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LCSD narrows superintendent search to seven names
Board mum on whether finalists’ names will be released publicly
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com
The Lowndes County School
District Board of Trustees nar-
rowed the list of candidates for
the district’s superintendent
of schools to seven during Fri-
day’s regular board meeting,
but offered little information on
the move.
On Sept. 30, the Mississip-
pi School Board Association,
which is conducting the search
Columbus High School drum major Evan Ivy leads the band in its halftime performance Friday night at Columbus High
School. The next home football game will be next Friday. SEE COVERAGE FROM THE GAME ON PAGE 2B.
Highway 12 pedestrians say
sidewalk project will increase safety
Starkville planning
first three of 14
projects to fill gaps
along highway
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The
stretch of Highway 12 out-
side the Green Oaks neigh-
borhood did not have a side-
walk when Timiko Rieves
came to Starkville to visit
relatives in the mid-1980s.
When he moved to the
same neighborhood from
Chicago a couple of years
ago, he wondered why the
city still hadn’t put in a side-
walk, he said, given people
walk every day along the
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for superintendent, provided a
list of 15 candidates who met
the minimum requirements.
Friday, the board met in ex-
ecutive session for 45 minutes
following its regular meeting,
during which it eliminated
eight of the candidates.
Board president Robert
Barksdale declined to provide
the names of the seven candi-
dates who are still being con-
sidered for the job.
“Right now, our attorney
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
A strip of sidewalk ends abruptly in front of Chick-fil-A at the in-
tersection of Highway 12 East and Spring Street. The city will
being construction in about a month to extend the sidewalk by
112 feet, one of three such projects along the highway.
side of the highway next to dead grass along Highway
the westbound lane. 12 between the Twin Oaks
Rieves is one of many lo- apartment complex and the
cal residents who walk dai- Maple Drive entrance to the
ly on the well-worn strip of Green Oaks neighborhood.
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says not to release the names,”
Barksdale said. “Also, in
talking with the school board
association, they told us that a
lot of this stuff is personal be-
cause (the candidates) have
other jobs.”
Barksdale said the board
will not begin interviewing
the remaining candidates un-
til early November. After the
interviews, which he estimat-
ed would take “two or three
weeks,” the board will narrow
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Calendar
Today
■ Oktoberfest for the Arts:
This benefit for the Columbus
Arts Council from 1-5 p.m. is
hosted at Zachary’s, 205 Fifth
St. N., downtown Columbus.
$10 cash donation. Enjoy Ger-
man foods, art and beverages,
plus live music at this event in
tribute to Beverly Norris.
■ “It’s a Classic!”: The
Starkville/MSU Symphony
Orchestra presents a free
concert at 2 p.m. at Missis-
sippi University for Women’s
Rent Auditorium in Whitfield
Hall. The program features
Mozart, Haydn and the work of
guest soprano Susan Hurley
and guest composer Joe
Alexander.
Barksdale Wright
the field again to an unspeci-
fied number of finalists.
Barksdale also said he was
unsure if the names of the fi-
nalists would then be released
to the public, saying he need-
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
Online
n MAP: View an interactive map
of Starkville’s Highway 12 side-
walk addition plan at https://bit.
ly/2AMzAuo.
“Some people choose to
walk in the bike lane, but
still, that’s not safe,” Rieves
said.
The city will address the
issue in about a month by in-
stalling a sidewalk between
Taylor Street and the Avenue
of Patriots and in two other
frequently walked sections
of Highway 12, with the goal
of making the road safer for
pedestrians, city engineer
Edward Kemp said.
“We’re providing a safe
connection for them to do
that, as opposed to them
See Sidewalks, 8A
Local Folks
Dawn Brock is from Caledonia. She has
worked at Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary for
three years and now serves as its gen-
eral manager. Of all the animals, Brock
says there is a cat in the senior cat
house she would take home if she could.
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ed to check with the board’s
attorney, Jeff Smith, before
answering. Asked if he would
check with Smith and provide
an answer, Barksdale again de-
murred.
“I’d really like to talk to our
attorney and the board about
this at the same time, probably
at our regular meeting on Nov.
1,” Barksdale said.
Other board members de-
ferred all questions about
the superintendent search to
Barksdale. Smith did not re-
See LCSD, 8A
EMCC
president links
financial woes
to drops in
enrollment
Alsobrooks hopes
to attract students by
bolstering career-tech
offerings at Scooba
By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com
If all 15 commu-
nity colleges in Mis-
sissippi were offered
as a public company
on the open stock
market, no one would
want to invest.
East Mississippi
Alsobrooks
Community College
President Scott Alsobrooks, citing
a private firm’s recent economic
study that looked at audits for 13 of
the 15 colleges, shared that finding
Friday with media members gath-
ered at Lion Hills Center. His frank-
ness seemed to betray the goal of
buoying up the community college
outlook during his State of EMCC
presentation, but looking at the
numbers in the handouts he provid-
ed, it’s hard to argue his point.
Enrollment is declining, mean-
ing less tuition revenue. State fund-
ing is consistently dropping, mak-
ing the task of balancing the bottom
line without cutting services more
difficult.
“Many (community) colleges in
the United States are experienc-
ing a similar dilemma as us,” Also-
brooks said. “We’re having to adjust
and make some changes.”
At EMCC, enrollment and fund-
ing are becoming particularly
alarming.
The college’s operating fund
balance has dropped by $10 million
over the past decade, with the ap-
proved 2019-20 budget projecting
nearly $1.9 million more in deficit
spending. EMCC is relying on its
more than $12 million in reserve
funds to shoulder the deficit.
This year’s deficit was based
on an enrollment dip of 3 to 4 per-
cent, Alsobrooks said. But for the
See Alsobrooks, 8A
Public
meetings
Oct. 7:
Lowndes
County
Supervisors, 9
a.m., County
Courthouse
Oct. 15:
Lowndes
County
Supervisors, 9
a.m., County
Courthouse
Oct. 15:
Columbus City
Council regular
meeting, 5
p.m., Municipal
Complex
Courtroom
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Sunday
Did you hear? Say What?
“I do feel like we are, as Christians, the first line
Diahann Carroll, Oscar-nominated, of defense for the president.”
Christina Jones, 44, before Rev. Franklin Graham’s Decision
pioneering actress, dies at 84 America tour in Greenville, North Carolina. Story, 7A.

‘Diahann Carroll with every footstep. An

icon. One of the all-time
walked this earth greats,” director Ava Du- Ask Rufus
Vernay wrote on Twitter.
for 84 years and
broke ground with
every footstep’
“She blazed trails through
dense forests and elegant-
ly left diamonds along the
path for the rest of us to
Outline of Early Columbus History
A
follow. Extraordinary life.
s
Director Ava DuVernay Thank you, Ms. Carroll.”
we
Although she was not
By NEKESA ap-
the first black woman to
MUMBI MOODY proach the
star in her own TV show
AP Entertainment Writer upcoming
(Ethel Waters played a
bicenten-
maid in the 1950s series
NEW YORK — Diahann nial of the
“Beulah”), she was the first official
Carroll, the Oscar-nomi-
to star as someone other recogni-
nated actress and singer than a servant.
who won critical acclaim tion of the
NBC executives were Town of
as the first black woman to wary about putting “Julia”
star in a non-servant role in Colum-
on the network during the bus on
a TV series as “Julia,” has racial unrest of the 1960s, Rufus Ward
died. She was 84. December
but it was an immediate 6, 1819,
Carroll’s daughter, Su- hit.
san Kay, told The Associat- I realized that a revised timeline
It had its critics, though, of early Columbus history would
ed Press her mother died including some who said
Friday in Los Angeles of be in order. My first Ask Rufus
Carroll’s character, who column appeared in The Dispatch
cancer. is the mother of a young
During her long career, in February of 2010. Since then,
son, was not a realistic por- about every three years, I have
Carroll earned a Tony trayal of a black American
Award for the musical “No published a timeline of Columbus
woman in the 1960s. history.
Strings” and an Academy “They said it was a fan- The more I dig into sources
Award nomination for best tasy,” Carroll recalled in ranging from 200-year-old news-
actress for “Claudine.” 1998. “All of this was un- papers to Alabama legislative acts,
But she was perhaps true. Much about the char- the clearer the picture of Colum-
best known for her pio- acter of Julia I took from bus’ founding becomes. Carolyn
neering work on “Julia.” my own life, my family.” Kaye and Gary Lancaster also
Carroll played Julia Baker, Not shy when it came research the town’s history and
a nurse whose husband to confronting racial barri- often provide me with even more
had been killed in Viet- ers, Carroll won her Tony information.
nam, in the groundbreak- portraying a high-fashion Sometimes the facts are confus-
ing situation comedy that American model in Paris ing. For example, between 1819
aired from 1968 to 1971. who has a love affair with and 1822 three places in Alabama
“Diahann Carroll a white American author in called themselves Columbus,
walked this earth for 84 the 1959 Richard Rodgers though only present-day Colum-
years and broke ground musical “No Strings.” bus, Mississippi, was ever recog- Courtesy image/Drawn by the late Sam Kaye
nized as a town by the Alabama A reconstruction of the 1821 plat of Columbus which shows pre-1821
Legislature. All that being said, roads with known and possible building locations 1819-1822.
CONTACTING THE DISPATCH here is an timeline of the early his- on the Tombigbee, near present and bursted in telling us the news
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village of Chicaca which was point during the Creek Indian War road’s Tombigbee Ferry became a
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first known pork barbecue in what lyn’s in March for the transporta- log house was built on the Tombig-
is now Mississippi. tion of government supplies is the bee bluff just north of the present
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American Queen adding boat

to Mississippi River cruises
The Countess joins the American
Queen and American Duchess in the
New Orleans to Memphis cruises
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. —
The American Countess is
set to join the American
Queen Steamboat Co.’s
fleet in April.
The company offers
Mississippi River cruises
that call on New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and St. Fran-
cisville.
The Advocate reports
the Countess will accom-
modate 260 passengers
and have about 100 crew
members.
American Queen
Steamboat’s vice president
of marine operations, Gary
Frommelt, announced
the addition Tuesday at a
travel and tourism forum
sponsored by Visit Baton
Rouge. The Countess joins
the American Queen and
American Duchess in the
New Orleans to Memphis
cruises.
The Countess was built
in Houma by a subsidiary
of Gulf Island Fabrica-
tion. The cruise ship was
built using the hull of the
Kanesville Queen, a gam-
bling boat that was built in
1995.
Frommelt says about 20
percent of its passengers
are international visitors.

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Ole Miss names chancellor Mississippi’s

despite protest ending ceremony voter registration
Glenn Boyce, Mississippi’s former higher education
commissioner, is supposed to take helm by Oct. 13
By JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
Mississippi’s for-
mer higher educa-
tion commissioner
was named the next
chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Mississippi
on Friday in a choice
that was made public
via a news release Boyce
after an announcement ceremony
was thwarted by student protesters’
cries of “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
Glenn Boyce’s appointment
was supposed to be revealed at an
on-campus hotel ballroom in Ox-
ford, but protesters outraged over a
lack of campus input refused to be
silent. After police wrestled student
protester Cam Calisch out of the
room, the university’s police chief
said the event was canceled.
Less than an hour later, College
Board trustees sent out a news re-
lease announcing they had voted
unanimously to appoint Boyce.
Boyce was earlier hired by the
university’s private foundation to
meet with influential individuals
about the search, telling reporters
Friday on a conference call that he
was paid about $87,000. Boyce de-
nied then he was seeking the job.
He said Friday he wanted to let the
search play out, but trustee Ford
Dye said Boyce’s name repeatedly
surfaced.
“I didn’t hire myself. The board
of trustees hired me,” said Boyce,
who told reporters he would consid-
er returning the money, although
he said he’d done “nothing untow-
ard.”
He told The Associated Press
he’s motivated by a desire to serve
a university that attracted him sight
unseen to Mississippi in 1978 from
his native New York state. Boyce
earned a bachelor’s and doctoral
degree from Ole Miss.
“I credit this university with giv-
ing me the leadership skills and
knowledge that I needed as I ad-
vanced throughout my career.” said
Boyce, who is supposed to start by
Oct. 13. No salary was released.
The 61-year-old deferred ques-
tions about the selection process
to trustees, but acknowledged divi-
sions.
“I’m going to work to unify the
Ole Miss community,” he said.
It’s the second major Southern
deadline is Monday
university in recent months where
a leadership selection was marred
by protests. Trustees at the Univer-
sity of South Carolina in July named
retired Army general Bob Caslen as
president, even after students and
Registration forms that are mailed
professors protested Caslen’s lack
of a doctoral degree or research
must be postmarked by Monday
university experience. The Associated Press
Boyce served as president of
central Mississippi’s Holmes Com- JACKSON — Mississippi residents who want to
help choose a governor are facing a voter registra-
munity College from 2005 to 2014,
tion deadline.
earlier serving as assistant superin-
The secretary of state’s office says Monday is
tendent and principal in the Rankin
the last day people can register in person.
County school district in suburban
Circuit clerks’ offices will be open until 5 p.m.
Jackson. He was hired to be associ-
Monday.
ate higher education commissioner
Registration forms that are mailed must be post-
in 2014, but ended up as commis-
marked by Monday.
sioner less than a year later when
The general election is Nov. 5.
trustees’ first choice backed out.
In addition to governor, the ballot will have seven
Trustees voted in closed session
other statewide offices. It will also have two region-
to name Boyce on Thursday, after
al offices — transportation commissioner and pub-
interviewing a number of candi- lic service commissioner. And, it will have several
dates. However, campus groups had county offices, including supervisor and sheriff.
expected a second round of inter-
views, with some consultation, fol-
lowed by a finalist visiting campus
to meet with students, faculty, staff
and alumni before trustees voted.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dye, who led the selection pro-
cess, told reporters that trustees
moved quickly because “there’s a
lot of division in the Ole Miss fam- This is a paid political advertisement which
ily right now. We wanted to get Dr. is intended as a public service for the voters
Boyce on campus to unify the Ole of Mississippi. It has been submitted to and
Miss family.”
approved by each candidate listed below or by
the candidate’s campaign manager. This listing is
not intended to suggest or imply that these are the
only candidates for these offices.

Columbus woman arrested on racketeering charge LOWNDES COUNTY

ChaNCErY CLErk SUpErviSOr
Suspect allegedly created fake A nderson’s
arrest is
is accused of creating the
fake checks. DiSTriCT 3
Cindy
checks for others to cash part of an
invest iga -
When Anderson was
not at home when depu-
Egger
Goode Tim
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT des County Sheriff’s Of- tion into ties executed the warrant
a check on Sept. 12, deputies re- (R) Heard
fice arrested Cameyer (D)
A Columbus woman Anderson, 37, on Wednes- scheme leased her name and pho-
was arrested for racke- involv ing tograph to the public ask-
teering last week after
day, almost three weeks
s u s p e c t s Anderson ing for help locating her.
TaX aSSESSOr/COLLECTOr
allegedly creating fake after executing a search printing and cashing Anderson has been John
checks for other people in warrant at her 20th Street checks under real compa- released from Lowndes
South home, according to Greg Holliman
Lowndes County to cash. ny names with phony ac- County Adult Detention
Deputies with Lown- an LCSO press release. count numbers. Anderson Center on bond. Andrews (R)*
(D)*
CONSTabLE
COUNTY aTTOrNEY DiSTriCT 1
Area arrests
The following arrests William Jake
were made by Lowndes Starks Humbers
County Sheriff’s Office: (D) (D)
n James Prestridge,
45, was charged with flee-
ing or eluding in a motor
vehicle. Steve Chris
n Jeffery Banks, 47, Wallace Griffin
was charged with embez- Prestridge Banks Slayton Cullum Barker Tedford (R) (R)
zlement.
n Edward Slayton, 66,
was charged with 3rd of-
fense DUI, no insurance,
General Election November 5
improper equipment, seat-
belt violation and suspend- OkTibbEha COUNTY
ed driver’s license.
n Cari Cullum, 34, was SUpErviSOr SUpErviSOr
charged with attempt to Easley Brooks Jackson Davis Jones Womack
commit an offense. The following arrests
DiSTriCT 3 DiSTriCT 4
n Cardios Barker, 39, were made by the Oktib-
was charged with posses- beha County Sheriff’s Of- Marvell Daniel
sion of a weapon by a felon, fice: Howard Jackson
disorderly conduct, dis- n Daniel Easley, 40, (D)* (D)
obeying a police officer,
was charged with a circuit
no insurance, suspended
court order.
driver’s license, seatbelt
violation, improper equip-
n Nicholas Brooks, 25, Gibson Bobo Jenkins McGee Dennis Bricklee
ment and disobeying a was charged with sale of Daniels Miller
marijuana-more than 30 card fraud. MDOC hold.
traffic control device.
n Faith Womack, 24, n Chyna Bobo, 21, was (R) (R)*
n Christopher Ted- grams.
n J.D. Jackson, 51, was was charged with two charged with malicious
ford, 21, was charged with
domestic violence-aggra- charged with fourth of- counts of burglary of a mischief.
residence, resisting ar- n Kathy Jenkins, 50,
TaX aSSESSOr/COLLECTOr
vated assault by strangu- fense DUI.
lation, arson, aggravated
assault with a weapon or
n David Davis, 24,
was charged with sale of
rest and disorderly con-
duct.
was charged with embez-
zlement.
Allen
General Election
other means to produce
death, resisting arrest and
marijuana-more than 30
grams.
n Joseph Gibson, 24,
was charged with man-
n Joshua McGee, 31,
was charged with third of-
Morgan November 5
simple assault on a police n Andrew Jones, 23, slaughter, leaving the fense DUI, no insurance (R)*
officer. was charged with credit scene of an accident and a and speeding.

STaTE raCES
SENaTOr rEprESENTaTivE

4 Louisiana men plead guilty in Mississippi bribe scheme DiSTriCT 17 DiSTriCT 37

By JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
Four Louisiana men
have pleaded guilty to
conspiring to bribe Mis-
sissippi’s former correc-
tions commissioner and
trying to bribe a Missis-
sippi sheriff.
Michael LeBlanc Sr.
of Baton Rouge, Michael
LeBlanc Jr. of Prairiev-
ille, Tawasky Ventroy of
Opelousas and Jacque
Jones of LaPlace each
entered a guilty plea
Wednesday in federal
court in Jackson to one
count of conspiracy.
All four men say they
paid former Mississippi
Corrections Commis-
sioner Christopher Epps
a $2,000 bribe in 2014
and promised him future
bribes to secure his help
in influencing sheriffs,
especially those with re-
gional jails overseen by
the state, to let them sell
phone service and com-
missary goods to inmates.
They also admit to giving
Kemper County Sheriff
James Moore $2,000 in
casino chips in an unsuc-
cessful attempt to bribe Chuck Gary
him. Younger Chism
Epps was convicted of (R)* (R)*
taking more than $1.4 mil-
lion in bribes from private
contractors and is serving
a nearly 20-year federal General Election November 5
prison sentence in Texas.
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Clampdown on vaping could send Federal appeals court

users back toward cigarettes to hear Mississippi
‘This could take us from potentially the single tended consequences, including
driving adults who vape back to cig- 15-week abortion ban
biggest improvement in public health ... toward a arette smoking, which remains the
nation’s leading preventable cause
The Associated Press

public health disaster in which cigarettes continue
to be the dominant nicotine product’
Jonathan Foulds, an addiction researcher and tobacco
specialist at Penn State University
By MAT THEW PERRONE smaller companies are at the center
AP Health Writer of a political backlash that threatens
to sweep e-cigarettes from store
WASHINGTON — Only two shelves nationwide as politicians
years ago, electronic cigarettes scramble to address two separate
were viewed as a small industry public health crises tied to vaping:
with big potential to improve public underage use among teenagers and
health by offering a path to steer a mysterious and sometimes fatal
millions of smokers away from lung ailment that has affected more
deadly cigarettes. than 1,000 people.
That promise led U.S. regula- New restrictions at the local,
tors to take a hands-off approach state and federal level are poised
to e-cigarette makers, including a to wipe out thousands of fruit-, can-
Silicon Valley startup named Juul dy- and dessert-flavored vapes that
Labs, which was being praised have attracted teens. But experts
for creating “the iPhone of e-ciga- who study tobacco policy fear the
rettes.” scattershot approach of the clamp-
Today Juul and hundreds of down could have damaging, unin-
of death.
“This could take us from poten-
tially the single biggest improve-
ment in public health in the United
States toward a public health disas-
ter in which cigarettes continue to
be the dominant nicotine product,”
said Jonathan Foulds, an addiction
researcher and tobacco specialist at
Penn State University.
Foulds and many other experts
continue to view e-cigarettes as a
potential “off-ramp” for smokers,
allowing them to continue using
nicotine — the addictive chemical
in cigarettes — without inhaling
all the toxic byproducts of burning
tobacco.
But they warn the vaping back-
lash could do irreparable harm
to the public perception of e-ciga-
rettes, while ignoring the riskiest
products that are most likely to
blame for the recent outbreak.
JACKSON — Federal appeals court judges are
set to hear arguments Monday over a Mississippi
law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks
of pregnancy.
It is one of many laws pushed by conservative
states in recent years, ultimately aimed at trying to
persuade the increasingly conservative Supreme
Court to further restrict the time abortion is legal-
ly available.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the 15-week
ban into law in March 2018, and it has never taken
effect. The state’s only abortion clinic immediate-
ly sued the state, and U.S. District Judge Carlton
Reeves temporarily blocked the law the day after
Bryant signed it.
In November, Reeves struck down the law, writ-
ing that it “unequivocally” violates women’s con-
stitutional rights because it bans abortion weeks
before viability.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 1973 ruling in
Roe v. Wade, said women have the right to termi-
nate pregnancies until viability, when a fetus can
survive outside the womb. Reeves wrote that viabil-
ity must be determined by trained medical profes-
sionals, and the “established medical consensus”
is that viability typically begins at 23 to 24 weeks
after the pregnant woman’s last menstrual period.

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Clarence Byars Sr.

Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13B to Sacklers
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Associated Press
Attorneys general rep-
resenting nearly half the
states and lawyers for
more than 500 local gov-
ernments on Friday blast-
ed the terms of Purdue
Pharma’s offer to settle
thousands of lawsuits over
the nation’s opioid crisis in
court filings that also said
the company had funneled
up to $13 billion to its con-
trolling family.
Their legal filings said
the tentative deal does not
contain an admission of
wrongdoing from mem-
bers of the Sackler fami-
ly, would not stop family
members from future mis-
conduct and wouldn’t force
them to repay money “they
pocketed from their illegal
conduct.”
The documents say
members of the Sackler
family — one of the wealth-
iest in the U.S. — made $12
billion to $13 billion from
Purdue, a higher amount
than court records had pre-
viously given. The figure
was in a sworn statement
given last month by Jesse
DelConte, a restructuring
consultant for Purdue; an
excerpt of his deposition
did not specify over what
time period those pay-
ments were made.
In a previous deposi-
Clarence Richard Byars Sr., age 79, of
Ethelsville, AL, died October 2, 2019, at Pickens
County Medical Center.
Funeral services were at 2:00 PM Saturday,
tion, former Purdue chief object to Purdue’s request October 5, 2019, at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel,
executive Richard Sackler that all lawsuits against with Rev. Ken Henegar, Rev. Chester Shaw and
gave only a broad range — members of the Sackler Rev. Gerald Spruill officiating. Burial followed in
between $1 billion and $10 family be halted as part of Andrews Chapel Cemetery, with Skelton Funeral
billion — that the family tentative settlement terms Home of Reform directing. Visitation was one
made from its signature that are being considered hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
painkiller, OxyContin. in bankruptcy court in He was preceded in death by his parents; and
Friday’s court filings White Plains, New York. nephews, Seth Richards and Darin McGahey.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Byars;
daughters, Cybil Clary (Jerry) and Toni
Adams (Scot); son, Richie Byars (Jill); three
sisters, Clara Jean Patterson (Dennis Earl),
Mildred Tilley (Vernice) and Shelia Richards
(Byron); brother, Waymon Byars (Brenda); six
grandchildren, Jenna Harkness (Seth), Kari
Beth Moore (Blake), Will Byars (Riley), Spencer
Clary, Rilee Byars and Kory Adams; and one
great-grandchild, Colton Blake Moore.
Mr. Byars was born January 5, 1940, in
Pickens County, Alabama, to the late Clarence
Adron Byars and Lavada Shaw Byars. He was
a member and deacon of Liberty Assembly of
God and was retired from Otasco in retail sales
with 35 years of service. He was also a former
employee of Fayette Farmers Co-op and Spruill’s
Auto in Millport and a U. S. Air Force veteran.
Clarence was a loving husband and a very
Godly man. He was a great Christian example to
his family and to others.
Pallbearers were his grandsons and
grandsons-in-law, Will Byars, Spencer Clary,
Rilee Byars, Kory Adams, Seth Harkness and
Blake Moore.
Honorary Pallbearers were the men of Liberty
Assembly of God, staff of Pickens County Medical
Center, Hospice Nurse, Nickie Hammonds and
the staff of Amedisys Hospice.
In lieu of flowers the family suggest memorials
to Liberty Assembly of God, 268 Ruffin Road,
Millport, AL 35576.
Paid Obituary - Skelton Funeral Home
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Courtesy photos/Oktibbeha County Fire Services

Volunteer firefighters from Clay and Oktibbeha counties battled a hay fire burning
across several acres near the intersection of Hickory Grove Road and Old West Point
Road Saturday. It was the second grass fire Oktibbeha County volunteer firefighters
responded to, said fire coordinator Kirk Rosenhan. Firefighters also battled a grass
fire in the Rock Hill community Friday evening.

County puts out two multi-acre

fires in less than 24 hours
No injuries reported from
either incident
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Local fire authorities joined forces to
put out two fires in rural areas of Oktib-
beha County Friday and Saturday.
A brush fire “lost control” Friday
evening in the Rock Hill community,
Starkville Fire Chief Charles Yarbrough
said. East Oktibbeha and Bell School-
house volunteer firefighters helped ex-
tinguish the fire.
The person who set the fire claimed
not to know the state enacted a burn
ban Wednesday, county fire coordinator
Kirk Rosenhan said. Burn bans result
from a long period without rain, making
it dangerous to start a brush fire since
the ground has little to no moisture.
There were no injuries and no dam-
age to structures, and the fire depart-
ments turned the incident over to Oktib-
beha County Sheriff’s Office, Rosenhan
said. OCSO Capt. Brett Watson said the
individual who set the fire received a ci-
tation.
East Oktibbeha and Bell Schoolhouse
firefighters also worked with volunteers
from Tibbee in Clay County on Satur-
day when an accidental hay fire spread
across several acres in the northeast
part of the county, near the intersection
of Hickory Grove Road and Old West
Point Road, Rosenhan said.
Part of the hay baler caused a spark
that started the fire, and authorities had
it under control by late Saturday after-
noon, he said.

US unemployment rate hits a 50-

year low even as hiring slows
Drop in the pace of hiring compared in the face of President
Donald Trump’s numer-
with last year points to rising ous trade conflicts. Pay
growth has also weak-
uncertainty among employers about ened, reflecting the hesi-
tance of employers to step
the job market and the economy up wages.
“The September jobs
By CHRISTOPHER omy weakened by the report sent some conflict-
RUGABER U.S.-China trade war and
AP Economics Writer
ing signals, but the big pic-
tepid global growth might ture remains one of a labor
be edging toward a poten- market — and an economy
WASHINGTON —
The U.S. unemployment tial recession. The gov- — whose growth is down-
rate fell to 3.5 percent in ernment on Friday also shifting but not collaps-
September, the lowest lev- revised up its estimate ing,” said Michael Feroli,
el in nearly five decades, of job growth in July and an economist at JPMorgan
even though employers August by a combined Chase.
appeared to turn more 45,000. The comparatively slug-
cautious and slowed their Still, a drop-off in the gish hiring data makes it
hiring. pace of hiring compared likely that the Federal Re-
The economy added with last year points to serve later this month will
a modest 136,000 jobs, rising uncertainty among cut rates for the third time
enough to likely ease employers about the job this year to try to help sus-
worries that an econ- market and the economy tain the expansion.

Fed chairman: Goal is to keep economy in ‘good place’

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON —
Federal Reserve Chair-
man Jerome Powell said
Friday that the U.S. econ-
omy is facing some risks
at the moment, but overall
it is in a “good place” and
the Fed’s main job is to
“keep it there as long as
possible.”
Powell noted that
unemployment is at a
half-century low and in-
flation is running close to
the Fed’s 2 percent target.
While Fed officials be-
lieve they have the cor-
rect strategy and tools
to extend the current
record-long expansion,
it is important to exam-
ine whether any changes
could improve the Fed’s
handling of the economy,
Powell said.
In his brief remarks,
Powell gave no hint on
whether the Fed will cut
interest rates for a third
time this year when it
meets later this month.
Many investors are hop-
ing for another quar-
ter-point rate cut at the
October meeting.
Among the changes
the Fed has been consid-
ering at a series of town
hall meetings this year
is a modification of its
current inflation target.
The central bank seeks
to manage interest-rate
policies to achieve annual
price increases of 2 per-
cent.

