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Vaping: Does it help or harm?

As vaping is connected
to more health problems,
retailers maintain the
industry saves lives

BY ISABELLE ALTMAN But over the last few weeks, there have been fewer
ialtman@cdispatch.com of those customers since reports of vaping-related
illnesses began to appear all over the country — ill-

R
ob Roberts hasn’t smoked a cigarette in nine
years.
Before his wife died of lung cancer in 2006,
he smoked nearly two packs a day. After some “arm
twisting” from friends and family, he turned to vaping
instead about seven or eight years ago.
Now Roberts owns Nu Way Vape, which sells e-cig-
arettes and other vaping products at seven locations,
including one on Highway 45 in Columbus. He said
vaping helped him quit smoking, saved him the money
he would have spent on cigarettes and has improved
his life and the lives of dozens of his customers who
come in trying to quit smoking.
nesses which Roberts said are not caused by vaping
products from reputable vaping stores.
“Look at the history,” Roberts said. “We’ve been go-
ing good for eight years, and the only problems you’ve
heard about us (was in the last) six to eight weeks.”
This month, both the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis-
tration and the Center for Disease Control announced
officials are investigating more than 1,000 lung
injuries connected to vaping nationwide, with the FDA
specifically warning the public not to use tetrahy-
drocannabinol (THC)-containing vaping products or
products “obtained off the street.”
See Vaping, 8A

Renowned sportswriter talks about finding stories, impact in unlikely places

Feinstein: ‘You don’t have at The Washington Post since 1980
and author of 35 books, all of them Author John
to be rich and famous sports-related, Feinstein found com- Feinstein
addresses
mon ground with an audience whose attendees
to have a story to tell’ interest in sports range from zero to during the
fanatic and all points in between, rely- Welty Gala
By Slim Smith ing on humor and the stories of the real Friday night
ssmith@cdispatch.com at the Trot-
people behind the games he’s covered
for 40 years. ter Conven-
Of all the keynote speakers during tion Center.
the 31 years of the Eudora Welty Sym- “You don’t have to be rich and fa- Feinstein
posium, John Feinstein faced a unique mous to have a story to tell,” Feinstein spoke
challenge. said. “I’ve written a lot about athletes about his
Over the years, the keynote speak- who aren’t rich or famous — my book career and
er at the Eudora Welty Gala has repre- on the Army-Navy (football) rivalry, lessons
the Patriot League (college basket- learned
sented a wide variety of genres. from coach-
Friday evening at the Trotter Cen- ball). I just finished a book called ‘The
es and play-
ter, Feinstein became the first sports Back Roads to March,’ I spent a whole ers over the
writer to hold that distinction. season just hanging out with players years.
A sports writer and sport columnist See Feinstein, 3A Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

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Sunday
Did you hear? Say What?
“Satan wants to remove a vessel that God has installed
Shepard Smith leaves to again be a blessing to the religious community.”
South Carolina pastor and televangelist Rev. Mark

Fox News Channel Burns on President Donald Trump. Story, 7A.

Smith was one as disloyal. On Thursday,

of Fox News
Channel’s original
hires in 1996
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK — Shepard
Smith, whose newscast on
Fox News Channel seemed
increasingly an outlier on a
network dominated by sup-
porters of President Donald
Trump, abruptly quit after
signing off his final news-
cast on Friday.
Smith, who had signed
a contract extension last
spring, said that he had
asked the network to let
him out of his deal and it
had agreed.
“Even in our currently
polarized nation, it’s my
hope that the facts will win
the day, that the truth will
always matter, that jour-
nalism and journalists will
thrive,” he said.
His departure comes
the president cited Smith Ask Rufus
and Fox analysts Andrew
Napolitano and Donna
Brazile in a tweet that said,
“Fox News doesn’t deliver
for US anymore. It is so dif-
ferent than it used to be.”
Asked about it later,
Trump said, “Is he leaving?
Oh, that’s a shame. Is he
leaving because he had bad
ratings?”
Smith’s show averaged
nearly 1.3 million viewers
the last three months, the
Nielsen company said. That
beats CNN and MSNBC.
Fox’s prime-time lineup,
with more viewers avail-
able, generally gets around
3 million viewers.
Neil Cavuto, who an-
chors the broadcast fol-
lowing Smith’s, looked
shocked after his colleague
made the announcement.
“Whoa,” Cavuto said.
“Like you, I’m a little
Courtesy image
stunned.” This public service ad appeared in the Columbus Commercial on Aug. 4, 1918, in response to the Sugar Fam-
Smith was one of Fox ine of 1918-19. On Oct 12, 1919, the Columbus Dispatch reported Columbus stores would run out of sugar
News Channel’s original within a few days.
hires in 1996, and was a

The Sugar Famine of 1919

particular favorite of Roger
one day after Attorney Ailes, the former Fox chair-
General William Barr met man who was ousted in
privately with media mogul 2016 following misconduct
Rupert Murdoch, found- charges and died the follow-

F
er of Fox News, although ing spring. While he often ew people have on the federal Food hand of the retailers will last only
Smith’s representatives angered many of Fox’s con- heard of the Administration saying a few days. Several retailers have
cautioned against conflat- servative viewers, Smith’s sugar famine of its director’s policies completely sold out their stock
ing the two events. work was most prominently 1919 and its impact created the sugar fam- and others are conserving their
Trump has been increas- cited by the network when on Columbus, but 100 ine and “American food stock for their regular customers,
ingly critical of personalities it received criticism for be- years ago a headline in products shipped to limiting the sales to 2 pounds.”
on Fox News that he views ing too partisan. the Columbus Dispatch Europe can be bought Apparently, the great sugar fam-
read, “Sugar Famine cheaper in France and ine even inspired a Blues song. In
Strikes Columbus.” England than in this 1919, Clarence Williams and Lucy
Refined sugar comes country.”
CONTACTING THE DISPATCH from both sugar cane A headline in the
Fletcher wrote the “Sugar Blues.”
Though not recorded until 1922,
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The shortage was covered in Famine Strikes Columbus.” Ac- of knowing history. Several people
The Commercial Dispatch (USPS 142-320) the two Columbus newspapers, cording to the article: including Sir Winston Churchill
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US judge hears arguments about Mississippi election system
‘If elections in Mississippi were a racetrack,
the finish line for the white-preferred
candidate comes much earlier than for the
African American-preferred candidate’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A federal judge
is giving no indication of how or
when he will rule in a lawsuit
that challenges Mississippi’s
unique, multistep process of
electing a governor and other
statewide officials.
U.S. District Judge Daniel
P. Jordan III heard arguments
Feinstein
Continued from Page 1A
and coaches on teams
who won’t be on ESPN.
Some of the best stories
aren’t about people whose
names you recognize.”
To be sure, in his long
career, Feinstein has got-
ten to know many sports
figures who are house-
hold names. But more
often than not, it’s been
the deeper, more person-
al, aspect of those sports
celebrities that have been
most compelling.
One of those stories
came from the late Dean
Smith, the legendary bas-
ketball coach at North
Carolina.
“In 1981, I did a profile
on Dean for the Post,”
Feinstein said. “Dean
never wanted anybody to
write about him. It was
always, ‘Write about the
players. Write about the
players’ with him. I final-
ly convinced him to give
me some time and he also
agreed to give me the
names and phone num-
bers of some of the people
who were important in
his life. One of them was
his minister at Binkley
Baptist Church in Chapel
Hill, a man named Robert
Seymour, and I went to in-
terview him.
“He told me a story
that hadn’t been written
about Dean at that point,”
he continued. “When
Dean was an assistant at
North Carolina in 1958,
he walked into a segregat-
ed restaurant in Chapel
Hill with a black member
of the church and basical-
ly threatened the man-
Correction
■ In Friday’s edition, the last name of the person profiled for breast cancer awareness was misspelled. Her
name is Alice Chain. We regret the error.
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whether a violation occurs
when voters cast ballots or at
decided by the House, and rep-
resentatives are not obligated to
asking Jordan to issue a pre-
liminary injunction to block the
some point later in the process. vote as their districts did. The state from using the system.
Jordan raised questions process was written when white “If elections in Mississippi
about the timing of the case politicians across the South were a racetrack, the finish line
that challenges a system in were enacting Jim Crow laws for the white-preferred candi-
place nearly 130 years, and he to erase black political power date comes much earlier than
Attorneys Uzoma Nkwonta said courts are “generally ill- gained during Reconstruction, for the African American-pre-
equipped” to decide what kind and the separate House vote ferred candidate,” said one of
Friday, just over three weeks of voting laws a state should was promoted as a way for the the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Uzoma
before the state’s Nov. 5 general have. white ruling class have the final Nkwonta.
election. “No matter what I do, I would say in who holds office. Attorney Trey Jones, repre-
He said there are few federal encourage the other side to ap- Attorneys for African Amer- senting the state defendants,
court rulings that provide clear peal immediately,” Jordan said. ican plaintiffs say Mississippi’s asked Jordan to dismiss the
guidance for how he should de- Mississippi’s 1890 constitu- history of racially polarized lawsuit. Jones said the plain-
cide the case, which includes tion requires a statewide candi- voting means that candidates tiffs have not shown they will
arguments over whether the date to win a majority of the pop- preferred by black voters must be harmed under the current
electoral system violates the ular vote and a majority of the receive a higher share of the system.
constitutional principle of one 122 state House districts. If no- statewide vote to win a majori- “If it happens, we’ll deal with
person-one vote and, if so, body wins both, the election is ty of House districts. They are it,” Jones said. “But it hasn’t.”
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LOWNDES COUNTY
ChaNCErY CLErk SUpErviSOr
DiSTriCT 3
Cindy
Egger
Goode Tim
Heard
(R)
(D)
TaX aSSESSOr/COLLECTOr
John
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
John Feinstein answers questions from the audience after giving a speech during Greg Holliman
(R)*
the Welty Gala Friday night at the Trotter Convention Center. The Welty Gala is an Andrews
annual fundraising event hosted by Mississippi University for Women.
(D)*
agement of the restaurant stein added. “I’ve always changed the world. It CONSTabLE
not to serve them. That tried to remember that.” changed the way my two
helped desegregate Chap- Feinstein noted that daughters have grown
COUNTY aTTOrNEY DiSTriCT 1
el Hill restaurants.” sometimes sports can be up and daughters every-
Feinstein was sur- transcendental, with im- where. When I was a kid, William Jake
prised by Smith’s reaction pacts that go far beyond a
there were no athletic
when later he asked the respective game. Starks Humbers
scholarships for women.
coach to tell him more As a lifelong sports fan (D) (D)
about that moment. and with more than 40 We had a volleyball team
“He said, ‘Who told years covering sports, the at my high school. It was
you that?’ And I told him it most important impact of volleyball and cheerlead-
was Rev. Seymour,” Fein- them all is clear to Fein- ing. That was it. Steve Chris
stein recalled. “He said he stein. “Now, that’s all Wallace Griffin
wished (Seymour) hadn’t “I think Title IX was changed,” he added. (R) (R)
told me that. I said, ‘Dean, the most important piece “Women have opportuni-
you should be proud of of legislation of my life- ties they never had before DiSTriCT 2
something like that.’ He time,” said Feinstein of and it’s not just in sports.
said, and I’ll never forget the 1972 legislation re-
Title IX opened the doors
it, ‘You should never be
proud of doing the right
quires colleges and uni-
versities to provide equal
in other areas, too. You’ll General Election Joe
Ables Jr.
thing. You should just do
it.’
access to sports programs
and athletic scholarships
find women today in all
sort of fields they didn’t November 5 (D)
“It’s one of the greatest to women. have access to 40, 50
lines I’ve ever heard in my “It didn’t just change years ago. That’s part of
life from anybody,” Fein- athletics,” he said. “It the Title IX story, too.”
OkTibbEha COUNTY
SUpErviSOr SUpErviSOr
DiSTriCT 3 DiSTriCT 4
Marvell Daniel
Howard Jackson
(D)* (D)
Dennis Bricklee
Daniels Miller
(R) (R)*
TaX aSSESSOr/COLLECTOr
Allen
General Election
Morgan November 5
(R)*
STaTE raCES
SENaTOr rEprESENTaTivE
DiSTriCT 17 DiSTriCT 37
Chuck Gary
Younger Chism
(R)* (R)*
General Election November 5
Call 662-328-2424 for information
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Pregnancy discrimination continues, 41 years after US ban

‘It was just the worry that I was going
to be seen as less reliable because I
was a parent. There’s no good time
to have a baby.’
Baltimore obstetrician and gynecologist
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Business Writer
For 41 years, federal
law has banned preg-
nancy discrimination in
the workplace. But the
stories tumbling out this
week show it’s far from
eradicated.
cers, academics, fast food
workers, lawyers, flight
attendants, administra-
tive assistants and others
say they hid pregnancies
on the job or during inter-
views, faced demeaning
comments and were de-
Dr. Diane Horvath moted or even fired after
revealing a pregnancy.
Prompted by presiden- When some raised
tial candidate Elizabeth doubts about Warren’s
Warren’s claim that she account — noting a 2007
interview in which she
was forced out of a teach-
gave different reasons for
ing job in 1971 because leaving her job — women
she was pregnant, scores pushed back on Twitter
of women have shared and Facebook. Many say
similar experiences on they accept Warren’s ex-
social media. Police offi- planation that she has
grown more comfortable
since 2007 sharing the
ing for a family planning
fellowship five years ago.
ship. But many women
aren’t so lucky.
real reason she resigned
from the school was be-
She hid her pregnancy
for 26 weeks during the
“The stakes are so
much higher if people
cause the principal hired
someone else once War-
application process, buy-
ing multiple suits to hide
can’t get a job that will
pay their rent and keep
ren became visibly preg- her growing belly. their kids from starving,”
nant. “It was just the wor- she said.
“Pregnancy discrim- ry that I was going to
ination is real, and I be seen as less reliable
believe Elizabeth War- because I was a parent,”
ren,” tweeted Dr. Diane Horvath told The Asso-
Horvath, an obstetrician ciated Press. “There’s
and gynecologist who no good time to have a
works at Whole Woman’s baby.”
Health, a clinic in Balti- Horvath noted that
more. she was privileged. She
Horvath didn’t even knew she could fall back
trust her own profession on her medical degree if
when she was interview- she didn’t get the fellow-

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Mississippi Veterans
Memorial Cemetery in Phil graduated from Lee High
in the Class of 1970. He served
Kilmichael. Visitation
is one hour prior to the four years in the U.S. Army
and was a Vietnam Veteran.
service.
He graduated from Florida

STARKVILLE
­ Henry Elmore, 81,
— born July 3, 1939, in
died Oct. 12, 2019, at
Starkville Manor.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Lown-
des Funeral Home in
Columbus.
Paul Ward
INDIANAPOLIS —
Lester Paul Ward, 85,
died Oct. 8, 2018, at
the Rosegate Village in
Indianapolis.
Graveside services
are 11 a.m. Monday
at Furnace Hill with
Sonny McLellan offici-
ating. Chandler Fu-
neral Home in Vernon,
Alabama, is entrusted
with arrangements.
Mr. Ward was born
March 6, 1934, in Bir-
mingham, Alabama, to
the late Lester Willard
and Maggie Crowder.
Paul was formerly
employed as a lithogra-
pher for over 40 years
and was a member of
the Graphic Communi-
cations Union.
In addition to his
parents, he was pre-
ceded in death by his
brother, Billy Lane
Ward.
He is survived by
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Starkville to the late
Willard I. and Leona
Shirley Wells. He was
a graduate of S.D.
Lee High School and
received his associates
degree from Hinds
Community College.
He attended Mississip-
pi State University. He
owned and operated
Regal Carpet Cleaners
for many years and
was a member of First
Baptist Church. Tom
veteran of the United
States Army.
He is survived by
his wife, Sarah Hunter
State University, with a degree in criminology.
Then, he was employed with the Police Dept. in
Hollywood, FL, retiring after 23 years of service.
Phil was preceded in death by his father,
Emmett Perry; and his former wife, Meighan.
He is survived by his daughter, Brittany
(Mike) Giallanza of Cumming GA; and daughter,
Kristen (Wade) Lancaster also of Cumming
GA. Other survivors include his mother, Betty
Jo Perry; brother, Bobby (Marina) Perry of
Columbus, MS; sister, Betsy (Mitch) Adcock
of The Villages, FL; and brother, Andy (Jesse)
Perry of Jacksonville Beach, FL. Phil had five
grandchildren, Oliver and Henry Giallanza,
Mason, Sloane and Luke Lancaster.
A family memorial will be held at his favorite
beach location in Florida at a later date.
Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice
of church or charity.
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Albert Oglesby
Albert Quinton Oglesby, age 75, of Reform,
AL, died October 11, 2019, at Caring Hands
Country Living Home in Gordo.
Funeral services will be 2:00 PM Sunday,
October 13, 2019, at Bethlehem Baptist Church,
with Bro. Lindsey Watkins and Bro. Kenneth
Stough officiating. Burial will follow in the church
cemetery with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform
directing. Visitation will be Saturday, October
12, 2019, from 6:00-8:00 PM at the funeral home.
The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to the
service.
He was preceded in death by his parents and
niece, Jennifer Oglesby.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Faye
Duncan Oglesby of Reform AL; daughter,
Shannon Bowles (Randall) of Millport, AL;
son, Jeff Oglesby (Pauline) of Reform, AL;
sister, Judy Oglesby of Ethelsville, AL; brother,
Roger Oglesby (Jean) of Tuscaloosa, AL; four
grandchildren, Erika Oglesby-Bowles Stanfill,
Katelyn Bowles, McKenzie Bowles and Shannon
VanHestern; two great-grandchildren, Kora
Stanfill and Braxton Cox; and his dog, Sally.
Mr. Oglesby was born February 4, 1944,
in Alabama, to the late James Oglesby and
Juanita Reynolds Oglesby. He was a member
of Bethlehem Baptist Church, where he served
as a deacon. Quinton was retired from Omnova
Solutions in Columbus, MS, with 38 years of
service and was a veteran of the National Guard
Army, with 15 years of service.
His favorite things were being a Pawpaw,
spending time watching his grandkids
participating in their many activities and spending
time with family. He was their number one fan.
He loved Braves Baseball, Alabama Football,
attending church and family gatherings.
Pallbearers will be Tim Oglesby, Doug Pugh,
William Fowler, Roger Swedenburg, James
Tilley, Robert Duncan, Robbie Sanford and Ellis
Turnipseed.
Honorary Pallbearers are the deacons of
Bethlehem Baptist Church, employees of Caring
Hands who took such great care of him, and
Nickie Hammonds.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials
to Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery Fund,
6717 County Road 27, Reform, AL 35481.
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After static summer, Democratic

race enters a chaotic fall
Less than four months before voting process has also high-
lighted Trump’s skill at
begins, front-running candidates are discrediting his oppo-
nents, sometimes with
facing urgent questions about their baseless conspiracy theo-
ries. And Democrats ap-
ability to challenge Trump pear no closer to sorting
out what tactics, what ide-
By JULIE PACE, THOMAS challenge Trump, prompt- ology and what person is
BEAUMONT and STEVE ed by a health scare for best-suited to overcome
PEOPLES Sen. Bernie Sanders, an that.
The Associated Press uneven response by Joe Progressive candidates
Biden to the president’s like Sanders and Warren
WASHINGTON — A efforts to tie him to the are surging in fundraising
Democratic presidential impeachment inquiry and drawing support from
race that had been largely and nagging questions a wide swath of voters, ac-
static through the sum- about liberal Sen. Eliza- cording to polls, but face
mer has tumbled into a beth Warren’s electabili- opposition from moder-
chaotic fall, shaped by ty. Lower-tier candidates ates who question wheth-
unpredictable events and are struggling just to be er now is the time to start
the deepening impeach- heard. the kind of sweeping —
ment crisis surrounding The uncertainty is and divisive — economic
President Donald Trump. heightening anxieties and societal reforms they
Less than four months among Democrats des- are pushing. It’s a concern
before voting begins, perate to defeat Trump some moderates say has
front-running candidates in 2020. Although im- only increased against
are facing urgent ques- peachment could imperil the backdrop of impeach-
tions about their ability to Trump’s presidency, the ment.

