr. Eric Hankins, Dr. Robert Allen and Rev.Jeff Holeman officiating. Burial followed in Oak Forest Cemetery in Randolph.Waller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorial contributions in Mistie’s memory may be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 140800, Nashville, TN 37214-0800 or First Baptist Church Building Fund, 800 Van Buren Avenue, Oxford, MS 38655.

JOHNNY RAY SIDES Johnny Ray Sides, 52, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 at Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. Funeral Services were held Friday, Jan. 29 at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Bro. Herbert Luther officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery in Ashland. Coleman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

DEMERICK TOLES Demerick Toles, passed away Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 while in Methodist University Hospital in Memphis.

Where should a parking garage go?

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

Working toward a solid recommendation for the location of a projected garage for downtown Oxford, members of the Downtown Parking Commission on Friday brainstormed the pros and cons of each of three possible sites – behind City Hall, behind the Oxford-University Club, and on the northeast corner of Van Buren Avenue and 9th Street.

While on-street parking is readily available even at lunchtime and late afternoons except on special occasions such as court days or football weekends, off-street parking is at functional limits now, with 91 percent occupied on the average weekday lunch hour and 88 percent around 4 p.m. (The industry standard for peak-hour capacity is 85 percent occupancy for short-term parking such as Oxford’s metered spaces and 90

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Ole Miss is projected to grow three to four percent annually for the forseeable future.

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Tom Sharpe, commission chairman on the reason for a proposed parking garage in Oxford percent occupancy for long-term parking such as the free, off-street lots near the Square, excluding the lot surrounding the water tower on 15th Street.)

Commission Chairman Tom Sharpe said several pressures may make the issue more urgent in the near future.

“Ole Miss is projected to grow three to four percent annually for the foreseeable future,” Sharpe said.

“Ole Miss expects 1,500

new commuters within the next two years, and the community as a whole is projected to grow at an annual rate of 2.8 percent.”

In addition, downtown churches are seeing pressure on their parking lots.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church has gated its lot, while both First Presbyterian and Oxford-University United Methodist churches are seriously considering such a move, Sharpe said, and parking on neighborhood streets between downtown and the University of Mississippi campus is a “severe problem.”

Growth of restaurants on the Square puts increased pressure on parking needs, Sharpe said, because bars and restaurants draw the most people per square foot of any retail or commercial category.

“In 2000 there were 16 restaurants in the Central Business District, and in 2015 their number had doubled to 32,” he said.

A parking garage, if built, would have to serve the purposes of managing parking, increasing parking inventory to needed levels and accomplish both without raising taxes. Options under consideration include a 479- or 341-space garage behind City Hall, 718- and 537-space designs behind the OxfordUniversity Club and behind the Oxford-University Club, a 360-space garage at Van Buren and 9th, and a 200-space facility under a proposed new city-county office building at Jefferson Avenue and 9th Street.

Estimated costs range from $6.1 million for the smaller one behind City

Hall, with 229 net spaces costing $26,800 each, to $7.9 million for the larger version either behind City Hall or the O-U Club. Cost estimates are not yet available for either 9th Street location, both of which would require the cooperation of multiple entities.

Commission members and Mayor George “Pat” Patterson noted the City Hall location offers good auto ingress/egress and the best of all pedestrian access to the Square and helps fulfill the dream of a mostly pedestrian Square.

“The location is a con,” said Commissioner Mike Harris, who oversees parking and transportation on the University of Mississippi campus. “You can’t build it big enough, and the location on that side of the Square is a con. It’s residential back here. Going west, you’ve got the hotel and the university.”

Oxford Parking Director Matt Davis added that construction and engineering costs would be higher on the steep site.

Other cons listed were property acquisition cost and the loss of some parking during construction.

The site behind the O-U Club, with outlets on Jefferson Avenue and Lamar Boulevard, would offer much higher capacity, easier and cheaper construction, decent pedestrian access to a busier part of the Square, and the bonus of helping the federal court’s parking problems during grand juries, newcitizen ceremonies and other high-traffic occasions. It also complements the current development between downtown and the Ole Miss campus.

The site’s downsides include difficult ingress and egress, especially from the time school buses start their afternoon routes until after offices, banks and other non-retail establishments close for the day.

There would also be a loss of nearly 200 spaces during construction as well as the loss of spaces where vendor trucks currently load and unload.

The Van Buren/9th Street high points identified include the easiest ingress and egress for cars,

good pedestrian access, best accommodation of future growth, and a solution to downtown churches’ parking woes. Its cons include possible community opposition, high acquisition costs, visibility of the garage from three directions, and extra expense for a more aesthetically pleasing façade to partly compensate for the extra exposure.

Commissioners projected, based on current usage, that the city could generate $850,000 a year from parking by continuing on-street meters at $1 per hour and charging 50 cents per hour to park in the currently free lots (except the Water Tower lot between 14th and 15th Streets), along with charging $2 per day for garage parking with the expectation of a nearly complete turnover of users between daytime and evening.

Patterson said “the overwhelming question” would be whether the city could be sure of paying for a garage out of the parking revenue stream.“I think we’re as close to sure as we can be that we wouldn’t have to raise ad valorem taxes to pay for it,” he said.

“As long as we have the option of tweaking the system, I agree,” said Mike Harris, who suggested both charging for off-street lots and raising meter rates if necessary.

“There will be a degree of resistance to having to pay for off-street (currently free) parking,” said former City Planner Tim Akers. countered, Sharpe “There was resistance to having metered parking on the Square.”

Mike Harris said he feared that a decision to build would be put off until it was a desperate need.

