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Lowndes County School District piles up $7M in deficit
spending over past three years
A dog-gone sensation
Latest Mansfield mural
project in West Point has
captured the imagination
of pet lovers
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com
S
ince painting her first mural
in downtown West Point seven
years ago, Deborah Mansfield’s
work has been the talk of the town.
But no project quite compares to
the one she has been working on
since early last summer.
What began as an idea for a single
mural to help raise funds for the local
animal shelter and the city’s Main
Street Association has now become
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four separate murals
adorning the buildings
occupied by Frank’s
Package Store and The
SmokeStack tobacco
store.
“It has really explod-
ed,” said Kathy Dyess, Mansfield
chairman of the Main
Street West Point design committee.
“People come by all the time. They
holler at us as they drive by. People
have really enjoyed watching it hap-
pen. Nobody expected this.”
The idea, said Mansfield, was to
recreate the “Dogs Playing Pok-
er” artwork of Cassius Marcellus
Coolidge, whose original 18 paintings
of humanized dogs, used primarily
for promotional and advertisements
See Murals, 3A
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K
enneth Hughes,
business manager
for Lowndes Coun-
ty School District, sat
at his desk Friday after-
noon tapping away at his
keyboard and occasionally
scrawling numbers on
Hughes
a sheet of paper sitting
beside his computer
monitor.
All the while, Superin-
tendent Lynn Wright paced
around the room, spouting
about dollar amounts and
projects without the use of
any documents to support
Wright
the information.
“We had some projects that weren’t
budgeted,” Wright said. “We had a sew-
age project (which) ended up being $1.2
million. (We also had) the purchase of
the property for the career tech center
and then the different things for the re-
modeling of West Lowndes and Caledo-
nia Middle School, (and) the field house
(at New Hope). Each time, you take it out
of fund balance (because) these were
not budgeted items. I’m just talking off
the top of my head so some of these fig-
ures might not be specific, but we spent,
I believe it was, … $200,000 on band
equipment. We built some roads and did
some paving that wasn’t in the budget,
but we had it in the fund balance. ... We
did the one-to-one initiative (equipping
each student with a computer or tablet),
which was $3 million, plus $1 million a
year thereafter on the lease.
“We have had some major expendi-
tures, but it has paid dividends for us in
the growth of our students,” he contin-
ued.
Finally, Hughes revealed the product
of his scrawling — a comparison of the
school district’s revenue against expen-
ditures since 2013. According to his re-
cords, LCSD had a near $6 million bud-
get shortfall in 2014 and has operated at
deficits for each of the last three years
that exceed a combined $7 million.
See LCSD, 6A
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
Lisa Klutts’ dogs, Hazel, left, and Amy, are portrayed in the “Dog Playing Poker” mural
painted by Deborah Mansfield at Frank’s Package Store on Main Street in West Point.
Amy is wearing a party hat and sitting in a red velvet chair while Hazel is captured in a
portrait hanging on the wall just above Amy’s head.
Calendar Sunday comics Public
Monday meetings
April 9: Starkville
■ “Journey for Two”: A free duo piano
Planning and
recital by Julia Mortyakova and Valentin
Zoning Commis-
Bogdan of Mississippi University for Women
sion, 5:30 p.m.,
begins at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on
City Hall
campus.
April 9: Starkville
Oktibbeha Con-
Tuesday solidated School
■ Spring recital: The W’s Department of District Board of
Music presents a free spring recital at 7:30 Trustees, 6 p.m.,
p.m. in Poindexter Hall’s Kossen Auditorium Greensboro Center
on campus. April 12: Board
of Aldermen work
Wednesday session, noon,
City Hall
■ Noon Tunes: Jeffrey Rupp entertains at
Noon Tunes from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at April 15: Board of
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downtown Columbus. Lunch available for comics, selected by our read- p.m., Oktibbeha
purchase. For more information, contact ers, will appear on the back County Court-
Main Street Columbus, 662-328-6305. of Section D this weekend. house
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Sunday
Say What?
Did you hear? “There is indeed an emergency on our southern border. It’s a
Vaccine wars: Social media colossal surge and it’s overwhelming our immigration system ...”
President Donald Trump during a briefing on immigration and

battle outbreak of bogus claims border security on Friday. Story, 8B.

‘The online world ... has been very

Ask Rufus
much taken over by misinformation
spread by concerned parents’
By BARBARA ORTUTAY professor of public policy
AP Technology Writer and sociology at the Uni-
versity of California, River-
SAN FRANCISCO — side, who studies vaccine
Like health officials facing trends. “Medical doctors
outbreaks of disease, inter- don’t command the sort of
net companies are trying authority they did decades
to contain vaccine-related
ago. There is a lack of con-
misinformation they have
fidence in institutions peo-
long helped spread. So far,
ple had faith in.”
their efforts at quarantine
The effort to screen out
are falling short.
bogus vaccine information
Searches of Facebook,
online is one more front in
Pinterest and Instagram
turn up all sorts of bogus the battle by social media
warnings about vaccines, to deal with fake news of
including the soundly de- all sorts, including political
bunked notions that they propaganda. (Research-
cause autism or that mer- ers have even found Rus- Courtesy image
cury preservatives and oth- sia-linked bots trying to Mary Billups of Columbus painted this Tombigbee swamp scene around 1890. It shows a lichen known as
er substances in them can sow discord by amplifying Grandpa’s Beard hanging from tress. Unlike Spanish moss, which is found no further north than Jackson,
poison and even kill people. both sides of the vaccine Grandpa’s Beard is found in some swamps near Columbus.
debate.)

Southern Scenery
Some experts fear that
the online spread of bad Pinterest, the digital
information about vaccines scrapbooking and search
is planting or reinforcing site that has been a lead-

W
fears in parents, and they ing online repository of
vaccine misinformation, hen mind. It is of taha, the great Choctaw Other paintings and
suspect it is contributing re- the Oak Leaf chief. Though most of the drawings were done
to the comeback in recent took the seemingly drastic
Hydrangea originals were lost, 120 of by local artists. Mary
years of certain dangerous step in 2017 of blocking all
searching which was King’s paintings had been Billups painted a swamp
childhood diseases, includ- searches for the term “vac-
southern first recorded published as lithographs scene south of Colum-
ing measles, whooping cines.”
history, it is in south Ala- by Thomas McKinney bus around 1890. It
cough and mumps. Facebook, meanwhile,
always inter- bama around and James Hall between shows what looks like
“The online world has said in March that it would
esting to find 1780. William 1838 and 1842. Spanish moss hanging
been one that has been no longer recommend Bartram, in McKinney and Hall
first-person from trees. That would
very much taken over by groups and pages that accounts of 1791, pub- were not the artists
misinformation spread spread hoaxes about vac- normally place the scene
earlier times lished a book but the publishers who a hundred miles south of
by concerned parents,” cines, and that it would re- but it is most with what is commissioned the
said Richard Carpiano, a ject ads that do this. Columbus. However, in a
fascinating probably the lithographs. In doing Tombigbee swamp seven
Rufus Ward first illustra- so, they have preserved
to find early or eight miles south of
images. It is tion of the many historic images that
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Proposed Mississippi
pump project has
bipartisan support
Rep. Bennie Thompson: Project
could be part of a long-term plan
to help people in the flatlands,
where floodwaters have been
standing for weeks
By ROGELIO V. SOLIS and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press

VALLEY PARK — A Democratic congressman

who represents the Mississippi Delta reiterated
his support Friday for a flood control and drainage
project that the Trump administration says it might
revive more than a decade after another Republi-
can administration killed it.
Rep. Bennie Thompson told The Associated
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
Press that a massive pump project could be part
When the demand from donors to have their pets portrayed in Deborah Mansfield’s mural at Frank’s Package of a long-term plan to help people in the rural flat-
Store on Main Street in West Point continued to increase, Mansfield created a second portrait, “Dogs Playing lands, where floodwaters have been standing for
Pool,” to accommodate another 19 dogs and a cat. The mural also features an image of “Howling Wolf” outside weeks.
the window, a nod to the famous blues singer West Point celebrates with a music festival each year. “I don’t want to say the pump is the only solu-
tion,” Thompson said before meeting with local

Murals
and state officials who were touring flooded areas.
“Even if we had the money for the pumps, it would
Continued from Page 1A take about four years to get installed.”
Environmental Protection Agency Administra-
from 1894 to 1910, have tor Andrew Wheeler confirmed Wednesday that
become iconic works his agency is reconsidering a 2008 EPA decision
of pop art, as recogniz- to kill the pump project, which proposes to drain
able as Da Vinci’s “Last water from the confluence of the Yazoo and Missis-
Supper” or Van Gogh’s sippi Rivers in Mississippi.
“Starry Night.” The late Republican Sen. John McCain once
“’Dogs Playing Poker’ called the pump proposal “one of the worst projects
was always a painting I ever conceived by Congress.”
wanted to do,” Mansfield The administration of President George W.
said. “I thought it would Bush rejected the project amid concerns about
be fun.” its potential impact on wetlands and wildlife. Op-
As she kicked around ponents say huge pumps could worsen flooding
the idea with Dyess and downstream.
other committee mem- Thompson said he wants to keep the air and
bers, a twist was sug- water clean, and acknowledged the concerns about
gested. For a donation of moving large amounts of water.
$350, a person could have “If you are going to pump it, where is it going
their dog illustrated as to go?” Thompson said. “We are going to have to
one of the characters in work with the people downstream to assure them
the scene. that if we’re successful, we won’t just be moving the
“It went absolutely problem 50, 60 miles down the river.”
crazy from there,” Dyess
said. “No one could have
imagined.”
Soon, the donations Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch

started rolling in and
Mansfield started on the
poker scene using photos
of donors’ dogs.
To date, donors have
contributed more than
$20,000. There are 43
dogs and three cats
portrayed in four scenes.
In addition to first mural,
“Dogs Playing Poker,”
there are “Dogs Playing
Pool,” “Casino” and “The
Dogs of Summer,” which
Mansfield is just starting
work on and will feature
baseball cards with donor
dogs as the players.
For that scene, Man-
sfield has painted in two
of the local dogs and has
three more donor dogs
to add.
“We’re to the point
where need more dogs,”
she said.
No one thinks that
going to be a problem.
“After the first one,
people figured out was
going on and started call-
ing, wanting their dogs in
the murals,” Dyess said.
Mansfield said that
both “Dogs Playing Pok-
er” and “Dogs Playing
Pool” have room to add
dogs as donors request.
Something for
posterity
That’s what happened
The “Casino” mural, painted by Deborah Mansfield on the north side of Frank’s
Package Store on Main Street in West Point, is a tribute to Walter Fleishhacker’s
dog, Eavie. Fleishacker donated $5,000 to have all of the dogs painted in the scene
to be Eavie. After Eavie died, Fleishhacker often returned to sit and look at his be-
loved pet. Fleishhacker died in February at age 85 and the mural is now a memorial
of his love for his little dog.
in the case of Lisa Klutts, Wolf” can be seen out of When Eavie died,
whose dog Amy is por- the window, a tribute to Fleishhacker often
trayed in the poker scene the famous blues singer returned to the mural,
sitting in a red velvet West Point celebrates sitting and watching his
chair wearing a party hat. each year with a music Eavies play poker.
Klutts, the director festival. Fleishhacker died in
of community develop- In the nine months February at age 85.
ment for the West Point since Mansfield began His tribute to his
Growth Alliance, adopted work on the first mural, beloved pet is a memorial
another dog, Hazel, after it has become something to them both now.
the poker scene had been more than a fun way to Mansfield said there’s
completed, so Mansfield express donors’ love of room planned for another
added Hazel’s image as a their pets, but a memo- 15 dogs or cats.
portrait hanging on the rial. “But, really, I’m not
wall just above Amy’s Some of the animals going to put a limit on it,”
head. have crossed “The Rain- she said. “We’ll sprinkle
“It’s become so bow Bridge” since Man- cats and dogs in around
creative, with people sug- sfield began her work. the scenes. So anybody
gesting different things The murals are becoming that wants their cat or
for their dogs,” Dyess memorials. dog on the mural can call
said. In fact, the mural on me.”
Dyess’ cat, for exam- the north side of the Interested donors can
ple, is busy scratching off building is a poignant reach Mansfield a 662-
a Lotto Scratcher in the example of that aspect of 275-7819.
poker scene. An “Ameri- the murals.
can Gothic” painting on Walter Fleishhacker,
the wall is re-imagined a longtime supporter of
with a pair of cats. the animal shelter, was
Another group of dogs so excited by the project
are playing dice in a that he donated $5,000 to
corner, while a chihuahua have the “Casino” mural
is playing piano on the painted with his beloved
other side of the poker dog, Eavie, portraying all
room. seven dogs in the scene,
In the “Dogs Playing which includes Eavies
Pool” scene, a “Howling playing craps and slots.

Around the state

Man charged with capital murder
in death of 4-month-old girl
TREMONT — A Mississippi sheriff
says a 4-month-old girl has died and now
a man is charged with capital murder in
her death.
Itawamba County Sheriff Chris Dick-
inson tells WTVA-TV that the girl’s
babysitter called 911 about the unre-
sponsive child. He says deputies found
the baby Tuesday afternoon at a home in
the Tremont area. She died at a hospital
Thursday morning.
Investigators believe the babysitter’s
husband, 35-year-old Ricky Dale Jr., is
responsible for the infant’s death. He
was arrested Wednesday.
The sheriff says Dale’s wife had left
the home to go to a store and found the
baby unresponsive when she returned.
Investigators say Dale was at the resi-
dence while his wife was gone.
If convicted, Dale could be sentenced
to death. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer
who could comment.

When was the last time you

picked up a piece of litter?
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Our View

Roses and thorns

A rose to
the Columbus
Exchange Club,
which is using
its weekly lun-
cheons as a can-
didate forum for those running
for local office. This week, the
three candidates for Lowndes
County prosecutor – Corky
Smith, William Starks and
Steve Wallace – spoke to club.
Future meetings will bring
candidates for other positions,
including sheriff and chancery
clerk. These races generally
don’t get a lot of publicity, so
providing the candidates an op-
portunity to make their cases
before the club is an import-
ant way to inform voters. We
applaud the Exchange Club for
this effort.
A thorn to the
Lowndes County
School District
for a pair of blun-
ders that threat-
en to undermine the reputation
of an otherwise successful
district. First, the district
failed to properly put together
a realistic budget, refusing
to either raise taxes to cover
expenses or reduce spending
to make budget. The district’s
recent efforts to remedy this
situation – eliminating teacher
positions – is not only pointless
(the state pays all but $3,000
of teachers’ salaries) – but is a
case of using a “last resort” as
a first option. Cutting teacher
positions has a direct negative
effect on education. On top of
that, the district has failed to
properly verify the residential
status of students in a timely
manner. Last year, 32 students
who lived inside the Columbus
Municipal School District en-
rolled in the county’s schools,
but weren’t returned to CMSD
until after the county received
state funding for those stu-
dents. That’s patently unfair.
The district should be able
to verify students’ residential
status when those students
enroll. Ultimately, it is the job
of the county’s school board to
address these problems.
A rose to
the Oktibbeha
County Board
of Supervisors
which approved
the purchase of a
camera that will allow resi-
dents to watch board meeting
online. Supervisors unani-
mously approved the $750
purchase, which will allow the
Golden Triangle Planning and
Development District to buy
a camera and set it up to put
meetings online on the coun-
ty’s website. It is often difficult
for working citizens to attend
the board of supervisors meet-
ings, so giving residents an op-
portunity to view the meetings
online is a great way to keep
county residents informed of
what their elected represen-
tatives are conducting county
business. This not only keeps
citizen informed, it provides
another layer of accountability.
We applaud this move.
A rose to Mis-
sissippi Universi-
ty for Women for
its efforts to en-
courage, educa-
tion and support
women in elected positions.
There are 174 elected members
of the Mississippi Legislature.
Only 26 of those seats are held
by women. Locally, neither
the Columbus City Council
and Lowndes County Board
of Supervisors have a woman
member while Starkville Board
of Aldermen and Oktibbeha
County Board of Supervisors
each have one woman seated.
To encourage women to run
for local office and prepare
them for that role, MUW
offers a National Education for
Women’s (NEW) Leadership
program each summer at the
university. MUW political sci-
ence professor Chanley Rainey,
who serves as a program
coordinator, said NEW accepts
any woman enrolled in public,
private or community college,
to the six-day residential pro-
gram geared toward building
young women’s confidence in
politics. This year’s program
will be May 19-24. Each year
about 24 students are chosen to
work with program alumna and
women in leadership positions,
covering topics ranging from
women’s roles in politics to
running a campaign. They also
work on an “action project”
where they prepare a mock
legislative committee hearing,
earning two-hour college cred-
its in the process. For too long,
women have been under-repre-
sented at every level of gov-
ernment, from local to state to
national. We congratulate The
W for its efforts to address this
problem.

Other editors

About time city tackles

commercial blight
Mayor George Flaggs Jr. Monday said the city
will begin cracking down on vacant and derelict
commercial buildings.
It’s about time.
The current Board of Mayor and Aldermen has
followed a policy of strict code enforcement in the
city’s residential areas and that policy has helped
clean and improve several problem areas in the
city. But while the board has been enforcing the
law on the people the mayor called “the little man,”
it has not enforced the city code as stringently on
the city’s commercial property owners.
“We cannot continue to come in here and
chastise the little man, the small guy, and take his
property from 60 days with 30 days progress and
then let these big old giant buildings — one next
door (the old post office building),” he said.
“People have got all this money and look at
these (vacant commercial) buildings, and then you
want to keep beating up on these little folks about
a car in their yard or a dump truck in their yard,
and then you walk by these big old buildings and
nobody says nothing. That’s embarrassing to me.”
Flaggs is right.
How can the board continue to come down hard Possumhaw
on someone because his grass isn’t cut or he has
a car in his yard when a nearby vacant building in
disrepair sits on an overgrown lot or a lot littered
with trash? Besides the old post office, another ex-
Easter bonnet with all the frills
ample of a large neglected building is the multi-sto- “I read the Scriptures at
ry old Mercy Hospital building on Grove Street, the American Cathedral on
and there are dozens more all over the city. Christmas and Easter; that’s
When Flaggs took office in 2013, he promised it. It’s a task I love.”
to leave Vicksburg “in a better condition than when Olivia de Havilland, ac-
I found it,” and is doing that, working to improve tress, age 102
the city’s economy and making the downtown area
a place where people want to go. But all the work to There’s an old black and
make the city a place where people want to come white photograph when I’m
is wasted if we don’t improve the way we look, and about 2 or 3 years old, glued
eliminating vacant dilapidated commercial build- in a faded album. Mother
ings, especially on our major thoroughfares, is a must have taken the pho-
tograph because my father Shannon Bardwell
necessity.
We applaud the board for its decision to start is squatting beside me as I
cracking down on commercial building owners vi- hold my Easter basket. The expression on my face is
olating the code. And now that they’ve made their one of confusion as if I’m not quite sure why I have a
decision, we’ll be watching to see if they enforce bonnet on my head, white gloves on my hands and a
the codes with the same fervor as they have in the dress that sticks out in every direction. Every Easter
residential areas until the day he died, my dad would sing Irving
Vicksburg Post Berlin’s song — “In your Easter bonnet with all the
frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter
parade.”
I believe I always had and will always have an
Easter dress. This Easter I ordered the same dress
Our View: Local Editorials four times from a popular online retailer. Every time I
Local editorials appearing in this space represent the ordered the in-stock dress, three days later I received
opinion of the newspaper’s editorial board: Peter Imes, an email saying my dress was no longer available.
editor and publisher;t general manager; Slim Smith
and senior newsroom staff. To inquire about a meeting
Finally, I called customer service and explained I felt
with the board, please contact Peter Imes at 662-328- like I was bidding on this dress and losing. Three
2424, or e-mail voice@cdispatch.com. days later the dress arrived. My intense preoccupa-
tion with an Easter dress sparked my curiosity, where Avenue churches, a spontaneous walk-along took
did the idea of an Easter dress begin? Is there really place with ladies and gentlemen in their finest attire
Voice of the People an Easter parade? and flamboyant hats strolling along the avenue after
We encourage you to share your opinion with readers
of The Dispatch. Seems the idea of new Easter attire signified the church services. It was a showing of respect and
Submit your letter to The Dispatch by: end of Lent, renewal of the year, coming of spring and attention to the occasion as well as a spring fashion
E-mail: voice@cdispatch.com continuation of a European custom of new clothes and show. The churches were awash in floral displays
Mail: P.O. Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703 hats for sacred and special occasions. Even if your and everyone was welcomed. The spontaneous event
In person: 516 Main St., Columbus, or 101 S. Lafay- new dress was fashioned from a printed flour sack eventually became an official Easter parade that in
ette St., No. 16, Starkville. or remade from another dress or curtains, or bought 1947 attracted over a million people. New York City
All letters must be signed by the author and must fabric from the general goods store, it was new and no longer hosts an official Easter parade, but streets
include town of residence and a telephone number for special and later became your “Sunday best.” are still blocked off, there is a spontaneous gathering,
verification purposes. Letters should be no more than As for Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” song, it and Fifth Avenue churches continue Easter displays.
500 words, and guest columns should be 500-700
words. We reserve the right to edit submitted informa-
took Berlin 15 years to write and was first performed The original parades are also a possible link to two
tion. in a 1933 Broadway musical revue, “As Thousands Biblical processions, the triumphant entry on Palm
Cheer.” Then in 1948, the song was made famous in Sunday and the road to Calvary, also referred to as
the movie “Easter Parade” featuring Fred Astaire, the Stations of the Cross.
Judy Garland, Peter Lawford and Ann Miller. Multiple Who knows, perhaps there could be a spontaneous
internet sources still provide access to the movie. But community Easter parade with bonnets and all the
Give the gift of books. was it just a movie, or was there a real Easter parade? frills upon it.
Imagination Library Sometime during the mid-1880s in New York Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus at
City, alongside the magnificent edifices of the Fifth msdeltachild@msn.com.
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The war against warming: why we must fight

Even after
Hitler invaded
Czechoslovakia and
Poland, a strong
pacifist movement
in Britain opposed
a military buildup
to confront Nazi
Germany. It vilified
Winston Churchill
as a warmonger for
pushing one.
“What is it that Froma Harrop
Britain and France
are fighting for?”
Churchill asked rhetorically in
a March 1940 broadcast. “If we danger. Worse, many denied it
left off fighting you would soon is real.
find out.”
Five months later, bombs
started dropping on London.
Britain found itself alone and
teetering on the edge of an
invasion by Nazi Germany.
And in these dark hours,
when a militarily weak Britain
suffered frightening losses
on the battlefields, politicians
who opposed preparing for war
blamed Churchill for being a
poor wartime leader.
Climate change hurricanes and tornados. They
is a very different watch towns and beautiful
kind of peril, but farmland in Iowa, Nebraska
it, too, is men- and Missouri disappear under
acing our planet the water.
with catastrophic And it’s just started. The
consequences for National Oceanic and Atmo-
both our natural spheric Administration says 25
environment and states could see moderate to
built civilization. major flooding through May.
The warnings have Some will surpass the infa-
been coming fast mous floods of 1993 and 2011.
and furiously for Natural disasters have al-
years as the powers ways been with us. Responsible
in Washington lift- climate scientists are careful
ed not a finger to deal with the not to place all the onus for
these events on rising tempera-
tures. But they do insist that
Now listen to Cathy Crain, climate is playing a part, and
mayor of Hamburg, Iowa, that as the Earth gets warmer,
whose Missouri River town these calamities will grow in
was inundated to the rooftops degree and number.
by apocalyptic flooding. Still, the appeaser politi-
“I’m looking at global warm- cians have no answer other
ing — I don’t need to see the than to spend zillions of taxpay-
graphs,” Crain said. “I’m living er dollars on fixes that won’t
it and everybody else is living work for long. And where will
it.” that money come from? Many
Americans are finding out of these same officials lustily
why they must fight. They see supported the Trump tax cuts,
the devastating fires, droughts, which are draining the Trea-
sury of needed revenues.
Case in point is Missouri
Sen. Josh Hawley. When the
subject came around to climate
change, the Republican pointed
fingers at the all-purpose
“radical environmentalists” for
killing jobs. Now he blames
them for allegedly forcing the
Army Corps of Engineers —
which oversees flood control
efforts — to favor wildlife over
farmers.
The corps serves several
constituencies, but as its dep-
uty commanding general for
civil and emergency operations
said in a recent statement,
“The Corps’s No. 1 priority in
its operations is life safety.”
Thing is, for over a century,
the corps has been building,
building, building levees,
spillways and other infrastruc-
ture to control the waters. This
system is crumbling under the
pressure of climate-induced
flooding. You could build
levees seemingly halfway to
heaven with more borrowed
money, but in many cases,
they won’t meet the growing
challenge.
And even when levees —
built or sometimes removed
— succeed in preventing floods
in one place, they can create
problems elsewhere. After all,
the water has to go someplace.
When a levee was demolished
in 2011 to save Cairo, Illinois,
from a rampaging Mississippi
River, some 100,000 acres,
mostly farmland, was flooded.
In his previous job as Mis-
souri attorney general, Hawley
joined a suit against Barack
Obama’s Clean Power Plan,
designed to contain global
warming. President Trump
applauded.
With leadership like this,
the war against climate change
hasn’t even reached the end of
the beginning. Surrender and
blaming others is not a win-
ning strategy.
Froma Harrop, a syndicated
columnist, writes for the Provi-
dence (Rhode Island) Journal.
Her e-mail address is fharrop@
gmail.com.

