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Not quite their time Turkeys OK after fire breaks out at farm

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BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Less than a week before Thanksgiving, hundreds of young turkeys must have wondered whether their time was up Friday when a turkey farm they were living in caught fire.

But they will surely give thanks that they will live to see another day.

Firefighters were called to Prestage Farms on Frances Poole Road when a small fire broke out in the ceiling of a confined turkey farm.

The fire filled the building with smoke, but by the time firefighters got there, the burned area had apparently fallen from the ceiling and put itself out, according to Shaw Air Force Base Assistant Fire Chief Greg Farley.

Property owners opened ventilation doors on each end of the turkey coop to air it out while firefighters pulled some of the ceiling insulation material down to make sure the fire was out.

Farley said it appears a heating unit in the ceiling shorted out and caused the fire.

No turkeys were injured in the fire, Farley said, and a turkey farmer shooed the turkeys away from the burned area while firefighters performed their duties.

Besides Shaw, firefighters were also dispatched from Horatio, Dalzell and Rembert stations. Fifteen firefighters responded.

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A Shaw Air Force Base firefighter checks insulation around a fire damaged area in the ceiling of a turkey farm on Frances Poole Road on Friday afternoon. Shaw Air Force Base and Sumter Fire and Rescue firefighters arrived to find that the blaze had fallen from the ceiling and put itself out, but checked to make sure there was no further danger. No turkeys were harmed in the fire.

Wilson Hall welcomes Metaxas

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Eric Metaxas, national radio host and author of four New York Times bestselling books, brought a message encouraging Christians to stand up for their beliefs, saying “the American church has effectively been asleep,” and “if it sleeps long enough, the power of the state will take away the ability of the church to stand up and to speak.”

Metaxas was the featured speaker at the sixthannual Wilson Hall Mission Series on Thursday at the school. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy,” which has sold more than a million copies and translated into 19 languages.

The book tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author in Nazi

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Germany who worked to dismantle Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich from the inside. Metaxas discusses Bonhoeffer’s decision to leave the United States to return to Hitler’s Germany to oppose the Nazi regime.

Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and executed in 1945.

Metaxas said when he was writing the Bonhoeffer

book, he began to notice a parallel of religious liberty.

“How can a nation allow itself to be bullied by the state in such a way that what was once a robust Christian nation, Germany before Adolf Hitler, to begin to totter and eventually fall over and allow the state to take over and impose its values?” he said.

Metaxas said Bonhoeffer was similar to an old testament prophet speaking to the people of Germany and saying to them, “Church, you must wake up and be the people of God.” “If the German church had stood up when it was time to stand up, what happened would not have happened, because the German church had tremendous power and number of people, but they were timid,” he said.

Metaxas said the U.S. is

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The South Carolina JobsEconomic Development Authority is proposing to issue a $240 million Hospital Revenue Bond to Palmetto Health, in part to fund acquisition of the Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter.

An inducement resolution for the proposed bond was considered at a meeting held by telephone Wednesday, according to an agenda available on the agency’s website, http://scjeda.com.

A public notice advertised in The Sumter Item lists an item that would be financed by the proposed bonds as “to finance or refinance the acquisition of certain assets of Tuomey d/b/a Tuomey Healthcare System and Tuomey Medical Professionals …” and to “refund certain taxable indebtedness issued

by JEDA, the proceeds of which were issued by JEDA to finance or refinance the Tuomey Acquisition …” Another proposed use of the bonds is for an item designated as “the Project,” which is intended to finance the “additions, expansion and enlargements to current hospital facilities in Sumter and Richland counties.”

David Kates, an attorney with the bond firm Chapman & Cutler, said about 75 percent of the bond proceeds would be used for the Tuomey acquisition, but he said he did not know how much that would be.

He said using public entities such as JEDA and Sumter County to issue the bonds allows them to be tax-free according to state and federal regulations, meaning those

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S.C. unemployment falls to 5.6 percent, a 7-year low

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s unemployment rate has fallen for the fifth month in a row.

The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce said Friday that the state’s jobless rate was at 5.6 percent in October.

That’s a tenth of a percentage point down from its 5.7 percent mark in September.

The new rate also represents South Carolina’s lowest unemployment since June 2007. Nationally, the unemployment rate dropped from 5.1 percent to 5.0 percent.

In October, the number of employed South Carolinians increased by more than 7,800 to a record level of more than 2.1 million.

Locally, the Sumter Metropolitan Statistical Area saw a slight nudge in the opposite

direction, with an increase in the non-farm, seasonally adjusted jobless rate of 0.26 percent. The MSA saw the same 0.26 percent jump year-overyear since last October, according to the monthly report.

Sumter County held steady at 6.9 percent, unchanged from September, while Clarendon’s and Lee’s rate ticked up a bit. Clarendon suffered the largest uptick, threetenths of a percent, to 7.6 percent from 7.3 percent, and Lee nudged upward to 8.0 percent from 7.9 percent, according to the SCDEW release.

Workforce officials say the professional and business services sector added 6,700 jobs during the last month.

Education and health services grew by 2,700 positions.

Compared to a year ago, seasonally adjusted, nonfarm jobs were up 57,100.

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FEMA center to close until relocated The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced the Sumter Disaster Recovery Center, 700 W. Liberty St., will close today at 7 p.m. and will remain closed until a new location is determined.

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Man charged with trying to hit victim with ax Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Sumter man Friday for allegedly attempting to strike someone with an ax.

A warrant issued Friday alleges while on Jerry Street in MOSES Sumter County, 55-year-old John Moses assaulted the victim with his fists and attempted to hit the victim with an ax while threatening his life on Wednesday.

Moses, of 42 Jerry St., was transported to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and is charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

Organization helps local girls train for 5K and their futures

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com The staff at the Alice Drive Fire Station received cookies and thank you cards from several Alice Drive Elementary students Thursday as a token of appreciation for their service.

The nine students participate in Girls on the Run, a national organization established in 1996 in Charlotte that strives to get young girls to recognize their true potential.

Kim Johnston, a fifth-grade teacher at Alice Drive and GOTR coach, said delivering the gifts is part of the girls’ community service activities. After exchanging thank yous, the fire fighters described their duties to the girls.

“We work our whole careers waiting for surprises,” Lt. Judson Coker. said The girls listened to the alarm that alerts the fire fighters to an emergency and got an up-close look at the jaws of life.

When the GOTR team is not being active in the community, it is training for a 5K run that will signal the end of their season on Dec. 1. Johnston said the girls have met twice a week since September to train for the Girls on the Run 5K that takes place today in Columbia. All GOTR teams throughout the state will participate in the run, she said.

The Alice Drive team started with walking and graduated to running.

Johnston said the team has made training fun by providing incentives such as bead bracelets and spraying different colors in the girls’ hair when they completed a lap.

“The girls are really excited about it,” Johnston said. “They’ve worked so hard.”

The local team, sponsored by GOTR in

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The Girls on the Run team from Alice Drive Elementary School baked cookies and wrote notes of thanks to firefighters for their service as part of a community service project. The girls surprised the Alice Drive Fire Station with the gifts Friday.

Columbia, started this year after Alice Drive Principal Suzanna Foley thought it would be a great opportunity for girls, she said. Johnston said the Alice Drive team is the only team in Sumter, but the Columbia sponsors have expressed that they want more local schools to start teams.

Johnston said GOTR is good for the girls to build self-esteem and find positive ways to deal with the negativity associated with appearances in media. The girls are learning how to be good friends at all times and what’s on the inside is most important, she said.

Third-grader Helen Grace Gannaway said GOTR has helped her and the other members realize their talent.

“We know who we can be in the future,” she said.

DR. WENDELL M. LEVI JR. • 1927 - 2015

Surgeon remembered for skill, philanthropy Dr. Wendell Mitchell Levi Jr., a general and thoracic surgeon that practiced in Sumter for 40 years and founder of Sumter Surgical Associates P.A., is remembered as a kind and generous man who went beyond the call of duty for his patients.

“He loved all people,” said Betty Caulkins, who worked with Levi as a nurse for many years.

Levi, 88, died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer.

Caulkins described Levi as a physician who was very thorough with his work, “leaving no stone unturned.” She said that at the beginning of his career, he worked during a time when surgeons performed a variety of operations, from general to orthopedics.

“He dedicated his life to saving lives in the Sumter community,” said Kathryn Weinberg Levi, his wife of 57 years, in his obituary.

Fair Edmunds, who worked with Levi for about 25 years, described him as a brilliant, talented and empathetic person and surgeon. Dr. James Ellett, one of the original physicians at Sumter Surgical Associates, said Levi served as a mentor to him in his early years.

“I very much enjoyed working with such a skilled surgeon,” Ellett said. “He helped me develop techniques after I

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The late Dr. Wendell Mitchell Levi Jr., center, Sumter Surgical Associates founder, is seen with two of his partners, Dr. Gene Dickerson, left, and Dr. Mark Crabbe. completed my residency.”

Dr. Henry Moses said Levi welcomed him back when he finished his residency.

“I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for Dr. Levi,” Moses said.

Moses said Levi was a well-know physician who set the standard for surgeons.

“He was a wonderful surgeon who was dedicated to his craft,” he said.

Dr. Gene Dickerson, Tuomey Healthcare System’s chief medical officer, de-

scribed Levi as a kind man who always had something positive to say.

“He truly loved his community and was an extraordinarily skillful surgeon,” Dickerson said. “He was extremely generous with sharing responsibilities with the other surgeons at his practice.”

Sumter Mayor Joe McElveen described Levi as extremely loyal to his patients.

“His reputation as a surgeon was unparalleled,” McElveen said. “He was one of those rare intellectuals who had a broad interest in many subjects.”

“He was truly a good man, an honest man, who always tried to do the right thing,” said his son, Dr. Mitchell Levi, in his obituary. “He loved God; he loved his family; he loved helping people and his community through medicine, and after retirement through philanthropy.

He loved the outdoors and his farm.”

Upon his retirement at the age of 72, Levi became a full-time farmer at Sans Souci Plantation, the 18th-century summer home of the Rutledge family. Levi was also a philanthropist. He and his wife were charter members of Les Trente and members of The Assembly in Sumter. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the South Carolina Surgical Society.

Born on September 13, 1927, he was the son of the late Wendell Mitchell Levi and Bertha London Levi, of Sumter He graduated from Sumter High School in 1944. He briefly attended the Citadel before enlisting, at the age of 17, in the U.S. Army. He was on board ship, en route to Japan when Hiroshima was bombed. He was among the first troops to arrive in occupied Japan.

Upon his return, he enrolled at University of Virginia, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1950. Levi earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1954 and completed his internship at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He completed his surgical residency at MUSC and was chief resident from 1959 to 1960.

Levi served on the boards of The Congaree Land Trust, Shaw Air Force Base Restoration Advisory Board, Temple Sinai and Palmetto Pigeon Plant, founded by his father. He raised money to establish a fund for the maintenance and preservation of the historic Sumter Jewish Cemetery.

Levi and his wife established nursing scholarships through The Tuomey Foundation for Central Carolina Technical College.

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Justin Balido, peer health coordinator and senior health educator with Health Connected, speaks to a ninth-grade Teen Talk High School class at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, in October.

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High school sex ed now teaches ‘yes means yes’

BY LISA LEFF AND JENNIFER C. KERR The Associated Press BELMONT, Calif. — This is the new look of high school sex ed: A roomful of teens, 14-year-olds mostly, is told that a girl and boy meet at a school dance. The boy drives her home. They kiss. What happens next, over the girl’s protests, leaves him confused and her crying, no longer a virgin.

“Raise your hands if you think this was rape,” health educator Justin Balido asks the Carlmont High School freshmen, drawing them into a debate that has preoccupied college administrators, lawmakers and the courts.

Sex education in American schools is evolving beyond slideshows on reproductive biology and lectures on avoiding pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The new focus: teaching students communication skills, such as the “yes means yes” standard for seeking and giving consent during intimate encounters.

After taking hold on college campuses, “yes means yes,” also known as affirmative consent, is trickling down to high schools and even some middle schools, as educators seek to give students tools to combat sexual violence.

