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GOP split as Trump, Clinton seek wins BY JULIE PACE and JILL COLVIN The Associated Press VALDOSTA, Ga. — On the eve of Super Tuesday’s crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line

behind Donald Trump if he wins their party’s nomination and others who insist they can never back the bombastic billionaire. The fissure could have major implications beyond the primaries, exposing the

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looming challenges in uniting the party after the election, no matter who wins. Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, a rising star among conservatives, became the first current senator to publicly raise the prospect of backing a third party

option if Trump clinches the nomination. In a letter posted on Facebook late Sunday, Sasse urged Republicans to consider whether a party led by Trump would still represent their interests. “If our party is no longer

working for the things we believe in — such as defending the sanctity of life, stopping Obamacare, protecting the Second Amendment, etc. — then people of good conscience

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11 animals dead after early Monday attack BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com “It makes me sick,” Harold Johnson said Monday after 11 more of his goats were killed by dogs in his field behind his Tree House Nursery in Dalzell. It is the third such attack in the last few weeks. Johnson said several young goats, or “kids,” were among the victims mauled to death in the latest incident. “We were out there playing with them yesterday,” he said. “My wife was feeding them out of a bucket yesterday afternoon.” Johnson, who raises the goats to be milk animals or pets, said they were trying to keep the animals tame after surviving other attacks. “It breaks your heart,” the retired Sumter police chief said. Though Johnson’s field is protected by a 5- or 6-foot fence, the large dogs seem to have no problems leaping it, he said. The dogs attacked early Monday morning, and Johnson was able to obtain pictures of the dogs using a deer camera, but he has still not been able to identify where the dogs live. Johnson said he has been checking his field every night but didn’t Sunday. “The one night I didn’t go out, they came in,” he said. He said the attack happened between 3 and 5 a.m. He has seen one of the three dogs that attacked Monday before, he said, a pit bull with short ears, but didn’t recognize the other two. “I have ridden every back road and every field now for three weeks, and I’ve never seen these dogs,” he said. “Somebody knows these dogs. They are big, healthy, well-fed dogs.”

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DeShawn McKnight, 12, runs with a parachute to train for next football season. McKnight plays fullback and linebacker for the Alice Drive Middle School Hawks and was training with his father and little brother Saturday at Dillon Park.

Warm weather might give false impression of community needs BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Don’t let the warm temperatures fool you, said Salvation Army social worker Christy Lamb. The need to help people from having their electricity turned off remains high, she said. One client went by The Salvation Army office last week with an electric

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bill of more than $600. That client said she heats her home with space heaters that continue to run up her bill, but

she received a notice that her electricity was going to be disconnected if she didn’t pay her bill. “She has no other form of heat,” Lamb said. Warm temperatures may give locals the impression that heating bills have subsided. But electric companies have been notifying residences that their electricity will be cut off if they don’t

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The Sumter Community Concert Band will present its late winter concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at Patriot Hall.

Sumter native, trombone virtuoso, to play with community concert band BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com When the Sumter Community Concert Band presents its late winter concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, the musicians will welcome a special guest performer: U.S. Air Force Techical Sgt. Will Timmons, a Sumter native who now plays trombone with the Ceremonial Brass, the U.S. Air Force Band based in Washington, D.C., will take the stage to play the solo part in “Fantastic Polka.” Spokesman Rick Mitchum said the band is very excited to accompany Timmons, “who is incredibly talented. ‘Fantastic Polka’ is a very, very difficult piece.” The piece was written at the turn of the 20th century by Arthur Pryor, who had played with John Philip Sousa’s band for 12 years, starting when he was very young, Mitchum said. Pryor was also a trombone virtuoso and composed many solo works for the in-

strument. Following his father’s death, Mitchum said, Pryor took over his father’s band, and under his leadership it became almost as much an institution as Sousa’s. Timmons graduated from Sumter High School in 2003, received a bachelor of music degree in performance from the University of South Carolina in 2007 and a master of music degree, also in performance, from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Brad Edwards, Tim Anderson, Jim Markey and Joe Alessi. Prior to joining the Air Force, Timmons served two seasons as co-principal trombonist of the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami Beach, Florida. He is the son of Rick Timmons and the late Cindy Hodge Timmons, and the grandson of Benny and Jean Hodge of Sumter and Billy and Jean Timmons of Hartsville.

Jean Hodge said Will Timmons “got more musical talent than any of us ever had. He started piano lessons with Debbie Hudson in third or fourth grade.” Timmons studied with Hamilton Stoddard at Millwood Elementary School and with Emmett Anglin at Alice Drive Elementary School. Hodge said he “chose trombone, because one of his friends played it, and Will wanted to sit next to him (in the band).” While his family suggested he study music education in college, wondering if Will would be able to make a good living as a musician, he insisted he did not want to teach, but to play. “Guess who was proved wrong?” Hodge said. “We say people follow their dreams, but Will built his.” He pursued it from a young age, winning scholarships to study at Brevard College’s acclaimed music program several times while still in high

school and later traveled to New York and abroad to study. Mitchum said the Sumter Community Concert Band has been trying to get Timmons to play with them for several years. Sunday’s concert will begin with the “Star-Spangled Banner,” as is the band’s tradition. Then, under James H. “Jimmy” Mills, longtime director, they will play a diverse concert of both familiar and lesser known pieces for concert band. “We’ve got selections from (the film) ‘The Great Race’ featuring music by the great Henry Mancini,” who wrote the music for “The Pink Panther,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and many others, Mitchum said. Several of his songs won Grammys, Oscars and other major awards, including “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses.” Also on the program are a medley of George Gershwin tunes and one from the film/ Broadway play “Man of La

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Technical Sgt. Will Timmons, a Sumter native who plays trombone with the U.S. Air Force Band, will be the special guest performer with the Sumter Community Concert Band at 4 p.m. Sunday at Patriot Hall. Mancha.” A Sousa march, “The Gladiator,” and Robert Hall’s “The New Colonial March” and several other pieces complete the program. Admission to the 4 p.m. Sunday concert at Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth St., is free, and the public is invited to attend. The Sumter Community Concert Band welcomes new musicians. The band practices on Thursday evenings. Call Mitchum at (803) 775-9265 for more information.

Get those kites flying on Saturday BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Let’s go fly a kite Up to the highest height. ... You’re a bird in flight With your fist holding tight To the string of your kite.

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Marcos Buitureina, then 11, runs to get his kite in the air during last year’s kite flying contest sponsored by the Sumter County Recreation Department at Dillon Park. This year’s competition begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at Dillon Park.

It’s likely few of the younger contestants in Saturday’s kite flying contest will remember the lyrics from the 1964 Disney film “Mary Poppins,” but the memory and joy of getting your kite up in the air — and keeping it there for a while — is one that endures. And if your memory of the experience has lingered for many years, you could win a prize this weekend in the Oldest Participant category, one of 10 offered. March, a traditionally windy month, brings the Sumter County Recreation Department’s annual kite contest to Dillon Park at 11 a.m. Saturday. Ribbons will be awarded in six categories for first, second and third place, and trophies will be awarded for Oldest Participant, Youngest Participant, Best in Show and Best Homemade Kite. Other categories are Most

Colorful Kite, Most Unusual Kite, Kite with longest tail, Kite with shortest tail, Smallest Kite and Largest Kite. Each kite must be registered — registration starts at 10 a.m., and it must stay in the air at least one minute. Only one kite per event by any one participant is allowed; however, participants can enter more than one category. LaTrelle Chambers, program director of the recreation department, said the sponsors “always love to see homemade kites, so we hope we get a lot of them.” If you’re not sure how to make a kite, call or visit the Sumter County Library, 111 N. Harvin St., (803) 773-7273, or check out the website http://bit.ly/1LQ1K4x. According to current weather reports, Saturday should be a perfect day for flying a kite, with highs in the 60s and no rain predicted. In addition to the Sumter County Recreation Department, The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club is sponsoring the 11 a.m. Saturday kite flying contest at Dillon Park, off North Pike West. There is no cost to participate. For more information, call (803) 4362248 or (803) 775-5006.

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Academy Awards take on issues beyond race BY LINDSEY BAHR AND JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s diversity crisis has loomed large over awards season, and the big question going into the 88th-annual Academy Awards was whether it would dominate the ceremony, too. It did, of course, but it wasn’t alone. The evening turned out to be a platform not just for racial representation in the movies, led by host Chris Rock’s incisive insight and parody, but a wide array of causes, from global warming and bank reform to sexual abuse in church and on campus. It was a subtle plea from the film community that the movies and artists honored at Sunday night’s ceremony did have purpose and meaning — even in this second year of #OscarsSoWhite. The “Spotlight” team, which won the first and last prize of the night — best original screenplay and best picture — and nothing else, celebrated the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of The Boston Globe journalists who exposed sex abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and the conversation the film has renewed around the world. Leonardo DiCaprio, the forgone best-actor winner for “The Revenant,” used the platform to talk about his life’s passion outside of acting — climate change, which got a “thank you” from the official White House Instagram account. Adam McKay and Charlies Randolph, who won for best adapted screenplay for “The Big Short,” spoke about the need for finance reform. And Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, of “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” spoke to the impact of her film. “This week, the Pakistani prime minister said he would change the law on honor killing of women,” said ObaidChinoy, who was also the only female director to win an award at Sunday’s ceremony. “That is the power of film.” In some ways, the Oscars have always been a place where winners use the podium and their 45 seconds to opine on causes directly or indirectly related to the movies, from Sacheen Littlefeather’s speech about Native American rights 43 years ago to Patricia Arquette’s call last year for pay equality for women.

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Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. But perhaps no ceremony has had such a pointed target, and nothing this year could eclipse #OscarsSoWhite, which was woven into the fabric of the show, thanks to Rock. He launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year’s nominees and didn’t let up, dubbing the show “The White People’s Choice Awards” at the start. Rock ensured that the topic remained at the forefront throughout the proceedings, usually finding hearty laughs in the process. In an award show traditionally known for song-and-dance routines and high doses of glamour, Rock gave the 88th Academy Awards a charged atmosphere, keeping with the outcry that followed a second straight year of all-white acting nominees. Streaks, broken and extended, dominated much of the evening, with an expected best actress win for Brie Larson for her breakout performance in the mother-son captive drama “Room” and a best supporting actress win for Swedish actress Alicia Vikander for the transgender pioneer tale “The Danish Girl.” Gasps went around the Dolby when Mark Rylance won best supporting actor for

Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” over Sylvester Stallone. Nominated a second time for the role of Rocky Balboa 39 years later, Stallone had been expected to win his first acting Oscar for the “Rocky” sequel “Creed.” The night’s most-awarded film, however, went to neither “Spotlight” nor “The Revenant.” George Miller’s postapocalyptic chase film, “Mad Max: Fury Road,” sped away with six awards in technical categories for editing, makeup, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and costume design. Alejando Inarritu, whose win for “The Revenant” meant three straight years of Mexican filmmakers winning best director and his second consecutive win, was one of the few recipients to remark passionately on diversity in his acceptance speech. Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (“The Revenant”) also became the first cinematographer to win three times in a row. Talk of election was largely absent from the ceremony, though Vice President Joe Biden was met by a standing ovation before talking about sexual assault on college campuses in an introduction to best-song nominee Lady Gaga.

The Associated Press List of winners at Sunday’s 88th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture: “Spotlight.” Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant.” Actress: Brie Larson, “Room.” Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies.” Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl.” Directing: Alejandro G. Inarritu, “The Revenant.” Foreign Language Film: “Son of Saul.” Adapted Screenplay: “The Big Short.” Original Screenplay: “Spotlight.” Animated Feature Film: “Inside Out.” Production Design: “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Cinematography: “The Revenant.” Sound Mixing: “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Sound Editing: “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Original Score: “The Hateful Eight.” Original Song: “Writing’s on the Wall” from “Spectre.” Costume Design: “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio accepts the award for best actor in a leading role for “The Revenant.” Documentary Feature: “Amy.” Documentary (short subject): “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness.” Film Editing: “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Makeup and Hairstyling: “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Animated Short Film: “Bear Story.” Live Action Short Film: “Stutterer.” Visual Effects: “Ex Machina.”

