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— OBITUARIESGene Autry Bennett,
80, LumbertonSamuel Locklear,
79, RowlandKelly Keith Sanderson,
73, Pembroke
David Bradley | The RobesonianMakenna Bell, 9, brings some extra knowledge, in the form of her father, to the robotics competition at the Exploration Station in Lumberton on Friday. Ila Locklear helps Bell define the speed in the software package. “I really want to experiment,” Bell said. “I’ve wanted to do this for a long time.”
Donnie DouglasEditor
LUMBERTON — The Robeson County Board of Election last week was unable to agree on the number of sites to be open for early voting for the Nov. 6 General Election, kicking the decision to the state’s newly configured North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement.
The two Democrats on the four-member board, Tiffany Peguise-Powers and Larry Townsend, favored open-ing five satellite sites in addition to the Board of Elections office on Walnut Street near downtown Lumberton; the Republicans on the board, Daniel Lock-lear and Steve Stone, favored opening two sites in addition to the elections office. Recent state law added a fourth member to the local elections boards, which had consisted of three members, with the party holding the Governor’s Office hav-ing the majority of two members.
Under Peguise-Powers and Townsend’s plan, there would be satellite sites at Max-ton, Fairmont, Red Springs, St. Pauls and Pembroke, while Stone and Locklear favored satellite sites only at Pembroke and Fair-mont.
The state General Assembly took away local flexibility on hours and days, requir-
ing the satellite sites be open for 13 days — three Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and two Mondays and Tuesdays — and Saturday voting at the elections office only. Subsequent elections would do away with the Saturday hours. The state also requires that any satellite site, once opened, be open for at least 12 hours that day. That is not required of the elections office.
G.L. Pridgen, direc-tor of the local Board of Elections, was work-
ing to get the information to the state board, which hears cases that are not decided unani-mously. Prid-gen expressed concerns about the more liberal
Democratic plan and the cost locally of pay-ing workers, especially since four or more hours of overtime would be required each day, as well as potential fatigue.
He had not yet crunched the numbers on the cost, but County Manager Ricky Harris said, if asked, he was confident the county could come up with the money to pay the work-ers.
Joshua Malcolm, a lawyer who works for The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, is vice chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, which includes four Demo-crats, four Republicans
Man charged in deadly beatingDonnie DouglasEditor
LUMBERTON — A 44-year-old man has been charged with the beating death of a defensive-less 85- year-old man who was found dead in his home on July 7.
According to a state-ment from police Lt. Vernon Johnson, William James Moore is charged with first-degree murder and common law robbery in the death of Rufus Revels, whose body was found inside his home at 3155 Bakersfield Drive. Revels
lived with his wife, but was home alone when he was killed.
Police Detectives Evan Whit-ley and Charles Keenum, with
the assistance of Robeson County District Attorney’s Office Investigator Erich Hackney, arrested Moore on Friday. Court records list Moore as having an Alamac Road address, but Hackney said he was essentially homeless and traveled by bicycle. Moore
on seldom occasions stayed at Revels’ house, according to Hackney.
Police initially called Revels’
death to be “suspicious,” and an autopsy helped to conclude he had been beaten to death. Hack-ney said Revels died from two blows to the head.
“This was an especially hei-nous case in that there was no way Mr. Revels could have defended himself from the attack, especially with the type of weap-on use,” Hackney said.
Moore was placed in the Robe-son County Detention Center, where he is being held without bond.
Editor Donnie Douglas can be reached at 910-416-5649 or [email protected].
Father knows best
State boardto pick sitesfor early vote
Malcolm
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By English WatsonStaff writer
ROWLAND — When Southside-Ashpole Elementary’s students return for the 2018-19 school year they will be in a new school district, have a new principal and being wearing new uniforms.
“I am an ardent proponent of school uniforms. Not only are they essential to estab-lishing a positive school culture, but also fosters an environment of teamwork and collaboration,” said Bruce Major, the school’s new principal.
Southside-Ashpole is
the only school in the state-created Innovative School District and will be managed by Achieve-ment for All Children. The school will be part
of the ISD for the next five years, and the goal is to turn the low-per-forming school into an academi-cally successful school.
The uniform will consist of a blue polo top with the South-side-Ashpole logo on the left chest and khaki bot-toms. Each stu-dent will receive three sets of
uniforms at no personal cost.
Southside students to dress in uniforms
Hall
Major
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Staff report
LUMBERTON — The building that a faction of the Robeson County Board of Commissioners pushed to purchase for as much as $6 million now has a tax value of $2,395,800.
That is the taxable value assigned to the Angel Exchange building at COMtech during the recent re-valuation of all county property. It repre-sents a decline of about 37 percent from its previous value of $3,797,500 that was assigned during the 2010 re-valuation.
The building, which is owned by Angel Exchange LLC, was talked about in January as a possible permanent location for the central office of the Public Schools of Robeson Coun-
ty. At the time, it was list-ed for sale for $6 million when the county board, with Chairman Raymond Cummings and Commis-sioners Jerry Stephens, Roger Oxendine and Ber-lester Campbell voting in favor, advised Patrick Pait, the county attorney at the time, to negotiate to buy the building.
Commissioners Tom Taylor, Lance Herndon and Noah Woods voted against, with David Edge being absent. Edge later argued against its purchase, saying the county should foreclose if it wanted the building because about $100,000 in property taxes were owed on it. That figure has been slashed in half after the county garnished rent the school system was paying
Angel Exchange value drops to $2.4 million
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Pet of the week
LENOIR (AP) — A second suspect is facing charges after a North Carolina deputy was shot during a traffic stop and the gunman later killed in a shoot-out with law officers.
News outlets report the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office charged 47-year-old James Edgar Roberts. Investigators believe Roberts drove around gunman Kerry Townsend and Stephanie Sipes while they were being sought in the deputy’s shooting.
Roberts had no listed phone number and could not be reached Saturday.
Authorities say Townsend shot Depu-ty Jordan Sherrill during the traffic stop last Sunday. Townsend and Sipes fled the scene. They were tracked down to a Lenoir house on Tuesday, where inves-tigators say Townsend fired a pistol at deputies. The deputies returned fire and killed him.
The 40-year-old Sipes is charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Second person charged as accessory in deputy shooting
and one person who is unaffiliated. He said the state board would meet in Winston-Salem on Aug. 6 and Aug. 7 to make deci-sions for local elections boards whose plans were
not approved unanimously.He said the state board
could adopt one of the plans, or offer its own.
Malcolm, a Democrat, said when the lawmakers were considering the leg-islation he warned against the “burden” that would be placed on local elections boards, saying one size does not fit all.
“What works in Char-lotte doesn’t necessarily work everywhere else,” he said. “County boards need to have the ability to shape the early voting hours that match the vot-ers in their communities.”
Editor Donnie Douglas can be reached at 910-416-5649 or [email protected].
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to use the building as a temporary central office.School officials, who told the commissioners
repeatedly that the building did not suit their needs, are currently moving central office staff to the aban-doned BB&T service center on Kahn Drive.
The commissioners in a subsequent meeting voted to continue the effort to purchase, this time with Woods voting in favor, but the building has not been mentioned by the commissioners in months, and the
presumption is the county is no longer interested.If it is, the county might could get a bargain on
Aug. 6 at 10 a.m. when the building is scheduled for sale at the county courthouse, according to court documents obtained at the Robeson County Clerk of Court office. For sale will be the 31,951-square-foot building and the accompanying 28.678 acres of land.
The sale is part of a judgment handed down from Superior Court on Feb. 12. The judgment also orders Angel Exchange LL to pay Carolina Com-merce and Technology Inc. $57,710.30 and attorneys fees.
In documents filed in Superior Court, COMtech
argued it had the right to seek foreclosure and monetary compensation because Angel Exchange was part of the business park and was obligated to abide by park covenants, which included the “pay-ment of periodic maintenance and security fees” to COMtech. COMtech alleged that failure to pay the fees was a breach of contract.
Sunday, July 22, 2018 3AThe Robesonian OBITUARIES/NEWS
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From those 8 children, Mrs. Locklear was blessed with 23 grandchildren, 48 great
grandchildren, and 30 great-great grandchildren. Not only has God blessed Mrs. Locklear
to see five generations totaling 109 members, He has also
allowed her to still have ALL of them here sharing this
wonderful celebration with her.
Happy Birthday!
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Obituaries
LUMBERTON — Mr. Gene Autry Bennett, 80, a resi-dent of Lumber-ton, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
He was born in Robe-son County on Thanks-giving Day in 1937 to the late Charlie Jenkins and Lessie Myrtle Bennett.
Growing up in Moc-casin Bottom, within the family Blacksmith busi-ness, he carried the trade and talents forward to owning and operating his own Metal Construction and Welding business for over 45 years.
Gene was a member of the First Baptist Church, Lumberton, St. Albans Masonic Lodge #114, Lumberton and spent many years as a Sudan Shriner working with children to get them to the Shriners Hospitals for Children along with participating in the Pipers Parade Unit.
He is survived by his
sister, Vivian; daughters, Candy (Matt) and Jan (Rick); grand-children, Lily Madison and Sarah Vivianne; beloved comrade nephew,
Charlie (Renee); many very special nieces and nephews, cousins and amazing friends.
We will be celebrating his life and love for life on Wednesday, July 25, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel of the First Baptist Church, off Seventh and Walnut St.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you may make memorials to one of his following passions: First Baptist Church, 606 N. Walnut St., 28358; Masonic Home For Children, 600 College St. Oxford, N.C., 27565; or Shriners Hos-pitals for Children, 403 East Front St., New Bern, N.C., 28560.
Services are entrusted to Boles-Biggs Funeral Home of Lumberton.
GENE AUTRY BENNETT
PEMBROKE — Rev. Kelly Keith Sanderson, 73, of Pembroke, N.C., was born on May 5, 1945, and departed this life an entered his heavenly home on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Mr. Cecil Locklear and Ms. Dicy-ann Sampson; and two brothers,Mr. Alexander Worriax and Mr. Gary Locklear.
