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Army Rangers and Marines make a beach landing on Green Island at Lake Marion on Friday. The group is in Manning to practice their water skills. See more photos of the training exercise at www.theitem.com.

Army and Marine teams train on Lake Marion

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into the water traveling at a speed of about 20 miles per hour.

Beach landing procedures involved three boats crashing into the beach.

The men in the first boat would make landing, jump out and provide a secure perimeter. The other two teams would then land and pull all three boats unto the beach, and then hide them. All three teams would then continue on whatever is the next assigned mission.

Lake Marion was chosen for the weeklong training by Army Rangers’ 1st Lt. Carter Elms, officer in charge of the 36-man unit, and a Manning native. Elms said he could have chosen to conduct the training anywhere in the nation.

“I chose my home area because I knew the land, water and terrain here would allow us to have the space to do the training,” Elms said. “These trainings are at times difficult to coordinate. I knew the support that we would receive in my hometown would be tremendous, however, and it has been.”

Numerous law enforcement agencies and other agencies and organizations were there to assist the men with any resources they needed, he said.

The training consisted of the basics of water infiltration operations, Elms said.

MANNING — Clad in specialized wetsuits and armed with M-4s rifles, three teams of soldiers and Marines aboard combat raiding crafts landed on Green Island on Lake Marion on Friday.

The mission was just a training exercise, however.

About 36 military personnel have been conducting water infiltration training this week at the lake. The majority of the men were from the Army Rangers Long Range Surveillance company of the Fox Company, 51st Infantry, 18th Airborne Corps.

Nine men were from the 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company Marines (Marine Expeditionary Force).

Long Range Surveillance are elite, specially-trained units of the Army employed for clandestine operations by military intelligence for gathering direct information deep within enemy territory.

A Marine Expeditionary Force is the largest type of Marine AirGround Task Force.

The men conducted two exercises on Friday: casting and beach landing site procedures.

Casting is a drill in which swimmers roll off a combat raiding craft

1st Lt. Carter Elms, a Manning native, explains how the Zodiac boats work to members of South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who where on scene to provide support for the Ranger’s training.

2nd ANGLICO Marine Corps Capt.

Chad Ernst said the training was a preparation for a larger exercise training to be conducted in North Carolina in March.

Army Rangers In-Water Noncommissioned Officer In Charge Staff Sgt. Mark Spirko said that during the

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The level of frustration in the South Carolina Senate is rising.

Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, and now Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, have filibustered the Senate chamber for the past week, keeping the body from debating a roads bill, saying the state does not need any tax increases to pay to fix roads, highways and bridges in the Palmetto State.

On Thursday, Sen. Thomas McElveen, D-Sumter, not normally the most outspoken member of the Senate, took a few minutes to make a plea for those who are obstructing the roads bill to step aside.

McElveen said he doesn’t have a lot of MCELVEEN stomach for partisan politics.

“When people call me and ask me to help them, I don’t ask them if they are Republican or Democrat,” he said, but he is getting calls from everybody right now.

“They’re asking ‘What are you all doing? Don’t you have this bill on special order? Can’t you take care of it now?’” McElveen said.

He said fixing the roads should not be a partisan debate.

“Potholes don’t have any political persuasion,” he said Even though McElveen is not on the finance committee, he said he feels attacked when he keeps hearing Davis blaming the Democrats for the bill that came out of the committee, which has a majority of Republicans. Davis has criticized the bill for not including a component to restructure the department of transportation.

“I feel like someone keeps flicking my ear,” he said.

Gov. Nikki Haley said she will not sign a roads bill including a tax increase that doesn’t include restructuring the DOT and cutting income tax rates.

McElveen said with the bill being so complex, it will have to be stitched together on the Senate floor.

He reminded the Senate that on May 12, 2015, a supermajority voted to put the bill on special order, and yet no debate has begun.

“There is no Democrat stopping us from having this debate,” he

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Manning woman has lots of support in battle against rare cancer

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com MANNING — Kerrie Cribb is fighting cancer just like she has battled every other obstacle in her life.

A standout athlete at Manning High School and Coker College, Cribb, 25, was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer in May 2015.

The condition, called small-cell neuro-endocrine cancer, represents a total of 1 percent of all cervical cancers.

In January, Cribb discovered the cancer had spread to her liver and both lungs.

“You can’t put the feeling of finding out you have cancer into words,” she

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said. “It’s shocking. But finding out that it had spread to other organs was devastating.”

Cribb was working as an emergency room nurse at Palmetto Health Tuomey when she learned about her diagnosis.

Despite her diagnosis, Cribb has kept a positive attitude throughout her battle. She is currently going through chemotherapy, consisting of a combination of three different drugs, every 21 days.

“My faith, and the support of family, friends and individuals who I haven’t

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Water line maintenance set for this weekend City of Sumter will be performing maintenance to the water mains in the vicinity of Lewis Road and Kingsbury Drive today and Sunday. There will be minor service interruptions to customers in the vicinity of this intersection. Direct any questions or concerns to City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

Chamber president will address Visioning group Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce President Chris Hardy will be the speaker for the 10 a.m. Wednesday meeting of Sumter Visioning at the James E. Clyburn Intermodal Transportation Center on South Harvin Street.

Hardy will update the group and guests on changes in the Sumter community, according to Patty Wilson, Visioning spokeswoman. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call Wilson at (803) 4914910.

Sumter High presents award-winning play Sumter High School drama department will present the award-winning play “Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone?” with Sean McAlister and Bronwyn Hartman, directed by Kelly Melton, at 5 p.m.

Tuesday in the school’s drama room.

Donations will be accepted at the door to help pay for production and trip expenses to the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, March 2-6. The two-actor play won the One-Act Play Championship in November at the S.C. Theatre Association conference, earning the right to represent the state at the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

For more information, contact Melton at (803) 840-2348 or kelly.melton@sumterschools.net.

McNeely to speak about ‘Lost Confederate Gold’

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com The Civil War remains a source of fascination for many historians, both amateur and professional. Speculation, conspiracy theory, intrigue, lost treasure, imposters and more on both sides seem enough to keep writers, TV and film producers busy in perpetuity.

Author Patricia G. McNeely, whose last book, “Sherman’s Flame and Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas ... and the burning of Columbia,” debunked the belief by many that Columbians had burned their own city, has written another scholarly book on a mystery, or rather several mysteries, of the war and its aftermath.

She will be at Sumter County Library at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, to give a PowerPoint® presentation on the speculations surrounding “President Abraham Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, President Jefferson Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold,” which is also the title of her new book.

McNeely writes in her introduction, “ ... I was intrigued by the (Andrew) Johnson administration’s public implications that General Sherman had accepted up to $13 million in MCNEELY Confederate gold to let President (Jefferson) Davis escape through North Carolina.”

The fact Sherman didn’t deny the accusation, but was merely “angry about (their) tone and substance,” as well as other information, set McNeely “off on my own treasure hunt,” not for the gold, but for the truth.

There are also answers to persistent questions about the identity of the body of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin. Many people still think that the body officially declared to be Booth is actually that of someone else.

Once again, she has written a thoroughly researched volume, each fact backed up by footnotes from her research. The book is also extensively illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings and engravings.

McNeely notes that “ ... treasure hunters still seek — and sometimes find — gold and other treasures stolen or hidden in the ... Confederacy during the waning days of the war. ... “As late as May 2015, USATODAY reported on treasure hunters who believe they have found as much as $2 million in stolen Confederate gold in a shipwreck in Lake Michigan.”

McNeely is professor emerita at University of South Carolina. She is a graduate of Furman University and holds a master’s degree from USC. Before joining the USC faculty to teach writing and journalism for more than 30 years, she worked as a reporter and editor for The Greenville News, The State and The Columbia Record.

Meet her at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Sumter County Library. Admission is free, and the public is invited.

Books will be available for purchase at the event, and they can also be purchased at www.amazon.com and at The Sumter Item office, 20 N. Magnolia St. For more information call (803) 7737273.

Benedict Choir visits Ebenezer Middle School The Benedict Gospel Choir, directed by Darryl Izzard, performed at the Ebenezer Middle School Black Heritage Program titled “From Whence We Have Come.” Izzard was also the guest speaker and talked to the students about three ways to be successful. He told them to “Be you. Be trustworthy. Be the best.” At the end of the assembly, he invited those in the audience who were sopranos, altos and tenors to come up and sing with his choir.

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Man buys devices with company’s account Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 35-year-old Sumter man Thursday for reportedly purchasing more than $50,000 worth of devices using a local company’s business account without consent.

According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, Shannon Christian Dior Vital, of 25 Elkhorn Trail, charged the purchase of 46 iPhone 6, 25 iPhone 6S cellphones and one Microsoft tablet to a business account of a company located in the 1800 block of U.S. 521 South between Jan.27, 2015, and Feb. 23, 2016.

The release states the deputies seized two Microsoft tablets, one of which had been assigned to Vital by the company, while executing a search warrant at his house on Thursday.

Vital is charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent for a value more than $10,000, and is being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.

S.C. deputy shot, wounded; suspect found dead NORTH CHARLESTON (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy was shot and wounded early Friday during a scuffle with an armed suspect who later barricaded himself inside a home before apparently killing himself, authorities said.

The incident occurred when a female deputy from Berkeley County stepped out of her cruiser to investigate a suspicious vehicle with two people in it behind a grocery store in nearby Goose Creek, said State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry.

She had placed a passenger in her cruiser and was returning to take the driver

into custody when a fight broke out.

The deputy, identified as Cpl. Kimber Gist, was shot twice below the protective body armor she was wearing, Berry said. The deputy fired her gun at some point, but it’s not clear whether she hit the suspect.

Berkeley County Chief Deputy Mike Cochran said she is in stable condition and expected to recover. He said she was doing remarkably well and is in good spirits after surgery.

The suspect was black and so is the deputy.

Gist called a dispatcher shortly after 12:30 a.m. to say she had a suspect in cus-

tody and then called later to say there had been a fight.

Dispatchers lost contact with the deputy, who authorities say was helped by a passerby.

Berry said that information provided during the stop led police to an address in North Charleston, where they found the man barricaded inside. Three people who were in the house were able to get out safely and told officers the suspect was injured and bleeding, Pryor said.

Hostage negotiators spent more than two hours talking with the suspect in an attempt to convince him to surrender, said Spencer

Pryor, a spokesman for the North Charleston Police Department.

The SWAT team then moved in and found the man dead. The name of the dead man has not yet been released.

SLED has taken over the investigation. It is the second time in less than a year that a Berkeley County deputy has been wounded on the job. Last May, sheriff’s Lt. Will Rogers was shot by a masked man at a gas station.

The man suspected of wounding Rogers was later shot and killed by police in Charleston when he emerged from an apartment shooting at officers.

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In ’60s, Sanders found his place in civil rights movement CHICAGO (AP) — Bernie Sanders was in his first year at University of Chicago, 20 and with a thick New York accent, when he took to the steps of the administration building to rail against a university policy of racially segregated housing.

“We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university-owned apartments,” Sanders told a crowd of about 200 students that afternoon in January 1962.

Then he and a few dozen students headed to the fifth floor, where they began a 15-day sit-in outside the university president’s office, passing their time reading and eating dinners of donated cheese and salami sandwiches.

As Sanders and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton jockey for support from black and Latino voters ahead of today’s South Carolina primary, much of the debate has centered on which candidate has a stronger record of fighting for minori-

In this 1962 photo provided by Magnum Photos, University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders, center, and other CORE activists attend a sit-in at the university during the civil rights movement.

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ties. The issue could be especially important in South Carolina, where black voters form a majority of the Democratic electorate. In their last primary contest, in Nevada, a large majority of blacks supported Clinton amid questions about Sanders’ early commitment to civil rights.

TRI-COUNTY VOTER PRECINCTS All polls will be open Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the Democratic presidential primary election.

SUMTER COUNTY Voters can find a link to identify their specific voting precinct on Sumter County’s website, sumtercountysc.org, on the Voter Registration/Elections page.

Bates — Bates Middle School, 715 Estate St., Sumter Birnie — Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St., Sumter Burns-Downs — Alice Drive Middle School, 40 Miller Road, Sumter Causeway Branch 1 — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Causeway Branch 2 — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Cherryvale — Cherryvale Community Center, 4340 Confederate Road, Sumter Crosswell — Crosswell Elementary School, 301 Crosswell Drive, Sumter Dalzell 1 — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Dalzell 2 — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Delaine — Delaine Elementary School, 5355 Cane Savannah Road, Wedgefield Ebenezer 1 — Ebenezer Middle School, 3440 Ebenezer Road, Sumter Ebenezer 2 — Ebenezer Middle School, 3440 Ebenezer Road, Sumter Folsom Park — Willow Drive Elementary School, 26 Willow Drive, Sumter Furman — Furman Middle School, 3400 Bethel Church Road, Sumter Green Swamp 1 — Sumter School District Office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter Green Swamp 2 — Sumter School District Office, 1345 Wilson Hall

Road, Sumter Hampton Park — Santee Senior Resource Center, 110 N. Salem Ave., Sumter Hillcrest — Hillcrest Middle School, 4355 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell Horatio — Horatio Fire Station, 7720 Sumter Landing Road, Horatio Lemira — Lemira Elementary School, 952 Fulton St., Sumter Loring — Grace Cathedral Ministries, 60 Oswego Road, Sumter Magnolia-Harmony — South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave., Sumter Manchester Forest — Wedgefield Fire Station, 2035 Highway 261 S., Wedgefield Mayesville — Mayesville Fire Station, 20 S. Main St., Mayesville Mayewood — Mayewood Middle School, 4300 E. Brewington Road, Sumter McCrays Mill 1 — Sumter County Career Center, 2612 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter McCrays Mill 2 — Sumter County Career Center, 2612 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter Millwood — Millwood Elementary School, 24 Pinewood Road, Sumter Morris College — North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St., Sumter Mulberry — County Training Center, 1273 N. Main St., Sumter Oakland Plant 1 — Oakland Primary School, 5415 Oakland Drive, Sumter Oakland Plant 2 — Oakland Primary School, 5415 Oakland Drive, Sumter Oswego — Crestwood High School, 2000 Oswego Road, Sumter Palmetto Park — Central Carolina Technical College, 506 N. Guignard Drive, Building 700, Sumter Pinewood — Manchester Elementary School, 200 Clark St., Pinewood Pocotaligo 1 — Lakewood High School, 350 Old Manning Road, Sumter

As a U.S. senator from Vermont, which has a tiny black population, Sanders has faced skepticism from black voters about his longstanding involvement in race relations. Earlier in the primary he tangled with Black Lives Matters protesters, who complained at the time that his message of

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addressing economic inequality would not always serve as an antidote to systemic racism.