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Blind rider gets back in the saddle BY MIKE ELLIS Anderson Independent-Mail ANDERSON — Holding a cold, yellow apple, Crystal Collins laughed uncontrollably as Summer, a black and white paint horse, smacked her lips and slapped Collins’ outstretched palms. Trying not to laugh made it worse. Horse lips can tickle, and Summer’s wet nose kept sending blasts of warm air against Collins’ palm. The apple kept wobbling in Collins’ palm, threatening to tumble. “Hold your hand flat,” said Collins’ trainer. In between giggles, Collins, a 36-year-old from Anderson, said she was trying. “I’m worried she’s going to nibble my fingers,” Collins said with still another laugh as Summer wolfed down the last half of the apple, seeds and all. Collins tightened the saddle and patted down Summer’s hair, warm from the Friday sun. Collins grabbed the arm of Lisa Hartman, her trainer, and they walked 100 feet or so to a small wooden staircase. The stairs are used to help people with disabilities get on the saddle. Summer is about 14.3 hands, a little less than 5 feet tall. Summer is a little on the smaller size, which is good for Hartman and many of her riders. Hartman runs SHARE Therapeutic Riding Program,

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Crystal Collins of Anderson smiles during her recent riding lesson on Summer at Scott Hills Equestrian Center in Pendleton. a horse clinic for people with disabilities, at the Scott Hills Equestrian Center in Pendleton. Collins heard about the farm last summer. She rode a pony as a child. As a teen she started riding, but hadn’t been on a horse in six years after the Icelandic horse she rode went back to Iceland be-

cause of the heat in South Carolina. Collins knew the farm was her chance to get back on a horse. It took the right opportunity, because Collins is blind. She started losing her eyesight before she was 3 months old. Balance is critical to riding a horse, and it’s hard to

balance without seeing. Collins needed to find someone who could help her figure out the right combination of saddle, horse and personal style in order to do any kind of regular riding. Meeting Hartman last fall got Collins back in the saddle. In the arena Feb. 19, after a few months of testing out var-

ious combinations, Collins and Summer strode around as one, kicking up dirt and riding in a oval. Collins keeps track of the distance and how fast Summer is striding to know how far she is from the side. Hartman yells out directions from outside the arena. “More turned to the right.” “More pressure on the left rein.” Hartman stopped herself. “Sometimes I say too much,” she said. On the other side of the small arena, Collins hears and laughs. Getting to canter was one of Collins’ major goals. She had done it years ago but now is able to let go of the saddle horn and enjoy the speed. The first time she rode at a canter was unplanned. “The horse went into a canter; sometimes a horse does something you didn’t ask for and it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I can do this,’” Collins said. Hartman’s goal is to get Collins riding on trails. Collins has the same idea. “I’d love to go through a creek on a horse,” she said. “My goal is to get out of the square.” She’d like others, especially people who can’t see well or at all, to get on a horse. “To work with an animal that strong, it’s an adrenaline rush,” Collins said. “It’s such a sense of accomplishment, having that control together. I hope enough people who are visually impaired come do this. It’s just a lot of fun.”

Book signing IVY MOORE/THE SUMTER ITEM Sarah and John Tindall chat with author Carla Damron, far right, and her mother, Katie Damron, about Carla’s recently published novel, “The Stone Necklace,” during Thursday’s book signing at Elephant Ear Gallery. Damron will speak and sign copies of the book at Books-A-Million in Sumter Mall at 3 p.m. March 5.

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Mexico documents rebound in monarch butterflies BY MARK STEVENSON The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico after suffering serious declines, investigators said Friday. The area covered by the orangeand-black insects in the mountains west of Mexico City this season was more than three-and-a-half times greater than last winter. The butterflies clump so densely in the pine and fir forests they are counted by the area they cover rather than by individuals. The number of monarchs making the 3,400-mile migration from the United States and Canada declined steadily in recent years before recovering in 2014. This winter was even better. This December, the butterflies covered a total of 10 acres, compared to 2.8 acres in 2014 and a record low of 1.66 acres in 2013. While the news was good, the monarchs still face problems: The butterflies covered as much as 44 acres 20 years ago. The United States is working to reintroduce milkweed, a plant key to the butterflies’ migration, on about 1,160 square miles within five years, both by planting and by designating pesticide-free areas.

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A kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies cling to tree branches in the Piedra Herrada sanctuary near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, in January 2015. Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico after suffering serious declines, investigators said Friday. Milkweed is the plant the butterflies feed and lay their eggs on, but it has been attacked by herbicide use and loss of open land in the United States. In Mexico, meanwhile, illegal logging more than tripled in the monarch butterflies’ wintering grounds in 2014, reversing several years of

steady improvements. Illegal logging had fallen to almost zero in 2012. Authorities said the reserve’s buffer area lost more than 20 acres in 2015 because of illegal logging in one area but said the tree cutting was detected and a number of arrests were made. “Now more than ever, Mexico, the United States and Canada should in-

Unlikely normalcy prevails in Damascus DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An unlikely normalcy prevails in the Syrian capital, where a mix of rural refugees and urbanites conduct their daily business and enjoy the easy café culture to the muffled sounds of explosions in the distance. The serenity of the capital’s historic Marjeh Square reflects the adaptability of Syrians and resilience of human nature. It also underscores the strategically important success of President Bashar Assad in insulating his seat of power from the devastation that has swept much of the country in the nearly 5-yearold civil war. The 19th century square just outside the walls of the old city is only few miles away from the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus. Yet here, women in black abayas and others in cropped jeans take afternoon strolls, mingling with Syrians who fled their homes in battle zones in other parts of the country. “As you can see nothing happens here,” said Saer al-

Saleh, a 38-year-old from the central city of Homs who is studying in Damascus and was chatting with two friends in the square, noting that business and commerce goes on. “But outside of Damas-

cus, places like Daraya, like Douma, are hot areas.” Damascenes have lived for years now with the sense of being in a fragile but enduring bubble surrounded by war.

crease their conservation efforts to protect and restore the habitat of this butterfly along its migratory route,” said Omar Vidal, director of the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico. The forest canopy acts as a sort of blanket against the cold for butterflies that form huge clumps on tree branches during their winter stay in Mexico. Monarch expert Lincoln Brower wrote in a research paper that the 2015 forest loss was actually 25 acres in the reserve area and said the illegal logging “questions the effectiveness of current strategies to protect the already precarious overwintering habitat of the monarch butterfly.” The logging took place in a particularly sensitive area of the reserve, and if butterflies can’t find shelter there, “they may be forced into forested areas with less microclimatic protection,” exposing them to potential cold and rain that can prove fatal, Brower wrote. The migration is an inherited trait: No butterfly lives to make the full round trip, and it is unclear how they find their way back to the same patch of pine forest each year. Some scientists suggest the butterflies may release chemicals marking the migratory path and fear that if their numbers fall too low the chemical traces will not be strong enough for others to follow.

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Bill to allow school workers to carry guns set aside BY JEFFREY COLLINS The Associated Press COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have set aside for now a proposal to allow school employees to carry guns on campus after two weeks of training after education officials and police representatives told them it would be too dangerous. Angry after what he said was more than an hour of misleading testimony against his bill, Rep. Phillip Lowe left before a House subcommittee voted 4-2 to set aside his bill.

Lowe said he was only trying to protect the safety of children in rural schools that can’t afford a certified police officer and could have to wait for one on patrol to arrive. He started with a story about a gunman entering one of those isolated schools. “What’s the first thing you think of ? Liability? Training? No, you think about what am I going to do,” said Lowe, RFlorence. “What’s the first thing (a gunman would) do? Shoot the teacher and try to assassinate the children.” Lowe’s bill would have allowed any school employee — teacher, janitor or

administrator — who had a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun after completing a two-week training course that included classes on when to shoot and when not to shoot, conflict resolution and communicating with law enforcement officers as long as the local school board agreed. School protection officers would have to have the gun concealed and in their possession at all times unless locked in a safe, couldn’t have any documented history of violence or anger and would have to use bullets that shatter on impact to reduce ricochets.

Law enforcement representatives were against the bill. “This training is nowhere near adequate,” said South Carolina Sheriff’s Association Executive Director Jarrod Bruder, who added police officers need 12 weeks of training and two additional weeks of classes if they work in schools. Bruder said police officers dealing with a school shooting currently assume anyone on campus with a gun not with law enforcement is a bad guy because guns are banned and that would no longer be the case if the proposal became law.

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Study of Southern tornadoes coming up Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, began in the mid-1990s with a large tornado study that helped inspire the Hollywood film “Twister.” Another large study, VORTEX 2, took place from 200910. This spring, researchers hope to learn more about the mysteries of Southern tornadoes, such as whether the landscape in the South gives them added power, and how to warn people at night, when many tornadoes strike in the South. The research aims to find ways of better forecasting

ATLANTA (AP) — About 40 scientists from across the nation are expected to participate in “VORTEX Southeast,” an upcoming study of the unique characteristics of tornadoes that develop in the South, weather researchers say. Like earlier studies in the Midwest, the research based in Huntsville, Alabama, will include mobile radars, drones and other equipment that can measure tornado intensity. It is set to run through March and April. VORTEX, an acronym for Verification of the Origins of

tornadoes, communicating warnings more effectively and finding out how the public responds to those warnings, according to documents from the National Severe Storms Laboratory, which is involved in the planning. The Norman, Oklahoma-based lab is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Unlike the original experiment, the latest iteration of the study will include several social scientists, who seek to learn more about how people respond to tornado threats in Southern states.

HOPKINS (AP) — A Richland County councilman is facing DUI charges after state troopers said he was involved in a crash that injured two men. South Carolina Highway Patrol told local media that 51-year-old Kelvin Washington was driving Saturday evening through Hopkins when he hit the back of another car that had slowed down. One of the passengers in the hit car was taken to Palmetto Health Richland with serious injuries. The other passenger was taken to the same hospital with minor injuries. Washington was charged with felony DUI.

The State reported Washington declined to speak during a Sunday hearing at Richland County Jail. He told the judge when asked that he had an attorney, though one wasn’t with him at the hearing. Washington serves on the Richland County council representing the District 10 area.

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SUPER TUESDAY FROM PAGE A1 should stop supporting that party until it is reformed,” he wrote. Other Republican leaders were less explicit but sent similar messages on Monday, particularly in light of Trump’s refusal to immediately disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s support. Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, called that “disqualifying.” And South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, campaigning in Atlanta alongside Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, said she would “not stop fighting a man who refuses to disavow the KKK.” Trump said he had not understood the interviewer who first raised the question about Duke, and he did later repudiate him. “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?” he said. Several high-profile Republicans and conservative writers have em-

braced an anti-Trump social media campaign, using the Twitter hashtag “NeverTrump.” Trump has won three of four early primary contests, roiling a party that had assumed his populist appeal with voters would fizzle. Instead, he’s only grown stronger and appears to be in commanding position heading into Super Tuesday, the biggest single-day delegate haul of the year. The Associated Press asked Republican senators and governors across the country if they would back Trump if he secured the nomination. Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this fall. “I am increasingly concerned by Donald Trump’s statements and behavior, and I have serious concerns about his ability to win the general election and provide presidential leadership,” Indiana Sen. Dan Coats said in a statement to AP. Tensions boiled over during Trump’s rally Monday in Radford,

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Virginia, where he was repeatedly disrupted by demonstrators, including 20 or more chanting “Black lives matter.” At another point, he asked a protester, “Are you from Mexico?” after he was interrupted during remarks about immigration. He ordered several people to be removed, then cast himself as a unifying political force. “Believe it or not, we’re going to unify this country,” he said. If Trump sweeps most of the states up for grabs today, he could amass a delegate lead that would be difficult for any rival to overcome. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is banking on a win in his home state to keep him in the race, while Rubio wants to stay close in the delegate count until the primary hits his home state of Florida on March 15. Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is solidifying her lead. Like Trump, Clinton could begin putting her party’s nomination out of reach for rival Bernie Sanders with a strong showing today.

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ATTACKS FROM PAGE A1 After the earlier attacks, Johnson said he was down to 13 goats. After this latest incident, he said he is down to one healthy goat and one injured goat. Nine of the goats killed were about 3 months old, he said. “I’m sick; this is all my babies this time,” Johnson said. Johnson said the goats are worth between $100 and $200, depending on age.

FIRESIDE FROM PAGE A1 more severe cold weather in previous months. There are more than 45 clients scheduled to meet with Lamb this week. She encouraged the public to get behind the Fireside Fund program to help neighbors. This year’s Fireside Fund is in honor of Dr. Charles “Pap” Propst, who died on May 20, 2015, at the age of 90. Propst founded Sumter Pediatrics with Dr. Ted Young in 1954, where he practiced until 1986. Propst became a well-known member of the Sumter community, serving on the former Sumter School District 17 board, taking part in local clubs and affecting several generations of Sumterites. Started in 1969, Fireside Fund is a partnership between The Sumter Item and The Salvation Army. The newspaper collects the money and gives it to the local nonprofit. The Christian charity then interviews people who need help with heating costs such as past-due electric bills and buying kerosene, propane or wood. Candidates must provide a valid form of picture identification, paycheck stubs and copies of late bills. If you and your family need assistance with heating costs, call The Salvation Army at (803) 775-9336. Donations can be mailed to The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29151 or dropped off at the office, 20 N. Magnolia St. Names, including groups, should be spelled completely. When making a donation in someone’s honor, names will be printed as given. Last week’s donations were: F. Elizabeth Morris, $200; Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, $100; Men’s Class of Graham Baptist Church, $100; TBPA (British Wives), $100; Fancy Lady Belles Red Hat Group, $35; in memory of Ingrid Louis Newman and Roy Neal Newman Carraway from Louise N. Smith, $40; in memory of Cecil Downing from Xi Eta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, $25; in memory of Vila Cipor from Xi Eta Chapter of

Johnson reported the incident to Sumter County Sheriff ’s Office, he said, and was hoping to get a call from Sheriff Anthony Dennis. Sheriff ’s office Public Information Officer Ken Bell said the fine for allowing vicious animals to run at large is $50 for a first offense and $100 for a second offense. Anyone with information on the dogs is asked to call Sumter County Sheriff ’s Office at (803) 436-2000 or Johnson at (803) 983-0551.