The funeral will be 3 p.m. Sunday, July 22, 2018, at Mt. Airy Church with Revs. Henry Oxen-dine, Ernie Hammonds, Mike Cummings and David Lowery officiating. Burial will follow in the Lumbee Memorial Gar-dens.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mrs. Brenda Sanderson; two
sons, Mrs. James Kelly (Linda) and Kelly Keith II of Pembroke; five grandsons, Kas, Keith, RJ, Lil James and Kelly Ray, all of
Pembroke; two grand-daughters, Margaret Faye and Jolanda; two great-grandchildren, Kaeden and Kelly Neil; two sisters, Ms. Rosie Joli-coeur of Maxton and Ms. Raymonda Jean Clark of Laurinburg; three broth-ers, Mr. Harriel Locklear of Raeford, Mr. Clifford Locklear and Mr. Artis Cummings of Pembroke; two very special friends, Mr. Bobby Locklear and Mr. Dennis Richard; and a host of relatives and friends.
The family received friends Saturday night, July 21, 2018, at Locklear & Son Funeral Home.
KELLY KEITH SANDERSON
ROWLAND — Mr. Samuel Locklear, 79, of 390 Midway Road, Row-land, died Thursday, July 19, 2018, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.
The funeral will be 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 23, 2018, at Gospel Taber-nacle Baptist Church with the Revs. Chris Locklear and Johnny Locklear offi-
ciating. Burial will follow in the Locklear Family Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, July 22, 2018, at Gospel Tabernacle Bap-tist Church.
Services entrusted to Locklear & Son Funeral Home.
SAMUEL LOCKLEAR
Achievement for All Children is seeking support from various companies to cover the cost of the uniforms. However, if no partner is found, Achievement for All Children will pay for the beginning three sets for each child.
Each piece of the uni-form costs about $12, for a total cost per uniform of $24. After the initial three sets, families will have to purchase all additional and future uniforms.
Fittings for the uni-forms have been sched-uled for Friday and Aug. 6 from noon to 6 p.m. each day at Southside-Ashpole. Families will be able to order the uniforms and have them delivered to their homes at no charge.
The school is expect-ing 242 students in the
2018-19 academic year.The U.S. Depart-
ment of Education says wearing uniforms can decrease the risk of vio-lence and theft, instill discipline, and help school officials recognize intruders.
“In addition to foster-ing a sense of commu-nity and school spirit, student uniforms will help make mornings easier for families by eliminating discussions about what to wear from morning routines, relieve school staff from admin-istering school dress codes, reduce the poten-tial for teasing with regards to a students’ attire, and they’re eco-nomical,” said Eric Hall, ISD superintendent.
A study by the Jour-nal of School Violence released in 2013 shows that students who wear uniforms are better behaved, especially those at middle school ages.
“School uniforms help to create a positive
learning climate, con-tribute to safe schools, encourage higher stan-dards of excellence in conduct and achieve-ment as well as level the playing field for all,” said Tony Helton, CEO of Achievement for All Children.
There main argument against school uniforms is that they strip stu-dents of their ability to express themselves.
“Albeit a valid argu-ment, the strong aca-demic and cultural pro-grams we have planned will provide ample opportunities for indi-vidual student expres-sions of their personal-ity, likes and dislike,” Major said.
During a meeting last month that Hall and Hel-ton had with community members, the possibility of uniforms was roundly applauded by those in attendance.
Reach English Watson at [email protected].
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by Martha WaggonerAssociated Press
GOLDSBORO — It was Father’s Day when Larry Monk got the frantic call from his sister: Their father’s burial vault was missing from its place in the cemetery.
Monk soon learned that wasn’t all. It had been gone for nearly two years, and the family only learned about it when another sister went to put flowers on the grave.
The vault of Raymond Monk had been sucked out of the ground by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. The tobacco picker, who also worked at a processing plant, had been buried next to his wife in Elmwood Cemetery in Goldsboro after he died at age 85 in 1985. Now his body was in one of 18 unidentified burial vaults that were unearthed by the flooding. It went unclaimed for months while the Monk family had no idea there was a problem.
City officials say they did their best to find the families of the 18. But Larry Monk says their efforts didn’t go far enough.
Rick Fletcher, the city’s director of public works, knows Monk is angry and
hurting. “This happened almost two years ago, but to him, it happened a few weeks ago,” Fletcher said.
Hurricane Matthew smacked into North Carolina on Oct. 9, 2016, but the Neuse River waited three days to peak at 29.74 feet in Goldsboro, about 10 feet above flood stage.
Elmwood Cemetery, located on low-lying ground about a half-mile from the river, didn’t stand a chance against the rain and floods. Floodwaters of up to 6 feet (1.83 meters) inundated the 23-acre (9.3-hectare) graveyard, leaving only the tops of its gates exposed, Fletcher said.
The water moved 36 ground-level vaults from their burial sites. Eighteen were fairly easily matched with their proper gravesite because they either were par-tially contained within their vaults or they had identification written on paper stored in water-tight tubes, city officials said.
The remaining 18 either didn’t have the
tubes or the tubes were empty, Fletcher said.
Ground-level vaults, banned in North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd in 1999, aren’t buried underground. Instead, they sit just below the surface with the vault’s lid visible. Elmwood Cemetery dates back to 1874, when it was founded for African-
Americans.Fletcher and Timo-
thy Irving, cemetery superintendent, are emphatic about one issue: The bodies were always handled with respect. None came out of a cof-fin, and they were quickly loaded into refrigerated trailers, Irving said.
Employees of a local funeral home volunteered to handle the remains, which were placed in new caskets and new vaults before being buried in a large plot, where they’re identified with numbers and letters that correspond to DNA taken by the Office of the State Medical Exam-iner, Fletcher said.
A lab in Pennsylvania has tested that DNA and will match it with the DNA contributed by families. After that’s done, the city plans to put a marker with the names of any unidentified remains at the gravesite.
Meanwhile, a question remains for Monk: Why the city couldn’t find him or his siblings. Raymond and Lucy Monk had 11 children, eight of whom survive.
Could the city have done anything else to find the families? In retrospect, Irving thinks so. For one thing, he says, they could have published the names.
On the other hand, “it seems like it might have been insensitive,” especially in the chaos of the months immediately after the storm, he said. “I don’t know.”
Monk took a long look at the grave site that his father’s new vault shares with 17 others near the front gates of Elmwood Cemetery.
“Hopefully, he’s in there somewhere,” he said. “We’ll find him and put him back.”
Follow Martha Waggoner on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mjwaggonernc.
Long after hurricane, unearthed bodies remain unidentified
“i know he’s gone. but the idea is, we put him here, next to our mama. and to go through this again, it’s bringing it all back.”
— Larry Monk, son of man whose burial vault was unearthed by
Hurricane Matthes.
SOUTHERN SHORES (AP) — A North Carolina man is the eighth victim of the rough Outer Banks surf during this year’s beach vacation season.
News outlets report 32-year-old Kenny Ray Gooch of Powells Point died Thursday evening after trying to save his girlfriend’s sons from a rip current. South-ern Shores Police Chief David Kole says three boys were swimming near the Kitty Hawk pier when the current pulled them away from shore.
Gooch rushed into the water to help, but was also tugged out to sea and disappeared from sight. Kole says bystanders rescued a 12-year-old while and the two other teens made it back to land on their own.
Man drowns trying to save 12-year-old
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StarNews of Wilmington
The GOP supermajority in Raleigh has decided that it’s important to let voters decide in November on six changes to the state constitution.
Perhaps no priority is more important than enshrining North Carolinian’s right to hunt and fish in the constitution. That should put a stop to the hordes of angry protesters demanding that fishing be out-lawed.
Other constitutional amendments on the ballot include extending the GOP-dominated legislature’s control over boards and commissions, demanding that voters present photo IDs, lowering the cap on state income tax rates, and expanding the rights of crime victims.
What’s not on the ballot is a school bond.
A 2016 study put the state’s school needs at more than $8 billion, and a new mandate to reduce class sizes for K-3 stu-
dents has school systems scrambling to provide enough classrooms.
School systems in Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties are strug-gling to meet challenges posed by the region’s growth. Nearly two dozen schools have opened in our three counties since 2000 to accommodate thousands of addi-tional students.
While student population growth may slow some in the next few years as older families move into the region, pressure remains to open new classrooms and upgrade aging facilities.
In Southeastern North Carolina, Pender County is anticipating the fastest growth in student population, with another 2,000 students expected in 2025. That system is replacing an 82-year-old school in Pender-lea and building two new schools in Surf City.
Local voters have shown support for school bonds. Pender and New Hanover voters passed bond issues in 2014 and
Brunswick in 2016.Statewide, voters passed a school bond
issue in 1996.Local school officials had hoped to
benefit from a $1.9 billion statewide bond, which would have sent money to each school district based on size, growth and economic need.
New Hanover Schools supported the drive for a bond vote by identifying $400 million in facility needs.
But alas, there will be no North Carolina school bond question on the ballot on Nov. 6.
When advocacy groups went to the Honorables last year to ask for that $1.9 billion bond, the proposal initially met with broad support, the Raleigh News & Observer reported, with both Republican and Democratic sponsors signing onto the bill filed in spring 2017.
But things have changed.House Speaker Tim Moore told The
Associated Press that some of his fellow
GOP lawmakers worried about the state growing its debt after lawmakers agreed to issue up to $3 billion in new debt over 10 years for road improvements.
Of course, that money would be paid back through highway-dedicated revenues, but never mind.
Republicans also state proudly that the state is making more than $370 million in lottery proceeds available to school districts for construction needs. In other words, money from a state lottery set up to benefit schools is being spent on schools. Good on them.
We have no problem protecting crime victims and their families, and we’re all for hunting and fishing. We suspect those measures were put on the ballot to get Republicans out to the polls this fall, and it might work.
But it certainly says a lot about GOP pri-orities in the General Assembly that hunt-ing, fishing and power grabs are worthy of voter attention, while our schools are not.
Time to handle GenX threat“How long before we say
enough is enough?” state lawmaker Ted Davis Jr. asked his colleagues in the N.C. House in February. “How much more is Che-mours going to get away with before something is done?”
Chances are the Wilm-ington Republican, whose constituents are right to be worried about the Delaware-based chemical company’s discharges into the Cape Fear River, is asking the same questions today as pressure mounts on Chemours practically everywhere outside of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Imagine the frustra-tion for Davis’ upstream neighbors in Bladen County, where more than 200 households rely on bottled water provided by Chemours as scientists, policymakers and business interests sort through the mess the company cre-ated with its irresponsible release of GenX and other unregulated pollutants.
