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A Noxubee County resident has been diagnosed with the Zika virus.

The Mississippi State Depart-ment of Health announced the diagnosis this morning. The ini-

tial diagnosis was made at a Co-lumbus clinic.

Dr. Slater Lowry told The Dis-patch this morning his clinic — Lowry Medical Clinic — made the presumptive diagnosis on Feb. 25. His office then contact-ed the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention in Atlanta.

On Thursday, the CDC con-tacted Lowry’s office and con-firmed the diagnosis, according to Lowry.

Zika is a mosquito-borne vi-rus that may cause birth defects if contracted during pregnancy. The virus is primarily spread through bites from a specific

mosquito. Zika virus infection can cause a mild illness with symptoms including fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. Howev-er, 80 percent of those infected show no symptoms and death is rare, according to MSDH.

The Noxubee County res-ident had recently traveled to Haiti, according to state health officials.

This is the second Zika diag-

nosis in Mississippi. The first was diagnosed in

a Madison County resident, ac-cording to state health officials. That person had also recently traveled to Haiti, according to state health officials.

In a Facebook post Thursday, Lowry’s clinic said the Noxubee County resident is doing well.

State Epidemiologist Dr.

Columbus clinic makes Zika virus diagnosis

Bully ready for UConn challenge

BY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — JoJo Dodd has known Bully, the Mississippi State University mascot, since he was lit-tle.

Growing up in Picayune, Dodd attended MSU football or baseball games once a year with his grand-parents or parents, so he can safely say he “grew up a Bulldog.”

Dodd today is an MSU student. He has spent the last two years liv-ing the life of a Bulldog as one of “five friends of Bully,” or members of the MSU spirit squad whose re-sponsibility it is to enhance the ex-perience kids and fans of all ages have with Bully.

At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dodd, Bully, members of MSU’s pom squad, and cheerleaders will enter enemy territory with one mission:

Help the MSU women’s basketball team knock off the biggest, baddest dog on the block — 10-time national champion Connecticut.

But if anyone is up to the task it is Bully.

You’ll have to take Dodd’s word

for it, though, because Bully doesn’t talk to reporters. It is against the mascot creed. That’s why Dodd was more than happy to act as inter-preter. After all, he has Bully’s walk down and can do a great job mimick-

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Noxubee Co. resident is second confirmed case in Mississippi

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Baggett promoted to SOCSD assistant superintendentSearch to begin soon for new Starkville High School principalBY CARL SMITHcsmith@cdispatch.com

The Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Board of Trustees appointed Starkville High School Principal David Baggett as the district’s incoming assistant superinten-dent for personnel and second-ary curriculum and instruction Thursday.

Baggett assumes the new role July 1. His salary was set at $120,000 an-nually.

Trustees reached into the district ranks and promoted Baggett after receiving 14 other applications for the position and interviewing five total candidates. His promotion was unan-imously approved by the school board.

Starkville School District operated with two assistant superintendents before it merged with the Oktibbeha County School District. State lawmakers granted the consolidated sys-tem a third position in their original merger legislation.

The school board will now turn its attention to filling the soon-to-be vacant SHS leadership role, and Baggett is expected to play a part in selecting his replacement.

A timetable for hiring a new principal was not unveiled Thursday.

“I really have mixed emotions on this be-cause I absolutely love the kids and the staff that I work with at Starkville High School, but I’m still excited,” he said. “I’ll still be able to work with them…and broaden my scope to work with all employees to try and help pro-vide the best education possible for the stu-dents here at the Starkville-Oktibbeha school district.”

Baggett said he’ll use his first days as as-sistant superintendent to evaluate districtwide needs by talking to the various constituencies within SOCSD.

“I think it’s very important for any good leader to go in and evaluate, to see where the problems lie. From there, I’ll work with them … to accomplish things where we have defi-ciencies,” he said.

School board members Keith Coble and Ed-die Myles and Jenny Turner praised the work conducted by the district’s search committee. Myles said Baggett’s hire reflects the strength of SOCSD’s staff.

“I’m glad we were able to have a quality can-didate in-house that we could continue to show

MSU WOMEN HEAD TO CONNECTICUT

Mark Wilson/Dispatch StaffMorgan William and her Mississippi State University women’s basketball teammates receive hugs from booster club members prior to the team’s departure to the airport for their flight to Connecticut Thursday for a weekend appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Mississippi State will play UConn Saturday.

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MSU women’s basketball team takes on powerhouse at 10:30 a.m. Saturday

Adam Minichino/Dispatch StaffBully, center, is ready for the Mississippi State University women’s basket-ball team’s game versus Connecticut on Saturday. Pictured with Bully, from left, are Taylor Dearman, a senior from Carthage; Dominick Fears, a senior from Jackson; Taylor Turcotte, a senior from Waveland; and Mary Katherine Mattiace, a junior from Ocean Springs.

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffMississippi University for Women Japanese instructor Chitose lida Little, of Starkville, performs a traditional Japanese dance with her students at the Rosenzweig Arts Center on Thursday. This type of dance is called Soran-bushi.

Friday SAY WHAT?“It was a freak accident, but I was lucky.”

Corinth street stock racer Ronald Dunn. Dunn has overcome losing a leg in a railroad accident to be-

come a successful racer. Story, 1B.‘Batman v Superman’ signals a new dawn for DC Comics

BY JAKE COYLE AND LINDSEY BAHRAP Film Writers

NEW YORK — “Bat-man v Superman” may be a massive movie — a $250 million globe-trotting blockbuster with a pulver-izing marketing assault — but it’s just the open-ing salvo of a much larger campaign that aims to re-store DC Comics to prom-inence in Marvel-dominat-ed multiplexes.

It has not gotten off to a great start. Before au-diences rush this week-end to see the superhero showdown of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jus-tice,” critics treated mov-iegoers to a smackdown of their own. The poor re-sponse — “godawful” was one of the harsher but not uncommon judgments — may mean little to opening weekend box office. But it suggests “Batman v Super-man” may not be the ideal flagship for a new armada of DC adaptations.

“This movie is going to make money almost cer-tainly. But more important is how people are leaving

the movie theater,” says Cowen & Co. senior media analyst Doug Creutz. “If they walk out feeling kind of ‘eh,’ it’s a problem.”

That’s because “Bat-man v Superman” is meant to trigger a new world or-der for Warner Bros. and DC Comics. The studio home to DC characters since 1969, Warner Bros. was once the leader in bringing superheroes to the big screen, from the Christopher Reeve’s Su-perman movies to Tim Burton’s Batman movies to Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy.

Zack Snyder’s “Batman v Superman” is the first of 10 films planned by Warner Bros. and DC for the next five years. And it’s the first film to bring DC characters into a sin-gle “extended universe,” an approach modeled on Marvel’s “Avengers”-cen-tered success. “Batman v Superman” may be a prize-fight showdown, but its undercard players (in-cluding Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Flash) are being teased for future installments.

$250M movie is the first of 10 films planned by Warner Bros. and DC for the next five years

BY ANTHONY MCCARTNEYAP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of

self-inflicted phony docu-drama with “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died of an apparent heart at-tack.

Shandling’s spokes-man Alan Nierob said doctors at a hospital where the comedian was pronounced dead said it

a p p e a r e d he died of a heart a t t a c k . N i e r o b said Shan-dling had no history

of heart trouble.

Coroner’s Lt. David Smith said it appeared Shandling died of natu-ral causes, but an official cause of death determi-nation had not yet been made. Smith said no au-topsy was planned, but officials would determine Shandling’s cause of death based on medical records and his medical history.

Shandling was taken to a hospital after paramed-ics were dispatched to his Brentwood home around 10:40 a.m. Thursday, po-lice and fire officials said.

His death stunned the comedy community, who praised Shandling’s hu-mor, kindness and efforts to support and promote them and their craft.

An innovative and ec-centric humorist with pil-lowy lips and a voice that always seemed on the verge of a whine, Shan-dling claimed to disdain too much logic cluttering his life.

“The answer isn’t gon-na be in the facts,” he told The Associated Press in 2009. “It’s gonna be in in-tuition. That’s how I work creatively. I’m always teaching people that the answer to that creative question is right here, in the room, between us here.”

Garry Shandling, comic, ‘Larry Sanders Show’ creator, dies

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BY ISABELLE ALTMANialtman@cdispatch.com

Mississippi native Trent Harmon has risen through the rank and file of American Idol contestants to the top four of the hit reality show, and his hometown of Amory is celebrat-ing him this weekend.

American Idol will send a cam-era crew to Amory to film what’s called a “home segment” for next week’s episode of American Idol. The crew will follow Harmon on his home turf as Amory celebrates his success with a parade down the city’s Main Street, followed by a congratulatory ceremony at the gazebo at Frisco Park.

The 25-year-old grew up singing at his parents’ farm and restaurant in Amory. He first wowed judges at the show’s auditions with the song “Unaware” by R&B singer Allen

Stone. Since then he has continued to impress judges and grow a devot-ed fanbase of “Harmonies.”

Support has been growing for Harmon throughout north Missis-sippi. Billboards with Harmon’s face on them have appeared in Co-lumbus, local businesses advertise flyers urging customers to ‘Vote for Trent,’ and rallies have been held in Harmon’s name in Tupelo.

Harmon will arrive at Amory at 11 a.m. Saturday, according to the Facebook page of Amory Main

Street Inc., which has been co-ordinating with American Idol to arrange the events for the home segment. The parade will begin at 3 p.m.

A ceremony with state, county and city officials, including Amory mayor Brad Blalock, will follow on the gazebo at Frisco Park.

Harmon will end the day with a free concert at the Amory High School Football Field starting at 6 p.m. The gates to the concert will open between 5:30-5:45 p.m., ac-cording to Amory Main Street’s Facebook page.

“We’re super excited and very proud of Trent and how he’s rep-resented himself in Hollywood,” Blalock said. “We all knew that he was talented and we’re so excited that he’s getting to showcase that to the world right now.”

Harmon is one of two Missis-sippians who have made American Idol’s top four round. La’Porsha Renae, of McComb, will also head to her home town for a parade and concert Saturday.

American Idol judge Jenni-fer Lopez predicted a few weeks ago during the show’s broadcast that the finale, which airs in a few weeks, would be between Harmon and Renae.

Courtesy photoAmory native Trent Harmon, a contestant on “American Idol,” will return to his hometown for a parade, ceremony and concert this weekend.

Idol hopeful returns to AmoryDowntown Amory will see a parade, ceremony, followed by concert at football field for Trent Harmon’s homecoming

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The City of Columbus, Mississippi, is seeking qualified applicants to fill the full-time vacant position of

COLUMBUS/LOWNDES ANIMALCONTROL OFFICER.

The person in this position will be responsible for the control of stray and lost animals, to include removal of injured, sick, or deceased animals from City streets and County roads. The position has accountability for safety and legal issues related to the work for which this position is responsible. The successful applicant will be provided the Codes and Ordinances that must be adhered to.

Interested applicants must submit an application to the Human Resources Office, located across from the Police Department at 1617 Main Street by 6:00 p.m. THURS-DAY, APRIL 7, 2016 or it may be delivered to the ad-dress listed above, mailed to P. O. Box 1408, Columbus, MS 39703-1408 or submitted through the City’s website at www.thecityofcolumbusms.org under the Human Resources link. Applicants may contact the Human Resources Office by calling 328-8682 or 327-0382 about the position or to receive a detailed job description.

The City of Columbus is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

BY ALEX HOLLOWAYaholloway@cdispatch.com

The state Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday stating that employers in Mississip-pi cannot fire employees for keeping a firearm in a locked vehicle in a pub-licly-accessible parking area.

The decision comes in favor of a former Aurora Flight Sciences employ-ee’s lawsuit against the company.

West Point native Rob-ert Swindol filed a federal lawsuit against Aurora Flight Services in 2013 after the company fired him. He was fired after company officials found a pistol in his car’s front seat in the company’s parking lot. He is seeking $1 million in damages.

“It’s like a ton of bricks was taken off my chest,” Swindol said of the deci-

sion, adding he has not been able to get a job in the aerospace arena since the incident. “It’s been extremely stressful. My name was sort of dragged through the mud...We’re not completely out of the woods, but it’s some good news.”

The state’s high court, in an opinion authored by Justice Ann Lamar, said that employers can be held liable for damages if they fire an employee for keeping a gun locked in a car in a parking area open to the public.

Tupelo attorney David Butts, who is represent-ing Swindol, called Thurs-day’s decision a victory for employees everywhere.

“This is a tremendous and well-reasoned opin-ion by the Mississippi Su-preme Court supporting the rights of citizens to bear arms without undue restriction, specifically

where it is permit-ted by law, which is what this case was all about to begin with,” Butts said. “I consider it a victory for Mr. Swin-dol, a victory for every employee in the state, and a victory for the Second Amendment.”

BackgroundSwindol began working

at Aurora Flight Sciences as a sheet metal mechanic in 2010. In 2013, Swindol was told by a co-worker that a human resources manager was photograph-ing the inside of his truck, where an unloaded 9mm pistol Swindol had paint-ed for a friend was sitting in plain sight, according to his lawsuit.

Swindol was called into a meeting with his human resources direc-tor and supervisor where he was fired, according

to the lawsuit. The suit states that after Swin-dol left, plant employees were called into a meet-ing where Swindol was labeled a “security risk.”

U.S. District Court sid-ed with Aurora and dis-missed Swindol’s wrong-ful-discharge claim. The court said that it did not believe the state Supreme Court would recognize an exemption for at-will employment for Swindol’s case.

Swindol appealed the case to the U.S. Fifth Cir-cuit Court of Appeals.

State lawThe appellate court

then asked the state Su-preme Court if state law — specifically Missis-sippi Code §45-9-55 — protects employers from lawsuits for damages over firearms stored in vehi-cles.

The law says any em-ployer “may not establish, maintain or enforce” pol-icies barring someone from carrying or stor-

ing a firearm in a locked vehicle in a parking lot, parking garage or other designated parking area. A later portion of the law says employers can’t be held liable in civil law-suits for incidents that

arise from firearms being stored or transported in a vehicle in such a way.

Aurora argued before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that this protect-ed the company from lia-bility in Swindol’s suit.

Supreme Court issues decision in Lowndes firearm case

Swindol

Court: Employers can’t fire workers for guns in locked vehicles

BaggettContinued from Page 1A

other administrators that if they stay around in the district, hopefully they can continue up and be granted some time (in) higher employment,” Myl-

es said.Baggett joined the

school district in 2014 after serving as Ocean Springs High School’s principal. There, the

school received an A des-ignation each year from the Mississippi Depart-ment of Education and 16 state athletic champion-ships.

BY SAM LUVISIsluvisi@cdispatch.com

Members of the public and Mississippi Univer-sity for Women officials on Thursday heard from the first finalist in the running to become the school’s new athletic di-rector.

Matt Jones, a senior associate athletic direc-tor for external relations/operations at Delta State University, spoke to about 30 individuals in Cochran Hall about his plans for the soon-to-be-re-instated athletic program at The W were he to be selected for the position.

Jones, originally of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of three or four fi-nalists selected from an original pool of about 28 candidates, according to Rita Hinton, who is lead-ing a five-person search committee.

MUW officials have declined to say who the fi-nalists are until they pres-ent, citing confidentiality issues.

On Thursday, Jones discussed his desire to help The W economically, and otherwise, through a successful sports pro-gram.

“We want to grow and athletics is a major com-ponent of that,” Jones said, adding that the Gold-en Triangle is ripe for the economic possibility’s of a new athletic program.

Prior to moving to his current leadership role, Jones directed the DSU’s office of athletic commu-nications and statesmen sports properties. He was promoted to assistant ath-letic director for external affairs in 2011 and in June

of 2014 took on the posi-tion of senior associate athletic director for com-munications, marketing and external relations/operations.

In his current role, Jones directs the oper-ations of the statesman club, statesman sports properties, office of ath-letic communications and statesmen sports net-work.

Jones told the group he has helped to increase revenues from $33,000 to more than $600,000 an-nually through corporate advertising, broadcasting and event sponsorships. He overhauled the DSU Athletics’ fundraising arm, the Statesmen Club, and has grown it by nearly 400 percent, according to the DSU website.

Jones spoke of the im-portance of addressing the need to overcome at-tracting male recruits to a female-dominated school upon starting as director, and the importance of an energetic social-media campaign.

He presented a slide-show, including a concept page for a #WeAreW so-cial media campaign, as well as plans for a facelift on the W’s mascot — Ody the Owl.

“We want to have an image that will help us recruit,” he said, show-ing examples of other owl mascots.

Jones, a veteran broad-caster, has been respon-sible for the overall me-dia presence of DSU’s 13 intercollegiate sports, including media guide production, website devel-opment and maintenance, writing of press releases

and coor-d i n a t i n g multimedia needs for more than 350 ath-letes each year, his bio states.

A num-ber of times, he spoke of The W as a “public institu-tion with a private school feel” and spoke to a need to use that message as a “selling point” for the pro-gram. He said he believes such virtues will help in securing donors need-ed to fund a $7.5 million package for funding the program and any new fa-cilities.

“Community is key, we want to keep our message in front of as many people as we can,” he said. “(We) can’t be bored, we want to create an atmosphere.”

Jones said hiring the “right coaches” will be key, but also making sure the projected 170 students that would be recruited for the different sports teams are up to par.

“So (we) have to recruit the right kids,” Jones said.

He also spoke to the need to surround such athletes with the right support services in terms of health and education once they are selected.

“We don’t want them to get to senior year and (not) get a degree because no one was checking on them,” he said. “We want to use the resources on campus to make sure (the athletes) are successful.”

Jones said his program would likely begin as ear-ly as July 2016, depending on what sports he decides to include and at what pace its decided to roll them out.

Following his presen-tation, Jones told The Dis-patch he was drawn to the

opportunity in Columbus because of its “rich liter-ary heritage,” because he has family and friends in the area, and because he sees the program as “ripe for opportunity.”

The next AD candidate to give a presentation will be Jason Trufant, senior associate athletic direc-tor at Dowling College in New York. Trufant’s presentation will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in the Welty Conference Room, according to Hinton.

MUW ended its in-tercollegiate athletics programs in 2002 after a tornado destroyed the university’s primary sports venues.

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BY ANDREW TAYLOR AND RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Expand-ed health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s sig-nature legislative legacy, will cost the government more, according to an official study released Thursday. Still, on bal-

ance, the measure more than pays for itself.

The nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Office said the health care law will cost $1.34 trillion over the coming decade, $136 billion more than the CBO predicted a year ago. That 11 percent hike is mostly caused by higher-than-expected enroll-ment in the expanded Medicaid

program established under the law.

All told, 22 million more peo-ple will have health care cover-age this year than if the law had never been enacted, CBO said. The measure’s coverage provi-sions are expected to cost $110 billion this year.

The number of uninsured people this year is anticipated at

27 million.About 90 percent of the U.S.

population will have coverage, a percentage that is expected to remain stable into the future.

The study also projected a slight decline in employ-ment-based coverage, although it will remain by far the most common kind among work-ing-age people and their fami-lies.

Employers now cover some 155 million people, about 57 per-cent of those under 65. That’s ex-pected to decline to 152 million

people in 2019. Ten years from now, employers will be covering about 54 percent of those under 65.

CBO said part of the shrink-age is attributable to the health care law: some workers may qualify for Medicaid, which is virtually free to them, and cer-tain employers may decide not to offer coverage because a gov-ernment-subsidized alternative is available. (Larger employers would face fines if they take that route.)

New analysis: ‘Obamacare’ coverage costs risingCongressional Budget Office: Law will cost $1.34 trillion over the coming decade, $136 billion more than the CBO predicted a year ago

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Roosevelt TaylorSTARKVILLE —

Roosevelt Taylor, 56, died March 19, 2016.

Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Griffin United Meth-odist Church with the Rev. Ronnie Taylor officiating. Visitation is today from 2-6 p.m. at West Memorial Funer-al Home.