“If we start today, we’re two years from opening the doors. It’s something you’re going to do over time,” he said. The Downtown Parking Commission will meet again on Friday and will soon schedule a work session with aldermen for input on their concerns before making a final recommendation. errol.castens@journalinc.com

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Yoknapalooza highlights latest event at Powerhouse

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Events and the Powerhouse Community Arts Center go together like hand and glove. And Sunday, the one day of the week where restaurant workers in town can actually breath as a collective group, are perfect to host cool, unique events.

Yoknapalooza is happening tonight at the Powerhouse. It’s a mesh of food trucks and music from local artists and it runs from 5 until 9. It costs $5 a person, while a tasting pass is $20. The goal is to have the event twice during the year, with the other coming again in August, when the first was held.

“It’s a great Sunday afternoon event especially when you have people that work in restaurants that are off and they want to have the same kind of experience that some of us have when we go out while they are working,” said Wayne Andrews, the executive director of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. “A little music, a little art and a lit-

tle food and everyone was happy. People could bring their kids and they could stroll and eat and when the little children got grumpy, they could walk home.

Now we’re going to do it twice a year, hopefully.”

Jake Sessums, the owner of Yoknapa Taco, said the start of the semester is a great time to focus on local music, the food and artists that make the area so unique. Sessums, who helped organize the food and music, said Jim Barrett of Young Buffalo will perform as a solo artist at the event. The Kit Thorn Band will follow, while Reels will close out the music.

Food trucks have definitely become trendy in Oxford, and Sessums said there would be four in attendance. They include Small Time Hot Dogs, Breakfast 2 Lunch and Oxford Smoke Shop, along with his truck. Oxford Photo Bomb will also take part in the event.

“It’s a great way to welcome back the students to local products, arts, food, music,” Sessums said.

“There are more food

Andrews said it was good trucks around. As Oxford grows, it’s great to offer new to spread out the work with and exciting food options Sessums helping organize when real estate is at a pre- his part. mium.”

“It allows people to be

experts at what they’re really good at,” he said.

The Powerhouse is a very busy space, and Andrews reminded that it’s here for the people and for the enrichment of the community.

“The building is in use seven days a week. It’s not my space, it’s our space, it’s the community arts center,” Andrews said. “The arts council, we are fortunate enough to have the organizational structure to help everyone, their creative ideas and we love to facilitate and put people together. Jake, who loves the idea of a food truck, we can connect with the artist and musicians and now we have a big event where everyone does their own speciality. And the arts council can help make it a nice, big event and the fact that we have a very good tool in our tool box, we can help people manage and put their projects together.”

Over the last couple of years, the Powerhouse has really accelerated in the number of things they have hosted. Andrews said there

were some who didn’t realize just how vibrant the space could be and how it could be a focal point for the community.

“It’s right off our Square where we have all these great businesses and then there is this entity that is all about the community and by that I mean it highlights the up and coming businesses that are going to hopefully be big in 10 years and be celebrated,” Andrews said. “Just like people remember the Hoka and the Gin, these are where those type of things incubate and I think the community has definitely grown to appreciate that.

We see people come through the doors for a diverse range of events. We had classical music and church music on Tuesday night along with art crawl and then we’re going to do food trucks, rock and roll and funky art. In between that, we’ve crammed a whole Fiber Arts Festival in.

That says how great this community is.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Startup Weekend returns to Oxford in February OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS

Innovate Mississippi announced that Startup Weekend Oxford will take place Feb. 12-14 at the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration. In addition, kicking-off Startup Weekend activities will be a Discovery Luncheon, Innovate Mississippi’s community-based event that spotlights Mississippi’s rich entrepreneurial culture.

The Discovery Luncheon will be held Feb. 12, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Oxford Conference Center and features guest speaker Garret Gray, president and CEO of Next Gear Solutions of Oxford. Registration is open to the public and will be available soon.

That evening, Startup Weekend will begin. An intense 54-hour event powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, Startup Weekends operates worldwide and bring together entrepreneurs, programmers, coders, developers and other business-minded individuals for a weekend of company creation.

“Startup Weekends are great,

high-energy events that shortcut the process between ideas and implementation,” said Tony Jeff, president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi. “It’s great to see ideas on Friday night that transform into real businesses – some with real customers – by Sunday.”

The event begins with aspiring entrepreneurs pitching their proposals Friday night to the group, who then votes for the most promising 10 to 15 ideas. The group will divide into small teams. Each team then spends the rest of the weekend focusing on a single business idea and developing a proof of concept, demo or finished product. Volunteer mentors are on hand to help fine-tune the idea into a “working company” with potential profits.

A panel of seasoned professionals evaluates each group’s created company and their chances of real-world success. The event concludes Sunday with an awards ceremony where the top three teams receive in-kind prizes from local service providers.

“We eagerly look forward to Startup Weekend every year in

Oxford,” said Jon Maynard, president and CEO of the OxfordLafayette Economic Development Foundation. “It is a chance to see people with great ideas getting a chance to turn them into great companies. The Oxford entrepreneurial ecosystem is strong and supportive for the development of new businesses. The best chance for business success comes from the resources that are abundant here in Oxford.”

Contact Tasha Bibb, entrepreneurial development manager at Innovation Mississippi, at

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tbibb@innovate.ms to learn more about participating or the event schedule. Contact Jon Maynard at (662) 234-4651 or jon@oxfordms.com for more information on sponsorship opportunities. Visit www.up.co/ communities/usa/oxford/startu p-weekend/8418 to purchase tickets, which include all events and meals for the weekend. Students receive 50 percent off ticket prices.

Startup Weekend Oxford is organized by the staff of Insight Park, the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development

Foundation, the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration and employees of Innovate Mississippi.

