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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Homecoming weekend a trio of blessings for Neilson family

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BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Homecoming activities, especially in the South, are still a time-honored tradition that students and adults always seem to recognize as something special.

There’s normally a “HC” on the football schedule, it seems, just to remind people this particular game and weekend are a big deal and not just something ordinary.

Both Ole Miss and Oxford High School will have their Homecoming games this weekend. For one Oxford family, that means there’s a whole lot going on.

Heather Neilson of Oxford will be crowned as the Homecoming Queen at Ole Miss Saturday at halftime of the Rebels’ game against New Mexico State.

The night before at halftime of the Oxford High School football game against Lewisburg, her younger sisters – Rosemary and Marjorie Ann will be a part of the Homecoming Court for the Chargers.

It’s quite a trio of honors for the Neilson family. They are a close-knit group, and the sisters can hardly wait for the weekend while also enjoying the week leading up to the big moments.

“It’s honestly been so cool to do something like this in my hometown,” said Heather, a 2012 graduate of Oxford High and an Integrated Marketing

Kaye Bryant talks about breast cancer recovery, family, friends, and walking in Oxford.

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The Oxford Police Department has joined in the awareness for breast cancer by wearing pink t-shirts under their uniforms this month

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Majorie Ann Neilson, Heather Neilson and Rosemary Neilson.

Communications major at Ole Miss. “It was really neat growing up here and being an Ole Miss fan forever. And I’ve just had so much support through this. So many people in Oxford and my old Oxford Charger friends have supported me and are happy for me.”

Heather and the Neilson family moved to Oxford when she was three years old. Her sisters were born here. But their roots run deep in this community, especially with a last name of Neilson.

The South’s Oldest Store, the J.E. Neilson Company, located on the Oxford Square, has

been outfitting generations of Ole Miss and Oxford residents since 1839.

“J.E. Neilson was our great, great uncle,” said Heather, who is a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority at Ole Miss.

That’s who first approached her about running for the Ole Miss Homecoming Queen.

“My sorority came to me last fall and said ‘We would love to run you for this next year.’ I thought, ‘Oh my goodness.

What an honor. Thank y’all for even considering me for this.’

And now it’s happened.”

Meanwhile just across town, Oxford students were placing

the names of Rosemary and Marjorie Ann on the ballot for the Homecoming election. Little did they know then what they know now.

“They were on the ballot at Oxford, and we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be so neat if we all ended up making it?’ We were so excited when it happened,” said Heather.

“It was crazy,” Rosemary said. “After it all happened we all called each other and were just like, ‘How did this happen?’ We were all so excited

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Mike Hilton and his Ole Miss football teammates will try to bounce back from their first loss of the season with a Homecoming game against New Mexico State Saturday at 11 a.m.

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Baptist gets land proposal Post-abortive author: ‘You may

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

A question about the future of the existing hospital property in Oxford has been answered in part: At least one company wants to build a medical office building.

The current Baptist Memorial Hospital was sold to Memphis-based Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in 2011, ending a joint ownership of the property by the City of Oxford and Lafayette County since its construction in the early 1960s. One clause of the $60 million sale was that the two entities would have “first right of refusal” – essentially, an option to match any offer made on resale or re-lease of the property – after the existing hospital is replaced in December 2017 by the new facility being constructed to its west.

Both Lafayette County and City of Oxford governing boards earlier this week gave Baptist Memorial Hospital a partial release from their right-of-first-refusal clause on the existing hospital that the two entities sold to Memphis-based Baptist Memorial Health Care in 2011.

“Baptist is considering leasing one acre of the property adjacent to the hospital in order for a third party to build a medical clinic,” David O’Donnell, attorney for the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, told that board on Monday.

“Baptist would still hold the ground lease,” said Greg Duckett, senior vice president and chief legal officer for the healthcare corporation that owns hospitals and clinics across the Mid-South.

“We will in turn lease it to this third party, and they will build the medical office building.”

Duckett said the city/county right of first refusal clouds Duke Realty’s proposed long-term lease on the property.

At Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting, city Board Attorney Pope Mallette added, “In order for Duke Realty to get its financing … we’ve got to release our right of first refusal. … It’s a little odd, but it’s what they need for their financing need.”

Mallette also noted an advance in the development of another Baptist-owned property, across Lamar Boulevard from the existing hospital.

“We’re talking about the parcel where there’s a new hotel to be put in north of Belk Boulevard,” he said. “The condition that we have suggested and Baptist has agreed to is that the city will seek to rezone it to the actual use of the property. The reason for that is it’s otherwise zoned as the new medical office park, which is not consistent with its use at all, and it gives it a single continuous zoning for the property instead of a broken zoning.” errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec

struggle to forgive yourself’

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

A woman who had an abortion at age 19 urged any woman among the one in three who have experienced abortion to consider abortion recovery counseling.

“I want you to know there’s no sin that God can’t forgive,” Sydna Masse said at Tuesday’s annual banquet fundraiser for Sav-A-Life of Lafayette County and its Pregnancy Test Center. “You may struggle to forgive yourself, and you may need help.”

Masse was the manager of Focus on the Family’s crisis pregnancy ministry until she founded Ramah International to minister directly to individuals and families affected by abortion. She is the author of “Her Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion.”

Masse described her abortion experience – at age 19, while enrolled in a Christian college, with a boyfriend who threatened to abandon her if she didn’t abort.

“All I could think was, ‘Dear God, please forgive me,’” she told the audience of several hundred at First Baptist Church.

That thought was before the procedure began.

“To have an abortion without anesthesia is one of the most brutal things anyone could endure,” Masse said. “The searing pain sent me into another world where I was screaming.

Everybody could hear me.”

The next day, she said, handp r i n t bruises were visible on her t h i g h s Masse where the abortionist forcibly held her down as she tried to escape the pain.

Masse’s boyfriend drove her to the abortion clinic but stayed in the car. He seemed elated to see her after the abortion because he’d heard her screams from the parking lot and thought the people inside had killed her.

“I thought, ‘I could have died up there?’ I saw my life flash before my eyes, and all these consequences I hadn’t thought of before the abortion came rattling out of my head,” Masse said. “The second thing I thought was, ‘You thought they were killing me and you waited in the car?’ Then I started to hate this man.”

Masse urged the nonabortive people in the audience to be sensitive and kind toward abortion supporters, who often become militant in trying to assuage their consciences.

“That hatred, that bitterness, that grief unresolved can make you into a really nasty person,” she said.

“That’s what a lot of postabortive women are: Before God touches them and heals them, they can be really nasty people, so I beg you to give them compassion and grace. They need it from you, the Christian world, the pro-life world,

more than anybody else.”

In addition to pregnancy testing and ultrasound imaging, counseling about adoption and parenting options, and providing material help from baby clothes and furniture to help with housing, Sav-A-Life also provides baby showers and “Princess Day” experiences for expectant women, said ultrasound technician Melissa Tutor, “so she can see her worth as a child of the King.”

Volunteer Amanda Beckett also told about “One By One,” a longterm evangelical Christian mentorship to new mothers.

Among the annual statistics reported were that the year’s 1000th client will likely visit the Pregnancy Test Center before Christmas, and at least 15 pregnant women who were determined to have abortions who changed their minds and let their babies live.

Tuesday’s gathering also included a video of six Pregnancy Test Center clients and the babies they decided not to abort. One in particular noted the importance of the ultrasound image.

“Seeing that and hearing the heartbeat did it for me,” she said.

Another added, “I had made up my mind that I was going to have an abortion, but this place changed it.”

For more information, visit www.pregnancyoxford.com errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec

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UM to rework Whirlpool facility for recreation, transportation

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

The University of Mississippi plans to renovate part of the old Whirlpool plant across Highway 6/278 from the main campus to expand campus recreational offerings and another part as a transportation hub.

“We are looking to add to our recreational facility, but the Turner Center (the current campus recreation center) cannot expand,” said Ian Banner, campus architect and director of facilities planning. “We are looking to utilize part of the old Whirlpool building – part of it, not all by any means – to revitalize what we can, to remove what we can’t use and to turn it into a full-blown recreational center. Inside it will have court spaces, climbing spaces, the general rec center features that you’d typically see. It’s not intended to replace the Turner Center; it’s a both/and, complementary thing.”

While the unattractive Whirlpool plant currently faces southeast toward Old Taylor Road, officials plan to reconfigure it so the southwest side, facing toward Chucky Mullins Drive, becomes its main face.Other parts of the building and the surrounding parking lots will be renovated for a transportation focus.

Joined to the rec center will be a transportation hub, which will be Parking and Transportation offices and a bus station – a place for people to be able to leave their cars near the rec center and then get onto campus easily

using transit,” Banner said.

The timeline for the joint projects is two-and-one-half to three years.

“We’re in the early stages of conceptual design,” he said. “We’ve got probably another year’s worth of design, and then 18 months to two years of construction.

The construction costs will be in the lower to mid-$20 millions range.”

Larry Sparks, vice chancellor for administration and finance, said the project likely would be funded from a combination of Parking and Transportation fees (because that auxiliary department must be self-supporting), student capital improvement fees (currently directed to the Student Union renovation and expansion) and student activity fees.

“The worst-case scenario is, if all those other funds are not available, to borrow some portion of the funds to complete the project,” he said. “That’s not the first option.”

Another project is under consideration on the university’s property south of the four-lane bypass – an expansion of fraternity and sorority housing.

“We’re looking at the suitability and desirability of building a Greek village out there that would overlook the rec center and transportation hub,” he said.

These would be in addition to existing Greek houses on Sorority Row, Fraternity Row and Rebel Drive, he added.

“That’s all on the south side for now.”

Other projects likely in the

near future on the main campus include an expansion of its wastewater treatment system and an additional mechanical building to furnish more heating and cooling capacity for buildings on the northwest portion of the campus. Both systems, Sparks said, are near their designed capacities.

More distant but desperately needed is a plan to build a garage for students who live on campus – a growing part of the student body as more residence halls are added almost yearly.

“A parking garage for residential students is really in discussion right now,” Banner said. “We don’t have any formal marching orders, but discussions are ongoing.”

Mike Harris, director of Transportation and Parking at Ole Miss, said the student garage will likely eclipse the size of the garage that opened this summer, with more than 800 spaces.

“We may lose some spaces during construction and they would need to added back into the total to make sure net out 1,200 spaces,” he said. “I am not sure it’s been officially approved as of yet. We are hopeful.”

One of Ole Miss’s most visible construction projects is nearing completion.

“The basketball facility is still coming on, and we’re still aiming for the first game on Jan. 7,” Banner said. errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec

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University Museum a world-class offering of art and culture JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Certainly the art and exhibits at the University Museum are a story themselves, even if a visitor really knows nothing about them upon arrival. But it’s their deeper stories that can bring them even more to life.

Robert Saarnio, the director of the University Museum and Historic Houses, certainly does that with respect for the works and enthusiasm for the facility that houses them.

