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Building a home away from addiction

Carpenters for Christ plans to establish ‘clean living
home’ for women leaving jail, rehabilitation facilities
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN the jail as an inmate — she was part
ialtman@cdispatch.com of a Bible study with Columbus Car-

W
hen Julia Chavez walked
into the Lowndes County
Adult Detention Center
one Friday night in 2016, the sound
of the jail door clicking made her
stomach flip, she said.
Chavez remembered the sound
from the three months she spent
in the jail three years before. The
Caledonia resident had been in and
out of detention facilities for much of
her adult life, and in January 2013,
she was arrested for violating proba-
tion after she failed a drug test.
But this night was different.
Chavez had been clean and sober
since getting out of a Jackson reha-
bilitation facility at the end of 2013.
And this time she wasn’t going to
penters for Christ, a local nonprofit
that works with incarcerated women
who struggle with addiction.
It was an organization that
worked with Chavez while she was
in jail.
“Walking into the same room
that I used to come to that had Bible
study and not being in a jumpsuit ...
it was emotional,” she said. “I can’t
even explain how good and how
much grace and mercy that I felt. I
knew in that moment that I was in
the will of God, and that this is what Garrick Hodge/Dispatch Staff
I wanted to do. This is why I had Caledonia resident Tamara Jacobs stands outside of her shop in Caledonia
Friday afternoon. She started local nonprofit Carpenters for Christ, which
been through everything that I went
focuses on helping women continue to fight drug addiction after they have
through. It was like all my pain and
suffering was down to this moment, been released from jail or rehab. The nonprofit plans soon to build a “clean
living home” to that end that can house up to six women who are trying to
See CARPENTERS FOR CHRIST, 8A get back on their feet.

OCSO: Arrests MISFIRES CONTINUE

not expected
in Maben dog
attack
One person injured,
treated and released
from hospital on Friday
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

Two dogs are in

custody after attack-
ing a citizen in Ma-
ben on Friday, Capt.
Brett Watson of the
Oktibbeha County
Sheriff’s Office told
The Dispatch.
Authorities re- Watson
sponded around 11:15 a.m. to a re-
port that three dogs had attacked
someone. Watson said OCSO could
Mansel Guerry/Mississippi State Athletics
verify the participation of two dogs,
Quarterback K.J. Costello (3) and Mississippi State continued their struggles in Saturday’s home game against No. 11 Texas
likely pit bull mixes, and seized A&M at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville. Costello finished 15 of 22 passing for 99 yards and an interception, and the Stan-
them from their owner early Fri- ford transfer was benched for freshman Will Rogers. The Bulldogs have lost three straight games since beating then-No. 6
day afternoon. Deputies are still LSU 44-34 in Baton Rouge on Sept. 26. Mississippi State is off next week before a road game at No. 2 Alabama on Oct. 31.
See DOG ATTACK, 8A For more sports coverage, see Page 1B

Reimagined outdoor market event draws

hundreds to downtown West Point
Art in the Parking Lot offers
shopping, socializing after
months of canceled events
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
WEST POINT — About 200 people,
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
most wearing protective face coverings,
Mark and Marilda O’Bryant, left, sell a pumpkin to Kalin Tolliver, far right, and her
had come to the outdoor market on Com-
mother, Mattie, at the “Art in the Parking Lot” outdoor market in downtown West
Point on Saturday. The O’Bryants run Double D Farms on the outskirts of West merce Street by 10:30 a.m. Saturday,
Point and usually sell produce at the city’s farmers’ market, which was limited to West Point-Clay County Growth Alliance
June and July this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Director Lisa Klutts estimated.
Two dozen vendors set up booths to
sell artwork, canned goods and baked
goods in an event called “Art in the Park-
ing Lot,” on the block between Broad
Street and Jordan Avenue. Families rode
a makeshift train pulled by a tractor
through the streets nearby.
Residents and vendors alike said they
appreciated the opportunity to get out of
the house and support the city after the
COVID-19 pandemic had kept people
mostly indoors for the past seven months
and forced the city to cancel or limit oth-
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2A SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020
The Strange Story of the W.H. Gardner
O
ne of
my
favorite
ghost stories
is that of the
phantom
steamboat, the
Eliza Battle.
It is a story
based on the
actual horrific
loss of the
steamer on
Rufus Ward
the Tombig-
bee River in
1858. Almost forgotten,
though, is the almost as
deadly burning in 1887 of
another Columbus-Mo-
bile steamboat, the W.H.
Gardner.
While I have heard
of no ghost story about
the Gardner, there are
enough strange connec-
tions to make it worthy of
a Halloween ghost story.
As had been the Eliza
Battle, the W.H. Gardner
was steaming down river
from Columbus to Mobile the shore, while some
carrying passengers
and hundreds of bales
of cotton. The Gardner’s
captain was Frank Stone
who had been second
clerk on the Eliza Battle
when she burned, and the burning have not yet been
Gardner caught fire and
burned exactly 29 years
to the day of the burning
of the Eliza Battle.
The story of the
W.H. Gardner, like most
disasters, is a mixture
of heroic efforts to save
lives and what might have discovered a cotton bale
been. Strikingly, much
of her story parallels the
story of the Eliza Battle.
The story begins at
the Demopolis, Alabama,
Tombigbee steamboat
landing in late February
1887. The W.H. Gardner
was owned by Frank
Stone, her captain, W.T.
Rembert, her clerk, and
Sid Coleman. The Gard-
ner departed Demopolis
for Columbus carrying
passengers including sev- there were reports the
en members of Rembert’s Gardner may have been
family on a pleasure
excursion. After arriving
in Columbus, the Gardner traveling from Columbus
took on passengers for
her return trip, 464 bales
of cotton from the Colum- Frank Stone had been
bus Compress Company
and additional cargo
described as highly flam-
mable. As the Columbus
Compress was located
about where present day
MUW’s Carrier Lodge
sits on the river bluff just
north of the railroad tres-
tle, the Gardner would
have docked and left from stricken steamer.
the Columbus landing at
Turner’s Cut.
The Gardner left
Columbus around 6 a.m.
on March 1, 1887, and
the trip down river was
uneventful until about 3
p.m. when she reached
Howard’s bar about three
miles below Gainesville
and 108 river miles below
Columbus. There she
caught fire, and the news
of what ensued spread
worldwide. The first
report out of Mobile of the
disaster was carried on
the front page of the Bos-
ton Globe on March 2:
“News was received here
this evening of the burning
of the steamer W.H. Gard-
ner, at Gainesville, on the
Tombigbee River. The fire
is supposed to have caught
in the hold of the vessel,
and the cargo, which was
largely made up of combus-
tible material, burned like
tinder.
Almost as soon as the
fire was discovered it burnt
fiercely out of the hatch-
ways, cabin windows, and,
as it seemed, from almost
every part of the steamer at
the same time.
When the fire was first
discovered, the steamer
was in the middle of the
river going at a good rate
of speed. The wind was
blowing freshly, and fanned
the flames into a perfect
maelstrom of fire which
crackled in a frightful
manner.
The pilot turned the
steamer’s head for shore,
but so intense was the heat
that he was compelled
to abandon
the helm and
let the vessel
take her own
course.
There were
many passen-
gers on board,
and the wildest
excitement
ensued on the
deck of the
doomed vessel.
The officers
vainly endeav-
ored to quiet them and at
the same time lower the
small boats, but so rapid
was the work of the flames
that their protestations to
the passengers to keep cool
were of little avail.
As the flames rolled on
the shrieks of the victims
on deck became frightful.
Some jumped overboard
and were drowned, others
threw themselves into the
water with life preservers
and endeavored to reach
who were afraid to trust
themselves to the water
remained on the burning
steamer and perished in
the flames.
Full details of the awful
received, but it is known
that twenty lives were lost.”
Soon other details
of the disaster began
appearing. The Gardner
was passing Howard’s
Bar when Capt. Stone
to be on fire. A deck-
hand attempted to quell
the flames by throwing
buckets of water on them
but got too close and his
clothes caught fire. He
panicked and took off
running through the boat
spreading flames every-
where and igniting the
combustible cargo stored
in the steamer’s hold.
Though the cause of
the fire was unknown,
racing with the Steam-
er Tally that was also
to Mobile. Before taking
command of the Gardner,
captain of the Tally. At the
time the fire was discov-
ered it was reported the
Tally was attempting
to pass the Gardner.
The Tally attempted to
approach the Gardner
but was prevented from
doing so because of the
flames shooting from the
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crew survived. with those who precipitated
One of the Tally’s themselves into the water
crew, its 19-year-old from the burning vessel.”
“cabin boy” became the
hero of the disaster, and There were other
his story appeared in heroes that day, not all
papers across the coun- of them known. A Black
try, even being carried by deckhand whose name
that famed paper of the is now known only to
old West the “Tombstone God died attempting to
Courtesy image
Epitaph.” The accounts save one of Rembert’s
A waybill from the steamer W.H. Gardner that burned children. But for heroes,
included this fitting
and sank near Gainesville, Alabama, with the loss of 22
lives on her way from Columbus to Demopolis in 1887. tribute: Black and white and
mostly unknown, so many
“There is still plenty of more would have died on
In response, the Tally came separated, with two
the stuff of which heroes that horrible afternoon
threw into the river cotton of his children dying as
are made among the Amer- 133 years ago. It was an
bales, wooden planks and their father tried to save
anything that might float them. Also among the ican people, black as well afternoon strangely tied
and be grabbed by survi- lost was S.C. Blackman of as white, and it only needs to a morning exactly 29
vors. She also lowered her Columbus. the emergency to develop it. years earlier.
lifeboats and sent them Capt. Stone survived It is worthy of mention that Thanks to Carolyn
to rescue the Gardner’s by swimming to shore. at the burning of the steam- Kaye for assisting with
passengers and crew who It was due to the rescue er Gardner last week down the research on the W.H.
were jumping into the efforts of the Tally’s crew in Alabama, a colored boy, Gardner.
river. On the Gardner, that many of the Gard- Beebee McCaw, saved five Rufus Ward is a local
mirroring what happened
ner’s passengers and lives by swimming ashore historian.
on the Eliza Battle, the
fire had cut off access to
her own lifeboats.
Further mirroring the
ill-fated Eliza Battle, The
Gardner was in mid-
stream and at full stream
when the fire broke out.
The pilot, W.A. Wilson,
tried to make for the
shore but the flames had
quickly driven the engi-
neers from their post, and
no one responded to the
pilot’s orders. The rap-
idly spreading fire soon
drove Wilson from the
pilothouse, and the boat
drifted downstream out of
control until it lodged in a
flooded forest across the
river from the bank where
the pilot had attempted
to land. On the Eliza
Battle the tiller ropes had
burned preventing the
pilot from steering the
boat to the riverbank and
it drifted out of control
into a flooded forest.
With the Gardner
ablaze and lodged out of
control in flooded woods,
all those on board, pas-
sengers and crew, could
do was jump into the
swift flowing cold river
and swim for shore. The
screams of those poor
souls were described as
“heart wrenching.” In all,
22 people lost their lives.
It was reported that of
that number, 20 drowned.
Of W.T. Rembert’s
family on their pleasure
trip, his wife, his three
children, their chamber-
maid and his cousin with
her two children all died.
Of the entire family, only
W.T. Rembert survived.
They had jumped into the
water together but be-

Post mandate, doctor ‘disappointed’ at lack of mask wearing
Gov. Reeves repealed statewide mask
mandate on Sept. 30, citing declining cases
BY LEAH WILLINGHAM
Associated Press/Report for America
JACKSON
— Mississippi’s
state health offi-
cer said he over-
estimated the
number of people
who would con-
tinue to wear face
coverings to pre- Dobbs
vent the spread of coronavirus
after the statewide mask man-
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Continued from Page 1A
er events.
“I’m just glad they
figured out a way to do
it since they canceled
Prairie Arts,” West Point
resident Donna Melcher
said.
West Point’s annu-
al Prairie Arts Festival
would have happened in
May but was canceled
due to the pandemic, as
were the Market Street
Festival in Columbus and
the Cotton District Arts
Festival in Starkville. Ad-
ditionally, the city’s farm-
ers’ market was limited to
June and July.
Klutts is the Prairie
Arts Festival communi-
ty development director,
and she said the arts
festival and the farmers’
market combined with
the annual “Makin’ Hay
Day” to form Art in the
Parking Lot.
Makin’ Hay Day usu-
ally includes games and
a hayride
in the West
Point City
Park, but
both were
inadvisable
due to social
d i s t a nc i n g
p r o t o c o l s . Klutts
The train
provided a similar activi-
ty to the hayride but kept
people at a safe distance
apart, Klutts said.
The event also fea-
tured a hand sanitizing
booth and live music
from guitarist Paul Brady
of Starkville.
West Point’s parks
are still closed, and mov-
ing all the activity to the
street provided more
space for more vendors,
since Makin’ Hay Day
usually only has a dozen,
Klutts said. She did not
advertise for vendors, but
so many were interested
in participating that she
had to turn some away
for the first time ever, she
said.
“I had to limit it to
(vendors) from the farm-
ers’ market and a few
from Prairie Arts who
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ping 1,000, something the state
hasn’t seen since around the
beyond what is reasonable,”
Reeves said then.
put back into place in the coun-
ties that have seen the highest
time Mississippi’s statewide
mask mandate was put into
Dobbs said Friday the deci-
sion was not made lightly. But
number of new cases.
With flu season approaching,
date was lifted. place in August. two months into the mandate, Dobbs said he is getting wor-
“Why we would broadly Gov. Tate Reeves repealed people were lashing out against ried there will be another spike.
abandon something that is so Mississippi’s statewide mask it. Mississippi “skated by with the
mandate on Sept. 30, citing de- “There were people who
simple — even easy, and effec- skin of our teeth” through the
clining cases. The Republican were getting tired of the man-
tive — just because there is not summer, and that it could get a
governor encouraged citizens date, and they just sort of were
an executive order, it has per- lot worse, he said.
to continue to wear masks any- violating it when it was still
plexed me and I’m frankly quite The state health depart-
way, but added officials “should mandated,” he said. “I think
disappointed,” Dr. Thomas not use the heavy hand of gov- that was some of the concern, ment said Friday that Missis-
Dobbs said on a video call with ernment more than it is justi- that it’s lost its sort of, fire- sippi, with a population of about
reporters on Friday. fied.” power.” 3 million, has reported more
After months of declining “We have to tailor our ac- He said the state health de- than 109,250 cases and at least
cases, Mississippi has seen two tions to the current threat, and partment and Reeves will evalu- 3,160 deaths from COVID-19 as
straight days of new cases top- make sure that they do not go ate if mask mandates need to be of Thursday evening.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Curtis Bilbo, right, drives a tractor pulling a makeshift
train through a parking lot near West Point City Park
on Saturday. The train was a socially distant substitute
for the hayride usually offered at West Point’s annual
Makin’ Hay Day, which combined with the city’s farmers’
market and the annual Prairie Arts Festival to create
“Art in the Parking Lot,” event organizer Lisa Klutts said.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Cros Hathcock, center, and Mason Morton, both 2, examine the decorated gourds
on display Saturday at the “Art in the Parking Lot” outdoor market in West Point,
under the supervision of Cros’ mother, Amanda Hathcock, right, and Mason’s
grandmother Tammy Farr, second from left. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
market was the first show of the year for West Point resident Betty Sparrow, left,
who paints and decorates all the gourds and donates some of the sales proceeds to
cancer research.
husband, Mike, live in Co-
lumbus and usually make
jewelry and scarves, but
they ventured into paper
crafting this year. She
agreed with Sparrow
that this year has been a
challenge for those in the
arts business, and she
called Art in the Park-
ing Lot “a jubilation” and
“a real blessing” after
May’s Market Street Fes-
tival was canceled in her
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff hometown.
West Point Mayor Robbie Robinson, center, and his “(We’d been) trying to
daughter Suzanne Pasisis, left, buy baked goods from work through other me-
Hollie Unruh, right, at the “Art in the Parking Lot” out- dia, like Etsy, Instagram,
door market Saturday morning in West Point. Unruh is a Facebook and word of
regular vendor at the city’s farmers’ market, which was
limited to June and July this year due to the ongoing mouth to try to find op-
portunities,” Montgom-
COVID-19 pandemic. Saturday’s event combined the
market with the annual Makin’ Hay Day and Prairie Arts ery said.
Festival, and two dozen vendors displayed their art Klutts said Makin’
and food products from socially distanced booths on Hay Day usually brings
Commerce Street. the community together,
and such events are espe-
reached out,” she said. nates some of the sales cially important this year
Two previous Prai- proceeds to cancer re-
in whatever format they
rie Arts vendors, Betty search.
can be salvaged.
Sparrow and Anita Mont- “We hadn’t had a show
“People want some-
gomery, said they were all year,” she said. “This
where to get out and shop
grateful when Art in the gave us an opportunity
Parking Lot arose as an to go out and see people, and be outdoors … where
opportunity for business and to sell some (gourds) they also feel comfortable
and socializing. Sparrow, and actually support and safe,” she said.
of West Point, paints and West Point.”
decorates gourds and do- Montgomery and her
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Poll: Voters see the nation as fundamentally divided