Cartoonist view Who is ‘we?’

With pre-emptive
apologies to grammarians
everywhere, today we pon-
der the following question:
Who is “we?”
That syntactic atrocity
is prompted by a recent
colloquy between Laura
Ingraham of Fox “News”
and former GOP operative
Patrick Buchanan. They
were talking on Ingra-
ham’s podcast about what Leonard Pitts
they see as the impossibil-
ity of America absorbing
more newcomers from
The irony is
what Buchanan called
“the second or the third
that if the
world.” Then he dropped country is, in-
this gem:
“African Americans deed, doomed,
have been here since 1619.
They’ve helped build and it is not be-
create the nation. They’re
part of its culture and cause immi-
history, and yet we haven’t
fully assimilated Afri- grants flock
can-American citizens.”
“We?”
here, drawn
Presumably, he means
the country, which raises
by its ideals.
an obvious point. What
does it say about America
When have
that black people have
been here 400 years,
they not done

2020: Socialist America or Trump’s America? “helped build and create

In the new Dem-
ocratic Party, where
women and people of
color are to lead, and
the white men are to
stand back, the presi-
dential field has begun
to sort itself out some-
what problematically.
According to a Real
Clear Politics average
of five polls between
mid-March and April Patrick J. Buchanan antee a victory over
1, four white men -- Joe
Biden, Bernie Sanders,
“Beto” O’Rourke and Pete Butti-
gieg — have corralled 62 percent
of all Democratic voters.
The three white women run-
ning — Senators Elizabeth War-
ren, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten
Gillibrand — have, together, a
piddling 8 percent.
The lone Hispanic candidate,
Julian Castro, is at 1 percent.
African American candidates
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker
fare better, with Harris at 10 and
Booker at 3.
Who has raised the most mon-
ey from the most contributors?
Sanders is first with $18 mil-
lion; Harris is next with $12 mil-
lion; Beto is third with $9 million
in 18 days; and “Mayor Pete” is
fourth with $7 million.
Warren, Klobuchar and Gilli-
brand have yet to file reports.
But the big takeaway from re-
cent weeks is the sudden stunning tions, freezing Republicans out of
vulnerability of the front-runner.
Seven women have come forward
to berate Biden for unwanted and
offensive touching and crowding.
Joe is on the defensive. Some in
the #MeToo movement want him
gone.
He is also being slammed for
decisions across his 36-year Sen-
ate career — opposing busing for
integration, deserting Anita Hill
in the Clarence Thomas hearings,
supporting a racially discrimina-
tory crime bill, voting to authorize be abolished.
George W. Bush to take us into
war in Iraq.
And unkindest cut of all:
Barack Obama’s stony silence
about Joe’s candidacy.
The most compelling case for
the 76-year-old ex-vice president
is that he can win
back Trump’s white
working-class voters,
and return Wisconsin,
Michigan and Pennsyl-
vania to the Democrat-
ic fold.
Thus a major drop in
Biden’s polls could be
terminal to his candi-
dacy.
If Biden can’t guar-
Trump, why go with
Joe?
Yet, if he fades away as a candi-
date, as he has done twice before,
who emerges as front-runner? The
77-year-old Socialist Bernie Sand-
ers. If Joe fades, Bernie and the
comrades will have removed the
last large roadblock to a socialist
takeover of the national Democrat-
ic Party.
And what would then happen
if the Democrats simply held the
House, added three Senate seats
and defeated Trump in 2020?
An all-out effort to abolish the
Electoral College that is integral
to the historic compromise that
created our federal Union. Puer-
to Rico and D.C. would become
states, giving Democrats four
more Senators and making Ameri-
ca a bilingual nation.
A drive would be on to give
16-year-olds and convicted felons
the right to vote in federal elec-
power forever. A packing of the
Supreme Court would begin by
raising by six the number of jus-
tices and elevating liberal activists
to the new seats.
On the southern border, where
100,000 illegal migrants were
apprehended in March, Trump’s
wall would come down, all peo-
ples fleeing repression in Central
America would be welcomed into
the U.S., sanctuary cities would
become the norm, and ICE would
Open borders would be a
reality, along with amnesty for the
12 million-20 million people here
illegally, with a path to citizenship
for all.
It is impossible to see how the
U.S. border would ever be se-
cured.
The Green New Deal would be
enacted. Medicare for all. Free tu-
ition for college students. Millen-
nial college debts paid off by the
government. Free pre-K schooling
and day care. Guaranteed jobs for
all. A guaranteed living wage. Re-
peal of the Reagan and Trump tax
cuts. A re-raising of the corporate
rate and a return of the top rate
for individuals to 70 percent. New
wealth taxes on the rich.
With climate change seen as
an existential planetary peril,
fossil fuel-powered energy plants
— coal, oil, natural gas — would
be phased out and a new national
reliance on solar and wind begun.
There would be reparations for
slavery. Abortion on demand right
up to birth for all women. Marijua-
na would be legalized. Harris has
urged that prostitution, sex work,
be legalized.
How would the Green New Deal
be paid for?
Under “modern monetary
theory,” currency is a public
monopoly for the government, and
unemployment is evidence that
the monopoly is choking off the
needed supply. So print the money
necessary to get to rising wages,
full employment and a booming
economy.
To achieve Bernie Sanders’
Socialist America, the filibuster
would have to be abolished, easily
done, and the Constitution altered,
requiring the support of three-
fourths of the states, not so easy.
Yet, as of today, the unan-
nounced front-runner Joe Biden,
who is taking fire from many
quarters, appears to be the last
man standing between Sanders
Socialism and the Democratic
nomination.
Should Joe falter and fall,
Trump would be the nation’s last
line of defense against the coming
of a Socialist America. For nev-
er-Trump conservatives, the day of
reckoning may be just ahead.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nation-
ally syndicated columnist, was a
senior advisor to presidents Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald
Reagan. His website is http://bu-
chanan.org/blog.
it,” are integral to “its
that?
culture and history,” yet are still considered out-
siders?
Here’s something equally obvious. When
Buchanan says “we,” he does mean America. But
when he says “America,” he means white people.
Not that he’s the only one to rhetorically ostracize
people of color.
Journalists do it all the time when they use
terms like “evangelicals” to refer to religious white
people, “southerners,” to denote white people in
Dixie or “working class” to designate white people
with blue-collar jobs — as if people of color did not
go to church, live below the Mason-Dixon Line or
punch time clocks.
Donald Trump did it when he recently tweeted
that politicians in storm-torn Puerto Rico “only
take from USA.” As if Puerto Ricans, who gained
citizenship in 1917, were somehow separate from
“USA.”
Too often, then, people of color live in other
people’s blind spots, unseen in the shadow of their
assumptions. Some of us have a default image of
what constitutes “American” and it rules out Span-
ish surnames, dark skin and prayers to Allah.
Which stands in stark contrast to the values
America claims to hold dear. For 243 years, the
country has balanced in the tension between what
we claim and what we are. In 2019, though, that
tension is ramped up by a sense of the demograph-
ic clock ticking down on white primacy. It’s not too
much to say that in some quarters, a kind of panic
has set in over the notion that someday soon, white
people will no longer hold numerical superiority.
It’s that panic that made a woman cry, “I want
my country back,” that sent people hunting for
Barack Obama’s “real” birth certificate, that
inspired ponderous think pieces on the demise of
the WASP establishment, that elected Trump pres-
ident, that made white evangelicals betray their
stated convictions. It’s that panic that has Buchan-
an and Ingraham fearing the future.
He sees the country becoming “a giant Mall of
America.” She thinks the English language might
disappear.
The irony is that if the country is, indeed,
doomed, it is not because immigrants flock here,
drawn by its ideals. When have they not done that?
No, if America fails, it will be because people
like Buchanan and Ingraham lacked the courage
to live up to those ideals. It will be because it was
still possible, as late as 2019, for a white man to re-
gard African Americans, progenitors of America’s
music, fighters of its wars, tillers of its fields and
redeemers of its sacred values, as somehow alien
to America. And it will be because he and people
like him still arrogantly arrogate unto themselves,
as if handed down from the very hand of God, the
right to determine who “we” is.
And, more importantly, who “we” is not.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer
Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami
Herald. Email him at lpitts@miamiherald.com.
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Mississippi teacher group eyeing protest asks about walkout

‘The educators and the citizens are really
upset. You can tell they’re upset and
they’re calling for action.’
Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick
By JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
JACKSON — One of Mis-
sissippi’s statewide teacher
organizations asked support-
ers Thursday if they’re inter-
ested in protests over teacher
pay and Republican education
policies, even asking about an
indefinite “walkout.”
The Mississippi Association
of Educators, the state affiliate
of the National Education As-
sociation, posted the survey
Thursday online. President
Joyce Helmick said the organi-
zation has heard strongly from
teachers since the 2019 regular
session of the Legislature ad-
journed that they’re angry over
lawmakers’ decision to provide
only a $1,500 raise to teachers
beginning July 1. Helmick said
teachers were also angered be-
cause Republican Lt. Gov. Tate
Reeves pushed lawmakers to
spend $2 million more to sub-
sidize private school tuition
for special education students,
with many lawmakers not dis-
covering the spending until af-
ter they voted to pass the bill.
“The educators and the citi-
zens are really upset,” Helmick
said. “You can tell they’re upset
and they’re calling for action.”
The survey asks about sup-
port for possible actions includ-
ing a rally at the state Capitol
on a Saturday, after-work pick-
eting, campaigning for candi-
dates, and boycotting business
that donate to “anti-public ed-
ucation candidates.” The sur-
vey also asks about a one-day
sickout and whether teachers
could “walkout on a specific
day and refuse to return for
an indefinite amount of time.”
Helmick said that’s a synonym
for a strike.
Mississippi has had only
one significant teacher strike,
in 1985, and as part of a deal
giving teachers a $4,400 pay
raise over three years, lawmak-
ers wrote stringent language
outlawing any future strikes.
Teacher groups can be fined
$20,000 a day for disobeying a
court order against a walkout.
Striking teachers are supposed
to permanently be barred from
public school teaching unless a
court reinstates them because
of “public necessity.”
Local school boards are
barred from closing schools
during a strike “as long as prac-
ticable” and are required to re-
port names of strikers to the at-
torney general. For violations,
school board members can be
convicted of misdemeanors
and fined up to $250 a day.
“MAE is not putting in there
that we are going to strike,”
Helmick said, although she
said teachers should be legally
able to strike.
Helmick’s group has 7,000
members, of whom 5,000 are
teachers and full-time school
employees. It’s the second-larg-
est teachers group in the state,
behind the 13,500-member
Mississippi Professional Ed-
ucators, which has no union
ties. The executive director of
the larger group, Kelly Riley,
described dissatisfaction with
the raise and the “sneaky and
underhanded” insertion of the
$2 million as “a nuclear bomb
for teachers.”
“I have never seen our mem-
bers as engaged and frustrat-
ed,” Riley said, adding she’s
been deluged with emails,
phone calls and texts.

LCSD
Continued from Page 1A
Part of that total in-
cludes the $2.5 million
deficit expected this
school year, which ends
June 30. At that point,
LCSD’s once gaudy $17
million fund balance (op-
eration fund reserve) will
have dwindled to a little
more than $4 million.
“We just spent more
than we took in,” Hughes
said. “… This is the very
last year we can do it.”
The state recommends
districts carry a fund bal-
ance that is at least 7.5
percent of its total reve-
nue. LCSD budgets oper-
ating revenue at about $60
million per year (which is
the total that comes from
local, state and federal
sources), meaning the
fund balance of $4 mil-
lion would sit right at that
threshold. Another year
of relying on the fund bal-
ance to cover shortfalls
will plunge LCSD well
below state expectations.
School board policy,
on the other hand, sets a
goal to have 15 percent in
fund balance.
“I know it doesn’t look
good on paper, but we’re
proud of the way we’ve
utilized our resources
and the way our admin-
istrators have managed
their budgets,” Wright
said.
Budget cuts
Earlier this school
year, cracks began to
show in the district’s
financial health when
board members approved
borrowing $2.5 million in
November to make pay-
roll, a loan paid back with
property tax collections
LCSD received in Febru-
ary.
By late March, Wright
was crafting a plan to
save about $4.5 million in
2019-20, the bulk of which
would come from slash-
ing about 60 teaching po-
sitions district wide. The
school board is expected
to vote Friday to non-re-
new all contracts for first-
year teachers, then the
district will try to rehire
as many of those as possi-
ble to fill spots left vacant
by other resignations and
retirements.
For Wright, who has
served as superintendent
since 2012, all of this
bad budget news comes
at a critical time. His
last four-year term as an
elected official ends Dec.
31, when state law deems
his position will become
board-appointed.
The board will soon
begin taking applications
for superintendent, and
Wright’s is expected to
be among them. But it’s
unclear how much impact
the deficits will have on
Wright’s chances of be-
ing rehired.
“I don’t think it will
have any,” said board
president Robert Barks-
dale, though he did not
elaborate.
to $18.7 million this year,
LCSD operations spending with the expected $2.5
million operations deficit
Expenditures Revenue Difference poised to come to frui-
tion.
FY2019 Expected deficit: -$2.5 million
Some board members,
FY2018 $52.7 million $50.6 million -$2.1 million like Brian Clark, are con-
sidering a tax increase as
FY2017 $49.3 million $45.7 million -$3.6 million Barksdale Clark
an option for next school
FY2016 $49.4 million $49.7 million $300,000 year. lieu agreements will con-
FY2015 $42.3 million N/A “Taxpayers could like- vert to full taxes a year
ly see an increase,” Clark later, meaning LCSD is
FY2014 $47.97 million $42.1 million -$5.9 million
said. “But we have to look expected to collect $23.3
FY2013 $38.6 million $38.7 million $100,000 at the numbers come million from property
budget time.” taxes in 2020-21.
pected money did come. next year, mainly due to Wright, however, is Those revenue esti-
An aversion In 2016-17, LCSD col- increased SDI taxes that not resigned to a tax in- mates, combined with
to raising taxes lected $14.8 million from were paid, the district crease just yet. the district’s spending
LCSD hasn’t raised its property taxes, Tax As- collected $19.6 million Tax Assessor Greg cuts, should stop the
millage rate for property sessor’s Office records in property taxes, but Andrews estimates col- bleeding, Wright said.
taxes since 1989. indicate, and operated at operated at a $2.1 million lections to climb back to “We may not even
Now, the rate sits at a $3.6 million deficit ac- deficit. about $20 million next have to raise taxes,” he
46.71, even as consecu- cording to Hughes. The Collections dropped year, and several fee-in- said.
tive years of deficits run
in tandem with the dis-
trict trying to pay off a
$44 million construction
bond — at a rate of about
$3 million per year for
the 17-year note.
The bonds, issued af-
ter voters approved a bal-
lot measure in May 2015,
built New Hope High
School, a Career Tech
Center on Lehmberg
Road and paid for other
capital improvements
throughout the district.
LCSD used its fund
balance and lease-pur-
chase agreements for a
new $23 million Caledo-
nia Elementary School,
renovations at West
Lowndes and a $2 million
field house at New Hope.
They did all of this,
while district officials
promised not to raise
property taxes, instead
depending on projected
new tax revenue from
businesses that would
soon begin paying full
taxes once their fee-in-
lieu agreements — which
allow companies invest-
ing more than $100 mil-
lion to locate to Lowndes
County to pay only one-
third of their property
tax bill for up to 10 years
— expired.
Some of the expect-
ed funds never came.
Caledonia Gas closed,
and Steel Dynamics Inc.
moved inventory to its
tax-exempt paint shop,
which led to the district
receiving less tax reve-
nue than expected.
The school district
has sought an attorney
general’s opinion on the
SDI issue.
The latest fly in the
ointment — one that
cost the district about
$800,000 this year — was
a state Supreme Court
decision that exempted
all businesses located
on airport property from
paying any property
taxes. The Legislature
changed the law this year,
which means Airbus, Au-
rora Flight Sciences and
Stark Aerospace — all lo-
cated on Golden Triangle
Regional Airport proper-
ty — will pay those taxes
again next year.
But much of the ex-

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INTERNATIONAL FIESTA
Jhan Sandera, 32, of Sri Lanka hands out food at the 29th annual International Festival held at Mississippi State
University. The festival focuses on the many different nationalities represented in the area and is a way for peo-
ple to learn about other cultures.
LED strip lights up University Drive bridge
Bridge between Fellowship
Street, Old West Point Road
now features strip light
By Alex Holloway
aholloway@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Hagan Walker can
remember walking the bridge along Uni-
versity Drive near downtown many times
as a Mississippi State University student.
The bridge, until recently, has been
one of the darkest spots along the route.
Now, thanks to a collaborative effort from
Walker and the city, that’s changed.
A strip of LED lights, about 200 feet
long, now lines the side of the bridge. Walk-
er, who is a co-founder of Glo in Starkville,
reached out to Mayor Lynn Spruill about
the idea, who gave it her blessing and the
project moved from there.
“I had no idea what she was going to
say but I didn’t expect she’d embrace it as
quickly as she did,” he said. “She just told
me to run with it.”
Walker said the city provided power
for the lights, and he ran them across the
bridge and drilled into the concrete to
keep them in place. He said the project
cost him about $1,500.
The LED lights are individually ad-
dressable, which means each individual
light on the strip can be controlled indi-
vidually. That gives the strip the flexibility
to, for example, have one light of a certain
color in the middle of the strip, or any oth-
er number of options.
The strip is active from dusk to dawn,
and Walker said sensors activate when pe-
destrians pass by.
“There are two sensors on either end,”
he said. “It’s programmed to take a ran-
dom value and do something funky with
that so each time you walk by, it should be
a little bit different.
“They start with some sort of cool pat-
tern, kind of like an LED light show type
thing for the first few seconds,” Walker
added. “After that, they fade into a white
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, April 7, 2019 7A
Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch
Courtesy photo
New LED strip lights are lighting the side
of a bridge along University Drive near
downtown Starkville. The lights, installed
by Hagan Walker, automatically activate
when pedestrians pass by.
light so you can get across the bridge safe-
ly. Once you get across the other end of
the bridge, they fade back off.”
Spruill said the LED light bridge is, in
the grand scheme, a small project. How-
ever, she said small projects add up and,
especially as the city works to enhance
the corridor from Main Street to the uni-
versity, help to create a sense of place.
“Anything that makes our community
a place where people want to be — bright
little spots from murals to street pianos to
lights — all of those things make a differ-
ence in how you feel about your communi-
ty,” Spruill said.
“Sometimes they’re big, sometimes
they’re small, but those small things add
up and create a sense of who you are and
where you are and make it place where
you want to be, you want to stay, you want
to have your home and children,” she add-
ed. “That’s what we’re going for. That’s
what we’re trying to do.”
Walker said the reception has, so far,
been positive. He said MSU has even
approached him to ask about the project
with a possible interest in replicating it on
campus.
“I was honestly kind of worried about
that,” Walker said, “We’re an old town.
Some people like change and some peo-
ple don’t. I was really scared that we were
gonna get some complaints, but so far ev-
erything’s been really positive.”
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Sports
“Yeah, we will
SISTERS IN SOFTBALL
argue; yeah, we
will fuss with
each other. But
would I imagine
playing on any
other team with
anyone else?
No. It’s like a
dream come
true.”
— Montana Davidson
Sisters Montana Davidson, left, and Mia grew up in a military family and became Mississippi State Bull-
dogs on the same day in 2013.
Sisters Mia and Montana Davidson are
having a high-five time with MSU Bulldogs
By BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
M
ississippi State sophomore soft-
ball sisters Mia and Montana
Davidson start each game the
same way.
First is a high-five at chest level. An-
other with the opposite hands follows.
The last stage of their pregame hand
dance entails folding four fingers down-
ward toward their palm.
With their thumbs pointing out-
ward, each girl’s pinkies touch to cre-
ate a silhouetted bull — an ode to their
hometown of Hillsborough, North Car-
olina, which sits roughly 15 miles from
Durham and its Triple-A baseball team,
the Durham Bulls.
“We just take it back to home,” Mia
said. “You’ve got to remember where
you come from.”
Nearly 700 miles from Hillsborough,
Mia and Montana have helped anchor
the Mississippi State softball team to
what should be its third straight NCA A
Tournament appearance.
And while the distance from home is
vast, the family, both literal and figura-
tive, they’ve found in Starkville has pro-
vided comfort.
“We came from a small town and this
small-town feel felt like home,” Mia said
of Starkville. “It was a family demeanor
See Sisters, 3B
COLUMBUS SPEEDWAY RACING
Shelby Sheedy wins his first Super Late Model race
By DAVID MILLER
Special to The Dispatch
Shelby Sheedy is finally on the board.
The French Camp native had been
searching for his first Super Late Model
win since breaking into the division in
early 2017. Friday, at Columbus Speed-
way, Sheedy held off a late charge from
Jamey Boland to win the 25-lap feature,
the first of his career.
“It felt really good to see the hard
work and dedication over the years pay
off,” Sheedy said. “In those last few laps,
you’re thinking about [the first win], and
you have to put it aside and focus in or-
der to achieve it.”
Sheedy’s focus was tested late in the
race as the track started to slick off, par-
ticularly in turns 3 and 4. Boland was
able to close the gap in turns 1 and 2,
but Sheedy was able to extend his lead
by making the car stick better exiting
turn 4.
“When it slicked off coming off four,
I noticed I got to overdriving it a bit, and
I had to calm myself and hit my marks,”
MISSISSIPPI STATE
MSU catcher Mia Davidson has set a school record for home runs hit by a sophomore
with 18. She hit two homers on Saturday against LSU.
Sheedy said. “I had to be easy off of four
and drive it more careful.”
Sheedy was piloting a new TrakStar
race car that he won for being the high-
est TrakStar finisher in the 2018 Mis-
sissippi State Championship Challenge
Series points standings. Sheedy and his
team built the car, while Mike and Jamey
Boland, of TrakStar, set up the car. Fri-
day marked just Sheedy’s second race in
the car after he finished eighth at a State
Series race at Jackson on March 16.
“Having this car, I can drive it more
aggressive than the other one I had in
the past,” Sheedy said. “We’ve been try-
ing to get a few little bugs worked out –
and have the driver get used to it – but it
was really good last night.”
Boland finished second, while Robert
Moore, Mark Dodson and Kyle Shaw
rounded out the top 5.
Sheedy hopes his win Friday is a pos-
itive omen for future results on the State
Series, which he will again run full-time.
“The competition is something I re-
See Racing, 6B
MSU FOOTBALL
SPORTS LINE
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B
SECTION
Dawgs
defense
rises in
scrimmage
By BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
It’s all coming together.
For a defense that lost as many
key components as Mississippi
State did this offseason, head
coach Joe Moorhead and his staff
were tasked with
quite the rebuild.
But in Saturday’s
scrimmage at the
Leo Seal Jr. Foot-
ball Complex, the
unit was staunch
and sturdy.
“We taking Dantzler
over!” shouted ju-
nior cornerback Cameron Dan-
tzler after breaking up a pass in
the corner of the end zone during
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
goal line defense simulations.
While the offense focused
primarily on the passing game
throughout the session, the defen-
sive line was stout.
Running backs senior Nick
Gibson and juniors Kylin Hill
and Alec Murphy combined for
36 yards on nine carries — 15
of which came from a Murphy
touchdown run.
In the secondary, senior Bri-
an Cole flashed his versatility as
a blitzer. The one-time Michigan
man finished the day with a sack,
two tackles for a loss, and two
quarterback hurries.
He was one of just six players
to finish with two or more tackles.
Here are a few other takeaways
from Saturday’s session:
Redshirt freshman Cameron
Gardner has the size. At six-foot-
four and 215 pounds, he possess-
es the physical traits to be a dom-
inant receiver in the Southeastern
Conference. And for a team that
desperately needs receiver help,
he’ll need to grow up quickly.
Gardner, who helped Starkville
High School to the 2017 Missis-
sippi High School Activities As-
sociation 6A Championship, was
solid in Saturday’s scrimmage,
notching two catches for 22 yards.
On one of the first plays of the
day, Gardner sliced through the
middle of the defense, finding a
soft pocket against zone coverage.
Freshman quarterback Garrett
Shrader then delivered a strike to
the aptly positioned receiver for a
13-yard gain that drew plenty of
antagonizing shouts from the of-
fensive sideline.
Senior Stephen Guidry and ju-
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
nior Osirus Mitchell should lead
See MSU, 6B
David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
Shelby Sheedy is on the move in Friday’s Super Late Model Feature at Columbus
Speedway.
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briefly CALENDAR Basketball Saturday, March 23

At Syracuse, N.Y.
South Dakota State 76, Quinnipiac 65
Samford 6, UT Martin 3
Southeastern (Fla.) 14, Florida Memorial 3
Southern Miss. 4, Marshall 3
NCAA Tournament Glance Syracuse 70, Fordham 49 VMI 7, ETSU 6