He is survived by his parents, Roosevelt Taylor Sr. and Mag-nolia Taylor; siblings, Dorothy Vaughn, Julia Phine Wilson, Alma Jean Taylor, Lawrence Taylor, Dian Taylor-Sin-gleton, Deborah Shan-non, Ronnie Taylor, Vanessa Larry and Andres Taylor.

Dexter BushARTESIA — Dexter

D. “Bear” Bush, 53, died March 19, 2016, in Columbus.

Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Thomas Rice officiating. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at West Memorial Funeral Home.

He is survived by his wife, Rosia Bush of Artesia; daughters, Makayla Bush and Ciera Bush, both of Artesia and Katrina Smith of Arlington, Texas; brothers, T.J. Lucious, Cleveland Lucious and Carl Bush, all of Artesia, Kenneth Lucious and Samuel Bush, both of Starkville and Edward Bush of Jacksonville, Florida; sisters, Doro-thy Lucious, Vanessa Outlaw, Mary Poe, Eliz-abeth Bush, Ruth Rice, Annie Young, Dorothy Hampton, Roxanne Bush and Teresa Bush, all of Starkville, Emily Bush of Shannon and Linda Horton of El Paso, Texas; and four grandchildren.

Freddie RobinsonSTARKVILLE —

Freddie Lee Robinson, 77, died March 14, 2016, at his residence.

Memorial services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Carter’s Mortu-ary Service Chapel in West Point with Ber-nard Bowen officiating.

Mr. Robinson was born June 26, 1938, to the late Monroe and Mozella Robinson in Shelby. He was previ-ously employed with Bryan Foods.

In addition to his parents, he was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Gladys L. Robin-son; four brothers; and three sisters.

He is survived by his sons, Robert L. Washington, Fred-die L. Robinson Jr., Jerry L. Robinson, Thomas E. Robinson and Moses Robinson; daughters, Betty Tate, Gloria B. Robin-son Humphries and Marsha M. Robinson Outlaw; 26 grandchil-dren; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grand-children.

Angelette MathewsWEST POINT

— Angelette Evett Mathews, 41, died March 18, 2016, at her residence.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Strong Hill MB Church with the Rev. Henry Shelton officiating. Burial will follow in Strong Hill Stockhold-ers Cemetery. Visita-tion is today from 3-6 p.m. at Carter’s Mortu-ary Service Chapel.

Ms. Mathews was born March 27, 1974, to David Mathews and Patricia Anderson.

In addition to her parents, she is sur-vived by her brothers, Durron Anderson and David Mathews Jr.; and sisters, Karen Dinca, Tomarra Scales, LaShara Brooks, Lataira Brooks, Octa-via Davis and Miesha Wash.

David LoganWEST POINT —

David Lee Logan, 51, died March 20, 2016, in Starkville.

Services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Johnson Creek MB Church in Pheba with Bruce H. Guyton offici-ating. Burial will follow in the church ceme-tery. Visitation will be Saturday from 3-5 p.m. at Carter’s Mortuary Service Chapel.

Mr. Logan was born Aug. 15, 1964, to the late Thomas and Rosalee Logan in Clay County.

He is survived by his children, Kim-berly Thompson of Starkville; Derrick Holmes and Quentin Calvert, both of West Point; sisters, Lora Mae Logan of West Point, Cathy Taylor of Cedar Bluff and Elizabeth Hammond of West Point; and brothers, Floyd Logan of Starkville, Homer Logan of West Point, Jerry Logan of Detroit and Bob Logan of Pheba.

Johnnie Mae BellMACON — John-

nie Mae Bell, 71, died March 14, 2016 in New Jersey.

Services will be Sat-urday at noon at Harri-son Grove Full Gospel in Shuqualak with James Lockett officiat-ing. Burial will follow in Martin Cemetery. Visitation is today from 1-5 p.m. at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

Mrs. Bell was born Dec. 19, 1944, to the late Ollie Hill and James Stewart. She was previously employed with Noxubee County School District and Touched By An Angel.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Frank Bell Sr.

She is survived by her sister, Barbara Ann Simmons; brother, Ed-ward Hill; daughters, Bernadette Robertson and Sinthia Stewart; son, Nathaniel Stewart; and one grandson.

May TaylorNOXUBEE COUN-

TY — May B. Taylor, 83, died March 17, 2016, at Rush Specialty Hospital in Meridian.

Services will be Sat-urday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Olive MB Church with the Rev. William David-son officiating. Burial will follow in Oddfellow Cemetery. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

Ms. Taylor was born July 19, 1932, to the late Leo Cotton and Bessie Barber Cotton. She was previously employed as a cook and was a member of Mt. Olive MB Church.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Alfred Taylor; son, Carl White Jr.; three brothers; and one sister.

She is survived by her daughter, Mary Frances Macon of Macon; siblings, Vir-ginia Wyatt of Macon, Evan Cotton of Macon and Earnest George Cotton of Louisville; five grandchildren; 12 great-grand-children; and two great-great-grandchil-dren.

Martha NicholsonMACON — Martha

Nicholson, 69, died March of 2016.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Spring Hill Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation is today from noon-5 p.m.

Mrs. Nicholson was born Feb. 18, 1947, to the late Wallace and Ann Maude Skinner. She attended B.F. Lydell High School in Macon. She was pre-viously employed with the American Stock Exchange and Babcock

and Wilcox.In addition to her

parents, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Geraldine Johnson and Rose Ann Skinner; and brothers, Robert Skinner, Wal-lace Skinner, Grover Skinner and Johnnie B. Skinner.

She is survived by her husband, Carl Nich-olson; children, Carl Nicholson Jr., Cynthia Young and Kevlin Nich-olson, all of Columbus; sisters, Mattie Skinner and Mary Singletary, both of New York City, Annie Ruth Skinner, Barbara Skinner and Ann Ford, all of Chi-cago; brothers, Walter Skinner, Johnnie Skin-ner and Billie Skinner, all of Chicago; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Ayriauna JohnsonCOLUMBUS —

Ayriauna Shania John-son died March 17, 2016.

Grave-side services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at New Baptist Temple.

Ayriauna was born June 10, 2015, to Danyetta Johnson and Keith Patmon.

In addition to her parents, she is survived by her sister, Keyanna Patmon.

Norvette BuckinghamCOLUMBUS —

Norvette Buckingham, 54, died March of 2016.

Ser-vices will be Satur-day at 11 a.m. at Prepared Table Ministries. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is today from noon-5 p.m.

Mr. Buckingham was born Oct. 31, 1961, to George Anderson Buckingham and the late Helen Louise Buckingham. He was previously employed with Weyerhaeuser/Domtar Paper Mill.

In addition to his mother, he was preced-ed in death by his sis-ter, Shelia Faye Lowery.

In addition to his father, he is survived by his daughter, Haley Colpton; sister, Gwen-dolyn Petty Howell; brother, Bernard Prow-ell of Holly Springs; and four grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Raymond Harris, Gary Thomas, Tony Jones, Darneil Colvin, Timo-thy Hodges and Tony Munson.

Joseph AbramsCOLUMBUS — Jo-

seph Abrams, 57, died March 20, 2016, at his residence.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Shiloh Full Gospel MB Church with Omar

Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at Carter’s Funeral Service of Columbus.

Mr. Abrams was born Oct. 1, 1958, to Beulah Abrams and the late Eula Abrams. She was a member of Smith Chapel CME Church.

In addition to his mother, he is survived by his children, Omar Jones of Columbus and Jessica and Jasmine Abrams, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; sisters, Diane Single-ton of Peoria, Illinois, Annette Bradley and Ular Williams, both of Columbus, Mary Hood of Raleigh, North Caro-lina and Fannie Abrams of Columbus; brothers, Billy McShan of Co-lumbus, Joe Abrams of Stone Mountain, Geor-gia, Willie Abrams of Muskegon, Michigan, and Larry Abrams of Tupelo; and one grand-daughter.

Pallbearers will be Antonio Moore, Albert Ball, Isaac Harris, Randy Abrams, Stanley Abrams, Tommy Clay-born, Aderian Pratt and Jeff Smith.

Josephine HarrisCOLUMBUS — Jo-

sephine Sturdivant Harris, 75, died March 21, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.

Ser-vices will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Maranatha Faith Center with Steve Jamison officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at Carter’s Funeral Service of Columbus.

Mrs. Harris was born Dec. 10, 1940, to the late Jimmy and Lucy Sturdivant. She was previously em-ployed with United Technologies. She was a member of Marana-tha Faith Center.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by her siblings, Jimmy Stur-divant, Richard Sturdi-vant, Annie Crawford, Rosie L. Gardner and Lurene Sturdivant.

She is survived by her husband, Curley Harris Sr. of Columbus; children, Curly Harris Jr. of Cordova, Tennes-see, Kimberlin Jethrow

of Marietta, Georgia; siblings, Hattie Blair of Columbus, Ruby Hodo of Ethelsville, Alabama, Willie Grank Sturdivant of Steens, Clara Fortner of Jack-son and Lucy Simon of Killen, Texas; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Willie SeymourSHUQUALAK —

Willie J. Seymour died March 17, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hos-pital-Golden Triangle.

Services will be Sat-urday at 11 a.m. at Lee-Sykes Funeral Chapel of Macon with Thomas J. Neal Sr. officiating. Burial will follow in Martin Cemetery in Shuqualak.

Mr. Seymour was the son of Bernice Steward and the late Henry James Seymour.

In addition to her fa-ther, she was preceded in death by her sister, Nancy D. McCarthy.

In addition to her mother, she is survived by her son, Willison Seymour of Jackson; step-son, Geremo-nd Neal of Jackson; mother, Bernice Cotton Seymour Stewart of Shuqualak; sisters, Nell Lewis of Meridian and Dorothy Mullins of Memphis, Tennessee; and brothers, Henry Seymour of Shuqualak and Robert Mosley of Macon.

Pallbearers will be Henry Seymour, John-ny Neal, Robert Mos-ley, Albert Johnson Jr., Junior Cotton and Peter Gillespie.

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BY JOHN-THOR DAHLBURGThe Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Belgium has come up short in its efforts to pre-vent extremist attacks time and again, experts say — failing to coor-dinate intelligence, investigate sus-pects and control its borders.

No country has a perfect record, but Belgium’s is especially bad.

On Tuesday, suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State group detonated their explosives at Brus-sels Airport and on a subway train, killing 32 people including three of the attackers and injuring some 270.

Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London, called it “depressingly pre-dictable” that a major attack would occur in Brussels.

“There is sort of a perfect union,” he said — a combination of home-grown, hardened Muslim radicals willing to act and possessing the tools and opportunity, as well as a government and law enforcement

structure that simply isn’t up to the task.

Historically, Belgium has often been found wanting when it comes to sharing intelligence among dif-ferent agencies, applying what’s learned to police work and con-trolling its external borders, said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank.

In addition, he said, Brussels of-ten fails to strike the balance that other countries achieve in weighing the desire to investigate suspected criminal activity and the need to act

quickly when an immediate threat is identified.

“I don’t believe Belgium has done very well with most of the above over the years,” O’Hanlon said. “Though I suspect they will rethink things from first principles now.”

In a shocking departure from the habitually polite speech of Europe-an relations, French Finance Min-ister Michel Sapin accused Belgian officials on Tuesday of a “lack of will ... maybe also a kind of naiveté” in ignoring the spread of radical Islam among the country’s 650,000-mem-ber Muslim population.

Experts: Belgium often comes up short in preventing attacks

BY JOSH LEDERMANThe Associated Press

BARILOCHE, Argenti-na — Dancing the tango, relaxing with family in pic-turesque Patagonia, catch-ing a baseball game with Cuba’s Raul Castro — it’s been an unusual week for President Barack Obama.

His tour of Latin Amer-ica left him on the periph-ery as the world grappled with terrorism and other problems. Republican critics faulted Obama for sticking to his itinerary even after more than 30 people were killed in an Islamic State-linked at-tack in Brussels. Obama insists he remained fully engaged.

“That was a tremen-

dous mistake,” Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Rela-tions, said Thursday on MSNBC. “It’s fine to go to Argentina. You want to do the work, but you’ve got to be careful of these little photo-ops or optics. Baseball games and tan-gos, that’s inconsistent with the seriousness of the day.”

To drop everything and rush home every time at-

tackers strike would be playing into extremists’ hands, Obama said. It would also upend other critical business on the president’s agenda, such as Obama’s historic effort to normalize relations with Cuba and to improve U.S. ties to Argentina.

“That is how we are go-ing to defeat these terror-ist groups,” Obama said in Buenos Aires. “A lot of it is also going to be to say,

‘you do not have power over us. We are strong. Our values are right. You offer nothing ex-cept death.’”

Obama didn’t initiate his brief tango Wednesday evening at a state dinner in his honor. In fact, he de-clined several invitations by the sashaying female dancer before politely giv-ing in.

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No country has a perfect record, but Belgium’s is especially bad

Official: 2 Americans died in Brussels attacksBY MATTHEW LEEAP Diplomatic Writer

BRUSSELS — At least two American citizens have been confirmed killed in this week’s attacks in Brussels, a U.S. official said Friday, as Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting the city to express his condo-lences to the Belgian people.

Speaking after meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Mi-chel, Kerry said the “United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks.”

He did not give a specific number but a senior official said the fam-ilies of two Americans had been informed of their deaths in Tuesday’s attacks. The official, who was not authorized to speak to the matter pub-licly and spoke on condition of anonymity, did not have further details.

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W A S H -I N G T O N — Vice P r e s i d e n t Joe Biden on T h u r s d a y tried to clear his name and tout his record on Supreme Court nominations, calling Repub-lican branding of his past remarks on the subject “ri-diculous” and casting him-self as a longtime advocate of bipartisan compromise in filling seats on the high court.

In a speech at George-town Law School, Biden issued a broad warning that Republicans’ election-year blockade of President Barack Obama’s nominee “can lead to a genuine Con-stitutional crisis” and sought to distance himself from the strategy. He argued Repub-licans have distorted a 1992 speech in which he seemed to endorse the notion of blocking any Supreme Court nominee put forward in the throes of the election season.

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Lots to crow aboutThere is a saying: “It ain’t

bragging if it’s true.”So as we head into the

weekend, we’re not going to brag about what we have going on in our little corner of the world. We’re just going to share some true things hap-pening in the Golden Triangle these days.

The Mississippi State University women’s basketball team will take on the Con-necticut Huskies in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tour-nament Saturday. The game is in Connecticut and the Huskies are riding a 71-game winning streak. The Bulldogs have their work cut out for

them. But they have had a record-setting season. The game is at 10:30 a.m. (ESPN). We’ll be watching. So will a lot of the U.S.

Also on Saturday, film crews from American Idol will be in Amory to document Trent Harmon’s return to his hometown. Harmon has made it to the popular reality show’s top-four round. The 25-year-old can sing. Some say his run on the show will take him fur-ther than he already is. Again, we’ll be watching.

We’ll mention as well that on Monday the 76th annual “Spring Pilgrimage” kicks off in Columbus. It’s an

award-winning event that gives visitors the chance to tour the majestic antebellum mansions throughout our town. Many of them offer fea-ture recreated activities from the 1800s, period costumes and more. It’s our town’s show-case event and we’re excited.

Also next week, beginning on Wednesday, “Tales From The Crypt” begins at Friend-ship Cemetery. The event fea-tures students from Mississip-pi School for Mathematics and Sciences recreating the lives of people buried in the cem-etery. Each year, the stories of different lives are told. It is always finely done — national

outlets like The Atlantic mag-azine and NPR have come to town to take it in — and is, we feel comfortable saying at this point, a cultural gem our town offers that we look forward to each year.

Have we mentioned in this space recently that several of our area high school basket-ball teams competed at the highest level recently?

If so, forgive us for saying it again: The Columbus High School boys won the 6A cham-pionship. Also, the Columbus Christian Academy boys team, the Oak Hill Academy girls team, the Hebron Christian girls team, and the Hebron

Christian boys team all won championships. The boys and girls teams from West Lown-des High School also made runs in postseason play.

We just wanted to share some of those true things.

Call it spring fever. The temperatures become more welcoming. The annual 5K and 10K runs are about to get rolling. The Riverwalk is about to become a little more crowded with folks enjoying its scenery.

We’re about to start seeing a lot more of one another and there is a lot about us we want to brag — or tell the truth — about.

Insurance against povertyThere is no scenario in which a

teenager having an unintended baby is a good thing. It is a broad statement with which I am comfortable, and for which any exception should be as rare as “hen’s teeth.” How do we prevent the inevitable result from a thoughtless and youthful decision made at a time when good decision-making is virtually impossible?

If there is anyone out there reading this that believes abstinence actually is the answer, please stop reading now and save your blood pressure because you are clearly too old to remember when your desires overwhelmed your good judgment.

We exercise poor judgment all the time and our best hope is that the results do not become life altering and irrevocable. We carry property and liability insurance for such occasions.

I learned about a study this week that offered a form of free insurance to teenagers and poor women.

According to a 2015 New York Times report, the state of Colorado in 2009 participated in a study funded by the foundation named for the late wife of billionaire Warren Buffett. It was a study that offered an option for free long-term birth control to poor women and teenagers.

This wasn’t providing the pill; it was a choice of multi-year implants or an intrauterine device. Something with a 99% success rate as opposed to the 95% success rate of “the pill.” Something that doesn’t require daily action by the user to be effective. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently recognized the long-term prevention devices as the best option for teens due to safety and efficacy.

First objective of the study was to learn if the women given the choice would even take advantage of the opportunity. They did; in large numbers.

This, of course, wouldn’t be a story if the results of that choice weren’t so astounding. From 2009 to 2013 the teenage birthrate in Colorado plunged a whopping 40 percent. Even more import-ant the abortion rate fell by 42 percent. In 2009 before they were offered the choice, half the first births were to poor women under the age of 21. By 2014 half of the first births did not occur until the women had turned 24.

In Colorado about one in five women ages 18 to 44 now use the long acting birth control method. The change at one family plan-ning clinic went from giving out 30 devices in 2009 to giving out more than 2,000 in 2013. The Colorado state health department estimated that for every dollar they spent on the long acting birth control they saved $5.85 in state Medicaid costs.

Imagine cutting the unintended pregnancy rate in Mississippi by as much as 40 percent. In 2010 Mississippi spent $40.4 million on unintended pregnancies with an estimate that three out of four teen pregnancies are unintended.

The foreseeable ripple effect from reducing the teen pregnancy rate is a game changer for education, poverty, employment, health care and their many associated tax consequences. What could possibly be the reason not to provide this safer, more effective method for preventing an unwanted pregnancy? What conceivable down side is there to offer options that keep children from having children?

In Starkville there is a much-lauded program known as Bridg-es Out of Poverty. The founder of the local program, Lynn Phil-lips-Gaines shares a statistic that is emblematic of the need for our community to rethink how we address the causes of long-term and systemic poverty.

If we can get our female children to earn a high school diploma, get past the age of 21 without having had an unplanned pregnancy, and obtain full time employment, she and her family have a 90 percent chance of not living in poverty.

How do we ensure that everyone has a similar opportunity to succeed? Being poor doesn’t immunize you against human desires and temptations. The difference is that when you are poor you have no insurance policy allowing you to recover and then have a chance to succeed.

It is time we acknowledge we are investing at the wrong time. Let’s get on the front side of this issue and make available re-sources allowing teens and poor women to make it past their most vulnerable stage in life.

Raise your hand if you didn’t make more than a few mistakes in your teens. Many of us were lucky enough to get away with it or had the support we needed to get past it.

Lynn Spruill, a former commercial airline pilot, elected official and city administrator owns and manages Spruill Property Manage-ment in Starkville. Her email address is dlspruill@bellsouth.net.

CAMPAIGN 2016

Few Republicans have the courage to oppose Trump

WASHINGTON — Now that Donald Trump has spoken before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group, Americans have learned the following:

Trump can read a teleprompter; he finally got someone to write him a decent speech, which he was able to deliver without resorting to vulgarities; and he has provided something like a justification for reluctant Re-publicans to support him.

