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Students learn virtues through woodworking

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BY CHANING GREEN

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Jacob Todd has been working with his students at Regents Classical Christian School to learn about life by working with their hands.

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Todd’s class began the project around early February and have been working on it periodically over the last several weeks. Todd believes there’s a lot to learn about life through working with your hands.

Students learn virtues through woodworking

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Jacob Todd’s capstone class of seventh and eighth graders at Regents Classical Christian School have spent the last couple of months learning about life by handcrafting wooden spoons.

Todd’s class began working on the spoons around the beginning of February.

They started with just a cut of wood and given instructions. They were told to go ahead and draw the outline of their spoon on the piece of wood. Students were then given small chisels which they used to carve

out the bowl of the spoon.

Once they had a clearly defined shape of the spoon sketched onto the wood and the bowl chiseled out, students were given a hand saw and required to cut out the spoon. The result was a blocky, rough shape that vaguely resembled a bowl on a stick. Using a file and

rasp, students go to work carving out the dimensions of their spoon.

Saw dust drifted through the air Thursday morning in front of the CollegeHill Community Center as Todd’s students were hard at work sanding, filing and rasping away at their creations. The community center is located directly behind Regents main building, so a few of the rooms in the old wooden structure are used as classrooms during the day.

Thursday, students worked with spoons that were in varying stages. Many were still using their rasp, a sort of course file that takes off more of the wood than a traditional metal file, to better shape their spoon.

After they got a good shape on it, students would file down the uneven edges to get the spoon ready to be sanded. Todd demonstrated the best way to use sandpaper on the spoons.

He showed them how to properly hold it and move with the grain for the best possible results. Sneed’s Ace Hardware and Home Depot both donated supplies to make the project possible.

“I wanted to let them make a wooden spoon as part of a semester-long project,” Todd said. “It forces them to do a hard thing that they normally would have never done, and it really is hard. They

will ask me questions about it and usually I just have to tell them, ‘You’re not working hard enough.’ I knew that this project would be perfect because there’s no way you can cut a corner.

You just have to do it.”

The class is known as Capstone and sets out to teach students life skills and how to function throughout their remaining high school years as well as out in the “real world.” Todd says that he really tries to push the importance of the seven virtues of faith, hope, love, justice, fortitude, temperance and prudence.

There’s a lot to learn from working with your hands, according to Todd.

It’s about the satisfaction of sitting down, putting in the work and making something that’s actually useful and practical. Todd said that these days, he doesn’t think people put enough expectations on teenagers when it comes to hard work.

“There’s this gap of when you’re about 12 to 16, where you are just expected to sit around and be a consumer,” said the teacher. “We’re exploring all of the different laws and practices that got us to this point. If you’re a kid, you can’t work and you’re forced into school and we end up creating this weird timeframe from 12 to 16. You have these kids who feel like adults and have the desires of adults, but there

is no expectation from society for them to do anything but consume. What we strive to do here in this class and at Regents is to raise up a generation that are not just consumers. They’re servants.”

Todd began carving wooden spoons after his nine years of military service. He picked up the hobby because he was looking for something to keep his hands busy and his mind centered. He remembers his mother always searching different antique shops for old wooden spoons when he was a child, so the idea of being able to make one on his own appealed to him.

“I think that at the end of the day, this is all about cultivating virtue,” Todd said when asked why he thought the exercise was valuable to students. “In that there is fortitude, being tough and getting something done. And then there’s patience and, ultimately, love. I know that can sound crazy, but you’re trying to make a good product and that’s about loving your neighbor. If you didn’t love your neighbor, you wouldn’t care about the quality of product. Quality comes from, I believe, patience, skill and just sticking with it. It’s all about virtues.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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Shel Silverstein’s classic, “The Giving Tree.” The 25-minute adaptation stays true to the book and tells the story of a tall tree who loves a small boy. The tree provides the boy apples to eat, branches to climb and shade in which to rest. He has everything he could ever want.

But as the boy grows older, he realizes he wants more. He wants money so he can go out and do things with his friends. The Giving Tree has no money, but she has apples the boy can sell.

So he takes them, and the tree lets him because she loves him. This pattern continues until the boy decides he wants to go far away from where the Giving Tree has sunk her roots. She offers her trunk for the boy to chop down so that he can build a boat and go as far away as he wants. The boy takes the lumber, leaving nothing but a stump in the place of the tree that had

always loved him so much.