Appeals court rules House should

get Trump financial records
‘After months of delay, it is time Patricia Millett. Tatel was
appointed by President
for the President to stop blocking Bill Clinton. Millett is an
appointee of President
Mazars from complying with the Barack Obama.
Trump appointee
Committee’s lawful subpoena’ Neomi Rao wrote in dis-
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. sent that the committee
should have asked for the
The Associated Press which are the subject of records under the House’s
separate legal disputes. impeachment power, not
WASHINGTON — A In a 2-1 ruling, the ap- its legislative authority.
federal appeals court ruled peals court batted away “The Constitution and
Friday that President Don- our historical practice
Trump’s legal claims.
ald Trump’s financial re- draw a consistent line be-
“Contrary to the Pres-
cords must be turned over tween the legislative and
ident’s arguments, the judicial powers of Con-
to the House of Represen-
Committee possesses gress. The majority cross-
tatives.
authority under both the es this boundary for the
The U.S. Court of Ap-
peals for the District of House Rules and the Con- first time by upholding this
Columbia Circuit said that stitution to issue the sub- subpoena investigating the
lawmakers should get poena, and Mazars must illegal conduct of the Pres-
the documents they have comply,” Judge David Ta- ident under the legislative
subpoenaed from Mazars tel wrote, joined by Judge power,” Rao wrote.
USA. The firm has provid-
ed accounting services to
Trump.
Trump went to court
to prevent Mazars from
turning over the records.
He could appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
Rep. Elijah Cummings,
D-Md., chairman of the
House committee that is
seeking the records, called
for prompt compliance.
“After months of delay, it
is time for the President to
stop blocking Mazars from
complying with the Com-
mittee’s lawful subpoena,”
Cummings said in a state-
ment.
The House Commit-
tee on Oversight and Re-
form subpoenaed records
from Mazars in April.
They include documents
from 2011 to 2018 that the
House wants for investi-
gation into the president’s
reporting of his finances
and potential conflicts of
interest. The list of docu-
ments makes no mention
of Trump’s tax returns,
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Roses and thorns
A rose to Mississippi Uni-
versity for Women for another
excellent Eudora Welty Writer’s
Symposium, a three-day event
which concluded Saturday. This
year’s event, The W’s 31st, fea-
tured Mississippi author Kiese Laymon, whose
book “Heavy: An American Memoir” was
awarded the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction,
as the keynote author with Washington Post
sports writer and author John Feinstein serving
as keynote speaker at Friday’s Welty Gala. The
event featured its usual excellent collection of
local authors and artwork. Over the years, we
look forward to the event and are never disap-
pointed. This year certainly was no exception.
Well done!
A rose to East Mississippi
Community College President
Scott Alsobrooks, for his leader-
ship in cleaning up an inherited
mess. This week, The Dispatch
reported on a long history of
“hype videos” produced for EMCC’s football
team that include graphic images of violence,
drugs, sex and offensive language, including
videos that violated the school’s own policies
for content and may have included non-licensed
music and video. Alsobrooks, who arrived as
president in January, had no prior knowledge of
the videos, but has been candid and accessible
— acknowledging the problem and pledging
to provide proper oversight of EMCC’s football
program. In some quarters, the revelations
are viewed as an attack on a highly-successful
football program. That’s the wrong message.
Alsobrooks’ efforts to make sure all aspects of
the school are consistent with the mission of
the school and responsible in the use of taxpay-
ers dollars strengthen every program. And yes,
that includes football. We applaud Alsobrooks
for his leadership.
A rose to the Guy II and Will
A. Jones U.S. Army Reserve
Center for its plans to move a
new training facility located at
Cornerstone Park in Starkville.
Expected to open in 18 months,
the new 25,000 square foot building — 7,000
square feet larger than its current facility,
will include features such as a vehicle bay, an
assembly hall, a weapons simulation range
and officer and classroom space. It will greatly
enhance the training opportunity for our Army
reservists, equipping them with access with
the latest technology and ensuring they are
ready and equipped when called to serve. Our
nation’s readiness to respond to military crises
around the world depends on the training they
receive. We applaud these men and women as
they look forward to this wonderful new facility.
All hail country music (and bless you, Ken Burns)
I
am besotted these days with
the voices of Hank Williams,
Roy Acuff and dear Patsy
Cline, resurrected by Ken
Burns’ Country Music docu-
mentary playing on Public Tele-
vision for the last two weeks.
What hats! When their voices
were etched in my soul there
were no accompanying visuals.
I knew them only by the sounds,
rhythms, and moods that
emerged from radios and juke Marion Whitley
boxes in and around town, but
seeing them now, on Ryman Au-
ditorium’s stage (thank you Public Television) the Opry
is “a whole other thing,” with the makings for a ‘lump
in the throat and a tear in the eye! There were ‘cowboys
with guitars’, or ‘field hands with fiddles’, bringing back
songs with stories so sad you leaned heavy on the shoul-
der of the boy that brought you to the dance. Except, that
is, for “Keep on the sunny side of life.”
Ken Burns suggests, and sets out to show how Coun-
try Music is more than just theme music of Southern US,
more than just America’s music, but that with the coming
of radio and the recording industry, Country spread way
out. That explained how the French waiter in my neigh-
borhood restaurant knew Hank Williams, the Monroe
Boys, and Patsy! He could recite all verses of Wabash
Cannon Ball and to prove it, whisper-sang them to me
in Greenacre Park one Sunday morning. How could he
possibly know?
To his knowledge of radio and the recording indus-
try, add ocean travel. His father, see, had been a sailor
aboard the Liberte, so when the great ship had docked
in New York Harbor, he’d stroll over to Port Authority
Bus Station, then as now, a Mecca for souvenirs of New
York and America. There he’d pick up the latest country
hits for his young son whose collection of “small records”
(45s) was making him the envy of his school fellows back
home in Nice.
Further proof? There was the summer I determined to
master more of the French language than I was getting
in one class a week at the Y, and enrolled in a month-
long course in Avignon to “live the language through
intensive immersion.” Part of immersion was living on an
ancient street in two floors of a 16th century house with
stairs so steep you pulled yourself up with a rope secured
to the wall with iron rings.
Along with French vocabulary and grammar, I was
soaking up antiquity of that third floor room that supplied
all my needs but one, sleep. For that I crept to the fourth
floor and a mattress beneath a slanting roof I could touch
with my toes.
In my class of ten was a lady from Norway who al-
ready spoke her native Norwegian plus German, French
and English as fluent as mine. She’d driven from Norway
to ‘brush-up’ her French. (Know this: Multi-linguists
intimidate me as do folks who take off and tootle around
in foreign lands on their own.)
That said, after that first week of immersion, hearing,
speaking no word of my native English, I was exhausted,
body and soul and leaning toward a wall calendar promis-
ing me two days of English-Only privacy. I was stunned,
conflicted then, when Gerta, there for a “brush-up,”
invited me to spend the coming Saturday exploring the
South of France, in her car.
No, Merci, I must sleep! I must study!
Mais oui! We speak only French, the whole day. Eat
only from French menu in Roman ruins, see wild horses
in Camargue. Speak French, seulement! The vision of my
mattress under my toe-touch roof began to fade. Blame
the horses! I’d seen their pictures in my text book, but in
the flesh? Cavorting in the marshes, unbridled, untamed?
But what of my precious privacy? I’d be locked, yeah
seat-belted into a social situation with this highly accom-
plished lady from Norway who, I felt sure, knew nothing
of intimidation — geographic or linguistic!
And so it was with fingers crossed, I fastened that
seat belt as Gerta got us on the road to Arles with the
confidence of a world traveler. I held my French-English
dictionary in my lap for confidence and tried to relax
with many an Ah oui, tres bien, fantastique ... determined
to maintain the “French Only Pact” to the letter.
Arles was picturesque beside the Rhone, wide and se-
rene. We ordered lunch from a non-tourist menu and ate
among ruins of a Roman amphitheater. I photographed
a cat sleeping on a windowsill beside a pot of African
violets, then drifted, “ah oui, tres bon”-ing over the
picturesque countryside that was “to write home about.”
Finally, as in a dream, two white stallions came cavorting
near the road snorting at Gerta’s car. I snapped one photo
then held my breath till they tossed their manes and gal-
loped off into the marshes and the pages of my memory.
Then, alas! The “French Only Pact” was dashed! Ger-
ta thought it wise to stop for petrol at a roadside place just
ahead. I couldn’t object — her car, her decision — and I
admit liking the look of the place as she pulled to a stop
... in the deafening roar of motorcycles! Four! Bikers!
They knew the place, and in the time it takes to say
“Howdeee” they’d shoved coins into slots and the twang
of Country fiddles erupted into that Saturday night in a
roadside joint with a juke box and a petrol pump.
Not from the famous Ryman stage, mind you, but
made possible by the recording industry, four bikers
and two foreign ladies from Avignon were set tapping,
clapping and singing right along with Patsy Cline, Hank
Snow, Chris Kristofferson and Ernest Tubb. When Gerta
had danced with all four bikers, we called it a night and
headed again to Avignon, “Keeping on the Sunny Side of
Liiiife.” (Granted, we’d have sounded a whole lot better
with some instrumental back up!)
So, letters home closed with something like this ...
“There’s this lady in my class who speaks Norwegian,
“brushed-up” French, German and English, but by dog-
gies, she sings and dances Country! Eat your heart out
Emmylou!”
Marion Whitley, who grew up in Caledonia and Co-
lumbus, lives in Manhattan where she reads, writes and
remembers. Her email address is Whijmar8@aol.com.

A rose to all law enforcement

agents involved in a joint initia-
tive known as “Operation Triple
Beam.” Last week, the U.S.
Marshal’s Service announced
the arrest of 149 people wanted
on crimes ranging from sex offenses, drugs of-
fenses and violent crimes in the Golden Trian-
gle during a six-week operation. The Marshal’s
Service worked with other federal agencies,
state agencies, sheriff’s departments in Lown-
des, Oktibbeha and Clay counties and police
departments in Columbus, Starkville and West
Point, combining their resources in this effort.
By sharing information and resources, the
initiative succeeded in a way that far exceeded
what the agencies could have expected to do
on their own. Their teamwork has made our
communities safer. We salute all who played a
role in this important effort.

State of the nation

It can happen here
I was maybe 10 who were not us, and unmatched wisdom” and customs than in mutual, unspo- civil society has been subvert-
years old when this but we were special muses about staying in office ken agreement to be bound by ed by demagoguery — from
happened. somehow, protected beyond two terms, this letter, those laws and customs. The Father Coughlin and the Ku
Mom is driving, somehow, exempt essentially placing that presi- First Amendment has power Klux Klan to “Liberty cab-
I’m in the back seat. somehow. dent above the law and beyond because we agree it does. bage” and the Scopes monkey
It’s night. She’s America, I’d say, the Constitution, is cause for The courts have the final say trial. “Why, where in all histo-
trying to cross Ver- lives by a similar grave concern. because we agree they do. And ry has there been a people so
mont, a busy L.A. delusion where fas- One need not be a legal you obey subpoenas because ripe for a dictatorship as ours!”
thoroughfare, from cism is concerned. scholar to know Cipollone you obey subpoenas. The words reverberate in
a side street. South- We can only hope has written constitutional But what if some of us re- a nation where the president
bound traffic is last week’s extraor- gobbledygook. For instance, fuse to be bound by that social considers himself a law unto
jammed, but a guy dinary letter from he complains the House has covenant? And what if one of himself. Reading the book,
in a truck makes a Leonard Pitts White House coun- denied the president “the right them is president? one is disheartened and
hole and waves us sel Pat Cipollone to cross-examine witnesses, In a 1935 novel, Sinclair surprised at the speed with
through. We’ve almost cleared will serve the same corrective to call witnesses, to receive Lewis envisions that scenario, which mighty institutions of
the intersection when a car, function for the country as a transcripts of testimony.” a fascist dictatorship coming democracy fall into line with
speeding northbound, clips us. car window once did for me. Given that the impeachment is to America. “Nonsense!” the new way of things. Lewis’
We go spinning up over a low In it, Cipollone declares only at the investigatory phase, snaps one of his characters. book, written as Hitler came
brick wall onto somebody’s the administration’s intent to that’s like a murder suspect “That couldn’t happen here in to power, was called, “It Can’t
lawn. My head smacks the stonewall the House of Repre- complaining that he doesn’t America, not possibly. We’re a Happen Here.” And that, too,
window hard enough to crack sentatives in its impeachment get to tag along with detectives country of freemen.” reverberates. Because obvious-
it. And I remember thinking — investigation. Subpoenas will building the case against him. To which Lewis’ protago- ly, it can.
I may have even screamed it — be ignored, documents with- And since when can a presi- nist, Doremus Jessup, retorts, Indeed, some might say it
“This can’t happen to us!” held. The White House, writes dent just decline to “partici- “The hell it can’t. Why, there’s is.
As a child, you see, I had a Cipollone, “cannot participate” pate” in an investigation? no country in the world that Leonard Pitts Jr., winner
morbid fear of accidents. So in the probe. Given that he Take it as a reminder of how can get more hysterical — yes, of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
somehow, I convinced myself writes on behalf of a president fragile freedom is. The power or more obsequious! — than commentary, is a columnist for
we were immune to them. Oh, who calls himself “the cho- of a democracy, you see, lies America.” And he launches a the Miami Herald. Email him
they might happen to people sen one,” brags of his “great less in the force of its laws and recitation of the many times at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

Religious right sticks by Trump as political heat rises
President: ‘The biggest pastors’ have assured him that
Christians are ‘electrified’ by his clash with Democrats
By ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
As the threat of im-
peachment looms, Pres-
ident Donald Trump is
digging in and taking
solace in the base that
helped him get elected:
conservative evangelical
Christians who laud his
commitment to enacting
their agenda.
Trump told reporters
last week that “the biggest
pastors” have assured
him that Christians are
“electrified” by his clash
with Democrats who are
probing his pushes for
Ukraine to launch an in-
vestigation into a political
rival, former Democratic
Vice President Joe Biden.
And the prominent
Esper: US is not abandoning
Kurds in face of Turkish attack
‘We have not abandoned them.
Nobody green-lighted this operation
by Turkey — just the opposite.’
Defense Secretary Mark Esper
By ROBERT BURNS
and LOLITA C. BALDOR
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — ening the Trump admin-
Top Pentagon officials on
Friday denied the U.S.
is abandoning its Syri-
an Kurdish allies in the
face of a Turkish military
offensive, although the
future of a counterterror-
ism partnership with the
Kurds was in grave doubt.
“We have not aban-
doned the Kurds. Let
me be clear about that,”
Defense Secretary Mark
Esper told reporters. “We
have not abandoned them.
Nobody green-lighted
this operation by Turkey
— just the opposite. We
pushed back very hard at
all levels for the Turks not
to commence this opera-
tion.”
He spoke shortly be-
fore American forces
came under Turkish artil-
lery fire at a small outpost
in northeastern Syria. No
Americans were hurt, and
the Turks insist the Amer-
icans were not targeted.
But the strike shows how
McAleenan, acting Homeland
Security secretary, stepping down
By COLLEEN LONG
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — to spend more time with
Kevin McAleenan, a ca-
reer civil servant who
became the unlikely
point man for President
Donald Trump’s hardline
immigration policies, is
stepping down as acting
Homeland Security sec-
retary after six months on
the job.
McAleenan told The
Associated Press he was
leaving on his own terms
— a contrast to other
top administration offi-
cials pushed out during
Trump’s tenure. But
his departure ends an
awkward period of lead-
ership — one in which
McAleenan delighted
Trump by getting border
crossing numbers to fall
yet remained an outsid-
er in an administration
where top figures — in-
cluding in his own de-
partment — were brash
Trump supporters popu-
lar on conservative media.
A White House official
with knowledge of the
decision confirmed that
it was McAleenan’s deci-
sion. The official wasn’t
authorized to speak pub-
licly and spoke to AP on
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first meeting in 2015.
Maryland-based Pen-
ital affair earlier in his
presidency metastasized
sider his ceding of Syrian
territory to Turkey.
tecostal Bishop Harry
Jackson, who has met
into national scandal.
The current president
Another evangelical
Trump ally who has de-
evangelicals who have Mark Burns, a backer with Trump at the White has no religious leaders fended Trump’s Syria
proven Trump’s most since the early days of House, said that he plans in such a defined role, withdrawal, Liberty Uni-
stalwart allies are staying Trump’s 2016 campaign, to hold a large prayer though he gets frequent versity President Jerry
in his corner for the im- said in an interview that gathering this year for backup from Southern Falwell Jr., said in an in-
“it’s important that reli- “healing in the nation.” Baptist megachurch pas- terview that he and the
peachment fight, even as
some push back against gious leaders reach out But it’s not clear wheth- tor Robert Jeffress — who president are in regular
his withdrawal of U.S. to the president.” Burns er Trump is seeking or warned of “a civil war like communication but de-
troops from northern Syr- contended that Trump’s receiving the religious so- fracture” from removing scribed himself as “not
ia — a move that imperils struggles are partly con- lace that former President Trump — and Rev. Frank- a spiritual adviser, not
scores of Kurdish Mus- nected to his Christian Bill Clinton sought as his lin Graham. The son of a counselor. I’m just his
lims and Christians in the faith, adding that “Satan own impeachment plight the late Rev. Billy Gra- friend.” Falwell Jr.’s wife
region. Although Trump’s wants to remove a vessel intensified two decades ham has denounced the Becki said she also main-
Syria pullback is alarm- that God has installed to ago. Clinton named two impeachment investiga- tains a friendly, mutually
ing conservative Chris- again be a blessing to the progressive pastors to tion but this week asked supportive text-message
tians whose support he religious community.” provide spiritual reprieve followers to “pray w/me” conversation with First
needs to win reelection, Burns said he spoke in 1998, as an extramar- that Trump would recon- Lady Melania Trump.
their rallying against his with Trump briefly last
impeachment indicates a week, when the president
bond that appears strong met with black conserva-
enough to withstand the tives at the White House,
current foreign policy rift and recalled hearing the
as 2020 balloting nears. Holy Spirit “as I crossed
South Carolina pastor the street to walk into
and televangelist Rev. Trump Tower” for their
Esper told a Pentagon
news conference that
Washington is “great-
ly disappointed” by the
Turkish incursion. He
said it has badly damaged
already frayed relations
swiftly the conflict is de- with Turkey, a NATO ally
scending into turmoil. ousted from a Pentagon
Esper’s remarks ap- fighter program in July
peared aimed at strength- for refusing to drop its
purchase of a Russian air
istration’s argument that
defense system that is in-
it did all it could to stop
the Turks and, failing compatible with NATO.
that, was left with no rea-
sonable option but to pull
some U.S. troops away
from the border. It’s un-
clear how far the Turks
will take their offensive,
how badly the Kurds will
be hit and whether U.S.
forces will be compelled
to withdraw entirely in
coming days.
Many have called the
limited U.S. pullback
a grave mistake. Even
some of President Don-
ald Trump’s staunchest
Republican supporters
have sharply criticized it
as a decision that opened
the door for the Turkish
invasion. Some regard
Trump’s move as a betray-
al of the U.S.-armed Kurd-
ish fighters who have, at
great cost, partnered with
American forces against
the Islamic State group
since 2015.
condition of anonymi-
ty. Trump tweeted that
McAleenan was leaving
his family and go to the
private sector.
No replacement was
yet named at the depart-
ment, which has seen its
ranks decimated through
firings and resignations.
The acting DHS deputy
secretary is the head of
the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration.
And it creates yet an-
other top-level vacancy
in Trump’s Cabinet — at
the department responsi-
ble not only for immigra-
tion enforcement but also
for helping states secure
elections.
“We have worked well
together with Border
Crossings being Way
down,” Trump tweeted of
McAleenan.
McAleenan tweeted
that he had worked —
with the president’s sup-
port — to help stem the
border crisis and that
he would help ensure a
smooth transition at DHS.
“I want to thank the
President for the opportu-
nity to serve the men and
women of the Department
of Homeland Security,”
McAleenan wrote.
8A Sunday, October 13, 2019
Vaping
Continued from Page 1A
Vaping is different
than smoking traditional
cigarettes because in-
stead of inhaling tobacco
smoke — and the 7,000
chemicals that come with
it, including tar — users
are inhaling water vapor
from battery-powered
devices. However, vape
products still contain nic-
otine and come in flavors
from tobacco and fruit to
chocolate.
Roberts stressed the
illnesses being reported
are from the products
containing THC (the
substance responsible for
the psychological effects
of marijuana), which are
illegal in Mississippi. Not
all health officials agree
with him though.
“I’m of the old-fash-
ioned thinking that the
only thing that should go
into your lungs is clean,
fresh air,” said Dr. Ciro
Rincon, a pulmonologist
with Baptist Memorial
Hospital-Golden Trian-
gle in Columbus. “…
When vaping initially
was brought up, some
people kind of played it as
the alternative to (ciga-
rette) use in order to quit
smoking or to cut down
on your tobacco use one
way or the other. I think
that was a strategy from
the companies to sell you
more and more prod-
ucts.”
Illness and crackdown
According to the
CDC, as of Tuesday there
were 1,299 cases of lung
injury associated with
e-cigarettes and vaping
products throughout the
country, resulting in 21
deaths. In most cases, pa-
tients reported a history
of using THC-containing
products rather than just
the nicotine-containing
products. However, “the
possibility that nico-
tine-containing products
play a role in this out-
break cannot be exclud-
ed,” the CDC’s website
says.
Mississippi Depart-
ment of Health has
reported five lung injury
cases from vaping state-
wide since Sept. 17, all
with patients between the
ages of 18 and 35. One of
those resulted in death.
Josef Enfinger is
worried the warnings will
deter cigarette smokers
from quitting. He quit
smoking nine years ago
when he tried vaping in
Saltillo. Three years ago,
he opened 1810 Vapors in
Starkville, and has since
opened two more loca-
tions in Columbus and
Tupelo.
Both Roberts and
Enfinger said the prod-
ucts they sell contain four
FDA-approved chemicals:
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JUULpods are vaping products which can be inserted
into vape pens. They concern area school officials
because they’re easy to conceal and can be purchased
at gas stations and convenience stores.
propylene glycol (PG),
vegetable glycerine (VG),
flavoring and nicotine,
with Roberts saying his
products contain less
than 1 percent nicotine.
Enfinger said most of his
customers are between
the ages of 35 and 45, and
Roberts said his average
customer is a 55-year-old
woman. Both said their
customer base is made up
almost entirely of people
who quit cigarettes.
But Rincon said he
hasn’t seen many of his
patients successfully quit
cigarettes when they
start vaping, and even
those who just vape are
still getting the addictive
nicotine chemical.
Moreover, he said
there are some studies
that suggest the chem-
icals in the flavoring
cause allergic reactions
in lungs.
“We’re talking about
very, very thin tissues,”
he said. “A little bit of
inflammation makes ox-
ygen very difficult to go
through that tissue.”
Both Roberts and
Enfinger referenced the
Royal College of Physi-
cians in the United King-
dom, which in December
2018 published a study
concluding vaping is less
harmful than smoking
cigarettes, a statement
echoed by an article pub-
lished on Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine’s
website. However, the
Johns Hopkins article
said e-cigarettes are just
as addictive as traditional
ones, not the best way to
quit smoking and “still
bad for your health.”
Since the CDC and
FDA began investigat-
ing the vaping-related
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Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
illnesses, governments
have looked into cracking
down on the industry.
New York issued a ban of
flavored e-cigarette prod-
ucts last month, though
a state court has tem-
porarily halted the ban.
Still, Enfinger says the
ban has already affected
his business because he
receives products from a
lab in New York.
“If the government
wants to shut vaping
down and ban it as a
whole, saying it is for the
kids, why haven’t they
taken cigarettes and
other tobacco products
off the market?” Enfinger
said. “Products that we
know kill 1,300 Ameri-
cans a day and 480,000
a year. Those are still
sold in every gas station
across the country ... and
they’re going to be per-
mitted to stay sold while
they’re coming after an
industry that’s helping
save lives.”
Marketing to minors
It’s illegal for anyone
under 18 to smoke e-cig-
arettes in Mississippi,
and one thing Rincon,
Roberts and Enfinger did
agree on is that vaping
products targeted toward
teenagers are problems.
Enfinger pointed to
JUULpods, which have
up to 5 or 6.5 percent nic-
otine and are commonly
found in convenience
stores. Roberts and En-
finger said those are the
types of products they
feel teenagers are getting
their hands on.
It’s become a concern
at area schools. Lowndes
County School District
Superintendent Lynn
Wright said
he dealt
with one
issue of a
student hav-
ing vaping
products on
a district
Roberts Rincon Enfinger Wright Labat
campus
earlier this particularly vaping mostly commonly used
month, though he doesn’t targeted toward teens — tobacco product among
think the product is out of “an old enemy with a new middle and high school
control on the campuses. face.” In December 2018, students in the U.S. and
“We’re addressing it Time magazine reported that in 2016, nearly 7 in
just as we would the use tobacco company Altria 10 students had seen
of tobacco or drugs or invested $12.8 billion in some advertisements for
alcohol,” Wright said. Juul Labs, which produc- the products.
“We’re trying to get es JUULpods. “Most teens, when
some speakers come in JUUL representatives they start their experi-
to speak to our student did not respond to a mes- ence with vaping, that’s
bodies about the dangers sage from The Dispatch one of the things they go
of it.” by press time. However, for is those flavors,” Rin-
Columbus Municipal a message on its website con said. “Our lungs are
School District Superin- says its products do not not fully developed until
tendent Cherie Labat said contain THC, and that it we’re ... 18-20 years old,
she’s become increas- is working with retailers so exposing your lungs
ingly concerned about across the country to not to anything before that
vaping products, and par- sell products to minors. can be quite detrimental
ticularly the easily-con- According to the CDC, to the progression of that
cealable JUULpods, e-cigarettes became the development.”
some of which students
can discretely use in
class. She said they can
be disguised as pens or
pencils and that she’s
seen them in convenience
stores in Columbus.
The JUULpods, which
are small and resemble
flashdrives, are inserted
into vape pens.
Prior to this school
year, her staff received
training from the Missis-
sippi Tobacco-Free Coa-
lition of Oktibbeha, Clay
and Lowndes County on
how to recognize vaping
products.
“I’ve been doing this
for 20 years and I think
one thing parents should
be aware of it how dis-
cretely (their children)
can use these products
and how dangerous they
are,” Labat said.
Rincon said many
of the companies that
product vaping prod-
ucts are owned by Big
Tobacco companies,
calling vaping — and
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Tennessee Volunteers defensive back Shawn Shamburger (12) and defensive back Terrell Bailey (36) and defensive back Shawn Shamburger (12) and linebacker
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DAWGS DISMAL IN KNOXVILLE