But it’s clear Sanders was at least a local civil rights leader, taking action on campus and in Chicago neighborhoods at a time when such activities were primarily happening in the South, according to an Associated Press review of contemporaneous news coverage and interviews with former classmates of Sanders.

They recall a student who was serious-minded about politics, if not his studies, and inclined toward long discussions of public policy.

He became active in the campus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality after arriving in Chicago in the fall of 1961 and before the academic year ended was voted the group’s chairman. In 1963, two weeks before Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington, Sanders was arrested at a demonstration against segregation in Chicago schools.

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LEE COUNTY Some precincts are consolidated. For more information, call the Lee County Voter Registration Office at (803) 484-1832.

Ashwood, Manville — Fire Station No. 3 (Ashwood), 4396 Sumter Highway, Bishopville Bishopville 1, Mt. Clio — Fire Station No. 1 (Main), 122 E. Church St., Bishopville Bishopville 2 — Old Fire Department, 113 E. Council St., Bishopville Bishopville 3 — The Pilot House, 120 Barnett Drive, Bishopville Bishopville 4 — Lee County School District Office Annex, 310 Roland Ave., Bishopville Cedar Creek, Hickory Hill, Ionia

— Cedar Creek Baptist Church, 3002 Camden Highway, Bishopville Cypress, Ashland/Stokes Bridge

— Fire Station No. 8 (Cypress), 2346 N. U.S. 15, Bishopville Lynchburg, South Lynchburg — Ryanne’s Catering Hall, 154 Main St., Lynchburg Rattlesnake Springs, Spring Hill, Woodrow — St. Andrew Church of

God, 4238 Red Hill Road, Camden Schrocks Mill/Lucknow, St. Matthews, Turkey Creek —

Concord United Methodist Church, 354 Old Camden Road, Bishopville St. Charles, Elliot — Lower Lee Elementary School, 26 Lower Lee School Road, Mayesville

CLARENDON COUNTY Some precincts are consolidated. For more information, call Clarendon County Voter Registration at (803) 4358215, or visit www.scvotes.org if you’re not sure in which precinct you live.

Alcolu — Alcolu Elementary School, 1423 Hotel St., Alcolu Barrineau — Barrineau Fire Station, 3802 St. James Road, Lake City Barrows Mill, Oakdale — Friendship Presbyterian Church, 10123 Black River Road, New Zion Bloomville — Liberty Fire Station, 5119 Brewer Road, Manning Calvary, Panola — Panola Fire Station, 1984 Elliott Road, Pinewood Davis Station — Davis Station Fire Station, 2694 M.W. Rickenbaker Road, Manning Harmony — Harmony Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 8629 U.S. 301, Alcolu Hicks, Turbeville — Turbeville Town Hall, 1292 Green St., Turbeville Home Branch, Paxville — Town Hall, 10279 Lewis Road, Manning Jordan — Wyboo Fire Station, 1101 Herring Drive, Manning Manning 1, Manning 5 — Manning United Methodist Church, 17 Rigby St., Manning Manning 2 — Cypress Center Hospital Complex, 50 E. Hospital St., Manning Manning 3, Manning 4 — Clarendon County Administration Building Council Chambers, 411 Sunset Drive, Manning New Zion — Clarendon County EMS Building, 15677 U.S. 301, New Zion Sardinia-Gable — Sardinia-Gable Fire Station, 12878 U.S. 301, Gable Summerton I, Summerton II, Summerton III — St. Matthias

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Chris Rock faces tough hosting gig with ‘The Oscars’

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Chris Rock hosts the 88th Annual Academy Awards, or “The Oscars” (8:30 p.m. Sunday, ABC, TV-14), as they are called on ABC’s schedule. Given the glamour involved, you can’t really call Rock’s gig a thankless job, or “Mission Impossible,” but he faces several tasks and audiences all at once.

The Academy has faced much criticism this year for the lack of nonwhite faces among the nominees. These concerns coincide with the rise of the Black Lives Matter political movement and, more to the point, a moment when television, particularly network television, has achieved greater diversity. Shows like “Empire” and ABC’s Thursday-night lineup of Shonda Rhimes-produced melodramas are not “black” shows, but hit shows. Moreover, they reach an audience that considers such distinctions a tad antique.

Rock has to address the controversy and is all but expected to disparage the Oscars on its own big night. But he also has to play to “the room,” something he failed to do when he hosted the 2005 awards and seemed to disrespect the films of Jude Law, among others. He also has to be funny and reach a home audience that may or may not be interested in best picture nominees “Spotlight,” “The Martian,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Revenant,” “Bridge of Spies,” “The Big Short,” “Room” and “Brooklyn.”

Members of the home audience looking for a celebration of the blockbuster hit “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will have to wait to see it contend for some of the less-sexy Oscars, including editing, score, visual effects, sound editing and sound mixing.

It remains to be seen if Rock can succeed. If he doesn’t, he probably won’t fall flatter than Neil Patrick Harris or seem as immature as Seth MacFarlane, to name two recent hosts.

Perhaps we’ve reached a time when no one person or personality can appeal to all of the overlapping Oscar audiences. During the 1970s, the ceremonies were often hosted by a group of stars. In 1969,

the Oscars were presented by “friends of the Oscars,” a celebrity huddle that ran the gamut from Sidney Poitier to Rosalind Russell, Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster.

A contemporary tag team of that sort and size might solve two Oscar problems. The success and failure of the night would no longer rest on one host’s shoulders. And fans would be guaranteed of seeing really big stars, even if the night ends up being dominated by movies that “nobody” saw. It is the Oscars, after all.

• Kate McKinnon and Kumail Nanjiani host the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards (5 p.m. Saturday, repeating 10 p.m., IFC). The five films nominated for best independent feature are “Anomalisa,” “Beasts of No Nation,” “Carol,” “Spotlight” and “Tangerine.” Among these films, “Spotlight” is also nominated for a best picture Oscar. “Tangerine” marks a new chapter in independent filmmaking and the use of unorthodox technology to keep budgets low. The film was shot using three iPhone 5s smartphones.

Best known for her work on “Saturday Night Live” and her impersonation of Hillary Clinton, McKinnon has been cast in the upcoming reboot of “Ghostbusters.” In addition to his role on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” Nanjiani is also known for his work on Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time” as the voice of Prismo.

• No stranger to Oscar-nominated movies (“The Color Purple”) and Oscar ceremonies, Oprah Winfrey appears on the 2016 Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards (10 p.m. Saturday, OWN). She’ll be joined by Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross, Debbie Allen, Nina Shaw and Zendaya. Look for a performance by Leon Bridges.

• “More Manners of Downton Abbey: A Masterpiece Special” (9 p.m. Sunday, PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) celebrates Alastair Bruce, the expert on social mores and protocols of Great Britain during the first three decades of the 20th century, a time that witnessed the rise of radio, telephones, record players and the popular use of automobiles. Interviews with cast members, including Hugh Bonneville and Michelle

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Chris Rock hosts The 88th Academy Awards as “The Oscars” airs live beginning at 8:30 p.m. Sunday on ABC. Dockery, shed light on how these inventions and transformations affected the characters and the plot trajectory of “Downton Abbey,” the beloved costume drama that concludes next Sunday.

SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • A psychology student never had a clue in the 2016 drama “The Suicide Note” (8 p.m., Lifetime).

• Folks who can’t wait until Tuesday for the next installment of FX’s addictive “American Crime Story” can catch “O.J. Simpson Trial: The Real Story” (8 p.m., ID, TV-14).

• The Oklahoma City Thunder host the Golden State Warriors in NBA action (8:30 p.m., ABC).

• A space station crew’s final moments on “Doctor Who” (9 p.m., BBC America, TV-PG).

• Flint and Teach have different visions of piracy’s potential on “Black Sails” (9 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (8 p.m., CBS): Errors on the

Social Security Administration’s Death Master File; also a report on a rare medical condition that prevents people from recognizing faces.

• Four couples embark on a genealogical road trip on “Relative Race” (8 p.m., BYU-TV), a series that hopes to combine the excitement of “The Amazing Race” with the ancestral discovery of “Who Do You Think You Are?” • “The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth” (8 p.m., Showtime, TV-14) glances at the presidential race.

• Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale and Giovanni Ribisi star in the 2012 comedy “Ted” (8:30 p.m., NBC).

• Oscar-winners Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline star in the 2013 comedy “Last Vegas” (9 p.m., CBS).

• Alexandria seems less secure on “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).

• Richie wants to do right

by Lester on “Vinyl” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

• Hannah hears from her father on “Girls” (10 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

• Tina has a tiff with Alex’s new girlfriend on “Togetherness” (10:30 p.m., HBO, TVMA).

SATURDAY SERIES A drone pilot down on “NCIS: New Orleans” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * A Miami tycoon becomes a murder suspect on “Rosewood” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Ducky reveals his secret on “NCIS” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * Paparazzi have hell to pay on “Lucifer” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

SUNDAY SERIES “Dateline” (7 p.m., NBC) * Bart has a new teacher (Sofia Vergara) on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-PG) * A Mexican wedding trip on “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life” (8:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Stewie’s unfortunate discovery on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * A megachurch courts a new flock on “Bordertown” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV14).

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‘Try Not to Breathe’ is worth the time and investment

BY JEFF AYERS The Associated Press Holly Seddon’s first novel, “Try Not to Breathe,” delivers the high-quality thrills and intriguing characters that readers demand in the best of psychological thrillers.

Amy Stevenson was a young woman with a boyfriend.

One day she made a horrible decision and ended up in a coma. The culprit was never caught, but her family and friends were scarred and damaged because of the lack of answers.

Fifteen years go by. Alex Dale, a disgraced reporter, is researching patients in vegetative states when she discovers Amy lying in a hospital bed. Alex has lost everything she holds dear, including her marriage and a prestigious job, because of alcohol, and she sees Amy as a path to redemption and an opportunity to make news by tracking down the truth behind what happened to Amy all those years ago.

As Alex continues to visit Amy in the hospital, she begins to think of her as a friend. She starts to ask questions, and while some are forthcoming with what they know, others refuse to talk to Alex about the past.

And who is Amy’s frequent visitor? And what secret is he hiding?

The story jumps back and forth between 1995 with Amy and 2010 with Alex and her investigation. Some authors have difficulty making it easy to follow a back-andforth flow, but Seddon handles the narrative like a pro.

Secrets and confronting past mistakes are the building blocks that Seddon uses to great effect from the first page.

While the trend in publishing these days tends to be the unreliable narrator, “Try Not to Breathe” is a breath of fresh air. I Uplifting and heartbreaking, the emotional ride Seddon delivers is worth the time and investment.

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During Sumter County Council’s meeting on Tuesday, trator Gary Mixon County Adminissaid the Federal Emergency Manageme nt Agency Disaster Relief Center will be moving another, smaller location sometime to soon because of a reduced number of visitors.

He said He said sa aid d about ab abo a bout 30 bout bo 0 people peo p eople are a visiting th center each 3 the i day.

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He said the county has also extended its memorand um of understand with South Carolina ing Department Transportation of move the debris for debris pickup to refrom the county’s landfill.

He said some residents have dropping off been debris at the landfill on their own, and more debris has accumulatthan 2,000 tons of ed.

Mixon said the debris would sume about coneight months to a landfill space if the memorandyear of not been extended. um had He said contractor s have already started removing county can receivethe debris, and the age of reimburse a higher percentment from FEMA the debris is if removed in a short amount of time.

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An Indian family takes a selfie in Mumbai’s coastline Monday. India is home to the highest number of people who have died while taking photos of themselves with 19 of the world’s 49 recorded selfie-linked deaths since 2014, according to San Francisco-based data service provider Priceonomics.

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Deaths linked to the photo-style rise MUMBAI, India (AP) — Look around in any major Indian city, and you will find someone with an arm outstretched, mobile phone in hand, smiling widely and clicking away.

Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embraced the medium, posting pictures online he’s snapped with various world leaders.

But the pursuit of the most epic selfie can have lethal consequences.

India is home to the highest number of people who have died while taking photos of themselves, with 19 of the world’s 49 recorded selfielinked deaths since 2014, according to San Franciscobased data service provider Priceonomics. The statistic may in part be because of India’s sheer size, with 1.25 billion residents and one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets.

Alarmed by the trend, Mumbai has declared 16 noselfie zones across the city, as authorities warn people against taking unnecessary risks.

Earlier this month, an 18-year-old college student on a class picnic lost his balance while taking a selfie atop a rock near a dam near the central Indian city of Nashik. He fell into the water and drowned, along with a classmate who jumped in to try and save him.

Last month, an 18-year-old woman fell and drowned in the sea while taking a photo of herself at Mumbai’s Bandstand Fort, a popular tourist spot.