New plant to add jobs along Tenn-Tom Waterway in Alabama

The Associated Press
EPES, Ala. — A
planned factory will add
badly needed jobs in an
underdeveloped part of
west Alabama.
Gov. Kay Ivey’s office
announced Friday that
the Maryland-based En-
viva Partners plans to in-
vest about $175 million on
a wood pellet production
plant in Sumter County.
It will ship product on the
Ten ne s s e e -Tombi gb e e
Waterway from the Port
of Epes.
The statement says
the proposed facility is
expected to create at least
85 full-time jobs. It’s also
supposed to generate
about 180 more jobs in
logging, transportation
and other areas.
Enviva calls itself the
world’s largest producer
of wood pellets, which are
burned for power produc-
tion. It still needs permits
for the plant but says it ex-
pects to begin construc-
tion early next year.
Enviva owns and op-
erates eight plants in the
Southeast.
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Our View

Roses and thorns

A rose to the
city of Columbus
Public Works de-
partment for the
much-needed re-
pairs on Second
Avenue North in front of the
Lowndes County Courthouse.
County board of supervisors
president Harry Sanders
contacted Mayor Robert Smith
asking for repairs after several
trip-and-fall accidents where
the sidewalk has buckled and
cracked from the pressure
exerted by the giant live oaks
near the sidewalk. City Public
Works employees made the
repairs last week. They were
badly needed. We appreciate
the cooperation between the
county and city in solving this
problem.
A rose to
Cedarhill Ani-
mal Sanctuary
in Caledonia,
which is now the
home to three
lions from a wildlife sanctu-
ary in California that had to
close. Conventional wisdom
might have held that Cedarhill
Animal Sanctuary had more
than enough of their own
rescued wildlife to care for,
especially as a nonprofit that
relies entirely on donations.
With the addition of the lions,
the sanctuary is the perma-
nent home to close to 300
animals. Instead of saying,
“no,” the sanctuary and its
director Nancy Gschewedtner
did what it always seems to
do where endangered ani-
mals are involved: Find a way.
We encourage everyone to
support this worthwhile effort
through generous donations.
The support is needed now
more than ever.
A rose to
the Columbus
Recreation
Department in
working with
local businesses
to enhance the experience
at its youth sporting events.
When games are being played,
businesses have chipped in to
make the experience fun for
kids through such things as
free cotton candy to booths
with games and give-aways.
It’s a nice added touch for the
families who come out to the
games.
A rose to
Mississippi
State for its
exhibition of the
refugee-themed
artwork of
Mohamad Hafez and Ahmed
Badr, both of whom came
to the U.S. from the Middle
East. The two collaborated on
small sculptures – miniatur-
ized depictions of refugee life
in home settings contained
within suitcases – along with
an audio narration. The art
helps put a human face on ref-
ugees all over the world. Too
often, the humanity of refugee
groups is reduced to raw num-
bers. This exhibit, on display
at the Cullis Wade Depot Art
Gallery through the month of
October, reminds us there are
real people, with real dreams
and disappointments, sorrows
and celebrations, behind those
numbers.

Letter to the editor

Voice of the people
Concerned with spending efficiencies
While visiting a local business recently I
observed the Public Works department at work.
There was a cement spill in the highway in front
of the store about two-to-three weeks before and
the men with public works were there to clean up.
There were five workers, in three trucks and they
had brooms to do clean up the gutters. A while
later another truck came pulling a 16-foot trailer
loaded with one wheel borrow. Now, we have four
trucks, six men, some brooms and a wheel borrow
to get the job done. Then the department head
showed up with some shovels and the job was
completed in record time. A hundred feet of gutter
was cleaned in a couple of hours with only seven
men, five trucks, a 16-foot trailer, and a wheel bor-
row plus a few brooms and shovels. Watching the
“efficiency” of our Public Works department was
something to be seen. And we wonder why ditches
are overgrown and stopped up, trash is all over
the right of way, gutters are not cleaned out and
the streets are in dire need of repairs. I remember
some time ago when J5 was hired and they found
a million dollars in waste in the department. Well,
fellow citizens, I surmise it is still there, the waste.
We have an amphitheater and new fire department
building not finished because apparently there is
no funding. We have a millage increase to pay on
the city’s debt. The debt is anyone’s guess, based
on what information the public gets. We can’t pay Partial to Home
our first responders for the positions they are
working at due to the ride up policy. But, we had
the funds to pay $100,000 for a street light survey,
$250,000-plus for accreditation and $90,000 plus a
Squalid indifference
percentage of project costs for J5. Sadly no money Back in the early and intense heat. something is going on in those
for our brave first responders. Those men and spring, I sent Felder As my mother, a life- places that’s not happening here.
women are not in for the money by the way. If it Rushing an email long gardener, would In the two weeks I was away,
was the money they were interested in, maybe they asking him to suggest put it, these plants sing my petunia patch lint screen
should have gotten into politics. Pray for our brave plants that would work for their supper. collected all manner of debris, in-
policemen, firemen and other first responders. in the harsh environ- We have Mexican cluding dog poop, a plastic bottle,
Thank them when you meet them. ment of a downtown. petunia in our back- fast-food wrappers, even an empty
Lee Roy Lollar Felder, whose garden- yard, so I dug them “Value Pak” of Trojan Ultra-Thins.
Columbus ing column runs in up, cut off the top to This is not my first tirade about
The Sunday Dispatch, facilitate root develop- litter, and unless some public offi-
A letter to the editor is an excellent way to partic- is host of the popular ment and planted them cial reads this and is moved to do
ipate in your community. We request the tone of your Gestalt Gardener on in about as hostile en- something, I don’t think another
letters be constructive and respectful and the length Mississippi Public Birney Imes vironment as one could newspaper column on the subject
be limited to 450 words. We welcome all letters Radio. hope for. is going to do much good.
emailed to voice@cdispatch.com or mailed to The Locals may remember some The plants flourished and each As has been written before,
Dispatch, Attn: Letters to the Editor, PO Box 511, years back Felder showing up for a morning downtown pedestrians our litter-cluttered byways are
Columbus, MS 39703-0511. public appearance at the Hitching passing The Dispatch are greet- a resounding indictment of this
Lot Farmers’ Market driving his ed by a purple chorus of purple community, its businesses and the
trademark pickup with a flower blooms. people who live here.
garden growing in its bed. There have been unintended “Trashy town, trashy people,”
On his show this gonzo gar- consequences. That little three- the motorist mumbles to herself
Today in History dening guru entertains questions foot by four-foot patch of ground and keeps driving.
from devoted listeners that range works like a lint trap in a dryer It’s not just the city. The county
Today is Sunday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2019. from how to keep raccoons out of catching bits of sidewalk litter — has its share of squalor. Look
There are 86 days left in the year. the sweet potatoes to the care and cigarette butts, candy wrappers, under any bridge, boat landing
feeding of heirloom roses. occasionally a beer can — I’ve or seldom-trafficked road and
Today’s Highlight in History: Years ago ginkgo trees were
planted throughout downtown in
come to accept this as being part
of downtown, or rather living in
chances are you’ll see fresh bags
of garbage, building debris and
On Oct. 6, 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag,
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans square cutouts in the sidewalks. Lowndes County, Mississippi. broken appliances.
to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe — a plan The city has put Knock-Out roses A recent road trip north Apparently, our elected leaders
which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.” in some of the cutouts; others, through Tennessee, Kentucky, are unwilling to administer the
including the one in front of The Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York tough-love necessary to get at the
Dispatch, were left unplanted. drove home this sad reality. There problem. Nobody ever complains
On this date: Among Felder’s suggestions was almost no litter along the about it, they say; why stir the pot?
In 1536, English theologian and scholar Wil- was ruellia or Mexican petunia, routes I traveled. Coming from a In the meantime we deface
liam Tyndale, who was the first to translate the a vigorous two-to-three-foot tall place where there is hardly a road our environment, advertising our
Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for plant that greets each day with without litter, it seemed, well, odd. indifference, affirming negative
heresy. lovely purple petunia-like booms. The most conspicuous remind- stereotypes the larger world has
In 1892, British poet laureate Alfred, Lord Ten- Yes, perfect. By noon the bloom is er of litter on that trip was signs about our state.
nyson died in Surrey, England, at age 83. gone, but it returns the next morn- threatening $500 fines for litter- Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.
In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived ing shrugging off the impossible ing. I can’t say if it was the threat com) is the former publisher of The
with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring growing conditions of no water of a fine or a different mindset, but Dispatch.
Al Jolson, a feature containing both silent and
sound-synchronized sequences.
In 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed the
Mutual Defense Assistance Act, providing $1.3
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In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford, in his second
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presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, Evie Vidrine Lisa Oswalt Jan Swoope
asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of Bridget Walters Deanna Tess Vrbin
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In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. Lindsey Beck NEWS Christina Boyd Jamie Morrison
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tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White Amber Dumas Mary Ann Hardy Theo DeRosa Jeffrey Gore Tina Perry
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Rev. Graham’s tour evokes evangelical support for Trump

‘I do feel like we are, as Christians, the first
line of defense for the president’
By ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Rev.
Franklin Graham did not utter
the word “impeachment” as he
spoke to thousands of Chris-
tians here this week, the latest
stop on a long-running tour he
has dubbed Decision America
— a title with political and reli-
gious undertones.
But evangelicals who turned
out to see Graham didn’t nec-
Christina Jones
essarily need his warning
that “our country is in trou-
ble” in order to tap into their
deep-rooted support for Presi-
dent Donald Trump during an
intensifying political crisis hun-
dreds of miles north in Wash-
ington.
“I do feel like we are, as
Christians, the first line of
defense for the president,”
Christina Jones, 44, said before
Graham took the stage. Trump
is “supporting our Christian
principles and trying to do his
best,” she added, even as “ev-
erybody’s against him.”
The impeachment furor is
the latest test of Trump’s seem-
ingly unbreakable bond with
conservative evangelical Chris-
tians. Trump suggested this
week that the peril of impeach-
ment would only cement his
ties to that voting bloc, which
helped propel him into office,
and supporters who have stood
by him through accusations of
sexual assault and infidelity see
no reason to back away from a
president they view as unfairly
beleaguered.
Frances Lassiter, 65, dis-
missed Democrats’ pursuit of
a case against Trump as “all
a bunch of crap” designed to
push him from office.
Asked about comments
Trump circulated from an ally
and Southern Baptist pastor
who warned of a “civil war-like
fracture” if the investigation
succeeds, Lassiter and others
in the crowd at Graham’s tour
shared concerns about politi-
cal polarization putting further
strain on the country.
“Could have a war ... you just
don’t know,” Lassiter said. “It’s
scary.”
Graham sounded a similar
note in an inter view with The
Associated Press aboard his
tour bus. The 67-year-old evan-
gelist and son of the late Rev.
Billy Graham said the inquir y
into Trump’s solicitation of
help from Ukrainian leaders in
investigating former Vice Pres-
ident Joe Biden was “a lot over
nothing.”
“It’s going to destroy this
countr y if we let this continue,”
Graham said of the impeach-
ment investigation, urging
Americans “to come together
as a nation and focus on the
problems” that beset both par-
ties, such as immigration and
international trade.

Ask Rufus
Continued from Page 2A
Port became the county
seat of Marion County,
Alabama. By mid-June of
1818, William Cocke, the
Chickasaw Indian Agent
from 1816-1817, was living
with his family at a new
residence on the Tom-
bigbee River, which may
have been the Thomas
house. The Cedars was
probably built as a one-
room log house with a
loft at a spring beside the
Military Road about two
miles north of the original
town limits.
■ 1819: In June,
several families arrived
at the site that is now
downtown Columbus and
built houses. Silas McBee
suggested the new town
be named Columbus. It
was mistakenly believed
that the new town was
in Alabama. The survey
of the state line still had
not been completed and a
proposed amendment to
the congressional act cre-
ating the State of Alabama
would have made the
Tombigbee River the state
line. The county seat of
Marion County, Alabama,
moved to the House of
Henry Greer, at present
day Columbus Air Force
Base.
The first official
reference to the “Town of
Columbus” was in a Dec.
6, 1819, Alabama legisla-
tive act. The first frame
house was built by Gideon
Lincecum. Silas McBee
was elected as Marion
County’s first represen-
tative in the Alabama
Legislature and William
Cocke’s stepson, Bartlett
Sims, was the first sheriff
of Marion County. By the
fall of 1819, at least 16
families had settled in the
new town.
■ 1819/1820: Accord-
ing to Keeler’s 1848 his-
tory of Columbus, Spirus
Roach “occupied and kept
entertainment” in the
house built by Thomas
Thomas. Because of the
“peculiarities” of Roach’s
long pointed nose, local
Indians who traded at
Roach’s establishment
called the town “Opossum
Town.” William Cocke
built a large two-story
log house about where
the Tennessee Williams
house now sits.
■ 1820: The Military
road was completed
and the rapid growth of
Columbus, which had
begun during the sum-
mer of 1819, is evident
in post office records.
On Feb. 29, 1820, the
congressional committee
on post offices and post
roads was directed to
look at establishing a post
route in Alabama “... from
Tuskaloosa to Columbus,
in Marion County, by the responded with Thomas
court-house.” Jefferson, an old friend
The Columbus post from Virginia, about
office was established education and Franklin
on March 6, 1820. On Academy. He mentioned
May 13, 1820, President that there were “upwards
James Monroe signed into of 60” scholars attending
law an act to create new the school.
postal routes in America. By the mid-1820s,
The first mentioned for Columbus was rapidly
Alabama was: “From expanding. After the
Tuscaloosa, by Marion Choctaw Treaty of
County Court House, to Dancing Rabbit Creek in
Columbus.” 1830, and the opening of
In late August several the Choctaw Homeland
Alabama newspapers to Euro-American settle-
reported the survey of the ment, Columbus became
state line was progressing a boom town. In 1830, the
and it was feared that town banned any further
Mississippi might wind construction of log homes
up with “a considerable within the town limits.
portion of the best land in Columbus was rapidly
Marion County.” The 1820 changing from a frontier
Census showed Colum- village to a growing com-
bus with a population of mercial center.
107 persons, including 83 Rufus Ward is a local
free white, 23 slave and historian.
one free black. Of the 83
whites, 51 were males 18
or older. The first indus-
try was a tan yard located
in the area of the Hitching
Lot and soccer complex.
The first cemetery -- the
“Tombigbee Graveyard”
— was established on
the north side of the
present-day city block, on
which Riverview is situat-
ed. Under the auspices of
the American Board for
Foreign Missions and the
Presbyterian and Con-
gregationalist Churches,
the Mayhew Choctaw
Mission was founded.
■ 1821: On Jan. 3,
1821, Mississippi Gov.
George Poindexter an-
nounced that “a consid-
erable population on the
waters of the Tombigbee
formerly attached to Ala-
bama fall within the limits
of this state.” That area
included both Columbus
and Cotton Gin Port. On
Feb. 9, Monroe County,
Mississippi, was created
and on Feb. 10 the Town
of Columbus, Mississippi,
was officially chartered
by the Legislature. The
legislative act also provid-
ed for the establishment
of Franklin Academy, the
first free public school in
Mississippi. In Columbus,
a 20-by-30 foot frame
schoolhouse was built to
house the new school.
■ 1822: William Moore
was the first recorded
mayor of the Town of
Columbus.
■ 1823: In March, the
Cotton Plant was the first
steamboat to arrive at Co-
lumbus. By May 1824, she
had made five additional
trips to Columbus, and on
the last trip, was the first
steamboat to reach Cotton
Gin Port (near Amory).
■ 1825: William
Cocke, the president of
the Franklin Academy
Board of Trustees, cor-

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Sidewalks
Continued from Page 1A
just doing it
without the
proper fa-
cilities,” he
said. “(Right
now) it’s a
da ngerous
situation.”
Kemp
Ta m a -
ran Bardwell said she
sees Armstrong Middle
School students walk
along Highway 12 after
school every day, and
adding a sidewalk could
make their trek safer, she
said. Sometimes the trash
they leave behind gets in
the yard of the Aspen
Road house she rents.
“It’ll be nice if they did
(put in a sidewalk), and it
might cut down on some
trash in the yard too,” she
said.
The city’s plan for
Highway 12 sidewalks
The engineering de-
partment has a list of 14
sections of sidewalks it
wants to add to fill in the
gaps on Highway 12, from
Stark Road to just east of
Spring Street. The first
three sections are a 21-
foot strip connecting the
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
building to Lindbergh
Boulevard, a 112-foot ex-
tension in front of Chick-
fil-A at the Spring Street
intersection and the 0.35-
mile stretch of road from
Taylor Street to the Ave-
nue of Patriots.
On Tuesday, the
Starkville Board of Alder-
men approved a $277,600
bid from Simmons Ero-
sion Control Inc. to install
the 1,802 feet of sidewalk.
About $222,000 comes
from the Mississippi De-
partment of Transporta-
tion, and the remaining
$50,000 will come from
bond money the city had
set aside for sidewalk
projects.
Construction on the
three sidewalk installa-
tions will begin in early or
mid-November, and take
about a month to com-
plete if weather allows,
Kemp said.
That month, Chick-
fil-A might see fewer cus-
tomers while construc-
tion impedes traffic at the
intersection of Highway
12 and Spring Street,
training director J.T. Mill-
er said.
“A lot of people don’t
really know about the
back entrance and might
not come through (there),
so it could impact our
sales,” Miller said.
That said, the side-
walks once installed
could result in slightly
more business to Chick-
fil-A on Mississippi State
University game days,
he said. Otherwise, he
thinks they will have little
affect on the restaurant,
since little of Chick-fil-A’s
traffic is foot traffic.
The three locations
are among the highest
priorities on the 14-item
list, according to Tues-
day’s meeting agenda.
Three sections in the mile
between Stark Road and
Taylor Street, the eastern-
most part of the scope of
the project, are the lowest
priorities.
Two high-priority sec-
tions on the list are off
the table for now because
they would involve tem-
porarily taking the land
from its owners, which
Kemp said “is a much
more time-intensive pro-
cess.” The sections are
between Vine Street and
Hancock Street near the
intersection of Montgom-
ery Street and Highway
12.
Kemp said the city
is not actively seeking
funding for the remaining
sidewalk projects at the
moment.
Bike safety
Lee Horsley bikes from
his home near Armstrong
Middle School to Lowe’s
twice a week, and his bike
wobbles at the intersec-
tion of Highway 12 and
Tabor Street.
The terrain is rough
and can be dangerous, and
bikers have to be especial-
ly cautious around storm
drains and when crossing
a curb to get into an inter-
section, Horsley said.
“This highway’s been
here for years and they
didn’t consider putting in
a sidewalk or a bike path,”
he said. “I thought they
were going to do it when
they redid this highway
(in early 2018), but they
didn’t.”
Not everyone is look-
ing forward to the new
sidewalk. Eli Jones walks
almost every day from his
Twin Oaks apartment to
Montgomery Street to vis-
it family, and he said the
sidewalk will make the 1.6
miles more difficult in the
current weather.
“If they had a covered
sidewalk, maybe that
would make sense be-
cause it’s so hot,” he said.
“Outside of that, it just
makes it hotter with the
reflections off the con-
crete.”
The construction will
likely not interfere with
Jones’ walk most days, he
said. He often sees people
bike along the makeshift
path, and the sidewalk
would make it safer for
them, he said.
“With the walkers, I
don’t think most of them
would prefer it, but the
bikers might,” Jones said.
“A bike path might make
sense. Something differ-
ent than a sidewalk, may-
be.”

Alsobrooks
Continued from Page 1A
fall semester, actual en-
rollment was down 5 per-
cent — from 4,086 in fall
2018 to 3,882 this August.
That’s EMCC’s lowest
enrollment in more than
10 years and 27 percent
down from its all-time
high of 5,308 students in
2010.
“We made several cuts
this past year, and if en-
rollment keeps declining,
we’ll have to cut opera-
tional costs again,” said
Alsobrooks, who took on
the EMCC presidency
in January. “Seventy-five
percent of our operating
cost is people. So when
you talk about balancing
the budget, there are cer-
tain things you can’t cut.
… The people are where
the money’s at.”
Plans to grow
To reverse the enroll-
ment trend, Alsobrooks
suggests targeting growth
in areas of identified need.
Specifically, the col-
lege is looking to bolster
opportunities for students
seeking career pathways
into nursing and allied
health, as well as expand
career-technical offerings
at the college’s main cam-
pus at Scooba.
Alsobrooks said EMCC
will listen to business
leaders requesting certain
skills or programs, then
pursue grants and other
funding avenues to get the
programs off the ground.
“After about three
years from when a pro-
gram starts, we expect
— if we have enough peo-
ple in the seats — for it to
stand up on tuition and
(state) funding,” Also-
brooks said.
EMCC is also looking
for ways to partner with
Mississippi State Univer-
sity to capture more en-
rollment from freshmen
who want to leave the four-
year setting after a semes-
ter or year.
“All colleges have a
natural drop-off rate (be-
cause) your fall enroll-
ment is always higher
than your spring enroll-
ment. Mississippi State
has the largest incoming
freshman enrollment in
the history of the univer-
sity (this year). A lot of
those students aren’t com-
ing back … in the spring,”
Alsobrooks said. “We’re
going to work with Missis-
sippi State aggressively to
capture some of those stu-
dents who may not want
to stay there for whatever
reason or may be having
trouble. We want them at
(EMCC).
“We’re working cre-
atively to find ways where
maybe they can even live
in a dorm on the Starkville
campus and go to school
with us,” he added, refer-
encing a similar arrange-
ment he had learned about
between the University of
Kentucky and a nearby
community college. “It’s
not unprecedented to have
an agreement like that.”
The college also is
working with the Legis-
lature to allow EMCC to
offer out-of-state tuition
waivers, something that
is prohibited now, Also-
brooks said.
The Communiversity
Most of the budgeted
deficit this year consists
of start-up costs for oper-
ating the Communiversity
advanced manufacturing
training center on High-
way 82 in Lowndes Coun-
ty.
The $42-million facility
— built primarily through
funding from Lowndes,
Clay and Oktibbeha coun-
ties, state appropriations
and an Appalachian Re-
gional Commission grant
— opened in August with
197 students. The facility
needs to reach enrollment
of 400 each year to keep
pace with area industry
needs, Alsobrooks said.
The college also is
partnering with as many
as 30 area businesses on
various facets of the Com-
muniversity — whether
equipment, training or
other programs — and it
is actively building a foun-
dation of private funds
that will help sustain the
facility.
“If you look at an oper-
ation like the Communi-
versity, it’s going to take
industry involvement to
sustain it,” he said. “But
that’s the typical model
across the country, is to
ask corporations to help.
So our goal is to ask them
to help.”
EMCC is still seeking a
permanent director for the
Communiversity. Three
candidates are scheduled
to interview on Oct. 15,
he said — one each from
Alabama, Texas and Mis-
sissippi.

LCSD
Continued from Page 1A
turn a call from The Dispatch by press
time.
Barksdale also said he was agreeable
to holding a public forum for the final-
ists, but no decisions have been made.
“We have talked about that a little,”
he said.
This will be the first time the board
has selected a school superintendent.
Previously, superintendents were cho-
sen through the election process, but
the Mississippi Legislature changed the
procedure in 2014, passing a bill that
requires superintendents of all public
school districts to be appointed by their
respective boards.
Among the 15 candidates in the list
provided by MSBA is current Superin-
tendent Lynn Wright, whose second
four-year term ends Dec. 31. Wright,
who excused himself from the execu-
tive session as the board reduced the
candidates field, said he did not know if
he was among the candidates still under
consideration.
Barksdale said the board hopes to
select a superintendent by the end of
November.
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‘Why would you quit?’:

Brian Cole’s winding road to stardom

Mississippi State Athletics

Brian Cole’s time at MSU has been nearly as meandering and bumpy as his path to it.

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — As Brian Cole II
twisted the knob on his dorm room
shower, a brownish substance sput-
tered from the spout.
Then a sophomore at East Missis-
sippi Community College in Scooba,
Cole was forced to shower with bottles
of water as maintenance investigated
the murky water.
As he exited the shower and pulled
up the shimmering glare of his cell
phone, a familiar clock ticked away on
his background.
Seven months. That’s all it would
take for Cole to go from Ann Arbor,
Michigan, to Scooba and, if God willed
it, back to college football’s elite ranks.
“I don’t feel like God brought me
this far to fail,” he told The Dispatch.
“I just feel like I’m this far into it, why
would you quit?”
Needing a change
Born and raised in the midwestern
industrial town of Saginaw, Michigan,
Cole grew up in a stereotypical rust
belt society.
Saginaw thrived as a lumber town
for the better part of the 1800s before
moving into manufacturing at the turn
of the century.
Today, the nearby Flint Truck and
Bus plant employs roughly 5,600 peo-
ple and is one of General Motors’ most
profitable entities.
At home, Cole and his sister, Bri-
ana, lived a disciplined childhood.
Their father, Brian Sr., was a 25-year
veteran of the Michigan State Police
Department, and 14 of those years
were served as a polygraph examiner.
With his background in law enforce-
ment, he developed a work ethic he
hoped would persist in his children.
“Adversity is going to hit everyone
at some point in their life,” Brian Sr.
told The Dispatch. “But it’s all about
how you handle that adversity and
overcome it.”
As a kid, Cole was constantly com-
peting. When football season end-
ed, he moved onto basketball. When
basketball concluded, it was time for
spring baseball. Rinse and repeat.
And while he thrived on the dia-
mond and court, it was football that
garnered him statewide and national
attention.
Guiding a Heritage High School
team that had limited historical suc-
cess, Cole lined up everywhere from
quarterback to receiver to running
back during his Michigan prep career.
As a junior, he rushed for 1,213
yards and 16 touchdowns on just 138
carries. He also recorded five catches
for 80 yards and completed one pass
See Cole, 8B

College basketball: Mississippi State College football

Flexing his muscles: How MSU’s Robert

Woodard II plans to take a step forward
By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Ben Howland

already has a job title: Mississippi
State men’s basketball coach.
But Thursday, he did his best to Stan Beall/Special to The Dispatch

play the role of hype man for soph- Ole Miss running back Jerrion Ealy runs for a big gain
omore guard Robert Woodard II. during the second quarter Saturday against Vanderbilt
“His body is so ripped. I’ve at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford.