Stevens’ brutal day, poor offensive

display doom MSU at Tennessee
“Offensively we just couldn’t get anything going until that
second half and that’s my responsibility to get that fixed.”
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — With
Halloween just three weeks away,
it was Mississippi State’s (3-3,
1-2 SEC) horror-filled offensive
performance in Saturday’s 20-10
loss to Tennessee (2-4, 1-2 SEC)
at orange-clad Neyland Stadium
that was a staunch reminder the
holiday season has arrived.
In all, the Bulldogs totaled
just 267 yards of offense — 132
of which came in the fourth
quarter — while quarterbacks
Tommy Stevens and Garrett
Shrader combined for a 11-of-21,
146-yard, three interception per-
formance on Rocky Top.
Junior running back Kylin Hill
was also limited to just 13 yards
on 11 carries, despite averaging
119.2 yards per game this year.
“Guys are upset that we lost
and they’re a little bit down
that we lost, but that’s the way
it should be,” MSU coach Joe
Moorhead said. “If you’re not in
there and it doesn’t hurt and it
doesn’t rip your soul out and it
doesn’t make you feel bad, then
you’re doing the wrong thing.”
Numbers aside, if there were a
script for disastrous starts, Mis-
sissippi State found it on Rocky
Top.
COMMENTARY
Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead
Just a few days after MSU yard-line. Loss to Tennessee
completely changes
coach Joe Moorhead preached Following a
the prowess of Tennessee kick short completion, Moorhead
off specialist Paxton Brooks’ a Stevens scram-
ability to force touchbacks, de-
fensive back Brian Cole fielded
the game’s opening kick at the
ble and a sack, sophomore punt-
er Tucker Day capped off the
less-than-inspiring first drive
MSU season outlook
A
one-yard-line. when he shanked the first of his t the beginning
four punts for just 34 yards. of the Mississippi
Tennessee 20, Mississippi St. 10 “It’s tough to win a game State football sea-
Mississippi St.
Tennessee
0 3 0 7—10
7 3 3 7—20
week-to-week — doesn’t matter son, the optimistic, yet
First Quarter
TEN_Jordan 15 run (Cimaglia kick), 4:56
who it is,” Shrader said post- still seemingly realistic,
Second Quarter
MSST_FG Christmann 51, 7:40
game. “I guess we kind of came expectation was eight to
TEN_FG Cimaglia 49, :00
Third Quarter
out thinking we were more ready nine wins.
TEN_FG Cimaglia 22, 6:12
Fourth Quarter
than we were and we didn’t exe- After the Bulldogs’
MSST_Thomas 17 pass from Shrader (Christmann kick), 8:27 cute how we planned to.” 20-10 road loss to a
TEN_Byrd 39 pass from Guarantano (Cimaglia kick), 2:35
A_85,462. While Tennessee struggled struggling Tennessee
MSST TEN
First downs 20 14 to put the Bulldogs away early team Saturday, that’s all
Rushes-yards 37-121
Passing 146
44-190
167 courtesy of two Brian Maurer in- out the window. Garrick Hodge
Comp-Att-Int 11-21-3
Return Yards 9
10-14-2
27 terceptions in the end zone, the Instead, halfway
Punts-Avg. 4-40.0
Fumbles-Lost 1-0
4-41.25
0-0 MSU offense was anemic at best. through the year, the
Penalties-Yards 4-15
Time of Possession
3-34
26:58 33:02 Returning from an injury-filled Bulldogs might just be lucky to win three of
Individual Statistics
first five games, Stevens was a their final six games and qualify for a school
RUSHING_Mississippi St., Shrader 13-62, Stevens 9-26, Ky.Hill 11-
13, Payton 1-11, Gibson 2-5, Zuber 1-4, D.Williams 0-0. Tennessee,
dismal 6-of-11 for 67 yards and record 10th consecutive bowl game appearance.
Chandler 16-63, Jordan 19-59, Maurer 3-41, J.Jennings 1-22, Gray
2-7, Wood-Anderson 1-5, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Guarantano 1-(minus
two interceptions before being Coming off a bye week, MSU was a 6.5 point
5).
PASSING_Mississippi St., Stevens 6-11-2-67, Shrader 5-10-1-79. benched at halftime. And while favorite entering Neyland Stadium. It didn’t
Tennessee, Guarantano 6-7-0-106, Maurer 4-7-2-61.
matter that the Bulldogs had just taken a 56-23
RECEIVING_Mississippi St., Mitchell 5-58, S.Guidry 2-36, Thomas a handful of the incompletions
2-25, Witherspoon 1-18, F.Green 1-9. Tennessee, Byrd 3-56, J.Jen- beatdown at Auburn two weeks beforehand, the
nings 3-17, Keyton 1-41, Wood-Anderson 1-28, Palmer 1-16, Jordan were on his receivers, both turn-
1-9. projection felt justified.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Mississippi St., Christmann 36. overs fell entirely on Stevens.
For all of MSU’s faults, Tennessee looked
The first misfire came after
like it was much more of a mess before kickoff.
he overshot a wide-open Ded- The Vols, 1-4 entering Saturday’s contest,
As the kick caromed into drick Thomas at the Tennessee
his hands, Cole bobbled the were reeling internally after having to dismiss
10-yard-line, planting the ball in Jeremy Banks from the team. Video had recent-
ball, charged forward and was Kenneth George Jr.’s lap.
swarmed by a wall of Tennessee See Hodge, 8B
See MSU, 8B
special teamers at the MSU nine-
2B Sunday, October 13, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Prep Football
Friday’s Mississippi Scores
Local
Caledonia 26, Mooreville 18
Columbus Christian 48, Ben’s Ford, La. 12
Sanders keys big fourth quarter as West Lowndes upsets No. 2 Smithville
Grenada 35, Columbus 6
Heritage Aca. 39, Lamar School 7
Starkville 49, Greenville 26 by theo derosa
Starkville Aca. 44, Bayou Aca. 0
West Lowndes 18, Smithville 6 tderosa@cdispatch.com
West Point 27, Lake Cormorant 14

Jherquaveus Sanders took

State
Adams Christian 40, St. Aloysius 23 off down the left sideline
Benton Academy 20, Hillcrest Christian 18
Briarfield, La. 44, Deer Creek School 12 through the wind and the rain.
Canton Aca. 22, Winston Aca. 15
Carroll Aca. 50, Oak Hill Aca. 13 There wasn’t a trace of the
Cathedral 44, Centreville Aca. 42
Coffeeville 30, Riverside 0
limp Sanders displayed post-
Collins 16, North Forrest 0
Columbia 36, Jefferson Davis County 22
game when the West Lowndes
D’Iberville 42, West Harrison 7 senior receiver caught a short
Delta Aca. 44, North Sunflower Aca. 22
East Marion 40, St. Patrick 17 pass from quarterback Melvin
Enterprise Clarke 28, Mize 22
Greene County 40, Forrest Co. AHS 0 Crawford, found a seam near
Gulfport 31, Hancock 28
Hatley 21, Aberdeen 18 the sideline and outstripped
Hazlehurst 39, Franklin Co. 22
Humphreys Aca. 40, Sharkey-Issaquena Aca. 12
the entirety of the Smithville
Indianola Aca. 17, Lee Academy-Clarksdale 12 defense.
Jackson Prep 56, Washington School 21
Kemper Aca. 66, Christian Collegiate 34 Even on an injured ankle,
Kirk Aca. 27, Winona Christian 26, OT
Lafayette 24, Center Hill 7 even in adverse weather condi-
Lake Charles College Prep, La. 28, Port Gibson 0
Lanier 46, Raymond 6 tions, Sanders’ talent would not
Leake Aca. 41, Wayne Aca. 6
Lewisburg 14, Hernando 6
be denied. His 70-yard score
Lumberton 69, Salem 6 with 6 minutes, 46 seconds to
Madison-Ridgeland Aca. 47, Hartfield Academy 10
Manchester Aca. 52, Lee Academy, Ark. 16 go in Friday’s game put the host
Marvell Academy, Ark. 44, Delta Streets 8
Mendenhall 56, Richland 21 Panthers up 12-6 on the No. 2
Mount Olive 28, Sebastopol 0
Myrtle 20, Thrasher 0 team in Class 1A, and Sanders
New Hope 19, Saltillo 16
North Delta 50, Rossville Christian, Tenn. 0
tossed a 23-yard touchdown
North Pike 27, McComb 24
North Side 22, Charleston 8
pass to Crawford with under
Northeast Jones 16, Florence 0 three minutes to go to seal a
Northwest Rankin 35, George County 0
Oak Forest, La. 42, Copiah Aca. 7 huge 18-6 home victory for
Oak Grove 55, Meridian 6
Ocean Springs 14, Biloxi 0 West Lowndes.
Okolona 32, Vardaman 19
Park Place Christian Academy 35, Central Hinds Aca. “He came through like Qua
28
Parklane Aca. 40, Amite School 21
always does,” Panthers coach
Pascagoula 22, Gautier 16 Anthony King said.
Pearl 42, Terry 7
Pearl River Central 28, Long Beach 14 Sanders made slow progress
Petal 27, Brandon 24
Picayune 48, Hattiesburg 15 off the field after the final whis-
Poplarville 41, Stone 14
Potts Camp 12, Mantachie 8 tle, but he said the victory out-
Prentiss Christian 52, Rebul Aca. 12
Ridgeland 48, Callaway 30
weighs any pain he was feeling.
Riverfield, La. 20, Brookhaven Academy 7 “Ankle’s feeling pretty
Ruleville 20, Humphreys 0
Seminary 46, Tylertown 7 good,” Sanders said. “Ankle’s
Simpson Aca. 14, Presbyterian Christian 7
South Jones 21, Jim Hill 20 feeling great with the win.”
South Pike 38, Lawrence County 7
Southeast Lauderdale 29, Forest 16 It was a big win indeed for
St. Joseph-Greenville 50, Pillow Aca. 41
St. Martin 27, Harrison Central 0
the Panthers, who are now 7-1
St. Stanislaus 42, Bay 35
Tensas Academy, La. 36, Wilkinson County Christian
and have an excellent shot at
Academy 14 hosting a playoff game — near-
Tri-County Aca. 35, Clinton Christian Academy 0
Vancleave 29, Moss Point 22 ly a certainty should they beat
Velma Jackson 35, St. Andrew’s 0
Wayne County 42, East Central 40 No. 3 Noxapater on the road
West Jones 37, Forest Hill 18
West Lincoln 33, Enterprise Lincoln 0 next week.
West Marion 12, Magee 7
West Tallahatchie 18, Shaw 8
With the way West Lowndes
Winona 56, Coahoma AHS 40 played Friday against Smith- Austin Frayser/Special to the Dispatch
Thursday’s Mississippi Scores ville — especially on defense A group of West Lowndes defenders track down Smithville ball carrier to a negative gain Friday.
Local
Corinth 51, Noxubee County 14 and down the stretch — the
New Hope 19, Saltillo 16
Panthers should have an excel- and ran it back to the Smithville for too long. He caught Craw- means the Panthers’ seniors
State
Amite County 42, Loyd Star 22 lent shot. 45. ford’s screen pass, and he was can go out with a signature
Amory 56, Alcorn Central 0
Bay Springs 50, Puckett 0 Forced to rely more heavi- “He’s one of our alpha males off to the races. win. West Lowndes has three
Biggersville 24, Baldwyn 13
Booneville 35, Belmont 7 ly on their running game, the up front, and he always comes On the Panthers’ next drive, straight road games to close its
Calhoun City 36, Eupora 0
Seminoles’ solid passing game through, and he came through with the objective of running 2019 slate, and the Panthers are
Choctaw County 24, Houston 12
Clarksdale 35, Gentry 0
was limited. with a big interception when we out the clock on the Seminoles, happy to send off Sanders and
Cleveland Central 34, Vicksburg 24
Clinton 30, Murrah 0 “We knew the weather was needed it,” King said of Black- Sanders got the ball every time. his fellow seniors the way they
Coldwater 42, Benton County 26
Crystal Springs 47, McLaurin 0 gonna keep them from throw- well. He raced into Smithville terri- hoped for.
East Union 42, Walnut 7
East Webster 41, J.Z. George 6 ing it as much as they wanted The senior’s big play set tory with a 33-yard scamper, “We’re gonna miss all of
FACS, Tenn. 47, Northpoint Christian 40
Greenwood 41, Rosa Fort 7 to, so we were that the weather up a deep pass from Crawford was stopped twice on run plays them, but we’re glad they came
Holmes County Central 32, Provine 13
Itawamba AHS 22, Shannon 14 played in our favor,” King said. that Sanders hauled in at the and tossed a 23-yard score to out with a win,” King said.
Jefferson County 50, Wilkinson County 14
Smithville’s lone touchdown, Seminoles’ 17. Wilburn took a Crawford to give the upstart “That’s all we can ask for.”
Kossuth 20, Nettleton 16
Laurel 48, Natchez 14 though, was through the air: middle handoff and waltzed in Panthers an upset win they
LeFlore 26, Simmons 24
Leake Central 21, Northeast Lauderdale 19 a 28-yard pass from Octavion on the next play, finishing the needed against one of the top West Lowndes 18, Smithville 6
Louisville 43, Choctaw Central 14
Madison Central 28, Warren Central 7 Miller to Dyllan Moffett with transformation of a Smithville teams in their class. Smithville 0 0 6 0—6
West Lowndes 0 6 0 12—18
Magnolia Heights 42, Marshall Aca. 34
Morton 29, Clarkdale 7 6:06 left in the third quarter. scoring chance in a scoreless “They came over, and we Second quarter
Nanih Waiya 42, Bruce 31
Neshoba Central 56, Canton 34 The score was the Semi- game to a West Lowndes touch- beat them pretty good, so it 11:04 WL — Kelvin Wilburn 17 run (kick failed)
Third quarter
New Albany 19, North Pontotoc 0 noles’ eventual answer to a down. feels pretty good,” Sanders 6:06 S — Dyllan Moffett 28 pass from Octavion Miller (run failed)
Fourth quarter
North Panola 37, Byhalia 13
Noxapater 39, French Camp 7 17-yard touchdown from West The teams traded punts and said. 6:46 WL — Jherquaveus Sanders 70 pass from Melvin Crawford
O’Bannon 35, Coahoma Co. 8 (run failed)
Olive Branch 24, Horn Lake 14 Lowndes running back Kelvin stops and more punts and more King said being able to beat 2:54 WL — Crawford 23 pass from Sanders (run failed)
Oxford 51, DeSoto Central 6
Pelahatchie 63, South Delta 34 Wilburn 56 seconds into the stops before, on the Panthers’ Smithville — a first in West S
Team statistics
WL
Philadelphia 37, Lake 15
Pisgah 33, St. Joseph-Madison 7 second quarter. second drive of the third quar- Lowndes history — meant “a First downs
Rushes-yards


17
44-185


11
24-116
Pontotoc 35, South Pontotoc 0
Purvis 28, Sumrall 17
Wilburn’s score was the ter, Moffett picked off Crawford whole lot” to the team and the Passing yards 95 190
Comp.-att.-int. 9-21-1 10-23-1
Quitman 23, Newton County 0 culmination of a three-play se- on an overthrow then took Mill- school. Penalties-yards 7-69 9-95
Ripley 58, Tishomingo County 14
Scott Central 55, Newton 12 quence that might have been as er’s pass to the house on the “We’re trying to get this Fumbles-lost 2-1
Individual statistics
4-1
Senatobia 31, Holly Springs 0
South Panola 35, Germantown 7 big as any in Friday’s game. Seminoles’ first offensive play, program to take the next step,” RUSHING: Smithville — Octavion Miller 20-100, Jabril Smith
23-78, Landon McMellon 1-7; West Lowndes — Jherquaveus
St. Charles Catholic, La. 28, Port Gibson 0
Sylva-Bay Aca. 36, Newton Co. Aca. 7 With the Seminoles driving tying the game. King said. “We want to get to Sanders 10-64, Albert Plair 9-29, Kelvin Wilburn 4-21, Melvin
Crawford 1-2
TCPS 41, Hamilton 0
Taylorsville 48, Heidelberg 6 into West Lowndes territory, Trusted with the ball on a where Smithville is, build that PASSING: Smithville — Octavion Miller 9-21, 95; West Lowndes
Tupelo 35, Southaven 34
Union 34, Stringer 0
defensive lineman Tyler Black- third-down play in the middle tradition.” — Melvin Crawford 9-22, 167; Jherquaveus Sanders 1-1, 23.­
RECEIVING: Smithville — Dyllan Moffett 1-28, Jordan Wardlaw
Water Valley 21, Independence 17 well picked off a pass from Mill- of the fourth quarter, Sanders A positive outcome in the 2-24, Landon McMellon 2-18, Blake Duncan 2-15, Jabril Smith
2-10; West Lowndes — Jherquaveus Sanders 6-131, Albert Plair
West Lauderdale 41, Kosciusko 7
Yazoo County 31, Raleigh 14 er at the Panthers’ 37-yard line made sure it wouldn’t stay tied team’s final home contest 2-25, Melvin Crawford 1-23, Decamby Willis 1-11.

No. 1 Heritage Academy cruises to 39-7 victory over Lamar

By GARRICK HODGE asset as the team’s kicker, Miller took a Lamar pass to
ghodge@cdispatch.com especially considering he the house from 10 yards out
hasn’t kicked since he was in the second quarter.
You wouldn’t think Her- a freshman. “I really feel like (we
itage Academy football “Noel is such a good have) the best secondary
coach Sean Harrison would player,” Harrison said. “You
have much to complain in the state,” Harrison said.
love to coach him because “(Partridge) for them, he’s
about in the midst of his he works for everything he
team’s undefeated season. one of the top receivers in
does.” the state and had no down-
Nevertheless, Harrison
Heritage Academy went field catches. He caught a
always found something to
up two scores on the next couple screens, but the sec-
nitpick in the Patriots’ first
possession after Putt con- ondary did a tremendous
eight victories. That ended
nected with Davis Fitch for job.”
Friday night.
a 22-yard pass on 4th-and-6,
Heritage, the No. 1 pri- The second half was
the signal caller’s second
vate school team in the lat- mostly a breeze for the host
est Associated Press Mis- score of the evening.
Patriots with a running
sissippi high school football Putt finished with three
clock, but Lamar’s Daulton
poll, manhandled Lamar touchdowns on the day, in-
cluding one in the second Nelson got the Raiders
39-7 in Columbus. The Pa- on the board in the fourth
triots dominated from the quarter to Sam Hannon.
“We have a bunch of quarter with a garbage
start, taking a 39-0 lead into time 16-yard run.
halftime. guys where if you get them
in open space, they’re go- Heritage Academy is
“Every week I’ve had
ing to make plays for us,” back in action against rival
some complaint that we’ve
Putt said. “We’ve got some Starkville Academy Friday
lost focus, or didn’t do this
guys that are really good, in Starkville.
or that,” Harrison said. “To-
night we played as well as and others that are great. “It’s always a fun week,”
we could have.” It’s really hard to stop our Harrison said. “We’ll get to
With the win, the Patri- Austin Frayser/Special to the Dispatch whole offense in both the work on those guys tonight.
ots improve to 9-0, while Heritage running back Austin Dotson (6) looks for running room around the corner run game and pass game, They’re playing really well
Lamar falls to 6-3. as he passes Lamar defenders Friday in Columbus. and our line is the best in right now so we’re excited
After forcing a three and minutes into the game. mar’s offensive game plan “They like to throw it the state. It’s hard to stop us to play them.”
out on Lamar’s first offen- “It’s a play designed to centered around wideout to him. I saw him look that all around.”
sive series, the Patriots got get me open in the mid- Jacob Partridge. Nearly ev- way, and one of the biggest Heritage Academy run- Heritage Academy 39, Lamar 7
on the board with a three- dle of the field and make a ery series, the Patriots had routes he likes is the slant,” ning back KJ Smith also L 0 0 0 0-7
HA 21 18 0 0-39
play drive that was capped move, which I did,” Fisher two defensive backs trail- Fisher said. “I just went made his presence felt with First quarter
off with senior quarterback said. “I got through and it ing the senior pass catcher. over, he overthrew the ball two rushing touchdowns HA - Noel Fisher 39 pass from Carter Putt (Fisher
kick)
Carter Putt hooking up was a good pass.” Fisher, a free safety, un- and I was able to make the and also recorded a sack HA - Davis Fitch 22 pass from Putt (Fisher kick)
HA - KJ Smith 3 run (Fisher kick)
with senior wideout Noel Fisher’s next big play dercut a slant route on the play.” defensively. The Patriots’ Second quarter
Fisher on a crossing route came on the defensive end. next series and recorded an Harrison praised Fish- secondary kept Partridge HA - Smith 11 run (kick failed)
HA - Wesley Miller 10 interception return (pass failed)
that went 39 yards for a Heritage Academy knew interception, setting up the er’s defensive awareness, in check all night, and deliv- HA - Sam Hannon 13 pass from Putt (kick failed)
Fourth quarter
touchdown less than two coming into the contest La- Patriots at the 36-yard line. and noted he’s been a big ered a pick-six after Wesley L - Daulton Nelson 16 run (Zagar Cooper kick good)
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, October 13, 2019 3B

Prep Football
Friday’s Alabama Scores
Abbeville 32, Daleville 6
Addison 44, Tanner 25
State