Attorneys for the South-ern Environmental Law Center asked a Wilmington court last week to halt all emissions of these so-called “emerging contami-nants” from the company, which halted GenX dis-charges in its wastewater last year.
But even now — after a cavalcade of state warn-ings and fines, lawsuits and public admonishments — Chemours spews the chemical from a Fayette-ville stack that may be con-taminating the rainwater and soil for thousands.
To their slight credit, Chemours bowed to public pressure in plotting $100
million in plant upgrades, a move they say will cut off all of the discharges in two years.
But SELC, and the environmental-ists they represent, the Cape Fear River Watch, are asking North Carolina regulators to treat GenX and other con-taminants as a health emergency that requires immediate action, a justified request.
The chemicals’ health effects are largely unknown, but no state should play the game of Russian roulette that North Carolina lawmakers seem willing to play today to spare the inconvenience for a billion-dollar global com-pany like Chemours, which maintains that GenX and other contaminants aren’t harmful.
Such assurances from Chemours should be met with great skepticism. The DuPont spin-off — which creates products used in Teflon, firefighting foam, and food packag-ing — deployed GenX as a replacement for PFOA or C8, a chemical compound and known carcinogen.
Chemours and DuPont each spent more than $335 million last year to settle lawsuits in Ohio and Vir-ginia over PFOA exposure, while never admitting a mistake.
And while study is needed to determine how precisely its replacement, GenX, impacts people, the early signs are troubling, no matter the naysaying and obfuscations of state lawmakers like Rep. Jimmy Dixon who’ve long ago traded in their credibility
on such issues.A UNC-Wilmington
study this year found high concen-trations of GenX lethal to a quarter of those oysters tested, and researchers from N.C. State and the state Depart-ment of Health and Human Services say they will test blood and urine samples from Chemours’
neighbors for traces of the contaminants.
If North Carolinians are to trust anything here, they should trust the scientific process, not the political process. State lawmakers, particularly those who lead the Senate, vacillate between reluctant to act and downright obstruc-tionist on GenX, even months after reporters in Wilmington exposed Chemours’ pollution in the Cape Fear River, a drinking water source for more than 200,000 people.
By no means is this the first time that the legislature or state regula-tors sided with business interests at great cost to this state’s residents. This year, lawmakers authored scandalous protections for big hog farmers that all but quash future “nuisance” lawsuits filed by neighbors weary of the pig feces and carcasses produced by the state’s powerful pork giants.
And time has not brightened lawmakers’ and environmental regulators’ calamitous reaction to a massive coal ash spill in 2014, in which they repeat-edly extended friendly deadlines and feeble fines to the powers-that-be at
Duke Energy, whose lim-itless lobbying capacity apparently overruled the righteous anger of North Carolina residents.
The state’s fines, paltry in comparison to Duke’s billion-dollar profits, couldn’t even be considered a slap on the wrist. They were a lullaby to those who deserve to lose some sleep.
At the time, ex-Gov. Pat McCrory’s appointees piloted the state’s chief environmental agency, but environmentalists have been hoping, and mostly receiving, more force from Gov. Roy Cooper’s admin-istration.
North Carolinians are sick and tired — literally and in all the ways that one might imagine — of bad actors in the business and industrial community, and the policymakers who coddle business interests while confounding the people they represent.
None of this should be necessary. None of this is acceptable. State leaders should assure us, once and for all, that the safety of North Carolinians will not come second to a com-pany’s business interests, be it a chemical company, a hog slaughtering operation or an energy giant whose reach stretches across the globe. What value, after all, is a job to residents whose health is at stake?
“We’re scaring the pudding out of people,” Rep. Dixon said to GenX researchers in April. That may be, but here’s hoping North Carolina lawmakers like Dixon can scare up a bit of concern too.
Billy Ball is managing editor of N.C. Policy Watch.
4A Sunday, July 22, 2018 The Robesonian
Editorial
We aren’t big on anniversary stories, particularly when they dredge up black-eye events under the false heading of news — the hook for such a recall being something as contrived as the anniversary divides evenly by five or perhaps 10.
But on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the murder of James Jordan, the father of the best basketball play-er who has ever lived, we will suspend that policy and return to July 23, 1993, on this page only. We hope it becomes apparent why with each word read.
1993 was a time when Robeson County had yet to fully recover from some turbulent times in the late 1980s, specifically Feb. 1, 1988, and March 26, 1988. Resentment lingered following the merger of all the county school systems, and at the Sheriff’s Office, the Stone Age was winding down.
People were eager to believe the worst.Then the news arrived — way after the fact, adding
to the conspiracies that would arise — that Michael Jordan’s 57-year-old father had gone missing while on a trip from Wilmington to Charlotte that took him right through the heart of Robeson County. You know most of what matters concerning this story — that James Jordan stopped his new, red Lexus for a nap alongside U.S. 74, that he was murdered by two teens during a botched robbery, and his body was dumped and found later in a creek that fed the Pee Dee River in South Carolina.
Larry Demery and Daniel Green, drug-using and violent teenagers when James Jordan was shot to death, are both serving life sentences in prison for the murder, with each saying the other guy pulled the trig-ger. Green continues to work the court system in an effort to prove he was not the triggerman.
There are, as we suggested, many unanswered questions concerning the murder, and if you Google today we are sure you will have no problem finding an anniversary story; one that appears in the Chicago Tribune, the city whose NBA Bulls won six champi-onships with Jordan leading the way, is particularly comprehensive.
You will find many interesting sidebars, the time between James Jordan’s disappearance and public acknowledgement; that the murder was drug-related, perhaps involving the illegitimate son of Sheriff Hubert Stone; questions about blood evidence, specifi-cally its absence in the Lexus, and other holes in the investigation; the cremation of the body before it was positively identified; and even the suggestion that Michael Jordan’s gambling was somehow involved, prompting his sudden and one-year retirement from the NBA.
It all conjures up this thought: If you look hard enough for something, you might find it whether it exists or not.
All of the seemingly unanswered questions about James Jordan’s murder don’t kick aside what appears plain to us, and that is that Demery and Green killed Jordan when a robbery went bad, but even if you believe that Green enlisted after the fact, Green is where he should be.
This tragedy belongs intimately to the Jordan family, especially Michael Jordan, who has never made secret of his special relationship with his father, and the loss that he suffered then and now.
But Lumberton and Robeson County were also victimized by this horrific event, being unfairly tagged because of the actions of two trouble teenagers.
It was an act that could have occurred anywhere, but in fact did here — and the 25th anniversary just resurrects the embarrassment and the shame that we as a community felt then and do now. There is much assigned to Robeson County for which we bear blame, but not this.
It was just our bad luck.
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With summer coming to an end and school starting next month, for many of our children, we will be packing lunches to take to school.
For parents, some mornings are hec-tic; we’re rushing and lunch often gets thrown in the bag and then you’re out the door. Very little thought is given to the nutritional value of what our chil-dren may be eating.
Many parents, like myself, some-times turn to prepackaged lunches as an easy and less hectic approach. But do you pay attention to all the not-so-healthy options that we are giving our children? Many prepackaged foods and juices contain high fat and sodium, are loaded with sugar and are empty in nutritional value. Lunch prepara-
tion can be easy and less stressful with great healthy options that are yummy and excellent brain food.
Start with a plan. Make a list of possible lunch options that each child enjoys. Use this as an opportunity to talk about nutrition in the foods they choose. Create your own family recipe box that includes healthy options. Cre-ating your own also gives you a sense of ease for children with food allergies. Using the MyPlate guide as a refer-ence will help make sure your child is getting the recommended amount of vegetables, fruits, protein, dairy and grains.
Next, make out weekly or monthly menus. This will also help when gro-cery shopping and save money on unnecessary buys. Designate an area for lunch option sides (crackers and other little snacks) in a basket in the cabinet. In your refrigerator, make an area for the lunches to be placed so that everything is in a designated place and in order.
By making out menus in advance, you can also prep some lunch options ahead of time and store in food con-tainers. Also, consider leftovers as food
options. I know many school cafeterias don’t allow students to use the micro-wave, but here is another helpful tip: Place warm water in a thermos that holds heat to warm it up, then pour the water out and place the warm food inside and seal the lid. This should help keep the food warm until your child eats lunch. If you are looking for a way to keep their lunch cold but there is not enough room in their bag, place a frozen water bottle or juice pouch to act as an ice pack.
Healthy eating habits help make for a healthy mind and body. Planning healthy meals together as a family will be educational and gives the family a chance to make changes together. Also, take the time to discuss options they may have at school. Making great nutritional choices now will make a big impact on their future.
As a final special touch, add a per-sonal note for them to read.
Joanna Rogers is the 4-H Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program assistant at North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Robeson County Center. She can be reached at 910-671-3276, [email protected] or by visiting the website http://robeson.ces.ncsu.edu.
Planning key to healthy school lunchesBy Joanna
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HAMLET — Misty Locklear of Robeson County was among the 10 students who recently graduat-ed from the Practical Nursing pro-
gram at Richmond Community College.
The Practical Nurs-ing pinning ceremo-ny was held Tuesday at the Cole Audito-rium in Hamlet as a culmination for the 11-month program
that prepares graduates to take the National Council licensure examination in order to become a licensed practical nurse.
Locklear graduates nursing program
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Robeson Community College recently hosted several sum-mer camps for area school stu-dents which were the subject of an earlier Robeson CC Today column. Traffic flows both ways however, as some RCC students left the county this summer to attend programs at other institutions. Two students participated in a sci-ence program at UNC Chapel Hill and hopefully we’ll be able to share their story at a later time.
Brianda Barrera, a 2017 St. Pauls High School graduate, Lumberton resident and RCC student is currently partici-pating in a six-week Summer Biomedical Sciences Institute
at Duke University. This pro-gram targets students whose ethnicity is underrepresented in medicine and who aspire to have a career in a medical pro-fession. The program attempts to simulate the medical school experience for students for the summer. Barrera is currently enrolled in physics, organic chemistry, biomedical statis-tics, health disparities, stan-dardized patient modules, peak performance, weekly seminars, and weekly clinical experi-ences taught by the medical professionals at Duke as well as notable faculty from other universities. Duke provides the scholars in the program with countless tools and resources that will benefit them on their journey to medical school.
Barrera will enter her second year at RCC this fall and when not in school or summer pro-grams she works as a pharmacy technician at Brisson Drugs in St. Pauls.