Ole Miss runs

never had a player in 37 years as
a coach that has this body,” How-
land said.

away from
The comments on the Colum-
bus native’s physique didn’t stop
there.
“It’s unbelievable; he’s like a
Greek figure,” Howland said. “It’s
incredible.”
As if the thought seemingly Mississippi State Athletics
Vanderbilt in
second half
came to him on a whim, the fifth- Mississippi State guard Robert Woodard II rises up for a shot over Ole
year MSU coach jokingly suggest- Miss guard Dominik Olejniczak on Feb. 2 in Oxford.
ed the athletic department could
earn a Greek figure comparison you want out of a kid. He always
make a lot of money if they used
themselves. does the right thing.” The Associated Press
Woodard’s likeness on a poster.
“It’s really just in the genes, I In his freshman season, Wood-
From an MSU perspective, it’s
guess,” Woodard said, giving a ard played in all 34 of the Bulldogs’ OXFORD — Jerrion Ealy and Snoop Conner each
probably a good thing California’s
nod to his father, Robert Woodard games and made one start, aver- had big touchdown runs in the third quarter to help Ole
Fair Pay for Play Act hasn’t trickled
Sr. aging 17.4 minutes per contest. Miss pull away from Vanderbilt for a 31-6 win on Satur-
over into Mississippi’s legislative
Marketing suggestions (seri- He shot 46 percent from the floor day night.
branch yet and wouldn’t take effect
ous or not) from Howland aside, and chipped in 5.5 points and 4.1 Ole Miss (3-3, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) broke
until 2023 anyway. Otherwise, the
the Bulldogs have high expecta- rebounds a game. open a precarious 10-6 halftime lead with the scoring
athletic department would have to
tions for the former Falcon’s sec- “I’ve been in the gym all sum- runs to open the initial two series of the second half.
share profits with Woodard.
ond year. mer shooting and lifting weights,” Ealy ran for a 78-yard touchdown and finished with 97
Woodard himself seemed flat-
“He’s our starting 3-man, no Woodard said. “I’m doing whatev- yards on the ground. Conner had 91 yards rushing that
tered and blushed a little after
question,” Howland said. “You can er I need to do to prepare myself … included an 84-yard TD run.
hearing his coach’s compliment.
see the confidence he plays with It’s a matter of putting in the work. Quarterback John Rhys Plumlee led Ole Miss with
As it turns out, there is no secret
now … His work ethic in the off- When you do that, you feel confi- 165 yards rushing on 22 carries and scored on a 33-yard
weightlifting program for any as-
piring players one day hoping to
season is a model in terms of what See Woodard, 8B See Ole Miss, 8B
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Prep Football
Friday’s Mississippi Scores

Center Hill 31, Columbus 8

Local

Columbus Christian 23, Delta Aca. 20

West Point shows consistency in win
Heritage Aca. 33, Tuscaloosa Christian School, Ala. 7
Lake Cormorant 34, New Hope 0
Noxubee County 19, Houston 12
Oak Hill Aca. 35, Rossville Christian, Tenn. 7
Pillow Aca. 35, Starkville Aca. 7
West Lowndes 32, French Camp 31
West Point 34, Saltillo 7
Shannon 32, Caledonia 10
State
Adams Christian 34, Brookhaven Academy 7
Amite County 28, Bogue Chitto 21
Amory 43, Kossuth 14
Baldwyn 55, Coldwater 12
Biggersville 56, Ashland 0
Biloxi 28, Harrison Central 26
Booneville 47, Alcorn Central 0
Brandon 29, George County 6
Calhoun Aca. 34, Kemper Aca. 20
Calhoun City 28, East Webster 7
Central Holmes 49, Hillcrest Christian 20
Charleston 32, O’Bannon 0
Choctaw Central 38, Kosciusko 35
Choctaw County 37, Aberdeen 14
Clarksdale 40, Yazoo City 16
Coahoma AHS 24, Humphreys 0
Coffeeville 42, Ethel 7
Columbia, Tenn. 26, Franklin Co. 20
Corinth 56, Tishomingo County 7
D’Iberville 28, Ocean Springs 14
DeSoto, Ark. 54, Sharkey-Issaquena Aca. 12
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Deer Creek School 38, Lee Academy, Ark. 28
West Point running back Cameron Young carries the ball during the Green Wave’s home district game Friday night against Saltillo.
Delta Streets 40, West Memphis Christian, Ark. 6
East Central 63, Long Beach 18 By DAVID MILLER West Point’s defensive ready to play.” alty on West Point aided to miss him; we’re going
East Union 54, Mantachie 29 Special to The Dispatch starters will likely rue West Point (6-1, 2-0 the drive. to take advantage of the
Enterprise Clarke 13, Heidelberg 6 missing a chance at their Class 5A-1) jumped out Timothy Mays, Jaquar- way he is for us and the
Eupora 5, Bruce 2
WEST POINT — The first shutout win of the to a 21-0 first quarter ius Thomas and Jaylin things he helps us do.
West Point football team season — the “B-team” lead after senior quar- Rush would all finish the
Forest 42, Clarkdale 12 “He’s a fun-loving kid,
has typically dominated played much of the fourth terback Brandon Harris, game with a tackle for a
Greene County 49, Sumrall 7 and we love having him
its district each season quarter, when Saltillo who wore No. 14 to honor loss. The West Point de-
Greenville Christian 49, Canton Aca. 7 around. Right along Bran-
under coach Chris Cham- scored — but the late run injured teammate Gray fense held Saltillo under
Greenwood 41, Gentry 0 don and the other guys —
bless. for the younger players Berry, opened the scor- 200 total yards.
Gulfport 36, West Harrison 8 we wouldn’t be where we
For each hard-fought is reflective of the prepa- ing with a 15-yard touch- Chambless said his
Hartfield Academy 49, East Rankin Aca. 0
win against a district op- are without a team full of
Hatley 31, Northpoint Christian 27 ration and focus of the down pass to Dantariyus front seven’s growth this guys like him.”
ponent — like last week’s entire team, Chambless Cannon. Tae Gibbs and season has been “huge.”
Holmes County Central 49, Canton 20
four-point win over Lafay- said. Jimothy Mays each added “It takes game expe- West Point 34, Saltillo 7
Horn Lake 14, DeSoto Central 0 Saltillo 0 0 0 7 – 7
ette — there are a string Even against teams 2-yard scoring runs. rience to get better each West Point 21 6 7 0 – 34
Independence 34, Holly Springs 14 First quarter
of district games that the they should beat with The Green Wave de- week,” he said. “We’re fit- WP — Brandon Harris 15 pass to Dantariyus Cannon
Indianola Aca. 34, Benton Academy 0
Green Wave win with ease — Saltillo is 1-6 and fense forced a three-and- ting right. All of our guys
(Alex Harper kick)
WP — Tae Gibbs 2 run (Harper kick)
Itawamba AHS 47, South Pontotoc 14
ease. And, regardless of winless in district play out on the next drive, up front are playing hard. WP — Jimothy Mays 2 run (Harper kick)
Second quarter
Jackson Prep 28, Jackson Aca. 17
location or time of year, — the Green Wave are then Cannon scored on a And, on the back end, WP — Cannon 53 run (kick failed)
Jefferson County 24, Port Gibson 22 Third quarter
the Green Wave rare- “locked in and focused,” 53-yard run to push the we’re getting a lot better. WP — Chris Ivy 4 run (Harper kick)
Kemper County 26, Morton 6
ly miss a beat in those Chambless said. lead to 27-0 in the second We have a lot of faith in Fourth quarter
S — Tyler Visentin 15 run (Carson Langford kick)
Lafayette 24, Grenada 21
games. “Games like tonight, quarter. our guys to get better and Team statistics
Lake 27, Pisgah 7 S WP
The latest exhibit for we got a lot of people in Late in the second execute for us.” First downs 10 25
Lamar School 35, Columbia Aca. 20 Rushes-yards 26-150 38-373
West Point’s consistency and get a lot of reps,” quarter, the Green Wave Chris Ivy led West Passing yards 14 99
Lanier 30, North Pike 14
was at home against Saltil- Chambless said, “and we defense faced its toughest Point with 11 carries for Comp.-att.-int. 3-15-0
Return yards 63
8-21-0
0
Lawrence County 58, Raymond 6
lo on Friday night, when practice a lot of different test of the night. Saltillo, 93 yards. Cannon had Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0
LeFlore 28, West Tallahatchie 0 Penalties-yards 0-0 2-25
the Green Wave turned in guys to get them ready for starting at its own 20, put 92 yards on five carries. RUSHING: Saltillo — Wayne Smith 16-98, Jake
Leake Aca. 20, Washington School 0
an efficient and explosive those given times. You’re together a 13-play drive Cannon also had 48 re- Prather 6-42, Tyler Visentin 2-9, Jaden Warren 1-1,
Caleb Agnew 1-0; West Point — Chris Ivy 11-93,
Lee Academy-Clarksdale 21, Kirk Aca. 3
night on each side of the one injury away from but fell short in the red ceiving yards. Dantariyus Cannon 5-92, Jimothy Mays 7-53, Cam-
eron Young 5-49, Jayden Floyd 2-37, Joseph Vance
Louisville 35, Northeast Lauderdale 7
ball. The Green Wave ran someone having to step zone. Donte Smith had “[Cannon] gives us a 1-28, Dantavius Moseley 3-18, Kelviontae Gibbs 3-7,
Obryan Brandy 1-6.
Loyd Star 37, Enterprise Lincoln 13
for 373 yards, held Saltil- up — that’s all season. a sack on that drive, and boost when we need it,” PASSING: Saltillo — Jake Prather 3-10, 14; Chance
Madison Central 24, Murrah 0
lo to 14 passing yards and And you’re another injury Macorte Hoskins broke Chambless said. “He’s a Johnson 0-1, 0; West Point — Brandon Harris 8-15,
99; Corbin Kelly 0-6, 0.
Madison-Ridgeland Aca. 49, Parklane Aca. 12
blocked a punt in a 34-7 away from the third guy, up a pass at the goal line. great young man, a fun RECEIVING: Saltillo — Ethan Turner 1-7, Wayne
Smith 1-4, Braham Rinehart 1-3; West Point — Dan-
Magee 51, Seminary 27
win. so everybody has to be A 15-yard facemask pen- kid to coach. We’re going tariyus Cannon 2-48, Jordan Rupert 3-45.
Magnolia Heights 31, North Delta 13
Manchester Aca. 53, Humphreys Aca. 14

Columbus offense goes quiet in loss to Center Hill

Marshall Aca. 42, Tunica Academy 6
Marvell Academy, Ark. 38, North Sunflower Aca. 8
McAdams 6, Shaw 0
Moss Point 46, St. Stanislaus 38
Mount Olive 44, Leake County 14
By Theo DeRosa have the guys prepared.
tderosa@cdispatch.com I didn’t have the guys
Myrtle 47, Falkner 0
ready to play fast. I didn’t
Neshoba Central 48, Vicksburg 7
Contrast Columbus have the guys ready to
Nettleton 42, Belmont 15
High School’s first drive play physical. We didn’t
Newton Co. Aca. 16, Amite School 0
Friday against Center get as many stops as we
North Pontotoc 30, Ripley 7
Hill with any of its oth- needed.”
North Side 56, Leland 0
er possessions, and it While the Falcons
Northeast Jones 35, Richland 6
shouldn’t take long to did key on Mustangs
Okolona 20, Hamilton 0
divine how the Falcons’ running back Darryen
Olive Branch 24, Tupelo 14
two-game winning streak Hobbs, it hardly mat-
Park Place Christian Academy 28, Copiah Aca. 7
was snapped at home. tered, as Hobbs dashed
Pascagoula 26, Hattiesburg 7
The Falcons gradu- through narrow gaps all
Pass Christian 42, Bay 14 ally moved the ball and evening and finished with
Pearl 62, Meridian 0 ran the clock, going 67 three touchdowns on the
Pelahatchie 55, Riverside 12 yards in 13 plays and just ground.
Petal 21, Oak Grove 7 over seven minutes. A “We knew 15 was the
Philadelphia 26, Scott Central 14 28-yard touchdown pass man,” Pulphus said of
Picayune 55, Gautier 0 from Ethan Conner to De- Hobbs. “We knew 15 was
Pontotoc 35, Mooreville 17 varkus Ramsey and a suc- a good player. That was Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
Potts Camp 15, Strayhorn 7 cessful two-point conver- the plan to come in and Columbus sophomore Michael Mosley returns the ball Friday against Center Hill.
Prentiss Christian 40, Ben’s Ford, La. 18 sion capped a drive that make sure we respect ond quarter was where and snuffed them all out, that Columbus will have
Puckett 21, Mize 14 couldn’t have gone any and honor him. We just it really fell apart for Co- most for big losses. to bring better offense to
Quitman 39, Florence 7 better, putting Columbus missed assignments, and lumbus on Friday. “We just didn’t exe- the table to notch a win
Raleigh 21, Crystal Springs 14 ahead 8-0. that goes back to me.” Hobbs scored from 10 cute,” Pulphus said. “I in next Friday’s home
Rebul Aca. 42, Union Christian Academy, 36 But as it turned out, Those missed assign- yards out a little bit over didn’t prepare us hard matchup with Grenada.
Resurrection Catholic 35, Stringer 20 that was the beginning ments were the Falcons’ a minute into the quarter enough in wide receiver “Grenada’s a division
Ridgeland 49, Cleveland Central 15 and the end for the Co- undoing — especially and repeated the perfor- blocking, DB blocking.” matchup, division game,
Riverfield, La. 54, Bayou Aca. 12 lumbus offense. The Fal- against a team like Cen- mance from 6 yards out On the other side of the and it’s important,” Pul-
Rosa Fort 39, Sheffield, Tenn. 0 cons flamed out after that ter Hill, where Pulphus a little less than six min- ball, Center Hill put on a phus said. “We gotta
Sebastopol 42, Salem 6 sustained opening pos- said one missed assign- utes later. Just before the master class in blocking, come back to the draw-
Senatobia 21, North Panola 20 session, failing to score ment essentially becomes half, Center Hill’s Xavier seemingly always creat- ing board next Monday
Silliman, La. 36, St. Aloysius 8 again and letting Center four. Pearson knocked a 39- ing the necessary holes ready to practice, ready
Simpson Aca. 47, Winston Aca. 21 Hill run wild for a 31-8 “We had a lot of self-in- yard field goal through for Hobbs or sophomore
win on the Falcons’ home to work and ready to play
Smithville 50, Vardaman 21 flicted wounds,” Pulphus the uprights to put the back Troy Martin.
field. football.”
South Delta 34, St. Joseph-Madison 24 said. “We didn’t play our Mustangs up two posses- Martin scored 46 sec-
South Panola 21, Clinton 14 “We just got brain- best.” sions, and the Falcons, onds into the fourth quar- Center Center Hill 31, Columbus 8
Hill 0 17 0 14 — 31
South Pike 28, McComb 18 dead for a second,” Co- The poor performance who had taken an 8-0 lead ter from 5 yards out, and Columbus 8000—8
First quarter
Southaven 42, Hernando 24 lumbus running back was quite the opposite into the period, headed Hobbs put the finishing 4:52 C — Devarkus Ramsey 28 pass from Ethan Con-
St. Andrew’s 29, McLaurin 22 Karon Hawk Jr. said. of what Hawk expected into halftime trailing 17- touches on the ballgame ner (Jaelan Craddieth pass from Conner)
Second quarter
St. Joseph-Greenville 44, River Oaks, La. 7 A combination of based on the team’s effort 8. with a 40-yard score with 10:46 CH — Darryen Hobbs 10 run (Xavier Pearson
kick)
St. Martin 54, Hancock 35 crushing penalties, during game preparation, Columbus’ offensive 4:13 to go, giving Center 4:54 CH — Hobbs 6 run (Pearson kick)
Starkville 27, Germantown 0 too-predictable play-call- he said. efforts as the Falcons Hill a 31-8 advantage.
0:09 CH — Pearson 39 FG
Fourth quarter
Sylva-Bay Aca. 28, Centreville Aca. 16 ing and strong defense by “They were going tried to get back into The Falcons’ final 11:14 CH — Troy Martin 5 run (Pearson kick)
4:13 CH — Hobbs 40 run (Pearson kick)
Tri-County Aca. 34, Central Hinds Aca. 14 the Mustangs effectively hard at practice and when the game in the second possession was a fitting Team statistics
CH C
Union 53, Newton 8 shut down the Falcons’ we were watching film,” half resulted in several end to Friday’s game, as First downs 15 8
Velma Jackson 15, Yazoo County 8 offense, and Center Hill Hawk said. dropped passes, runs quarterback Ethan Con- Rushes-yards 46-280
Passing yards 18
23-99
55
Walnut 28, J.Z. George 25 ran its option offense to The junior had some of blown up in the backfield ner completed a 4-yard Comp.-Att.-Int. 1-5-0 10-18-0
Return yards 7 152
Warren Central 30, Greenville 20 perfection. his best runs before a sec- and penalties, but per- screen to Williams then Penalties-yards 0-0 11-100
Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0
Water Valley 24, Byhalia 14 Seeing his team out- ond-quarter ankle injury haps even less promising threw three straight in- Individual statistics
Wayne County 21, Pearl River Central 6 matched Friday, Colum- limited him and Jakaylin was the team’s screen completions, including ryen Hobbs 9-95, No. 11 3-29, Tucker Henley
RUSHING: Center Hill — Troy Martin 25-118, Dar-
6-25,
Wesson 48, West Lincoln 7 bus coach Joshua Pulphus Lewis assumed the bulk game. The Mustangs saw a drop by junior wideout Landon Mix 3-13; Columbus — Karon Hawk Jr. 9-55,
Ethan Conner 10-36, Jakaylin Lewis 3-8, Devarkus
West Lauderdale 44, Leake Central 3 knew the fault ultimately of the snaps at running right through essentially Steven Turner, to give the Ramsey 1-0.
Wilkinson County 105, Franklin Co. 97 lay on his shoulders. back. every screen play the Fal- Mustangs the ball back PASSING: Center Hill — Preston Newson 1-5, 18;
Columbus — Ethan Conner 10-18, 55.
Wingfield 28, Natchez 12 “This is my loss,” Even apart from cons ran to sophomore for the final time. RECEIVING: Center Hill — Tucker Henley 1-18; Co-
lumbus — Devarkus Ramsey 1-28, Omari Williams
Winona Christian 48, Carroll Aca. 46, 2OT Pulphus said. “I didn’t Hawk’s injury, that sec- receiver Omari Williams It goes without saying 8-27, Bryson Lanier 1-0.