“Yes means yes” means sex is consensual only when both partners are sober and clearly state their willingness to participate through “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement,” every step of the way.

Are high schoolers ready for this? Many groups that promote an abstinence approach to sex education think not.

They worry that the effort to prevent sexual assaults is giving too many teenagers the idea that sex is OK. “In the midst of this conversation, are the root causes being addressed? I would argue that they really aren’t,” Valerie Huber, president of Ascend, formerly called the National Abstinence Education Association, said. “This discussion is getting reduced to a palliation rather than a solution.”

The impetus for redefining mutual consent was pushed on college campuses by activists who reported being raped by fellow students. But younger teens and children are by no means immune: The U.S. Education Department is currently investigating 53 sexual violence cases at 51 elementary and secondary schools in more than two dozen states, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio and Texas.

“I have seen a crying need for students to be safe and prepared, and for their schools to ensure that all students on a campus understand what is acceptable at the school and ways to be made safe,” said Catherine Lhamon, the department’s assistant secretary for civil rights.

Sexual violence was the top policy focus among the 163 sex ed-related bills introduced in statehouses this year, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council.

Nearly two dozen bills covered instruction in healthy relationships, communication, or consent.

California is the first U.S. state to require “yes means yes” instruction in public high schools, starting next year.

Lawmakers in Michigan, Minnesota and Oklahoma have introduced similar legislation, and at least 19 states require some kind of training on healthy relationships, according to the National Conference

of State Legislatures.

“Young boys and young men, I don’t think they get to a college campus and all of a sudden start acting out sexually irresponsible behavior. It starts way earlier than that,” said California Senate President Kevin de Leon, the author of the state’s college and high school affirmative consent laws.

California and New York are the only states requiring affirmative consent on college campuses, but many colleges nationwide have voluntarily adopted the same standard to better handle sexual violence.

The U.S. Education Department takes no position on “yes means yes” or “no means no.”

Its guidelines simply encourage age-appropriate training in elementary and secondary schools, including clear explanations of the consequences of unwanted sexual conduct and each school system’s definition of consent.

Some in Congress want to make sure students learn to avoid date rape beginning in middle school. As part of a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law, the Senate voted to require schools applying for federal funds to reduce violence and drug abuse to describe how they educate students to clearly communicate about sex, and prevent coercion, violence, or abuse.

“Sex ed stuff is a subject for skittishness among some, but we’re talking about crimes here. We’re talking about crime prevention,” said Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who co-sponsored the provision with his fellow Democrat, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

“We assume people just know good or bad behaviors because it’s in the ether, but ... people need to be taught appropriate behaviors, what’s right, what’s wrong, what are lines you don’t cross.”

Sol Messinger was just 7 when he stood with his father at the rail of the ocean liner St. Louis and stared into the gathering darkness.

But nearly eight decades later, Messinger still recalls the lights of Miami glittering off the bow, so near to him and more than 900 fellow Jewish refugees aboard, yet beyond their reach.

Today, “I look out into the ocean and I get this queasy feeling,” says Messinger, whose family escaped Europe for the U.S. three years after American officials turned away the vessel in 1939. Now 83, he is a pathologist in Buffalo, New York.

“The Jews did not pose any threat to the U.S... It’s really unforgivable.”

Now, fresh angst about whether to admit refugees or turn them away has put the spotlight back on the shunning of the St. Louis and other decisions, now widely regretted, by U.S. officials before and during World War II. A week after the Islamic State terrorist group killed 130 people in Paris, a backlash against the U.S. admitting Syrian refugees — most of them Muslims — has fueled a bitter debate, with politicians, pundits and others drawing lines between present and past.

There are differences between now and then. But disturbing similarities between the rhetoric of today and the attitudes of the U.S. public and officials during World War II make that history worth recalling, scholars say, as the country confronts new fears of terrorism.

“No historical parallel is perfect, obviously,” says Allan Lichtman, co-author of “FDR and the Jews” and a professor of history at American University.

But U.S. limits on refugees during World War II, influenced by anti-Semitism, were fed by fears the Nazis “would plant agents, spies and saboteurs among the

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Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, in September.

Jewish refugees and that they would pressure the Jews, particularly those whose families were still in Germany, to act as agents on behalf of the Third Reich,” Lichtman said.

“Those arguments are chillingly similar to the arguments being made against the admission of the Syrian refugees.”

Lichtman isn’t alone in making the comparison.

On Monday, an Ohio professor, Peter Shulman of Case Western Reserve University, used Twitter to post results from a 1938 public opinion poll showing Americans overwhelmingly rejected admission of German Jews in the years leading up to the outbreak of war.

The reaction “was instantaneous and totally overwhelming. It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before,” said Shulman, who was been posting historical tidbits for about two years.

One of his tweets of the decades-old polling data has been relayed 4,600 times, cited by commentators in The Washington Post, Time and other publications.

“When we sent Jews back to Germany and when we sent Japanese to internment camps, we regretted it and we will regret this as well,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, said before 47 House Democrats and 242 Republicans voted this week for a bill to put new security limits on a plan by President Obama to admit 10,000 Syri-

an refugees over the next year.

On Wednesday, New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, criticizing a number of Republican governors for opposing admission of Syrian refugees, cited the 1938 poll — in which 67.4 percent of Americans said the U.S. should try to keep German and Austrian refugees out of the country and 61 percent opposed allowing 10,000 German Jewish children to enter.

“We are not going to make that mistake in our time, and voices of intolerance and voices of division are not going to cause us to do something that is against our values,” DeBlasio said.

The comparison has been rejected by some critics.

“This is prima facie nonsense,” Ian Tuttle wrote Wednesday in the conservative journal National Review.

“The first and most obvious difference: There was no international conspiracy of German Jews in the 1930s attempting to carry out daily attacks on civilians on several continents.”

But debate was stoked further when the Democratic mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, David Bowers, noted the U.S. detention of thousands of Japanese-Americans in camps in a call to bar Syrian refugees.

“It appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Bowers said in a statement issued Wednesday.

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Enough (‘02, Drama) aac Jennifer Lopez. An abused woman trains to Enough (‘02, Drama) aac Jennifer Lopez. Abused 181 Maid in Manhattan (‘02, Romance) aa Jennifer Lopez. An upper class politician falls in love with a lower class single mother. protect herself against her violent husband. woman trains to protect herself.

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A few nods to Thanksgiving before Christmas onslaught

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Christmas movies come in many flavors, but Thanksgiving movies, what few of them get made, all seem to have the same theme. They usually revolve around family discord and dysfunction brought into focus by a self-involved character’s reaction to the somewhat forced togetherness the holiday requires.

The best of the Christmas genre tend to glow with a holiday cheer laced with nostalgia that not merely transcends economic woe, but seems to require it. The Dickensian backdrop of Scrooge, the Depression setting of “A Christmas Story,” and the impending doom of Pottersville featured in “It’s a Wonderful Life” come to mind. Thanksgiving movies teach us that materialism and plenty cannot shield us from heartache if our emotional priorities and familial relations are out of joint. It’s interesting to note that “Miracle on 34th Street,” considered a “Christmas” movie by many, begins with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, making it a movie fit for both holidays. And since it qualifies as a “Thanksgiving” movie, it features divorce and disbelief, fairly daring subjects for a family Hollywood film made in 1947.

Based on a script by the late creator of both “The Muppets” and “Fraggle Rock,” “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow” (8 p.m., Saturday, Lifetime, TV-PG) offers the latest variation on the Thanksgiving fugue. It also gives Lifetime a chance to air a Hallmark movie, a tale of city sophisticates made better by the slow-lane values of country living.

A newly single workaholic dad (Jay Harrington) drags his children to his eccentric aunt’s (Mary Steenburgen) remote country house for the holidays.

He says they need “togetherness” after the divorce (a word he can’t use), but he’s really counting on Aunt Cly to babysit them while he works through the long weekend. His eye-rolling teenage daughter, Annie (Genevieve Buechner), is horrified by the lack of social media. Make that any media. Cly doesn’t even own a TV and has to teach Annie the meaning of a “rotary phone.”

But young son Tim (Graham Verchere) finds the isolation

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From left, Thwring, Graham Verchere, Squonk and Burble star in the all-new Lifetime Original Movie “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow,” premiering at 8 p.m. today on Lifetime. enchanting, particularly the local tall-tale legend of the “Howling Hoodoo,” said to haunt the woods. This takes the plot in slightly fantastic directions, but does not stray so far into the forest as to miss the big meal and all the required reconciliations.

For reasons that make no sense whatsoever (except, perhaps to producers, agents and focus groups), the rapper Ludacris appears, to introduce the film on-screen and provide narration.

• As if to prove how quickly Thanksgiving movies are forgotten, NBC airs “Free Birds” (8 p.m., Saturday, TV-PG). In this 2013 cartoon comedy, intrepid turkeys embark on a time-traveling rescue mission to the year 1621 to change history and save their feathered friends from becoming a holiday dinner tradition. The voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei and Colm Meaney animate this film that most critics found overdone and less than nourishing.

• As noted above, the search for “the true meaning of Thanksgiving” usually takes us either in the direction of family melodrama or historic re-creation. For extra helpings of the latter, don’t miss the four-part miniseries “Saints &

Strangers” (9 p.m., Sunday, National Geographic). This epic effort extolls the dangers faced

by Pilgrims taking a leap of faith into the unknown that brought them into contact with several rival Native American tribes both fascinated by and fearful of their new visitors.

Look for Vincent Kartheiser (“Mad Men”) as religious leader William Bradford, Anna Camp (“Pitch Perfect”) as his wife, Dorothy Bradford, and Ron Livingston (“Band of Brothers”) as John Carver, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony.

• ABC Family kicks off its “Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas” marathon with the beloved 1995 Pixar comedy “Toy Story” (8 p.m., Sunday), now celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Who” (9 p.m., BBC America, TV-PG).

• Fisher discovers her blood connection to the grim doings on “Ash vs. Evil” (9 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

• The new true-crime re-enactment series “Demons in the City of Angels” (9 p.m., Reelz, TV-14) recalls tales of Tinsel Town players and wannabes who followed their dreams but wound up in the city morgue.

• A fight to the finish on “The Last Kingdom” (10 p.m., BBC America, TV-MA).

• Berg and Jerome shed light on the fate of Victor’s family on “The Returned” (10 p.m., Sundance, TV-14).

• Matthew McConaughey hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring a performance by Adele.

SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • College football action includes Baylor at Oklahoma State (7:30 p.m., Fox) and Texas Christian at Oklahoma (8 p.m., ABC).

• An elf convinces a woman to keep her aunt’s holiday hostel running in the 2015 fantasy “Northpole: Open for Christmas” (8 p.m., Hallmark) starring Lori Loughlin, Bailee Madison and Dermot Mulroney.

• Lost in space on “Doctor

• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS): Police training for active shooters, militias fighting ISIL in Iraq and Syria, technology in Kenya.

• A fractured family is stranded by a blizzard over the holidays in the 2015 romance “Angels in the Snow” (7 p.m. and 9 p.m., UP).

• The 2015 documentary “The Hunting Ground” (8 p.m., CNN) examines sexual assault on America’s college campuses.

• The Cardinals host the Bengals in NFL action (8:20 p.m., NBC).

• Elizabeth becomes part of a cabal to topple the national security adviser on “Madam Secretary” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• A case draws Alicia into the abortion culture war on “The Good Wife” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• The Weeknd will perform the hit “The Hills” during the 2015 American Music Awards (8 p.m., ABC). Jennifer Lopez hosts the live broadcast, bestowing awards voted on by fans.

• Alexandria begins to unite on “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).

• Carrie turns to Allison on “Homeland” (9 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA).

• The death of a friend inspires Avery to target a deadly killer on “CSI: Cyber” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).

• M.K. finds a dangerous refuge on “Into the Badlands” (10 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).

• The host of “The Daily Show” shares observations in the standup special “Trevor Noah: Lost in Translation” (10 p.m., Comedy Central, TVMA).