She has a 2-year-old brother
and says that the 17-year age gap between them has impact-ed her life and shapes the way that she views situations. “I include my relationship with him in most of my decision making because watching him grow up is very important to me,” she said.
Barrera says that financial
aid issues with the university that she originally planned to attend led her to RCC, but she adds, “It was the greatest thing that could’ve happened. I really do believe that situation worked out for the best. My experience at RCC is greater than I could’ve ever expected. I strongly encourage those look-ing to further their education to consider RCC.”
When asked why she would recommend RCC to others, Barrera said, “The small class-es are great because you form a personal relationship with your professor that you would not have at a larger university. Attending college without all the financial stress is also a major positive. Also, if you are not positive about your future endeavors, the general educa-tion courses at RCC transfer to most state colleges. Taking Gen Ed [classes] is a great way to discover which subjects appeal to you the best.”
Barrera plans to finish her
associate degree at RCC and transfer to Campbell University to earn her bachelor’s degree in biology with a concentra-tion in Pre-med. From there, she said, “I plan to take a gap year between graduating from undergrad and starting medical school to focus on research and be a more competitive appli-cant.” Currently, she says her medical interests are in obstet-rics and gynecology or derma-tology, but she adds, “That is all subject to change during my years of medical school.”
If you would like to start a new career or work towards transfer to a university, contact Robeson Community College’s admissions department soon. Fall semester begins Aug. 15. You can complete an applica-tion online at www.robeson.edu/admissions or call 910-272-3342 to speak to an admissions counselor.
Dennis Watts is the Public Information officer for Robeson Community College.
Courtesy photoBrianda Barrera, a 2017 St. Pauls High School graduate, is entering her second year at RCC and plans a career in medicine.
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PEMBROKE — Several initiatives at the Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub at UNC Pembroke and Entrepreneurship Incubator are intended to benefit from the support of corporate and foundation partners whose generosity will encour-age job growth, economic development and educational opportunities in South-eastern North Carolina.
A recently announced gift from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust will allow the Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub to hire a sustainability coordinator who will team with the Entrepreneur-ship Incubator staff to launch small businesses and create stronger ties between economic development and health improvement efforts. The Hub hopes to bring 30 new jobs to the region over three years as a result of the gift.
The grant funds will be spread over three years.
The Entrepreneurship Incubator, located inside the Hub, supports busi-ness growth across a 10-county region.
The Carolina Small Business Develop-ment Fund has made a gift to support the Entrepreneurship Hub’s Executive Sponsorship Program. The program will generate a base of general funding that supports sustainment and expansion of
vital initiatives necessary to fulfill the Hub’s mission. The gift will fund the purchase of technology that will allow the Hub to facilitate training sessions, recognize sponsors, and welcome visi-tors.
Partnering with the Entrepre-neurship Hub fits well with the fund’s mission to empower entre-preneurs across North Carolina by working with small business owners to shape and hone their strategies, said Lenwood Long Sr., president and CEO of Caro-lina Small Business Development Fund.
“We’re partnering with the Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub at UNC Pem-broke because it provides the tools and training a new generation of entrepre-neurs needs,” said Long. “Their mission to propel a diverse student population and small businesses within the region toward success is totally aligned with our goal to foster economic develop-ment, especially in historically under-served communities.”
Tony Hayes, chairman of the fund’s board, said the organization shares a natural synergy with the Hub.
“The Hub offers support to small businesses, and we are focused on pro-viding real opportunity for small busi-nesses in communities and regions that
face economic challenges,” said Hayes.Students at the Communities in
Schools of Robeson County will benefit from grants by the Wells Fargo Founda-tion and the N.C. Community Founda-tion. The gift will be used to create a
“Young Entrepreneurs” program, which will bring 20 eighth grad-ers to the Hub once a week to learn about entrepreneurship. The program is scheduled to begin in September.
“Our goal is to stimulate these students, most of whom are at risk, so that they stay in school, hopefully in STEM fields, and
someday start businesses of their own,” according to Thomas Hall, executive director of the Thomas Entrepreneur-ship Hub.
Students will learn how to develop concepts, conduct simulations and build prototypes, all key steps in the entrepre-neurial process.
“The Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub at UNC Pembroke plays an important role in helping to build future commu-nity and business leaders by providing young people guidance, knowledge and hands-on opportunities to develop the skills needed to be successful business owners,” said Joanna LeClair, communi-ty relations manager with Wells Fargo.
“Through this investment, we can be
part of ensuring the economic success of this region.”
The sustainability coordinator posi-tion funded by the Kate B. Reynolds will be responsible for finding and evaluating high potential technologies, develop and present proposals, and build and manage strategic relationships globally. The goal is to attract jobs in the home health care and agribusiness sectors, specifically in the areas of aging in place and nutrition. Addressing poverty as an underlying driver of poor health is also a key aim of this project.
“Economic opportunity, health and education are intertwined issues that our founder, Kate B. Reynolds, focused on during her lifetime. We work to interpret her vision today, and we know there are a lack of economic opportu-nities for many Robeson County resi-dents,” said Dr. Laura Gerald, president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust was established in 1947. Today, it is one of the largest private trusts in North Carolina. Its mission is to improve the health and quality of life of financially-disadvantaged residents in North Carolina.
Mark Locklear is a Public Relations specialist at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
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LUMBERTON — The chairman of the Robe-son County Board of Commissioners was the guest speaker at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference.
Raymond Cummings spoke about the land use planning of large-scale solar development during the conference that took place recently in Nashville, Tenn. Solar energy development is expanding in many communities nationwide and he spoke of the importance to outline the community concerns and attributes that can lead to a successful implementation of solar development.
Cummings spoke about community impact, balancing renewable energy and community acceptance, and the creation of zoning restric-tions for solar development.
“In the development of renewable energy compromise can be achieved through educa-tion, patience and willpower,” Cummings said.
The conference provides an opportunity for elected officials and county administra-tion from across the country to collaborate on county government topics.
Cummings speaks on solar power
Courtesy photoRaymond Cummings, Robeson County Board of Commissioners chairman, speaks about solar power during the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
By David Jordan Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — As more students balk at the debt loads they face after graduation, some colleg-es are offering an alternative: We’ll pay your tuition if you offer us a percentage of your future salary.
Norwich University announced Tuesday that it will become the lat-est school to offer this type of con-tract, known as an income share agreement. Norwich’s program is starting out on a small scale, main-ly for students who do not have access to other types of loans or those who are taking longer than the traditional eight semesters to finish their degree.
“Norwich University is commit-ted to offering this new way to help pay for college in a way that aligns incentives and helps reduce finan-cial barriers to degree completion,” said Lauren Wobby, the school’s chief financial officer and treasurer.
In contrast with traditional loans, in which students will sim-ply pay down the principal and interest until there is nothing left, students with income share agree-ments pay back a percentage of their salary for a set period of time. Those touting the programs say they give colleges greater incentive to help students find high-earning jobs after graduation, because a higher salary means the school may recoup its investment in a shorter period of time.
For some students, income share agreements are seen as less risky, especially if they end up in a lower-paying job or struggle to find work after graduation. While students are unemployed or earning below
a certain threshold they don’t have to pay anything back.
“Taking on the debt through a contract, where you don’t take on a debt per se but instead will repay a portion of your future income, has a certain appeal to students when the concept is fully explained to them,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for education policy at the New America Foundation.
But because employment and salary determine repayment, it’s possible providers could be seen as discriminating against recipients who choose lower-paying profes-sions.
“If income share agreement providers aren’t careful, they can definitely see unintended conse-quences in discriminatory terms toward students. This is one of the biggest differences between income share agreements and federal stu-dent loans,” McCann said. “Feder-als loans offer the same terms to all borrowers.”
Income share agreements were first proposed by Milton Fried-man in 1955, and Yale University briefly experimented with the idea in the 1970s. In the past decade, technical training programs, such as coding boot camps, have used this type of funding largely because participants do not have access to federal student loans.
In 2015, Oakton, Virginia-based Vemo Education began working with accredited colleges and uni-versities. The company now works with nearly 30 public and private colleges and universities across the country, including Norwich Uni-versity.
Vemo’s first partnership was with Purdue University. It began financ-
ing the school’s “Back a Boiler” income share agreement program in 2016.
Andrew Hoyler, 22, gradu-ated from Purdue last year with a degree in professional flight with the goal of becoming a pilot. Now he is working as a pilot for Ameri-can Airlines regional carrier PSA Airlines.
“One of the biggest pros for the income share agreement was the fact that out-of-college pilots do not make a lot of money, especially looking at the costs for an educa-tional program,” Hoyler said.
The terms can vary, notably the length of the agreement and the salary percentage. Hoyler is cur-rently paying back 8 percent of his income. Since future salary is generally unpredictable, it can be difficult to forecast how much a student will pay back over time, although most agreements do place a cap on the amount paid back.
Hoyler took out federal loans but said the income share agreement helped him avoid working multiple jobs while starting out last year as a flight instructor. Hoyler said he may end up paying more for the income share agreement in the long run as his salary rises, but deemed it a worthy trade-off.
For students who can’t make ends meet with scholarships, grants and federal loans, income share agreements can meet that need for students who otherwise would turn to federal loans to par-ents or private loans.
“The schools are doing it now because they want alternate financ-ing models,” said Vemo CEO Tonio DeSorrento.
Colleges ask for a share of future salary in lieu of loans
RALEIGH (AP) — A leading Republic legisla-tor doesn’t like what he’s seeing from the panel describing possible constitutional amendments, and he wants North Carolina lawmakers to return to Raleigh soon for a special legislative session.
State Rep. David Lewis of Harnett County said Saturday the commission writing official summaries explaining the constitutional changes could put its spin on the title describing each amendment. Lewis said in a letter to House Speaker Tim Moore that legislators should write the captions themselves in a new legislative session.
The Constitutional Amendments Publication Com-mission has two elected Democratic officials and one GOP General Assembly employee.
A spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says he opposes Lewis’s proposal.
The commission meets July 31 and is accepting proposed language for the amendment titles and voter summaries through Wednesday.
GOP leader wants lawmakers to explain constitution changes
SUNSET BEACH (AP) — North Carolina tax-payers may buy out a developer who wants to build expansive beach homes on part of a barrier island con-sidered so fragile that public money can’t be spent on flood insurance, disaster recovery or utilities.