Austyn Davis is the creative director for Ghostlight and wrote the theatrical adaptation the group performed. Another student, Cory Clark, wrote the musical numbers for the show.

Davis said that Ghostlight chose “The Giving Tree” because of it being one of the most prevalent tales in modern children’s literature, and the fact that its meaning is open for interpretation.

The story can teach kids the sadness that can blossom out of always taking and never giving back. It can expose the dangers of following the crowd and working to fit our lives into this idea of the infamous American dream in an attempt to fill some restlessness that seems to exist as a baseline for much of the human experience. It can also just be a story of unconditional love.

The last stop for Ghostlight was Tuesday at Oxford Intermediate School, where they performed first for the fifth graders at the school

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Ghostlight’s Artistic Director Austyn Davis wrote the theatrical adaptation of “The Giving Tree” and oversaw its performance. After the play, she lead students in an acting workshop. and then later in the morning for the sixth graders.

After the first performance, which was held on the stage in the school’s cafeteria, all of the fifth graders formed an oval in the center of the cafeteria. Davis then led them in an acting workshop.

There was a call and response portion of the workshop where, one at a time, students would run to the center of the group and perform a random, silly action.

They could dance or sing or jump or fall or whatever they wanted to do. The rest of the group would then shout “yes!” and then copy the motion exactly.

“It’s about having that affirmation and getting these kids out of their shells, if they have one,” Davis said. “They can explore the movement of their bodies, the sound of their voices and really work with their imaginations. All of that goes to

help with confidence, creative processing and all them to build a trust with these people they have to spend every day with.”

Another call and response exercise in the workshop called for kids to find a new way to spin the phrase “Someone stole my chocolate bunny, and I don’t think it’s very funny.” They could scream it, whisper it, try it with silly accents, pretend to be a robot or Southern Debutant – whatever

they could think of at that moment, and the other kids would do their best to mimic it back in unison.

The kids were moving, being silly, speaking in front of nearly their entire grade and laughing so hard that most of them couldn’t stand up straight.

Davis said this is exactly what it’s all about, and so much more.

“I think that theatre is important because not only have studies continually shown that students involved with creative outlets have higher test scores and better participation in class, but I also believe that theatre instills empathy,” she said. “It helps us to understand others while we work to understand ourselves. I think this is something that we always have a need for, but especially in this political climate. With the world that we’re living in, I think empathy and human understanding are both very, very important.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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Connell signs An Unforeseen Life Tuesday at Square Books

BY KATHRYN WINTER NEWS WRITER

Mary Ann Connell, the first woman to practice law in Oxford, has written a biography called “An Unforeseen Life” and will be holding a book signing at Square Books on Tuesday, April 11 at 5 p.m. The scenes of her life begin to unfold in her memoir as she has faced interesting historical changes in Oxford and Mississippi.

Neil White, publisher of An Unforeseen Life said, “Readers are going to love this story of loss, faith, tragedy and perseverance.” It is a powerful memoir about a woman, who embraced what she could, and tried to make the most of her life, despite an underlying sadness. Her story is funny at times, touching, and an account of a life ‘most richly blessed’ if sometimes in unexpected ways.

Connell was born in Louisville, Mississippi and attended Louisville High School where she was the first female student body president and elected Homecoming Queen her senior year (along with the title of Miss LHS.) She attended the University of Mississippi, where she was president of Chi Omega and elected Miss Ole Miss 1958. When Connell was eight, fire took

the life of her younger brother and she blamed herself for the accident-with guilt becoming a motivator for the remainder of her life.

“When I began to cut back on my law practice this past year, Cal Mayo, the senior partner in our firm suggested I write the story of my life to preserve many of the interesting and unusual experiences I have enjoyed during nearly 80 years. At the time, I had no idea the story would evolve into a book, but I was excited about the project,” Connell said.

“I started writing and found that I loved not only the writing, but delving into the past, reliving many memories, both good and bad, and reaching out to many old friends and family to refresh my memory of certain times and events.

It helped tremendously that I have been a diligent scrap booker all of my life.”