Prep Football
Starkville running back Lazavier Evans (4) breaks through a tackle and breaks off a gain during Friday’s home game against Germantown.
Starkville trounces Germantown behind huge first quarter
By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — test’s opening series,
Starkville High School’s
first quarter Friday
couldn’t have been more
efficient from an offen-
sive standpoint.
The Yellow Jackets
scored touchdowns on
all four of their drives in
the quarter, racing out to
a 27-0 lead against Ger-
mantown during their
homecoming game in
Starkville.
Unfortunately for
Starkville, the offense
didn’t find pay dirt again,
stalling for the final three
quarters. But the defense
was stout, shutting down
the Mavericks for the
unit’s second shutout of
the season en route to a
27-0 victory.
“We’re still not satis-
fied,” Starkville coach
Chris Jones said. “We
have to have more of a
killer instinct.”
PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
Heritage Academy moves to 8-0 with road win
Heritage Aca. 33,
Tuscaloosa Aca. 7
By Theo DeRosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.
— KJ Smith ran for three
touchdowns, and Heri-
tage Academy kept up its
winning ways on the road
Friday against Tuscaloo-
sa Academy (5-3).
Smith ran 13 times
for 71 yards as the top-
ranked Patriots beat the
Knights 33-7 to improve
to 8-0 on the season.
Quarterback Carter
Putt was 16 of 24 for 206
yards with a touchdown
pass to Banks Hyde and
two interceptions. Hyde
led the team in receiv-
ing with four catches for
90 yards, including a 66-
yard long. Jared Long had
five grabs for 54 yards,
and Noel Fisher had four
catches for 40 yards.
Putt ran eight times
for 49 yards, and Austin
Dotson ran seven times
for 37 yards.
Long and Wesley
Miller each recovered a
fumble for the Patriots,
whose next game is at
home against Lamar (6-
2).
Noxubee County 19,
Houston 12
MACON — Marlon
Windham threw two
touchdown passes, ran
for another score and in-
tercepted three passes,
After the Starkville
(5-2) defense forced a
three and out on the con-
senior wideout Joshua
Aka hauled in a 25-yard
touchdown pass from ju-
nior quarterback Luke
Altmyer to give his team
a 6-0 lead (the PAT was
blocked).
It was the start of a big
night for Aka, who hauled
in four passes for 90 yards
with two touchdowns. At
halftime, Aka was named
Starkville’s homecoming
king.
“It’s amazing; I feel
like I killed two birds
with one stone,” Aka said
of his newfound royal-
ty. “Switching back and
forth was a great feeling,
it really was.
“It’s one heck of a feel-
ing knowing that all that
hard work and prepara-
tion is starting to pay off.
It’s really a blessing, and I
can’t thank God enough.”
Following another
and Noxubee County (4-
3) pulled off a 19-12 upset
of Houston on Friday.
Windham complet-
ed 22 of his 33 passing
attempts for 215 yards
including touchdowns to
Jeffery Malone and Chr-
ishaad Rupert. Malone
finished with five catches
for 86 yards, Rupert had
59 yards on seven catch-
es, and Coby Lockett
caught five passes for 54
yards.
Windham ran 17 times
for 151 yards and one
rushing score.
On defense, he had
seven tackles and three
interceptions. Trillo
Brown led the team with
14 tackles.
The Tigers travel to
face Corinth (5-1) on Fri-
day.
West Lowndes 32,
French Camp Aca. 31
Albert Plair rushed for
three touchdowns and
converted two two-point
tries, and West Lowndes
held off a late French
Camp Academy rally to
notch a one-point home
win in Friday’s home
game.
The host Panthers
(6-1) led 32-19 heading
into the fourth quarter,
but French Camp (1-6)
scored 12 points in the
period to get very close to
a comeback victory.
Plair finished with 20
carries for 135 yards as
well as three receptions
for 34 yards. Kevin Wil-
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Germantown (3-3) punt,
Altmyer threw a bullet
to senior Rufus Harvey,
who hauled in a 29-yard
touchdown pass. Harvey
finished the night with 10
catches for 137 yards with
one receiving touchdown.
“They were super
aggressive on defense,
and I really thought we
could take advantage of
that with misdirection
and screen type of stuff,”
Jones said. “We also have
a lot of guys that are good
in space.”
Starkville forced its
first of three turnovers
on the next series after
Ty’verius Nichols recov-
ered a fumble, and the of-
fense made the Mavericks
pay. In an unconventional
play, Harvey showed off
his arm by hooking up
with Jatavious Lucious on
a 12-yard scoring pass to
put the Yellow Jackets up
three possessions.
Jones’ offense had
been gashing German-
burn had nine carries for
50 yards and a touchdown
as well as three catches
for 28 yards.
Quarterback Melvin
Crawford went 7 of 16
passing for 68 yards and
an interception. Decamby
Willis caught a two-point
conversion from Craw-
ford.
The Panthers will host
Smithville on Friday.
Pillow Academy 35,
Starkville Academy 7
GREENWOOD — Pike Liberal Arts 54, Abbeville Christian Academy 14
Starkville Academy lost
for the first time since its
first game against Lamar,
dropping a 35-7 decision
to fifth-ranked Pillow
Academy (6-1) on Friday
in Greenwood.
CJ Jackson rushed
10 times for 106 yards
and the lone touchdown
for the Volunteers (5-2),
which came in the third
quarter. The Mustangs
led 14-0 at halftime and
stretched their lead with
a 21-point third.
The Vols will travel to
Cleveland to face Bayou
Academy (1-6) next Fri-
day.
Columbus Christian 23, Unity Christian Aca. 52,
Delta Academy 20 Hebron Christian 22
Dakota Shaw threw
two touchdowns to Jona-
than Peal, and Columbus
Christian Academy (5-2)
held off Delta Academy
23-20 at home Friday
night.
Shaw found Peal for
a 20-yard score in the
town with screens all
night, but none was more
effective than Aka’s 65-
yard touchdown catch on
the next offensive series.
In addition to metaphor-
ically breaking the cor-
nerback’s ankles, Aka
ran about 62 yards after
the catch.
“I saw the corner come
down really hard, and I
knew as long as I made
him miss, I’m gone,” the
senior wideout said.
Altmyer finished with
313 yards and three
touchdowns on 21 of 30
passing, while his team
outgained Germantown
451-188.
Jamori Evans led the
team defensively with
two interceptions and
four tackles, while Key
Lawrence racked up sev-
en tackles and a sack. Jus-
tice Robinson had seven
tackles and a forced fum-
ble.
Starkville is back in
action at 7 p.m. Friday in
second quarter and a 26-
yard touchdown in the
third. Shaw also forced a
key fumble in the fourth
quarter that led to a Will
Teague field goal to put
the Rams up two scores.
Bryar Kemp scored
the Rams’ first touch-
down, a 5-yard rushing
score, and Shaw was
intercepted on the two-
point conversion attempt.
Delta scored to close the
first quarter ahead 8-6.
Teague picked off Del-
ta in the end zone in the
second quarter — he had
two interceptions in the
game — and Shaw found
Peal from 20 yards out to
put the Rams up 12-8 at
halftime.
After a Delta score to
start the third quarter,
Shaw connected with
Peal for a 26-yard touch-
down and converted
the two-point try. Delta
scored late in the fourth
quarter after Teague’s
field goal, bringing the
score to 23-20.
The Rams will head
to Bogalusa, Louisiana,
next week to face Ben’s
Ford Christian.
PHEBA — Kobe Coo-
per had two touchdowns
of more than 50 yards, but
Hebron Christian (2-5)
fell 52-22 to Unity Chris-
tian Academy on Friday
night.
Cooper had a 58-yard
rushing score among his
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019 3B
Friday’s Alabama Scores
Addison 44, Colbert County 12
Alabama Christian Academy 28, Headland 22
Albertville 42, Hazel Green 14
Alexandria 16, Sardis 10, 2OT
Aliceville 39, Winston County 0
American Christian Aca. 55, Sumter Central 0
Andalusia 21, Williamson 0
Appalachian 20, Ragland 14
Arab 36, East Limestone 14
Ariton 29, Abbeville 8
Athens 31, Cullman 17
Autaugaville 50, Verbena 0
B.C. Rain 40, Robertsdale 28
Barbour County 29, Houston County 14
Bayside Academy 30, Flomaton 26
Berry 37, Lynn 16
Bessemer Academy 31, Escambia Academy 17
Bessemer City 31, Hillcrest 7
Bibb County 54, Jemison 0
Billingsley 25, Wadley 6
Boaz 46, Crossville 15
Bob Jones 21, Grissom 2
Brantley 21, Elba 18
Brewer 24, Ardmore 17
Briarwood Christian 48, John Carroll Catholic 16
Brilliant 30, Meek 6
Bullock County 48, Beulah 18
Carbon Hill 34, Lamar County 20
Catholic-Montgomery 55, Ashford 28
Center Point 40, Springville 7
Central-Florence 48, Elkmont 13
Central-Hayneville 22, Samson 19
Central-Phenix City 42, Enterprise 13
Central-Tuscaloosa 42, Marbury 38
Choctaw County 58, Southern Choctaw 7
Citronelle 28, Satsuma 16
Clay-Chalkville 31, Shades Valley 13
Cleveland 58, Gaston 0
Collinsville 41, Section 7
Corner 28, Dora 0
Cottage Hill 24, R.C. Hatch 0
Crenshaw Christian Academy 38, Lakeside School 0
DAR 21, Randolph School 7
Dale County 37, B.T. Washington 22
Daleville 68, Cottonwood 29
Danville 26, Priceville 25
Daphne 42, Baldwin County 7
Davidson 35, Mary Montgomery 14
Decatur Heritage 26, Colbert Heights 20
Austin Frayser/Special to The Dispatch Demopolis 41, Shelby County 7
Deshler 28, Rogers 0
Dothan 44, Carver-Montgomery 20
East Lawrence 28, Lexington 14
Escambia County 21, Clarke County 15
Eufaula 50, Park Crossing 29
Fairhope 26, Baker 6
Fairview 47, North Jackson 7
Faith Academy 59, Wilcox Central 0
a road matchup against Falkville 62, Coosa Christian 26
Greenville. Fayette County 31, Oak Grove 15
Fayetteville 28, LaFayette 14
“Defense did great,” Florala 52, Red Level 7
Jones said. “Offensively, Fort Payne 42, Lee-Huntsville 0
Francis Marion 50, A.L. Johnson 0
we missed a lot of shots. Fultondale 36, Vinemont 22
I’m not sure if it was be- Fyffe 55, Sand Rock 0
G.W. Long 57, Geneva County 51
cause of the wind or what, Geneva 32, Straughn 27
but we have to get better. Georgiana 32, Pleasant Home 0
Geraldine 56, Pisgah 20
The good news is there’s
Glenwood 49, Southland, Ga. 28
a lot of football left to get Gordo 49, Holt 13
Greene County 61, Hale County 0
better.”
Greenville 21, Charles Henderson 10
Starkville 27, Germantown 0 Haleyville 15, Curry 6
Germantown 0 0 0 0 — 0 Handley 42, Elmore County 14
Starkville 27 0 0 0 — 27 Harris County, Ga. 38, Beauregard 14
First quarter
S — Joshua Aka 25 pass from Luke Altmyer (kick
Hartselle 76, Columbia 0
failed)
Hatton 46, Tanner 13
Hayden 28, Hamilton 7
S — Rufus Harvey 29 pass from Altmyer (Peyton
Rodgers kick) Helena 31, Chelsea 28
S — Jatavious Lucious 12 pass from Harvey (Rod-
gers kick)
Highland Home 49, Zion Chapel 0
Hokes Bluff 35, Ashville 14
S — Aka 65 pass from Altmyer (Rodgers kick)
Hooper Academy 41, Fort Dale Academy 24
Team statistics
G S Hubbard 43, Gaylesville 8
First downs 8
Rushes-yards 17-66
22
28-87
Hubbertville 34, Marion County 32
Hueytown 42, Northridge 14
Passing yards 122 364 Ider 42, Asbury 6
Comp.-att-int. 12-41-2 29-41-0
Return yards 58 14 Isabella 42, Keith 20
J.F. Shields 34, Saint Luke’s Episcopal 28
Fumbles-lost 1-1
Penalties-yards 5-32
1-0
3-23 J.U. Blacksher 50, Washington County 0
Individual statistics Jackson 41, Thomasville 7
RUSHING: Germantown — Branson Robinson 8-33,
Colton Gardner 3-17, Nick Barnes 6-16; Starkville —
Jacksonville 38, Anniston 30
Jasper 42, West Point 7
Amariyon Howard 7-31, Jordan Mitchell 6-29, Laza-
vier Evans 5-21. Kinston 55, McKenzie 34
PASSING: Germantown — Colton Gardner 12-41,
122; Starkville — Luke Altmyer 21-30, 313; Rufus
Lauderdale County 48, Clements 7
Leroy 36, Chickasaw 14
Harvey 1-1, 12; NyJal Johnson 1-1, 0; Quez Harris
Lincoln 48, Holtville 13
6-9, 39.
RECEIVING: Germantown — Tykwon Wade 5-53, Locust Fork 48, Holly Pond 18
Ojavien Francis 4-33, Deq Peoples 3-36; Starkville
— Rufus Harvey 10-137, Joshua Aka 4-90, Sam Hunt
Luverne 27, Goshen 26
Macon-East 18, Lowndes Academy 13
4-33, Jatavious Lucious 4-28. Madison Academy 44, Guntersville 37
Madison County 20, Scottsboro 7
Mae Jemison 35, Buckhorn 21
Maplesville 48, Ellwood Christian Academy 0
Mars Hill Bible 60, Vina 0
McGill-Toolen 42, Foley 0
Midfield 36, Hanceville 12
Millry 41, Marengo 0
Minor 28, Homewood 0
Mobile Christian 33, T.R. Miller 15
11 carries for 93 yards,
and he returned a kickoff
Monroe Academy 34, Patrician Academy 28
Montevallo 62, West Blocton 50
Montgomery Academy 8, Dadeville 2
for an 83-yard touchdown
as well.
Mortimer Jordan 34, Central-Clay County 28
Mountain Brook 42, Oak Mountain 14
Munford 20, Moody 7
Jon Garrett Lowe Muscle Shoals 49, Decatur 13
caught an 8-yard touch- New Brockton 50, Calhoun 14
down pass from Braeden North Sand Mountain 55, Cedar Bluff 22
Northside 41, Good Hope 16
Triplett for the Eagles’ Ohatchee 49, West End 7
other score, and Triplett Oneonta 49, Cherokee County 21
Opelika 45, Benjamin Russell 17
also found Lowe for a two- Opp 48, Wicksburg 0
point conversion. Oxford 45, Huffman 6
Elijah Parrish finished Parker 42, Fairfield 20
Paul Bryant 12, McAdory 6
with eight carries for 76 Pell City 45, Etowah 6
yards. On defense, his Pensacola Catholic, Fla. 47, Autauga Academy 27
11 tackles led the team.
Phillips-Bear Creek 27, Shoals Christian 14
Pickens County 18, South Lamar 15
Jackson Langley had 10
tackles, and Cooper had
Piedmont 38, Saks 16
Pike County 47, Providence Christian 10
six. Pike Road 35, St. James 24
Hebron’s next game is Pinson Valley 21, Gardendale 0
Pleasant Grove 31, Wenonah 0
at DeSoto (West Helena, Pleasant Valley 47, Glencoe 7
Arkansas) on Friday. Prattville 20, Lee-Montgomery 3
Ramsay 36, Woodlawn 0
Ranburne 33, Westbrook Christian 13
Clarke Prep 32, Randolph County 42, Weaver 6
Red Bay 30, Sheffield 14
Pickens Academy 14 Reeltown 22, Thorsby 8
GROVE HILL, Ala. — Rehobeth 6, Carroll-Ozark 3
Russellville 22, Lawrence County 14
Lane Goodman and Seth
Saraland 42, Gulf Shores 3
Peeks caught touchdown Selma 46, Calera 27
passes for Pickens Acade-
Sidney Lanier 12, Russell County 0
Slocomb 42, Houston Academy 7
my (Carrollton, Alabama) Southside-Gadsden 42, Douglas 7
in Friday’s 32-14 loss at Sparkman 24, Austin 21
Spring Garden 44, Talladega County Central 0
Clarke Prep.
St. John Paul II Catholic 49, West Morgan 36
Goodman had 64 re- St. Paul’s 35, Spanish Fort 30
Stanhope Elmore 28, Wetumpka 20
ceiving yards, Peeks had
Sulligent 39, Southeastern 18
18 and Clark Noland had Susan Moore 40, New Hope 21
27 yards. Jon Wesley Rye Sweet Water 54, McIntosh 0
Sylacauga 48, St. Clair County 7
led the Pirates (2-4) with
Sylvania 51, Brindlee Mountain 0
48 yards rushing on 23 Talladega 28, Leeds 20
Tarrant 42, Sumiton Christian 12
carries.
Quarterback Aidan
Theodore 32, Murphy 7
Thompson 47, Spain Park 23
Johnson completed 10 of UMS-Wright 28, Hillcrest-Evergreen 14
Valley 34, Tallassee 12
25 passes for 77 yards, Valley Head 29, Woodville 7
but he was intercepted Vestavia Hills 19, Hewitt-Trussville 14
four times.
Victory Chr. 21, Winterboro 14
Vigor 28, LeFlore 14
On defense, Chandler Vincent 51, Central Coosa 8
Box led the team with 11 W.S. Neal 51, Monroe County 12
Walter Wellborn 56, B.B. Comer 26
tackles. Pickens Acad- Waterloo 54, Cherokee 8
emy’s next game is at West Limestone 45, Wilson 12
Westminster Christian Aca. 55, Phil Campbell 6
home against Chambers White Plains 31, Cleburne County 27
Academy (7-0). Winfield 20, Oakman 19
4B SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019
MULLEN, GATORS UPSET TIGERS IN THE SWAMP
Former Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen celebrates No. 10 Florida’s 24-13 win over No. 7 Auburn on Saturday in Gainesville, Florida.
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla.
— Lamical Perine was too
slow to play for Auburn
three years ago, a hurt-
ful evaluation that’s stuck
with him.
He showed plenty of
speed while running
away from the Tigers —
and a few guys he played
against in high school —
in the Swamp on Satur-
day.
Perine broke loose for
an 88-yard touchdown
run in the fourth quarter,
Florida’s defense deliv-
ered another gem, and
the No. 10 Gators beat
seventh-ranked Auburn
24-13 in a matchup of un-
beaten teams.
Perine broke lineback-
er K.J. Britt’s tackle at
the line of scrimmage and
scampered down the side-
line for the program’s lon-
gest TD run in more than
30 years. It gave the Ga-
tors (6-0, 3-0 Southeast-
ern Conference) extra
breathing room in a game
they never trailed.
Doing it against Au-
burn was extra special.
“Almost brought tears
to my eyes,” said Per-
ine, whose run was the
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: TOP 25 ROUNDUP
No. 19 Michigan holds off No. 14 Iowa in defensive struggle
Michigan 10,
Iowa 3
The Associated Press
ANN ARBOR, Mich.
— Zach Charbonnet had
a 2-yard touchdown run
to give Michigan an ear-
ly double-digit lead, and
its defense did the rest
against Iowa, forcing four
turnovers and making
eight sacks.
The Wolverines (4-1,
2-1 Big Ten) were held
scoreless over the final
three quarters because
they could not run or
pass effectively, scoring
just three points off the
Hawkeyes’ turnovers.
No. 3 Georgia 43,
Tennessee 14
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
— Jake Fromm threw two
touchdown passes, Geor-
gia’s defense delivered
a dominant second-half
performance, and the
Bulldogs recovered from
a slow start to beat Ten-
nessee.
longest for Florida since
Emmitt Smith’s 96-yarder
against Mississippi State
in 1988.
Perine finished with a
career-high 130 yards on
14 carries and had Smith
waiting to congratulate
him afterward.
The junior from Theo-
dore, Alabama, closed out
the upset. But Florida’s
defense really carried the
team.
Jon Greenard and Da-
vid Reese were the stars
of the show for Florida,
which has given up a mea-
sly 16 points in four home
games this season.
The Gators kept JaTar-
vious Whitlow in check
and harassed freshman
quarterback Bo Nix,
whose father, Patrick, up-
set top-ranked Florida in
Gainesville in 1994.
“That’s the kind of de-
fense we expect to play
around here,” Florida
coach Dan Mullen said.
Auburn (5-1, 2-1) fin-
ished with 269 yards —
the ninth-fewest in coach
Gus Malzahn’s seven sea-
sons —and converted just
2 of 14 third-down tries.
The Tigers also had four
turnovers and six three-
and-outs.
Georgia (5-0, 2-0
Southeastern Confer-
ence) scored the final 33
points to earn its 15th
straight victory over East-
ern Division opponent.
No. 4 Ohio St. 34,
No. 25 Michigan St. 10
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Justin Fields threw two
touchdown passes and
ran for another score, J.K.
Dobbins rushed for 172
yards and a touchdown
and Ohio State overcame
a sluggish start.
The Buckeyes (6-0,
3-0 Big Ten) had to work
to figure out Michigan
State’s defense to start,
after blowing out every
opponent through the
first five games. They
gained just 16 yards on 16
plays in the first quarter,
but got unstuck and put
away the Spartans (4-2,
2-1) with big plays.
No. 5 LSU 42, Utah St. 6
BATON ROUGE, La.
— Joe Burrow became
the first LSU quarterback
to eclipse 300 yards pass-
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AUBURN AT FLORIDA
“We just didn’t get it
done offensively,” Mal-
zahn said. “That starts
with me. I’ve got to do a
better job of having our
guys ready. ... Any time
you turn the ball over four
times on the road, you’re
going to have a tough
time winning.”
Nix completed 11 of
27 passes for 145 yards,
with a touchdown and
three interceptions — his
first turnovers since the
season opener. He was
sacked twice, once for a
22-yard loss in which he
looked completely lost.
Auburn’s biggest prob-
lem was staying on its
feet.
Nix found Seth Wil-
liams for a 46-yard gain
in the third quarter, but
he overthrew him just
enough that Williams had
to make a leaping catch.
Nix threw an intercep-
tion in the end zone three
plays later.
Equally disappointing
for the Tigers: star defen-
sive tackle Derrick Brown
sacked Kyle Trask on
the final play of the first
quarter. The 318-pound
Brown, widely considered
a top-10 NFL draft pick in
April, picked up the loose
ing in four straight games
and threw for five touch-
downs against Utah State.
Burrow completed
27 of 38 passes for 344
yards and was intercept-
ed once on a tipped pass
before being replaced
by Myles Brennan in the
fourth quarter. Burrow
also rushed for 42 yards
and a touchdown. He has
completed 78.3 percent
of his passes for 1,864
yards and 22 touchdowns
through five games.
No. 6 Oklahoma 45,
Kansas 20
LAWRENCE, Kan.
— Jalen Hurts threw for
228 yards and two touch-
downs, ran for 56 yards
and two more TDs and
added another line to his
Heisman Trophy resume
in leading Oklahoma.
Rhamondre Stevenson
added 109 yards rushing
and a score on just five
carries for Oklahoma.
The Sooners (5-0, 2-0 Big
12) spotted Kansas (2-
4, 0-2) a touchdown lead
before ripping off seven
ball and rumbled 42 yards
before stumbling without
anyone touching him.
“The environment, the
crowd did get to us,” Mal-
zahn conceded, pointing
to his team’s nine penal-
ties.
More than 90,500 were
on hand for Florida’s
homecoming and the de-
but of its throwback uni-
forms from the 1960s.
Mullen celebrated by
jumping around with his
high school buddies in
the south end zone —
just a few feet from where
Perine crossed the goal
line. He then kissed his
wife, hugged the school
president and handed his
sweat-soaked visor to a
young fan.
He really let loose in
the locker room, dancing
and chanting with play-
ers.
As for Perine’s perfor-
mance against the team
that didn’t want him?
“Isn’t that crazy?” Mul-
len said.
The takeaway
Auburn: Nix showed
signs early that he was in
for a long day. The sellout
crowd made it difficult for
him to hear, forcing him
straight scores.
No. 8 Wisconsin 48,
Kent State 0
MADISON, Wis. —
Jonathan Taylor had four
rushing touchdowns and
caught a TD pass, Zack
Baun had a career-high
three sacks, and Wiscon-
sin coasted to past Kent
State.
Taylor had 19 rushes
for 186 yards, eclipsing
the 100-yard mark for
the 27th time in 32 career
games with the Badgers
(5-0).
No. 9 Notre Dame 52,
Bowling Green 0
SOUTH BEND, Ind.
— Ian Book threw five
touchdown passes and
had only four incomplete
passes in a little more
than two quarters of work
for Notre Dame.
The Fighting Irish (4-
1) had their way with the
Falcons (1-4). The margin
matched Notre Dame’s
winning difference in a
66-14 victory over New
Mexico this season and
to relay play calls individ-
ually to every member of
his offense.
Florida: The Gators
have a defense capable of
winning a championship.
They’ve got the ideal com-
bination of rush and cover
to give any opponent fits.
Poll implications
Florida will remain in
the top 10 of the AP col-
lege football poll for the
fourth consecutive week.
Auburn likely will fall out
of the top 10.
Trask’s troubles
Trask was knocked
out of the game in the
second quarter when
Brown landed low on his
left leg. Trask walked to
the locker room and later
returned to a raucous ova-
tion.
He completed 19 of 31
passes for 234 yards and
two touchdowns. He also
fumbled three times.
Mullen said Trask
sprained a ligament, but
should be fine.
Mullen also was visi-
bly upset after running
back Dameon Pierce was
knocked out of the game
on a helmet-to-helmet hit
by Britt.
was Notre Dame’s first
shutout since 2014.
No. 11 Texas 42, West
Virginia 31
MORGA N T OW N,
W.Va. — Sam Ehlinger
threw two touchdown
passes and ran for two
more scores and Texas
converted three turn-
overs into TDs.
Texas (4-1, 2-0 Big 12)
beat the Mountaineers (3-
2, 1-1) on the road for the
second straight time.
The Longhorns had
plenty of motivation for
this one. Ehlinger and
several Texas players
were upset last year af-
ter several Mountaineers
flashed “horns down”
signs during West Vir-
ginia’s 42-41 victory in
Austin.
No. 12 Penn State 35,
Purdue 7
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.
— Sean Clifford threw
for 264 yards with three
touchdowns and ran for
another score for Penn
State.
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“We have rules in place
to protect players,” Mul-
len said.
Wild first half
The first half included
five turnovers and a ques-
tionable fourth-down call.
During one seven-play
stretch spanning the first
and second quarters,
there was a muffed punt,
a sack/fumble and an in-
terception.
Leading 14-6, Mullen
seemed to be looking for
a knockout punch when
he called for a fake punt
on fourth-and-3 at his
own 34. Punter Tommy
Townsend danced left
and right behind the line
of scrimmage and was
stopped well short.
The Tigers scored on
the next play. It seemed
like a turning point, but
the Gators responded.
Up next
Auburn gets a week off
before playing at Arkan-
sas. The Tigers have won
three straight and five of
the last six in the series.
Florida plays at No. 5
LSU next Saturday night.
The Tigers have won four
of the last six and six of
nine in the series.
The Nittany Lions (5-
0, 2-0 Big Ten) were dom-
inant on defense, with
10 sacks, one shy of the
school single-game re-
cord. The Boilermakers
were held to 104 yards.
Playing without start-
ing quarterback Elijah
Sindelar and star receiver
Rondale Moore, the Boil-
ermakers (1-4, 0-2) didn’t
cross midfield until their
sixth possession midway
through the second.
Texas Tech 45, No. 21
Oklahoma State 35
LUBBOCK, Texas —
Jett Duffey threw four
touchdown passes and
ran for another score in
his first start of the sea-
son, leading Texas Tech
past Oklahoma State.
Texas Tech (3-2, 1-1
Big 12), coming off a 55-
16 loss at Oklahoma two
weeks ago, built a 20-0
lead 30 seconds into the
second quarter and won
its second straight in the
series after going 0-10-2
in the previous 12 meet-
ings.
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Major league baseball

Gregorius, Yanks stagger Twins again

The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Didi Grego-
rius hooked a slump-busting
grand slam during a seven-run
third inning and the New York
Yankees pummeled the Minne-
sota Twins again, cruising to an
8-2 victory Saturday for a 2-0
lead in their AL Division Series.
Uber driver-turned-rook-
ie big leaguer Randy Dobnak
struggled in an unexpected
start, and the Twins lost their
record 15th consecutive post-
season game, including 12
straight against the Yankees.
The latter is the longest post-
season skid for one club against
another in baseball history, top-
ping Boston’s dominance over
the Angels from 1986-2008.
Minnesota hasn’t won a playoff
game since Johan Santana best-
ed the Yankees in their 2004 Di-
vision Series opener.
Coaches and players on both
sides have downplayed that his-
tory, most of which predates
current rosters. It’s all too fa-
miliar for fans in Minnesota,
where the teams will play Mon-
day’s Game 3 in the best-of-five
series.
Gregorius’ shot blew Game
2 wide open while New York
batted around. The switch-hit-
ter staggered after connecting
for the first time since Sept. 10,
looping his bat from one hand to
another and mashing on bubble
gum while he watched the ball
fly. Gregorius, set to become a
free agent after the season, bat-
ted .194 during September and
was 0 for 3 in Game 1.
Manager Aaron Boone had
predicted that if Gregorius
could just find a hole, big hits
might follow. Sure enough,
Gregorius squibbed an infield
single in his first at-bat before
lifting his homer into the sec-
ond deck in right field.
The 103-win Yankees used
the same lineup in consecutive
games for the first time this
New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres (25), right fielder Aaron Judge (middle), and short-
stop Didi Gregorius (right) celebrate defeating the Minnesota Twins in game two of the 2019 ALDS
playoff baseball series at Yankee Stadium.
season, and the nine clicked
top to bottom. They drew eight
walks for the second straight
game, and Aaron Judge led the
way with two hits and two free
passes.
Yankees right-hander Ma-
sahiro Tanaka pitched one-run
ball for five innings for the win,
striking out seven and hand-
ing off to New York’s fearsome
bullpen after 83 pitches. Tana-
ka’s career postseason ERA
climbed to 1.54, still second
lowest by a New York starter
with a minimum of four starts
behind Monte Pearson (1.01).
Dobnak faltered in just his
10th big league appearance,
taking the loss a week after
his wedding in Maryland. The
undrafted right-hander allowed
Edwin Encarnación’s RBI sin-
gle in the first inning, stranded
two in the second and loaded
the bases with no outs in the
third before being pulled.
A night after allowing Gley-
ber Torres’ tiebreaking double,
key Twins reliever Tyler Duf-
fey scuffled again. The right-
hander followed Dobnak and
allowed a sacrifice fly to Gi-
ancarlo Stanton, an RBI hit to
Torres and plunked Gary Sán-
chez before Gregorius’ drive.
New York scored four runs
off Minnesota relievers a night
after piling up seven in a 10-4
victory. The Yankees are 15-2
against the Twins in the play-
offs, and these two games were
the most lopsided during Min-
nesota’s losing streak.
Yankee Stadium rocked ear-
ly after Friday’s blowout. Fans
in left field shouted “Uber!” at
Dobnak while he warmed in the
bullpen, and Judge encouraged
more noise from the bleachers
before first pitch.
Gregorius took a curtain
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call while fans chanted his
name after the slam, the 12th
in postseason history for New
York. The Bronx Bombers only
connected for one homer Satur-
day after driving 306 of them
during the regular season, one
behind the Bomba Squad Twins
for the major league record.
Tanaka left with a seven-run
lead, but Boone ran out top mid-
dlemen Tommy Kahnle and
Adam Ottavino to guide the
game into the late innings. Ty-
ler Lyons and Jonathan Loaisi-
ga closed up with an inning
each. Yankees pitchers gave up
six hits, one walk and struck
out 13, leaving the Twins with a
.197 batting average in the two
games.
Loaisiga allowed a run in the
ninth on Luis Arráez’s double.
The teams played for 3
hours, 34 minutes, a night after
dragging on for 4:15.
Taxi squad
Seahawks quarterback Rus-
sell Wilson and pop-star wife
Ciara attended the game. Wil-
son is a former minor league
infielder and has been a guest
at Yankees spring training the
past two years. Seattle is on a
bye this week.
Little reminder
Mark Teixeira threw out
the ceremonial first pitch. He
hit a game-ending homer for
the Yankees in Game 2 against
Minnesota in the 2009 ALDS.
Trainer’s room
Twins: Manager Rocco
Baldelli had no concerns about
Arráez after the second base-
man sprained his right ankle
last weekend and had a busy
night Friday. Arráez doubled
twice.
Yankees: Boone said tow-
ering outfielders Stanton and
Judge both felt good after
crashing hard attempting div-
ing catches Friday. ... Boone
confirmed that a number of
players will be keeping ready at
the team’s complex in Tampa,
Florida, through the postsea-
son, including OF Clint Frazier,
1B Mike Ford and LHP Jordan
Montgomery.
Up next
Yankees RHP Luis Severino
(1-1, 1.50) makes his seventh
postseason start and his fourth
appearance of an injury-marred
season. Severino was sharp in
three September regular-sea-
son starts after missing nearly
the entire season with shoulder
and lat issues.
All-Star Jake Odorizzi (15-
7, 3.51) will start for Minneso-
ta after being passed over in
Game 2. He said he wasn’t both-
ered by the decision.

Cole fans 15, Bregman homers as Astros top Rays 3-1

The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Gerrit Cole
carried his splendid Septem-
ber into an outstanding Octo-
ber and Alex Bregman handed
fans chanting MVP the mighty
swing they craved and the
Houston Astros survived a wild
ninth inning to beat the Tampa
Bay Rays 3-1 on Saturday night
for a 2-0 lead in their AL Divi-
sion Series.
Cole, 5-0 with a 1.07 ERA
in six starts last month, set an
Astros postseason record with
15 strikeouts in 7 2/3 scoreless
innings to win his franchise-re-
cord 17th straight decision. The
15 strikeouts tied for third-most
in a postseason game, the high-
est total since Roger Clemens
had 15 in the 2000 AL Champi-
onship Series for the New York
Yankees against Seattle.
Cole (1-0), who led the ma-
jors with 326 strikeouts in the
regular season, extended his
major league record with his
10th straight game with at least
10 Ks. The Rays were unable to
string anything together off of
him on a night he induced 33
swings and misses — the most
since MLB started tracking the
stat in 2008 — and threw a ca-
reer-high 118 pitches.
Kevin Kiemaier doubled with
two outs in the eighth and Cole
was lifted after putting on Willy
Adames with Cole’s first walk.
The right-hander received a
standing ovation as he walked
off the mound and waved to the
crowd just before he reached
the dugout. Roberto Osuna took
over and struck out Yandy Díaz
to end the inning before run-
ning into trouble in the ninth.
Austin Meadows and Tommy
Pham hit consecutive singles
and Ji-Man Choi walked to load
the bases. The Rays cut the
lead to 3-1 when Avisaíl Garcia
grounded into a forceout that
scored Meadows. Osuna walked
Brandon Lowe, reloading the
bases, and Astros manager AJ
Hinch brought in Will Harris.
Travis d’Arnaud worked the
count full, then struck out on
a high cutter, and Kiermaier
grounded to first baseman Yuli
Gurriel, who flipped to Harris,
who stepped on first for the
save.
Cole’s performance came
after fellow ace and Cy Young
Award contender Justin Ver-
lander pitched seven scoreless
innings to lead the Astros to a
6-2 win in the opener on Friday.
Game 3 of the best-of five se-
ries is Monday in Florida.
There were no outs in the
fourth when Bregman, who hit
a career-best 41 home runs in
the regular season, homered off
Blake Snell (0-10. All seven of
Bregman’s homers have come
off All-Stars, including two
against Chris Sale and one each
vs. Trevor Bauer, Clayton Ker-
shaw, Corey Kluber and Kenley
Jansen.
His shot gave the Astros a
home run in 27 straight games,
extending a franchise record.
After Lowe’s error at second
gifted Houston two runs in the
opener, another error on helped
in the seventh. Adames bob-
bled Gurriel’s leadoff grounder
to shortstop, then bounced the
thorw to first. Carlos Correa
doubled and Martín Maldonado
blooped a run-scoring single to
left.
Correa added a two-out RBI
single off Nick Anderson in the
eighth for a 3-0 lead.
Snell, the 2018 AL Cy Young
Award winner, sat out from July
22-Sept. 17 after arthroscopic
surgery to remove bone chips
in his left elbow. He didn’t get
out of the third inning in any of
his three September starts, but
said he hoped to give the Rays
five innings on Saturday. In-
stead he was lifted one batter af-
ter Bregman’s homer, finishing
with four hits and a strikeout in
3 1/3 innings.
Correa helped Cole out
with a fantastic defensive play
to start the game. Díaz led off
with a grounder toward Correa,
who grabbed the ball backhand-
ed while on the run and spun
around for the throw to Gurriel
that just beat a sliding Díaz.
Up next
Former Astro Charlie Mor-
ton, who got the win in the Rays
wild-card victory, will start
against Zack Greinke. Morton
pitched for the Astros from
2017-18 and played a big role in
their 2017 World Series title. He
won Game 7 of AL Champion-
ship Series against the Yankees
and Game 7 of the World Se-
ries at Dodger Stadium to give
Houston its first championship.
Morton had a tough time in
his last start against Houston
when he gave up a season-high
six runs in four innings, which
tied his shortest start of season,
in a 15-1 win by Astros on Aug.
27. Greinke, acquired from Ari-
zona at the trade deadline, went
8-1 with a 3.02 ERA in 10 starts
after the trade capped by a gem
in his last start when he came
two outs shy of his first no-hitter
on Sept. 25 against Seattle.

Basketball

Kansas apologizes for risque Snoop Dogg show at hoops event

The Associated Press
LAWRENCE, Kan. —
The University of Kansas
apologized for its risque
Late Night at the Phog
event in which rapper
Snoop Dogg performed,
stripper poles were
wheeled onto the Allen
Fieldhouse floor and fake
money was shot over the
heads of prospective re-
cruits.
Athletic director Jeff
Long said Friday night
“we expected a clean ver-
sion of the show.”
The Jayhawks instead
got an R-rated perfor-
mance for their annual
basketball kickoff and
another big headache as
they deal with a high-lev-
el NCAA infractions case
tied to recruiting.
“We made it clear to
the entertainers’ manag-
ers that we expected a
clean version of the show
and took additional steps
to communicate to our
fans, including moving
the artist to the final act
of the evening, to ensure
that no basketball activ-
ities would be missed if
anyone did not want to
stay for his show,” Long
said in a statement. “I
take full responsibility
for not thoroughly vetting
all the details of the per-
formance and offer my
personal apology to those
who were offended.
“We strive to create
a family atmosphere at
Kansas and fell short of
that this evening.”
Kansas has been put-
ting on Late Night for 35
years, but what began as
a scrimmage to celebrate
the start of basketball
practices has turned into
a night of skits, music and
entertainment.
That’s included big-
name rappers in recent
years, such as Tech N9ne,
Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz.
None of them brought
the cache of Snoop,
though. The 47-year-old
rapper and well-known
sports fan was expected
to take the minds of play-
ers, fans and recruits off
the specter of the NCAA
investigation and turn at-
tention fully to a season in
which the Jayhawks are
expected to be title con-
tenders.
The school even pro-
moted his appearance
with a social media vid-
eo of Hall of Fame coach
Bill Self wearing a gaudy
chain and Adidas shirt
— the focus of the NCAA
inquiry has been on the
apparel company’s deal-
ings with recruits, includ-
ing whether officials paid
them to steer them to its
schools.
Wearing a No. 20 jer-
sey with “Snoop” on the
back, the artist performed
for about 35 minutes to a
full house that included
the men’s and women’s
basketball teams. But he
wound up singing uned-
ited versions of several
hits, such as “Gin and
Juice” and “Drop It Like
It’s Hot,” as pole dancers
performed and fake $100
bills featuring the rap-
per’s face were shot over
players and recruits.
Self said he wasn’t feel-
ing well and spent most
of the performance in the
locker room. He later told
The Kansas City Star he
expected a “radio edited”
version of the songs.
“I don’t guess you have
visuals on radio. I learned
that tonight,” Self told
The Star. “That’s not the
direction anybody at our
school would want that to
go at all, regardless of any
entertainment that it pro-
vided many, it was still not
the right way to provide
the entertainment.”
Especially given the
controversy already
surrounding the tradi-
tion-rich program.
The school received
a notice from the NCAA
late last month alleging
three severe violations
tied to recruiting and a
responsibility charge lev-
eled against Self. Also
cited is a lack of institu-
tional control within the
program.
The document does
not detail what Kansas is
accused of doing. The pro-
gram is among the most
prominent in an NCAA
inquiry into a pay-for-play
scheme that began with
an FBI investigation into
the apparel company Adi-
das.
A former employee
for the company later
testified that he made
payments to the family of
one Kansas recruit and
the guardian of a current
player, and text messag-
es presented in court
revealed a close relation-
ship between Self and the
Adidas employee.
The school has said it
will appeal and “strongly
disagrees” with the asser-
tion it lacks institutional
control.
Kansas will be allowed
to present its case at a
hearing. The NCAA will
then rule, often within
several months, and the
school has the right to ap-
peal.
North Carolina State
also has received a notice
of allegations. Arizona,
Auburn, Creighton, Lou-
isville, LSU and South-
ern California are among
those under the NCAA
microscope.
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Baseball
Carolina 16, Houston 10 UGA TEN Overall Today’s Games

briefly MLB Playoff Glance

Cleveland 40, Baltimore 25
Oakland 31, Indianapolis 24
New England 16, Buffalo 10
First downs

Passing 288
26
Rushes-yards 41-238
20
29-70
273
School W-L Pts Prv
1. Madison Central (14) (5-0) 140 1
2. West Point (5-1) 111 4
Tampa Bay at Carolina, 4 p.m.
Dallas at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans
WILD CARD Kansas City 34, Detroit 30 Comp-Att-Int 24-29-0 15-33-1 3. Starkville (4-2) 108 5 Memorial Coliseum, 6 p.m.