Only 15 percent say that democracy in the
U.S. is working extremely or very well
BY STEVE PEOPLES
AND HANNAH FINGERHUT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The over-
whelming majority of voters
believe the nation is deeply di-
vided over its most important
values, and many have doubts
about the health of the democ-
racy itself. And supporters of
President Donald Trump and
Joe Biden alike think the oppos-
ing candidate will make things
even worse if elected, accord-
ing to a new poll from The As-
sociated Press-NORC Center
for Public Affairs Research.
Overall, 85 percent of reg-
istered voters describe Amer-
icans as being greatly divided
in their values, and only 15
percent say that democracy in
the United States is working
extremely or very well. The
poll shows voters overall are
especially pessimistic about the
impact of Trump’s reelection:
65 percent say divisions would
worsen if the Republican pres-
ident were reelected, a number
that includes a quarter of his
supporters.
Thirty-five percent of voters
believe Biden would divide the
country further should he win
the presidency. More, 47 per-
cent, think the country would
be unified if the Democrat were
elected.
“Somebody’s got to unite our
country,” said Gary Conard,
a 64-year-old Republican who
lives in Clever, Missouri. “I just
think our society is confused
and in trouble.”
The poll offers a window
into the depth of the division
and chaos shaping the Amer-
ican electorate less than three
weeks before Election Day.
Voters are sharply divided over
several major issues based on
their partisan lenses, including
their personal safety during the
coronavirus pandemic, the val-
ue of diversity and the health of
American democracy.
The cavernous rift rep-
resents a daunting challenge
for the winner of the November
election, as voters from each
side seem to agree only on one
thing: the extent of their divi-
sions.
Fully 88 percent of Biden
supporters and 80 percent of
Trump supporters view Amer-
icans as greatly divided on im-
portant values. Supporters for
both candidates think a win for
the opposing side will worsen
those divisions: 76 percent of
Trump supporters say this of
Biden, and 91 percent of Biden
backers say this of Trump.

Awash in red ink: US posts record

$3.1T 2020 budget deficit
2020 deficit represents 15.2 percent
of total gross domestic product, the
sum of all the goods and services
produced by the country
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON —
The federal budget deficit
hit an all-time high of $3.1
trillion in the 2020 budget
year, more than double
the previous record, as
the coronavirus pandem-
ic shrank revenues and
sent spending soaring.
The Trump adminis-
tration reported Friday
that the deficit for the
budget year that ended on
Sept. 30 was three times
the size of last year’s defi-
cit of $984 billion. It was
also $2 trillion higher
than the administration
had estimated in Febru-
ary, before the pandemic
hit.
It was the govern-
ment’s largest annual
shortfall in dollar terms,
surpassing the previous
record of $1.4 trillion set
in 2009. At that time, the
Obama administration
was spending heavily
to shore up the nation’s
banking system and lim-
it the economic damage
from the 2008 financial
crisis.
The 2020 deficit, in
terms of its relationship to
the economy, represent-
ed 15.2 percent of total
gross domestic product,
the sum of all the goods
and services produced by
the country. That was the
highest level since 1945,
when the U.S. was bor-
rowing heavily to finance
World War II.
The administration’s
final accounting of the
2020 budget year shows
that revenues fell by 1.2
percent to $3.42 trillion,
while government spend-
ing surged 47.3 percent to
$6.55 trillion. That spend-
ing reflects the relief pro-
grams Congress passed
in the spring to support
the economy as millions
of Americans were losing
their jobs.
Many of the benefit
programs expired in late
July or early August, and
so far Democrats and
Republicans have been
unable to agree on legis-
lation to re-instate them.
Republicans have balked
at the level of spending
sought by Democrats,
who warn that without
significant support the
country could be facing a
double-dip recession.
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STARKVILLE —
Allan Tucker, 86, died
Oct. 16, 2020, at OCH
Regional Medical
Center.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Lown-
She is survived by
her children, Cindy
Johnson of Starkville,
Patsy McReynolds of
Russellville, Alabama
and Teresa Kinkennon
of Brandon; siblings,
Anne Randle, Betty
McIlwain and Cathy
Ishee; four grand-
children; and six
great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be
made to the Diabetes
Foundation of MS, 800
Avery Blvd., Suite 100,
Ridgeland, MS 39157.
Ralph Jones
MACON — Ralph
Jones, 55, died Oct. 17,
2020, at Baptist Memo-
rial Hospital-Golden
Triangle.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Macon.
Clytee Wood
VERNON, Ala. —
Clytee Pennington
Wood, 93, died Oct. 16,
2020, at North Missis-
sippi Medical Center of
Tupelo.
A private family
funeral service will be
held in Lamar Memo-
ry Gardens, with Jim
Wright officiating.
Mrs. Wood was born
AREA OBITUARIES
2-2:30 p.m. prior to Alabama and John Rhoda Lawrence at First Pentecostal
services at the ceme- Anthony Cummings Church of Caledo-
ETHELSVILLE,
tery. Calvert Funeral of West Point; adopted Ala. — Rhoda Madge nia. Visitation will be
Home of West Point is daughter, Franzika Lawrence, 91, died Oct. from noon-2 p.m. at
in charge of arrange- Zimmerman; siblings, 15, 2020, at Sanctuary the church. Lowndes
ments. Kay Nordyke of Cleve- Hospice of Tupelo. Funeral Home of Co-
Mrs. Cummings was land, Tennessee, Mary Funeral services will lumbus is in charge of
born Dec. 6, 1942, in Hurst of West Point, be at 2 p.m. Monday, arrangements.
Minter City, to the late Joe Hust of West Point
Lena Wilhite and Gro- and Charles Hurst of
ver C. Hurst. She was Mullens, South Caroli-
formerly employed as na; six grandchildren;
a restaurant owner and and seven great-grand-
manager. children.
In addition to her Pallbearers will be
parents, she was Aaron Cummings,
preceded in death by Bradley Cummings,
her husband, John E. Jake Mathis, John Cum-
Cummings; an infant mings, Chris Davis,
daughter, Lisa Gail Josh Myers, James Say-
Cummings; and broth- lors and Cody Boyles.
er, Brad Hurst. Memorials may be
She is survived by made to Palmer Home
her children, James for Children, P.O. Box
Michael “Mike” Cum- 746, Columbus, MS
mings of Birmingham, 39701.

des Funeral Home of
Columbus.
Moderia Petty
STARKVILLE —
Moderia McCormick
Petty, 93, died Oct. 16,
2020, at OCH Regional
Center.
A graveside me-
morial service will
be at noon, Monday,
in Memorial Garden
Park of Starkville.
Welch Funeral Home of
Starkville is in charge
Horace Tindal
May 15, 1927, in Lamar
County, Alabama, to
the late James Lesley
Pennington and Mary Horace Maynard Tindal, 82, of Macon,
Jane Lewis. She was Mississippi, “slipped the surly bonds of Earth . . .
formerly employed as and touched the face of God” on Friday, October
a seamstress in the 9, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus,
garment industry. Mississippi. He was surrounded by his wife of
In addition to her 63 years, Ann and his two daughters, Lisan and
parents, she was pre- Pooh.
ceded in death by her A private graveside service was held Friday,
husband, John R. Wood October 16, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Oddfellows
Jr.; and siblings, Trice Cemetery in Macon. In lieu of flowers, the
Pennington, Charles family requests memorials be made to First
Pennington and Pink United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 162, Macon,
Pennington. Mississippi 39341 or to St. Jude Children’s

Raymond Barker, Sr.

of arrangements.
Mrs. Petty was born
to the late Walter Mc-
Cormick and Tommie
Gregg McCormick. She
was formerly employed
as a lab technician for
the USDA Boll Weevil
Research Lab at Missis-
sippi State University
and was a member of
First United Methodist
Church.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, Lee Petty;
and siblings, Laurene
Bright and Ophelia
Reed.
WHO study finds
remdesivir didn’t
help COVID-19
patients
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — A large
study led by the World
Health Organization sug-
gests that the antiviral drug
remdesivir did not help
hospitalized COVID-19
patients, in contrast to an
earlier study that made
the medicine a standard of
care in the United States
and many other countries.
The results announced
Friday do not negate the
previous ones, and the
WHO study was not as
rigorous as the earlier one
led by the U.S. National
Institutes of Health. But
they add to concerns about
how much value the pricey
drug gives because none
of the studies have found it
can improve survival.
The drug has not been
approved for COVID-19 in
the U.S., but it was autho-
rized for emergency use
after the previous study
found it shortened recov-
ery time by five days on
average. It’s approved for
use against COVID-19 in
the United Kingdom and
Europe, and is among the
treatments U.S. President
Donald Trump received
when he was infected ear-
lier this month.
She is survived by
her siblings, Jewel
Humbers of Apple
Valley, Minnesota and
Charlene Perkins of
Vernon, Alabama.
Ann Cummings
WEST POINT —
Ann Hurst Cummings,
77, died Oct. 16, 2020, at
North Mississippi Med-
ical Center of Tupelo.
Graveside funeral
services are at 2:30 p.m.
today, in Greenwood
Cemetery of West
Point, with the Rev.
Chris Craven officiat-
ing. Visitation is from
Eleanor King
Graveside Services:
Sunday, Oct. 18 • 2 PM
Mt. Zion Cemetery
2nd Ave N. Location
Raymond Barker, Sr.
Graveside Services:
Tuesday, Oct. 20 • 2 PM
Friendship Cemetery
2nd Ave N. Location
memorialgunterpeel.com
cdispatch.com
Raymond Lamar Barker Sr.
age 89 died Friday, October
16, 2020, at his residence in
Starkville.
Graveside services with
U.S. Air Force Honors will
be held Tuesday, October 20,
2020 at 2:00 PM at Friendship
Cemetery with Rev Jim Genesse
officiating.
Mr. Barker was born on Friday, February 13,
1931, in Derma, MS to the late Granville H. and
Willie Ree Foster Barker. He received his Eagle
Scout at the age of 15. Mr. Barker graduated
from Mississippi State University in 1951 with
a degree in mechanical engineering. While
attending MSU he was a member of the ROTC,
then entered the U.S. Air Force where he was
stationed at Keesler AFB, then transferred to
Albuquerque, NM where he served in special
weapons. Mr. Barker led a full life, he was
a member of the Lion’s Club, a Mason, and
Commanding Officer of the Mississippi National
Guard. He was the City Engineer for the City of
Tunica until retired in Starkville.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in
death by his granddaughter, Haley Barker.
Survivors include his wife, Faye Woolbright
Barker Starkville MS; sons, Granville Eugene
Barker (Delise) and Raymond Lamar Barker, Jr.;
daughter, Debbie Barker Montgomery (Glenn);
grandchildren, Bobby G. Dover (Katie), Dawn
Dover Estrada, Sydney Massey (Michael),
Benjamin Parish Barker, Abigail Jewell Barker,
Raymond Lamar Barker, III and Jane Iris Barker;
great-grandchildren, Nicholas Estrada (Erin),
Piper Massey, Tucker Massey, Jaxsun Barker
and Noah Barker; great-greatgrandchildren,
Madilynn Jo Estrada and Emma Cole Estrada;
and sister, Mrs. William Parker.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St.
Jude Place, Memphis TN 38101 or First United
Methodist Church of Starkville, 200 W. Lampkin
Street, Starkville, MS 39759.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place,
Memphis, Tennessee 38105.
Maynard was born in Pike County, Alabama,
on May 12, 1938, to the late Horace Edward and
Alvia Floye Wingard Tindal. He graduated from
Foley High School in 1956 where he played the
trombone in the band. The big family joke was
that Maynard’s parents thought football was
too dangerous, so they bought him an airplane
instead. He received his private pilot’s license on
his 17 th birthday, and he and Ann went on their
second date in an airplane. He went on to earn
his commercial pilot’s license and the following
ratings: flight instructor, instrument and
instrument instructor, airframe and mechanics,
multi-engine, glider and glider instructor, and
airline transport. Always the daredevil, Maynard
began flying as a crop duster in 1960. He loved to
fly his Piper J-3 Cub and Super Cub, Stearman,
Pawnee, Ag Truck, and Ag Wagon 3 feet off
the ground. He was even known to “buzz” his
own father off a tractor with his beloved Twin
Comanche. In 1965, Maynard enrolled in the
aero-physics department at Mississippi State
University where he test-piloted experimental
aircraft. In 1968, Maynard moved the family to
Macon when he started Tindal Aviation. In 1986,
Maynard and Ann moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
where he flew jets for the Special Flights division
of Saudia. In 1992, they moved back to Macon to
be closer to their children and grandchildren.
While in retirement, Maynard dabbled in raising
catfish, and at times, terrorizing Noxubee
County with his wayward herd of buffalo.
Maynard’s daredevilishness did not stop at flying
airplanes. He loved to test his limits with cars
and motorcycles, too, much to Ann’s chagrin
and to the delight of Pooh and Lisan. He loved
Camaros, del Sols, Studebakers, and his pink
and grey 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Maynard was a member of First United
Methodist Church of Macon. He was a man of
quiet faith. His prayers were always whispers
“just between God and me.” He and Ann served
as youth directors, and to honor God and to
celebrate their 25 th wedding anniversary, they
started the Church’s handbell choir.
Maynard is preceded in death by his parents,
H. E. and Floye Tindal; two brothers, Charles
Edward Tindal and Douglas Wade Tindal; and
one sister Aurelia T. Davis.
He is survived by his wife Ann; daughters,
Catherine “Pooh” Penick (Ray) of Macon,
Mississippi and Lisan Woods (Bill) of
Brandon, Mississippi. He is also survived by
four grandchildren who affectionately called
him “Boy”, Macki Smith (Jeff) of Starkville,
Mississippi, Spencer Cullum (Natasha) of
Houston, Texas, Patrick Cullum of Brandon,
Mississippi and Rayce Penick (Allison) of
Orangeburg, South Carolina; five great-
grandchildren, Mackinzie Smith, Adelyn Smith,
Adessa Smith (all of Starkville), Masha Matveeva
of Houston, Texas and Elliott Cullum of Brandon,
Mississippi; one brother, Rodger Tindal (Kay);
one sister, LaDell Schneeflock; and numerous
nieces and nephews.
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Roses and thorns Persimmons and possums