“Including what is on display and what is in storage, we have the largest collection of any Museum in the state of Mississippi,” said Saarnio, who came to Oxford from Honolulu in 2012 where he had served as deputy director of the Honolulu Museum of Art. “We’ve got 20,000 objects in this Museum’s holdings. Our collections are both art as well as historical and cultural. We are the leading Museum between Jackson and Memphis.

“We fly far below the radar in comparison to what the collections and the exhibitions deserve. But we’re addressing that.”

Saarnio’s passion for the University Museum is apparent as he reveals the significance of what a visitor is seeing.

“This is called our Speakers Gallery,” he said of the large room off the lobby toward University Avenue. “It’s where we have lectures and receptions.

Commonly we would have Theora Hamblett paintings, the great folk art painter of Oxford history, in here. But currently we have a temporary exhibition of Kate Freeman Clark, who was a painter from Holly Springs. She was legendary in Mississippi art history for leaving the state in the 1890s and going to study with a celebrated American painter, William Merritt Chase, in New York City. This show of 12 paintings is open daily and will be up until February. She died in 1957 in Holly Springs, so she is a historical painter who is significant in Mississippi history. She had moved back in 1924 and did not paint again, so it’s quite an interesting story. We’re planning in 2017 to do a second and very much larger exhibition of her paintings.”

In 1960 a gallery was built and opened in Holly Springs with funds that she left for that purpose, and it is still there today.

In addition to the Freeman Clark exhibit, the Museum currently has several important exhibits including Ben Butler sculpture, Peri Schwartz paint-

The galleries inside the University Museum are filled with interesting and unique collections.

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The University Museum celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014 ings, and a newly-installed Mia Kaplan outdoor sculpture.

The University Museum is located on University Avenue just east of the entrance to the University of Mississippi. Its 75th anniversary celebration was in 2014. The original building is the Mary Buie Museum, which is the eastern-most structure on the grounds. It was a WPA project built in 1939.

Mary Buie was an Oxford resident with a distinguished family legacy. Skipwith was the family name. Buie was her married name. On the grounds where the museum stands now was the Skipwith House until 1974. It was torn down to make way for the University Museum expansion of 1977, with what was then known as the Kate Skipwith Teaching Museum. Kate was Mary Buie’s sister.

Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner and just a short distance through Bailey’s Woods, is also a part of the University Museum.

“We are proud to be the managing entity for Rowan Oak for the University,” Saarnio said.

“Our colleague, Bill Griffith, is the curator there. He is brilliant and may very well be the best historic house museum curator in the nation.”

The University Museum has many programs that are well attended along with some outreach programs in the community and beyond. There are art camps for kids at the Museum that are very popular.

There are traveling trunk exhibits that are taken to schools “on the road” to teach students and even teachers what the Museum has to offer and also to educate them in certain areas of

the Museum’s holdings.

“We are blessed here with the luxury of space to have these types of programs for kids,” Saarnio said of the classrooms that are used for the camps and other activities.

Museums or galleries on campuses across the country and even throughout the world are quite common, according to Saarnio. But the University Museum experience at Ole Miss is an exceptionally strong example.

“Not so common is to have a collection of 20,000 objects as we have here,” said Saarnio.

There are several key collections the University Museum has to offer visitors, as shown in its brochure.

The Lawrence Collection: A rich and varied collection of American Art from the bequest of Seymour Lawrence.

The Robinson Collection: This can be described as the finest collection of its kind in the South and one of the finest in the nation. It contains Greek and Roman sculpture, Roman copies of famous Greek works of art, a superb group of Greek decorated pottery ranging in date from 1500 BCE to 300 AD, inscriptions, architectural fragments, inscribed Sumerian cuneiform tablets, small works of art in terracotta and bronze, and over 750 Greek and Roman coins.

Folk Art: The Folk Art Collection currently represents the work of over 50 Southern artists and is constantly growing.

Theora Hamblett: Native Mississippian and self-taught artist, Theora Hamblett, created paintings from old home memories, children’s games, and dreams

Robert Saarnio has been the director of the University Museum and Historic Houses since 2012. and visions.

Millington-Barnard: A fascinating look at the finest scientific instruments from the 19th century.

“The University and the Museum are in a campaign to raise significant funds to re-install the Greek and Roman antiquities,” Saarnio said. “Those will be housed in the Mary Buie galleries.”

Sarnio, a Minnesota native who got his undergraduate degree from Harvard and graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, said he was immediately attracted to the position as director of the Museum for a number of reasons.

“When I interviewed for the job, I saw the Museum. I saw Rowan Oak. I saw the Bailey’s Woods trail, which connects Rowan Oak to the University Museum. It’s a federally-designated National Recreational Trail. I saw the Walton-Young House (next door to the Museum), and they told me on the interview they weren’t certain of the future of that house. ‘How would you like to plan its future?’ they asked me. And I thought, ‘How many times in my career am I going to have responsibility for a world-class

Museum, a National Historic Landmark literary site, an outdoor trail which is nationally designated, and be told to plan the future of this cool, interesting Victorian house?’ It was such a compelling package. And I met the people and the staff.

Unbelievably talented people.”

That was May, 2012, when he first visited Oxford. He said the fact that he was able to stay a few days and absorb the place and its culture was important.

“I spent three days here. I vividly remember getting back on the plane in Memphis to go back to Honolulu and thinking, ‘Oh dear God, if they offer this job, I am so going to take it.’ And that’s what happened. I could see this is a unique opportunity.”

Certainly it is that, and Saarnio also makes sure everyone knows a couple of other things about the Museum.

“The admission is free,” he said, “and we have free, plentiful parking. You can pull into here and park, walk into this building and stay five minutes or five hours. We serve the public, and we serve the university.”

The University Museum phone number is 662-915-7073.

The website is http://museum.olemiss.edu/.

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Deadline approaching for applications to Oxford Christmas Store SPECIAL TO THE OXFORD CITIZEN

Oxford Christmas Store, a community effort to share the joys of Christmas with the children of Oxford and Lafayette County, is preparing for its 40th year of service. Again this year, the Rotary Club of Oxford-Ole Miss is teaming with the Interfaith Compassion Ministry to provide toys and books for eligible children in our community who might not otherwise have Christmas.

Applications are now available at the Interfaith Compassion Ministry (ICM), 904 North Lamar Blvd. in Oxford. Applicants are requested to present the following items to the ICM, along with completed applications: (1) proof of total household income, (2) a picture ID, and (3) social secu-

rity card or birth certificate for each child. The deadline for applications is Oct. 19 by 5 p.m.

Applications are received from schools, churches, and the Interfaith Compassion Ministry for children up to age 14 who qualify. Only one form per family should be completed. Families eligible to participate will be notified by mail so it is important to provide a valid mailing address and phone number on the application.

Last year, Rotary International provided a District Simplified Grant in the amount of $2,000 to support this project. Combined with community donations of more than $23,000, Rotarians and ICM gifted two books, two toys and fruit for the 625 children from 240 families eligible to participate. Also, the Oxford-

Lafayette Literacy Council enrolled 55 new children for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library enabling each to receive a free book monthly until age five.

Each parent or guardian will be able to select an ageappropriate reading book for each of their children from The Christmas Store book center. In addition, invited families will receive fresh fruit donated by Oxford-Ole Miss Rotary and Taylor United Methodist Church. Toys will be wrapped upon request by community volunteers.

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BRIEFING Alumni Association to honor seven The University of Mississippi Alumni Association is awarding its highest annual honors to seven distinguished alumni as part of Homecoming 2015 activities.

Inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame for 2015 are Mary Ann Strong Connell of Oxford, longtime University of Mississippi attorney and now practicing with Mayo Mallette PLLC of Oxford; Dr. Alan Partin of Baltimore, urologist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Billy Van Devender of Jackson, who has business interests in oil and gas, real estate development and timber products; and Thomas D. Wallace Jr. of Bakersfield, California, vice president for student affairs at California State UniversityBakersfield and former

vice chancellor for student affairs at Ole Miss.

Lee McCarty, founder of McCartys Pottery in Merigold, who died in September at age 92, will be posthumously recognized with the Alumni Hall of Fame award.

Created in 1974, the Hall of Fame honors alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their country, state or the university through good deeds, services or contributions that have perpetuated the good name of Ole Miss.

Suzan B. Thames of Jackson will receive the Alumni Service Award, and Hunter Carpenter of Dallas will receive the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Metro Narcotics head moves to Sheriff Dept.

Keith Davis’s resignation as Captain at OxfordLafayette County Metro

Narcotics Task Force was accepted by both the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors and the Oxford Board of Aldermen this week. The Board of Supervisors spread upon its minutes that Davis was hired as a deputy by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department on Oct. 1.

Metro Narcotics has been the subject of recent online articles alleging coercive and abusive tactics.

Sheriff F.D. “Buddy” East said Davis will serve as a patrolman.

“He’s got a lot of experience, and we had an opening,” East said. “I like Keith, and I’m proud to have him.”

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Water Liars have developed a signature sound style performance will have anyone moving their feet to their southern blues infused tunes.

Tyler Daniels Following their quick ascension since forming three years ago, MisOxford Citizen sissippi’s Water Liars have developed a signature sound that is both soothing and jarring, often within the context of the same rom the abandoned log song. This was evident on their cabin in Corinth, MS that birthed the sextet’s jagged, debut, Phantom Limb, with its Black Sabbath riff that opened the folky sound, Holy Ghost album. On 2013’s Wyoming such Electric Show is comprised of bombast was largely held in check, brothers -- by blood not just providing a more dreamlike wash music -- Cody and Jake Rogers (rhythm guitar, vocals, songwrit- for singer-guitarist Justin KunkelSchuster’s ethereal vocals. ing/guitar, banjo, respectfully), These dynamics are both at plus Will Shirley (guitar), Conner play on Water Liars, the group’s Wroten (bass), Austin Wheeler (drums), and Jesse James (trom- third release in as many years. bone and keys). Finding a com- Darkness pervades “Cannibal” parison might take you all week . and “War Paint” at the album’s outset, before hitting the ready-made They convey a sound that is single, “I Want Blood”, where equal parts New Orleans street Kunkel-Schuster claims “Now I’m fair, Mississippi blues-infused, rolling into battle / With a smoke hill–stomp party-rock, a bit of between my lips”. Serving as a Woody Guthrie meets Husker mantra of sorts, “I Want Blood” Du folk-noise-pop, with plenty and its sense of urgency is an apt of sad. Holy Ghost Electric metaphor for the band’s musical Show puts on a hell of a show. immediacy.

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As on Wyoming, the quieter moments of Water Liars highlight Kunkel-Schuster’s strength as a songwriter. The countrified waltz of “Swannonoa” and the muted memories of “Vespers” verge on autobiography, with every detail accurately rendered. Both are travel songs of sorts, tense from the pull of decisions that must be made.