The News & Observer reported the state is pre-pared to pay to prevent the developer from turning the marshlands and dunes on Sunset Beach into plots for nearly two dozen eight-bedroom homes.
The state budget approved last month set aside $2.5 million for the 35 acres bordering a bird sanctu-ary. A required appraisal could determine the ultimate purchase price.
The state Department of Environmental Quality manages the neighboring Bird Island Coastal Reserve, a protected research area of salt marsh and tidal creeks that harbor loggerhead turtles and other threat-ened species.
NC aims to stop development deal by buying beach
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Brandon Tester | The RobesonianGreg Powell tees off on the 12th hole during the Robeson County Golf Championship on Saturday. Powell is in second place in the Championship Division heading into the final round on Sunday.
Pippin in the driver’s seat
By Brandon TesterStaff writer
LUMBERTON — Greg Powell struggled with his putter in the second round of the Robeson County Golf Champion-ship at Pinecrest Country Club on Saturday, but that issue wasn’t reflected in his final score.
Powell carded a 3-under 69 for the second consec-utive day to move within one stroke of Champi-onship Division leader Stephen Pippin heading into the final round on Sunday.
“My putting was not good, especially on the front nine,” Powell said. “I missed a lot of 5-foot-ers. I was 1 over after 10 and birdied five of the next seven and three-putted 18 unfortunately. Tee-to-green felt really good.”
Powell’s 69 in the divi-sion’s first round on Fri-day put him three strokes behind Pippin, Ryan Bass and Keith McGirt, who were tied for first place at 66. None of those three players shot better than
71 on Saturday, and Pow-ell took advantage of the opportunity to climb the leaderboard.
“Until the tour-nament’s over I always feel like I have a chance,” Powell said. “Obvi-ously there’s some good players over here. I’ll keep fight-ing till the very end.”
Pippin, who has one championship under his belt already, carded a 71 in the second round to remain at the top of the lead-erboard at 7 under through two days.
“I started out great. I started out hitting the ball as good as I could hit it,” Pippin said. “I was 3 under heading to nine. I felt like my came was at the top of the world. Then i kind of switched up my strategy and started going to a more conservative route. Nerves started kicking in, and it resulted in a bogey
on nine and a double on 10.”
Pippin was able to regain some stability on the back nine, using birdies on 15 and 17 to bolster his score.
McGirt and Bass moved to third and fourth place, respectively. McGirt shot
a 74 and ended the day at 4 under, while Bass finished the second round with a 75 to bring him to 3 under for the tournament.
Jeff Wishart, who sat at 1 over after the first round, turned in the second-lowest score of the second round with a 70. He is now in fifth place with one round to go.
“I felt like I was a little under pres-sure because I had a bad round yes-terday on the back nine,” Wishart said. “Yesterday I started out hot and was 4-under-par through eight holes and I let that slip
away, so I wated to get it back today.”
John Haskins and Land-on Lowry sit behind Wis-hart at even-par heading into the final day. Lowry
matched Powell with a 69 in the second round.
They are followed by nine-time champion Kyle Covington and David Lowry Jr., who are tied at 3 over, as well as Joseph Martin and five-time champion Dyrck Fanning, who are at 5 over and 6 over, respectively.
“My swing hasn’t been consistent all weekend,” Martin said. “It’s just been grinding it out.”
Defending champion Brad Locklear finished the day at 8 over after turn-ing in a 77 in the second round.
With his second cham-pionship within reach, Pippin is confident.
“There’s always pres-sure when you’re close to the lead in the county,” Pippin said. “You always feel that pressure because you know that you are close and there are other players out there who want to win.
“My mindset is to con-tinue to play smart and conservative golf and try to continue to strike the ball as best as I can. Win, lose or draw, have fun. That’s the end goal.”
Reach Brandon Tester at 910-816-1989 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @BrandonTester.
Spieth part of 3-way tie for Open leadBy Doug FergusonAP Golf Writer
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Jordan Spieth has a share of the lead in the British Open and a big edge in experience. Still only 24, he already has won three majors and his name is the last one etched on the base of the silver claret jug.
One name in the mix makes it all feel so new.
“I’ve always wanted to battle it out in a major with Tiger. Who hasn’t?” Spieth said after seizing upon a calm Carnoustie for a 6-under 65 to tie for the lead with Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele. “It’s kind of a dream come
true just to have the opportu-nity.”
Woods feels the same way.Never in the mix at the
Masters, gone by the weekend at the U.S. Open, the 14-time major champion surged into contention Saturday with a 66, his lowest round on week-end at a major in eight years.
He didn’t have the best score. He was four shots behind.
But he’s Tiger Woods, and it felt like that again to thou-sands of fans who crammed along the fairways and beind the greens as Woods ran off three straight birdies around the turn and then two-putted for birdie on the par-5 14th to work his way into a tie for
the lead, even if that lasted for only 20 minutes.
“I’ve shown that I’ve been there close enough with a chance to win this year,” Woods said. “Given what happened the last few years, I didn’t know if that would ever happen again. But here I am with a chance coming Sunday in a major championship. It’s going to be fun.”
It was every bit of that on Saturday, a rare day when Car-noustie had little defense.
Justin Rose, who made the cut on the number with a bird-ie on his final hole, matched the Carnoustie record for the Open with a 64. Spieth set the Martin Cleaver | AP Photo
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LUMBERTON —In the Super Senior Division of the Robeson County Golf Championship, Donnie
Beck took home the championship after carding a 1-over 73 in the second round. He finished with a combined score of 150, two strokes ahead of Larry McNeill and Ronald Tyler, who tied for second place.
“I was very fortunate,” Beck said. “The Super Seniors has some good golfers. I had a helter-skelter round.
“Like I said, the Super Seniors had a really good group this year and I’m
just happy to win.”Beck was in a three-way tie for first place with Cliff
Nance and Atlas Warwick after the first round on Fri-day. All three shot a 3-over 75 in the opening round.
“I had seven bogeys and a double yesterday and had six birdies,” Beck said. “I overcame with the birdies. I just tried to play a smooth round today and played about the same, had some bogeys and had five birdies. It worked out.”
Bob McQueen won the first flight of the Super Senior Division with a two-day total of 160.
By Brandon TesterStaff writer
PEMBROKE — Leading into high school foot-ball practice starting on July 30, The Robesonian’s sports staff is publishing a countdown of the top 15 players in Robeson County, and Purnell Swett’s Dylan Lowry comes in at No. 7 on the list.
Lowry is heading into his senior season as a leader for a team that lost many of its starters from last season.
“We need a lot of work,” Lowry said. “I was all-conference last year, but I felt like I could have done a lot better.”
The linebacker posted a team-high 94 tackles last season. He also had one interception and forced a fumble.
Without experienced defenders like Kalan Lock-lear, who graduated after leading the team in sacks and tackles for loss last season, Lowry’s role will be more significant this year.
“I expect him to do what he’s supposed to,” head coach Jon Sherman said. “He’s got to be our lead-er on defense. He is the guy who’s going to control what we do, put us in the right formation sets and make sure our coverages are correct. I expect him to pretty much dictate our defense.”
Sherman said Lowry is adapting to his new leadership role.
“He’s slowly starting to do that because I’ve told him that it’s his team,” Sherman said. “He’s start-ing to see that and realize that.”
“Since I’ve been on varsity for three years and
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SPORTS The Robesonian2B Sunday, July 22, 2018
MLBBaseball Expanded Standings
All Times EDTBy The Associated Press
AMERICAN LEAGUEEast Division
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayBoston 69 30 .697 — — 9-1 W-3 34-13 35-17New York 63 34 .649 5 — 5-5 W-1 34-14 29-20Tampa Bay 49 48 .505 19 9½ 6-4 L-2 26-18 23-30Toronto 45 52 .464 23 13½ 4-6 W-2 26-25 19-27Baltimore 28 71 .283 41 31½ 4-6 L-2 16-33 12-38
Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayCleveland 53 43 .552 — — 4-6 W-2 31-19 22-24Minnesota 44 51 .463 8½ 13½ 7-3 L-1 29-22 15-29Detroit 41 58 .414 13½ 18½ 3-7 L-1 25-24 16-34Chicago 33 63 .344 20 25 3-7 L-1 19-29 14-34Kansas City 28 68 .292 25 30 3-7 W-1 12-35 16-33
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayHouston 65 35 .650 — — 6-4 W-1 32-21 33-14Seattle 59 39 .602 5 — 3-7 W-1 32-17 27-22Oakland 55 43 .561 9 4 7-3 L-1 24-22 31-21Los Angeles 49 49 .500 15 10 5-5 L-2 24-24 25-25Texas 41 57 .418 23 18 2-8 L-3 19-29 22-28
NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayPhiladelphia 54 42 .563 — — 5-5 W-1 31-16 23-26Atlanta 53 42 .558 ½ — 4-6 W-2 25-20 28-22Washington 48 49 .495 6½ 6 4-6 L-1 22-25 26-24Miami 42 57 .424 13½ 13 6-4 W-3 23-28 19-29New York 40 56 .417 14 13½ 5-5 L-1 19-32 21-24
Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayChicago 57 39 .594 — — 7-3 W-1 30-16 27-23Milwaukee 55 44 .556 3½ — 2-8 L-7 30-19 25-25St. Louis 49 48 .505 8½ 5 4-6 L-1 24-24 25-24Pittsburgh 49 49 .500 9 5½ 9-1 W-7 29-24 20-25Cincinnati 43 54 .443 14½ 11 5-5 L-2 21-27 22-27
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayLos Angeles 54 43 .557 — — 7-3 W-2 28-24 26-19Arizona 53 45 .541 1½ 1½ 5-5 L-2 26-24 27-21Colorado 52 45 .536 2 2 8-2 W-6 23-23 29-22San Francisco 51 48 .515 4 4 6-4 W-1 31-19 20-29San Diego 40 60 .400 15½ 15½ 2-8 L-6 20-31 20-29
AMERICAN LEAGUESunday’s Games
Baltimore (Cashner 2-9) at Toronto (Estrada 4-7), 1:07 p.m.Boston (Sale 10-4) at Detroit (Hardy 3-2), 1:10 p.m.Miami (Richards 3-5) at Tampa Bay (Archer 3-4), 1:10 p.m.Minnesota (Odorizzi 4-6) at Kansas City (Keller 2-4), 2:15 p.m.Cleveland (Clevinger 7-5) at Texas (Gallardo 3-1), 3:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cueto 3-1) at Oakland (Manaea 9-6), 4:05 p.m.Houston (McCullers 10-4) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 5-6), 4:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Lopez 4-7) at Seattle (Gonzales 10-5), 4:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-4) at N.Y. Yan-kees (Tanaka 7-2), 8:05 p.m.