A rose (and a reminder) to all the
candidates in the special elections for
the state legislature, which ended with
Tuesday’s runoff for the District 37 House
of Representatives and the District 15
Senate. Lynn Wright (District 37) and Bart
Williams (District 15) emerged as the winners and have
been sworn into their respective offices in a race that
began with the Sept. 22 election that started with a field
of seven candidates. There is one last duty that must be
performed, however: removing campaign signs. There
are reports that campaign signs for even those who did
not make it to the runoff after the Sept. 22 election still
have yet to be removed. For all candidates who delay in
picking up their signs, it’s bad advertising. It means the
candidate has not lived up to their obligations.
A rose to the Oktibbeha County Board
of Supervisors for its recognition of one of
the county’s most faithful public servants.
Last Sunday the board held a special cere-
mony to honor Kirk Rosenhan, who retired
earlier this year as the county’s fire ser-
vices coordinator, a position he held for a remarkable 32
years. Even in retirement, Rosenhan continues to serve
his community by keeping the media informed on fires
and accidents that occur in the county. It’s obvious to all
that for Rosenhan, it’s been a labor of love and service
to his community. We applaud the board for recognizing
his service.
A rose to Mississippi University for
Women, which despite the limitation
imposed by COVID-19, will conduct its
annual Welty Symposium, featuring an
impressive lineup of renowned Southern
Writers. U.S. and Mississippi poet laure-
ate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey will
be the keynote author for the symposium, which will
be held Thursday through Saturday. The events will
be accessible via Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook
through the Welty Symposium group, where viewers
may also post questions. Because of the pandemic there
will be no events held at Poindexter Hall as have been for
the previous 31 years. Instead, high school classes and
readers from around the country will have access to the
virtual panels, and most of the sessions will remain avail-
able after the event. However, the keynote session with
Trethewey will only be available Oct. 22 live at 6 p.m. and
immediately after the reading.
A rose to the Lowndes County School
District, which has announced its intention
to expand the district’s Wi-Fi through
parking lots and sports facilities within
the next year, allowing members of the
community — and especially students
— to access the district’s internet outside class. LCSD
Superintendent Sam Allison said the project would be
paid for with money from the Mississippi Pandemic
Response Broadband Availability Act, part of federal
CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-
rity) funds. The pandemic, which prompted LCSD and
other area districts to offer a virtual learning option for
students whose parents prefered they not be exposed to
other students and staff at school, has highlighted the
importance of internet connectivity in learning. While
Allison previously told The Dispatch he does not know if
LCSD will continue to offer virtual learning to the whole
student body next semester or next year, he pointed out
the expanded Wi-Fi will also help students do homework
or search for jobs.
“Opossums in particular
enjoy persimmon fruit and
may be seen foraging in
your tree at night. While
opossums do not typically
cause damage to structures
or gardens, they may steal
your persimmon fruit
before it is ripe, preventing
you from harvesting the
rewards of your hard work.”
— Advice from SFGate,
an online news source Birney Imes
Persimmon growers,
take heart, there is an alternative if our local
possums — this is Possum Town, after all — are
preventing you from “harvesting the rewards of
your hard work.”
You can make for Sessums and Reese Or-
chards as my buddy HD Taylor and I did one
sunny morning this past week.
We had encountered the native persimmon
on our kayaking outings — and occasionally
suffered the consequences of impatience, i.e.
eating an unripe persimmon, which is like taking
a mouthful of chalk. Ripe native persimmons can
be hard to come by as — in addition to possums
— deer, raccoons, black bear and skunks love the
fruit.
The fleshy, seedless Asian or Japanese per-
simmon offers an altogether different culinary
experience by comparison to the small, seedy
natives.
The morning drive to Sessums, allowed us
to make a quick check of water levels of Catalpa
Creek near EMCC-Mayhew, a trickling stream
most of the time, occasionally transformed by
our periodic monsoons into a raging torrent, and
took us past fields of unpicked cotton and long
dormant concrete silos.
David Reese, wearing a well worn wide-brim
straw hat and a fresh pair of Mucks greeted us
and issued white plastic pails with a plastic bag
liner and a clipper device that resembled a trash
grabber, only four or five times longer.
David’s father, Jack, planted blueberries here
and opened a U-Pick orchard in the early 80s.
The persimmons, pears and muscadines came
later. With the passing of his father, management
of the farm fell to David, the youngest of seven
siblings. Though he had studied music at Mill-
saps — he plays organ and piano for a nearby ru-
ral church and a church in Starkville — running
the orchard came naturally. He had, after all,
grown up on the farm and tended the vegetable
garden that fed his family.
As we were the only pickers there that morn-
ing, David accompanied us, offering a running
commentary on the different types of persim-
mon, which, generally speaking, are either astrin-
gent (cone shaped and unpleasant unless mushy
ripe) or non-astringent (pumpkin shaped and can
be eaten like an apple any time).
The astringent Asian persimmons, when fully
ripened, are sweeter and have a texture and
flavor that resemble mango with a hint of plum.
First-timers respond wide-eyed to their ambro-
sia-like taste.
Many of David’s customers are Asian who
come from the surrounding area, Cambodian,
Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Occasionally Asian customers, some of whom
We talked and laughed as friends
with long histories do. After a time
I pulled out the persimmons. Each
of the Possums took one. The mo-
ment had a sacramental quality.
are donut shop owners in Jackson, come on Sun-
days to pick and picnic in the orchard, making a
day of it.
At our host’s insistence, we sampled the
fruit as we moved about the 11-acre orchard.
The pears have come and gone and there was a
sampling of muscadines, of which Reese has half
a dozen or so varieties, all delicious. He no longer
offers blueberries.
It took a while to get the hang of the picker/
clipper. In an hour or so our buckets and stom-
achs were full of the delicious fruit.
Despite the deer and birds, Reese’s trees are
bent with persimmons — they look like miniature
pumpkins. He guesses he’ll have fruit for two
more weeks or so.
On the way home HD, at David’s suggestion,
said he was going to dry some of our bounty in
the dehydrator he uses for deer meat.
Our persimmon story doesn’t end here.
As it happens Berkley Hudson has been in
town this past week working on a National-En-
dowment-for-the-Humanities funded project
centered on the work of O.N. Pruitt, the photog-
rapher who worked in Columbus for much of the
first half of the 20th century.
The first stop of what will be a major touring
exhibition is the Rosenzweig Arts Center in
October 2021.
Berkley, three other Columbus boys and my-
self, purchased the collection decades ago, now
permanently housed in the Southern Historical
Collection at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
A not-insignificant side benefit of our preser-
vation project is the deepened and enduring bond
of friendship it has fostered between us, Berkley,
Jim Carnes, David and Mark Gooch and myself.
We refer to ourselves as the Possum Boys, a pae-
an to our hometown.
On Wednesday Berkley and I drove to Bir-
mingham to visit with Mark and Jim. Mark lives
in Birmingham, Jim in Montgomery. Almost as
an afterthought, I took four ripe persimmons
from the refrigerator and put into a plastic con-
tainer to take.
We met at Railroad Park, a recently created,
really cool 19-acre public space in the middle of
Birmingham that features walking trails, native
plantings and open gathering places.
We sat on wooden benches next to a pond.
Large koi and Asian carp, expectant and waiting,
patrolled the area behind us.
We talked and laughed as friends with long
histories do. After a time I pulled out the per-
simmons. Each of the Possums took one. The
moment had a sacramental quality.
And then, on this glorious fall day, we, four
graying men, longtime friends, quietly ate the
luscious fruit.
Birney Imes (birney@cdispatch.com) is the
former publisher of The Dispatch.

THE NATION
Breaking news: Not everything is terrible
We devote a lot
of mental energy
to things that are
going wrong or
could go wrong.
It’s human nature.
As the sociobiolo-
gists teach us, our
ancestors were not
the ones who heard
a rustling in the
grass and figured,
“Eh, it’s probably Mona Charen
nothing.” We are
descended from the ones who
said: “What the hell was that?
Could be a cobra. Better run
the other way.” Vigilance is our
default mode.
But seven months after
the start of this plague, we
shouldn’t lose sight of the
things that went more right
than we expected.
Thinking back to the origins time.
of the pandemic in March, we
were beset by fear. Would the
tanking stock market be the
harbinger of another Great
Depression? We expected mass be in the offing, and that they
unemployment and cratering
businesses. We worried that
our savings could be decimat-
ed.
We feared that the virus
would be impossible to vacci-
nate against.
We believed it likely that
the pandemic would increase
deaths from other causes as
people shunned hos-
pitals and routine
care. We thought we
needed thousands
more ventilators
than we could man-
ufacture.
We were con-
cerned that essen-
tial services like
electricity gener-
ation, water puri-
fication and trash
collection might
be affected, compounding the
suffering and contributing even
more to the spread of disease.
People hoarded canned
goods, toilet paper, spaghetti,
bottled water and hand san-
itizer. (I hoarded coffee.) In
March, we wondered whether
fresh food or, in fact, any food
would be available in a week’s
There was a run on guns.
This struck me, even at the
time, as overwrought. People
feared that civil strife could
might have to defend their
supplies of ramen noodles and
peanut butter from marauding
gangs.
We worried that the lock-
downs would result in a spike
in suicides and that school
closings would rob children
and teenagers of education and
socialization.
Seven months on, some of
those worries proved to be
well-grounded, but many did
not.
The stock market made
up all of its losses by August.
That’s not to say the econo-
my is in good shape. More
than 163,000 businesses have
closed, almost 98,000 of them
permanently. That represents
real hardship for owners,
employees and customers. But
out of 32.5 million businesses
nationwide, that’s still a tiny
fraction. Unemployment re-
mains high at nearly 8%, but it
has declined considerably from
above 14% in March.
Prospects for a vaccine look
promising. There will be set-
backs — Johnson and Johnson
halted one of its trials over
the weekend due to the unex-
plained illness of one volunteer
— but the outlook for a widely
available vaccine or vaccines
by the middle of 2021 remains
good.
It turned out that ventilators
were not as crucial in treating
this virus as expected.
Fears about the pandemic
increasing deaths from other
causes appear to have been
correct. A study published in
the Journal of the American
Medical Association found that
in March and April, the U.S. ex-
perienced 87,000 excess deaths
— meaning deaths above what
was experienced in those
months during the preceding
five years. About a third were
attributed to causes other than
COVID-19.
Thanks to the efforts of
frontline workers (who deserve
more gratitude than they get),
public services like transpor-
tation, electricity generation,
food safety inspection, trash
collection, water purification
and emergency services con-
tinued pretty much without a
hiccup. The lights stayed on.
The heat and electricity contin-
ued to function. Supermarkets
remained open and remarkably
well-stocked. There were short-
ages here and there of various
commodities — yeast! Dijon
mustard! — but nothing that
could be called hardship. Am-
azon continued to deliver just
about anything you wanted in
record time. We did not experi-
ence a “Lord of the Flies”-style
social collapse requiring armed
defense of our pantries.
What prolonged school
closings will do to children is
a great unknown, and there is
reason to think that teachers
unions have exerted too much
power in this matter.
As for depression, suicide
and other psychological effects
of the pandemic, the news is
mixed. Significant numbers of
adults have reported increases
in depression, anxiety and
substance abuse. Adolescents,
on the other hand, are faring
better.
According to a new report
from the Institute for Family
Studies, teen mental health has
improved since the pandemic
and associated lockdowns
began. Compared with 2018,
fewer adolescents described
themselves as depressed,
lonely or unhappy during the
COVID-19 crisis. They report-
ed better sleep. In 2018, only
55% said they regularly slept
7 or more hours per night. In
2020, it jumped to 84%. Teens
are spending more time talking
with their parents and sharing
a family dinner. A solid 53%
reported feeling stronger and
more resilient as a result of
the pandemic. Yet another IFS
report found that the enforced
togetherness of the pandemic
has improved marriages, with
58% saying it has made them
appreciate their spouse more.
As awful as it has been, this
disease was not the apocalypse
we feared. Many aspects of our
society proved more resilient
than we expected. That should
inspire something we haven’t
felt much of lately — hope.
Mona Charen is a Senior
Fellow at the Ethics and Public
Policy Center.