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LORENCE — If Donald Trump speaks for disenfranchised whites, Hillary Clinton speaks mostly to blacks who feel the same. But the differences in how people, left and right, perceive the world’s injustices — and the various approaches today’s presidential front-runners are bringing to Super Tuesday today — suggest that we dwell in worlds apart. Black and white, as ever before. On the Democratic side, leading up to the South Carolina primary, Clinton kept a breathlessly demanding schedule in the Kathleen state, shuttling beParker tween cocktail parties and black churches, but spending most of her time trying to remind blacks that she’s always been there for them. (Unspoken: Even though they ditched her for Barack Obama.) Thursday, she had at least four events in different towns and cities, including Florence, where she met mostly black voters in an African-American Methodist church. For backup, she brought along New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who, it turns out, is no one’s backup. He’s a front-loaded, earth-moving machine of passion and compassion. As Clinton’s introducer,

COMMENTARY he provided all the bona fides she would ever need in any black community. Booker shook the rafters and mesmerized the pews with personal stories of his boyhood. “Don’t you ever forget where you came from,” his mother always said. His soulful soliloquy ebbed and flowed in Faulknerian sentences barely interrupted by commas. He told of trying to wash blood from his hands after a failed attempt to save a young shooting victim. Of another victim’s mother comforting him as they hugged and he wept, and how she kept rubbing his back and repeating two words, and how those two words got him from the housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, to the U.S. Senate. “Stay faithful, stay faithful, stay faithful.” Clinton has stayed faithful to them, he said. “She was here when she wasn’t running for president.” It is little wonder that Bernie Sanders, who spent relatively scant time in South Carolina, decided his energies were best expended elsewhere. Plus, as Booker reminded everyone, Sanders voted five times against the Brady bill. When Clinton finally got the microphone, she said what everyone was thinking: “Wow. I’m speechless.” Soon enough, she found her wind

and sailed through a raft of issues and obstacles she wants to change into opportunities. She touched on prison reform, gun violence, voter registration, student debt. She promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to South Carolina and even talked about climate change and solar power, which, it must be said, failed to bestir. Clinton also mentioned white privilege and the necessity for whites to try harder to hear clearly when blacks speak of problems unique to their community. Around here, we just call that empathy. Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, the least-empathic human to gaze across the Rio Grande, Donald Trump, continued preaching his own liturgy, lately distilled to a few repeat-after-me slogans. Like some rock-star hybrid of Liberace and Chris Christie, latest to endorse the billionaire, Trump invites his fans to sing along. “What are we going to build?” “A wallllllllllll!!!!” “Who’s going to pay for it?” “Mexicoooooooo!!!” “What are we going to do?” “Make America Great Again!!!” Trump doesn’t even have to perform his own shtick anymore; his fans do it for him. Perhaps this explains his pouty debate performance Thursday night. It just wasn’t fun. The only people talking back to him were the “liar” and the “choker,” the

mogul’s nicknames for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, respectively. When you scan Trump’s majoritywhite crowds and listen to his isolationist, nativist message, it isn’t hard to imagine segregationist on the list of apt adjectives. Ironically, if we have any appreciation left for the notion, Trump is the furthest removed of any candidate from the everyday people he enlists to make America great again, a broad enough theme to cover whatever one thinks is missing or wrong. The man is, if nothing else, a marketing genius. Every politician says what he or she believes an audience wants to hear, obviously. But when one candidate appeals to inclusion and removing obstacles — and the other to exclusion and building obstacles — one needn’t be a partisan to appreciate the higher road. Though our politics have divided us, most of our issues and our lives are not so black and white. Those who play to such divisions while knowing better — mining anger and resentment instead of appealing to our better angels — have made a Faustian bargain for which there should be no forgiveness. Nor, needless to say, votes. Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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The albatross of a Donald Trump endorsement

ASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” under water — poses an almost insuperable challenge to people whose painful duty is to try to extract clarity from his effuGeorge sions. For exWill ample, recently during a long stream of semi-consciousness in Fort Worth, this man who as president would nominate members of the federal judiciary vowed to “open up” libel laws to make it easier to sue — to intimidate and punish — people who write “negative” things. Well. Trump, the thin-skinned tough guy, resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his “safe space.” It is not news that he has neither respect for nor knowledge of the Constitution, and

COMMENTARY he probably is unaware that he would have to “open up” many Supreme Court First Amendment rulings in order to achieve his aim. His obvious aim is to chill free speech, for the comfort of the political class, of which he is now a gaudy ornament. But at least Trump has, at last, found one thing to admire from the era of America’s Founding. Unfortunately, but predictably, it is one of the worst things done then — the Sedition Act of 1798. The act made it a crime to “write, print, utter or publish, or cause it to be done, or assist in it, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or the President, with intent to defame, or bring either into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against either the hatred of the people.” Now, 215 years after the Sedition Act expired in 1801, Trump vows to use litigiousness to improve the accuracy and deco-

rousness of public discourse. The night before his promise to make America great again through censorship, Trump, during the Houston debate, said that his sister, a federal judge, “[signed] a certain bill” and that [Supreme Court] Justice Samuel Alito also “signed that bill.” So, the leading Republican candidate, the breadth of whose ignorance is the eighth wonder of the world, actually thinks that judges “sign bills.” Trump is a presidential aspirant who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam. More than anything Marco Rubio said about Trump in Houston, it was Rubio’s laughter at Trump that galled the perhaps bogus billionaire. Like all bullies, Trump is a coward, and like all those who feel the need to boast about being strong and tough, he is neither. Unfortunately, Rubio recognized reality and found his voice 254 days after Trump’s scabrous announcement of his candidacy to rescue America from Mexican rapists. And 222 days after Trump disparaged John Mc-

Cain’s war service (“I like people that weren’t captured”). And 95 days after Trump said that maybe a protestor at his rally “should have been roughed up.” And 95 days after Trump re-tweeted that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by blacks. (Eighty-two percent are killed by whites.) And 94 days after Trump said he supports torture “even if it doesn’t work.” And 79 days after Trump said he might have approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. And 72 days after Trump proved that he does not know the nuclear triad from the Nutcracker ballet. And 70 days after Trump, having been praised by Vladimir Putin, reciprocated by praising the Russian murderer and dictator. And so on. Rubio’s epiphany — announcing the obvious with a sense of triumphant discovery — about Trump being a “con man” and a “clown act” is better eight months late than never. If, however, it is too late to rescue Rubio from a Trump nomination, this will

be condign punishment for him and the rest of the Republican Party’s coalition of the timid. “Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,/In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.” So begins James Russell Lowell’s 1845 poem protesting America’s war with Mexico. The Republicans’ moment is here. We are about to learn much about Republican officeholders who are now deciding whether to come to terms with Trump and with the shattering of their party as a vessel of conservatism. Trump’s collaborators, like the remarkably plastic Chris Christie (“I don’t think temperament is suited for”), will find that nothing will redeem the reputations they will ruin by placing their opportunism in the service of his demagogic cynicism and anti-constitutional authoritarianism. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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Sumter’s Majid Corbett has his arm raised in victory after winning the 106-pound weight class in the 4A individual state finals on Saturday at Anderson Civic Center. Corbett defeated Lexington’s Jacob Brasseur 5-4 in four overtimes to claim the title.

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ever for me.” Corbett won the title by beating an opponent in Brasseur who bested Corbett When Majid Corbett started wrestling quite handily in the lower state individas a freshman at Sumter High School in ual finals the week before. Brasseur de2013, he posted a 1-21 record wrestling cision Corbett 7-1 in the lower state 106 in the 106-pound weight class. finals at Fort Dorchester High in North Corbett finished his career on SaturCharleston. day as a state champion. “This week I just felt much more conThe Gamecock senior beat Jacob fident in myself than I did the week beBrasseur of Lexington 5-4 in four overfore,” Corbett said. “The week before I times on Saturday to win the 106-pound was cutting weight, wasn’t feeling good. title in the state individuals at Anderson Nothing really changed in the way I Civic Center. wrestled him except that I was much “No, I didn’t think I would be at this more aggressive.” point (four years ago),” said Corbett, First-year SHS head coach Josh Wilwho finished the year with a 45-5 reliams said Corbett was focused on closcord. “I was awful four years ago. I ing his career as a state champion. didn’t think I would ever get to this He was just determined to go out and point. win,” Williams said. “This was his seIt feels good. It’s the greatest feeling nior year and he wanted to go out a win-

ner. (The loss in the lower state finals) that wouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. He just went out there with the will to win more than the other guy.” Corbett rolled to easy wins in his first two matches on Friday. He beat Tanner Culberton of York 11-1 in his opening match before topping Tito Colon of Goose Creek 11-2 in the semifinals. The match against Brasseur was obviously anything but easy based on the four overtimes. However, for the better part of the match it looked as though was going to have his hand raised as state champion. After a scoreless first period, Brassseur started the second period on the mat and escaped for a 1-0 lead. He

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Sumter, Spring Valley at full strength for 4A title By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com COLUMBIA -- The girls basketball teams from Sumter and Spring Valley high schools are far from strangers. The teams who will play for the 4A state title on Friday at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia have faced each other twice already this season. They met in the season opener for both teams with the Lady Gamecocks coming away with a 63-46 win in a tournament at A.C. Flora in Columbia in November. In late December, the Lady Vikings returned the favor, winning 49-35 in the District 9 Officials Tournament at Crestwood. So not only did the teams split their first two games, neither of the games were played when both teams were at full strength. That won’t be the case when they take the floor at 7 p.m. on Friday. “It will be great to play each other when we are both have all of our players,” said Sumter point guard Jessica Harris on Monday at the championship press conference at the

4A tickets on sale Tickets for the 4A girls basketball state championship game between Sumter and Spring Valley on Friday go on sale on Wednesday at Sumter High. Tickets will be sold in the school’s athletic office at a cost of $10 per person. Tickets will be on sale until Friday at 3 p.m. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia.

South Carolina High School League offices. “It’s better this way. We’ve won and they’ve won, now we get to decide not only who wins the series, but who is the state champion.” The Lady Vikings would have to be considered the favorite going in simply because they are the defending state champions. They are 26-2 on the season after beating Rock Keith Gedamke / The Sumter Item Hill 57-39 for the upper state Sumter’s D’Erika Hamilton, left, battes with North Augusta’s title on Saturday. Kiara Jackson in the Lady Gamecocks’ 41-39 overtime win on SV head coach Anne Long Saturday in the 4A lower state finals at Florence Civic Center. SHS said claiming a state crown

will take on defending state champion Spring Valley for the state See sumter, Page B3 title on Friday at 7 p.m. at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia.