Monday’s GamesBoston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Minnesota at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Detroit at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 10:07 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUESunday’s Games
San Diego (Perdomo 1-4) at Philadel-phia (Velasquez 5-8), 12:05 p.m., 1st gameMiami (Richards 3-5) at Tampa Bay (Archer 3-4), 1:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Nova 5-6) at Cincinnati (Harvey 5-5), 1:10 p.m.Atlanta (Foltynewicz 7-5) at Washington (Scherzer 12-5), 1:35 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Wood 5-5) at Milwaukee (Suter 8-6), 2:10 p.m.St. Louis (Mikolas 10-3) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 8-6), 2:20 p.m.San Francisco (Cueto 3-1) at Oakland (Manaea 9-6), 4:05 p.m.Colorado (Senzatela 3-2) at Arizona (Greinke 10-5), 4:10 p.m.San Diego (TBD) at Philadelphia (TBD), 6:05 p.m., 2nd gameN.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 7-2), 8:05 p.m.
Monday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Atlanta at Miami, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.Washington at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.
SaturdayAt Royal & Ancient Golf Club
Carnoustie, ScotlandPurse: $10.5 million
Yardage: 7,402; Par: 71Third Round
a-amateur
Jordan Spieth 72-67-65—204 -9Xander Schauffele 71-66-67—204 -9Kevin Kisner 66-70-68—204 -9Kevin Chappell 70-69-67—206 -7Francesco Molinari 70-72-65—207 -6Tiger Woods 71-71-66—208 -5Webb Simpson 70-71-67—208 -5Alex Noren 70-71-67—208 -5Matt Kuchar 70-68-70—208 -5Rory McIlroy 69-69-70—208 -5Tommy Fleetwood 72-65-71—208 -5Zach Johnson 69-67-72—208 -5Justin Rose 72-73-64—209 -4Austin Cook 72-70-67—209 -4Adam Scott 71-70-68—209 -4Charley Hoffman 71-70-68—209 -4Tony Finau 67-71-71—209 -4Zander Lombard 67-71-71—209 -4Erik van Rooyen 67-71-71—209 -4Yusaku Miyazato 71-74-65—210 -3Chris Wood 70-74-66—210 -3
Byeong Hun An 73-71-66—210 -3Haotong Li 71-72-67—210 -3Kyle Stanley 72-69-69—210 -3Ryan Moore 68-73-69—210 -3Danny Willett 69-71-70—210 -3Thorbjorn Olesen 70-70-70—210 -3Satoshi Kodaira 72-71-68—211 -2Sean Crocker 71-71-69—211 -2Louis Oosthuizen 72-70-69—211 -2Shaun Norris 74-68-69—211 -2Lucas Herbert 73-69-69—211 -2Michael Kim 73-69-69—211 -2Patrick Cantlay 70-71-70—211 -2Eddie Pepperell 71-70-70—211 -2Pat Perez 69-68-74—211 -2Bernhard Langer 73-71-68—212 -1Phil Mickelson 73-69-70—212 -1Rickie Fowler 70-69-73—212 -1Patrick Reed 75-70-68—213 ERoss Fisher 75-70-68—213 EJason Dufner 75-70-68—213 ETom Lewis 75-70-68—213 EMarc Leishman 72-72-69—213 ELee Westwood 72-72-69—213 EJulian Suri 74-69-70—213 EThomas Pieters 70-73-70—213 EStewart Cink 72-70-71—213 ESung Kang 69-72-72—213 EBrandon Stone 68-72-73—213 E
Adam Hadwin 73-70-71—214 +1Yuta Ikeda 70-73-71—214 +1Marcus Kinhult 74-69-71—214 +1Jason Day 71-71-72—214 +1Matthew Southgate 69-72-73—214 +1Rhys Enoch 74-71-70—215 +2a-Sam Locke 72-73-70—215 +2Masahiro Kawamura 77-67-71—215 +2Shubhankar Sharma 73-71-71—215 +2Gary Woodland 71-72-72—215 +2Gavin Green 72-73-71—216 +3Ryan Fox 74-71-71—216 +3Henrik Stenson 70-75-71—216 +3Paul Casey 73-71-72—216 +3Brett Rumford 74-70-72—216 +3Kevin Na 70-73-73—216 +3Cameron Davis 71-72-73—216 +3Brooks Koepka 72-69-75—216 +3Tyrrell Hatton 74-71-72—217 +4Paul Dunne 71-73-73—217 +4Cameron Smith 73-71-73—217 +4Brendan Steele 68-76-73—217 +4Luke List 70-70-77—217 +4Keegan Bradley 74-71-73—218 +5Bryson DeChambeau 75-70-73—218 +5Si Woo Kim 71-72-75—218 +5Kiradech Aphibarnrat 74-71-74—219 +6Rafa Cabrera Bello 74-70-76—220 +7Beau Hossler 73-70-77—220 +7
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By The Associated Press(All times Eastern)
Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts
Sunday, July 22AUTO RACING
9:05 a.m.ESPN2 — Formula One, Emirates German Grand Prix, at Hockenheim, Germany
2 p.m.NBCSN — NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, at Loudon, N.H.
BASEBALL8 p.m.MLB — All-American Game, at Chicago (taped)
BASKETBALLNoonESPN — The Basketball Tournament, regional round, at Columbus, Ohio
2 p.m.ESPN — The Basketball Tournament,
regional round, at Columbus, Ohio
4 p.m.ESPN2 — The Basketball Tournament, regional round, at Columbus, Ohio
6 p.m.ESPN2 — The Basketball Tournament, regional round, at Columbus, Ohio
CYCLING7:30 a.m.NBCSN — Tour de France, Stage 15, from Millau to Carcassonne, France
DRAG RACING3 p.m.FOX — NHRA, Mile-High Nationals, finals, at Morrison, Colo.
EXTREME SPORTS1 p.m.ABC — X Games Minneapolis
GOLF7 a.m.NBC — British Open, final round, at Carnoustie, Scotland
4 p.m.GOLF — PGA Tour, Barbasol Champi-onship, final round, at Auburn, Ala.
HORSE RACING4 p.m.FS2 — Saratoga Live, Coaching Club American Oaks, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
MLB BASEBALL2 p.m.TBS — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs
8 p.m.ESPN — N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees
MIXED MARTIAL ARTSNoonFS1 — UFC Fight Night, prelims, at Hamburg, Germany
2 p.m.FS1 — UFC Fight Night, Mauricio Rua vs. Anthony Smith, at Hamburg, Germany
RUGBY2:30 p.m.NBC — 2018 World Cup Sevens, Challenge Trophy semifinals, at San Francisco
7 p.m.NBCSN — 2018 World Cup Sevens, Cup bracket and Ceremony, at San Francisco
SOCCER2:30 p.m.ESPN2 — ICC Futures Tournament, Final, at Orlando, Fla.
4 p.m.ESPN — International Champions Cup, Liverpool vs. Borussia Dortmund, at Charlotte, N.C.
WNBA BASKETBALL3 p.m.NBA — Seattle at Atlanta
6 p.m.NBA — Los Angeles at Chicago
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Saturday’s Sports Transactions
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Acti-
vated 3B Rafael Devers from the 10-day DL. Optioned LHP Bobby Poyner to Pawtucket (IL).
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated OF Avisail Garcia from the 10-day DL.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Announced LHP Ryan Merritt cleared waivers and assigned him outright to Columbus (IL).
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Eduardo Paredes to Salt Lake. Reinstated RHP Nick Tropeano from the 10-day DL.
NEW YORK YANKEES —
Recalled and optioned RHP Domingo Acevedo from and to Trenton (EL).
TEXAS RANGERS — Activated LHP Alex Claudio from the 10-day DL. Recalled RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Ricardo Rodriguez to Round Rock.
National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Added
RHP Jesse Chavez to the roster. Placed RHP Anthony Bass on the 10-day DL. Recalled RHP Dillon Maples from Iowa (PCL). Optioned RHP James Norwood to Iowa. Added RHP Luke Farrell as the 26th man.
CINCINNATI REDS — Placed INF Alex Blandino on the 10-day DL. Recalled INF-OF Brandon Dixon from Louisville (IL).
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roBeson county goLf chaMpionship scores
tone in the afternoon when he decided on the way to the first tee to hit driver on the 396-yard hole. He sent it bouncing and rolling along the firm turf, down a hill and onto the green to about 10 feet away for an eagle.
Moments later, Woods began his charge to get into contention at a major for the first time in five years.
It never stopped. Seven players had a share of the lead at one point. Kisner, who started the third round tied for the lead, was never far away but had to work hard to stay there. He made a tough par save on the 17th, and then got up-and-down from behind the 18th green for a 68.
Schauffele, the PGA Tour rookie of the year last season, holed a 30-foot putt from behind the 18th green for a 67.
They were at 9-under 204.“We’ve got pretty much a
new tournament tomorrow,” Spieth said.
A dozen players were sepa-rated by four shots, which is nothing considering that the last two British Open cham-pions at Carnoustie rallied from 10 shots (Paul Lawrie) and six shots (Padraig Har-rington) on the final day.
The wind is expected to be the strongest it has been all week. And then there’s the presence of Woods, playing in the third-to-last group.
Woods started quietly enough with a few birdies through eight holes. He start-
ed his move with a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 9, followed with short birdie putts on the next two holes and with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 14th, he put his name atop the leaderboard.
It was there for only 20 minutes. But it was there.
A bogey on the 16th and a par save from short of the Barry Burn on the 18th gave him a 66. He figured it would at least keep him in range. He wound up as close to the lead as he has been in a major since he was two behind at Muirfield in the 2013 British Open.
“I’m right there,” he said. “I’ve got a chance at this, which is great.”
And he has company.Kevin Chappell, who spent
most of his round watching Spieth put on a show, birdied the 18th for a 67 and was two shots behind.
Francesco Molinari had a 66 and will play in the third-to-last group with Woods. They were last together three weeks ago when Woods pre-sented him the trophy at the Quicken Loans National after Molinari shot 62 for an eight-shot victory.