Women’s College Volleyball Tuesday, Oct. 1: Washington 4, Milwaukee 3

Wednesday, Oct. 2: Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1
Seattle 27, Arizona 10
Chicago 16, Minnesota 6
Jacksonville 26, Denver 24
Return Yards 6
Punts-Avg. 2-35.5
Fumbles-Lost 0-0
0
5-32.2
2-1
4. Brandon
5. Picayune
(4-2) 89 6
(5-0) 84 7
Monday’s Games
Buffalo at Columbus,6 p.m.
St. Louis at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Mississippi State volleyball falls to Ole Miss DIVISION SERIES
Tampa Bay 55, L.A. Rams 40
New Orleans 12, Dallas 10
Penalties-Yards 11-107
Time of Poss. 36:28
6-51
23:32
6. South Panola
7. Oxford
(5-1) 59 3
(4-1) 53 8
Tuesday’s Games
Dallas at Washington, 6 p.m.
The Mississippi State volleyball team lost a five- American League Open: San Francisco, N.Y. Jets Individual statistics 8. Pearl (3-2) 35 2
Houston 2, Tampa Bay 0 Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
set thriller Friday to Ole Miss at the Newell-Grissom Monday’s Games RUSHING_Georgia, Herrien 11-88, Swift 17- 9. West Jones (5-0) 24 10 Carolina at Florida, 6 p.m.
Friday: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2 Pittsburgh 27, Cincinnati 3 72, White 7-57, T.Simmons 3-19, Fromm 1-5, 10. Petal (4-1) 16 NR Edmonton vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans
Building. Saturday: Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Thursday (Team) 2-(minus 3). Tennessee, Jordan 9-47, Others receiving votes: Columbia 11, Lafay- Memorial Coliseum, 6 p.m.
The Bulldogs (11-4) have lost their first three SEC Monday: Houston (Greinke 8-1) at Tampa Bay Seattle 30, L.A. Rams 29 Chandler 7-38, Guarantano 1-9, Gray 5-5, ette 10, South Pike 8, North Panola 6, Green- Anaheim at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
(Morton 16-6), 12:05 p.m. (MLB) Sunday, Oct. 6 Maurer 7-(minus 29). wood 5, Corinth 3, North Side 2, St. Joseph, San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m.
matches after the 25-9, 23-25, 18-25, 25-23, 15-12 x-Tuesday: Houston at Tampa Bay (FS1) Atlanta at Houston, Noon PASSING_Georgia, Fromm 24-29-0-288. Greenville 2, Water Valley 2, Bay Springs 1, Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m.
defeat. x-Thursday: Tampa Bay at Houston (FS1) Minnesota at N.Y. Giants, Noon Tennessee, Maurer 14-28-1-259, Guarantano Laurel 1. Boston at Vegas, 9 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees 2, Minnesota 0 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, Noon 1-5-0-14.
Gabby Waden led MSU with 20 kills, Paige Shaw Friday: N.Y. Yankees 10, Minnesota 4 Jacksonville at Carolina, Noon RECEIVING_Georgia, Cager 5-58, Swift 4-72,
Class 6A
School W-L Pts Prv
had 15, and Amarrah Cooks had 10.
“Overall, I was impressed with the composure that
Saturday: N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 2
Monday: N.Y. Yankees (Severino 1-1) at Minnesota
Buffalo at Tennessee, Noon
Chicago vs Oakland at London, UK, Noon.
Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Noon
T.Simmons 3-26, Pickens 3-23, Robertson
2-61, Wolf 2-18, Landers 2-17, Cook 2-12,
Herrien 1-1. Tennessee, Jennings 7-114,
1. Madison Central (14) (5-0) 140 1
2. Starkville (4-2) 119 4
Soccer
we showed in five sets of volleyball,” head coach Julie (Odorizzi 15-7), 7:40 p.m. (FS1)
x-Tuesday, Oct. 8: N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota
New England at Washington, Noon Callaway 3-105, Wood-Anderson 2-30, Jordan 3. Brandon (4-2) 98 5 Major League Soccer
Arizona at Cincinnati, Noon. 1-11, Pope 1-10, Chandler 1-3. 4. South Panola (5-1) 79 3 Eastern Conference
Darty said in a release from MSU. “I think this team (FS1) N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, Noon MISSED FIELD GOALS_Tennessee, Cimaglia 5. Pearl (3-2) 53 2 W L T Pts GF GA
is going to grow up and continue to mature with each x-Thursday, Oct. 10: Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees Denver at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m. 47. Others receiving votes: Oxford 40, Petal 22, x-New York City FC 17 6 10 61 61 41
(FS1) Green Bay at Dallas, 3:25 p.m. D’Iberville 9. x-Atlanta 17 12 4 55 55 42
match we play. National League Indianapolis at Kansas City, 7:20 p.m. Saturday’s Scores Class 5A x-Philadelphia 16 10 7 55 57 48
“The rivalry lived up to its hype. It was a five-set L.A. Dodgers 1, Washington 1 Open: Detroit, Miami EAST School W-L Pts Prv x-D.C. United 13 10 10 49 42 38
Thursday, Oct. 3: L.A. Dodgers 6, Washington 0 Monday, Oct. 7 Alfred 28, Morrisville St. 21 x-New York 14 13 6 48 53 48
battle on both sides, and credit to Ole Miss, they are a 1. West Point (9) (5-1) 135 1
x-Toronto FC 12 10 11 47 56 52
Friday, Oct. 4: Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Cleveland at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Apprentice 35, Anna Maria 20 2. Picayune (5) (5-0) 129 2
great team, well prepared for us. We’re going to go back Sunday, Oct. 6: L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 14-5) at Wash- Assumption 45, Bentley 42, OT 3. West Jones (5-0) 110 4
x-New England 11 10 12 45 49 54
to the drawing board and prepare for our next match on ington (Scherzer 11-7), 6:45 p.m. (TBS) Bridgewater (Mass.) 41, Westfield St. 17 Chicago 9 12 12 39 50 45
4. Laurel (4-1) 92 5
the road against South Carolina.” Monday, Oct. 7: L.A. Dodgers (Hill 4-1) at Wash-
ington (TBA), 5:40 p.m. (TBS)
College Football Bryant 24, Merrimack 17
CCSU 28, Sacred Heart 3
5. Lafayette (3-2) 82 3
Others receiving votes: Grenada 12.
Montreal
Columbus
Orlando City
11 17 5 38 44 60
10 15 8 38 39 46
9 14 10 37 42 47
MSU’s match against South Carolina is at noon x-Wednesday, Oct. 9: Washington at L.A. Dodg- SEC Standings Charleston (WV) 51, Wheeling Jesuit 12
Class 4A Cincinnati 6 22 5 23 31 75
Clarion 42, Seton Hill 16
today and will be televised on ESPNU. ers (TBS) East Coast Guard 20, Catholic 14, 2OT School W-L Pts Prv Western Conference
St. Louis 1, Atlanta 1 Conference All Games College of NJ 17, William Paterson 14 1. South Pike (10) (6-0) 134 1 W L T Pts GF GA
Thursday: St. Louis 7, Atlanta 6 W L PF PA W L PF PA Cortland St. 44, Utica 12 2. Greenwood (3) (6-0) 119 2 y-Los Angeles FC 20 4 9 69 82 36
The W volleyball drops four-set road match Friday: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0
Sunday: Atlanta (Soroka 13-4) at St. Louis (Wain-
Florida
Georgia
3 0 87 37 6 0 194
2 0 73 20 5 0 214
57
54
Curry 34, New England 31
Delaware Valley 41, Lycoming 7
3. Corinth (1)
4. Louisville
(4-1) 106 3
(4-2) 102 4
x-Minnesota United 15 10 8 53 52 42
x-Seattle 15 10 8 53 51 49
The Mississippi University for Women volleyball wright 14-10), 3:10 p.m. (TBS) Missouri 1 0 34 14 4 1 195 68 Duquesne 21, LIU 14 5. Itawamba AHS (6-0) 84 5 x-LA Galaxy 16 14 3 51 56 55
Monday: Atlanta at St. Louis, 3:07 p.m. (TBS) South Carolina 1 2 61 88 2 3 153 122 x-Real Salt Lake 15 13 5 50 45 41
team lost in four sets Friday at Martin Methodist in Tennessee 0 2 17 77 1 4 118 144
East Stroudsburg 50, Millersville 7 Others receiving votes: Greene County 9,
Portland 13 13 7 46 49 48
x-Wednesday: St. Louis at Atlanta (TBS) Edinboro 18, Gannon 17 Bay 6.
Pulaski, Tennessee. Kentucky 0 3 41 81 2 3 117 122 Endicott 27, Salve Regina 17 Class 3A FC Dallas 12 12 9 45 48 46
Vanderbilt 0 3 41 81 2 3 117 122 San Jose 13 15 5 44 51 52
The Owls (5-13) rallied to tie the match with a 25-23 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES West
FDU-Florham 50, Albright 45 School W-L Pts Prv
Colorado 12 15 6 42 57 60
American League Framingham St. 39, Mass.-Dartmouth 33
second-set victory after dropping the first set 25-8. But Saturday, Oct. 12: Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees winner
Conference All Games Frostburg St. 24, Urbana 16
1. Columbia (14) (5-0) 140 1 Sporting Kansas City 10 15 8 38 49 61
W L PF PA W L PF PA 2. North Panola (5-0) 108 5 Houston 11 18 4 37 45 57
the Redhawks won the third set 25-12 and won the at Houston or Tampa Bay at Minnesota-N.Y. Yan- Alabama 2 0 106 54 5 0 259 74
Geneva 48, St. Vincent 10
3. Houston (5-1) 92 2
Georgetown 14, Cornell 8 Vancouver 8 15 10 34 37 58
match with a 25-13 fourth set. kees winner (Fox or FS1) LSU 1 0 66 38 5 0 273 99 Grove City 29, Carnegie-Mellon 26, 2OT 4. West Marion (6-0) 47 NR NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Sunday, Oct. 13: Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees winner Auburn 2 1 97 67 5 1 203 110 5. Seminary (4-2) 40 3
Haley McMurphey and Tori Weir led the team with at Houston or Tampa Bay at Minnesota-N.Y. Yan- Ole Miss 2 1 93 82 3 3 163 154
Harvard 62, Howard 17 Sunday, September 29
Holy Cross 21, Bucknell 14 Others receiving votes: Water Valley 35, Toronto FC 2, Chicago 2, tie
five digs each, and Madison Lamon had a double-dou- kees winner (Fox or FS1) Mississippi St 1 1 51 69 3 2 151 143 Husson 28, Becker 12 Magee 33, Yazoo County 30, Booneville 15, Orlando City 1, Cincinnati 1, tie
ble with 17 digs and 10 assists. Tuesday, Oct. 15: Houston at Minnesota-N.Y. Yan- Texas A&M 1 1 51 55 3 2 164 89 Indiana (Pa.) 17, California (Pa.) 6 Noxubee County 12, Crystal Springs 8. Columbus 2, Philadelphia 0
kees winner or Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees winner at Arkansas 0 2 44 62 2 3 143 140 Ithaca 59, St. Lawrence 20 Class 2A Atlanta 1, Montreal 1, tie
The Owls will host Mississippi College at 6 p.m. Tampa Bay (Fox or FS1) Saturday’s Games James Madison 45, Stony Brook 38, OT School W-L Pts Prv New England 2, New York City FC 0
Tuesday. Wednesday, Oct. 16: Houston at Minnesota-N.Y. LSU 42, Utah St. 6 Johns Hopkins 32, Ursinus 29 1. Philadelphia (8) (5-1) 129 2 D.C. United 0, New York 0, tie
Yankees winner or Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees win- Florida 24, Auburn 13 Juniata 28, McDaniel 14 Colorado 3, FC Dallas 0
Missouri 42, Troy 10 2. Bay Springs (4) (6-0) 125 3
ner at Tampa Bay (Fox or FS1) Kean 30, Christopher Newport 6 3. Taylorsville (1) (5-1) 113 1 Vancouver 4, LA Galaxy 3
College Baseball x-Thursday, Oct. 17: Houston at Minnesota-N.Y.
Yankees winner or Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees win-
Georgia 43, Tennessee 14
Ole Miss 31, Vanderbilt 6
Saturday, Oct. 12
Kutztown 27, Bloomsburg 12
Lehigh 21, Colgate 14
4. Scott Central
5. East Webster
(5-1) 96 4
(6-0) 37 NR
Los Angeles FC 1, Minnesota 1, tie
Real Salt Lake 2, Houston 1
Seattle 1, San Jose 0
Maryland 48, Rutgers 7
MSU splits pair of scrimmages with Louisiana ner at Tampa Bay (Fox or FS1)
x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees win-
South Carolina at Georgia, 11 a.m.
Mississippi St. at Tennessee, 11 a.m.
Mass. Maritime 28, Worcester St. 13
Others receiving votes: Charleston 24, Mize
12, North Side (1) 10, South Delta 8, Walnut 6.<
Portland 2, Sporting Kansas City 2, tie
Today
The Mississippi State baseball team saw mixed ner at Houston or Tampa Bay at Minnesota-N.Y. Merchant Marine 35, MIT 29, OT
Alabama at Texas A&M, 2:30 p.m. Middlebury 34, Amherst 31, 2OT Class 1A New England at Atlanta, 3 p.m.
results in its pair of seven-inning exhibition scrimmages Yankees winner (Fox or FS1) UNLV at Vanderbilt, 3 p.m. School W-L Pts Prv Cincinnati at D.C. United, 3 p.m.
Misericordia 22, King’s (Pa.) 16
x-Sunday, Oct. 20: Minnesota-N.Y. Yankees win- Ole Miss at Missouri, 6 p.m. 1. Noxapater (10) (5-1) 135 1 Sporting Kansas City at FC Dallas, 3 p.m.
Saturday against Louisiana at Dudy Noble Field. ner at Houston or Tampa Bay at Minnesota-N.Y. Arkansas at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m.
Monmouth (NJ) 16, Wagner 14
2. Nanih Waiya (2) (4-2) 115 3 LA Galaxy at Houston, 3 p.m.
Moravian 33, Gettysburg 16
The Bulldogs dropped the first game 7-4 to the Yankees winner (Fox or FS1) Florida at LSU, 7 p.m. Muhlenberg 49, Franklin & Marshall 6 3. Smithville (4-1) 110 2 Colorado at Los Angeles FC, 3 p.m.
Ragin’ Cajuns but routed Louisiana 13-2 in the second National League Navy 34, Air Force 25 4. Simmons (1) (4-2) 95 5 New York at Montreal, 3 p.m.
game.
Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis-Atlanta winner at L.A.
Dodgers or Washington at St. Louis-Atlanta win-
No. 5 LSU 42, Utah St. 6 New Hampshire 26, Elon 10
New Haven 28, Pace 21
(tie) Lumberton (4-2) 95 4
Others receiving votes: Resurrection Cath-
Chicago at Orlando City, 3 p.m.
New York City FC at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.
Utah St. 6 0 0 0—6
In the first game, Tanner Allen drove in two runs, ner (TBS) LSU 7 14 14 7—42 Ohio 21, Buffalo 20, OT olic (1) 10. San Jose at Portland, 3 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis-Atlanta winner at Penn St. 35, Purdue 7 Private Schools Minnesota at Seattle, 3 p.m.
and Jordan Westburg and Justin Foscue each drove L.A. Dodgers or Washington at St. Louis-Atlanta
First quarter
Plymouth St. 42, Fitchburg St. 0 Columbus at Toronto FC, 3 p.m.
LSU_Dillon 7 pass from Burrow (York kick), School W-L Pts Prv
in one. winner (TBS) 10:45 Princeton 21, Columbia 10 1. Heritage Aca. (13) (7-0) 139 1
Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 3 p.m.
Junior Noah Fondren went 4 for 4 in the second Monday, Oct. 14: L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis-Atlanta UTS_FG Eberle 30, 6:25 RPI 38, Rochester 0 2. Jackson Prep (5-1) 120 3
Rhode Island 31, Brown 28
game and scored four runs, and sophomore Brandon winner or St. Louis-Atlanta winner at Washington
(TBS)
UTS_FG Eberle 47, 1:45
Second quarter S. Connecticut 55, Franklin Pierce 27
3. St. Joseph, Greenville (6-0) 108 4 USL Championship
SC State 38, Delaware St. 24 4. Madison-Ridgeland (1) (5-2) 101 2 Eastern Conference
Pimentel went 2 for 4 and drove in three runs. Tuesday, Oct. 15 L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis-Atlanta LSU_Burrow 1 run (York kick), 14:03
Salisbury 27, Montclair St. 24 5. Pillow Aca. (5-1) 73 5 W L T Pts GF GA
winner or St. Louis-Atlanta winner at Washington LSU_Chase 25 pass from Burrow (York Others receiving votes: Presbyterian Chris- Pittsburgh 17 4 11 62 56 30
kick), 4:55 Slippery Rock 45, Mercyhurst 14
(TBS) Indy 18 9 5 59 45 27
Women’s College Soccer South Florida 48, UConn 22 tian 13, Starkville Aca. 6.
x-Wednesday, Oct. 16: L.A. Dodgers at St. Lou- Third quarter Nashville 17 7 7 58 52 25
LSU_Jefferson 4 pass from Burrow (York Springfield 21, Norwich 17
is-Atlanta winner or St. Louis-Atlanta winner at Stevenson 36, Widener 10 All Associated Press members in Mississippi Tampa Bay 16 7 9 57 59 30
kick), 9:55
MSU soccer falls at Alabama in overtime Washington (TBS)
x-Friday, Oct. 18: St. Louis-Atlanta winner at L.A.
LSU_Jefferson 39 pass from Burrow (York Stonehill 31, American International 13
Texas 42, West Virginia 31
are eligible to participate in the high school
football poll. Those who voted for this week’s
New York Red Bulls II 17 9 6 57 70 42
Louisville 15 7 9 54 47 35
The Mississippi State soccer team suffered a kick), 2:54 North Carolina 15 9 8 53 56 35
Dodgers or Washington at St. Louis-Atlanta win- Fourth quarter Trinity (Conn.) 31, Hamilton 24 poll are: Boswell Media, Kosciusko; The Com-
Ottawa 13 9 9 48 46 38
3-2 overtime loss Friday to Alabama in Tuscaloosa, ner (TBS) LSU_Moss 8 pass from Burrow (York kick), Tufts 33, Bates 28 mercial Dispatch, Columbus; Bolivar Commer- Saint Louis 11 11 9 42 37 35
x-Saturday, Oct. 19: St. Louis-Atlanta winner at 13:23 Tulane 42, Army 33 cial, Cleveland; The Daily Corinthian, Corinth;
Alabama. L.A. Dodgers or Washington at St. Louis-Atlanta A_100,266. Union (NY) 23, Hobart 7 Greene County Herald, Leakesville; Delta
Charleston 9 9 13 40 36 41
Birmingham 11 13 7 40 33 45
The Bulldogs are 6-5-1 overall, including a 1-2-1 winner (TBS) Team statistics W. New England 30, Nichols 19 Democrat-Times, Greenville; The Sun-Her- Memphis 9 15 7 34 35 46
W. Virginia St. 39, West Liberty 29
mark in Southeastern Conference play. UTS LSU
WPI 51, Maine Maritime 20
ald, Biloxi-Gulfport; Hattiesburg Impact, Hat- Atlanta 2 8 16 8 32 40 72
WORLD SERIES First downs 10 32 tiesburg; The Natchez Democrat, Natchez; Loudoun 8 17 6 30 46 58
MSU went down 2-0 before tying the game in Tuesday, Oct. 22: at better record (Fox) Rushes-yards 22-19 51-248 Waynesburg 14, Thiel 13
Starkville Daily News, Starkville; Northeast Bethlehem Steel 8 16 6 30 44 65
Wesley 21, Rowan 20
the second half. Miranda Carrasco scored in the 45th Wednesday, Oct. 23: at better record (Fox) Passing 140 353
Wesleyan (Conn.) 20, Bowdoin 13 Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo; The Vicks- Charlotte 6 14 11 29 35 50
Friday, Oct. 25: at worse record (Fox) Comp-Att-Int 16-31-3 28-39-1 burg Post, Vicksburg; WTVA-TV, Tupelo. Swope Park Rangers 6 17 8 26 41 68
minute, and Alabama fell victim to an own goal in the Return Yards 21 48 West Chester 29, Shippensburg 21
Hartford 6 21 5 23 43 79
Saturday, Oct. 26: at worse record (Fox) Wilkes 45, Alvernia 12
74th minute. x-Sunday, Oct. 27: at worse record (Fox) Punts-Avg. 7-37.57 2-35.5
Williams 17, Colby 0 Western Conference
But Alabama’s Gabby Duca scored six minutes into
overtime to give the Crimson Tide the win.
x-Tuesday, Oct. 29: at better record (Fox)
x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: at better record (Fox)
Fumbles-Lost 0-0
Penalties-Yards 3-25
Time of Poss. 18:57
3-1
5-41
41:03
Yale 48, Fordham 24
FAR WEST
Basketball
Phoenix
Fresno
W L T Pts GF GA
23 3 6 75 85 33
16 8 8 56 56 40
“It’s really disappointing to lose the game the way Individual statistics Arizona 35, Colorado 30
Baldwin-Wallace 37, Capital 7
NBA Preseason Glance Reno 16 10 6 54 67 51
we did against a very good Alabama team,” head coach Yankees 8, Twins 2 RUSHING_Utah St., Bright 8-18, Nawahine
7-10, Burt 4-8, Love 2-(minus 8), (Team) Fort Lewis 28, Adams St. 9
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
Sacramento 14 12 6 48 48 37
Minnesota New York La Verne 20, Claremont-Mudd 17 Orange County 13 9 9 48 49 39
1-(minus 9). LSU, Edwards-Helaire 14-72, W L Pct GB
James Armstrong said in a release from MSU. “They ab r h bi ab r h bi
Davis-Price 11-53, Emery 8-45, Burrow Montana 59, Idaho St. 20 Brooklyn 1 0 1.000 —
Real Monarchs 13 10 7 46 62 50
Kepler cf 4 0 0 0 LeMahieu 1b 4 2 1 0 El Paso 12 9 10 46 37 32
started faster than us. We just weren’t close enough Polanco ss 3 0 0 0 Judge rf 3 1 2 0 10-42, Curry 6-24, Brennan 2-11, Magee 0-1, N. Arizona 41, N. Colorado 23 Boston 0 0 .000 — Austin 13 11 7 46 49 46
Moss 0-0. Oregon 17, California 7 New York 0 0 .000 —
to the ball. We got a great goal to get back in it right at Cruz dh 3 1 1 0 Gardner cf 4 1 1 1 Portland St. 52, S. Utah 31 Philadelphia 0 0 .000 —
LA Galaxy II 11 10 11 44 55 60
Rosario rf 4 0 1 0 Encarnación dh 41 2 1 PASSING_Utah St., Colombi 1-1-0-10, Love New Mexico 10 9 12 42 55 54
halftime which shows the spirit of the girls. Second half, Garver c 4 1 2 1 Stanton lf 2 0 0 1 15-30-3-130. LSU, Brennan 1-1-0-9, Burrow San Diego 31, Marist 7 Toronto 0 0 .000 — San Antonio 11 12 8 41 54 48
Weber St. 41, Idaho 35 Southeast Division
we had chances to win the game, and we just didn’t Arraez 2b-3b 4 0 2 1 Maybin pr-lf 1 0 0 0 27-38-1-344.
MIDWEST W L Pct GB
Portland II 10 13 8 38 60 61
Sanó 3b-1b 4 0 0 0 Torres 2b 5 1 1 1 RECEIVING_Utah St., Nathan 4-51, Mariner Las Vegas 10 13 8 38 42 50
capitalize.” 2-45, Scarver 2-20, Thompkins 2-18, Bright Alma 32, Albion 28 Orlando 1 0 1.000 — OKC Energy 9 12 11 38 44 53
Gonzalez 1b-lf 3 0 0 0 Sánchez c 2 1 0 0 Augustana (Ill.) 40, Millikin 14
The Bulldogs will host Auburn at 6 p.m. Thursday. Cave lf 2 0 0 0 Gregorius ss 3 1 2 4 2-(minus 4), Wright 1-10, Terrell 1-8, Repp
Aurora 62, Eureka 35
Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Rio Grande Valley 9 15 8 35 46 57
1-(minus 2), Nawahine 1-(minus 6). LSU, Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Tulsa 7 15 10 31 43 65
Schoop ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 4 0 2 0 Ball St. 27, N. Illinois 20 Miami 0 0 .000 —
Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 32 8 11 8 Jefferson 9-155, Moss 5-39, Dillon 4-42, Colorado Springs 7 20 5 26 29 61
Emery 4-34, Chase 3-54, Edwards-Helaire Baylor 31, Kansas St. 12 Washington 0 0 .000 —
The W drops match at Hendrix College Minnesota
New York
000 100 001—2
107 000 00x—8 1-12, McMath 1-9, Sullivan 1-8. Benedictine (Ill.) 27, Concordia (Wis.) 21, OT
Bethel (Minn.) 42, Carleton 13
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Tacoma 6 19 6 24 36 80
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
The MUW women’s soccer team (6-6) lost 6-1 on DP_Minnesota 2, New York 1. LOB_Minnesota MISSED FIELD GOALS_LSU, York 53. Saturday, September 28
Carthage 38, Elmhurst 14 Indiana 2 0 1.000 — Charlotte 4, Hartford 0
Friday at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. 5, New York 10. 2B_Arraez 2 (3), LeMahieu (1). Cent. Michigan 42, E. Michigan 16 Chicago 0 0 .000 —
Lizzie Truelock scored in the 85th minute for the
HR_Gregorius (1). SF_Stanton (1).
IP H R ER BB SO
No. 10 Florida 24, Central 45, Luther 14
Central St. (Ohio) 28, Edward Waters 21
Cleveland 0 0 .000 —
Tampa Bay 2, Louisville 2, tie
North Carolina 3, Ottawa 1
Detroit 0 0 .000 —
Owls’ only goal. Hagan Griffith scored four times, twice Minnesota No. 7 Auburn 13 Chicago 48, Beloit 0 Milwaukee 0 0 .000 —
Pittsburgh 3, Indy 0
Nashville 2, Loudoun 0
Dobnak L,0-1 2 6 4 4 2 0 Auburn 6 7 0 0—13 Concordia (Ill.) 31, Lakeland 26 WESTERN CONFERENCE
in each half, for the host Warriors. Duffey 2-3 2 4 4 1 1 Florida 7 10 0 7—24 Crown (Minn.) 35, Iowa Wesleyan 0 Southwest Division
Las Vegas 3, Colorado 1
The W’s next match is at noon Sunday against Smeltzer 3 1-3 2 0 0 3 4 First quarter Dayton 56, Jacksonville 28 Memphis 5, Bethlehem Steel 0
W L Pct GB Rio Grande Valley 2, Orange County 0
Stashak 2-3 1 0 0 1 0 FLA_Swain 64 pass from Trask (McPherson DePauw 31, Wooster 26
Oakwood. May 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 kick), 13:12 Drake 35, Valparaiso 6
Houston 2 0 1.000 — Atlanta 1, Saint Louis 1, tie
Dallas 0 0 .000 — San Antonio 2, Fresno 1
Romo 2-3 0 0 0 1 1 AUB_FG Carlson 48, 7:11 Dubuque 20, Coe 14 Memphis 0 0 .000 — Real Monarchs 2, Reno 1
Men’s College Soccer Littell
New York
1-3 0 0 0 0 0