Trump plays down virus as he
steps up pitch for second term
‘The light at the
end of the tunnel
is near. We are
rounding the
turn. Don’t listen
to the cynics and
angry partisans
and pessimists.’
BY AAMER MADHANI
AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
WA S H -
INGTON
— Gone are
the days
when Presi-
dent Donald
Trump held
forth daily
at the White Trump
House podium flanked by
members of his corona-
virus task force. And the
days when Vice President
Mike Pence and other
task force officials would
head to Trump’s office to
brief him immediately af-
ter their meetings.
The White House won’t
say when Trump last met
with the task force.
In the week since he
emerged from coronavi-
rus isolation, Trump has
demonstrated new deter-
mination to minimize the
threat of the virus that has
killed more than 215,000
Americans and complicat-
ed his chances of winning
another four years in the
White House.
“The light at the end
of the tunnel is near. We
are rounding the turn,”
Trump told supporters
Friday at an event in Fort
Myers, Florida, one of
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In head-to-head town halls, Biden beats Trump in audience
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS with a prime-time lineup of liberal opin-
NEW YORK — It’s not the tally that
ion hosts on MSNBC, Trump wasn’t par-
ticularly welcomed by either viewers or
really matters, but Joe Biden scored
something of an upset over President
network personnel.
“Well, that just happened,” MSNBC’s
Donald Trump.
In their dueling town halls, the Dem-
Rachel Maddow said as soon as Trump’s
town hall with Savannah Guthrie ended,
ocratic presidential candidate reached
more viewers on ABC than Trump did
proceeding to launch into a lengthy fact-
check.
for NBC News Thursday night. The Biden town hall, with questions
The Biden town hall reached 14.1 mil- from the audience and moderator George
lion people on ABC between 8 and 9 p.m. Stephanopoulos, lasted 90 minutes.
and Trump had 13.5 million combined on NBC had received sharp criticism for
NBC, CNBC and MSNBC, the Nielsen scheduling its event at the same time as
company said. Biden. It was supposed to have been the
It had been expected that Trump night of the second debate, but the in-
would reach more people simply because dependent commission canceled it after
it was being seen on three networks. But Trump balked at doing a virtual debate.
many moments during 22 million jobs that were that has been coming out
a week of campaigning lost when the pandemic of his mouth for the entire
when the president tried struck in early spring. tenure of this pandemic.”
to play down the virus The nation averaged more
threat. “Don’t listen to the than 50,000 new corona-
cynics and angry parti- virus cases per day over
sans and pessimists.” the past week. National
In word and action, he and battleground public
is pushing an optimistic opinion polls suggest that
outlook even as corona- Trump faces stiff head-
virus infections are spik- winds in his bid for a sec-
ing in Europe and public ond term.
health officials are raising Olivia Troye, a former
alarm that the infection aide to the task force who
rate in the U.S. is climbing has emerged as a harsh
toward a new peak. Trump critic, says that
In the past week he has early in the crisis Trump
spread misinformation was “asking the right
about the virus, undercut questions” when doctors
the nation’s leading infec- spoke to him about their
tious disease expert and concerns that the country
kept up his practice of could face a surge of cases
shunning mask use. The in the fall and winter.
effort to diminish the virus “That’s why it so com-
has gone into overdrive as pletely reckless of him,
Democrats try to frame after having COVID him-
the race for the White self, to turn around this
House as a referendum on week and double down
Trump’s handling of the on taking the mask off
worst U.S. public health and parading around like
crisis in over a century. it’s not a necessary thing,
The U.S. economy is calling himself immune,”
still roughly 11 million she said. “He’s doubling
jobs short of recovering all down on misinformation
Cheap thrills.
Go for a walk.
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Carpenters for Christ
Continued from Page 1A
sitting in a room full of
women that are looking
at me, and I used to be in
their shoes.”
The Bible study is only
one aspect of Carpenters,
said Tamara Jacobs, a
Caledonia resident who
started the faith-based
organization in 2010 to
work with incarcerated
women who struggle
with addiction. The orga-
nization connects women
with resources and en-
courages them to obtain
and maintain sobriety
through church atten-
dance and engagement in
community service.
Like Chavez, Jacobs
struggled with drug
addiction for much of her
life.
“I was an addict for
19 years. I’ve been clean
12,” Jacobs said. “The
way I’ve stayed clean, I
have stayed busy doing
my ministry. I’ve never
been to rehab. ... I believe
(staying clean) can be
accomplished by doing
community service, just
staying busy and sur-
rounding yourself with
people of faith.”
Members of the
organization volunteer
at Caledonia Days and
other community events,
fundraise by working
concessions at sporting
events and host an annu-
al walk-a-thon, “Walk a
Mile in their Shoes,” at
Ola J. Pickett Park, which
will be held at 9 a.m. on
Oct. 24 this year.
Their biggest upcom-
ing project is an ambi-
tious one — Jacobs hopes
to build a clean living
home for women coming
straight out of prison or
rehab and who need a
place to stay.
“About three years
ago, we kept seeing the
same faces over and over
and over again,” she said.
“We had been praying
about it for a while, and
we decided that we would
build a home for some
of these women that are
coming out of incarcera-
tion or addiction.”
Clean living home,
other projects
The clean living home
will be built on two
acres of property on Cal
Vernon Road in Caledo-
nia and will be able to
house up to six women at
a time, Jacobs said. The
women must have jobs
while they live there so
that they can pay off any
fines they owe the court
and start to get back on
their feet.
“I wanted to keep it
more like a home than an
institution,” she said.
The idea behind the
project was to give wom-
en a place to go where
they could start over if
they needed to. Jacobs
said she noticed many
of the women at the jail
who kept being arrested
simply didn’t have any-
where to go after they
were released but back to
homes full of drugs and
alcohol.
“After they get out,
even if they’ve made the
decision when they’re
incarcerated and they’ve
Dog attack
Continued from Page 1A
searching for the third
dog.
No one has been arrest-
ed, and Watson said he
does not expect there to
be any arrests or charges.
The victim was treat-
ed at OCH Regional
Medical Center for non
life-threatening injuries
and released Friday, OCH
Director of Emergency
Services Michael Hunt
said.
OCSO is still investi-
gating the origin of the
attack, but Watson said
to his knowledge the vic-
tim was walking down
Chestnut Street when the
dogs attacked, seemingly
unprovoked. He declined
to say where the dogs are
being kept.
Oktibbeha County has
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HOW TO GO
■ WHAT: Fourth annual Walk
a Mile in my Shoes, to raise
awareness of addiction
■ WHO: Hosted by Columbus
Carpenters for Christ
■ WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 24,
9 a.m.
■ WHERE: Ola J. Pickett Park
in Caledonia
■ HOW: Find out more at
Carpenters for Christ Facebook
page (https://www.facebook.
com/hokeypokeyhouse/)
■ HOW MUCH: Free, but
T-shirts for sale for $15
“Maybe a year or so
down the road, I haven’t
seen them,” he said.
“They’ve been doing
Carpenters for Christ,
and I see them speaking
at a church.”
Chavez said she’s one
such person who did
that. Not only has she
been actively involved
with the organization,
but she’s started her own
organization, Saving
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
Grace Ministries, which
Julia Chavez hangs donated clothing Wednesday at her Columbus-based nonprofit Saving Grace Ministries, collects donations of
which gives clothes and other necessities to people in need. Chavez is one of the women who said her life was clothing and other neces-
changed after working with Columbus Carpenters for Christ, which held Bible studies with her and other inmates sities for people getting
when she was incarcerated at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center in 2013. Carpenters works to minister and out of prison or rehab,
provide resources to women coming out of prison or rehabilitation facilities and is hoping to build a clean living as well as survivors of
home where women can live while they get back on their feet. domestic violence and
others in need. She said
given their life to Jesus, said he hopes to have the addiction and turn their them up,” he said. she’s glad to have the
when they get out, they foundation for the house lives around when they Though no visitors support of Carpenters
don’t have anywhere safe laid this fall and for actu- put their mind to it. have been allowed and glad to be able to
to go,” Jacobs said. “They al construction to begin They’re not alone. As- to come since the help women who were
go back to a husband in the spring, though he sistant jail administrator COVID-19 pandemic once in her position.
that’s still using or a said that will depend on Lt. Dylan Williams, who began in February, Wil- “I’ve seen people do a
friend that’s still using weather, the pandemic has worked at the jail liams said before then, complete turnaround, get
and it’s sometimes even and fundraising. nine years, said he’s seen Carpenters volunteers their lives back, get their
parents that are still Jacobs said anyone inmates stop the cycle of would host Bible study or children back — a lot of
using, and it’s hard for wishing to donate money addiction and recidivism small groups in a “mul- women lose custody of
them to stay clean that to the house fund can do thanks to organizations tipurpose room” where their kids — but then
way.” so by calling her at 662- like Carpenters and oth- inmates had the option again, I keep seeing the
Chavez said that was 574-6399. er nonprofits that work of participating. He said same faces too, over and
the problem she ran into with inmates. he’s seen women at their over again,” Jacobs said.
before her arrest in Janu- Breaking the cycle “These ladies with lowest points leave the “It’s a cycle. And that’s
ary 2013. Both Chavez and Ja- Carpenters for Christ are jail and not come back why I do what I do. I want
“As soon as I got out cobs said they have seen really doing everything because they successful- to try and break that
of prison, there it was plenty of women kick they can to kind of build ly changed their lives. cycle.”
— the same home I had,
the same environment,
drugs and alcohol and
the poverty,” she said.
Conversely, after
she got out of rehab,
she moved in with her
boyfriend — now her
husband — in a home
without drugs or alcohol.
Her success at staying
clean there is why she
thinks the clean living
home Jacobs and other
members and volunteers
at Carpenters want to
build is a good idea.
“It will help women be
successful, not obligated
to go back to the same
lifestyle that they had
lived before they were
incarcerated,” she said.
Jacobs stressed the
home is not a rehabili-
tation facility, more of
a stop for women after
they get out of rehab and
need to get back on their
feet. She said while she
and others at Carpenters
have pointed women in
the direction of Commu-
nity Counseling Services
and other rehabilitation
facilities in the area, she
doesn’t believe rehab
is necessary for every
addict to stay clean.
Carpenters has been
slowly raising money
to build the home,
though Jacobs said the
COVID-19 pandemic
has put them about nine
months behind.
Her son, Robert L.
Jacobs, who is helping
oversee construction,
an ordinance that defines
a “vicious dog” as one
“with a known propensity,
tendency or disposition to
attack, when unprovoked,
to cause injury or other-
wise endanger the safety
of human beings, domes-
tic dogs, livestock or poul-
try.” A vicious dog that
kills or severely injures
a human “shall be imme-
diately confiscated and
thereafter destroyed in an
expeditious and humane
manner.”
OCSO is responsible
for enforcing the ordi-
nance, and vicious dog
cases are adjudicated in
Oktibbeha County Justice
Court. A judge and the
Oktibbeha County pros-
ecuting attorney will de-
cide the dogs’ fate.
Lifestyles
Grant
allows CPDC
to provide
free tuition
Main goal for MUW’s
Child and Parent
Development Center
during first round
of funding is to assist
young families during
the pandemic
MUW UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
T
hanks to an emergency relief
grant, Mississippi Univer-
sity for Women’s Child
and Parent Development Center
(CPDC) will cover all tuition and
CPDC fees for families impacted by
COVID-19.
The CPDC recently received
$145,606 from the Governor’s
Emergency Education Relief
(GEER) Grant fund. Priority 1 of
GEER funding covers essential
emergency educational services
specifically for the early care and
education of very young children
age 0-5. The main goal for CPDC
during this first round of funding is
to assist young families during the
pandemic.
“The bulk of our families were
hit hard by the pandemic. They
were out of work and unpaid and
they are still catching up. Then
their lower-cost provider didn’t re-
open when they went back to work,
so they had to make hard choices
to switch caregivers. We were able
to help them as a CCAIR site with
their first 90 days of childcare
fully paid and now we have GEER
to cover the next 90,” said Penny
Mansell, CPDC director.
CPDC had many families who
were covered for 90 days by the
Mississippi Child Care Assistance
in Response Plan (CCAIR) from
the Mississippi Department of
Human Services. As the emergen-
cy coverage for families expired,
Mansell was concerned about how
low-income and at-risk families
would handle switching back to
paying for childcare.
“All of our CPDC families
had at least one member of their
household that were essential. We
surveyed our families and realized
that all our families had lost child-
care due to mandatory shutdowns
and were at risk if there were addi-
tional childcare closures,” Mansell
added.
GEER will cover all tuition and
CPDC fees for families who accept
the GEER based seat for approx-
imately four months. This means
on average CPDC families can
save around $2,500 per child. The
remainder of the funds will cover
materials to improve the quality of
See TUITION GRANT, 10A
LIAM’S WISH: Make-A-Wish recipient Liam Lamb of Starkville, to Mississippi State
mascot Bully’s left, visited Heritage Academy Oct. 8 as the HA Class of 2021 kicked off
its senior service project of granting the 5-year-old’s wish to go to Disney World. Liam’s
sister, Eden Della Lamb, is on Bully’s right. Behind them are HA Senior Class President
Carly Rogers, SGA President McKenzie Rhett, MSU Spirit Squad members and HA senior
football players Sam Hannon and Jackson Smith. In addition to raising funds for the fam-
ily’s trip, HA students will interact with the Lambs all year, including presenting a Hallow-
een parade past Liam’s home. Donations to the service project may be made at site.wish.
org/goto/heritageacademy.
Making music
Young musicians get ready to open their kits and get to work building their own electric guitars Wednesday at The
Idea Shop in Starkville. The three-part Build Your Own Guitar workshop will culminate in a community concert at 6
p.m. Nov. 12 at Cadence Bank Plaza in Starkville.
Next gen musicians join the ‘maker
movement’ and build their own
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
S
am Shmulsky likes rock —
Led Zeppelin, Bush, Oasis
and a host of others. The
Starkville High senior has been
playing guitar since he was 9.
When the opportunity to make his
own electric guitar recently opened
up, the 17-year-old jumped at it.
“I love guitar,” he said. “It’s
really an escape; it relieves a ton of
stress. I love music.”
Sam and eight others who think
a lot like him gathered Wednesday
for the first of three guitar-building
sessions at The Idea Shop in down-
town Starkville. They are just the
type of enthusiasts Jeffrey Rupp
and the Mississippi State Universi-
ty Center for Entrepreneurship and
Outreach were hoping for. Rupp is
the center’s director of outreach
— a musician and guitar devotee
himself. The Build Your Own
Guitar workshop, made possible by
a grant from International Paper,
was his brainchild, one imminently
suited to the Idea Shop.
Opened in spring 2019 and oper-
ated in partnership by the universi-
ty’s College of Business and School
of Human Sciences, The Idea Shop
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LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 n 9A
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Sam Shmulsky, 17, tries out Jeffrey Rupp’s Gibson ES-339 guitar at the
Build Your Own Guitar workshop session at The Idea Shop in Starkville
Wednesday. Sam, a Starkville High senior, is the son of Rubin and Fatima
Shmulsky of Starkville.
is located in a 2,000-square-foot memberships are available. From
space at 114 E. Main St. It houses 6-year-olds painting pumpkins to
the Turner A. Wingo Maker Studio, weekly woodworking sessions for
a “makerspace” with design work- couples, The Idea Shop is meant
stations, 3D printers, electronics for creativity. For the next two
workbench, wood, polymer and Wednesdays, that includes building
metal prototyping equipment and guitars.
more. It’s open to the public, and See GUITAR WORKSHOP, 10A
Columbus library
offers remote access
to ancestry.com
SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH Ancestry.com is a subscrip-
tion based online database
T
he Columbus-Lowndes containing over 10 billion
Public Library System historical records such as the
(CLPL) is now providing United States Census from
patrons with remote access to 1790-1940; immigration records;
the online genealogy database vital records such as birth, mar-
Ancestry.com. That means that riage, and death certificates;
patrons will now be able to access and much more. More records
it from home or wherever they are added every day. There
have internet. are exceptions, however, as
Due to the current COVID-19 some records have not yet been
pandemic, ProQuest, the compa- digitized, restrictions based on
ny through which the CLPL sub- certain laws, or records that no
scribes to Ancestry.com, is allow- longer exist due to events such
ing public libraries to offer library as a fire.
card holding patrons remote To learn more about how to
access to the database. Since the access CLPL’s Ancestry.com,
pandemic is ever-changing, this call Mona Vance-Ali at 662-329-
offer will remain in effect until 5304 or email mvance@lowndes.
further notice. lib.ms.us.
10A SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Guitar workshop
Continued from Page 9A
“We pushed this the Gibson Foundation The Idea Shop can be. Hill noted that the
to all public, private, donated T-shirts, bags “I think it’s really cool; Build Your Own Guitar
faith-based and other swag to the I didn’t know it existed,” project is the first of its
schools group. the Starkville High junior particular kind hosted
and home- In their first work said. He began playing at The Idea Shop — one
schools, session, the young mu- guitar three years ago taking place on multiple
where sicians selected and ap- and is a fan of ’90s rock. days and with a signifi-
students plied wood finishes to the He expects to finish up cant event, the concert,
could fill out bodies and necks of the the project with “a cool tied to it.
an applica- instruments and attached new guitar and a new The initiative, in fact,
tion,” Rupp Rupp those pieces together. experience.” “checks all the boxes,”
explained “Next Wednesday, Rupp said. That fueled
about the workshop, we’re really going to be Community concert his drive to make sure it
which entails a $50 fee. starting with our hard- To cap off the gui- happened.
Nine junior and senior ware,” said Sam, who tar-building journey, “You’ve got some
high school students plans to attend MSU after Rupp is putting together woodworking, some basic
were randomly selected high school graduation. a community concert. electronics, soldering
to participate. Limited “It’s so awesome. We Workshop participants and an artistic (element),
slots precluded all ap- get to do all this togeth- will debut their new and then you have a
plicants from being able er. If we mess up, it’s instruments as they play community performance,
to join up, but Rupp has fine ‘cause it’s our own alongside seasoned musi- which brings folks down-
high hopes of presenting guitar. We get to express cians Rupp is recruiting town,” he said. “And the
the workshop again in ourselves. We get to meet for the performance. fact that I love guitars
2021. new people, and we’re “They’ll rehearse didn’t hurt.”
“This was Jeffrey’s really all having a lot of with the pros, and we’ll Editor’s note: Learn
baby, and I love it be- fun. I’m really thankful have a public concert more about The Idea Shop
cause I and fortunate.” Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6 and the MSU Center for
think it’s Rain Sesser, 16, like p.m. at the Cadence Bank Entrepreneurship and
inspiring other participants, is Plaza on Main Street (in Outreach at ecenter.
Courtesy photo/Brooke Lammert
the right Rain Sesser, 16, does some sanding on the body of his learning what a resource Starkville),” Rupp said. msstate.edu.
age group to guitar in progress Wednesday at The Idea Shop. Rain
be think- is a junior at Starkville High and is the son of Brandon
ing about, and Amy Sesser of Starkville.
hey, not
everything Hill something; they’re learn- Wednesday as nine ap-
comes from ing a wide range of skills prentice guitar-builders
a shelf in and doing it in a way opened their StewMac
Walmart,” said Eric Hill, that’s fun, and that’s cool (Stewart-MacDonald)
director of the Center to me.” kits and got a first look at
for Entrepreneurship. the makings of what will
“It gets them exposed Out of the box become their Les Paul-
to skills it takes to make Anticipation ran high style guitars. As a bonus,

Courtesy photo
ADVOCACY IN ACTION: Hailey Pushis of Columbus, a sophomore honors student
at Heritage Academy and the 2020 USA National Miss Junior Teen, is pictured with
Mississippi First Lady Elee Reeves at the Governors Mansion recently with a Chronic
Migraine Awareness Month Proclamation signed by Gov. Tate Reeves. Pushis’
platform is raising chronic migraine awareness. She will represent Mississippi Nov.
22-28 in Orlando, Florida, at the USA National Miss Pageant.

Thursday through
CALENDAR
Saturday, Oct. 22-24
Welty Writers’ Sympo-
sium — Former U.S. poet
laureate Natasha Trethewey
and many more writers are
featured in The W’s virtual
symposium. visit muw.edu/
welty for details and link for
live-streamed events.
Saturday, Oct. 24
Book signing — Carolyn
Haines and Miranda James
sign copies of their new
books, 2 p.m., Columbus Arts
Council, 501 Main St.
Monday through
Saturday, Oct. 26-31
Radio drama — MSU’s
Shackouls Honors College
presents “A Halloween Feast
with Senaca’s Oedipus” online
at honors.msstate.edu and
broadcast on MSU’s radio
station 91.1 FM and EMCC’s
92.7. Times TBA.
Thursday, Oct. 29
Loaves & Fishes — This
Community Soup Kitchen fund-
raiser features pork loin take-
out meals, $15 or two for $25,
from First United Methodist
Church Family Life Center, 602
College St. City limits delivery
available. Tickets at Columbus
Arts Council, FUMC, other
churches. 662-425-6408.
Friday, Oct. 30
“War of the Worlds”
reading — Starkville
Community Theatre reads this
classic at 6 p.m., Fire Station
Park in Starkville, at Lampkin
and Russell Streets.
Now
Art faculty exhibit —
Through Oct. 23, The W hosts
a Faculty Biennial Exhibition,
Summer Hall on campus.
Weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., free.
bajoyce@muw.edu.
Fiber arts exhibit —
Through Oct. 27, The W hosts
“Threads: A Survey of Fiber
Art,” Summer Hall on campus.
Weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., free.
bajoyce@muw.edu.
Virtual exhibit —
Through Nov. 30, Starkville
Area Arts Council hosts a vir-
tual show, “Living in a Digital
World: Mabbeline Nichols,” at
starkvillearts.net.