• James feels ambushed by office politics on “Getting On” (10 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

CULT CHOICE TCM spends early Sunday morning with a slate of juvenile delinquent movies, beginning with the 1982 shocker “Class of 1984” (2:15 a.m.).

SATURDAY SERIES Guthrie’s son joins the staff on “Code Black” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Two hours of “48 Hours” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) * A vintage helping of “Saturday Night Live” (10 p.m., NBC, r, TV14).

SUNDAY SERIES Lisa loses herself to Broadway on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) * Nick Offerman guest-stars on “Brooklyn NineNine” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Sibling rivalry on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Phil stirs the pot on “Last Man on Earth” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

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Holiday albums to brighten your next party THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A review of holiday albums released this year.

KENNY ROGERS, “ONCE AGAIN IT’S CHRISTMAS” If country legend Kenny Rogers sticks to his guns, “Once Again it’s Christmas” will be his sixth and final holiday album, and bittersweet nostalgia infuses all 11 tracks.

The 77-year-old crooner recently announced his retirement and farewell tour, so this mix of mostly classic carols with traditional arrangements is one fans will savor. Highlights include “Some Children See Him,” with Alison Krauss adding angelic accompaniment, and “Children, Go Where I Send Thee,” featuring country a cappella band Home Free and a rousing clap-yourhands gospel beat.

Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles adds heat to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”; Rogers is backed by a choral arrangement on “Little Drummer Boy,” and soaring strings on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” His voice is a little softer and raspier than on his first Christmas album 34 years ago, but it fits with selections that make you want to curl up by the fire with a bourbon eggnog and the ones you love.

KYLIE MINOGUE, “KYLIE CHRISTMAS” Kylie Minogue’s first Christmas album is a very mixed bag of big band arrangements, awkward duets, better-than-expected novelty originals and evergreens hardly suited to her vocal limits.

Frank Sinatra is back for a shared “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” and his input really does sound recorded in the great beyond. Iggy Pop croaks through The Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping,” a very British-sounding, quality American pop tune, while James Corden lifts Yazoo’s “Only You,” hardly a holiday song.

“Every Day is Like Christmas” echoes “Viva La Vida”era Coldplay, no surprise as it’s by the consciously uncoupled Chris Martin. The Pretenders’ stirring “2000 Miles” gets a lush arrangement but Mi-

catchy vocals “Give me Christmas on an island, see me smilin” and will be the one fans can’t stop humming. The album’s digital version is an Amazon exclusive; Amazon and Walmart are selling the CDs.

nogue’s no match for Chrissie Hynde.

It would have made more sense to include the tunes Minogue helped write “White December” and “Christmas Isn’t Christmas ‘Til You Get Here” and maybe a couple more as bonus tracks on her next pop album because under the glossy gift wrap that’s all “Kylie Christmas” has worth keeping.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS, “BIG BAND HOLIDAYS”

THE BRAXTONS, “BRAXTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS” The Christmas album from Toni Braxton and her sisters will only make you wish they were working on a proper, fulllength R&B project.

“Braxton Family Christmas” is soulful and warm and the sisters’ harmonies are the album’s highlight. They sound like angels on “O Holy Night (A cappella)” and “This Christmas,” which opens the 8-track album. And Tamar Braxton, the youngest of the family clan, hits a high note so beautifully on “Mary, Did You Know?” you’ll have to reply it again and again.

Even on the original songs like “Every Day is Christmas” and “Under My Christmas Tree,” Toni, Tamar, Towanda, Trina and Traci sound epic and classic.

The sisters’ voices are so similar sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s who. But it doesn’t matter because though there are five of them, they sound united — like a real group should.

VARIOUS ARTISTS, “A PONY KIND OF CHRISTMAS” To the delight of Fluttershy fans everywhere, the “My Little Pony” Christmas album, “A Pony Kind of Christmas,” has arrived. The mythical land of Equestrian can now be filled with whimsical yuletide songs of yore, sung by cartoon ponies that essentially burp rainbows and chase each other on cable for a living.

It’s all in good fun as Rainbow Dash handles a decidedly rock-tinged rendition of “Jingle Bells.” The ponies punctuate the hook with a few well-placed yelps and go off the grid from the traditional lyrics just enough to keep the listener guessing.

Kylie Minogue’s first holiday album, “Kylie Christmas,” above, is a mixed bag of big band arrangements, duets and novelty originals. The Brian Setzer Orchestra’s “Rockin’ Rudolph” cover is seen.

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A fair warning for parents: You probably won’t know which pony is singing which song without a cheat sheet or help from your kids, which is probably half the fun. Your little ones may have to give you a heads up to remind you that is Fluttershy singing “Silent Night,” and not Pinkie Pie. There’s some original material here as well. The Phoenix Chamber Carol does a nice job backing the ponies on “The Heart Carol,” which is all about friendship, glowing hearts and the loyalty creed by which the ponies of Equestria all live. Fathers everywhere moonlighting as Bronies may get a little choked up as the ponies sing out valuable life lessons under the guise of a Christmas song.

“A Pony Kind of Christmas” is about as syrupy sweet a holiday album as you’ll find.

It’s clean fun.

Train’s 15-track holiday album jauntily careens through six-plus decades of sometimes obscure Christmassy songs, from covers of Elvis’ “Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me)” to British pop singer Tracey Thorn’s “Tinsel and Lights.”

In between are a soaring version of the classic “O Holy Night,” with frontman Pat Monahan sharing vocals with a background chorus, and three Train originals all with a contemporary Top 40 feel. On Joni Mitchell’s “River,” surely the most beautifully melancholy holiday tune, Monahan’s voice soars almost as high as hers; the opening keyboard is also reminiscent. Less well-known holiday fare includes The Band’s “Christmas Must Be Tonight” and Slade’s “Merry Christmas Everybody,” with arrangements sticking close to the originals, punctuated by Monahan’s distinctive croon.

Train’s own “Christmas Island” has a calypso beat and

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra open and close “Big Band Holidays” with two songs from the Count Basie repertoire, Ernie Wilkins’ arrangement of “Jingle Bells” and Basie’s original “Good Morning Blues,” with its holiday-themed lyrics sung by breakout star Cecile McLorin Salvant.

Salvant displays her vocal artistry on three other tracks, including the winter-themed “It’s Easy to Blame the Weather,” on which she channels Billie Holiday and scats smoothly with the JLCO playing in a swing style. Grammy-winner Gregory Porter belts out the R&B holiday standard “Merry Christmas Baby,” while Rene Marie goes from soft to growly on the Louis Armstrong-associated “’Zat You, Santa Claus?” with its New Orleans spices.

JLCO’s first-ever holiday CD, culled from its festive annual holiday concerts, offers familiar and unfamiliar songs arranged by band members in a variety of jazz styles with a rich palette of instrumental colors, including Ted Nash’s modernistic Coltrane-style arrangement of “We Three Kings” and Victor Goines’ more up-tempo version of “White Christmas.”

INDIA.ARIE, “CHRISTMAS WITH FRIENDS” India.Arie shows a smooth maturity on her first Christmas album, which benefits greatly from the jazz expertise of the late pianist and Crusaders founder Joe Sample.

Every track has one or more well-fitting guest artists, from Brandy on “Silent Night” and Take 6 baritone Khristian Dentley on “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” to instrumental backing from the likes of Trombone Shorty and Dave Koz.

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America’s Little Syria divided over acceptance of refugees

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Men look for a place to sleep in a crowded shelter for migrants deported from the United States in the border city of Nogales, Mexico. More Mexicans are leaving the United States than coming to the country, marking a reversal to one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history, according to a study published Thursday.

Study finds more Mexicans leaving the US than coming

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declared Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew’s director of Hispanic research.

The finding follows a Pew study in 2012 that found net migration between the two countries was near zero, so this represents a turning point in one of the largest mass migrations in U.S. history. More than 16 million Mexicans moved to the United States from 1965 to 2015, more than from any other country.

“This is something that we’ve seen coming,” Lopez said. “It’s been almost 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down.”

The findings counter the narrative of an out-of-control border that has figured prominently in U.S. presidential campaigns, with Republican Donald Trump calling for Mexico pay for a fence to run the entire length of the 1,954mile frontier. Pew said there were 11.7 million Mexicans

SAN DIEGO — More Mexicans are leaving than moving into the United States, reversing the flow of a half-century of mass migration, according to a study published Thursday.

The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including Americanborn children, left the U.S. for Mexico from 2009 to 2014. During the same five years, 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S., resulting in a net flow to Mexico of 140,000.

The desire to reunite families is the main reason more Mexicans are moving south than north, Pew found. The sluggish U.S. economic recovery and tougher border enforcement are other key factors.

The era of mass migration from Mexico is “at an end,”

living in the U.S. last year, down from a peak of 12.8 million in 2007. That includes 5.6 million living in the U.S. illegally, down from 6.9 million in 2007.

In another first, the Border Patrol arrested more nonMexicans than Mexicans in the 2014 fiscal year, as more Central Americans came to the U.S., mostly through South Texas, and many of them turned themselves in to authorities.

The authors analyzed U.S. and Mexican census data and a 2014 survey by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The Mexican questionnaire asked about residential history and found that 61 percent of those who reported living in the U.S. in 2009 but were back in Mexico last year had returned to join or start a family. An additional 14 percent had been deported, and 6 percent said they returned for jobs in Mexico.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A few days ago, a pastor asked Syrian-born restaurant owner Marie Jarrah to donate food to a welcoming event for recently arrived Syrian refugees. Jarrah, who said she regularly helps people in need, declined.

Like many of Allentown’s establishment Syrians, she doesn’t think it’s a good idea to bring refugees to the city. She clung to that view even before last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

“Problems are going to happen,” said Jarrah, coowner of Damascus Restaurant in a heavily Syrian enclave.

As debate intensifies nationally over the federal government’s plan to accept an additional 10,000 refugees from war-ravaged Syria, a similar argument is taking place in Allentown — one with a sectarian twist.

Pennsylvania’s third-largest city is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of Syrians. They are mostly Christian and, in no small number, support Syrian President Bashar alAssad — a dynamic that’s prompting some of them to oppose the resettlement of refugees, who are Muslim and say they fled violence perpetrated by the Assad regime.

Aziz Wehbey, an Allentown auto dealer and president of the American Amarian Syrian Charity Society, worries some Syrian refugees might have taken part in the fighting in Syria’s civil war and have “blood on their hands.”

“We need to know who we are welcoming in our society,” said Wehbey, who immigrated to the United States a quartercentury ago and became a citizen.

The Obama administra-

tion says refugees must undergo a rigorous screening process that can take years.

Nevertheless, the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to make it more difficult for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to come to America.

Refugees say that they are aware of the opposition of some of Allentown’s Syrians to their presence, but that they have not witnessed overt hostility or discrimination. Three refugees spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they worry the Assad government has informants in the city of about 120,000 — a widely held belief among Syrians here, both Christian and Muslim — and will retaliate against family back home.

The refugees said they’re here to make a new life for themselves, not to stir up trouble. They have formed their own miniature support network, with earlier arrivals helping newcomers. Dozens have resettled in Allentown since March, with dozens more slated to come.

“I hope that one day I’m going to be a citizen of this great country,” said one man, a married father of four.

The Muslim Association of Lehigh Valley, a mosque and school outside Allentown, has been working with the refugees, integrating them socially, sorting through donations of clothes, appliances and school supplies and enrolling them in English-language classes.

“There’s a lot of rhetoric, but we try not to even acknowledge the rhetoric, because right now there’s a crisis,” said Sherrine Eid, refugee coordinator at the Muslim Association. “We have much bigger fish to fry.”

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TUOMEY FROM PAGE A1 investors who buy the bonds pay no income taxes on the interest they receive.

No public tax money is involved, he said.

Sumter County Administrator Gary Mixon said a resolution will be introduced in the Sumter County Council to support the bond issue, but he was not sure when it might be on the council’s agenda.