Tanaka W,1-0 5 3 1 1 1 7
The W defeated by Hendrix in overtime Kahnle
Ottavino
1 0 0 0 0 2
1 1 0 0 0 1
The MUW men’s soccer team fell to 2-6-3 on the Lyons 1 0 0 0 0 2
Loaisiga 1 2 1 1 0 2
season with Friday night’s 2-1 overtime loss at Hendrix Dobnak pitched to 3 batters in the 3rd.
College in Conway, Arkansas. HBP_Tanaka (Polanco), Duffey (Sánchez).
Jacob Thomas scored the Owls’ lone goal, a strike Umpires_Home, Todd Tichenor; First, Gary Ced-
erstrom; Second, Lance Barksdale; Third, Eric
in the 70th minute assisted by Hunter Holdiness. Cooper; Right, Manny Gonzalez; Left, Adrian
The Owls will host Oakwood at 2 p.m. Sunday at Johnson.
the Columbus Soccer Complex. T_3:34. A_49,277 (47,309).
Astros 3, Rays 1
College Cross Country Tampa Bay
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Houston
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The W women’s cross country finishes 17th Y.Díaz 3b 4 0 0 0 Springer cf-rf 4 0 0 0 Penalties-Yards 9-70
Meadows lf 4 1 1 0 A ltuve 2b 4 0 1 0 Atlanta 1, Pittsburgh 1, tie
at JSU Foothills Invitational; men finish 19th Pham dh
Choi 1b
4 0 2 0 Brantley lf 4 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 4 2 2 1
The Mississippi University for Women women’s
Wendle pr 0 0 0 0 A lvarez dh 4 0 2 0 Sacramento 3, Tulsa 2
cross country team finished 17th of 21 teams in the García rf 4 0 0 1 Gurriel 1b 4 1 1 0
Lowe 2b 3 0 0 0 Correa ss 4 0 2 1 El Paso 0, Reno 0, tie
5,000-meter run at the Jacksonville State University d’Arnaud c 4 0 1 0 Tucker rf 3 0 0 0 1-(minus 1), Trask 8-(minus 35).
Foothills Invitational on Saturday in Jacksonville, Kiermaier cf 4 0 1 0 Marisnick cf 0 0 0 0
Adames ss 2 0 1 0 Maldonado c 3 0 2 1
Alabama. Totals 32 1 6 1 Totals 34 3 10 3 19-31-0-234.
The men’s team finished 19th among 25 schools in Tampa Bay 000 000 001—1
Houston 000 100 11x—3
the men’s 8K run at the event. E_Adames (1). DP_Tampa Bay 1, Houston 1.
Lillie Fisher’s time of 24 minutes, 33.4 seconds, LOB_Tampa Bay 7, Houston 8. 2B_Kiermaier (1),
which placed 82nd in the women’s event, was the best Altuve (1), Correa (1). HR_Bregman (1).
IP H R ER BB SO
finish for either Owls team. Joshua Maughan’s time Tampa Bay
of 30:43.6 placed 83rd, tops for the Owls in the men’s Snell L,0-1 3 1-3 4 1 1 0 5
event. Castillo
Yarbrough
1 2-3 1 0 0 1 1
1 0 0 0 0 1
South Alabama won both races at the event, Pagán 1 2 1 0 0 0
Anderson 2-3 3 1 1 0 0
including a 1-2-3-4 finish in the men’s race. Poche 1-3 0 0 0 0 1
The Owls will compete in the Mississippi College Houston kick), 11:38
Invitational next week in Clinton. The women’s 5K starts Cole W,1-0 7 2-3 4 0 0 1 15
at 9 a.m., and the men’s 8K starts at 9:15 a.m.
Osuna H,1
Harris S,1-1
WP_Osuna.
2-3 2 1 1 2 1
2-3 0 0 0 0 1
Umpires_Home, Bruce Dreckman; First, Mark
Prep Softball
Wegner; Second, James Hoye; Third, Jerry Meals;
Right, John Tumpane; Left, D.J. Reyburn.
Columbus slow-pitch team advances in T_3:46. A_43,378 (41,168).
playoffs with sweep of West Lauderdale
AUB_FG Carlson 39, 3:01
Second quarter
FLA_Hammond 13 pass from Trask (McPher-
son kick), 13:28
AUB_S.Williams 32 pass from Nix (Carlson
kick), 10:23
FLA_FG McPherson 41, 5:49
Fourth quarter
FLA_Perine 88 run (McPherson kick), 9:04
A_90,584.
Team statistics
AUB FLA
First downs 12 19
Rushes-yards 34-124 33-132
Passing 145 266
Comp-Att-Int 11-27-3 25-39-0
Return Yards 22 0
Punts-Avg. 8-40.75 7-39.28
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 5-5
Time of Poss. 26:19
6-55
33:41
Individual statistics
RUSHING_Auburn, Whitlow 18-81, Martin
5-29, Nix 10-18, Schwartz 1-(minus 4).
Florida, Perine 14-130, M.Davis 5-16, E.Jones
3-13, Hammond 1-6, Pierce 1-3, To.Townsend
PASSING_Auburn, Nix 11-27-3-145. Florida,
E.Jones 5-7-0-28, Krull 1-1-0-4, Trask
RECEIVING_Auburn, S.Williams 4-79,
M.Miller 2-22, Stove 2-14, Hastings 1-13,
Cannella 1-12, J.Wilson 1-5. Florida, Pitts
8-65, Swain 6-146, Perine 4-15, Hammond
2-23, Cleveland 2-(minus 1), Jefferson 1-10,
Grimes 1-4, Trask 1-4.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
Missouri 42, Troy 10
Troy 7 0 3 0—10
Missouri 21 21 0 0—42
First Quarter
TRY_McClain 15 pass from Barker (Sumpter
MIZ_Rountree 1 run (McCann kick), 9:55
MIZ_Bryant 3 run (McCann kick), 3:27
MIZ_Nance 64 pass from Bryant (McCann
kick), :37
Second quarter
MIZ_Okwuegbunam 16 pass from Bryant
(McCann kick), 7:57
MIZ_Garrett 33 interception return (McCann
kick), 6:13
MIZ_Knox 6 pass from Bryant (McCann
Ferris St. 35, Davenport 7
Fort Hays St. 35, Cent. Oklahoma 7
Franklin 29, Rose-Hulman 28
Greenville 36, Westminster (Mo.) 0
Hanover 70, Anderson (Ind.) 0
Hillsdale 38, Concord 14
Hope 51, Trine 0
Illinois College 55, Lawrence 10
Illinois Wesleyan 42, Carroll (Wis.) 14
Iowa St. 49, TCU 24
John Carroll 31, Muskingum 10
Lindenwood (Mo.) 45, McKendree 37
Mac Murray 41, Northwestern (Minn.) 20
Macalester 24, Cornell (Iowa) 9
Michigan 10, Iowa 3
Minnesota 40, Illinois 17
Missouri 42, Troy 10
Missouri St. 37, W. Illinois 31, 3OT
Monmouth (Ill.) 20, Ripon 0
Mount St. Joseph 59, Defiance 6
Mount Union 58, Otterbein 0
N. Dakota St. 37, Illinois St. 3
Nebraska 13, Northwestern 10
North Dakota 38, UC Davis 36
Notre Dame 52, Bowling Green 0
Notre Dame Coll. 52, WV Wesleyan 6
Ohio Dominican 56, Alderson-Broaddus 10
Ohio Northern 31, Marietta 23
Ohio State 34, Michigan State 10
Oklahoma 45, Kansas 20
Olivet 63, Finlandia 6
Pittsburg St. 56, Lincoln (Mo.) 14
S. Dakota St. 28, S. Illinois 10
SE Missouri 43, Tennessee Tech 37, 2OT
Saginaw Valley St. 55, Northwood (Mich.) 29
Simpson (Iowa) 29, Nebraska Wesleyan 21
South Dakota 38, Indiana St. 0
St. John’s (Minn.) 61, Augsburg 6
St. Norbert at Grinnell, ccd.
St. Olaf 29, Hamline 2
St. Thomas (Minn.) 51, Concordia (Moor.) 6
Tiffin 55, St. Anselm 6
Toledo 31, W. Michigan 24
Wabash 31, Ohio Wesleyan 13
Wartburg 48, Buena Vista 27
Wayne (Mich.) 27, N. Michigan 14
Winona St. 28, Minn. St.-Moorhead 26
Wis. Lutheran 27, Rockford 13
Wisconsin 48, Kent St. 0
SOUTH
Alabama A&M 35, Texas Southern 28
Alcorn St. 35, Alabama St. 7
Averett 48, Greensboro 0
Bethune-Cookman 31, Morgan St. 20
Campbell 28, Presbyterian 14
New Orleans
San Antonio
0 0
0 1
.000 —
.000 1½
Northwest Division
Phoenix 2, New Mexico 2, tie
LA Galaxy II 5, OKC Energy 1
Tulsa 1, Tacoma 1, tie
Utah
W L Pct GB
1 0 1.000 —
El Paso 2, Sacramento 1
Denver 0 0 .000 —
Sunday, September 29
Austin 2, Portland 1
Minnesota 0 0 .000 —
Monday
Oklahoma City 0 0 .000 —
Portland 0 0 .000 —
Swope Park Rangers 3, Birmingham 1
Tuesday
Pacific Division
Pittsburgh 2, Loudoun 1
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 1 0 1.000 —
Wednesday]
Ottawa 1, Indy 0
Phoenix 0 0 .000 —
El Paso 2, Fresno 1
L.A. Clippers 0 1 .000 1
Golden State 0 1 .000 1 LA Galaxy II 2, Sacramento 2, tie
Sacramento 0 2 .000 1½ Friday
Loudoun 2, Tampa Bay 0
Friday’s Games
Houston 109, L.A. Clippers 96
Indiana 132, Sacramento 131, OT
Saturday
Swope Park Rangers 2, Hartford 2, tie
Brooklyn 137, Franca Franca 89
Saturday’s Games
Indy 3, Memphis 0
North Carolina 2, New York Red Bulls II 0
Indiana 130, Sacramento 106
L.A. Lakers 123, Golden State 101 Colorado 2, LA Galaxy II 0
Orlando 125, San Antonio 89 Charleston 0, Birmingham 0, tie
Utah 133, Adelaide 36ers 81
Today’s Games Louisville 1, Saint Louis 0
Maccabi Haifa at Memphis, 2 p.m.
Charlotte at Boston, 5 p.m. Rio Grande Valley 1, New Mexico 1, tie
Shanghai Sharks vs. L.A. Clippers at Honolulu, Orange County 2, OKC Energy 0
Hawaii, 6 p.m. Phoenix 5, Portland 3
Tacoma 4, Fresno 1
Monday’s Games
Today
Buenas Aires San Lorenzo at Cleveland, 5 p.m.
New York at Washington,6 p.m. Charlotte at Bethlehem Steel, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Orlando at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Saint Louis at Loudoun, 6:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago, 7 p.m. Louisville at Nashville, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Swope Park Rangers, 7 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Wednesday
Houston vs. Toronto at Tokyo, 5 a.m.
Guangzhou Long-Lions at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Bethlehem Steel at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Orange County at Real Monarchs, 8 p.m.
Dallas vs. Oklahoma City at Tulsa, Okla., 7 p.m. Thursday
New Zealand Breakers at Memphis, 7 p.m. Austin at El Paso, 8 p.m.
Friday
Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
San Antonio at Portland, 9 p.m.
Denver vs. Portland at Portland, Ore., 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 12
Bethlehem Steel at Ottawa, 1 p.m.
Hockey Swope Park Rangers at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Indy at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Memphis, 7 p.m.
National Hockey League North Carolina at Nashville, 7 p.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE New Mexico at Tulsa, 7 p.m.
Atlantic Division Pittsburgh at Saint Louis, 7:30 p.m.
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Toronto 3 2 0 1 5 14 10
Colorado at Tacoma, 9 p.m.
LA Galaxy II at Fresno, 9:30 p.m.
Boston 2 2 0 0 4 3 1 Reno at Las Vegas, 9:30 p.m.

The Columbus High School slow-pitch softball Pro Football
team is moving on to the second round of the MHSAA National Football League
playoffs. AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
The Falcons beat West Lauderdale 8-5 and 9-6 W L T Pct PF PA
to clinch the best-of-three series that was played on New England 4 0 0 1.000 122 27
Buffalo 3 1 0 .750 76 63
Columbus’ home field. N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 33 70
Senior C’Asia Grayer went 7 for 7 at the plate Miami 0 4 0 .000 26 163
South
between the two games, hitting four doubles and driving W L T Pct PF PA
in four runs for Columbus. Houston 2 2 0 .500 78 78
Makaijah Taylor went 2 for 3 with two home runs Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 94 102
Jacksonville 2 2 0 .500 84 84
and seven runs batted in. Taylor was intentionally
walked four times.
Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 91 62
kick), 1:12
Third quarter
TRY_FG Sumpter 43, 4:55
A_50,023.
Team statistics
TRY MIZ
First downs 13 22
Rushes-yards 31-61 36-165
Passing 150 278
Comp-Att-Int 20-35-2 18-27-0
Return Yards 27 43
Punts-Avg. 6-39.5 4-36.0
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0
Penalties-Yards 7-60 9-106
Time of Poss. 30:46 29:14
Individual statistics
Carson-Newman 69, UNC-Pembroke 18
Charleston Southern 24, Savannah St. 19
Chattanooga 34, Mercer 17
Davidson 42, Morehead St. 31
Elizabeth City St. 27, St. Augustine’s 17
Emory & Henry 56, Hampden-Sydney 17
FIU 44, UMass 0
Fayetteville St. 66, Chowan 20
Florida 24, Auburn 13
Florida A&M 28, NC Central 21
Furman 58, Samford 14
Gardner-Webb 24, W. Carolina 21
Georgia 43, Tennessee 14
Georgia St. 52, Arkansas St. 38
Grambling St. 44, Jackson St. 21
Hampton 40, North Alabama 34
Buffalo 2 2 0 0 4 10 3
Montreal 2 1 0 1 3 9 9
Detroit 1 1 0 0 2 5 3
Real Monarchs at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.
Orange County at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 13
Tampa Bay 2 1 1 0 2 8 6 Loudoun at Charleston, 1 p.m.
Florida 2 1 1 0 2 6 8 Birmingham at Hartford, 2 p.m.
Ottawa 2 0 2 0 0 4 9 Rio Grande Valley at OKC Energy, 6 p.m.
Metropolitan Division Tuesday, October 15
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Portland at El Paso, 8 p.m.
Washington 3 2 0 1 5 7 6 Wednesday, October 16
Carolina 2 2 0 0 4 7 5 Swope Park Rangers at Indy, 6 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers 2 2 0 0 4 10 5 Memphis at Charleston, 6:30 p.m.
Philadelphia 1 1 0 0 2 4 3 New York Red Bulls II at Birmingham, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh 2 1 1 0 2 8 5
Austin at Real Monarchs, 8 p.m.
New Jersey 2 0 1 1 1 6 12 Tacoma at New Mexico, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders
1 0 1 0 0 1 2
Columbus 2 0 2 0 0 3 11

North
W L T Pct PF PA
The Falcons will host Tupelo on Tuesday in the next Cleveland 2 2 0 .500 89 91
round of the playoffs. Baltimore 2 2 0 .500 135 100
Pittsburgh 1 3 0 .250 76 88
Cincinnati 0 4 0 .000 57 110
SOURCE: From Special Reports West
W L T Pct PF PA
Kansas City 4 0 0 1.000 135 94
on the air
Oakland 2 2 0 .500 79 102
L.A. Chargers 2 2 0 .500 90 74
Denver 0 4 0 .000 70 93
Today NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
AUTO RACING Dallas 3 1 0 .750 107 56
1:30 p.m. — NASCAR Monster Energy Philadelphia 2 2 0 .500 110 105
N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 87 97
Cup Series: Drydene 400, NBCSN Washington 0 4 0 .000 66 118
South
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S) W L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 3 1 0 .750 84 92
Noon — Mississippi State at South Tampa Bay 2 2 0 .500 123 117
Carolina, ESPNU Carolina 2 2 0 .500 95 80
Atlanta 1 3 0 .250 70 99
MLB BASEBALL North
W L T Pct PF PA
3:30 p.m. — N.L. Division Series, Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 85 69
Chicago 3 1 0 .750 66 45
Atlanta at St. Louis, Game 3, TBS Detroit 2 1 1 .625 97 95
Minnesota 2 2 0 .500 84 63
7 p.m. — N.L. Division Series: LA Dodg- West
ers at Washington, Game 3, TBS W L T Pct PF PA
San Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 96 54
NFL FOOTBALL Seattle 4 1 0 .800 133 118
L.A. Rams 3 2 0 .600 146 134
Noon — Buffalo at Tennessee, CBS Arizona 0 3 1 .125 74 115
Thursday’s Games
Noon — Tampa Bay at New Orleans, FOX Philadelphia 34, Green Bay 27
3:25 p.m. — Green Bay at Dallas, FOX
7:20 p.m. — Indianapolis at K.C., NBC
Sunday’s Games
L.A. Chargers 30, Miami 10
N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 3
Tennessee 24, Atlanta 10
RUSHING_Troy, Woolfolk 18-62, Billingsley
7-20, Hayes 1-2, Barker 3-1, Watson 0-0,
(Team) 2-(minus 24). Missouri, Rountree
9-56, Downing 5-37, Bakare 7-36, Badie 8-25,
Bryant 6-20, Powell 1-(minus 9).
PASSING_Troy, Watson 5-9-0-58, Barker
15-26-2-92. Missouri, Bryant 12-19-0-221,
Powell 6-8-0-57.
RECEIVING_Troy, Todd 6-44, Geiger 4-22,
McClain 3-44, Whittemore 2-28, Woolfolk 2-2,
Clark 1-5, Billingsley 1-5, Gibson 1-0. Missou-
ri, K.Scott 5-88, Nance 2-81, Okwuegbunam
2-23, Badie 2-18, Parker 1-18, Johnson 1-17,
Dove 1-11, Banister 1-8, Knox 1-6, Hea 1-6,
Downing 1-2.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Missouri, McCann
52, Koetting 50.
No. 3 Georgia 43,
Tennessee 14
Georgia 10 16 3 14—43
Tennessee 7 7 0 0—14
First quarter
UGA_Swift 1 run (Blankenship kick), 7:07
TEN_Callaway 73 pass from Maurer (Cimaglia
kick), 6:25
UGA_FG Blankenship 50, 2:34
Second quarter
TEN_Jennings 12 pass from Maurer (Cimaglia
kick), 14:57
UGA_FG Blankenship 34, 11:31
UGA_Cager 3 pass from Fromm (Blankenship
kick), 1:59
UGA_Pickens 7 pass from Fromm (pass
failed), :09
Third quarter
UGA_FG Blankenship 27, 7:03
Fourth quarter
UGA_Herrien 1 run (Blankenship kick), 8:02
UGA_Crowder 60 fumble return (Blankenship
kick), 4:39
Team statistics
Huntingdon 48, Methodist 7
Jacksonville St. 31, Tennessee St. 23
Johnson C. Smith 26, Lincoln (Pa.) 19
LSU 42, Utah St. 6
Lenoir-Rhyne 63, Virginia-Wise 6
Limestone 52, Catawba 24
Louisville 41, Boston College 39
MVSU 31, Va. Lynchburg 23
McNeese St. 38, SE Louisiana 34
Memphis 52, Louisiana-Monroe 33
Middle Tennessee 24, Marshall 13
Millsaps 20, Centre 17, 2OT
Morehouse 33, Kentucky St. 24
Murray St. 24, E. Illinois 17
NC A&T 58, Norfolk St. 19
NC Wesleyan 52, LaGrange 35
Nicholls 34, Cent. Arkansas 14
North Carolina 38, Georgia Tech 22
Ole Miss 31, Vanderbilt 6
Randolph-Macon 34, Guilford 21
Richmond 23, Albany (NY) 20
Stetson 30, Butler 27
UT Martin 38, E. Kentucky 28
VMI 34, The Citadel 21
Villanova 35, William & Mary 28
Virginia St. 35, Shaw 0
Virginia Tech 42, Miami 35
Virginia Union 44, Livingstone 0
W. Kentucky 20, Old Dominion 3
West Georgia 44, Shorter 34
Wofford 35, ETSU 17
SOUTHWEST
Ark.-Pine Bluff 45, Lane 38
Lamar 27, Abilene Christian 24
Louisiana College 27, Howard Payne 21
Mary Hardin-Baylor 79, McMurry 0
Ouachita 27, SE Oklahoma 14
Texas Tech 45, Oklahoma St. 35
Prep Football
Mississippi Poll
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Transactions Saturday’s moves
Colorado 2 2 0 0 4 9 5 FOOTBALL
St. Louis 2 1 0 1 3 5 5 National Football League
NFL — Fined Cleveland WR Odell Beckham Jr.,
Winnipeg 2 1 1 0 2 9 10
Nashville 2 1 1 0 2 8 7 Cleveland C JC TRetter and Baltimore CB Marlon
Chicago 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 Humphrey, $14,037 each for unsportsmanlike con-
Minnesota 2 0 2 0 0 4 9 duct during a Sept. 29 game.
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TE Darrell Dan-
Dallas 2 0 2 0 0 3 5
Pacific Division iels from the practice squad. Placed OL Jordan
Mills on IR.
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Vegas 2 2 0 0 4 9 2 ATLANTA FALCONS — Placed P Matt Bosher
Edmonton 2 2 0 0 4 9 7
Anaheim 2 2 0 0 4 5 2
on IR. Re-signed P Matt Wile. Waived OL John
Wetzel.
Calgary 2 1 1 0 2 6 5 CHICAGO BEARS — Released TE Bradley Sow-
Los Angeles 1 0 1 0 0 5 6 ell. Signed QB Tyler Bray from the practice squad.
Arizona 2 0 2 0 0 1 3
Vancouver 2 0 2 0 0 2 6
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed RB Tra Car-
son from the practice squad. Released DL Fadol
San Jose 3 0 3 0 0 3 12 Brown.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Shakial
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss. Top three teams in each division Taylor from the practice squad. Waived TE Hale
and two wild cards per conference advance to Hentges.
playoffs. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Activated CB
Friday’s Games Ryan Smith from the NFL Commissioner’s ex-
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3 empt list.
Washington 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 HOCKEY
Toronto 4, Columbus 1 National Hockey League
Winnipeg 5, New Jersey 4, SO ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Antti Raan-
Vegas 5, San Jose 1 ta from Tucson (AHL). Assigned G Adin Hill to
Saturday’s Games Tucson.
Florida 4, Tampa Bay 3 American Hockey League
Montreal 6, Toronto 5, SO BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Agreed to
Pittsburgh 7, Columbus 2
Buffalo 7, New Jersey 2
terms with LW Ben Thomson on a one-year con-
tact.
Carolina 3, Washington 2, OT ECHL
N.Y. Rangers 4, Ottawa 1 ECHL — Suspended Adirondack’s Gabriel Ver-
St. Louis 3, Dallas 2 plaest five games and fined him undisclosed
Detroit 5, Nashville 3 amount for leaving the player’s bench to join an
Colorado 4, Minnesota 2 altercation during a preseason game against
Boston 1, Arizona 0
Anaheim 3, San Jose 1
Calgary 3, Vancouver 0
Reading on Oct. 4. Suspended Reading’s Hayden
Hodgson two games and fined him an undisclosed
amount after receiving a match penalty for fighting
Edmonton 6, Los Angeles 5 in the game.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019 7B

Major LEague Baseball

Cardinals’ Wainwright to face Braves in Game 3 of NLDS

The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — When October baseball
returns to St. Louis on Sunday, Adam
Wainwright will get the ball for the Car-
dinals again. Just like he has for so many
big games over the past 14 years.
It was almost a much
different picture. If not
for one December trade
back in 2003, Wainwright
might be pitching for At-
lanta in Game 3 of the NL
Division Series.
The 38-year-old Geor-
gia native, who was select- Wainwright
ed by Atlanta in the first
round of the 2000 amateur
draft, will make his 13th postseason
start when the Cardinals take on Mike
Soroka and the Braves in the first post-
season game in St. Louis in four years.
“Feeling that playoff buzz in the crowd
when the games are actually going on,
you can never replace it or replicate it
any other place in life that I’ve seen,” he
said. “It’s just a feeling that is beyond
compare. So I’m looking forward to it.
I’m excited to be back in the playoffs.”
The NL East and Central champions
split the first two games of the best-of-
five series in Atlanta. Paul Goldschmidt
homered to help St. Louis rally for a 7-6
victory in the opener, and Mike Foltyne-
wicz pitched seven sparkling innings in
Atlanta’s 3-0 win in Game 2.
Two days after Foltynewicz’s dom-
inant performance, Soroka takes the
mound for the Braves. St. Louis, a reg-
ular October playground before its lon-
gest drought in two decades, might not
seem like the best spot for a playoff de-
but, but Soroka is no ordinary pitcher.
The 22-year-old right-hander went 7-1
with a 1.55 ERA in 16 road starts this
year, compared with 6-3 and a 4.14 ERA
at home. He allowed one earned run in
13 innings in two May starts against
the Cardinals, including six effective in-
nings in a no-decision at Busch Stadium.
“He’s really good at staying pitch to
pitch,” Braves manager Brian Snitker
said Saturday. “It’s like he’s winning the
battle, the small battles within a game,
pitch to pitch, hitter to hitter, inning to
inning.
“I think he understands that when he
gets in trouble that he has something
— he’s a pitch away from getting out of
trouble.”
Soroka said he isn’t sure why he has
been so good on the road this year com-
pared with at home, but growing up in
Canada could be a factor.
“Every important game I would have
pitched in would have been either not in
Calgary, not even in Canada, usually in
another country — Pan Ams in Mexico,
games in Cuba, all that kind of stuff,” he
said.
“I think maybe I just got used to being
in unfamiliar places, and that’s when I
found I loved to play.”
Soroka was 9 when Wainwright made
his postseason debut in 2006, helping
St. Louis win the World Series for the
first time in 24 years. The 6-foot-7 right-
hander has been versatile in the playoffs,
going 4-4 with a 3.03 ERA and four saves
in 24 appearances.
“He’s a ferocious competitor,” Cardi-
nals manager Mike Shildt said.
For a long time, Wainwright was hop-
ing to pitch in big games for Atlanta. He
was a prep star in Brunswick, Georgia,
when he was drafted by the Braves with
the 29th overall pick in 2000.
He had just finished a solid season
playing for Snitker at Double-A Green-
ville when he was shipped off to St. Lou-
is with Jason Marquis and Ray King for
J.D. Drew and Eli Marrero.
“When we had him he was a young
guy,” Snitker said. “You saw great poten-
tial. You hated to lose him. I remember
when we traded him and I called him.
“But you saw — and I realize — you
realized at the time you’ve got to give
up something to get something. And it’s
just been really cool to see how he’s de-
veloped, his career, following him.”
Drew hit .305 with 31 homers in his
only season with Atlanta, but the Braves
were eliminated by the Astros in the first
round of the 2004 playoffs — part of a
streak of nine straight playoff series loss-
es that is one away from the Cubs’ record
for postseason futility.
While Drew, Marrero, Marquis and
King played for multiple teams after the
trade, Wainwright never left St. Louis.
He ranks fourth on the franchise list
with 162 career wins, just one back of
Bob Forsch.
He was limited to eight starts last
season because of hamstring and elbow
problems, but he decided to keep playing
and signed a one-year deal last October.
Healthy again, he went 14-10 with a 4.19
ERA in 31 starts this year.
“I always tell these guys, old play-
ers means good players,” Wainwright
said. “You don’t get to be an old player if
you’re not a good player.”