CLEMSON — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney believes his defense is in better shape for next season, even if attrition and the number of Tiger underclassmen at the NFL combine indicate otherwise. Swinney said swinney Monday as his team opened spring workouts that the Tigers had more competitive depth up front, among linebackers and in the secondary — a difference from a year ago when Clemson needed to replace eight starters and crossed its fingers that the front-line players would stay healthy to keep from exposing a lack of support behind them. “I like where we are on defense, I really do,” Swinney said. The Tigers, 14-1 last season, more than made up for the losses as new starters such as defensive ends Shaq Lawson and Kevin Dodd kept Clemson in the top 10 defensively. The Tigers won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, were No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings and advanced to the national title game before losing 45-40 to Alabama seven weeks ago. Much of that defensive group is gone and showed off its talents this past weekend in Indianapolis. Lawson and Dodd, both considered firstround NFL draft picks, along

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Johnson ties the Intimidator with 76th win By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Jimmie Johnson reached another milestone in his brilliant NASCAR career. This one was really special. Win No. 76. Right up there with the Intimidator. Johnson’s victojohnson ry at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday pushed him into a tie for seventh place on the career list with the late Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in a last-lap crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 just a few months before Johnson joined the Cup series. “I didn’t have a chance to race against him,” Johnson said. “There’s been a big void in my mind ... so to tie him, for me personally, it gives me a little bit of attachment to the great Dale Earnhardt.” After a chaotic finish, the significance of the triumph didn’t occur to Johnson at first. Then it hit him, so he took another spin in front of the grandstand, sticking his

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No. 8 North Carolina beats Syracuse 75-70 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Brice Johnson had 14 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 8 North Carolina beat Syracuse 75-70 on Monday night in its home finale. Joel Berry II added 13 points and two key late free throws for the Tar Heels (246, 13-4 Atlantic Coast Conference), who led by as many as 13 points after halftime but had plenty of trouble putting the game away against Syracuse’s zone. UNC led by just a point near the 2-minute mark, but Isaiah Hicks and Johnson came up with big baskets to help the Tar Heels stay in control. Berry’s two free throws with 6.6 seconds left made it a two-possession game, helping UNC hang on to first place in the ACC. Michael Gbinije scored 17 points to lead the Orange (19-11, 9-8), who shot 41 percent and made 5 of 20 3-point tries. (21) Iowa State 58 Oklahoma State 50

AMES, Iowa — Abdel Nader scored 19 points, Georges Niang added 17 with 10 rebounds and No. 21 Iowa State held off Oklahoma State 58-50 on Monday night in Niang’s final home game. Jameel McKay had six points with 10 rebounds for the Cyclones (21-9, 10-7 Big 12), who clinched their fifth consecutive winning season in conference play. Iowa State broke open a tight game with an 11-0 run to start the second half. The Cowboys made it interesting late, closing within 53-47, but ultimately fell to the Cyclones for the seventh straight time. Cavaliers 100 Pacers 96

CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 33 points after sitting out a game and Tristan Thompson made two huge plays in the final minute, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 100-96

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North Carolina’s Brice Johnson (11) blocks a shot by Syracuse’s Tyler Roberson in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Monday. North Carolina won 75-70. win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night. James was rested on Sunday by coach Tyronn Lue and the Cavs were lethargic in a 113-99 loss at Washington. But with James back on the floor, Cleveland played with much more energy and again looked like a team with NBA championship aspirations. Wizards 116 76ers 108

WASHINGTON — John Wall scored 16 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, Marcin Gortat added 18 points and a career-high 20 rebounds, and the Washington Wizards rallied for a 116108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night. Wall and Gortat combined for 14 points during a 16-0 fourth-quarter run in Washington’s sixth victory in eight games since the AllStar break.

sic in just his third start since a new rule banning the stroke used for the long putter that he had the past five years. Scott calmly rolled in a 30inch par putt for a one-shot victory over Sergio Garcia. It was the Australian’s first victory since Colonial in May 2014, and his first using a conventional putter since the 2010 Singapore Open.

Thompson wins 7th career lpga title

CHONBURI, Thailand — American Lexi Thompson won her seventh LPGA title after a final-round 68 that completed a six-stroke victory over In Gee Chun of South Korea in the final round of the LPGA Thailand at the par-72 course at the Siam Country Club on Sunday. The 21-year-old from Florida hit an eagle on the 10th to go along with three birdies and a lone bogey Scott outlasts Garcia for a 20-under-par total of to win Honda Classic 268 to become the first PALM BEACH GARDENS, American winner of the Fla. — Adam Scott closed tournament. with an even-par 70 on Sunday to win the Honda ClasThe Associated Press

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Sumter’s Martin has 5 goals in victory Jaidon Martin scored five goals to lead Sumter High School’s varsity girls soccer team to a 12-0 victory over Crestwood on Monday at the CHS field. Justina Hines added two goals for the Lady Gamecocks in their season opener. Izzy Sneider had one goal and three assists, while Brittney Lee, Cat Flemming and Maddie Durant each had a goal. MaryKate Schaffer had an assist.

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with three starters in the secondary (cornerback Mackensie Alexander and safeties Jayron Kearse and T.J. Green) all gave up their eligibility to jump to the pros. Clemson linebacker B.J. Goodson, the team’s top tackler last season, was also at the combine and put up one of the leading performances in front of NFL scouts. Freshman defensive tackle Christian Wilkins said the Tigers have to quickly adjust to their old leaders being gone. “It is a little weird not seeing certain guys like Kevin Dodd and Shaq not out here with us. They did a good job leading this group,” Wilkins said. “Now, my mentality is

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Heathwood Hall 0 Lakewood opened its seaMANNING – Seth Stamps son with a 10-3 win over Man- pitched four shutout innings ning on Monday at LHS field. and had two hits to lead LauLenny Gonzalez went rence Manning Academy to 4-for-5 with three RBI to lead a 13-0 victory over Heaththe Gators. Daquan Ingram wood Hall on Monday at was 2-for-4 with three runs Tucker Belangia Diamond. scored and Joshua Whitley Chase Lee led the Swamphad two hits and two RBI. cats with three hits and JT Courtland Howard pitched Stanley added two hits.

I’ve got to be more of a leader.” It’s a mindset that must spread throughout the defensive roster, Swinney said. Ben Boulware is the team’s lone returning linebacker while only cornerback Cordrea Tankersley is back among the secondary starters from last season. But Swinney said the Tigers have stockpiled players at those spots the past few years and will look to tap into those reserves this spring. The coach said Clemson must work out many players this spring to guarantee the depth necessary to make another run at the College Football Playoffs. “We’ve got some guys (on defense) that could go play today,” Swinney said. “But not a lot of those guys.” Clemson’s deepest area seems to be up front where

Wilkins, junior Carlos Watkins and Austin Bryant will make a solid core. Already here for spring ball is early enrollee Dexter Lawrence, a defensive tackle from North Carolina considered the No. 2 college prospect this past recruiting cycle. Center Jay Guillermo said the young linemen have already made an impression on the team. “They’re going to be hard to stop,” he said, smiling. Linebacker Dorian O’Daniel said the newcomers understand the legacy left behind and don’t want to be the group that stumbles on high expectations next season. “We’ve been to the championship game and know what it takes to get back there,” he said. “We don’t have time to rebuild, we’ve got to reload.”

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Scoreboard TV, Radio TODAY 1 p.m. – Major League Exhibition Baseball: Toronto vs. Philadelphia from Clearwater, Fla. (MLB NETWORK). 2 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Wolfsburg vs. Hannover 96 (FOX SPORTS 1). 2 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Cologne vs. Ingolstadt (FOX SPORTS 2). 2:40 p.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – West Brom vs. Leicester City (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 4 p.m. – Major League Exhibition Baseball: Cleveland vs. Cincinnati from Goodyear, Ariz. (MLB NETWORK). 5:45 p.m. – High School Baseball: MidCarolina Credit Union Bash from Kershaw – North Central vs. Camden Military (WPUB-FM 102.7). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Kentucky at Florida (ESPN). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Virginia vs. Clemson from Greenville (ESPNU, WWBD-FM 94.7). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: DePaul at Villanova (FOX SPORTS 1). 7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Phoenix at Charlotte (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). 7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at New Jersey (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Tennessee at Vanderbilt (SEC NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Baseball: South Carolina at The Citadel (WNKT-FM 107.5). 7:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Dayton at Richmond (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Chicago at Miami (NBA TV). 7:30 p.m. -- NHL Hockey: Pittsburgh at Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8 p.m. – College Basketball: Baylor at Oklahoma (ESPN2). 8 p.m. – International Soccer: CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Second Leg Match – Queretaro at D.C. (FOX SPORTS 2, UNIVISION). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Indiana at Iowa (ESPN). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas A&M at Auburn (ESPNU). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Georgetown at Marquette (FOX SPORTS 1). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Missouri at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK). 9:30 p.m. – College Basketball: San Diego State at New Mexico (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 10 p.m. – International Soccer: CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Second Leg Match – Los Angeles vs. Santos (FOX SPORTS 2). 10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Atlanta at Golden State (NBA TV).

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 L Pct GB 39 19 .672 — 35 25 .583 5 25 36 .410 15½ 17 42 .288 22½ 8 51 .136 31½ W L Pct GB 33 26 .559 — 33 27 .550 ½ 30 28 .517 2½ 28 30 .483 4½ 26 32 .448 6½ W L Pct GB 41 17 .707 — 31 28 .525 10½ 30 28 .517 11 31 29 .517 11 24 35 .407 17½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans Northwest Division Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota Pacific Division x-Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers x-clinched playoff

W L Pct GB 50 9 .847 — 34 24 .586 15½ 32 28 .533 18½ 29 30 .492 21 23 35 .397 26½ W L Pct GB 41 18 .695 — 32 28 .533 9½ 28 30 .483 12½ 23 36 .390 18 19 41 .317 22½ W L Pct GB 53 5 .914 — 38 20 .655 15 24 33 .421 28½ 15 44 .254 38½ 11 49 .183 43 spot

Sunday’s Games

Washington 113, Cleveland 99 Atlanta 87, Charlotte 76 Portland 111, Indiana 102 Detroit 114, Toronto 101 Orlando 130, Philadelphia 116 Dallas 128, Minnesota 101 Miami 98, New York 81

Monday’s Games

Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m. Utah at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Memphis at Denver, 9 p.m. Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Phoenix at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Chicago at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Portland at New York, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Atlanta at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m. Utah at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Portland at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Detroit at San Antonio, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Memphis, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m. Okla. City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

nhl Standings By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 62 35 19 8 78 171 146 Tampa Bay 62 36 22 4 76 173 150 Boston 63 34 23 6 74 195 175 Detroit 62 31 20 11 73 158 161 Ottawa 63 30 27 6 66 185 196 Montreal 62 30 27 5 65 171 169 Buffalo 63 25 31 7 57 147 170 Toronto 60 21 29 10 52 146 180 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 61 45 12 4 94 202 142 N.Y. Rangers 62 36 20 6 78 178 158 N.Y. Islanders 60 33 20 7 73 171 149 Pittsburgh 60 31 21 8 70 159 157 Philadelphia 61 28 22 11 67 152 165 New Jersey 63 30 26 7 67 139 153 Carolina 64 28 26 10 66 155 173 Columbus 63 26 29 8 60 166 194

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 64 39 20 5 83 180 153 Dallas 63 38 19 6 82 204 181 St. Louis 65 36 20 9 81 162 159 Nashville 63 31 21 11 73 167 158 Colorado 64 32 28 4 68 172 181 Minnesota 63 28 25 10 66 164 159

Winnipeg 61 26 31 4 56 159 183 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 62 37 21 4 78 165 143 Anaheim 61 34 19 8 76 153 144 San Jose 61 33 22 6 72 182 165 Vancouver 61 24 25 12 60 148 175 Arizona 62 27 29 6 60 168 192 Calgary 61 26 31 4 56 166 190 Edmonton 64 23 34 7 53 156 193 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games

Chicago 3, Washington 2 St. Louis 5, Carolina 2 Minnesota 3, Florida 1 Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1 San Jose 4, Vancouver 1 Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 2 Edmonton 3, N.Y. Islanders 1