Innovate Mississippi is a nonprofit organization with the mission to drive innovation and technology-based economic development for the State of Mississippi. Visit www.innovate.ms to learn more.

Follow all Startup Weekend Mississippi events on Twitter via @SWmississippi or visit their Facebook and LinkedIn pages by searching Startup Weekend Mississippi.

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A museum goer admires one of Caryl Bryer Fellert-Gentry’s 58 quilts on display at the UniverCHANING GREEN | OXFORD CITIZEN Attendees of the exhibition opening view some of Fellert-Gentry’s smaller quilts on display. sity of Mississippi Museum.

University Museum opens exhibition featuring work of world-famous quilter

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry is an internationally recognized artist whose medium of expression is a bit different from those in the mainstream art world.

She’s a quilter. Thursday night at the University of Mississippi Museum, Fallert-Gentry gave a lecture about the history of quilting and of her involvement in the art form. The exhibit opened this week and will be on display until April 16.

Composed of 58 of her hand-made and often hand-dyed quilts, this exhibition is the largest ever of Fallert-Gentry’s work.

Almost every quilt on display is extremely intricate. Museum visitors viewing the exhibit called the works “extraordinary,” “beautiful” and even “trippy.” Fellert-Gentry uses her mastery of color to make it seem as though there is a light source within most of her quilts, shining and creating detailed shadowing and coloring on the fabric. The exhibit is the artist’s first of 2016 and is celebratory of her 40th anniversary in quilt making.

In the mid 70s, FellertGentry and her family bought a farm in Missouri from a widow. The widow was a quilt maker and once Fellert-Gentry had seen some of the widow’s

quilting, she ordered a book on the craft and set to work. She found a pattern in the book that she thought would be doable and soon constructed a quilt using snippings of drapery samples. That quilt is among the exhibit at the museum.

Nearly all of the quilts were made in the artist’s former studio in Paducah, Kentucky, which is considered to be the quilting capitol of the US. Some of the quilts are abstract but most tell the story of her life through artistic expression. You can see visual representations of her feelings about her career change from flight attendant to full-time artist, the loneliness she felt after the death of her first husband and even the discovery of her love of dancing. All of this stitched into 100 percent cotton fabric and hung from an art gallery wall for the world to see.

Many of those in attendance were quilters. Before the lecture, Mary Lou was walking Owens around the gallery admiring some of the quilts on display. Owens is a resident of Oxford and it is largely due to her that Fallert-Gentry came to the University of Mississippi Museum in the first place.

“I was in Paducah in 2013 for the American Quilt Society’s show, and I toured her studio,” Owens said. “She told us that she

Caryl Bryer Fellert-Gentry and Museum director Robert Saarino would soon be having a traveling exhibit. So I came back home and talked to some people at the museum. They said they’d try to get it and here we are, two and a half years later.”

Fellert-Gentry said that she and her husband have had a wonderful time so far in Oxford and will be spending the weekend trying out the different restaurants.

“Initially I was hesitant,” Fellert-Gentry said. “My past experiences with university museums have not been entirely positive. But then [the museum director] sent me some photos of the museum and I thought, ‘oh, this is seriously a museum.’ We started talking and, because 2016 is the 40th anniversary of me making my first quilt, we made it a 40-year retrospective. The

space here is just wonderful.”

Museum Director Robert Saarnio said that this was definitely one of his favorite exhibition openings during his time at the museum.

“From my perspective, the energy of exhibition openings is always different, and highly notable last night was the tenor of sheer enthusiasm,” Saarnio said. “The spirit of

the evening was very high and the work was just so thrilling. Her presentation was highly polished and so professional, and that can be rare thing to find in an artist. It really provided an enriched sense of awareness of how this is accomplished and what really goes into working with the fiber arts.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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which is our parent company and when WME looked at taking over IMG College and getting into the sports world, one of the opportunities they saw was to bring to the music and collegiate sports worlds together,” Helsel said. “Again, with the concert he did in the fall and this stop here to help us open The Pavilion, it just shows that it’s a oneof-a-kind experience for fan bases across the country and that’s what the WME/IMG merger was all about.

“It’s exciting for me as a representative of IMG here in Oxford to be able to meld together the two worlds of our corporation,” Helsel added. “We’ve seen nothing but great things on the athletic side being involved with Ole Miss but now we have the opportunity to expand entertainment offerings here in Oxford. It’s been such a great town to

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Brad Paisley, left, gave very positive reviews of The Pavilion following his performance. Cam Country, above, was the opening act for Brad Paisley. get to know. We’ve been here three years and we’re excited about the next three years and well beyond that.”

Many who have attended games at The Pavilion feel like they are in a smaller NBA arena. Oxford is home to many who follow the Memphis Grizzlies, and the

FedEx Forum is a venue that has been used to describe the feel of The Pavilion.

“I would echo that sentiment exactly. I’ve talked to a lot of our corporate partners and it’s amazing that you have a 9,000 seat arena that feels like you are in a 17,000 seat arena,” Helsel said.

“Due to just a great job planning wise, the basketball games, have been above and beyond our fan base’s expectations as far as fan experience and atmosphere in that place. That gives credit to our fan base and our student section which has really embraced The Pavilion and come out and made it a

place to be proud of and to give us some homecourt advantage.”

The success of the Paisley concert is believed to be a launching pad for the future. Helsel said the future holds a lot of opportunity.

“It will get the industry people talking about what a great facility it is and I

think our fan base has demonstrated well enough that we can put on a really good show and have big acts come through here and take advantage of everything that Oxford has to offer,” Helsel said.

John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

LES STUDENTS ENJOY LAST DINNER ON THE TITANIC Students at Lafayette Lower Elementary School had a Last Dinner on the Titanic themed lunch Friday.