Which is a pretty low bar, you must admit. And it’s not nearly enough.

You know all the arguments pro and con by now. He speaks plainly. So did Archie Bunker. His message of walled-in isolationism appeals to those tired of loose immigration policies. So was the case with Sen. Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, the nativist demagogue in Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 cautionary novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.”

Windrip, like Trump, spoke of national greatness, though Windrip was more explicit, saying that Americans “must continue to be the greatest Race on the face of this old Earth.” Like Trump’s, Windrip’s base consisted largely of working-class white males, whom he called upon to help control dissent after he ascended to the Oval Office. Sound familiar? Punch anybody in the nose lately?

It’s called fascism by any other name and, yes, it does seem that it can happen here. That is, a demagogue can become president, as Lewis was trying to warn. And, yes, we do have checks and balances in this country, but does anyone really think that Trump should have the power to start a nuclear war? He’s mighty quick to rile.

No one is more familiar with the language of marginalization and authoritarianism than the Jewish community, causing one to wonder why Trump, whose rise has been spiced with bigotry and group-blaming rhetoric, was allowed in AI-PAC’S door. The answer is that the nonpartisan organization traditionally invites all presidential candidates, among others, to speak to its annual policy conference.

Well, that’s an explanation, anyway.The conundrum for Republicans is that

though Trump may be the devil, he’s their devil. How can they condemn the guy that a near-ma-

jority of their own party prefers? If you’re, say, House Speaker Paul Ryan, how do you say you won’t support your party’s nominee? Then again, if you’re a good man like Ryan, how do you support him?

He speaks plainly. So did Archie Bunker.That is the question of the moment, isn’t it?

This is what we ask ourselves about the indus-trialists and “good Germans” who supported Hitler. This is what we ask our Southern grand-parents about the time when blacks were being lynched. What we ask the World War II gener-ation about rounding up Japanese-Americans. And while we’re at it, what was your vote on Vietnam, Iraq? There’s a price to pay for silence.

That so few have shown the courage to deny Trump tells us how difficult it is to be brave — and how rare character is. But one can only pretend for so long not to hear the dog whistles of history, a skill at which Republicans have become too well practiced over the decades. Perhaps they’re no longer listening. Or they’re deluding themselves that Trump’s words don’t really mean what, you know, they mean.

“He won’t be that bad.”No, he’s worse.A Jewish friend of mine — a Democrat,

scholar, erstwhile politician and former U.S. ambassador whose parents were Holocaust survivors — called to vent after Trump’s speech to AIPAC. First, he said he was glad his father wasn’t alive to see this, and that he’d almost like to join AIPAC so he could resign in protest.

“The reality,” he said, “is if you go back and look at Hitler, somehow you elect someone that you know is beyond the pale. But you do it because you’re afraid of someone else. And then later, you look closely. And it’s too late.”

Unless.The tiny flame at the end of this darkening

tunnel is a contested convention, which depends on Ted Cruz and John Kasich starving Trump of the necessary 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination. It could happen, according to Princeton University’s Sam Wang, a statistical prognosticator and game theorist with a golden record. Basically, if Kasich campaigns only in proportional delegate states, leaving winner-take-all states to Cruz, Trump’s chances of becoming the nominee are reduced from 90 percent to 50 percent, says Wang.

It’s a big gamble, but it beats losing your soul.

Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, has received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Her email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.

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ATLANTA — One presidential can-didate pledged to “Stand up for Ameri-ca.” Two generations later, another promis-es to “Make America Great Again.” Their common denomina-tor: convincing cer-tain Americans that their version of the United States is under threat.

Donald Trump, leader for the 2016 Republican presidential nom-ination, has never said he’s follow-ing the playbook of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who achieved national stature on his promise of “segregation now, segregation to-morrow and segregation forever,” then made four failed bids for the White House from 1964 to 1976.

Instead, Trump invokes the an-ger of “the silent majority,” a phrase he’s resurrected from the era of Wallace and President Richard Nix-on, who won in 1968 and 1972 in part by co-opting Wallace’s racially charged populism.

Trump detractors hear more than a faint echo of Wallace in Trump’s anti-establishment mix of economic protectionism and blunt nativism, and they note that the brash billionaire, like Wallace, has drawn similar results in the campaign: tense rallies that often involve violent clashes among pro-testers, police and the candidate’s supporters.

“Trump is taking his campaign straight to the haters, and he’s gotten the roots of that old Wal-lace crowd,” says Joe Reed, a black Democratic Party broker in Ala-bama who came to know the four-term governor toward the end of his life, when he had abandoned his segregationist positions, long after a would-be assassin left him para-lyzed.

The comparison offends Trump backers.

“George Wallace was a racist,” said Debbie Dooley, a national tea party leader. “It’s totally ridicu-lous for anybody to think the same about Donald Trump.” She argues Trump’s independence from “the money that controls Washington, D.C.” outweigh his caustic rhetoric on immigration, Muslims and the protesters — many of them young and black — who interrupt his rallies.

“ D o n a l d Trump is not p r e a c h i n g hate,” Dool-ey said. “He’s standing up for the American workers and the American people.”

Trump offers his outsized per-sonality as an all-purpose antidote to a country that is “falling apart” and “never wins anymore.”

The overwhelmingly white throngs at Trump rallies roar at his mention of a border wall and heartily approve his call to stop all non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States. Supporters cheer his promises to protect gun rights and share his lament that Christi-anity is under attack. They applaud his threats of punitive tariffs on im-ports from countries “killing us on trade.”

Wallace, meanwhile, fueled his strongest campaigns in 1968 and 1972 with a wide-ranging critique of a society in decline. He modified

the overtly racist language he used in his Alabama campaigns, fash-ioning himself instead as a “states’ rights” conservative. He com-plained of rising crime and a “sick Supreme Court” that outlawed com-pulsory school prayer and allowed pornography.

Wallace, political historian Dan T. Carter said, “had all these ways

of getting across what he meant” without explicitly mentioning race or class. “He said ‘inner-city thugs,’ and everybody knew he was talking about young black men in the cit-ies.”

Tom Turnipseed, who managed Wallace’s 1968 campaign and be-came a civil rights activist, assigned the same motivation to Trump and Wallace. “Fear,” he told The Asso-ciated Press.

“You can scare folks with that line that the Mexicans are coming because everyday working people ... see Mexicans in the labor mar-ket and it hurts their wages — they think of it that way, at least,” Tur-nipseed said. “Governor Wallace, you know, did the same with Afri-can-Americans.”

BY KEN THOMASThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders may be drawing thousands of people to his rallies and raising millions of dollars online, but increasingly he’s also having to make the case that his cam-paign isn’t a lost cause.

Sanders is favored over Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in this weekend’s contests in Washington state, Hawaii and Alaska. The Vermont senator also points to April contests in Wiscon-sin and New York, and California’s June 7 prima-ry, as elections where he could cut into her wide lead in delegates who will decide the Democratic nomination.

That lead, however, is more than 300 pledged delegates — roughly about double the margin that then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama held over Clinton during the 2008 primaries. It’s math that’s forced Sanders to defend his path to victory amid whispers he should drop out.

“There’s some mythol-ogy going around that we can’t win this election — that is mythology,” Sand-ers thundered at a Los Angeles rally on Wednes-day night.

Sanders’ overwhelm-ing victories in Tuesday’s caucuses in Idaho and

Utah helped him offset a loss in Arizona, where he campaigned extensive-ly but failed to win more than 40 percent of the vote. He netted about 20 more delegates than Clin-ton in the three states, but he ended the night still far behind Clinton in the overall delegate count.

Once a major long-shot, Sanders has pushed

Clinton on policy and across the political map, winning a dozen states and challenging Demo-crats to confront income inequality and big money in politics. His rallies this past week drew more than 17,000 people in Seattle, including those standing in line or in an overflow

room, and 13,000 in San Diego.

His online fundraising acts like an ATM — he has collected more than $140 million from 2 mil-lion donors, raising $94 million in increments of $200 or less.

Even as Clinton focus-es on GOP front-runner Donald Trump, Sanders has yet to ease up on the ex-secretary of state, reg-ularly assailing her use of super PACs and her vote to authorize the war in Iraq.

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‘George Wallace was a racist. It’s totally ridiculous for anybody to think the same about Donald Trump.’

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Sanders fighting perceptions he can’t overcome Clinton edge‘There’s some mythology going around that we can’t win this election — that is mythology’

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffColumbus High School head basketball coach Luther Riley jokes with the Possum Town Trotters’ cheerleaders Rhonda Sanders, left, Barbara Bigelow and Edwina Williams, during the Possum Town Throwdown on Thursday. The Possum Town Trotters defeated the high school boys, 73-69. The event raised approximately $1,740 for the American Cancer Society.

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ing his hand gestures and body movements.

“I have seen Bully rise to the occasion,” Dodd said. “I have seen Bull-dogs rise to the occasion, and I expect that is what we will see on Saturday, is the Bulldogs and Bul-ly rise to the occasion of the platform that the girls have earned and Bully has been given. I think we’re going to come out of there victorious.”

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Dodd smiled when asked if Bully and the other members of MSU’s spirit group will have any new moves to show the fans and ESPN viewing audience when they sup-port the No. 5 seed MSU (28-7) against No. 1 seed UConn (34-0) at Webster Bank Arena in Bridge-port, Connecticut.

Dodd said Wednesday that Bully “is working on some stuff” that he ex-pects him to break out for the UConn fans and “Jon-athan,” the Husky that is the school’s mascot. He also said fans can expect to see “all of the classics” from Bully.

Any other moves will

depend on what opportu-nities Bully gets to per-form for the cameras or the fans.

Dodd said he never imagined being a “friend of Bully” and helping Bully add to the game experiences of fans of all ages. He said he used to come to games at MSU for the Candyman and Bully. MSU fans know the Candyman by the name of Ron Caulfield, a super fan of all of the school’s teams who can routinely be seen in the stands handing out candy to the Bulldogs’ fans.

Bully doesn’t need can-dy, but he has been known to wear sunglasses and a hula skirt, or break out in a funky dance move. In fact, Bully has been work-ing on a dance move for the past year and a half that is now one of his most commonly identifiable moves.

Dodd, whose term as MSU’s student body pres-ident expired in March, isn’t sure how Bully per-forms so well in front of friendly and hostile crowds. He said he has

been with him in front of several thousand people and as many of tens of thousands of people. He said Bully is unflappable in the face of hungry Ti-gers, irritable Rebels, or untrained Huskies.

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Bully won’t be the only one in Bridgeport helping the MSU women and their fans enjoy the experience of playing in the Sweet 16.

Taylor Turcotte, a se-nior from Waveland, is one of four members of the pom squad that will be at the game. Dominick Fears is one of four mem-bers of the co-ed cheer-leading team that will be there, too.

“I think it is going to be awesome. I think it is going to be very loud, as it was here,” Turcotte said. “I think the big different is there is only a few of us, so I think we’re all going to be on the edge of our seats the entire game.”

Turcotte knows Bully and the rest of the MSU spirit squad and band will be outnumbered,

but that’s OK because she said they are more concerned about help-ing coach Vic Schaefer and his Bulldogs pull the upset of the three-time reigning national cham-pions.

“I think our girls have worked very hard all year to get where they are,” Turcotte said. “I think they are very prepared. Coach Schaefer does a really good job of getting them prepared and mak-ing sure they are in the right mind-set...we came to cheer on our Dogs, so I think now it is just a mat-ter of us being as loud as we can be and giving it our all to cheer them on and make sure they stay into the game.”

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Mark Wilson/Dispatch StaffMississippi State coach Vic Schaefer has led the Bulldogs to a school-record 28 victories this season.

MSU IN SWEET 16n No. 5 seed Mississippi State will take on No. 1 seed Connecticut at 10:30 a.m. Satur-day. ESPN will broadcast the game, while WKBB-FM (100.9) will broadcast the game on the radio. The Dispatch will provide coverage today from the news conferences to preview the Sweet 16 matchup. You can follow our coverage at www.cdispatch.com and on Twitter @ctsportseditor.

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Schaefer helps guide historical season“I hope and pray for next year that our girls get

that together and are a two-half team because if they can do that, they can beat anyone. They can beat Duke and Tennessee and all those people.”

— Former Mississippi State center Martha Alw-al following the team’s 64-56 loss to Duke last sea-son in the second round of the NCAA tournamentBY ADAM MINICHINOaminichino@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Martha Alwal had no idea what the Mississippi State women’s basketball team could accomplish.

Lured to Starkville by former coach Sharon Fanning-Otis, Alwal was projected to be a fixture for the Bulldogs in the paint. When Fanning-Otis retired, new MSU coach Vic Schaefer inherited a program that would see Alwal, Kendra Grant, and Jerica James mature to become leaders.

The development of Alwal, Grant, and James

helped Schaefer transform the Bulldogs from a team that went 13-17 in his first season to a 22-win squad in the second season to a then-pro-gram record 27-win campaign last season.

But the development of Alwal, Grant, and James was only one piece to the puzzle. When Schaefer was hired in March 2012, he immediate-ly hit the recruiting trail and began assembling

Dunn overcomes injury for successful career

ContributedRonald Dunn drives his No. 17 street stock car during a recent race.

COLLEGE FOOTBALLCOLLEGE BASEBALL: No. 10 MSU 9, Georgia 2

BY DAVID MILLERSpecial to The Dispatch

Each time Ronald Dunn climbs into his No. 17 Street Stock car, he slides his rac-ing boot into a flip-flop that’s strapped to the brake pedal.

Without the sling, Dunn’s foot would slip off the brake pedal, which would affect his performance on the track.

Drivers and their crews con-tinually devise clever solutions

to gain advantages on the track, and Dunn’s simple solution may be the most creative and cheap-est.

But for the Corinth native, the idea wasn’t so much about gaining an advantage as it was competing on an even field.

In 2013, Dunn, who worked for a railroad company, was in-jured in an accident while on the job. A brake wheel came off of a train car and struck him in the leg. Dunn lost his left leg

below the knee and currently wears a prosthetic.

“It’s the left – the braking leg – so that makes it a bit easier (to drive),” Dunn said. “It was a freak accident, but I was lucky. They say most people who lose a leg also lose an arm because most people will reach whenev-er they’re struck.”

Dunn’s friend and fellow rac-er, Justin McCree, came up with the solution last season after

Mark Wilson/Dispatch StaffMississippi State junior Reid Humphreys (12) rips a second-inning double during his team’s 9-2 win over Georgia Thursday night at Dudy Noble Field.

DOMINATING PERFORMANCEHudson, Humphreys help fuel MSU past Georgia in SEC series openerBY BEN WAITbwait@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Reid Humphreys is getting into a groove at the plate.

The Mississippi State baseball junior didn’t live up to expectations as a freshman and sophomore, but he had obstacles to overcome, whether it was injuries or adjusting to the speed of the college game. But it was a learning expe-rience that prepared him for the here and now.

Humphreys showed how far he has come go-ing 3-for-5 with two home runs and two RBIs as the No. 10 Bulldogs beat Geor-gia 9-2 Thursday night at Dudy Noble Field to open a three-game Southeast-ern Conference series.

“(Coordinator of base-ball camps Will) Coggin has done a good job of giv-ing me some things to do

on the side,” Humphreys said. “I feel good, but a lot of these guys have been behind me the whole year and really encouraged me.”

The 2013 Gatorade Player of the Year in Mis-sissippi came to MSU with high expectations and he was expected to make an immediate impact. He hit .241 with one home run and eight RBIs as a fresh-man and .247 with five home runs and 27 RBIs as a sophomore.

But he was learning how to compete in the SEC and seeing the differ-ent types of spin pitchers

used, something MSU coach John Cohen said current San Diego Padre Hunter Renfroe was deal-ing with his first two years on campus. Renfore broke out as a junior and was tak-en 13th overall by the Pa-dres in the Major League Baseball First-Year Draft in 2013.

Cohen really believes it was playing every day this past summer that helped Humphreys the most.

“I think the other thing that helped with Reid is this was the first summer he was able to play sum-mer baseball because of a few injuries he had,” Co-hen said. “Playing in the Cape (Cape Cod League), seeing good stuff day in and day out up in the Cape and realizing he is a pre-mier player.”

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OregoneliminatesDukeBy The Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Ore-gon Ducks took a double-digit lead early in the second half against the defending national champi-ons, and they never flinched down the stretch.

After taking down mighty Duke with remarkably little dra-ma, these high-flying Ducks are on the brink of the Final Four.

Dillon Brooks scored 22 points and Oregon advanced with an 82-68 victory over the Blue Devils on Thursday night in the West Re-gion semifinal of the NCAA Tour-nament.

Elgin Cook had 16 points and nine rebounds for the top-seed-ed Ducks (31-6), who will meet Oklahoma on Saturday. The sec-ond-seeded Sooners routed Texas A&M 77-63.

After a season-long rise in the Pacific Northwest, the Pac-12 champion Ducks emphatically arrived on the national stage with a strong second-half rally to beat the Blue Devils (25-11) for the first time in school history.

“I think we don’t have a history of being a basketball school, but I think we did some great things this year to prove we deserve it,” said Jordan Bell, who had 13 points and seven rebounds. “I think we played one of our best games this year. Everybody, not just including me. I think we showed everybody we’re a good team.”

The win is a landmark for a football school making its basket-ball mark. But it was also remark-able for what the Ducks didn’t al-low in the second half.

No nerves, no panic — and no rallies by Duke.

The Ducks didn’t take the enor-mity of their accomplishment for granted, even though they can’t spend much time thinking about it right now.

“Duke is a household name,” coach Dana Altman said. “Coach K, I have a great deal of respect.

BY CHARLES ODUMThe Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. — Strong-armed quarterback Jacob Eason is ex-pected to bring more firepower to Georgia’s passing game.

The only question seems to be when the transition to Eason will occur.

Less than two weeks into spring practice, Eason is paying his dues on the third-string of-fense. That’s no surprise for an 18-year-old freshman.

First-year coach Kirby Smart is giving veterans Greyson Lambert and Brice Ramsey the first looks with the starters. Lambert, a se-nior, is the returning starter from last year’s 10-3 team. Ramsey, a junior, also is working at punter this spring.

Eason (6-5, 211) is expected to eventually claim the starting job. Thus far, he’s still settling in as he learns the terminology of the offense.

“Jacob is throwing some with the (starting) receivers,” Smart said earlier this week. “They all roll in there.”

Eason was the headliner of Smart’s first recruiting class. He enrolled early from Lake Stevens, Washington, after he was named the national player of the year by USA Today, Gatorade and the Maxwell Football Club.

Georgia has not made the quar-terbacks available for interviews this spring. Smart is trying to shield the quarterbacks from the added pressure that accompanies the quarterback competition.

The April 16 G-Day game at Sanford Stadium will be the first chance for Eason to show his skills in front of a big crowd. Smart is pushing for a sellout crowd of more than 92,000 for the game. Eason will be the big draw — even if he’s not yet starting.

Smart has told Eason the pres-sure should be on the new coach, not the new quarterback.

Eason said on signing day in February “there is a lot of expec-

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the parts he knew he needed to make the Bulldogs into a con-tender. The success he and his staff had in signing Savannah Carter, Ketara Chapel, Dom-inique Dillingham, Chinwe Okorie, Kiki Patterson, Bre-anna Richardson, and Jazmine Spears in their initial class helped lay the foundation for ev-erything that has followed.

Four years later, MSU is rub-bing elbows with royalty — or, in this case, the sport’s gold standard. At 10:30 a.m. Satur-day (ESPN), No. 5 seed MSU (28-7) will take on No. 1 seed and three-time reigning nation-al champion Connecticut in the Sweet 16 at Webster Bank Are-na in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Carter, a transfer from Trini-ty Valley Community College in Texas, best summed up MSU’s progression in four short years last season prior to her last home game at Humphrey Coli-seum.

“I didn’t start here with them, but it sure feels like I have been there with them all four years,” Carter said. “Like the song (by Drake), ‘Started from the bottom,’ we really did start from the bottom togeth-er, and we went from not being heard of to the world knowing who we are.”