Max effort: Nats turn aces’ bullpen days into valuable outs
The Associated Press
The Washington Na-
tionals turned a bullpen
day for one of their aces
into a postseason game
day, and
they may
run more
starters
out for spot
stints as a
bridge to
their unreli-
able reliev- Scherzer
ers.
Max Scherzer took an
unexpected turn in relief
during Washington’s 4-2
win over the Los Angeles
Dodgers on Friday night,
helping to even the best-
of-five series at a game
apiece. It was his fourth
career postseason relief
appearance and came
after a commanding per-
formance from Stephen
Strasburg on the shortest
rest of his career.
The move may force
the Nationals to bump
Scherzer, their scheduled
Game 3 starter, back to
Game 4. But with Wash-
ington leading the 106-
win Dodgers on the road,
manager Dave Martínez
wagered the one-inning
outing was his best bet to
fly home with a win.
“You can see it in Max’s
eyes that he was ready to
dominate,” closer Daniel
Hudson said. “Max out of
the ’pen is a different an-
imal.”
Since Madison
Bumgarner’s five-inning
save for San Francisco in
Game 7 of the 2014 World
Series, it’s become in-
creasingly common for
ace starters to be called
on for October relief.
Those outings have usu-
ally come in win-or-go
home situations — rarely
in the second game of a
series.
Scherzer’s appearance
Friday night may signal
a shift. After starting in
Tuesday’s NL wild-card
game, the 35-year-old
was scheduled to throw
a bullpen as part of his
between-start routine.
Martínez simply had
Scherzer get his work in
during the game.
“I felt I could really go
one inning and recover
from that,” Scherzer said. Scherzer said. “You lay it Chicago Cubs, entering also included a twisting,
The Nationals, with on the line every time you the game with a 4-3 lead. falling grab by third base-
their lights-out top of the touch that field.” He got two quick man Anthony Rendon on
rotation and rickety relief Scherzer planned to outs before the bottom Cody Bellinger’s pop fly
corps, could be tempt- rest and recover as much dropped out. Scherzer in shallow left field, as
ed to squeeze similar as possible on Saturday, a gave up four runs (two well as a gutsy intention-
outings out of Strasburg travel day for both teams, earned) and three hits to al walk by Martínez that
and Patrick Corbin this with hopes of being ready go with a walk, a strikeout brought the winning run
month. to take on MLB ERA lead- and a hit batsman in one to bat.
“Before we even got er Hyun-Jin Ryu in Wash- inning. Martínez intentionally
to the playoffs, our game ington. “With what happened walked Max Muncy, who
If he doesn’t go, Mar- in the Cubs series, how hit a solo shot off Sean
plan was to try to utilize
tinez indicated right- he kind of got some tough Doolittle in the seventh,
these guys the best way
hander Aníbal Sánchez breaks, for him to come in before Hudson walked
possible without disrupt-
would start. there and do that, it was Will Smith to load the
ing their starts,” Martínez
“We play for one pretty cool to see,” team- bases. Seager fouled off
said. “We talked to all of
game,” Martinez said. mate Ryan Zimmerman four fastballs before Hud-
them, and they have all
“Our biggest emphasis said of the turnaround. son got him to swing over
been on board.”
all year was to go 1-0, and Scherzer turned it over a slider.
It’s a risky maneuver
now it’s that time.” to Hudson for a tense Scherzer followed the
— pitchers don’t gen-
Scherzer’s last relief ninth, and sure enough, roller-coaster action from
erally max out during
appearance in the post- trouble ensued. the clubhouse.
between-start bullpen
season didn’t go nearly The closer loaded the “It’s all pins and nee-
sessions, and Scherzer
as well. He pitched in a bases with two outs before dles,” he said. “That’s the
could be limited in Game
decisive Game 5 of the striking out Corey Seager postseason. It’s like this
3 if he starts. But it’s a
2017 NLDS against the for the save. The inning every single time.”
necessary one for a club
trying to limit exposure
for its relievers, who tied
the Dodgers for the NL
high with 29 blown saves
during the regular sea-
son.
And if it works for the
Nats, more clubs will cer-
tainly try it.
“This is the playoffs,”

Nascar

Denny Hamlin wins pole on Dover

track where he has yet to win
The Associated Press
DOVER, Del. — Denny Hamlin is
0-for-Dover in a stellar career for Joe
Gibbs Racing that includes two Daytona
500 victories.
He’s also missing a Cup champion-
ship, conspicuous by its absence on a re-
sume that boasts 35 wins
over 499 career starts.
Hamlin took a nice first
step toward erasing his
winless drought at Dover
International Speedway
when he turned a lap of
166.984 mph to start the
second round of the play- Hamlin
offs on the pole. That
championship that sits just seven races
away, well, Hamlin believes it’s his for
the taking.
“Even though I’ve had past stumbles
here, and it hasn’t technically been my
best race track, we know we are fully
capable of winning at any race track,”
Hamlin said. “It doesn’t matter what the
past history is.”
Hamlin has never won on the mile
concrete track in 27 races dating to
2006. He has only four top-five finishes,
did not finish four times and his average
finish is just 17.5. He finished 21st in the
No. 11 Toyota in the May race at Dover.
But to win a championship, a driver
must often excel in crunch time on a
track that gives him fits. With four wins
this season, Hamlin is enjoying a renais-
sance with new crew chief Chris Gabe-
hart. Hamlin said the chemistry gives
him confidence to remain in champion-
ship contention.
“I think a lot of it comes from the
crew chief,” Hamlin said. “I think that
he’s done a phenomenal job when you go
back to races for the second time, adjust-
ing based off the information that I gave
him. I think that’s been our strong suit.”
Hamlin will lead the field to green in
his 500th career NASCAR Cup Series
start. Richard Petty at Trenton in 1970
and Matt Kenseth at New Hampshire
in 2013 are the only drivers to win their
500th start.
JGR has 15 wins this season and needs
three more in seven races to match Hen-
drick Motorsports’ record total of 18 in
2007.
Playoff drivers took up most of the
top 10: Kyle Larson joins Hamlin on the
front row, Martin Truex Jr. starts third,
Kevin Harvick fourth, Chase Elliott fifth
and William Byron sixth. Ryan Blaney
starts 10th. Reigning series champion
Joey Logano qualified 14th, Brad Kesel-
owski 16th and Clint Bowyer 17th.
“I told Denny a few days ago that I was
going to get the pole. So, having him be
just a little bit quicker than me is frus-
trating,” Larson said.
Kyle Busch was the worst qualifier
among the 12 playoff drivers and starts
18th.
Four more drivers will be eliminat-
ed at the end of the round, which also
includes Talladega Superspeedway and
Kansas Speedway.
Elliott and Bowman are the only driv-
ers who finished in the top five in the
spring races at each of the second-round
tracks. Elliott’s 4.3 average finish at Do-
ver is tops among the 12 playoff drivers,
and Larson’s eight top-10s at Dover are
the most for him at any track.

If you don’t read The Dispatch, how are you gonna know?
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Cole
Continued from Page 1B
for 80 yards and a score.
While his numbers picked up,
so too did his recruiting profile.
With Cole riddled with mail and the
dizzying effect the process has on
athletes, family friend Ralph Arnett
stepped in to help make sense of it
all.
Arnett, whose brother DeAntho-
ny was a high-profile prospect out
of Saginaw in the Class of 2011,
had seen his sibling go through the
process and was able to advise the
Coles.
“It was like he had the sweet po-
tato pie with all the ingredients,”
Brian Sr. said through a laugh. “Ev-
buildings, the town is a rural agrar-
ian society far removed from the
Midwestern world in which Cole
grew up.
“It’s going to be a long seven
months,” he thought upon first set-
ting foot at EMCC.
Though the town is remote, Ste-
phens’ program has been synony-
mous with junior college football for
the better part of a decade, having
totaled five national championships
since 2011 alone.
It’s also served as a proving
ground for former Division I prod-
ucts who left their initial stops for
varying reasons.
later.
The one-time afterthoughts
were headed to Starkville.
‘A Bulldog, most definitely’
Cole’s time at MSU has been
nearly as meandering and bumpy
as his path to it.
Upon arrival, he took a redshirt
for academic reasons. He then suf-
fered an upper-body injury just four
games into last year that forced him
to miss the rest of the season.
But finally healthy and boasting
a renewed confidence in his ability,
he’s flourished in defensive coordi-
nator Bob Shoop’s scheme in 2019.
Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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tasted good. That’s the best way I
Among those was one-time
Georgia transfer Chauncey Rivers.
Cole ranks sixth on the team Sudoku
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try by 247Sports.com, Cole signed third marijuana-related arrest in 1 to 9 in the empty spaces 5 2 1 8 7 3 9 6 4
tail off the get to where he’s at right given
with the hometown Michigan Wol- seven months in Athens. Looking
now,” Rivers said. “He’s not one of so thatnumbers. The
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But after a tumultuous first sea-
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coach Buddy Stephens, Arnett
reached out to Stephens to see if
he’d be interested in bringing Brian
aboard for a year. He was, with one
caveat — the Lions needed a defen-
sive back.
“They completely blew me off
initially,” Arnett joked of the Coles’
reaction when he brought up the
idea.
“Being 17 years old and go-
ing from Ann Arbor to Scooba is
life-changing in itself,” he contin-
ued. “And I thought not only the
surroundings, but the relation-
ships, the connections that Buddy
had I knew he would be taken care
of.”
After some coaxing, Cole took
Stephens up on his offer. With a
leap of faith and a position change
in tow, he headed for Mississippi.
Next stop: Scooba.
‘A long seven months’
Geographically, Scooba is rough-
ly 900 miles from Saginaw. Then
there’s the metaphorical distance.
In the place of old industrial
ting here,” Rivers told The Dis-
patch. “Take a few extra courses
and go through the obstacles of not
playing our first year, so that kind
of built us the same.”
Beyond their past paths, neither
Rivers nor Cole had a car during
their time in Scooba. When team-
mates went home after Thursday
night games, the duo was effective-
ly trapped on campus.
Video games in the dorm rooms
and chatter about their former lives
as Division I stars occupied their
time. There were also constant re-
minders of needing to get out.
“We wanted to get back to where
we wanted to be,” Cole said. “From
getting scholarship money, to dif-
ferent benefits, flying to games …
when you have that, you lose it, then
it humbles you and makes you want
to get back to where you were at.”
After helping the Lions to an 11-1
record, Cole and Rivers readied to
make their college choices.
With the help of Arnett, Cole
committed to MSU on Dec. 13,
2017. Rivers did the same one day
Standing at the podium in the the same number only once. The difficulty level
Leo Seal Jr. Football Complex earli- increases from Monday to Sunday.
er this season, Cole was questioned
about the tattooed sleeve that cov-
ers nearly his entire left arm.
Located just above his wrist is
a block “M” — reminiscent of his
days at Michigan. But more telling
is the inked “Walking Bully” image
that resides just above it.
“That’s where I’m from, but
Michigan Wolverines — no,” he
said through a smirk. “I’m a Bull-
dog, most definitely. But at the end
of the day that’s part of my journey,
and it made me who I am today,
too.”
With this week’s bye, Cole and
the Bulldogs are entering the sec-
ond half of the season. With seven
scheduled games remaining, he
has once again started the timer —
one that will almost assuredly make
him an NFL draft pick come April.
“The way I look at it, I’ve got four
to five months to do what I have to
do, handle what I have to handle to
get where I always wanted to be,”
he said.

Ole Miss
Continued from Page 1B
touchdown run in the first
quarter. Scottie Phillips
added a 24-yard touch-
down run in the fourth
quarter for the Rebels,
who finished with 512
yards of total offense that
included 413 yards rush-
ing, the highest SEC out-
put since 1979 when the
Rebels ran for 443 yards
against Vanderbilt.
Ryley Guay kicked
field goals of 22 and 43
yards for Vanderbilt (1-4,
0-3) in the second quar-
ter, but the Commodores
never seriously threat-
ened in the second half.
Ke’Shawn Vaughn had
69 yards rushing for Van-
derbilt, which was limited
to 62 yards rushing and
finished 2 of 17 on third
down conversions.
The takeaway
Vanderbilt: The Com-
modores have been good
enough to earn two bowl
bids in the past three sea-
Ole Miss quarterback John Rhys Plumlee runs for a
touchdown during the first quarter Saturday against
Vanderbilt at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford.
sons, but the loss makes
it more difficult to reach
the six-win postseason
eligibility level. On the
positive side, the Commo-
dores have not missed a
field goal attempt in sev-
en tries, including six by
Guay, this season. Harri-
son Smith was effective
with four punts downed
inside the 20-yard line.
Ole Miss: Taking a
Ole Miss 31, Vanderbilt 6
Vanderbilt 0 6 0 0—6
Ole Miss 10 0 14 7—31
First quarter
MIS_FG Logan 41, 12:32
MIS_Plumlee 33 run (Logan kick), 9:15
Second quarter
VAN_FG Guay 22, 11:04
VAN_FG Guay 43, :00
Third quarter
MIS_Ealy 78 run (Logan kick), 12:17
MIS_Conner 84 run (Logan kick), 9:03
Fourth quarter
MIS_Phillips 24 run (Logan kick), 4:29
A_47,601.
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First downs 17 15
Rushes-yards 27-62 44-413 1 Punch
Passing
Comp-Att-Int
202 99
25-46-0 10-18-0 5 Role for Chris
Return Yards
Punts-Avg.
28
11-39.5 6-40.0
6
Hemsworth
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Penalties-Yards 3-23 5-54 9 Indian coin
Time of Possession 33:02
Individual statistics
26:58
10 Showed over
Stan Beall/Special to The Dispatch RUSHING_Vanderbilt, Vaughn 18-69, Neal 4-6,
Brooks 3-1, Wallace 2-(minus 14). Mississippi, Plum- 12 Seek a job
lee 22-165, Ealy 4-97, Conner 5-91, Phillips 11-62,
E.Moore 1-0, (Team) 1-(minus 2). 13 Chum
PASSING_Vanderbilt, Neal 18-30-0-140, Wallace
14 Colorful
7-16-0-62. Mississippi, Plumlee 10-18-0-99.
RECEIVING_Vanderbilt, Lipscomb 7-69, Vaughn
flowers
seat with the SEC elite 4-15, Pierce 3-20, C.Johnson 3-13, Bresnahan 2-38,
Bolar 2-21, Brooks 2-10, Shelton-Mosley 1-9, Pink-
16 Acquire
is an unrealistic expecta- ney 1-7. Mississippi, E.Moore 4-40, Mingo 2-15, J.
Jackson 1-28, Cooley 1-7, Pellerin 1-5, Gregory 1-4. 17 Print units
tion, but earning two SEC MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
18 Colorful
home wins, remaining in son-best performance, flowers
the chase for postseason led by linebacker Lakia 20 Find appropri-
play, and the impressive Henry with 15 tackles, 14 ate
play from freshmen at the in the first half. 22 Savvy about
offensive skill positions 23 Foreword DOWN say
have been encouraging Up next 25 Cross 1 Flat on one’s 25 Twitch
signs. After giving up 59 Vanderbilt hosts UNLV 28 Admits back 26 Trattoria
points in last week’s loss on Saturday. 32 Colorful 2 Stand against choices
at Alabama, the defense Ole Miss plays at Mis- flowers 3 Jail division 27 Turkey’s
answered with a sea- souri on Saturday. 34 “Annabel Lee” 4 Typed, as text capital
author 5 Completely 29 Charlotte, for

Woodard
35 Invite wreck one
36 Colorful 6 Fashion line? 30 Kelp compo-
flowers 7 Genesis nent
Continued from Page 1B 38 Kick off 8 Show anger 31 High homes
dent you can play with right now. Great competi- with him last year, that ed.” 40 Filer’s worry toward 33 Small
anyone in this league.” tor, one of our leaders, no created a good bond,” “Robert brings it every 41 Opera’s 9 Dance parties amounts
The biggest adjust- doubt.” Perry said. “We have each night,” senior guard Ty- Callas 11 “That’s a lie!” 37 One of Don-
ment in his transition Howland expects the other’s back on the court son Carter said. 42 Yorkshire city 15 Snitch ald’s nephews
from high school to col- duo of Woodard and soph- and are going to go hard MSU has a home ex- 43 Easy targets 19 Pirate’s take 39 Tear
lege came after Howland omore standout forward each and every night.” hibition against South 44 Jane of fiction 21 Fish features
used the 6-foot-7 Woodard Reggie Perry to become Woodard added he ex- Alabama on Oct. 27 be- 24 Downsize,
at small forward — he pri- one of the best rebound- pects to take a step for- fore opening the season
marily played power for- ing tandems in the South- ward as a leader, saying against Florida Interna-
ward at Columbus High. eastern Conference. he’ll do whatever he can tional on Nov. 5 at the
“(I learned to) just be “Being roommates to “keep the guys motivat- Humphrey Coliseum.
able to move faster, stand
lower and guard quicker
guys,” Woodard said of
changing positions.
His game still centers
around playing near the
basket, but MSU wants
Woodard to become a
more well-rounded perim-
eter player. In the 2018-
2019 season, Woodard
made 12 of 44 3-pointers
for a 27 percent clip.
“He’s really improved
his outside jump shot,”
Howland said. “I think
he’s really grown offen-
sively as a perimeter play-
er from when he arrived
a year ago to where he is
Lifestyles
Asylum Hill
In this file photo, Forrest Follett of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University works at the Asylum Hill Cemetery site on the University
of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson, in 2013. The Asylum Hill Research Consortium is reaching out to the public for information that might help
tell the stories of individuals who may be interred at the site. Remains from 66 exhumed graves are currently at the Cobb Institute in Starkville. The head of
the Asylum Hill project, Ralph Didlake, will speak at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Friday at noon.
Intriguing story of an old cemetery reaches close to home
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
T
he coffins, made of pine, are decayed
by time and clay soil. Simple wooden
crosses thought to have marked each
burial site have long since disintegrated.
The mostly anonymous graves — as many
as 7,000 of them — represent the final
resting place of inhabitants who died at
the Mississippi Insane Asylum in Jackson
between 1855 and 1935 and were interred
at the Asylum Hill Cemetery. Today, they
occupy the only remaining undeveloped part
of the main campus of the University of Mis-
sissippi Medical Center. In 2012, proposed
construction brought the all-but-forgotten
grave sites to the forefront once more. What
to do about them — and how to respectfully
memorialize them — is an ongoing and com-
pelling story that reaches from Jackson to
the Golden Triangle, and into every county
of the Magnolia State.
An overview of that story will be shared
in Columbus Friday, Oct. 11, when Dr. Ralph
Didlake presents a free talk on the Asylum
Hill Cemetery Project at noon at the Co-
lumbus-Lowndes Public Library. Didlake is
the associate vice chancellor for academic
affairs and chief academic officer for the
University of Mississippi Medical Center in
Jackson. He is also a professor of surgery
and director of UMMC’s Center for Bioeth-
ics and Medical Humanities.
After the graves were rediscovered
in 2012 during construction on campus,
Didlake saw a need for a diverse group
of scholars and community members to
oversee potential exhumations and to honor
the experience of individuals who were
patients during an important 80-year period
in the history of medicine, mental illness
and social institutions in the state of Missis-
sippi. He formed the Asylum Hill Research
Consortium (AHRC). Its members bring
with them expertise in the fields of archae-
Courtesy photo
Dr. Ralph Didlake
ology, anthropology, psychiatry, philosophy,
bioethics, law, archives, preservation and
more.
“I felt strongly that whatever got done
had to be culturally appropriate and respect-
ful of the individuals who were interred
there,” Didlake told The Dispatch.
Early on, he began to envision a memo-
rial of some type. As the conversation went
forward, the vision expanded.
“We started realizing almost immediately
that this brought with it an opportunity to do
a very meaningful project,” Didlake said.
Exactly how many people are interred on
the near-16-acre site in Jackson isn’t precise-
ly known.
“Archaeologists are telling us to prepare
for 7,000,” Didlake said. “We’re highly con-
fident that there are 4,000, because we have
those records. We have burial records from
LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471
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SECTION
Courtesy photo
IF YOU GO:
■ WHO: Columbus-Lowndes Public Library
■ WHAT: Free talk by Dr. Ralph Didlake, “The Asylum
Hill Cemetery Project”
■ WHEN: Friday, Oct. 11; noon
■ WHERE: Library, 314 Seventh St. N., Columbus.
Call 662-329-5304 for information.
1912 forward, when the state of Mississippi
started doing death certificates consistent-
ly.”
Of those thousands, the remains of 66
people have been exhumed to date, from
land needed for a roadway. Those 66 have a
new resting place in Starkville, at the Cobb
Institute of Archaeology at MSU. Exhuma-
tions were done in late 2012 and early 2013
with a team led by Nicholas Herrmann,
Ph.D., then at the Cobb Institute. Graduate
students and undergrads from MSU were
part of the team.
Exhuming the past
Biological anthropologist Molly Zuck-
erman, Ph.D., is an associate professor
in the MSU Department of
Anthropology and Middle
Eastern Studies. She is also
a senior researcher at the
Cobb Institute. Her research
specialty is reconstructing
evidence of health and disease
from human skeletal remains
recovered from archaeological Zuckerman
sites. As part of the exhuma-
tion team and in curating the remains in her
laboratory, Zuckerman has followed exact-
ing preservation standards.
“One of the things we’re very proud of is
that the remains have all been cleaned and
all individually stored in a highly secured
facility in a way that makes certain that they
are not mingled with other skeletal materi-
als,” she said.
See Asylum Hill, 5C
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Teen finds the ‘real thing’ at unique camp

BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

W
hen Starkville
High School
freshman Parker
Casano went off to Camp
Liberty in Battleground,
Alabama, he didn’t ex-
pect arts and crafts and
archery. He had signed
up for the veteran-owned
business’ Extreme
Military Challenge, after
all. The 14-year-old son
of Justin and Elizabeth
Casano of Oktibbeha
County has long been
interested in a potential
military career, inspired
by the military service
of his grandparents.
Camp Liberty seemed a
good way to learn more
what it might entail. So,
Parker joined more than
300 young people ages
13-17 from more than 30 Courtesy photo
states and 18 countries Courtesy photo Parker Casano receives instructions from an Extreme
who made Camp Liberty Parker Casano, 14, navigates a physical drill during Camp Liberty’s Extreme Military Military Challenge instructor at Camp Liberty.
home as they under- Challenge in Battleground, Alabama, this past July. Casano signed up for the experi-
went two to six weeks ence because he has an interest in a military career. The Starkville High freshman is
of military training. It the son of Justin and Elizabeth Casano of Oktibbeha County.
ranged from Cadet Basic then this was the “real going to let that define thought this would help
Training to Cadet Ranger thing.” What followed you? No, I’m not. I’m go- him decide, be as authen-
School to Cadet SCUBA was heads shaved and ing to be in the military. tic as possible to give him
School this past summer, days and nights of push- I know it’s going to be an idea whether he really
all based on U.S. Army ups, sit-ups, exhausting tough.” wanted to or not.”
standards. The Extreme runs, strict discipline, Parker didn’t only He came back “more
Military Challenge is “shark attacks,” demand- complete two weeks of than fired up,” she said.
led by a team of military ing drills and exacting boot camp and two weeks “He came back talking
professionals with more challenges. of leadership camp, he about being a combat
than 400 years of collec- Parker was assigned immediately joined the medic and about being a
tive service. to third platoon, the “ma- Starkville High School physicians’ assistant once
“I thought it’d be rine division.” Junior ROTC program he got out.”
like a camp just giving “They were the tough- when he returned. His Parker said, “I feel
fundamentals of the army est of the tough,” he said. leadership training at the like I have accomplished
— not actually like boot A number of teens Challenge has already something that less than
camp and everything,” dropped out along the advanced his rank to pla- 1 percent of kids my
Justin told The Dispatch way, and Parker had toon sergeant. He’s also age would even attempt
about his four-week moments when he con- been earning money by because it is really hard,
immersion in July. From sidered it. But he perse- mowing yards to return overwhelming and
the first moment, howev- vered. to Camp Liberty next requires a ‘don’t give up’
er, he knew it would be “The thing I’m most year, for combat medic attitude. I have learned
unlike any experience proud of is that I finished camp. that God has given me
he’d had before. it. I actually put forth the “He’s at that age where an opportunity to see
“I saw there were actu- effort and I excelled,” he he has to start making a glimpse of my future
al drill instructors,” Park- said. “There were times some career decisions,” that I am really excited
er said. “They told us, when I thought I don’t said Parker’s mother, about.”
‘We are not your friends! want to be in the military; Elizabeth. “He’s all the Editor’s note: Some
We’re gonna make y’all I don’t want anything time talking about being information in this story is
work and break you to do with it. But then I in the military and de- courtesy of a Camp Liberty
down!’” Parker knew thought, are you really fending his country. We press release.

Courtesy photo
TROPICAL TOUCH: Bill Plyler stands Sept. 24 next to banana trees he’s grown in
his backyard in east Columbus. After the first frost each fall, Plyler cuts the trees
back and covers them so they will sprout again the following spring. It’s a practice
he’s followed for 30 to 40 years at the house he shares with his wife, Mary. Plyler’s
towering trees are no accident: “They like a lot of nitrogen; they like a lot of water,”
he said. “The more you baby them, the bigger they get.”

School news
Vo graduates
Tam Vo of Starkville recently graduated from Georgia State University, where
she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree during the Summer 2019 semester.
Georgia State University conferred more than 2,000 degrees to students at the
associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, professional and doctoral levels during
the Summer 2019 semester.
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calendar
Today
Oktoberfest for the Arts —
This benefit for the Columbus Arts
Council from 1-5 p.m. is hosted at
Zachary’s, 205 Fifth St. N., down-
town Columbus. $10 cash donation.
Enjoy German foods, art and bever-
ages, plus live music at this event in
tribute to Beverly Norris.
“It’s a Classic!” — The
Starkville/MSU Sympony Orchestra
presents a free concert at 2 p.m. at
Mississippi University for Women’s
Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall. The
program features Mozart, Haydn and
the work of guest soprano Susan
Hurley and guest composer Joe
Alexander.
Monday, Oct, 7
Hazard Lecture Series,
Part 2 — The Hazard Lecture
Series presents Entergy Mississippi
President and CEO Haley Fisackerly
(HA 1983) and Entergy Mississippi
Vice President of Customer Service
Lea Brigham Turnipseed (HA 1990)
at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Academy
Elementary School, 623 Willowbrook
Road, Columbus. Free to the public.
For more information, call 662-327-
1556, ext. 211.
Thursday, Oct. 10
Exhibit reception — A recep-
tion for exhibits by Rebeca Calderon
Pittman, Joe MacGown and Emmie
Sheretz at The W Galleries is 4-5:30
p.m. in Summer Hall on campus.
Free to the public. Pittman’s recent
paintings are up through Oct.
30. MacGown’s “Convergence: A
Surreal Journey” is up through Nov.
1. Sheretz’s “Untitled Installation:
Environment” is up through Nov. 8.
Thursday through Saturday,
Oct. 10-12
Eudora Welty Writers’ Sym-
posium — See details at top of
calendar.
Friday, Oct. 11
Asylym Hill talk — Ralph Did-
lake of the University of Mississippi
Medical Center speaks at noon
at the Columbus-Lowndes Public
Library, 314 Seventh St. N., on “The
Asylym Hill Cemetery Project.” Free
to the public. For more information,
contact Mona Vance-Ali, 662-329-
5304.
Welty Gala — This annual
fundraiser for the MUW Scholar-
ship Fund features New York Time
best-selling author John Feinstein at
7 p.m. at Trotter Convention Center
in Columbus. Black tie optional.
Friends tickets are $100. For tickets
or information, visit muw.edu/welty/
gala, or contact the MUW Founda-
tion, 662-329-7148 or anstevens@
muw.edu.
Saturday, Oct. 12
Run United — Join in this
8 a.m. 5K and 10K runs, plus a
1-mile “Hallo-Way” costume walk at
the Sanderson Center, 225 Bailey
Howell Road, MSU. Register at
myraceresults.com/134205, call
662-323-3830 or email unwayokt@
maxxsouth.net.
Makin’ Hay Day — This annual
fall farmers market in downtown
West Point from 9 a.m.-noon in-
cludes live music, homemade good-
ies, arts/crafts, fall wreaths and
other handmade crafts. Old-fash-
ioned Halloween games for kids
and a hayride through downtown.
For information, contact the Growth
Alliance, 662-494-5121.
Night of Classic Rock —
The Columbus Arts Council hosts
a Night of Classic Rock from the
1970s, with music by Dale Robert-
son, Jerry Carnathan and friends
at 7 p.m. in the Rosenzweig Arts
Center Omnova Theater, 501 Main
St. CAC member tickets are $15;
$17 for non-members. For tickets
or information, visit columbus-arts.
org, or call 662-328-2787 (closed
Mondays).
Hope Rides Here — The Mis-
sissippi State Extension Equine-As-
sisted Therapy Program hosts this
fundraising gala from 6:30-10 p.m.
at The Mill Conference Center in
Starkville. Tickets are $45 at the
door or online at shop.ideashopmsu.
com/collections/special-events.
Tuesday, Oct. 15
Fall recital — The W’s Music De-
partment showcases its students in
a free fall choral concert at 7:30 p.m.
in Poindexter Hall on campus.
Thursday, Oct. 17
Pumpkinpalooza — Starkville’s
annual harvest festival from 5-7
p.m. on Main Street includes trick or
treating, a pumpkin patch, inflatables,
farmers market, MSU pep rally, pump-
kin painting, after-hours shopping and
more. Costumes are encouraged. Visit
starkville.org or contact The Partner-
ship, 662-323-3322.
Friday, Oct. 18
The Rough & Tumble — The
Columbus Arts Council presents this
Americana duo on its “Howl Back
Tour” at 7 p.m. in the Rosenzweig
Arts Center Omnova Theater, 501
Main St. CAC member tickets are $15
advance/$17 at the door; non-mem-
bers $20 advance/$22 at the door.
Get tickets or information at colum-
bus-arts.org, or call 662-328-2787.
Exhibit talk — Architect and
former Iraqi refugee Ahmed Badr
gives a free talk at 6 p.m. in MSU’s
Old Main Academic Center, Room
1030, about his “Unpacked: Refugee
Baggage” exhibit up through Nov. 1 at
the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery on
campus. For information, contact Lori
Neuenfeldt at lpn20@mssstate.edu or
662-325-2970.
Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 18-19
Caledonia Days — A Friday
Courtesy photo
night concert Oct. 18 with fireworks,
Doug Stone, Jeff Bates and Rust
Bucket Roadies at Ola J. Pickett
Park opens this two-day fest that
continues Oct. 19 with a 5K run, pet
parade, cruise in, music and arts,
crafts and food vendors. Visit face-
book.com/caledoniadays/.
Saturday, Oct. 19
MUW fall concert — The MUW
Chamber Singers and MUW Chorale
present a free concert for the public
at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on
campus.
Tuesday, Oct. 22
100+ Women Who Care
— This philanthropic group meets
5:30-7 p.m. at the Courtyard by
Marriott, Columbus, to select a local
recipient nonprofit organization of its
Impact Award. Members each donate
$100 to the award and receive a
vote; all donations go to recipient.
Learn more at 100wwccolumbusms.
org. Potential members are welcome.
Registration/ social time is 5:30
p.m.; meeting is 6-7 p.m.
HOPE event — A gathering in
front of Columbus City Hall at 5:30
p.m. will be held in support of victims
and survivors of breast cancer. All
are welcome.
Wednesday, Oct. 23
A Night at the Museum —
This fundraiser for the Black Prairie
Blues Museum in West Point is 6-9
p.m. at 640 Commerce St., West
Point. See what’s planned for the
blues museum. Limited tickets are
Thursday through
Saturday, Oct. 10-12
Eudora Welty Writers’
Symposium — A diverse
group of Southern writers and
scholars present their work
at this annual event at The W.
Author readings are free to the
public. For a complete sched-
ule, visit muw/edu/welty.
$150. To purchase, or for more infor-
mation, call or text 662-275-7819.
Friday, Oct. 25
MSU/Bahamas National
Youth Choir — Mississippi State
choirs and the Bahamas National
Youth Choir present a free concert
at 7 p.m. at Starkville’s First Baptist
Church, 106 E. Lampkin St. For more
information, contact the MSU Depart-
ment of Music, 662-325-3070.
Oct. 25-26, 30-31
Nightmare at the Fair-
grounds — The Community Bene-
fit Committee presents this haunting
experience from 5-10 p.m. at the
Columbus Fairgrounds on Highway
69 South. Haunted House is $10;
Haunted Hayride is $5. All proceeds
benefit the Lowndes County bike
drive for kids. The attraction will also
be open Oct. 28 for private groups
and field trips from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.,
with reservations. For information,
contact Rhonda Sanders, 662-549-
5909.
Saturday, Oct. 26
Art in the Park — Starkville
Area Arts Council’s fifth annual arts
festival for children is a free event
from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at J.L. King Park,
Starkville. Youth enjoy art activities
and hands-on musical experiences.
Bring your own water and snacks,
if desired. For more information,
contact SAAC, 662-324-3080 or
#artinthepark2019.