Tuomey Healthcare System’s Board of Trustees voted to form a partnership with Palmetto Health, a nonprofit based in Columbia area, after the U.S. Fourth Circuit of Appeals affirmed in July 2014 a $237.4 million judgment against the hospital in Drakeford v. Tuomey. The whistle-blower lawsuit, which had national implications, led to Tuomey being found guilty of violating the False Claims Act and the Stark Law, which apply to health care entities which receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. The size of the judgment led a concurring judge on the court to call it a “likely death sentence,” for Tuomey.

In October the Justice Department and Tuomey announced an agreed settlement for $72.4 million.

Costs associated with the

acquisition of Tuomey have not been made public, said Tammy Epps, media relations manager for Palmetto Health. She said Palmetto was preparing to release more information concerning the benefits of the merger, most likely by the end of next week.

During JEDA’s Nov. 18 meeting, the board also considered a resolution concerning bonds issued to Tuomey Healthcare System.

The resolution would authorize the redemption of Series 1998 JEDA Bonds; the defeasance of Series 2006 JEDA Bonds; cancellation of Series 2008 JEDA Bonds; cancellation of related bond indentures; and to authorize the executive director to execute the Escrow Deposit Agreement and to “take any action required by the issuer and other matters related thereto.”

The public is invited to attend a joint public hearing to be held by JEDA and the Sumter County Council at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, in County Council Chambers, 13 E. Canal Street, on the bond proposal. The public may also submit written comments to: JEDA, 1201 Main St., Suite 1600, Columbia, SC 29201, or to Sumter County Council.

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Eric Metaxas, national radio host and author of four New York Times bestselling books, signs books after speaking at the sixth-annual Wilson Hall Mission Series on Thursday at the school. Wilson Hall student Wells Osteen (back) assists Metaxas during the book signing.

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of three other New York Times bestselling books, including “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life,” which ranked No. 12 on the New York Times bestseller list. He has also written for the “Veggie Tales” series and is host of the “Eric Metaxas Show,” a nationally syndicated daily radio program in 120 cities. Along with his colleague, John Stonestreet, Metaxas is the voice of “BreakPoint,” a radio commentary broadcast on 1,400 radio outlets, with an audience of eight million people.

no more evolved than Germany of the 1930s.

Metaxas said the Bonhoeffer book says to the church in America, “you have freedom right now, but you will not have it forever. If you don’t use it when you have it, at some point, it will be too late.”

Metaxas said the Boenhoeffer book showed him that a person really has to know what he or she believes because there may come a time when a person’s belief’s will be tested.

“All you have to do is think of Europe right now,” he said. “Europe today basically has no idea what they believe. They’ve lost cultural competence. They somehow have this vague idea that we’re supposed to be welcoming and nice, but they don’t know why.

“They don’t know it has to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Bible. You have an entire continent that hardly understands what it believes.”

Metaxas is also the author

Carter officiating, assisted by Dr. Gloria Lee, Deacon Cleveland Sweat and Pastor Maggie Conyers. Burial will follow in Grace Missionary Memorial Gardens, Manning.

The family is receiving friends at his residence, 110 Nelson Circle, Manning, and at the home of his mother, 1399 Weeping Cherry Road, Manning.

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

Medical Center.

Born in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, she was a daughter of the late Lewis and Anna Glenzke Palmer.

Survivors include three children, LuAnn Richardson and Michael Cipov, both of Sumter, and Mark Cipov of Elkhart, Indiana; five grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services will be held in Chetek, Wisconsin.

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

friends at the home, 200 Log Road, Lynchburg.

Services will be announced later by Whites Mortuary LLC.

JAMES GRANT JR.

Jay Reginald Pendarvis Sr., 70, died on Thursday, Nov, 19, 2015.

The family will receive visitors from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday at Layton-Anderson Funeral Home.

Mr. Pendarvis was born in Lynchburg, a son of the late Cecil Kessler and Ruby Parker Pendarvis. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force.

Before retiring, he owned and operated Captain Rex’s Fishing Charter Service in Little River.

Surviving are his wife of Timmonsville, Lisa Trott Pendarvis; a son, Jay “J.J.” Pendarvis Jr. of Lumberton, North Carolina; a daughter, Kessler Reynolds of Sumter; a brother, Jack Pendarvis of Simpsonville; and three grandchildren, Parker Pendarvis, Marley Ann and Aida Grace Reynolds.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Cecil James “Jim” Pendarvis.

Memorials may be made to the Humane Society, P.O. Box 4808, Florence, SC 29502.

Layton-Anderson Funeral Home, 4210 W. Palmetto St., Florence, is assisting the family with arrangements.

You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.laytonandersonfh.com.

OBITUARIES ALEXANDER P. OLDHOUSER Alexander P. Oldhouser, 25, was suddenly taken by a fatal car accident on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.

Born on April 12, 1990, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of Susan Grigg Oldhouser OLDHOUSER and the late Wilson H. Oldhouser Jr. He was a beloved son, a wonderful brother, and the best friend you could hope for.

Alex loved music from an early age, singing along with the radio in the back seat of the car from the time he was 18 months old. His love of music led him to become an accomplished trombone player. As a freshman, he was first chair trombone in the Sumter High School Symphonic Band.

Despite the loss of his eyesight, he also participated in the Sumter High School Marching Band. At the age of 11, Alex was diagnosed with a chronic progressive eye disease that had robbed him of most of his eyesight by the age of 14. His refusal to give up any aspect of what he loved most in life has served and continues to serve as inspiration to all who knew him. At 15, Alex found his calling in life during his participation in drama class under the tutelage of Mr. Melton. Mr. Melton referred to Alex as a comedic genius for whom we would all someday be working. Following his mother’s advice and encouragement, he enrolled in Savannah College of Art and Design, where he focused on script writing and film production. Alex’s compassion for friends and family was his defining characteristic. He included them in everything, tirelessly supported them, and encouraged them to help make their dreams reality. His friends were lifelong friends and his love of them and pride in them was something that set Alex apart. Alex was not big on small talk, and his family and friends have many stories that attest to his wellknown stubborn streak. His eye patches and comical podcasts have become legendary and serve to remind us that Alex brought so much laugh-

ter even to people he never met. He loved Nintendo, video games, comic books and above all, macaroni and cheese. He hated chores, being called a pirate, and Jar Jar Binks (though recently he was seen wearing a Jar Jar Binks T-shirt). Refusing to see his vision as a limitation, his quick wit, honest smile and devotion to his friends will remain a light in the lives of all those he touched during his too short time among us.

He is survived by his mother of Sumter; a brother, Christopher Oldhouser of Sumter; two half-brothers, Bill Oldhouser and Jonathan Oldhouser; a half-sister, Debbie Ramirez; grandmothers, Irma Grigg and Elizabeth Wells, both of Sumter; girlfriend, Christine McSwain; aunts, uncles, cousins, and his beloved cats.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Charles Owens and the Rev. Rodney Howard officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Christopher Oldhouser, Allen Mauldin, Ethan Boyd, Kyle Oakerlund, Michael Moss and John Skinner.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Faithful Followers Sunday School Class.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of his mother and grandmother.

Memorials may be made to the Sumter High School Drama Club, Attn: Kelly Melton, 2580 McCrays Mill Road, Sumter, SC 29154.

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

MARIE S. MONTALBANO Marie Soles Montalbano, 85, wife of William “Monty” Montalbano, died on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, at Palmetto Health Richland hospital in Columbia.

Services will be announced

by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 7759386.

FRANCES FLEMING

LAMAR RUFUS

MANNING — Frances Jane Baker Fleming, 76, widow of Frank Albert Fleming Sr., died Friday morning, Nov. 20, 2015, at her residence.

She was born on Jan. 10, 1939, in New Zion, a daughter of the late Hardy and Inez Foster Baker.

The family is receiving friends at the home, 1840 Little Star Road, Manning.

Services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

VILA CIPOV Vila “Babe” Cipov, 97, widow of Joseph G. Cipov, died on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at Tuomey Regional

James Grant Jr., 62, husband of Debra Green Grant, died on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Feb. 25, 1953, in Sumter County, he was a son of James Sr. and Mildred Haynesworth Grant.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the family home, 2540 Thomas Sumter Highway, Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. Lamar Rufus entered eternal rest on Nov. 19, 2015, in Dalzell.

The family is receiving friends at 337 Fat Back Road, Dalzell.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

NEOLA C. BENJAMIN LYNCHBURG — Neola C. Benjamin, 91, widow of Saul J. Benjamin, departed this life on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Florence.

She was born on May 24, 1924, in Lee County, to the late Samuel and Queen English Cain.

The family is receiving

MAXINE TILLMAN CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Maxine Tillman, 70, widow of Allen Tillman, departed this life on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, in Charlotte.

She was born on Feb. 1, 1945, to the late James and Estelle Ervin.

Services will be announced later by Whites Mortuary LLC.

JAY R. PENDARVIS SR.

LARRY V. WEEKS MANNING — Larry Vernell Weeks died on Nov. 17, 2015, in Manning, a son of Virginia Butler Weeks and the late Clarence Weeks.

Funeral services for Mr. Weeks will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Hayes F. & LaNelle J. Samuels Sr. Memorial Chapel, 114 N. Church St., Manning, with Pastor G.K.

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GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed ThursdayThanksgiving Nov. 2015 offices; Friday: state governmentSchedule: offices; City of21, Sumter Sumter County offices; Clarendon County offices; City of Manning offices; Lee County offices; and City of Bishopville offices.

Federal government offices and the U.S. Postal Service will be closed on Thursday.

SCHOOLS — The following will be closed Monday-Friday: Sumter School District; St. Anne Catholic School; St. Francis Xavier High School; Clarendon School Districts 1, 2 and 3; and Lee County Public Schools.

The following will be closed Wednesday-Friday: Robert E. Lee Academy; Thomas Sumter Academy; Wilson Hall; Laurence Manning Academy; Clarendon Hall; Sumter Christian School; and USC Sumter.

Central Carolina Technical College will hold a faculty and student holiday on Wednesday and the school will be closed Thursday-Friday.

Morris College will be closed Thursday-Friday.

UTILITIES — Black River Electric Coop. will close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday and will remain closed Thursday-Friday.

Farmers Telephone Coop. will be closed Thursday-Friday.

OTHER — The Sumter County Library will be closed Thursday-Sunday.

Harvin Clarendon County Library will be closed Thursday-Saturday.

Clemson Extension Service and the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce will be closed Thursday-Friday.

All offices of The Sumter Item will be closed ThursdayFriday. The Sumter Item will not publish a Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, newspaper.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maintain EUGENIA LAST balance and integrity without showing disdain for others.

Fight opposition with positive choices and suggestions, not anger and resentment. Channel your energy into making personal improvements instead of trying to change others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll learn a lot if you expand your interests or attend a conference that will highlight new technology or interests that you can incorporate into your professional life. Don’t pass up a chance to make a financial gain.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get involved in something you believe in or enjoy doing. You will get far more gratification through selfimprovement rather than helping someone else get ahead. Stick to what you can afford financially.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Take better care of your health. Begin a routine geared toward nutrition, physical wellness and exercise.

Once you get the swing of things, you will feel and look your best.

Don’t let a difficult personal situation lead to an argument.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Good things will transpire if you participate in events that put you in contact with the people who can make a difference to the outcome of your project. Love is on the rise, and a celebration is in order.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Tread carefully when dealing with family dynamics. You will face emotional issues that could be difficult to fix.

Try to avoid a financial setback.

Overreacting or overcompensating will leave you exhausted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Start a

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new project in order to relieve your stress and help you avoid any unwanted changes in your personal life. Make a physical change that will lift your spirits and help you feel good about yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take on a challenge that will benefit a charitable cause or lead to an improvement effort in your community. Personal changes will affect your emotional well-being and might also help you make an overdue decision.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t let emotional issues with family members or friends ruin your plans. Take charge and make changes that will set you free and allow you to enjoy your downtime the way you want. Honesty is the best policy when it comes to a work or personal matter.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A poor influence from your past should not be allowed to reenter your life, or serious problems could result. Express your thoughts and feelings so that you can move forward without hesitation. Call the shots instead of living in fear.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can talk your way out of anything today, but be sure to get your facts straight and be as diplomatic as possible about sensitive matters.