An engineering student sustained fatal head injuries when a rock he was standing on cracked and sent him tumbling. He’d been trying to take a selfie with friends in front of the Kolli Hills in Tamil Nadu.

And in January 2014, three students aged 20 to 22 died when they stopped to take a photo with a speeding train approaching and were hit.

They’d been on their way to visit the Taj Mahal.

In Mumbai, police have declared selfies off-limits in areas perceived as risky — particularly along the coastline in spots with no railings or barriers. Anyone venturing into off-limits areas, even if they take no photos, risks being slapped with a fine of 1,200 rupees, or about $18.

After the woman’s death last month, the city’s police conducted a survey to identify such dangerous places, police official Dhananjay Kulkarni said. The city also plans to run an awareness campaign.

Despite clearly marked signs demarking the selfiefree zones, people can still be seen clicking away, and often going to the edges or standing on ledges to get the most thrilling shots.

“When you are traveling alone, and do not have anyone to take your pictures, then it’s only selfie,” said Murtuza Rangwala, a student in Mumbai.

Mumbai psychologist Keerti Sachdeva said she doesn’t expect the constant pursuit of selfies to end any time soon, saying one probable reason is the need for acceptance and love.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Wednesday that it will start requiring documentation or proof from people who say they need to buy a plan or change coverage outside that window for reasons like marriage, a permanent move or the birth of a child.

Millions of people have used the ACA’s state-based exchanges to buy health insurance during the past few years. The vast majority do so during an open enrollment window that starts every fall and runs into January.

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Such proof can come in the form of a birth certificate or a marriage license, and insurers require it for coverage purchased off the ACA’s public exchanges. But they aren’t allowed to ask for that proof from their exchange customers.

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HealthCare.gov executives said in a blog post that the government is committed to making sure these sign-up windows are still available to those eligible for them, but “it’s equally important to avoid misuse or abuse of special enrollment periods.”

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ROADS FROM PAGE A1 said. “This is precious time we are letting slip away.”

Sen. Kevin Johnson, DManning, said not everybody will be pleased when, and if, a roads bill passes, but the debate should begin.

“If they would end the filibuster and JOHNSON let us debate the bill, I think we could get something everybody could live with,” he said. “Nobody’s going to get everything they want.”

Johnson said at the rate they’re going, a bill might not be passed this year.

“It can go on forever,” he said.

“When we have somebody get up there and start obstructing, that’s not fixing

the potholes,” McElveen said.

McElveen said he doesn’t know what the obstructing senator’s agenda is.

“I just try to do my job and do what the people in my district want me to do,” he said.

McElveen and Johnson said cloture is not a good option on a major bill with about 300 amendments.

Invoking cloture means every amendment would have to be voted on in a 10-minute period.

“If you limit yourself on debate with that many amendments, you can really end up with a Frankenstein of a bill,” McElveen said.

“That’s not responsible,” he said.

Johnson said he is concerned a roads bill may not get passed this year.

“We have all of our business community begging and pleading for us to get a roads bill passed,” Johnson

HOW CAN YOU HELP? Manning United Methodist Church, Cribb’s home church, is hosting fundraisers to benefit Cribb’s family to offset medical, travel and other expenses.

• The United Methodist Men will have a pancake breakfast for $6 per plate on April 2. Breakfast will be served from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in the church fellowship hall.

• A yard sale will also take place on April 2 in the gym from 7 a.m. to noon. Donated items may be left in the gym. For those needing to have their large items picked up, contact Travis Brown at (803) 435-2420 or Sonny Sanders (803) 225-2796.

• A 1977, 22-foot Sea Ray Cabin Cruiser has been donated, and a drawing will be held for the boat during the event. Only 200 tickets will be available for a donation of $25 per ticket. Tickets are available at the Manning United Methodist Church Office or by contacting Charle Gavin at (803) 460-7530. The drawing will be held on April 2 at noon in the church gym.

• An auction will also be conducted in the gym at 10 a.m.

For those interested in making a monetary donation, make checks to MUMC or the United Methodist Men. For more information, contact Gene Barber at (843) 230-1749, Mickey Sexton at (843) 601-2889) or Sandra Brewer at (803) 4733186.

OBITUARIES ELI C. BALDWIN JR. Eli Coleman Baldwin Jr., 85, husband of Marilyn J. Baldwin, died peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at his home.

Born on Oct. 20, 1930, he was the youngest son of the late Eli Coleman Sr. and Lillie Mae Koontz Baldwin BALDWIN of Memphis, Tennessee. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

He leaves behind: his beloved wife of 62 years; four children, Sherri Santhoff of Panama City, Florida, Deborah Wright of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and Martin Baldwin and Zach Baldwin, both of Sumter; an honorary son, Anthony Soulliere of Gaston; five grandchildren, Sasha Santhoff, Jasmine Anderson (Charles), Harvey Ray Wright Jr., Kelsey Pearsall and Nicole Gill (Allen); and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a grandson, Joshua Wright.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday at the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with Chaplain B.J. Drayton officiating. Burial will be in Fort Jackson National Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

ALBERTA P. KENNEDY MANNING — Alberta Pendergrass Kennedy died on Feb. 21, 2016.

She was a daughter of Robert Lee Pendergrass and the late Mattie Roundtree PendKENNEDY ergrass.

Funeral services for Mrs. Kennedy will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Green Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 1260 Green Hill

said. “The vast majority of the phone calls and emails I get and talking to people on the street, the vast majority don’t mind paying a small increase in their gas tax to fix our roads.”

He said the roads need a dedicated, recurring source of funding.

“We might have a surplus this year, but there’s no guarantee there will be a surplus in coming years,” Johnson said.

He said the senate needs to get together and work on the amendments.

“Right now it is a dangerous situation with people dodging potholes and people tearing their cars up,” he said.

Cloture is not a good option Johnson and McElveen said, but it may end up being the best option.

“Who knows,” Johnson said. “If these guys go on and on and on, we may have to do that.”

SUPPORT FROM PAGE A1 even met, the combination of these is helping me get through this,” she said.

Kay Young, who was Cribb’s tennis and assistant basketball coach at Manning High School, described her as caring, kind and energetic.

“Kerrie is God-sent,” Young said.

“She has always cared about what is best for her team, rather than herself.”

Young said she saw Cribb’s character come out multiple times while she was a student at the school.

“Her last tennis match of her senior year, she was really sick that day, but came to school because she wanted to make sure she played to help the team in the playoffs,” Young said. “She’s a fighter.”

Cribb’s best friend, Brittany Owens, said Cribb is doing an amazing job in her fight.

“I don’t know anyone else who has as positive outlook on life as much as Kerrie does,” Owens said. “Her faith can move mountains.”

Owens has been Cribb’s best friend since college.

Church Road, Alcolu, with the Rev. Delbert H. Singleton Jr., pastor, officiating, the Rev. William J. Frierson Sr. presiding and the Rev. David Woods and Elder Jerome Pendergrass assisting. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at her residence, 1256 Audrey Road, Manning.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

ELLA W. MURPHY Ella Wilson Murphy, 72, wife of James Murphy, passed on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

Born in Bishopville, she was a daughter of the late Vernon Sr. and Queenie Bell McKnight Wilson.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Lisbon Presbyterian Church, 205 Mt. Lisbon Road, Bishopville, with the Rev. Othan Franklin, pastor / eulogist. Interment will follow in Boone Cemetery, Bishopville.

Online condolence can be sent to the family at esquaredealfun@sc.rr.com.

Square Deal Funeral Home, 106 McIntosh St., Bishopville, has been entrusted with these services.

ELEANOR T. SEAMON BISHOPVILLE — Eleanor Turner Seamon, 75, widow of Joel H. Seamon, died on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at McElveen Manor in Sumter.

Born on Oct. 17, 1940, in Kershaw County, she was a daughter of the late James Irby Turner Sr. and Myrtle Smith Turner. She was a 1958 graduate of Ashwood Central High School. She served in the

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Rangers and Marines secure the beach of Green Island during a training exercise on Lake Marion on Friday.

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TRAINING FROM PAGE A1 five-day period the men practiced operating a water vessel, beach landing, navigation and other procedures.

Friday morning, the unit was prepared for another major exercise involving a helicopter.

That mission was canceled, however, because of mechanical issues with the aircraft.

The exercise, called helocasting, would involve the men jumping off a large Marine transport helicopter into

When Cribb was diagnosed last May, she started a fundraising campaign in which bracelets were made with the words, “KerrieStrong.”

“You really don’t know how strong someone is until you have to take care of someone else who is at their weakest,” Owens said.

Cribb was there to help others when they were suffering, before being diagnosed.

Her brother, Kevin Cribb, was involved in a serious motorcycle wreck in January 2015, which left him with a severe brain injury. Cribb was helping to take care of her brother while working as an emergency room nurse when she was diagnosed.

“I started having lower back pains and unusual bleeding,” she said. “I kind of pushed that aside as Kevin needed our support at the time.”

Claire Geddings, an emergency room nurse at Palmetto Health Tuomey, said Cribb genuinely cares about everyone she meets.

“Being an emergency room nurse is an extremely demanding, fast-paced job, but Kerrie has always kept her cool,” Geddings said. “She’s a team player who’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.”

U.S. Navy and retired from DuPont. She was a faithful member of St. Andrew Church of God. She is survived by two children, Anthony Seamon (Lou) of Sumter and Jeffery Seamon of Bishopville; four grandchildren, Brandy, Alyssa, Tara and Anthony Robert Seamon; four great-grandchildren; sisters, Olivia Davis (James), Jane Brown and Ann Kelly (Joe), all of Bishopville; a brother, Ed Turner of Bishopville; a sister-in-law, Vivian H. Turner of Matthews, North Carolina; and a number of nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by an infant son; and a brother, James Irby Turner Jr. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at St. Andrew Church of God, 4238 Red Hill Road, Camden, with the Rev. Larry Mobley officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to St. Andrew Church of God, Missions, 4238 Red Hill Road, Camden, SC 29020.

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the water in a line formation.

The men would first release an inflatable combat rafting vessel into the water, and follow by jumping off, clad in their gear, at about 30 feet above water, with the helicopter traveling at an airspeed of 10 knots or less.

Army Rangers Specialist Joshua Peters, was participating in his fourth water infiltration training.

“Typically in long range surveillance teams, we will be the first guys to make landing in an area,” Peters said. “We’re supposed to be the ghosts.”

When she was diagnosed in May, Cribb found out she had a tumor that was six centimeters. She underwent chemotherapy, but the treatments shrunk the tumor by less than one centimeter, she said. Cribb then went through 28 external radiation treatments and three internal radiation treatments, which made the tumor shrink, she said.

She was set up for a hysterectomy in early 2016, a surgery to remove a woman’s uterus, but that procedure was cancelled when she found out the cancer had spread.

Cribb has found a doctor in Texas who specializes in the rare form of cervical cancer she is suffering from.

She is planning on going to visit that doctor after she receives her results in March.

Kara Casselman Ramirez, Cribb’s friend since kindergarten, set up a GoFundMe page which raised more than $36,000 in about a month.

“Kerrie’s truly one of the strongest people I know,” Ramirez said. “She makes you appreciate how precious life is. She’s truly an inspiration to a whole community.”

Cribb’s Go Fund Me page is https:// www.gofundme.com/kerriestrong2.

in charge of the arrangements.

DEDRICK SINGLETARY NEW ZION — Dedrick Singletary died Friday, Feb. 19, 2016.

He was a son of Machearda McCray.

Funeral services for Mr. Singletary will be held at 11 a.m. today at Howard Chapel AME Church, 6338 Old Manning Road, New Zion, with the Rev. Oliver Davis, pastor, officiating, the Rev. Jerome McCray presiding and the Revs.

Rose Hagen and Henry O. Blackwell assisting. Burial will follow in Howard Chapel / Old McFadden Cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 1584 Newman Branch Road, New Zion.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

RICHARD T. BOHAN JR. Richard Timothy Bohan Jr., 75, husband of Dianna K. Bohan, went to his heavenly home on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.

He leaves to cherish his memories: his wife of 36 years; one brother, Tom (Rhonda); eight children; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and four cousins who were

very close to him.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Bullock Funeral Home Chapel, 1190 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter.

Visiting will take place after the service and at the home, 105 Sawgrass Court, Sumter.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

HELEN FRANCK Helen Deloris Gregory Franck, age 84, beloved wife of the late George H. Franck Sr., died on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at Covenant Place.

She is survived by two children, George Henning Franck Jr. and Landee June Roth.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

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AROUND TOWN AARP will offer free tax prepara- speech and developmental screenings as part of a child tion from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 find effort to identify stup.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays through April 13 dents with special needs.

Do youCenter need help your Screenings willtaxes? be held from at the Shepherd’s of preparing 9 a.m. to noon at the SumSumter, 24 Council St. Applimerton Early Childhood Cencants are advised to bring ter, 8 South St., Summerton, with them government-ison the following Thursdays: sued photo IDs, Social SecuMarch 10; April 14; and May rity cards and / or Medicare 12. Call Sadie Williams at cards for anyone in the (803) 485-2325, extension 116. household, last year’s tax forms, W-2 and / or 1099 Keystone Royal Arch Chapter 43 forms, and power of attorney will sponsor a red and white certification forms if they are banquet at 5 p.m. on Saturfiling for someone else. Call day, March 12, at Catchall Henry Dinkins at (803) 499Masonic Auditorium. The 4990 or Lula King at (803) 316- Rev. James E. Williams will 0772. speak. Donation request of The Sumter Branch NAACP’s An- $20. nual Black History Program will The Sumter Combat Veterans be held at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Group will meet at 10 a.m. on Feb. 28, at St. Paul AME BapFriday, March 18, at the tist Church, 835 Plowden Mill South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Road. The Rev. Dr. James B. Lafayette Drive. All area vetBlassingame will speak. erans and active military are VFW Post 10813 will hold a wine, invited. cheese, music and more event The Shannon Town Community from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Neighborhood Watch Group will Feb. 28, at 610 Manning Ave. meet from 6 to 7 p.m. on Call (803) 773-6700.