The kids dressed up in fancy clothes, peal and fake mustaches and sat down to a dinner of chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and sparkling white grape juice.

The lunch marks the end of a project the students

have been working on. The kids read a book about the sinking of the Titanic and were each assigned a real person that was onboard the ship when it took its infamous maiden voyage.

Students then researched his or her assigned person and gave a poster presentation on that person’s life.

This is the second year the school has done this event.

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OSD outlines capital improvement plan OXFORD CITIZEN

Oxford Schools will likely pursue a bond issue this fall to launch what officials say are dire needs for more classroom space and program facilities in the fastgrowing district.

According to a proposal prepared by Eley Guild Hardy Architects, who have overseen several recent projects for the district, some $54 million in bonded funding will be needed for new construction and renovation projects between 2017 and 2025.

“We really haven’t set a firm date to begin the work,” said Superintendent Brian Harvey. “We’ll look forward to having an election (on a bond issue) this fall.”

The two most ambitious items on the list are the construction of a new elementary school - one of the most urgent of needs – and the construction of a new fine arts building at Oxford High School.

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An optional project on the Oxford Intermediate School campus would be renovations to provide a culinary arts school – another program cut from the construction of the new Oxford High – along with more vocational and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) space. Projected to begin in Jan. 2017 and be completed

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placement of hardware and doors as needed and correction of code issues with classroom egress. Work is expected to cost about $2.6 million and would be performed during the summers of 2017 and 2018 to minimize disruption.

The Scott Center would have a brick façade installed to replace a failing exterior finish on the metal building and to match nearby buildings’ aesthetics. Projected to cost about $200,000, the work would be scheduled in Summer 2017.

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tary School would also see eight additional classrooms under the current capital improvement plan, between 2020 and 2025, at a cost of about $2.9 million.

The current Oxford Elementary School is proposed for renovation into a new district administration building beginning in May 2017. If left as a school indefinitely, the building will have to be retrofitted with either a fire suppressing sprinkler system or an additional entrance for each classroom.

The need to consolidate administration is urgent, Harvey said, as the current administration building on the OMS campus houses only a fraction of administrative and clerical personnel.

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Oxford Middle School would see the most modest changes under the capital improvement plan. Under it, the existing gymnasium would be renovated, including new flooring and bleachers, along with improvements to the concessions/ticket area. The school would also get additional administration space, home economics/science space, additional faculty restrooms and work space, and drama and choir space.

Cost is projected at less than $885,000, with a timeline of 2020-2025.

Oxford Intermediate School’s stated needs include eight additional classrooms to be built atop existing ones, along with a new fine arts building and new roofing. With a timeline of 2020-2025, the projected cost is about $8.3 million.

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“Those details are yet to be worked out,” Harvey said Friday. “It’s actually on my list today to talk to some realtors about possible sites.”

School Board members and city officials have previously noted traffic and other logistical advantages that might be reaped by locating the new school toward the city’s western edge. The plan projects a cost of $18.4 million with projected opening

by Jan. 2019 The OHS fine arts building, as projected, would include a performing arts theater as well as classroom space for drama, art and culinary arts. That building was struck from the original design for the new OHS building that opened in January 2014 because of cost constraints.

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NWCC’s Skelton excited about new facility coming together

ubba Skelton is a happy man these days. The athletics director at Northwest Mississippi Community College, who doubles as the head basketball coach of the Rangers, saw the football team win the NJCAA national title this past December. He’s also seen the ground breaking of the new $4.88 million fieldhouse, which will be 24,588 square feet. To say the facility, that includes a weight room and coaches offices, has been needed would be an understatement. A big one. It’s been a long time coming for those that have followed and supported the Rangers through the years.

“It feels great because you actually never knew if it was going to happen or not until it actually broke ground and it actually happened,” Skelton said. “It’s great for us. Believe it or not, even though I’ve coached basketball for a long time, I come from a football background. My father was a football coach and I’ve been around it my whole life. For our football program specifically, and what they need coming off a national championship, I think it’s outstanding.”

A positive vibe is what Skelton has felt when he’s been on campus and talk of the fieldhouse comes up. That buzz and chatter should only increase as the building really starts to take shape over the next few months and into the summer.

“People are visual and as they see it, and they see it actually coming up and being done, it’s going to mean that much more to them and I think you will have that much more excitement to it all based on the progress that it’s making,” Skelton said.

Right now, the project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2017. That means freshman that sign with coach Jack Wright this year will dress in the facility their sophomore season. It’s a game changer in regards

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Oxford’s Zac Jenkins, goalkeeper, tips the ball over the top of the net saving a goal. Oxford lost to Germantown 1-0.

Emotional finish Germantown holds off Chargers in 5A playoffs

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Jonathan Branch didn’t mute his emotion or love for his Oxford Chargers Friday night. Not long after Germantown defeated OHS 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs at Bobby Holcomb Field, Branch gathered his team in a circle. He thanked them for their effort. He told them to remember how they felt so that they could avoid it in the future. Branch then hugged each and ever player, especially the seniors, before they left for the dressing room.

The loss was arguably the most bittersweet in Branch’s coaching career, and definitely since he’s been in OxThe Chargers ford. controlled the possession, put immense pressure on Germantown’s goalie and had a shot taken off the

Oxford’s Head Soccer Coach, Johanthan Branch, consoles his team after their heartbreaking loss to Germantown 1-0. board by the referees. Outside of an early mental error that allowed the only goal to be scored, Branch found no real fault with his team.

“I think this was the best game we played all year. We put it together. In the second half, I don’t know how close

they even got to our goal,” Branch said. “We played so well. It is bittersweet. If the scoreboard wasn’t there, I would have thought we won.