Alabama Christian Academy 14, LaFayette 7

Albertville 49, Lee-Huntsville 28
Alexandria 41, Southside-Gadsden 20
Aliceville 29, Southeastern 7
Falcons fall 35-6 to Grenada
By David Miller
Alma Bryant 26, Baker 13
American Christian Academy 58, Sipsey Valley 7 Special to the Dispatch
Andalusia 28, Escambia County 0
Anniston 56, White Plains 27
Ariton 60, Barbour County 6
Athens 55, Columbia 6 Only a few weeks ago, the Co-
Auburn 35, Smiths Station 14
Austin 45, Huntsville 16 lumbus High School football team
Autauga Academy 60, Lakeside School 20
B.B. Comer 20, Pleasant Valley 19
was looking for its first milestone
Bayside Academy 21, Excel 14
Berry 31, Brilliant 20
of the 2019 season: a victory.
Bibb County 42, Chilton County 6 The Falcons beat Lanier for
Billingsley 31, Autaugaville 14
Blount 39, Gulf Shores 0 a district win and followed with a
Boaz 31, Sardis 28
Brantley 41, Red Level 13 win over county rival New Hope.
Bullock County 41, Prattville Christian Academy 6
Catholic-Montgomery 49, B.T. Washington 0 But Friday, after a blowout loss to
Central - Clay County 65, St. Clair County 0
Charles Henderson 28, Carroll-Ozark 18 Grenada - its second straight in
Cherokee County 47, Ashville 22
Clarke Prep 27, Patrician Academy 16
district play - the reality of “playoff
Clay-Chalkville 49, Pell City 0 football” is clear, said Joshua Pul-
Clements 26, East Lawrence 13
Cleveland 59, Woodland 36 phus, first-year Columbus coach.
Colbert Heights 21, Lexington 20
Cold Springs 20, Winston County 14 The Falcons gave up three
Collinsville 56, Asbury 6
Coosa Christian 36, Gaylesville 20 first-quarter touchdowns to the
Cordova 46, Curry 20
Corner 19, Hayden 17 Chargers and trailed by five scores
Crenshaw Christian Academy 49, Jackson Academy
13
at the break before falling 35-6.
Daphne 55, Robertsdale 14
Decatur Heritage 21, Falkville 14
Their issues were aplenty - they
Deshler 35, Brooks 20 couldn’t stop the run, couldn’t pass
East Limestone 35, Ardmore 7
Elba 50, Georgiana 26 the ball and couldn’t convert in the
Ellwood Christian Academy 40, A.L. Johnson 14
Escambia Academy 35, Hooper Academy 14 red zone - but the mental break-
Etowah 35, Douglas 0
Eufaula 48, Russell County 0 downs defending Grenada’s pow-
Fairfield 44, Woodlawn 14
Fairhope 21, Foley 13
er running game were an early
Fairview 35, West Morgan 28
Faith Academy 35, Vigor 8
dagger to the Falcons. On the first
Flomaton 18, Mobile Christian 13 play of the game, Grenada running
Florala 64, McKenzie 40
Florence 24, Gadsden 10 back Demarquese Gibson ran un-
Fort Dale Academy 20, Pike Liberal Arts 7
Fultondale 21, Midfield 18 touched for a 58-yard touchdown
Fyffe 42, Cedar Bluff 0
G.W. Long 49, Houston County 7 run. Gibson would add a 73-yard David Miller/Special to the Dispatch
Geneva 34, Houston Academy 27
Geneva County 34, Cottonwood 14 touchdown run on the first play of Columbus High quarterback Ethan Conner runs the ball against Grenada.
Good Hope 17, Haleyville 11
Gordo 42, Greene County 14
the Chargers’ third drive to push
Goshen 57, Calhoun 0 the lead to 21-0. off by Mississippi State commit- change” from the opening whistle. fense,” Pulphus said. “And I tell
Greenville 28, Beauregard 12
Hackleburg 38, Phillips-Bear Creek 22 The Chargers scored on their ment Emmanuel Forbes. He acknowledged the need for the kids that in order to get on the
Hamilton 17, Russellville 0
Hartselle 49, Decatur 7 first five drives of the game. Columbus reached the Grena- an “alpha” player to help carry the field, you have to take pride in spe-
Hatton 51, Tharptown 7
Headland 50, Ashford 28 The issue, Pulphus said, is da 11 on their fourth series after a team through its growing pains cial teams. [Mosley] is the leader
Helena 45, Carver-Birmingham 13
Highland Home 52, Luverne 28 “playoff football,” noting that the 25-yard run from Karon Hawk, Jr., but said that ascension will happen of the special teams unit, no mat-
Hillcrest-Evergreen 10, Clarke County 0 Falcons are still in the hunt for a but a personal foul penalty washed organically, and that it “takes time ter what it is. He’s the first one out
Hokes Bluff 43, Cleburne County 0
Holt 34, Hale County 20 playoff spot. the drive. to happen.” there, and he’s hungry. He does a
Holtville 35, Leeds 7
Homewood 27, Chelsea 26 “You can’t rely on one person to Then, just seconds before half- “You can’t put that pressure good job of getting after it.”
Hoover 42, Spain Park 35
Hueytown 56, Bessemer City 7 carry you, and we’ve been watch- time, the Falcons, buoyed by a on your seniors, because you Gibson led Grenada with 128
Isabella 48, Maplesville 34
J.B. Pennington 34, Holly Pond 8 ing other people make plays,” he 60-yard kickoff return by Michael went two years without having rushing yards and three touch-
J.U. Blacksher 13, Chickasaw 6
Jackson 40, Citronelle 7 said. “We’ve been stuck there. In Mosley, came up empty after that alpha leader,” Pulphus said. downs.
Jacksonville 55, Oneonta 21 playoff football, everybody has to reaching the Grenada 6-yard line. “And what we’re asking now - you Conner had 102 yards on 14 car-
Jasper 42, Lawrence County 20
Kinston 31, Pleasant Home 7 do their assignment and jobs. We “Games aren’t won by just see where we’re going - our guys ries and Hawk, Jr. had 54 yards on
Lanett 42, Loachapoka 0
Lauderdale County 53, Phil Campbell 0 had one missed tackle on the first showing up on Friday night,” Pul- are showing leadership each and six carries for Columbus.
Leroy 27, Cottage Hill 6
Lincoln 34, Handley 30 four touchdowns, and that’s be- phus said. “Games are won Sun- every way. Our quarterback is Grenada 35, Columbus 6
Grenada
Linden 28, Francis Marion 6
Lynn 31, Hubbertville 20 cause one person didn’t execute. day through Thursday. Prepara- getting more experience in tak- Columbus
21
0
14
0
0
6
0–35
0–6
Madison County 49, Madison Academy 21
Mae Jemison 42, Hazel Green 21 What the kids don’t understand tion from being prepared in class, ing over the huddle. It’s the small First Quarter
GHS – Demarquese Gibson 58 run (Remmington Smith kick).
Marbury 35, Jemison 12
Mars Hill Bible 34, Central-Florence 12 is that when you get to playoff foot- being prepared in school, being things that we’re doing.” GHS – Gibson 1 run (Smith kick).
GHS – Gibson 73 run (Smith kick).
McAdory 28, Hillcrest 14
McGill-Toolen 17, Theodore 6
ball, teams expose your weakness- prepared in practice - they’re all A potential alpha is Mosley, Second Quarter
GHS – Joshua Phillips 43 pass to Emmanuel Forbes (Smith kick).
Millry 68, J.F. Shields 30 es. Grenada had a great offensive critical for being ready on Friday who had special teams returns of GHS – Cameron McBride 4 run (Smith kick).
Montgomery Academy 33, Southside-Selma 30 Third Quarter
Moody 25, Springville 19 design to attack us.” night. 33 and 60 yards before reeling off COL – Michael Mosley 65 punt return (pass failed).
Mortimer Jordan 36, Munford 14
Mountain Brook 11, Hewitt-Trussville 10 The Falcons (2-5, 1-2 5A-1) had “We’re working on it.” a 65-yard punt return in the fourth
Team Statistics
GHS COL
Murphy 13, Davidson 7
North Sand Mountain 48, Ider 7 a chance to keep pace early in the Pulphus and the Falcons turned quarter. On the score, Mosley First Downs 16 11
Rushes-Yards 42-284 35-183
Northridge 42, Brookwood 14
Northside 40, Oak Grove 14 game, marching 40 yards to the a corner in the second half, hold- nearly slipped and fell on the wet Passing Yards 61 8
Comp.-Att.-Int. 4-4-0 1-7-1
Northside Methodist 20, Success Unlimited Academy
14
Grenada 31-yard line on their first ing Grenada scoreless and getting field before making two moves and Return Yards 5 215
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0
Notasulga 67, Verbena 0 possession before flaming out on a inside the Chargers (5-2, 2-1) red racing up the left sideline, where Penalties 2-20 9-66
Oak Mountain 53, Tuscaloosa County 32 Individual Statistics
Oakman 40, Lamar County 13 stuffed fourth-down run by quar- zone two more times. Despite their he received a pair of critical blocks RUSHING: Grenada – Demarquese Gibson10-128, Cameron
Opelika 41, Calera 0
Oxford 38, Shades Valley 20 terback Ethan Conner. On their offense coming up scoreless, Pul- to help spring him to the end zone. McBride 14-73, Joshua Phillips 4-42, Jalen Barnes 6-17, Joe Moss
2-10, DJ Harbin 1-7, Jaylon Skinner 3-4, Cedonte Miers 1-2, Trey
Pickens County 44, Meek 13
Piedmont 64, Glencoe 7 second drive, Conner opened with phus was excited to see his team Mosley finished with nearly Smith 1-1; Columbus – Ethan Conner 14-102, Karon Hawk, Jr.
6-54, Devarkus Ramsey 7-24, Tawonn Troop 6-8, Jaelen Craddi-
Pike County 60, Slocomb 0
Pike Road 42, Dadeville 0 a 10-yard run to the Falcons’ 42, play with more energy and en- 200 return yards. eth 1-0, Team 1-(-5).
PASSING: Grenada – Joshua Phillips 4-4-61-0; Columbus –
Pinson Valley 42, Huffman 12
Plainview 41, Brindlee Mountain 6
but the junior overthrow an open thusiasm, and to also execute the “We practice special teams Ethan Conner 1-6-(-8)-1, Jaelen Craddieth 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING: Grenada – Emmanuel Forbes 2-50, Jaylan Stewart
Pleasant Grove 45, John Carroll Catholic 0
Priceville 37, North Jackson 36
receiver downfield as was picked game plan, which he said “didn’t as hard as we do offense and de- 1-6, Omari Williams 1-5; Columbus – Karon Hawk, Jr. 1-(-8).
Providence Christian 13, Opp 10
Ragland 24, Valley Head 14
Ramsay 42, Wenonah 12
Ranburne 68, West End 26
Randolph County 17, Walter Wellborn 14
Red Bay 20, Colbert County 14
Reeltown 58, Central Coosa 0
Rogers 23, West Limestone 19
Saks 62, Weaver 14
Sand Rock 35, Section 0
Saraland 28, St. Paul’s 20
Scottsboro 56, Arab 42
Shoals Christian 34, Cherokee 20
Sidney Lanier 14, Carver-Montgomery 13
South Lamar 50, Marion County 12
Southern Choctaw 14, R.C. Hatch 6
Spanish Fort 37, Baldwin County 7
Sparkman 27, Bob Jones 14
Spring Garden 47, Victory Chr. 24
Springwood School 28, Calvary Christian, Ga. 21
St. James 42, Beulah 14
St. John Paul II Catholic 48, Randolph School 13
St. Michael Catholic 44, McIntosh 14
Stanhope Elmore 24, Selma 0
Sulligent 13, Tarrant 0
Sumter Central High School 14, Montevallo 12
Susan Moore 42, Pisgah 18
Sweet Water 48, Marengo 0
Sylacauga 17, Center Point 6
Sylvania 63, New Hope 21
T.R. Miller 24, Thomasville 17
Tallassee 21, Rehobeth 6
Thompson 35, Vestavia Hills 21
Trinity Presbyterian 41, Dale County 13
Tuscaloosa Academy 24, Lee-Scott Academy 0
UMS-Wright 48, Monroe County 14
Vincent 43, Horseshoe Bend 24
Vinemont 42, Locust Fork 35
Washington County 27, Choctaw County 12
Waterloo 48, Vina 0
West Blocton 53, Dallas County 20
West Point 28, Dora 21
Westbrook Christian 42, Gaston 0
Wicksburg 20, Straughn 7
Wilson 42, Elkmont 6
Winfield 33, Carbon Hill 12
Woodville 30, Hubbard 28, OT
Zion Chapel 43, Central-Hayneville 14

Thursday’s Alabama Scores

State
Blount 39, Gulf Shores 0
Briarwood Christian 38, Parker 28
Childersburg 44, Elmore County 22
Danville 42, DAR 33
Donoho 33, Talladega County Central 6
Fort Payne 36, Buckhorn 35, OT
Guntersville 37, Brewer 7
James Clemens 63, Grissom 0
LeFlore 58, Wilcox Central 0
Muscle Shoals 45, Cullman 0
Pelham 38, Jackson Olin 7
Prattville 44, Jeff Davis 7
Saint Luke’s Episcopal 66, Fruitdale 52
Thorsby 42, Fayetteville 14 David Miller/Special to the Dispatch
Wetumpka 33, Benjamin Russell 20
Williamson 34, W.S. Neal 16 Columbus High returner Michael Mosley had nearly 200 return yards against Grenada Friday in Columbus.
Winterboro 43, Appalachian 26

Prep football roundup

Yellow Jackets roll to 49-26 victory against Greenville

By Dispatch Sports Staff Meanwhile, Tae Lu-
cious had four catches for
GREENVILLE — The 76 yards and two touch-
Starkville High School downs, while Rufus Har-
football team picked up vey nabbed three recep-
its fourth straight victory tions for 57 yards and a
of the season Friday, best- touchdown.
ing Greenville 49-26. On the ground, Am-
Starkville scored the ariyon Howard had four
first 36 points of the con- carries for 59 yards and
test and outgained Green- a touchdown, while Jor-
ville (3-4) 433-277. dan Mitchell recorded
Quarterback Luke Al- five carries for 54 rushing
tmyer finished 11 of 16 yards and a touchdown.
passing for 237 yards and Defensively, Jaylan
three touchdowns. Ware forced a safety and
recorded a sack, while
Ronnie Randle had a
team-high six tackles and
two fumble recoveries.
Starkville (6-2) is back
in action Friday against
Madison Central at home.
West Point 27,
Lake Cormorant 14
LAKE CORMORANT
— Looking for its sixth
straight win, West Point
took care of business on
the road against Lake
Cormorant, earning a 27-
14 victory.
Quarterback Brandon
Harris had 122 yards
rushing with two touch-
downs, while Jimothy
Mays added 87 yards on
the ground. Meanwhile,
Dantariyus Cannon
notched 84 rushing yards
and a touchdown, while
Kelviontae Gibbs chipped
in 27 yards on the ground.
As a passer, Harris was
2 of 5 passing for 14 yards
with a touchdown and two
interceptions. Cannon
caught the touchdown
pass, a 15-yard play.
West Point (7-1) is back
in action at home Friday
against Grenada.
Caledonia 26,
Mooreville 18
CALEDONIA — Bran-
don Edmondson’s 162
rushing yards led Cale-
donia to a 26-18 victory
over Mooreville Friday
evening in Mooreville.
With the win, the Con-
federates improve to 4-3
on the season.
While Edmondson
rushed for a touchdown,
Anthony Triplett tallied
three rushing scores on
the night, also putting up
65 yards on nine carries.
Triplett also snagged an
interception defensively.
Other contributors to
the ‘Feds’ rushing attack
were Darquez Williams
See prep, 6B
4B Sunday, October 13, 2019 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: MISSOURI 38, OLE MISS 27

Denny Medley/USA TODAY Sports

Missouri Tigers quarterback Kelly Bryant (7) is hit by Mississippi Rebels linebacker Jacquez Jones (10) in a helmet-to-helmet penalty during the second half at
Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field.

Bryant bounces back to lead Missouri over Mississippi

The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — One
week after an injury scare,
Missouri quarterback Kelly
Bryant looked like his old self
Badie caught three passes for
69 yards and a score.
Mississippi freshman quar-
terback John Rhys Plumlee
rushed 23 times for 143 yards
and two touchdowns and com-
to a 12-7 halftime lead.
The Tigers broke off six
plays of 20 yards or more in
the second half. On Missouri’s
first drive of the third quarter,
Rountree burst through the
day, and the Tigers could be Missouri 38, Mississippi 27
sleeper contenders. Missou- Mississippi
Missouri
7 0 7 13—27
3 9 23 3—38
ri, which doesn’t have to face First Quarter
MIS_Phillips 21 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick), 11:51
any SEC West heavyweights, MIZ_FG McCann 31, 8:00
Second Quarter
will be favored in its next two MIZ_Badie 17 pass from Bryant (kick failed), 13:23
MIZ_FG McCann 48, 4:38
games at Vanderbilt and Ken- Third Quarter

in a 38-27 victory over Missis-
sippi on Saturday.
Bryant, who was knocked
out of last week’s win over Troy
with a sprained knee, complet-
ed 25 of 35 passes for 329 yards
and one touchdown.
pleted 8 of 17 passes for 103
yards and two scores — all
that despite splitting snaps
with Matt Corral. Elijah Moore
caught eight passes for 102
yards and a touchdown for Ole
Miss (3-4, 2-2).
The Rebels left points
left side of the line, stepped
out of a diving tackle attempt
by cornerback Jaylon Jones
and raced 41 yards for a touch-
down. Later in the third peri-
od, Downing plowed through
the right side, broke into the
tucky before visiting Georgia
on Nov. 9.
Mississippi: The Rebels
struggled on defense and will
be shorthanded in the first half
of next week’s game. Lineback-
ers Jacquez Jones and Sam
MIZ_Rountree 41 run (kick failed), 13:16
MIZ_FG McCann 39, 9:30
MIZ_Downing 54 run (McCann kick), 5:07
MIS_Moore 28 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick), 2:51
MIZ_Rountree 1 run (McCann kick), 1:02
Fourth Quarter
MIS_Plumlee 9 run (Logan kick), 13:19
MIZ_FG McCann 38, 8:09
MIS_Plumlee 40 run (kick failed), 5:51
A_62,621.
MIS MIZ
First downs 25 30
Rushes-yards 45-204
Passing 236 329
43-233

The Tigers (5-1, 2-0 South-
eastern Conference) got great
production from running
backs Larry Rountree III,
Dawson Downing and Tyler
Badie. Rountree rushed 21
times for 126 yards and two
touchdowns. Downing, a for-
mer walk-on, carried six times
for 70 yards and a touchdown.
on the field in the first half.
Plumlee’s 57-yard touchdown
run was called back on an
unneeded downfield hold by
wide receiver Miles Battle.
Just before halftime, coach
Matt Luke elected to go for it
on fourth-and-goal from the 1.
Snoop Conner was stuffed for
no gain, and Missouri hung on
clear and dragged Jones for
the last 4 yards of a 58-yard
touchdown run that gave the
Tigers a 28-7 lead.
The takeaway
Missouri: The SEC East
race opened up with third-
ranked Georgia’s upset loss
to South Carolina on Satur-
Williams were ejected for tar-
geting for hits to Bryant’s head
in the second half.
Up next
Missouri: The Tigers visit
Vanderbilt on Saturday.
Mississippi: The Rebels re-
turn home to face Texas A&M
on Saturday.
Comp-Att-Int 18-33-0 23-35-1
Return Yards 0 31
Punts-Avg. 5-41.6 1-19.0
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards 7-75 2-26
Time of Possession 26:29 33:31
Individual Statistics
RUSHING_Mississippi, Plumlee 23-143, Phillips 7-20, Corral
3-18, Conner 5-10, Ealy 6-10, Moore 1-3. Missouri, Rountree
21-126, Downing 6-70, Badie 5-24, Bryant 10-14, (Team)
1-(minus 1).
PASSING_Mississippi, Plumlee 8-17-0-103, Corral 10-16-0-
133. Missouri, Bryant 23-35-1-329.
RECEIVING_Mississippi, Moore 8-102, Phillips 3-37, Gregory
2-40, Cooley 2-25, Drummond 2-20, Ealy 1-12. Missouri, Jo.
Johnson 8-110, Okwuegbunam 4-60, Badie 3-69, Nance 2-25,
K.Scott 2-22, Gicinto 1-26, Banister 1-7, J.Knox 1-7, Parker 1-3.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

ALABAMA 47, TEXAS A&M 28

Tagovailoa, No. 1 Tide roll past No. 24 Texas A&M

The Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION,
Texas — Alabama is back
on top and Tua Tagovailoa
and the Tide look to stay
there for a while.
Tagovailoa threw four
touchdowns to smash a
school career record, and
No. 1 Alabama’s offense Tagovailoa
kept rolling along behind
his powerful left arm with a 47-28 victory
over No. 24 Texas A&M on Saturday.
Tagovailoa threw his first intercep-
tion of the season but his first touchdown
of the game made him Alabama’s career
passing touchdowns leader, passing A.J.
McCarron. The junior now has 81 for his
career and leads the nation with 27 on
the season.
He shrugged off the school record to
focus on the importance of getting a win
in Alabama’s first game as No. 1 this sea-
son, and doing it against the Tide’s first
ranked opponent in front of a stadium
record crowd of 106,479.
ond quarter that could have put away the
game.
Tagovailoa spread the scoring around,
with all of his TD strikes going to differ-
ent receivers. His two longest of the day
were a 47-yarder to DeVonta Smith in the
first quarter and a pinpoint 33-yarder to
Henry Ruggs III in the third.
“I feel I have a relationship with ev-
eryone, a good connection with every-
one,” Tagovailoa said.
Alabama didn’t punt until there was
less than 2 minutes left in the third quar-
ter. Najee Harris rushed for 114 yards.
Jaylen Waddle scored Alabama’s first
touchdown on a 31-yard catch-and-run
when he shook four defenders, and he
also had a big day on punt returns with
four for 128 yards.
Ever the perfectionist, Alabama
coach Nick Saban still found some
things to pick over.
He didn’t like the consecutive per-
sonal foul penalties that set up a Texas
A&M scoring drive, and a rash of late
penalties, which included Smith getting
fourth touchdown pass made it 34-13,
but a penalty negated an interception
before blown coverage allowed a wide-
open touchdown pass. But with Tagov-
ailoa running the offense as he’s doing,
it didn’t matter.
Texas A&M: A brutal schedule keeps
beating up the Aggies. Texas A&M lost
its second game to a top-ranked oppo-
nent this season. The Aggies fell to then-
No. 1 Clemson on Sept. 7. Texas A&M is
one of just five schools to face the No. 1
team twice in a season since the poll be-
gan in 1936, having also done it in 1970.
“We have to push through it. Against
good people, you can’t almost get there.
You got to be all the way, executing on
every play,” Texas A&M coach Jimbo
Fisher said.
Outkicking coverage
Waddle had a big day because the
Aggies thought they could cover Bra-
den Mann’s booming punts. They were
wrong.
Mann averaged 49 yards per kick
Poll implications
Alabama likely stays on top. The of-
fense looks like it could win a shootout
every week.
Texas A&M likely drops out of the
rankings and with three losses already,
it could be a while before they return.
Still perfect
Saban is 18-0 when coaching against
his former assistants and is 3-0 against
Fisher, who was Saban’s offensive co-
ordinator when LSU won the national
championship.
Up next
Alabama hosts Tennessee on Oct. 19.
Texas A&M travels to Mississippi on
Oct. 19.
No. 1 Alabama 47,14
No. 24 Texas A&M 28
Alabama 10 10 13—47
Texas A&M 7 6 7 8—28
First Quarter
TXAM_Mond 1 run (Small kick), 6:57
BAMA_Waddle 31 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 2:41
BAMA_D.Smith 47 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), :24
Second Quarter
TXAM_FG Small 31, 12:12

“You just revert back to your training. ejected in the final minute for throwing BAMA_FG Bulovas 35, 8:49
with a long of 57 and Waddle kept bring- BAMA_N.Harris 16 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 5:28

I’ve experienced playing at a place like
Tennessee, then going to LSU, Ole Miss
... Everyone wants to beat Alabama,” Ta-
govailoa said. “We’re not done yet. As a
team we have to continue to grow.”
a punch. Texas A&M had kept the game
within two scores into the fourth quar-
ter.
“We really could have broken the
game open early,” Saban said. “Didn’t
ing them back the other way to set up the
Tide with great field position. Alabama’s
scoring drives started on average at the
Texas A&M 48.
“Look, people don’t kick the ball to
TXAM_FG Small 32, :00
Third Quarter
BAMA_FG Bulovas 27, 10:53
BAMA_Ruggs 33 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 7:35
TXAM_Wydermyer 25 pass from Mond (Small kick), 5:06
Fourth Quarter
BAMA_B.Robinson 2 run (kick failed), 13:02
BAMA_Shavers 2 blocked punt return (Bulovas kick), 11:30
TXAM_Wydermyer 18 pass from Mond (Mond run), 8:48

Alabama (6-0, 3-0 Southeastern finish the game with class.” us very much,” Saban said. “These guys
A_106,749.
BAMA TXAM

Conference) trailed briefly when Texas Kellen Mond passed for 264 yards have a great punter and everybody asked
First downs 25
Rushes-yards 31-155
24
28-125
A&M scored a touchdown on its first and two touchdowns and ran for a score me about a great punter. My comment
Passing 293 264
Comp-Att-Int 21-34-1 24-42-0
possession. for the Aggies (3-3, 1-2). was a great punter is good for us because
Return Yards 311
Punts-Avg. 2-24.5
24
4-17.75
Tagovailoa took over from there. He we’ll get some returns on it. And we got
Fumbles-Lost 0-0
Penalties-Yards 11-91
2-1
5-55
led four consecutive scoring drives, The takeaway some. He kicked it far and we returned it Time of Possession
Individual Statistics
30:56 29:04

which included three touchdown pass-
es that came on third down. The only
blemish was the interception thrown in
the Texas A&M end zone late in the sec-
Alabama: The Tide’s young defense
recorded five sacks but was prone to
giving up some big plays that kept the
Aggies hanging around. Tagovailoa’s
far. That’s the way it goes.”
Alabama also blocked a punt and re-
covered it for a touchdown in the fourth
quarter.
RUSHING_Alabama, N.Harris 20-114, B.Robinson 10-51, Tu.Tagovailoa 1-(minus
10). Texas A&M, Mond 16-90, Spiller 10-27, Kibodi 2-8.
PASSING_Alabama, Tu.Tagovailoa 21-34-1-293. Texas A&M, Mond 24-42-0-264.
RECEIVING_Alabama, D.Smith 7-99, Jeudy 4-50, Waddle 3-48, N.Harris 3-19,
B.Robinson 2-33, Ruggs 1-33, Forristall 1-11. Texas A&M, Q.Davis 7-81, Ausbon
5-60, Spiller 5-41, Wydermyer 3-49, A.Smith 2-21, Kibodi 1-7, K.Rogers 1-5.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

SOUTHERN MISS 45, NORTH TEXAS 27

Abraham throws for 421 yards, 3 TDs in Southern Miss. win
The Associated Press
HAT TIESBURG — Jack
Abraham threw for 421 yards
with three touchdowns and his
favorite target, Quez Watkins,
caught eight passes for 198
yards and a score and South-
ern Mississippi defeated North
Texas 45-27 on Saturday night.
De’Michael Harris ran for
107 yards and two touchdowns
to go with 79 yards receiving
and another touchdown. The
Golden Eagles had 563 total
yards.
After a wild first half in
which the quarterbacks passed
for more than 400 yards and
Southern Miss led 28-20, the
Golden Eagles (4-2, 2-0 Con-
ference USA) scored another
17 points and held North Tex-
as (2-4, 1-1) to 114 yards of of-
fense in the second half.
Abraham and Watkins con-
nected on a 72-yard non-scor-
ing pass play late in the third
quarter. After two penalties
and a 1-yard rushing loss, the
pair connected for a 14-yard
touchdown for a 38-20 lead
with 2:53 remaining in the
third.
Harris added a 13-yard TD
run in the fourth quarter to go
with his first-quarter scores
of a 60-yard run and a 59-yard
pass from Abraham.
Mean Green quarterback
Mason Fine completed just
11 of 25 passes for 217 yards
with three touchdowns and an
interception. All three touch-
downs went to Jaelon Darden,
who had five receptions for 87
yards.
The homecoming victory
gives Southern Miss an eight-
game home winning streak.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, October 13, 2019 5B

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: MISSISSIPPI STATE

Bryan Lynn/USA TODAY Sports

MSU Bulldogs head coach Joe Moorhead watches the video replay in the second quarter of a game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium.