Thursday, March 25, at the The Shepherd’s Center will offer South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. a public information session on COPD at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Shaw Air Force Base will host March 3, at 24 Council St. the Shaw Air Expo open house Christina Blakley, registered and air show Saturday and nurse with Palmetto Health Sunday, May 21-22. The free Tuomey, will speak. event will be open to the general public from 8 a.m. to Broken Wings, an eight-week 5 p.m. both days. Visit www. grief support group hosted by shaw.af.mil/airexpo/ for Amedisys Hospice Care, will more information. Also, “like” be held from 10 a.m. to noon the Shaw Air Force Base each Saturday from March 5 Facebook page at https:// through April 23. Meetings www.facebook. will be held at the Amedisys com/20FighterWing/ for upHospice office, 198 E. Wesmark Blvd., Suite 2, (803) 774- to-date information. Aerial demonstration teams or per4036. formances will include: U.S. The 16th Annual Cavalier Pride Air Force Thunderbirds; U.S. Auction will be held on Saturday, March 5, at Robert E. Lee Army Black Daggers parachute demo; 20th Fighter Academy, 630 Cousar St., Wing Air Power; F-16 Viper; Bishopville. Food will be USAF Heritage Flight; Canadiserved from 5 to 7 p.m. Bidan Air Force CF-18; U.S. Navy ding will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the first table closing at F/A-18; Warbirds (historical military aircraft); and Gary 7 p.m. Silent and live auction Ward & Greg Connell. The tickets are $15 in advance acts are not in order of perand $20 at the door. formance and are subject to Clarendon School District One change. will conduct free vision, hearing,

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The Westside Neighborhood As- The Ballard-Palmer-Bates American Legion Post 202 meets at 7 sociation meets at 5:30 p.m. p.m. on the third Wednesday on the third Monday of each of each month at the Post, month at the Birnie HOPE 310 Palmetto St. All veterans Center, 210 S. Purdy St. are welcome to attend. Call The Christian Golfers’ Associa(803) 773-4811. tion (CGA) meets at 8 a.m. each Tuesday for Bible study. The Civil Air Patrol Sumter Composite Squadron meets from 7 The group meets at the CGA Groups to get involved with office in Dillon Park. Refresh- to 9 p.m. each Monday at the Sumter Airport. Contact ments provided and golf Jared Buniel at (803) 481-7915 after Bible study. Call (803) or JaredLotR@juno.com. Visit 773-2171. the Web site at www.scwg.

UAW Eastern Carolina Internacap.gov/sumter/. tional Retirees Council meets The Palmetto PC Club meets on at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the second Thursday of each month at the Capital Senior the VFW in Little River. All UAW retirees are welcome to Center in Columbia. Details about the club can be found attend. Call Bob Artus at at http://palmettopc.org/ (803) 481-3622. home/.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What you do EUGENIA LAST to help others will be repaid.

Your ability to bring your ideas to the forefront and turn them into something fantastic will make an impression on someone who will pay for your input. Try to find new solutions to old problems.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Keep a low profile regarding personal affairs, changes you want to make to your appearance or the way you live. Don’t let anxiety build up or lead to an argument with someone you love. Work alone for best results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Communication, travel and education will all lead to personal and professional benefits. Attend a conference or discuss your ideas with people who are forwardthinking and have the components you need to turn your dream into a reality. Romance is highlighted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t overspend to win favors. Learn something new by showing interest in what others do. Your popularity will grow, enabling you to persuade others to see things your way. Romance is on the rise, so make special plans for the future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let your emotions come between you and what you have to accomplish. A problem with someone you live with will leave you unsettled. Take time to mull matters over while you work at something you enjoy doing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Proceed with caution. Not everyone will fall for your charms.

Make sure you have a realistic plan in mind before you put your reputation on the line. Honesty will be required to reach your goal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t waffle. When in doubt, ask questions and look for alternatives.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Take the Trying something new will open initiative and let people see what your eyes to a new way of living or you are up to. Your innovative plans an occupational change. Accepting will take everyone by surprise, the inevitable will lead to a stable allowing you to exploit something and secure future. you enjoy doing and getting the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look help you need to turn it into a for a change that can boost your profitable endeavor. enthusiasm. Too much idle time or LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lend boring routines will leave you someone a helping hand. A change feeling flat and in need of a pickat home will cause a rift. Try not to me-up. A new look, hobby or cave under pressure or say things activity will get you moving. you’ll regret. A calm, gentle approach and a viable solution will Romance is encouraged. do the trick. Make love, not war.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Show off your uniqueness and handle situations with finesse. Don’t depend on anyone to do things for you. By taking control of situations, you will put yourself ahead of any competition you meet along the way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Follow through with your plans. You won’t benefit unless you actually do something. Your input to a concern you harbor will help you make a difference and change the way things are done. The improvements you make will be recognized and rewarded.

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Gaffney 54/28 Spartanburg 54/29

Greenville 55/33

Columbia 58/33

Sumter 56/34

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 57/31

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Today: Plenty of sunshine. High 53 to 62.

Sunday: Plenty of sunshine. High 62 to 68.

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Bishopville 56/32

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Gram is loves cutelyto cross-eyed. cross-eyed, He is gentle, affectionate and ‘talk’ friendly. He likes to “talk” and play with cat toys. Gram would make a great addition to any family. The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www.sumterscspca.com.

The SPCA relies heavily on community support and donations. Currently, the biggest needs are for dry puppy and kitten food; wet cat food; cat litter; and cleaning supplies. The following are also appreciated: Newspapers; stuffed animals; heavy duty trash bags (30 gallon or larger); dishwashing liquid; laundry detergent; bleach; paper towels; sheets and comforters; baby blankets; canned dog and cat food; dry dog food; treats; leashes and collars; disinfectant spray; all-purpose cleaner; air freshener; no scratch scrubbers; two-sided sponges for dishes; litter freshener; and, of course, monetary donations are also gratefully accepted.

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Cool under pressure Learning from last year, Sumter girls hope mental toughness, ability to fight back in crunch time carry them past North Augusta in LS finals

pro football

Rising stock could mean draft payday USC TE Adams looks to leave mark at Combine

BY JOSH KENDALL The State INDIANAPOLIS — If Jerell Adams’ week here is as good as the week he had in Mobile, Ala., at the Senior Bowl in January, the South Carolina product will be one of the surprise names in the early rounds of the NFL Draft.

“A lot of scouts said I had a great week (at the Senior Bowl),” Adams said. “A lot of coaches said they didn’t think Adams I was as tough as I was or that I could hold a block as long as I could. I felt like I had a great week down there. I think I raised my stock a little bit.”

Analysts agree. NFL Media’s Mike Mayock rates Adams the third-best tight end in this year’s draft class, behind Arkansas’ Hunter Henry and Stanford’s Austin Hooper.

“Adams doesn’t have the surest hands in this draft, but he is unique in that he can challenge defenses down the field and shows the potential to be helpful as a run blocker,” NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein wrote on the website. “Adams should come in as a quality backup with an ‘eventual starter’ tag tied to him.”

Adams – 6-foot-5, 244 pounds – knows he will get questions this week about why he wasn’t more productive at South Carolina given what he’s already shown to scouts.

The Pinewood native and former Scott’s Branch High School standout had 66 catches for 977 yards and seven touchdowns in four years with the Gamecocks.

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Bre Tyler (23) and the rest of the Lady Gamecocks look to earn in a berth in the state championship when they face North Augusta today at 5 p.m. at Florence Civic Center in the 4A lower state finals.

bY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com The hardest thing for Jason Loudenslager and his coaching staff to digest at the end of last season wasn’t that the Sumter High girls basketball team lost, it was the way it lost.

“We left like the last seven or eight minutes of the (third-round) game (against Irmo) we just kind of stood around,” Loudenslager said. “That was the hardest pill to swallow. We felt like we didn’t go down swinging.”

That, Loudenslager said, is the easiest difference to spot with this year’s Lady Gamecocks -- as evidenced by their first trip to the lower state finals since the 2004-2005 season.

Sumter (24-4) takes on North Augusta (234) today at 5 p.m. at Florence Civic Center for the right to compete for a state championship on March 4 at 7 p.m. at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia.

Sumter’s girls have been knocking on the door to the LS finals the last few seasons, but this team’s ability to keep fighting no matter the odds was something that was pretty evident to see the last two games, Loudenslager said.

SHS used a 23-4 run in the second quarter to blow open a close second-round game against Irmo, then rebounded from a 23-14 halftime deficit against Lexington with a 19-2 run that completely changed the dynamic of the game.

“We didn’t have very good starts against Irmo or Lexington, but we still found a way to win,” he said. “That third quarter against Lexington really showed how much the team has grown from last year. The seniors – who remember what the feeling was like at the end of last year – came out and you never

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The Associated Press

Drivers Kevin Harvick, left, and Chase Elliott talk in the garage during practice on Friday for Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Harvick has never raced anything in the Cup Series except Chevrolet, but he’s trying to dodge any suggestion that he’ll have difficulty following Stewart-Haas Racing’s surprising move to Ford in 2017.

Harvick says he’ll ‘follow along’ with team’s Ford move

By CHARLES ODUM The Associated Press

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Cy Cooper (31) and the rest of the Lady Gamecocks take on North Augusta today at 5 p.m. at Florence Civic Center in the 4A lower state finals.

HAMPTON, Ga. — Kevin Harvick, who has spent his entire Sprint Cup career driving a Chevrolet, said Friday this week’s announcement that Stewart-Haas Racing is moving to Ford won’t force him to look for a new team.

Harvick and SHR co-owner Tony Stewart each won championships for the team driving Chevrolets. The team’s move to Ford in 2017 set up a potentially awkward final 2016 season with Chevrolet and led to questions about how Harvick would react.

The 2014 Cup champion said during Friday’s practice at Atlanta Motor Speedway he plans to stay with SHR. “Just got to follow along with what your organization thinks is best,” Harvick told reporters. “I think they have the same interest in mind that I do, and that’s to compete for wins and championships.”

Asked if that means he won’t leave SHR, Harvick said “I just want to win races.

That’s what we’re all going to focus on.”

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Michigan State offensive lineman Jack Conklin stretches before running a drill Friday at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.

Lightly recruited players turning heads at combine

By MICHAEL MAROT\ The Associated Press

Michigan, so he wound up staying in his home state and playing for a school that has won five straight INDIANAPOLIS — Jack Conklin FCS national championships. walked to the podium in IndianapoWentz could be the first quarterlis, glanced down at the surroundback taken in April, but he won’t be ing crowd and shook his head in the only one with this kind of story. disbelief.

The only scholarship offers fieldFour years ago, Conklin had only ed by Connor Cook, Conklin’s colone scholarship offer and was lege teammate, came from Michiready to attend prep school. Now gan State, Miami (Ohio) and Akron. the left tackle from Michigan State, He wound starting three years and who started his college career as an played on two Big Ten championinvited walk-on, is one of the most ship teams. coveted offensive linemen in the Paxton Lynch initially drew innation. terest from schools such as Bet“It’s crazy just to see how far I’ve hune-Cookman, Florida Tech and come,” Conklin said at the NFL Florida A&M until he was chosen scouting combine. “It’s hard to MVP of the 2011 Central Florida think about to go from being four All-Star game. Then Indiana and years ago to have no idea if I was Florida jumped on board, but his going to be on a Division I team home state Gators only wanted him going into the fall. It’s hard to take as a walk-on. So when Lynch got a in how far I’ve come as a person late scholarship offer from Memand a player.” phis, he took it.

The odds were certainly stacked Both could be first-round picks. against Conklin making it this far.

It’s not just a quarterback thing.

He played for his father, Darren, Some thought Derrick Henry at a small Michigan high school, would move to defense in college. where the staff was not wellAlabama coach Nick Saban kept schooled in the art of selling rehim at running back and after two cruits to college coaches. seasons as T.J. Yeldon’s backup, The book on Conklin was he was Henry became the school’s second too light and not strong enough to Heisman Trophy winner and led be a college lineman, and his rethe Crimson Tide to the national sume supported the notion. He championship. played mostly defensive end and Receiver Josh Doctson wanted to tight end in high school and could play college football in his native lift only 225 pounds on the bench Texas, but spent his freshman seapress about 10 times in succession. son at Wyoming. He transferred to His skill set appeared to be trans- TCU, going from walk-on to Alllated better to basketball, where he American and now to one of the averaged 17.1 points and 10.4 retop receivers in this year’s draft. bounds as a senior, and if he had To Doctson, the chance of a comtaken up Wayne State on its scholbine invite seemed so remote he arship offer, Conklin might have didn’t even consider it until he fallen through the cracks in Diviplayed his final college game. sion II football.

“It’s a positive evaluation,” Hall Instead, Conklin bet on himself of Fame executive Bill Polian said.

— just like a surprisingly high “What it tells you is that the guy number of other big-name players has tremendous drive, and in some in this year’s draft class. cases, you see that on tape. What’s “It was always a dream,” North the difference between Jack ConkDakota State quarterback Carson lin and (former Colts center) Jeff Wentz said. “I didn’t think that Saturday? Jack’s going to get drafttoday, this is where I was going to ed a little higher because he’s a litbe. I didn’t think like that. It was a tle taller.” goal.”

Four years ago, such a compariWentz was lightly recruited after son seemed improbable. Today, moving from receiver to quarterConklin just smiles, nods his head back as a high school senior. His and appreciates how much has only FBS offer came from Central changed.