It’s how you go about getting what you want that will bring you closer to your goals.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll face embarrassment if you aren’t accurate with the information you present. Think before you say something that will cost you a friendship. The past will come back to haunt you if you don’t make amends before moving on.

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Thursday, Nov. 26, at the Looking for plans home of Viola Shaw, 186 for Thanksgiving Sumter Little Theatre will presDay? Green Lane, Bishopville. Eat ent the Christmas classic “Mirain or take out. If you wish to cle on 34th Street” Thursdaycarry out, call on Wednesday Sunday, Dec. 3-6, and Dec. 10evening to make arrange13, at 14 Mood Ave. Show ments for Thursday pick up. times are 8 p.m. ThursdayCall Viola Shaw at (803) 428Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sun3488. day. Tickets: $20 for adults; $15 for students / senior citiLincoln High School Preservazens / military. Call (803) 775tion Alumni Association’s ninth 2150. annual gala / fundraiser will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, The annual Evening Optimist Nov. 27, at the Lincoln High Christmas Parade will be held School gymnasium, Council at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6.

Street. For information and The parade will begin at the tickets, call (803) 968-4173. corner of Main and Dubose streets and will proceed Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association will hold south on Main Street to its fifth annual flapjack fundrais- Bartlett Street. Featuring er from 8 to 10 a.m. on Satur- marching bands, beauty queens, festive holiday floats day, Nov. 28, at Applebee’s, and more, the theme for the 2497 Broad St. Cost is $7 per person. Call Essie Richardson parade is “Superheroes for Christmas.” at (803) 775-2999 or James Green at (803) 968-4173.

Clarendon School District One The Town of Pinewood will hold will conduct free vision, hearing, speech and developmental its sixth annual Christmas pascreenings as part of a child rade at 10 a.m. on Saturday, find effort to identify stuDec. 5. For information redents with special needs. garding participating in the Screenings will be held from parade, call Pinewood Town 9 a.m. to noon at the SumHall at (803) 452-5878. merton Early Childhood CenA Zombie 5K Run, sponsored

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

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prep football

USCS baseball

Week off doesn’t hinder SHS in 41-10 playoff win over White Knoll

Shortstop Hawkins signs with Clemson

Right where they left off

Fire Ants standout cites Tigers coach’s relentless recruiting By justin driggers justin@theitem.com

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumter quarterback Zykeem Jackson (4) tries to break the tackle of White Knoll defensive tackle Thomas Rikard (43) during the Gamecocks’ 41-10 victory on Friday in the first round of the 4A Division I state playoffs at Sumter Memorial Stadium.

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com A week off did nothing to quell the momentum the Sumter High School football gained through the final five games of the regular season on Friday.

The Gamecocks dominated on both sides of the football from the outset of their first-round game in the 4A Division I state playoffs against White Knoll and never took the foot off the gas in a 41-10 victory at Sumter Memorial Stadium’s Freddie Solomon Field.

“I’m proud of the way the players came out and took control of the game from the beginning,” said first-year

SHS head coach Mark Barnes, whose team had a week off because the start of the playoffs was pushed back because of the floods. “That’s what we talked about doing because you can’t have any uh-ohs this time of year.

You’ve got to come out ready to play.”

The victory improves SHS to 10-2 on the season while the Timberwolves finish at 7-5.

Fourth-seeded Sumter will play host to No. 5 Byrnes next Friday in the second round. The Rebels defeated Gaffney 34-26 on Friday.

The Gamecock defense had three consecutive 3-downs-and-out series against 13th-seeded WK. The offense took ad-

vantage, scoring after each of those series. SHS led 10-0 at the end of the first quarter and pushed the lead to 17-0 on the first play of the second quarter on a 21-yard run by running back Rodney Pitts.

White Knoll came into the game averaging 268 yards rushing, but had just five yards on 21 carries at halftime with Sumter holding a 31-0 lead. The Wolves ran 33 plays in the first half and the Gamecocks had 11 tackles for loss, including five sacks of quarterback Calev Grubbs.

“Everyone was just doing their jobs

See shs, Page B2

Growing up in Prosperity, Justin Hawkins was always less than an hour away from Columbia, so it was only natural that he became a University of South Carolina fan.

“I grew up around it,” Hawkins said.

“Most of my imHAWKINS mediate family are Carolina fans, so that’s who I grew up rooting for.”

In the end, however, Hawkins’ decision about the rest of his collegiate baseball career boiled down to where he felt he would be the most comfortable and where he felt the best path was for him to get to the next level.

That choice turned out to be heavily influenced by new Clemson University head coach Monte Lee, whose relentless recruiting wound up convincing Hawkins to trade in Garnet and Black for Purple and Orange.

Hawkins, the standout University of South Carolina Sumter shortstop who helped guide the Fire Ants to their first Junior College World Series berth this past season, officially signed with the Tigers on Wednesday.

“Coach Lee really recruited me hard,” Hawkins said. “I’ve actually known him and have talked with him for about 21/2 years now. He actually started recruiting me when I was in high school and he was still at (College of) Charleston.”

That length of commitment to his recruiting process is something that really stuck with Hawkins, he said.

“A lot of coaches, when they leave a school, they pretty much leave behind a lot of the names they were trying to

See hawkins, Page B2

robert E. Lee academy football

Seniors’ patience finally rewarded

Cavs seek perfection, Rankin redemption Unbeaten season within grasp for REL

By JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

By JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com BISHOPVILLE — There were more than a few times this season that Robert E. Lee Academy senior Heath Smith took a moment to think about his freshman year with the Cavaliers.

They went 0-10 that year and were in the midst of a 21-game losing streak that wouldn’t be broken until the second game of the following season.

“Glad we’re not there anymore,” Smith said. “We’ve come a long way. Losing was hard, yeah, but it never made me want to quit or anything. I love playing football and I really enjoyed the guys I was playing beside.

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For seniors like Travis Christmas, left center, Robert E. Lee’s journey from winless to undefeated title contender has been a long one.

“I always thought the future would be better.”

It doesn’t get much better than 11-0 and a shot at a state championship.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was the Cavs’ title-contending team that will take the field today at 3:30

p.m. against Colleton Prep at Charlie W. Johnson Stadium in Columbia for the SCISA 1A state title.

For some of REL’s seniors, it marks the culmination of a very long journey in which

See patience, Page B3

BISHOPVILLE — It’s likely David Rankin is having a strong case of déjà vu this week.

The last time Rankin wore Robert E. Lee Academy’s colors on the sidelines of a state championship game was 2003 at The Citadel’s Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston.

The opponent? Colleton Prep — the same team Rankin will guide his Cavaliers against today at Benedict College’s Charlie W. Johnson Stadium in Columbia as the two teams battle it out for the SCISA 1A state championship at 3:30 p.m.

Rankin is hoping the feeling of familiarity ends there. The War Hawks beat REL 33-14 for their second straight 2A title in ’03. Rankin has now taken three different schools to five title games, but is still search-

SCISA PLAYOFF SCHEDULE Friday 8-man championship at Wilson Hall (Spencer Field) Andrew Jackson 20, Greenwood Christian 16 Today At Benedict College (Charlie W. Johnson Stadium in Columbia) 1A Robert E. Lee vs. Colleton Prep, 3:30 p.m.

2A Bethesda vs. Calhoun Academy, noon 3A Pinewood Prep vs. Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

ing for his elusive first ring on the gridiron.

One big difference this time around, however, is the roles are reversed between the Cavs

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basketball roundup

South Carolina pulls away late to top DePaul 76-61 ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLAND — For the third time in as many games this season, South Carolina found itself in a precarious secondhalf position.

Mindaugas Kacinas scored a career-high 23 KACINAS points and South Carolina survived a shaky stretch after halftime on the way to topping DePaul 76-61 in the Paradise Jam on Friday.

The Gamecocks (3-0) saw what was a 16-point lead after halftime trimmed to five with 8:20 left, but PJ Dozier scored five points in what became a 10-1 run that put South Carolina in control for good.

(3) Maryland 65 Rider 58 COLLEGE PARK, MD. — Freshman Diamond Stone fueled a second-half surge that brought No. 3 Maryland back from a 14-point deficit, and Jake Layman had 11 points and 11 rebounds in a 65-58 victory

over Rider on Friday night.

The Terrapins (3-0) trailed 43-29 with 15:56 remaining and grabbed the lead for the first time when Rasheed Sulaimon scored on a runner in the lane with 5:19 left to make it 52-50.

It was 61-58 before Rider’s Kahlil Thomas misfired on the front end of a 1-and-1. Sulaimon missed two foul shots on the other end, but Layman grabbed the rebound and clinched it with a pair of free throws.

(11) VILLANOVA 86 EAST TENNESSEE STATE 51 VILLANOVA, PA. — Daniel Ochefu posted his third straight double-double with 12 points and 16 rebounds and Villanova beat East Tennessee State in a preliminary round of the NIT Season Tip-off.

The Wildcats (3-0) blew the game open with a 24-0 run over a span of 8:26 in the first half.

Kris Jenkins had 17 points, and Phil Booth had 16 points — both career highs.

(13) MICHIGAN ST. 92 ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF 46

EAST LANSING, MICH. — Sophomore Javon Bess scored a career-high 16 points and Michigan State beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

Denzel Valentine, the star Tuesday’s upset victory over Kansas, had 11 assists for the Spartans (3-0). Bryn Forbes had three quick 3-pointers. Matt Costello added 10 points and 10 rebounds.

(22) BUTLER 74 TEMPLE 69 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Kellen Dunham scored 16 points to help Butler beat Temple in the second round of the Puerto Rico Tipoff.

Tyler Lewis scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half for the Bulldogs (3-0), Butler shot just 36 percent, including 5 of 21 from 3-point range, but shook off a slow start to stay unbeaten and advance to the Tipoff’s championship game.

From wire reports

sports items

Mayewood, R.E. Davis set to host several basketball scrimmages today Several local middle school boys and girls basketball teams will compete in a series of scrimmages today at the Mayewood Middle School and R.E. Davis Elementary gymnasiums.

Eight full-length scrimmage games will be played at R.E. Davis beginning at 9 a.m. Ten games will be played at Mayewood beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Schools that will be participating are Mayewood, Lee Central, Alice Drive, Darlington, Chestnut Oaks, Hartsville, Manning, Wilson Hall and Bates.

Admission is $3 per person.

R.E. Davis Elementary 9 a.m. ­— (G) Mayewood-vs-Lee Central 10:10 a.m. — ­ (B) Mayewood-vs-Lee Central 11:20 a.m. — (G) Alice Drive-vs-Darlington 12:30 p.m. — (B) Alice Drive-vs-Darlington 1:40 p.m. — (G) Chestnut Oaks-vsHartsville 2:50 p.m. — (B) Chestnut Oaks-vsHartsville 4 p.m. — (G) Manning-vs-Wilson Hall 5:10 p.m. — (B) Manning-vs-Wilson Hall Mayewood Middle School 9:30 a.m. — (G) Bates-vs-Wilson Hall 10:40 a.m. — (B) Bates-vs-Wilson Hall 11:50 a.m. — (G) Manning-vs-Lee Central 1 p.m. — (B) Manning-vs-Lee Central 2:10 p.m. — (G) Bates-vs- Darlington 3:20 p.m. — (B) Bates-vs-Darlington 4:30 p.m. — (G)Alice Drive-vs-Hartsville 5:40 p.m. — (B) Alice Drive-vs-Hartsville 6:50 p.m. — (G) Mayewood-vsChestnut Oaks 8 p.m. — (B) Mayewood-vs-Chestnut Oaks

Liberty 24 Coastal Carolina 21

LYNCHBURG, VA. — Josh Woodrum connected with

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recruit there,” he said. “But Coach Lee stayed with me and kept in touch.”

Lee reminds Hawkins of current USC Sumter head coach Tim Medlin, he said, and that was another big selling point.