COLLEGE SOFTBALL Prep Baseball

All Times EDT
FIRST FOUR
At UD Arena
Second Round
Sunday, March 24
At Starkville, Miss.
W. Carolina 4, Wofford 3
William Carey 5, Stillman 0
Winthrop 7, High Point 1
South Carolna tops Alabama, 5-1 Monday’s Games Dayton, Ohio
Tuesday, March 19
Mississippi State 85, Clemson 61
At Coral Gables, Fla.
MIDWEST
Benedictine (Kan.) 8, Baker 6
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Alabama dropped game two of the weekend Victory Christian at Tuscaloosa Christian, 4 p.m. Fairleigh Dickinson 82, Prairie View A&M 76 Arizona State 57, Miami 55 Bradley 10, Robert Morris-Springfield 0
series to South Carolina Saturday night, 5-1, to even the weekend Belmont 81, Temple 70 At Eugene, Ore. Butler 11, St. John’s 7
series. West Lowndes vs. Starkville Christian, 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 Oregon 91, Indiana 68 Cent. Michigan 5, Ball St. 0
Clarke 6, Viterbo 0
North Dakota State 78, N.C. Central 74 Monday, March 25
Alabama (38-3, 8-3 SEC) tallied one run in the game against South Prep Softball Arizona State 74, St. John’s 65
EAST REGIONAL
At Syracuse, N.Y.
South Dakota State 75, Syracuse 64
Concordia (Mich.) 10, Northwestern Ohio 0
Concordia (Neb.) 4, Doane 3
Carolina (27-11, 4-9 SEC), a sixth-inning solo home run from junior Dakota Wesleyan 10, Northwestern (Iowa) 7
Monday’s Games First Round Regional Semifinals
Evansville 11, Dallas Baptist 5
Bailey Hemphill that erased the shutout. The home run was Hemphill’s Thursday, March 21 Friday, March 29
19th of the season, moving her to third on the UA single-season record Victory Christian at Tuscaloosa Christian, 4 p.m. At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena At Portland, Ore. Grace 9, St. Francis (Ind.) 8
Graceland (Iowa) 5, Culver-Stockton 2
Jacksonville, Fla. Mississippi State 76, Arizona State 53
books. Junior Courtney Gettins (5-2) took loss in the complete-game Columbus at Meridian, (DH) 6:30 p.m. LSU 79, Yale 74 Oregon 63, South Dakota State 53 Grand View 5-1, Mount Mercy 3-7
Illinois 5, Maryland 1
Maryland 79, Belmont 77 Regional Championship
effort.
South Carolina took the first lead of the game in the bottom of the College Baseball At Wells Fargo Arena
Des Moines, Iowa
Sunday, March 31
At Portland, Ore.
Illinois St. 12, Valparaiso 6
Indiana 5Penn St. 3
Indiana Southeast 4, Indiana Kokomo 3
first, starting the inning with a double and a sac bunt before an RBI Today’s Games Minnesota 86, Louisville 76
Michigan State 76, Bradley 65
Oregon 88, Mississippi State 84
CHICAGO REGIONAL Indiana Wesleyan 13, Goshen 0
single brought the runner home from third two batters later. Alabama Marshall at Southern Miss, 11 a.m. Friday, March 22
At Colonial Life Arena
First Round Judson 6, Calumet 5
Madonna 6, Indiana Tech 5
Friday, March 22
loaded the bases with two out in the top of the third but a shallow popup Mississippi State at Tennessee, Noon Columbia, S.C. College Station, Texas Marian (Ind.) 5, Bethel (Ind.) 1
got the Gamecocks out of the jam and preserved the 1-0 lead. Duke 85, North Dakota State 62 Marquette 58, Rice 54, OT Miami (Ohio) 3, Toledo 2
The Gamecocks led off the bottom of the fourth with back-to-back Florida at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m. UCF 73, VCU 58 Texas A&M 84, Wright State 61 Michigan-Dearborn 11, Aquinas (Mich.) 5
At SAP Center Saturday, March 23 MidAm Nazarene 4, Central Methodist 1
doubles, moving ahead 2-0, and doubled its lead again in the bottom College Softball San Jose, Calif.
Liberty 80, Mississippi State 76
At Notre Dame, Ind.
Notre Dame 92, Bethune-Cookman 50
Milwaukee 15, Oakland 1
Missouri St. 13, S. Illinois 4
of the fifth with a two-run home run to make it 4-0. With two in scoring Today’s Games Virginia Tech 66, Saint Louis 52 Michigan State 88, Central Michigan 87 Missouri Valley 7, Evangel (Mo.) 3
position and two out, Lauren Stewart beat out an infield single to tack Second Round At Ames, Iowa N. Illinois 5, Ohio 2
on another run before a groundout ended the inning with the Tide now LSU at Mississippi State, 1 p.m. Saturday, March 23 Missouri State 89, DePaul 78 Ohio Christian 5-5, Cincinnati Christian 1-2
Olivet Nazarene 1, St. Francis (Ill.) 0
At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena Iowa State 97, New Mexico State 61
trailing 5-0. UTSA at Southern Miss, 1 p.m. Jacksonville, Fla. At Stanford, Calif. Omaha 9, S. Dakota St. 4
LSU 69, Maryland 67 BYU 73, Auburn 64 Ottawa (Kan.) 9, Bethany (Kan.) 5
Hemphill erased the shutout with a solo home run to start the sixth Ole Miss at Kentucky, time TBA At Wells Fargo Arena Stanford 79, UC Davis 54 Robert Morris-Chicago 3, St. Ambrose 1
inning. South Carolina couldn’t add to its 5-1 lead in the bottom of the Des Moines, Iowa Second Round Roosevelt 9, Indiana South Bend 3
Alabama at South Carolina, time TBA Michigan State 70, Minnesota 50 Sunday, March 24 Shawnee St. 13, Lindsey Wilson 2
sixth but the Tide couldn’t muster a comeback in the final half-inning, Taylor 16, Spring Arbor 4
Men’s College Golf
Sunday, March 24 College Station, Texas
falling to even the weekend series. At Colonial Life Arena Texas A&M 78, Marquette 76 W. Illinois 7, Oral Roberts 3
Columbia, S.C. Monday, March 25 William Penn 8-11, Peru St. 1-9
The series rubber match is set for a noon first pitch on Sunday. Today’s Games Duke 77, UCF 76 At Notre Dame, Ind. Xavier 9, Georgetown 4
At SAP Center Notre Dame 91, Michigan State 63 SOUTHWEST
Southern Miss Softball Defeats UTSA in Saturday Mississippi State at Mason Rudolph Invitational San Jose, Calif. At Ames, Iowa Cent. Arkansas 5, McNeese 1
Ecclesia 5, Crowley’s Ridge 3
Virginia Tech 67, Liberty 58 Missouri State 69, Iowa State 60
Doubleheader (Franklin, Tennessee) At Capital One Arena At Stanford, Calif. Grambling St. 7, Texas Southern 2
Washington Stanford 72, BYU 63 Lyon 8, Park 1
HATTIESBURG – The Southern Miss Golden Eagles (21-16, Monday’s Games Regional Semifinals Regional Semifinals Prairie View 4, Ark.-Pine Bluff 3
7-7 C-USA) defeated the UTSA Roadrunners (17-20, 6-8 C-USA) in Friday, March 29 Saturday, March 30 Science & Arts (Okla.) at Bacone, ppd.
Southern Miss at Ryman Hospital Intercollegiate Michigan State 80, LSU 63 At Chicago Texas A&M-CC 6, Houston Baptist 2
both games of Saturday’s doubleheader at the Southern Miss Softball Duke 75, Virginia Tech 73 Texas College 18, Houston-Victoria 11
(Nashville, Tennessee) Notre Dame 87, Texas A&M 80
Texas Wesleyan at Mid-Am Christian, ppd.
Complex in Hattiesburg. Regional Championship Stanford 55, Missouri State 46
The Golden Eagles shut out the Roadrunners, 3-0 in game one Women’s College Golf Sunday, March 31
Michigan State 68, Duke 67
Regional Championship
Monday, April 1
Williams Baptist 9, Lindenwood-Belleville 8
FAR WEST
The Master’s 10, Bethesda (Calif.) 0
and took an 8-2 decision in game two. Monday’s Games SOUTH REGIONAL At Chicago
First Round Notre Dame 84, Stanford 68
Southern Miss junior right-handed pitcher Abby Trahan drew the Thursday, March 21 ALBANY REGIONAL American League Glance
start for the Golden Eagles in the circle in game one and was dominant. Mississippi State at Brickyard Collegiate (Mason, At The XL Center First Round All Times EDT
Hartford, Conn. Friday, March 22 East Division
Trahan held the Roadrunners’ bats in check and did allow a hit until the Georgia) Villanova 61, Saint Mary’s 57 At Louisville, Ky. W L Pct GB
top of the fifth inning.
Trahan ended the day by notching her third consecutive com-
Men’s College Tennis Purdue 61, Old Dominion 48
Friday, March 22
At Colonial Life Arena
Louisville 69, Robert Morris 34
Michigan 84, Kansas State 54
ampa Bay
Baltimore
New York
6 3 .667 —
4 4 .500 1½
4 4 .500 1½
At Storrs, Conn.
plete-game shutout. The right-hander scattered three hits, issued two Today’s Games Columbia, S.C. Buffalo 82, Rutgers 71 Toronto 3 7 .300 3½
Oklahoma 95, Mississippi 72 UConn 110, Towson 61 Boston 2 7 .222 4
walks and tied-her season-high of nine strikeouts en route to collecting Mississippi University for Women at Marion Mili- Virginia 71, Gardner-Webb 56 Saturday, March 23 Central Division
her tenth win of the season. At Nationwide Arena At Corvallis, Ore. W L Pct GB
tary Institute, 11 a.m. Columbus, Ohio Gonzaga 68, Little Rock 51 Minnesota 5 2 .714 —
“Every aspect of our team showed up today and got us two huge Detroit 6 3 .667 —
Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Ole Miss, 1 p.m. Iowa 79, Cincinnati 72 Oregon State 80, Boise State 75, OT
Cleveland 5 3 .625 ½
wins. In the circle, I’ve been super comfortable and confident knowing Tennessee 77, Colgate 70 At College Park, Md.
Chicago 3 4 .429 2
that my teammates have my back on both sides of the ball,” Trahan said. South Carolina at Alabama, 1 p.m. At SAP Center
San Jose, Calif.
Maryland 73, Radford 51
Kansas City 2 5 .286 3
UCLA 89, Tennessee 77
The Golden Eagles used runs scored in the fourth, fifth and sixth Southern Miss at Rice, 2 p.m. UC Irvine 70, Kansas State 64 Second Round

West Division
W L Pct GB
Oregon 72, Wisconsin 54 Sunday, March 24
innings to defeat the Roadrunners.
Destini Brown who had a big day for Southern Miss, scored the Women’s College Tennis Second Round
Saturday, March 23
At Louisville, Ky.
Louisville 71, Michigan 50
Seattle
Texas
8 2 .800 —
5 4 .556 2½
Oakland 6 6 .500 3
game’s first run in the bottom of the fourth inning when she took advan- Today’s Games At The XL Center
Hartford, Conn.
At Storrs, Conn.
UConn 84, Buffalo 72 Houston 4 5 .444 3½
tage of a UTSA fielding error. Los Angeles 3 6 .333 4½
Mississippi University for Women at Marion Mili- Purdue 87, Villanova 61
Sunday, March 24
Monday, March 25
Friday’s Games
At Corvallis, Ore.
Southern Miss extended their lead, 2-0 in the bottom of the fifth tary Institute, 11 a.m. At Colonial Life Arena Oregon State 76, Gonzaga 70 Chicago White Sox 10, Seattle 8
inning after Karley Nichols scored on a perfectly executed squeeze bunt Columbia, S.C. At College Park, Md. Tampa Bay 5, San Francisco 2
by Madison Rayner. Alabama at South Carolina, 11 a.m. Virginia 63, Oklahoma 51 UCLA 85, Maryland 80 Philadelphia 10, Minnesota 4
Arizona 15, Boston 8
At Nationwide Arena Regional Semifinals
Brown capped off the scoring for the Golden Eagles with a solo Mississippi State at Kentucky, Noon Columbus, Ohio Friday, March 29 Cleveland 3, Toronto 2
Tennessee 83, Iowa 77 At Albany, N.Y. Houston 3, Oakland 2
home run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Brown’s sixth inning home Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, time TBA At SAP Center UConn 69, UCLA 61 L.A. Angels 3, Texas 1
run marked her fourth of the 2019 season. Saturday’s Games
Junior College Golf
San Jose, Calif. Louisville 61, Oregon State 44
Oregon 73, UC Irvine 54 Regional Championship Detroit 7, Kansas City 4
After shutting out UTSA in game one, Southern Miss did not slow At KFC Yum! Center Sunday, March 31 Minnesota 6, Philadelphia 2
down in game two and instead, scored eight runs on 11 hits. Today’s Games Louisville, Ky. At Albany, N.Y. Seattle 9, Chicago White Sox 2
L.A. Angels 5, Texas 1
Regional Semifinals UConn 80, Louisville 73
Brown kicked off the scoring for the Golden Eagles in game two Itawamba at Copiah-Lincoln Spring Invitational Thursday, March 28 FINAL FOUR San Francisco 6, Tampa Bay 4
with a sacrifice fly to center field that allowed Caroline Casey to cross Purdue 99, Tennessee 94, OT At Tampa, Fla. Cleveland 7, Toronto 2
Virginia 53, Oregon 49 National Semifinals Houston 6, Oakland 0
the plate.
on the air Regional Championship Friday, April 5 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 4
The Golden Eagles added two more runs to the scoreboard in the Saturday, March 30 Baylor 72, Oregon 67 Boston at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.
Virginia 80, Purdue 75, OT Notre Dame 81, UConn 76 Sunday’s Games
bottom of the fourth inning via an infield single from Nichols that scored MIDWEST REGIONAL National Championship Minnesota (Berrios 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eflin
Bre Blankenship and a sacrifice fly to left field from the bat of Chase Today First Round
Thursday, March 21
Sunday, April 7
Baylor (36-1) vs. Notre Dame (35-3), 6 p.m.
1-0), 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (German 1-0) at Baltimore (Hess
Nelson that plated Samantha Papp.
AAF FOOTBALL At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
NBA
1-0), 1:05 p.m.

GYMNASTICS 7 p.m. — Birmingham at Arizona, NFL

Jacksonville, Fla.
Kentucky 79, Abilene Christian 44
Wofford 84, Seton Hall 68
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Kansas City (Keller 1-0) at Detroit (Ross 0-1),
1:10 p.m.
Toronto (Stroman 0-1) at Cleveland (Clevinger
Alabama finishes third in NCAA regional AUTO RACING At Vivint Smart Home Arena
Salt Lake City
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
0-0), 1:10 p.m.
Oakland (Fiers 2-1) at Houston (Peacock 1-0),
AN ARBOR, Mich. – The No. 10-ranked Alabama gymnastics 1 p.m. — NASCAR MONSTER ENERGY CUP: The Auburn 78, New Mexico State 77 y-Toronto 56 24 .700 — 2:10 p.m.
team finished third at the NCAA Championships Ann Arbor Regional Kansas 87, Northeastern 53 x-Philadelphia 50 30 .625 6 Seattle (LeBlanc 1-0) at Chicago White Sox
Ford City 500, Bristol, Tenn., FS1 Friday, March 22 x-Boston 48 32 .600 8 (Nova 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
Final Saturday night in the Crisler Center on the Michigan campus with At Nationwide Arena Brooklyn 40 40 .500 16 Tampa Bay (TBD) at San Francisco (Pomeranz
a score 197.225.
3:30 p.m. — IndyCar Racing: Honda Indy Grand Columbus, Ohio New York 15 64 .190 40½ 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Southeast Division Texas (Miller 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Stratton 0-1),
“I’m proud of the way our ladies fought to the very end, giving it all Prix of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala., NBC Sports Washington 78, Utah State 61
North Carolina 88, Iona 73 W L Pct GB 4:07 p.m.
they had,” UA head coach Dana Duckworth said. “We knew that this Network At BOK Center Orlando
Miami
40 40 .500 —
38 41 .481 1½
Boston (TBD) at Arizona (Kelly 1-0), 4:10 p.m.
Tulsa, Okla.
new format was going to be extremely challenging and we prepared COLLEGE BASEBALL Houston 84, Georgia State 55 Charlotte 37 42 .468 2½ National League Glance
All Times EDT
from the summer on to be able to give it our all two nights in a row, and Ohio State 62, Iowa State 59 Washington 32 48 .400 8
11 a.m. — Vanderbilt at Georgia, SEC Second Round Atlanta 29 51 .363 11 East Division
that’s just what we did.” Saturday, March 23 Central Division W L Pct GB
The Crimson Tide’s season closed in the round of 16 in this year’s 12 p.m. — Rutgers at Iowa, Big Ten Network At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena W L Pct GB New York 6 2 .750 —
Jacksonville, Fla. z-Milwaukee 59 21 .738 — Philadelphia 5 2 .714 ½
new format that shrank the NCAA Championships’ semifinal field from 12 p.m. — Purdue at Nebraska, ESPNU Kentucky 62, Wofford 56 x-Indiana 47 33 .588 12 Atlanta 4 4 .500 2
Washington 3 4 .429 2½
12 to eight. The defending NCAA Champion UCLA Bruins won the 2 p.m. — Texas A&M at LSU, SEC At Vivint Smart Home Arena Detroit 39 40 .494 19½
Miami 3 6 .333 3½
Salt Lake City Chicago 22 58 .275 37
regional final with a 198.075, while homestanding and No. 7-ranked
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) Auburn 89, Kansas 75 Cleveland 19 61 .238 40
Central Division
Michigan Wolverines took second over Alabama by .050 with a 197.275. Sunday, March 24 WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
Nebraska was fourth with a 196.650. 2 p.m. — 3x3U National Championship, Minneap- At Nationwide Arena

Southwest Division
W L Pct GB Milwaukee 7 2 .778 —
Columbus, Ohio
“Our senior class helped build a tremendous team and set incredi- olis, Minn., ESPN2 North Carolina 81, Washington 59 y-Houston 52 28 .650 — Pittsburgh
St. Louis
4 3 .571 2
3 5 .375 3½
At BOK Center x-San Antonio 46 34 .575 6
bly high standards for our program through their work ethic and leader- COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) Tulsa, Okla. Memphis 32 47 .405 19½ Chicago 2 6 .250 4½
ship,” Duckworth said. “They have every reason to hold their heads up Houston 74, Ohio State 59 New Orleans 32 48 .400 20 Cincinnati 1 7 .125 5½
5 p.m. — NCAA Tournament: Teams TBD, Nation- At The Sprint Center Dallas 31 48 .392 20½
high as their gymnastics careers come to a close. As for our team and Kansas City, Mo. Northwest Division West Division
amazing coaching and support staff, this outcome does not define us, it al Championship, Tampa, Fla., ESPN Regional Semifinals W L Pct GB W L Pct GB
Friday, March 29 y-Denver 53 26 .671 — Los Angeles 6 2 .750 —
will only make us better and grow in life. The journey, the relationships COLLEGE LACROSSE (MEN’S) Auburn 97, North Carolina 80 x-Portland 50 29 .633 3 San Diego 6 3 .667 ½
and the character they have built will last a lifetime. Our team may have Arizona 4 4 .500 2
6 p.m. — Ohio State at Penn State, Big Ten Kentucky 62, Houston 58
Regional Championship
x-Utah 49 30 .620 4
x-Oklahoma City 46 33 .582 7 Colorado 3 5 .375 3
not had the outcome we worked for but they will forever be tremendous Network Sunday, March 31 Minnesota 36 43 .456 17 San Francisco 3 6 .333 3½
ambassadors of our program and our University, representing both with Auburn 77, Kentucky 71, OT Pacific Division Friday’s Games
integrity, class and respect.” COLLEGE SOFTBALL WEST REGIONAL W L Pct GB L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 6
San Diego 5, St. Louis 3
First Round y-Golden State 55 24 .696 —
On the strength of her performance during round two of the 10 a.m. — Savannah State at Florida A&M, Thursday, March 21 x-L.A. Clippers 47 33 .588 8½ Tampa Bay 5, San Francisco 2
At The XL Center Sacramento 39 41 .488 16½ Philadelphia 10, Minnesota 4
regional, senior Abby Armbrecht will represent Alabama at the NCAA ESPNU Hartford, Conn. L.A. Lakers 36 44 .450 19½ Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 0
Championships on the floor exercise on April 19 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Florida State 76, Vermont 69 Phoenix 19 61 .238 36½ Arizona 15, Boston 8
12 p.m. — Arkansas at Florida, ESPN2 Murray State 83, Marquette 64 x-clinched playoff spot Atlanta 4, Miami 0
Alabama battled all the way to the end on Saturday, scoring a At Wells Fargo Arena y-clinched division Milwaukee 13, Chicago Cubs 10
49.425 on the balance beam, closing out the night with a 9.900 from 3 p.m. — Iowa at Wisconsin, Big Ten Network Des Moines, Iowa z-clinched conference Saturday’s Games
N.Y. Mets 6, Washington 5
Armbrecht, a career-best 9.925 from freshman Emily Gaskins and a 3 p.m. — LSU at Mississippi State, ESPNU Florida 70, Nevada 61
Michigan 74, Montana 55
Friday’s Games
Charlotte 113, Toronto 111 Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5, 10 innings
career-best 9.950 from sophomore Lexi Graber. 5 p.m. — Auburn at Tennessee, SEC At Vivint Smart Home Arena Orlando 149, Atlanta 113 Minnesota 6, Philadelphia 2
Salt Lake City San Antonio 129, Washington 112 San Diego 6, St. Louis 4
“We came in focused on making constant improvement and we CURLING (MEN’S) Gonzaga 87, Fairleigh Dickinson 49 Boston 117, Indiana 97 San Francisco 6, Tampa Bay 4
carried that through this weekend,” Duckworth said. “Our ladies never Baylor 78, Syracuse 69 Houston 120, New York 96 Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.
gave up, they continued to fight against the odds.”
9:30 p.m. — World Championship: Gold-Medal Friday, March 22 Minnesota 111, Miami 109 Miami 4, Atlanta 2
At BOK Center Oklahoma City 123, Detroit 110 Boston at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.
The Crimson Tide got things started on the floor exercise with a Game, Alberta (taped), NBC Sports Network Tulsa, Okla. Memphis 122, Dallas 112 L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.
Texas Tech 72, Northern Kentucky 57 Utah 119, Sacramento 98 Sunday’s Games
49.425, paced by matching 9.9s from seniors Armbrecht and Ariana GOLF Buffalo 91, Arizona State 74 Phoenix 133, New Orleans 126, OT Minnesota (Berrios 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eflin
Guerra and Graber. The Tide’s score matched its tally from the day be- Denver 119, Portland 110 1-0), 1:05 p.m.
7 a.m. — Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals: Second Round
Saturday, March 23 Golden State 120, Cleveland 114 Washington (Scherzer 0-2) at N.Y. Mets
fore. Alabama scored a 49.125 on the vault, pushed by matching 9.875s (Wheeler 0-0), 1:10 p.m.
from freshman Shallon Olsen and Guerra. On the uneven bars, the Tide
From Augusta, Ga., GOLF At The XL Center
Hartford, Conn.
L.A. Lakers 122, L.A. Clippers 117
Saturday’s Games Miami (Smith 0-0) at Atlanta (Newcomb 0-0),
tallied a 49.250 behind a 9.900 from Guerra and a 9.875 Gaskins. 12 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Valero Texas Open, Florida State 90, Murray State 62 Brooklyn 133, Milwaukee 128 1:20 p.m.
Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Ar-
At Wells Fargo Arena Philadelphia 116, Chicago 96
PREP SOFTBALL final round, San Antonio, Texas, GOLF
1:30 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Valero Texas Open,
Des Moines, Iowa
Michigan 64, Florida 49
At Vivint Smart Home Arena
Sunday’s Games
Miami at Toronto, 12 p.m.
San Antonio at Cleveland, 3 p.m.
cher 0-0), 1:35 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-1) at Milwaukee
(Davies 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
Pickens Academy sweeps South Choctaw final round, San Antonio, Texas, NBC Salt Lake City
Gonzaga 83, Baylor 71
Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 3:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Detroit, 4 p.m.
San Diego (Strahm 0-1) at St. Louis (Wain-
wright 0-0), 2:15 p.m.
Shelby Lowe pitched seven innings, striking out 12, leading Pickens Sunday, March 24 Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay (TBD) at San Francisco (Pomeranz
Academy to a 1-0 win over South Choctaw on Friday. She gave up just 4 p.m. — LPGA Tour Golf: ANA Inspiration, final At BOK Center Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m. 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Tulsa, Okla. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Boston (TBD) at Arizona (Kelly 1-0), 4:10 p.m.
one hit. Mackenzie McCool was 1-3 with a single and an RBI. Britney round, Rancho Mirage, Calif., GOLF Texas Tech 78, Buffalo 58 Phoenix at Houston, 7 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-0) at Colorado (Bettis
0-1), 8:37 p.m.
Fitch was 1-3. GYMNASTICS At Honda Center
Anaheim, Calif.
Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m.
In the second game, McCool hit two home runs and had three hits
in a 7-5 win for Pickens. Lily Lowery and Fitch had two hits.
8 p.m. — FIG World Cup: women’s individual all- Regional Semifinals
Thursday, March 28
L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.
Denver at Portland, 9 p.m. Transactions
Pickens record: 16-6 (6-0 Region)
around competition, Tokyo (taped), NBC Sports Gonzaga 72, Florida State 58 New Orleans at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Saturday’s Moves
Texas Tech 63, Michigan 44 Utah at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. BASEBALL
Up next: Vs. Bessemer, Monday at 4. Network Regional Championship American League

TRACK & FIELD HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Saturday, March 30