Bulldog Bullets: Disaster in Knoxville

By GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Forget that 56-23 drubbing
in Auburn two weeks ago.
This was the worst loss of
Mississippi State’s season.
Tennessee entered this game
the most desperate team in
the Southeastern Conference
not named Vanderbilt. And
yet, the Volunteers were by
far the better team from the
start in all three phases.
The Bulldogs were pushed
around, anemic on offense,
gave up tons of big plays on
third down and looked flat
out lifeless for the majority of
their 20-10 defeat at Neyland
Stadium.
This loss completely
changes the season outlook.
Eight wins is probably off the
table. I wouldn’t even be that
confident a bowl game is a
certainty at this point.
At least Mississippi State
doesn’t play anyone good next
week, right? I think Louisiana
State is up 14-0 against the
Bulldogs already.
A quick programming
note for those who are new
here: Bulldog Bullets will be a
weekly recurring article filled
with short observations and
commentary written through-
out Mississippi State football
games that posts shortly after
the final gun.
To the Bulldog Bullets
n I like Tommy Stevens.
But I have no idea why Gar-
rett Shrader didn’t get the
start Saturday. I thought
MSU coach Joe Moorhead
might make Shrader the full
time guy coming out of the
bye week. But after Shrader
had to relieve Stevens for the
fourth time this season (for
either injury or performance
related reasons), it’s almost
baffling how he couldn’t be
named the man going for-
ward.
n Stevens got to play the
entire first half, and turned in
two three-and-outs, two inter-
ceptions that can probably be
pinned squarely on him and a
drive that ended on an under-
thrown pass. He was sacked
three times and he probably
has nobody to blame but him-
self for two of them, consider-
ing he held on to the ball for
too long. The lone scoring
drive came off a lucky bounce
from the crossbar.
n In fairness, Shrader
didn’t perform much better
and had a costly interception
that should have never been
thrown, but he at least gave
the offense a spark at times
on the ground.
n Moorhead’s record on
the road: 2-5.
n MSU falls to 0-3 this sea-
son when trailing at halftime.
n I feel like we say this
every week, but despite his
obvious shortcomings in the
passing game sometimes,
Shrader’s competitiveness
cannot be matched. That
fourth down run on MSU’s
touchdown drive gave life to
a sideline that desperately
needed it.
n Take all the quarterback
drama and set it aside for a
minute. The biggest prob-
lem with MSU’s offense is
the inability to get Kylin Hill
going. Hill had 11 carries for
13 yards halfway through the
fourth quarter.
n The start of the game for
the Bulldogs: a muffed kick-
off return, a three-and-out, a
shanked punt. Very discour-
aging coming off a bye week.
n Brian Maurer’s fresh-
man mistake on Tennessee’s
first series was Cam Dan-
tlzer’s gain. Maurer stared
down Jauan Jennings, fired
an ill-advised pass into double
coverage in the red zone, and
Dantlzer made a great play on
the ball.
n He made the same mis-
take later in the second quar-
ter, only Brian Cole II was the
beneficiary this time. The
two red zone interceptions
kept Mississippi State hang-
ing around when the offense
couldn’t get anything going in
the first half.
n Not too often you see a
field goal bounce off the cross-
bar and over the uprights.
Count your lucky stars, Jace
Christmann.
n Much maligned Ten-
nessee quarterback Jarrett
Guarantano had to come in
for Maurer after an injury to
the freshman, and you can
tell he didn’t have much trust
from Jeremy Pruitt. It took
nine plays to call a pass since
Guarantano took over at quar-
terback. Nevertheless, he did
what he needed to do to guide
the Vols to a win.
n Next four games: home
against LSU, on the road
against Texas A&M, on the
road against Arkansas, home
against Alabama. One word:
woof.

Shrader proves worth, again, in loss on Rocky Top

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Walking
across the field and over to the MSU
sideline during the halftime break,
freshman quarterback Garrett Shrader
stepped to the left of the Gatorade coolers
behind the bench and perched his green
signal caller ball cap on an equipment
box.
Trading in his MSU hat for a matte-
white helmet, Shrader took to the field
and began throwing.
As the cool temperatures in Knoxville
crept down into the 50s, the routine had
persisted throughout the first half —
though it was Tommy Stevens’ second
interception of the day with 59 seconds
half in the second quarter that forced it
into a way to prepare for the game rather
than an opportunity to stave off the cold.
Trotting out with the No.1 offense
as the second half got underway, the
surprisingly plentiful bunch of MSU fans
in Knoxville rose in applause.
“I had a feeling it was coming,”
Shrader said postgame. “And coach
(Andrew) Breiner came in at halftime
said I had the green light.”
After Stevens was sidelined due
to a lower body injury in an absolute
demolition at Auburn two weeks ago,
Shrader pushed his name into the
starting quarterback conversation as he
finished his night on The Plains 12-of-23
for 209 yards and two touchdowns.
With some uncertainty around
MSU quarterback Garrett Shrader (6) drops back to pass in the fourth quarter of a
game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium.
the position and the health of both
quarterbacks in question this week,
Moorhead said postgame he went with
Stevens given he had a better week of
practice and was healthier than Shrader
at the time of the decision.
Saturday, that experiment lasted just
two quarters as Stevens completed six
of his 11 passes for 67 yards and two
interceptions in the first half. Moorhead
mulled a change in the second quarter
though time would prevent it, leading
Shrader to ditch his hat for a helmet to
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start the second half.
After MSU mustered a middling 114
yards in the first half, Shrader guided
the Bulldogs to 132 yards in the fourth
quarter alone — including their lone
touchdown of the day.
Faking a handoff to junior running
back Kylin Hill, Shrader scampered to his
right. With Tennessee linebacker Darrell
Taylor bearing down, he lofted a ball to
senior receiver Deddrick Thomas on a
post route from 17 yards out for a score to
cut the Tennessee lead to three with 8:27
remaining in the fourth quarter.
Shrader concluded the afternoon
completing five of his 10 passes for 79
yards while running for another 62 yards
on 13 carries — something Moorhead
was quick to note postgame.
“Tommy had been a guy that had made
a lot of plays with his feet throughout his
career but I think Garrett has an ability
to make plays with his feet, whether by
design or improvisation with scrambles
and called runs,” Moorhead said.
Leaving the field Saturday afternoon,
Shrader headed toward the tunnel just
below the Tennessee student section.
As the familiar tones of “Rocky Top”
rang throughout Neyland Stadium, he
maintained a blank glare.
It was only when he was tapped on
the back by a teammate that he seemed
to snap back into the reality of what had
transpired on the field behind him.
Now seven weeks into the season,
MSU’s ongoing quarterback conundrum
has reached a fever pitch.
With Saturday’s showing, Shrader
again proved an innate ability to guide
the Bulldog offense as much as Stevens
has demonstrated the opposite. And
now with a week to prepare for No. 5
Louisiana State — who boast the nation’s
No. 16-ranked total defense — the MSU
coaching staff has another decision on
his hands.
“He is,” Moorhead said of whether
Shrader has made a case to be the starter
going forward. “And we’re going to look
at that tomorrow.”

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6B Sunday, October 13, 2019
CALENDAR
Today
Women’s College Soccer
Mississippi State at Arkansas, 1 p.m.
College Volleyball
Mississippi at Tennessee, 12:30 p.m.
Mississippi University for Women at
Coastal-South, Noon at Hanceville, Ala.
Mississippi University for Women at
Wallace State, 6 p.m.
Women’s College Golf
Mississippi State hosting Magnolia
Invite, All Day
Men’s College Tennis
Mississippi State at ITA All-American
Championships, All Day
Mississippi State at Georgia Tech
Invite, All Day
Monday
Women’s College Golf
Mississippi State hosting Magnolia
Invite, All Day
Tuesday
Women’s College Golf
Mississippi State hosting Magnolia
Invite, All Day
Prep Volleyball
Greenville at Starkville High, 7 p.m.
Itawamba Agricultural, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday
Prep Volleyball
Clinton at Starkville, Class 6A volleyball
playoffs, time TBA
Ridgeland at New Hope, Class 5A vol-
leyball playoffs, time TBA
Corinth at Caledonia, Class 4A volley-
ball playoffs, time TBA
College Football
East Mississippi Community College, at
Coahoma Community College, 7 p.m.
Itawamba Community College at South-
west Mississippi Community College,
7 p.m.
College Volleyball
Sewanee at Mississippi University for
Women, 6 p.m.
Men’s College Tennis
Mississippi State at ITA Southern Re-
gional Championships, All Day
Friday
Prep Football
Lake Cormorant at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Heritage Academy at Starkville Acade-
my, 7 p.m.
Columbus Christian Academy at Hebron
Christian, 7 p.m.
Central Holmes at Oak Hill Academy,
7 p.m.
Hatley at Noxubee County, 7 p.m.
Grenada at West Point, 7 p.m.
Ezekiel at Victory Christian, 7 p.m.
Madison Central at Starkville, 7 p.m.
West Lowndes at Noxapater, 7 p.m.
New Hope at Center Hill, 7 p.m.
Caledonia at Pontotoc, 7 p.m.
College Volleyball
Texas A&M at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
on the air
Today
AUTO RACING
1 p.m. — NHRA Drag Racing: Caro-
lina Nationals, Concord, N.C., FS1;
NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series:
The 1000Bulbs.com 500, Talladega,
Ala., NBC
COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)
11 a.m. — Iowa at Penn State, BTN
1 p.m.— Northwestern at Rutgers, BTN
COLLEGE SOCCER (MEN’S)
3 p.m. — Michigan at Indiana, ESPNU
COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)
2 p.m. — Vanderbilt at South Carolina,
SEC
4 p.m. — Texas A&M at Auburn, ESPNU
COLLEGE TENNIS (MEN’S)
8 p.m. — ITA All-American: Champion-
ship, Tulsa, Okla., ESPNU
COLLEGE TENNIS (WOMEN’S)
6 p.m. — ITA All-American: Champion-
ship, Tulsa, Okla., ESPNU
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)
Noon — Yale at Princeton, ESPNU;
Florida at Texas A&M, SEC
1 p.m. — Michigan at Nebraska, ESPN2
3 p.m. — Minnesota at Wisconsin,
BTN; UCLA at Colorado, ESPN2
GOLF
5 a.m. — European Tour: The Italian
Open, final round, Rome, GOLF
12:30 p.m. — PGA Tour Champions:
The SAS Championship, final round,
Wake County, N.C., GOLF
3 p.m. — PGA Tour: The Houston Open,
final round, Houston, GOLF
GYMNASTICS
10 p.m. — FIG World Championship
(same-day tape), NBCSN
HORSE RACING
Noon — Belmont Park Live: From
Elmont, N.Y., FS2
MARATHON
10 a.m. — Chicago Marathon: The
42nd Running, Chicago (taped), NBCSN
MLB BASEBALL
7 p.m. — A.L. Championship Series:
NY Yankees at Houston, Game 2, FS1
NBA BASKETBALL
2 p.m. — Preseason: Cleveland at
Boston, NBA
5 p.m. — Preseason: Milwaukee at
Washington, NBA
NFL FOOTBALL
8:30 a.m. — Carolina vs. Tampa Bay,
London, NFL
Noon — Regional Coverage: Houston at
Kansas City, New Orleans at Jackson-
ville, Cincinnati at Baltimore, CBS; Re-
gional Coverage: Seattle at Cleveland,
Washington at Miami, Philadelphia at
Minnesota, FOX
3:05 p.m. — Regional Coverage:
San Francisco at LA Rams, Atlanta at
Arizona, FOX
3:25 p.m. — Regional Coverage: Ten-
nessee at Denver, Dallas at NY Jets,
CBS
7:20 p.m. — Pittsburgh at LA Chargers,
NBC
RODEO
5 p.m.— PBR Greensboro Invitational,
Greensboro, N.C. (same-day tape),
CBSSN
RUGBY
5:30 a.m. — World Cup 2019: Japan
vs. Scotland, Pool A, Yokohama, Japan,
NBCSN
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(six carries, 42 yards) and year. The Rams will have while Shaw chipped in Colom had 16 carries for — After a loss to Pil-
Kewon Wyatt (seven car- a chance to win their dis- seven. Jonathan Peral 242 rushing yards, includ- low Academy last week,
ries, 47 yards). trict with a victory against recovered a fumble for ing an 80-yard touchdown Starkville Academy took
Caledonia is back in Hebron Christian Friday the Rams on Ben’s Ford’s run, while Nadarion Hig-
care of business against
action Friday in a road in Pheba. third play of its opening gins had one touchdown
matchup against Ponto- series. catch for 29 yards. Quar- Bayou Academy Friday,
Dakota Shaw led the
toc. Rams with 81 rushing terback Drake Clements posting a shutout with
Columbus Christian yards and 39 passing Banks Academy 52, was 6 of 15 passing for a 44-0 victory. With the
Academy 48, 38 yards with three inter- win, the Vols improve
yards. He threw two Victory Christian 32 ceptions. Clements also to 6-2 overall and 3-1 in
Ben’s Ford 12 touchdown passes. Mean- BIR MINGH A M,
while, Bryar Kemp re- had three rushing touch- Class 5A, District 1.
BOGALUSA, La. Ala. — Victory Christian
corded 45 rushing yards, downs.
— Columbus Christian couldn’t stop Banks Acad- Starkville Academy
two rushing touchdowns Victory Christian is
Academy made itself at emy Friday night, falling raced out to a 28-0 half-
and an interception defen- back in action Friday
home on the road against in a 52-32 shootout in Bir- time lead. Player stats
sively, while Lawson Stud- against Ezekiel Academy
Ben’s Ford Friday in Bog- mingham. were not available.
dard hauled in a 31-yard at home.
alusa, La. The Rams blew With the loss, Victo-
out Ben’s Ford 48-12. touchdown pass from ry Christian drops to 5-3
The Vols are back in
With the win, Colum- Shaw. overall and 3-3 in district Starkville Academy 44, action against rival Heri-
bus Christian Academy Defensively, Tyler Loo- play. Bayou Academy 0 tage Academy in a home
improves to 6-2 on the ney racked up 11 tackles, Running back Dallas CLEVELAND, MS matchup Friday.
Mississippi residents ‘may skip church’ to watch Saints-Jags
The Associated Press All of them are clam- played 117 games and ry the Bulldogs years consecutive 100-yard
oring to see Davis and counting with the New ago before blossoming games and leads the
J A C K S ON V I L L E , Minshew in the first York Jets (2012-15, in college and then be- league in yards after
Fla. — The New Orle- regular-season game 2017), Cleveland (2016) coming NFL starters. contact (305).
ans Saints and Jackson- involving two NFL play- and New Orleans. “It’s the No. 1 deal,”
ville Jaguars are big in ers from Brandon. Minshew has be- West said. “Our school
Brandon, Mississippi, “When people talk come the most recog- is really excited about Defensive Bounceback?
these days. about the top states in nizable, with Minshew it. Our whole commu- The Jaguars were
And not just be- the country, they’re not Mania gaining more nity, we’re a large town, gashed for 285 yards on
cause Saints lineback- going to mention Mis- traction by the week. but have a small-town the ground at Carolina,
er Demario Davis and sissippi,” Davis said. The rookie sensation atmosphere. Rooting the second most in fran-
Jaguars quarterback “We always have that leads all rookies with for these guys, it’s con- chise history, and will
Gardner Minshew have blue-collar mentality.” nine touchdown pass- tagious.” try to regroup against
banners flying outside Davis gushed about es and is one of three Here are some other Alvin Kamara. Kamara
the high school football Minshew while sitting quarterbacks in the things to know about is among the league
stadium there. at his locker, which Super Bowl era with a the seventh meeting be-
leaders in broken tack-
Davis and Minshew had a Minshew T-shirt 100-plus rating and no tween New Orleans and
Jacksonville: les.
will share the field Sun- hanging inside. interceptions through
day when the Jaguars “For him to be out his first four starts.
(2-3) host the Saints there doing what he’s “I didn’t necessarily Ramsey Returns? Earning His Keep
(4-1), and the matchup doing now, it’s just un- foresee that coming, Saints receiver Mi-
Jaguars owner Shad
might draw as much believable at arguably but I was happy for him Khan expects star cor- chael Thomas, who
interest as the Super the most important and I wasn’t shocked nerback Jalen Ramsey ended a brief holdout by
Bowl in the 24,000-per- position on the field at when he started mak- to play this week. signing a five-year, $100
son town just east of the highest level,” Da- ing plays like he did,” Khan told a finan- million contract in late
Jackson, Mississippi. vis said. “He’s doing Davis said. “He’s shown cial news site, The July, had his best game
“There will be peo- an incredible job to be he can do that.” Street, he had a “heart
of the season with Ted-
ple all over town watch- a rookie thrown in the Davis and the Saints to heart” with the dis-
dy Bridgewater at quar-
ing,” said Randy West, fire, and to be able to have to find a way to gruntled defender ear-
terback. He finished
a longtime assistant get his team to rally slow him down. lier this week. Ramsey
football coach and as- practiced in a limited with 11 catches for 182
around him and lead Davis and Minshew
sistant athletic direc- them and put them in spoke earlier this week capacity Wednesday yards and two scores
tor at Brandon High position to win games and already have plans and Thursday. He last week against Tam-
School. “Everybody will has been incredible, to swap jerseys after missed the last two pa Bay.
be hurrying home from and ain’t nobody more the game. games because of back
church. Some of them happy for him than me.” “I looked up to him,” tightness. Homecoming Game
may even skip church Davis, Minshew, Minshew said. “I re- The Jaguars will cel-
to make sure they don’t former Atlanta/Seattle member he came back Run Stuffers ebrate “Homecoming
miss kickoff.” running back Jerious and talked to us when The Saints have Weekend” by bringing
West said a slew of Norwood (2006-11) and I was in high school, al- not allowed a 100-yard more than 80 former
locals are making the former New England ways been a great role rusher in 31 games.
players back for the
600-mile trip to Jack-
sonville for the game,
defensive back Brian
Hutson (1990) are the
model, so it’ll be a lot
of fun to play against
They held Dallas to 45
yards rushing in Week game. The team will
wear teal jerseys and
and he expects the foot- only players from Bran- him.” 4 and Tampa Bay to 94
white pants to mimic
ball staff to break from don to play meaningful It’s a no-lose situa- yards last week. Now,
film study to catch at games in the NFL. tion for many of those in they face Jackson- the franchise’s original
least part of the action Davis has the most Brandon who watched ville’s Leonard Four- combination worn in
on TV. experience, having Davis and Minshew car- nette, who’s coming off 1995.
Baseball
St. Louis 000 000 010 — 1 RECEIVING_Mississippi St., Mitchell 5-58, Louisiana State 42, Florida 28 WESTERN CONFERENCE
DP_Washington 1, St. Louis 0. LOB_Washington S.Guidry 2-36, Thomas 2-25, Witherspoon 1-18, Louisiana Tech 69, UMass 21 Central Division
MLB Playoff Glance
5, St. Louis 3. 2B_Eaton (1), J.Martínez (1). HR_
Taylor (1). SB_Wong (2).
F.Green 1-9. Tennessee, Byrd 3-56, J.Jennings
3-17, Keyton 1-41, Wood-Anderson 1-28, Palmer
Louisiana-Monroe 24, Texas St. 14
Marshall 31, Old Dominion 17
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Winnipeg 6 4 2 0 8 22 19
WILD CARD IP H R ER BB SO 1-16, Jordan 1-9. Miami 17, Virginia 9 St. Louis 5 3 1 1 7 17 17
Tuesday, Oct. 1: Washington 4, Milwaukee 3 Washington
Scherzer W,2-0 7 1 0 0 2 11
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Mississippi St., Christ- Morehead St. 30, Jacksonville 22 Colorado 3 3 0 0 6 13 7
Nashville 5 3 2 0 6 23 21
Wednesday, Oct. 2: Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1 mann 36. Morgan St. 34, Delaware St. 3
DIVISION SERIES Doolittle H,2 1 2 1 1 0 1 Murray St. 31, Tennessee St. 17 Dallas 6 1 4 1 3 13 19
(Best-of-5) Corbin H,1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 NC State 16, Syracuse 10 Chicago 3 0 2 1 1 9 12
American League Dan.Hudson S,3-3 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 Missouri 38, Mississippi 27 Nicholls 45, Northwestern St. 35 Minnesota 3 0 3 0 0 6 14
St. Louis Mississippi 7 0 7 13—27 Pacific Division
Houston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Norfolk St. 49, Howard 21
Friday, Oct. 4: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2
Wainwright L,0-1 7
Miller
1-3 7 3 3 1
2-3 0 0 0 0 1
11 Missouri 3 9 23 3—38 San Diego 37, Davidson 17
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Edmonton 5 5 0 0 10 22 13
First Quarter
Saturday, Oct. 5: Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Helsley 1 0 0 0 0 2 MIS_Phillips 21 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick),
South Carolina 20, Georgia 17 Anaheim 5 4 1 0 8 11 6
Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 10, Houston 3 South Florida 27, BYU 23
Tuesday, Oct. 8: Tampa Bay 4, Houston 1
Umpires_Home, Chris Conroy; First, Bill Miller; 11:51 Tennessee 20, Mississippi St. 10
Calgary 4 2 1 1 5 12 11
Los Angeles 4 2 2 0 4 18 21
Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Chad Fairchild; Right,
Thursday, Oct. 10: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 1 Mike Muchlinski; Left, Fieldin Cubreth.
MIZ_FG McCann 31, 8:00
Second Quarter
The Citadel 35, W. Carolina 17 Vegas 4 2 2 0 4 13 10
N.Y. Yankees 3, Minnesota 0
Friday, Oct. 4: N.Y. Yankees 10, Minnesota 4
T_2:53. A_46,458 (45,538). MIZ_Badie 17 pass from Bryant (kick failed), 13:23
Tulane 49, UConn 7
UNLV 34, Vanderbilt 10
Arizona 3 1 2 0 2 5 4
Vancouver 3 1 2 0 2 10 8
Saturday, Oct. 5: N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 2 MIZ_FG McCann 48, 4:38 UT Martin 55, Tennessee Tech 14 San Jose 5 1 4 0 2 10 21
Third Quarter
Monday, Oct. 7: N.Y. Yankees 5, Minnesota 1
MIZ_Rountree 41 run (kick failed), 13:16
VMI 48, Samford 41 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
National League
Washington 3, L.A. Dodgers 2
Thursday, Oct. 3: L.A. Dodgers 6, Washington 0
College Football MIZ_FG McCann 39, 9:30
MIZ_Downing 54 run (McCann kick), 5:07
Virginia Tech 34, Rhode Island 17
W. Kentucky 17, Army 8
MIDWEST
loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild
cards per conference advance to playoffs.
Friday’s Games
Friday, Oct. 4: Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 SEC Glance MIS_Moore 28 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick), Ball St. 29, E. Michigan 23 Buffalo 3, Florida 2, SO
Sunday, Oct. 6: L.A. Dodgers 10, Washington 4 East 2:51 Bowling Green 20, Toledo 7 Anaheim 2, Columbus 1
Monday, Oct. 7: Washington 6, L.A. Dodgers 1
W L PF PA W L PF PA MIZ_Rountree 1 run (McCann kick), 1:02 Cent. Michigan 42, New Mexico St. 28 Carolina 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Missouri 2 0 34 14 5 1 233 95 Fourth Quarter
Wednesday, Oct. 9: Washington 7, L.A. Dodgers Florida 3 1 87 37 6 1 222 99 MIS_Plumlee 9 run (Logan kick), 13:19
Dayton 41, Valparaiso 28 Saturday’s Games
3, 10 innings Drake 42, Butler 7 Edmonton 4, N.Y. Rangers 1
St. Louis 3, Atlanta 2
Georgia 2 1 90 40 5 1 231 74 MIZ_FG McCann 38, 8:09 Illinois St. 21, S. Illinois 7 Ottawa 4, Tampa Bay 2
South Carolina 2 2 81 105 3 3 173
139
Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 7, Atlanta 6 Tennessee 1 2 37 87 2 4 138 154
MIS_Plumlee 40 run (kick failed), 5:51
A_62,621.
Indiana 35, Rutgers 0 Los Angeles 7, Nashville 4
Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0 Kentucky 1 3 41 81 3 3 141 142 Indiana St. 20, W. Illinois 10 Toronto 5, Detroit 2
N.Y. Islanders 3, Florida 2, SO
Sunday, Oct. 6: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 1 Vanderbilt 0 3 50 127 1 5 108
221 Jacksonville St. 28, E. Illinois 20
Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 5, Atlanta 4, 10 innings West MIS MIZ Kent St. 26, Akron 3 Columbus 3, Carolina 2
First downs 25 30
Wednesday, Oct. 9: St. Louis 13, Atlanta 1 W L PF PA W L PF PA
Rushes-yards 45-204 43-233
Michigan 42, Illinois 25 Boston 3, New Jersey 0
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Alabama 3 0 153 82 6 0 306
102 Minnesota 34, Nebraska 7 Winnipeg 3, Chicago 2, OT
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) LSU 2 0 66 38 6 0 315 127 Passing 236 329 Missouri 38, Mississippi 27 Montreal 6, St. Louis 3
American League Auburn 2 1 97 67 5 1 203 110 Comp-Att-Int 18-33-0 23-35-1 N. Dakota St. 46, N. Iowa 14 Washington 4, Dallas 1
Mississippi 2 2 93 82 3 4 163 192 Return Yards 0 31
N.Y. Yankees 1, Houston 0
Mississippi St 1 2 61 89 3 3 161 163 Punts-Avg. 5-41.6 1-19.0
N. Illinois 39, Ohio 36 Pittsburgh at Minnesota, late
Arizona at Colorado, late
Saturday, Oct. 12: N.Y. Yankees 7, Astros 0 Notre Dame 30, Southern Cal 27
Sunday, Oct. 13: N.Y. Yankees (Paxton 15-6) at
Texas A&M 1 2 79 102 3 3 192
136 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 1-1 Penn St. 17, Iowa 12 Calgary at Vegas, late
Arkansas 0 3 44 62 2 4 143 140 Penalties-Yards 7-75 2-26
Houston (Verlander 21-6), 7:08 p.m. (FS1) Saturday’s Games Time of Possession 26:29 33:31
Purdue 40, Maryland 14 Philadelphia at Vancouver, late
Sunday’s Games
Tuesday, Oct. 15: Houston (Cole 20-5) at N.Y. Yan-
kees(Severino 1-1), 3:08 p.m. (FS1)
South Carolina 20, Georgia 17, 2OT INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
South Dakota 45, Missouri St. 10
South Dakota St. 38, Youngstown St. 28 Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 16: Houston at N.Y. Yankees,
Tennessee 20, Mississippi St. 10
Alabama 47, Texas A&M 28
RUSHING_Mississippi, Plumlee 23-143, Phillips W. Michigan 38, Miami (Ohio) 16 Vegas at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.
7-20, Corral 3-18, Conner 5-10, Ealy 6-10, Moore
7:08 p.m. (FS1) UNLV 34, Vanderbilt 10 1-3. Missouri, Rountree 21-126, Downing 6-70,
Wisconsin 38, Michigan St. 0 Calgary at San Jose, 9 p.m.
Monday’s Games
x-Thursday, Oct. 17: Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:08 SOUTHWEST
p.m. (FS1)
Missouri 38, Mississippi 27 Badie 5-24, Bryant 10-14, (Team) 1-(minus 1). Abilene Christian 45, Houston Baptist 20 St. Louis vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans
Kentucky 24, Arkansas 20 PASSING_Mississippi, Plumlee 8-17-0-103, Cor-
x-Saturday, Oct. 19: N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 3:08 LSU 42, Florida 28 ral 10-16-0-133. Missouri, Bryant 23-35-1-329.
Alabama 47, Texas A&M 28 Memorial Coliseum, Noon
Anaheim at Boston, Noon
or 7:08 p.m. (FS1)
x-Sunday, Oct. 20: N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 6:38
Saturday, Oct. 19 RECEIVING_Mississippi, Moore 8-102, Phillips
Ark.-Pine Bluff 38, MVSU 6
Baylor 33, Texas Tech 30 Minnesota at Ottawa, Noon
p.m. (FS1)
Florida at South Carolina, TBA
LSU at Mississippi St., TBA
3-37, Gregory 2-40, Cooley 2-25, Drummond Cent. Arkansas 40, McNeese St. 31 Florida at New Jersey, Noon
2-20, Ealy 1-12. Missouri, Jo.Johnson 8-110,
National League Auburn at Arkansas, 11 a.m. Okwuegbunam 4-60, Badie 3-69, Nance 2-25,
Cincinnati 38, Houston 23 Dallas at Buffalo, 2 p.m.
Colorado at Washington, 4 p.m.
Washington 2, St. Louis 0 Lamar 20, Sam Houston St. 17
Friday, Oct. 11: Washington 2, St. Louis 0
Kentucky at Georgia, 2:30 p.m. K.Scott 2-22, Gicinto 1-26, Banister 1-7, J.Knox Missouri-Science & Technology 23, Texas South- Edmonton at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.
Missouri at Vanderbilt, 3 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12: Washington 3, St. Louis 1 Texas A&M at Mississippi, 6:30 p.m.
1-7, Parker 1-3.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
ern 20 Tuesday’s Games
Tampa Bay at Montreal, 6 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 14: St. Louis (Flaherty 11-8) at
Washington, 6:38 p.m. (TBS)
Tennessee at Alabama, 8 p.m. Navy 45, Tulsa 17
Oklahoma 34, Texas 27 Minnesota at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 15 St. Louis (Hudson 16-7) at Wash- Saturday’s CFB Scores Southern 34, Prairie View 28 Arizona at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
ington, 7:05 p.m. (TBS) Tennessee 20, Mississippi State 10 EAST Southern Miss 45, North Texas 27 Philadelphia at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
x-Wednesday, Oct. 16: St. Louis at Washington, Mississippi St. 0 3 0 7—10 UAB 33, UTSA 14
3:08 p.m. (TBS) Tennessee 7 3 3 7—20
Albany (NY) 38, Towson 21
FAR WEST Nashville at Vegas, 9 p.m.
Bryant 27, LIU 22
x-Friday, Oct. 18: Washington at St. Louis, 7:08 First Quarter Bucknell 32, Colgate 14 Air Force 43, Fresno St. 24 Carolina at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.
p.m. (TBS) TEN_Jordan 15 run (Cimaglia kick), 4:56 Arizona St. 38, Washington St. 34
x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Washington at St. Louis, 7:08
p.m. (TBS)
Second Quarter
MSST_FG Christmann 51, 7:40
CCSU 24, Columbia 14
Dartmouth 42, Yale 10
Fordham 30, Georgetown 27
Colorado St. 35, New Mexico 21
E. Washington 54, N. Colorado 21
Transactions Saturday’s moves
WORLD SERIES TEN_FG Cimaglia 49, :00 Harvard 35, Cornell 22 Idaho St. 55, North Dakota 20
BASEBALL
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Third Quarter Nevada 41, San Jose St. 38
Tuesday, Oct. 22: National League at American TEN_FG Cimaglia 22, 6:12
Holy Cross 47, Brown 31
Oregon 45, Colorado 3
American League
Iowa St. 38, West Virginia 14 HOUSTON ASTROS — Addded RHPs Brad
League (Fox) Fourth Quarter Monmouth (NJ) 45, Presbyterian 0 Portland St. 24, Idaho 0
Peacock and Bryan Abreu to the active roster.
Wednesday, Oct. 23: NL at AL (Fox)
Friday, Oct. 25: AL at NL (Fox)
MSST_Thomas 17 pass from Shrader (Christmann
kick), 8:27
New Hampshire 20, Stony Brook 14 Sacramento St. 34, Montana St. 21
UC Davis 48, Cal Poly 24
Removed LHP Wade Miley and UT Myles Straw
Penn 38, Sacred Heart 24 from the active roster.
Saturday, Oct. 26: AL at NL (Fox) TEN_Byrd 39 pass from Guarantano (Cimaglia Princeton 28, Lafayette 3 Weber St. 29, S. Utah 14
NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated RHP David
x-Sunday, Oct. 27: AL at NL (Fox) kick), 2:35 Richmond 24, Maine 17
x-Tuesday, Oct. 29: NL at AL (Fox)
x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: NL at AL (Fox)
A_85,462. Robert Morris 20, St. Francis (PA) 17
Temple 30, Memphis 28
Hockey Hale for assignment. Reinstated OF Aaron Hicks
from the 60-day IL. Added Hicks and LHP CC Sa-
bathia to the active roster. Removed INF/OF Tyler
MSST TEN NHL Glance Wade and 1B Luke Voit from the active roster.
Nationals 3, Cardinals 1 First downs 20
Rushes-yards 37-121
14
44-190
SOUTH EASTERN CONFERENCE National League
Alabama St. 31, Jackson St. 16 Atlantic Division
Washington St. Louis Passing 146 167 Alcorn St. 42, Savannah St. 17 GP W L OT Pts GF GA
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — INF David Freese
ab r h bi ab r h bi announced his retirement.
Turner ss 4 1 2 0 Fowler cf 3 0 0 0
Comp-Att-Int 11-21-3 10-14-2 Appalachian St. 17, Louisiana-Lafayette 7 Buffalo 5 4 0 1 9 21 13 WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated RHP
Return Yards 9 27 Boston 5 4 1 0 8 12 8
Eaton rf 4 0 1 2 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0
Punts-Avg. 4-40.0 4-41.25
Austin Peay 28, SE Missouri 24
Toronto 6 3 2 1 7 24 22 Daniel Hudson from paternity leave. Removed
Rendon 3b 3 0 1 0 Goldschmidt 1b 40 1 0 Bethune-Cookman 27, NC Central 13 RHP Wander Suero from the active roster.
Soto lf 4 0 0 0 Ozuna lf 4 0 0 0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Clemson 45, Florida St. 14 Detroit 5 3 2 0 6 16 16
FOOTBALL
Montreal 5 2 1 2 6 21 21
Kendrick 2b 4 0 0 0 Molina c 3 0 0 0 Penalties-Yards 4-15 3-34 Duke 41, Georgia Tech 23 Tampa Bay 5 2 2 1 5 20 17 National Football League
Doolittle p 0 0 0 0 Carpenter 3b 3 0 0 0 Time of Possession 26:58 33:02
Corbin p 0 0 0 0 Edman rf 3 0 0 0 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Elon 42, Delaware 7
FAU 28, Middle Tennessee 13
Florida 5 1 2 2 4 13 20 NFL — Fined Green Bay RB Aaron Jones $10,527
Ottawa 4 1 3 0 2 12 17 for taunting/unsportsmanlike conduct during last
Dan.Hudson p 0 0 0 0 DeJong ss 3 1 1 0 RUSHING_Mississippi St., Shrader 13-62, Ste- FIU 48, Charlotte 23 Metropolitan Division week’s game.
Zimmerman 1b 4 0 0 0 Wainwright p 2 0 0 0 vens 9-26, Ky.Hill 11-13, Payton 1-11, Gibson 2-5,
Suzuki c 4 0 0 0 Miller p 0 0 0 0 Zuber 1-4, D.Williams 0-0. Tennessee, Chandler
Florida A&M 42, SC State 38 GP W L OT Pts GF GA MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived WR Davion
Gardner-Webb 35, Hampton 27 Carolina 6 5 1 0 10 24 16
Gomes c 0 0 0 0 J.Martínez ph 1 0 1 1 16-63, Jordan 19-59, Maurer 3-41, J.Jennings Georgia St. 31, Coastal Carolina 21 Washington 6 3 1 2 8 19 17
Davis. Signed LB Cameron Smith from the prac-
tice squad.
Taylor cf 4 1 2 1 Helsley p 0 0 0 0
Scherzer p 2 0 0 0
1-22, Gray 2-7, Wood-Anderson 1-5, (Team) 1-(mi- Grambling St. 23, Alabama A&M 10 Philadelphia 2 2 0 0 4 8 3 NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived RB Austin Walter.
nus 2), Guarantano 1-(minus 5). N.Y. Rangers 3 2 1 0 4 11 9
Adams ph 1 1 1 0 PASSING_Mississippi St., Stevens 6-11-2-67,
Incarnate Word 27, Southeastern Louisiana 21
James Madison 38, Villanova 24 Pittsburgh 4 2 2 0 4 11 10
Signed QB Alex Tanney.
Dozier 2b 0 0 0 0 NEW YORK JETS — Waived QB Luke Falk. Acti-
Totals 34 3 7 3 Totals 29 1 3 1 Shrader 5-10-1-79. Tennessee, Guarantano 6-7- Kennesaw St. 45, Charleston Southern 23 Columbus 5 2 3 0 4 11 18
vated LB Brandon Copeland from the suspended
Washington 001 000 020 — 3 0-106, Maurer 4-7-2-61. Kentucky 24, Arkansas 20 N.Y. Islanders
5 2 3 0 4 12 15
New Jersey 5 0 3 2 2 9 23 list.
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Scherzer no-hit try into 7th, Nats top Cards, lead NLCS 2-0
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Max
Scherzer was strength
and fire. Aníbal Sánchez
was artistry and decep-
tion.
Two different styles,
two absolute gems for the
Washington Nationals.
Scherzer followed Sán-
chez’s near no-hitter with
a try of his own, and the
stingy Nationals beat the
St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 on
Saturday for a 2-0 lead in
the NL Championship Se-
ries.
“We really want to win
here,” the hard-charging
Scherzer said. “So that’s
what’s going to happen,
we’re going to compete
and win.”
Scherzer didn’t allow
a hit until Paul Gold-
schmidt led off the sev-
enth inning with a single
that left fielder Juan Soto
played conservatively
with a 1-0 lead. A day
earlier, Sánchez held the
Cardinals hitless until
José Martínez had a pinch
single with two down in
the eighth.
Sánchez and Scher-
zer also began the 2013
ALCS with consecutive
no-hit bids of at least
five innings for Detroit
against Boston. They are
the only pitchers to ac-
complish the feat in post-
season history.
“The way he can
change speeds and exe-
cute pitches, it’s a treat
to really watch and get to
pitch with him,” Scherzer
said. “For me, I’m just in
the moment. I’m not try-
ing to do anything great,
I’m just trying to stick
within my game.”
Scherzer, a St. Louis
native who played college
ball for the University of
Missouri, struck out 11
and walked two in seven
innings.
It doesn’t get any eas-
ier for St. Louis, either.
Ace Stephen Strasburg
gets the ball for the wild-
Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) throws against the St. Louis Cardinals during the fourth
inning in Game Two of the 2019 NLCS playoff baseball series Saturday at Busch Stadium.
card Nationals when
the best-of-seven series
moves to Washington for
Game 3 on Monday night.
Jack Flaherty pitches for
the Cards.
“They have a pretty
strong advantage right
now,” Cardinals right-
hander Adam Wainwright
said.
“I’ve got a lot of con-
fidence in our hitters. I
think our hitters are go-
ing to do something spe-
cial in Washington.”
St. Louis got another
solid performance from
Wainwright, who struck
out 11 in 7 1/3 innings.
But after getting only
one hit in the opener, the
Cardinals’ inconsistent
lineup managed just three
hits against Scherzer and
the Washington bullpen.
“We trust in each other.
We’ve been in this position
before,” Cardinals catcher
Yadier Molina said. “We
just have to figure out how
to get better.”
The NL Central cham-
pions got their first run
of the series when center
fielder Michael A. Tay-
lor misplayed Martínez’s
pinch-hit liner into an RBI
double with two outs in the
eighth. But Dexter Fowler
flied out on Sean Doolit-
tle’s next pitch on a tough
day to see the ball with the
shadows from the mid-af-
ternoon start.
Patrick Corbin got the
first out of the ninth before
Daniel Hudson earned his
third save of the playoffs.
The right-hander was rein-
stated from the postseason
paternity list before the
game after he missed the
series opener to be with
his wife, Sara, for the birth
of their third child, a girl
named Millie.
Corbin is expected to
start Game 4 for the Na-
tionals on Tuesday night.
Scherzer, who has
pitched two no-hitters in
the regular season, has a
record five career postsea-
son no-hit bids of at least
five innings, according to
the Elias Sports Bureau.
The three-time Cy Young
Award winner came clos-
est to finishing in Game
3 of the 2017 NL Division
Series, getting one out in
the seventh inning before
allowing a hit.
There have only been
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two postseason no-hitters.
Don Larsen threw a per-
fect game for the New York
Yankees against Brooklyn
in the 1956 World Series,
and Roy Halladay pitched
a no-hitter for the Phila-
delphia Phillies in the 2010
NL Division Series.
“It’s a good ballclub, but
we’ve got great pitchers,”
Taylor said. “They went
out and executed pitch af-
ter pitch.”
The Cardinals got one
baserunner into scoring
position while Scherzer
was on the mound. Kolten
Wong walked with one out
in the first and stole sec-
ond, but Goldschmidt and
Marcell Ozuna struck out.
After Goldschmidt’s hit,
Ozuna struck out again
and Molina bounced into
an inning-ending double
play on Scherzer’s final
pitch of the afternoon.
Washington went
ahead to stay when Taylor
homered on Wainwright’s
first pitch of the third.
The Nationals added two
more on Adam Eaton’s
double down the first-
base line with one out in
the eighth.
“This is really, it’s not
just one guy carrying this
team or two guys,” Scher-
zer said. “It’s really just
a collective of everybody
out there doing their job.”
All those Ks
It was the second post-
season game in major
league history in which
each starter recorded
more than 10 strikeouts.
Jacob deGrom (13 Ks)
and Clayton Kershaw (11
strikeouts) also accom-
plished the feat in Game 1
of the 2015 NLDS.
Trainer’s room
Nationals: C Kurt Su-
zuki returned to the start-
ing lineup after being
sidelined by a head injury.
He got hurt by a foul ball
that ricocheted during
Washington’s clinching
victory in Game 5 of the
NLDS against the Dodg-
ers on Wednesday night.
... OF Victor Robles was
out of the lineup again be-
cause of a strained right
hamstring. He got hurt in
Game 2 against Los Ange-
les.
Up next
Flaherty struck out
eight in six innings in St.
Louis’ 13-1 victory over
Atlanta in Game 5 of the
NL Division Series on
Wednesday. The right-
hander turns 24 on Tues-
day.
Strasburg made two
starts against St. Louis
this season, going 1-0
with a 2.31 ERA. He has
allowed four runs in 15 in-
nings in the playoffs.