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His best season came last year when he had 28 receptions for 421 yards and three touchdowns.

“I just tell them I am what I put on film. I tried to make the best on what I do,” Adams said. “A lot of them know we struggled offensively with the quarterback and the coaching staff.”

Adams spoke to former teammates and current NFL players Bruce Ellington and D.J. Swearinger about what to expect from this week’s Combine events.

“They said just go down there and do what you do, block all the noise out,” Adams said. “You might see some guys laughing around but always remember that somebody is always watching you to see what you do. It’s a business trip, do what you’ve got to do.”

Adams arrived here on Wednesday and went through medical ex-

aminations and interviews with team personnel and media members Thursday. He will do his bench press repetitions and take the league’s psychological tests on Friday and then have his on-field drills, including the 40-yard dash, on Saturday. He hopes to run “a low 4.5 or 4.6” in the 40 on Saturday, he said.

He also hopes his intangibles are evident to teams during the interview process.

“I feel like I’m a great teammate, a great leader, very coachable,” he said. “I just play hard, give it 100 percent in everything I do.”

He is currently projected as a mid-round selection but could move higher if he keeps the momentum he built at the Senior Bowl, however he isn’t setting any goals for a particular round, he said.

“I only set one goal in life,” he said, “and that’s to get better every day no matter what I am doing, be better than the day before.”

TODAY 5 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Perth International Third Round from Perth, Australia (GOLF).

7:40 a.m. – Soccer: English Premier League Match – Sunderland vs. West Ham (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8:30 a.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Heads Up Georgia 250 Pole Qualifying from Hampton, Ga. (FOX SPORTS 1).

9 a.m. – NFL Football: NFL Scouting Combine from Indianapolis – Quarterbacks, Wide Receivers and Tight Ends (NFL NETWORK).

9:20 a.m. – Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Bayern Munich vs. Wolfsburg (FOX SPORTS 2).

9:55 a.m. – Soccer: English Premier League Match – Norwich City vs. Leicester City (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10 a.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Georgia 200 Pole Qualifying from Hampton, Ga. (FOX SPORTS 1).

10 a.m. – College Baseball: Houston College Classic from Houston – Louisiana-Lafayette vs.

Texas Christian (MLB NETWORK).

11:30 a.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Practice from Hampton, Ga. (FOX SPORTS 1).

Noon – College Basketball: Butler at Georgetown (WLTX 19).

Noon – College Basketball: Lehigh at Army (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

Noon – College Basketball: Texas Tech at Kansas (ESPN).

Noon – College Basketball: Central Florida at Temple (ESPNEWS).

Noon – College Basketball: Rhode Island at Dayton (ESPN2).

Noon – College Basketball: Cincinnati at Eastern Carolina (ESPNU).

Noon – College Basketball: Western Kentucky at Alabama-Birmingham (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

Noon – College Basketball: Georgia Tech at Boston College (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

Noon – College Basketball: Mississippi at Georgia (SEC NETWORK).

12:30 p.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Crystal Palace vs. Wests Brom (WIS 10).

12:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Virginia Commonwealth at George Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

1 p.m. – PGA Golf: Honda Classic Third Round from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (GOLF).

1 p.m. – College Baseball: Houston College Classic from Houston – Louisiana-Lafayette vs.

Texas Tech (MLB NETWORK).

1:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Heads Up Georgia 250 from Hampton, Ga. (FOX SPORTS 1).

1:30 p.m. – International Soccer: Dutch League Match – Den Haag vs. PSV (UNIVISION).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Villanova at Marquette (WACH 57).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Oklahoma at Texas (WLTX 19).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Northern Iowa at Evansville (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Arizona at Utah (ESPN).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Illinois State at Wichita State (ESPN2).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Rutgers at Northwestern (ESPNU).

2:30 p.m. – College Basketball: William & Mary at James Madison (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:30 p.m. – College Basketball: South Carolina at Mississippi State (SEC NETWORK, WDXY-FM 105.9, WNKT-FM 107.5, WDXY-AM 1240).

3 p.m. – Women’s College Gymnastics: Southern Utah at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

3 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Iowa State at Oklahoma (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

3 p.m. – PGA Golf: Honda Classic Third Round from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (GOLF).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Kentucky at Vanderbilt (WLTX 19).

4 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament Championship Game from Charlotte (ASPIRE).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: DePaul at Providence (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Maryland at Purdue (ESPN).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Notre Dame at Florida State (ESPN2).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas A&M at Missouri (ESPNU).

4:30 p.m. – College Basketball: UCLA at Stanford (WACH 57).

4:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Georgia 200 from Hampton, Ga. (FOX SPORTS 1, WEGX-FM 92.9).

4:30 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Baylor at Kansas State (FOX SPORTS 2).

4:30 p.m. – College Baseball: Houston College Classic from Houston – Arkansas vs. Houston (MLB NETWORK).

5 p.m. – College Basketball: Auburn at Alabama (SEC NETWORK).

5:30 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Carl Frampton vs. Scott Quigg for the World Super Bantamweight Title from Manchester, England (SHOWTIME).

5:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Monterrey vs. Cruz Azul (UNIVISION).

6 p.m. – College Basketball: Boise State at San Diego State (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

6 p.m. – College Basketball: Kansas State at Iowa (ESPN2).

6 p.m. – College Basketball: West Virginia at Oklahoma State (ESPNU).

6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: North Carolina at Virginia (ESPN).

7 p.m. – College Hockey: Boston University at Notre Dame (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Arkansas at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK).

7:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – America vs. Tigres (UNIVISION).

8 p.m. – NHL Hocke7: Detroit at Colorado (WIS 10).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Gonzaga at Brigham Young (ESPN2).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Baylor at Texas Christian (ESPNU).

8:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Golden State at Oklahoma State (WOLO 25).

8:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Florida at Louisiana State (ESPN).

8:30 p.m. – College Baseball: Houston College Classic from Houston – Rice vs. Texas Christian (MLB NETWORK).

9:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Pachuca vs. Toluca (UNIVISION).

10 p.m. – Men’s College Volleyball: Cal StateNorthridge at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

10 p.m. – College Basketball: Fresno State at New Mexico (ESPN2).

10 p.m. – College Basketball: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament Championship Game from Charlotte (ESPNU).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Terrence Crawford vs. Henry Lundy in a Super Lightweight Bout and Felix Verdejo vs. William Silva in a Lightweight Bout from New York (HBO).

Midnight – College Basketball: California-Irvine at California-Davis (ESPN2).

1 a.m. – LPGA Golf: Honda LPGA Thailand Final Round from Chonburi, Thailand (GOLF).

5 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Perth International Final Round from Perth, Australia (GOLF).

nba Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Southeast Division

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando Central Division

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

W 38 34 24 16 8

L 18 25 35 42 49

Pct GB .679 — .576 5½ .407 15½ .276 23 .140 30½

W 32 31 29 26 25

L 25 27 27 30 31

Pct GB .561 — .534 1½ .518 2½ .464 5½ .446 6½

W 41 31 30 29 24

L 15 26 26 29 34

Pct GB .732 — .544 10½ .536 11 .500 13 .414 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

San Antonio Memphis Dallas

W L Pct GB 49 9 .845 — 33 23 .589 15 30 28 .517 19

Houston New Orleans Northwest Division

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota Pacific Division

Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

29 29 .500 20 23 34 .404 25½ W 41 30 28 23 18

L 17 28 29 35 40

Pct GB .707 — .517 11 .491 12½ .397 18 .310 23

W 52 37 24 14 11

L 5 20 32 44 48

Pct GB .912 — .649 15 .429 27½ .241 38½ .186 42

Thursday’s Games

Golden State 130, Orlando 114 Boston 112, Milwaukee 107 New Orleans 123, Oklahoma City 119 Brooklyn 116, Phoenix 106 Houston 119, Portland 105 San Antonio 96, Utah 78

Friday’s Games

Charlotte at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

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By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 60 35 18 7 77 167 139 Tampa Bay 60 34 22 4 72 165 149 Boston 61 33 22 6 72 190 170 Detroit 61 30 20 11 71 153 158 Ottawa 62 29 27 6 64 179 192 Montreal 61 29 27 5 63 167 168 Buffalo 61 24 30 7 55 144 167 Toronto 59 21 28 10 52 145 176 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 59 44 11 4 92 197 137 N.Y. Rangers 61 35 20 6 76 175 156 N.Y. Islanders 59 33 19 7 73 170 146 Pittsburgh 59 30 21 8 68 155 156 New Jersey 62 30 25 7 67 139 149 Carolina 62 28 24 10 66 152 164 Philadelphia 60 27 22 11 65 148 163 Columbus 62 25 29 8 58 162 191

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 62 38 18 6 82 202 178 Chicago 63 38 20 5 81 177 151 St. Louis 63 35 19 9 79 157 152 Nashville 62 30 21 11 71 162 158 Colorado 63 32 27 4 68 169 176 Minnesota 61 27 24 10 64 159 155 Winnipeg 60 26 30 4 56 158 179 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 60 36 20 4 76 161 139 Anaheim 59 32 19 8 72 147 141 San Jose 59 32 21 6 70 177 161 Vancouver 60 24 24 12 60 147 171 Arizona 61 27 28 6 60 166 188 Calgary 60 26 30 4 56 162 184 Edmonton 62 22 34 6 50 152 190 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games

Philadelphia 3, Minnesota 2 Columbus 6, New Jersey 1 Toronto 3, Carolina 1 Florida 3, Arizona 2 N.Y. Rangers 2, St. Louis 1 Nashville 3, Chicago 1 Winnipeg 6, Dallas 3 N.Y. Islanders 2, Calgary 1, OT Vancouver 5, Ottawa 3 Los Angeles 2, Edmonton 1

Friday’s Games

Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 7 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Buffalo at San Jose, 10:30 p.m..

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By The Associated Press PGA Tour-Honda Classic Par Scores Friday At PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,140; Par 70 (35-35) Second Round Rickie Fowler Jimmy Walker Sergio Garcia Adam Scott Hudson Swafford Blayne Barber John Senden Scott Brown William McGirt Michael Thompson Justin Thomas David Lingmerth Luke List Vijay Singh Patton Kizzire Andrew Loupe Jamie Donaldson Dawie van der Walt Brett Stegmaier Ken Duke Greg Owen Graeme McDowell Davis Love III Morgan Hoffmann Russell Knox Ian Poulter Sung Kang Darron Stiles Chesson Hadley Stewart Cink Alex Cejka Padraig Harrington Ryan Palmer Will MacKenzie Sean O’Hair Tyrone Van Aswegen Daniel Summerhays Camilo Villegas Jason Dufner Brooks Koepka Robert Streb Jeff Overton Mark Hubbard Francesco Molinari

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Honda LPGA Thailand Par Scores Friday At Siam Country Club (Pattaya Old Course) Chonburi, Thailand Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 6,548; Par: 72 (36-36) Second Round a-amateur Amy Yang Jessica Korda Q Baek Lexi Thompson Haru Nomura Chella Choi In Gee Chun Ha Na Jang Xi Yu Lin Pernilla Lindberg Jenny Shin Kim Kaufman Eun-Hee Ji Minjee Lee Hee Young Park Stacy Lewis Lee-Anne Pace Bo-Mee Lee Pornanong Phatlum Wei-Ling Hsu Carlota Ciganda Brittany Lang Paula Creamer So Yeon Ryu Ai Miyazato Shiho Oyama Hyo Joo Kim Moriya Jutanugarn Candie Kung Gerina Piller Austin Ernst Suzann Pettersen

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Barnes goes six strong in Clemson’s 6-1 victory CLEMSON – Former Sumter High and Sumter P-15’s standout Charlie Barnes went six strong innings on Friday to help Clemson earn a 6-1 victory over James Madison at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

The Tigers, who took a 1-0 lead in the series, improved to 3-1 overall while the Dukes fell to 2-3.

The sophomore left-hander gave up just two hits, one run and three walks with seven strikeouts to improve to 1-0 on the year. Alex Eubanks pitched the final three innings to record his first save as a Tiger.

Duke starter Aaron Hoover (1-1) suffered the loss, as he yielded three runs on four hits in four innings pitched.

On offense, Clemson hit three home runs, including two by Chase Pinder. Chris Okey gave Clemson a 1-0 lead with a homer to center, his first long ball of the year, in the second inning. Pinder’s first homer of the game was a solo shot in the fifth inning, then he belted a 3-run shot down the left-field line on an 0-2 pitch in the sixth inning to give Clemson a 6-1 lead.

Pinder became the first Tiger with three homers in the team’s first four games of a season since Wilson Boyd in 2008.

The Tigers and Dukes play game two of the 3-game set today at 2 p.m.

South Carolina 7 Penn State 1

COLUMBIA — Fifteenthranked South Carolina belted out 14 hits with sophomore right-hander Clarke Schmidt

pitching seven scoreless frames of 1-hit ball as the Gamecocks defeated Penn State 7-1 at Founders Park on barnes Friday.

Schmidt’s (2-0) stint was the longest of his career and he tired a career-high with eight strikeouts to secure the victory. Junior right-hander and former USC Sumter ace Colie Bowers closed out the game with six strikeouts in two innings of relief.

Penn State’s starter Taylor Lehman (0-2) allowed four runs on eight hits in five innings of work.

John Jones put the Gamecocks on the board in the bottom of the first inning with a 2-out homer to left field to give Carolina a 1-0 lead.

The Gamecocks increased their advantage to 4-0 in the bottom of the second. With LT Tolbert on second following a leadoff walk and wild pitch, Chris Cullen brought Tolbert home with a double to left field. Marcus Mooney followed with a bunt for a base hit – his first of two in the game. On the play, Penn State second baseman Christian Helsel’s shovel throw went past the first baseman allowing Cullen to score. Jones drove in his second run of the game with a 2-out single to score Mooney.