Texas Tech 75, Gonzaga 69 Baseball BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned RHP Matt
Wotherspoon outright to Norfolk (IL).
2:30 p.m. — High School Basketball Skills Com- FINAL FOUR
At U.S. Bank Stadium Saturday’s College BOSTON RED SOX — Placed INF/OF Brock
Rebel throwers shine on second day at Spec Towns Invite petition: Slam Dunk & 3 Point Championships, Minneapolis Baseball Scores
Holt and LHP Brian Johnson on the 10-day IL.
Recalled INF/OF Tzu-Wei Lin and RHP Marcus
ATHENS, Ga. – Ole Miss track & field concluded its weekend with National Semifinals EAST Walden from Pawtucket (IL).
victories in both the women’s shot put and discus at the Spec Towns Minneapolis, Minn., CBS Saturday, April 6
Virginia 63, Auburn 62
Albany 5, UMass-Lowell 2 CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent 2B Jason Kip-
Brown 11, Cornell 3 nis to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.
Invite on Saturday afternoon. MLB BASEBALL Texas Tech 61, Michigan State 51 Bryant 13, Fairleigh Dickinson 0 DETROIT TIGERS — Sent OF JaCoby Jones
National Championship Canisius 9, Quinnipiac 2 and RHP Drew VerHagen to Lakeland (FSL) for
Fresh off Friday night’s win in the women’s hammer, sophomore 7:30 p.m. — LA Dodgers at Colorado, ESPN Monday, April 8 CCSU 5, Niagara 4 rehab assignments.
Shey Taiwo earned her first-career victory in the discus with a personal NBA BASKETBALL
Virginia (34-3) vs. Texas Tech (31-6), 7 p.m. Chestnut Hill 7-4, University of the Sciences 6-1 MINNESOTA TWINS — Designated 1B Tyler
best of 50.61m (166-00). This mark was a six-foot PR and ranks fifth in NCAA Women’s Columbia 8, Princeton 2 Austin for assignment. Selected the contract of
school history. Freshman Tedreauna Britt and sophomore Leah Klein 11 a.m. — Miami at Toronto, NBA Dayton 8, St. Bonaventure 0 RHP Chase De Jong from Rochester (IL).
Basketball Tournament Fairfield 6, Siena 4, 12 innings NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned INF Thairo
also competed in the event, with Britt finishing fourth at 49.54m (162-06) 2:30 p.m. — Oklahoma City at Minnesota, ABC Fordham 2, Saint Joseph’s 0 Estrada to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Select-
Glance Hartford 9, Stony Brook 5 ed the contract of INF Giovanny Urshela from
and Klein sixth at 45.38m (148-11). 6 p.m. — Phoenix at Houston, NBA All Times EDT Harvard 10, Yale 8 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Transferred SS Didi
Britt also had success in the shot put, winning the event with a per- GREENSBORO REGIONAL Lafayette 11, Bucknell 3 Gregorius to the 60-day IL.
8:30 p.m. — Utah at LA Lakers, NBA First Round Lehigh 13, Army 6 National League
sonal best 15.32m (50-03.25). The freshman now ranks fifth in school Friday, March 22 LIU Brooklyn 5-3, Mount St. Mary’s 1-5 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed 3B
history and 18th in the East Region. Taiwo placed second in the event at NBA G LEAGUE BASKETBALL At Charlotte, N.C. Maine 2-1, UMBC 1-4 Jake Lamb on the 10-day IL, retroactive to
South Carolina 74, Belmont 52 Manhattan 5-5, Iona 2-0 Thursday. Recalled SS Ildemarco Vargas from
14.70m (48-02.75), while Klein finished fourth at 13.68m (44-10.25). 6 p.m. — NBA G League Playoff: Teams TBD, Florida State 70, Bucknell 67 Marist 6, Monmouth 5, 11 innings Reno (PCL).
The women’s sprinters had tremendous success in the 4x100-me- ESPNU Iowa 66, Mercer 61
At Iowa City Navy 3, Holy Cross 1
Northeastern 5, Hofstra 1
ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Shane
Carle to Gwinnett (IL). Reinstated RHP Kevin
ter relay. The team, consisting of Jayda Eckford, Brandee Presley, RODEO Missouri 77, Drake 76, OT Point Park 17-10, Brescia 2-1 Gausman from the 10-day IL.
Kelly Rowe and Kaira Simmons, finished the meet in second place at a Saturday, March 23 Rhode Island 4, Richmond 3, 10 innings CHICAGO CUBS — Designated RHP Jen-Ho
season-best 44.18, which ranks as the sixth best time in school history,
1 p.m. — PBR Bull Riding: Premier Bankcard Invi- At Waco, Texas Rider 7, St. Peter’s 0 Tseng for assignment. Placed LHP Mike Mont-
California 92, North Carolina 72 UMass 7, Saint Louis 6 gomery on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Friday.
17th in the NCAA and 10th in the East Region. tational, Sioux Falls, S.D., CBS Sports Network Baylor 95, Abilene Christian 38 Villanova 6, Seton Hall 5 Optioned RHP Carl Edwards Jr. to Iowa (PCL).
At Raleigh, N.C. VCU 9, La Salle 6 Recalled LHP Kyle Ryan from Iowa. Selected
All four Rebel relays actually ran season-bests, with the women’s RUGBY Kentucky 82, Princeton 77 Wagner 7, Sacred Heart 4 the contract of RHP Allen Webster from Iowa.
4x400-meter relay of Eckford, Orianna Shaw, Presley and Rowe N.C. State 63, Maine 51 SOUTH COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with
9:30 p.m. — MLR: Austin Elite at San Diego Second Round Alabama St. 5-12, MVSU 4-2 German Márquez on a five-year contract. Sent
finishing second at 3:44.66, the men’s 4x100-meter relay of Kenney Sunday, March 24 Alcorn St. 8, Alabama A&M 4 RHP Antonio Senzatela to Albuquerque (PCL)
Broadnax, Elijah Dryer, Jaqaun Webb and Andrew Raspo took third
Legion, CBS Sports Network At Charlotte, N.C. Arkansas 8, Auburn 0 for a rehab assignment.
at 40.58, and the men’s 4x400-meter relay of James Burnett, Dryer, 12 a.m. (Monday) — Premiership: Northampton South Carolina 72, Florida State 64
At Iowa City
SC Aiken 11, Augusta 3
Bethune-Cookman 13, Savannah St. 0
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Jere-
my Jeffress to San Antonio (PCL) for a rehab
Christian Yancey and Raspo finishing third as well at 3:14.31. vs. Gloucester, NBC Sports Network Iowa 68, Missouri 52 Blue Mountain 18-12, Loyola (NO) 4-0 assignment.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Signed OF Mi-
Monday, March 25 Bryan 12, Union (Ky.) 6
Ole Miss returns home next weekend for Senior Day at the Joe SOCCER (MEN’S) At Waco, Texas Campbell 10, Gardner-Webb 5 chael Reed to a minor league contract.
Walker Invite, which will take place April 12-13 at the Ole Miss Track & Baylor 102, California 63 Coastal Carolina 9, South Alabama 4 HOCKEY
7:55 a.m. — SERIE A: Atalanta vs. Internazio- At Raleigh, N.C. Duke 2, Pittsburgh 0 National Hockey League
Field Complex. N.C. State 72, Kentucky 57 E. Kentucky 9, Ausin Peay 3 COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned F
nale, ESPNEWS Regional Semifinals Erskine 4-3, Barton 2-9 Josh Dickinson from Colorado (AHL) to Utah
Alabama gets three wins in Battle on the Bayou 8 a.m. — Premier League: Everton vs. Arsenal, Saturday, March 30
At Greensboro, N.C.
Faulkner 9, Mobile 1
FAU 9, Charlotte 6
(ECHL).
LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned F Michael
BATON ROUGE, La. – Alabama posted a strong showing at the Iowa 79, N.C. State 61 Furman 10, UNC Greensboro 3 Amadio to Ontario (AHL).
Battle on the Bayou in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, picking up three NBC Sports Network Baylor 93, South Carolina 68 George Washington 16, George Mason 7 American Hockey League
wins and 14 top-five finishes. 8:30 a.m. — Bundesliga: FC Augsburg vs. TSG Regional Championship
Monday, April 1
Georgia 8, Vanderbilt 3
Georgia Southern 3-5, Appalachian St. 0-9
BELLEVILLE SENATORS — Assigned D Jona-
than Racine to Brampton (ECHL).
The Crimson Tide closed the meet with a win in the 4x400-meter 1899 Hoffenheim, FS1 At Greensboro, N.C. Jackson St. 10, Rust 2 LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Returned F
Baylor 85, Iowa 53 Jacksonville 10, North Florida 8 Steven Swavely to Reading (ECHL).
relay, with juniors D’Jai Baker and Symone Darius, sophomore Daija 10:50 a.m. — Bundesliga: Werder Bremen vs. PORTLAND REGIONAL Kentucky Christian 9, Cumberlands (Ky.) 0, SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Signed F Robby
Lampkin and junior Katie Funcheon combining to run a 3:34.11 and First Round forfeit Jackson and D Tyler Tucker to amateur tryouts.
finishing more than a second ahead of the field. Borussia Mönchengladbach, FS2 Friday, March 22 Longwood 3, Charleston Southern 2 ECHL
At Starkville, Miss. Md.-Eastern Shore 3, Coppin St. 2 ECHL — Suspended Indy F Ryan Rupert indef-
Senior Haley Teel won the women’s shot put with a 54-07.50 2 p.m. — FC Cincinnati vs. Sporting KC, ESPN Clemson 79, South Dakota 66 Mercer 10, The Citadel 3 initely, Rapid City LW Garrett Klotz five games,
Mississippi State 103, Southern University 46 Milligan 12, Bluefield 2 Worcester LW Yanick Turcotte and Maine D
(16.65m), finishing more than a foot better than second place, while SOCCER (WOMEN’S) At Coral Gables, Fla. Morehead St. 11, SIU Edwardsville 9 Brycen Martin two games and D Blake Heinrich
sophomore Nickolette Dunbar was third after a toss of 51-10.50 8 p.m. — International Friendly: U.S. vs. Belgium, Arizona State 60, UCF 45 Norfolk St. 7, Delaware St. 3 one game.
Miami 69, Florida Gulf Coast 62 Piedmont 5, Johnson 3 ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Claimed F Colin
(15.81m). Earlier in the day, senior Portious Warren and Teel took
second and fourth in the discus, respectively.
Los Angeles, Calif. , ESPN2 At Eugene, Ore.
Indiana 69, Texas 65
Presbyterian 6, UNC Asheville 2
Radford 3, S.C. Upstate 1
Jacobs off waivers from Kalamazoo.
MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Loaned F Mi-
Oregon 78, Portland State 40 St. Thomas (Fla.) 5, Webber International 1 chael Doherty to Providence (AHL).
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MSU ROUNDUP

Softball Dawgs stumble against LSU

FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
It was another near miss
against one of the nation’s elite
for the Mississippi State soft-
ball team.
The Bulldogs fell to No. 7/5
LSU 10-9 in Starkville Satur-
day, evening up the weekend
series at one win apiece.
Sophomore catcher/ in-
fielder Mia Davidson con-
tinued her tear through the
Southeastern Conference with
her 17th and 18th home runs
of the season.
Seniors Emily Heimberg-
er and Kat Moore also made
their presences known at the
dish. Heimberer extended her
hit streak to six with her fifth
multi-hit game of that stretch,
while Moore finished 3-for-4
with a home run in the sixth
inning.
Freshman Grace Fagan was
charged with the loss on the
mound. Fagan pitched four in-
nings, giving up four runs on
five hits and three walks along
with one strikeout.
The Bulldogs and Tigers
will meet in Sunday’s rubber
match at 1 p.m.
MEN’S GOLF:The men’s
golf team concluded the sec-
ond round of the Mason Ru-
dolph Championship Saturday.
Freshman Ford Clegg and
junior Peng Pichaikool cared
the low scores of the day for
the Bulldogs.
Clegg bogeyed just a single
hole on his way to a 4-under
67.
Pichaikool was similarly
prolific, notching a 3-under
68, including four birdies and
an eagle on the day.
Both Clegg and Pichaikool
are 2-under par for the tourna-
ment, tied for 19th.
“I am really proud of Ford
and Peng today,” head coach
Dusty Smith said. “They
played some big rounds for us
when we really needed it.”
The team sits 13th head-
ing into Sunday’s final round.
Competition will resume at
8:30 a.m.
MEN’s TENNIS: No.
6 -ranked Mississippi State
men’s tennis posted a dom-
inant 6 -1 victory on Friday
against No. 25 rival Ole Miss
on Senior Day.
The Bulldogs (17-3, 9-1
SEC) took doubles and all six
first sets against the Rebels
(13-10, 4-6) for the second
straight meeting, after also
doing so in the 2018 SEC Tour-
nament quarterfinals. MSU
won its 25th straight home
match, 15th in SEC play, while
winning its fifth match in the
last seven meetings between
the teams including the third
in a row. All three of MSU’s
wins in the streak have come
within the last calendar year.
“For us, today’s match was
about controlling what we can
control, being the best team-
mates possible, applying what
we did in practice all week and
just being tough and having
fun competing together,” head
coach Matt Roberts said. “Our
crowd was unbelievable, and it
was a lot of fun being able to
honor our Fantastic Four be-
fore the match and then see
everyone play for one another
out there today.”
State claimed a tight dou-
bles point despite taking a
quick advantage on court 1,
where MSU’s 10th-ranked
senior tandem of Nuno Borg-
es and Strahinja Rakic took a
decisive 6 -2 victory over the
25th-ranked Rebel pair of Fa-
bian Fallert and Finn Reyn-
olds.
The Bulldogs claimed all
six first sets in singles for the
second straight meeting with
the Rebels and all four MSU
seniors claimed straight-set
triumphs to lead MSU to the
victory.
State moved ahead 2-0 when
the second-ranked Borges
captured yet another singles
victory to remain unbeaten in
dual match play in 2019 (18-0)
and win his 19th in a row. The
two-time reigning SEC Player
of the Year posted a quick 6 -2,
6 -1 victory against the 58th-
ranked Sandkaulen on court 1
for his 25th victory in 2018-19.
Borges now holds sole pos-
session of fourth all-time in
career victories (172), needing
just six to take the top spot. In
career singles wins, Borges
passed Bulldog great Mihnea
Nastase (1987-90) for second
all-time with his 109th.
With the win, the Bulldogs’
senior class now holds 79 wins
as a unit, which ties for best in
program history by any senior
class. Additionally, the win
marks Matt Roberts’ 99th win
as head coach at MSU.
WOMEN’S TENNIS: De-
spite claiming the opening
doubles point, MSU’s women’s
tennis squad (12-10, 3-7 SEC)
fell 4-1 to sixth-ranked Van-
derbilt on Friday at the Currey
Tennis Center.
The Bulldogs showed
strength to start the day, earn-
ing the opening advantage in
doubles. On court 2, State’s
Emma Antonaki and Anas-
tasia Rentouli first fell 6 -0 to
VU’s Fernanda Contreras and
Georgia Drummy. MSU an-
swered with Janina Braun and
Sara Lizariturry ousting Com-
modores Summer Dvorak and
Christina Rosca 6 -1 on court 3
The triumph was the seventh
straight by the Bulldogs pair
as they improved to 11-1 this
spring.
With all eyes on court 1, the
Bulldogs’ 57th-ranked tandem
of Magda Adaloglou and Ta-
mara Racine overturned the
Commodore tandem of Emma
Kurtz and Emily Smith in a
tight 7-5 affair, breaking serve
in the final game to put State
up 1-0.
Vanderbilt took control of
the match in singles, claiming
five of six first sets. State’s Ad-
aloglou fell first to VU’s 14th-
ranked Rosca 6 -1, 6 -0, at the
No. 3 position, tying the match
1-1. At No. 5, the Bulldogs’
Meredith Roberts was bested
by the Commodores’ Dvorak
6 -1, 6 -1.

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Continued from Page 1B
and I think that’s what
stood out more than any-
where else.”
***
Christina Davidson
was ready to jump.
Strapped up in her
flight gear high above
ground, Davidson was
prepared to leap from a
military plane as a part
of her duties in airborne
school at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
But as the door opened,
she was unexpectedly
whisked away.
Davidson was sent
crashing into the plane’s
wing before plummeting
toward the surface.
“All she remembers is
hitting it and then pass-
ing out,” Mia said. “And
the parachute luckily de-
ployed and saved her life.”
Today, Christina still
suffers from hip and
shoulder problems from
the accident. But that nev-
er stopped her from play-
ing with her girls.
“It’s pretty amazing be-
cause we still rough play
sometimes and she’s like,
‘Y’all got to be careful, I’m
getting there,’” Mia joked
of her mother.
Mia and Montana
learned to live within the
order and discipline that
comes with military life
as kids.
In addition to their
mother, the girls’ father,
Eddie, served in the U.S.
Army. The couple met at
Fort Lee in Virginia and
began dating during their
time at Fort Benning in
Georgia following air-
borne school.
Eddie also served as
Mia and Montana’s soft-
ball coach at Orange High
School in Hillsborough.
“They really set in
our mind young is you’re
going to have discipline,
you’re going to work hard
and there might be people
out there better than you
but there’s not going to
be a person out there that
works harder than you,”
Montana said.
While home life was
regimented, the same
discipline could be seen
in the sisters’ play on the
softball field.
First came Montana, a
smooth-swinging infield-
er whose defense speaks
as loudly as her bat.
Next was Mia, the No.
4 recruit in the country
per FloSoftball 2017 class
rankings. A catcher by
trade, the younger David-
son does her talking with
staunch power at the plate
— an ability that helped
her set a program record
for home runs by a soph-
omore last week with 16.
Beth Mullins, than an
MSU assistant coach, was
the first to notice their po-
tential at a tournament in
Trussville, Alabama.
Mullins had hounded
MSU head coach Vann
Stuedeman to give Mia
and Montana a look de-
spite them being in sev-
enth and eighth grades,
respectively, at the time.
As January shifted into
the summer, Stuedeman
offered scholarships to
both girls.
Mia and Montana com-
mitted jointly on June 16,
2013 — Father’s Day.
“They stayed loyal and
huge Mississippi State
fans,” Stuedeman said.
“I just can’t say enough
about that — what that
means to me and our pro-
gram, that they would
commit so early and then
stick it out and come here
and follow through.”
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
*** Montana Davidson gets her bat into a pitch in Friday’s game against LSU.
Friday night, the Bull-
dogs defeated No. 7/5
LSU 6-0 for the team’s
third consecutive victo-
ry — including a Sunday
night win over No. 4/4 Al-
abama in Tuscaloosa.
After the game the
Davidson sisters flashed
their differing personali- Montana
ties. Davidson, a
Montana, who Stuede- three-time North
man has called an added Carolina All-
State selection,
coach on the bench, spoke lost her 2018
on the larger picture at season at MSU
hand. due to a knee
“I think ever since injury. Now she
our win with ‘Bama, the is a redshirt
fight’s still there and it sophomore and
showed up tonight,” Mon- in the same eli-
tana said. “Our bats were gibility class as
rocking, our defense was her sister, Mia.
crazy.” Chris McDill/Special to
Mia was bubbly, al- The Dispatch
most happy-go-lucky
postgame. She flashed
an ear-to-ear smile that
rivaled Eddie Haskell as
she praised the exploits
of her teammates while
brushing aside her own
success.
“People probably didn’t
expect us to win tonight
and we came out and
crushed,” she said. “Em-
ily Wiliams pitched crazy
in the circles, freaking Fa
(Leilua) hit two tanks.”
As their careers in the
maroon and white wear
on, a torn ACL last season
granted Montana a medi-
cal redshirt.
Now a sophomore by
eligibility standards, she
and Mia will finish their
time in Starkville how
they arrived — together.
“Yeah, we will argue;
yeah, we will fuss with
each other,” Montana
said. “But would I imagine
playing on any other team
with anyone else? No. It’s Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
like a dream come true.” Mia Davidson is all smiles after making a play at the plate Friday night.
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NCAA MEN’S FINAL FOUR

Texas Tech, Virginia to play for title Foul call at :00.6

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Texas
Tech has earned a trip to Monday
night’s championship game to
face Virginia.
The Red Raiders beat Michi-
gan State 61-51 in Saturday night’s
second national semifinal.
Matt Mooney scored 22 points
to lead Texas Tech, which is play-
ing in its first Final Four.
Leading scorer Jarrett Culver
was quiet for much of the night,
but he scored six straight points
to keep the Red Raiders in con-
trol after the Spartans had cut a
13-point deficit to 52-51 with 2:54
left.
Texas Tech shot 56 percent af-
ter halftime, while its trademark
defensive edge locked down on
Michigan State. The Spartans
shot just 32 percent, including 8 of
24 in the second half.
Cassius Winston scored 16
points to lead the Spartans.
VIRGINIA 63, AUBURN
62: From one-and-done to NCAA
Tournament miracle men, Virgin-
ia will play for the national title
for the first time after pulling off
another last-second stunner. Kyle
Guy made three free throws with
0.6 seconds left, steadily swishing
each one as debate immediately
started over the sequence that
sent him to the line, and Virginia
beat Auburn 63-62 Saturday in the
Final Four.
A year after becoming the first
No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16,
these top-seeded Cavaliers now
look like destiny’s team.
“It’s a great story,” Virginia
coach Tony Bennett said. “It is.”
Bennett has built a powerhouse
in 10 years in Charlottesville on a
style of play that is often about as
exciting as a trip to the campus li-
brary. The Cavaliers have gotten
straight A’s in the regular season
with stingy defense and walk-it-up
offense, but NCAA success has
been hard to come by. Blown leads
and early exits have been their
story — never more than when the
Cavaliers lost to UMBC, a school
known for chess, not hoops.
Something has gotten into
these Wahoos the last two weeks,
though. They reached the Final
Four for the first time since 1984
with a wild buzzer-beater by Mah-
madi Diakite to send their Elite
Eight game against Purdue to
overtime. Beating the Tigers took
an even crazier finish.
Fifth-seeded Auburn (30-10)
had erased a 10-point deficit in
the final five minutes and taken
a 4-point lead. Heartbreak was
again at hand for Virginia.
The Tigers led 61-60 after Guy
made an off-balance 3 with 7.6
seconds left. The shot snapped a
drought of more than five minutes
by the Cavaliers, who then imme-
diately sent Jared Harper to the
line.
Harper made one and Auburn,
with fouls to give, did so twice. On
one of them, it looked as if Ty Je-
rome might have double-dribbled
into a decisive turnover. Jerome
also might have been fouled be-
fore the mishandle. But there was
no whistle for either.
“We knew there was a disrup-
tion,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl
said.
With 1.5 seconds left and in
need of some magic, Virginia
got the ball to Guy in the corner.
He turned and fired and Samir
Doughty, hands straight up in the
air, bumped into Guy’s hip. The
shot was short, bouncing off the
rim. Game over? Auburn started
to celebrate and the PA announc-
er in U.S. Bank Stadium even an-
nounced the Tigers had won.
Guy pulled his jersey over his
face. But not in angst. He said he
exactly knew why official James
Breeding had blown his whistle.
“I heard him call it right away,”
Guy said. “That was me focusing.”
Meanwhile, Pearl lost it on
the sideline, pumping his fist and
screaming.
“We kind of thought we had it
sealed,” said Bryce Brown, who
led the Auburn comeback with
three 3s in the final 4:30. “It’s not
why we lost the game. I just didn’t
agree with the call.”
Pearl said he didn’t want the
final call to define a great game,
but he did say the officials seemed
to be letting physical play go
throughout.
“My advice ... if that’s a foul,
call it,” Pearl said. “Call it at the
beginning of the game, call it in
the middle of the game, call it at
the end of the game. Don’t call it
any more or less at any other time
during the game.”
Guy swished the first two free
throws to tie it and Auburn called
a timeout to ice him. Didn’t work.
He hit one more for the lead.
“I just literally told myself that
we dream of these moments, and
to be able to make one happen was
special,” Guy said.
Auburn threw a long inbound
pass to Brown, but his desperation
3 was short.
The Cavaliers mobbed Guy on
one end. Brown sat on the court,
head hanging on the other. Au-
burn, in the Final Four for the first
time, had its 12-game winning
streak and season end in a most
painful way.
NCAA national coordinator
of officials J.D. Collins declined
comment on the potential double
dribble, but said Breeding’s call
was correct.
The foul violated the rule that
“verticality applies to a legal po-
sition and also to both the offen-
sive and defensive players,” Col-
lins said. “The defender may not
‘belly up’ or use the lower part of
the body or arms to cause contact
outside his vertical plane or inside
the opponent’s vertical plane.”
Jerome scored 21 points for Vir-
ginia and De’Andre Hunter had 10
of his 14 in a stellar second half.
Doughty led Auburn with 13
points and Brown had 12 for Au-
burn, which survived the first
round against New Mexico State
when Terrell Brown of the Aggies
missed two of three free throws
with 1.1 seconds remaining in the
Tigers’ 78-77 victory.
Auburn wasn’t so fortunate
this time, and Virginia, the team
that made UMBC a household
name — at least for a little while
— in the first round of last year’s
tournament would not be denied.
Being on the receiving end of
maybe the most humbling NCAA
Tournament upset ever has been
Virginia’s cross to bear all season.
Even after beating Auburn, the
Cavaliers had to recall the feeling
of their offseason routine starting
unexpectedly early last year.
sinks Auburn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — For the second time in two years,
Virginia looked headed for a crushing exit from the
NCAA Tournament.
One whistle, one slight bump and three clutch free
throws changed everything.
Kyle Guy hit three free throws with 0.6 seconds left
to help the Cavaliers beat Auburn 63-62 in a wild and
disputed finish Saturday night in the national semifinals
of the NCAA Tournament.
It’s the result of a play that will be long discussed,
with official James Breeding whistling Samir Doughty
for a bump on Guy’s desperation 3-point shot with No. 1
seed Virginia facing elimination before the final.
Doughty’s torso made contact with Guy’s right thigh
as he elevated for the twisting shot. Guy’s shot bounced
off the rim as the horn sounded in what appeared to be
an Auburn win. Guy even began to cover his face with his
jersey as the shot missed, thinking his season was over.
It took a few seconds before it was clear there had
been a foul call, prompting a wave of stunned cheers
from Virginia fans and furious boos from Auburn sup-
porters.
“NCAA needs to get some new refs,” Auburn guard
Bryce Brown said afterward.
Guy made the first two free throws to tie it, then came
out of an Auburn timeout to hit the third and put Virginia
ahead.
The Tigers’ final heave downcourt for a desperation
catch-and-shoot 3 from Brown wasn’t close.
This time, however, it was the end.
Virginia players mobbed Guy on the court and Cav-
aliers fans celebrated wildly, continuing their rise from
the rubble following an unprecedented 16-vs-1 upset loss
to UMBC last season.
Auburn fans, however, were irate.
Auburn assistant coach Steven Pearl, son of head
coach Bruce Pearl, ran part of the way across the court
after the buzzer, shouting at the officials before depart-
ing. The officials soon sprinted off to the tunnel for their
exit amid a few obscene gestures and insults hurled their
way from the nearby Auburn student section, where
shock had given way to fury.
Police escorted away a few of the most unruly fans.
Others walked away from floor seats with tears
at the end of a wild tournament run that had seen the
fifth-seeded Tigers take down bluebloods Kansas, North
Carolina and Kentucky in succession to reach their first
Final Four.
Yet that tournament run very nearly ended in the first
round with an eerily similar foul call.
It was in Salt Lake City where Auburn fouled a 3-point
shooter for New Mexico State while protecting a slim
lead with 1.1 seconds left. That time, though, Terrell
Brown missed two of three free throws to help Auburn
survive 78-77.
The foul happened again. This time, the free throws
fell through to end the Tigers’ romping ride.