Tuition grant
Continued from Page 9A
care and education offered by CPDC.
“Childcare centers were hit hard
during the pandemic. We operate with
razor-thin margins already. When we
reopened the first of June the landscape
of childcare was completely different.
The costs and new needs for safety and
lower ratios due to COVID-19, along
with fewer families, have hit everyone in
childcare nationwide,” said Mansell.
To qualify, children must be in full-
time care and parents should: 1) have
lost access to their regular childcare
arrangements; 2) cannot afford available
childcare within their county; 3) are
at risk of experiencing, or have experi-
enced, negative job impacts due to unex-
pected childcare responsibilities; or 4)
are at risk of delaying, or have delayed,
a job search due to unexpected child-
care responsibilities. Priority is given to
children of essential workers.
Based on the information from the
survey, CPDC requested funding for 40
GEER seats, the maximum allowed.
The grant was written and will be
managed with the assistance of Me-
linda Lowe, director of Outreach and
Innovation at The W. “We are excited
to be able to help and serve our CPDC
families. The pandemic has put a spot-
light on young families and the need for
quality childcare. The whole country
now knows that childcare is essential
both for the workforce and our future,”
said Lowe.

■ For more Lifestyles content, including articles on the Columbus library digi-
tizing thousands of pages of local history records, The W’s fall commencement and
Felder Rushing go to cdispatch.com.
Sports
TAILSPIN: MSU’S AERIAL ASSAULT GROUNDED FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — receiver Tyrell Shavers in
Standing at midfield,
head coach Mike Leach
gathered his entire team
into a huddle and lambast-
ed those circled around
him.
In a tradition he em-
ployed during his days at
Washington State, Leach
recycled his whole team
huddle approach just 33
seconds into the second
quarter as the air raid
offense headed into a dis-
mal tailspin for the third
straight week in a 28-14
loss to No. 11 Texas A&M.
“Right now we’re one
team on Tuesday and
Wednesday; we’re anoth-
er team on Saturday,” he
said postgame. “We have
to be able to translate it to
the field.”
Saturday’s lowly effort
marked the third porous
output by Leach’s offense
in as many games. Gone
are the once-glimmering
memories of an upset of
then-No. 6 LSU in Ba-
ton Rouge. Instead, the
Bulldogs replaced their
brief chance at national
relevance with the night-
marish ineptitude of an
MSU offensive line that
allowed four sacks, four
quarterback hurries and
ARKANSAS 33,
OLE MISS 21
Hogs force
7 turnovers
in win over
Ole Miss
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FAY E T T E V I L L E ,
Ark. — Ole Miss quarter-
back Matt Corral entered
Saturday’s game against
Arkansas with just one
interception. He left with
six more.
The Razorbacks
scored 24 points off seven
Ole Miss turnovers and
won a second Southeast-
ern Conference game for
the first time since 2016,
beating the Rebels, 33-
21.
The Arkansas (2-2,
2-2) defense flustered
Corral, who entered the
game second in the SEC
in passing efficiency and
yards passing.
The Razorbacks took
advantage early, pitching
a 20-0 shutout behind
three Ole Miss giveaways
at halftime.
Ole Miss didn’t punt
in the second half, with
each of its eight series
ending in either a turn-
over, on downs, or a
touchdown. Two of the
three second-half touch-
downs resulted in the
Rebels pulling within a
touchdown, but the inter-
ceptions resulted in the
finish.
Arkansas’ redshirt
freshman Hunter Clark
had three of the inter-
ceptions, including one
to seal the game on Ole
Miss’ final drive.
Clark, a walk-on cor-
nerback, was a surprise
name on the depth chart
last week at Auburn.
Against the Rebels, he
found himself a surprise
starter.
“Well, they’ve heard
of him now. Three times
at least,” Arkansas coach
Sam Pittman said.
See OLE MISS, 7B
NO. 11 TEXAS A&M 28, MISSISSIPPI STATE 14
Texas A&M defensive lineman Jayden Peevy (92) sacks Mississippi State quarterback K.J. Costello (3) during the
second quarter Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville.
five tackles for a loss in
the first half alone.
Time after time Satur-
day, the Bulldog offensive
line, lauded for its depth
and talent over the offsea-
son by coaches and media
pundits alike, fell short
of its purpose: protect-
ing the quarterback. The
Aggies employed a three-
Rogers offers glimpses of upside in otherwise forgettable performance
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — A
season that began as a
coronation for former
Stanford signal caller K.J.
Costello in the bayou has
since devolved into a face-
plant of epic proportions.
In a game overflowing
with offensive misfires, it
was the downfall of the
Costello experiment and
the ensuing insertion of
freshman quarterback
Will Rogers that offered
brief glimmers of hope
in an otherwise forgetful
night for the Mississippi
State offense in a 28-14
loss to No. 11 Texas A&M
in Starkville.
“I look at Will as a
young guy that has a lot of
leadership in him,” senior
linebacker Erroll Thomp-
son said postgame. “He’s
a great player. I expect
that from him.”
Weeks after being
anointed the second com-
ing of Joe Burrow in the
stadium the LSU legend
was born, Costello con-
cluded his night a meager
15 of 22 for 99 yards, re-
minding onlookers of fail-
ures past.
On just the second
drive of the afternoon,
Costello undershot re-
ceiver Tyrell Shavers in
the end zone on a play the
two later discussed on the
sideline in what looked to
Hodge: MSU’s offense has been as boring as it has been inefficient
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Even the most opti-
mistic of Mississippi
State football fans
weren’t sure if the
hiring of Mike Leach
would work out for the
Bulldogs.
But they at least
expected the ride to
be entertaining either
way.
The offensive prod-
uct on the field has
Garrick Hodge
been anything but
since a win against
LSU that feels like it came two months ago.
Leach admitted after his team’s 28-14 defeat
to Texas A&M on Saturday he’s never seen
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man rush, drop eight noon with six sacks, more
philosophy, but it left than doubling its yearly
quarterback K.J. Costel- total entering the game.
lo picking himself off the “We were literally miss-
turf on nearly all of his 22 ing guys standing right in
dropbacks. front of us,” Leach said.
In all, a Texas A&M “‘Well, I thought he had
defense that entered him?’ Well, he wouldn’t
the contest tied for 61st be standing right in front
nationally in sacks this of you if the other guy had
season finished the after- him. We’re battling some
Mansel Guerry/Mississippi State Athletics
Mississippi State freshman quarterback Will Rogers drops back to pass against
Texas A&M on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium. The Bulldogs lost 28-14.
be a miscommunication. men. Losing the football,
Poetically, Costello’s final which was recovered by
snap Saturday came as the Texas A&M defense,
he raced to his left before split seconds before his
being mauled by a gaggle knees crashed into the
of Aggies defensive line- turf, Costello hopped
one of his teams struggle this much offen-
sively in a three-week period.
A mind-boggling stat: MSU points scored
against LSU, 44. Against Kentucky, Arkan-
sas and Texas A&M: 30. Twenty-one of those
were actually scored by offensive players.
“We looked like a bunch of pincushions,”
Leach said rather bluntly when describing
his offense following MSU’s third straight
loss.
The news gets worse from there: The
only thing that has matched the Bulldogs’
offensive ineffectiveness has been their lack
of watchability despite an offensive scheme
that throws 60 times a game.
Take away one comically wacky MSU
touchdown and the Bulldog faithful would
have been better served napping through
Mississippi State’s latest blunder.
Despite utilizing an offensive scheme that
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ing his afternoon just 15
of 22 passing for 99 yards,
a miscommunication with
the end zone on the Bull-
dogs’ second drive of the
game led to the former
Cardinal signal caller’s
nation-leading 10th inter-
ception of the year.
The final nail in Costel-
lo’s proverbial coffin came
midway through the third
quarter. Running for his
life, as he did most of Sat-
urday, a gaggle of Aggie
defenders collapsed on
him as he rolled to his
left. Falling to the ground,
Texas A&M middle line-
backer Buddy Johnson
forced the ball out of his
hands before lineman
Jayden Peevy fell on top of
it to give the Aggies pos-
session.
Picking himself off the
turf in frustration after
peering at the video re-
Matt Bush/USA TODAY Sports play of his fumble on the
hulking JumboTron in the
south end zone at Davis
definite growing pains, Wade Stadium, Costello
and we definitely expe- screamed in frustration.
rienced a bunch of them With Costello head-
there.” ed toward the pine once
While MSU’s offensive more, freshman quar-
line endlessly faltered terback Will Rogers was
Saturday, Costello’s inces- given the keys to an of-
santly inconsistent play fense that veered off the
led to his second straight road, crashed into a tree
benching in favor of fresh- and fell off a 10,000-foot
man Will Rogers. Finish- See GAME, 7B
Rogers with just over
eight minutes remain-
ing in the third quarter
following the former’s
fumble inside the MSU
20-yard line. Clapping his
hands together, the Bran-
don native received the
snap, stepped and deliv-
ered a strike to a streak-
ing Malik Heath for an
11-yard gain.
Braving Costello’s
missteps throughout the
first three-plus weeks,
the MSU faithful roared
in approval courtesy of
a smattering of ringing
cowbells at the comple-
tion.
Crossing over from
the third quarter to the
fourth, Rogers remained
in rhythm. He hit JaVonta
Payton on back-to-back
passes of 4 and 5 yards, re-
spectively. A 13-yard con-
nection with classmate
Jaden Walley followed. So
too did a 17-yard gain to
Osirus Mitchell and a 10-
yard deflected catch by
Austin Williams.
Capping off the ca-
dence-filled drive, Rogers
fired his 13th pass of the
night to Heath, who cor-
ralled the dart and raced
32 yards into the end
zone.
from the grass at Davis
“When you consid-
Wade Stadium and yelled
er the quality team that
in frustration. A&M has, that drive Will
With Costello ineffec- had was maybe as good
tive for the third straight as I’ve had a freshman,
week, Leach sided with See ROGERS, 7B
only requires 3 seconds of protection for its
quarterback to be successful, MSU’s front
five can’t even provide that against a three-
man pass rush. Texas A&M only sent three
defenders after MSU’s signal caller for a
large duration of the afternoon, but six sacks
later, the offensive line might as well have
thought the Aggies were bringing an all-out
engage eight.
“You need 3 seconds (for the quarterback),
and that’s not asking very much,” Leach said.
Well, the bad news was his quarterback
wasn’t very good, either.
In fairness, K.J. Costello had pressure
in his face all night, but the senior graduate
transfer still underwhelmed enough to the
point where he was benched in favor of a
true freshman for the second straight week.
Reading between the lines when listening to
See HODGE, 7B
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Step forward for Canes, back for Vols
Miami handles Pitt at home; Kentucky routs Tennessee at Neyland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A week after getting
a harsh douse of reality
against elite competition,
No. 13 Miami and No. 18
Tennessee had a chance
to brush themselves off
and get back on track to
hopeful seasons.
The Hurricanes took a
step forward, taking care
of business against Pitts-
burgh at home.
The Volunteers took
a step back, getting
drubbed at home by a
Kentucky team that had
not won at Neyland Stadi-
um since 1984.
Nobody is handing
out trophies for beating
Pitt or Kentucky — does
Miami’s turnover chain
count? — but for two pro-
grams with championship
pedigree and mostly me-
diocre results for about
two decades this is how
progress should be mea-
sured.
It was no surprise Mi-
ami couldn’t keep up at
Clemson last week.
The Hurricanes are
less than a year removed
from being shut out by
Louisiana Tech in a bowl
game. Manny Diaz’s first
season as head coach
was a dud, but credit
for making some quick
changes. The Hurricanes
have looked like a differ-
ent team offensively with
quarterback D’Eriq King
running Rhett Lashlee’s
spread offense.
But before Miami can
challenge Clemson it
needs to finally separate
from the ACC’s second
tier. The likes of Pitt, Vir-
ginia, Georgia Tech and
Duke have too often taken
down the ‘Canes and their
blue-chip recruits.
Against a Pitt team
playing without its start-
ing quarterback, the
Hurricanes struggled to
sustain offense against a
tough defensive front but
busted enough big plays
to win without sweating it
at the end.
There is a path to a
strong season for Miami
that would include getting
to the regular-season fi-
nale against No. 5 North
Carolina with a chance to
earn an ACC title game
rematch against Clemson.
Miami has made one
ACC championship since
joining in 2004. Simply
making it two would be a
huge boost for Diaz, who
currently has the No. 12
recruiting class in the
country lined up for 2021.
Tennessee has been
stuck in a similar rut as
Miami. Probably worse.
Playing in the SEC gives
the Volunteers a rougher
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Share the road. Watch for cyclists.
road back to contending Tigers quarterback Bo BYU stayed unbeaten Fri-
for division titles with Nix does not look as like day night against Hous-
Georgia and Florida. And a former five-star recruit ton. The Cougars don’t
an annual rivalry game on path to become a star. have enough big-stage
against Alabama is not He looks sophomore who games to make a real play-
something a rebuilding hasn’t improved much af- off run, but quarterback
program needs. ter being an inconsistent Zach Wilson is a good
The Volunteers rode freshman. ... No. 1 Clem- bet to be a Heisman Tro-
an eight-game winning son’s M.O. in recent years phy finalist But it’s prob-
streak under coach Jere- has been to take about ably Trevor Lawrence’s
my Pruitt into last week’s four or five games to real- Heisman to lose ... Mis-
game at Georgia. They ly hit their stride and start sissippi State’s offense
hung around for a half laying waste to the ACC. broke an eight-quarter
and then got buried. Ken- The Tigers appear to be scoreless streak against
tucky picked up where in full Darth Star mode No. 11 Texas A&M. Still,
the Bulldogs left off. earlier than usual and lost. And Bulldogs star
This isn’t your grand- Georgia Tech never had a running back Kylin Hill
father’s Kentucky foot- chance. ... Speaking of the did not even attend the
ball. Coach Mark Stoops value of beating the teams game. That upset of LSU
has built winner, strong you’re supposed to beat: in Mike Leach’s Missis-
along both lines. But Notre Dame has won 22 sippi State debut feels like
while Kentucky aspires to straight home games and it happened in March ...
break long streaks of fu- the key to the streak is Coastal Carolina should
tility — the Wildcats won not letting games like Sat- be ranked when the new
in Knoxville for the first urday’s slog against Lou- AP Top 25 comes out Sun-
time since 1984 — Ten- isville get away ... No. 14 day.
nessee wants to win SEC
titles.
Pruitt got a contract
extension right before the
start of the season and in
many ways the Tennessee
roster looks better than
it has in a while. This re-
build feels different than
Butch Jones’. Still, Pruitt,
the former Alabama assis-
tant, is now 15-14 with the
Vols. Jones was 14-15 in
his first 29 games.
And Tennessee gets
Alabama next week.
Around the country
No rivalry in the
last few years has pro-
duced wilder games than
UCF-Memphis. The Ti-
gers finally came out on
top, snapping a 13-game
losing streak to the
Knights that dates back to
the Conference USA days.
The last four meetings
have crazy. Including two
American Athletic Con-
ference championship
games, Memphis and
UCF have combined for
an average score for 50-
44. On Saturday, UCF’s
Dillon Gabriel became
the first FBS quarterback
to pass for more 600 yards
and five touchdowns and
lose since Pat Mahomes
did it for Texas Tech
against Baker Mayfield
and Oklahoma in 2016 ...
No offseason hire drew
more skepticism than Ar-
kansas making veteran
offensive line coach Sam
Pittman a first-time head
coach. The Razorbacks
appeared to be in need of
a long rebuild just to get
to respectable, but they
are 2-2 under Pittman
after beating Ole Miss
and could have another
victory against Auburn if
not for a missed call last
week. ... Auburn was not
so fortunate this week,
losing to South Carolina.
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Pats’ defense comes up big in rivalry win over Vols

BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Heritage Academy football
coach Sean Harrison tracked
the broken tackles out loud
over his headset, increasing
his count by one each time
Starkville Academy running
back CJ Jackson foiled another
defender’s attempt to bring him
down.
By the time Jackson was fi-
nally knocked off his feet at the
Patriots 3-yard line, Harrison
was up to six missed tackles:
It had taken the Pats seven at-
tempts to wrestle down the Vol-
unteers’ talented back on the
very first play from scrimmage,
a 66-yard gain.
“He is who we thought he
was: a heck of a ballplayer,”
Harrison said of Jackson.
Three plays later, Colby Al-
len scored from 2 yards out for
the Vols, and for Heritage Acad-
emy, the essence of Friday’s
rivalry game at C.L. Mitchell
Field in Columbus was clear:
Stop Jackson, or lose.
The Patriots chose the first
option.
Defensive coordinator Russ
Whiteside dialed up a halftime
adjustment to curtail the Vols’
potent stretch run scheme,
Mack Howard found Harris
Gunter for the go-ahead touch-
down in the third quarter, and
the Patriots (6-2) pitched a sec-
ond-half shutout to claim Fri-
day’s rivalry game with a 27-18
win over the Vols (5-3).
“Our defense is outstand-
ing,” said Gunter, a junior
wideout and defensive back.
“We’ve got the best coaches in
the state: coach Harrison and
coach Whiteside. They come
up with great game plans. We
came up with some adjustments
at halftime, and we just shut
them down.”
Harrison wouldn’t say pre-
cisely what the Pats’ modifica-
tion was, but it sure worked.
They limited Jackson to small-
er gains, forced incompletions
when Starkville Academy quar-
terback Randall Futral dropped
back to pass and kept the Vols
off the scoreboard entirely.
Meanwhile, Heritage Acad-
emy made offensive strides
of its own after going into the
Heritage Academy running back Jaylan Stewart runs for a first down during the fourth quarter of Fri-
day’s home game against Starkville Academy. Stewart’s run got the Patriots into Volunteers territory.
break with an 18-14 lead. After
running back Braden Davidson
took the Pats to midfield and
wide receiver Mitchell Wood-
ard came down with an acrobat-
ic catch at the Starkville Acad-
emy 9-yard line, Harrison drew
up a fade route to sophomore
wideout Trey Naugher. Instead,
the Pats may have gotten away
with a false start by their run-
ning back, Gunter said. Howard
snapped the ball late and, Gunt-
er worked himself free,
“I just found open grass, and
Mack found me for a touch-
down,” he said.
The score put the Pats up 21-
14, and it was the only one they
needed to hold on for the win.
But it wasn’t the only one they
got.
On third-and-long with 25
seconds to play, Futral scram-
bled to his left. He was nowhere
near first-down yardage when
the ball came out. Harrison
thought it was an incomplete
pass.
“Alright, one more down,
and it’s over,” the coach told his
team.
Harrison started making
preparations for a kneel-down
that would end the game, but
the play was still in motion: The
whistle hadn’t sounded, and the
ball was live. Senior Jonathan
Peal pounced on the fumble
and returned it for a Heritage
Academy touchdown with 11
seconds to go, putting the Pats
up two scores and elating the
home sideline.
“I was going crazy,” soph-
omore Drew Huskison said.
“There’s nothing better.”
Huskison, who joined the
team late and dealt with several
position switches in the second-
ary, made his own mark on the
contest at a key moment late in
the first quarter.
With the Vols up 12-0 and
driving again, he knocked away
a second-down pass headed for
Starkville Academy wideout
Wilkes Stubbs, several inches
taller than Huskison, near the
25-yard line. Third down was
essentially a replay as Huskison
denied Stubbs a catch again
near the same spot. The Vols
punted the ball away.
“They were pretty big, I
would say,” Huskison said. “If
they completed that, the game
could have been different.”
Instead, Starkville Academy
was left wondering what could
have been. Head coach Chase
Nicholson blamed himself for a
lack of preparation and what he
said was poor play calling.
“I didn’t get them ready good
enough,” he said. “I didn’t push
them good enough. … This
one’s on me.”
Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
All three times Friday,
Heritage Academy held firm
on Starkville Academy’s ex-
tra-point attempts: After a bad
snap, Miller’s PAT following
the Vols’ first score was covered
up right away, and Jackson was
denied on a two-point try after
a 15-yard score in the second
quarter.
Harrison credited his de-
fense for having the “mental
toughness” to allow a touch-
down but keep the Vols from
adding on. Meanwhile, his of-
fense was rounding into form.
Jaylan Stewart went down
the sideline for a 24-yard score
with 1:21 to go in the first quar-
ter on the play after Davidson
broke off a big run to get the
Pats into plus territory. Da-
vidson also took a third-down
screen pass from Howard to the
Vols’ 30 on the next possession.
“Braden, man, how ‘bout
that game?” Harrison said.
“Without him tonight, we’re in
trouble.”
Even when the Pats’ drive
stalled with a turnover on
downs from the 4, they forced
a three-and-out to get the ball
back. With 3:45 left in the half,
Howard found Woodard past
the sticks on third down, and
the wideout turned and sprint-
ed past every white-clad de-
fender in sight for a go-ahead
43 yard touchdown.
Jackson answered with a 15-
yard score with 1:48 left in the
half to put Starkville Academy
ahead for the final time. But he
was barred from the end zone
in the second half as the Patri-
ots’ defense tightened up.
“It’s bad and all, but at the
end of the day, we’ve got a lot
more football to play,” Jackson
said.
With one more game in the
regular season — Heritage
Academy travels to Greenville
to play Washington School;
Starkville Academy hosts Jack-
son Academy — the Patriots
will likely win the district title,
but the Vols aren’t bothered.
“District champion would be
great, but that’s not where we’re
trying to go,” Nicholson said.
“Our road’s still out in front of
us. We’ve still got plenty of work
in front of us, we’ve still got
plenty of football games in front
of us, and this thing don’t stop.
We just keep rolling.”
After the game — which put
Heritage Academy ahead 27-
26 in the all-time series — the
two teams filed off the field
without shaking hands, anoth-
er reminder of the COVID-19
protocols put in place. The Vols
boarded their westbound buses
quietly; the Pats were mobbed
by fans and parents just outside
the field.
It brought to mind last sea-
son, when Heritage Academy
won all 14 of its games and beat
the Vols for the second time
that year in the state champion-
ship game. With outputs of 42-7
and 55-10, the Pats’ offense was
the story — but just like Friday,
their defense was there when it
was needed most.
“The defense last year was
so good; we just scored a bunch
of points, too,” Harrison said.
“They carried it for us again.”
Heritage Academy 27,
Starkville Academy 18
SA 12 6 0 0 — 18
HA 7 7 7 6 — 27
First quarter
SA — Colby Allen 2 run (kick failed), clock 10:20
SA — CJ Jackson 47 run (run failed), clock 6:24
HA — Jaylan Stewart 24 run (Luke Fisher kick), clock 1:21
Second quarter
HA — Mitchell Woodard 43 pass from Mack Howard (Fisher kick),
clock 3:45
SA — Jackson 15 TD (run failed), clock 1:48
Third quarter
HA — Harris Gunter 9 pass from Howard (Fisher kick), clock 4:34
Fourth quarter
HA — Jonathan Peal 28 fumble recovery (kick failed), clock 0:11

Columbus High shut out by Lake Cormorant

Garrick Hodge/Dispatch Staff

Columbus quarterback Ethan Conner scrambles for a first down Friday night. The
Falcons lost 28-0 to Lake Cormorant.
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Though the results
haven’t come, Columbus
High football has been so
close to achieving victory
each week this season.
Entering Friday’s
matchup against surpris-
ing Region 1-5A favorite
Lake Cormorant, the Fal-
cons’ last four losses have
been by one possession,
with two of the four losses
being by a combined total
of four points.
Nevertheless, Friday
was out of character for
Columbus. The Gators (5-
1, 3-1 district), fresh off an
upset win over four-time
defending state champion
West Point, experienced
no letdown at all in Co-
lumbus, shutting down
the Falcons (1-6, 1-3) and
leaving with a 28-0 victo-
ry.
“At the end, those lop-
sided losses weigh on
you,” Columbus coach
Joshua Pulphus said. “I
don’t care who you are.
You could be so close for
so long, then we had a few
bad calls and shoot, it was
like, ‘Here we go again.’
The big thing is we have
to keep fighting and bat-
tling through adversity.
I’m proud of the effort my
guys played with; they fin-
ished out strong.”
The first quarter
showed promise from Co-
lumbus, as Elijah Short
produced an interception
on the first defensive se-
ries, then the Falcons
moved to midfield on their
first offensive possession.
A fumble halted any
momentum, but Colum-
bus moved the ball to the
red zone on its next offen-
sive chance. The scoring
opportunity went by the
wayside when Falcons
quarterback Ethan Con-
ner overshot his receiver
and sailed a pass right
into the arms of Lake Cor-
morant’s Tony McCray Jr.
“That first quarter, we
just tried to put the ball in
our playmakers’ hands,”
Pulphus said. “We missed
a lot of balls and missed
those game-changing
plays. We tried to be a lit-
tle different this week on
offense and tried to air it
out a little bit more. But
if we’re going to do that,
we have to make those
plays. Those (turnovers)
took a little momentum
out of the air, and we have
to regroup and come back
Monday ready to work.”
Lake Cormorant quar-
terback Telvin Amos got
his team on the board
before halftime with a
one-yard run for a touch-
down, as the Gators took
a 7-0 lead into halftime.
Columbus couldn’t keep
up with Lake Cormorant’s
balanced offensive attack
in the second half, allow-
ing two more touchdowns
on the ground and one
through the air.
“Lake Cormorant is a
good team and always has
been,” Pulphus said. “We
came in knowing we had
to control their players,
and we did a good job at
first. Long story short,
the spirit and morale went
down in the third quarter.
We just have to stay en-
gaged the whole game.”
Columbus is back in
action against West Point
on the road on Friday.
Lake Cormorant 28,
Columbus 0
LC 0 7 7 14 — 28
C0000—0
Second quarter
LC — Telvin Amos 1 run (Kevin Ruiz kick)
Third quarter
LC — Amos 15 run (Ruiz kick)
Fourth quarter
LC — Jordan Martin 35 pass from Amos (Ruiz kick)
LC — Jaiden Gray 5 run (Ruiz kick)
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Caledonia falls to Pontotoc in high-scoring homecoming affair

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
CALEDONIA — Cale-
donia head coach Michael
Kelly hobbled down the
sidelines in a tizzy.
Swinging the silver
crutches by his side to
indicate spacing to his
secondary, Kelly dragged
a medical boot that con-
fined his left leg and foot,
a byproduct of a hit he suf-
fered from one of his own
players on the practice
field in recent days.
Unfazed by the lower
leg injury, he did his best
Hugh Freeze in a hospi-
tal bed impression along
the Caledonia bench as
he emphatically coaxed
his defense throughout
Caledonia’s 37-12 loss to
Pontotoc on homecoming
night Friday.
“At the end of the day,
we’ve got to find a way
to keep playing and we’ll
get ready to rock and roll,
and hopefully my leg, it’ll
heal.”
Despite a swarming
effort on the interior and
at the second level of its
defense early, Caledo-
nia struggled to contain
strong-armed southpaw
quarterback Conner Arm-
strong and the Pontotoc
offense.
Armstrong’s first scor-
ing strike of the night
came by way of a connec-
tion with his brother Cade
for a 38-yard touchdown.
Armstrong came just shy
of his second touchdown
pass when he threw just
behind a wide-open re-
ceiver in the end zone.
Two plays later, the War-
riors settled for a field
goal.
Caledonia’s Kewon Wyatt carries the football during
Friday’s home game against Pontotoc.
17 points in the final four
minutes of the first half.
Following the Pontotoc
field goal, Caledonia quar-
terback Daniel Wilburn
scampered 60 yards down
field, while running back
Darrius Triplett took the
ensuing handoff 13 yards
for a touchdown.
Just 17 seconds later,
Pontotoc running back
Jemarkus Whitfield
Ben Portnoy/Dispatch Staff
of Caledonia defensive
backs for a 57-yard touch-
down run.
Caledonia narrowly
missed a chance to cut
the Pontotoc lead to eight
heading into the half
when a 41-yard Logan
Powell field-goal attempt
fell mere inches short as
the second quarter clock
hit zero.
“And our offense is all
about rhythm and staying
ahead of the chains, and
I didn’t feel like we did a
good job of that tonight. I
didn’t feel like offensive-
ly we did a good job of
running the inside veer.
We’ve got to get that play
started.”
Receiving the ball out
of halftime, Wilburn ran
to his left before tossing
an option pitch. It was
snatched out of the air by
Pontotoc linebacker Cam-
eron Chunn, who scam-
pered 35 yards for a score,
extending the Warriors’
lead to four possessions
just over a minute and a
half into the third quarter.
Pontotoc added its fi-
nal score of the night with
54 seconds remaining in
the frame when running
back Jordan Ball raced 55
Walking off the field
postgame, Kelly labored
a touch using his crutch-
es as an aid but vowed
he and his defense would
improve on Friday night’s
performance.
“We give up too many
big plays,” he said firmly.
“That’s been our Achilles’
heel all year on defense,
and it killed us tonight. I
think a lot of that, at the
end of the day, that’s my
job on that side of the ball.
I pride myself on being a
defensive coach. We ain’t
been very good on de-
fense, and we’ve just got
to get better.”
Pontotoc 37, Caledonia 12
P 7 16 14 0 — 37
C 6 6 0 0 — 12
First quarter
CHS — Karsten Gullette 23 run (kick failed)
PHS — Jemarkus Whitfield 60 run (Ashton Maffett
kick)
Second quarter
PHS — Cade Armstrong 38 pass from Conner Arm-
strong (Maffett kick good)

With both offenses sty- promptly burst through “We didn’t pick up yards down the Caledonia PHS — Maffett 28 FG
it’s like I tell these kids, it CHS — Darrius Triplett 13 run (pass failed)

ain’t about me,” he said.
“It’s not (about) my leg.
I’m going to be OK, and
mied for much of the first
18 minutes of play Friday,
the teams combined for
the Caledonia defensive
line and into the second-
ary, outpacing a gaggle
a couple stunts, and I
thought that got us out
of rhythm,” Kelly said.
sideline for the Warriors’
third score of more than
35 yards.
PHS — Whitfield 57 run (Maffett kick)
Third quarter
PHS — Cameron Chunn 35 fumble recovery (Maffett
kick)
PHS — Jordan Ball 55 run (Maffett kick)