Whereas Wyoming was a more consistent album, Water Liars plays across styles, adding to its dimension. It could almost be viewed as two separate albums: the first containing blood and murk with the second consisting of plaintive, restrained love songs.

The proto-pop of “Ray Charles Dream” fits among the former, recalling the punk edge of Phantom Limb’s “Short Hair”. The addition of GR Robinson on bass further empowers drummer Andrew Bryant, providing locked blues grooves and expands the vocal harmonies that most benefited Wyoming.

At its midpoint is “Tolling Bells”, a forlorn tale of struggle and love

that cohesively convenes the band’s two contrasting sides. Formerly bearing the subtitle “For Molina”, the centerpiece’s pain and loneliness form the album’s longest song. Building over time, vocal harmonies are offset by downbeat guitar fuzz to draw out the song’s narrative tension.

The dynamic shifts favored

by Water Liars work when warranted and paced. Opener “Cannibal” with its vampires in the Garden of Eden lyrics and the sonic pacing of “War Paint” are both fit for purpose. The explo-

sive blast that closes “Last Escape” corrects the misguided squall of Wyoming’s “Fine Arts”.

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Campus Book Mart continues to serve Oxford in new location

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Campus Book Mart has been in Oxford for 25 years.

But it’s only been in the current location for a few months.

Back in May and June, the store began a transition from the old location in the Oxford Mall. For a while they maintained both locations.

Now Campus Book Mart is located in one place, the Oakwood Plaza Shopping Center between Anytime Fitness and Johnson's Discount Furniture.

Store Manager Matt Johnson said they are enjoying their new home, but it’s still a work in progress.

“We got the move started over the summer, and that way people coming back for school in the fall would know where we are,” Johnson said. “There’s a lot of parking here, and actually inside the store we’ve increased our floor space from 12,000 to 14,000. So those are all good things.”

Of course there was a lot of parking at the old location. But there were some problems that developed over the years.

“Gameday was an issue over there,” Johnson said.

“There was some gridlock. It has free parking, but we had to fight for our spots. Some people would go shopping, then they would go to the game and leave their car. It was an interesting issue every gameday. Here we feel like that will be more consistent.”

Johnson said Campus Book Mart is always on the lookout for new products to sell. One of those is highly popular these days.

“Fifteen years ago there was no Landshark,” he said.

“Things change. We always get new items coming in, and now we have room to grow when we add new items.”

Campus Book Mart has much more than shirts and caps and other Ole Miss and gameday items. Of course, that is a large part of their business. "Back in the ‘70s, that’s how Campus Book Mart started out, as a textbook store with a few tshirts," Johnson said. "Now after it has expanded over the years, we depend on both.”

There are other things that also go along with the book side of the business, as well as textbooks.

“We have supplies like notebooks, pens, backpacks, canvasses. We have a lot of local artists that come in to buy things," Johnson said. "We have someone in the store that paints. We have another lady who has taught art before, and she orders a lot of our art supplies.”

So Campus Book Mart has Ole Miss souvenirs, like caps, t-shirts, car flags, buttons and other accessories to support the teams and school. But it also has school supplies and college supplies and that can come in a variety of forms.

“We think of ourselves as a one-stop shop. You can get

your gifts here, and you can also get your textbooks here,” said Johnson, who started working at the store as an Ole Miss student and has been in the store manager position since earlier this year.

As Ole Miss has grown, so have the challenges of making sure there are enough supplies to sell to the students and faculty.

“Every year we look at the enrollment and say ‘We sold this many, and now there are this many people here.

So we’d better go with this many.’ That’s the business side of it,” Johnson said.

“And now there are access codes used by some professors and publishers, and that’s a one-time use. It’s like your own personal code. You get on the computer and you open your book, type in the code, and it’s gone forever. It’s just yours. You can’t sell it back.”

So as things change, the business model in most regards stays the same. And Johnson is pleased to be a part of it in Oxford.

“I like being here. It’s easy to want to sell to Ole Miss fans and to want to be around them,” Johnson, a native of Natchez, said. "It’s a fun job.”

And it’s a business that is now in a new location, just down Jackson Avenue from where it’s been for more than two decades. And still going strong,.

To buy online, go to the Campus Book Mart website, which is campusbookmart.com/um.

and honored to be on the court.”

Marjorie Ann used that same word – crazy - to convey her thoughts on it. She wasn’t even sure it was the truth at first. Friends can pull pranks, you know.

“It’s really crazy,” she said. “We did not expect that at all. We’re just so honored and surprised. At first I thought it was like a joke and that everyone was messing with us. But they weren’t. It’s just so surreal.”

Rosemary said it’s all been such fun but indeed a bit overwhelming, especially for one member of the family.

“My mom is very excited and happy for us,” she said. “But buying the dresses and buying all the supplies for it she says is very overwhelming. But she’s very happy and proud of us.”

One of the neatest things about it all is the fact that the three sisters who grew up together are still enjoying this particular moment together. That’s because

Heather chose to go to Ole Miss in their hometown.

“She comes home a lot.

And we’ll go eat dinner with her,” Marjorie Ann said. “We’re all really, really close. It’s not like she’s a million miles away. We always hang out with her. It’s so fun with her being in the same town.”

And this weekend make that triple the fun. They are predicting at least 20 or more family members from Oxford and beyond to be joining them at the games.

“A lot of our family is going to be here, and even some family we haven’t met yet,” said Rosemary.

The Oxford High School Homecoming Parade was Monday evening. The Ole Miss Homecoming Parade is Friday at 5:30 p.m.

That parade and the Saturday football game are only two of the responsibilities for Heather.

“The Homecoming Queen is the official host of the University for the year,” she said. “I will get to welcome any distinguished guests to campus and also work closely alongside campus offi-

cials, which will be a lot of fun.”

They’ll all be there supporting each other this weekend. Heather will be at her high school alma mater Friday night, while Rosemary and Marjorie Ann, along with younger brother, Philip, will be there Saturday supporting Heather at Ole Miss.

And they will never forget those moments when they found out they had been chosen, Heather for Ole Miss Homecoming Queen and Rosemary and Marjorie Ann for OHS Homecoming Maids.

“We all called each other and we’re like this is so weird. How does this even happen?” Marjorie Ann said. “We just couldn’t believe it.”

Crazy, maybe, and unbelievable, maybe. But it’s quite the honor for the Neilson family as they celebrate this week with Charger Nation and Rebel Nation.

"I appreciate the overwhelming support of my family and friends and the Oxford community," Heather said. "We’re so humbled and blessed."

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015

Kaye Bryant walked cancer right out of her life

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Kaye Hooker Bryant had been to the doctor for checkups plenty of times before. So what was another one going to prove?

Everything was going to be routine, right? Nothing new.

At least that was what she thought in the beginning.

“I had had two lumpectomies that were benign prior to finding out that I had breast cancer,” said the nearly seven-year survivor. “Actually when I went for that mammogram, they told me I needed to have a sonogram. And I went for that.

Then they said we’re going to send you for a needle biopsy.

“I had had one of those before, and I thought, ‘What a waste of time. It’s going to be benign. I just have cysts in my breast, and there’s nothing I can do about it.’ I wasn’t even concerned. “ After all those procedures, she went back home. It wasn’t long before she got a phone call.

“My surgeon and very good friend, Dr. Mickey King, called me at home and said, ‘Kaye, I hate to tell you this, but you have two lumps. And they are malignant.’ That’s about like getting hit in the face with a brick.”

Bryant didn’t take the word that she had received very well.

“It was really devastating news to me when it happened,” she said. “I shed tears. I was scared. I didn’t know what lay in store for me. So I asked him when he could do the surgery, and he said ‘As soon as we can.’ He called me the next morning and they took me right on into

surgery.”

Bryant remembers so much care and attention and compassion from so many, including friends and family and others.

There was one who immediately comes to mind.

“I had a nurse anesthesis named Connie Zinn who was the kindest, most caring person you could possibly imagine. She knew that I had a great fear of being put to sleep. I had much more fear of being put to sleep than having cancer. She was right there with me, explaining every step. She let my friends come back to the pre-op room to be with me and be supportive.

“And that’s another point. My children lived far away at that time. My son lives here now. I had some of the best friends in the world who were right there with me, they came to the hospital stayed through the whole surgery, and they were there when I woke up. Especially two that I have to single out, and that’s Sue Gobert and Jo Dale Mistilis. Those are two of my very closest friends who were with me every step of the way, day and night.”

Bryant said from that point on, and even until today, things are different.

“My world completely changed,” she said. “I was very lucky in the fact that although I had to sign permission to remove both breasts if that was necessary, they did not have to do that. They did have to remove a lot of lymph nodes. It was extensive surgery, and yet not as bad as it could have been.”

Bryant had to have several months of radiation treatment after that. But she said the early detection and discovery was a

great factor in her survival.

“I actually thought I was wasting my time to have all these other tests done.

Thank God I did. That would be my message to any woman today. Do not hesitate. Get your annual mammogram. If they find anything suspicious, keep following up, because early detection can save your life. “ Attitude is a real key as well. Bryant said she came home and made sure to literally stop and smell the roses.

“It was springtime. I spent a lot of time sitting on my front porch, watching things bloom in Walter and Barbara McLaurin’s yard. It was the daffodils at first, then it was the iris, then the wisteria, and then the dogwood. As I watched all that new life unfold, I was so inspired.

As soon as the doctor would let me, I got out and started walking. And I walked and walked.

“As I say, I walked cancer right out of here.”

Bryant has two children.

Julie Kaye Fanton is a freelance set decorator for films and television who lives right outside of Los Angeles. She will be in Oxford in February as one of the judges for the Oxford Film Festival. Julie has one son, Nicholas, who was married in May. He and his wife, Madeline, live in southern California.

Bryant’s son, Bobby, recently retired from the military. He was the deputy commandant at the War College in Carlisle, Pa. He retired after 30 years, and now he lives in Lafayette County out on Woodson Ridge Road. He and his wife, Lisa, have two sons –

Patrick, a second lieutenant in the Army who just graduated flight school and is stationed in Honduras, and Nathan who is a junior at Ole Miss.

Bryant said she is pleased there is much more attention given to breast cancer awareness than ever before. And while she said it is rare, men can also have breast cancer.

“For too many years, breast cancer was sort of a hush-hush thing. Nobody talked about it. And that was not a good thing for the women involved, the women who were impacted, by breast cancer.

So I’m glad to have an opportunity to talk about it.”

Bryant said that with enough awareness, support, financial support, and research, breast cancer can be defeated and

eliminated.

“We eradicated polio. We can eradicate breast cancer. I believe that,” she said.

Bryant grew up on South Lamar – “804 South Lamar,” she quickly said, a graduate of University High School. Oxford is her hometown and she loves it.

“I was in walking distance of everything then, and I am again,” she said, mentioning she lived out of town on Old Taylor Road for 26 years but since 2002 has lived just off the Square. “I love it. I walk everywhere.”

And Bryant takes in all life has to offer, now that she has a second chance at living.