NCAA WOMEN’S FINAL FOUR

Family is driving force

for Baylor’s Kim Mulkey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — Kim Mulkey climbed
the steps to the dais at the Final Four,
six-month-old grandson Kannon Reid in
tow, and the baby’s proud mother watch-
ing from the side.
Family has always been important to
one of the nation’s most successful wom-
en’s college basketball coaches, though
never more than the past couple of sea-
sons with Mulkey coping with the death
of her first grandchild while also con-
tinuing to win big at Baylor.
The Lady Bears (36-1) will seek their
third national title on Sunday, facing de-
fending champion Notre Dame (35-3) in
the first NCAA final featuring a pair of
female head coaches since Mulkey and
the Fighting Irish’s Muffet McGraw also
met in 2012.
The matchup comes just days after
McGraw made headlines by saying she
will not hire male assistants in the future
because she feels there should be more
coaching opportunities for women in the
sport.
Mulkey said Saturday that she sup-
ports McGraw, but quibbled with the
idea of “never” considering a man for an
opening.
Family is a reason.
Mulkey’s daughter, Makenzie Fuller,
is a former Baylor player, as well as Kan-
non Reid’s mother and serves as an as-
sociate director of basketball operations
for the Lady Bears.
The coach’s son, Kramer Robertson,
is a shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals’
Double-A Springfield affiliate.
“I understand her points, without a
doubt. But I’m of the belief, I want the
best person for the job,” Mulkey said. “I
have a son, and I would be honored if my
son wanted to coach next to me. (Mc-
Graw) has a son. I think she would be
honored if he wanted to coach women’s
basketball,” Mulkey added. “So I tend to
stay away from saying the word ‘never.’”
McGraw walked back her comments,
while stressing there’s absolutely a need
to have more women on coaching staffs.
“I just hired a male video coordinator.
I have just hired a male strength coach.
I’m not opposed to hiring men. I just
think that women need those opportuni-
ties, and those opportunities right now
are going to men,” McGraw said.
“We keep looking at ways to get our
young graduates and alums into the
game. There’s no room for them in the
game,” she added. “Women are leaving
the game because of the lack of a work-
life balance.”
The Notre Dame coach cited UConn’s
Geno Auriemma as an example of some-
one who’s done a “great job” in creating
opportunities.
“He always has an all-female staff. ...
When you look and see more men than
women on a woman’s staff, I think that’s
not the optics that I would like to see.”
Mulkey carried her grandson, who
born last October, onto the podium after
beating Oregon in Friday night’s nation-
al semifinals.
Her son, in his third minor league
season since being a fourth-round draft
pick of the Cardinals out of LSU, tried to
keep up with what was going in his moth-
er’s game while playing one of his own at
Northwest Arkansas.
“He’s playing during our game. He’s
in the on-deck circle. He has the trainer
get on the app, it was a tie ball, whatever,
late in the game,” Mulkey said, noting
Kramer was waiting for a thumbs-up or
thumbs-down signal about the Baylor
result.
“He said I’m freaking out there. I can’t
focus,” Mulkey added. “He said I have a
line drive hit at me, I field it, get it. I see
a thumbs up. All the guys on the team
are just, like, going nuts. You would have
thought we won the national champion-
ship.”
As associate director of basketball op-
erations, Fuller is in Tampa, Florida, for
the ride.
Only a week into the 2017-18 season,
she lost her unborn child about 18 weeks
into her pregnancy.
The baby with two life-threatening
birth defects had no heartbeat when
Fuller went to a doctor’s appointment,
and the baby girl was delivered after la-
bor was induced.
Kannon Reid was born last October.
“You bet I’m going to hang onto him.
Holding a child up here is a heck of a lot
more touching than holding one right
here that’s deceased,” Mulkey said, ex-
tending her hands. “I’ve done both in the
last year and a half. ... In my world, any-
body will tell you it is about family first.”
The view from the side of the podium
is exhilarating, too.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL PREP BASEBALL

Mangum’s hit a record breaker Burt helps New Hope

Bulldogs senior
breaks Rea’s all-
time hit record
in win over
Tennessee
By BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
The first place Missis-
sippi State senior center
fielder Jake Mangum en-
countered former Bulldog
star Jeffrey Rea? A batting
cage.
Mangum, then an
eighth grader, and cur-
rent MSU assistant coach
Luke Alexander had gone
to Starkville for a baseball
camp.
With Rea front tossing
to Mangum, the Pearl
native switched from the
left side of the plate to the
right.
“He said, “Oh, we’ve
got a switch hitter on our
hands. Keep doing that
and you can be something
special one day.’” Mang-
um recalled in an inter-
view with 247Sports.
Friday, the two met
once more.
Having tied Rea’s MSU
career-hits record with a
single to center in the top
of the eighth inning of a
6-3 win over Tennessee,
Mangum stepped to the
dish once more.
Locked in a duel with
sophomore Tennessee
pitcher Garrett Crochet in
the top of the 10th inning,
he fouled off two of the
first three pitches.
Mississippi State’s Jake Mangum is now No. 1 on the
school’s all-time hit list.
Mangum paused.
Stepping out of the
box, he re-velcroed his
batting gloves and adjust-
ed his helmet.
Mangum then glared
over toward the MSU
dugout. Giving his chest
a few quick pounds with
his right fist, Mangum
stepped to the plate.
Crack.
Record broken.
Mangum smoked the
1-2 pitch into left field for
career hit No. 336, sur-
passing Rea’s mark of 335.
“When I got to Missis-
sippi State I just wanted
to contribute each year,
contribute in any way pos-
sible,” he said. “It’s really
hard for me to believe.”
In the grander scheme
of MSU’s 6-3 win over
Tennessee in Knoxville
on Friday night, Mang-
um’s hit was rather incon-
sequential. He was caught
stealing just two batters
later.
But for a program that
Jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch
boasts 14 first-round MLB
Draft picks, 10 College
World Series appearanc-
es and 45 All-Americans,
Mangum’s record is
something to behold.
Next on the list for
Mangum is the South-
eastern Conference re-
cord of 352 by LSU’s Eddy
Furniss between 1995
and 1998.
After Saturday’s 2-1
loss to the Volunteers, he
sits 14 hits shy of Furniss’
mark.
But that’s a story for
the weeks ahead.
Friday night belonged
to Mangum, a player who
will long be remembered
for his service to the ma-
roon and white, and his
hero.
“Jefferey Rea, when I
was a kid, he was an icon,”
Mangum said. “He played
the game the way Missis-
sippi State plays the game
and to pass up a great
player like that is crazy. I
can’t believe it.”
overpower Leake Central
By BRANDON SHIELDS
Special to the Dispatch
CARTHAGE — New Hope’s Ryan
Burt is trying to get back in routine.
He looked just fine on Friday night.
Burt tossed six innings with 11
strikeouts as the Trojans raced past
Leake Central 12-2 in a critical Region
4-4A matchup.
With the win, New Hope (15-4, 6-0
Region 4-4A) will face Kosciusko for
the division championship. Tuesday’s
game is at Kosciusko and Friday’s
game is at New Hope. Regardless,
both will host a MHSAA Class 4A first-
round playoff series.
“I thought Burt threw good in his
second start of the season,” said New
Hope coach Lee Boyd. “I thought we
swung the bats well and Springfield got
us off to a big start in the first inning
with the home run.”
The Trojans struck early and often.
Payton Springfield hit a two-run home
run to left and Stallone Shelton had an
RBI single in the first inning to give
New Hope a 3-0 lead.
Leake Central scored a run in the
bottom of the first on an RBI single by
Cy Rushing.
The Trojans scored three more runs
in the top of the third on a two-run dou-
ble by Burt and Shelton had a sacrifice
fly.
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New Hope added four more runs
in the fourth inning, highlighted by a
two-run double by Rye McGlothin. The
Trojans then added a run in the sixth
and seventh.
“The name of the game is getting
big two-out hits and we got several to-
night,” Boyd said. “That’s something
you can’t coach, just proud of the guys
for coming up big.”
In Burt’s six innings, he gave up just
five hits, two earned runs and walked
one.
“It’s awesome to finally get back out
there and compete,” Burt said. “They
got some guys that can swing the bats
pretty well, so I tried to keep the ball
down in the zone and use all three
pitches. Fast ball and change-up were
really working for me tonight.”
Shelton and Tyler Murphy had two
hits each to lead the New Hope offense.
“Lately we’ve been swinging the
bats and we need that heading into next
week,” Boyd said. “We played Koscius-
ko four times last year and we got a lot
of respect for them. They run the bases
well, pitch it well and a really gritty, so
we better be ready.”
Rushing took the loss on the mound
for Leake Central and also had two hits
to lead the Gators (7-8-1, 4-4) offensive-
ly. Leake Central will be the No. 3 seed
out of Region 4-4A in the playoffs.

COLLEGE BASEBALL
Owls sweep Robert Morris-Peoria
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
The W baseball team rallied to score
five runs in the seventh inning Saturday
to defeat Robert Morris-Peoria 9-6 in the
final game of a three-game series.
The W swept all three games, includ-
ing a doubleheader on Friday.
The Owls improve to 15-6 on the sea-
son.
The W started the game down, en-
tering the bottom of the fifth behind the
Eagles 5-1. The Owls began their scor-
ing streak in the bottom of the sixth as
Prince Tolbert hit his first home run of
the season, bringing in three runs.
With the bases loaded in the seventh
inning, the Owls scored a string of runs
to take their first lead of the game. RJ
Cox walked for the RBI to send Leon
“Trey” Petite home for his second run
of the game. Bobby Neal hit a double to
allow Brandon Jones and Damain Bene-
field to score one run each and Tolbert
singled to third base to bring R.J Cox
home. Heath Ford made his way back to
plate to single to third giving Neal the
chance to score the final run and put The
W ahead 9-6.
For his second win of the season,
Luke Hobson entered the game in fifth
to pitch 4.0 innings for four hits against,
one run, two walks, and four strikeouts.
At the plate, Bobby Neal went 3-for-
4 for two runs and two RBIs and Prince
Tolbert went 2-for-4 with one run and
four RBIs.
The W swept to wins by identical 5-1
scores on Friday.
Collecting his fifth victory of the
season, junior pitcher RJ Dell was cred-
ited with the win on the mound in the
first game. The Memphis, Tenn. native
pitched 7.0 innings with five strikeouts,
three hits and one run.
At the plate, Leon “Trey” Petite led
his team with two hits, two RBIs and one
run. Contributing to the Owls win with
one run each were Heath Ford, Brandon
Jones, RJ Cox, and Prince Tolbert.
In the second game, junior right-
hander Will Peters grabbed his first win
of the season. He struck out seven in 5.2
innings.
Entering the game in the sixth inning
for the Owls was John David Topik. The
right-hander pitcher pitched 1.5 innings
for two strikeouts.
At the plate, sophomore infielder
Brandon Jones led his team with a per-
fect 2-for-2 appearance for two RBIs,
while Johndavid Birdsong led the team
in scoring with three runs. Other Owls
standouts were Leon “Trey” Petite and
Reese Wagner with one run each.
“[I am] proud of the way the guys
played today,” said coach Matt Wolfen-
barger. “Offensively we couldn’t get
much going but found a way to score the
runs needed to win both games. Defense
in both games was stellar tonight along
with pitching from both starters RJ Dell
and Will Peters. John David Topik came
in in the second game and did a really
good job closing the door. Johndavid
Birdsong and Brandon Jones both had
great days at the plate as well.”
Up next: The Owls will travel next Sat-
urday to compete against the Bulldogs of
Tougaloo College. The doubleheader ac-
tion is set to begin at 1 p.m.
ALABAMA FALLS IN 12: In Tus-
caloosa, Alabama, an extra-innings
affair between Alabama baseball and
South Carolina favored the Gamecocks,
5-4.
Following the series finale in 12 in-
nings, the Crimson Tide sits at 22-11
overall, 4-8 in Southeastern Conference
play.
“It was obviously a really, really tough
way to lose in a good college baseball
game,” said Alabama head coach Brad
Bohannon. “I was really proud of the
way our guys battled back after being
down 4-0 in the second. Our bullpen
was outstanding, putting up nine con-
secutive zeroes, which was huge and
gave us a chance to get back in there.
To their credit, (Brett) Kerry came in
was outstanding. He just threw a bunch
of strikes with all three of his pitches.
South Carolina made some great defen-
sive plays, and they were just able to do a
little bit more than us.”
The Crimson Tide was tasked with
overcoming an early 4-0 deficit but was
able to do so, scoring two in the third
and two in the fifth to make it a 4-4 game
after five innings. The Tide bullpen pro-
vided a commendable effort, keeping SC
off the board from the third inning un-
til the 12th. Alabama’s relievers did not
allow a hit from the fifth inning on, but
a walk and two wild pitches in the final
inning of play led South Carolina to the
win.
Freshman reliever Brett Kerry (3-1)
came away with the victory thanks to 5.2
scoreless innings of relief for the Game-
cocks. Alabama’s Deacon Medders (2-
2) suffered the loss. The junior reliever
tossed 3.0 frames and issued one walk
while striking out four but was pinned
with the SC go-ahead run.
Alabama was coming off a double-
header sweep on Friday. The Crimson
Tide first blanked the Gamecocks, 9-0,
to start the day before a 4-1 victory in
game two of the twinbill.
In Friday’s first game, Sam Finnerty
spun a complete game shutout.
Finnerty (5-3) tossed a career-long
9.0 innings, allowing four hits and no
walks while striking out five. The se-
nior used only 79 pitches on the way to
the Crimson Tide’s first complete game
shutout since May 18 of last season.
Next up for Alabama is a short trip up
the road to Birmingham to take on Sam-
ford on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
OLE MISS TOPS FLORIDA: Ryan
Olenek had three hits, including a dou-
ble, and Cole Zabowski had a home run,
helping Ole Miss to a 12-10 victory over
Florida on Saturday night.
Down 8-2, the Rebels struck for eight
runs in the fifth inning.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Defense tops offense in

Ole Miss spring game
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
OXFORD – Ole Miss Football’s land-
shark defense prevailed, 29-25, over the
offense in the 2019 Nissan Grove Bowl
to conclude the spring slate Saturday at
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
“Overall it was a good day,” Ole Miss
head coach Matt Luke said. “I don’t think
we had any major injuries. I thought that
it was a competitive game. I saw some
flashes out of some young guys which
was good. I thought the defense overall
pretty much controlled the scrimmage.
It was good to see Grant Tisdale throw
a touchdown and for Braylon Sanders
to make some plays. I thought Tylan
Knight made some big plays down the
field. Overall, we got what we wanted.
We tried to keep it vanilla.”
An aura of added excitement sur-
rounded this year’s annual contest fol-
lowing an offseason that included several
new coaching additions and yet another
top-25 recruiting class. Most notably,
new Rebel offensive coordinator Rich
Rodriguez ran through new schemes
and defensive coordinator Mike Mac-
Intyre continued the process of shifting
to a 3-4 defense.
The Ole Miss defense (wearing red)
held onto a 27-0 lead given at the start
of the game. The offense worked to over-
come the score but fell just short. The
defense could increase its point total
through turnovers that led directly to
scores, whether by returns for touch-
downs or returns into field goal range.
Junior Mohamed Sanogo led the new
3-4 defense with eight tackles, includ-
ing a sack, while Sam Williams finished
second with six tackles. Senior Brenden
Williams also recorded a sack.
“(Getting after the quarterback) is
definitely the defense we’re trying to
be,” Sanogo said. “Just a hard team
that’s going to try to get after you that’s
going to be running full-speed, non-stop.
Coach (MacIntyre) wants us to bring it
onto the field when it’s time to go, that’s
just going to be our mentality. It’s going
to be our identity as a defense.”
The defense held strong with three
interceptions combined from Ryder An-
derson, C.J. Miller, and Kam White – the
latter of whom sealed the game with a
100-yard return on a two-point attempt
in the offensive’s attempt to tie the game
at 27-27 on the final play of the game.
“I thought they were able to pressure
the quarterback in some of their nickel
fronts,” Luke said. “Qaadir Sheppard
showed up on some edges and some
guys were making some plays and flying
around. I think Sam Williams showed
up a couple of times. I liked the turn-
over backed up in the red zone. Over-
all, I thought they did some really good
things.”
On the offensive side, quarterback
Matt Corral finished with 22 comple-
tions for 240 yards, a touchdown pass
and one interception. Grant Tisdale
threw for 37 yards, while Kinkead Dent
tallied 36 yards through the air and 50
on the ground.
Freshman running back Snoop Con-
ner racked up a team-high 52 yards on
10 carries. Sophomore wideout Tylan
Knight impressed with five receptions
that covered 91 yards and a touchdown.
Junior Braylon Sanders also found the
endzone with a touchdown reception. Ju-
niors Luke Logan and Isaac Way nailed
field goals of 30 and 32 yards, respective-
ly.
The offense opened the game with
Logan’s field goal. The defense held,
though, courtesy of Anderson’s intercep-
tion at the one-yard line two drives later.
Way then added his three points in the
opening minutes of the second quarter.
On the very next drive, Corral found
a streaking Dontario Drummond (three
receptions, 38 yards) for 24 yards to set
up a 1st-and-goal situation. Corral con-
nected with Sanders from four yards out
to the back corner of the endzone to cut
the deficit to 27-13.
In the third quarter, Tisdale dropped
a perfect ball into the outreached hands
of Knight to cut further into the lead.
The 19-yard TD pass resulted in six
points, but the ensuing extra point was
missed.
The final drive of the game presented
a chance to tie the game with a touch-
down and a two-point conversion. Junior
Grant Restmeyer used a 10-yard rush to
convert on fourth down and got the ball
to the six-yard line. Hunter Holt ran the
ball to on the next three tries, scoring
on 4th-and-Goal from the one-yard line, David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
pulling the offense within two at 27-25. Alex Johnson (24) passes Brandon Whitley in the Factory Stocks feature race Friday
at Columbus Speedway. Johnson won the race.
The two-point attempt fell into the
hands White, however, giving the de-
fense the 29-25 victory following his 100-
yard return.
Racing
Continued from Page 1B
The Rebels kickoff the 2019 regular
season at Memphis Saturday, Aug. 31 be- ally like about [the State
fore hosting SEC foe Arkansas on Sept. 7 Series],” Sheedy said.
ROBINSON WINS MULLINS “There’s really good com-
COURAGE AWARD: As part of the petition everywhere you
Nissan Grove Bowl festivities, Ole Miss go.”
handed out its annual spring football JOHNSON WINS
awards Saturday, headlined by senior FACTORY STOCKS
defensive end Austrian Robinson being FEATURE: Alex John-
named the 2019 Chucky Mullins Cour- son hadn’t won a dirt
age Award winner. track race in more than 20
A native of New York, Robinson be- years – because he hadn’t
came the 29th recipient in the 30-year competed in one.
history of the award when it was revealed Friday, after spells of
at Saturday’s lunch ceremony, presented bad luck in two races at
by the M-Club. Pine Ridge earlier this
David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
Robinson will wear Mullins’ No. 38 year, Johnson benefitted
Corey Pennington (57) tries to pass Chace Pennington
jersey throughout the 2019 season. from a little bit of good for-
in the 602 Late Model feature.
The award, sponsored by Phi Beta tune, and tough driving to
Sigma fraternity, honors the late Chucky hold off Cody Chism late the whole time. Pannell Shelly, enjoys it more than
Mullins, who had his Ole Miss career in the feature. was pretty much gone drag racing.
come to an end during the 1989 Home- The race appeared to until he blew up – I’m not Brandon Whitley,
coming game against Vanderbilt when be a battle between John- sure. Scooter Ware and Jason
he was paralyzed after making a tack- ny Pannell and Lee Ray, “I thought [Chism]
Bridges rounded out the
le. After returning to his studies at Ole as both pulled away from was gonna get around
me there a time or two. top 5.
Miss, Mullins passed away May 6, 1991. the field shortly after
the race began. But Ray He was coming off the In other race action,
Robinson was selected from among
broke a drive-shaft on lap corner a little harder Chace Pennington won
several veteran defensive players by
4, and Pannell blew a mo- than me, and I just didn’t the 602 Sportsman fea-
head coach Matt Luke and the Rebel
coaching staff. The award is presented tor on lap 10. have enough motor, to be ture. Jamie Pickard, Co-
annually to an Ole Miss upperclassman As the smoke emitting honest. But I got a little rey Pennington, Morgan
defensive player that embodies the spirit from Pannell’s car in the lucky.” Lambert and Matt Grable
of Mullins – courage, leadership, perse- pits clouded the track, Johnson previously rounded out the top 5.
verance and determination. Johnson was able to hold raced Limited Late Mod-
Brent Mitchell won the
In his three-year Ole Miss career, off Chism on what he els before getting into
drag racing. He said he Street Stocks feature, and
Robinson has appeared in 26 games on called a “fast surface.”
“The track was hooked sold his drag-truck last Brandon Barnett won the
the Rebels’ defensive line. Robinson, Mini Stocks feature. Isaac
who played in 11 games last season at up really good,” Johnson week and returned to the
said. “You pretty much track for “the adrenaline,” Gipson won the Buzz
both defensive tackle and defensive end,
has 52 career tackles, including 5.5 tack- had to hold it wide open and because his wife, Class.
les for loss.
Other awards were:
Eli Manning Award – Tylan Knight.
Jeff Hamm Memorial Award – Charles
Wiley.
J. Richard Price Courage and Com-
passion Award – Alex Givens.
Park Stevens Memorial Scholarship –
Luke Logan.
Birmingham Alumni Club’s annual
Leadership Award – Zedrick Woods.
Clower-Walters Scholarship – Sean
Rawlings.
ALABAMA: The Alabama football
team completed its second scrimmage
of the spring Saturday afternoon inside
Bryant-Denny Stadium in a two-hour
session.
“The guys that have played around
here and have been good players, know
how to compete, they’ve been in big are-
nas before, they have mental toughness,
they play with discipline,” Alabama head
coach Nick Saban said. “We have a high
expectation for how those guys play, and
those guys don’t disappoint us. They
didn’t disappoint us today. The big thing
that we wanted to see today was we have
a lot of young players on our team that
have a chance to contribute to the team
and play winning football.”
The scrimmage lasted roughly 135
plays under sunny skies and tempera-
tures in the high 70s. The Crimson Tide
will have Sunday and Monday off before
returning to practice on Tuesday.

MSU
Continued from Page 1B
the charge for the MSU
receiving corps, but with
a dismally shallow group
Gardner figures to factor
into the rotation.
QB PLAY: After red-
shirt freshman Jalen
Mayden wowed onlookers
with a 12-for-15, 135-yard
performance in the open-
ing scrimmage of the
spring last week, he was
conspicuously quiet Sat-
urday.
He finished just 1-for-1
for 8 yards and a touch-
down. It wasn’t for lack of
reps — he finished with
three rushes for 15 yards.
Of those three at-
tempts, only one — a run/
pass option to the right
side of the field — was de-
signed. The other scam-
pers can be attributed to
solid coverage and an in-
ability for his receivers to
get open.
Thompson was again
mediocre with a 7-for-16,
69-yard day. He missed
on a few passes to the
sidelines and led receiv-
ers high as the route trees
moved further down the
field.
That said, Moorhead
has believes he’s seen
steady improvement in
Thompson.
“I think we’re seeing
small, positive gains by
him on a daily basis,” he
said. “I’m most impressed
with his improved deci-
sion-making and accura-
cy, thus far. I think that
comes with confidence
of year two in the offense
and quite frankly, how
we’re protecting.”
DAWG NOTES:
Moorhead announced
Saturday that sophomore
linebacker Tyler Dunning
has entered the transfer
portal.
The Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, native was listed
as a three-star prospect
by Scout.com, ESPN.
com and 247Sports.com
coming out of St. Thomas
Aquinas High School.
“Wanted an opportu-
nity to get closer back to
home in Florida,” Moor-
head said. “We’re going
to support him and try
to help him get to some-
where that he feels com-
fortable finishing out his
career.”
Fabien Lovett was a
limited participant Satur-
day. He was seen doing
work on a stationary bike
during the scrimmage.
He’s slated to return to
practice Tuesday.
Next up for the Bull-
dogs is the April 13 Ma-
roon and White Spring
Game as part of Super
Bulldog Weekend. The
event will begin at 1 p.m.