“Coach Medlin pushes me every day and challenges me to make me the best baseball player I can be,” Hawkins said. “Coach Lee does the same thing. He told me how they work on offensive and defensive drills and that’s something I thought would really help me get to the next level.”

Playing for an NCAA Division I school was always a top priority. Clemson beat out USC and a couple of other smaller DI schools,

B.J. Farrow on a 40-yard touchdown pass with 1:27 to go and give Liberty a 24-21 upset over Coastal Carolina in a regular-season finale on Thursday night.

The Chanticleers had taken a 21-17 lead after Alex Ross threw to Chris Jones for an 83-yard completion and three plays later De’Angelo Henderson ran in from the 1 with 3:59 to go.

The Flames (6-5, 3-3 Big South) then drove 85 yards on seven plays for the gamewinner.

Jaguars 19 Titans 13 JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have their first winning streak in more than two years. This one has them squarely in the hunt in the muddled AFC South.

Rashad Greene returned a punt 63 yards, setting up Blake Bortles’ 5-yard touchdown pass to Julius Thomas with 3:30 remaining.

The Jaguars (4-6) won consecutive games for the first time since December 2013 and gained ground in the division race. They have won three of four.

make sure his bunker shot reached the back of the green for a chance at birdie.

It worked out perfectly at the par-5 15th on the Seaside Course.

Chappell was at 11-under 131 and one shot ahead of Kevin Kisner, who had a 67 at Seaside, and Freddie Jacobson, who had a 5-under 67 on the Plantation Course.

Dru Love, the 21-year-old son of Davis Love III, made his PGA Tour debut a short one. The junior at Alabama was 3 under until playing the final seven holes in 7 over. He shot 76 and missed the cut.

Jang leads Ko; Icher playing for France

NAPLES, FLA. — Karine Icher — the lone French player in the 71-woman field — shot a 5-under 67 on Friday in the second round of the CME Group Tour Championship, the LPGA’s seasonfinale, giving her a 36-hole total of 138 that has her within four shots of the lead.

Icher has friends who knew some of the 130 people killed last week in the Paris terrorist attacks.

South Korea’s Ha Na Jang shot 65 to get to 10-under Chappell builds 1-shot 134 and hold the midpoint lead at Sea Island lead by two shots over world ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. No. 1 Lydia Ko (67) of New — Kevin Chappell holed a Zealand. Americans Jenni45-yard bunker shot for fer Song (69) and Cristie eagle on his way to a 5-under Kerr (69) were another shot 65 and a one-shot lead in the off the pace.

RSM Classic at Sea Island.

Chappell was trying to From staff, wire reports

Hawkins said.

“Coach Lee said he wasn’t looking for junior college players to come in and ride the bench,” he added. “He wants us to come in and play and lead the team to (the College World Series in) Omaha (Neb.).”

The new Tigers skipper will likely have a hard time keeping Hawkins out of the lineup if his sophomore season with the Fire Ants goes anything like his first one did.

After a slow start, the USCS shortstop rebounded to lead the team in batting average (.322), slugging percentage (.512), homer runs (7), doubles (17) and he was tied for the lead with 42 runs driven in.

His American Legion baseball season was even better. Hawkins and Newberry/Chapin post 193/24

captured the American Legion World Series crown — losing just one game all season.

Hawkins was named the ALWS MVP to go along with his state tournament MVP honor and to top it all off, he was given the George W. Rulon American Legion Player of the Year Award as well.

In Southeast Regional and ALWS play, Hawkins had a .368 batting average with five home runs and 12 runs batted in. He also won the Dr. Irvin L “Click” Cowger RBI Award for the most RBI and the Big Stick Award for the most total bases with 31.

Hawkins went 6-for-20 in the ALWS for a .300 batting average. He had just one hit apiece in C/N’s last three games, but all three were homers.

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TODAY 7:40 a.m. ­­— International Soccer: English Premier League Match — Manchester United vs. Watford (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

9:30 a.m. — International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match — Bayer Leverkusen vs. Frankfurt (FOX SPORTS 1).

9:55 a.m. — International Soccer: English Premier League Match — Norwich vs. Chelsea (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10 a.m. — Professional Golf: European PGA Tour DP World Championship Third Round from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (GOLF).

10 a.m. — NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Practice from Homestead, Fla. (CNBC).

10 a.m. — International Soccer: English Premier League Match — Arsenal vs. West Brom (USA).

11 a.m. — NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Pole Qualifying from Homestead, Fla. (CNBC).

Noon — College Football: Michigan at Penn State (WOLO 25).

Noon — College Football: Rutgers at Army (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

Noon — College Football: North Carolina at Virginia Tech (ESPN).

Noon — College Football: Illinois at Minnestoa (ESPNEWS).

Noon — College Football: Purdue at Iowa (ESPN2).

Noon — College Football: Memphis at Temple (ESPNU).

Noon — College Football: Iowa State at Kansas State (FOX SPORTS 1).

Noon — College Football: West Virginia at Kansas (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

Noon — College Football: Florida Atlantic at Florida (SEC NETWORK).

Noon — College Football: The Citadel at South Carolina (TIME WARNER 385, WIBZ-FM 95.5, WDXY-FM 105.9, 1WNKT-FM 107.5), WDXY-AM 1240).

Noon — College Football: North Texas at Middle Tennessee State (TIME WARNER 1250).

12:30 p.m. — International Soccer: English Premier League Match — Liverpool vs. Manchester City (WIS 10).

12:30 p.m. — College Football: Georgia Tech at Miami (WACH 57).

1 p.m. — PGA Golf: RSM Classic Third Round from St. Simons Island, Ga. (GOLF).

1 p.m. — NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Practice from Homestead, Fla. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:30 p.m. — College Football: Harvard at Yale (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:30 p.m. — International Soccer: Dutch League Match — PSV vs. Willem II (UNIVISION).

3 p.m. — NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Ford EcoBoost 300 from Homestead, Fla. (WIS 10, WEGX-FM 92.9).

3 p.m. — College Football: Chattanooga at Florida State (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

3 p.m. — Professional Baseball: Arizona Fall League Championship Game from Scottsdale, Ariz. — Peoria vs. Salt River (MLB NETWORK).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Louisiana State at Mississippi (WLTX 19).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Michigan State at Ohio State (WOLO 25).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: UCLA at Utah (WACH 57).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Buffalo at Akron (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Southern California at Oregon (ESPN).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Wake Forest at Clemson (ESPN2, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Houston at Connecticut (ESPNU).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Arizona at Arizona State (FOX SPORTS 1).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Louisiana Tech at Texas-El Paso (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

3:30 p.m. — College Football: Old Dominion at Southern Mississippi (TIME WARNER 1250).

3:45 p.m. — College Football: Louisville at Pittsburgh (ESPNEWS).

4 p.m. — LPGA Golf: CME Group Tour Championship Third Round from Naples, Fla. (GOLF).

4 p.m. — College Football: Charleston Southern at Alabama (SEC NETWORK) 4 p.m. — College Football: Idaho at Auburn (TIME WARNER 385).

5:55 p.m. — International Soccer: Mexican League Match — UNAM vs.

America (UNIVISION).

7 p.m. — College Football: Navy at Tulsa (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. — College Football: Mississippi State at Arkansas (ESPN).

7 p.m. — College Football: Georgia Southern at Georgia (ESPNU).

7 p.m. — College Basketball: Brown at Providence (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

7 p.m. — College Football: Rice at Texas-San Antonio (TIME WARNER 1250).

7:15 p.m. — College Football: Tennessee at Missouri (ESPN2).

7:30 p.m. — College Football: Baylor at Oklahoma State (WACH 57).

7:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Washington at Detroit (NBA TV).

7:30 p.m. — College Football: Notre Dame at Boston College (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. — College Football: Texas A&M at Vanderbilt (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. — College Football: Charlotte at Kentucky (TIME WARNER 385).

7:55 p.m. — International Soccer: Mexican League Match — Cruz Azul vs. Tigres (UNIVISION).

8 p.m. — College Football: Texas Christian at Oklahoma (WOLO 25).

8 p.m. — College Football: Tulane at Southern Methodist (ESPNEWS).

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

10 p.m. — Professional Golf: PGA Tour of Australasia Australian Masters Final Round from Melbourne, Australia (GOLF).

10:30 p.m. — College Football: San Diego State at Nevada-Las Vegas (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. — College Football: California at Stanford (ESPN).

10:45 p.m. — College Football: Colorado at Washington State (ESPN2).

2:30 a.m. — Professional Golf: European PGA Tour DP World Championship Final Round from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (GOLF).

5 a.m. — Professional Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals Semifinal Matches from London (ESPN2).

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA New England 9 0 0 1.000 303 169 Buffalo 5 4 0 .556 231 207 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 217 184 Miami 4 5 0 .444 191 225 South

W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 200 227 Houston 4 5 0 .444 184 211 Jacksonville 4 6 0 .400 211 268 Tennessee 2 8 0 .200 182 233 North

W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 8 1 0 .889 235 152 Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 236 191 Baltimore 2 7 0 .222 210 236 Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 186 277 West

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 7 2 0 .778 205 168 Kansas City 4 5 0 .444 224 195 Oakland 4 5 0 .444 227 241 San Diego 2 7 0 .222 210 249

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 5 5 0 .500 273 253 Washington 4 5 0 .444 205 209 Philadelphia 4 5 0 .444 212 184 Dallas 2 7 0 .222 166 214 South

W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 9 0 0 1.000 255 175 Atlanta 6 3 0 .667 229 190 Tampa Bay 4 5 0 .444 191 237 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400 255 315 North

W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 7 2 0 .778 198 154 Green Bay 6 3 0 .667 219 185 Chicago 4 5 0 .444 199 234 Detroit 2 7 0 .222 167 261 West

W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 7 2 0 .778 302 185 St. Louis 4 5 0 .444 166 183 Seattle 4 5 0 .444 199 179 San Francisco 3 6 0 .333 126 223

Thursday’s GAME

Jacksonville 19, Tennessee 13

SundaY’s GAMES

N.Y. Jets at Houston, 1 p.m.

Denver at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 1 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Cleveland, N.Y. Giants, New Orleans, Pittsburgh

NBA Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 6 5 .545 — Toronto 7 6 .538 — New York 6 6 .500 ½ Brooklyn 2 10 .167 4½ Philadelphia 0 12 .000 6½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 9 5 .643 — Miami 7 4 .636 ½ Washington 5 4 .556 1½ Charlotte 6 6 .500 2 Orlando 6 6 .500 2 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 9 3 .750 — Chicago 8 3 .727 ½ Indiana 7 5 .583 2 Detroit 6 5 .545 2½ Milwaukee 5 7 .417 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 9 2 .818 — Dallas 8 4 .667 1½ Memphis 6 6 .500 3½ Houston 5 7 .417 4½ New Orleans 1 11 .083 8½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 7 5 .583 — Utah 6 5 .545 ½ Denver 6 6 .500 1 Minnesota 5 7 .417 2 Portland 4 9 .308 3½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 13 0 1.000 — L.A. Clippers 6 5 .545 6 Phoenix 6 5 .545 6 Sacramento 4 9 .308 9 L.A. Lakers 2 9 .182 10

Thursday’s Games

Miami 116, Sacramento 109 Cleveland 115, Milwaukee 100 Golden State 124, L.A. Clippers 117

Friday’s Games

Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New York at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m.

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

Chicago at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games

Sacramento at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Houston, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 8 p.m.

Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.