Clark Scolamiero and TJ Hopkins both singled to start the bottom of the sixth and Dom Thompson-Williams, who had two hits on the day, drove Scolamiero in with a double down the right field

line. Jones then drove in two more runs with a bloop single to make it 7-0. He finished the day 4-for-4 with four RBI. The Nittany Lions scored their lone run with two outs in the top of the ninth on a solo home run by Jim Haley.

Citadel 14 Siena 2

CHARLESTON — The Citadel baseball team opened its weekend series with a dominant 14-2 win over Siena on Friday at Joe Riley Park.

Former Wilson Hall standout JP Sears picked up his second win of the season after allowing just two runs and scattering eight hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out four and walked none.

Jacob Watcher, the former Sumter High and Sumter P-15’s standout, closed out the final two innings for the Bulldogs (3-1). He struck out a season-high four batters and allowed no runs on one hit with one walk.

For the first time since May of last year, every Citadel starter recorded a hit en route to the victory. Former SHS Gamecock and Sumter P-15’s standout Phillip Watcher went 3-for-5 while former Barons standout William Kinney went 2-for-5 and drove in two runs for the Bulldogs.

Mike Deese and Stephen Windham also had multi-hit games, and Windham collected three RBI. He’s batting .429 this season.

The Citadel returns to the field today against Siena (0-6) for a 2 p.m. contest.

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Walker hits game-winner to lift Hornets past Pacers 96-95

INDIANAPOLIS — Kemba Walker scored 22 points and hit the game-winning shot with 2.4 seconds left to lead the Charlotte Hornets over the Indiana Pacers 96-95 on Friday night.

Monta Ellis gave Indiana the lead with a layup over Walker with 16.2 seconds to go. Walker then split two defenders to get to the rim on Charlotte’s ensuing possession and sank a left-handed scoop shot over Paul George.

The Pacers had a chance at the buzzer, but George’s shot from the top of the key missed. George finished with 32 points.

Marvin Williams had 26 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets, who won for the second time this month at Indiana after dropping 12 straight on the Pacers’ home court. Walker added 10 assists, and Indiana native Cody Zeller had 14 points and five rebounds.

Rookie center Myles Turner scored 15 for Indiana. Ellis finished with 14, and George Hill added 10 points and seven assists.

Wizards 103 76ers 94

PHILADELPHIA — John Wall had 23 points and 11 assists to lead the Washington Wizards to a 103-94 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.

Jared Dudley scored 14 points and Ramon Sessions added 12 for the Wizards. Wall finished two rebounds short of a triple-double.

Washington snapped a three-game road losing streak while winning for the eighth time in nine games against Philadelphia. The Wizards began play three games behind Charlotte for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Jahlil Okafor scored 21 points and Robert Covington had 12 points and 12 rebounds for the 76ers, who lost their seventh straight and 11th in 12 games. Philadelphia

Yang leads in Thailand by 1 after 2nd round CHONBURI, Thailand — Defending champion Amy Yang carded a 3-under 69 to lead by one halfway through the LPGA Thailand on Friday.

Yang trailed first-round leader Lexi Thompson by two before teeing off at Siam Country Club, then had consecutive bogeys on Nos. 5 and 6, but rallied with four birdies, including on the par-3 12th.

At 9 under overall, the South Korean was one shot ahead of countrywoman Q Baek (71) and Americans Jessica Korda (66) and Thompson (72).

“I struggled a little bit on the front, two bogeys straight, The Associated Press but I stayed patient, got Charlotte guard Courtney Lee (1) through it well,” Yang said. shoots after getting past Indiana “Leading by one shot is not center Jordan Hill during the much, and two more rounds Hornets’ 96-95 victory on Friday is still a lot of golf.” in Indianapolis.

Korda’s low round of the day, matched by Haru Nomudropped to 8-49, preserving ra of Japan, was capped by a their chances of breaking the 12-foot eagle putt on her last NBA record for losses in an hole.

82-game season 73, set by the 76ers in 1972-73.

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SHS will face a team very From Page B1 similar to itself in the Lady Yellow Jackets, Loudenslager would have known they had a said. Though Amari Young is bad first half. the only NA player averaging “They fed off each other.” double figures (15.6), the team Much as they have done all as a whole is producing nearly season. The Lady Gamecocks 30 rebounds and over 11 steals top three scorers are all sea game. niors and have been through “They’re very long and aththe ringer the last few years to letic,” Wilson said. “They’re get to this point. similar to us and they like to “We’ve been looking forward run. It should be a good game.” to this for a long time,” Jessica At least two of NA’s starters Harris said. “We’ve been tryare 6-foot tall or better, and a ing to get over the hump for a few more are 5-foot-10 or betwhile now. I think we’ve had a ter, Loudenslager said. lot of talent for a couple of “With the exception of an years, but we’ve been there undersized point guard, everyand lost a couple times, so I body else is long and athletic,” think we just came out and he said. “We’re comparing worked even harder this year.” them to the Cy Coopers and Harris is averaging 11 points Kyra Wilsons that we have. per game for the Lady GameThey have a Tiarra Abramscocks to go along with six astype player who plays locksists and four steals. Kyra Wil- down defense.

“They play our style, so son leads the team with 12 points a game and is also aver- we’re looking forward to the matchup.” aging four steals and six reBig keys for the Lady Gamebounds per contest. Cy Cooper cocks will be getting off to a has added nine points, seven good start, rebounding and inrebounds and three steals.

“It’s great to see all the hard bounds plays, the SHS head coach went on to say. work pay off,” Wilson said. “I “We’ve been very good on inthink we’re used to the style of bounds plays all playoffs and play now and everybody just we scored 12 points against feels comfortable out there and knows what the other per- Lexington that way,” Loudenslager said. “The other big son is going to do.”

Sumter has also gotten major key is just trying to get the girls to relax and enjoy the moment contributions up and down its and enjoy the environment. lineup. Kiara Jones is averagBut it will be different. It’s a ing eight points and eight redifferent background, different bounds while Tiarra Abram, Bre Tyler and D’Ericka Hamil- depths than their used to.

“I hope whoever takes our ton are all putting up five first shot makes it, because I points a game, with Anna Mcthink that would mean it’s Bride and Taylor Miles chimgoing to be a really good game ing in with three each. for us.”

It all adds up to a versatile, But despite likely having well-rounded attack that benebutterflies when they begin, fits from Sumter’s relentless Harris and company aren’t press defense.

“Our defense turns into our afraid of falling behind on the big stage like perhaps they offense, and we thrive off of that,” Harris said. “We work a were last year, she said.

“We fought back the last two lot more together as a team games,” Harris said. “We can this year and when we’re able fight back again.” to run, that’s when we’re at

schsl state playoffs GIRLS 4A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (1) Rock Hill vs. (1) Spring Valley, 5 p.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (1) Sumter vs. (1) North Augusta, 5 p.m.

BOYS 4A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (1) Byrnes vs. (2) Spring Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (1) Irmo vs. (2) West Ashley, 6:30 p.m.

3A Semifinals Friday Upper State (1) Dreher 51, (1) Wren 49 Lower State (1) Myrtle Beach 47, (2) Wilson 38

3A Semifinals Friday Upper State (1) A.C. Flora 56, (1) Seneca 52 Lower State (1) Midland Valley 49, (1) Marlboro County 47

2A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (2) Newberry vs. (1) Keenan, 2 p.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (1) Bishop England vs. (1) Mullins, 2 p.m.

2A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (1) Abbeville vs. (1) Keenan, 3:30 p.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (1) Timberland vs. (1) Dillon, 3:30 p.m.

1A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (1) Christ Church vs. (1) C.A. Johnson, 11 a.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (1) Timmonsville vs. (1) Burke, 11 a.m.

1A Semifinals Today Upper State at Bon Secours Wellness Arena (in Greenville) (1) Calhoun County vs. (1) C.A. Johnson, 12:30 p.m.

Lower State At Florence Civic Center (2) Carvers Bay vs. (1) Hemingway, 12:30 p.m.

scisa state tournaments 3A BOYS Semifinals Friday (U3) Northwood 61, (U1) Hammond 57 (L1) Porter-Gaud 58, (L2) Heathwood Hall 35 GIRLS Semifinals Friday (U3) Porter-Gaud 48, (U1) Hammond 40 (L1) Northwood 68, (L2) Pinewood Prep 21 Championships Today at Sumter County Civic Center 3A Girls

(U3) Porter-Gaud vs. (L1) Northwood, 6:30 p.m.

Boys (U3) Northwood vs. (L1) PorterGaud, 8 p.m.

2A Girls (1) Spartanburg Christian vs. (1) Pee Dee, 2:30 p.m.

Boys (1) Spartanburg Day vs. (1) Bethesda Academy, 4 p.m.

1A Girls (1) Richard Winn vs. (1) Dorchester, 11 a.m.

Boys (1) Anderson Christian vs. (2) Charleston Collegiate, 12:30 p.m.

Rickie Fowler takes the lead at Honda Classic PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Rickie Fowler kept bogeys off his card for the second straight round Friday for a 4-under 66 and the early lead in the Honda Classic.

In some respects, it was identical to Fowler’s opening round no bogeys, a 66 and another tough par save on No. 10.

Fowler was at 8-under 132, one shot ahead of Jimmy Walker, who finished with a long eagle putt on the par-5 18th for a 66. Sergio Garcia was another shot behind after a 69.

Rory McIlroy headed home and might not return this week. McIlroy took a triple bogey trying to play out of a water hazard on the par-3 fifth hole. He shot 72 and was at 4-over 144.

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Martin finally seeing the fruits of his labor

By Willie T. Smith III Greenville News

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COLUMBIA – Frank Martin com, ESPN and probably did not understand USA TODAY the depth of the rebuilding job Sports project the on his hands as the University Gamecocks to martin of South Carolina’s men’s basearn a seeding ketball coach. anywhere from During his first game in six to eight in the 16-team re2012, there was a crowd of gionals. about 4,000 in Colonial Life That is more what Martin Arena, a building with a cahad in mind when he took pacity of 18,000. over the team.

Through hard work and ded“Basketball at USC has not ication, the Gamecocks have been relevant for a long time,” come a long way. said Martin. “But I’m conUSC will play this afternoon vinced having a successful at Mississippi State sporting a program is important to the 23-5 record, including 10-5 and fans here.” tied for second place in the If Martin needed encourageSoutheastern Conference. ment during the tough times – Although currently unafter making four NCAA Tourranked after spending a chunk nament appearances in five of the season in one or both seasons at Kansas State, his major Top 25 polls, the Gamefirst two USC teams went a cocks appear solidly in the mix combined 28-38 and won only to be invited to next month’s nine of 36 SEC games – he did 68-team NCAA Tournament not have to look far. In the offor the first time since 2004. fice next door was USC womTheir ranking is 32 in the en’s basketball coach Dawn RPI, a key tool used by the Staley.

NCAA selection committee to The key to success for any

program is recruiting, and Staley made that her focus, finding players who fit her style of play. It was considered a major coup when she signed Kelsey Bone, a Texan rated as the nation’s top prospect.

But, after spending only one season with the Gamecocks, Bone shocked everyone by transferring to Texas A&M. Staley conceded Bone’s quick exit “was a like a black cloud over us.”

“We kind of had to get past that,” Staley said. “I don’t think it was anything but Kelsey being homesick and Kelsey wanting to be a little bit closer to her family, to her friends and Kelsey wanted to play in an NCAA Tournament.

That had a lot to do with it.”

When Martin arrived, he had to deal with the defection of USC’s top two players as Anthony Gill transferred to Virginia and the team’s top inside force, Damontre Harris, transferred to Florida.

“You have to understand,” said Kentucky coach John Calipari. “It can’t be done in a

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year. To transform the South Carolina basketball program, it takes four to five years.

Frank has done a great job putting it on solid ground.”

While lightly regarded at the time, Martin’s first recruiting class set the tone for what is happening this season.

He brought in Lithuanian duo Laimonas Chatkevicius and Mindaugas Kacinas and added 6-foot-5 Michael Carrera, a native of Venezuela who was playing at a private school in Maryland.

The Gamecocks picked up their first “name” recruit a year later when Lancaster native Sindarius Thornwell, rated the country’s No. 39 prospect by ESPN, signed.

Thornwell was paired with guard Duane Notice, who was rated the fourth-best prospect in Canada.

Martin did not have to look far from home for his next big signing. Guard P.J. Dozier, a McDonald’s All-American at Spring Valley High and the nation’s No. 19 prospect, jumped on board. Chris Silva, an ath-

letic forward rated the No. 80 senior in the country, joined Dozier.

The state of their individual programs when arriving in Columbia allowed Staley and Martin to connect immediately. During the lean years, Martin often received texts from Staley lending encouragement for him to stay the course.

Behind a series of strong recruiting classes, Staley has transformed her program into one of the nation’s elite. After advancing last season to the Final Four for the first time in the school’s NCAA history, the Gamecocks’ chances of returning appear good. Ranked No. 2 in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll and No. 3 in The Associated Press poll, the Gamecocks own a 27-1 record.

Already the SEC regularseason champion for the third straight year, the team hopes to finish undefeated in league play for the first time. The Gamecocks take a 15-0 conference record into Sunday’s regular-season finale against LSU.

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Tar Heels, Cavaliers meet in marquee ACC matchup

By HANK KURZ JR. The Associated Press

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South Carolina guard Bianca Cuevas (1) dribbles past Mississippi guard A’Queen Hayes (3) during the Gamecocks’ 66-45 victory on Thursday in Oxford, Miss.