Little while backThese days, the roots to the

Bulldogs’ first Sweet 16 appear-ance since the 2009-10 season, and first meeting against the 10-time national champions, can be traced back to the arriv-al of the a recruiting class that Dan Olson, of Collegiate Girls Basketball Report and espnW’s HoopGurlz, ranked No. 35 in the nation. Spears didn’t quali-fy academically and spent two years at Trinity Valley C.C. be-fore transferring to MSU. Pat-terson transferred from MSU and recently finished her soph-omore season at East Mississip-pi C.C. in Scooba.

Schaefer and his staff built on that class with another na-tionally ranked group that in-cluded the state of Mississippi’s all-time leading prep basketball scorer Victoria Vivians. Kay-la Nevitt, Blair Schaefer, the daughter of Vic Schaefer, and Morgan William joined Vivians

in a class that has helped MSU establish itself as a program in the top 15 and one that has made back-to-back trips to the NCAA tournament.

“I think early, when we were recruiting that first class, I think it was that knowing that where we had been, the success that we had, and believing and trusting in a vision,” Schaefer said. “I think that is what we do. Once you bring it to fruition, I think it really gives you cred-ibility, and it gives your kids credibility, too.”

The fact the Schaefer and Johnnie Harris were coaches on Gary Blair’s staff at Texas A&M that won a national title in 2011 helped provide legitimacy to their quest to build a winner at MSU. Former Aggie Mary-ann Baker, who was a member of that national championship team joined Schaefer and Har-ris in Starkville. Skylar Collins, another former Texas A&M national titleist, later joined MSU’s staff, too.

Schaefer said the addition of the first recruiting class did establish a foundation he could build on because it helped trans-form the Bulldogs’ identity.

“It changed the make-up of our team as far as the physical make-up,” Schaefer said. “Chin-we and Bre with the SEC bod-ies. Ketara, long athletic, slen-der, can run. Dominique, that physical, tough, aggressive kid that you desperately needed to change a culture and bring that toughness and competitive fire that you were really lacking.

“There is no question that class was critical. We had to sign them before they ever saw us play because if they saw us play they might not have come.”

Schaefer said the ability to land Vivians, who was being recruited by Louisville, Ken-tucky, and Florida, was crucial because it showed the Bulldogs could protect their borders and that the state’s best players be-lieved in what was being built in Starkville.

Schaefer said it always helps that “great players want to play with great players.” He cred-ited Vivians with seeing what was being built in Starkville. It included a 22-win season and a

trip to the quarterfinals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament in year two.

As a freshman, Vivians led MSU in scoring and earned a spot on the Southeastern Conference’s All-Freshman team. She played an integral role in helping the Bulldogs win a program-record 11 SEC regular-season games and a then-single-season record 27 games.

“Smart players realize they can’t do it by themselves,” Schaefer said. “It just gives you credibility to the rest of the country that hey, the all-time leading scorer in the history of girls high school basketball plays at Mississippi State. That speaks volumes to what we’re doing and the trust factor and believing in a vision.

“They key is now we have stacked recruiting classes back-to-back-to back with some really good players. That is how you do it. You can’t go have a good class and go three years and have a good class and go another three or four years. You’re going to go up and down (moving his hand to mimic the movement of a roller coaster). If we are going to be what we want to be, which is a top-10, top-15 program, you have to stack re-cruiting classes. I think we have done that in our recruiting, and have continued to do that.”

Top recruitsMSU will add Jacaira “Iggy”

Allen, the nation’s No. 77 re-cruit, according to espnW/HoopGurlz, next season. It also has received a verbal commit-ment from Olive Branch junior guard Myah Taylor for the fol-lowing season. Taylor’s verbal pledge is non-binding, but her arrival would allow the Bull-dogs to continue a trend of land-ing the state’s top players.

While signing the best play-er in a talent-rich state is vital, Schaefer also believes the Bull-dogs have been able to build na-tional recognition that enables them to compete for the top players in the country.

“I don’t think there is any doubt,” Schaefer said. “I think we can walk into the gym in the country and people know my staff. I think that is the first

piece. They respect the fact that there is a Sweet 16 team, a top-10, top-12 team in our gym.”

More and more of those coaches and players in the state of Mississippi likely will be coming out to the Hump. Last weekend, MSU finished third in attendance of all of the 16 host schools for the first and second rounds of the NCAA tourna-ment. Next season, MSU could be on pace to crack 100,000 for total attendance for the first time in program history. That would be another major accom-plishment for Schaefer, who has helped build championship programs at Arkansas and Tex-as A&M. He has been around long enough to remember when Storrs, Connecticut, the home of the Huskies, wasn’t a destina-tion for the nation’s top girls bas-ketball players. You only need to look back to see how players like Kerry Bascom, Kris Lamb, Laura Lishness, Debbie Baer, and Wendy Davis helped set the stage for the arrival of Rebecca Lobo by leading the Huskies to their first Final Four in 1991.

Twenty-five years later, UCo-nn has replaced Tennessee as the sport’s dominant program. It enters its game against MSU riding a 71-game winning streak.

Schaefer doesn’t know if MSU will get to that point, but he knows the Bulldogs are fol-lowing a similar construction plan.

“When you first get here, it is hard to get anybody interested, a five- or a four-star interested,” Schaefer said, “so you have to build a program based on your philosophy. We built those first couple of years based around our philosophy, which was de-fense. Defense gave us a chance to win. That is what allowed us to beat No. 11 Georgia in our first year. It is what allowed us to win 22 ballgames and play three rounds into the WNIT. That was the foundation. You get players who fit your philos-ophy and then after that when you start winning, you can get in on the some of the other kids who might be a little more well-rounded skill wise. You get those kids who fit your philoso-phy and your personality; those

kids are going to work. You’re going to develop those kids. They’re going to expand their skill set and do some things that maybe somebody didn’t see in them.”

Good talentDillingham, a 5-foot-9 guard

from Spring, Texas, epitomizes the Bulldogs grit and determi-nation. She isn’t the biggest, strongest, fastest, or quickest player, but her heart doesn’t al-low her to stop, and it drives the Bulldogs to overcome the odds, just like they did when they lost a 13-point lead against Michi-gan State on Sunday, weathered the storm of a 20-0 run, and ral-lied from a seven-point deficit to win 74-72.

“I feel like we have started something, but every recruit-ing class that has came here has helped and has brought something else to the table,” Dillingham said. “It started with us, but the other classes have brought so much more to the table.”

Dillingham is looking for-ward to the chance to showcase MSU’s defense and its tough-ness. She said the game will be a great barometer and will give the team valuable lessons it can take and build on next season.

William, the team’s 5-5 soph-omore guard, already has seen the Bulldogs implement les-sons learned this season. The biggest ones are the program’s first two victories in series his-tory against Tennessee. The second led to the program’s second trip to the SEC tourna-ment championship game.

On Saturday, MSU will relish the chance to play UConn for the first time to show how far it has come in a short amount of time.

“I am excited,” William said. “Last year playing Tennessee, I was nervous. This year, the sec-ond year, I like the bright lights, going out there playing against the best. I feel like if I go out there and play the best I can my teammates will follow behind me and we will play good.”

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Dunn initially struggled to keep his foot on the pedal. Since his foot never leaves the brake pedal, he has to be cognizant of how much pressure he’s putting on the pedal throughout each race.

“We ran third at Jackson in the first race we ran after putting the strap on the pedal,” Dunn said. “I have to pay at-tention to not put too much pressure on it and drag the pedal, which is difficult because I can only sense the pressure at the end of my leg. But it works.”

It’s worked brilliantly thus far in the early stages of the 2015 season as Dunn has won each of the first two Street Stock features at Magnolia Motor Speedway. He’ll work to make it three in a row next week when Magnolia hosts a $1,000-to-win Street Stock feature at the Golden Egg Classic.

“It’s been all about feeling comfort-able in the car, learning the car, and the car being good,” Dunn said. “Then, you get confidence in the car being that good.”

Dunn began racing in 1991 and won

several track points titles across vari-ous classes, including Outlaws, Street Stocks, Limiteds and Super Late Mod-els. But chasing points began to feel “like work” for Dunn, and in 2008 he quit racing.

After his accident in 2013, he decid-ed to return to the track. Dunn bought a Crate and Super Late Model car with some of his settlement money and be-gan to race full-time. But racing in those divisions, both of which have cars with heavier and more powerful motors, is much more taxing, physically, than Street Stocks.

“I also enjoy racing Street Stocks be-cause of the competition … it’s just a lot of fun,” Dunn said. “It’s demanding, driv-ing Crates. I was eating the brakes up. I may run some Crate stuff this year, but I’m primarily focused on Street Stocks.”

McRee will continue to drive Crates for Dunn and will race an additional Street Stock car for Dunn when it’s com-pleted.

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three home runs in the last five games this is his second two-home run game in his career (March 22, 2015 at Ken-tucky).

Tied at 1-1 in the fourth inning, the Brandon na-tive hit a solo home run to left field to give MSU (16-6-1, 3-1 SEC) a 2-1 lead. Humphreys has had two robbed in left field already and he said he wasn’t sure it was out until he round-ed second base.

“He didn’t hit that ball that good and it still got out of here,” Cohen said. “That tells you how strong he is.”

That led to a seven-run inning and seven-straight hits for MSU, which took an 8-1 lead.

Humphreys doesn’t believe his home run was the spark but felt like it shifted the momentum to MSU’s side permanently.

“Everybody was tak-ing good swings,” Hum-phreys said. “It wasn’t a matter of loosening up, it

gave us a reason to loosen up, but everybody came out swinging it well.”

Gavin Collins had a two-run single, Jack Kru-ger and Elih Marrero had RBI doubles and Jacob Robson and Luke Alexan-der had RBI singles in the fourth.

After taking a 1-0 lead on a Nathaniel Lowe groundout in the second, MSU starting pitcher Dakota Hudson allowed Georgia (14-9, 1-3) to tie things with an RBI single by Trevor Kieboom in the fourth.

Hudson said when he got to the dugout, he was met by some of his team-mates.

“I had two guys come up to me, I think it was Gavin and (Brent) Rook-er, and they said, ‘Hey, we’re going to get you some runs right here, don’t worry about it.’ They ended up getting seven so you can’t argue with that,” Hudson said.

Hudson (3-1) recorded

his fourth quality start with seven innings, one unearned run on eight hits, one walk and five strikeouts. Hudson has not allowed an earned run in 21 2/3 innings.

Humphreys hit a solo home run to right-center field in the seventh and had a double in the sec-ond.

MSU had 15 hits, with Robson, Kruger, Lowe and Marrero each having two.

“We scored a lot of runs and we got a lot of hits from other guys and it kind of made it easier for everyone else to loos-en up,” Humphreys said.

MSU and Georgia play 6:30 p.m. today (SEC Net-work+) as MSU tries to clinch the series.

Humphreys said with the talent MSU has it will be someone else who steps up today, but Cohen likes where Humphreys is right now and wouldn’t be surprised if he stepped up again.

“When he’s squaring balls up to the pull side and the opposite way, he’s a tough guy to try and pitch to,” Cohen said. “He’s worked so hard on his swing with coach Coggin and coach (Nick) Mingione. He has really figured his swing out for right now. He may never truly have it figured out, but he’s got a good swing working right now and I’m really proud of his progress.”

n South Carolina 5, Ole Miss 1: At Oxford, In the first Southeast-ern Conference matchup of the season at Swayze Field, No. 6 Ole Miss fell to No. 10 South Carolina, 5-1, Thursday night. Ole Miss hitters were able to tally 11 hits, while Reb-el pitching struck out 10 Gamecocks, but it was the road team that took the series opener.

With the setback, Ole Miss (20-3, 2-2 SEC) dropped just its third game of the season, while

South Carolina (21-2, 4-0 SEC) increased its win-ning streak to 11 games and remained perfect in conference play.

Junior Henri Lartigue posted a perfect night at the plate, going 4-for-4 to post a new career high in hits. Fellow junior J.B. Woodman added a pair of hits for his team-lead-ing ninth multi-hit game of the season, while also knocking in the long Reb-el run. Starting pitcher Brady Bramlett (4-1) suf-fered his first loss of the year, allowing four runs on eight hits and three walks.

n Southern Miss 6, UTSA 5: At Hattiesburg, the last time Tim Lynch smacked a walk-off base hit to win a baseball, he wasn’t wearing a Univer-sity of Southern Miss uni-form.

Lynch took care of that Thursday night.

The senior first base-man lined a two-strike, two-run, walk-off single

just inside the right-field foul line in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Golden Eagles to a 6-5 Conference USA win over UTSA.

“I actually think I had a couple in high school and maybe a couple in travel ball,” said Lynch, not only drenched but dripping shaving cream after what was believed to be the first postgame pie-to-the-face/Powerade shower accorded a Golden Eagle at Taylor Park.

“Definitely, to do it here at The Pete is awe-some, and the fans are great, but to do it especial-ly in a game like this. It’s cool to hit the walkoff, but at the end of the day, we won the game, and that’s what’s it’s all about.”

Southern Miss (17-6, 3-1 C-USA) logged only its second one-run victory of the season but second in its last three games.

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tation from the fans and the media.”“I do look at that, but not too much,”

Eason said. “When coach Smart says that, it’s kind of reassuring that I’m go-ing to be able to go out and grow and do my job. As a young quarterback, it defi-nitely means a lot when he says that.”

Georgia struggled on offense with Lambert at quarterback, failing to score more than 27 points in any of its last sev-en games. It was held under 14 points in four games.

Lambert became a manager of games, operating in safe mode in an of-fense that continued to lean heavily on its running game even after star tailback Nick Chubb’s season-ending knee inju-ry. He passed for more than 200 yards in only three games.

Chubb has been available on a limit-ed basis in practice, even dressing out in full pads on Tuesday but still only run-ning straight ahead without sharp cuts. He won’t play in the G-Day game.

Ramsey has made a good first impres-sion with Smart.

“I’ve really been pleasantly surprised with Brice,” Smart said before adding he told Ramsey he is “too casual” on the field.

Smart said he told Ramsey “’I think you relax a little too much. I need you to be more assertive, take a little more of a leadership role. Show me that it means something to you. Show me that you want it.’”

n Spurrier to receive Neyland tro-phy: Former Florida and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has been named the 2016 winner of the Neyland Trophy, an award the Knoxville Quarterback Club gives annually to a major contribu-tor to college athletics.

The Knoxville Quarterback Club also announced Thursday it was giving Brent Musburger its Lindsey Nelson Broad-casting Award.

Spurrier and Musburger will receive their awards April 16 and will be hon-ored at Neyland Stadium that day during pregame ceremonies for the Orange & White Game.

Prep BaseballToday’s Games

Columbus vs. Houston (Oxford), 11 a.m.Amory at New Hope, 1 p.m.Columbus at Oxford, 1:30 p.m.Tupelo at Louisville, 2 p.m.East Webster at Louisville, 6 p.m.Oak Hill Academy at Winston Academy, 6 p.m.Smithville at Starkville, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GameOxford at New Hope, 2 p.m.

Women’s College BasketballNCAA tournament — Sweet 16

At Bridgeport, ConnecticutSaturday’s Game

Mississippi State vs. Connecticut, 10:30 a.m.

College BaseballToday’s Games

UTSA at Southern Mississippi, 6 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.South Carolina at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Tennessee at Alabama, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesUTSA at Southern Mississippi, 11 a.m.Georgia at Mississippi State, 2 p.m.South Carolina at Ole Miss, 2 p.m.Tennessee at Alabama, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s GameTennessee at Alabama, 3 p.m.

College SoftballToday’s Games

Southern Mississippi at Florida Atlantic (DH), 3 p.m.Ole Miss at Oklahoma State (DH), 4:30 p.m.Mississippi State at Tennessee, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesSouthern Mississippi at Florida Atlantic, NoonMississippi State at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Missouri at Alabama, 2 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesMississippi State at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Missouri at Alabama, 6 p.m.

Men’s College TennisToday’s Matches

Florida at Mississippi State, 5 p.m.Auburn at Alabama, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s MatchesAuburn at Mississippi State, 1 p.m.Ole Miss at Arkansas, 1 p.m.Florida at Alabama, 1 p.m.

Women’s College TennisSaturday’s Matches

Nicholls State at Southern Mississippi, 10 a.m.Mississippi State at Alabama, 1 p.m.Ole Miss at Auburn, 1 p.m.

Sunday’s MatchUTSA at Southern Mississippi, 10 a.m.

College Track and FieldToday’s Meet

Alabama, Mississippi State, Southern Mississip-pi at Florida State Relays

Saturday’s MeetsAlabama, Mississippi State, Southern Mississip-pi at Florida State RelaysOle Miss at Arkansas Spring Invitational

Junior College BaseballToday’s Games

EMCC at Copiah-Lincoln (DH), 2 p.m.Meridian at Itawamba (DH), 2 p.m.

Junior College SoftballToday’s Games

Itawamba at East Central (DH), 1 p.m.Pearl River at EMCC (DH), 2 p.m.

CALENDARBRIEFLYMississippi StateMen’s tennis welcomes Florida for Good Friday contest

STARKVILLE — Coming off a big road win in Baton Rouge, the 24th-ranked Mississippi State men’s tennis team (12-4, 4-2) returns home this Friday to host No. 16 Florida (9-4, 4-1) at 5 p.m.

As with all MSU home matches this season, admission is free.“We’re going excited to face a good Florida team under the lights

this Friday,” head coach Matt Roberts said. “We ready to get back on our home court and play in front of the Bulldog faithful. Friday’s match will be a great opportunity to develop our games against a quality opponent and we’re ready for the challenge.”

Last weekend the Bulldogs split their conference matches on the road, dropping a 5-2 decision to No. 9 Texas A&M, but bouncing back against No. 48 LSU, 4-2. The win on Sunday was highlighted by MSU’s four singles wins to claim the victory against the Tigers. In that mix, juniors Rishab Agarwal and Mate Cutura were key to the success for MSU over the weekend.

For Cutura, the weekend proved to be one of his best of the season as the junior defeated two ranked foes in singles action. Cutura upset 14th-ranked Arthur Rinderknech of Texas A&M, 6-2, 6-4, on Friday before downing No. 102 Jordan Daigle of LSU in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, on Sunday. The wins propelled Cutura to a ITA National Singles Ranking of 22nd overall in this week’s release, a career high.

n Women’s track ranked 11th: At Starkville, in the 2016 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Outdoor presea-son rankings, the Mississippi State women’s team landed at No. 11.

“We have a strong women’s team that I think will do great things,” MSU coach Steve Dudley said. “We saw a historical season for the women’s team last season, and we expect even bigger things this year.”

Last season, MSU had a program high finish at the outdoor NCAA Championships after scoring 15 points to place 18th.

The women’s team returns 19 individuals from last year’s roster, seven of which participated in the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Rhianwedd Price, the 2015 NCAA champion in the 1500m run, returns for her junior season with the Bulldogs.

Seven time first-team All-American Erica Bougard laces up for her final season with the Bulldogs. After being crowned the 2015 SEC champion in the heptathlon, the Byhalia, Miss., native finished fourth in the event at nationals.

Another key returner for the Maroon and White is MartaFreitas, who also participated in the 1500m run last season at the NCAA Cham-pionships. Most recently, Freitas was crowned the 2016 SEC Indoor Track & Field champion in the mile run.

Ste’yce McNeil, Shayla Luckett and Kimari Martin all return for their season with MSU. All three were part of the 4x400m relay team that finished 11th at the NCAA Championships last season.

After capturing the freshman record in the high jump last season, Logan Boss looks to improve her personal-best of 5-08.75. Tiffany Flynn etchec her name in the record book during her freshman campaign after a leap of 41-01.50 in the triple jump, the fourth-best in program history. Both Boss and Flynn participated in the NCAA East Preliminaries, falling just short of qualifying for nationals.

n Women’s tennis falls at Auburn: At Auburn, Alabama, despite a strong start, the 27th-ranked Mississippi State women’s tennis team (11-6, 2-5 Southeastern Conference) fell 5-2 to No. 16 Auburn (17-4, 5-2 SEC) in a closely-contested matchup on the Plains Thursday afternoon.