Monday’s Games

Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Calgary at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Arizona at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Montreal at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Calgary at Boston, 7 p.m. Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. St. Louis at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m. Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Florida at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 8 p.m. Montreal at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

golf By The Associated Press PGA Tour-Honda Classic Par Scores Sunday At PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,140; Par 70 (35-35) Final Round Adam Scott (500), $1,098,000 70-65-66-70—271 -9 Sergio Garcia (300), $658,800 65-69-67-71—272 -8 Blayne Barber (163), $353,800 70-66-69-70—275 -5 Justin Thomas (163), $353,800 69-69-68-69—275 -5 Graeme McDowell (110), $244,000 71-69-67-69—276 -4 Rickie Fowler (95), $211,975 66-66-74-71—277 -3 Vijay Singh (95), $211,975 69-70-68-70—277 -3 Billy Horschel (83), $183,000 73-70-66-69—278 -2 William McGirt (83), $183,000 66-72-73-67—278 -2 Scott Brown (68), $146,400 70-67-70-72—279 -1 Sung Kang (68), $146,400 71-69-71-68—279 -1 Luke List (68), $146,400 73-65-70-71—279 -1 John Senden (68), $146,400 71-66-71-71—279 -1 Bronson Burgoon (54), $97,600 72-71-67-70—280 E John Huh (54), $97,600 71-72-71-66—280 E Andrew Loupe (54), $97,600 71-68-74-67—280 E Sean O’Hair (54), $97,600 69-72-69-70—280 E Sam Saunders (54), $97,600 69-74-67-70—280 E Brendan Steele (54), $97,600 74-68-70-68—280 E Camilo Villegas (54), $97,600 72-69-69-70—280 E Alex Cejka (48), $63,440 71-70-69-71—281 +1 Chesson Hadley (48), $63,440 70-71-70-70—281 +1 Jeff Overton (48), $63,440 72-69-72-68—281 +1 Greg Owen (48), $63,440 69-71-69-72—281 +1 Brett Stegmaier (48), $63,440 72-67-74-68—281 +1 Patton Kizzire (40), $39,816 75-64-75-68—282 +2 Colt Knost (40), $39,816 75-67-73-67—282 +2 Ryan Palmer (40), $39,816 73-68-73-68—282 +2 Robert Streb (40), $39,816 73-68-74-67—282 +2 Stewart Cink (40), $39,816 73-68-72-69—282 +2 Jamie Donaldson (40), $39,816 72-67-71-72—282 +2 Derek Fathauer (40), $39,816 70-72-70-70—282 +2 Freddie Jacobson (40), $39,816 72-71-70-69—282 +2 Russell Knox (40), $39,816 70-70-71-71—282 +2 Brooks Koepka (40), $39,816 70-71-69-72—282 +2 Andy Sullivan, $39,816 71-71-70-70—282 +2 Stuart Appleby (32), $26,840 70-72-73-68—283 +3 Ken Duke (32), $26,840 75-65-73-70—283 +3 Tom Hoge (32), $26,840 70-73-68-72—283 +3 Smylie Kaufman (32), $26,840 70-72-69-72—283 +3 Phil Mickelson (32), $26,840 69-74-70-70—283 +3 Daniel Summerhays (32), $26,840 71-70-70-72—283 +3 Paul Casey (25), $18,575 Honda LPGA Thailand Par Scores Sunday At Siam Country Club (Pattaya Old Course) Chonburi, Thailand Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 6,548; Par: 72 (36-36) Final Round a-amateur Lexi Thompson, $240,000 64-72-64-68—268 -20 In Gee Chun, $149,262 69-69-66-70—274 -14 Jessica Korda, $96,021 70-66-75-64—275 -13 Amy Yang, $96,021 66-69-70-70—275 -13 Haru Nomura, $56,251 72-66-71-68—277 -11 Chella Choi, $56,251 70-68-71-68—277 -11 Hee Young Park, $56,251 72-69-66-70—277 -11 Minjee Lee, $38,409 69-71-70-68—278 -10 Ha Na Jang, $38,409 69-69-70-70—278 -10 Xi Yu Lin, $33,097 71-68-69-71—279 -9 Q Baek, $30,644 65-71-75-69—280 -8 P. Phatlum, $28,601 72-70-72-67—281 -7 Angela Stanford, $25,986 73-73-70-66—282 -6 Kim Kaufman, $25,986 72-68-74-68—282 -6 Wei-Ling Hsu, $23,698 71-71-72-69—283 -5 Carlota Ciganda, $21,819 70-72-70-72—284 -4 Pernilla Lindberg, $21,819 69-70-71-74—284 -4 Na Yeon Choi, $18,496 73-71-71-70—285 -3 Kris Tamulis, $18,496 75-72-67-71—285 -3 I.K. Kim, $18,496 73-71-69-72—285 -3 Lee-Anne Pace, $18,496 74-68-71-72—285 -3 Anna Nordqvist, $18,496 69-75-68-73—285 -3 Candie Kung, $18,496 72-71-69-73—285 -3 Karine Icher, $14,750 72-74-71-69—286 -2 Sandra Gal, $14,750 74-71-71-70—286 -2

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Citadel’s Watcher to take hill against USC Sumter’s Jacob Watcher will take the mound for The Citadel today when it plays host to South Carolina at Riley Park in Charleston beginning at 7 p.m. The right-handed Watcher is 1-0 on the season, but with a 6.00 earned run average for the 5-1 Bulldogs. He’s pitched three innings with six strikeouts and three walks. Righty Adam Hill will start for 8-0 USC. He struck out 11

in six shutout innings in his college debut last week against Appalachian State. USC defeated Penn State 4-2 on watcher Sunday to sweep the series. Catcher John Jones went 3-for-3, including a 2-run single and a walk in the win. Jones earned National Player of the Week honors from

Collegiate Baseball and SEC Co-Player of the Week after putting together arguably one of the greatest weekends at the plate in school history. Jones reached base in all 14 plate appearances vs. Penn State, batting 1.000 (8-for-8) with six walks for an on-base percentage 1.000 as well. His slugging percentage was 1.750. The Citadel beat Siena 6-4 on Sunday to sweep the series. Sumter’s Philip Watcher start-

ed on the mound, allowing one run in three innings of work. He gave up three hits while walking three and striking out three. Jacob Watcher was 2-for-4 while Sumter’s William Kinney had a hit and a run batted in. Clemson 11 James Madison 2

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Sumter’s Jessica Harris (20) and the rest of the Lady Gamecocks will take on defending 4A state champion Spring Valley for the state title on Friday at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia beginning at 7 p.m.

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2.6 assists and 3.1 steals. Shantay Taylor is averaging At Colonial Life Arena From Page B1 a double-double of 14.3 points (in Columbia) Friday and 10.6 rebounds. Dominique 4A was more a surprise last seaHill averages 7.3 points and Girls (1) Spring Valley vs. (1) Sumter, son than this team getting team high 3.8 assists and 4.0 7 p.m. back to the threshold of desteals. Boys (1) Byrnes vs. (1) Irmo, 8:30 p.m. fending that title. The Lady Gamecocks are “I definitely believe it was a led by Harris and Kyra WilSaturday 3A couple of individuals last year son, both all-state performers Girls that put the team on its shoullike Hithe. Harris is averaging (1) Dreher vs. (1) Myrtle Beach, 5:30 p.m. ders and carried the team to a 11.4 points, a team high 5.6 asBoys state title,” said Long, who sists and 3.8 steals. Wilson (1) A.C. Flora vs. (1) Midland Valley, 7 p.m. has won seven state titles durleads in scoring at 11.6 and 2A ing her career. “This group steals at 3.9 while pulling Girls has really come together. This (1) Keenan 55 vs. (1) Bishop Engdown 7.1 rebounds. land, 2 p.m. is a more well-balanced team Kiara Jones is the leading Boys than last year’s team.” rebounder at 8.2 a game. Sum(1) Abbeville vs. (2) Timberland, 4 p.m. The Lady Gamecocks are ter also has five players aver1A 25-4 after beating North Auaging between 5.2 and 8.5 Girls (1) Christ Church 64 vs. (1) Timgusta 41-39 in overtime on points a contest. monsville, 11 a.m. Saturday to claim the lower Loudenslager said both Boys (1) Calhoun County vs. (1) state crown. teams are similar in the upHemingway, 12:30 p.m. “They’ve set the gold stantempo way they play and in dard of where you want be at,” the depth each possesses. SHS head coach Jason Loudplayed on the Sumter High “We try to create tempo, enslager said of Spring Valley. varsity as a freshman and a just like them,” he said. “November and December was sophomore, leads Spring Val- “They like to create tempo a long time ago. Both teams ley. Hithe, who has signed to and that’s what we want to have gotten better. It should be play collegiately with Central do. I think there are going to good on Friday night.” Florida, is averaging 18.2 be a lot of runs in this basketSenior Christian Hithe, who points per game, 5.2 rebounds, ball game.”

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picked up another point when Corbett was called for a technical violation. Brassseur then got a takedown to push his lead to 4-0 late in the period. “I was actually down 4-0,” Corbett said. “It didn’t look good for me at that point.” Corbett was able to pick up a point on an escape by the end of the period to make it 4-1. Corbett started on the mat to begin the final period and eventually escaped to make it 4-2. However, with under 30 seconds left, Corbett was still trailing by two points. That’s when he made his move and it paid off. “With 15 seconds left I took a shot,” Corbett said. “I was able to grab him and I bulled him over for the takedown.” That tied the match at 4-4 and sent it into overtime. And another overtime. And another overtime. And another overtime. The fourth overtime was called “ultimate decision,” according to Corbett. If the wrestler who started on the mat escaped within 30 seconds he got the point and the win, and if the wrestler on top held him down for 30 seconds he gained the point and the win. The other option was to start with both wrestlers standing in a neutral position and the first to score a point would win. Brasseur had the choice and he decided to start on the bot-

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tom. Corbett was able to maintain control for 30 seconds to pick up the point and the state title. “It just seemed like 30 seconds,” Corbett responded when asked if he thought the

30 secondds would never tick off the clock. “I’ve had times where it seemed to take forever, but this wasn’t one of them.” The Gamecocks’ Alex Perales finished fourth in the 285

three hits and three RBI in Clemson’s 11-2 win over James Madison on Sunday at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. The Tigers, who swept the series by a combined score of 27-4, won their fifth game in a row and improved to 5-1 on the season. The Dukes dropped to 2-5. Clemson will play host to 7-0 Wofford today at 7 p.m.

Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga. Lap length: 1.54 miles (Start position in parentheses)

hand out of the car to hold up three fingers. No. 3 was Earnhardt’s number, of course. And, in an appropriate twist, Johnson teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. crossed the line next, edging out Kyle Busch for the runner-up spot by mere inches. “I think dad would’ve liked Jimmie as a person,” Junior said, “but he certainly wouldn’t have enjoyed competing against him.” Next on Johnson’s bucket list: another series championship. By winning the second race of the season, he essentially wrapped up his spot in the season-ending Chase, where he’ll be attempting to join Earnhardt and Richard Petty as the only drivers to capture seven Cup titles. “The six that I have, I know how special and meaningful they are,” Johnson said. “If I have a chance to win a seventh and tie Petty and Earnhardt, that would be just monumental.” Polished and well-liked throughout the garage, Johnson would appear to have little in common with the Intimidator, a rough-and-tumble driver who didn’t mind making others mad and doing whatever it took to win the race — even if it meant knocking someone out of the way. “He didn’t get that Intimidator title by being nice to everybody,” quipped Rick Hendrick, the owner of Johnson’s No. 48 car. But Earnhardt Jr. thinks his father, if he had lived, would have become fast friends with Johnson. Certainly, he would’ve respected Johnson’s skills behind the wheel, which were on full display Sunday as he struggled to maintain control of his car on fading tires, having made his final green-flag pit stop ahead of everyone else in a strategic bid to snatch the

lead away from Kevin Harvick. “Knowing dad and knowing Jimmie’s character, they would’ve gotten along tremendously and dad would’ve thought the world of him,” Earnhardt Jr. said.

class. Perales defeated Spartanburg’s Grady Thomas 3-2 in the opening match before falling to eventual state champion Alan Salgaldo of Rock Hill 14-6 in the semifinals.

He beat Dehundray Steele of Westwood before losing to Stephen Garber of Riverside in the third-place match. SHS’s Trevor Keffer went 0-2 in the 132 class and Shyheim Perry went 0-2 at 160.

1. (19) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 330 laps, 44 points. 2. (16) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 330, 39. 3. (39) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 330, 39. 4. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 330, 38. 5. (7) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 330, 37. 6. (6) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 330, 37. 7. (9) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 330, 35. 8. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 330, 33. 9. (17) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 330, 32. 10. (5) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 330, 31. 11. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 330, 30. 12. (26) Joey Logano, Ford, 330, 29. 13. (14) Greg Biffle, Ford, 329, 28. 14. (15) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 329, 27. 15. (27) Aric Almirola, Ford, 328, 26. 16. (12) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 328, 25. 17. (18) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 328, 0. 18. (21) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 328, 23. 19. (13) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 328, 23. 20. (25) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 328, 21. 21. (2) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 328, 20. 22. (3) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 328, 19. 23. (11) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 328, 18. 24. (4) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 328, 17. 25. (23) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 328, 16. 26. (20) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 327, 15. 27. (22) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 326, 14. 28. (31) Chris Buescher, Ford, 326, 13. 29. (35) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 326, 12. 30. (34) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 325, 11. 31. (10) Brian Scott, Ford, 324, 10. 32. (33) David Ragan, Toyota, 323, 9. 33. (32) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 323, 8. 34. (30) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 323, 7. 35. (28) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 322, 6. 36. (29) Landon Cassill, Ford, 321, 5. 37. (36) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 318, 5. 38. (38) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 313, 3. 39. (37) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 312, 2. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 155.863 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 15 minutes, 38 seconds. Margin of Victory: Under Caution. Caution Flags: 3 for 3 laps. Lead Changes: 28 among 8 drivers.

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Golden State guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots over Oklahoma City forward Kyle Singler during the Warriors’ 121-118 overtime win on Saturday in Oklahoma City. Curry had 12 3-pointers, tying an NBA record.