Starkville, West Point both fall on the

road; Noxubee County steamrolls Hatley
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
MADISON — Top-
ranked Starkville High
School suffered its first
loss of the season Friday
at unranked Madison
Central, a 15-9 defeat
that could cost the Yellow
Jackets (6-1) their No. 1
ranking.
The Jaguars’ Vic Sut-
ton scored from 10 yards
out with 4:49 to go to send
Starkville to its first de-
feat this year. Sutton also
found Creek Robertson
for a 25-yard touchdown
pass in the second quar-
ter.
Starkville quarterback
Luke Altmyer answered
with a 16-yard scoring
pass to Sam Hunt with
2:38 to go in the second
quarter, but the point af-
ter was no good.
Josh Eaves made a
26-yard field goal in the
fourth quarter to put the
Jackets ahead, but Sut-
ton struck for Madison
Central, and Starkville
couldn’t respond.
Altmyer finished 19 of
29 passing for 229 yards
and a score. Stacy Robin-
son had five catches for 64
yards, and Kobe Larkin
had six grabs for 63 yards.
The Jackets’ run game
was heavily limited, re-
sulting in just 50 yards
on 20 carries. Amariyon
Howard had 15 yards on
six attempts, and Jordan
Mitchell had 13 yards on
five carries.
Starkville is still look-
ing for an opponent next
Friday after Murrah can-
celed fall sports, includ-
ing football, because of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grenada 28,
West Point 21, OT
GRENADA — West
Point lost for the second
time in as many games
Friday, falling to Grenada
28-21 in overtime on the
road.
Grenada scored on
its overtime possession,
and the Green Wave (4-3)
couldn’t answer.
Cameron Young had
130 yards, including a
4-yard touchdown, on 25
carries for West Point,
while JaKobe Pate added
85 yards on 14 attempts,
and Chris Ivy rushed five
times for 39 yards.
Keshawn Henley had
a 14-yard touchdown for
West Point and finished
with 29 carries on four at-
tempts.
Jamarquez Melton
caught a 65-yard touch-
down pass from Corbin
Kelley, who finished 3 of
9 passing for 108 yards.
Trey Ryland had two
catches to account for the
other 43 yards.
West Point will host
Columbus (1-6) next Fri-
day at Hamblin Stadium.
Center Hill 32,
New Hope 14
NEW HOPE — New
Hope fell to 2-5 with a 32-
14 home loss to Center
Hill on Friday.
The Trojans were out-
scored 20-7 in the first
half and 12-7 in the sec-
ond half.
No statistics were avail-
able from the contest.
New Hope will host La-
fayette next week.
West Lowndes 37,
Noxapater 7
COLUMBUS — Mar-
quez Shelton filled in ad-
mirably at quarterback
for West Lowndes (4-3)
on Friday, throwing for
two scores and running
for another in a 37-7 home
win over Noxapater.
Shelton, taking over
for the injured Melvin
Crawford Jr., was 2 for 2
passing for 75 yards with
two touchdown passes,
both to Joshua Franklin.
Shelton also ran for a 59-
yard score.
Cardarious McGee
had a 40-yard touchdown
run and a 20-yard catch.
Fredrick Rice ran for
79 yards and a touchdown
for the Panthers.
West Lowndes will
host Okolona (1-6) next
Friday in Columbus.
Noxubee County 60,
Hatley 0
AMORY — Noxubee
County steamrolled Hat-
ley 60-0 on Friday in Amo-
ry.
The Tigers put up a
balanced scoring effort
with 33 points in the first
half and 27 more in the
second.
No statistics were avail-
able from the contest.
The Tigers (4-1) will
host Choctaw County
next week in Macon.
Hebron Christian 32,
Columbus Christian
Aca. 12
STEENS — Doug
Loden ran for three
touchdowns and caught
another as Hebron Chris-
tian School (3-6) earned
a 32-12 district road win
over Columbus Christian
Academy (1-8) on Friday
in Steens.
Loden finished with
155 yards on 10 carries
and a 60-yard receiv-
ing score from Braeden
Triplett, who finished 6 of
10 passing for 109 yards
and two scores.
Triplett also had a
6-yard touchdown pass
to Bradley Scott and
completed a two-point
conversion to Dash Tur-
man. Scott ran six times
for 15 yards and had two
catches for 15 yards, and
Turman had two catches
for 33 yards plus the two-
point play.
On defense, Loden led
the team with 19 tackles,
Jackson Langley had 12,
and Zack Corban had
nine. Triplett and Jon Gar-
rett Lowe each had six,
and Scott had five.
Lahndon Townley had
a 51-yard touchdown in
the third quarter for Co-
lumbus Christian and
finished with 70 rushing
yards Friday. Beau Kemp
had a rushing score in
the second quarter and
finished with 65 rushing
yards. Luke Phillips add-
ed 11 rushing yards.
Caleb Farlow and
Townley each had five
tackles to lead the Rams,
while Tyler Looney had
four and recovered a fum-
ble.
Hebron Christian will
host Humphreys Acade-
my for the final game of
the regular season next
week, and Columbus
Christian Academy will
travel to Calhoun Acade-
my.
Oak Hill Aca. 48,
Central Holmes
Christian 30
LEXINGTON — Cam-
eron Dill threw for five
touchdowns and ran for
two more to carry Oak
Hill Academy to a big
win over Central Holmes
Christian on Friday in
Lexington.
Dill had touchdown
passes of 18, 19 and 25
yards to Manning Huff-
man, a 20-yard scoring
pass to Jake Glusenkamp
and a 30-yard touchdown
toss to Garrett Edwards.
The quarterback also ran
for 16-yard and 28-yard
scores.
Jack Easterling made
six of seven extra points
for the Raiders (3-5).
Oak Hill will host Win-
ona Christian next Friday
in West Point in the last
game of the regular sea-
son.
South Choctaw Aca.
(Ala.) 14, Pickens Aca.
(Ala.) 7
CARROLLTON, Ala.
— Pickens Academy (Al-
abama) lost its fourth
straight game after four
wins to start the season,
falling to South Choctaw
Academy (Alabama) 14-7
on Friday at home.
Chandler Box led the
Pirates with a 3-yard
touchdown run, a fumble
recovery and seven tack-
les.
Drake Lowery picked
off two passes and had
6.5 tackles, while Clayton
Lee had 5.5 tackles and
a fumble recovery. Clay
More had 4.5 tackles and
forced a fumble.
Pickens Academy fin-
ished with 101 rushing
yards and 46 passing
yards.
The Pirates will host
Meadowview Christian
(Alabama) next Thursday
in Carrollton, Alabama.
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PREP VOLLEYBALL PLAYOFFS

Caledonia drops five-set heartbreaker to Corinth

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Caledonia sophomore Emily Clark leaps for a serve in the fifth set against Corinth in Saturday’s MHSAA first-
round playoff match. Clark’s best efforts couldn’t keep the Warriors from eliminating Caledonia in five sets.
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
CALEDONIA — Cale-
donia volleyball had plenty
of comebacks in it during
Saturday’s MHSAA Class
4A second-round playoff
match against Corinth.
But it didn’t have
enough.
Despite roaring back
from a 2-0 deficit by win-
ning the third and fourth
sets, Caledonia dropped
the fifth and was elimi-
nated in an intense post-
season battle Saturday
in Caledonia. Set scores
were 25-15, 25-23, 20-25,
10-25 and 15-12.
“It’s sad, and it’s hard,”
Caledonia coach Saman-
tha Brooks said. “We
certainly didn’t expect to
lose.”
Nobody on Caledo-
nia’s side of the court or
the gym seemed to ex-
pect it, either, after a fan-
tastic comeback evened
the match at two sets
apiece. Caledonia held off
Corinth 25-20 in the third
and dominated the fourth
for a 25-10 win.
Brooks said that after
falling behind 2-0, she ap-
plied her team’s situation
to what it might face in the
real world in the years to
come.
“In life, you don’t give
up,” Brooks said. “Things
are going to get thrown
at you that are out of your
control. … It’s just import-
ant to keep fighting as we
did here.”
But as soon as Cale-
donia tied things up,
first-year Corinth coach
Emma Heubi delivered a
message to her disheart-
ened players, whose body
language sent a clear
message of frustration as
the fourth set drew to a
close.
“I told them that they
have to dig deep, and this
is where you see what
you’re made of,” Heu-
bi said. “I said, ‘This is
where you fight, because
this is where it counts,
so go out there and show
them what Corinth volley-
ball is.’”
The Warriors showed
it. They won the first
three points of the first-
to-15 fifth set and led by
two or more the whole
way through, closing out
the set and moving on
when Caledonia’s Libby
McMurphey misfired on
a shot.
“I’m so thankful for the
heart that my girls had
to fight back and to push
back especially when
there’s an obstacle they
had to get over,” Heubi
said.
It wasn’t the first time.
Like Caledonia, Corinth
graduated a large senior
class, and Heubi, who pre-
viously coached in Texas,
wasn’t sure what her first
Warriors roster was going
to look like. Corinth was
also forced to quarantine
on two separate occasions
because of COVID-19,
throwing the Warriors’
season into disarray and
forcing postponements
and cancellations.
But Heubi’s team
pushed through when it
counted Saturday. On 13-
11 in the fifth set, “stud”
senior Kate Nakagawa
unleashed a powerful kill,
and the Warriors finished
off the win two points later
and got revenge on Cale-
donia, which knocked
Corinth out of the playoffs
last year.
The win over the War-
riors sent Caledonia to
the state semifinals for
the first time in school
history, and Brooks and
her team had designs on
meeting or exceeding
that goal this season.
“Well, we ultimately
wanted to continue to ad-
vance, but I’m very proud
of them,” Brooks said.
“Like I told them, too, ‘We
could have been a team
that didn’t have a season
or whose season ended
short.’”
It certainly could have
ended two sets short-
er than it did Saturday.
Caledonia looked off-kil-
ter in the first set, which
Corinth won easily, and
made many of the same
self-inflicted mistakes in
a close second set.
“That killed us,”
Brooks said. “It’s not that
they did anything spe-
cific; it was just that we
made so many of our own
errors — unforced errors
especially.”
The errors proved es-
pecially costly when Cale-
donia regrouped to win
the third and fourth sets,
Brooks said. She and her
players knew the match
had already been theirs
for the taking, and they’d
missed their chance.
“Just based on the way
increases from Monday to Sunday.
Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
they played, they knew
they should have taken
the first and second sets,”
Brooks said. “In the fifth
set, we shouldn’t have let
our guard down.”
Still, she was happy
to be able to send off the
team’s six seniors — Mc-
Murphey, Zoe Hansen,
Alexa Lindsey, Megan
Chandler, Kordelia Berg-
strom and Ella Clark
— the right way. After
seeing her daughter Tori
and the Caledonia softball
team hardly get in much
of a senior season before
the pandemic intervened,
Brooks was glad for what
her volleyball players
went through together.
“Ultimately,” Brooks
told her players after the
match, “thank God we
have these experiences
and we have these mem-
ories and that COVID
didn’t shut that down.”
New Hope 3,
Center Hill 2
NEW HOPE — New
Hope volleyball pulled off
a comeback of its own Sat-
urday evening to advance
to the MHSAA Class 5A
ACROSS
north state championship
1 Poetry compe-
game.
titions
The Trojans dropped
6 Wrong
the first and third sets
against defending Class
11 Like dunce
5A champion Center Hill
caps
but rebounded to win the 12 Ship of 1492
fourth and fifth sets and 13 Without aid
win the match 3-2. 14 Short putt
Set scores were 13-25, 15 Equestrian
25-15, 20-25, 25-20 and activity
15-12. 17 What’s more
New Hope will host 18 Finished off
Lake Cormorant in Tues- 19 Sneeze cause
day’s semifinal game. 22 — relief
23 Perches
24 Decrees

Seager homers again as Dodgers beat 25 Even

27 Greek conso-
nants
2 Nabokov novel
3 Battery ends
Georges
26 Threat

Braves to force NLCS Game 7

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas
— Corey Seager’s sweet
swing. Walker Buehler’s
calm. Kenley Jansen’s re-
surgence.
The Los Angeles
Dodgers got what they
needed — again.
“We did what we had
to do to force a Game 7,”
Justin Turner said.
They sure did.
Seager homered again,
Buehler pitched six score-
less innings and the
Dodgers beat the Atlanta
Braves 3-1 on Saturday to
send the NL Champion-
ship Series to a winner-
take-all finale.
Los Angeles avoided
elimination for the sec-
ond time in less than 24
hours, staying alive in its
pursuit of a third pennant
in four years. It hasn’t
won a championship since
1988.
“I’m still sort of recov-
ering from this one, but
already thinking about
Game 7,” Dodgers man-
ager Dave Roberts said.
“That’s what you live for.”
Turner also homered
for Los Angeles, and
Jansen threw a six-pitch
ninth for his 18th career
postseason save.
The NL West and East
champions play again
Sunday night, with the
potential for two rookie
starters in a Game 7 for
the first time in big league
history.
Roberts was keeping
his options open for his
starting pitcher while
the Braves plan to go
with rookie right-hander
Ian Anderson, who has
thrown 15 2/3 scoreless
innings in his three post-
season starts. Tony Gon-
solin and three-time NL
Cy Young Award winner
Clayton Kershaw are
among the possibilities
for Los Angeles.
“Shoot, we’ll go out
there and let ’er fly. A
Game 7 is another base-
ball game,” Atlanta man-
ager Brian Snitker said.
“You have to treat it as
such.”
The Braves were hop-
ing to celebrate Snitker’s
65th birthday Saturday
with the franchise’s first
World Series berth since
1999. But Max Fried
took his first loss all year,
working into the seventh
inning after surrendering
three runs during a rocky
first.
Buehler, using Stan’s
Rodeo Ointment to deal
with bothersome blisters,
threw 65 of his 89 pitches
for strikes. He allowed
seven hits while striking
out six without a walk.
After Atlanta load-
ed the bases with three
singles in a row to start
the top of second — the
last hit by his Vanderbilt
roommate Dansby Swan-
son — the right-hander
really brought the heat,
with 10 consecutive fast-
balls to get out of the jam.
Austin Riley struck out
on a 98.7 mph pitch be-
fore Nick Markakis took
a called third strike on
99.7 mph. Cristian Pache,
the 21-year-old rookie
who had an RBI in each
of his first four NLCS
starts, was retired on an
inning-ending groundout.
“His mound presence
is just unbelievable,”
Turner said.
Buehler said he has
never felt that calm in a
game, especially a situa-
tion like that. He credited
4 Short skirt 27 “Parks and
30 Diver’s place 5 Imagined Recreation” town
31 Tiny worker sequences of 28 Pants mea-
catcher Austin Barnes — 32 Use the track events sure
and past experiences. 33 Nod off 6 Suitable 29 Boat backs
“I’ve failed in those mo- 35 Seething 7 Soccer’s 30 Faucet
ments. I’ve been through 38 Central Hamm problems
it and I’ve been good after 39 Harness-race 8 To some extent 34 In the past
it, but that failure doesn’t horse 9 Con games 36 Kicker’s aid
really scare me anymore,” 40 Indian, for 10 Yellow-gray 37 Mess up
Buehler said. “The more one 16 Was an ob-
times you go through 41 Ranch animal noxious winner
things like that, your 42 Appears 20 Womanizers
heartbeat kind of changes DOWN 21 Twisty turn
and can slow down.” 1 Egyptian 24 Dandy
It was a much differ- emblem 25 Painter
ent result than Buehler’s
postseason debut two
years ago in Game 3 of the
NL Division Series, when
the Braves also loaded
the bases against him in
the second inning. After a
walk drove in a run, Ron-
ald Acuña Jr. hit a grand
slam on the next pitch.
Fried, who struck out
five and walked four in
6 2/3 innings, allowed
only two homers in his
11 starts while going 7-0
during the regular sea-
son. But the Dodgers
went deep twice in three
pitches in the first.
Seager pulled a tower-
ing shot to right on a 73-
mph curveball, and Turn-
er connected on a 93-mph
sinker that went 418 feet
to straightaway center.
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Bulldog Bullets: Mississippi State suffers yet another letdown

BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — current on field product
Take one comically lucky
touchdown away from
Mississippi State on Sat-
urday and you wouldn’t
have missed much if you
napped through the Bull-
dogs’ 28-14 loss to Texas
A&M at Davis Wade Sta-
dium.
For the third straight
week, the offense mus-
tered nothing and fans
were left with more ques-
tions than answers.
The book on Mike
Leach’s tenure at MSU is a
long way away from being
written, and considering
there wasn’t any offsea-
son developmental time
to speak of in this nutso
year, maybe he should get
the benefit of the doubt
for now. Nevertheless,
none of that makes the
any less unwatchable.
A 1-0 start is quickly
going to turn into a 1-4
start, if we can safely as-
sume these Bulldogs ar-
en’t equipped to take on
Alabama in two weeks.
The bandwagon doesn’t
appear to be very full at
the moment.
As always, for those
that are new to Bulldog
Bullets, The Commercial
Dispatch will bring you
an instant reaction blog of
Mississippi State football
games posted immediate-
ly after the final gun filled
with short observations
and commentary.
To the Bulldog Bullets:
— Not only did stand-
out running back Kylin
Hill not play Saturday, he
wasn’t even at the stadi-
um. Wonder what’s going
on there?
— To put it bluntly,
MSU’s offensive line was
horrendous. Texas A&M
rushed three men the ma-
jority of the day and Mis-
sissippi State’s offensive
line blocked it like the
Aggies ran engage eight.
Six sacks, not to mention
additional quarterback
pressures.
— Offensive line woes
aside, something needs
to be said. K.J. Costello is
by all accounts, a smart,
well-respected member of
the MSU team. And yet,
his on-the-field perfor-
mance has been a colossal
disappointment. There’s
only so much you can do
when you have defend-
ers in your face instantly
every other play, but he’s
consistently failed to take
care of the ball and is not
exactly fleet of foot.
— Sixteen turnovers
in 16 quarters. That’s not
ideal!
— Here’s the thing
about the offense: it’s not
going to change all sea-
son, or for Mike Leach’s
entire MSU tenure for
that matter. Regardless of
if Leach succeeds or fails
at MSU, he’s going to do
it with the air raid. With
that in mind, maybe it’s
best to play Will Rogers,
the freshman quarter-
back, for the rest of the
season and see if he’s ca-
pable of starting next sea-
son. Garrett Shrader isn’t
built to run this system,
and we’ve seen how the
Costello experiment has
played out.
— First four series:
three three-and-outs and
an interception, complete
with a blocked punt that
put MSU in a 14-0 hole.
— Mississippi State
called a timeout with 31
seconds left in the second
half on fourth-and-long
only to... punt? Someone
explain this to me.
— I laughed a little
when Mississippi State
scored its first touch-
down in forever thanks
to a comically lucky pin-
ball-like deflection. Come
on, you know you did, too.
— Rogers’ first colle-
giate touchdown was the
first offensive touchdown
the Bulldogs had scored
in eight quarters.
— A (positive!) obser-
vation: Shawn Preston Jr.
has given the Bulldogs
a boost in the secondary
this season.
— Six minutes to go,
down two possessions,
third and long, and Rog-
ers throws a pass 10 yards
short of the sticks. Then
MSU punts. Uninspiring
sequence.
— I know a good chunk
of this can be attributed
to sacks, but MSU finish-
ing with negative rushing
yards is something.
The Bulldogs get a
much-needed week off
where they will re-eval-
uate quite a few things,
I’m sure. At least their
next opponent isn’t a pow-
erhouse like Ala... never
mind.