“To be here almost seven years now as a survivor is a gift from God. I cherish it and try to make the most of every single day that comes along.”

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OPD joins support by wearing pink t-shirts for breast cancer awareness

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Everywhere you look, it’s pink.

That’s what this month is all about.

Even the referees’ whistles at high school football games this month have pink covers on them.

The Oxford Police Department is continually searching for ways to help the community and its citizens. They want to be able to not only do their job as policemen and law enforcers, but they also want to make a difference in people’s lives in whatever the situation.

So OPD is getting into the mix as far as supporting breast cancer awareness during the month of October. And they are happy to be doing so.

“Chief (Joey) East’s whole mission, once he became chief, was to really work on public relations and build individual relationships in the community,” said Megan Prescott, Executive Assistant to the Chief of Police. “That’s part of this whole outreach to the citizens of Oxford, supporting the causes that are important to the citizens of Oxford, beyond just law enforcement day in and day out.”

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Sergeant David Mahaffey, Captain Kevin Houston, Orrin Todd, Matt Samuels and Sheldon Lowe are wearing pink t-shirts under their uniforms for the month of October in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

So you will see the OPD officers with a bit of a different look this month, at least as far as their attire.

“T-shirts is what we’re doing and it’s a simple thing to do,” said Jeff McCutchen, Major of Operations for the Oxford Police Department. “We’d bounced some ideas off each other. We were in a brain-storming meeting. We decided we might be able to get

some t-shirts for the cause. Fortunately when we pitched the idea, Jeff Busby (at University Sporting Goods) said, ‘I think It’s a great cause. I’ll donate the shirts.’

So that’s what we did.”

McCutchen said the department always has to be aware of its uniform and has to keep in mind that there are limits to what they can wear. But in this case the pink t-shirts underneath, which do in-

deed show significantly at the top of the uniform, was the route they chose to go.

“You kind of have to be careful.

What can you do with a uniform?” he said. “What can you do to bring awareness? We all have the Oxford Police Respect, Honor, and Integrity bands. We’re looking to get some of those done in pink with black writing, and give those away. Make that a trend for every October. We’ll pass those out and do different things with them.”

McCutchen said the pink does indeed stand out on that black uniform.

“It pops,” he said. “It’s kind of bold. What easier way to get that message out than to put pink on a police officer who is seen in the public every day, and to help raise awareness.”

McCutchen said it’s always good to step out and help the community, because it helps the officers as well.

“I think in law enforcement you have to step back and remind yourself we’re members of the community, too, just like any other division of the city. We’re just here to enforce the laws. We have the same issues everyone else has," he said. "And if we can

help bring awareness to a great cause like this is, why not do this?

We need to do our part. A pink shirt on a police officer is kind of strange. But if that will help remind everybody how serious this is and to get involved, we definitely should.”

McCutchon said the department is already thinking ahead.

“Next month is No Shave November, and we’re looking at donning the beards and bringing awareness to that,” he said. “We’ll continue to look into these type things and see what we can do to help.”

The goal of No-Shave November is to grow awareness by embracing hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free. Donate the money you typically spend on shaving and grooming to educate about cancer prevention, save lives, and help those fighting the battle.

For now, however, it’s breast cancer awareness.

“It’s really an easy thing that we’re doing, but it’s important,” Prescott said. “This is just one small thing we can do to support thousands of people who have battled breast cancer or who have known someone who has.”

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OXFORD HOMECOMING PARADE Oxford High School held its Homecoming Parade on Monday on North Lamar Boulevard and around the Square. The Homecoming football game for the Chargers is Friday night against Lewisburg.

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Why did you move to Oxford?

Jim Dees Tales of the Town

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here was a time in Oxford when you knew everyone in Kroger. Half the square was obscured by trees. The only bar was at the Holiday Inn until the Gin opened bringing the total number of watering holes to a grand, two. If you wanted to buy cold beer, you had to drive to the wilds of Panola County. The only retirees in town were sitting around the square under the aforementioned shade trees. If you wanted to see a famous writer, you had to go to the cemetery. If you wanted to buy a book, you went to the drug store. In other words, as Oxford’s city leaders plan for the future, they will envision a town unlike the one they have known.

Ongoing studies and meetings to manage Oxford’s growth into the year 2037 (Oxford’s bicentennial) boggles the mind as does talk of a downtown parking garage and

the explosion of a “mini-Oxford” in the Oxford Commons area. As reported by this newspaper, those studies have shown there remains only 5% of city land that hasn’t been developed. All of these challenges are a good problem to have when so many small towns are sliding into oblivion. It all begs the same ole dilemma: more people bring more tax revenue to improve quality of Oxford life, but at the same time, more people means… more people.

My buddy Lisa Howorth described Oxford’s conundrum in Garden and Gun with her usual wicked wit: “The characteristic little frame cottages and brick bungalows, old woods, and nineteenth-century commercial buildings that give Oxford its Southern small-town appeal were being demolished, some literally overnight, to make way for more condominium developments and monster McMansions shoehorned onto tiny lots like Mammy squeezing Scarlett into her gown for the Twelve Oaks barbeque.”

Another longtime Oxford resident, William Faulkner, complained as far back as 1947: “They call this progress. But they don’t

“What do new arrivals see when they come to Oxford today?” say where it’s going; also there are some of us who would like the chance to say whether or not we want the ride.”

For me, I’ve always thought of Oxford as a recovery destination; that place you return to when the going got tough and it was time to recharge, reload and shake off the bummers. My arrival happened when I found myself on the north end of a love affair gone south.

There is no statute-of-limitations on heartache so I can’t speak freely of these matters except to say that it was a visit to Oxford that provided an exit strategy. She took a job in Atlanta and I was unwilling

to make that move, opting instead for Oxford after visiting on a basketball weekend. The Tad Pad was a still-fresh 12 years old.

What was the draw? I saw a small town that was easy to traverse where one could keep their head down and plot the next move. I hired on for a manual labor gig (Man, this was a long time ago!) with the state highway department, found a tiny house to rent and dug in. Little did I know I would fall in love with the town and this would be a permanent move but that’s what happens with love, the affection gathers incrementally.

All of which makes me wonder what do new arrivals see when they come to Oxford today? A bustling square with myriad shopping, eating and drinking opportunities? An easy-going pace despite 21st Century traffic choking 20th Century streets. A vibrant, diverse community with low crime, excellent schools, SEC sports and numerous recreational opportunities? Surely there are any number of locales that can boast some, if not all, of these attributes.

For those of us who have lived here for years now, we stay for all those reasons and of course for our friends and neighbors, the people of this town who have become family… even those who have apparently forgotten what a turn signal is.

An interviewer once told the late Barry Hannah that she sensed tenderness among the characters of his last novel. He replied: “There’s a world of kindness and tenderness that surrounds me and my friends in this little town of Oxford. I’d be a liar if I left it out.”

Best of luck to our city leaders managing this cool town, and don’t forget the kindness and tenderness.

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This condo features heart pine floors, 10' ceilings, granite throughout and stainless Viking appliances. Freshly painted and move in ready! $430,000. Call Heather Richardson - 662-5887312 or Andrew Richardson – 662-801-2718

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Oxford - Fantastic home on a large fenced lot, landscaped. Open floor plan, living room with eating area and kitchen. Sitting space at the kitchen countertop. Enjoy the outdoors with screened porch and large patio. 3 BR/2Ba. Nice sized bedrooms with on-suite in master with shower and tub. Walk-in closet. Call 662.234.5344

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It’s Homecoming Week!

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

From a food festival to a football game (Imagine that!), Homecoming Week at the University of Mississippi has plenty in store for everyone with an Ole Miss loyalty.

TODAY: • Coffee with a Cop – 7:30-9:30 a.m. and 5-7 p.m., Student Union Plaza. Meet and visit with police officers in a, shall we say, “less stressed” situation.

• Food Festival – 10 a.m.2 p.m., Student Union Plaza.

This celebration of food will offer healthy cooking tips and right-in-the-heart-of-campus farmers market.

• Union Unplugged – 12:15-1 p.m., Student Union Plaza. Enjoy a Latin version of “Dancing with the Stars.”

• Movie Series: “Inside Out” – 8 p.m., in the Grove. (In case of rain, at the Turner Center Auditorium) After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her

emotions conflict on how best to Brevard Hall. navigate a new city, house, and • Homecoming Game, school.

Ole Miss vs. New Mexico State – 11 a.m., Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (Where else?) Be early, be FRIDAY • Homecoming Parade, loud and wear red to cheer on Pep Rally and Square Jam – 5:30 your Rebels. Halftime presentap.m., along University Avenue tions will include the crowning and South Lamar Boulevard. of 2015 Homecoming Queen The parade, with lots of floats Heather Neilson and the introends on the Square with a pep duction of the alumni awards refollowed by a rally, followed by Square Jam, cipients, when the men’s and women’s performance from the Pride of basketball teams will be intro- the South marching band. duced and perform some drills to show off skills that’ll be domGETTING THERE inating the court starting next With on-campus parking limmonth. ited in quantity and restricted to • The Grove Opens – 7:30 those with passes, shuttles can p.m. It’s the consensus best tail- be a great way to get to and from gating experience in America. campus.

The university will operate free shuttles from the Jackson SATURDAY • Annual Alumni Associa- Avenue Center (Old Walmart, tion Meeting – 9 a.m., Triplett 1111 West Jackson Avenue), dropping off passengers at ParisAlumni Center.

• Black Alumni Advisory Yates Chapel. Service begins at 6 Council Tailgate – 9 a.m., front a.m. and ends two hours after lawn of the Triplett Alumni Cen- the game ends.

The City of Oxford will also ter.

• School of Engineering operate gameday shuttles. The Tailgate – 9 a.m., front lawn of free route uses Double Decker

buses to shuttle between the Square and the Ole Miss campus starting four hours before the game. (Reminder: Streetside parking on game days is for a limit of three hours; off-street parking in city-owned lots has no time limit.) Service ends when the game begins.

For those who want to get into town, park and get quickly to the game (and quickly back to their cars afterward), $5 shuttle round-trips are available from free parking with security officers at Oxford High School (at the end of Sisk Avenue, off Highway 7 North), Northwest Mississippi Community College Oxford Campus (Belk Boulevard, off Highway 7 South) and FNC Park (Old Sardis Road). Drop-off is on Gertrude Ford Boulevard near the football stadium. Service begins four hours before the game (which means 7 a.m. this weekend) and ends two hours after the game’s end. errol.castens@journalinc.com; Twitter; @oxfordcitizenec; (662) 8161282

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ence in the ability of Oxford Christmas Store to provide books and toys for children at no charge. HOW? New toys and monetary donations are always welcome!

Toys may be dropped off at the Interfaith Compassion Ministry at 904 North Lamar Blvd. in Oxford, or a Rotarian will pick up toy donations by contacting oxfordchristmasstore@gmail.com or 662-259-7150. A gift card or a new, unwrapped toy or book appropriate for a boy or girl up to age 14, or a donation of $30 will provide a book and toys for eligible children.