It took Connell a year to write the book and another year for White and his staff to edit, rearrange sections, select the cover and photographs to include, as well as put it in place for publication. While Connell has done a great deal of writing in her law practice and teaching of law, she never envisioned writing about her own life. Some oth-

er events mentioned in her book include when she convinced the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan to move their march off the Ole Miss campus, and readers will delve into the termination trial of football coach Billy Brewer, who had once been her classmate at Ole Miss, along with the exhaustion and difficulty of two NCAA investigations. Connell also warned a first year law student named John Grisham “if you don’t get serious, you’ll never succeed at the practice of law,” and she also battled Oxford Mayor John Leslie who took to calling her the “Sewer Queen.” A client also paid her with a sack of coons.

According to her press release, “We witness the character growth of those around her, including her husband whose conservative beliefs about women began to erode as he saw her succeed. We applaud her when she enrolls in law school with four young children, and when she attends Harvard Law School for an advanced degree (alongside fellow classmate Barack Obama.”)

“There will be joys and challenges in every person’s life. It is through the friendships of others and meaningful work that the good memories

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prevail over the more difficult ones. My favorite part about living and growing up in the South is learning the importance of relationships and caring for other people. I hope that this book will serve as encouragement, especially for young women, that you can do anything you want to do in life if you are willing to work at it and get along with other people,” Connell said.

Connell currently practices law with Mayo Mallette, PLLC. She served as university attorney for Ole Miss from 1982 through 2003. She

was school board attorney for Oxford school district from 2003 until 2013. She has taught courses in higher education law, school law, legal research and writing, business law, and employment law. She is a frequent presenter at national conferences on subjects involving higher education and school law. She is past president of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, past president of the Mississippi Council of School Board Attorneys, and a fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation. She re-

ceived the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys; the NAACP Freedom Award for lifelong service in the area of education and civil rights; the University of Mississippi Chancellor’s Award for outstanding contributions toward increasing diversity, and in 2015 was inducted into the Ole Miss Alumni Hall of Fame.

“I hope this book will encourage every reader to write his or her own story because every person has a unique life story to tell.”

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Special Olympics return to Oxford Middle School

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

More than 500 people were on the football field at OxfordMiddle School Friday morning to celebrate the 2017 Special Olympics.

There were 320 athletes competing, 130 Ole Miss students working as volunteers, over 35 members of LafayetteHigh School’s Honor Society and the nearly 30 members of the Oxford High School JROTC there to help out.

The OHS JROTC helps out with several similar events throughout the year and are a huge help to the organizers, according to Felisa Bonner.

Bonner serves as the area board director for six counties in North Mississippi. She coordinates the Special Olympics for Lafayette, Yalobusha, Marshall, Grenada, Panola and TallahasseeCounties.

She fell into the position about six years ago. Bonner also serves as the assistant director of recreation at the NorthMississippiRegionalCenter here in Oxford. She’s been there for 15 years, and eventually the two positions bled into one another.

There are several parts to the Special Olympics that take place at various points throughout the year. There is a basketball event that’s held at the University of Mississippi’s TurnerCenter, a skating event and a bowling event.

The event held Friday was just for track and field. wBonner said that regardless of the physical or mental capabilities, every one of the participants can have a good time, and they always do.

“Over half of them don’t care if they got first, second or third,” she said. “They enjoy it. They love it. They love being able to partic-

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Hundreds gathered on the football field of Oxford Middle School Friday morning to celebrate, volunteer and compete in this year’s Special Olympics. ipate and be able to say that they did something.

[Nerotypical] kids would probably be concerned with how they placed and

how they did, but these kids just love being there, being out and being social.

They love just having the chance to prove that they

can do something. Their That’s where I get my joy heart, their joy, how they from in this.” love to participate – they chaning.green@journalinc.com just have so much joy from Twitter: @chaningthegreen being able to be there.

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Ben Mikell Sports Writer

Powerlifting title sets tone for the future of Oxford Athletics

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

Editor’s Note: This is the No. 19 Oxford story in a 40-part series highlighting the 20 most memorable moments in Oxford Athletics and in Lafayette Athletics since the turn of the century. This edition is about the 2013 state champion powerlifting team.

There are certain games and meets that set the tone for the rest of an athletics program like the one Oxford has built. One was Oxford football’s win over Pearl in 1989 that gave the Chargers a true backbone in all sports. Another was in 2013 when Oxford won their first powerlifting title.

Like many other high school football programs do during the summer, the football team takes a photo with all the players that completes their summer conditioning program. Oxford calls those that complete their offseason program ‘Iron Chargers.’ In 2011, there is a photo that represents only a couple dozen football players. The 2012 photo saw that number increase nearly three-fold. Current Charger football coach Chris Cutcliffe, who was also an assistant coach with the 2013 powerlifting team, believed a mental mindset change was key in not just turning around the football program overall, but made the powerlifting program to what it is today.