The Bulldogs started the day impressively by claiming the doubles point with convincing wins at the top two positions in the lineup. State’s duo of Jasmine Lee and Louise Ronaldson made quick work of Au-burn’s tandem of Paula de Man and Caroline Turner 6-1 on court two. Moments after, at the No. 1 position, MSU’s pair of Madison Harrison and Kristina Vozniak upended the Tiger duo of No. 24 Pleun Burgmans and Alizee Michaud 6-2 to clinch the doubles point and give MSU a 1-0 lead. The remaining doubles match was suspended at 5-3 in favor of Auburn on court three.

The Tigers responded in singles by taking four of the six first sets and rode that momentum to the victory, despite State pushing two of those contests to a third set.

State’s highlight in singles came from its lone senior, 71st-ranked Georgiana Patrasc, as she posted a 6-2, 6-2 upset over AU’s No. 31 Andie Dikosavljevic, marking the second highest ranked opponent she has defeated during her career. The win on court two extended MSU’s lead to 2-0. But Auburn would claim the remaining five matches for the victory.

At the No. 4 position, AU’s Alannah Griffin upended MSU’s No. 100 Anastasia Rentouli 6-3, 6-4. Tiger de Man held off State’s Vozniak in straight sets 6-3, 7-6(5) at No. 5 to tie the match 2-2.

The final three matches all went three sets and AU would pull out close 6-4 decisions in the third set in each contest. The Tigers got their first lead of the match as No. 46 Michaud upset MSU’s No. 13 Lee 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 at the No. 1 position. The Tigers clinched the match as No. 77 Burgmans staved off a comeback effort from MSU’s Harrison 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on court three. In the final match of the day, Auburn’s Turner edged MSU’s Jennifer Brown 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 at the No. 6 spot.

AlabamaGymnast Beers earns academic honor from conference

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama senior Lauren Beers was voted the Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the league’s coaches it was announced by the conference office Thursday.

With Beers’ honor, Alabama gymnasts have now won six SEC Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in the 13-year history of the award. She joins Kim Jacob (2012, 2013 and 2014), Kayla Hoffman (2011) and Michelle Reeser (2005) since the award’s inception in 2004.

Beers is also the fourth Alabama student-athlete to earn SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year honors for their respective sports during the current academic year, joining men’s basketball’s Retin Obasohan, football’s Ryan Kelly and soccer’s Abby Lutzenkirchen.

Beers is a two-time (2014 and 2015) NCAA Elite 89 Award winner, given to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average at the final site of the NCAA Championships, as well as a two-time (2014 and 2015) CoSIDA Academic All-American. A three-time Scholastic All-American, Beers earned her undergraduate degree in exercise science in three years, posting a perfect 4.0 grade point average for her career.

The Warren Center, Pa., native is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sports management while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA. A six-time All-American and a four-time NCAA individual regional cham-pion, Beers earned a career-best 10.0 on the vault against Georgia earlier this season and posted a career-best 9.975 on the floor exercise against the Bulldogs.

In addition to Beers’ honor, the SEC also announced the 2016 All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman teams. Junior Katie Bailey, sophomores Mackenzie Brannan and Kiana Winston and freshman Jenna Bresette earned All-SEC honors. Bresette also earned a place on the SEC All-Freshman team.

Alabama returns to action April 2 as host of the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional Championship. The Crimson Tide will be vying for its 31st regional title and 34th NCAA Championship berth. Tickets are available through the Alabama Ticket Office (205.348.2262) located in the lobby of Coleman Coliseum and online at RollTide.com.

n Saban chosen for list of leaders: At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama head football coach Nick Saban was named to Fortune’s list of 2016 World’s Greatest Leaders, the magazine announced on Thursday.

It was Fortune’s third annual list of world leaders and it ranked Saban at No. 11 after the 10th-year head coach led the Crimson Tide to 12 straight wins to end the 2015 season, culminating in a 45-40 win over then-No. 1 Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in January.

The magazine rated the world’s top 50 leaders, which came from six different continents. Saban has won four national championship in the last seven years at Alabama and five in his career. He boasts a 100-18 record in nine years at the Capstone with four SEC Championships.

n Track and field earns highest ranking: At Tuscaloosa, Ala-bama, the Alabama men’s and women’s track & field teams have both earned their highest preseason outdoor ranking in program history in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTF-CCCA) Preseason National Team Computer Rankings. In the rankings released by the association on Wednesday, the men claimed the No. 6 spot, the best ranking the men’s team has ever earned at any point in an outdoor season, and the women’s team landed at No. 23.

The Crimson Tide men totaled 179.50 points in the computer projections, putting them less than 20 points out of the top five. This is only the second time in the history of the USTFCCCA rankings that the Alabama men have been in the top 10 in the preseason, as the 2014 squad was No. 10. That same year the Tide reached No. 7 in the rankings, which was the highest ranking for the program previously.

This is also the highest preseason position for the women, with last year’s ranking of No. 29 to begin the 2015 season being the previous best. Alabama picked up 87.37 points to claim a spot in the top 25 this week after spending all of last season in the top 30, capped off by a 20th-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Points in the National Team Computer Rankings are calculated by a mathematical formula based on national descending order lists. The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national team race. Rankings points do not equate with NCAA Championships team points. Marks from the previous outdoor season — not this past indoor season that just finished — are counted until enough data can be collected from the current season. Then, past data is dropped and only data from the current campaign is used from there on out.

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BaseballSpring Training

AMERICAN LEAGUE W L PctToronto 15 4 .789Houston 14 8 .636Detroit 14 9 .609Los Angeles 12 8 .600Texas 14 10 .583Chicago 12 9 .571Minnesota 12 10 .545Tampa Bay 10 9 .526Cleveland 11 10 .524Oakland 10 10 .500Seattle 11 12 .478New York 9 11 .450Boston 10 13 .435Kansas City 11 15 .423Baltimore 6 14 .300

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctArizona 19 4 .826Washington 15 4 .789Philadelphia 14 7 .667Colorado 10 9 .526Milwaukee 11 10 .524Los Angeles 10 10 .500St. Louis 8 11 .421Miami 8 12 .400Cincinnati 9 14 .391San Francisco 9 15 .375Chicago 8 14 .364New York 7 13 .350Pittsburgh 7 14 .333San Diego 7 14 .333Atlanta 6 16 .273NOTE: Split-squad games count in the stand-ings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s GamesPittsburgh 6, Baltimore 5St. Louis 4, Miami 1Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 2Toronto 3, N.Y. Mets 1Chicago White Sox 6, San Diego 1Texas 5, Chicago Cubs 0Cleveland 7, Kansas City 6Arizona 10, San Francisco 6Washington 13, N.Y. Yankees 0Houston 2, Philadelphia 1Oakland 13, Seattle 12

Thursday’s GamesMinnesota 8, Miami 4Boston 4, N.Y. Mets (ss) 1Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh 5Washington 8, St. Louis 2Toronto 6, Detroit 4Houston 8, N.Y. Mets (ss) 5Milwaukee 9, Kansas City 2L.A. Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 5Texas (ss) 12, Cincinnati 5Seattle 10, Colorado 8Arizona 9, San Diego 8Atlanta 0, Philadelphia 0, tie, 3 inningsTampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 2, 8 inningsChicago Cubs 16, San Francisco 14Texas (ss) 12, Oakland 1Cleveland 5, L.A. Dodgers 5, tie

Today’s GamesHouston vs. Atlanta (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Atlanta (ss) vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Colorado vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Kansas City vs. San Francisco (ss) at Scotts-dale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.Cleveland vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 5:05 p.m.Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 5:35 p.m.Washington vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 6:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glen-dale, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesBoston vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Washington vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:07 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox (ss) at Glendale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Texas vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.San Diego (ss) vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.Miami vs. Houston (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 5:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh (ss) at Bradenton, Fla., 5:05 p.m.Houston (ss) vs. San Diego (ss) at Mexico City, 8:00 p.m.Chicago White Sox (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss) at Glendale, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Thursday’s College ScoresEAST

Randolph-Macon 12, York (Pa.) 12, tieRutgers-Newark 8, Baruch 0

SOUTHAustin Peay 6, Murray St. 2Belmont 20, Morehead St. 8Boston College 6, Pittsburgh 4Campbell 5, Charleston 4Evansville at E. Kentucky, ppd.Georgia Tech 3, North Carolina 2High Point 7, Winthrop 2Longwood 3, Radford 2, 10 InningsLouisiana Tech 3, Charlotte 2Notre Dame 16, Virginia Tech 4Oakland at N. Kentucky, ppd.SE Missouri 19, UT Martin 6

SOUTHWESTTexas A&M International 6-0, Oklahoma Chris-tian 2-9

SECEastern Division

Team Conference All Games W-L Pct. W-L Pct.South Carolina 4-0 1.000 21-2 .913Florida 3-0 1.000 22-1 .957Kentucky 1-2 .333 15-5 .750Vanderbilt 1-2 .333 17-4 .810Tennessee 1-2 .333 13-7 .650Georgia 1-3 .250 14-9 .609Missouri 0-3 .000 14-9 .609

Western DivisionTeam Conf. All Games W-L Pct. W-L Pct.Texas A&M 3-1 .750 20-2 .909Mississippi St. 3-1 .750 16-6-1 .717Alabama 2-1 .667 13-7 .650Ole Miss 2-2 .500 20-3 .870Auburn 1-2 .333 11-10 .524LSU 1-3 .250 15-6 .714Arkansas 0-3 .000 15-6 .714

Thursday’s GamesTexas A&M 8, LSU 1Mississippi State 9, Georgia 2South Carolina 5, Ole Miss 1

Today’s GamesFlorida at Kentucky, 5:30 p.m.Vanderbilt at Missouri, 6 p.m.South Carolina at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.Auburn at Arkansas, 6:35 p.m.Tennessee at Alabama, 7 p.m.LSU at Texas A&M, 8 p.m. (SEC Network)

Saturday’s GamesFlorida at Kentucky, 1 p.m.LSU at Texas A&M, 2 p.m. Georgia at Mississippi State, 2 p.m.South Carolina at Ole Miss, 2 p.m. (SEC Net-work)Vanderbilt at Missouri, 5 p.m. (SEC Network)Auburn at Arkansas, 6:05 p.m.Tennessee at Alabama, 8 p.m. (SEC Network)

Sunday’s GamesFlorida at Kentucky, NoonVanderbilt at Missouri, Noon (SEC Network)Auburn at Arkansas, 1:05 p.m.Tennessee at Alabama 3 p.m. (SEC Network)

BasketballNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBx-Toronto 48 22 .686 —Boston 42 30 .583 7New York 30 43 .411 19½Brooklyn 20 51 .282 28½Philadelphia 9 63 .125 40

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 42 30 .583 —Miami 41 30 .577 ½Charlotte 41 30 .577 ½Washington 35 36 .493 6½Orlando 29 42 .408 12½

Central Division W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 51 21 .708 —Indiana 38 33 .535 12½Detroit 38 34 .528 13Chicago 36 35 .507 14½Milwaukee 30 42 .417 21

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBy-San Antonio 60 11 .845 —Memphis 41 31 .569 19½Dallas 35 36 .493 25Houston 35 37 .486 25½New Orleans 26 45 .366 34

Northwest Division W L Pct GBy-Oklahoma City 50 22 .694 —Portland 37 36 .507 13½Utah 35 37 .486 15Denver 30 42 .417 20Minnesota 23 48 .324 26½

Pacific Division W L Pct GBy-Golden State 64 7 .901 —L.A. Clippers 44 27 .620 20Sacramento 27 44 .380 37Phoenix 20 51 .282 44L.A. Lakers 15 56 .211 49x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Wednesday’s GamesCleveland 113, Milwaukee 104Atlanta 122, Washington 101Boston 91, Toronto 79Detroit 118, Orlando 102New York 115, Chicago 107Minnesota 113, Sacramento 104Utah 89, Houston 87San Antonio 112, Miami 88Denver 104, Philadelphia 103Phoenix 119, L.A. Lakers 107Portland 109, Dallas 103Golden State 114, L.A. Clippers 98

Thursday’ GamesIndiana 92, New Orleans 84Brooklyn 104, Cleveland 95New York 106, Chicago 94Oklahoma City 113, Utah 91L.A. Clippers 96, Portland 94

Today’s GamesMinnesota at Washington, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at Houston, 7 p.m.Orlando at Miami, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Memphis at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.Denver at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesIndiana at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.Toronto at New Orleans, 6 p.m.Chicago at Orlando, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Cleveland at New York, 6:30 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.Boston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Philadelphia at Portland, 9 p.m.

HockeyNHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 74 41 24 9 91 211 182Tampa Bay 73 42 26 5 89 202 173Boston 75 39 28 8 86 219 206Detroit 74 37 26 11 85 190 199Ottawa 75 34 33 8 76 214 230Montreal 75 34 35 6 74 199 216Buffalo 74 30 34 10 70 176 200Toronto 73 27 35 11 65 180 214

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAz-Washington 72 52 15 5 109 231 170N.Y. Rangers 74 42 24 8 92 212 194Pittsburgh 73 40 25 8 88 204 182N.Y. Islanders 72 39 24 9 87 200 182Philadelphia 73 36 24 13 85 192 195New Jersey 74 36 31 7 79 169 189Carolina 74 32 28 14 78 180 200Columbus 74 30 36 8 68 193 228

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Dallas 75 44 22 9 97 243 216St. Louis 74 43 22 9 95 195 185Chicago 74 42 25 7 91 205 185Nashville 74 38 23 13 89 205 189Minnesota 75 36 28 11 83 202 189Colorado 74 38 32 4 80 200 208Winnipeg 74 31 37 6 68 190 217

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Los Angeles 74 44 25 5 93 200 171x-Anaheim 73 40 23 10 90 190 174San Jose 74 41 27 6 88 217 192Arizona 74 33 34 7 73 195 220Calgary 74 31 37 6 68 204 234Vancouver 73 27 33 13 67 169 210Edmonton 77 30 40 7 67 189 226NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.x-clinched playoff spotz-clinched conference

Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 3, Ottawa 1N.Y. Rangers 5, Boston 2

Thursday’s GamesNashville 3, Vancouver 2, SOFlorida 4, Boston 1New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 0Carolina 3, Columbus 2Toronto 6, Anaheim 5, OTDetroit 4, Montreal 3Minnesota 6, Calgary 2Winnipeg 4, Los Angeles 1Philadelphia 4, Colorado 2Arizona 3, Dallas 1Edmonton 6, San Jose 3

Today’s GamesWashington at New Jersey, 6 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesWinnipeg at Buffalo, NoonPittsburgh at Detroit, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Colorado, 2 p.m.Dallas at San Jose, 3 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 6 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 6 p.m.Anaheim at Ottawa, 6 p.m.Florida at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.St. Louis at Washington, 6 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 6 p.m.Columbus at Nashville, 7 p.m.Chicago at Calgary, 9 p.m.Philadelphia at Arizona, 9 p.m.Edmonton at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

SoftballSEC

Team Conference All Games W-L Pct. W-L Pct.Florida 5-1 .833 30-1 .968Kentucky 5-1 .833 27-4 .871Texas A&M 2-1 .667 27-3 .900Missouri 2-1 .667 23-4 .852Auburn 3-3 .500 27-4 .871LSU 3-3 .500 26-5 .839Tennessee 3-3 .500 22-8 .733South Carolina 2-4 .333 24-6 .800Ole Miss 2-4 .333 25-7 .781Alabama 1-2 .333 27-5 .844Georgia 1-2 .333 26-5 .839Mississippi St. 1-2 .333 20-9 .690Arkansas 0-3 .000 13-16 .448

Today’s GamesKentucky at Arkansas, NoonFlorida at LSU, 4 p.m.Ole Miss at Oklahoma State (DH), 4:30 p.m.Texas A&M at Georgia, 5 p.m.Mississippi State at Tennessee, 5 p.m.South Carolina at Auburn, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesFlorida at LSU, 11 a.m. (ESPN2)Kentucky at Arkansas, Noon (SEC Network)Texas A&M at Georgia, 1 p.m.Mississippi State at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Missouri at Alabama, 2 p.m.South Carolina at Auburn, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesKentucky at Arkansas, 1 p.m.South Carolina at Auburn, 1 p.m.Texas A&M at Georgia, 1 p.m.Mississippi State at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Missouri at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)

Monday’s GameMissouri at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)

NCAAContinued from Page 1B

So yeah, our guys knew the sig-nificance of playing Duke, defending national title, all the Final Fours, all the national championships that their program has been able to win. It was a different feel to it.”

Oregon was the champion of the first NCAA Tournament in 1939, but hasn’t been back to the Final Four since. The Ducks advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2007 and the third time since 2002.

Brooks hit four 3-pointers to lead the Ducks, who also broke the school’s single-season wins record with their 31st. They’ve won 10 straight since mid-February while winning the Pac-12’s regular-season and tournament titles.

“They’re not that deep,” Brooks said of the Blue Devils. “I think (Grayson) Allen played the whole game. They’ve really only got seven guys. We knew they were bound to get tired. We just kept going and kept going, knowing they’d wear out. ... Some of them, their shoulders started to sag. Once they got tired we could see it.”

Freshman Brandon Ingram scored 24 points, but Duke fell short of its third Elite Eight trip in five years — and both coaches agreed the better team won.

Allen, the Blue Devils’ leading scor-er, got 12 of his 15 points in the second half, but Duke couldn’t make much progress in the second half.

“They’re an athletic team, and that plays into their defense,” said Allen, who went 4 for 13. “I also thought we missed some shots around the rim. Could have gone up stronger to finish, but give them credit for going up to challenge us.”

Coach Mike Krzyzewski still emerged proud of his young roster af-ter losing five of its final 10 games.

n Kansas 79, Maryland 63: Whether it was nifty moves near the basket or a jumper that fell right all night, Perry Ellis was determined to do whatever he could to push top-seeded Kansas a little bit deeper in the NCAA Tournament.

And thanks to teammates who fol-

lowed the senior forward’s cool lead, the Jayhawks are one step closer to the Final Four.

Ellis scored 27 points to match a season high, Wayne Selden Jr. added 19 and Kansas topped No. 5 Maryland for a 79-63 South Region semifinal vic-tory Thursday night. The win put the Jayhawks back into the Elite 8 for the first time since 2012, when they went on to reach the NCAA championship game before losing to Kentucky.

It took time for the Jayhawks (33-4) to get going. Once they finally seized the lead late in the first half, every-thing else fell into place for their 17th straight victory. They emerged from the break by making their first six shots and steadily took control behind Ellis, who made 10 of 17 from the field.

“They just tell me to be more ag-gressive, and that’s what I try to do,” said Ellis, who also scored 27 against Oklahoma on Jan. 4.

Selden was right there with 7-of-16 shooting to help Kansas earn a berth in Saturday night’s regional final against Villanova.

The Terrapins (27-9) dictated the early tempo and briefly engaged in a back-and-forth game with the Jay-hawks before eventually falling behind the tournament favorite. Rasheed Su-laimon led Maryland with 18 points.

Landen Lucas added 14 points and 11 rebounds while Frank Mason III had 11 points for Kansas, which out-worked Maryland 43-28 on the glass and outscored the taller Terps 40-28 in the paint.

Better shooting also helped the Jay-hawks, who made 14 of 25 in the sec-ond half and finished 29 of 62 from the field (47 percent).

n Oklahoma 77, Texas A&M 63: There wasn’t even a sniff of a chance for a frenzied comeback for the Texas A&M Aggies against former Big 12 ri-val Oklahoma on Thursday night, only the pain of elimination from the NCAA Tournament.

Four days after staging the biggest last-minute comeback in NCAA Divi-sion I history, the third-seeded Aggies were blown out by Jordan Woodard,

Buddy Hield and the rest of the sec-ond-seeded Oklahoma Sooners in the Sweet 16.