It was a great game.”

Branch has told his players that they couldn’t win a championship without

doing the little things right, and he said that they forgot to step in front of the ball on a shot from Niki Parsa, which turned out to be the only goal of the match.

“We weren’t paying attention, and we try to do that all the time. If they aren’t paying attention, just go quick,” Branch said about the shot.

“You don’t have to let teams get set unless you ask for the 10 yards. What we try to do, especially when we are that close, is to ask for 10 yards.

Once they back it off, they can’t start until we are ready.

If they don’t ask for 10, they can start play right then. It was a very legal play. We almost played the most perfect game. That was one of our little mental errors that we didn’t stand in front of the ball. It’s nobody’s fault.”

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Chargers had, and the focus they showed on marking players, were two other things Branch thought contributed to the one lapse about stepping to the ball.

“Kudos to them. That was a very smart play by that striker, who is one of the better players in the state,” Branch said.

Oxford goalie Zac Jenkins made several big saves during the match, drawing praise from Branch.

“He kept us in it several times on shots that could have easily gone in for goals. He made some great saves, plays, especially his last one right there,” Branch said. “He was unbelievable. He made a play going one-one-one against one of the best players in the state. Our whole team, they were great.”

The Chargers’ goal from Keaton Calhoon was waved off when the officials called offsides. It appeared in video footage later that Oxford shouldn’t have been called for the violation. Brooks Kevin

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Oxford’s Keaton Calhoon (28) dribbles the ball as Germantown’s Stone Caver (20) defends him.

Germantown’s Stone Caver (20) and Oxford’s Neil Chandler (6) battle for the ball. had the next best chance at scoring late in the match when his shot hit right off the top of the crossbar.

“We worked on several

corners and second balls (Thursday) and it was great. We sent Malek (Daghestani) and Connell (Yoste) forward and they draw a lot of the attention

and we hope to get the second ball,” Branch said.

“And Keaton’s goal, it was just like you draw it up. It was a great run.”

Even when the match got under 10 minutes, Branch felt like his team would tie the game, and then win in overtime.

“All we had to do was get one in the net. I thought, in my eyes, we may not be

the better overall team, we were the better side tonight,” Branch said. “I’m really proud of this bunch.

The way they came together and played the last month, they became a great soccer team and a tight-knit family, which was what I wanting them to do. A promising thing is you know the seniors are going to cry because they

are going to miss it, but I had so many ninth and 10th graders crying because of that senior. That bond that they built, it was something special this last month of the year. It went from we couldn’t get anything going to everything going just right.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Lafayette answers challenge, advances on in 4A playoffs

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

There were moments, late, in Friday night’s soccer match that Melinda Scruggs felt the nerves that only the playoffs can bring a coach. Thankfully for her, she’s got a team that knows how to compete and even more importantly, knows how to win.

Lafayette advanced on in the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs with a 3-2 road win over Florence. The Lady Commodores (17-2 overall) will now play Richland or New Albany in the 4A north state title game on Tuesday. That means the Lady Commodores are now just two wins from a second

straight title in soccer. So far, Lafayette has responded to every single challenge in front of them.

“Once you get into the playoffs, you’re playing teams that are obviously the best in the state. They have stepped up to the challenge and it is hard to go win the title, and then win it again the next year,” Scruggs said. “That was the goal at the beginning of the season and they’ve done all they can to get to this point. I think the other night, we looked around, and said this is our challenge, this is it in front of us. Are we going to step it up? And they did. What is exciting is these girls don’t stop.

Even if we didn’t play our No. 1 game, they didn’t stop. You could

see that they have that drive that they’re not done here, that they still have something else they want to do.”

Maddy Houghton definitely rose to the occasion for the Lady Commodores. For the second straight season, she made the biggest play against Florence, on its home field. Her goal with just six minutes left in the game broke the 2-2 tie.

“I don’t know if it’s her place to shine at Florence, but she has been big time for us every game.

She hit a free kick in the back of the net. It was just super. I can’t tell you how perfect it was,” Scruggs said. “We scored, they scored, we scored, they scored. It

was 2-2 and I think we were a little shocked that they answered back. I think the first half, it took us a little to figure it out. The effort was there. I couldn’t ask for any more effort. I think the first half, it took us a little to figure it out,” Scruggs said. “We also haven’t played on grass a whole lot recently and I think that was different for us. Grass is slower, choppier as compared to playing on the turf field like we’re used to doing. I think that was different for us on our side, just keeping control of the ball. I hope on Tuesday that we will start from the get go and we’re solving things on the field.”

Alley Houghton, a match after

scoring six goals in a win over Corinth, scored the first two goals for Lafayette.

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Scruggs gave Florence a lot of credit for the way they played her team, and the test her players got.

“They were on fire, they were ready to play from the beginning,” Scruggs said. “We were a little slow to get moving, which I think made us nervous. They were good and on our heels trying to figure how to solve what they came out with. We had to battle, they were super good.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

SPORTS IN DEPTH THIS WEEK AT OLE MISS Wednesday, Feb. 3 Men’s basketball at Missouri, 8 p.m. (SEC) Thursday, Feb. 4 Women’s basketball at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Plus) Friday, Feb. 5 Women’s tennis vs. Purdue, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 6 Men’s basketball vs. Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.

(ESPNU) Women’s tennis vs. Memphis, Noon Men’s tennis at Baylor, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 7 Women’s basketball at Georgia,1 p.m.(SEC Plus)

THIS WEEK AT OXFORD Tuesday, Feb. 2 9th grade boys basketball at Saltillo, 5 p.m.