Taking part in making Christmas special for a child is a very rewarding experience. For more information on volunteering, contact the Rotary Club of Oxford-Ole Miss at oxfordchristmasstore@gmail.com or call 662259-7150.

Monetary donations may be sent to The Christmas Store, P.O. Box 1686, Oxford, MS 38655. Donations also may be made online at www.oxford-olemissrotary.com (click on service projects).

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John Davis Sports Editor

Rebels still have a lot to play for in 2015

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perfect season for the Ole Miss Rebels came to end in The Swamp.

It doesn't mean that the 2015 campaign is over. Far from it. There is a still a lot to play for. The message from Hugh Freeze heading into the week was that the Rebels weren't elite just yet.

“We have potential to be much better than the way we played (at Florida), and we’ve shown that. We still have a lot of work to do. It’s evident the other night that we weren’t prepared to play our best and didn’t,” Freeze said. “We got exposed in some places in the secondary that we need to work on. Maybe we’ll move some people around. Offensively, we have got to find a way to get where you are on the road, and to play in that type of environment in this league, you have to find a way to have success early. You have to put an extreme amount of time into doing that. I believe that this team will respond, no question. We have the ability to be one of the best teams in the country.”

A win over Alabama in Week 3 was historic in what it represented for the overall program. The Rebels vaulted to No. 3 in the polls. It was celebrated. Maybe a little too much as it turns out.

Reality set in for the Rebels at Florida, the team that vaulted in the polls after the win.

Ole Miss back to where it was before its trip to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to do battle with the Crimson Tide. Such is life in this week-toweek soap opera called the SEC. Heck, college football in general is a week-to-week, back-and-forth scrum. It always has been.

The stakes are just different now than they were a decade or so ago.

What we learned a year ago was that there is life after a loss. Alabama was able to run the table after losing to Ole Miss. The Rebels seemed on the verge of doing that same thing themselves following the loss to LSU in 2014. Then Laquon Treadwell got hurt, and well, we all know the rest of the story.

The Rebels seemingly learned how to deal with setbacks after the 2014. Now it's time for them to show us. Injuries are going to happen. Senior linebacker CJ Johnson is TURN TO REBELS PAGE 27

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Ole Miss defensive back Mike Hilton

Rebels looking to improve themselves against Aggies

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

New Mexico State visits Oxford to play Ole Miss in the annual Homecoming game Saturday morning. The opponent could be the Oklahoma Sooners or Washington Huskies for that matter. After losing their first game of the season at Florida in Week 5, everything begins and ends with the No. 14 Rebels this week.

For the Rebels to get back on the winning side of things, coach Hugh Freeze said the team has to start executing better, and stop turning the ball over.

“We certainly did not play our best against Florida.

Some of that had to do with them, some of that had to do with us not making plays or not coaching them to play well enough. It is a great lesson for us,” Freeze said. “We

VS.

Kickoff: 11 a.m.

Radio: WQLJ-FM 93.7 TV: SEC Network Series: First meeting owned it when we went to Tuscaloosa and won, so now we need to own the loss on the road. We have to own it when we lose in difficult places to play against really good teams. The expectations of this program are to compete in those games. I know that and I understand that.”

Quarterback Chad Kelly,

who was sacked four times and harassed constantly by the Gators, talked about putting everything back together during his weekly press conference.

“We understand that we have to come together as a team to have the season that we want to have,” Kelly said.

“You can't win a game turning the ball over. That's the same thing with Alabama.

They were still in the game despite the turnovers. We were still in the (Florida) game despite the turnovers.

We just have to get better.

(Florida) outplayed us. They out executed us and we have to make sure everyone is on the same page.”

Kelly's offensive line was banged up heading into the contest with the Gators. Senior guard Justin Bell was unable to play, while fellow Rod Taylor and Javon Patterson were both battling injuries

each snap. Freeze said his line struggled with Florida's quickness, and even though the line did better at Alabama, it wasn't perfect in that game. And then when the Rebels fell behind early to the Gators, things only got worse from a protection standpoint.

“What we needed to go on the other night was for us to go back and forth a little bit to settle that place down. If you look at the first drive, one of our guys gets the wrong signal, and we have a sprint out pass to get Chad away from it, and we take a sack because our guy goes the wrong direction,” Freeze said. “The next one, we had a fumble on an exchange. That is the first time I remember that happening since I’ve been here.

The next drive, we get two first downs and we snap the TURN TO IMPROVE, 27

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Friday Night Previews: Week 8 Commodores looking to give Lions first loss

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Lafayette's second half of the season started with a bang as the Commodores rolled over Ripley 45-14. The score was significant because the Tigers had competed so well with the Commodores the past two seasons.

“It seemed like it took us a quarter to get settled in and then once we did, we were able to have a lot of success on both sides of the ball,” LHS coach Eric Robertson said. “I think it was a really good win for us. Losing to them two years ago, and then winning last year by a point at their place, they've always played us tough. It was the first region game for us as well, so it was a really good win for us.”

The Commodores (6-1 overall) got another outstanding rushing performance from Tyrell Price. He finished with 190 yards and four more touchdowns, raising his total 17 on the season. Of course Price wasn't the only Commodore who played well.

“I thought Quin Jones might have had his best game defensively all year.

Vincent Lewis was solid as always. We got some turnovers defensively,” Robertson said. “Tyrell was

Tyrell. The offensive line was really good and I thought Will (Ard) threw the ball well.

We didn't throw it many times. We had a few drops on a few balls we should have caught. That happens some nights, you just hope it's not on a night that it really hurts you. I thought overall we progressed and played well.”

This week's opponent is Tunica-Rosa Fort, which enters with a 6-0 record.

Robertson said it was the same group from last season, just older.

“They have a lot of seniors this year and they have four or five guys that are as good as anybody in the state,” Robertson said. “They have some big linemen, some really good skill guys. They're fast all over the field. They're a scary football team. They can have a bad play turn into a big play for them just because they're athletic and fast. They're similar to a Charleston, but they probably have more skill guys and they're not playing as many people both ways.”

Robertson felt like the Lions were equally good on both sides of the ball. Kevin Perkins is a name LHS fans should remember since he is all over the field, at running back and cornerback and even at wide receiver.

Lafayette at Tunica-Rosa Fort Kickoff: 7 p.m.

Radio: WQLJ-FM 93.7 “He scored with 16 seconds left on the clock in the Clarksdale game to beat them,” Robertson said. “He was also the one when we were up 20-0 last year scored on a really long run. They're scary on offense because of the big-play threat. Defensively, they have the big lineman No. 99 (Hal Northern).

He is really difficult to block.

He can control one side of the line for them. They also have some really good linebackers in No. 5 (Ronald Ladd) and No. 7 (Jamal Jones). And in the secondary they have some speedy guys. They can cover and run and it's hard to break big plays on them because they are so fast on the back end.”

INJURY UPDATE Dillon Woods and Rashaun Rockette were both held out of the win over Ripley.

Both were expected to be

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Lafayette had a lot to be excited about on the football field during its 45-14 win over Ripley to open up 2-4A play back against Tunica.

SCHEDULE UPDATE Lafayette was scheduled to host Byhalia in the final 15A game on Oct. 29, but the game had to be moved back to Oct. 30 this week.

9TH GRADE UPDATE Lafayette defeated Oxford 34-32 Sept. 30 improve to 4-2 on the season heading into a matchup with the

Lions, a team they beat 360. All five touchdowns against the Chargers were scored on offense for the Commodores. Brandon Turnage had three touchdowns, while D.D. Miller had two touchdowns.

Jamie Shaw also added two 2-point plays. Oxford's 2point conversion with 29 seconds left was thwarted by the Commodores to hold on for the win.

In the Commodores' 36-0 win, Shaw had two rushing scores, Turnage scored on a 30-yard reception,while Jason Sawyer also scored.

Deontae Jones rounded out the scoring on the ground.

The final game for the Commodores comes next Tuesday against Pontotoc's junior varsity.

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Metcalf's discipline key to great grades, athletic success This is the seventh in a series of stories on athletes from both Oxford and Lafayette.

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

There are a number of things that Oxford's DK Metcalf excels at.

He's fantastic on the football field for the Chargers, and that goes for him as a wide receiver, returner or as a defensive back. He's a force inside the paint on the basketball court and a great hurdler on the

track.

As impressive as he is from an athletic standpoint, Metcalf's attention to detail in the classroom can't be overlooked. The U.S. Army All-American sports a grade point average of 3.57 making him one of the top-rated students in the school.

In Metcalf's case, there is no other option than to do well in school. It's been stressed by his parents since he was little.

“One of the main things we tried to focus on with Dekaylin was grades. His mother was an athlete and a great student. I was an athlete and an OK student. But we pushed the fact that you can't have athletics without education,” said father Terrence Metcalf, who was a standout at Ole

Miss before playing in the NFL. “What I tried to educate him about was even when I got to Ole Miss, the learning process didn't stop. In order to be best that you can be, you have to learn how to study now so that way it carries over once you get to college and if God blesses you, once you get beyond college. My wife Tonya always made sure they focused on their education and what they needed to do.”

Tonya Metcalf, who played basketball at Lafayette under maiden name of Malone, said if you don't have good grades, it hinders athletes from doing a lot of other things in life.

“Anybody can be a great athlete, but you have to have the grades, the discipline, to move on to col-

lege,” she said. “Football is not forever. You need something else to fall back on. And I'm a stickler about grades. If they make As and Bs, I say 'Good job.' But I don't want to congratulate them on something they already supposed to be doing. We want to reward, but we have a standard.”

Tonya Metcalf added that DK caught on quick that grades were important.

“We never just had to stay on him about it. He took it upon himself and he's been handling it on his own,” she added. “I'm so proud of him. In the back of my mind, I want to praise him more.

I just thank God for the discipline that he has on the field, on the TURN TO METCALF PAGE 20

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Oxford's DK Metcalf balances football, baseball, track and a grade point average over 3.5, but none of it comes without hard work, and discipline.

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Friday Night Previews: Week 8 Chargers host Patriots for homecoming ural ability out in the open field,” Hill said. “He sees the field and he hits the hole well. He made several cutback moves that you don't really coach. It's an acquired skill that not everybody can do. He has that knack of seeing the big picture, put the brakes on, and cut back. And then he's gone. He's a good one.”

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A large point total in a one-sided win over Saltillo wasn't the main thing Oxford football coach Johnny Hill liked about when he rewatched the film of the contest. Hill admitted that while Saltillo is a young team that will likely be good in time, his Chargers were really focused in a game they could have taken lightly.

“They really had no answer for what we do on offense, but the biggest thing we were preaching last week was we want to play to our potential and not down to our competition,” Hill said. “I thought we had some real good practices last week. Our kids came ready to play. I would grade them almost on A plus on special teams and offense.