Wilson has 16 in win over Ole Miss

By DAVID BRANDT The Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. — South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson made every shot she tried on Thursday night. Her teammate Alaina Coates finished with her 15th double-double of the season.

Just another night for the Gamecocks’ talented post tandem.

Now the program is just one win away from finishing the SEC regular-season schedule undefeated.

Wilson scored 16 points on 8-of-8 shooting, Coates added 11 points and 14 rebounds and No. 3 South Carolina cruised past Mississippi for the 66-45 win.

“It was just kind of one of those nights,” Wilson said. “We stayed within our system and our system is getting it inside. We just take what the defense gives us and play off each other.”

South Carolina (27-1, 15-0 Southeastern Conference) has won five straight games since its only loss of the season to topranked UConn.

The Gamecocks jumped out to a 34-19 by halftime, holding Ole Miss to just five points in the second quarter.

It was another rough night for Ole Miss in a season full of them. The Rebels — who have lost nine straight and 13 of 14 — shot just 14 of 63 (22.2 percent) from the field.

“That’s the story of our season right there,” Ole Miss coach Matt Insell said.

“Look at the box score, look at the shooting percentages. We get great shots and we don’t make them.”

Ole Miss (10-18, 2-13) made a brief run in the third quarter to pull within 36-29, but South Carolina’s Bianca Cuevas stopped the charge with a pair of free throws and the Gamecocks were on their way to the win.

South Carolina shot the ball well, making 23 of 41 (56.1 percent) from the field, but struggled with 29 turnovers.

SOUTH CAROLINA (27-1) Wilson 8-8 0-0 16, Dozier 2-5 3-4 8, Coates 5-7 1-4 11, Cuevas 2-5 5-6 9, Sessions 0-3 0-0 0, Cliney 2-4 3-4 7, Roy 0-0 0-0 0, Imovbioh 1-1 1-2 3, Mitchell 3-7 5-6 12, Farmer 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-41 18-26 66.

MISSISSIPPI (10-18) Joseph 1-10 0-0 2, Hart 0-4 2-2 2, Hayes 2-10 1-3 5, Sisk 0-5 1-2 1, Muhammad 7-17 2-2 20, Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Sessom 4-13 2-2 13, Alston 0-2 2-6 2, Lewis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 14-63 10-17 45.

South Carolina 18 16 16 16—66 Mississippi 14 5 18 8—45 3-Point Goals—South Carolina 2-11 (Mitchell 1-3, Dozier 1-4, Cuevas 0-1, Sessions 0-1, Cliney 0-2), Mississippi 7-17 (Muhammad 4-7, Sessom 3-5, Alston 0-1, Joseph 0-4). Fouled Out—Sisk. Rebounds—South Carolina 40 (Coates 14), Mississippi 32 (Hart 8). Assists—South Carolina 17 (Dozier 5), Mississippi 9 (Hayes 4). Total Fouls—South Carolina 17, Mississippi 22. A—1,473.

“Our offense has been something that’s a work in progress,” said South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. “We took a few steps back tonight, but our defense sustained us all game long.”

The Rebels were led by Madinah Muhammad’s 20 points. Shandricka Sessom added 13.

South Carolina continued its undefeated charge through league play thanks to the dominant night from Wilson and Coates.

The Gamecocks had a 40-8 scoring advantage in the paint with both players routinely getting open looks.

“They are a dynamic duo for us,” Staley said. “They bail us out a lot. We probably don’t get them the ball enough considering how efficient they are. They’ve done that all season long.”

Tiffany Mitchell added 12 points, four rebounds and three steals for the Gamecocks.

South Carolina’s size advantage was also evident on defense. Ole Miss was usually able to penetrate into the lane, but rarely had open looks around the basket. Wilson had five blocked shots and Coates had two.

South Carolina only needs to beat LSU at home on Sunday to complete its perfect run through the SEC regular season.

Tony Bennett got to see what a packed and raucous John Paul Jones Arena looked like not long after he took the coaching job at Virginia seven years ago, though the crowd had nothing to do with Cavaliers basketball.

At the time, the Charlottesville, Virginia-based Dave Matthews Band was a much hotter ticket.

The arena will be packed again on Saturday, without the band.

Bennett’s third-ranked Cavaliers (21-6, 10-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) will host No. 7 North Carolina (23-5, 12-3) hoping to stay in the running for their third straight ACC regular season championship. It’s the only scheduled meeting between the longtime rivals this season.

“I just got the job and was in my office while that concert was going on and got a glimpse of, a vision of what it was like when it was packed,” Bennett said of his home arena. “That’s what you hope for. ... It’s really become that good in terms of the energy and the crowd and the guys wanting to play as well and as hard as they can.”

The Cavaliers have won 18 in a row in the 14,593-seat facility, and 33 of their last 34 conference games at home.

Virginia already has lost more league games than it has the last two seasons combined — the Cavaliers were 32-4 in ACC play the last two years — but Tar Heels coach Roy Williams still has a lot of respect for this year’s team.

“I picked them as the No. 1 team in our league, and I think they’re really, really good,” Williams said.

“There’s no one time this year that I thought they’re slipping or anything like that. ... They’ve played the style that Tony likes for 3-4 years so they’re really comfortable with it on both ends of the floor.”

Defense has been Virginia’s calling card since Bennett arrived, and Virginia has been among the national leaders the past few years, but got off to a slower start this season as it worked to replace some departed pieces.

Of late, they have looked more like what Bennett, and his players, have come to expect. The Cavaliers rank third nationally in scoring defense, allowing 59.7 points

Top 25 Schedule Saturday No. 1 Villanova at Marquette, 2 p.m.

No. 2 Kansas vs. Texas Tech, Noon No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 25 Texas, 2 p.m.

No. 3 Virginia vs. No. 7 North Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

No. 9 Arizona at Utah, 2 p.m.

No. 10 Maryland at No. 20 Purdue, 4 p.m.

No. 11 Louisville at No. 12 Miami, 2 p.m.

No. 14 West Virginia at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

No. 16 Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 4 p.m.

No. 17 Iowa State vs. Kansas State, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Baylor at TCU, 8 p.m.

No. 21 Texas A&M at Missouri, 4 p.m.

No. 23 Notre Dame at Florida State, 4 p.m.

Sunday’s Games No. 5 Xavier at Seton Hall, 12:30 p.m.

No. 6 Michigan State vs. Penn State, Noon No. 8 Iowa at Ohio State, 4 p.m.

No. 13 Oregon vs. Washington, 8:30 p.m.

No. 15 Duke at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

No. 24 SMU vs. Tulane, 3 p.m.

per game, and have really found their stride in the last month. They held four straight teams to 50 or fewer points, and no one has scored more than 64 against them in February.

“It’s just the program,” guard London Perrantes said. “When we play good defense, everybody gets really hype, the crowd gets into it, especially at home games, and it’s just fun to be able to do that because that’s our goal.”

It is that defense, as much as high-flying dunks and acrobatic plays, that will likely create what Bennett called a “supercharged atmosphere,” one that guard Marcus Paige and the Tar Heels will try to minimize early.

“I always think it’s more about who you have than where you’re playing, but obviously playing at home gives them a big edge,” Paige said.

“They are definitely thinking they need this game for the ACC hunt, and a No. 1 seed in the tournament and everything, and we feel the same way. Something’s got to give.”

Of less importance to the teams, but no less interest, is how the matchup could impact the race for ACC player of the year.

Guard Malcolm Brogdon of the Cavaliers and forward Brice Johnson of the Tar Heels are leading candidates.

Brogdon is averaging 18.2 points and is very good defender; Johnson is averaging 17 points and 10.6 rebounds, including one impressive 39point, 23-rebound effort.

Brogdon is looking forward to the challenge.

“This is what we compete for every day,” he said. “This is why we practice.”

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Kurt Busch wins pole after brother’s car fails inspection

By CHARLES ODUM The Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Kyle Busch’s car failed a post-qualifying inspection on Friday, leaving him at the back of the pack instead of on the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

The ruling leaves brother Kurt Busch as the pole winner at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Kurt Busch ran strong through all three elimination rounds of qualifying and had the top speed at 191.582 mph before he was topped by Kyle’s fast lap of 191.668 mph in his No. 18 Toyota.

Kyle Busch is the defending Sprint Cup series champion.

NASCAR did not immediately announce why Kyle Busch’s car failed the inspection.

It was not immediately known if Kyle Busch and his crew chief, Adam Stevens, face possible penalties.

Jamie McMurray, who had the top speed in the second round, will start beside Kurt Busch on the front row, followed by Trevor Bayne and Ryan Newman.

Denny Hamlin, fresh off last week’s Daytona 500 win, was eliminated in the second round.

Before the post-qualifying inspection results were announced, Kurt Busch said Kyle “got us just by a little bit.”

“I know I was just a little bit tight out there on the race track,” said Kurt Busch, who said the brothers have a friendly rivalry.

“I’ll wave at him and he’ll wave at me and then we’ll go back to business,” said Kurt Busch. “It’s fun.”

Trevor Bayne and Ryan Newman will start third and fourth, respectively.

Denny Hamlin, fresh off last week’s Daytona 500 win, was eliminated in the second

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quickTrip 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga. Lap length: 1.54 miles, (Car number in parentheses) 1. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 191.582 mph.

2. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 190.13.

3. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 189.987.

4. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 189.961.

5. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 189.863.

6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 189.779.

7. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 189.766.

8. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 189.681.

9. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 189.364.

10. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 188.591.

11. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 187.196.

12. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 190.385.

13. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 190.26.

14. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 190.182.

15. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 190.15.

16. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 189.818.

17. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 189.144.

18. (14) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 189.138.

19. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 188.79.

20. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 188.719.

21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 188.713.

22. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 188.636.

23. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 187.449.

24. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 189.39.

25. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 189.079.

26. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 189.041.

27. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 188.565.

28. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 188.028.

29. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 187.837.

30. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 187.392.

31. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 187.12.

32. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 185.903.

33. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 185.778.

34. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 185.617.

35. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 185.499.

36. (98) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 184.039.

37. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 183.82.

38. (32) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 180.769.

39. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.

round.

Rookie Chase Elliott, who won the pole in Daytona, was

bumped from the top 24 in the final minute of the first round by rookie, Ryan Blaney.

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Dwindling Cup car counts a cause for concern?

By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

ran one of those mom-and-pop and-park teams that showed operations, shutting it down up merely to collect a lastduring the 2015 season for fiplace paycheck.

HAMPTON, Ga. — All eyes nancial reasons.

Six-time Cup champion Jimwill be on the guys up front “I hate the fact that we don’t mie Johnson was taken aback during Sunday’s NASCAR have 50 or 60 cars attempting when told there were only 39 race at Atlanta Motor Speedto qualify,” said Parsons, the Cup teams in Atlanta. But, he way. brother of late Cup champion quickly added, “The whole It might be worth taking a Benny Parsons. “That’s just point of the charter system look at who’s running toward where we are right now. We was to create quality over the back. have a new normal.” quantity.”

Or, more accurately, who NASCAR was keenly aware Forget about seeing another isn’t there. of dwindling car counts when driver such as Marcis, who faOnly 39 cars showed up for it agreed to a “charter system” mously competed in wing-tip the second race of the Sprint — essentially, recasting racing shoes and managed to operate Cup season, the lowest numteams as sports franchises his own team over much of his ber of entries in more than with an eye toward enhancing 35-year-career, sometimes hoptwo decades. It marks just the their value, creating more fiping out of the car to work on third time since NASCAR nancial stability and hopefully it himself during races. From standardized the fields in 1998 luring some fresh financial NASCAR’s perspective, the litthat there aren’t enough cars blood into the sport. tle guy is a necessary casualty to fill every available slot.

That last point is especially to ensure the money keeps While the reduced numbers important when you look at flowing. won’t affect front-runners the roster of powerful owners: Clearly, though, it’s a work such as Daytona 500 winner Rick Hendrick is 66, while in progress. Even after scalDenny Hamlin — after all, Richard Childress, Jack ing back the 43-car field, we’re talking about low-budget Roush, Joe Gibbs, Richard which had been in place for 18 drivers who probably would’ve Petty and Roger Penske are all years, NASCAR didn’t even been lapped early in the race in their 70s. hit the new target just two — it does drive home the end If you’re one of the 36 charweeks into the season. This is of an era. ter teams, the future looks the smallest number of teams Farewell to those pennybright. You’re guaranteed a at a Cup race since 35 atpinching teams that merely spot in every race and some tempted to qualify for the 1993 want to go fast enough in qual- bang for your buck.

Goody’s 500 at Martinsville ifying to hang around through If lacking a charter, it simSpeedway, and more contracthe weekend. ply doesn’t pay to compete on tion is likely.

Another part of the sport’s a regular basis unless you “I’m not sure how it’s all colorful history has been cast have a major sponsor, like the going to shake out,” Parsons aside.

Wood Brothers. The race purs- said, “but I don’t necessarily “We’ve lost a lot,” said fores are still a bit of a mystery see three non-charter teams mer driver Dave Marcis, who under the new arrangement, continuing to run.” spent much of his long career but it seems the charter teams The way things are going in simply trying to qualify for are claiming a hefty piece of NASCAR, showing up is all it races in under-financed cars. that pie, too, with an eye totakes to get in the race.

He remembers a time when “if ward nudging out the startAnd that ain’t racin’. you were the little guy and didn’t have any money and were not capable of winning the race, the fans still respected you when you made that and reach more than 2.1 million readers race.” using our small space display ad network This season, NASCAR will be hard-pressed to get the new Statewide or regional buys available maximum — 40 cars — on the track each week. By the end of Alanna Ritchie 888.727.7377 the year, it wouldn’t be surscnewspapernetwork.com prising to see as few as 37.