Varsity girls basketball at Saltillo, 6 p.m.

Varsity boys basketball at Saltillo, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 29 9th grade boys basketball at New Hope, 5 p.m.

Varsity girls basketball at New Hope, 6 p.m.

Varsity boys basketball at New Hope, 7:30 p.m.

THIS WEEK AT LAFAYETTE Tuesday, Feb. 2 Varsity girls basketball at North Pontotoc, 6 p.m.

Varsity girls soccer in 4A playoffs, TBA. Varsity boys basketball at North Pontotoc, 7:30 p.m.

2016 OLE MISS FOOTBALL RECRUITS Name Pos Location Ht Wt Gabe Angel, TE, Cookeville, TN 6-3 218 Justin Conner ATH Sardis 5-9 186

Octavious Cooley TE Laurel 6-2 240 Jack DeFoor OL Calhoun, GA 6-4 268 Greg Eisworth DB Grand Prairie, TX 5-11 182 Donta Evans LB Lawrenceville, GA 6-2 222 Myles Hartsfield DB Great Barrington, MA 60 195 Eli Johnson OL Oxford 6-3 288 Benito Jones DT Waynesboro 6-0 280 Jaylon Jones DB Allen, TX 5-11 172 Greg Little OT Allen, TX 6-5 318 David Luafatasaga LB Yuma, AZ 6-4 225 Bryce Mathews OL Brentwood, TN 6-6 275 DK Metcalf WR Oxford 6-5 211 Royce Newman OL Nashville, IL 6-7 260

Tre Nixon WR Viera, FL 6-1 168 Shea Patterson QB Bradenton, FL 6-2 193 D’Vaughn Pennamon Manvel, TX 5-10 221 Jarrion Street RB Trussville, AL 6-1 203 Tariqious Tisdale LB Lexington, TN 6-5 247 Chandler Tuitt OL Tyrone, GA 6-3, 260 Charles Wiley DE Stockbridge, GA 6-2, 240

PREP BASKETBALL FRIDAY’S RESULTS Oxford (G) 56, West Point 49 West Point 17 9 14 9 — 49 Oxford 7 13 23 13 — 56

Leading scorers: Oxford – Aliyah Herod 19, Kyla Malone 12, Jordan Freeze 10 West Point – Qiayon Bailey 16 Records: Oxford 18-4,4-0; West Point 15-7,2-2.

West Point (B) 76, Oxford 73 West Point 18 18 25 15 — 76 Oxford 9 16 21 27 — 73 Leading scorers: West Point - AJ McFarland 23, Shaunderrius Westbrook 18, Austin Crowley 13, Kelly Martin 13. Oxford - Jarkel Joiner 29, DK Metcalf 24, Terry Williams 10 Records: West Point 11-10, 4-0; Oxford 157, 2-2.

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Center Charger Meadows' skill level makes Oxford better

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Oxford’s Lady Chargers have impressed on the soccer field this year. They won their division and then won their MHSAA Class 5A playoff match at home this past Tuesday.

Junior Addison Meadows, a center midfielder for the Lady Chargers, has played an important role on the team as a leader because she helps control the game so much.

“If you don’t win the ball in the midfield and the other team gets it, they automatically clear and go on the attack,” Meadows said. “If you win the ball, there is more of a chance you will score.”

There is a chance that Meadows is a captain next year. That was the hope anyway and why she has taken her role so seriously.

“A lot of our seniors are important and next year it will look different, so I have to step up,” said Meadows, who looks up to Zoe Scruggs on the team.

“I’ve known her a while.

She also plays for my club team so we can relate in that way. She plays the same position as me and she’s been on the varsity team since seventh grade, which is very impressive. I look up to her. She is very serious. When the whistle blows, she’s ready to win.

She never gives up a fight.”

Meadows said there have been times when she wasn’t focused enough, Scruggs has come to talk with her. Focus was a big part of why the Lady Chargers won the division and it was a key heading into the playoffs.

“Focus is a big deal especially with the younger girls. We definitely have the talent and if we focus hard enough and play our own game, we’re going to do very well,” Meadows said adding it was mental thing more than physical.

“If we’re there mentally, we’re going to come out on top.”

Soccer is the only sport that Meadows plays and

Oxford junior Addison Meadows is a skilled, reliable player for coach Hunter Crane. she has been playing since she was 4 or 5.

“As soon as you could sign up, that was me. It was always my favorite sport,” she added. “Me

and my sister were pretty active kids already and my older sister Emily played soccer. She was a goalie for this team and she played soccer, so that in-

terested me and Darby, my other sister.”

Goalie was not a position that Meadows gravitated to. She credited Bailey O’Connor for the

when I was young and when I started playing club in about sixth grade, my coaches put me on defense just to toughen me up a little bit,” Meadows said. “I am small and I used to not be as aggressive. I think I’ve improved on that a lot. I played outside defender for two years. Center mid is kind of the perfect mix in between forward and defense. You do have to beat the other team to the ball and be aggressive, but you can also go in a score a goal every once a while, especially if you put a through ball to the forwards. They’re going to cross it in. The attacking midfielders are going to be there to finish.”

Hunter Crane is now leading the Lady Chargers from a coaching standpoint, and Meadows liked his style.

“I think he is a direction forward for our team. He understands that we have the talent and we always have,” she said. “We’ve had the drive but not always the mentality. The big thing is the bonding.”

Crane only had great things to say about Meadows, who was deemed the most solid center mid on the team.