Our defense really played a lot better. They were sharper out there and did a lot of good things. They got very high marks this past week against Saltillo.”

The effort, and taking care of responsibilities, were also two big pluses for the Chargers, who are now two games over .500 for the first time all

Lewisburg at Oxford Kickoff: 7 p.m.

Radio: WOXD-FM 95.5

SCOUTING REPORT season at 4-2 overall.

“I don't know how much better we could execute than what we did offensively,” Hill said. “We're in the same type of situation this week. We just need to do what we do and execute on offense and special teams, and defense, too.”

NEW BACK, SAME RESULTS Sophomore Hiram Wadlington picked up the slack in the running game against Saltillo, rushing for 161 yards. Drew Bianco, the starter, was lost for the rest of the season after suffering a nerve injury in his shoulder. Wadlington, and Josh Patton, were both praised

by Hill for the way they ran.

“I thought they both did well. Hiram has a lot of nat-

Lewisburg's Patriots, unlike the Chargers, are 0-2 in 1-5A play heading into Friday night's homecoming contest. Hill said his team still had to play hard, no matter the record of the opponent.

“That's the biggest thing, but I am more worried about us than I am them,” Hill said. “We have to do what we do well and execute, and we'll be fine. I think they're probably a little bit better offensively. I think they have some holes there on defense that they're going to have trouble stopping what we do. I think there are going to be a lot of matchup problems for them.”

If things go according to plan, the Chargers should be able to play a bevy of

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Defensive end Korbin Harmon and the Oxford Chargers played very well against Saltillo last week. Coach Johnny Hill would love to see them play like that against Lewisburg. players. Hill was able to pull the starters out against Saltillo in order to build depth. And for the injured players that couldn't go against Saltillo, Hill was looking to get them some

reps as well.

“Hopefully they'll be able to play some this week, the ones we held out with an ankle injury or a sore shoulder,” Hill said. “Hopefully we can get some

young guys healthy and some younger people in there, too, and go from there.”

OLE MISS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

March 5 at Tennessee March 9-13 SEC Tournament (Nashville,Tenn.)

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SPORTS IN DEPTH LAST FRIDAY'S RESULTS

Lafayette 45, Ripley 14 Lafayette 7 31 7 0 — 45 Charleston 6 0 8 0 — 14 First Quarter LC – Will Ard 25 run (Robbie Langley kick) RI – Tavion Prather 9 pass from Tucker Childers (2-pt failed)

Second Quarter LC – Tyrell Price 29 run (Langley kick) LC – Quin Jones 12 interception (Langley kick) LC – Price 5 run (Langley kick) LC – Price 23 run (Langley kick) LC – Langley 31 FG Third Quarter LC – Price 46 run (Langley kick) RI – Mikichio Adams 1 run (Adams 2-pt run) Records: Lafayette 6-1, 10-; Ripley 2-4, 0-1 Oxford 50, Saltillo 7 Oxford 20 13 7 10 - 50 Saltillo 0070-7 First Quarter OXF - DK Metcalf 49 pass from Jack Abraham (Liam Cooper kick) 11:50 OXF - Metcalf 9 pass from Abraham (Connell Yoste kick), 7:18 OXF - Metcalf 25 pass from Abraham (kick failed), 4:31 Second Quarter OXF - Zach Cousar 36 pass from Abraham (Yoste kick), 9:53 OXF - Ken Presley 24 pass from Abraham (kick failed), 2:34 Third Quarter

OXF - Will Harvey 1 run (Gray Jenkins kick), 8:15 SAL - SimMarcus Evans 1 run (Daniel McCarter kick), 4:36 Fourth Quarter OXF - Jenkins 28 field goal, 6:27 OXF - Chris Walton 34 run (Jenkins kick), 1:30 Records: Oxford 4-2, 2-0; Saltillo 0-7, 0-2.

REGION 1-5A

STANDINGS Overall Region W L W L Oxford 4 2 2 0 Lake Cormorant 4 2 2 0 Center Hill 4 2 2 0 West Point 4 2 1 1 Clarksdale 4 3 1 1 Lewisburg 2 5 0 2 New Hope 1 5 0 2 Saltillo 0 7 0 2 Week 8 Games Lewisburg at Oxford, 7 p.m. (95.5 FM) West Point at Center Hill New Hope at Lake Cormorant Saltillo at Clarksdale Week 7 Results Oxford 50, Saltillo 7 Lake Cormorant at Lewisburg Center Hill 35, New Hope 21 West Point 53, Clarksdale 16

REGION 2-4A Rosa Fort

Overall W L 6 0

Region W L 1 0

Lafayette 6 1 1 0 Senatobia 5 1 1 0 New Albany 4 3 0 1 Byhalia 2 4 0 1 Ripley 2 4 0 1 Week 8 Games Lafayette at Tunica-Rosa Fort, 7 p.m. (93.7 FM) Senatobia at Ripley Byhalia at New Albany Week 7 Results Lafayette 45, Ripley 14 Senatobia 47, New Albany 0 Tunica-Rosa Fort 38, Byhalia 0 Week 6 Results Lafayette 26, Charleston 0 New Albany 31, North Pontotoc 30 Pontotoc 17, Ripley 14 Fayette Ware 40, Byhalia 0

THIS WEEK AT OXFORD Thursday, Oct. 8 Junior varsity volleyball at Lafayette, 5 p.m.

Varsity volleyball at Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9 Varsity football vs Lewisburg, 7 p.m. (95.5 FM)

THIS WEEK AT LAFAYETTE Thursday, Oct. 8 Junior varsity volleyball vs. Oxford, 5 p.m.

Varsity volleyball vs. Oxford, 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9 Football vs. Tunica-Rosa Fort, 7 p.m. (93.7 FM)

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE SEC Overall East W L PF PA W L PF PA Georgia 2 1 42 36 4 1 134 73 Florida 3 0 83 34 5 0 182 54 Kentucky 2 1 56 49 3 1 96 82 Missouri 1 1 13 21 4 1 83 50 Tennessee 0 2 27 28 2 3 165 99 Vanderbilt 0 2 42 78 1 3 90 105 S. Carolina 0 3 30 58 2 3 89 79 West W L PF PA W L PF PA LSU 2 0 70 53 4 0 219 77 Texas A&M 2 0 66 40 5 0 100 64 Ole Miss 2 1 28 21 4 1 166 88 Alabama 1 1 36 30 4 1 132 59 Arkansas 1 1 37 43 2 3 143 70 Miss. State 1 2 21 28 3 1 105 92 Auburn 0 2 30 62 3 2 88 106 Week 6 Games New Mexico State at Ole Miss, 11 a.m. (SEC) LSU at South Carolina, 11 a.m. (ESPN) Georgia at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. (CBS) Troy at Miss. State, 3 p.m. (SEC) Arkansas at Alabama, 6 p.m. (ESPN) Florida at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. (SEC) Week 5 Results Florida 38, Ole Miss 10 Missouri 24, South Carolina 10 Alabama 38, Georgia 10 Auburn 35, San Jose State 21 LSU 44, Eastern Michigan 22 Vanderbilt 17, Middle Tennessee 13 Arkansas 24, Tennessee 20 Texas A&M 30, Mississippi State 17 Kentucky 34, Eastern Kentucky 27

Date Opponent Nov. 5 Clayton State (Exhibition) Nov. 13 Northwestern State Nov. 16 Georgia Southern Nov. 19 George Mason (Gildan Charleston Classic, Charleston, S.C.) Nov. 20 Oklahoma State or Towson (Gildan Charleston Classic, Charleston, S.C.) Nov. 22 Gildan Charleston Classic (Charleston, S.C.) Nov. 25 Georgia State Nov. 28 at Bradley Dec. 5 vs. UMass (Springfield, Mass.)

Dec. 12 at Southeast Missouri Dec. 15 Louisiana Tech Dec. 18 at Memphis Dec. 22 Troy Jan. 2 at Kentucky Jan. 7 Alabama Jan. 9 Georgia Jan. 13 at LSU Jan. 16 Florida Jan. 19 South Carolina Jan. 23 at Mississippi State Jan. 27 Auburn Jan. 30 at Kansas State Feb. 3 at Missouri Feb. 6 Vanderbilt Feb. 9 at Florida Feb. 13 Arkansas Feb. 16 at Texas A&M Feb. 20 at Auburn Feb. 23 Missouri Feb. 27 at Georgia March 2 Mississippi State

AP Top 25 Poll The following are points and rankings for the 2015 Associated Press Top 25 poll for Week 6.

Rank School Points 1. Ohio State 1,444 2. TCU 1,371 3. Baylor 1,364 4. Michigan State 1,291 5. Utah 1,254 6. Clemson 1,217 7. LSU 1,212 8. Alabama 1,026 9. Texas A&M 1,009 10. Oklahoma 976 11. Florida 935 12. Florida State 922 13. Northwestern 753 14. OLE MISS 731 15. Notre Dame 721 16. Stanford 617 17. Southern Cal 498 18. Michigan 452 19. Georgia 441 20. UCLA 415 21. Oklahoma State 332 22. Iowa 254 23. California 233 24. Toledo 87 25. Boise State 65 Others receiving votes: Oregon 39, Duke 31, Houston 31, Temple 23, Memphis 19, Navy 19, Arizona State 15, Mississippi State 11, West Virginia 8, Texas Tech 4, BYU 3, Kansas State 1, Missouri 1.

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Oxford football, Meagher go hand in hand

FROM PAGE 18

to describe Ann Kate Meagher.

“She is the epitome of a leader in every way,” Wally said. “She shines at dance, and she has helped choreograph our competition dance this year. She also excels at stunting. She is a base, but she can lend a hand wherever she is needed.

She teaches and she encourages the underclassmen and always stays positive with them.”

track and in the classroom.”

There are times when it's been tough to balance the classroom and the success in athletics, DK Metcalf said.

Oxford coach Johnny Hill gave a lot of credit to Terrance and Tonya Metcalf for not settling for excuses.

“They hold him accountable for their grades, practices and they do a lot of shuffling there to do it the right way,” Hill said. “DK is the kind of player you can count on. He's been a pleasure to coach the last three years. He's a great athlete and I was there the night DK had like six dunks in one game and tore the rim up.”

DK Metcalf is rated as one of the top playmakers in the high school ranks in football.

He has traveled all over the country competing in various combines and camps, and he will sign with Ole Miss in February. Until he wears the Ole Miss red and blue, he will continue to help lead the Chargers to a state title in football, basketball and track for the next eight months.

Halfway through his senior season, Metcalf said it was hard to believe that this was his last year.

“It still shows that I have some work to do,” he said. “I have to keep coming off the ball hard. I have to work on my blocking mainly. I'm getting too many holding calls, so I have to work on my blocking.”

Heading into Friday's game with Lewisburg, DK Metcalf had 28 catches for 442 yards and six touchdowns.