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The Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —
The nation’s largest pub-
lic utility is getting a new
leader.
The Knoxville News
Sentinel reports Jeffrey
Lyash will take over as
president and CEO of
the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority on Monday. Lyash
comes to TVA from Cana-
dian public utility Ontario
Power Generation Inc.
According to U.S. Se-
curities and Exchange
Commission filings he
will initially get a base pay
of $920,000 with a possible
annual incentive of nearly
$1.4 million. He will also
receive more than $2 mil-
lion in sign-on and reloca-
tion money.
Lyash replaces Bill
Johnson, who is taking
over as president and CEO
of San Francisco-based
PG&E later this
month.
Johnson is eligible for
a maximum $12.8 million
retirement payout from
TVA, which he has led for
six years.
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Area obituaries You’ve always said you
at Lamar Memory Gardens.
wanted to be buried in
Davis Shaw the dress you wore to your
COLUMBUS — Davis J. Visitation is one hour prior to
Shaw, 75, died April 6, 2019, services at the funeral home. granddaughter’s wedding.
at Baptist Memorial Hospi- Chandler Funeral Home is in Preplanning takes care of
tal-Golden Triangle. charge of arrangements. all the decisions so your
Mrs. Koonce was born Aug. family doesn’t have to.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Monday at Pleasant Hill Baptist 26, 1938, in Vernon, Alabama, When Caring Counts...
Church. Burial will follow at the to the late Clovis Chandler and 1131 N. Lehmberg Rd.
church cemetery. Visitation is Hilda Hadaway. She was for- FUNERAL HOME
Columbus, MS 39702
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Funeral Home is in charge of In addition to her parents,
Waunda “Jean” Kirkley
arrangements. she was preceded in death by
her husband, Bob Koonce; in-
Kawatha Koonce fant son, David Andrew Hopper; Waunda Jean Ayers Kirkley, age 86, of West
COLUMBUS — Kawatha and brother, Hollis Chandler. Point, MS, passed away March 26, 2019, at North
Jean Koonce, 80, died April 5, She is survived by her sons, Mississippi Medical Center in West Point, MS.
2019, at Windsor Place. Dennis Hopper and Ken Hop- A memorial service was held Saturday, March
Services are at 2 p.m. Sun- per, both of Vernon; brother, 30, 2019, at Memorial Gunter Peel Chapel, Col-
day at Chandler Funeral Home Ray Chandler; sister, Rebecca lege St. location.
Chapel with Terry McAdams Chandler; three grandchildren; Mrs. Kirkley was born January 15, 1933, in AL,
officiating. Burial will follow and four great-grandchildren. to the late Grady Lee and Bessie Pearl Wheeler
Ayers.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by her husband, Alton Ray Kirkley; daugh-
ter, Betty Jean Kirkley; and sons, David Kirkley
and Danny Kirkley.
Survivors include her son, Ronnie Dale Kirk-
ley of West Point, MS; sister, Nancy Kiser of
Deerborne, MI; daughter-in-law, Kathie Kirkley;
grandchildren, Debra Chain (Mark), Troy Kirk-
ley and Heather Zanier (Aaron). She also had five
great-grandchildren.
Waunda was better known to her close friends
and family as Jean, Mom or Grandma Kirkley.
She had a love for all of her family members that
was unique to each in it’s own way. She loved
teaching her grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren how to cook and do things with their hands,
like working in the garden. She spent most of her
time watching her christian programs on TV.
Another thing about Jean was that she loved all
of her animals. They were always a huge part of
her life. Jean will be missed deeply by all of her
friends and family.
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Visitation:
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Elizabeth Studdard
Services:
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2nd Ave. North Location Elizabeth W. Studdard, age 99, died Thursday, Earl Foster Smith, age 84,
Burial With U.S. died on Thursday, April 4, 2019,
Air Force Honors April 04, 2019, at the Care Center of Aberdeen.
Memorial Gardens A visitation be held Sunday April 7, 2019, from at his residence, with his daugh-
of Columbus
5:00-7:00 PM at Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral ter Carol by his side.
Home, 2nd Ave N. location. Memorial Gunter Services will be held Sat-
Peel Funeral Home and Crematory, 2nd Ave. N. urday, April 6, 2019, at 2:00 at
Visitation:
location, has been entrusted with the arrange- Memorial Gunter Peel, College
Sunday, April 7 • 5-7 PM
Memorial Gunter Peel ments. Street Chapel, with his son-n-
Funeral Home
Mrs. Studdard was born on Wednesday, Octo- law, the Reverend Paul Barham,
2nd Ave. North Location
ber 15, 1919, in Frue, KY, to the late Phillip and officiating. Burial with U.S.
Lerisa Wienke Louisa Collins Wells. She was a homemaker and Navy Honors will follow at Egger Cemetery. Vis-
Incomplete a grand storyteller. itation will be held one hour prior to services at
Memorial Gunter Peel In addition to her parents, she was preceded in the funeral home. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral
Funeral Home Home & Crematory, College Street location, has
College St. Location
death by her husband, Lynn Studdard; her daugh-
ter, Brenda Hatley; and her son, David Studdard. been entrusted with the arrangements.
Survivors include her daughters, Peggy L. Mr. Smith was born September 7, 1934, in
Frances Coy Caledonia, MS, to the late Zack Foster and Ora
Incomplete Flippo, Caledonia, MS and Robin Wheat, (Greg)
Pearl Andrews Smith. He had 1 brother, the late
Memorial Gunter Peel Steens, MS; sons, Jerry Studdard, (Karen), Cale-
Funeral Home Charles Edward Smith and 2 sisters, Barbara
donia, MS and Roger Studdard, Caledonia, MS;
Ruth Smith Kimbrough and Mary Madgalene
13 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and 6
great-great-grandchildren. Smith Ray, 3 nephews and 4 nieces. Earl was
a 1953 graduate of Greenwood Springs High
School. In 1957, he joined the United States Navy
and served in Saigon, South Vietnam on the air-
craft carrier USS Lexington. After being injured
in the Vietnam War, he was sent to the US Naval
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Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, where he met
his bride of 40 years, the late Neva Golden Smith.
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
He fell head over heels in love with her and didn’t
care that she had 6 children. They became an in-
stant family. After Earl and Neva married, Earl
gained 4 daughters, Jean Fairchild Cunningham
(Jim), Joyce Fairchild (Marion), Marie Whitaker
(Sonny) and baby girl, Carol Barham (Paul) and
2 sons, the late O’neal Golden (Louise) and the
late Forrest Golden (Billie). Together, they had
their beloved poodle, the late KC Smith. They
also had 16 grandchildren and many great and
great-great grandchildren. He received the Navy
Unit Commendation & Ribbon Bar, Vietnam
Medal Service Ribbon, National Defense Ser-
vice Medal and Vietnam Service Medal. Earl and
Neva owned and operated Hwy 12 Hardware for
many years. He was a member of the First Bap-
tist Church, Columbus, MS. In 1983, he became
a Mason Grand Master and did many charitable
works throughout the years. An electrician by
trade, Earl could do anything he set his mind to.
He enjoyed reading, watching westerns, listening
to Jerry Clower, tinkering with model planes and
watching his cats play. He was a true southern
gentleman and man of integrity who was loved by
his family and community.
Pallbearers will be his grandson, Douglas
Barham; great-grandsons, Christopher Bar-
ham, Brandon Merchant and Brady Merchant;
and long time friends, Allen Jones and Clyde N.
(Bud) Egger.
Honorary Pallbearers will be Ronnie Smith,
Glenn Baldwin, Glenn’s BBQ Staff, Kindred Hos-
pice and long time best friend, Pete Sullivan.
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8B Sunday, April 7, 2019
‘Our country is full’: Trump
says migrants straining system
‘There is indeed an emergency on
our southern border. It’s a colossal
surge and it’s overwhelming our
immigration system, and we can’t
let that happen.’
By ZEKE MILLER
and JONATHAN LEMIRE
The Associated Press
LAS VE-
GAS — De-
claring “our
country is
full,” Pres-
ident Don-
ald Trump
on Friday
Trump
insisted the
U.S. im-
migration system was
overburdened and ille-
gal crossings must be
stopped as he inspected
a refurbished section of
fencing at the Mexican
border.
Trump, making a re-
newed push for border
security as a central cam-
paign issue for his 2020
re-election, participated
in a briefing on immigra-
tion and border security
in Calexico before view-
ing a 2-mile see-through
steel-slat barrier that was
a long-planned replace-
ment for an older barrier
— and not new wall.
“There is indeed an
emergency on our south-
ern border,” Trump said
at the briefing, adding
that there has been a
sharp uptick in illegal
crossings. “It’s a colos-
sal surge and it’s over-
whelming our immigra-
tion system, and we can’t
let that happen. ... We
can’t take you anymore.
We can’t take you. Our
country is full.”
As Air Force One
Biden jokes about accusations, targets union voters
‘I’m sorry I didn’t understand more.
I’m not sorry for any of my intentions.’
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
and NICHOLAS
RICCARDI
The Associated Press
WA S H -
INGTON —
Former Vice
President
Joe Biden
on Friday
made light
of his recent
controversy Biden
about cross-
ing physical boundaries
with women, and he sig-
naled in a resolute speech
to union activists that’s
he’s ready to run for pres-
ident as a moderate Dem-
ocrat in party that has
been drifting left.
Biden, 76, opened his
speech to a conference of
electrical workers joking
that he had “permission”
touched down in the
state, California and
19 other states that are
suing Trump over his
emergency declaration
to build a border wall re-
quested a court order to
stop money from being
diverted to fund the proj-
ect. But Trump, who rat-
cheted up his hard-line
immigration rhetoric in
recent weeks, declared
that his move, which
included vetoing a con-
gressional vote, was nec-
essary.
Also on Friday, House
Democrats filed a lawsuit
preventing Trump from
spending more money
than Congress has ap-
proved to erect barriers
along the southwestern
border. Congress ap-
proved just under $1.4
billion for work on bor-
der barricades. Trump
has asserted he can use
his powers as chief exec-
utive to transfer an addi-
tional $6.7 billion to wall
construction.
Trump, who earlier
in the week threatened
to shut down the border
over the high numbers
of migrants trying to en-
ter the U.S., appeared to
walk back his comments
Thursday. He said Friday
that it was because Mex-
ico had gotten tougher
in stopping an influx of
immigrants from moving
north.
“Mexico has been ab-
solutely terrific for the
last four days,” the pres-
to hug the union leader
who introduced him. He
later repeated the quip
about a boy he invited up
on stage. The remarks
won cheers from the over-
whelmingly male audi-
ence, but angered some
of the activist women
Biden has sought to con-
vince he “gets” their con-
cerns about his famously
touchy-feely, and some
say dated, style.
During his speech at
the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Work-
ers conference and after-
ward to reporters, Biden
defended his focus on the
“personal connection” in
politics.
“I’m sorry I didn’t un-
derstand more. I’m not
sorry for any of my inten-
tions,” he told reporters.
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US wants 2 years to ID migrant
kids separated from families
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration wants
up to two years to find potentially thousands of chil-
dren who were separated from their families at the
border before a judge halted the practice last year, a
task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts
because the children are no longer in government cus-
tody.
The Justice Department said in a court filing late
Friday that it will take at least a year to review about
47,000 cases of unaccompanied children taken into
government custody between July 1, 2017 and June
25, 2018 — the day before U.S. District Judge Dana Sa-
braw halted the general practice of splitting families.
Sabraw ordered last year that more than 2,700 chil-
dren in government care on June 26, 2018 be reunited
with their families, which has largely been accom-
plished.
ident said as he left the
White House. “I never
changed my mind at all. I
may shut it down at some
point.”
The president’s visit
came a day after he with-
drew his nominee to lead
U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
Longtime border official
Ron Vitiello appeared to
be cruising toward con-
firmation, but Trump said
Friday that he wanted to
go in a “tougher direc-
tion.”
Trump, as he so often
does, mixed fact with
fiction when warning of
the threat at the border.
When complaining about
the Flores legal settle-
ment that governs treat-
ment of migrant children
and families, he blamed
“Judge Flores, whoever
you may be.” But Flores
was an unaccompanied
15-year-old girl from El
Salvador.
“I’m not sorry for any-
thing I’ve ever done -- I’ve
never been disrespectful,
intentionally, to a man or
a woman.”
Biden all but declared
he intended to join the
race for the Democratic
presidential nomination,
telling reporters he’s “put-
ting everything togeth-
er, man.” He noted his
lawyers had warned him
to speak carefully about
his intentions but said he
expected to “be standing
before you all relatively
soon.”
He also suggested
his strategy. In a nos-
talgia-soaked speech,
Biden made clear he
would position himself
outside the progressive
wing of the party and
seek support from tradi-
tional Democrats and the
working-class voters who
backed Donald Trump in
2016.
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After the storm, it takes a team
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A
s the beam from his flashlight fell on the damage, Johnny Johnson’s heart sank as he walked
through drizzle, debris and darkness toward Hunt School. Just hours earlier, an EF-3 tornado
had hit Columbus, leaving its destructive mark on neighborhoods and structures including
the school on 20th Street North — and the R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center housed inside.
The Feb. 23 tornado spawned a thousand stories; this is just one, about a team that came together
in the wake of the storm to protect part of the community’s African-American history. The effort
would involve Hunt Museum volunteers and archivists from the Billups-Garth Archives at the Co-
lumbus-Lowndes Public Library, the Department of Archives and History in Jackson and Mississip-
pi University for Women.

■■■

When the tornado struck,

Johnson’s first thoughts were
for human safety. Then concern
turned to the museum collection
representing decades of Columbus’
African-American history. Johnson
is president of the museum board.
He also served as assistant princi-
pal and principal at Hunt from the
late 1970s to early 1990s.
Opened in 1953, Hunt served
as the only high school for Afri-
can-Americans in Columbus until it
was consolidated in 1970 with Ste-
phen D. Lee High School following
racial integration. Hunt remained
open in various forms, including an
elementary school, middle school,
intermediate school and most
recently as a success academy.
Soon after the tornado hit, John-
son was alerted by city officials
about damage at the school. He
and several other board members
and volunteers made their way
there through darkened streets
and downed limbs.
“When I saw it, my first impres-
sion was, ‘I hope we can keep this
thing alive,’” Johnson
said. “It was about
9 or 9:30 (p.m.), we
had our flashlights,
and the amount of
damage we saw ...
part of the roof was
blown off, doors were
blown off, and we Johnson
really didn’t know
what to expect inside.”
They found extensive damage
to museum contents that had been
near windows. Part of the ceiling
had also fallen in. For two to three
hours that Saturday night, volun-
teers toiled in meager light under a
leaking roof to move photographs,
annuals and documents to a drier
location in the school. They were
anxious to save it all.
“The mission of the museum is
preserving the African-American
culture here from the early 1900s
up until now, so that young folks in
our area would be able to benefit
from the history developed by our
Courtesy photo/Billups-Garth Archives
forefathers,” Johnson said.
Billups-Garth Archives volunteer Gary Lancaster carefully removes a photograph from its glass frame to air dry
in a climate-controlled room within the Beulah Culbertson Archives and Special Collections at The W. The photo
They would soon have help.
is among about 100 items in R.E. Hunt Museum damaged when an EF-3 tornado hit Columbus Feb. 23. See Hunt Museum, 5C

Courtesy photo/Billups-Garth Archives

R.E. Hunt Museum board member Laverne Leach, right, looks on as Lucy Courtesy photo/Billups-Garth Archives
Allen from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson Special Collections librarian and Mississippi University for Women
assembles an archival box at Hunt School to transport damaged museum archivist Derek Webb reviews items drying at MUW after suffering water
items to a climate-controlled environment Feb. 26. damage at the R.E. Hunt Museum.
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Pilgrimage visitors reconnect with family past in Columbus

BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

D
ianna Buder Suratt has
never lived in Columbus,
but her visit to the city
during the 79th annual Spring
Pilgrimage felt like coming
home. It was also “the best
birthday present I could have
had,” said the Canton, Georgia,
resident.
To celebrate Suratt’s 77th
birthday, her niece Brenda
Burns, also of Canton, brought
her aunt to the Pilgrimage to
reconnect with a place import-
ant to their family history. Su-
ratt’s late father, Billups Norton
Kennebrew Buder, was born in
1914 and raised in Columbus.
More specifically, he grew up
at Temple Heights, a mainstay
on the Pilgrimage tour. Mem-
bers of the Kennebrew family
occupied Temple Heights for an
almost 80-year span, from 1887
to 1965. For Suratt, who had not
been in Columbus since 1964,
her March 28-30 visit was filled
with memories and emotion.
During activity-packed days,
she and Burns, Billups Bud-
er’s granddaughter, enjoyed
Pilgrimage activities and had
a personal tour of Temple
Deanna Robinson/Special to The Dispatch
Heights. They searched out
Pilgrimage visitors Dianna Buder Suratt, right, and her niece, Brenda Burns, both of Canton, Georgia, make a happy discovery when they
family plots at Friendship find Suratt’s father, Billups Norton Kennebrew Buder, in a vintage photograph hanging in The Commercial Dispatch March 29. “It made
Cemetery. They were shown a our day,” said Burns.
wealth of historical information
at the Columbus-Lowndes Pub- “We were walking down photograph of Little Merchants ladies’ trip was an extended success, said Suratt and Burns.
lic Library Local History Room Main Street and just looking prominently displayed on the visit with Temple Heights owner “I’ve told everybody it was
and visited the site on Main around and saw The Commer- wall in the newspaper’s front Kathy Novotny and former own- more than we could have hoped
Street of the former Buder cial Dispatch. We knew he had office. There, among 36 boys er Dixie Butler. for,” Burns remarked. “Every-
Brothers Jewelry Store. been a Little Merchant there,” in front of the The Dispatch “When they came, they body was gracious and bent over
“We also went to First Unit- said Burns, referring to youth with then-Editor and Publisher brought a treasure trove of fam- backwards to help us. God put
ed Methodist Church where
who delivered newspapers in Birney Imes Sr. and Circulation ily articles and pictures,” said all the right people before us
(Billups Buder’s parents) Jessie
the 1920s and 1930s. Suratt had Manager Lewood Conner, was Novotny. “When they started to help guide us with what we
and Edward Buder met,” said
Burns. “We have a certificate her photo taken in front of the Suratt’s father — tall, in white unfolding all of these pictures, needed. It was wonderful.”
where my grandfather was building. shirt and tie, his dark hair I felt like I needed to share Suratt said, “Everybody that
in the ‘cradle roll’ there, and “But then she said, ‘I want to tousled. Suratt and Burns were with Dixie, and she came right we touched along the way was
we also have a Sunday School go in,’” Burns said. “And then it overwhelmed. over and we all had a trip down just as gracious as they could be,
certificate.” got great from there — it made “We were so surprised and memory lane. I enjoyed them and there was as much hospital-
Suratt’s and Burns’ visit also our day.” delighted to see the photo!” thoroughly.” ity as anybody could ever hope
held a delightful surprise or What “made their day” was Suratt said. The pilgrimage to Columbus for. I couldn’t have had a more
two. discovering a circa latter-1920s Another highlight of the was a meaningful, resounding wonderful birthday present.”

Courtesy photo
Vendors at the Cotton District Arts Festival in Starkville will be open from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Saturday.

Arts, music, food: Cotton District

Arts Festival set for Saturday
SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH State graphic design students proposed
designs for the CDAF poster. The

S
tarkville Area Arts Council’s an-
nual Cotton District Arts Festival
hits the historic Cotton District on
Super Bulldog Saturday, April 13, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CDAF is an award-win-
ning Starkville classic that allows
artisans to compete, showcase and sell
their work. With more than 175 artisans
competing for entry, admission to this
year’s festival is more competitive than
ever.
Several “villages” and “stages” give
festival-goers a wide range of opportu-
nities, including Artisan’s Village, Taste
of Starkville (which showcases local
food), Singer/Songwriting Competition,
Juried Arts Show, East, West and South
Stages, the Children’s Village, Interna-
tional Village and Writer’s Village.
The Pet Parade kicks off the festival
shortly after 9 a.m. with everyone’s best
friend arriving in costume. A CDAF Stu-
dent Art Competition reception takes
place Thursday April 11 at the Greater
Starkville Development Partnership in
downtown Starkville.
SAAC continues to keep CDAF fami-
ly-friendly and accessible, despite ongo-
ing construction in the District. Much
of the Artisan Village will be located
along University Avenue, as previous
years, but some sections are moving to
accommodate increasing crowds.
This year’s Juried Arts Exhibit is ju-
ried by Kate Cherry, executive director
of the Meridian Museum of Art. The
exhibit returns to its traditional venue
in the MSU Visual Arts Center on Uni-
versity Drive near campus.
Once again this year, Mississippi
winning poster was designed by Parker
Webb from Madison, who graduated in
December 2018 from MSU.
Sponsorships and volunteers are
critical to keep CDAF admission free
for the public and booth fees among the
lowest in the state. CDAF sponsors are
those who provide $1,000 or more of
financial support to the festival. Spon-
sors include Clark Beverage Group
(Taste of Starkville), BankFirst (South
Stage), Bancorp South (East Stage), the
Bookmart & Cafe (Writers’ Village),
Spruill Property Management (Pet
Parade), Synergetics (West Stage), and
4-County Electric Cooperative. A large
number of other supporters contribute
to CDAF, underscoring the community
aspect of the festival. Additional infor-
mation on sponsors, sponsorships and
volunteers can be found at ​cdafestival.
com/sponsors--volunteers.html​.
Maps and other festival information
may be found at ​cadfestival.com​.
The SAAC also runs various art ed-
ucation outreach programs and awards
almost $25,000 each year in grants and
scholarships in its mission to build a
strong, creative, connected community
through the arts. SAAC appreciates the
support of the City of Starkville and the
Greater Starkville Development Part-
nership, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Arts Commission, Mississippi Develop-
ment Authority and Visit Mississippi,
Del Rendon Foundation, 4-County Go on a great trip?
Electric Foundation, and various local Send us your favorite vacation photo!
businesses and individuals. Learn more jswoope@cdispatch.com
at starkvillearts.org.
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calendar
Monday, April 8
“Journey for Two” — A free
duo piano recital by Julia Mortyakova
and Valentin Bogdan of Mississippi
University for Women begins at 7:30
p.m. in Poindexter Hall on campus.
Tuesday, April 9
Spring recital — The W’s
Department of Music presents a
free spring recital at 7:30 p.m. in
Poindexter Hall’s Kossen Auditorium
on campus.
Wednesday, April 10
Noon Tunes — Jeffrey Rupp en-
tertains at Noon Tunes from 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Trotter Conven-
tion Center Courtyard in downtown
Columbus. Lunch available for
purchase. For more information,
contact Main Street Columbus, 662-
328-6305.
Thursday, April 11
Edible Book Festival — Co-
lumbus-Lowndes Public Library, 314
Seventh St. N., hosts its third annual
Edible Book Festival from 4-5:30
p.m. View creative interpretations
in food of various book titles and
themes. For more Library Week activ-
ities, visit lowndeslibrary.com or call
662-329-5300.
“The Trail of Tears: Chero-
kee Legacy” —
The Columbus Arts Council screens
this documentary at 6:30 p.m. at the
Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main
St. Narrated by James Earl Jones
and Wes Studi, it explores the Indian
Removal Act of 1830 and the forced
removal of the Cherokee Nation
to Oklahoma in 1838. Free to the
public.
Poetry reading — The W’s
Gordy Honors College Forum hosts
readings by poets T.K. Lee and C.T.
Salazar at 6 p.m. in Nissan Auditori-
um on campus. Free to the public.
Friday through Sunday,
April 12-14
Super Bulldog Weekend —
See top of calendar.
Saturday, April 13
Cotton District Arts Festi-
val — This spring festival from 9
a.m.-5 p.m. in Starkville’s Cotton
District includes artisans, Taste of
Starkville restaurant competition,
juried arts show, live music, song-
writer’s competition and more. Visit
cdafestival.com, follow the festival
on Facebook.
Symphony concert — The
Starkville-MSU Symphony orchestra
presents a concert of epic movie
themes at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Hall’s
Bettersworth Auditorium on the MSU
campus. Free to the public.
Tuesday, April 16
100+ Women Who Care — In
Columbus and Lowndes County: 100
women giving $100 means $10,000
awarded to a member-nominated and
voted on local charity. Too good to be
true? Believe it. #the POWERof100.
A Membership registration and social
is 5:30 p.m. April 16 at Courtyard by
Marriott in Columbus.
Friday through Sunday,
April 19-21
Living Pictures — Fairview
Baptist Church, 127 Airline Road, Co-
lumbus, presents its Easter music and
drama production, “From Prisoners to
Believers,” at 6:30 p.m. The Apostle
Paul tells the resurrection story of
Jesus. Free to the public. For more
information, call the church office,
662-328-2924.
Saturday, April 20
Sportsplex Easter Egg Hunt
— Starkville Parks & Recreation
hosts an egg hunt with petting zoo,
inflatables and games from 10 a.m.-
noon at the Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane; sponsored by The Orchard
and Bethlehem Churches, and
Starkville Mayor’s Youth Council. For
information, call 662-323-2294.
Easter Egg Hunt — This Easter
Egg Hunt begins begins at 11 a.m. at
Moncrief Park, North Jackson Street,
in Starkville. For more information,
visit lifechurchms.com or call 662-
684-9099.
Tuesday, April 23
Jazz ensemble — The W’s Jazz
Dispatch file photo
Ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. in
Poindexter Hall’s Kossen Auditorium.
Free to the public.
Friday, April 26
Blues for Willie — A 6 p.m.
barbecue dinner ($10; RSVP by April
25) precedes the Debbie Bond Blues
Band as the Columbus Arts Council
honors late bluesman Willie King at
the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501
Main St. (a rescheduled weather
event). CAC member tickets $15
advance/$17 at door; non-members
$20/22. Or purchase a two-night
ticket ($22/25; $25/28) that includes
Honeyboy and Boots CD release April
27 (see below).
Saturday, April 27
Honeyboy and Boots CD
release concert — The Colum-
bus Arts Council presents a “Picture
on the Wall” CD release concert by
Honeyboy and Boots at 7 p.m. at the
Rosenzweig Arts Center. CAC member
tickets $12 advance/$15 at the door;
non-members $15/17. Or purchase
a two-night ticket ($22/25; $25/28)
that includes the Debbie Bond Blues
Band the previous night (see April 26
events).
Friday through Sunday,
April 12-14
Super Bulldog Weekend
— Weekend events in Starkville
include the Maroon and White
spring football game (1 p.m. April
13), Diamond Dawgs baseball,
women’s tennis, MSU soccer and
more. The Cotton District Arts
Festival is April 13. Follow MSU
Athletics on Twitter, Facebook or
Instagram, #SBW19.
Color Run — This third annual
5K Color Run and Walk to benefit
Life Choices Pregnancy Care Center
in Columbus begins at 9 a.m. at the
Columbus Riverwalk. For information
or to register, go to mslifechoices.org.
Touch a Truck — Children get to
explore emergency, utility, construc-
tion, transportation and delivery ve-
hicles from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at McKee
Park, 405 Lynn Lane, Starkville, a
benefit for the United Way of North
Central Mississippi. Cost is $5. For
information, call 662-323-3830.
“Steel Magnolias” — Black-
friars Drama Society at Mississippi
State presents “Steel Magnolias” at
noon and at 7 p.m. in McComas Hall.
Tickets $10 (plus $2+ fee) general ad-
mission; $7 (plus fee), at eventbrite.
com.
Saturday and Sunday,
April 27-28
Columbus Choral Society —
The Choral Society presents “Ameri-
can Legacy,” a concert at 7 p.m. April
27 at First Baptist Church, 202 Sev-
enth St. N., Columbus; and at 2 p.m.
April 28 at the Louise Campbell Center
for the Arts, 235 Commerce St., West
Point. $10 suggested donation.