Little went right for the Aggies, and this one was over well before halftime.

“We ran into a very good team that played extremely well,” Aggies coach Billy Kennedy said. “Every mistake that we made they made us pay. Jor-dan Woodard played a heck of a game. We just felt like we had a tough time matching up with their quickness and when we had opportunities to score we struggled.

“I’m really proud of these guys and proud of our team. I just wish we would have played better in this game be-cause we definitely are capable of play-ing better than we played,” Kennedy said.

Woodard scored 22 points and Hield had 17 points and 10 rebounds.

n Villanova 92, Miami 69: Ryan Arcidiacono and Kris Jenkins each scored 21 points and No. 2 seed Villano-va never trailed in routing third-seed-ed Miami Thursday night in the South Region semifinal of the NCAA Tour-nament. The Wildcats turned in their best shooting performance yet in this tournament, shooting 62.7 percent.

“If any team is shooting the way we’re shooting right now, they’ll easi-ly be the most dangerous team in the country,” Villanova senior forward Daniel Ochefu said. “But hopefully, we’ll keep shooting like that, so we can keep playing the way we are.”

The Wildcats (32-5) earned their third trip to the regional final with coach Jay Wright and seventh overall, coming through with former coach Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova to the 1985 national championship, sit-ting nearby.

Villanova will play top-seeded Kan-sas on Saturday in the regional final. It’s redemption after losses on the opening weekend each of the past two NCAA Tournaments.

“These last couple years and a cou-ple early exits wasn’t the best thing for our program, but I think we just remain humble and try to get back,” Arcidiacono said.

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TodayBOXING

9:30 p.m. — Regis Prograis vs. Aaron Herrera, super lightweights, at Miami, Oklahoma, SHO

COLLEGE BASEBALL8 p.m. — LSU at Texas A&M, SEC Network

COLLEGE BASKETBALL6:10 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Iowa State vs. Virginia, at Chicago6:27 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame, at Philadelphia, TBS8:40 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Gonzaga vs. Syracuse, at Chicago8:57 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Indana vs. North Carolina, at Phila-delphia, TBS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL8 p.m. — Vanderbilt sping game, SEC Network

GOLF9:30 a.m. — PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, second round, at Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, TGC1 p.m. — World Golf Champion-ship-Dell Match Play, Day 3, at Austin, TGC7 p.m. — LPGA Tour, Kia Classic, sec-ond round, at Carlsbad, California, TGC

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL8 a.m. — Spring training, Seattle vs. Colorado, at Scottsdale, Arizona (tape-delayed), MLB NetworkNoon — Spring training, St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Florida, ESPN3 p.m. — Spring training, L.A. Angels vs. Oakland, at Tempe, Arizona, MLB Network7 p.m. — Spring training, Pittsburgh vs. Boston, at Fort Myers, Florida (same-day tape), MLB Network10 p.m. — Spring training, Toronto vs. Philadelphia, at Clearwater, Florida (same-day tape), MLB Network1 a.m. (Saturday) — Spring training, Colorado vs. Cincinnati, at Goodyear, Arizona (same-day tape), MLB Network

NBA6:30 p.m. — Charlotte at Detroit, NBA TV7:30 p.m. — Memphis at San Antonio, Fox Sports Southeast

SOCCER4 p.m. — Men’s Under-23 teams, Olympic qualifying playoff, Colombia vs. United States, at Barranquilla, Colombia, FS1

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL6 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Syracuse vs. South Carolina, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ESPN6 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Washington vs. Kentucky, at Lex-ington, Kentucky, ESPN28:30 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Stanford vs. Notre Dame, at Lex-ington, Kentucky, ESPN8:30 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Tennessee vs. Ohio State, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ESPN2

SaturdayBOXING

8:45 p.m. — Andre Ward vs. Sullivan Barrera, light heavyweights, at Oak-land, California, SHO

COLLEGE BASEBALL

2 p.m. — South Carolina at Ole Miss, SEC Network2:30 p.m. — TCU at Texas, FS15 p.m. — Vanderbilt at Missouri, SEC Network8 p.m. — Tennessee at Alabama, SEC Network

COLLEGE BASKETBALL2 p.m. — NCAA Division II tournament, Lincoln Memorial vs. Augustana (S.D.) at Frisco, Texas, WCBI5 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, Oklahoma vs. Oregon, at Ana-heim, California, WCBI7:45 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, Villanova vs. Kansas, at Louis-ville, Kentucky, WCBI

COLLEGE SOFTBALLNoon — Kentucky at Arkansas, SEC Network

COLLEGE HOCKEY5 p.m. — NCAA Championship tour-nament, first round or quarterfinals, teams & site TBA, ESPN2

COLLEGE LACROSSENoon — Georgetown at Marquette, FS1

COLLEGE SOFTBALL11 a.m. — Florida at LSU, ESPN28 p.m. — Texas at Baylor, ESPN2

GOLF9 a.m. — World Golf Champion-ship-Dell Match Play, round of 16, at Austin, TGC1 p.m. — World Golf Champion-ship-Dell Match Play, quarterfinals, at Austin, WTVA5 p.m. — LPGA Tour, Kia Classic, third round, at Carlsbad, California, TGC8 p.m. — PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, third round, at Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (same-day tape). TGC

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL5 a.m. — Spring training, Milwaukee vs. Chicago Cubs, at Mesa, Arizona (tape-delayed), MLB Network8 a.m. — Spring training, Chicago White Sox vs. Seattle, at Peoria, Arizo-na (tape-delayed), MLB NetworkNoon — Spring training, Boston vs. Baltimore, at Sarasota, Florida, MLB Network3 p.m. — Spring training, San Francis-co vs. Chicago Cubs, at Mesa, Arizona, MLB Network7 p.m. — Spring training, Washington vs. St. Louis, at Jupiter, Florida (same-day tape), MLB Network10 p.m. — Spring training, Texas vs. Colorado, at Scottsdale, Arizona (same-day tape), MLB Network1 a.m. (Sunday) — Spring training, Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh (ss), at Bradenton, Florida (same-day tape), MLB Network

NBA7 p.m. — San Antonio at Oklahoma City, NBA TV

SOCCER2:30 p.m. — International friendly, England at Germany, at Berlin, ESPN2

WINTER SPORTS11:30 a.m. — U.S. Alpine Champion-ships, Super G, at Sun Valley, Idaho (tape-delay), WTVA

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL10:30 a.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Mississippi State vs. Con-necticut, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, ESPN

12:30 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, UCLA vs. Texas, at Bridge-port, Connecticut, ESPN3 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Florida State vs. Baylor, at Dallas, ESPN5 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, DePaul vs. Oregon State, at Dal-las, ESPN

SundayCOLLEGE BASEBALL

Noon — Vanderbilt at Missouri, SEC Network3 p.m. — Tennessee at Alabama, SEC Network

COLLEGE BASKETBALL5 p.m. — CollegeInsider.com tourna-ment, first semifinal, teams TBA, CBS Sports Network5 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, teams TBA, at Chicago or Phila-delphia, TBS7:45 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, teams TBA, at Chicago or Phila-delphia, TBS8 p.m. — CollegeInsider.com tourna-ment, second semifinal, teams TBA, CBS Sports Network

COLLEGE HOCKEY1 p.m. — Women, NCAA tournament, championship, at Durham, New Hamp-shire, WCBI

GOLF9 a.m. — World Golf Champion-ship-Dell Match Play, semifinals, at Austin, TGC2 p.m. — World Golf Champion-ship-Dell Match Play, championship, at Austin, WTVA5 p.m. — LPGA Tour, Kia Classic, final round, at Carlsbad, California, TGC8 p.m. — PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, final round, at Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (same-day tape), TGC

COLLEGE SOFTBALL6 p.m. — Missouri at Alabama, SEC Network

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL5 a.m. — Spring training, N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta, at Kissimmee, Florida (tape-delayed), MLB Network8 a.m. — Spring training, Arizonana vs. Milwaukee, at Phoenix (tape-de-layed), MLB NetworkNoon — Spring training, Minnesota vs. N.Y. Yankees, at Tampa, Florida, MLB Network3 p.m. — Spring training, Cincinnati vs. L.A. Dodgers, at Glendale, Arizona, MLB Network7 p.m. — Spring training, Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, at Bradenton, Florida (same-day tape), MLB Network10 p.m. — Spring training, Seattle vs. Chicago Cubs, at Mesa, Arizona (same-day tape), MLB Network1 a.m. (Monday) — Spring training, Milwaukee vs. Cleveland, at Goodyear, Arizona (same-day tape), MLB NetworkNHL6:30 p.m. — Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rang-ers, NBC Sports Network

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL11 a.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, Washington or Kentucky vs. Stanford or Notre Dame, at Lexington, Kentucky, ESPN7:30 p.m. — NCAA tournament, Elite Eight, Syracuse or South Carolina vs. Ohio State or Tennessee, at Sioux

ON THE AIR

BY DOUG FERGUSONThe Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Jason Day was 3 up with four holes to play, an ideal start to the Dell Match Play that included five birdies and hard-ly any stress.

And then he felt his back tighten on a tee shot at the 15th hole.

It stung so badly on his next tee shot that Day grabbed his back and winced. He stepped gingerly into a bunker. When his short par was con-ceded, he took a knee. Exactly what happened was not entirely clear because Day immediately sought treatment and left without speak-ing. But with a long week ahead of him at Austin Country Club, and the Masters just two weeks away, this victory surely felt hollow.

Without much drama on the golf course because of tough greens and Texas wind, Day supplied it with the latest in a long list of injuries.

Jordan Spieth, a crowd favorite who helped Texas to a national title in 2012, produced what the crowd came to see. The No. 1 player built an early lead, made a few pivotal putts to stay in control and beat Ja-mie Donaldson of Wales, 3 and 2.

Rory McIlroy escaped with a victory. He never led until winning on the 18th hole when Thorbjorn Olesen shanked a chip. Martin Kaymer rode the wind and drove the green on the 376-yard 18th hole to wrap up a 1-up victory over Shane Lowry. Matt Kuchar had the short-est day, dispatching Anirban Lahiri in 13 holes.

Day overcame an early deficit and had the match in hand when he first felt pain. The severity of the injury was unclear. Day left with-out speaking to reporters, and his

agent later sent a statement that he tweaked his back, had some work done on it, was pleased with win-ning and is getting prepared to play Thursday.

Day told the Australian Asso-ciated Press before getting treat-ment, “It’s really hard to play with searing pain in both sides of your lower back. Just my back has seized up and I need to get inside right away for treatment and see what’s wrong.”

There was no need to worry about Spieth. He had the largest crowd and delivered a solid perfor-mance by going 4 up through seven holes.

“I felt like everybody was on our side today,” Spieth said. “I almost felt like a home Ryder Cup match. And Jamie, I’m not sure what he would say about it. ... Everyone was very respectful, but every single step I took, somebody was yelling at you, ‘Hook ‘Em Horns’ or ‘Go Jor-dan, we’re rooting for you.’ Which is really, really cool.”

Rickie Fowler, the No. 5 seed, rallied from 3 down on the back nine to square his match on the 15th hole, only for Jason Dufner to win the next two holes with birdies to beat him on the 17th hole. He was the highest-ranked played to lose.

Dustin Johnson (No. 8) lost to Robert Streb, and Hideki Mat-suyama (No. 12) lost to Rafa Cabre-ra-Bello. Adam Scott (No. 6), who has lost seven straight matches in this event, had to settle for a halve with Thomas Pieters of Belgium. Players and caddies wore black ribbons in their caps to honor the victim of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels.

In the round-robin format, all

of the players still have a chance to advance from their groups and reach the knockout stage. A year ago, only three players who lost in the first round managed to reach the round of 16. It might be easier this year because there are halves during group play.

Bubba Watson (No. 4) was among six players whose matches ended in a draw.

Phil Mickelson, playing this World Golf Championship for the first time in five years, ran off three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine to build a big lead and Matthew Fitzpatrick couldn’t catch up. The match ended on the 14th hole. Matt Kuchar had the shortest match, a 6-and-5 victory over Anir-ban Lahiri, who flew to Texas from a runner-up finish in India.

Day’s career has been filled with injuries. He withdrew after one round in the 2012 Masters with an ankle injury. A wrist and thumb injury kept him out for much of the spring in 2014 after he won the Match Play. He suffered verti-go symptoms at the U.S. Open last year. He took three months off at the end of last year to be with his wife when she gave birth to their second child and to concentrate on his health.

Day, coming off a victory Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, lost two straight holes early in the match, including the par-3 third when he came up well short of the green and into a hazard.

But he kept smashing tee shots and converting them into birdies, ending the back nine with two bird-ies for a 1-up lead. McDowell found the water on the 11th, and Day went 3 up through 13.

GOLF

Day tweaks back in victory at Match Play

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BY TOM WITHERSThe Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Back be-fore he rocketed into the NFL as a freakish touchdown-maker, before the knee injury and his downfall in Washington, Robert Griffin III was convinced he’d play for the Browns.

During pre-draft workouts in Arizona, Griffin and his agent were set for Cleveland to be his home.

“We were ready then,” Grif-fin said, “and we are more than ready now.”

Four long, trying years later, Griffin has a chance to revive a career that once seemed un-stoppable.

No longer viewed as one of

football’s brightest and flashi-est players but rather a recla-mation project, Griffin signed a two-year, $15 million contract Thursday with the Browns, a team on a perpetual mission to find a franchise quarterback.

RG3 is beginning his second act.

Griffin hasn’t been the same since his dazzling rookie sea-son in Washington in 2012, when the former Heisman Tro-phy winner — possessed with a rocket arm, a tailback’s speed and endless swagger — took the league by storm. However, his next three seasons were curtailed by injury and clouded by controversy and the 26-year-old found himself without a team when the Redskins re-

leased him March 7.The Browns, who tried un-

successfully to trade so they could draft him in 2012, are giv-ing him another shot.

“I’m just excited to come in and compete,” Griffin said. “Nothing’s ever been given to me in my life, so I just want to go out and compete with the guys and grow with this team. I feel like that’s all I’m really focused on. I cherish the oppor-tunity to get another chance to play this beautiful game.”

He’s been given no promises by the Browns, who have the No. 2 overall pick in this year’s draft and are expected to take a quarterback — presumably California’s Jared Goff or North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz.

As the team was completing its deal with Griffin, new coach Hue Jackson attended Wentz’s pro day workout in North Dako-ta along with offensive assistant Pep Hamilton.

Griffin, who didn’t play a single snap and was demoted to third-string last season, isn’t opposed to the Browns drafting another quarterback.

“I’ll take the guy under my wing,” he said during a con-ference call. “I’m real excited about that. I’m considered a vet now after four years in the league, and I’ve been through a lot more than a lot of guys go through their entire career. ... I can help a young guy. But that’s not my focus. I don’t pick play-ers.”

Jackson has spent much of his coaching career groom-ing quarterbacks. He met with Griffin last week and was im-pressed by his candor and hu-mility.

“He brings starting experi-ence to our team and organi-zation,” Jackson said. “He’s a young, athletic, talented passer and he’s really just starting out in this league. Just like every player on our team, Robert will have to earn every opportunity he gets.”

If he can win the starting job, Griffin could be reunited with former college teammate Josh Gordon, who has applied for reinstatement with the league following a one-year drug sus-pension.

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Griffin gets another opportunity by signing offer sheet with Browns

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BY MAGGIE MICHAELThe Associated Press

NASSARIYA, Egypt — In the video, the Egyptian Christian teens laugh playfully as a couple of them kneel down, imitating Muslim prayers, then another slides his hand under one boy’s neck, imitating the trademark behead-ings of the Islamic State group.

The boys were playing around, satirizing the extremist group, and their school supervisor just happened to be videoing them, their de-fenders say. The result has been catastrophic: they were sentenced to prison under Egypt’s blasphemy laws — they were mocking Muslim

prayers, prosecutors said — and have fled into hiding, leaving behind shattered families.

“My son was sentenced to five years for a laugh,” Iman Aziz, weeping, said in the teens’ home village of Nassariya in southern Egypt. Her son, Muller Atef, was seen in the 32-second video laughing but not joining in the “prayers.”

The verdict last month points to an irony in Egypt. Two years ago, the military ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power, and since then the government has been waging a harsh crackdown on Islamists.

Yet in the past three years, prosecutions on charges of insulting Islam have risen dramati-cally. From three such cases in 2011, there were 21 cases in the courts in 2015, around half tar-geting Christians, according to Ishaq Ibrahim, a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.

Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt

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SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines — A Filipino dev-otee was nailed to a cross for the 30th time in an annual Good Friday ritual and said he hoped his painful sacrifice would help bring peace to Bel-gium and other countries tar-geted by Islamic extremists.

Ruben Enaje and 14 other men, some screaming in pain, were nailed to wooden crosses

by actors dressed as Roman centurions in San Pedro Cutud and two other rice farming vil-lages in Pampanga province north of Manila, according to organizers.

Thousands of foreign and local tourists snapped pictures of the devotees, who re-enact-ed Jesus Christ’s suffering and death in scorching heat. Oth-er devotees flogged their own bloodied backs with whips

while walking barefoot around the dusty villages.

The gory spectacle reflects the Philippines’ unique brand of Catholicism, which merges church traditions with folk su-perstitions. Many of the mostly impoverished penitents under-go the ritual to atone for sins, pray for the sick or for a better life and to give thanks for what they believe were God-given miracles.

Filipino nailed to cross prays for Belgium, Philippines

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JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday detained a soldier who was captured on video shooting an injured Pal-estinian who was lying on the ground.

The army said the incident took place in the West Bank city of Hebron after two Pales-tinians stabbed and wounded

an Israeli soldier. It said that troops then shot and killed the pair.

In a video released by the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, one of the attackers appears to still be alive after the initial shooting. The video, taken by a Palestinian volun-teer for the group, shows the wounded Palestinian lying on

the ground, slowly moving his head at one point. About a min-ute later, a soldier raises his ri-fle, cocks the weapon and fires. Blood is then seen streaming from the Palestinian’s head.

The incident was widely con-demned by Israeli officials.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner called the incident a “grave breach” of army values.

Israel detains soldier seen shooting Palestinian on ground

‘My son was sentenced to five years for a laugh’

Real Truth Bible CrusadeSalem SDA Church will present

The Real Truth Bible Crusade March 20-April 9, Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturdays, from 7-8:15 p.m. at Genesis Church, 1820 23rd St. N. in Columbus.

Victory RevivalSulphur Springs MB Church

of Hamilton will host their annual victory revival March 23-25 at 7 p.m. nightly.

Good Friday ProgramPleasant Grove Robinson MB

Church, 9203 Hwy. 389 N. in Starkville, will host a good friday program March 25 at 6 p.m. For more information call 662-456-0024.

Church AnniversaryNew Zion MB Church will cele-

brate their 120th Church Anniver-sary on March 27 at 2:30 p.m. with guest speaker Rev. Robert Moore of Providence MB Church.

Gospel Choir AnniversaryTruevine Church on Artesia

Rd. will host their 39th Gospel Choir Anniversary April 2 at 6 p.m. and April 3 at 2 p.m. Area choirs, groups, and solos are invited.

Teacher’s Appreciation Program

Yeates Chapel MB Church of West Point will have a Teacher’s Appreciation Program April 3 at 3 p.m. with a guest speaker.

Appreciation CelebrationGrace Baptist

Pastoral AnniversaryZion Gate Missionary Baptist

Church in Columbus will celebrate pastor James A. Boyd’s 25th pasto-

ral anniversary April 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Spring RevivalFriendship Missionary Baptist

Church will hold their annual spring revival April 5-7 at 7 p.m. nightly with guest minister Rev. Joe L. Johnson III.

Spring RevivalNew Zion Pilgrim Missionary

Baptist Church in Columbus will hold a spring revival April 5-7 at 7 p.m. nightly with guest evange-list Rev. Dennis Moore pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church in Northport.