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MEET YOUR

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Oxford football and the last name Meagher have gone together like peas and carrots or peanut butter and jelly over the last six seasons. Ann Kate Meagher has been cheering on her brothers, in one form or fashion, during that time period. Football is in her blood, and she has seen her older brother, Conrey, use football to garner a scholarship to the Naval Academy.

John Meagher is having a lot of success quarterbacking the eighth-grade Chargers to wins.

“My brothers all play football. My dad played it and mother was a college cheerleader, so I've been around football a lot,” said Meagher, who understands the game well but doesn't get to always watch the contest each Friday night.

“You don't really get to see much because you don't get to see through the boys, unless there is a little gap.

You know when the crowd cheers that something happened. And if they keep cheering, then you know one of them got a touchdown. If they sit down, then you know something went wrong. You kind of have to watch the crowd to see what goes on.”

There have been times when Meagher was fortunate enough to see one the

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“You don't see the beginning of it, but when the crowd is pumped up, you turn around and you get to see the running back go into the end zone,” Meagher said. “Or someone catch a pass in the end zone. That's pretty cool. But I don't think I've really watched a whole play from start to finish, or at least a great play that was a touchdown or anything.”

Some of the things Meagher likes most about cheering is being out with the band when they play loud. She also likes the competition aspect of the team.

“The best part is when the band gets everyone involved and the fans are into and the boys start cheer-

ing,” Meagher said, who bakes goodies for kicker Connell Yoste each week.

“We used to date in middle school but now we're just good friends. We go to church together. He is very much like my older brother.”

The game that Meagher most remembered heading into the early part of the 2015 season was the Chargers' win over Starkville in 2013. Conrey Meagher was the starting free safety for the Chargers, who advanced to play Picayune in the Class 5A state title game.

“That was the greatest game. The band had never been better and the crowd was so into it the entire game,” she said. “It was just a great year because I don't think anybody expected them to be as good as they

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Oxford senior Ann Kate Meagher has cheered on her older brother and other members of the program since she was in middle school. ended up being. We came up short at state twice, but the seasons have been good. That season was just a magical one.”

Oxford has provided a comfortable home for Ann Kate Meagher, and her family, ever since they moved from Murfreesboro, Tennessee seven years ago.

“It took about two years, but this definitely feels like home to me,” she said. “I'm so happy we moved. Everything is great.”

Allison Wally, the coach of the OHS cheerleaders, used the word exceptional

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Defensive Four (ce) Back row supports success for Lady Chargers

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Teams that have already faced the Oxford Chargers this season on the volleyball court know the strength of the Defensive Four (ce). For a team that lacks overall height, keeping the ball in play, and moving, has been the key to victories for the Lady Chargers, who set a new school record with 25 with a few matches left before the playoffs begin. The defensive specialists include Ragan Freeze, Jasmyne Price, Summer Batoon and Kate Suddoth.

“It starts with the pass, without fail, and that's why their job is so important,” OHS coach Tara Ross said of her fearsome foursome. “If we can't get the ball to the setter to actually set up a great hit, then we are not going to be successful.

There have been games where they have been not so great. But in the games they have been great, the hitting percentages are way up. They, to me, are the ones that never get any of the glory.

The outside hitters are the ones that make the dynamic hits and swings. Everybody loves the hitters. But the defense is where it really starts.”

Ragan Freeze is Oxford's libero or the captain of the defense.

Everything flows through her on the back line where the rest of the defensive specialists are set up.

She has to dig balls and then push the ball towards her sister, the setter, so a kill shot can be attempted. And she always has to be talking to the other Lady Chargers, keeping them on their toes.

“The idea behind the libero is not only are you a good passer, but you know how to get from side to side because the libero has the entire back part of the court. They have to be able to move and find the ball from side to side,” Ross said adding that Ragan Freeze was very good at tracking the ball. “Summer is good at left back. That's where most of the outside hitters for the other team try to put the ball. She does a great job of getting still feet and being able to pass. Jas is a right back. She's there to cover the tips and everything. Kate is another left back and she is a really good passer, who can get to the ball quick.”

In order to win a match, the pass has to be right. In order for the pass to be right, the defense has to start the process, Ragan Freeze said.

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Oxford's defensive back row include, left to right, Summer Batoon, Ragan Freeze, Jasmyne Price and Kate Suddoth.

“The whole offense starts with a pass, so if you don't get a pass, then the setter doesn't get the ball to set the hitter and the hitter doesn't get to swing,” said the junior, who had 183 digs on the season prior to Tuesday's match with Clarksdale. “Then we don't get a point. So if we don't have a great pass, it just starts with us.”

As for libero, Freeze said she really enjoys her role on the team even if it is demanding.

“I have to get all the deep balls, which means I have to be ready to go. It's a tougher position to play, especially when the ball is traveling as fast as it does against some of our more competitive teams,” said Ragan Freeze, who has dealt with a bursa sac injury the last few weeks and has black and blue marks to show for it. “I'm getting better. I tried to play on it at the Tupelo Volley Fest two weekends ago and made it worse and then out another week. This past week was the first I played.”

Batoon, a junior, said the defensive group was a piece to the puzzle, but not the only piece.

“We have to start everything, but we need our hitters. We have to help our hitters, even tell them where to hit which is a good thing,” said Batoon, who had 106 digs. “If we don't have a good, solid hit or block on the ball, then we get killed all the time in back. We're working extremely hard to get our ball up

the setter and then on to the hitter.

We have to get a good pass to the setter so they can get a good set.”

Suddoth, a sophomore, thought the team played well in its most recent tournament in Tupelo, and since the summer, the whole team has gotten a lot better.

“I think we're close to putting it all together. I think at the last tournament, we made big steps to that,” Suddoth said.

“Most of us have been playing high school volleyball since the eighth grade. It's been there, it's been building up over the years,” Freeze added. “I think we're almost at the bar where we will have it all together. Last year we were 16-15 and this year we haven't even finished and we're 25-7. You can see that we've improved.”

Jordan Freeze has Price right behind her during the matches, covering everything she can. All the tips that come over the net have Price's name all over it because the key is for Jordan Freeze not to touch a first ball in order to be ready to set for a kill shot.

“She is really good about getting the balls that are behind because I have to be ready for that second ball. If I get the first ball, then everything is out of system,” said Jordan Freeze, who had 361 assists on the season. “She has to watch the other hitter's arm. If they're going up for the tip, she has to run up. If they're going for the swing,

she has to get her feet ready and on the line. She has to stay on her toes constantly in order to get the whole right back when I'm on the front row.”

Price called her teammates sisters for the way they have bonded on the court this season.

“We're a family, we all stick together. We do everything together on the back row, making sure that nothing goes wrong,” Spears said adding the position comes naturally now that she has been doing it so long. “And practice all the time makes it better. This is our best year that I've been here. There is a lot of growth made over the years.”

The Class II playoffs begin in just under two weeks for the Lady

Chargers, who are the No. 1 seed out of their division. The team has accomplished a lot, and Ross has a special place in her heart for this group of players.

“These are my kids that we've been building with. Last year we couldn't finish, we couldn't finish a game,” Ross said. “From the get go, that very first tournament, there were several games that we were down and we fought back and finished. That's one of the things we really pushed this year and I've been very proud of them for not letting go and not falling apart. We've done well.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Walsh leading Florida alumni in new direction

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tim Walsh looked right at home sitting in a light blue chairback seat from C.M. “Tad” Smith Coliseum hours before Ole Miss took on Florida in The Swamp. Walsh may work for the University of Florida now, but he there were trinkets, and reminders, of Ole Miss, his alma mater and workplace for 25 years.

The former executive director of the Ole Miss Alumni Association left for Florida in late February, starting his job on March 2 to become the assistant vice president for alumni affairs at Florida.

“It's different. It's an adjustment. It's much bigger than Ole Miss as with a lot of big organizations, it's harder to get a handle on things,” Walsh said. “We have 411,000 living graduates. Ole Miss has about 127,000 graduates. At Ole Miss, I had a staff of 23.

When I came here, I was the 15th person on staff. So we're a very small alumni staff. Fortunately they have allowed me to hire three new positions since I've been here.”

Walsh went on to say that while his staff is young and inexperienced, they are very smart. And hard workers who want to learn the business.

“We know that we have some work to do, but we've made progress. That's why I'm here and what I'm going to help them do,” Walsh said, who got a great offer to leave Ole Miss. “I talked with the University of Florida for 14 months. They asked me to come down for a day and a half and access their program and I did. I went home and sent an e-mail report.

The next thing I know, I get a call saying they were going to make some changes and would you be interested in working with us. I tell people all the time that we dated for 14 months before we got married. They are very aggressive here and when the University of Florida wants somebody, they are generally going to get them.”

There 85 Gator Clubs located across the county. By comparison, Ole Miss has between 55 and 60. Two thirds of the clubs are in

Florida, but as Walsh pointed out, the clubs go as far as Seattle and Los Angeles.

“Gator Nation is everywhere. That's a tag line here and it really is true,” Walsh said. “Ole Miss people are everywhere, too. There are just more of them here.”

Florida is ranked as the 14th best overall public university in America and it was “flattering” to Walsh that they wanted someone from Ole Miss to work there in a leadership role.

“I just decided that I would take a chance and try and grow and come down here and put my stamp on another alumni association,” Walsh said. “I had no reason to leave. I had a great staff at Ole Miss. My board of directors at Ole Miss always got along with the administration. The board always got along with my staff and me.

Our membership was at an all-time high, so we had no budget issues. We had a good facility and the Inn at Ole Miss is profitable. So on paper, I had no reason to leave. So I shocked the world, and even shocked myself when I decided to make the move.”

There have been lots of moments when Walsh has asked himself about the move because he was in the same house for 23 years, and the same job for 25 years.

“Changing jobs could be tough enough, but then moving several states away all by yourself was tough, too,” Walsh said. “Everything is new. You have to find new physicians, grocery store and a place to get a haircut, a gym and all those things. I have enjoyed Gainesville more than I thought. In my mind Gainesville was only Bohemian. It has that side, but there are a lot of great restaurants here, great neighborhoods. The people here have been exceedingly kind and welcoming, which I appreciate as a non UF graduate.”

Florida, with an enrollment right at 50,000, is one of just five schools with everything on campus. It is the land grant university of Florida, as well as the flagship liberal arts university, which is a very rare combination.

“That has proven to benefit UF over the years. To think

that we have our medical center right down the road for our agricultural sciences is amazing,” Walsh said. “Last weekend we announced a $50 million cash gift to our College of Engineering. Last year we got a $50 million gift to the College of Business.

Those don't happen in higher public education often, but they have here recently.”

Walsh is in the “not so quiet phase” of fund raising.

The school is ramping up for a huge campaign in 2017 with the goal of raising $3 billion.

“And there will have only been two public universities with a bigger campaign than us and that's UCLA and Michigan,” Walsh said.

Florida athletics is very large and fields several successful teams beyond just the football team. At Ole Miss, Walsh had an exceedingly close relationship with athletics.