“If you look in 2011, our football team went 5-6,” Cutcliffe said. “If you looked at what changed in our football program over the course of the next year, we went 11-2 in 2012 right before winning that first powerlifting state championship. It was a lot of hard work by some kids that earned that state championship. That change in mindset happened in football at the same time. You saw a re-commitment from those guys and it really paid off in both sports.”

The first title in powerlifting almost didn’t happen. One of the veterans on the team Clifton Smith was scratched early in the meet, but instead of the team folding with a negative mindset that they lost their best lifter at the start of the meet, they instead rose to the challenge that it could be done.

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Lafayette’s Foster Roush, left, and Dawson Welch have combined to form a solid doubles team for coach Debbie Swindoll.

Right combination

Welch, Roush have doubled up to help LHS tennis

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS WRITER

The first week of April signifies warmer weather as well as green grass and leaves on the trees. It also means the MHSAA tennis playoffs are just around the corner. Lafayette’s Commodores have qualified for them again under coach Debbie Swindoll, but in order to advance, she is going to need the doubles team of Dawson Welch and Foster Roush to play like they have been all season long.

Doubles is very important to Swindoll, who trains her players to attack the net and be aggressive. And for Swindoll to single out a team, they have to be up to something good.

“For me to pick them out, they probably have been the back bone really of the last couple of years for my boys,” Swindoll said. “They’re really young, but I move them around a lot. Foster has played a lot of boys’ doubles. Foster hasn’t played as much, but both have played a little tournament tennis. They are most experienced, my most committed to the game on the boys’ side.”

Welch, a sophomore, has grown

in the game tremendously. He’s always been pretty good, Swindoll said, but he’s starting to play behind his tall frame which gives him powerful strokes. Roush, a junior, is also athletic and getting better and better at tennis.

Swindoll described Roush as a retriever, someone who can get the ball back fast.

“Along with Will Carter, my senior, these are the guys I really count on because my other guys are so young,” Swindoll said. “The girls are where I’m deep. I have a lot of experience, a lot of players. I have five playing varsity tennis for me for over three years, and that’s huge. Then I have the state’s singles runner-up with Alley Bowen.

My girls are key with the hope of getting one of these guys to get a win.”

The best the duo have played in a match this season actually came in a loss to New Albany. Welch and Roush lost in a tiebreaker, 10-8, and Swindoll thought that was a good sign for the future.

“They played well and that’s when I realized they could play together against big competition,” Swindoll said. “The good news is I have them back another year and if they improve

like they did this year, we’re going to be in for big things. They get along well and yet I’ve moved them quite a bit. Foster has played singles, but in big matches, I’ve put them together just trying to get a win.”

Welch likes that Roush is a little more experienced than some partners. He also likes that Roush plays aggressively at the net like he does.

“I could see it here and there,” Welch said about the combination coming together. “I was playing with Barrett Childress, but he got injured and she moved us around seeing who could play. (Roush) and I get along well.”

Roush said Welch is a little better at the net, which means he can stay back where he is more comfortable hitting forehands. Of the two, Welch is the better server. In a nutshell, both like to keep the ball in play and putting pressure on the other team.

Both Commodores started playing tennis when they were in seventh grade. And both have fathers who played the sport, which led them out to the courts. Needless to say, tennis Turn TO TENNIS, 13

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Cornerback Natural Fit for Hartsfield

BY BEN GARRETT

SPECIAL TO OXFORD CITIZEN

Sophomore Ole Miss defensive back Myles Hartsfield embraced his move to cornerback early in spring practices.

Or, more emphatically, he welcomed it with open arms.

Hartsfield signed with the Rebels as a four-star prospect out of Endeavor College Prep in 2016. For most of all of his football career, he was a cornerback. Yet it was through his play at safety in his one season at ECP in 2015 that colleges began to take notice. Hartsfield was ranked the No. 1 prep school safety by 247Sports.com after totaling 29 tackles, two interceptions and seven pass breakups last season.

Hartsfield started all 12 games at ‘rover’ safety as a true freshman at Ole Miss. He finished with 43 total tackles, two tackles for loss and one pass deflection. But looking past the numbers, it was very much an up-and-down year for Hartsfield.