New River ConcertKaren Peck and New River will

be in conert April 10 at 2:30 p.m. at Reform Free Will Baptist Church on Hwy. 17.

Bible StudyFaith Harvest Church bible class

will be every second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. Pastor is Hugh L. Dent. For informa-tion, call 662-243-7076.

Radio program Apostles Patrick Perkins invites

the public to tune in to WTWG, radio 1050 AM for Perfecting the Saints Broadcast, Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.

Radio programPat Douglas invites the public

to tune in to WTWG radio, 1050 AM for Yes Lord Ministries, Sundays 9:15-9:45 a.m.

Women Prayer and Worship Service

Church of the Eternal Word , 120-21 Street St. in Columbus holds a prayer and worship service every Thursday from 6-7 p.m. Con-tact Marie Nabors at 549-4322 or 329-1234 for prayer requests.

Prayer ministryNew Beginning Everlasting

Outreach Ministry invites the public to call in with their prayer requests at 662-327-9843.

Praise and worship serviceSulfur Springs MB Church will

have a praise and worship service the last Friday of each month at 7 p.m. For information, call Pastor Henry Mosley at 662-328-1035.

Fitness TransformationsThe Transformational Church,

2301 Jess Lyons Road, Columbus, MS, 39705, hosts Boxing Lessons Mondays and Wednesday from 5-7 p.m., weight-loss boot-camp Tues-days and Thursdays 5-7 p.m., and both on Saturday 9-11 a.m.

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IF THIS VEHICLE IS NOTCLAIMED IT WILL BEPUT UP FOR SALE ONTHE 25TH DAY OFAPRIL, 2016, AT 10:00A.M. AT BURCHFIELD'SBODY SHOP, 1512GARDNER BLVD.,COLUMBUS, MS 39702

PUBLICATION STARTS:3/25/16PUBLICATION ENDS:4/25/16

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, the follow-ing tenants entered in-to leases withFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES for stor-age space in which tostore personal propertyand

WHEREAS, default hasbeen made in the pay-ment of rent andFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES pursu-ant to said Leases isauthorized to sell thepersonal property to sat-isfy the past due andany other charges owedto it by the following ten-ants.

NOW THEREFORE, no-tice is hereby given thatFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will offerfor sale, and will sell atauction to the highestbidder for cash all per-sonal property in stor-age units leased by thefollowing tenants atFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES 903Alabama St. Columbus,MS, at 8:30 am on the1st day of April, A.D.2016. All auctions arewith reserve and there-fore all units can bewithdrawn from the saleat any time by the auc-tioneer/manager.

Title to the personalproperty to be sold isbelieved to be good, butat such sale, FRIENDLYCITY MINI-WARE-HOUSES will conveyonly such title as is ves-ted in it pursuant to itslease with the followingand its allowed underMississippi Code Annot-ated Section 85-7-121et seq (Supp 1988).

Asheon FentonE355

Jordy HarrisE62

Jordan MillerE251

WITNESS MY SIGNA-TURE on this the 1stday of March, A.D.2016.

FRIENDLY CITYMINI-WAREHOUSESBy: L.O.

Publish: 3/11, 3/18,3/25/2016

SUBSTITUTED TRUST-EES NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, on June 13,2012, Patricia Smith, asingle person, ex-ecuted a deed of trustto J. Patrick Caldwell,Trustee for the benefitof BancorpSouth Bank,which deed of trust isrecorded in Deed ofTrust Book 2012 atPage 13305 in the Of-fice of the ChanceryClerk of the County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi; and

WHEREAS, the afore-said, BancorpSouthBank, the holder of saiddeed of trust and thenote secured thereby,substituted UnderwoodLaw Firm PLLC, asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated February 25,2016 and recorded inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk inBook 2016 at Page4489; and

WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust andthe entire debt securedthereby, having been de-clared to be due andpayable in accordancewith the terms of saiddeed of trust, and thelegal holder of said in-debtedness, Bancorp-South Bank, having re-quested the under-signed SubstitutedTrustee to execute thetrust and sell said landand property in accord-ance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust forthe purpose of raisingthe sums due thereun-der, together with attor-neys fees, SubstitutedTrustees fees and ex-pense of sale;

NOW, THEREFORE, WE,Underwood Law FirmPLLC, Substituted Trust-ee in said deed of trust,will on the 15th day ofApril, 2016, offer forsale at public outcry forcash to the highest bid-der, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 A.M.and 4:00 P.M.) at theMain front door of theCounty Courthouse atColumbus, County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi, the followingdescribed property situ-ated in the County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi, to-wit:

That certain lot or par-cel of land in Columbus,Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi, more particu-larly described as fol-lows:

Beginning at the South-west Corner of SquareTwo of Moore's Surveyto said City of Colum-bus; thence North alongthe Western boundaryline of said Square 110feet; thence East paral-lel with the Southernboundary line of saidSquare 132 feet;thence South parallelwith the Western bound-ary line of said Square110 feet; thence Westparallel with the North-ern boundary line ofsaid Square 132 feet tothe Point of Beginning.

WE WILL CONVEY onlysuch title as is vestedin Underwood Law FirmPLLC as SubstitutedTrustee.

WITNESS OUR SIGNA-TURE, this the 17th dayof March, 2016.

Underwood Law FirmPLLC

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEBY: Catherine W. Under-woodMajority MemberControl# Smith, Patri-cia/BCS

PUBLISH: 03/25/2016,04/01/2016,04/08/2016

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SUBSTITUTED TRUST-EES NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, on June 13,2012, Patricia Smith, asingle person, ex-ecuted a deed of trustto J. Patrick Caldwell,Trustee for the benefitof BancorpSouth Bank,which deed of trust isrecorded in Deed ofTrust Book 2012 atPage 13305 in the Of-fice of the ChanceryClerk of the County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi; and

WHEREAS, the afore-said, BancorpSouthBank, the holder of saiddeed of trust and thenote secured thereby,substituted UnderwoodLaw Firm PLLC, asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated February 25,2016 and recorded inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk inBook 2016 at Page4489; and

WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust andthe entire debt securedthereby, having been de-clared to be due andpayable in accordancewith the terms of saiddeed of trust, and thelegal holder of said in-debtedness, Bancorp-South Bank, having re-quested the under-signed SubstitutedTrustee to execute thetrust and sell said landand property in accord-ance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust forthe purpose of raisingthe sums due thereun-der, together with attor-neys fees, SubstitutedTrustees fees and ex-pense of sale;

NOW, THEREFORE, WE,Underwood Law FirmPLLC, Substituted Trust-ee in said deed of trust,will on the 15th day ofApril, 2016, offer forsale at public outcry forcash to the highest bid-der, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 A.M.and 4:00 P.M.) at theMain front door of theCounty Courthouse atColumbus, County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi, the followingdescribed property situ-ated in the County ofLowndes, State of Mis-sissippi, to-wit:

That certain lot or par-cel of land in Columbus,Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi, more particu-larly described as fol-lows:

Beginning at the South-west Corner of SquareTwo of Moore's Surveyto said City of Colum-bus; thence North alongthe Western boundaryline of said Square 110feet; thence East paral-lel with the Southernboundary line of saidSquare 132 feet;thence South parallelwith the Western bound-ary line of said Square110 feet; thence Westparallel with the North-ern boundary line ofsaid Square 132 feet tothe Point of Beginning.

WE WILL CONVEY onlysuch title as is vestedin Underwood Law FirmPLLC as SubstitutedTrustee.

WITNESS OUR SIGNA-TURE, this the 17th dayof March, 2016.

Underwood Law FirmPLLC

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEBY: Catherine W. Under-woodMajority MemberControl# Smith, Patri-cia/BCS

PUBLISH: 03/25/2016,04/01/2016,04/08/2016

Public NoticeMississippi Environ-mental Quality PermitBoardP. O. Box 2261Jackson, MS 39225Telephone No. (601)961-5171

Public Notice StartDate: March 28, 2016MDEQ Contact: TommyWall

Shuqualak Lumber Com-pany Inc, Planer Mill Di-vision, located at 402Oak Street, inShuqualak, MS, has ap-plied to the MississippiDepartment of Environ-mental Quality for thereissuance of NPDESPermit No. MS0048399with no change. The ap-plicant's operations fallwithin SIC Code 2421for a planer mill. The fa-cility kiln dries lumberand then planes it priorto shipment. A State-ment of Basis has beenprepared that containsa discussion of the de-cision-making that wentinto the development ofthe permit and providesthe permitting authority,the public, and othergovernment bodies a re-cord of the technical is-sues surrounding issu-ance of the permit.The facility has two out-falls (001 and 002)which both dischargeboiler blowdown fromboilers on-site into asmall ditch that runsalong the perimeter ofthe property that ulti-mately discharges intoShuqualak Creek. Out-fall 001 also has asmall volume of inter-mittent vehicle wash wa-ter.The staff of the PermitBoard has developedthis draft permit basedon information submit-ted to the Permit Boardby the applicant, appro-priate State and Feder-al agencies and otherinterested parties. Thestaff of the PermitBoard is soliciting all re-lative information per-taining to the proposedactivity, including publiccomment, to ensurethat the final staff re-commendation on thedraft permit complieswith all State and Feder-al regulations. Public re-view and comment onthe draft permit andsupporting documenta-tion is an important ele-ment in the staff evalu-ation and resulting re-commendation to thePermit Board. The draftpermit conditions havebeen developed to en-sure compliance with allState and Federal regu-lations but are subjectto change based on in-formation received as aresult of public particip-ation.

Persons wishing to com-ment upon or object tothe proposed determina-tions are invited to sub-mit comments in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallat the Permit Board'saddress shown above,no later than the end ofthe thirty (30) day pub-lic notice. All com-ments received by thisdate will be consideredin the formulation of fi-nal determinations re-garding theapplication(s). A publichearing will be held ifthe Permit Board finds asignificant degree ofpublic interest in theproposed permit(s). Per-sons wishing to re-quest a public hearingmay do so by submit-ting that request in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallor the Chief of the Envir-onmental Permits Divi-sion at the addressshown above. The Per-mit Board is limited inthe scope of its analys-is to environmental im-pact. Any comments rel-ative to zoning or eco-nomic and social im-pacts are within the jur-isdiction of local zoningand planning authorit-ies and should be ad-dressed to them.

Additional details aboutthe application(s), in-cluding a copy of thedraft permit(s), areavailable by writing orcalling Lorenzo Boddieat the above PermitBoard address and tele-phone number. Addition-ally, as a courtesy, forthose with Internet ac-cess, a copy of the draftpermit(s) may be foundon the Mississippi De-partment of Environ-mental Quality’s web-site at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx .This information is alsoavailable for review atthe following location(s)during normal businesshours:

Mississippi Departmentof Environmental QualityOffice of Pollution Con-trol515 E. Amite StJackson, MS 39201Vista Daniel MemorialLibraryPO Box 248Shuqualak MS 59361

Please bring the forego-ing to the attention ofpersons whom youknow will be interested.

PUBLISH: 3/25/16

Legal Notices 0010

Public NoticeMississippi Environ-mental Quality PermitBoardP. O. Box 2261Jackson, MS 39225Telephone No. (601)961-5171

Public Notice StartDate: March 28, 2016MDEQ Contact: TommyWall

Shuqualak Lumber Com-pany Inc, Planer Mill Di-vision, located at 402Oak Street, inShuqualak, MS, has ap-plied to the MississippiDepartment of Environ-mental Quality for thereissuance of NPDESPermit No. MS0048399with no change. The ap-plicant's operations fallwithin SIC Code 2421for a planer mill. The fa-cility kiln dries lumberand then planes it priorto shipment. A State-ment of Basis has beenprepared that containsa discussion of the de-cision-making that wentinto the development ofthe permit and providesthe permitting authority,the public, and othergovernment bodies a re-cord of the technical is-sues surrounding issu-ance of the permit.The facility has two out-falls (001 and 002)which both dischargeboiler blowdown fromboilers on-site into asmall ditch that runsalong the perimeter ofthe property that ulti-mately discharges intoShuqualak Creek. Out-fall 001 also has asmall volume of inter-mittent vehicle wash wa-ter.The staff of the PermitBoard has developedthis draft permit basedon information submit-ted to the Permit Boardby the applicant, appro-priate State and Feder-al agencies and otherinterested parties. Thestaff of the PermitBoard is soliciting all re-lative information per-taining to the proposedactivity, including publiccomment, to ensurethat the final staff re-commendation on thedraft permit complieswith all State and Feder-al regulations. Public re-view and comment onthe draft permit andsupporting documenta-tion is an important ele-ment in the staff evalu-ation and resulting re-commendation to thePermit Board. The draftpermit conditions havebeen developed to en-sure compliance with allState and Federal regu-lations but are subjectto change based on in-formation received as aresult of public particip-ation.

Persons wishing to com-ment upon or object tothe proposed determina-tions are invited to sub-mit comments in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallat the Permit Board'saddress shown above,no later than the end ofthe thirty (30) day pub-lic notice. All com-ments received by thisdate will be consideredin the formulation of fi-nal determinations re-garding theapplication(s). A publichearing will be held ifthe Permit Board finds asignificant degree ofpublic interest in theproposed permit(s). Per-sons wishing to re-quest a public hearingmay do so by submit-ting that request in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallor the Chief of the Envir-onmental Permits Divi-sion at the addressshown above. The Per-mit Board is limited inthe scope of its analys-is to environmental im-pact. Any comments rel-ative to zoning or eco-nomic and social im-pacts are within the jur-isdiction of local zoningand planning authorit-ies and should be ad-dressed to them.

Additional details aboutthe application(s), in-cluding a copy of thedraft permit(s), areavailable by writing orcalling Lorenzo Boddieat the above PermitBoard address and tele-phone number. Addition-ally, as a courtesy, forthose with Internet ac-cess, a copy of the draftpermit(s) may be foundon the Mississippi De-partment of Environ-mental Quality’s web-site at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx .This information is alsoavailable for review atthe following location(s)during normal businesshours:

Mississippi Departmentof Environmental QualityOffice of Pollution Con-trol515 E. Amite StJackson, MS 39201Vista Daniel MemorialLibraryPO Box 248Shuqualak MS 59361

Please bring the forego-ing to the attention ofpersons whom youknow will be interested.

PUBLISH: 3/25/16

Legal Notices 0010

Public NoticeMississippi Environ-mental Quality PermitBoardP. O. Box 2261Jackson, MS 39225Telephone No. (601)961-5171

Public Notice StartDate: March 28, 2016MDEQ Contact: TommyWall

Shuqualak Lumber Com-pany Inc, Planer Mill Di-vision, located at 402Oak Street, inShuqualak, MS, has ap-plied to the MississippiDepartment of Environ-mental Quality for thereissuance of NPDESPermit No. MS0048399with no change. The ap-plicant's operations fallwithin SIC Code 2421for a planer mill. The fa-cility kiln dries lumberand then planes it priorto shipment. A State-ment of Basis has beenprepared that containsa discussion of the de-cision-making that wentinto the development ofthe permit and providesthe permitting authority,the public, and othergovernment bodies a re-cord of the technical is-sues surrounding issu-ance of the permit.The facility has two out-falls (001 and 002)which both dischargeboiler blowdown fromboilers on-site into asmall ditch that runsalong the perimeter ofthe property that ulti-mately discharges intoShuqualak Creek. Out-fall 001 also has asmall volume of inter-mittent vehicle wash wa-ter.The staff of the PermitBoard has developedthis draft permit basedon information submit-ted to the Permit Boardby the applicant, appro-priate State and Feder-al agencies and otherinterested parties. Thestaff of the PermitBoard is soliciting all re-lative information per-taining to the proposedactivity, including publiccomment, to ensurethat the final staff re-commendation on thedraft permit complieswith all State and Feder-al regulations. Public re-view and comment onthe draft permit andsupporting documenta-tion is an important ele-ment in the staff evalu-ation and resulting re-commendation to thePermit Board. The draftpermit conditions havebeen developed to en-sure compliance with allState and Federal regu-lations but are subjectto change based on in-formation received as aresult of public particip-ation.

Persons wishing to com-ment upon or object tothe proposed determina-tions are invited to sub-mit comments in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallat the Permit Board'saddress shown above,no later than the end ofthe thirty (30) day pub-lic notice. All com-ments received by thisdate will be consideredin the formulation of fi-nal determinations re-garding theapplication(s). A publichearing will be held ifthe Permit Board finds asignificant degree ofpublic interest in theproposed permit(s). Per-sons wishing to re-quest a public hearingmay do so by submit-ting that request in writ-ing to Mr. Tommy Wallor the Chief of the Envir-onmental Permits Divi-sion at the addressshown above. The Per-mit Board is limited inthe scope of its analys-is to environmental im-pact. Any comments rel-ative to zoning or eco-nomic and social im-pacts are within the jur-isdiction of local zoningand planning authorit-ies and should be ad-dressed to them.

Additional details aboutthe application(s), in-cluding a copy of thedraft permit(s), areavailable by writing orcalling Lorenzo Boddieat the above PermitBoard address and tele-phone number. Addition-ally, as a courtesy, forthose with Internet ac-cess, a copy of the draftpermit(s) may be foundon the Mississippi De-partment of Environ-mental Quality’s web-site at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/publicnotice.aspx .This information is alsoavailable for review atthe following location(s)during normal businesshours:

Mississippi Departmentof Environmental QualityOffice of Pollution Con-trol515 E. Amite StJackson, MS 39201Vista Daniel MemorialLibraryPO Box 248Shuqualak MS 59361

Please bring the forego-ing to the attention ofpersons whom youknow will be interested.

PUBLISH: 3/25/16

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, the follow-ing tenants entered in-to leases withFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES for stor-age space in which tostore personal propertyand

WHEREAS, default hasbeen made in the pay-ment of rent andFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES pursu-ant to said Leases isauthorized to sell thepersonal property to sat-isfy the past due andany other charges owedto it by the following ten-ants.

NOW THEREFORE, no-tice is hereby given thatFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES will offerfor sale, and will sell atauction to the highestbidder for cash all per-sonal property in stor-age units leased by thefollowing tenants atFRIENDLY CITY MINI-WAREHOUSES 308Shoney Drive Columbus,MS, immediately follow-ing sale on AlabamaStreet on the 1st day ofApril A.D. 2016. All auc-tions are with reserveand therefore all unitscan be withdrawn fromthe sale at any time bythe auctioneer/ man-ager.

Title to the personalproperty to be sold isbelieved to be good, butat such sale, FRIENDLYCITY MINI-WARE-HOUSES will conveyonly such title as is ves-ted in it pursuant to itslease with the followingand its allowed underMississippi Code Annot-ated Section 85-7-121et seq (Supp 1988).

B G WilliamsN55, N78

WITNESS MY SIGNA-TURE on this the 1stday of March, A.D.2016.

FRIENDLY CITYMINI-WAREHOUSESBy: L.O.

Publish: 3/11/16,3/18/16, 3/25/2016

Automotive Services 1090

GULF STATES AUTO2601 Buttermilk Rd

Cottondale, AL 35453Gulfstatesauto.com

Cars for sale:2013 Ford Focus:

$7,900.2010 Chevy Traverse:

$9,900.

We sell a full line of re-cycled auto parts.

American and Imported.We install engines and

transmissions!We buy used, wrecked,and broken down cars

and trucks!

AutomaticTransmissions (Rebuilt):

98-07 Honda Accords-$1,350.*

01-05 Honda Civics-$1,350.*

99-04 Odyssey Van-$1,550.*

2008-2012 HondaAccords- $1,550.*

Timing Beltswith Water Pump:

Civics and 4 cylinder Ac-cords- $650.*

Odyssey Vans, HondaPilots, V6 Accords,Honda Ridgelines-

$750.*

*Includes Installation*

We work on Acuras too.Call for pricing.

9% Sales tax on partsonly.

Call today!205-562-2188

Automotive Services 1090

GULF STATES AUTO2601 Buttermilk Rd

Cottondale, AL 35453Gulfstatesauto.com

Cars for sale:2013 Ford Focus:

$7,900.2010 Chevy Traverse:

$9,900.