“We were always close with athletics, but with Ross (Bjork) and Stephen (Ponder) and their team, they wanted it to be even closer and better than it was and that was great,” Walsh said. “We are working on a relationship here at Florida. They are willing. They have been kind to me also, but we don't do nearly as much with them as we did at Ole Miss. And I want to change that. We did have a presence in Omaha like the alumni association did when I was at Ole Miss.

(UF AD) Jeremy Foley came to one of our functions and I appreciate that.”

One coach at Florida, men's basketball's Michael White, is a familiar face.

White, of course, played at Ole Miss. Walsh said it's been a lot of fun having White come to Gator gatherings.

“It was really a nice surprise when Michael White got the job about three weeks or a month after I got here,” Walsh said. “I went to his first press conference and I spoke to his parents and him both.

We went to four Gator gatherings together and he was very well received. I have my season tickets and I look forward to supporting Michael.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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SPORTS BRIEFS Commodores sweep Water Valley Lafayette earned two more wins over the Blue Devils Tuesday night in middle school football.

The seventh-grade Commodores won 3214, while the eighthgrade won 18-6. Both teams are now 6-1 overall.

CJ Brassell had two 70-yard runs for the seventh-grade Commodores. Tylen Kinds and James Williams added the 2-point runs, respectively, after both touchdown runs. Arian Stokes scored on a 40yard run, while Benton Linzy added the 2-point run. The final score was turned in by Taylor Tarver on a 30-yard run.

Braxton York added the 2-point conversion.

In the nightcap, Randy Anderson led Lafayette with two touchdowns. His first was scored on a 70-yard run. He also intercepted a pass and returned it 30 yards for a score.

Lafayette got on the board first with a 3-yard touchdown pass from Hunter Coleman to Noalan Smith. Xae Stokes also had an interception on defense for the Commodores.

Both teams will wrap up the season at home Tuesday against Oxford.

Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m.

mation on the OMS baseball team.

OM women's golf finishes second

BRASELTON, Ga. – The Ole Miss women’s golf team finished in second place at the CSU Fall Invitational held at The Château Élan Golf Club after posting record scores throughout the two-day tournament. The runner-up finish is the second of the season for the Rebels, who also finished as runner up at the Memphis Intercollegiate in September. ? ?The 291278-284—853 tournament score is the best in program history by over 20 strokes and earned the Rebels a second place team finish at 11under par. The winner, Chattanooga, posted 12-under par 852 to win the Fall Invitational.

“What an unbelievable week,” Ole Miss coach Kory Henkes said.

“Drew (Belt) and I are so proud of this team. Even though we fell one shot short of winning, we accomplished so much this week. We had the low round both yesterday and today, which is incredible. We are looking forward to building on this foundation for the remainder of the season.”

Leading the charge in Middle school the tournament for Ole was senior Abby baseball tryouts Miss Newton who carded a 1Oxford Middle School under par 71 in her final round, bringing her students can try out for final score to 70-65-71— the 2016 OMS baseball 206 and earning her team Wednesday, Oct. 14 and Thursday, Oct. 15 runner-up honors. The at Edwin Moak Field lo- three-day total for the cated on the OMS cam- senior is the second lowest in school history pus. Tryouts begin at 5 and is a new tournap.m. both days. While ment low for the Texas tryouts are open to all middle school students, native.

Junior Madisen Bentthey must have a current physical in order to ley had another great day as well, firing a 3participate in the baseunder par 69 and finishball team tryouts. ing in third place. The Email OMS head three-day score of 74coach Daniel Parrish at 68-69—211 is a careerjparrish@oxfordsd.org best for Bentley. for more information Henkes says the perregarding team tryouts. formances by Newton Visit www.oxfordsd.org/OMS and Bentley are no surBaseball for more infor- prise to her.

“Abby and Madisen tore it up this week,” Henkes said. “We knew it was just a matter of time before they made a breakthrough and it was fun to watch.”

The Rebels look to continue their forward momentum Oct. 20 when they head to Oahu, Hawaii for the Rainbow Wahine Invitational hosted by the University of Hawaii.

“I’m so proud of my team this week and all the hard work we’ve put in,” Newton said. “We keep improving each week and I’m excited to see how we can finish up the fall season in Hawaii.”

Rebels finish up at ITA Championships TULSA, Okla. – Ole Miss lost two three-setters on day two of qualifying at the ITA All-American Championships Tuesday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, one in singles and one in doubles.

In the morning, freshman Filip Kraljevic battled Auburn senior Marko Krickovic to a third set and had three match points, but Krickovic, ranked No. 76 in the nation, staved them off to force a tiebreaker.

He escaped for the 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5) win.

Later in the evening, Stefan Lindmark and Gustav Hansson paired up together for the first time this fall against the team of Virginia Tech’s Andreas Bjerrehus and Joao Monteiro. One break of serve decided the first in favor or the VT team 6-4. The Rebels answered, winning the second set 6-2. They played a super tiebreaker for the third set, and the VT tandem got the early mini break and held on to win it 105 to advance.

Lindmark will start his singles quest today in the main draw. This is the second national championship tournament of the 2015-16 season including the nation’s top Division I players.

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Oxford swim teams win Cleveland Invitational OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS

Oxford's swim teams garnered two first-place finishes in the final regular season meet of the 2015 campaign. The Chargers and Lady Chargers topped six other teams to win the Cleveland High School Invite. Both teams are now 29-2 heading into the north state meet.

Individual winners for the Lady Chargers included: Kate Byars in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 0.93 seconds. In the 200 individual medley, Mary Victoria Sullivan won with a 2:46.44.

Teammate Margaret Mary Weeks followed with a 2:49.64.

Elizabeth Field won the 50 free in 26.19 seconds.

Anna Dennis was third in the 50 free with a 28.07.

In the 500 free, Lucy Chiniche was first with a 6:00.93. Catherine Field

was second in the 200 free with a 2:15.20. Elizabeth Field was also second in the 100 butterfly with a 1:06.33 The Lady Chargers took first in the 400 yard freestyle relay with a time of 4:07. Chiniche, Byars, Catherine Field and Elizabeth Field made up the team. The Oxford team of Kate Sudduth, Mary Waller and Anna Dennis finished second with a 4:37. In the 200 medley relay, Oxford's team Byars, Dennis, Sullivan and Sudduth were first with a 2:08.10. In the 400 free relay, the Lady Chargers were first and second.

The team of Chiniche, Byars and both Fields were first with a 4:07.62. Sudduth, Waller and Dennis took second with a 4:37.98.

a 51.84. In the 200 free, Oxford's Cole Moore was second with a 2:11.40. In the 50 free, Isaac Manly took first with a 24.51. Jeffrey Wang won the 500 free with a 5:28.95. Norris Graham won the 100 breast with a 1:11.01. He was followed by teammate Will Carrington with a 1:14.

In the relays, Oxford won the 200 medley with 1:53.09. Thomas Hoskins, Nichols, Moore and Manly composed that team. In the 200 free, Manly, Wang, Moore and Nichols teamed up to finish first with a 1:39.30. The last relay won by the Chargers was the 400 free with a time of 3:56.44. Wang, Tann Harrison, Carrington and Vance Byars made up that squad.

In the 200 medley relay, Oxford's team of Vance CHARGERS LINDSEY SNEED Jacob Nichols won the Byars, Carrington, Harri- Oxford's Graham Norris, Thomas Hoskins, Jeffery Wang and Jacob Nichols hold teammate 200 free with a 1:57.45. He son and Sam Hartnett fin- Vance Byars after the Chargers won the Cleveland High Invitational this past Saturday. The also won the 100 free with ished third with a 1:59.20. Chargers' Isaac Manly, who was an individual winner in the meet, supervised.

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We all do.

It's never easy in the SEC, and it's never easy to win a football game, home or away. Ole Miss went 1-1 as the hunted. Maybe they will fare better as the hunter again. That's what the Rebels are now. They have to hunt up wins, and climb the ladder again if they want to be one of the final four teams left in the end.

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hurt them against Florida.

A shuffling of the secondary was the focus of improvement, so we'll see how they do on Saturday.

Memphis is the next big test for the Rebels. The Tigers appear to have a potent offense. Ole Miss shut it down last year, but it's become obvious to me that the Landshark defense of 2015 isn't quite as good as the 2014 version. Maybe it will be at the end of the season when it's down to games against SEC West teams.

Ole Miss can still have a special season, and do some big things. They have as much talent as any team in the league. That doesn't mean they can make mistakes and win, however.

Freeze has increased the talent level enough to where the Rebels can compete, and come out ahead, but only when they play well. Turnovers negate talent. So do penalties. Those two things have to be avoided if the Rebels of 2015 are going to be as good, or better, than the Rebels of 2014. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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ball over the quarterback’s head. That kind of fed the frenzy. Before you know it, you’re down two scores.

That wasn’t a good spot to have our offensive linemen in at that point. Credit to them, and the mistakes we had made it a tough night for us.”

Ole Miss (4-1 overall) had a chance to make the Florida game a little more interesting early, but missed a field goal when the score was still manageable. The next best chance for the Rebels to score a touchdown when the game wasn't complete out of reach came on their first drive of the third quarter.

After getting to the 1-yard line, the Rebels were pushed back and had to settle for a field goal down 25 points.

“We should have scored on both if we executed. We had a guy whiff on both plays. We knew what they were going to be in. Sometimes you physically get beat one on one, sometimes you make a bad call,

and sometimes you make a mental mistake,” Freeze said of not scoring a touchdown in the red zone.

“Those are the toughest ones to deal with. One of them was a mistake, the other was he lost a one-onone. One was a bad call.

The first option on the toss, they had two guys outside.

That was a bad call. We just need to continue to work and be true to who we are.

We’ve tried under center, and we’ve tried almost everything. We need to make sure the plays we call are sound, and we probably need to get Chad the ability to throw more oneon-one balls.”

Kelly was up for more throws to Laquon Treadwell, or any of the talented wide receivers, when the Rebels got in close.

“We had four chances to punch it in and anytime you don't score, there is something that isn't going right obviously,” Kelly said.

“It starts with me. I'm the leader of this team and I have to make sure that our guys are on the same page, including our coaches.

Being the leader of the offense, you have to commu-

nicate with the coaches just as well as they do with us. We have to practice even harder and in the red zone, you can't turn the ball over. You have to punch it in and score, especially in the SEC. If you don't get these touchdowns on the 1-yard line, it's going to kill you to get these three points.”

INJURY UPDATE

Ole Miss got more unfavorable news on the injury front Tuesday when senior linebacker CJ Johnson underwent surgery to repair a meniscus tear. According to Ole Miss, Johnson will miss between four and six weeks. If he is out four weeks, Johnson, the team's starting middle linebacker, will be back for the Arkansas game on Nov. 7. If he is out a full six weeks, Johnson could possibly miss the game with LSU on Nov. 21 following the Rebels' lone bye week. After missing the season opener, Johnson made 17 tackles, and collected two interceptions, in four games.

John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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