Twelve players were sepa-rated by four shots, a group that includes Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Zach Johnson. They all dropped shots on a day when there was no time to be going back-ward. McIlroy was within two shots of the lead until bogeys on two of his last three holes for a 70 left him four behind.
Johnson, staying in the same house as Kisner, Spieth and four other Americans, hooked his approach on No. 12 and three-putted for a
double bogey. He shot 72 and was in the group four behind. Joining them was Tommy Fleetwood, who dropped three shots in two holes on the back nine on his way to a 71.
Of the five players sepa-rated by three shots, only Spi-eth has experience winning a major. He will try to become the first player since Padraig Harrington in 2008 to win golf ’s oldest championship in consecutive years.
His move started with a sudden decision.
The opening hole is 396 yards on the card, with the fairway getting narrow between two bunkers. Spieth, who spent Saturday morning watching the Open on televi-sion, asked caddie Michael Greller on the practice range, “Do we like driver?”
Greller told him no. Play short and it’s a wedge to a front pin, easy birdie chance.
Spieth walked to the tee with coach Cameron McCor-mick and asked him, “How about I just send it on No. 1?”
“I felt good about the range session. And he’s like, ‘I put my chips behind anything you decide, always.’ And that kind of gave me that little extra boost,” Spieth said.
He stuffed his approach to 2 feet on No. 4 and made two short birdie putts until he came to the par-3 16th, when his 5-iron settled 12 feet away for his longest putt of the day.
This is the 16th time he has been in at least a share of the lead in the majors in the five years he has been playing them on a regular basis. And it’s the first time he has had to look over his shoulder at Woods.
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I’ve had the experience and I’ve went through the work that some of these boys haven’t, I know what it takes,” Lowry said. “I push them to try to be better than what I am.”
One of the biggest adjust-ments for Lowry has been learning to play without last year’s senior class.
“The boys that left last year, I’ve been paying with them since middle school,”
Lowry said. “There’s a lot of new boys, so I’m trying to help them because I know the defense every-where. I try to help on offense with what I know.”
Coming off of a 5-7 season that ended in the first round of the playoffs, Lowry thinks his team can put itself in position for a postseason run.
“My goal is to have a win-ning season and make it to the playoffs,” Lowry said.
Reach Brandon Tester at 910-816-1989 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @BrandonTester.
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Football
Friday at Pinecrest Country Club
Championship DivisionStephen Pippin 66-71 — -7Greg Powell 69-69 — -6Keith McGirt 66-74 — -4Ryan Bass 66-75 — -3Jeff Wishart 73-70 — -1John Haskins 72-72 — ELandon Lowry 75-69 — EKyle Covington 73-74 — +3David Lowry Jr. 75-72 — +3Joseph Martin 74-75 — +5Dyrck Fanning 75-75 — +6Mark Lassiter 75-75 — +6Brad Locklear 75-77 — +8Hunter McDuffie 75-78 — +9Kajun Hunt 75-78 — +9Timmie Stultz 78-79 — +13Jeff Broadwell 78-79 — +13Delance Locklear 78-79 — +13Chad Martin 79-78 — +13Christopher Blue 79-79 — +14Russ Seasock 86-80 — +22Ashton Woods 84-86 — +26
Super Senior DivisionDonnie Beck 75-73 — +4Larry McNeill 76-74 — +6Ronald Tyler 78-72 — +6James H. Oxendine 77-76 — +9Atlas Warwick 75-79 — +10Cliff Nance 75-79 — +10Knocky Thorndyke 79-77 — +12Willie Jacobs 79-77 — +12David R. Locklear 78-79 — +13Danny Lassiter 79-78 — +13J.D. Revels 78-80 — +14
Bob McQueen 80-80 — +16Ronnie Hunt 82-79 — +17Gerald Strickland 83-79 — +18David Locklear 81-82 — +19Donald Bruce Oxendine 80-85 — +21Lee Hunt 80-85 — +21Ronnie Chavis 87-78 — +22Dean Hunt 82-85 — +23Willie Oxendine 85-83 — +24Jerry Long 87-86 — +29Gurney Hunt 88-84 — +30Tom Sampson 89-85 — +31Sam Oxendine 92-85 — +33
Regular DivisionAustin Locklear 70 — -2Bryan Haymore 74 — +2Yarnell Locklear 74 — +2Aaron Hunt 77 — +5Brian Taylor 77 — +5Benjamin Collins 77 — +5Phillip Wallwork 77 — +5Marty Hunt 77 — +5Aubrey Oxendine 78 — +6Tim Hunt 80 — +8Mickey Strickland 80 — +8Roy Williamson 81 — +9Justin Britt 81 — +9Daniel Zeng 81 — +9Danny Henderson 81 — +9Bryan Connor 81 — +9Chris Rice 81 — +9Jason E. Locklear 81 — +9Tanner Collins 82 — +10Tommy Britt 82 — +10Adrian Lowry 82 — +10Eddie Scott 84 — +12Gavin Locklear 84 — +12
Brian Ayers 85 — +13Randy Chavis 85 — +13Randy Locklear 85 — +13Kendale Hunt 87 — +15Phillip Maynor 88 — +16Mike Dennis 89 — +17Jordan Sampson 89 — +17Gary Locklear 91 — +19Matt Lassite 91 — +19Shawn Hunt 92 — +20Tarry Jones 92 — +20Matt Steeno 93 — +21Chitenne Jones 96 — +24
Senior DivisionLonail Locklear 71 — -1Eddie Williams 75 — +3David Ayers 78 — +6Pete Maynor 80 — +8Donald Barns 81 — +9Jim Steed 82 — +10Warner Hall 82 — +10Joe Locklear 83 — +11Phillip Bradford 83 — +11Larry Lynn Locklear 85 — +13Keith Woods 85 — +13Garner Revels 86 — +14Jeff Hunt 88 — +16Jason B. Lowry 88 — +16Wilson Jacobs 93 — +21Dock E. Locklear 97 — +25
Ladies DivisionLea Hepler 86 — +14Pandora Carter 89 — +17Madison Deese 92 — +20Marty Duvall 94 — +22Kathy Hansen 99 — +27
Austin Locklear out in front of Regular Division
Behind a back nine 33, Austin Locklear heads into the final day of the Regular Division four strokes ahead of the field after a 2-under-par 70.
He is the only player in the division under par after the first round. He leads Brian Haymore and Yarnell Locklear, with both in second after a 2-over 74. The trio of Aaron Hunt, Brian Taylor and Banjamin Collins sit in fourth place after open-ing with 77s.
Lonail Locklear leads SeniorsAfter playing in the
Championship Division in years past, Lonail Lock-lear easily transitioned to the Senior Division and
leads after the first round, as he was the only player in that Division to break par.
Locklear leads the 2017 Senior Division champion Eddie Williams by four strokes after posting a 1-under 71. Williams fired a 75 in the first round. David Ayers shot a 78 as the three were the only players in the division to break 80.
Tight leaderboard in Ladies Division
All five golfers in the Ladies Division are sepa-rated by 13 strokes head-ing into Sunday’s final round.
Lea Hepler leads the pack with an 86, and Pan-dora Carter sitting three shots back after an 89. Madison Deese posted a 92 in the first round, while Marty Duvall is eight shots off the pace set by Hepler after a 94.
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Sunday, July 22, 2018 3BThe Robesonian SPORTS
Staff Report
Thompson wins the Fairmont GC Championship
Dylan Thompson won his third Fairmont Golf Club Champion-ship title this past Sunday with a five-stroke victory over Bradley Hamilton.
Aaron Maynor won the low net for the championship flight. Bert Thomas was the winner of the first flight, with Ben Green coming in second and Tommy Davis winning low net. Ronnie Cox won the sec-ond flight, with Brian Davis taking second and David Rogers won low net. Kirk Hamilton won the Senior Division Club Championship with a two-stroke victory over Donald Arnette. David Morris won low net. Mike Gandley won the Senior first flight title, followed by Carey Pittman and Danny Glasscock took low net. Aaron Ostrander was the Senior second flight winner, with John Barnes taking second and Clifton Rich won low net.
Tommy Lowry and James Smith had a one-stroke victory over Atlas Warwick and Bob Antone in this week’s Fairmont senior shootout. Jim Rogers and Ted Williams won the second flight, with James How-ard Locklear and Craig Lowry tak-ing second. Lowry, Warwick and Mike Sellers were closest to the pin winners
The next Senior Shoot Out will be played this Tuesday at 8 a.m.
Elvin Mathews, Ellvin Mathews III, David Mathews and Wayne Beasley were the winners of the Thursday evening scramble. They had a two-stroke victory over the team of Allen Oliver, Shane Fipps, Babe Lawson and Brian Haymore. Dickie Lewis, Kelly Lowry, Chuck
Smith and Roger Locklear won the second flight, with Ken Span-gler, Aaron Ostrander and Jasper Jackson coming in second. Wayne Hardwick and Kenny Bailey were closest to the pin winners.
The next Thursday evening scramble will be Aug. 2 at 6pm.
Top rounds posted this week include: Dylan Thompson 67; Bradley Hamilton 71; Bob Capps 72; Eddie Butler 72; Aaron Maynor 73; Kevin Davis 73; Kirk Hamilton 73; Rick Rogers 73; Aaron Ostrander 74; Donald Arnette 74; Mike Gandley 74; Jerry Stubbs 74; Wayne Callahan 74; Clifton Rich 76. Ostrander’s round was his career-best.
Thorndyke, Haskins take Pinecrest shootout
Knocky Thorndyke and John Haskins won the Pinecrest senior shootout this week.
They defeated Mike Sellers and Bobby Benton. Dave Locklear and Jerry Long were the first flight winners over Gene Harrion and Jim Rogers.
Thorndyke and Locklear were the closest to the flag winners.
The next Pinecrest senior shootout will be on Thursday at 8 a.m.
Clifford Bullard tournament scheduledThe 34th annual Clifford Bul-
lard Memorial golf tournament at Pinecrest Country Club will be Sept. 27.
It will be a 1 p.m. shotgun start, with a rain date set for Oct. 4.
For more information, contact Rebekah Lowry at 910-272-3235.
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Courtesy photoKendron Locklear caught this 9-pound, 9-ounce bass in the Lumber river.
By Dan GelstonAP Sports Writer
LOUDON, N.H. — Martin Truex Jr. has a sudden thirst for sponsorship cash.