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area Scoreboard BASKETBALL March Madness Tourney The 1st Annual Sumter March Madness Tournament will be held March 11-13 at both the Alice Drive Middle School and Sumter High School gymnasiums. The tournament will be at ADMS on March 11 beginning at 6 p.m. It will be played at SHS on March 12-13 beginning at 9 a.m. each day.

There will be age brackets for boys 10-12, 13-15 and 16-18.

The entry fee for the doubleelimination tournament is $50 per team.The registration deadline is March 4. For more information, call Iris R. Dargan at (912) 321-0837.

Perseverance Tryouts

Kyle Busch leaves the garage after his car failed post-qualifying inspection on Friday for Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

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The Sumter Perseverance youth basketball program is holding tryouts for the upcoming AAU season.

Tryouts will run through April 1. For more information, contact Coach Junko Allen at (803) 795-5513, at coachj_perseverance@yahoo. com or at www.facebook. com/perseverancebasketball.

Carolina Crush Tryouts The Carolina Crush AAU basketball organization of Columbia will host tryouts on March 6 beginning at 4:30 p.m. Crooked Creek Park in Chapin. The park is located at 1098 Old Lexington Highway.

There will be tryouts for both boys and girls 10u-17uv teams at a fee of $10. Players must have a parent or legal guardian at the tryout.

For more information, visit carolinacrushbasketball.weebly.com, call (803) 792-7222 or email crushbasketall2013@ gmail.com.

GOLF St. Francis Golf Classic The 21st Annual St. Francis Xavier High School Golf Classic will be held on May 6 at Sunset Country Club. The format will be 4-man Captain’s Choice with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. The cost is $70 per person. For more details, contact Steve Capinas at scapinas@ hotmail.com.

TRIATHLON YMCA Indoor Triathlon The Sumter Family YMCA will have an indoor triathlon

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Harvick said the move does not make him a free agent.

He was evasive when asked about his contract status after 2016.

“My contract, I haven’t even looked at,” he said. “I haven’t even asked. I just assumed that it was all sealed up and done.”

SHR will get its engines from Roush Yates, instead of Hendrick Motorsports.

Wednesday’s surprise announcement was still big news on Friday during practice and qualifying. Greg Biffle said it was “a very smart move on Ford’s part.”

“Quite honestly, I’m very surprised it took to 2016 for them to make a move to add some competitive teams to the lineup because they want to be known for winning on Sundays,” said Biffle, driver of the No. 16 Roush Performance Ford.

“You’ve got to have enough organizations where your odds get higher. If you own three-quarters of the field, your odds are better each week.”

Stewart has driven for General Motors in all but one of his 18 NASCAR seasons. He is retiring after this season.

Stewart said Wednesday he

on March 5 at the YMCA at 510 Miller Road.

There will be an endurance event and a sprint event. The endurance event will include swimming 500 yards, biking 12 miles and a 5K run. The sprint is 300 yards swimming, biking nine miles and a 5K run.

The triathlon is for both individuals and teams. For the endurance event, the cost is $45 for an individual and $60 for a team. The cost for the sprint event is $30 for an individual and $45 for a team.

There are 10 individual age groups, starting at 12-15 and running through 55+. The team combined age groups are 50 and under, 70-under, 120-under and 121-up.

Registration will run through March 1. Registration will be taken at the YMCA or online at ymcasumter.org.

BOWLING Gamecock Lane Scores

Jan. 31-Feb. 6 Hot Shots: Eulinda Pinckney 209.

Tuesday Night Mixed: Byron Phillips 300–772; John Garrett 279–735; Harold Allan 269–682; Daniel Girdvainis 257–647; Billy Prioleau 238-590; Lenny Girdvainis 225–595; Greg Jones 258–698; Joshua Sweeney 224– 561; Nick Pipkin 215–617; Richard Whisnant 210–532; Barry Brown 176; Becky Dabbs 225–585; Donna Girdvainis 160–384; Tim Hudnall 744; Winston Jewell 698; Willie Graham 584; David Durant 667; Mike Reynolds 543; Carll Field 603; Steve Shirley 642; Tucker Tumblin 538; Tyrone Bailey 683; Marie Anderson 491; Felicia Blake 561; Amy Vohs 523; Tonya Foster 566.

Close Encounters: Stan Griggs 201– 495; Micheal Spiegel 391.

Afternoon Delight: Calvin McMillan 223–595; Norvell Jackson Sr. 214-582; Danny Wetherington 218; Eva Jackson 223–640; Liz Anderson 447; Pam Scott 463.

Industrial Mixed: Elias Wells 627; Earl Fronabarger 300–673; Greg Cunningham 279–699; Jerry Beasley 232– 565; Gabe Reynolds 269-732; Ron Rath 235–654; Rowland Yates 676; Raynard Jackson 566; James Price 558; Lee Taylor 527; Gwen Cofield 514.

Friday Night Mixed: Mike Hodge 279–690; Tim Jenkins 246–633; Chuck Kropog 300–801; Gregg Anderson 299-845; Tony Friday 254; Leon Williams 267-721; Dandrel Dukes 267– 708; Moses Jackson 269–771; Sean Chapman 259–676; Ricky Dinkins 247–664; Rowland Yates 255; Carl Lyon 220; Romero D Davis 553; Bobby Holladay 680; Jeffery Scott 580; Kevin Austin 492; Reggie Ratcliff 553; Terence Williams 696; Bing Davis 630; Gene Jenkins 593; Kenny Smith 658; Debra Wilson 213552; Tessie Crim 515; Lonnie Albright 572; Pam Clark 485; Gwen Cofield 518.

Jr./Mr./Sr.: Mark Lupori 236–639; Keonta Bethea 212–518; Ryan Wolfe 212–547; Dalton Kirby – 158; Ghassen Green 203; Connor Batey 192; Austin Kirby 128; Emily Batey 205–576.

Bowling Bantams/Preps: Warner Newman 154–389; Payton Frye 151– 403; Luther Bells 102; Sydnie Vohs 191; Sunday Night Mixed: Todd Haviland 596; Larry Horne 237–557; Tom Teigue 190–471; Maritza Hogan 313; Debbie Becchetti 516.

hopes to continue in his “great relationship” with Hendrick Motorsports in 2016 even as SHR prepares “to try to be as self-sufficient as we can going into 2017.”

“We see this as a lot of growth for Stewart-Haas Racing,” Stewart said. “... It’s a great opportunity for us to kind of get out of the shadows and, to some degree, get off the coattails, to a certain degree, and really get out on our own.”

Even though he has been loyal to Chevrolet throughout his career, Harvick was firm in his commitment to SHR. “I’ve got a great team,” he said. “I’ve got great people.

I’ve got a great organization that’s wanted to win races and to not be committed to them would be foolish on my part to be in the best position I’ve ever been in as a driver.”

Stewart said announcing the plans for Ford so early in the 2016 season could be seen as awkward when he and Harvick are still driving Chevrolets.

“Yeah, we definitely understand that, but at the same time we’re committed to Chevrolet this year and we’re committed to winning races and trying to contend for a championship again this year,” Stewart said. “They realize that. We’re still all-in this year with Chevrolet.”

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BIZARRO

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Mother abandons daughter by sending her away DEAR ABBY — I grew up in a poor family on a farm in the South.

I worked very hard during my childhood.

Dear Abby Throughout ABIGAIL my childhood, I was VAN BUREN told I was a “bad girl” who always did the wrong things or who would never stop talking. When I was 16, I moved more than 1,000 miles away. My mother happily drove me to the airport to go and live with my 21-year-old boyfriend.

I am 29 now, and still live more than 1,000 miles away.

To this day when I try to dis-

cuss (with my mother) why she sent me away so young, she tells me I was “too difficult of a child” and that was what I wanted, so she signed me over at the end of 10th grade before summer break.

I will never forget how happy she was to drop me off at the airport. I wasn’t the greatest child, I know. I know I was bad. Can 16-year-olds choose where and with whom they live? Or should the parents make those decisions? Please help me.

Lost and lonely DEAR LOST AND LONELY — It’s a shame that when babies emerge they don’t bring with them a set of detailed instructions. You appear to be the daughter of a woman who didn’t know how to be a

good mother. Children who receive positive reinforcement for good behavior are usually better behaved than those who have it drilled into them from a young age that they are “bad.” When that happens, a child begins to believe what the parent is saying and act on it.

While some 16-year-olds are mature enough to decide where and with whom they want to live, it is usually with a relative or qualified guardian and not a boyfriend. However, from reading your letter, I can’t escape the feeling that what’s really bothering you is the idea that, by giving in to your wishes, your mother rejected you. To work that through, you may need the help of a licensed therapist.

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HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.

THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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ACROSS 1 Spot for a ride?

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05 Chrysler Town and Country LX. Loaded. Runs great. Stk# 518885. $2,500 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter.com.

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LEGAL NOTICES Beer & Wine License Notice is hereby given that Family Dollar Stores of South Carolina, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and off premises consumption of beer and wine at Store# 6753, 3914 Camden Highway, Dalzell, SC 29040-9157. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 29, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ABL Section, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214-0907; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Mangla, LLC DBA Fuel Express intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of Beer & Wine at 503 Broad Street, Sumter, SC 29150. To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 29, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214-0907; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Notice is hereby given that Family Dollar Stores of South Carolina, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and off premises consumption of beer and wine at Store# 4804, 1200 Pocallo Rd., Sumter, SC 29150-7528, Store# 5299, 338 Manning Ave, Sumter, SC 29150-6455, Store # 11362, 1760 Pinewood Rd, Sumter, SC 29154-9063. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 29, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ABL Section, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214-0907; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Notice is hereby given that Family Dollar Stores of South Carolina, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and off premises consumption of beer and wine at Store# 5900, 5 S Church St., Summerton, SC 29148-9170. To object to the issuance of this permit/license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 27, 2016. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ABL Section, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214-0907; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

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Bid Notices

Summons & Notice

Summons & Notice

Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sumter School District Office, Conference Room, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC, 803-469-6900.

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury)

Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

Bid Notices Sumter School District Invitation For Bids IFB # 16-0028 Sumter School District invites qualified contractors to offer Sealed Bids for Kitchen/ Cafeteria Renovations at Alice Drive Elementary School, 251 Alice Drive, Sumter, South Carolina, 29150.

Complete renovations to the kitchen and a small addition to the rear of the kitchen for the installation of a new walk-in cooler/freezer.

Renovations to the cafeteria to accommodate a new serving area and soiled dish room. Interior modifications to the Teachers' Dining Room and a fire sprinkler system are included. Exterior work includes an aluminum canopy to provide a covered bus pick-up/drop-off area. Note: Portion of the work is to be completed during the school's summer vacation.

Contractors may obtain bid documents by contacting the Architect: Jackson & Sims Architects, 7-1/2 South Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, 803-773-4329.

Electronic documents are available by request to jsarch@ftc-i.net.

Deposit for bid documents will be $50.00 (non-refundable).

The Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the site.

The Owner will receive bids on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sumter School District Office, Conference Room, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC, 803-469-6900.

Sumter County School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive minor formalities in the bidding, and to award the contract to other than the lowest bidder if deemed to be in the best interest of the District.

Sumter County School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive minor formalities in the bidding, and to award the contract to other than the lowest bidder if deemed to be in the best interest of the District.

Sumter School District Invitation For Bids IFB # 16-0029 Sumter School District invites qualified contractors to offer Sealed Bids for Kitchen/Cafeteria Renovations at Crosswell Drive Elementary School, 310 Crosswell Drive, Sumter, South Carolina, 29150.

Complete renovation of the kitchen to include a new serving area and soiled dish room. Small addition to the rear of the kitchen that includes new open porch and service ramp.

New finishes in the cafeteria and the addition of a space currently used as a corridor. Renovations to the Music Room, a new connecting corridor, and a fire sprinkler system are also included. Note: Portion of the work is to be completed during the school's summer vacation.

Contractors may obtain bid documents by contacting the Architect: Jackson & Sims Architects, 7-1/2 South Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, 803-773-4329.

Electronic documents are available by request at jsarch@ftc-i.net.

Deposit for bid documents will be $50.00 (non-refundable).

The Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the site.

The Owner will receive bids on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sumter School District Office, Conference Room, 1345 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter, SC, 803-469-6900.

Sumter School District Invitation For Bids IFB # 16-0027 Sumter School District invites qualified contractors to offer Sealed Bids for Kitchen/ Cafeteria Renovations at Kingsbury Elementary School, 825 Kingsbury Road, Sumter, South Carolina, 29154.

This project involves the removal of two non-bearing masonry walls and the installation of new food serving lines and a new soiled dish area with a new dish washing machine.

Building finishes will be repaired/replaced as necessary.

Contractors may obtain bid documents by contacting the Architect: Jackson & Sims Architects, 7-1/2 South Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, 803-773-4329.

Electronic documents are available by request to jsarch@ftc-i.net.

Deposit for bid documents will be $50.00 (non-refundable).

Sumter County School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive minor formalities in the bidding, and to award the contract to other than the lowest bidder if deemed to be in the best interest of the District.

BID NOTICE Bethel Baptist Church Is currently accepting bids for Lawn Maintenance. You may stop by the church office at 2401 Bethel Church Road, Sumter, and pick up in application. Deadline for bids is March 2, 2016.

The Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the site.

The Owner will receive bids on

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FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2015-CP-43-00901 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Freedom Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

William C. Crews IV, Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special

Summons & Notice

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on April 10, 2015.

Kristen E. Washburn, SC Bar No. 101415 Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 888-726-9953 Fax 866-676-7658 Attorneys for Plaintiff

CONTRACTOR WANTED! PINEWOOD PANOLA & RIMINI If you have good, dependable transportation, a phone in your home, and a desire to earn extra income Call Lori Rabon at 774-1216 or Apply in Person at

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