Torres, Tanaka lead Yankees

over Astros 7-0 in ALCS opener
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Gleyber
Torres kept up his Octo-
ber surge with a homer
and five RBIs, Masahiro
Tanaka polished his play-
off resume and the New
York Yankees blanked the
Houston Astros 7-0 Satur-
day night in the AL Cham-
pionship Series opener.
With so much atten-
tion focused on the Astros
aces, Tanaka showed he
more than belonged on
this stage, too. He threw
one-hit ball for six innings
to outpitch Zack Greinke,
improving to 5-2 with a
1.32 ERA in the postsea-
son.
Torres did his part in
this matchup of 100-win
behemoths with a go-
ahead double, a solo ho-
mer, a two-run single and
an RBI grounder. Moved
up to third in the batting
order after mashing in a
sweep of Minnesota, the
22-year-old star became
the youngest AL player to
drive in five runs during a
postseason game.
Giancarlo Stanton and
Gio Urshela also homered
and right fielder Aaron
Judge turned in the key
play, catching a line drive
and doubling Alex Breg-
man off first base when it
was still 1-0.
The Yankees will try
to build on their early
momentum when James
Paxton starts against 21-
game winner Justin Ver-
lander in Game 2 on Sun-
day night.
Houston hardly looked
like a club that led the ma-
jors with a franchise-re-
cord 107 victories. Jose
Altuve, Bregman and
their teammates were
held to three singles.
The Astros had hom-
ered in 30 straight games
— every game since Aug.
31 — and their streak was
the second-longest in ma-
jor league history behind
a 31-game string by the
Yankees this year.
Greinke, acquired at
the trade deadline for
these kind of moments,
produced another lacklus-
ter playoff start.
Tanaka, who won
Game 1 of the ALDS,
struck out four and
walked one. He faced the
minimum through six
innings thanks to a pair
of double plays. Three
relievers finished up the
shutout.
Torres picked up right
where he left off in the di-
vision series where he hit
.417 to lead the team —
he batted sixth in those
games, but was moved
higher as manager Aar-
on Boone tinkered with
his lineup to break up the
team’s lefty hitters.
Torres put the Yankees
out front with an RBI dou-
ble in the fourth.
There was one out in
the sixth when he hit a
fastball from Greinke into
the seats in left field. Gre-
inke knew it was gone off
the bat, and pounded his
fist into his glove as soon
as Torres left the batter’s
box.
Stanton homered with
two outs in the sixth.
The Astros and Yan-
kees were meeting in the
playoffs for the third time
in five years and facing
off in the ALCS for the
second time in three sea-
sons. New York’s road win
on Saturday night comes
after the home team won
every game of the 2017
ALCS that Houston took
4-3.
The Astros got Grein-
ke, the 2009 AL Cy Young
Award winner, from Ar-
izona in July, hoping to
bolster a rotation star-
ring Verlander and Gerrit
Cole. Greinke went 8-1
with a 3.02 ERA in 10 reg-
ular-season starts after
the trade, but has strug-
gled in the postseason
and lost both starts.
Greinke took the loss
in Game 3 of the ALDS
against Tampa Bay in allow-
ing five hits, four of which
were homers and six runs
in 3 2/3 innings.
Urshela added a solo
homer on rookie Bryan
Abreu’s first pitch of the
postseason to pad the lead
in the ninth. Torres drove in
another run with a ground-
out later in the inning.
The Yankees led 1-0
when Bregman drew a lead-
off walk in the fifth. Yordan
Alvarez followed with a
drive that Judge caught on
run, and he made a strong
throw that first baseman
DJ LeMahieu scooped for
the double play. Bregman
stumbled a bit trying to get
back and was nabbed.
Up next
Verlander got the win
in Game 1 of the ALDS,
but took the loss in Game
4 when he started on short
rest. He was chosen MVP
of the 2017 ALCS when he
went 2-0 with a 0.56 ERA in
two starts against the Yan-
kees.
Paxton allowed five hits
and three runs in 4 2/3
innings in his postseason
debut in Game 1 of the
ALDS, but did not factor
into the decision.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Blankenship’s second miss hands S. Carolina victory over No.3 Georgia

South Carolina 20,
Georgia 17, 2OT
The Associated Press
capped by his 6-yard scoring
pass to Demetris Robertson
with less than two minutes re-
maining in regulation.
game when clusters of players
got too close at midfield while
wrapping up warmups and
started jawing at each other.
The only ejection was Tex-
to Ross. Lawrence also ran
for a touchdown, the 6-foot-6
sophomore extending his full
body to get over the goal line.
Etienne ran for 127 yards
time of possession 39:10 to
20:50.
Jack Coan completed his
first seven passes for Wis-
consin (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) and

ATHENS, Ga. — Parker

White’s 23-yard field goal in
the second overtime proved to
be enough when Georgia’s Ro-
drigo Blankenship was wide
left on his attempt from 42
yards, giving South Carolina
its first win over an AP Top 25
opponent since beating Geor-
gia in 2014.
Blankenship’s second miss
of the game sent South Caro-
lina players charging onto the
field to celebrate the upset.
White missed a 33-yard at-
tempt in the first overtime.
Georgia (5-1, 2-1 Southeast-
ern Conference) suffered a
big hit to its national champi-
onship hopes. The Bulldogs,
favored by 24½ points, could
not overcome three intercep-
tions and a lost fumble by Jake
Fromm. The senior did not
throw an interception in the
Bulldogs’ first five games.
On the second play of over-
time, Fromm’s pass glanced
off the hands of receiver Tyler
Simmons and was intercepted
by Israel Mukuamu. White’s
miss from 33 yards kept the
game alive for South Carolina
(3-3, 2-2).
Fromm led Georgia on a ty-
ing 96-yard touchdown drive
No. 6 Sooners 34,
No. 11 Texas 27
DALLAS — Jalen Hurts
threw three touchdown passes
to CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma’s
defense sacked Sam Ehlinger
nine times and the No. 6 Soon-
ers never trailed in a 34-27 vic-
tory over 11th-ranked Texas
on Saturday.
The Sooners harassed
Ehlinger into minus-9 yards
rushing while holding the
quarterback with the three
highest total yardage outputs
for Texas against Oklahoma
almost 200 yards below that
387-yard average.
The Sooners (6-0, 3-0 Big
12) stayed on track for a third
straight trip to the College
Football Playoff and avenged
last year’s loss in Cotton Bowl
Stadium in the middle of the
Texas state fair, a victory that
came in a rematch of the Big
12 championship game.
The Longhorns (4-2, 2-1)
are likely relegated to a spoil-
er role if there’s a second con-
secutive Big 12 title game be-
tween the rivals.
Both teams played under
the threat of an ejection for un-
sportsmanlike conduct after
referee Mike Defee flagged ev-
eryone 30 minutes before the
as defensive lineman Mal-
colm Roach, and it wasn’t for
unsportsmanlike conduct. He
was flagged for targeting while
hitting Lamb helmet-first and
late two plays before Lamb
weaved through Texas defend-
ers on a flea-flicker pass on a
51-yard score.
Lamb had 10 catches for
171 yards, tip-toeing on the
sideline to stay inbounds on
the 27-yarder for his final TD.
Hurts threw for 235 yards and
had 131 more on the ground,
including a punctuating
3-yard touchdown for a 34-20
lead late in the fourth quarter.
No. 2 Clemson 45,
Florida State 14
CLEMSON, S.C. — Trevor
Lawrence threw three touch-
down passes, two to Justyn
Ross, and No. 2 Clemson an-
swered any lingering ques-
tions from its close call at
North Carolina, winning its
21st straight game.
Clemson (4-0 Atlantic
Coast Conference) started 6-0
for a fifth straight year and
beat the Seminoles (3-3, 2-2)
for the fifth straight year.
Lawrence completed 17 of
25 passes for 170 yards, includ-
ing 10- and 8-yard TD throws
and caught one of Lawrence’s
scoring throws.
FSU quarterbacks James
Blackman and Alex Horni-
brook both threw first-half in-
terceptions and the Seminoles
managed only 63 yards in the
first half. Things didn’t get
better after halftime as Black-
man threw another pick that
went for Derion Kendrick’s
38-yard return score.
Florida State star Cam Ak-
ers’ struggles against the Ti-
gers continued. He had gained
just 47 total yards vs. Clemson
the past two games and ended
with 34 yards on nine carries
here.
No. 8 Wisconsin 38,
Michigan State 0
MADISON, Wis. — Jon-
athan Taylor rushed for two
touchdowns and No. 8 Wiscon-
sin’s defense posted its fourth
shutout of the season.
The Spartans’ defense held
Taylor to 80 yards on 26 car-
ries, marking the first time
this season the Heisman Tro-
phy hopeful was held under
100.
But Michigan State was
held to 149 yards, 30 rushing,
and couldn’t find any rhythm
as the Badgers dominated
finished 18 of 21 for 180 yards
and a touchdown to win his
eighth straight start since last
season.
The Spartans (4-3, 2-2) lost
back-to-back games against
AP top-10 Big Ten opponents.
Michigan State lost at then-
No. 4 Ohio State 34-10 last
week.
No. 16 Michigan 45,
Illinois 25
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Hassan Haskins ran for 125
yards and a touchdown, Zach
Charbonnet added 116 yards
rushing, and No. 16 Michi-
gan needed a late surge to put
away Illinois.
The Wolverines (5-1, 3-1
Big Ten) built a 28-0 lead by
halftime, but turnovers and
ineffective offense helped the
Illini (2-4, 0-3) cut the lead
to 28-25 with 12:50 left. Dre
Brown ran in from a yard out
and then converted a 2-point
conversion for the Illini.
Michigan responded with
a long drive capped by Shea
Patterson’s 5-yard touch-
down pass to Donovan Peo-
ples-Jones. Patterson ran for a
score after Michigan forced a
turnover at the Illini 1 to seal it
for Michigan.