Truex and his Furniture Row Racing team had about three weeks’ notice that 5-hour Energy was set to leave the defending NASCAR champion as a primary sponsor at the end of the season.
After a 10-year relationship, the NASCAR buzz wore off for the energy brand, the latest big-bucks corporate defector from the sport. 5-hour’s departure leaves Furni-ture Row scrambling for coveted sponsorship dollars for the No. 78 Toyota and one of the top drivers in the Cup Series.
“I wish it didn’t take quite as long as it did,” Truex said Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. “It kind of puts us in a tough spot now. But I’m not really, really worried. I think something good can come out of this.”
Furniture Row should be able to attract a top sponsor: Truex has 16 wins since 2016 and FRR has sponsor-ship funding from Bass Pro Shops and Auto-Owners Insurance, and is locked in with Toyota, the class of the manufacturers.
“I just can’t imagine there isn’t some partner out there that wouldn’t want to be partnered with this whole group,” FRR President Joe Garone said. “We’ve gotten a lot of interest just in the days since we’ve announced it.”
But Truex’s success wasn’t enough for 5-hour to keep pumping the millions of dollars needed to help fund the 78 and the car isn’t the only one on the market. Lowe’s decided to cease its relationship with Hendrick Motors-
ports and Jimmie Johnson at the end of the season after winning seven NASCAR titles.
It’s emblematic of the overall sponsor woes when the last two series champions, like other big names, can’t even keep a long-term backer
“A lot of things go into those decisions,” Truex said. “I don’t know a ton about their business and how it’s doing or anything like that. Obviously, you’d think that with the success we’ve had and kind of how the last two years for us have went that, it’s certain we delivered on our end of the deal.”
Rise’ Meguiar, president of sales for Living Essentials, parent company of 5-hour Energy, said this week the choice to leave the sport was a “business decision.” The company declined further comment Friday.
5-hour was the primary sponsor for 14 races this sea-son, Bass Pro was scheduled for 16 and Auto-Owners for six. Team owner Barney Visser had used his Furniture Row company as a sponsor in the past — Truex wears an FRR firesuit next to Johnson in his Lowe’s suit on the New Hampshire race program cover — but it would be a last-gasp move to put FRR back on the hood.
Garone said the primary goal was to get the Toyota fully funded with outside partners.
5-hour had been a NASCAR primary sponsor for near-ly a decade, including the last seven at the Cup Series level. The company joined Furniture Row Racing in 2017 as majority primary sponsor on the No. 77 Toyota and Rookie of the Year winner Erik Jones, as well as a season-long associate and two primaries on the No. 78 with Truex. It became a primary for Truex this season
when Jones, who won two weeks ago at Daytona, went to Joe Gibbs Racing.
5-hour stuck with NASCAR in the aftermath of the worst cheating scandal in the sport’s history. NAPA Auto Parts cut ties in 2013 when Michael Waltrip Racing manipulated a race to get Truex into the playoffs. But 5-hour stayed on when times were tough — and cut bait when it was riding high as a victory lane regular.
“Some things don’t make sense unless you’re inside the inner working and we’re not there,” Garone said. “I’m sure they’ve got a plan.”
FRR and Truex said the sponsorship search would not derail their plans toward working on a contract exten-sion. Truex won only two career races in eight full sea-sons before he joined Denver-based FRR in 2014 and his career soon skyrocketed toward a championship run.
Garone, who said FRR will “absolutely” eventually return to a two-car operation, said Truex’s deal would get done.
“It’s not real tough with Martin. He wants to race with us, we want to race with him,” he said.
Truex lost a sponsor this week, but he at least won an ESPY for best driver. He skipped the award show for a fishing trip and said he didn’t think he was invited, anyway. ESPN said Friday an invitation was emailed and faxed on June 19 to FRR and two Truex representatives.
“You want to get to Truex you better have his num-ber,” friend and former driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted.
FRR will surely give it to any sponsor that wants to make a deal.
Dash for cash: Cup champ Truex in the market for ‘19 sponsor
By Gary B. GravesAP Sports Writer
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Brittany Lincicome walked off the 18th green after her first PGA Tour event to applause before stopping on the way to the clubhouse to sign autographs and acknowledge spectators’ warm wishes.
The LPGA Tour player made sure to savor every moment of a historic weekend she wished could have lasted longer.
“I would’ve liked to have shot bet-ter (Thursday),” said Lincicome, who missed the cut at the Barbasol Cham-pionship after shooting a 1-under 71 on Saturday. She failed in her bid to become the first female player since 1945 to make the cut in a PGA Tour event.
“Obviously, today was a pretty nice day, so I guess ending with today’s round is a good way to leave.”
Meanwhile, the crowd atop the lead-erboard includes one of Lincicome’s playing partners.
Fairmont native William McGirt made the cut by one stroke, and caught fire to start his round on Saturday. He posted a 65 to move into a tie for 25th
at 11 under.McGirt birdied his first six holes, and
lost a stroke on the 13th hole before closing with birdies on Nos. 14 and 17.
In the final round trailing the lead by seven strokes, McGirt is grouped with Ben Silverman and the duo goes off the first tee at 12:20 p.m.
Robert Streb, six-time PGA Tour winner Hunter Mahan, Tom Lovelady and Troy Merritt shared the lead at 18 under after a busy day in which much of the field had to complete the rain-delayed first round before starting the second. Merritt tied the course with a first-round 62 on Thursday.
“I just tried to keep pace today,” Streb said after shooting 63 with nine bird-ies. “Obviously, the scores were very low, you get to place the ball and the greens are holding. Everybody’s making a bunch of birdies and I’m just trying to keep up and have a chance tomorrow.”
Sam Ryder — who played with Lincicome — and Blayne Barber each shot 63, and Billy Horschel had a 69 to stand within a stroke of the lead. Richy Werenski and Cameron Percy were two behind, J.T. Poston was 15 under, and
four more — including Hall of Famer Davis Love III — were within reach at 14 under.
Attention before that focused on how Lincicome would finish with her chance
of making golf history out of reach.
The eight-time LPGA Tour winner with two major titles was the first woman since Michelle Wie in 2008 to play in a PGA Tour event. Lincicome had sought to join Babe Zaharias (1945) as the only women to make the cut. Hall of Famer
Annika Sorenstam and Suzy Whaley have also played in PGA Tour events.
Lincicome faced a huge hurdle after an opening 78 left her near the bot-tom of the field. She had six birdies in Saturday’s rain-delayed second round at Champions Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club, highlighted by an eagle-3 at 17.
“I thought I hit it a little short,” Linci-come added. “I thought it was going to spin back a little bit on me. Then when it landed I was like, OK, it’s on top and then it rolled back and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ The highlight of my week.”
Lincicome also had consecutive bird-ies on the sixth, seventh and eighth
holes before another on No. 10. But her round included six bogeys, including three on the final four holes, and she finished at 5 over 149.
Playing partner Conrad Shindler, who made the cut along with Ryder, described playing with Lincicome as “a pleasure, a treat.” Despite her roller-coaster performance, he felt her approach was consistent.
“She does the same thing every shot,” he said. “She just knows where it’s going to go. Each day, she gained confi-dence.”
Her goal now is applying lessons learned from playing with the men back to the LPGA Tour. Lincicome couldn’t immediately say whether she would return to play this event, but seemed eager for LPGA Tour and PGA Tour players to be on the same course in some form.
That remains to be seen, but Linci-come definitely appreciated this oppor-tunity with her PGA Tour counterparts. Even without the history.
“Just being inside the ropes with the guys, hitting on the range, on the put-ting green, it’s just a cool feeling,” she said. “I feel like I’m at home here. The guys just made me feel so comfortable.”
Lincicome shoots 71 but misses cut at Barbasol Championship
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the last-place Mets, closer Jeurys Familia was traded to Oakland for a pair of minor leaguers and slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes was out of the lineup because of body sore-ness, one game after returning from a two-month absence. Cespedes said Friday night he may need surgery on both heels that would require an eight-to-10-month recovery.
Judge homered for the Yankees , who trailed after Michael Conforto’s second-inning solo home run but ral-lied against Steven Matz (4-8) with a four-run fourth that included Didi Gregorius’ tying triple, run-scoring doubles by Miguel Andujar (aided by fan interference ) and Greg Bird,
and Austin Romine’s RBI single.Mets center fielder Matt den
Dekker took a bad route as he missed a diving backhand grab on Gregorius’ liner that bounced to the fence, allowed Bird’s drive to glance off his glove as he tried for a running grab on the warning track, and had Romine’s blooper short hop off his glove during an attempted diving catch.
Gray (7-7) is 11-14 in 30 starts since the Yankees acquired him from Oakland last July 31. He allowed three runs — two earned — three hits and three walks in 5 1/3 innings.
“I think it’s just about now creat-ing that consistent momentum where he’s finding success start to start and then kind of building on that, and hopefully that’s something that will continue to snowball for
him,” manager Aaron Boone said.Gray has a 7.62 ERA in nine
home starts this year and a 3.62 ERA in 10 road appearances.
Gray left with a 4-1 lead but David Robertson gave up Amed Rosario’s RBI single in the sixth, then allowed another run in when he made an errant pickoff throw to first .
Bird chased Matz with an RBI single in the bottom half, Judge hit his 26th homer — and 18th at home — through a blustery wind in the seventh against Tim Peterson and Romine added a run-scoring grounder in the eighth .
Pitching for the first time in a week, Chapman reached 98 mph just twice — reigniting questions over the health of his left knee. He walked Kevin Plawecki on a full count, gave up an infield hit to
Rosario and consecutive four-pitch walks to pitch-hitter Ty Kelly and Jose Reyes . Chapman hit Brandon Nimmo with a 2-0 pitch — his 11th straight ball, and Boone summoned Shreve, who had thrown 18 pitches in Friday’s 7-5 loss.
“Not a lot to think about. It’s just a bad day overall,” Chapman said through a translator.
Mesoraco grounded a splitter to second baseman Brandon Drury , who stepped on the bag and threw to first as Kelly scored. Flores fouled off a 2-2 slider, then grounded out on a splitter.
Matz lost his third straight start, giving up five runs and nine hits in five-plus innings.
“Stuff just wasn’t sharp,” he said. “Everything was up.”
Gray wins consecutive starts, Yanks hold on to beat Mets 7-6
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