“I learned a lot from last year,” he said. “I learned from the seniors that graduated. It was a blessing just to be a freshman out there from New Jersey being in the SEC playing safety. Safety and corner, there’s not much difference, it’s just the difference is at corner you’re up

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has become their sport.

“I used to play soccer but I quit because it just wasn’t for me,” Roush said. “All my friends played tennis and then my dad played, so I tried out.”

Roush said he would be really lazy if he didn’t play tennis from a physical standpoint. He is a very good student, just like Welch is.

As the team goes, both Welch and Roush are pleased with where the

close and personal with the wide receiver and everything. Other than that, it’s not a big difference.”

The Rebel defense, as a whole, struggled mightily as Ole Miss limped to a 5-7 record. The Rebels ranked No. 100 or lower nationally in every major statistical category except one (No. 66 in pass efficiency defense).

The speed of the game, as well as the technique and scheme demanded of safety, were still, for the most part, new to Hartsfield. Playing free and loose took time, and his growing pains showed on the field through coverage busts and explosive plays allowed.

According to advanced metrics compiled by Will Gates of SBNation.com, between 2014 and 2016, Ole Miss fell from first to 77th in Defensive S&P+.

Ole Miss couldn’t manage to get off the field, playing nearly 100 more snaps than 2014. The Rebels also ranked 120th in Rushing IsoPPP (a measure of explosiveness). Ole Miss allowed nine rushes of 40plus yards last season.

“I feel like we have a better work ethic this year,” Hartsfield said. “We’re working harder than I felt like we worked last year.

This secondary, we’re young. We’ve two or three seniors, maybe, and we’re just ready to work.

Commodores are heading into the playoffs.

“I think we’ll have a better chance than we did last year. We have some new up and comers that will do well for us,” Welch said. “We’ve gotten wins, a lot of good wins.”

“This year is our best chance. I think we can do it,” Roush said, who has gained confidence as the year has gone on.

“I have definitely gotten more confident after winning some matches this year.”

Brown and D.K. Metcalf.

“A.J. and D.K., they’re a handful to guard every day,” he said. “You’ve got to come with the right mindset every day in order to guard those two. I feel like they’re some of the best wide receivers in the country. Not even just them two, DaMarkus Lodge and others, they’re great wide receivers and they’re bringing it every day. You’ve got to bring your ‘A’ game every day.”

Jones said Ole Miss recruited Hartsfield as a cornerback. However, a need at safety following the departures of seniors Trae Elston and Mike Hilton meant Hartsfield had a clearer path to a starting position.

He was on the field as a starter from the very first defensive snap against Florida State in the season-opening game.

“I still remember the first play,” he said. “I had no idea what I was doing.

Coach gave us the signals, and coming down and hitting (FSU RB) Dalvin Cook on the first play, I just went crazy. After the game, I got so many texts saying great hit, great hit. I just kept going after that.

“The first game was definitely the worst for me. I was more worried about being on national television for the first time in my life. I was a little timid at first. But once that first game was over and I felt how it was to be in the SEC and a D-I school, I felt more comfortable.”

If Hartsfield has it his way, however, he won’t be going back.

“I feel like I’m more athletic and a bigger corner than usual,” he said.

“I play to my strengths and everything. I’m more comfortable there than safety. I need to get more conditioned. That’s one of the differences in playing corner. You’ve got to be able to run with a wide receiver that’s running a fade and get back on the line and play corner. That and I have to be more technique sound with my feet.”

“There was a lot of really good lifters in that team,” Cutcliffe continued. “Clifton Smith, Joel Forrester, Challen Griffen, Christian Sanchez, William Paine, Bo Nash who was in seventh grade, Elisha Brassell, Kevin Whitney, Dion Coleman, those guys off the top of my mind were outstanding.”

Cutcliffe points to those lifters who helped turned the mindset from lifting being work to lifting being fun and competitive.

“They deserve all the credit in the world, those

kids who got the ball rolling with powerlifting,” Cutcliffe said. “The biggest thing was the shift in mindset amongst the kids that it was no longer something to just pass the time during the football offseason. It was a chance to compete and a chance to get better throughout the year. That shift in mindset amongst the kids really made a difference.”

Oxford has won the powerlifting state championship each year since the 2013 title winning four in a row.

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Sophomore Myles Hartsfield has embraced his move to cornerback this spring.