Community males invited to don April 12 –

The Tatum

heels to ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’

Shappley
Band per-
forms acoustic sounds at Hobie’s on
Main, 217 E. Main St., Starkville, from
9 p.m.-midnight. There is a $5 cover
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
charge. Visit 662tix.com to purchase

M
ississippi University for
Women’s Counseling Center
will host “Walk a Mile in
Her Shoes” Tuesday, April 9 at 5
p.m. The goal of the event is to raise
awareness about sexual assault and
is held every April, which is Sexual
Assault Awareness Month.
According to the Rape, Abuse and
Incest National Network’s website,
an American is sexually assaulted
every 98 seconds, and one out of
every six American women has been
a victim of a rape or attempted rape.
The event asks for males in the
community to come out and wear
high-heeled shoes, and “walk in her
shoes” so to speak. The goal is to
raise awareness as well as create
solidarity.
“We want to host this program in
order to show our campus commu-
nity that sexualized violence does
not just affect women” said Sirena
Cantrell, dean of students and Title
IX coordinator at The W. “This
walk will demonstrate that men are
willing and able to help make our
campus, community and world a
safer place.”
The event was created in 2001,
and there were only a small group
of men who participated. Now it has
become a worldwide movement that
raises money for various shelters and
crisis centers.
The W’s Counseling Center will host “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” Tuesday at
5 p.m. on campus.
The W has participated at various
times over the years. This year, they
are also collecting toiletries for the
Safe Haven shelter. The donation
drive will take place during the walk.
“We are very excited to see
tickets and for more information.
April 13 – The Wright Moves perform
with an opening act by Only Everything
at Hobie’s on Main, 217 E. Main
St., Starkville, from 8 p.m.-midnight.
There is a $5 cover charge. Visit
662tix.com to purchase tickets and
for more information.
OUT THERE
April 10 – Joan Baez, Alys
Stephens Center, Birmingham.
205-975-2787, alysstephens.org.
April 11 – Pine Grove Arts
Festival, East Mississippi
Community College Golden
Triangle campus (games, music,
fishing rodeo); 10:30 a.m. to
about 2:30 p.m.
– Acoustic evening with Jason
Isbell and the 400 Unit, Riley
Chris Jenkins/MUW University Relations Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200,
msurileycenter.com.
April 11-14 – Amory Railroad
our campus and community come
Festival (Frisco market, music,
together to show support for this
car show, food, vendors,
movement,” said Cantrell.
more), Frisco Park, Amory.
For more information, contact
amoryrailroadfestival.com.
Rob’Dreka Shaw in the Counseling
Center, 662-329-7748.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My husband,
“Joe,” and I have been
married 45 years, and he
drives me nuts! I have asked
him countless times to use
better table manners, speak
proper English and treat others
with respect. I’m not asking for
perfection. I know I’m not per-
fect, but if someone pointed out
something I was doing incorrectly
or that embarrassed someone,
I’d change what I was doing.
Besides asking nicely, which
I always do as to not belittle
Joe, what can I do? It’s hard to Dear Abby
ignore! — NOTHING CHANGES IN
NEW YORK
DEAR NOTHING: After 45 years you should
have come to the realization that you cannot
change another person. For the sake of your
sanity, learn to change the way
you react to your husband’s poor
table manners and bad English.
Because he’s a sloppy eater, con-
sider eating with him less often.
Because his grammar isn’t up to
par, try to remember that you mar-
ried him this way and he managed
to get the words “I do” out well
enough to satisfy the officiant.
As to his disrespect for other
people, the next time it happens,
don’t ask him to cut it out, TELL
him!
DEAR ABBY: I have a friend
who recently got married at the
courthouse. Her parents were
willing to host a wedding for her,
but she chose not to have one since she and
her husband live far from her hometown.
About a month after the wedding, I received
a card in the mail announcing that she had
gotten married, stating she and her husband
are trying to buy a house and gift cards to
start their new life would be appreciated. Abby,
isn’t it out of line for someone to ask for gifts
when they didn’t have a wedding and didn’t tell
anyone about their elopement until afterward?
Several of my friends eloped, and I was never
asked to send a gift. Was this rude, or is it
normal behavior for people who do not have a
wedding? — NORMAL OR NOT? IN COLORADO
DEAR N. OR N.: This is not normal behav-
ior. It’s a gift grab, and you are not obligated
to send this couple anything beyond your good
wishes. To request gifts is a serious breach of
etiquette. Had you contacted her and ASKED
if there was anything they needed, telling you
then would have been appropriate.
DEAR ABBY: I’m in 6th grade. My best
friend hates a girl in our class. She toilet-pa-
pered her house, posted mean signs, threw
eggs onto the family’s car and dumped sham-
poo in their mailbox. I’m really uncomfortable
with what she did. She’s nice to me, though.
What do I do? — FRIEND ISSUE IN NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR FRIEND ISSUE: Although your friend
may dislike the classmate, she did not have
the right to damage the family’s property. What
she has been doing is called vandalism, and it
is against the law. That it makes you uncom-
fortable shows you have a conscience. If you
are smart — and I think you are — spend less
time with her. I say this because a person like
her could easily turn on you.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 7).
Your location matters — a lot! You’re
strongly influenced by geography,
where it’s happening for you. Also,
there’s much you want to do, but
more importantly, how do you want
to feel? Inspired and empowered,
for starters. Feeling and doing goals
come into alignment as you let cer-
tain people play a bigger part in your
projects. Virgo and Leo adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 50, 2, 22,
18 and 40.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You’ll recognize your impact and
become aware of what you were too
modest to see before — specifically,
that there are those who cannot act
normal around you because your
attractiveness is too distracting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
When you give your love to a person,
you give it in a way that transcends
the boundaries of time, circum-
stance, geography... You commit to
the life of the relationship, whatever
form that takes.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Are
you expecting too much of yourself?
You’ll get better results by taking
care of yourself the way you’d take
care of a precious and vulnerable
being placed in your charge.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You
feel like you’ve been treading water,
which is better than sinking but still
going nowhere. To move forward,
you’ll have to change your position
and commit to a whole set of differ-
ent moves.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). People
will be apt to blame unsatisfactory
results on just about everything but
the real reason for the outcome. So
go into problems like a sleuth. Don’t
adopt the commonly accepted theo-
ries until you’ve tested them.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
There’s nothing about you that
needs fixing. Today your problem will
go away in two easy steps: Double
down on what’s already successful
and ignore the rest.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Go forward with whatever excites
you, as it will be your path to total
engagement and an interesting
existence. Chances are this is about
very simple stuff, so don’t overthink
it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
What you’re doing and how you’re
thinking aren’t for everyone. As you
go deeper into that, you’ll attract
those with similar values and lose
those who can’t help you anyway. In
a sense, you’ll win people by losing
people.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
It’s like you’re standing at the gate
of fortune waiting for it to open, and
it’s taking forever. Before you press
forward, make sure you have a bone
to feed the guard dogs you might
encounter.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
You go next level with social grace.
You take subjects that others are
afraid to talk about and make them
seem safe. You do this with humor
and/or directness. It’s a gift — and
one that will help someone today.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Getting things done is not the same
as making things happen. You’ll han-
dle today with an eye to the future,
accepting full responsibility for your
part in creating it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Bottom line: People like you. They’re
interested in what you’re up to. This
is flattering, yet it’s also a little dis-
tracting, as you really need to focus
by yourself for a while if you’re to
make significant progress today.
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‘Journey for Two’ piano performance free to public Monday

MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS or some new music they might a really interesting program
have not yet found, they will — challenging to perform,

M
ississippi University
for Women’s De-
partment of Music
presents “Journey for Two”
Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., in
Kossen Auditorium, Poindex-
ter Hall. The concert is free
and open to the public.
The duo piano recital will
feature Julia Mortyakova, as-
sociate professor and chair of
the Department of Music, and
Valentin Bogdan, associate
professor of music.
“We titled the concert ‘Jour-
ney for Two’ because it literally
takes the public on a voyage
throughout multiple musical
eras and countries, from the
U.S. across Europe. There is
no doubt that our audiences
will be able to relate to these
works, the music will speak to
them. Whether it’s a work they
might have heard in the past,
discover something to love,”
described Bogdan about the
concert.
The program will consist of
an eclectic mix of works writ-
ten for the two piano medium,
including the famous “Rhapso-
dy in Blue” by George Gersh-
win, featuring a unique com-
bination of classical music and
jazz; the “Concerto for Two
Pianos” by Francis Poulenc, a
blend of charming French mel-
odies and musical humor; and
the virtuosic “Concertstück”
by Cécile Chaminade.
Other compositions will
feature contemporary Russian
women composers: Tatiana
Chudova, Rushaniya Nizamut-
dinova and Lilia Rodionova.
The program has been pre-
sented by the duo around the
U.S. and will be performed as
part of their European tour
The community is invited to a 7:30 p.m. duo piano recital in Poin-
dexter Hall Monday by Julia Mortyakova, left, and Valentin Bodgan
of The W’s Department of Music.
this summer in Russia, Roma-
nia and Italy.
“We hope that both The
Chris Jenkins/MUW University Relations
W and Columbus community
will join us on Monday eve-
ning,” said Bogdan. “This is
but extremely satisfying for
an audience to listen to,” said
Bogdan.
Mortyakova and Bogdan
have been performing as a
piano duo since 2007. Win-
ners of the Second Prize at
Ellis Duo Piano Competition,
they have performed nation-
ally and internationally at
prestigious concert venues
and festivals. They were the
featured performers at the
2015 Mississippi Federation of
Music Clubs State Conference,
and were featured during the
2016 National Association
of Composers USA National
Conference in Knoxville Ten-
nessee, the 2015 Mississippi
Music Teachers Association
State Conference and at many
regional conferences hosted
by the College Music Society
throughout the U.S.

In the Garden with Felder

Poets Lee and Salazar
Ever wondered about the garden to read at The W
version of ‘what’s your sign?’ MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

G O
lad I
didn’t
plant
my toma-
toes last
week. That
not-so-sur-
prisingly
late spate of
“blackberry
winter” hap-
pens nearly
every year. Felder Rushing
Which brings
me to a pet
peeve.
“What’s your zone?” is are important but hard to
a fairly innocuous ques-
tion, the garden version
of “what’s your sign?”
Well, I don’t read horo-
scopes, don’t plant by the
moon, and don’t believe
that “hardiness zones”
are reliable indicators of
plant survival odds.
Here I go again,
seemingly disputing the
production-efficiency
dogma preached by my
hortiholic peers. But, as
you and I know and as
does Aunt Mamie who
is a pretty darn good
gardener in spite of never desert), and prevailing
having taken classes,
there are some things we ough but still not accu-
horticulturists say that
are technically correct
but aren’t strict require-
ments for average home
gardening success.
Examples: You don’t
have to have your soil
tested. Roses don’t have
to be pruned above out-
ward-facing five-leaflet
leaves. Pruning paint is
mostly cosmetic. Lawns
don’t need watering every with midwinter averages
week or fertilizing twice
a year. It’s stylistically
OK to prune crape myr-
tles. The color wheel isn’t low temperatures in the
set in concrete. You know upper 20s.
these are all true, so why
take umbrage over me
getting off my high horse to rate plants according
and admitting it?
Plant hardiness zone
maps have always been
problematic. They are
based on highly vari-
Military briefs
Sheppard graduates
U.S. Air Force Airman
1st Class Tyler D. Sheppard
graduated
from basic
military
training at
Joint Base
San Anto-
nio-Lackland
in San Anto-
nio, Texas.
The Sheppard
airman
completed
an intensive, eight-week
program that included train-
ing in military discipline
and studies, Air Force core
values, physical fitness and
basic warfare principles
and skills.
Airmen who complete
basic training also earn
four credits toward an
associate in applied sci-
ence degree through the
able data
that’s been
crunched into
pretty unreli-
able averages,
and take into
account only
part of what
a gardener
needs to know
about a plant
— especially
that typical
last spring
frost and first
fall frost, both of which
pin down.
I mean, England,
surrounded by the warm
Gulf Stream, is in the
same mild cold-hardiness
zone as Mississippi, so
why can’t we grow great
peonies or hollyhocks?
Hint: Our hot summer
nights.
West Coast gardeners
rely on a couple dozen
Sunset Western Climate
Zones that factor in high
and low temperatures,
humidity, elevation
(coastline, mountain,
winds. It’s nitpicky thor-
rate even from one side of
town to the other.
Rest of the country
clings to the USDA Plant
Hardiness Map that
breaks the country into
zones determined by
averaging several years’
or temperatures for each
area. According to the
USDA map, Iuka is in
the middle of zone 7,
between 0 and 10 degrees
Fahrenheit, and Biloxi
is zone 9 with average
There’s also a “heat
zone” map that attempts
to how many days of high
temperatures each area
gets. Most years, that is.
On average. Some nights.
Sheesh!
Community College of the
Air Force.
Sheppard is the son of
Oori Sheppard of Caledo-
nia.
He is a 2015 graduate
of Caledonia High School.
Clark graduates
U.S. Air Force Airman
Demetric D. Clark graduat-
ed from ba-
sic military
training at
Joint Base
San Anto-
nio-Lackland
in San Anto-
nio, Texas.
The
airman
completed
Clark
an intensive,
eight-week program that
included training in military
discipline and studies, Air
Force core values, physical
When it comes to “zones,” don’t get hung up in too
many specifics. Rely on some of the hardy plants
you’ve come to depend on.
You can get detailed
information about all
three zone maps at the
interactive American
Horticulture Society web-
site (ahsgardening.org).
But old-hand garden-
ers know that other im-
portant stuff affects plant
growth, including sun,
shade, nearby tree roots,
the natural dirt they
have or how it’s worked
up, and how everything
is changed by how we
plant, water, fertilize,
plus insects and diseases.
Throw in microclimates
that change the sur-
roundings (plants in mall
parking lot planters have
a lot more weather to deal
with than, say, those in
an enclosed patio), and
breathlessly stifling sum-
mer nights.
What we need, in my
opinion, is a Mid/Lower/
Coastal South Map that
overlays average cold
fitness and basic warfare
principles and skills.
Airmen who complete
basic training also earn
four credits toward an
associate in applied sci-
ence degree through the
Community College of the
Air Force.
Clark is the son of
Virginia A. and Maurico M.
Clark of Starkville.
He is a 2018 graduate
of Starkville High School.
Irvin graduates
U.S. Air Force Airman
1st Class Emily E. Irvin
graduated from basic mili-
tary training at Joint Base
San Antonio-Lackland in
San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed
an intensive, eight-week
program that included train-
ing in military discipline
and studies, Air Force core
n Thursday, April
11, in celebration
of National Poetry
Month, Mississippi Uni-
versity for Women’s Fo-
rum Series hosted by the
Gordy Honors College
will feature poets T.K.
Lee and C.T. Salazar.
Author of the 2018
collection “To Square a
Circle,” Lee is also an
award-winning play-
wright and actor. As pro-
fessor of English at The T.K. Lee
W, he teaches creative
writing, playwriting, and
literature to both grad-
uate and undergraduate
students.
Salazar is author
of the newly released
chapbook “This Might
Have Meant Fire” and
a graduate of The W’s
MFA in Creative Writ-
ing Program. He is
editor-in-chief of “Dirty
Paws Poetry Review”
and the 2017 AWP Intro
Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo Journals Poetry Winner. C.T. Salazar
After reading from
their works, Lee and Salazar will together dis-
cuss their writing process and the importance of
winter temperatures poetry.
with dramatic midweek Books will be available for purchase at the
ups and downs, plus hot, event, which begins at 6 p.m. in Nissan Auditori-
muggy summer nights, um.
late frosts we always For more information, email honors@muw.
edu or call 662-241-6850.
seem to get, too-wet
winters and too-dry
summers, miserable dirt,
incredible pest pressures,
and busy gardeners’
schedules. Club note
Then we’ll have
something to go by. Northaven Woods Garden Club
Meanwhile, I’m doggedly Fran Hawkins hosted the Northaven Woods
sticking with the hun- Garden Club meeting March 19 with club
dreds of familiar plants members and four guests, Cathy Easley, Carolyn
we already know will Blake, Rose Coggins and Glenda Beard, present.
grow for us, regardless of President Elwanda Pridmore called the
our Zodiac sign or sterile meeting to order and led the group in the Garden
plant hardiness zone Prayer, Conservation Pledge and Pledge of Alle-
maps. Everything else is giance. Eleanor Ellis read the minutes from the
a gamble. February meeting. Judi Jarrett gave the treasur-
Felder Rushing is er’s report.
a Mississippi author, The speaker for the meeting was Eddie Haw-
kins, a lieutenant for the Mississippi Bureau of
columnist, and host of the
Narcotics. He gave an informational, educational
“Gestalt Gardener” on
talk on drug issues in Mississippi.
MPB Think Radio. Email
He pointed out that in spite of anti-drug laws,
gardening questions to a recent survey showed the U.S. has the highest
rushingfelder@yahoo.com. level of illegal drug use in the world. He noted
that methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin may
be Americans’ most addictive and destructive
drugs, but marijuana is the most dangerous
illegal drug in our nation. Mississippi leads the
nation in overdoses from the drug known as
spice. He gave time for questions before closing
values, phys-
ical fitness
his program.
Pridmore gave a report from the Columbus
and basic
Garden Club Council. Spring Pilgrimage starts
warfare prin-
ciples and March 28 and the Council made a donation to
the Lee Home for Pilgrimage flowers. There will
skills.
be a reception for Doris Ebner, the new State
Airmen
who com- Garden Club President, in Oxford in April.
plete basic
training also Irvin
There being no further business, the meeting
adjourned and a meal was served.
earn four
credits toward an associate
in applied science degree
through the Community
College of the Air Force.
Irvin is the daughter
of Debra L. and Loran G.
Kanniard of Locust Grove,
Georgia, and wife of Justin Send in your News About Town event.
E. Irvin of Columbus.
She is a 2011 gradu- email: community@cdispatch.com
ate of Ola High School in Subject: NATS
McDonough, Georgia. She
earned an associate de-
gree in 2014 from Gordon
State College in Barnes-
ville, Georgia.
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Theatre MSU ends season with twist on Shakespeare classic

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC pest” is one of Shakespeare’s Matheny said the produc- IF YOU GO: tional and visual delight for
AFFAIRS last written plays. The five-act tion utilizes a wide array of audiences.”
■ WHO: Theatre MSU
drama opens 12 years after visually compelling elements,

T
heatre MSU will offer
a tale of spirits and
sorcery during three
presentations of William
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
April 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. in Mis-
sissippi State’s McComas Hall
main stage theater.
General admission tickets
for the Thursday, Friday and
Saturday night shows are $12
for adults or $7 for students
and can be purchased in
advance at events.msstate.edu
or at the door prior to each
performance.
First performed in 1611,
scholars believe the “The Tem-
Prospero — the rightful Duke
of Milan — is marooned on an
island with his daughter Mi-
randa. The deposed duke must
choose between the desire
for power or the freedom that
comes with compassion.
Under the direction of Tim
Matheny, assistant professor of
theatre in MSU’s Department
of Communication, Theatre
MSU will portray Shake-
speare’s original plot with a
new direction. In a setting
reminiscent of the 1930s Dust
Bowl, the duke Prospero
instead will be depicted as the
duchess Prospera.
from a revolving stage to new
projections and special effects
to deliver the “emotional, visu-
al and often funny story.”
“It’s been over two decades
since Shakespeare has been
produced at Theatre MSU,”
Matheny said. “I am particu-
larly proud that ‘The Tempest’
has a majority student-lead
design team.”
Theatre MSU is the produc-
ing organization of the theatre
concentration in MSU’s De-
partment of Communication. It
is led by Cody Stockstill, assis-
tant professor and coordinator
of theatre.
■ WHAT: “The Tempest”
■ WHEN: Thursday through Satur-
day, April 11-13, 7:30 p.m.
■ WHERE: MSU McComas Hall
■ TICKETS: $12 adults; $7 students
at events.msstate.edu, or at the door
“I’m thrilled that we are pro-
ducing a full Shakespearean
production here at Mississippi
State University,” said Stock-
still, the production’s scenic
and lighting designer. “I think
this is a great opportunity for
our students and community
to experience this masterful
work of theater. As a close to
our 2018-2019 season, ‘The
Tempest’ promises an emo-
For more information on
Theatre MSU, contact Stock-
still at 662-325-3320 or cstock-
still@comm.msstate.edu.
Learn more about MSU’s
Department of Communication
and its Theatre MSU program
online at comm.msstate.edu.
MSU’s College of Arts and
Sciences includes more than
5,300 students, 300 full-time
faculty members, nine doctoral
programs and 25 academic ma-
jors offered in 14 departments.
Complete details about the
College of Arts and Sciences
can be found at cas.msstate.
edu.