Phoenix at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Boston at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 20 14 4 2 30 69 45 Ottawa 19 9 5 5 23 57 57 Tampa Bay 21 9 9 3 21 48 50 Detroit 19 9 8 2 20 42 47 Boston 18 9 8 1 19 60 56 Florida 19 8 8 3 19 50 48 Buffalo 19 8 9 2 18 43 52 Toronto 19 6 9 4 16 46 55 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 19 14 3 2 30 58 34 Washington 18 12 5 1 25 54 41 Pittsburgh 19 12 7 0 24 44 43 N.Y. Islanders 19 10 6 3 23 54 44 New Jersey 18 10 7 1 21 46 43 Philadelphia 19 6 8 5 17 35 54 Carolina 18 6 10 2 14 35 53 Columbus 20 7 13 0 14 48 66

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 20 16 4 0 32 71 50 St. Louis 20 13 6 1 27 54 48 Nashville 17 11 3 3 25 53 40 Minnesota 18 10 5 3 23 53 51 Chicago 19 11 7 1 23 53 47 Winnipeg 20 9 9 2 20 54 63 Colorado 19 7 11 1 15 53 54 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 18 12 6 0 24 46 38 San Jose 19 11 8 0 22 51 47 Arizona 19 10 8 1 21 53 56 Vancouver 20 7 7 6 20 56 54 Anaheim 20 7 9 4 18 38 50 Calgary 20 7 12 1 15 48 74 Edmonton 19 6 12 1 13 50 62 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games

St. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, SO Boston 4, Minnesota 2 San Jose 1, Philadelphia 0, OT Pittsburgh 4, Colorado 3 Dallas 3, Washington 2 Arizona 3, Montreal 2 Ottawa 3, Columbus 0 Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Anaheim 3, Florida 1

Friday’s Games

Toronto at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Calgary, 9 p.m.

New Jersey at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

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From Page B1 the game with 18 TFLs and six sacks. “We were playing aggressively and attacking on defense. We didn’t want to let them be in the game early and we wanted to keep them down.”

WK finished with 247 yards of total offense, but 169 of that came through the air. Barnes had no problem with that though.

“We didn’t let them run the football,” Barnes said. “The only way they could move it was by passing it, and that’s not what they do. You want to make people do things they’re not used to doing.”

Sumter was having its way with the White Knoll defense as well. The Gamecocks had 305 total yards on just 26 plays in the first half, including 232 on the ground. They finished with 448 yards, 331 coming on the ground.

Running back Quintein Anderson broke off a 39-yard run on SHS’ first offensive play from scrimmage. That set the tone as it had 11 plays of 10 yards or more in the first half, five of those going for 22 yards or more.

Anderson rushed for 150 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries, while quarterback Zykeem Jackson had 91 yards and a TD on 10 carries. Pitts added two scoring runs.

“We just came out and did what we do (offensively),” Barnes said. “They gave us a little different look defensively than we were expecting, but we adjusted to it.

“We were a better football team than we were tonight; we had better personnel. We showed that and we didn’t make mistakes that allowed them to stay in the game.”

Jackson also completed 7-of10 passes for 117 yards.

Anderson scored the Gamecoks’ first touchdown on a 10yard run on a direct snap.

Placekicker Brixton Niebuhr booted a 30-yard field goal to make it 10-0 before Pitts’ run

they begin winless and very well might end up undefeated.

“I think about it after every game,” senior left guard Caleb Watson said. “There was a time when everyone was down and was wondering if we’d ever win a game.

“Now some players don’t know what it’s like to lose a game. That’s a great feeling to have.”

A large part of the credit was given directly to head coach David Rankin, who returned to the Bishopville school three years ago and has steadily built the Cavs into contenders, much as he did during his first go-round in the early 2000s.

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Division 1 First Round Goose Creek 39, Carolina Forest 27 Sumter 41, White Knoll 10 Division 2 First Round Lexington 45, Fort Mill 14 Nation Ford 40, York Comprehensive 21 Spartanburg 48, South Florence 13 T.L. Hanna 41, Irmo 14 Westside 31, Cane Bay 21

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Upper State Second Round Chapin 42, Wren 32 Seneca 55, Chapman 14 South Pointe 34, Richland Northeast 24 Lower State Second Round Airport 35, Hartsville 10 Midland Valley 56, St. James 21

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Division I Upper State Quarterfinal Fairfield Central 27, Woodruff 10 Newberry 51, Strom Thurmond 28 Lower State Quarterfinal Dillon 49, Timberland 21 Division II Upper State Quarterfinal Saluda 24, Chesterfield 7 Lower State Quarterfinal Silver Bluff 55, Andrews 34

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Division I Upper State Quarterfinal McBee 31, Christ Church Episcopal 21 Lower State Quarterfinal Allendale-Fairfax 28, Calhoun County 20 Division II Lower State Quarterfinal Lake View 14, Cross 6

to start the second quarter made it 17-0.

SHS pushed the lead to 24-0 when Jackson broke off a 40yard run with 9:09 left in the first half. Sumter’s final score in the first half was a 14-yard run by Pitts with 1:44 to go.

Niebuhr booted a 35-yard field goal to push the lead to 34-0. Sumter’s final score came on a 2-yard run by Russell Jenkins with 10 minutes left in the game.

The Wolves got their points on a 5-yard run by running back Andrew Millhouse with 2:14 left in the third quarter to make it 34-7.

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM Placekicker Daniel Fulmer White Knoll wide receiver Parker McGinnis (11) is tackled by Sumter linebacker Ismale Bell (7) during the booted a 31-yard field goal in Gamecocks’ 41-10 victory over White Knoll on Friday. the fourth quarter.

REL has been on a roll ever since. The 6-point margin of From Page B1 victory — 27-21 — in its opener against Dorchester Academy and Hawks. is the closest a team has come Colleton entered the ’03 con- all year to topping the Cavs. test unbeaten at 12-0 while There were a few close calls REL was 9-3. This year, it’s the along the way, like a late-game Cavaliers who sport an 11-0 comeback against Holly Hill, mark while the War Hawks but Robert E. Lee been firing are coming in at 9-3. on all cylinders for most of the “I left in 2005 and spent 8 season — on both sides of the years at Williamsburg (Acade- ball. my),” Rankin said. “I kind of Stokes is one of three playsaw the program struggle, saw ers that has rushed for 500 them go through that long yards or more. The Cavs also winless stretch (21 games) and boast a near 1,500-yard passer decided to come back here and in quarterback Bryce Barrett see if we could get things and two big-play receivers in turned around.”

Weston Green and William And turned around they did. Corbett. Corbett has 814 reAfter going 3-8 his first year, ceiving yards and Green is althe Cavs were 5-5 last season ready over the 1,000-yard plaand were already on the brink teau in all-purpose yards. of something special. Most of The Cavs are averaging well the players knew it coming over 30 points a game and have into this year. scored at least 35 points in “We didn’t really bond as each of their last five games. well as we needed to last year,” “There’s always at least junior running back Nick one run or pass that’s 10-plus Stokes said. “But that was yards,” junior TE/FB Harry something we really did this Cook said. “If they go to a 6-2 summer. We came together as defense, we can throw it all a team, as a family and had over them. If they switch our eye on this game from the that, we can go back to runbeginning of the year. ning the ball. That’s our big“Coach Rankin told us we’ve gest advantage. We can do eigot to do this as one or we ther well.” can’t do it all.”

Cook and company will face

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“We were all very excited when we heard Coach Rankin was coming back,” Smith said.

“That was probably the biggest thing. Everyone was excited and everyone wanted to play.”

The numbers bear that out, too. Of the 56 eligible students in grades 9-12 at Robert E. Lee, 35 are on the football team.

“He really got us excited with his attitude and his energy,” Watson said. “He really revitalized us and the program.”

The current seniors also took cues from the upperclassmen before them. The Cavs went 3-8 in 2013 and were 5-5 last year with many of the same players as they have now – narrowly missing out on a playoff berth.

“I don’t think we would be

ing away the lateral run. They pinch a lot on counters and sweeps, which are some of the things we like to do, so it’s going to be a challenge for us.”

A bigger challenge – and what could be the deciding factor of the game — will be what REL can do against Colleton senior quarterback Brian Murdaugh. Murdaugh has thrown for 1,429 yards and 19 touchdowns and also leads the team with 798 yards rushing and eight scores.

“We have to be able to make sure he doesn’t break away for a big play,” senior DB Tyson Kriven said. “We have to be able to (contain) the jet sweep RICK CARPENTER / THE SUMTER ITEM and we have to be able to stop Robert E. Lee Academy’s Weston Green (2) and the rest of the Cava(running back Nick Padgett).” liers look to cap off a perfect season today at Charlie W. Johnson StaPadgett is second on the dium in Columbia by defeating Colleton Prep for the SCISA 1A state team in rushing (527) and championship. leads the War Hawks with 39 catches for 796 yards and 12 a War Hawks defense that has 17 sacks on the season and 18 TDs. The duo has helped CP seemingly gotten better as the takeaways — nine intercepaverage almost 26 points a season has progressed. After tions and nine fumble recover- game (25.9). giving up an average of 22.6 ies.

“He’s really come on for points through the first six “They’re a team that has them the last five games or games, CP hasn’t allowed definitely improved every so,” Rankin said. “We’re going more than 20 in a game since. week,” Rankin said. “They’re to have to read our keys and The War Hawks are led by a lot like us on defense. make sure we’re in the right sophomore linebacker Fisher They’re fundamentally sound places. They’re a very good Jackson, who ranks first with and that’s get 11 helmets to the football team across the board eight sacks and second with 61 ball. and we’re going to have to play total tackles. CP has amassed “They’re very good at takwell to beat them.”

here without the seniors and some of the guys we had on the team last year,” senior defensive back Taylor Kirven said. “They really pushed us hard to get to this point. It was a lot of hard work and it’s paying off now. It’s exciting to have come so far.”

Kirven pointed to the game last year against Williamsburg Academy as a sign of how much REL had turned a corner.

“We lost (14-8),” he said.

“But they were undefeated at the time and we really thought we had a chance to go in there and beat them. We were right there with them, so that kind of showed us something.”

Despite the improvement, REL could never seem to find the consistency it needed last

year – especially on offense. It was a season of what might have been had the Cavs played to their potential.

But they’re not letting that opportunity go to waste again.

“We really felt like we had a good team and should have been better than we were last

year,” senior OL/DL Travis Christmas said. “But we just weren’t quite there.

“We’re worked really hard this year, though. We came into this year knowing that we could do exactly what we’ve done and I’m proud of everybody for going out there and proving it.”

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Spoilers keep title contenders from pole

By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) and the top-ranked Tigers take on Wake Forest today as the Demon Deacons are looking to beat a No. 1 team for the first time in school history.

Demon Deacons seek big upset win over No. 1 Tigers

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON — Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson doesn’t see a struggling team when he looks into his locker room even though the results tell a different story.

The Demon Deacons (3-7, 1-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) would need a monumental turnaround to pull off the upset against No. 1 Clemson (10-0, 7-0) today.

Clawson, in his second season, said the Deacs have made too many “unforced” errors that have led to too many frustrating defeats.

“At this point in the year, there’s been 10 games, we’ve actually outgained our opponents this year,” Clawson said. “That shouldn’t translate to a 3-7 record, but when you go back and look at it, I

think it’s very simple. When you lose the turnover margin as bad as we have, and when you allow as many explosive plays as we have, that is the big difference.”

Wake Forest held Notre Dame to 282 yards, a low for the Fighting Irish this season, yet fell 28-7.

Clemson is absolutely the wrong place to get those things corrected. The Tigers, No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, most likely lead the conference in explosive plays with quarterback Deshaun Watson in charge of high-powered offense.

The Tigers have gained 500 or more yards in their past six games. They’ve had just one contest in that stretch with a fewer than 34 points, a 23-13 victory over Florida State two weeks ago.

Clemson coach Dabo Swin-

ney said having Watson, the ACC’s leader in total offense and TD passes, out there gives the Tigers an advantage that is difficult to count.

“He’s just so comfortable in his role as far as being the commander out on the field.

He’s got such ownership of our offense. He wants the ball and wants it in crunch time,” Swinney said. “He doesn’t flinch. If he has a bad play or makes a mistake, it just doesn’t affect him. He brings a poise and presence to our offense.”

PERFECT ACC Clemson is looking for its first 8-0 run through the ACC. The Tigers have had undefeated league seasons four times previously, in 1967, 1978, 1981 and 1982. All those years, they were 6-0.

Clemson was 7-0 against ACC

opponents in 1983, but were serving an NCAA probation and not eligible for the league title.