MSU
Continued from Page 1B
Stevens’ second turnover of the day
came as MSU searched for a late first
half score. Stepping into the pocket,
he fired a ball into double coverage —
gifting Volunteers safety Trevon Flow-
ers an interception and, ultimately,
Tennessee a Brent Cimaglia 49-yard,
half-ending field goal.
“Offensively we just couldn’t get
anything going until that second half
and that’s my responsibility to get that
fixed,” Moorhead said postgame.
While the start was poor, MSU
showed brief signs of life in the second
half as Moorhead benched Stevens in
favor of freshman Garrett Shrader.
Though he finished the day 5-of-10
for 79 yards, a touchdown and an inter-
ception, it was Shrader’s dual-threat
ability that carried MSU to it’s lone
end zone trip of the day.
Guiding an eight-play, 90 -yard drive
following Tyler Byrd’s 39-yard touch-
down reception, he totaled 22 yards
rushing and another 56 yards passing
— ending with a 17-yard pitch-and-
catch to Thomas.
Now sitting at 3-3 and losers of two-
straight, the Bulldogs are in danger
of seeing their season spiral out of
control. Three of MSU’s next four op-
ponents — LSU, Texas A&M and Al-
abama — were ranked in this week’s
Associated Press top-25 poll, while a
trip to Arkansas looks less secure than
it did 24 hours ago — particularly giv-
en MSU has been outscored 76 -33 on
the road in SEC play this year.
“A little bit,” Moorhead said of
whether he’s worried a loss like Sat-
urday’s could weigh on his team. “But
kids are resilient we’ll come in tomor-
row, make the corrections and move
on.”

Hodge
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MSU
Bulldogs
head
coach Joe
Moorhead
watches
a play in
a game
against the
Tennessee
Volunteers
at Neyland
Stadium.
Bryan Lynn/USA TODAY Sports

ly surfaced of the former Vols player
cursing at police following his arrest at
a traffic stop last month. The dismissal
made national news and didn’t exactly
paint Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt in
the best light.
On the field, Tennessee seemingly
tried to fix its offensive line with Gorilla
Glue, had quarterback play that no one
in the league envied and saw its defense
disappear in key moments time and
time again. Outrage in Knoxville had
never been higher in recent memory
when Tennessee lost its season opener
to a Georgia State team that won two
games in 2018. Its previous lone win
came against a mediocre FCS team.
And yet, somehow, Mississippi State
left Knoxville appearing like it was the
more dysfunctional team. Even worse,
the Bulldogs had two weeks to prepare
for this game, yet looked completely
lost for most of the contest.
“It’s all my responsibility,” MSU
coach Joe Moorhead said predictably.
“We’ll get it fixed.”
You probably don’t need to log on
to Twitter to find out Mississippi State
fans are tired of hearing that same line
over and over again. But to the second
year coach’s credit, there is still time to
correct MSU’s ongoing issues.
The problem is, the schedule only
intensifies, and the issues in need of
fixing are plentiful.
First, the mistakes: The Bulldogs
were outgained 357-267, turned the ball
over three times, had its star running
back held to 13 yards on 11 carries, had
far too many lapses defensively on third
down, allowed a back-breaking 10-play,
91-yard drive to seal its fate and waited
until halftime to turn the keys to the
offense over to the quarterback that
should probably have started all along.
There was a lot of fan outrage about
not starting freshman signal caller Gar-
rett Shrader over Tommy Stevens —
and it appeared justified - but the bigger
problem here lies with not finding ways
to get Kylin Hill more than 13 yards on
double-digit carries.
“We didn’t play well enough in all
three phases in four quarters to beat
an SEC team on the road,” Moorhead
said. “Offensively, we just couldn’t get
anything going until the second half.”
Another alarming trend: Mississip-
pi State has continued to put up poor
showings on the road under Joe Moor-
head’s tenure, going 2-5 in those games
and getting outscored 160-109.
And finally, let’s take a look at the
next four games on the schedule for
MSU: at home against Louisiana State,
on the road at Texas A&M, Arkansas
on the road and a home contest with
Alabama. The Bulldogs will be heavy
underdogs in three of those games, as
they should be. You’d think they’d be
favored to win against Arkansas, but
after Saturday’s performance against
the Vols added with MSU’s lackluster
road performances, can anyone really
guarantee a victory with confidence?
We’ve reached the halfway point of
the season and yet the Bulldogs have
given supporters more questions than
answers. How they’ll respond to close
the year is anyone’s guess.
“They’re upset that we lost and a
little down that we lost. That’s the way
it should be,” Moorhead said. “If you’re
not in there and it doesn’t hurt and it
doesn’t rip your soul out, you’re doing
the wrong thing.”
Garrick Hodge is the sports editor for
The Commercial Dispatch. Follow him
on Twitter @Garrick_Hodge or email
him at ghodge@cdispatch.com.
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Second blooming

Photo by Megan Bean

Mississippi State University Professor Emeritus of Art Brent Funderburk is pictured in his home studio in Starkville. Since retiring in May 2018, Funderburk
has immersed himself in painting. Several of his watercolors — including from his latest series, “Re-inflorescence — A Second Flowering,” have been se-
lected for major art publications in 2019 and 2020. The William L. Giles Distinguished Professor often finds inspiration in the natural world surrounding the
home he shares with his wife, Debby Funderburk, who teaches dance and dance history at MSU.

Retirement fuels inspiration and a new series for Funderburk

BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

N
“ o one told me I couldn’t
do it,” said Brent
Funderburk. And so,
he did.
Funderburk began decades
ago honing his unique style
of painting with watercolors,
of interpreting with intensity,
of teaching with passion. For
36 years at Mississippi State
University, he inspired next
generations of artists, gather-
ing academic, teaching and
research honors along the
way. After retiring 18 months
ago, the MSU Department of
Art professor emeritus and
William L. Giles Distinguished
Professor could have slowed
down, taken up fishing or golf,
or even painting pictures of
sailboats and beaches. Instead,
Funderburk immersed himself
in a “second flowering,” one he
might liken to the unexpected
second blooming a pear tree in
his yard put out in September.
The pear trees and their fruit
Image courtesy of Brent Funderburk
are Funderburk’s old friends Brent Funderburk’s vibrant “Soul House (Red)” is currently in the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Ex-
and collaborators, reoccurring hibition in Evergreen, Colorado. The watercolor has also been selected for art publications including “Splash
in many of his paintings. 21: Capturing Mood” and Southwest Art. A few limited edition 12-color giclee prints of “Soul House (Red)” are
See Funderburk, 5C available for purchase at brentfunderburk.com.

Image courtesy of Brent Funderburk

Brent Funderburk’s “Inside/Outside” brings together a muse (wife Debby), a child’s box of marbles, a Robert E. Lee statuette and
the artist’s colored pencils in a compelling composition.
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MSU Lyceum Series to feature hot jazz ensemble Tuesday

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC ble Turtle Island Quartet, came larize the swing or “hot jazz”
AFFAIRS to the group with two classical style in 1930’s Paris. Contem-
crossover Grammy wins. A na- porary hot club ensembles are

A
n acclaimed jazz ensem-
ble will take the stage for
the second performance
in Mississippi State’s Lyceum
Series.
Performing Tuesday, Oct. 15
at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Better-
sworth Auditorium is the Hot
Club of San Francisco, whose
playing has been hailed by
Acoustic Guitar as “intricate,
scorching and often brilliant.”
The ensemble’s current
members include leader
and guitarist Paul Mehling,
guitarist and vocalist Isabelle
Fontaine, violinist Evan Price,
guitarist Jordan Samuels and
bassist Sam Rocha. Price, a
former member of jazz ensem-
tive of France, Fontaine lends
bilingual vocals to the group’s
compositions. The group
celebrated its 30th anniversary
in 2018.
HCSF has recorded 14
studio albums, including “John
Paul George & Django,” a
collection of rhythmic jazz cov-
ers of Beatles songs that was
hailed by the Jazz Times as “an
affectionate presentation of
some of the most unbreakable
melodies in popular music.”
For more, visit hotclubsf.com.
The group’s name is derived
from Roma jazz guitarist Jean
“Django” Reinhardt, a guitarist
for the Quintet of the Hot Club
of France who helped popu-
located globally and continue
to produce music similar to the
original style.
Individual tickets are
available to the general public
at $30 for adults and $10 for
children 12 and under. Pur-
chases can be made at lyceum.
msstate.edu and at the door, if
available.
For more information about
MSU’s Lyceum Series, contact
the Center for Student Ac-
tivities at 662-325-2930, visit
lyceum.msstate.edu or email
lyceum@msstate.edu. Contri-
butions to the Lyceum Series Courtesy photo
can be made via the MSU Jazz ensemble Hot Club of San Francisco will take the stage Tues-
Foundation by contacting Lynn day, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. for the second performance in Mississippi
Durr at 662-325-8918. State’s Lyceum Series.

Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

COUNTRY STORE: From left, Judy Jarrett, Paulette Garton and Eulalie Davis discuss improvement plans for the
S.D. Lee Home kitchen Thursday at a meeting for the 59th annual Country Store Bake Sale. Set for Tuesday,
Nov. 26 at the Lee Home on Seventh Street North in Columbus, the sale benefits S.D. Lee Foundation projects
such as the kitchen remodel. Cakes, pies, cookies, candies, cheese straws and more will be offered from 10
a.m.-noon at the pre-Thanksgiving bake sale organized by the Association for the Preservation of Antiquities in
Tell your child a bedtime story.
Columbus and Lowndes County.

Get barefoot on the bridge Tuesday

MUW UNIVERSITY
RELATIONS

P
assport to Wellness
will offer an evening
of relaxation on the
river with the fifth annual
Barefoot on the Bridge
yoga event Tuesday, Oct.
15 at 6 p.m. at the Colum-
bus Riverwalk.
In partnership with
Bliss Yoga, Mississippi
University for Women’s
Passport to Wellness
will present the first 20 Dispatch file photo
attendees with a free yoga The W’s fifth annual Barefoot on the Bridge event will
mat. In addition, The W’s begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Columbus Riverwalk.
Project CHEW (Cook Participation is free and open to the community.
Healthy, Eat Well) trailer
will offer free water and represent Bliss Yoga at the to spend some time with
healthy snacks. annual event by leading friends in this beautiful
“This event is a chance everyone through the weather?” said Gressett.
for yoga enthusiasts and Vinyasa flow class. Bliss Passport to Wellness is
newbies to meet and con- Yoga encourages people made possible through a
nect. It’s great for students of all ages to participate in grant from Blue Cross &
who need a break from the free event to connect Blue Shield of Mississippi
studying, for parents who the mind with the body Foundation. It addresses
need some time out of the and gain strength, balance the problem of unhealthy
house, and for community and flexibility. lifestyle choices relating to
members who are simply Approximately 100 par- diet, physical activity and
looking for something ticipants usually gather on stress management. The
different to do,” said Ash- the bridge for the annual program operates within
ley Gressett, Passport to yoga event. Columbus and Lowndes
Wellness project manager. “It’s free, it’s healthy County to serve residents
Lee Ann Starr will and who wouldn’t want of this community.

Battle of the Bulge veterans, families,

friends invited to gathering
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT and accomplished other projects, such
as establishing a memorial at the war

T
he Mississippi Chapter of the Vet-
erans of the Battle of the Bulge
will hold an annual fall gathering
at Lake Tiak-O’Khata in Louisville.
Veterans, their families and all others
interested are invited to the event that
begins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17
with a social time, followed by a Dutch
lunch and brief program. A former
World War II pilot will speak.
The chapter, though small in num-
ber, has previously funded scholarships
museum at Camp Shelby.
“This group is still active, and any-
one is welcome to come that’s interest-
ed in learning about (the Battle of the
Bulge),” said chapter member James
Hunt.
Members of the VFW Post 4272 Rid-
ers Guard will ride motorcycles to the
gathering in honor of the Battle of the
Bulge veterans.
For more information about the gath-
ering, contact Hunt at 662-328-8959.
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calendar
Tuesday, Oct. 15
Barefoot on the Bridge —
Join in this free community yoga
session hosted by The W’s Passport
to Wellness program at 6 p.m. on the
pedestrian bridge at the Columbus
Riverwalk. The first 20 participants
to sign up on site receive a free yoga
mat. All levels welcome. Bring a
towel or mat.
Fall recital — The W’s Music
Department showcases its students
in a fall choral concert at 7:30 p.m.
in Poindexter Hall on campus. Free to
the public.
Thursday, Oct. 17
Pumpkinpalooza — Starkville’s
annual harvest festival from 5-7
p.m. on Main Street includes trick or
treating, a pumpkin patch, inflat-
ables, farmers market, MSU pep
rally, pumpkin painting, after-hours
shopping and more. Costumes are
encouraged. Visit starkville.org or
contact The Partnership, 662-323-
3322.
Friday, Oct. 18
The Rough & Tumble — The
Columbus Arts Council presents
this Americana duo on its “Howl
Back Tour” at 7 p.m. in the Rosenz-
weig Arts Center Omnova Theater,
501 Main St. CAC member tickets
are $15 advance/$17 at the door;
non-members $20 advance/$22 at
the door. Get tickets or information
at columbus-arts.org, or call 662-
328-2787.
Exhibit talk — Architect and
former Iraqi refugee Ahmed Badr
gives a free talk at 6 p.m. in MSU’s
Old Main Academic Center, Room
1030, about his “Unpacked: Refugee
Baggage” exhibit up through Nov. 1
at the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery
on campus. For information, contact
Lori Neuenfeldt at lpn20@mssstate.
edu or 662-325-2970.
Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 18-19
Caledonia Days — See details
at top of calendar.
Saturday, Oct. 19
MUW fall concert — The MUW
Chamber Singers and MUW Chorale
present a free concert for the public
at 7:30 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on
campus.
Tuesday, Oct. 22
100+ Women Who Care
— This philanthropic group meets
5:30-7 p.m. at the Courtyard by
Marriott, Columbus, to select a local
recipient nonprofit organization of its
Impact Award. Members each donate
$100 to the award and receive a
vote; all donations go to recipient.
Learn more at 100wwccolumbusms.
org. Potential members are welcome.
Registration/ social time is 5:30
p.m.; meeting is 6-7 p.m.
HOPE event — A gathering in
front of Columbus City Hall at 5:30
p.m. will be held in support of victims
and survivors of breast cancer. All
are welcome.
Wednesday, Oct. 23
A Night at the Museum —
This fundraiser for the Black Prairie
Blues Museum in West Point is 6-9
p.m. at 640 Commerce St., West
Point. See what’s planned for the
blues museum. Limited tickets are
$150. To purchase, or for more infor-
mation, call or text 662-275-7819.
Thursday through Sunday,
Oct. 24-27
“Southern Fried Funeral”
— The West Point/Clay County Arts
Council presents this comedic play
at 7 p.m. Oct. 24-26, and 2 p.m. Oct.
27, at the Louise Campbell Center
for the Arts in West Point. Tickets
$12 (cash or check only) at Petal
Pushers, First United Methodist
Church and the Growth Alliance in
West Point.
Friday, Oct. 25
MSU/Bahamas National
Youth Choir — Mississippi State
choirs and the Bahamas National
Youth Choir present a free concert
at 7 p.m. at Starkville’s First Baptist
Church, 106 E. Lampkin St. For more
information, contact the MSU Depart-
ment of Music, 662-325-3070.
Oct. 25-26, 30-31
Nightmare at the Fair-
grounds — The Community Bene-
fit Committee presents this haunting
experience from 5-10 p.m. at the
Columbus Fairgrounds on Highway
69 South. Haunted House is $10;
Haunted Hayride is $5. All proceeds
benefit the Lowndes County bike
drive for kids. The attraction will also
be open Oct. 28 for private groups
and field trips from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.,
with reservations. For information,
contact Rhonda Sanders, 662-549-
5909.
Saturday, Oct. 26
Art in the Park — Starkville
Area Arts Council’s fifth annual arts
Courtesy image
festival for children is a free event
from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at J.L. King Park,
Starkville. Youth enjoy art activities
and hands-on musical experiences.
Bring your own water and snacks,
if desired. For more information,
contact SAAC, 662-324-3080 or
#artinthepark2019.
Sunday, Oct. 27
Because Hayden III — This
benefit in memory of Hayden Allen
includes music and food at Zach-
ary’s, 205 Fifth St. N., Columbus.
$10 cash entrance; live music, raffle
prizes and food. For sponsorships
or more information, call 662-329-
7653.
Sunday Funday — This mini
arts and music fest from 1-7 p.m. at
513-516 University Drive in Starkville
features art and food vendors, kids’
art activities and music by Sponta-
neous Generation, Wright Moves,
Andrew Rendon, Thunderleg, Holla-
grahams and CBDB.
Friday through Sunday,
Nov. 1-3
Columbus Downtown Christ-
mas Open House — Welcome
Christmas early at this Open House
at downtown merchants from 10
Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 18-19
Caledonia Days — A
Friday night concert fea-
turing Rust Bucket Road-
ies (6 p.m.), Jeff Bates
(7:30 p.m.) and Doug
Stone (9 p.m.) at Ola J.
Pickett Park in Caledonia
opens this two-day fest
that continues Saturday
with a 5K run, pet parade,
car show, music and arts,
crafts and food vendors.
Visit facebook.com/cale-
doniadays/.
a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 1-2, and from 1-5
p.m. Nov. 3 at select stores. Open
House shoppers are entered to win a
grand prize worth hundreds of dollars
in gift cards. For more information,
contact Main Street Columbus, 662-
328-6305.
Nov. 6-10, 12-15
“Moonlight and Magnolias”
— Starkville Community Theatre
presents this play set in 1939 Hol-
lywood during the making of “Gone
with the Wind” at 7:30 p.m. (except
2 p.m. Sunday) at the Playhouse on
Main, 108 E. Main St., Starkville.
Tickets are $15/$10 students (for
mature audiences). Visit sct-online.
org.
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8-9
Ghosts & Legends — Visit
Columbus’ spirited past on tours
presented at 6:30, 7, 8 and 8:30
p.m. Buses depart the Tennessee
William Welcome Center, 300 Main
St. These tours presented by the
Columbus Arts Council, Columbus
Community Theatre and Columbus
Cultural Heritage Foundation often fill
quickly; advance tickets for desired
tour times are recommended. Get
tickets at the CAC, 501 Main St.,
columbus-arts. org or 662-328-2787.

OUT THERE
Oct. 17 – Mississippi Chapter of
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
gathering (families, others interested
are welcome), Lake Tiak-O-Khata,
Louisville. Social time 10:30 a.m.,
followed by Dutch treat lunch and brief
program. James Hunt, 662-328-8959.
Oct. 18-19, 25-25, 31 – Tupelo
Community Theatre’s Haunted Theatre,
“A Night at The Lyric,” 6-11 p.m. at
the Lyric Theatre downtown (not for
children under 10). $15 at door. 662-
844-1935, ltct@bellsouth.net.
Oct. 31 – “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
movie, Tupelo Community Theatre Off
Broadway, 213 E. Franklin St., Tupelo,
8 p.m. Limited tickets; must be 18.
Adults $20, students $10. Cash bar.
For tickets, call 662-844-1935.
Nov. 3 – MercyMe’s Imagine Nation
Tour (with Crowder, Micah Taylor),
BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo. 662-841-
6528, bcsarena.com.
Visit 662tix.com to purchase advance tickets to
the events below:
Oct. 18
Big “O” and The Gates Boys present Fright
Night Boxing at the Trotter Convention Center, with more than 20 fighters
participating. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the first match starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are
$35. There will be a cash prize for the best Halloween costume.
Oct. 18
The Old Memphis Kings perform at Dave’s Dark Horse in Starkville at 10 p.m.
Enjoy the blues and 10 percent off your meal with an online ticket purchase.
Oct. 19
Hang out with Shank and Main at Dave’s Dark Horse in Starkville at 10 p.m.
Listen to the grunge blues duo while enjoying a meal at 10 percent off with an
online ticket purchase.