Hunt Museum
Continued from Page 1C
■■■ the Old Capitol Museum Allen noted that, while Hunt. It’s a continuing
in Jackson when it was some items would recov- time line.”
Archivist Mona hit by Hurricane Katrina er from the drying pro-
Vance-Ali of the Colum- in 2005. She and other cess better than others, ■■■
bus-Lowndes Public department experts most photos, documents
Library greatly assisted muse- and books appeared to be Following their res-
was also ums on the coast after salvageable. cue, all contents of the
concerned the category 5 hurricane. Webb said, “This Hunt Museum are now
about how “(In Columbus) we felt is the first time we’ve back in the custody of the
the museum it was important for us to been able to reach out to board, stored in a safe
had weath- do what we could to help another institution and facility. The group plans
ered the with figuring out what provide assistance. The to meet soon, but until
storm. the next steps are,” Allen Hunt Museum has been the future of the heavily
“On Mon- Vance-Ali said. a valuable part of Colum- damaged Hunt School is
day after Vance-Ali also enlisted bus’ cultural memory, so known, the collection will
the tornado, I contacted the help of Derek Webb, it was important to every- remain in its boxes.
the representatives from MUW Special Collec- one that that institution “It’s wait and see for
the Hunt Museum and tions librarian and uni- and their holdings be now,” Johnson said. He’s
said, ‘What do you need? versity archivist. Togeth- preserved.” grateful to everyone who
How can we help?’” er, they all met with Hunt Museum board mem- helped protect the mem-
She soon learned the Museum volunteers at ber John Ballard feels the orabilia.
main issues were items the school to assess each same, though he never “With this museum,
already waterlogged, item’s condition, box up attended Hunt and is not we’re trying to preserve
and contents that would the most severely dam- a native of Columbus; he the history of the black
deteriorate with no elec- aged — many of them moved to the city in 1976. community,” he said.
tricity, broken windows, wet framed photographs Yet, he worked along- “Hunt was the mecca
no air control and sig- — and transport them to side the others after for the black communi-
nificant humidity. After the Beulah Culbertson the tornado, making a ty for years and years
consulting with Johnson, Archives and Special photographic record of and years. ... When
Vance-Ali rallied the Collections at The W’s the museum damage. they built Hunt, it gave
cavalry — in the form of Fant Library. He understands the people hope. It served Send in your church event!
help from the Mississippi “Rain was expected connection Hunt alumni as the high school for all Email editorialassistant@cdispatch.com
Department of Archives the next day, so it was a feel toward the school. Lowndes County’s black Subject: Religious brief
and History as well as matter of a race against He graduated from Lani- students at the time. How
The W. the clock at that point,” er High School — “better can you ever forget that?”
Lucy Allen is Museum said Vance-Ali. known as 833” — in
Division director of the “We brought archival Jackson.
Department of Archives boxes to help,” Allen “That’s where my love
and History. said. “We wrote down for doing what I do comes
“I came to Columbus everything that we put from,” he said. “We were
with Nan Prince, who is into a storage box to be one of the last segregat-
director of collections, removed to a better cli- ed classes in Jackson.”
and Laura Heller, who is mate control; there were His experiences helped
collections coordinator about 100 items.” develop his sense of
for the Archives and Re- Vance-Ali and others community, his apprecia-
cords Services Division, from the library archives tion of the importance of
because we were familiar worked with Webb to history, he said.
with disaster recovery, unpack items and reha- “You find community
especially regarding bilitate them as much as wherever you go, and you
artifacts and historic possible, depending on plug into that commu-
papers.” the nature and extent of nity. I found it here. ...
Allen was director of their damage. That’s the thing about

School news

EMCC EARLY REGISTRATION: East Mississippi Community College Business Office

Technology instructor Trina Dendy, at left, assists Ackerman resident Alana Fowler
with an assignment. Fowler, a freshman, signed up for fall classes during early regis-
tration, which is under way for current EMCC students.

Cunningham student of the month
Bradly Cunningham, a carpentry stu-
dent at Lowndes County Career Tech-
nology Center, is being
honored by the Mississip-
pi Construction Education
Foundation as student of
the month for the state’s
north central region.
With sights set on man-
aging his own real estate
company, Cunningham Cunningham
is intentional about using
his construction foundation as a spring-
board and takes on new assignments at
school and in the community to broaden
his experience.
Serving as Student Government
Association vice president at Caledonia
High School, he is a two-year member
of the honor roll, the Principal’s List and
the Superintendent’s List. He also is
active in SkillsUSA, in which he earned
first place regional honors in the job
skills leadership interview division in
2018 and 2019.
Cunningham plans to continue his
education at East Central Community
College.
William Carey scholars
Area students named as President’s
and Dean’s List Scholars for the winter
trimester at William Carey University
include Mikaela Faith Green of Colum-
bus (President’s List) and Lewis Steel
Bateman of Starkville (Dean’s List).
President’s List Scholars have a per-
fect 4.0 GPA. Dean’s List Scholars must
have at least a 3.5 GPA.
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CATFISH IN THE ALLEY
Two Pilgrimage events, Catfish in the Alley and Artisans Alley, drew residents and visitors to down-
town Columbus March 30. Photos by Ledrico Isaac/Special to The Dispatch
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Kevin Young, Deontae Bush Mike Arzamendi, Edwina Williams

Steve, Leanna and Colin Smith, Andy Burns, William Thomas, Margaret McArthur,
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STARKVILLE
PRIDE
The Starkville Pride
Parade was held
March 30 in downtown
Starkville. Photos by
Austin Frayser/Special
to The Dispatch

Tori Mullins, Ashli Butler, Elizabeth Haslob, Brandon Lee Hope Denman, Jason Smith, Russell Poole

Richard Potts, Adam Chavez Pittman, Whitney Coleman Nora Stricklin, Jay Yates
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charges owed to it by award the bid as a CLEANING SERVICE ance and Retirement 210 hrs. $36,500.
the following tenants: whole or by individual 1 Room - $40 GET 'ER DONE! Benefits. Must have 205-329-1790.
line item. 2 Rooms - $70 We can grind all your Property and Casualty
Raven Dent 3+ Rooms - $30 Each stumps. Hard to reach License to apply. Please General Merchandise 4600
A22 East Mississippi Com- Rugs - Must Be Seen places, blown over forward resume to
$384.55 munity College is com- Car Upholstery SERVICE TECHNICIAN BLACK BEDROOM set,
roots, hillsides, back- ccruse@swoopeins.com for local pest control
mitted to assuring that Cleaning Available yards, pastures. Free incl full sz sleigh bed,
Bernice Spencer the College and its pro- 662-722-1758 company. Applicant dresser w/ mirror, chest
estimates. You find it, must be organized, de-
A51 grams are free from dis- we'll grind it! & night stand, $700.
crimination and harass- HOME MAKEOVER & The Mississippi School pendable, work well with
$182.05 662-361-8379 for Mathematics and New full sz mattress,
ment based upon race, ESTATE CLOSEOUT the public, and have still in plastic, $275.
color, ethnicity, sex, SERVICES. Generate Science (MSMS) is good driving record with
Thomas Bailey Bissell carpet cleaner,
B35 pregnancy, religion, na- cash from the sale of Tree Services 1860 accepting applications valid driver's license. $80. Two sets of black
tional origin, disability, unwanted items. I will for faculty positions in Drug test required.
$163.55 A&T Tree Service English and Mathemat- Apply at 107 Gardner Toyota Camry floormats,
age, sexual orientation, help organize & coordin- $80. Cash Only. 662-
Bucket truck & stump ics for the 2019-2020 Blvd. No phone calls.
Catherine Latham gender identity, genetic ate the removal of un- removal. Free est. school year. MSMS is a 242-2884. Leave a
B38 information, status as a wanted furniture & clut- Serving Columbus state-wide, public, resid- message.
$189.85 U.S. veteran, or any oth- ter from homes. Creat- since 1987. Senior ential high school for
er status protected by ive makeover solutions Business Opportunity 6050
citizen disc. Call Alvin @ academically gifted and Medical / Dental 3300
NOW, THEREFORE, no- state or federal law. The from professional interi- 242-0324/241-4447 talented 11th and 12th
tice is hereby given that following person has or designer included for HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
free! Contact: Weslyn "We'll go out on a limb grade students located DENTAL OFFICE- Look-
The Grove Mini Ware- been designated to for you!" on the campus of Mis- ing for a full time, exper- Columbus: 411 Main
houses liquidation sale handle inquiries regard- Wood 214-674-9514 sissippi University for ienced Dental Assistant St. Office, Retail, Res-
will take place at 510 ing the non-discrimina- VICKERS TREE Women in Columbus, for a Columbus prac- taurant Space available.
Lehmberg Road, Colum- tion policies: Theresa SERVICE, LLC MS. Job descriptions tice. If you are a team Call 423-333-1124.
bus, MS 39702 on April Harpole, Director of Hu- Tree trimming and re- and the Employment player and have a de-
6, 2019 at 10:30 A.M. man Resources, P.O. moval. Fully insured. Application are avail- sire to strive for excel- Apts For Rent: Northside 7010
Box 158, Scooba, MS Free estimates. able at http://www.the lence we have a place
PUBLISH: 3/24, 3/31, 39358, Telephone: FOX RUN COMPANY LLC
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& 4/7/2019 (662)-476-5274, E-mail: & Debit Cards* opportunities/. For addi- ledgeable in all aspects
tharpole@eastms.edu. Call me! Licensed w/ of chair – side dentistry $595-645/mo. Military
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NOTICE OF STORAGE or 662-549-2902 tact: Amber Lynn Moore and have experience
CONTENTS SALE Publication Dates: April Call or text Joe Seals, “A cut above the rest” at amoore@themsms with digital x-rays and area, pet friendly, and
7, 2019 and April 14, 662-549-7167. furnished corporate
.org or 662-329-7674. dental software applica-
THE FOLLOWING INDI- 2019 The Mississippi School tions. Please forward apartments available.
Good Things To Eat 2150 ON SITE SECURITY.
VIDUAL IS IN DEFAULT
OF PAYMENT ON THEIR Building & Remodeling 1120 PAINTING/CARPENTRY
for Mathematics and your resume to:
Science is an Equal Op- healthylifestyle496@gm ON SITE MAINTENANCE. Classified ads are a great form of
30 years experience. TOMATO HOUSE ON SITE MANAGEMENT.
STORAGE UNIT AT MC-
CONNELL BROTHERS HOME REPAIRS & Great prices. Call Vine-ripened hydroponic
portunity Employer. ail.com.
24-HOUR CAMERA person-to-person advertising.
Leslie, 662-570-5490. tomato. Located next to SURVEILLANCE.
TRANSFER & STORAGE, CONSTRUCTION WORK Noxubee County High General Help Wanted 3200
2406 HWY 69 SOUTH, WANTED. Carpentry, Benji @ 662-386-4446
School. 662-352-1270 Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm.
COLUMBUS, MS small concrete jobs, RETAINER WALL, drive- 662-425-9116
39702. THE CONTENTS electrical, plumbing, way, foundation, con- Sat/Sun by appt only.
OF THIS UNIT WILL BE roof repairs, pressure crete, masonry restora-
AUCTIONED ON washing and mobile tion, remodeling, base-
General Help Wanted 3200 Houses For Sale: Other 8500
4/25/19 AT 10:00 A.M. home roof coating and ment foundation, re-
underpinning. No job ADVANCED COLLISION
pairs, small dump truck REPAIR is looking for an
Bobby Dismuke too small. 549-7031. hauling (5-6 yd) load & entry level employee
– Unit 34 demolition/lot cleaning. whose duties will in-
Suggs Construction Co. Burr Masonry
clude: shop cleanliness
PUBLISH: 4/7, 4/10, & Building, remodeling, 662-242-0259.
roofing, & home repair. & car detailing after
4/14/2019
Licensed & Bonded. repair. Valid driver's
662-242-3471 WORK WANTED: license req. Experience
Advertisement for Re-
verse Auction 662-574-8470 Licensed & Bonded-car- preferred. Apply in
pentry, painting, & de- person at 825 Hwy 12
Tom Hatcher, LLC molition. Landscaping, W in Starkville.
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munity College Board of Custom Construction, gutters cleaned, bush
Trustees is receiving un- Restoration, Remodel- hogging, clean-up work, Agricultural Tractor
priced solicitations for ing, Repair, Insurance pressure washing, mov-
claims. 662-364-1769. ing help & furniture Operator job opening, to
the following: Mechat- work on Tenn-Tom Wa-
ronics Technology - In- Licensed & Bonded repair. 662-242-3608
terway Project, Colum-
strumentation Items RAY'S WOOD WORKS bus, MS. Must have val-
Lawn Care / Landscaping id Class- A CDL, with
Solicitations will be re- 1470 good driving record and
ceived until 10:00 a.m. pass pre-employment
on Friday, April 26, FOR YOUR Spring & drug screen. EOE
2019, at the Adminis- Apply in person or Send
tration Office, Student Multiple Home Repairs Summer lawn care
Sheetrock, Flooring, needs, call Robinson Resume’: R & D Main-
Union Building, P.O. Box Lawn Service, 662-435- tenance Services
100, Mayhew, MS Trim, Painting, Tile,
Kitchen/Bath 8746. 3600 W. Plymouth Road
39753 (Attn: Dana Mor- Columbus, MS 39701
decai) or by electronic Decks- Dock Repair
submission at Pressure Washing JESSE & BEVERLY'S
662-634-1114 Carpenter/Millwright
www.centralauction- LAWN SERVICE. Opening. Must have ex-
house.com. Submis- Mowing, cleanup, land- perience in general car-
sions will be evaluated, Childcare 1180 scaping, sodding, & tree pentry & concrete. Will
and vendors submitting cutting. 356-6525. work on Tenn-Tom Wa-
acceptable proposals CHILDCARE SERVICES terway Project, based in
will be invited to parti- Look No Further!! Qual- Columbus, MS. Must
cipate in the Electronic ity Childcare Services TERRA CARE
Landscaping L.L.C. have valid, clean
Reverse Auction to be Are Available For The driver’s license and
held on Wednesday, Golden Triangle Area!! Phone: 662-549-1878
Landscaping, Property pass pre-employment
May 1, 2019, at Call 662.343.8386 or drug screen. EOE
www.centralauction- 662.813.3672. Clean Up, Plant Care,
Bush Hogging, Apply in person or Send
house.com. Serious Inquiries Only, Resume’ to: R & D
Please!! Herbicide Spraying
Maintenance Services
Information about the 3600 W. Plymouth Road
specific items in the re- General Services 1360 Moving & Storage 1590 Columbus, MS 39701
verse auction may be
obtained by contacting HILL'S PRESSURE MOVING??? I can help Housekeeper &
Jason Throop at (662) WASHING. Commercial/ pack, organize and/or Groundskeeper wanted,
243-1916, jthroop@ residential. House, con- coordinate your move. punctuality & attention
eastms.edu or Ken Dyer crete, sidewalks & mo- Includes help selling un- to detail a must.
at (662) 243-2690, bile washing. Free est. wanted items. Weslyn 662-570-1758 or
kdyer@eastms.edu. This Call 662-386-8925 Wood 214-674-9514. 662-352-4460.
information will also be
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Apts For Rent: West 7050 Apts For Rent: Other 7080 Apts For Rent: Other 7080 Commercial Property For Houses For Rent: Other 7180
Rent 7100

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2BR/1BA located in 1 ROOM/1BA, Utilities
Historic Downtown FOR RENT located near Included. $400/mo.

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Hardwood floors truck terminal, 9,500 req. Contact/leave a
throughout. Open floor. sq. ft. shop & 3,200 sq. message for more info:
Apartments Very nice. Incl W&D. ft. office/shop. Build- 662-328-8655.
$1200/mo. Call
& Houses 662-328-8655.
ings can be rented to-
gether or separately. Hunting Land 7200
1 Bedrooms All w/ excellent access
LOOKING FOR hunting
& Hwy. 82 visibility.
2 Bedroooms 2BR/2BA. Cotton Dis-
trict in Starkville. Call 662-327-9559. land. GTA area in Mis-
3 Bedrooms 662-617-3356. sissippi. 662-386-6024.
Take down
OFFICE SPACE for
Furnished & FIRST FULL MONTH lease. 1112 Main St., Mobile Homes for Rent 7250
that “for rent”
Ste. 5. 3700 sq. ft.
Unfurnished RENT FREE! 1 & 2 Bed-
room Apts/Townhomes. Plenty of private park- 123 BECK Dr. 14 x 64.

1, 2, & 3 Baths Stove & refrigerator. ing. 662-327-9559. 2BR/1BA. $450/mo.

$450/dep. Includes
sign and get
$335-$600 Monthly.
Lease, Deposit Credit check & deposit. OFFICE SPACE: 2,000 garbage. No pets. No
HUD. 662-574-7614. fast results
& Credit Check Coleman Realty, square feet. 294
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HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
$500/mo & $500 dep.
No pets, no drugs, no classified ad.
partying. Call between
Sell idle items Columbus Office, Retail,
10a-7p. 662-386-4292.
Apts For Rent: Other 7080 with a quick action
Restaurant Space avail-
able. Call 662-328-
NO TEXT MESSAGES. Call today
1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-
ments & townhouses.
classified ad. COLEMAN 8655 or 662-574-7879.
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City schools. NO PETS.
$535/mo + $535 dep. your ad. Sudoku is a number-
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404 Main St. 3,000
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ALL BRICK 3BR/2BA locations. 662-242-
AND house for rent. Big yard. 7653 or 601-940-1397. ville. Will need cleared. so that each
column row, each
and each 3x3 box 4 3 9 6 8 5 7 2 1
818 N. Jackson St. Lot column and each
same3x3 box
Carport. W/D hookup.
CREDIT CHECK Nice neighborhood. Houses For Sale: Caledonia 5, City Block 97. 662- contains the
contains the same number
number 8 4 2 3 1 7 6 9 5
$780 per month. 70 W 465-7611, 662-418- only once. The difficulty
Thomas Dr. 3 min from 8450 9096 or 662-418-4176. only once. The difficulty 6 5 1 8 4 9 2 7 3
662-329-2323 CAFB. 504-813-1200.
NEW 3BR/2BA for sale.
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Rent 7100 Houses For Rent: Caledonia Across from water with
7160 access to Tenn-Tom Autos For Sale 9150
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with 2 acres & large 2015 CHEVY Impala.
TIES/RETAIL/OFFICE 2BR/1BA. Caledonia
Black, 4dr, 6cyl, 82k
Spaces starting @ area. 1 yr. lease. $650 screened in room.
mi, showroom clean,
$285/mo. Downtown & rent. plus dep. No pets. $212,000
East Columbus loca- Call: 662-245-4273 or local owner, $11,200.
No smoking. 662-574-
tions. 662-435-4188. See @ 59 Amanda Dr.
0227 or 662-356-4958. 662-889-1228
in New Hope Park Sub-
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Rd. E. 662-327-3081.

Campers & RVs 9300

TOMBIGBEE RV Park,
located on Wilkins Wise
Rd & Waverly Rd. Full
Hookups available.
$300/mo. 662-328-
8655 or 662-574-7879.

Five Questions:

1 Dollar

2 “Prepare to
die.” — From
Houses For Sale: Other 8500

“The Princess
Bride.”

3 Madison,
Monroe, Polk,
Buchanan,
Garfield,
Carter

4 “Les
Misérables”

5 Carpenter’s
pencil
Autos For Sale 9150

ACROSS
1 Tussle
6 Heroic tales
11 Most writing
12 Met work
13 Violinist’s need
14 Belief
15 Opens, as a
bottle
17 Words before
tear or dare
18 Corp. VIP
19 Footstool
22 Jargon ending
23 Dunne and Cara
24 Plain silly
25 Dress fancily
27 Hole number
30 “Guernica” 3 Gangster’s gun 25 Angry rant
painter 4 China setting 26 Maine park
31 Bordeaux buddy 5 Ink sources 27 Meat pie
32 Pitcher’s stat 6 Toper 28 One-celled
33 Squelches 7 Clumsy guy organism
35 Arm bones 8 Modern mapping 29 Freed of suds
Even if you Houses For Sale: Other 8500
38 Staff symbols target 30 Danger
don’t get out much 39 Blockhead 9 Bowls 34 Rent
40 Native group
these days, you can 41 Inclines
10 “Paradise Lost” 36 Charged bit
figure 37 “— your loss!”
still “go shopping” in the 42 Golf’s Sam 16 The Waltz King
Classifieds. You can find 20 Score for a Z in
exactly what you’ve DOWN Scrabble
1 Christmas tree, 21 Individual
been looking for. often 24 S&L offering
2 Witches
Find someone to mow the lawn
•
Find someone to clean the house
•
Find that special recliner
•
Buy a computer system
•
Buy a used car
•
Buy that rare coin
for your collection
. . . and lots more

The CommerCial
DispaTCh
516 Main St.
Columbus, MS 39701

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“There is Liberty”
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Proudly serving our community
for over 30 years
2500 Military Road Suite 1
Columbus, MS
662-328-7500 WEST REALTY COMPANY
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Don West, Broker/Owner
Northeast Exterminating
If it Jimmy Linley • Richard Linley
crawls, Columbus
call... 662-329-9992
BRISLIN, INC.
Sales • Service • Installation
Residential • Commercial • Industrial
Since 1956
www.brislininc.com
4051 Military Road • 662-328-5814
INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, INC
www.hydrovaconline.com
Jarrett’s Towing
Wrecker Service
5209 N. Hwy 182 E. • Columbus, MS 39702
329-2447
If no answer 251-2448
R Free Estimates
LER OO
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& Insured
W H INC. G Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
COMMERCIAL
“A Family Business Since 1946”
662-328-3625 • 662-328-7612
Rae’s Jewelry
Authorized Dealer
Citizens and Pulsar Watches
Downtown Columbus 662-328-8824
When Caring Counts...
FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY
1131 Lehmberg Rd., Columbus • 662-328-1808
Shelton Cleaners
3189 Hwy 45 N. • 328-5421
1702 6th St. N. • 328-5361
APAC-MISSISSIPPI, INC.
Michael Bogue & Employees
Lake Norris Rd. 328-6555
Telephone: 662-327-1467
P.O. Box 1278 • 1616 7th Ave. S., Columbus, MS 39703
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., 662-
664-0852
THE ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
6:30 p.m. (something for all ages). Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff
Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Kids for Christ 5 p.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children,
and Youth classes 7 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-
0541. Brad Creely, Minister of Music and Youth, 662-312-
8749. www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m.
LLC
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Bible Study 4
p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Bob
Burch, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir
rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon,
Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
(6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil
Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School
8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
We unlock Pastor. 662-328-5915
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher
cars
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
RESIDENTIAL Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave.
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday
5 p.m. Worship at 3000 Bluecutt Road, Midweek Prayer
Service Wednesday 6:00 p.m. located downtown. Dr.
Shawn Parker, Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd.,
Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave.
S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-
328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278
East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev.
John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA
4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m.,
Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s
Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street,
Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Pastor Larry W.
Yarber, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy
Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.,
Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark,
Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee
Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st,
3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-
2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday
Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for
all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday
Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge,
Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and
Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR M.B. CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High
Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy
Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy.
12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin
Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible
Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east
of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship
10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop
off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Shelby Hazzard, Senior Pastor. Brad Wright, Director of
Student Ministries.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118
7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel
Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson
Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O.
Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny
Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons
Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church
Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Baptist
Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION M.B. CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville Ferry
Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every
Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells, Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport, Ala.
Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor
Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week except 5th
Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday,
5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A.
Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope
Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before
1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed.
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before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed.
before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203
Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7 p.m.
Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A.
Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin
Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st &
3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor.
662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N.
Sunday Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 10:45
a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
St. James MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
St. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie
Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple
Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev.
John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 325
Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy.
12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford,
Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower
Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road,
Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School
9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6
p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday
10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph
Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College
St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m.
& 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m.,
Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation
Catholic School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey
Waldrep, Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Jerry
Mitchell, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah Johnson
662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible
class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S. Morning
Worship (3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Morning Worship 11:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060 Bishop Timothy
L. Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Lendy Bartlett, Minister of Community Outreach; Paul
Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister of
Discipleship.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway
182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://
eastcolumbuschurch.com
HWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons
Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor. 662-769-
5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900 North
Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship 10:00
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro. Arthur
Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: nhill crestcoc@
gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd.
9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave.
N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible
Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Willie
McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn
Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m., Worship
6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan, Minister.
CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday
10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday
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LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess
Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
Bible Class 10:15 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m. and
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor.
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy
Williams, Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917
15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m.,
Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School
8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship
Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study
6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221.
Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12
p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-
2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest
Father Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col.
Steven Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Anne Harris. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524
6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-
Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30
p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Fairview Full Gospel BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446
Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-
328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7
p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL
FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill,
Pastor. 662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426
Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120
19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m.,
2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Charity Gordon, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd.
E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.,
Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL C.M.E. CHURCH — Steens.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m.
Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m., Vespers &
Communion 4 p.m. (beginning Nov. 4) Rev. Jimmy Criddle,
Lead Pastor. Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate Pastor.
Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
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Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Charity Gordon, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON C.M.E. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens.
Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m..
Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study
6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East,
Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service
first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor,
Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor. 662-329-3555
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102
Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday
School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni.
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service
9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722
Military Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/
Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible
Study Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11
a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800
Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Ron McDougald,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Rickey C. Green, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH,
INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45
p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T.
Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on
Fridays only.
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor.
662-327-4303
EL BETHEL — 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Wes
Andrews, Pastor. 662-855-5006
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer
Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III.
601-345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren
Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West
Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School,
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School
10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday
7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more
information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118,
Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette
Williams 662-327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193
Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School
10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-
1960
LIFE CHURCH — 419 Wilkins Wise Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson.
Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S.
Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every
2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m. www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 312 N. Lehmberg Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines, Planter and Pastor. 662-570-
1856
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m.
Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119
7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards,
Pastors.
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
— 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 Since 1960
a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor
Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
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UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES 1024 Gardner Blvd.
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8:30 a.m. -10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
328-8277
Rone F. Burgin, Sr., Pastor/Founder. 662-328-0948
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 9 a.m.,
10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Grove Coffee Cafe 8 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. The Grove 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided
through age 3. Jason Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-
3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th
Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE —
1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources.
Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones,
Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes
Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504
19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and
7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy
Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m.
Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES —
118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday
7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St.
N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.
Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 548 Hwy. 45 North
Frontage Rd. (1/4 mile past the CAFB entrance on the
right) Sunday Bible Class 10:15 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. G. E. Wiggins, Sr., Pastor.
662-251-2432 1721 Hwy 45 N
UNITED PENTECOSTAL
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850
® Columbus, MS
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., 662.848.0919
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202 Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
PRESBYTERIAN
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
Offering independent living apartments, personal
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community.
care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615
300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Hunting • Fishing
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
John Richards, Pastor. Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Oktibbeha County Co-Op
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.), 662-323-1742
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays
6 p.m. Rev. Wayne Bruchey, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m.,
Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray The McBryde Family
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N. 1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-
327-9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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