‘Ridiculous’ Curry does it again for Warriors By CLIFF BRUNT The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — Somehow, Stephen Curry still has detractors. Perhaps this latest shot will quiet Oscar Robertson and some of the old-timers trying to discredit the Warriors superstar. Curry barely crossed halfcourt Saturday night before nailing a 3-pointer in overtime to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 121-118. Curry scored 46 points and drove a dagger through one of the playoff-bound Warriors’ toughest rivals. He also tied Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall for the single-game record with 12 3-pointers and broke his own record for 3-pointers in a season, setting the new mark at 288. Robertson said this week said on ESPN’s Mike & Mike show that players and coaches don’t know how to properly defend Curry, and the Warriors don’t really run plays or have a strategy. He suggested Curry wouldn’t be as effective in his day, when the game was more physical. Isiah Thomas and Stephen Jackson also recently downplayed the achievements of Curry and the Warriors. Thomas said weak perimeter defense in today’s NBA has made outside shooting easier, and Jackson suggested his 2007 Warriors could beat this season’s juggernaut. So Curry might not have convinced every star from yes-

teryear. After Saturday, though, it’s clear he has the respect of his peers. LeBron James tweeted, “(at) StephenCurry30 needs to stop it man!! He’s ridiculous man! Never before seen someone like him in the history of ball!” Dwyane Wade said, “Curry is UNREAL!!!!” Portland’s Damian Lillard added: “That boy steph somethin else lol” Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan: “He can’t be human.” Curry doesn’t think all that much of it. At this point, it doesn’t seem to matter where he pulls up. It’s more a matter of when. “Honestly, I don’t know exactly where I am, so it’s not like I’m calibrating in my head, ‘All right, 38 feet, 37, 36,”’ he said. “Just literally, you’ve got a sense of — I’ve shot the shot plenty of times, you’re coming across halfcourt and timing up your dribbles, and you want to shoot before the defense goes in. And that was pretty much my only thought.” Warriors forward Draymond Green thought Curry had time to get closer to the hoop before the release. “What was that, 40 feet?” Green asked. “That’s absurd.” Golden State guard Klay Thompson is beyond the point of being surprised anymore. “Everybody in this locker room, we’ve seen him practice from that range every day,” Thompson said. “He’s got the greatest range I’ve ever seen. He makes it look so effortless.” Golden State has the best 58-

game record in NBA history at 53-5 and became the first team since the 1987-88 Los Angeles Lakers to clinch a playoff spot in February, a Warriors spokesman said. The postseason berth was secured about an hour before Curry’s scintillating shot, when Houston lost to the San Antonio Spurs. That assured Golden State will finish no lower than eighth in the Western Conference. The shot simply added to an incredible day for the franchise. Curry, the league’s scoring leader and reigning MVP, missed about 6 minutes of the third quarter with a left ankle injury. He drove to the basket and rolled the ankle before Westbrook stepped on it. “It was a little nerve racking,” he said. “I wanted to make sure I was OK. I had to get it re-taped. It was painful.” Curry returned, of course, and finished the night 12 of 16 from 3-point range. He might have a chance to make even more 3s, but Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer in overtime that would have tied the game. If it all seems hard to believe sometimes, well, Curry understands. “I never would have thought at this point in the season I would be closing in on 300 and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “That doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve always tried to push the envelope and keep getting better, but a lot has to go right to get to this point.”

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga says he hasn’t been around the game long enough to anticipate how a team will play in March. He’s only in his 32nd season as a head coach. “I’m going to have to do this 20 or 30 more years before I get a feel,” Larranaga said with a smile Monday. It’s an unpredictable business, but Larranaga does have a good feeling about this year’s Hurricanes. Consecutive wins last week over ranked teams propelled them to a season-high No. 7 in this week’s poll, and allowed them to forge a tie with No. 8 North Carolina atop the Atlantic Coast Conference. With road wins in their final two regular-season games at Notre Dame on Wednesday and at Virginia Tech on Saturday, the Hurricanes (23-5, 12-4 ACC) would be assured of at least a share of their second league title in four years. And Larranaga said his balanced, experienced team has the talent to win the national championship. “There is that potential,” he said. “The reason I say that is because right now there’s nobody ahead of us. It’s not like I look around and there are five or 10 teams much better than us. We think we’re in the strongest league in the country, and yet in a week we could be regular-season champions.” One reason for Larranaga’s optimism is that he considers guard play critical in March. The Hurricanes’ backcourt includes leading scorer Sheldon McClellan and Angel Rodriguez, the catalyst in their comeback victory Saturday over Louisville. That win helped the Hurricanes pull even with North Carolina, but they remain in a come-from-behind frame of mind. “We’re still the chasers,” forward Kamari Murphy said. “We still call ourselves that. We have a lot of self-motivation. We’ve got to finish strong.” Murphy and teammate Davon Reed smiled when informed they had climbed five spots in the latest poll and were back in the Top 10 for the first time since midseason. “I believe we lost the last time we were in the top 10,” Reed said. “It would be nice to be there for two weeks instead of one.” The Hurricanes briefly climbed to eighth in mid-

top 25 schedule No. 1 Kansas at No. 23 Texas, 9 p.m. No. 8 North Carolina vs. Syracuse, 7 p.m. No. 21 Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Games No. 3 Villanova vs. DePaul, 7 p.m. No. 4 Virginia at Clemson, 7 p.m. No. 6 Oklahoma vs. No. 19 Baylor, 8 p.m. No. 11 Louisville vs. Georgia Tech, 8 p.m. No. 12 Indiana at No. 16 Iowa, 9 p.m. No. 15 Purdue at Nebraska, 8 p.m. No. 17 Duke vs. Wake Forest, 8 p.m. No. 20 Texas A&M at Auburn, 9 p.m. No. 22 Kentucky at Florida, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s Games No. 2 Michigan State at Rutgers, 7 p.m. No. 7 Miami at Notre Dame, 7 p.m. No. 9 Oregon at UCLA, 9 p.m. No. 10 West Virginia vs. Texas Tech, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games No. 14 Maryland vs. Illinois, 7 p.m. No. 18 Arizona vs. No. 25 California, 9 p.m. No. 24 SMU vs. UConn, 9 p.m. Friday’s Game No. 23 Texas at Oklahoma State, 9 p.m. Saturday’s Games5 No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 21 Iowa State, 4 p.m. No. 2 Michigan State vs. Ohio State, Noon No. 3 Villanova vs. Georgetown, Noon No. 4 Virginia vs. No. 11 Louisville, 9 p.m. No. 5 Xavier vs. Creighton, 2:30 p.m. No. 6 Oklahoma at TCU, 1 p.m. No. 7 Miami at Virginia Tech, 4 p.m. No. 8 North Carolina at No. 17 Duke, 6:30 p.m. No. 9 Oregon at Southern Cal, 4 p.m. No. 10 West Virginia at No. 19 Baylor, 2 p.m. No. 13 Utah vs. Colorado, 9:30 p.m. No. 16 Iowa at Michigan, 8 p.m. No. 18 Arizona vs. Stanford, 4 p.m. No. 20 Texas A&M vs. Vanderbilt, Noon No. 22 Kentucky vs. LSU, 2 p.m. No. 25 California at Arizona State, 8 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 12 Indiana vs. No. 14 Maryland, 4:30 p.m. No. 15 Purdue vs. Wisconsin, 7:30 p.m. No. 24 SMU at Cincinnati, Noon

January and promptly endured back-to-back losses for the only time this season — at Virginia and at Clemson. They’ve gone 10-2 since. “We’re feeling very good,” Reed said. “Things are clicking at the right time. We’re definitely hitting our stride right now. Everybody is very confident and playing very well together.” Miami will play this week without sixth man Ja’Quan Newton, who is serving a three-game suspension for a violation of team rules. “We don’t replace him. We just tell Angel to play a lot more minutes,” Larranaga said. “Ja’Quan just had a fantastic regular season. I believe he should win the ACC sixth man of the year award.” Newton will be back for the ACC tournament next week. The Hurricanes say they will still be “the chasers” then — and even if they reach the Final Four. “The goal,” Reed said, “is to win it all.”

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Mitchell scores 24 in romp over LSU

Tigers in need of win over No. 4 Virginia By Scott Keepfer skeepfer@greenvillenews.com

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — As happy South Carolina players smiled and danced after completing a perfect run through the Southeastern Conference, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley made a vow to fans: “We’re not done.” Two-time SEC player of the year Tiffany Mitchell scored a season-high 24 points and the Gamecocks (28-1) became just the second 16-0 SEC champion after defeating LSU 75-39 on Sunday. Staley acknowledged the satisfying achievement — matching Tennessee’s 2011 run through the league — yet made sure her giddy players understood the challenges ahead. “The task at hand was being 16-0 in this league,” Staley said. “It’s the kind of focus you need when you’re trying to win a national championship because it doesn’t get any easier. It gets a lot harder as we take each step.” Next up is the SEC tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, before a likely NCAA top seed and a try at a second consecutive Final Four. “We’ve accomplished one of our goals this season,” Mitchell said of the undefeated SEC record. “But we’re not done at all. We have a lot more that we want to accomplish and that’s another (SEC) tournament championship and getting to the Final Four again.” Mitchell, a senior honored in her final regular-season home game, was in the thick of running past LSU (9-20, 3-13), scoring nine straight points in a 22-4 run midway through the second quarter. A’ja Wilson had 14 points and seven rebounds for the Gamecocks. Rina Hill scored 16 points for LSU, who made just 13 field goals in finishing with its second-lowest point this season. The Lady Tigers had not lost 20 games in a season since 1994-95. “It’s been a challenging year

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South Carolina forward A’ja Wilson (22) drives to the bassket against LSU on Sunday’ in Columbia. The Gamecocks won 75-39.

Women’s Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 28, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Rcd Pts Prv 1. UConn (32) 28-0 800 1 2. Notre Dame 28-1 756 2 3. South Carolina 28-1 747 3 4. Baylor 29-1 704 4 5. Maryland 27-3 662 6 6. Texas 26-2 642 8 7. Louisville 24-6 578 10 8. Oregon St. 25-4 550 7 9. Ohio St. 23-6 549 5 10. Arizona St. 25-5 499 9 11. Stanford 24-6 469 13 12. UCLA 22-7 437 14 13. Kentucky 21-6 415 15 14. Florida St. 23-6 414 12 15. Texas A&M 21-8 356 11 16. Mississippi St. 24-6 326 16 17. Syracuse 23-6 272 18 18. DePaul 24-7 236 19 19. Michigan St. 22-7 233 20 20. South Florida 21-7 157 21 21. Miami 22-7 150 17 22. Colorado St. 26-1 96 25 22. West Virginia 22-8 96 — 24. Oklahoma 19-9 81 23 25. Florida 22-7 76 — Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 38, UTEP 23, Green Bay 12, Arkansas St. 8, Florida Gulf Coast 6, BYU 4, Army 3, Indiana 3, James Madison 1, Princeton 1.

for us and we knew what we were up against when we came up against South Carolina,” LSU coach Nikki Fargas said. Mitchell’s point total, one shy of her career best, moved her into fifth place on South Carolina’s scoring list with 1,796 points. She’ll have a few more chances to improve before the senior is through as the Gamecocks look for a second straight SEC tournament title and a run at an NCAA championship. South Carolina got off to a slow start, hitting just one of

its first seven shots. The Gamecocks led just 14-11 early in the second quarter when Wilson and Mitchell sparked a 22-4 run to take control. Wilson had a basket followed by a three-point play before Mitchell hit a 3-pointer and a three-point play of her own. Mitchell had a second long-range basket and fellow seniors Tina Roy and Khadijah Sessions also hit shots from behind the arc to put the Gamecocks ahead 36-15. LSU struggled against South Carolina’s defense, going nearly four minutes of the second quarter without points. The Lady Tigers hit only two of the six shots they took in the quarter — and things got worse after halftime as they went 2 of 15 for the period.

TIP INS LSU: Lady Tigers have the fewest SEC wins since going 1-10 in 1994-95. ... Fun fact: LSU coach Nikki Fargas is married to son of Antonio Fargas, who famously played “Huggy Bear” on the 70s classic, “Starsky and Hutch.” South Carolina: Gamecocks again will finish as the top draw in women’s basketball, attracting 14,831 fans per game heading into its regular-season finale. Tennesse was a distant second — and the only other women’s team with more than 10,000 people per game — at 10,285. There were 16,240 here for LSU.