“Last year, I can’t even say what it was. We learned from our mistakes. Keep moving on. This year’s a different year. We’re going to show everybody that it was just last year. We’re not going to let it snowball into this year.”

Hartsfield’s move to cornerback was necessitated by an injury to Jalen Julius. Julius, starting opposite fellow sophomore Jaylon Jones, broke his arm in the opening days of spring. Cornerbacks coach Jason Jones, in turn, approached Hartsfield about potentially sliding over.

He hasn’t been back at safety since.

“I wasn’t waiting on it, but I knew I always had to

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state champion,” Cutcliffe said of Smith who won an individual title in 2012.

“He was a guy going in you tried to tally all the numbers going in to see where you stand. Clifton was dominating the state in powerlifting all season. We thought he was a lock to be an individual state championship and he scratched out of the meet on squat which is the first lift of the meet which he had never done before.

Everybody just froze be-

be ready to play corner,” Hartsfield said. “You never know what happens down here in the SEC. You could be playing corner one play and have to play safety. It’s better for me to show everybody that I can play multiple positions.”

“Myles hopped in there and, day one, it looked like he had been at corner his entire life,” Jones said.

“He’s the biggest surprise of the spring.”

Ole Miss concluded spring football practices with the annual Grove Bowl game Saturday afternoon. But for the last month-plus, Hartsfield was challenged daily by a talented and deep crop of Rebel wide receivers, led by rising sophomores A.J. cause it almost felt like going in we were going to win a state championship and when that happened, there was that moment where everyone looked at each other and was like ‘oh my gosh, what are we going to do now?’ Clifton was devastated because it was his last powerlifting meet, but we had five other guys step up and win individual state championships. That was thecoolthingaboutthatday was watching all the other guys step up in that moment of adversity and come through for the team.”

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Crawford’s efficient night baffles Senatobia

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Friday night was a different story. Crawford almost made it to the fifth inning before throwing his 29th pitch of the contest as the starter. The Commodores made the most of it in their 4-2 win over Senatobia at W.V. Brewer Field and helped stay in contention with Division 2-4A’s top seed

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Senatobia (7-11, 3-5) got on the board with a run in the first inning. Zack Woolfolk reached on a single and then scored three batters later on a Talvyn Dean fielder’s choice groundout to lead 1-0 early.

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Luke Gossett drove in Martin with a RBI single one batter later to take a 2-1 Lafayette lead.

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SERVICES

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Contractors

SUBSTITUTE CARRIER

A-1 Gutter Maker Call for FREE Estimates, Seamless gutters installed. No job too small. 662-213-5875

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Miscellaneous

REAL ESTATE

STUFF Electronics

All Real Estate advertising here in is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any prefer ence, limitation or discrimina tion based on race, color, reli gion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preferences, limitations or dis crimination. We will not know ingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are here by informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

If you believe that you may have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rental or financing of housing, call The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at 1 800 669 9777.

Manufactured Housing For Sale 16x80, 3 /2, Good Condition, $19,900 includes delivery & set up. Call 662-401-1093

28x56, Double Wide 3/2, Super Nice, appliances, central heat & air, $36,900. Includes delivery & set up. Call 662-401-1093 Double Wide, $24,900 includes delivery & set up. Does need some minor repairs. Cash Only Call 662-401-1093 ****************** Wow!!!

16x80, Handy man Special $9,900. Cash Only!

Call 662-401-1093

Desk top Computer Tupelo or New Albany pickup

Completely rebuilt, extremely nice. Complete daily tasks, explore the internet, download & view photos, download music, burn dvds/cds, 3gb memory, $175 firm.

(662)266 0437

WOMEN’S SHORT SLEEVE TOPS, SIZE LARGE, LOTS OF PLENTY COLORS, LIKE NEW, 8 FOR $32 (662)266-0437

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Home Furnishings

AUTO

3 CHAISE LOUNGE CHAIRS WITH ADJUSTABLE BACK REST. $20 EACH. CALL 231-7849 AFTER 5.

Cars

FOR SALE! SOLID OAK ARMOIRE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER. $350.00.

CALL 662-687-2492

Miscellaneous

Iphone 4s

nice phone, son upgraded, C-spire or Straight Talk. $65 (662)266-0437

TOYOTA CAMRY TSS 2008

Silver. Good mechanical condi tion, needs body work. $2,000 or best offer. Call or text for more details, 662 397 3763.

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