“She isn’t very talkative or very vocal, but, when she comes out to practice, you see the talent there,” Crane said. “She is a great passer and a very accurate shooter. She isn’t the biggest girl on the team or the fastest girl on the team but she is probably one of the most skilled on the team. She had her best game of the year against Southaven and when she is playing like that, we’re tough to beat. What does is really more from an assist standpoint. We want the ball at her feet, need PETRE THOMAS the ball at her feet. She does an excellent job of getting the ball to our foreffort this year between wards feet. She is committhe posts for the Lady ted to what we want to do.”

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Georgia LB product ready to see action

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Donta Evans is one of eight Ole Miss football players for the 2016 signing class who enrolled for the spring semester. Evans, who attended Archer High in Lawrenceville, Georgia for his senior season, is originally from South Carolina. Recruited to play the Huskie position, Evans is now being projected at linebacker in the 4-2-5 scheme.

He made 93 tackles and recorded three sacks for coach Andy Dyer this past fall. As a junior, he made 116 tackles and had six sacks. Evans was rated as a three-star prospect and as the 21st-best inside linebacker in the country by Rivals.com and 22ndbest by 247Sports.com and ESPN.com.

“I felt like I did pretty well. The first game or two was a little bit of an adjustment, but after getting back in game speed, I picked it up and started making some big plays on the defensive side of the ball,” Evans said during the season that saw Archer go 11-3 in Class 6A. One of the things that Evans improved on through the help of the coaches was tackling in the open field and playing out in space, covering slot receivers.

“I’ve been working on that and did pretty well in pass coverage,” he said.

The relationship Evans had with the coaching staff is why he ultimately picked Ole Miss. He also likes Oxford, and the fans.

“It’s gorgeous down there and every time you go, you just fall in

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Donta Evans love all over again,” Evans said who was recruited by defensive coordinator Dave Wommack and safeties coach Corey Batoon. “I came to watch camp and I brought my parents, my brother, my sister and my girlfriend. Also my grandparents.

And they loved everything. Coach Wommack is a great guy. He spent the whole day when I came down there and showed me a lot of love.

He showed me all over the campus.”

Evans was very excited when the Rebels defeated Alabama in the third game of the 2015 season. He watched the game sitting on his couch.

“It got a little close and I got stressed out at one point, but I’m just happy we got the win,” Evans said who talked about a national championship for the program.

Evans made his official visit to Oxford when the Rebels hosted LSU since he was planning to graduate in December and enroll for the spring.

“I did that just so that I could get

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Donta Evans is a linebacker from Georgia who will go through spring drills with the Ole Miss Rebels. a foot in the door and be able to develop physically and mentally and to learn the defense,” he said adding that Stinger or Huskie is good for him. “As long as I can get on the field and make plays, I’m willing to do whatever it takes.”

Dyer said that Evans (6-foot-1, 222 pounds) was a mature kid who played well beyond his age.

“He’s just a super, super young man. You wish you could have a kid like that for four years just be-

cause he is such good people,” Dyer said. “He’s a good football player who got better every week.

He’s got some long arms and height. He covers a lot of space.

And he is physical. It’s a pleasure to be able to coach him.”

Joel Bridges coordinated the defense at Archer and he said the best thing about Evans, who was a Spur linebacker, was his attitude.

“He works hard and obviously he is gifted physically,” Bridges

to upgrade those,” Skelton said. “The football facility is FROM PAGE 13 really going to help football but it’s not just going to to recruiting. Even in the help football. It’s going to junior college ranks, there make a positive impact on is an arms race if you will. a lot of sports. I know it’s Athletes want to play for tigoing to make an immeditles and they want to preate, positive impact on baspare in state-of-the-art ketball and baseball facilities. because it’s going to go “For so long, we have back and enable us to do hoped that this was going some things space wise and to happen and now we dressing and film rooms know it’s going to happen,” and things of that sort to Skelton said. “I don’t think NWCC ATHLETICS improve ours also. It’s not there is any doubt that it’s Work has started on the new $4.88 million facility that will just helping those guys be the headquarters of the NWCC football Rangers. encouraging to those even though they are the coaches and that they can main benefactor. It’s going definitely tell recruits that to help our entire athletic new building. Skelton said just did this past season. this is going to happen for program.”

But the future looks bright, the sports have good us and this is going to be re- also, and I think as people The Ranger football team coaches leading the way, ally nice for us. It’s somehas had to share the and that they are trying to see it coming about, it’s Howard Coliseum from a thing they can use to move going to help them as far as be competitive state wide dressing room standpoint this program forward. Obon what they do. their recruiting is conviously Coach Wright and “We have a nice campus, for years. Visiting teams cerned.” his assistants are doing a The overall athletics pro- we have nice facilities, but I dress right off the basketthink you have to continue ball court. In the future, gram can benefit from the great job with what they

said. “He’s a great leader, big and strong. He learned our scheme and stepped in and did a great job.

We run a 3-5 so we were able to move him around a good bit. We asked him to do a lot of stuff and some stuff he wasn’t used to doing like blitzing or out in coverage, which was the big learning curve for him.”

that won’t be an issue as Skelton pointed out. It’s something that can’t be used against the Rangers in the future. And each sport having their own dressing room allows for those sports to showcase their own stuff.

“Any time you have a new facility going up, we’re going to show that off to our basketball players and I know they will in baseball and softball. It’s a positive thing for our athletics program but also the school,” Skelton said. “When you can show that your are making progress in different areas, that shows you can be great. We’ve made some upgrades and our administration has bought in to try and help us.”

There is a direct correlation between athletic success and increased

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enrollment. Teams that win championships draw in students.

“There isn’t any doubt and we’re not only competing for athletes state wide, but we’re also competing for students state wide and in this area,” Skelton said.