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CLEMSON – Late February has given way to early March, and Jordan Roper and his Clemson teammates are hoping to channel the Tigers from early January. That’s when Clemson reeled off five consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference victories, including wins against four ranked opponents. A similar streak will be necessary for the Tigers to backdoor their way into the NCAA Tournament, beginning Tuesday night against No. 4 Virginia. Such a task may be improbable, but not impossible. “We’ve shown that we can play with anybody and get hot and play very high-level basketball, and that’s what we plan to do,” said Roper, who will be playing in his final regular season home game. “We have no other choice if we want to play in the NCAA Tournament, and that has been our goal since the beginning of the summer.” Again, easier said than done, but the Tigers have performed quite well, thank you, at their home-away-fromhome – downtown Greenville’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena. Clemson is 13-3 this season at “The Well,” including a 7-1 mark in ACC games. “We play really well in Greenville,” Roper said. “We’ve become comfortable

Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 93, Seton Hall 60, Wichita St. 43, Saint Joseph’s 29, Notre Dame 14, Texas Tech 12, Cincinnati 4, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 3, Vanderbilt 3, UALR 2, Valparaiso 2, Dayton 1, Stephen F. Austin 1.

playing there.” A victory Tuesday night against the Cavaliers (22-6, 11-5) would give Clemson (1612, 9-7) a fifth win over a ranked ACC opponent, which would be the most since the 1979-80 team defeated five Top 25 teams. It also would mark the Tigers’ first triumph against a Top 5 team since Duke in 2009.

Keeping Sumter Beautiful By Breann Liebermann, Clemson Extension - Water Resources Agent Water 101 I’ve been writing articles for Keeping Sumter Beautiful for about a year. If you read this column regularly you know that I’m a “water resources agent.” But what do I actually do? Put simply, I educate people on water and what we can do to protect our water. Many of my articles talk about controlling pollution in stormwater. This week, I want to take a step back and explain what I mean by fancy terms like “stormwater” and “watersheds” and “pollution control.” When I visited family over the winter holidays, I polled them on three simple questions. What is stormwater? Where does stormwater go? And what is a watershed? Their answers varied widely and made me realize that I need to explain these concepts simply so we are all on the same page. So, what is stormwater? Stormwater is rain that falls on hard surfaces and does not soak into the ground. It travels across the landscape as stormwater runoff and picks up pollutants left on the ground like trash, chemicals, and sediment. My aunt was the only one that could answer that question, and she was spot on. Where does stormwater go? To prevent our roads and parking lots from flooding, stormwater drains into underground basins. Then through a series of pipes, stormwater drains out to nearby streams, rivers, ponds, or lakes. Stormwater often has pollutants in it, which get carried, into these local waterways. My sister didn’t know where stormwater went but jokingly

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MLB restricts chew as sky darkens for dippers By BEN WALKER The Associated Press

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The Atlanta Braves hope new outfielder Ender Inciarte will fill a hole at the top of the order.

Braves look to newcomer Inciarte for boost in runs By DICK SCANLON The Associated Press

ed. He didn’t have much of an offseason after being informed of the five-player KISSIMMEE, Fla. — If the trade that sent pitcher Shelby Atlanta Braves are going to Miller to the Diamondbacks. get out of the bottom of the “I don’t like to stop hitting,” National League scoring stats, he said. “I swing every single they might have to start at the day when I’m in Venezuela, top of the batting order. then in January I go to It’s a big part of the reason Tampa and do some workout they acquired Ender Inciarte preparation, physical stuff, to from Arizona in December. take care of my speed and re“If you look at our lineup, action and come here 200 perwe really don’t have that cent ready to go.” many options,” manager Inciarte joins a team that Fredi Gonzalez said Thursday scored only 573 runs in 2015, after the team’s first fullthe fewest in the major squad workout of spring leagues. His job, the way he training, “but I think Inciarte sees it, will be to get on base. gives us a really good option.” “Hopefully this year my onThat fits fine with Inciarte. base percentage can be bet“I love it,” he said. “I like to ter,” he said. “It’s not like last play the small game. I like to year (.338) was bad, but I feel run a lot and be able to bunt, like as a leadoff guy and a be able to do different good guy that wants to be on base, things at the plate.” it’s got to be better and that’s The 25-year-old center field- what I’m going to work on in er hit .303 in his second major spring training games.” league season, leading off in Switch-hitting shortstop 101 of the 116 games he start- Erick Aybar, another winter

trade acquisition, is another leadoff candidate. But Gonzalez intends to give Inciarte the first shot, at least against right-handed pitching. “He puts the ball in play, he’s got some speed, he hit .300,” Gonzalez said. “Just from playing against him, he seems like one of those guys who’s always in the middle of something or starting something.” Catcher A.J. Pierzynski is encouraged early in spring training. “I’m sure there are people around who don’t believe we’re any good,” the 39-yearold Pierzynski said, “but at the end of the day all you can do is control yourself and your team. If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. It’s not we came in this year and said, ‘Hey, we’re the World Series favorites.’ But we honestly believe we can compete every game and have a chance.”

this year, meaning players, team personnel, umpires and fans. The letter advises Red Sox pitcher Clay Buthe same ban will take effect chholz spit some chew into a at every California ballpark bottle at his locker, then in December. dipped into the latest notice “Major league players are from baseball. citizens,” Commissioner Big leaguers are now get- Rob Manfred said last week ting a written reminder in Arizona. “Municipalities that smokeless tobacco is pass laws. We expect that banned at stadiums in Bos- our players will comply with ton, San Francisco and Los those laws.” Angeles. Said new Dodgers managOne-page letters are er Dave Roberts: “I support being put in clubhouse it.” stalls throughout spring “I think that the intentraining, where there is no tions are there, and there’s prohibition. The notes come obviously going to be some jointly from Major League resistance with players,” he Baseball and the players’ said. union. “Like it or not, players are So, will Buchholz quit? role models, and we have a “That’ll probably happlatform as coaches and pen,” he said. “If you get players. So if that’s the law, reprimanded for something, then we definitely support there comes a time where it,” he said. you’re tired of paying fines Similar legislation has for something you don’t been proposed in New York have to do or doesn’t make City, and both the Mets and you any better.” Yankees say they back such “You’ve got to obey the a ban at their parks. In Torules or there’s consequenc- ronto, a city legislator said es to it. We’ll probably learn Monday that he plans to more about that when we pursue a ban that would get up North,” he said at cover the Blue Jays’ stadicamp in Fort Myers, Florium. da. Blue Jays manager John Washington Nationals Gibbons applauded the efmanager Dusty Baker was fort to cut down on chaw. He a big dipper for a long time. quit a couple years ago after He’s cut back over the Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn years, but still might pop in — a career-long dipper — a pinch when games get died at 54 of salivary gland tight. cancer. “It’s a bad influence for “I was a tobacco user for a the kids. Big time. I’ll say lot of years. I’m not proud that. But also they’re adults, of that. I finally was able to too, at the same time,” quit. It’s a dirty, filthy Baker said. habit,” he said. “We’ll see,” he said. “My “I wouldn’t want my kids daughter used to put water doing it. You hope in some in my can and put it back in way, they can eliminate it my truck. Or my son, he has and wipe it out. I’m sure lip check — ‘Get it out, there will be some fights Dad!”’ over that, especially in this Local laws will prohibit election year. I’m sure that’ll the use of all tobacco prodbe brought up. But, hey, if ucts at Fenway Park, Dodgyou can get rid of it, I’m all er Stadium and AT&T Park for that,” he said.

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 Friday. For more

information, call Iris R. Dargan at (912) 321-0837.

Perseverance Tryouts 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

Sunday 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 Clas-

sic 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 Today is the final day to register for the Sumter Family YMCA‘s indoor triathlon scheduled for on Saturday 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, 120under and 121-up. Registration will be taken at the YMCA or online at ymcasumter.org.

OBITUARIES ROGER A. GILETA BISHOPVILLE — Roger Allan Gileta, 68, husband of Loyda Gileta, died on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at McLeod Hospice House in Florence. Services will be announced by Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville.

at the Medical University of South Carolina. Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

He was a son of the late James Charlie Williams and Margret Pearson Williams. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Sumter Funeral Service Inc. The family will receive friends at the home of his sister, Margret Williams Simon, 220 Wendemere Drive.

LAURA ANN WILSON

LILIA G. YATES

ROBERT L. BAILEY Robert L. Bailey, 82, husband of Georgeena Jenkins Bailey, died on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, at his residence in Albany, Georgia. He was the youngest of nine children born to the late Paul and Lily Bailey. Mr. Bailey was the grandfather of LaTascia R. Bailey, William E. Richburg and Marqueez Wright. Funeral services will be held at noon on Thursday at Second Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 1010 Pretoria Road, Albany, with the Rev. Theodore Drake officiating. Courtesy announcement by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc.

JAMES DALTON James “J.D.” Dalton, age 70, died on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016,

Laura Ann Wilson, 29, died on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born on Feb. 23, 1987, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Walker Jr. and Deloris Wilson. The family is receiving relatives and friends at 503 Robney Drive and at James Village Apartments, Apartment 28. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

ISAAC B. WILLIAMS Isaac Bernard Williams died on Feb. 29, 2016, at Sumter East Health and Rehab Center.

TURBEVILLE — Lilia Gonzales Yates, 55, wife of Harry Edward Yates, died on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital. Services will be announced by Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, (803) 435-2179. www. stephensfuneralhome.org

HENRY B. HODGE SR. Henry Beather Hodge Sr., 81, entered into his eternal rest on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia. Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late Henry and Fannie Cockerill Hodge. Mr. Hodge was a skilled musician and singer and loved blue-

grass and gospel music. He was a member and deacon of Green Pond Baptist Church in Walterboro. He attended Providence Baptist Church and was a retired mechanic in the U.S. Naval Yard. Mr. Hodge was twice married, first to the late Bobby Bowen Hodge and later to Sena H. Hodge of the home, who survives along with a son, Henry B. Hodge II (Gwen); daughters, Ruth Barwick and Annie Judy, all of Sumter, Cindy Windham (Carl) of Lamar and Pat Taylor (Charles) of Littleton, North Carolina; a daughterin-law, Angie Hodge of Sumter; stepchildren, Larry Hill (Marcell) and Glenn Hill (Charlotte), both of Sumter, and Brenda Winton (Dennis) of Oklahoma; numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren; and special friends, Danny and Belinda Schuler of Walterboro. He was preceded in death by a son, Donnie Hodge; and a son-in-law, Horace “D.J.” Judy. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday

at Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Jim Williams, the Rev. Ron Lee and the Rev. Tom Vassar officiating. Burial will follow in Providence Baptist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home, 480 Banaca Circle. Memorials may be made to Providence Baptist Church Building Fund, 2445 Old Manning Road, Sumter, SC 29150 or to Green Pond Baptist Church, 12295 Green Pond Highway, Green Pond, SC 29446. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016

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Pregnant wife is confined by abusive husband DEAR ABBY — I’m 39 and seven months pregnant with my husband’s only child. Since becoming Dear Abby pregnant, I ABIGAIL have become somewhat VAN BUREN withdrawn due to depression. My doctor prescribed Paxil, but my husband won’t allow me to take it. I don’t leave the house unless I absolutely need to because he accuses me of cheating on him daily. Two nights ago he took a single female friend out to dinner and they were gone for five hours. It hurt my feel-

ings because in my view it was disrespectful on both their parts. When they got back, I was sitting outside and she wouldn’t even come to say goodbye to me. When I asked my husband why I hadn’t been invited, he said, “Neither of us wanted you there.” In his eyes he has done nothing wrong. He tells me I’m crazy and I need mental help. Am I wrong for being so upset? Not crazy in Texas DEAR NOT CRAZY — Not at all. It appears you are married to a controlling, emotionally abusive man who may be cheating on you. One of the hallmarks of philanderers is that they will accuse the innocent partner of cheating.

THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Feeling depressed during a pregnancy under these circumstances isn’t surprising. (If you felt any other way, you WOULDN’T be normal.) That your doctor would prescribe an antidepressant and your husband would “not allow” you to take it is alarming. If you have close friends and family, I urge you to tell them what’s going on. And while you’re at it, contact The National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) -- the phone number is 1-800-7997233 — because you may need help to get safely away. To receive a collection of Abby’s most memorable -- and most frequently requested -- poems and essays, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.

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Legal Service Attorney Timothy L. Griffith 803-607-9087, 360 W. Wesmark. Criminal, Family, Accident, Injury

Roofing Robert's Metal Roofing 35 Yrs exp. 45 yr warranty. Financing avail. Expert installation. Long list of satisfied customers. 803-837-1549.