Military briefs
principles and skills. training in military dis- Anto- Community College of the program that included
Owens graduates Airmen who complete cipline and studies, Air nio-Lack- Air Force. training in military dis-
U.S. Air Force Airman basic training also earn Force core values, physical land in San He is a 2019 graduate cipline and studies, Air
1st Class four credits toward an fitness, and basic warfare Antonio, of New Hope High School. Force core values, physical
Shanautica associate in applied sci- principles and skills. Texas. fitness, and basic warfare
L. Owens ence degree through the Airmen who complete The principles and skills.
graduated
from basic
Community College of the basic training also earn airman com- Peoples graduates Airmen who complete
Air Force. four credits toward an pleted an U.S. Air Force Reserve basic training also earn
military She is a 2019 graduate associate in applied sci- intensive, Airman 1st four credits toward an
training at of Starkville High School. ence degree through the eight-week Alexander IV Class Tiara associate in applied sci-
Joint Base Community College of the program R. Peoples ence degree through the
San Anto- that included training in graduated Community College of the
nio-Lackland Owens Geis graduates Air Force.
He is a 2018 graduate military discipline and from basic Air Force.
in San Anto- U.S. Air Force Reserve studies, Air Force core val- military Peoples is the wife of
of Vancleave High School
nio, Texas. Airman Matthew J. Geis ues, physical fitness, and training at Zachary Tylor of Fayette,
in Vancleave.
The airman completed graduated from basic mili- basic warfare principles Joint Base Alabama.
an intensive, eight-week tary training at Joint Base and skills. San Anto- She is a 2012 grad-
program that included San Antonio-Lackland in Alexander graduates Airmen who complete nio-Lackland uate of Fayette County
training in military dis- San Antonio, Texas. U.S. Air Force Airman basic training also earn in San Anto- Peoples High School and earned a
cipline and studies, Air The airman completed Cecil L. Alexander IV grad- four credits toward an nio, Texas. bachelor’s degree in 2019
Force core values, physical an intensive, eight-week uated from basic military associate in applied sci- The airman completed from Mississippi University
fitness, and basic warfare program that included training at Joint Base San ence degree through the an intensive, eight-week for Women.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: I was happily
married with three daugh-
ters until I found out I had
fathered a son two years before I
married my wife. The news was a
shock to us all. That information
was kept from me for 13 years,
and my wife is having a hard
time dealing with the situation.
We were dating at the time it
happened.
I have been trying to do the
right thing and involve my son in
my life. My wife was all for it, but
every now and then something
triggers her emotions and she Dear Abby
goes off. She throws the word
“divorce” at me when she’s
upset. I don’t want to have to go through this
every couple of months. I love my wife and my
family dearly and want to reiterate this did not
happen during our marriage. My
son is 13, and this is not his fault.
The mother said she didn’t tell
me at the time because she was
afraid, since I was involved with
someone else. Later on, when he
started asking questions, she told
him she had no idea how to get in
touch with me.
No one knows what is going on
right now except my wife. I haven’t
even told my daughters or the rest
of my family (siblings, mother, etc.)
yet. Any advice would be a bless-
ing. We are a Christian family. —
COPING IN THE EAST
DEAR COPING: Instead of keep-
ing this a deep, dark, shameful
secret, you AND YOUR WIFE should now sit
down with your family (parents, siblings, etc.)
and tell them what you have learned. When
you do, make clear that you intend to treat the
boy as a full-fledged family member and expect
them to follow suit. Your daughters should be
told beforehand about the existence of their
half-brother. Your wife should try to make every
effort to welcome the boy into the fold during
visitation. If she is having trouble handling
her emotions, a licensed marriage and family
therapist rather than a divorce lawyer may be
able to help her.
DEAR ABBY: I have always been nice and
respectful to my in-laws. I see them on every
holiday and birthday and in between, and buy
them nice gifts. For some reason, they treat my
husband’s brother’s family very differently than
ours. They give them extravagant gifts that cost
hundreds of dollars and hand them extra gift
cards in front of us. They also treat our children
and their cousins differently. As my children get
older, I know they will notice.
My husband is very independent. He acts
like it doesn’t bother him, but I know in his
heart it does. We both have respected profes-
sions, keep an immaculate home and try our
best to be great parents and family members.
How do I accept this inequity and not let it both-
er me? I know I can’t change them. — RANKED
LOWER IN FLORIDA
DEAR RANKED LOWER: You and your
husband are successful people. You do not
have to accept the treatment your family has
received from your in-laws. You are absolutely
correct that your children will begin to notice
the disparity in the way they are treated by their
grandparents. Continue to be kind and respect-
ful, but see them far less often, and never on
occasions when gifts are exchanged.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 13).
You’re like a U2 song because
you’ve quested for years, searched
high and low, yet still haven’t found
what you’re looking for. That’s good
news. If you were settled, then
you wouldn’t go on the incredible
adventures in store for this year, one
of which begins in another person’s
loving eyes. Virgo and Capricorn
adore you. Your lucky numbers are:
24, 8, 24, 16 and 12.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You
have all the raw stuff, but it’s how
you put it together that will make
the difference between getting what
you want or not. Give yourself an
advantage; take the time to organize
and think it through.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Slowly, over time, things have gotten
off balance in a relationship. It’s
time to make an adjustment. You de-
serve a situation in which you both
give and you both get. It would be
unwise to settle for anything less.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll
get a stretch of beautiful mental clar-
ity. It’s like you’re developing your
own secret art of thinking. And clear
thought finds possibility in even the
most challenging of situations.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
In the process of reorganizing,
everything will be taken out and
examined. It will be a mess — much
worse than before. But once the
decisions get made and executed,
you’ll see a vast improvement.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Being
willing to compromise is a life skill
that’s served you well so far, but it
shouldn’t be your only mode. The
question of how much you should
value your own happiness will come
up.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
One simple guideline that will keep
relationships healthy has to do with
conversational airtime. Make sure
it’s balanced. To listen too long
to someone who won’t return that
respect is to offer an indulgence that
stunts everyone.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If
you feel funny about having to ask
permission to do a thing, it could be
an indicator that someone is placing
limits on you that are either unnec-
essary, unreasonable, not in their
jurisdiction or all of the above.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). No
matter what hierarchies are involved
a situation, on a human level all are
respected equals. Power will alter
the dynamic. Your job will be to make
sure it doesn’t get out of hand.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
Luxury isn’t necessarily elegance.
One costs money, the other solves a
problem in an entrancing way. You’ll
get examples of both today and have
the opportunity to experiment, learn
and create.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Intellectual study seems passive
because it requires little movement.
The gains are more difficult to track
than, say, measuring a mile or a
pound, but don’t doubt that those
gains are real and will be incredibly
impactful.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
You’ll be well aware of two choices
— stack up a bunch of evidence to
suggest that you are stuck or stack
up the same amount of evidence to
suggest that you are free.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
You’d rather be wealthy than rich.
That’s why you make sure that an
endeavor will not only bring you mon-
ey but will also bring you other kinds
of riches (perhaps emotional and
spiritual) that matter to you.
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Columbus CVB wins ConventionSouth’s Annual Readers’ Choice Award

SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH & Visitors Bureau has been & Visitors Bureau indeed The nominated sites are then Celebrating over 35 years as
selected to receive our annual displays the commitment to compiled onto an online ballot a leading meeting planning re-
GULF SHORES, Alabama —

T
he publishers and editors
of ConventionSouth,
the national multimedia
resource for planning events in
the South, have presented Co-
lumbus Convention & Visitors
Bureau with a 2019 Readers’
Choice Award.
“ConventionSouth readers
and fans have voted to decide
the best meeting sites in the
South, and it is no surprise to
us that Columbus Convention
Readers’ Choice Award,” said
ConventionSouth Senior Editor
Marcia Bradford. “The value
in receiving this prestigious
recognition is that it comes
from the United States’ top
meeting professionals who
hold events in the South. These
planners demand the highest
level of customer service and
quality facilities, and they have
contributed in determining
that Columbus Convention
professionalism, creativity and
service that they require.”
Columbus Convention &
Visitors Bureau is among 337
convention and visitor bureaus
(CVBs), meeting facilities and
hotels located across the South
to receive this year’s Readers’
Choice Award. Throughout the
year, meeting professionals
nominated the meeting sites
they believe provide exempla-
ry service for group events.
where meeting professionals
and fans are asked to vote for
the best of the best. More than
7,000 voters participate in the
selection process.
Since creation in 2001, this
is the third time that Columbus
Convention & Visitors Bureau
has received the award. It
will be featured as an award
recipient in the December 2019
Awards Issue of Convention-
South magazine.
source, ConventionSouth mag-
azine is based in Gulf Shores,
Alabama, and is distributed to
more than 18,000 meeting pro-
fessionals located across the
country who book meetings
held within the South, accord-
ing to Bradford.
A complete list of award
winners can be found online
at conventionsouth.com/2019-
readers-choice-award-winners-
announced.

Club notes
JA welcomes provisionals
Junior Auxiliary of Columbus
recently welcomed its incoming
Provisional Class for the 2019-2020
year. Over the course of the next six
months, these 16 women will train
under the direction of Parliamentar-
ian Lindsay Clemons, attend month-
ly chapter meetings and observe
chapter projects to determine if they
wish to volunteer their time in JA for
the next five and one-half years.
JA of Columbus is part of The
National Association of Junior Aux-
iliaries. NAJA consists of 98 chap-
ters in Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Courtesy photo
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, COOL TREATS: Members of the Oktibbeha
Missouri and Tennessee. Members County Mississippi State University Alum-
are committed to active, construc- ni Chapter delivered popsicles to the T.K.
Courtesy photo Martin Center and to Emerson Family School
tive roles in the local community,
Junior Auxiliary of Columbus provisional members pictured Sept. 23 are, in front, in Starkville Oct. 2. From left are Amanda
meeting the needs of area children from left, Misty Sharp, Casey Thomas, Heather Brignac, Jana Thornton, Jaimie Edwards, president of the alumni chapter;
through service projects with a par- Beckham, Rachel Smith, Ashley Earwood and Dana McConnell. In back are Margaret assistant teacher Korsica Lucas; and Carol
ticular emphasis on impacting the Rollins, Chase Hazard, Ashley McGregory, Leanne Tucker, Anna Elizabeth Wiygul, Moss Read of the chapter’s membership and
children of the Lowndes County. Laura Catherine Yeatman, Amber Brislin and Brooke Hill. Breakfast with the Bulldogs committee.

Courtesy photo
GALAXY AT DISTRICT: Seven members of the Galaxy Garden Club of Columbus
traveled to Holly Springs Sept. 27 for the Tombigbee Valley Fall District Garden Club
meeting, annual awards and a tour of Montrose, the antebellum home of the Holly
Springs Garden Club. Seated, from left, are Brenda Willis, Rissa Lawrence, Debbie
Holloway, Taleah Carter and Pat Crouse. Standing are Nancy Reeves and Doris Eb-
ner, president of The Garden Clubs of Mississippi Inc. and also a Galaxy member.

Courtesy photo
Members of the Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR Chapter in Starkville celebrate the Oct. 8
109th birthday of the chapter, in addition to the national DAR milestone reached
this fall of more than one million members since that organization formed.

DAR in her family who have followed her in

This fall the National Society Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution (DAR)
will surpass one million total members
who have joined the organization since
its founding in 1890. The DAR is a
women’s service organization whose
members can trace their lineage to an
individual who contributed to securing
American independence during the
Revolutionary War.
The Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR Chap-
ter, based in Starkville, has welcomed
members since the chapter began in
1910. It celebrated its 109th birthday
Oct. 8. Throughout the chapter’s history,
its membership has included women
from the local community with diverse
backgrounds.
Ellen Drane Mauldin was encouraged
by family members to join DAR in 1957.
She has likewise mentored to the women
DAR membership. After retirement as a
librarian, she began serving as chapter
registrar and has assisted countless pro-
spective members in the past 25 years
with their membership applications.
Misty Tanner Booth joined DAR just
five years ago. While she is a profession-
al forester with many career and family
demands, she is currently serving as
chapter regent and makes time for DAR
to give back to her community.
Each DAR member has a unique
story, but all share a passion for historic
preservation, education and patriotism.
Mauldin and Booth encourage women
interested in learning more about DAR
membership to send a private message
with contact information to chapter
officers on the Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha Chapter
Facebook page at facebook.com/Hi-
cAShaBaHa/.

School news
Sheorn graduates
Ashlea Sheorn of Starkville earned a
master’s degree in elementary educa-
tion from Valdosta State University in
Valdosta, Georgia.
Sheorn was among nearly 550 under-
graduate and graduate students who
completed the requirements for their
respective degrees during the summer
2019 semester.
MSU graduates
The following students were among
area graduates for the 2019 summer
term at Mississippi State University:
Caledonia: Stevi Laurene Carter and
Kathryn Ruth Vernon;
Columbus: Jarrett Lamarco Bates,
Anna Kathryn Beckett, William Parker
Cesare, Sydnee D’Laine Elmore,
Reginald Howard Hill, Lakyn Elaine
Hodo, Hanna Elise Holcomb, Sammie
Earl Lee, Megan Rose Leslie, Willie J.
Perkins, Megan Kristyne San Filippo
and Ashley Dai Stephens;
Crawford: Elmer Heath King;
Steens: Danica D. Hardy and Laura
Leigh Hicks
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Funderburk
Continued from Page 1C
Retirement from
teaching gave the artist
the gift of time — time
to devote to creating a
new series the Charlotte,
North Carolina native
titled “Re-inflorescence –
a Second Flowering.”
“I didn’t want my
golden years to be a kind
of a middle place where
everything is averaged
out and I’m merely rest-
ing,” he said. “I’ve always
planned to paint full time
and for it to be an excit-
ing thing.”
■■■
Excitement and in-
trospection are frequent
effects of Funderburk’s
canvases. With striking
color and a mastery of
light, the former head of
the MSU Department of
Art explores connections
to the natural and deeper
worlds. Several works
are currently attracting
widespread attention.
“Soul House (Red)” and
“Anteroom” have been
jury-selected for the
international publica-
tion Creative Quarterly:
The Journal of Art and
Design, out this month.
In addition, Funderburk’s
“Angelus Vitae” and
“Oaxaca” appear in the
2019 hardback volume
“Splash 20: Creative
Compositions.” His “Soul
House (Red)” and “Blood
Moon” have been chosen
for publication in “Splash
21: Capturing Mood” in
2020. Of 118 international
artists whose work will
be included, Funderburk
is one of only 12 with two
pieces selected.
“When I retired, the
first painting I did in the
In Brent Funderburk’s earlier painting “You Knew You Could,” the artist brings human
form to the canvas. Funderburk was named the official artist of the 2010 Interna-
tional Ballet Competition.
(Re-inflorescence) series
was ‘Anteroom,’ which
represents that space
between one life and
another life,” the artist
explained. “It’s about a
second blooming.” The
painting speaks of beauty
and reality. “There’s a
skull in the anteroom,
because time is ticking
off and mortality is in the
room. But then, also in
that room are these in-
credibly beautiful oppor-
tunities, so ‘Anteroom’ is
about that, too.”
“Soul House (Red)”
captures a still moment
of mysterious light and
shadow in the artist’s
own surroundings. Au-
tumnal glow plays over a
pear branch while a bold
red all but obscures the
hint of the roof line of a
small shed among the
trees.
“It’s so red it shocks
me,” Funderburk said.
“Soul House,” he shared
on his website, embodies
the artist’s belief in the
necessity of a quiet, still
room of one’s own, where
one might find and be
oneself, alone with the
Maker.
“To me, the Soul
House is about who you
Image courtesy of Brent Funderburk
are, where you go inside
yourself to be truly who
you are,” he told The Dis-
patch. “It’s where I go to
be with my creator. Often
he’s not there because
I’m not in the right frame
of mind, but at least it’s a
place to start, to get away
from distraction.”
■■■
Funderburk has trav-
eled to teach, to paint.
He taught in Europe and
journeyed with students
across the Gulf barrier
islands, the Rocky Moun-
tains and to Utah’s Red
Rock country. As stirring
as the vistas are, he is
reminded the best things
in life are often right at
home, where a pear tree,
an old shed or a shaft of
light can inspire.
“Nobody else is inter-
ested in these sad-look-
ing trees or my shed but
me, so they need me,” he
said. “The exotic moun-
tains of the West and
the beautiful landscapes
don’t need me ... when I
come home, these sub-
jects are quietly waiting
to be realized.”
It all says something
about Mississippi, he
believes.
“William Faulkner
knew that. Tennessee
Williams knew that.
Howlin’ Wolf knew that,”
Funderburk said.
While the artist’s
recent paintings reap
recognition and talks are
underway with galleries
and museums about
a possible new show,
Funderburk stands, he
said, on the shoulders
of great people whose
work inspires him. They
include watercolorists
Charles E. Burchfield,
Walter Inglis Anderson
and former teacher and
mentor Edward Reep,
“who did radical things
with the medium.”
“When I was teaching
I was passing that legacy
and thread on; now I’m
trying to put it into the
paintings,” Funderburk
said. The creative life,
he added, is one of “high
highs” and “low lows.”
“When you get into cre-
ative work, you fail a lot
— but when you succeed,
it’s ecstasy.”
Sometimes it starts
with an early morning
cup of coffee at a window
overlooking a familiar
wooded scene.
“Some days I see the
same old stuff ... and
sometimes the things
that were whispering are
now yelling.”
Editor’s note: Visit
cdispatch.com to see a dig-
ital image of “Anteroom”
and “Things Are Gonna
Change.” See many more
images at brentfunder-
burk.com.

IN THE GARDEN WITH FELDER

Some obvious, and not so
obvious, ways to boost beauty
W
ho
needs tropical
hibiscus, when
we have so
many easier
and some-
times edible
relatives for
our gardens?
Across the
state right now Felder Rushing
a fig tree-size
bushy perenni-
al called confederate rose
is in full sway, loaded with of all is, believe it or not,
its autumnal show of huge okra, which I use as an or-
double pink pompoms.
Also known as cotton leaf
mallow, it is unbelievably
easy to root; I just stick
foot-long, finger-diameter
cuttings in a bottle with
three or four inches of
water, and plant in the
spring.
But there are lots of
others. Roadside ditches
are brimming with native
hibiscus, including the
large-flowered marsh mal- or paint ‘em as holiday
lows with white or pink
flowers, and scarlet rose
mallow, sometimes called
swamp hibiscus or Texas
star hibiscus. Its large
deeply divided flowers are bush were crusted with
iridescent scarlet. (Note:
This old long-haired guy
has had police about it in
my garden, because its
leaves look so much like
marijuana.)
Perhaps the most
commonly grown garden
hibiscus is the hardy
shrub called rose of
Sharon or Althaea, with
summer flowers of pink,
white, lavender, or blue;
the old-garden antique tol- neglect and stops people
erates extreme drought,
heat and cold, and is a
contender for replacing
crape myrtles when bark
scale makes the latter
untenable as garden main- Old and New Worlds
stays.
For summer annuals
I’ve grown “red leaf hibis-
cus” for its tall stems of
deep maroon leaves and
occasional small flowers,
and for over-wintering
there’s waist-
high “French
hollyhock”
with small pur-
ple-streaked
lavender
flowers. By the
way, regular
tall hollyhocks
hate our sum-
mers, so are
best grown as
late summer-
or fall-planted
annuals.
But my favorite mallow
namental plant — though
different kinds have
interesting pods, all with
beautiful hibiscus flowers
much loved by bees. My
favorite is “Burgundy”
with its deep reddish
leaves and pods. I usually
pinch the growing tip to
make a bushier, more
floriferous plant. All parts
are edible, but I use pods
in flower arrangements
ornaments.
This year I grew anoth-
er incredible edible okra
relative called roselle.
The stems of the big
hundreds of small pinkish
flowers and thumb-size
bright red fleshy pods
which can be boiled and
the tea mixed with sugar
and lemon or other fruit
into a refreshing drink
called Jamaican sorrel.
It also makes a delicious,
tart jelly. The stunning
ornamental plant grows
very easily from okra-like
seeds and thrives on total
in their tracks.
Last garden mallow
I want to mention is a
surprisingly easy annual
cultivated in both the
for thousands of years.
Known far and wide as
cotton, it makes dandy
heat- and drought-loving
garden plant. Not many
folks grow it as an orna-
mental plant it, but it most
Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo
Felder Rushing adds
color to his garden with a
variety of plants including,
pictured, okra, roselle,
confederate rose, white
and brown cotton and
scarlet rose mallow.
certainly is, with its pretty
leaves, beautiful yellow hi-
biscus flowers much loved
by bees, and of course the
seed pods which erupt
in the fall with what was
described in the 1300s as
“tiny lambs on the ends of
its branches.”
Commercially, the
once-prevalent pre-1900s
Levant cotton native to
Africa and the Middle
East has been almost
totally displaced by spe-
cies native from Mexico
to the northern parts of
South America. But not
all cotton is white. I have
grown cotton plants with
deep burgundy leaves and
played with pale green
and brown strains; the
brown looks like white
cotton that’s been steeped
in coffee. I hear it’s illegal
to grow colored cotton
near commercial fields
lest it cross-pollinate, but
I doubt my little inner-city
patch is a threat to Big Ag.
So, these are a few
great mallows worth
trying in next year’s hot
summer garden.
Felder Rushing is a Mis-
sissippi author, columnist,
and host of the “Gestalt
Gardener” on MPB Think
Radio. Email gardening
questions to rushing-
felder@yahoo.com.
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Melissa, Hunter and Phil Vossler Daymion, Angelique, John III and John Radney II

LITTLE
HANDS BIG
TRUCKS
Children of all ages
got to experience big
trucks and equipment
up close at this Oct.
5 event at the Colum-
bus Soccer Complex
benefiting United
Way of Lowndes and
Noxubee Counties.

Jaxen, Pati and Emi Bartley Karsyn Macon, Chandler Alexander, DeShuni Sanders

Lula and Christen Moore Grayson Harris, Thalia Saenz

Ginny Sanders, Cobie Dent, Jacqueline McMath, Latoyra Jones-Holliness, Nekela

Macon-Randle Lindsey Hankins, Mary Helen Ruffin, Kyle Tate

EXCEL BY 5
An Excel by 5 Health
and Resource Fair
was held Oct. 5 at
the Columbus Soc-
cer Complex in con-
junction with Little
Hands Big Trucks.

Hailey Brown, Mother Goose (Edwina Williams), Konnor Kliment Bassant Ali, Errolyn Gray

Gabriela Coleman, Katherine Campbell Kerigan Gaston, Stephanie Flake

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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., 662-
664-0852
THE ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
6:30 p.m. (something for all ages). Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff
Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Kids for Christ 5 p.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children,
and Youth classes 7 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-
0541. Brad Creely, Minister of Music and Youth, 662-312-
8749. www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m.
LLC
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday,
Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir
rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon,
Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
(6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil
Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School
8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
We unlock
Pastor. 662-328-5915
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave.
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.;
Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service
Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker,
Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd.,
Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave.
S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-
328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278
East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev.
John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA
4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m.,
Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s
Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street,
Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Interim Pastor Ron
Linkins, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy
Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.,
Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark,
Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee
Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st,
3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-
2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday
Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for
all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday
Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge,
Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and
Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High
Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy
Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy.
12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin
Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible
Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east
of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship
10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop
off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth
Minister.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118
7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel
Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson
Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O.
Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny
Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons
Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church
Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr.,
Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Baptist Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.
every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells,
Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport,
Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m.
Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937
Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week
except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except
5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship.
Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope
Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday, October 13, 2019 3D
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before
1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed.
before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed.
before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203
Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7
p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A.
Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin
Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-
2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st &
3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30
a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor.
662-327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N.
Sunday Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 10:45
a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
St. James MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
St. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie
Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple
Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev.
John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH —
325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy.
12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford,
Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower
Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road,
Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School
9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6
p.m. 662-738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
— North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday
10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph
Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College
St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30
p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic
School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey Waldrep,
Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Larry
Ferguson, Interim Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10
a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah Johnson
662-574-0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible
class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S.
Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m.,
(3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060
Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Lendy Bartlett, Minister of Community Outreach; Paul
Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister
of Discipleship.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway
182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://
eastcolumbuschurch.com
HWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S.
Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay Street. www.
highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak
Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons
Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor. 662-
769-5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900
North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship
10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro.
Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: nhill
crestcoc@gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd.
9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave.
N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible
Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Willie
McCord, Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn
Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan,
Minister.
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CHURCH OF GOD
CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday
10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor.
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess
Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy
Williams, Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917
15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m.,
Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School
8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship
Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study
6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221.
Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12
p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-
2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest
Father Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col.
Steven Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.
com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524
6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-
Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30
p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Fairview Full Gospel BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446
Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-
328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7
p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL
FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill,
Pastor. 662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426
Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120
19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m.,
2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
John Longmire, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd.
E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.,
Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev.
Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m.
Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m., Vespers &
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Lead Pastor. Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate Pastor.
Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens.
Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m..
Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study
6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East,
Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service
first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor,
Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor.
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102
Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday
School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service
9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722
Military Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/
Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible
Study Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11
a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800
Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Rickey C. Green, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH,
INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45
p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T.
Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on
Fridays only.
CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288 Cal-
Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-855-5006
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor.
662-327-4303
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer
Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III.
601-345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren
Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West
Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School,
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School
10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday
7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more
information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118,
Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette
Williams 662-327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193
Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School
10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-
1960
LIFE CHURCH — 419 Wilkins Wise Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson.
Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S.
Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor. www.memorialgunterpeel.com
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday 903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS
CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-
6723
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-
630-5216
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m.
Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Since 1960
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards,
Pastors.
24 Hour Towing
TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner 1024 Gardner Blvd.
of Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service
328-8277
7:30 p.m. 662-798-0259
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES
— 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor
Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 9 a.m.,
10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Grove Coffee Cafe 8 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. The Grove 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided
through age 3. Jason Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-
3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th
Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE —
1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources.
Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones,
Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes
Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504
19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and
7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy
Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m.
Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES —
118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday 7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St.
N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.
Terry Outlaw, Pastor, 1721 Hwy 45 N
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m.,
® Columbus, MS
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor. 662.848.0919
UNITED PENTECOSTAL Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
TRINITY PLACE
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
1750 Offering independent living apartments, personal
PRESBYTERIAN care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community.
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church “Our Bottom Line Is People”
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 Hunting • Fishing
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m.
John Richards, Pastor.
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FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 662-323-1742
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.),
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays
6 p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m.,
Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray The McBryde Family
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N.
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-
327-9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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