“When you show a community and a perspective student that you have nice things and that you’re trying to win and continually trying to upgrade through new athletic facilities and dorms and things of that sort, it’s a carry over. I think that you can see that with the success that Ole Miss has had in football and with the building of The Pavilion. It’s the only factor, but it definitely helps.”

John Davis is the Oxford Citizen sports editor. He can be reached at john.davis@journalinc.com.

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Lafayette's Patton feels comfortable at ICC

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

If you need directions to Fulton, call Lafayette catcher Hope Patton.

She can give you the quickest route, and tell you where to eat when you get there. The senior is headed to play softball for the Itawamba Community College Lady Indians. Patton signed on officially Friday morning in the LHS library, surrounded by her family, coaches and friends.

A comfortable feel is one of the big reasons Patton picked ICC. She’s been there for a number of camps and showcases in the past six months.

“I went every Monday for four Mondays about two and three months ago for a hitting camp. I’m going to one (Saturday) for another hitting camp and then I went to one this past summer for five days,” Patton said. “They were really looking at me then and they said they had been to quite a few of my games when I was a ninth and 10th grader. I had no clue they were even there.”

Patton has gone from asking her mother directions to ICC to feeling like the school was normal, or a part of her life.

“It’s small, it’s not the biggest but I like a small town,” she said. “I love

it over there. They recruited me for catcher but they also said that they knew I played other positions so something might come out of that.”

Extra work at camps has paid off for Patton. She’s continued to make improvements for coach Katie Jenkins and is now one of the leaders for the Lady Commodores.

Patton said she was looking forward to the season, which begins later this next month.

“We only lost one player and I think we went further than I thought we would last year so I think we’ll get to where we were last year if not further,” Patton said.

“I would say that I’ve gotten better from hitting and catching wise. I had a little trouble getting the hang of catching because I just got started. I had to get in the groove, but I felt like I improved on it a lot.”

Another thing that Patton liked about ICC was the physical therapy program they offer.

“It just adds on to me getting a scholarship. I get to do something I want to do in the future and play softball. It’s just a win-win situation,” Patton said. “I like the people over there. I know (ICC player) Katrina Wilson because she is from Lafayette and whenever I went there, I met all the girls. I love the coaches. They’re funny. I seem to

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Jenkins saw that Patton was excited about getting an offer last week when she went on a visit.

“She has really been concentrating on hitting and just the fundamentals of that more so and I think that’s where catching has helped her,” Jenkins said. “She knows what kind of pitch she likes. She has really matured a lot more of knowing and not just doing. She and Emily (Robinson) are the two that expect to hit when they’re up there. I expect a power hit out of her and I think she hit three home runs last year.”

This past fall, Jenkins had Patton concentrate an entire day just on catching, which was something new.

She got a lot better at catcher, more confident. She has learned a whole lot more this year,” Jenkins said. “Catchers are just after thoughts sometimes so we concentrate more on it this year and I feel like more confidence has come along. She feels a lot more comfortable back there. I expect her to be more of a leader, more of the vocal catcher I need back there where she is more sure to guid them around.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Chargers unable to overcome West Point at home Lady Chargers remain in first place

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

Two comebacks were required if Oxford wanted to take both games from West Point Friday night at the OHS gym. One was successful, the other was not.

The Oxford Chargers went on a 24-3 run after being down 20 points late in the third quarter to take a one-point lead midway through the fourth quarter.

West Point withstood the rally to take a 76-73 road win Friday night. With the victory, coupled with a New Hope win over Saltillo, West Point (11-10 overall, 4-0 in District 2-5A) clinched the 2-5A regular season championship.

West Point head coach Brad Cox noted in each of his district games instead of having the one with a big lead, they were the ones having to come back from behind to win so far and credited Oxford to force West Point to get away from playing their brand of basketball.

“We’ve been in the complete opposite situation where we’ve been down in every district game by double digits,” Cox said. “We had scored two points with four minutes left in the fourth quarter. All the credit goes to Oxford. They were outplaying us. The effort and energy was there.”

Once Oxford got the lead, it was followed up with empty trips on offense. AJ McFarland made Oxford pay for those empty trips with a 3-pointer with 38 seconds left to grab a 69-65 lead. West Point then salted the game away hitting 7 of 8 free throws down the stretch.

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Drew Tyler, Oxford basketball coach on his team’s loss to West Point thought West Point shot the ball tonight like how Oxford did against New Hope.

“We had a specific lineup where we could play manto-man and run and jump out of that,” Tyler said. “We got some steals and definitely changed the momentum of this game. West Point shot the ball like we shot the ball against New Hope. You can play the game back in your head a million times, but we gave up too many looks at the goal and gave up too many easy points. They had that tough early season schedule and its paying off for them now.”

Jarkel Joiner led Oxford with a game-high 29 points. Metcalf also had 24 points and nine rebounds.

AJ McFarland led West Point with 20 points and five rebounds.

LADY CHARGERS RALLY The Oxford Lady Chargers did recover from their early 11-point deficit and took a 56-49 victory over the Lady Wave.

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put into the early hole because of missing plenty of shots and was outrebounded by West Point (157, 2-2) 25-9 in the first half.

Oxford coach Cliff Ormon was very positive at halftime because his defense forced 17 turnovers while not committing many. He told his team to start finishing plays.

“I told the girls at half it was more on us than them.

We turned the ball over four times and caused 17 turnovers. We just didn’t finish our plays. If we got out and make a few shots, the momentum swing could go back our way especially here at home.”

Aliyah Herod led all scorers with 19 points, six assists, and three steals. Kyla Malone finished with a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

Jordan Freeze added 10 points, five assists, and three steals. West Point was led with a double-double from Qiayon Bailey with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Oxford assisted on 20 of their 21 field goals in the game.

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