MSU, MSMS partnership provides high school students hands-on experience

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC tive assistant to the vice MSMS students have the direction of Ashli
AFFAIRS president, and Elizabeth presented their work Brown Johnson and Dar-
Morgan, a chemistry among college students

A
longstanding
partnership be-
tween Mississippi
State University and the
Mississippi School for
Mathematics and Science
is giving high school
students the opportunity
to get hands-on research
experience in a university
setting.
Since the early 2000s,
MSMS students have
been working with MSU
faculty in their research
labs to gain a better un-
derstanding of academic
and professional opportu-
nities in science.
“These students are
in labs talking to un-
dergraduates, graduate
students and faculty
members,” said Teresa
Gammill, MSU assistant
vice president for re-
search. “They’re getting
additional mentoring
instructor at MSMS.
Approximately 15 MSMS
students participate
in the program every
semester and, based on
their research interests,
are paired with faculty
members.
“Part of our MSMS
mission is to provide
innovative, unique learn-
Photo by Beth Wynn
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior ing experiences for our
and Starkville native Jane Wang, center, analyzes students,” Morgan said.
results with Mississippi State biochemistry graduate
“By partnering with Mis-
student Benjamin Blackburn of Pascagoula and Ashli
sissippi State, we are able
Brown Johnson, associate professor in MSU’s Depart- to let our students experi-
ment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology
ence academic research
and Plant Pathology and director of the Mississippi
State Chemical Lab. labs as high school
juniors and seniors,
that they would not have hard to get the students providing a window into
gotten otherwise, and involved and make it a their potential futures.
they’re getting involved beneficial experience.” We are always grateful
in the research to the ex- The program is coor- to the Mississippi State
tent that they can discov- dinated in Mississippi professors and graduate
er which areas they like. State’s Office of Research students who mentor our
This program couldn’t and Economic Develop- students and help them
run without our dedi- ment by Gammill and see what could lie ahead
cated faculty, who work Lynn Taylor, administra- for them.”
at MSU’s annual Under-
graduate Research Sym-
posium. Several students
in the program have gone
on to enroll at Mississip-
pi State and work with
faculty members they
studied under as high
school students.
“It’s never lost on
me how important this
program can be for stu-
dents,” Taylor said. “We
could match somebody
with a researcher, and it
could change the course
of their life and career
path.”
Among students tak-
ing part in faculty-guided
research this fall is Jane
Wang, a Starkville native
and senior at MSMS.
With both of her parents
working at MSU, Wang
has been exposed to
research for most of her
life. She is working under
rell L. Sparks, associate
professors in Mississippi
State’s Department of
Biochemistry, Molecular
Biology, Entomology and
Plant Pathology. Brown
Johnson and Sparks
are also serving as the
Mississippi State Chem-
ist and Associate State
Chemist, respectively,
at the Mississippi State
Chemical Lab.
“I was really inter-
ested in learning more
about what my family
does in the process of
research because they’re
all scientists,” Wang said.
“It’s been really fun and
exciting to learn more
about the research pro-
cess and what all goes on
in the lab.”
For more on the Mis-
sissippi School for Math-
ematics and Science, visit
themsms.org.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My father was
killed recently in a shoot-
ing. I have received text
messages and phone calls from
my immediate family and close
friends. My mother-in-law was
thoughtful enough to send me
a card, and I called to thank her
the day I received it.
My husband has other close
relatives. None of them called
me, not even my sister-in-law.
They have my number, so that’s
not the issue. Is this the norm
in the United States? I ask
because I come from a differ-
ent background, and I find this
disheartening. — GRIEVING IN
NEVADA
DEAR GRIEVING: Please accept my deep-
est sympathy for the tragedy that took your
father. When something so out of
the ordinary happens, many peo-
ple don’t know what to say. While
something as simple as, “I’m so
sorry,” or, “You are in my prayers,
and my thoughts are with you,”
would suffice, they are so fearful
they will say the wrong thing that
they say nothing. Your husband’s
family may fall into this category.
Please try to forgive them.
DEAR ABBY: I am single,
retired and have no children. I
do have some health issues. My
sisters have begun to hound me
Dear Abby about getting rid of things so they
won’t have to do it in the event
that I die. My entire estate, which
is close to $1 million, will go to them and their
children.
It is exhausting for me to pack things and
move boxes, and they are no help. I’d like to
enjoy the time I have left and not have to listen
to their complaints. What should I do? — FED
UP AND TIRED
DEAR FED UP: Tell your sisters you would
like to die (when the time comes) surrounded
by the mementos that have brought you plea-
sure throughout the years, and you do not plan
to get rid of anything! Then suggest that when
you are gone, they will have more than enough
money to pay someone to cart away anything
they don’t wish to keep. With a “close to $1
million” windfall in their pockets, the expense
should not be onerous.
DEAR ABBY: Would you think a husband
is in love with his wife if he never talks to her,
touches her or shows any interest in her?
The worst kind of loneliness is this kind in
marriage.
What should a wife do if she feels her
husband no longer cares for her? We have
been married five years, and I think about the
seven-year itch. The first two years were diffi-
cult, and things haven’t gotten better. Would
counseling help? I’m ready to leave. — CON-
FUSED IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR CONFUSED: I am not sure who is
itching, you or your husband. Because there
is so much unhappiness in your marriage, talk
to your husband about it. Ask him why he has
withdrawn from you, and whether he would be
interested in working things out with the help
of a licensed marriage and family therapist. If
he is not willing, then realize it’s time to leave
because the atmosphere you have described
is toxic for you, and it isn’t a marriage.
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 (Oct. 6).
Dumb luck brings brilliant outcomes.
You’ve a tendency to gravitate toward
the action and then pay attention to
your environment, making the most of
the things you just happen to stumble
upon. You’ll get a top buyer for your
work, property or ideas. You’ll take
care of people and be much loved in
2020. Cancer and Sagittarius adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 40, 1,
12 and 50.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You
won’t be ready for the opportunity that
arises today, but say yes anyway. You
learn faster by doing things before
you’re ready, and the adrenaline rush
will bring forth powers and talents you
didn’t know you had.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
The sort of love that has to take
ownership of a thing isn’t love at all;
rather, it’s the ego trying to bolster
itself through acquisition. What you
genuinely love will become part of you
while somehow still remaining fully
autonomous.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll
come across instances where very
talented people seem to think they
are exempt from the responsibility
of also being good. Of course, this
is absurd. Be sure to hold all to the
same moral standard.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Toddlers aren’t the only ones who
benefit from set schedules. Make
a plan that will allow you to take as
routine an approach as possible to
the upcoming week. You’ll be happier
and more comfortable and successful.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll
operate somewhere the rules have
yet to be established; it’s the Wild
West. Here, the only thing worse than
waiting for permission will be asking
for it. In the Wild West, you make your
claim and deal with what comes.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You
care the most about what happens
with a project, and you would probably
do a better job than anyone if you
were able to do every single job.
But of course, that’s not possible.
Delegate, but retain the right to final
approval.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s
said that “what doesn’t kill you makes
you stronger,” though it’s not really
true. Events don’t “make” us anything.
Much depends on our interpretation of
them and the next action we take.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Though you may go along with your
group, there are a few rules and
values you don’t agree with. Ultimately
you answer to you. As long as you
defer to your own code of honor, you’ll
feel good about what happens.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
The one who shows initiative will be
given opportunities that are much
different than the ones offered to
those who do only as they are told.
Any work you do on spec will pay off,
though perhaps indirectly.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Just because something isn’t work
doesn’t mean that it falls under the
category of rejuvenation, refueling or
self-care. Tune into what charges your
batteries and what simply makes you
busy in a nonwork-related way.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Getting physical is the order of the
day. There are things that can be
expressed, experienced or released in
movement that cannot get worked out
any other way.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Baby
yourself. Check in with yourself every
few hours and serve your need of the
moment. Today’s self-care will ready
you to take advantage of opportunities
coming your way later this week.
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Transitions:
Area Weddings,
Engagements
and Anniversaries

Chris Jenkins/MUW University Relations

From left, Laura Massey, Martha Jo Mims, Ken Massey and The W President Nora Miller cut the ribbon
to officially open the university’s Martha Jo Mims Digitization and Conservation Lab Sept. 26.

Mims digitization lab makes W

history available worldwide
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS work has enabled the library to edge,” as described by univer-
contribute images in support of sity archivist Derek Webb, will

T
he recently announced
Martha Jo Mims Digitiza-
tion and Conservation Lab
brings a treasure of history to
Mr. and Mrs. J.T. White Mississippi University for Wom-
en. Mims, of Columbus, was
present for the formal announce-
ment and unveiling in her honor
student and family history proj-
ects, exhibits and research, in
addition to providing supportive
information for local businesses.
Thoughtful gift
Laura Massey, a former stu-
be available online to future
students and scholars due to the
generosity of the Masseys.
“This generous and thought-
ful gift made by Laura and Ken
Massey will make a lasting im-
pact on our efforts to preserve
the university’s history. What a

The Whites
dent of Mims, and husband Ken
Sept. 26. special way to honor Martha Jo’s
Massey presented the universi-
“The Mims Digitization legacy at The W,” said Andrea
ty with the gift that resulted in
and Conservation Laboratory Stevens, executive director of

celebrate is a huge step forward for the the Mims Lab.

Laura first met Mims at Fant Development and Alumni.
university and takes the Fant Thanks to the gift in Mims’
Library to the next level,” said Hall on Move-In Day when she

their 70th
was a freshmen. Throughout honor, students, like those
Amanda Clay Powers, dean
Laura’s time at The W, she was minoring in digital studies, will
of the Fant Memorial Library.
constantly influenced by Mims digitize and share documents
“Our mission is to be the center

anniversary as a faculty member and an from the first public university

of research for the history
and leadership of Mississippi
women, and by digitizing our
Mr. and Mrs. J.T. archival collections we can now
White of Columbus will share them with the world.”
Mims, a former teacher, an
celebrate their 70th wed-
influencer and mentor, began
ding anniversary on Oct.
her career at The W in 1967. She
8, 2019.
They were married was a member of the Mississippi
Oct. 8, 1949. Hall of Master Teachers and
A family celebration recipient of the Faculty Mem-
will take place in Ham- ber of the Year Award, Colum-
ilton. bus-Lowndes Higher Education
Mrs. White is the Faculty Member of the Year
former Dean Collins. She Award and the MUW Medal of
is retired from Sears. Excellence — the university’s
Mr. White is retired highest non-degree honor. Upon
from Pargas Butane Co. her retirement in 2000, she was
They are members of awarded emerita status.
Living Faith Tabernacle. After retirement, Mims
They are the parents of Brenda Campbell of Ham- continued to contribute to the
ilton, Glenn White of Columbus, Lawrence White of university through countless
Steens, Laura McCool of Steens, and Charles White of hours as a volunteer in the
Millport, Alabama. library’s Beulah Culbertson Ar-
The couple has a host of grandchildren and chives and Special Collections.
great-grandchildren. She dedicated herself to helping
identify people and places in
a collection of approximately
700 unidentified photos. Her
adviser.
“I kept thinking how can we
all, as students, give back to
her and that was hard because
she gives so much to so many.
We decided we wanted to give a
scholarship in Mims’ honor. We
did that and that really wasn’t
enough,” said Laura.
The Masseys and Mims nev-
er lost touch, continuing a close
friendship. The Masseys would
return to the university and
were amazed at Mims when she
volunteered in the archives.
“With her knowledge of
the university history, she is
unique,” said Ken Massey.
“Very few people could do what
she was doing to identify photos
and class groups. She is doing
what she loves.”
The Mims lab is located on
the second floor of Fant Memo-
rial Library, inside the Beulah
Culbertson Archives and Spe-
cial Collections.
Mims’ “encyclopedic knowl-
for women dating back to the
1800s. Items such as yearbooks,
university bulletins and a do-
nated collection of handwritten
letters and diaries will be avail-
able to students, faculty and
researchers around the world.
According to Associate
Professor Hillary Richardson,
the new digital studies minor
is designed to help students
develop critical thinking and
technical skills around data
and information literacy and
examine the cultural, political
and social implications of new
technologies.
“We’re now able to increase
the volume by which we can
scan and digitize data from spe-
cial collections, thanks to the
three scanners and large wall
monitors. We can also share
information with each other
more easily, and students learn
that there are different ways to
create a digital record for some-
thing,” said Richardson.

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and anniversaries
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comes wedding, engage-
ment and anniversary
announcements. All an-
nouncements need to be
submitted on forms pro-
couples who have been
married 25 years or more.
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ted three weeks prior
to the event. Couples
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be printed in black and
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and promote the into a leading nation- School Bass Federation
he Mississippi
destination brand al literary attraction Tournament, Junior
Tourism Asso-
experience of the city through joint advertis- Tennis Tournament at
ciation (MTA) and Lowndes County. ing efforts with The W Magnolia Tennis Club
recognized the impact By showcasing historic and Visit Columbus. and the U.S. Women’s
and accomplishments homes, the childhood Visit Columbus and the
of the state’s tourism Amateur Golf Champi-
home of playwright Columbus Air Force
industry at the Gover- onship at Old Waverly.
Tennessee Williams Base collaborate to
nor’s Conference on “This recognition
and the Tombigbee welcome one-third of
Tourism held at the should be given to
River and Tennessee the Air Force’s pilots
Trotter Convention our tourism industry
Tombigbee Water- to the area. During
Center in Columbus way, Visit Columbus the past year, Visit leaders who we value
Sept. 22-24. increased visitor Columbus hosted the for their talents and
This annual educa- spending for economic Art ’N Antiques Show achievements through
tional and professional growth and quality of and Sale, the Housing their outstanding
development event life. Visit Columbus’ Authority State of accomplishments. We
brought together more continued work allowed Mississippi Confer- are happy to have the
than 250 tourism indus- them to display the ence, the Australian opportunity to honor
try professionals from Destination Marketing Literary Tour and the the winners of these
across the state as well Accreditation Program Mississippi Heritage awards as we truly
as tourism partners seal recognizing them Trust. They also hosted appreciate their dedi-
from the surrounding as an organization the International Order cation not only to our
region. committed to industry of the Eastern Star, organization but to the

99.49%
The awards program excellence and meeting which welcomed over entire tourism indus-
gives MTA the oppor- the industry standard 400 attendees creating try, the state’s fourth
tunity to recognize the for performance and an economic impact of largest industry,” said
best of the best from accountability of orga- over $500,000. Annette Rand, 2019-
their 300+-member nizations worldwide. Visit Columbus 2020 president of MTA.
of our customers organization. Awards Nancy Carpenter, worked closely with The Mississippi
receive their paper on time. were presented in Visit Columbus CEO, is the local recreation
15 categories, each Tourism Association is
(Believe us. We track these things.) certified as one of four authority and other
comprised of tourism
focusing on a different executives in the State sporting affiliates in
aspect of the hospitali- professionals estab-
If you are unhappy with your delivery of Mississippi under sports promotion and
lished to support and
please let us know. Our goal is 100% ty industry or individu- the Certified Desti- marketing to develop
empower Mississip-
customer satisfaction. al achievement. nation Management and expand sports tour-
As a top honor, Visit Executive Program and ism outreach. During pi’s tourism industry
through advocacy and
Call customer support at: Columbus (VC) was has received numerous fiscal year 2018-2019,
662-328-2424 awarded Destination accolades over the past they hosted or provid- education. Membership
Marketing Organi- year. ed support for tour- is open to those in the

The Dispatch
zation of the Year in Visit Columbus’ naments such as the hospitality industry as
the category of $0- partnership with the Golden Triangle Tennis well as public service
$499,0000. Mississippi University “Battle of the States,” organizations and
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IN THE GARDEN WITH FELDER
Surrounded by brown yet?
I
’ve always
had an
affinity
for the color
brown, which
is a good
thing be-
cause right
now some of
my normal-
ly-green gar-
den is various
hues of sepia Felder Rushing
from the heat
and drought.
Brown is a rich range
of hues and shades, a val- their credit limit learned,
id color even if it isn’t in
the rainbow. But it looks
best on pine tree trunks,
not pine needles still on
the trees.
And lately a few of
my shrubs have turned
completely brown, as
desiccated as the dried-
up lizard I found behind
the old refrigerator.
The situation got set
up by an unusually cool,
wet spring and rainy
summer, which fooled
plants, thinking times
Asylum Hill
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All 66, presumed to
be former patients, are
from unmarked graves,
with no existing record
of which patient was
buried in which site. It is
“absolutely unfortunate,”
Zuckerman said, but
remains are too degraded
for DNA analysis with
current available meth-
ods. What the institute
has been able to do is
determine age, biological
sex and general health.
Few, if any, personal
items were found — a
few buttons and shroud
pins. Using the science of
dendochronology (dating
environmental change by
studying annual growth
rings in timber) on the
caskets, indications are
that the exhumed pa-
tients were all buried in
the 1920s and 1930s.
Study of the remains
offers incredible oppor-
tunities to understand
more about past disease
and treatment practices,
social history, conditions
in the asylum and more.
The project is spawning
significant educational
opportunities, too.
“It’s been very excit-
ing for our students,”
said Zuckerman. “We
have students who come
to MSU to work with
these, a lot of them are
coming from out of state.
It increases our research
reputation. ... It’s a
UMMC program, so it’s
great for the University of
Mississippi and for MSU,
for us to be a part of it.”
Are you a descendant?
As the Asylum Hill Re-
search Consortium pro-
gresses with gathering
and reviewing historical
documents related to the
asylum and its patients,
it hopes to hear from
people who believe they
may have a relative who
might have been buried
in the cemetery. Asylum
inhabitants came from
all Mississippi counties
during a time when even
Visit 662tix.com to
purchase advance
tickets to the event
below:
Oct. 10
Ben Paulding presents an
Investment Workshop
at Lion Hills Center in
Columbus from 6 p.m.-9
p.m. This is a two-part
workshop that teaches
investing for beginners and
investing online. Tickets
are $50 for Part 1, $89
for Part 2, or attend both
sessions for $129.
Oct. 12
Enjoy the smooth grooves
of Walton Jones and
Jeffrey Rupp at Dave’s
were always
going to be
good, into
throwing
out an extra
amount of
lush growth.
Shrubs and
flowers be-
came overly
dependent on
soaking rains
to support the
new tresses;
but, as anyone
who’s ever gone over
the crash hasn’t been fun.
Soon as the sky spigot
was turned off, plants
with more top growth
than roots started shut-
ting down. First thing
to go were last year’s
and early spring’s older
leaves, which shed a bit
early. Then the tender
bits — flowers, buds, and
succulent new growth
— withered, followed by
overall wilting of fully
expanded mature leaves.
This isn’t affecting
In this file photo from March 2013, Derek Anderson,
left, and Forrest Follet from the Cobb Institute of Ar-
chaeology at Mississippi State y, remove the soil from
the lid of a grave at Asylum Hill Cemetery.
cases of dementia or
perhaps opioid addiction
might have resulted
in becoming a patient.
History scholars want to
gather stories and arti-
facts — letters, diaries,
photos — that can shed
light on life at the asylum.
Documents would only
be shared with express
permission. A goal is to
build a database available
to researchers and to de-
scendants in the future.
If you are a descendant
of a patient who was at
the asylum between 1855
and 1935 and would like
to share information, visit
asylumhillproject.org, or
contact Lida Gibson at
lbgibson@umc.edu.
“We want to engage
any descendant who
has information about a
patient or a staff mem-
ber,” Didlake said. “We
would like to collect their
stories.”
The public can assist
the project in another
way, as well.
Seeking legislative
support
In January 2020, Did-
lake and the consortium
plan to present a funding
request to the state legis-
lature to move forward.
“We need broad public
support,” he said. “These
patients came from all
82 counties, and they cut
Dark Horse in Starkville
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Disney, these guys play it
all. Dance, sing along, eat
and drink. Enjoy 10 percent
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purchase of an online
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Oct. 18
Big “O” and The Gates
Boys present Fright Night
Boxing at the Trotter
Convention Center, with
more than 20 fighters
participating. Doors open
at 6 p.m.; the first match
starts at 7 p.m. Tickets
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, October 6, 2019 5C
just azaleas and blueber- just severe stress, but fast waiting for one last straw
ries which are trying to hose action needs to be to push them over the
form next year’s flower taken. But as a general edge. And nothing says
buds. It’s taking a toll on thumb rule, if leaves last straw like weeks on
normally unkillable Ligu- turn brown and stick on, end of 90 degrees and
strum, Gardenias, crape it almost always means nary a drop of rainfall.
myrtles, native beauty- death. Sooner or later vulner-
berry and even Nandina. Funny how it often able plants reach their
Some of my in-ground happens in late summer tipping point and before
Nandinas have thrown or fall. I see this every you know it, large chunks
off brittle stems of brown single summer, when a or entire plants turn
berries; one that’s been perfectly healthy-looking completely light brown.
in a big pot for years died shrub, usually in a row of Doorknob dead.
completely. I scraped the Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo similar plants, suddenly If you’re a praying
stems to see if there is In hot, dry weather like “browns out” over just person, or can do a rain
any bright green tissue Mississippi has endured, a few days. The most dance, go for it. Me,
right under the bark to in- a can of green spray paint common to do this are I’m breaking down and
dicate a hopeful recovery, may be the only solution
for some plants that have Japanese hollies, box- grabbing the hose. And
but none was to be found.
reached “permanent wilt- woods, roses, junipers, a canister of John Deere
Unlike some shrubs that
ing point.” Leyland cypress and Green spray paint for the
perked up when I wa-
other conifers. Most of dead Nandina.
tered, the Nandina had three levels of dry go like those have relatively poor Felder Rushing is
reached what I learned
this: If a hydrangea, cole- roots which tend to rot a Mississippi author,
in horticulture classes as
us or other big-leaf plant easily, especially in heavy columnist, and host of the
PWP — the “permanent
wilting point” beyond wilts by day but perks up or clay soils or next to “Gestalt Gardener” on
which recover is not overnight, it’s probably house foundations where MPB Think Radio. Email
possible. still OK for another day runoff is heavy. gardening questions to
There are some guide- or two. If leaves go pale Other words, they’re rushingfelder@yahoo.com.
lines for determining the green, yellow or brown
depth of the problem that but shed off the plants
even novice physiology (like my crape myrtles
sleuths can learn. My now), it’s still not so bad,
where carefully vetted
scholars can study the
curated remains. The
MSU School of Archi-
tecture is partnering on
design concepts already.
Other resource partners
in the Asylum Hill Cem-
etery Project include the
Mississippi Humanities
Council and the Mis-
sissippi Department of
Archives and History.
“While we are not in
a hurry, we don’t want to
Courtesy photo
waste time either,” said
Didlake. “We want to get
this right.”
ONLINE:
across every conceivable n asylumhillproject.org
demographic of our state.
The history of the asylum
spans some really import-
ant time frames in the
history of Mississippi. It
was here during the Civil
War, Reconstruction,
the Jim Crow era, the
modernization of health
care, the development of
psychiatry as a profession
— so this is a platform to
do meaningful historical
work and meaningful cul-
tural work for our state.”

Archivist Mona Vance-
Ali of the Billups Garth
Archives at
the Colum-
bus-Lown-
des Public
Library
added,
“This is an
opportunity
for us to Vance-Ali
understand how our local
community tied into the
state history and into the
history of mental health,
and how that affects us
now.”
The project has what
Didlake describes as a
“very long time line.”
“It will take us prob-
ably five to 10 years ...
that’s assuming we get
the appropriate amount of
funding,” he said.
The envisioned
memorial structure will
serve two purposes — as
a memorial and also as
a functional laboratory
are $35. There will be a
cash prize for the best
Halloween costume.
Oct. 18
The Old Memphis Kings
perform at Dave’s Dark
Horse in Starkville at
99.49%
10 p.m. Enjoy the blues
and 10 percent off your
meal with an online ticket
of our customers
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Oct. 19
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ART WALK
The Downtown Art
Walk in Columbus
Sept. 26 featured
artists inside and
outside business-
es, live music along
the streets and af-
ter-hours shopping.

Jim and Hanling Joswick Andrew Benton, holding Price Benton, and Weston Benton

Elija Jones, Eli Jones, Richard Jones Heather Hewett, Kelly Kalinowski

Briana Wriley, Keith Lane, Coretta Lane Isak, Quentin, Mateo and Jessica Chiquito, Richard Matlock

TOP
FLIGHT
Top Flight, the
United States Air
Force Band of the
West rock band,
put on a free com-
munity concert
at the Columbus
Riverwalk Sept.
27. — Deanna
Robinson/Dis-
patch Staff

Sawyer Forrester, Miles Park, Lori Forrester, Susan Forrester, Abby Park Jayden Fenster, Jordan Holliness, Tenise Smith

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Cash or PayPal accepted.
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New to Columbus
Excellent drummer with
Roland V Pro level
electronic equipment
just moving to
Columbus, MS and
would like to join
current group or form
new and dynamic band
with dedicated, quality
musicians. Over the
years I have played
traditional soul, R&R,
rockabilly, C&W, some
blues and zydeco as
well as my current love
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a "Dailey & Vincent"sort
of mix is what I like
most but definitely open
to any mix of the above
−listed genres. I am a
solid Christian, fun and
easy to deal with and
know how to blend in
with and act in a
professional band. Yes,
I am "retired"more or
less but still have it
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to the music. I have
recently been with The
Glorybound Gospel
Band out of Pensacola,
FL for the last five years
and you can see me
play on their Facebook
page. Some travel or
touring would be ok for
the right situation if
necessary. I will be
available in Columbus
starting the first of
September. Send me a
text if interested,
706−575−9399.
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people and sweet−
natured. $0.00 662−
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OLD KITTEN. Very sweet
disposition. She plays with
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$595−$645 monthly.
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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.
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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. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, 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
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
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 Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 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. Interim Pastor Ron
Linkins, 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 MB 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.
Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth
Minister.
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 MB 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, October 6, 2019 3D
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.
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. Larry
Ferguson, Interim 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 (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m.,
(3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060
Bishop Timothy 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. Minister Jay Street. 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.
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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
6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
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
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. Jason Shelby. 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.
John Longmire, 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 CME 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 &
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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
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, 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 CME. 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 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor.
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,
Pastor.
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. Andy Tentoni,
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.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288 Cal-
Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-855-5006
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
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. www.memorialgunterpeel.com
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS
CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-
6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
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
— 4068 Jess Lyons 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-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-
630-5216
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
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Since 1960
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards,
Pastors.
24 Hour Towing
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner 1024 Gardner Blvd.
of Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service
328-8277
7:30 p.m. 662-798-0259
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
— 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor
Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
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, 1721 Hwy 45 N
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
® Columbus, MS
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor. 662.848.0919
UNITED PENTECOSTAL Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750 Offering independent living apartments, personal
PRESBYTERIAN care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community.
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church “Our Bottom Line Is People”
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 Hunting • Fishing
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m.
John Richards, Pastor.
Oktibbeha County Co-Op
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 662-323-1742
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.),
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
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. B.J. Chain, 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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