Septic Tank Cleaning

Help Wanted Full-Time Premier Assisted Living Leadership Opportunity. Unique opportunity for Director position. Located in Sumter, SC, as part of a CCRC campus. 100% full with secure memory care available. Work under the direction of Ex. Dir.; no CRCFA license needed. Prefer experience with dementia related challenges. LPN or management experience in a CRCF or CCRC. Please forward Vita and salary requirements to: rlinder@covenantplace.org . CNA's- Full-Time, Part-Time / PRN, 7a-3p & 3p-11p shifts. Apply in person at NHC Healthcare Sumter, 1018 N. Guignard Dr., Sumter, SC 29150 (EOE)

Help Wanted Part-Time Light maintenance and work. Contact David 843-209-1692

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PT Cashier & PT Bartender Needed for Mariachi's of Manning. Call between 8 am - 5 pm for an interview (803)413-2503

Trucking Opportunities F/T Class-A CDL driver needed to haul poultry. Night Shift. Must have 2 years verifiable exp & good MVR. Call 803-857-1857 or 540-560-1031 or 804-784-6166

Septic Tank Cleaning Call the pros for all of your septic pumping needs. 803-316-0429 Proline Utilities, LLC

Tree Service A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721

STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net

P/T F/T Local Dump Truck Operator Wanted. Clean CDL and Experience a must! Retirees welcome. Send Resume to Box 435 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Medical Help Wanted Full time Medical Assistant back office position in a private Family Medicine practice. Knowledge of Allscripts software desired but not required; phlebotomy skills desired. Send resumes to: Box P-207 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales LARGE GARAGE SALE Every Weekend Tables $2 & $3 FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Open every weekend. Call 803-494-5500

For Sale or Trade 4 Cemetery plots for sale at Hillside or Evergreen Memorial Park. $1500.00 each. Call 803-468-7479 Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves. Guarantee 464-5439 or 469-7311. Open 7 Days a week 9am-8pm Burial Plot in Veteran Section at Evergreen Cemetery $1875 Call 803-481-2147 Evergreen Cemetery - Fountain - 4 lots for sale. Call 803-464-5960. Wall Unit Futon Bed Call before 9pm 803-481-4596 2 plots for sale in Iris Gardens Evergreen Cemetery. $4200 call 843-833-1434

Unfurnished Apartments Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette. 775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

Unfurnished Homes 1250 Coffey St, 3BR, 1BA, HV/AC, appl., NO PETS, $525+dep. 803-316-8105 20 Burgess Ct. 3BR 1BA $495 636-A Miller Rd 2BR 1BA $425 Both have Central heat & air 638-B Miller Rd 2BR 1BA $345. Central heat only. Call 803-983-5691 or 803-305-1581

Mobile Home Rentals Scenic Lake MHP 2 Bedroom 2 bath , No pets. Call between 9 am - 5 pm 803-499-1500

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2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

Help Wanted Full-Time

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Local Church Daycare seeking applicants for full time and part time positions. Previous childcare experience desired. Send Resumes to Box 436 c//o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Church Branch: 3 Br, screened porch, pier, swimming area, rent weekly. Call Bobby Sisson at 803-464-2730

Full time Groomer Needed Must be willing to work Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat. Please send resume to Box 434 c//o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151 Experienced plumber & helper, SC driver license a must. Call 803-720-4121

REAL ESTATE Homes for Sale

Meter Reader/Maintenance Worker. Small Rural Water Co. seeks full time individual to perform meter reading and maintenance duties. CDL and Certification in water distribution is a plus. Duties include, but are not limited to reading water meters, maintenance to water mains and services. Company provides paid employees benefits, holidays. Exp. preferred but not necessary, will consider all applicants. Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume and past salary history to Meter Reader Box P- 174 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151 Seeking FT class a CDL driver flatbed experience and knowledge of building materials preferred. Must have clean driving record. Apply in person at 1315 20th Century Lane Manning SC 29102

Public Hearing

Started home or rental 1250 Coffey St, Brick 3BR, 1BA, LR, DR, HV/AC, 1000sqft, quiet area. $49,900 Call 803-316-8105

02 Mazda Tribute. Super deal. Hurry, won't last long. Stk# M19545. $1,200 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter.com.

Sumter County Administration Building, 13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina, or at such other location within the said County as proper notice might specify. The said ordinance can be reviewed or a copy obtained from the Clerk to Council at the Offices of County Council on the third floor of the said County Administration Building. The public is invited to attend and participate in the public hearing.

LEGAL NOTICES

Dated this 19th day of February, 2016.

Legal Notice

6 Middle St. Must Sell 3 or 4 Br. 2 Ba. C/H/A. New construction. Financing avail. $330 mo. 464-5960

Manufactured Housing Turn your Tax Refund into your dream home! We have quality used refurbished mobile homes. We specialize in on the lot financing. Low credit score is OK. Call 843-389-4215 AND also visit our Face Book page (M & M Mobile Homes).

Mobile Home Lots 40 Percival Ct , fenced lot $15,500 Hook ups avail. 4325 Paige Dr, $12,500 well/septic 803-773-8022

Land & Lots for Sale Reduced Dalzell-Rembert 3 Mobile Home Lots remaining! Investors or individuals! Call Burch 803-720-4129 7am-7pm

TRANSPORTATION

07 Ford F150. Only 52K original miles, great condition for the year. Stk# A88036. $500 Down, $332.99/mo., 11% APR for 54 mo., $13,995, plus TT&L & $299 doc fee. WAC. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter.com. 97 Ford Expedition. Runs and drives. Solid truck. Stk# B15686. $800 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter.com.

Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on March 17, 2016 personal and/or business property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools and other household / business items located at the properties listed. The sale will begin at 2:00 pm at 1143 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29153. The personal goods stored therein by below named occupant(s); 1143 N.Guignard Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 208 - Graham, Ngogi 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 A047 - Wright, Synthia F052 - Ellis, Jeffrey 3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0108 - Maddox, Roney Derrick 0127 - Mcfadden, Katrina 0154 - Howland, Neala 0339 - Starks, Katrena 0423 - Newby, Brigitte 0708 - Richburg, Patrick 0737 - Clark, Guss 0828 - Myers, Angel Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to adjournment.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01526 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Grow Financial Union,

15 Nissan Frontier SV Crew Cab. Only 4K miles! Like new. Stk# 744181. $20,000 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter. com.

Autos For Sale 06 Honda Accord. 4 door auto. Good looking car. Stk# 033028. $2,500 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.UsedCarsSumter.com. 07 Chrysler Sebring Touring. Low miles. Sunroof. Very nice. 4 dr. Auto. Stk# 568758. $3,000 cash. Plus TT&L and $299 doc fee. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.Us edCarsSumter.com. 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.

Federal

1387 Raccoon Rd. Mayesville area. Must Sell! 3 br, 1.5 ba, lg bldg in side yard, 1 ac lot with pond. C/H/A, Fin avail. No dwn pymt. $431 mo. Call 464-5960

A nice 3Brd, 2Ba DW mobile home with land. Must quailify for bank financing. $74,900 Call 803-469-6973

Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim. Estate: Mozell Lenora Gadsden #2016ES4300122

Defendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their office, Post Office Box 2599, Lexington, South Carolina 29071, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on October 20, 2015. SHERPY & JONES, P.A. Sabrina E. Burgess Attorneys for Plaintiff

17 Blank Street Valley Stream, NY 11580 Estate:

Estate:

16-844 - An Ordinance To Abandon And Convey A Portion Of Old Clarendon Road To The Adjoining Property Owner.

PINEWOOD PANOLA & RIMINI If you have good, dependable transportation, a phone in your home, and a desire to earn extra income

20 N. Magnolia St. Sumter, SC

James Jerome Prince #2016ES4300120

Alice T. Norris #2016ES4300102

Personal Representative John E. Norris, III

C/O Ross M. Lindsay III Attorney at Law 4707 Oleander Drive Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Estate:

Diane Lee Hodgson #2016ES4300086

Personal Representative Anthony Marra

Ella B. Howard #2016ES4300091

Personal Representative Carolyn D. Howard

301 N. Progress Avenue Apt G-7 Harrisburg, PA 17109 Estate:

Manning Wilbur Sanders #2016ES4300125

Personal Representative Corey M. Sanders

C/O Garryl Deas Attorney at Law PO Box 1211 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

Kenneth F. Duffy #2016ES4300088

Personal Representative Sara L. Reames

C/O Kenneth Hamilton Attorney at Law PO Box 52359 Sumter, SC 29152 Estate: Willie James Kelley, Sr. #2016ES4300118 Personal Representative Willie James Kelley, Jr.

2558 dogwood Road Timmonsville, SC 29161 Estate:

Donald John Rogers #2016ES4300097

Personal Representative Farrell E. Jones

80 Lucky Court Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Estate:

Matthew Douglas Golden #2016ES4300084

Personal Representative Alphonso Golden

Pearl McInnis Nesbitt Turner #2016ES4300103

Personal Representative Woodrow M. Nesbitt

C/O Christopher R. Durant Attorney at Law PO Box 137 Manning, SC 29102 Estate: Louise Singleton Grant #2015ES4300500 Personal Representative David Grantt

C/O Kenneth R. Young, Jr. Attorney at Law 23 West Calhoun Street Sumter, SC 29150

2736-2 Jobee Drive Charleston, SC 29414

Estate:

Isobel S. Stewart #2016ES4300124

Personal Representative Ann R. Timmons

C/O Glenn Givens Attorney at Law 107 North Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

650 North St. Paul Church Rd. Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Marvin Earl Wade #2016ES4300114

Personal Representative Corine Funcherss

C/O KelseyO. Willey Attorney at Law PO Box 714 Charleston, SC 29402

Estate: Samuel Howard Boykin I #2016ES4300116 Personal Representative Ryan T. Boykin

37-A Althea Circle Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:Florence Ogburn Reding #2016ES4300105

Estate:

Personal Representative Julia Hinkle

Personal Representative Charles Lee Brunson

55 Wilder Trail Pawleys Island, SC 29585 Estate:

Monica P. George #2016ES4300094

Personal Representative Patricia G. Walters

746 Tallwood Road Charleston, SC 29412

Essie Mae Brunson #2016ES4300123 907 Toms Creek Road Hopkins, SC 29061

Estate:

Julia Hinson Pate #2016ES4300090

Personal Representative Joan Pate-Lyons

2286 Winters Hill Road Manning, SC 29102

Estate:Ernest Wayne Ledbetter, Sr. #2016ES4300119

Estate:

Personal Representative Ernest Wayne Ledbetter, Jr.

Personal Representative Lee A. McLeod

604 Wotan Road Columbia, SC 29229-3350 Estate:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County Council for Sumter County, South Carolina, will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, March 22, at 6:00 O'clock P.M., or as soon thereafter as practicable, as said hearing can be convened, in connection with:

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Personal Representative Sharon Renee Prince

Public Hearing NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE #16-844

Estate Notice Sumter County

Personal Representative Paulo M. Gadsden

Credit

vs.

Call Lori Rabon at 774-1216 or Apply in Person at A good investment or starter . 2BR 1BA master/ walk in closet. $55,000 OBO Call 912-980-4386

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Latoya M. Davis,

CONTRACTOR WANTED!

McGhaney,

Estate Notice Sumter County

Summons & Notice

Plaintiff,

15 Toyota Tundra SR5. Low miles. If you drive it you'll buy it. Stk# 083186. $2,000 Down, $588.05/mo., 7.9% APR for 72 mo., $34,995, plus TT&L & $299 doc fee. WAC. Call 866-224-5963 or visit us at www.Us edCarsSumter.com.

The County Council for Sumter, S. C. By: Vivian Fleming Chairman Sumter County Council Mary W. Blanding, Clerk to Council

1245 Monterey Drive Sumter, SC 29154

This public hearing will be held in the Chambers of the said County Council on the third floor of the

Nesbitt Transportation is now hiring Class A CDL Drivers. Must be 23 yrs old and have 2 yrs experience. Home nights and weekends. Also hiring experience diesel mechanic. Call 843-621-0943 or 843-621-2572 Positions Available roofer/roofer helper, plumber/plumber helper, carpenter/carpenter helper & part-time auto mechanic. Apply in person at Roofco 1345 N Pike E , Sumter

Autos For Sale

Vans / Trucks / Buses

RENTALS MERCHANDISE

Homes for Sale

Eddie L. Arrants, Jr. #2016ES4300100

Personal Representative Yvonne Boyce

Doris Josephine Sansbury #2016ES4300110 2 Wharfside Street 2-A Charleston, SC 29401

Estate:

3201 Edby Road Fairbank, AK 99709 Estate:

Mary I. Burress #2016ES4300107

Personal Representative Lisa L. Allbritton

PO Box 1973 Sumter, SC 29151

Minnie B. House #2016ES4300111

Personal Representative Jasper Briggs

C/O Michael Jordan Attorney at Law 10 Law Range Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Harold T. Billups #2016ES4300104

Personal Representative Josephine Billups

17 West Moore Street Sumter, SC 29150

ROUTE OPEN IN Hwy. 15 N., & Dubose Siding Areas GREAT FOR PERSON LOOKING FOR EXTRA INCOME If you have good, dependable transportation and a phone in your home, apply in person at:

Circulation Department

20 N. Magnolia Street Sumter, SC 29150 or call Dean Benenhaley at (803) 774-1257