We sell a full line of re-cycled auto parts.

American and Imported.We install engines and

transmissions!We buy used, wrecked,and broken down cars

and trucks!

AutomaticTransmissions (Rebuilt):

98-07 Honda Accords-$1,350.*

01-05 Honda Civics-$1,350.*

99-04 Odyssey Van-$1,550.*

2008-2012 HondaAccords- $1,550.*

Timing Beltswith Water Pump:

Civics and 4 cylinder Ac-cords- $650.*

Odyssey Vans, HondaPilots, V6 Accords,Honda Ridgelines-

$750.*

*Includes Installation*

We work on Acuras too.Call for pricing.

9% Sales tax on partsonly.

Call today!205-562-2188

Building & Remodeling 1120

Tony DoyleCabinets &

Construction

Cabinets, Vinyl Siding,Painting,

replacementwindows & doors and

Remodeling.No job too small!

Free Bids662-769-0680

Tom Hatcher, LLCCustom Construction,Restoration, Remodel-ing, Repair, Insurance

claims. 662-364-1769.Licensed & Bonded

General Services 1360

HILL'S PRESSUREWASHING. Commercial/residential. House, con-crete, sidewalks & mo-bile washing. Free est.Call 662-386-8925

General Services 1360

RETAINER WALL, drive-way, foundation, con-crete/riff raft drainagework, remodeling, base-ment foundation, re-pairs, small dump truckhauling (5-6 yd) load &demolition/lot cleaning.Burr Masonry 242-0259.

Riding lessons for be-ginners; grooming, tack,general horsemanship.Call 662-361-8702 if in-terested. Spots avail-able for summer.

T&T DIRTT&T now offers on sitewelding, diesel & heavyequipment mechanicwork along with all

types of dirt work, freeestimates & good

rates. 205-712-1026or 205-695-9489.

Lawn Care / Landscaping 1470

Bishop's Lawn & MoreCall us for all your lawncare needs. 662-497-

8224 or 662-328-4174.

JESSE & BEVERLY'SLAWN SERVICE. Springcleanup, firewood, land-scaping, tree cutting.356-6525.

Painting & Papering 1620

QUALITY PAINTING. Ex-terior/Interior Paint.Sheetrock Hanging andFinishing. Free Estim-ates. Larry Webber 662-242-6225.

SULLIVAN'S PAINTSERVICE

Certified in leadremoval. Offering spe-

cial prices on interior &exterior painting, pres-sure washing & sheet

rock repairs.Free EstimatesCall 435-6528

Stump Removal 1790

ALLSTUMP GRINDINGSERVICE

GET 'ER DONE!We can grind all your

stumps. Hard to reachplaces, blown over

roots, hillsides, back-yards, pastures. Freeestimates. You find it,

we'll grind it!662-361-8379

Tree Services 1860

A&T Tree ServiceBucket truck & stump

removal. Free est.Serving Columbussince 1987. Senior

citizen disc. Call Alvin @242-0324/241-4447

"We'll go out on a limbfor you!"

J&A TREE REMOVALWork from a buckettruck and/or will climb.Insured/bonded.Call Jimmy for a free es-timate 662-386-6286.

J.R. BourlandTree & Stump

Removal. Trimmingw/bucket truck

Licensed & BondedFirewood 4 sale LWB$100. 662-574-1621

RUTHERFORDCONTRACTING

TREE REMOVAL, Trim-ming, & Stump Grinding.

662-251-9191Serving Golden Triangle!

Domestic Help 3150

P/T Babysitter for 2 chil-dren. (2) Fulldays/week. Flexibleschedule. Send Re-sume to Blind Box 608c/o The CommercialDispatch P.O. Box 511Columbus, MS 39703.

General Help Wanted 3200

ADVANCED COLLISIONREPAIR is looking for anentry level employeewhose duties will in-clude: shop cleanliness& car detailing after re-pair. Valid driver's li-cense req. Exp. pre-ferred. Apply in personat 825 Hwy 12 W inStarkville. 662-323-3250

Experienced Teller Needed for Established

Financial Instution in Starkville

Send resume to:Blind Box 605

c/o The Commercial Dispatch

P.O. Box 511,Columbus, MS 39703

THE COMMERCIAL Dis-patch seeks a carrier forthe West Point area.Must have valid driver'slicense & insurance. De-livers on Sunday morn-ing and Mon.-Fri. after-noons. Apply at TheCommercial Dispatch,516 Main Street inColumbus. No phonecalls please.

FRONT END loader oper-ator needed. Job re-quires operating a load-er with forks and vari-ous types of loggingequipment. Looking forthe right candidate witha positive, can-do atti-tude and two years ex-perience operatingheavy equipment. Job islocated in Macon. Mustpass a pre-employmentdrug screen. Call 662-726-5224 for more in-formation or to requestan application.

General Help Wanted 3200

ESTIMATOR WANTEDfor a specialty con-

struction company inColumbus. Responsib-ilities include workingwith General Contract-ors & Subcontractors,performing take offs,preparation of bids,job management of

field employees,scheduling, procuringmaterials & timeline

management ofprojects. Require-

ments include com-puter skills, strongcommunication, fol-

low-through, & peopleskills. Must be ex-tremely reliable,

timely, organized, &detail oriented withpositive attitude &character. Back-

ground in construc-tion supervision pre-

ferred but not re-quired. Salaried posi-tion with benefits &vehicle furnished.

Please send resumeto Blind Box 606, c/oThe Commercial Dis-patch, P.O. Box 511,

Columbus, MS39703.

FORD SERVICE Techni-cian Needed. Must haveown tools. Pay based onexperience. Excellentbenefits. Great familyworking environment.Send Reply's to Box607 c/o The Commer-cial Dispatch P.O. Box511 Columbus, MS39703

HOUSE CLEANER, hon-est & reliable. 2-3 daysper week. Must havereferences & transporta-tion. Send resumes to:Blind Box 604 c/o TheCommercial DispatchPO Box 511 Columbus,MS 39703

The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com8B FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2016

Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty spaces so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level increases from Monday to Sunday.

Ships that pass in the nightWHATZIT ANSWER

ACROSS1 Urban fleet5 “Waterloo” group9 Maid’s wear11 Sousa work13 Book part14 Writer Brookner15 Slugger Williams16 Got smart18 Baby baldies20 Ravine21 Film units22 Depend23 Switch settings24 Cattle call25 Influence27 Tap dances, informally29 1040 org.30 Rudely interrupts32 First, to Fran-cisco34 Shooter ammo35 Pocket beeper36 Acropolis sight38 Different39 Wasn’t thrifty40 Nick’s dog41 “By Jove!”

DOWN1 Social group2 Seem3 Venice landmark4 Junior, to senior

5 Stockpile6 Curse7 Spielberg film of 20158 Real10 Staircase posts12 Sleepy’s friend17 “— a Small World”19 Spring period22 Tree part24 Vehicle parts25 Safari sight26 Printer’s goofs

27 “Ben —”28 Brown pigment30 Hall of Fame catcher31 Unpleasant33 Convene37 AP rival

Five Questions:

1 “Bohemian Rhapsody”

2 Vega

3 France

4 Douglas Adams

5 IndonesiaAutos For Sale 9150

Apts For Rent: Northside 7010

General Help Wanted 3200

JEAN CAFE needs serv-er assistants, kitchenassistants, & other pos-itions. Dedicated &trustworthy applicants.Will train. Apply in per-son Tues-Fri b/t 2-4pm@ 12072 MS Hwy 182in Stk, b/t Microtel &Triangle Credit UnionBank. Resumes pre-ferred.ROTO-ROOTER:Service personneeded.Application only (nophone calls please.)Apply at 229-ATuscaloosa Rd.Columbus, MS from9am-4pm.Tuesday-Friday.Skilled residential &commercial framers andcarpenters needed.Must have minimum of3 years experience. Mailresume to 133Nashville Ferry Rd.Columbus, MS 39702.

Medical / Dental 3300

BAPTIST MEDICALGROUP (BMG)Work with a team ofleaders of excellence inan environment of ment-orship to provide qual-ity, compassionatecare! Positions are loc-ated in the Columbus,MS area. Multiple open-ings.RNRequired: Current RN li-censure, Basic Life Sup-port (BLS)-AHALPNRequired: Current LPN li-censure, Basic Life Sup-port (BLS)-AHA, LPN ex-perience in a hospitaland/or clinic settingwithin the past two (2)years.

Care Centerof Aberdeen needs:RN Supervisor. Full

Time. M-F. Must have atleast 1 year In Long

Term Care. Apply at 505Jackson St. Aberdeen,MS 39730. EOE. 662-369-6431. 662-369-

6473 Fax. Equal Oppor-tunity Employer

Sales / Marketing 3600

THE COMMERCIALDISPATCH is in searchof an excellent newspa-per subscription sales-person to work the Mon-roe County area. Mustbe able to sell door-to-door, KIOSK & work in-dependently. Must beable to pass drugscreen if hired. Formore information applyto The Commercial Dis-patch at 516 MainStreet in Columbus,MS. No phone calls ac-cepted.

Truck Driving 3700

FLATBED DRIVERSneeded! Highest flat-bed pay. Home mostnights. Health insur-ance available. Paidvacation. Flatbedexperience needed.Call 662-251-4536.

PROVINE HELICOPTERSDrivers Needed1. Willingness to travel2. Class B CDL withHaz-mat & Tanker3. Load chemicals andfuel into helicopter4. Seasonal & full timepositions5. Good pay662-453-9406

Appliances 4090

LIKE NEW, 2 yr old Sam-sung Flat Top SS & BlkSlide-In Stove. 4 burn-ers (2 dual) & warmingctr. $800, orig $1400.719-290-5440

Bargain Column 4180

(1) TWIN mattresses’ ingood condition.($50.00) Call 662-364-0488.

55 DVD movies, $50.Heavy made wood xmetal dresser, $50.386-1859.

CHILD'S Antique desk.3 drawers w/pulloutwriting board. 26"H x31"W x 16"deep. $50.327-3518

STANDARD SIZE 9'x5'Tennis Table. Like New,$65. 328-1925.

Furniture 4480

COUCH, LOVESEAT, re-cliner, & ottoman. Beigein color. $550. Goodcondition. 327-2962.

Estate Sales 4490

LINDA HUMPHRIESESTATE SALE

Friday, April 1st & Sat-urday, April 2nd, 9am-

5pm. Antiques, Jewelry,Coins, Bedroom, LivingRm, & Dining Rm fur-niture, & Home Ac-

cessories. 404 EastPark St. Louisville, MS.

662-803-4146.

Garage Sales: East 4510

328 FLORENCE St. Sat,3/26. 6:30am-until.Ladies & boy's clothes.& household etc.

Garage Sales: North 4520

1100 WATERWORKSRd. Thurs, Fri, & Sat.7a-until. Big EasterSale. Gift Baskets forchildren, women, &men. Plus, lots of $.50cleaning items.

506 Holly Hills Rd.#19-Audubon Cove. Sat,March 26. 7am-10am.

MOVING SALE!!!3 HOURS ONLY!!!

General Merchandise 4600

LTN THRIFT Store. Mon-Sat. 9am-6pm. 239Shrinewood Drive. OffJess Lyons Rd.

OLD BOOKS, Records33 45, Stumps, Jewelry,NEW Country CD's. Call662-425-2979.

TANNING BED for sale.Montego Bay ClassicWolf 2400. Fully func-tional! $800 or best of-fer. Call 623-826-2459

TIMBER FOR sale. 116acres in CRP program.Located in Self CreekCommunity. Ready for2nd thinning. 662-323-4264 or 662-418-4130.

Lawn & Garden 4630

1-HUSQVARNO Mower.26 HP Kohler Eng.7000 Series-747CC.56" cut. Used twice,$2500 cost $3200.308-3355 or 549-8215.

Sporting Goods 4720

GUN SMITH. Over 45yrs. exp. (As good asthe best, better thanmost). New & usedguns, new scopes, re-pairs, rebuilding, clean-ing & scopes, mounted& zeroed on range, an-tique guns restored, &wood refinished. EdSanders, West Point. 3mi. N. Barton Ferry onDarracott Rd. Open Tue-Sat. Call for appt. 494-6218.

Stereos & TVs 4750

(2) TV Sets. 1-48" Lessthan 6mo old, $200. 1-42" about 1yr old.,$150. 662-308-3355 or662-549-5482.

Wanted To Buy 4780

AMERICAN VIOLIN.1850-1900. Call 480-305-2015.

WANTED TO Buy:Vintage Guitar. 1850-1900. Call 480-305-2014.

Apts For Rent: Northside 7010

1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-ments & townhouses.Call for more info. 662-549-1953.

Northwood Town-houses 2BR, 1.5BA,CH/A, stove, fridge,DW, WD hookups, &private patios. Call

Robinson Real Estate328-1123

Apts For Rent: East 7020

2BR/1BA. 931 BennettAve. $500/mo. Call662-352-9259.

1, 2, 3 BEDROOMS &townhouses. Call formore info. 662-549-1953

SMALL STUDIO/effi-ciency apartment forrent. Completely fur-nished. Also includesutilities, satellite, inter-net/wireless connec-tion, washers and dry-ers on premises. Loc-ated five miles east ofDutch Village off High-way 50 East. Ideal forone person. Safe quietcountry setting--not aparty place. Nosmoking. $650 permonth. Lease required,deposit or good refer-ences. 662-251-1829or 662-328-2785.

Apts For Rent: South 7040

Downtown Apts- 1BR &2BR. Very nice. $650-$750/month. Call 662-364-1610 before 8:00pm.

Apts For Rent: West 7050

Apts For Rent: Starkville 7070

3 & 4 BR Apts for rent.Next door to Campus.No pets. $900-$1200/month. 662-418-8603.

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apart-ments & Townhouses.1BR/1BA Apt. $3002BR/1BA Apt. $350-$400. 2BR/2BA 3BR/2BA Townhouses$550-$800. No HUD al-lowed. Lease, deposit,credit check required.Coleman Realty. 329-2323

Houses For Rent: Northside 7110

3BR/2BA home in CadyHills. $1,700/mo. $300dep. Fireplace, marblecounters in kitchen, tvroom, large playroom,dining, living room. Nopets & no smoking.662-386-8346.

3BR/2BA House forrent. $700/mo. Re-cently updated interior.287 E Plymouth Rd.662-251-2583.

Houses For Rent: East 7120

3BR/1BA brick home incul-d-sac. In Doyle es-tates. Tiled floorsthroughout. Fenced inyard. No pets. Avail April2nd. $765mo/$765 de-posit, trash pickup incl.245-1191 or 549-9298.

3BR/1BA. 126 King St.$575/mo. Call 662-352-9259.

Houses For Rent: Other 7180

1 3BR & 1 2BR houseavailable. SEC. 8 accep-ted. Ref. req. Call 662-425-4491 or 327-6802after 4pm.

Mobile Homes 7250

2, 3 Bed. 2 Baths.Porch, range, refrigerat-or, dishwasher, & W/D.Safe, quiet. New HopeSchool District. Leavemsg at 662-435-9140.

3BR/2BA. 591 BlackCreek Rd. No pets. 662-574-9574.

4BR/3BA. Double widein Caledonia area. Nopets. $1100/mo +$1100 deposit. 662-251-2706 or 662-251-2704.

MOVE IN TODAY! 3BRstarting at $525/mo.Close to MSU. Nicecommunity. Call 662-268-2107. www.universityhillsmhp.com

RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities &cable from $135/wk -$495/month. 3 Colum-bus locations. Call 662-242-7653 or 601-940-1397.

Mobile Home Spaces 7260

MOBILE HOME Lot.$100/mo. No pets.662-251-2706 or 662-251-2704.

Office Spaces For Rent 7300

3,000 sq ft office spacewith warehouse and rollup delivery door in back.3,500 sq ft office/ware-house w/ storage atdock height. Inexpens-ive mini storage unitsavai also.Call 662-574-0147.

Office Building - greatBluecutt Rd. location,reasonable rent. Call662-328-1976, leavemessage.

OFFICE SPACE forlease. Would you like tobe in the heart of thebusiness sector ofStarkville? Walking dis-tance from many res-taurants, shops & theCourthouse. Reservedparking incl. 662-418-6465

Office Spaces For Rent 7300

RETAIL/OFFICE SpaceAvail for lease. Down-town. 2000sq feet. Call662-574-7879 for in-quires.

Storage & Garages 7500

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Commercial Property 8050

100 FABRITEK Dr. (Bythe county airport)1.309 acres with pit forservicing trucks.Covered building(40x20x14) with con-crete pad (24x72).12x12 office withrestroom. Electric &sewer hooked up.Storage trailer. $12k.662-549-3847.

Houses For Sale: Northside 8150

LOVELY 3BR/2BA homecompletely remodeled in2011. MUST SEE TOAPPRECIATE. $99K. CallKimberly Reed at CryeLeike 364-1423 or 328-1150.

Houses For Sale: New Hope 8250

PICK YOUR own paint &flooring in this 3BR/1BAhome. 1242sq ft. Pricedto sell at $69k. CallKimberly Reed with CryeLeike at 364-1423 or328-1150.

REDUCED! 3BDR/2BA.1560sq. ft. 9ft ceilings.Vaulted L/R. Trey ceil-ing in Master BR w/ W-I-C. Close to school.$144,500. 662-386-6036.

Houses For Sale: Caledonia 8450

3BR/2BA. Completelyrefurbished. Central Air.Lot 1.3 acres. NewFence. Guest House.Price reduced. 662-574-0082.

Lots & Acreage 8600

14 ACRE residential loton Artesia Rd near GTRAirport. Public water &underground electricity.Upscale area/neigh-bors. Ideal site forhouse & barn withhorses. 662-251-7447.

20+/- acres minutesfrom Caledonia school.This tract is located onGrant Road at GPS co-ordinates 33.735763, -88.297273. Has roadfrontage, nice hard-wood and pine timber &2 green fields. Asking$70,000 & will con-sider all written offers.Call Stan at 205-391-8606 for more details.

28.5 ACRES in N.H.w/25 yr. old pines.$3500/ac. Will divideinto 10 ac. plots. Own-er financing avail. 662-386-6619.

RIVERFRONTPROPERTYCamp Pratt

Call 574-3056Ray McIntyre

Blythewood Realty

WINTER SPECIAL. 2½acre lots. Good/badcredit. $995 down.$197/mo. Eaton Land.662-726-9648

Mobile Homes 8650

2001 16X80 3+2 River-birch Metal siding &metal roof $13900.00Cash Only call 662-401-1093

28X70 SUPER NiceDouble Wide, appli-ances, central heat &air $34900 Cash Only,includes delivery & setup call 662-401-1093

Mobile Homes 8650

MUST SEE to believe.2007 River Birch 32x804BR/2BA manufac-tured home. Large mas-ter bedroom/bath. Mustbe moved. $49,000.Contact Deborah.364-8408.

Autos For Sale 9150

1994 DODGE Ram1500 w/ 5.9 V8 engine.Factory air. Good condi-tion. 181k miles.$3,950 OBO. 662-329-3259. or 662-364-3259

1997 JEEP Wrangler. 4wheel drive. HunterGreen. Good condition.352-1652.

2005 Toyota Camry2.4L 16v gasoline auto83k mi. Tan/Gray, cleantitle, $3200 call (662)475-9398.

Campers & RVs 9300

2014 27FT bumper pullCAMPER. (1) slide out inLR. Fully equip. C/H&A.Like new. $17,500.662-435-1248. Can beseen in Steens.

Motorcycles & ATVs 9400

2000 HONDA VALKYRIE1500cc: Saddle bags,windshield, wind-deflect-ors, rider & passengerback rests, extra run-ning lights, loads ofchrome. Only $4000:See locally by calling501-545-7750.

2007 HARLEY DAVID-SON Electra Glide Clas-sic. 25k mi. Burgundy.Lots of extras. MintCond. $11,500. 662-435-1248.

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