NOT AGAIN Wake Forest is facing its second top-five opponent in top-ranked Clemson after playing No. 5 Notre Dame a week ago. The Demon Deacons are 0-8 all time when facing No. 1 with their past five meetings all losses to top-ranked Florida State.

The closest Wake Forest has come against a No. 1 opponent was a 28-7 loss at No. 1 Maryland in 1955.

MILESTONE WIN Clemson is seeking its 700th all-time victory. The Demon Deacons were the opponent when the Tigers won their 500th game, 24-6, in 1990.

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Remember 1990? Citadel has shocked before

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press

times, when teammates get back together, COLUMBIA — South Carwe still talk olina hasn’t lost to a lower about it,” said division team in 25 years.

Sands, who But plenty of people in the stressed he ELLIOTT stands Saturday will rememwon’t have any ber the last shocking upset mixed feelings when the Gamecocks take Saturday because he knows on The Citadel. the Gamecocks pay his The Bulldogs beat South bills.

Carolina on a touchdown South Carolina (3-7) is dewith 22 seconds left in 1990 termined to not let history in a 38-35 win. repeat itself. Mired in its Gamecocks running backs worst season since 2003, a coach Everette Sands reloss could bring back the members it well. He threw echoes of an even worse the block that allowed quar- time, like when the Gameterback Jack Douglas to cocks lost 21 games in a row score. in 1999 and 2000.

“That’s a day you never Free safety Isaiah Johnson forget. That’s a day special said he reminded the team for Citadel history. Somethis week even with almost

game. Like most option teams, The Citadel relies on a blocking scheme where offensive lineman make contact between the fete and the thighs, taking out the legs of the defense and sending them to the ground where they can’t chase the play.

The blocks can agitate and wear down an unprepared defense quickly. “You can’t simulate a cut block with a bag or a dummy or something like that. You’ve really got to go after it and TRIPLE OPTION MAYHEM have a defender diving and The Citadel is averaging throwing themselves 344 yards running a game through your thighs, with its option attack. South through your lower half to Carolina is next-to-last in get the feel for it,” Gamethe Southeastern Confercocks interim coach Shawn ence allowing 202 yards a Elliott said. no chance for a bowl game, they need to still take pride to avoid an upset that would be talked about for another generation.

“We’re playing for the name on the front and on the back of the jersey,” Johnson said.

This year’s Citadel’s team is pretty good. The Bulldogs (7-3) finished tied for the Southern Conference title with Chattanooga, but lost the automatic playoff bid to the Mocs.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE STATE Thursday Liberty 24, Coastal Carolina 21 Today (1) Clemson vs. Wake Forest, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7) Citadel at South Carolina (TIME WARNER 385, WIBZ-FM 95.5, WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240, WNKT-FM 107.5) (3) Alabama vs. Charleston Southern, 4 p.m. (SEC NETWORK) Furman at Wofford, 3:30 p.m.

Kennesaw State at Presbyterian, 2 p.m.

South Carolina State at Savannah State, 1 p.m.

Newberry at North Alabama, 1 p.m.

ACC Today (5) Notre Dame at Boston College, 7:30 p.m. (NBC

SPORTS NETWORK) (12) North Carolina at Virginia Tech, noon (ESPN) (16) Florida State vs. Chattanooga, 3 p.m. (FOX SPORTSOUTH) Georgia Tech at Miami, 12:30 p.m. (WACH 57) Syracuse at North Carolina State, 12:30 p.m.

Duke at Virginia, 3:30 p.m.

Louisville at Pittsburgh, 3:45 p.m. (ESPNEWS) SEC Today (8) Florida vs. Florida Atlantic, noon (SEC NETWORK) (17) LSU at (25) Mississippi, 3:30 p.m. (WLTX 19) Idaho at Auburn, 4 p.m.(TIME WARNER 385) Mississippi State at Arkansas, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Georgia Southern at Georgia, 7 p.m. (ESPNU) Tennessee at Missouri, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Texas A&M at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m. (SEC NETWORK)

Charlotte at Kentucky, 7:30 p.m. (TIME WARNER 385) TOP 25 Today (2) Ohio State vs. (9) Michigan State, 3:30 p.m.

(WOLO 25) (4) Oklahoma State vs. (10) Baylor, 7:30 p.m.

(WACH 57) (6) Iowa vs. Purdue, Noon (ESPN2) (7) Oklahoma vs. (11) TCU, 8 p.m. (WOLO 25) (13) Houston at Connecticut, 3:30 p.m. (ESPNU) (14) Michigan at Penn State, noon (WOLO 25) (15) Stanford vs. California, 10:30 p.m. (ESPN) (18) Utah vs. UCLA, 3:30 p.m. (WACH 57) (19) Navy at Tulsa, 7 p.m. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK) (20) Northwestern at (21) Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m.

(22) Southern Cal at (23) Oregon, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) (24) Washington State vs. Colorado, 10:45 p.m.

(ESPN2)

HOMESTEAD, FLA. — Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, eliminated from title contention in earlier rounds of NASCAR’s playoffs, played spoiler Friday by sweeping the front row for the season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Hamlin, who was eliminated in the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, won the pole.

Logano, who had the strongest car during the Chase and probably should be in the fourdriver finale, qualified second.

“We wish we were a part of it but unfortunately a couple mechanical things took us out of this Chase, but we’re going to hopefully go out with a bang,” said Hamlin, who jokingly referred to himself as “Mr. Irrelevant.”

Logano, who swept all three races in the third round of the Chase, said a win at Homestead would bookend a season that began with a Daytona 500 victory.

“Is it disappointing we aren’t racing with these guys for the championship? Of course it is,” Logano said. “We want to be. But it is what it is and we move on.”

The championship will be decided Sunday and go to the highest finishing driver of the final four in the Chase. The four racing for the title are: defending series champion Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. Busch posted the third-fastest lap, best among the Chase finalists, and said he leaned on teammate Hamlin for the strong qualifying run.

“That’s good company to follow right there with (Hamlin) on the pole,” Busch said. “He’s obviously one of the best here and I’ve leaned on him a lot this week and we’ll continue to do so here through practice.”

Gordon was fifth in qualifying for the final race of his career. The four-time NASCAR champion is retiring at the end of the season and used three strong runs in qualifying to earn a solid starting spot for what he figures will be one of the most hectic days of his 23year career.

FORD ECOBOOST 400 LINEUP

By The Associated Press After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Fla. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 176.655.

2. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 176.263.

3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 176.062.

4. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevy 175.347.

5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevy, 175.291.

6. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 175.143.

7. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 175.063.

8. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 175.046.

9. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 174.678.

10. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevy, 174.633.

11. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevy, 174.498.

12. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevy, 174.098.

13. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevy, 175.444.

14. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 175.404.

15. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevy, 175.365.

16. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 175.279.

17. (27) Paul Menard, Chevy, 175.239.

18. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevy, 175.239.

19. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 175.211.

20. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevy, 174.859.

21. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 174.419.

22. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevy, 174.34.

23. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevy, 174.059.

24. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 172.651.

25. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 174.848.

26. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 174.115.

27. (13) Casey Mears, Chevy, 173.829.

28. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 173.723.

29. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 173.65.

30. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevy, 173.399.

31. (26) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 173.199.

32. (32) Josh Wise, Ford, 172.833.

33. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevy, 172.75.

34. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevy, 172.618.

35. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevy, 172.463.

36. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevy, 172.276.

37. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, Owner Points.

38. (55) David Ragan, Toyota, Owner Points.

39. (46) Michael Annett, Chevy, Owner Points.

40. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, Owner Points.

41. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.

42. (34) Brett Moffitt, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (98) Ryan Preece, Chevy, Owner Points.

Failed to Qualify 44. (23) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 170.084.

45. (62) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 169.545.

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mother may come from another culture, but she has much to teach you.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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.

Abby shares more than 100 of her favorite recipes in two booklets “Abby’s Favorite Recipes” and “More Favorite Recipes by Dear Abby.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $14 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby, Cookbooklet Set, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

JUMBLE

SUDOKU

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

By Bruce Venzke

ACROSS 1 Amuse to the hilt 16 Goth is a subgenre of it 17 Tax inequity 18 Blotter name 19 These, overseas 20 Film lioness 23 Financial shellacking 25 T-__ 28 Where surfers look for bargains 30 With 34-Across, China's locale 34 See 35-Across 35 Logician friend of Einstein 36 Give (out) 37 Chinese dish eponym 38 Swansea-born 39 Got used up, with "out" 40 Scary St. Bernard of fiction 42 Beyond chunky 43 Dough dispensers 44 Try 45 Not seen as frequently 46 Amphora, e.g.

47 Requires

11/21/15 49 Dino, __ & Billy: '60s band that included sons of two musical celebs 51 Sentry's stint 54 Is charismatic 58 Slide rules, for example 64 Borrower's protection 65 Some emcees DOWN 1 Monastery figure 2 It has blue-striped jets 3 Abruzzi bell town 4 Tara feature 5 1974 pension plan legislation 6 Words with stew and pickle 7 Bug 8 __-Chapelle: historic Paris church 9 Track advantage 10 "__ Got a Secret" 11 Belief 12 Surprised at the party 13 "Dateline NBC" anchor Lester

14 Prefix with -plasm 15 "The __ the limit!"

21 Investigator's data gathering 22 Low life 23 Consecrated 24 Attendant to a man 25 Baker's quantity 26 Send forth 27 Spanish wine region 29 Freud contemporary 31 Inner tube?

32 Verbal attacks 33 It may be perfect 41 Forecasters 43 Flies

48 Insufficient 50 "On the Beach" novelist 51 What early arrivals often have to do 52 Cornerstone word 53 "So long!"

55 Moments 56 "Dies __" 57 Recipe abbr.

59 Special someone 60 Show with many spin-offs 61 USAF commissioning prog.

62 He played Clubber Lang in "Rocky III" 63 Links figure

Friday’s Puzzle Solved

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HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW Sat Nov. 21st, 9am -3pm First Assembly of God 1151 Alice Dr. Sumter, 773-3817 Venders for Initials Inc., Sentsy Candles, Plexus, It Works, Tupperware, Jamberry Nails, Hand made Christmas deco., wood work items and much more.

Community Residential Care 703 Broad St Sumter immediately hiring third shift workers. Serious inquiries only. Must be available weekends and holidays. Apply in person.

Rent to own Sumter 2BR 1BA all appl. incl. C/H/A, water & sewer incl. $385mo. + $400 Dep. 803-464-5757

1365 Jefferson Rd. Sat.Nov 21st 8am - 12. Household decor, recliner, toys, other misc.

361 Neeley St (Behind Fat Boys) Sat 7-1 Huge Multi Family, Furniture, baby items, women's clothes, Christmas decor. Lots more!

Inside garage sale, new & used asst clothes, furn., books, collector dolls, hsewares, gift items & Christmas decor. 504-D Miller Rd. Sat. 8-12pm. No early sales.

Firewood Oak firewood for sale.

Call 803-468-6388 For Sale Tons of fire wood premium seasoned oak. u haul $50 per pick up load, delivered 1 cord $130. Call Collins Tree Service 803-499-2136

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales 2 Family Yard Sale. 1920 Golfair Rd Sat 8-1 No early sales! Items of all kinds.

872 Twin Lakes Dr Fri. 12-5 Sat. 8-12 Furn., home decor, clothing & shoes for all ages & more.

LARGE GARAGE SALE Every Weekend Tables $2 & $3

A Camden law firm seeking legal assistant with litigation and worker's compensation experience, 2-3 yrs minimum. Collections & real estate experience a plus. Successful applicant will have strong oral and writing skills. Salary commensurate with experience. Position will begin at approx. 30 hours per week with opportunity to grow to full time with benefits. Send Resume to Box 430 c//o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

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3220 Langston Street Dalzell Sat 7-12 Furniture Misc hshld items and beanie babies 210 E Moore St Sat 9:30-2 Christmas wreath, & more. Free clothes and shoes.

910 S Wise Dr., Multi-Family Sale, Sat 8AM. Lots of stuff.

307 Rogers Ave. Sat. 7-1. Handicap items, antiques, tools, old coins, old guns, electrical supplies.

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