Ole Miss Game

Continued from Page 1B
The three first-half
turnovers weren’t the
only Ole Miss (1-3, 1-3)
issue. Twice the Rebels
were stopped at the 1 on
fourth down. The first
time came on a fumble,
the second an old-fash-
ioned stuffing.
Throw in the intercep-
tions and Ole Miss coach
Continued from Page 1B
cliff during a scoreless
streak of over 111 min-
utes. As was the case a
week ago in Lexington,
Rogers showed flashes
of effectiveness despite
persistent pressure. He
got the ball out quickly,
was sharp in his deci-
sion-making and brief-
ly offered a fleeting
glimpse of hope in Sat-
urday’s slugfest with his
32-yard fourth-quarter
touchdown pass to Malik
Heath.
“I thought Will came in
and did a great job for us,”
junior receiver Austin
Williams said of Rogers.
“He definitely upheld his
part. As he was talking
about on the field, you’ve
just got to do your job, do
your one-eleventh, and
he definitely did his and
came on and performed
well and definitely helped
the team out.”
“When you consid-
er the quality team that
A&M has, that drive Will
had was maybe as good
as I’ve had a freshman,
especially a true fresh-
man at his age, have be-
fore,” Leach added.
Fourteen days from
Saturday, MSU will roll
into Tuscaloosa for a date
against No. 2 Alabama.
With a bye week in tow
ahead of a Halloween
night showdown with the
Crimson Tide, Leach and
the MSU offensive staff
will be tasked with kick-
starting an aerial assault
that’s looked closer to a
paper plane than the Boe-
ing 747 that exited Baton
Rouge atop college foot-
ball’s national conscious-
ness a meager four weeks
ago.

Lane Kiffin’s demeanor
after the game was ex-
pected.
“Had we not screwed
all that up early, we’re up
by three or four scores,”
Kiffin said. “You can’t
turn the ball over like
that and expect to win.”
Kiffin stuck with Cor-
ral and the sophomore
nearly led a comeback.
Corral threw for 200
yards and two scores,
which came late in the
third quarter and early in
the fourth to pull within
20-14.
But Arkansas sopho-
more Treylon Burks an-
swered on the ensuing
drive. Burks, who missed
last week’s game at Au-
burn, caught a one-hand-
ed touchdown pass in the
corner of the end zone.
He managed to place
one foot inside the end
zone before falling out of
bounds.
Burks finished with 11
catches for 137 yards and
added another 46 yards
rushing on four carries.
Feleipe Franks was 21-of-
34 passing for 244 yards
with a touchdown and an
interception for Arkan-
sas.
“The drive when it was
20-14 was huge,” Pittman
said. “Treylon, what a
great catch he had in the
corner. What a wonder-
ful catch, an outstand-
ing catch he made. That
drive was huge.”
And while the fourth-
down failures early
stalled the Rebels, the
conversions late kept
them around.
Hodge
Continued from Page 1B
Leach, it doesn’t sound
like he’s going to get a
chance to lose his job for
a third time when MSU
faces Alabama in two
weeks after a bye week.
There was no running
game to speak of yet
again, as the Bulldogs
accumulated negative
rushing yardage against
the Aggies. A large por-
tion of this statistic can
be attributed to the num-
ber of sacks allowed, but
there was nothing there
all day.
Maybe a standout
running back could have
helped. Mississippi State
has one of those in Kylin
Hill, but for whatever
reason, the Columbus
native was unavailable.
Not only was Hill not in
uniform, but the SEC’s
leading rusher from a
year ago wasn’t even
present at Davis Wade
Stadium on Saturday.
Leach said Hill wasn’t
available Saturday and
doesn’t know when he’ll
be available going for-
ward. Well, OK, then.
While Leach’s offense
continues to sputter and
“be behind where he
hoped it would be,” de-
fensive coordinator Zach
Arnett’s defense contin-
ued to be the lone bright
spot in an otherwise
dreary afternoon. MSU’s
defense at least did ES-
PN’s viewing auidence a
solid and provided a de-
fensive score that some
talented video editor
should supplement with
a laugh track.
Emmanuel Forbes
will forever thank his
lucky stars after a foot-
ball bounced off A&M
quarterback Kellen
Mond’s wide receiver
10 yards in pinball style
right into the defender’s
arms for a 60-yard touch-
down return.
While A&M run-
ning back Isaiah Spiller
torched the MSU front
seven for 114 yards on 18
carries, Mond was held
relatively in check, only
passing for 139 yards on
23 attempts.
None of that made a
difference, though, as
the defense could only
watch as its offense
turned in three-and-out
after three-and-out and
turned the ball over for
the 16th time in 16 quar-
ters.
The good news is the
Bulldogs now have a bye
week to re-evaluate their
program. The bad news
is 1-4 is a near certain-
ty with No. 2 Alabama
looming in two weeks.
Leach said Saturday
that program success
doesn’t happen over-
night. But time is run-
ning out to see it at all in
2020.
Rogers
Continued from Page 1B
especially a true fresh-
man at his age, have be-
fore,” Leach said.
Back on the sidelines,
there was a noticeable
shift in demeanor along
the MSU bench upon
Rogers’ substitution.
Arriving back near the
metal bleachers near the
offensive staff, Walley
offered him a high-five,
while others patted him
on his back seconds af-
ter his first career touch-
down throw.
Inches away, Costel-
lo sat perched along the
aluminum bench along-
side Mitchell. With his
arms spread across the
chair back almost loung-
ing, there was a defeated
look in his posture. In a
season that began with
highs of Heisman hype
and national recognition,
he’d been relegated to a
clipboard for the second
Mullen joins players in testing positive for virus
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAINESVILLE, Fla.
— Florida coach Dan Mul-
len, who last week wanted
90,000 fans packed inside
the stadium amid a pan-
demic, says he has tested
positive for COVID-19.
The former Mississip-
pi State coach made the
announcement Saturday
on Twitter, saying his
initial positive result was
confirmed by a second
time in as many weeks.
“At the end of the
day, we’ve got to execute
in crucial situations,”
Costello said after a
Week 2 loss to Arkansas.
“When it’s third-and-
short, fourth-and-3 (or)
when it’s fourth-and-1, I
have to take care of the
football, bottom line. It’s
that simple. I’ve got to
take care of the football,
take what the defense
gives me and move the
ball one play at a time.”
Playing behind an
MSU offensive line that
leaked more frequently
than a cracked pipe, Rog-
ers’ 15-of-18, 120-yard
night bordered on immac-
ulate given the Bulldog
offense mustered just 217
yards in all. By contrast,
Costello finished his day
as the nation’s leader in
interceptions and rank-
ing 51st of 69 eligible
test. The 10th-ranked Ga-
tors had at least 21 players
and coaches test positive
earlier this week, an out-
break that prompted the
Southeastern Conference
to postpone Florida’s next
two games.
With potentially doz-
ens more quarantined be-
cause of contract tracing,
Florida (2-1) would have
had fewer than 50 schol-
arship players available
to face LSU on Saturday.
quarterbacks in yards per
attempt.
Speaking with the me-
dia postgame, Leach re-
vealed Costello and Rog-
ers split first team reps
throughout the week, but
didn’t offer much insight
into whether Costello will
remain the starter going
forward. Heading into a
bye week before a road
date with No. 2 Alabama
in Tuscaloosa, the 19th-
year head coach did note
the time off would allow
him a chance to reevalu-
ate the quarterback posi-
tion.
“We’ll just see what
happens,” Leach said.
“We have to go out there
and have two good weeks
of practice and see where
it’s at. I did think Will
showed a lot of compo-
sure out there.”
Two assistant coaches
also tested positive for
the highly contagious vi-
rus.
Mullen is the sec-
ond SEC head coach,
along with Alabama icon
Nick Saban, to contract
COVID-19 and the fifth
overall known this season
in major-college football,
joining Florida State’s
Mike Norvell, Arizona’s
Kevin Sumlin and Kan-
sas’ Les Miles.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: My husband and
I have been together since
we were 21, and he has
always had a distant relationship
with his parents. I encouraged
him during the first few years of
our marriage to call them and
visit. I stopped doing that after
his mom and I had some choice
words.
If he wants a relationship with
them, that is up to him. The prob-
lem is, when she tries to call and
text with typically no response
from him, she reaches out to me.
We have two daughters, so I don’t Dear Abby
mind sharing with her how they
are doing. What I object to is her
occasionally asking me to pass on messages
to my husband. I’m a working mom of two, and
I don’t have time to be anyone else’s secretary. that, she says she can’t get through to him,
The icing on the cake came when she informed
me that the family dog they’d had
for 15 years passed away and
asked me to tell him. I told her
what time he could be reached,
but instead of taking my sugges-
tion, she asked me again. I ended
up telling him.
It wasn’t my responsibility
to do that, and I’m irritated with
myself that I can’t be frank about
how she and his dad need to
contact their son. Any suggestions
would be helpful. — FINDING A
BACKBONE IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR FINDING: It may take
courage, but the next time your
mother-in-law tries to make you
her messenger, tell her that what
she’s asking makes you uncomfortable and that
she needs to convey the information herself —
by either texting her son or emailing. If, after
point out that you no longer want to be in the
middle. Period. And let your husband know what
you’ve done.
Will this endear you to her? Definitely not.
But the individuals who need to heal the rela-
tionship between your husband’s parents and
their son are the three of them, not you.
DEAR ABBY: My parents met when they
were 14. They married at 18, raised four boys
and had an incredible marriage. When Mom
was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they carried
on as best they could with Dad providing her
care. Sadly, Dad was diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer, so they moved in with me, and I
quit working to care for them. Dad died three
months later. Obviously, Mom was devastated
in addition to being confused about why Dad
was no longer there.
Mom and I often took walks through my
neighborhood, and at one house in particular
she would comment on the pretty flowers in
the yard and how she and Dad enjoyed planting
flowers every year. No matter how agitated or
upset she was, seeing that neighbor’s yard
would cheer her up and bring back fond memo-
ries for her. Mom died a few years later.
I wrote a note to the person who lived at the
property — whom I never had met — telling her
how much joy her flowers had brought to Mom
and thanking her for making my mother’s final
days brighter. Abby, I am writing now to share
that even in the darkest times, a little beauty
can make a world of difference. — GRATEFUL
SON IN ARIZONA
DEAR GRATEFUL SON: What you have writ-
ten is true. Music can have the same effect on
patients with Alzheimer’s disease. My mother
had Alzheimer’s for many years, and my brother
and I provided her with music from her era —
Pearl Bailey, the Andrews Sisters, etc. — to
help her pass the time. Toward the end, singing
a song from her youth to her brought her back
to me for a precious moment, and it, too, made
a world of difference. Thank you for your letter
and for taking me on my own trip down memory
lane.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 18).
While it doesn’t appeal to you
celebrate your birthday in pomp and
splendor, this solar return does bring
unexpected attention and luxuries
your way. Don’t turn them down! Your
excellent stewardship of these cos-
mic gifts leads to sweet and loving
ties, satisfying intellectual challenge,
and meaningful work. Taurus and
Capricorn adore you. Your lucky num-
bers are: 22, 4, 48, 17 and 39.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). As
for the smart, generous, insightful
people at the core of your inner
circle, some you know, some you
haven’t met yet. Dedicate more time
to following your interests and you’ll
find them.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). So
it goes, in art and in life, that some
boundaries are drawn in ink and oth-
ers are drawn in emptiness. Without
space, there is no form. Without
silence, there is no sound. No answer
is an answer.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It has
taken a while, but you’re starting to
see that what you choose to do, and
the way you do it, is not easily dupli-
cated and actually sort of amazing.
Self-props are called for.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Peo-
ple who bore and annoy you needn’t
be avoided today and should be
studied instead. What are they doing
that repels you so? Do you perhaps,
to some small degree, share any of
their unfortunate peculiarities?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The habit
to lose now isn’t a terribly big one;
it’s a small, weird, repetitive action
that just isn’t adding anything to your
life. Nix that one to make room for
the zephyrs of good fortune to blow
through.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You
feel a great deal of enthusiasm for
a subject and yet will be reticent to
show it if you see there’s a chance of
overwhelming others or making your-
self stand out too much. Temperance
is social grace.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The
natural remedy will call to you. This
isn’t about an essential oil or flower
essence; it’s about responding to a
problem-solving sense that heralds
from a deep and primal place inside
you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Much will depend on focusing on the
right conversational topic or theme
interactions or projects. You might
not find it right away. Be like a pros-
pector, digging here and there until
you strike gold.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Shoes in the house or no? Like
so many of life’s choices, neither is
more correct, though one may be
more preferred. For the sake of social
ease, follow the customs of ones you
are with.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
As the truly beautiful dancers know,
it’s not about looking good; it’s about
feeling good. Movement is personal
expression, and you’ll be playful in
this regard, enjoying what it is to be a
physical creature.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
You don’t take things on because
you know how to do them. You take
things on because you don’t know
how to do them, and the way to find
out is to take things on.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Why
the exuberance? It seems to come
for no reason, but indeed, part of you
understands that these small acts
are the seeds of greatness. Share
your joy, and it will compound and
have lasting effects.
8B SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Religion
The Lord is a keeper
T
he Lord is in what He says ple say things that will upset is stayed on thee; because he perceive or comprehend. “For
our keeper, He will do for us. us especially when we haven’t trusteth in thee.” (Isaiah 26:3) he shall give his angles charge
and He can We can always said anything to them. How- K JV over thee, to keep thee in all
keep us in whatever depend on Him to ever, we can do it with the help n He keeps us from falling. thy ways.” (Psalm 91:11) K JV
ways we need Him make us strong so of God. All we have to do is say All glory goes to God! He is So be encouraged today and
to keep us. He’s a we can overcome this prayer, “Set a watch, O able to keep us from falling always remember: the Lord is
watchful keeper; the attacks of the Lord, before my mouth; keep into temptations, sins, troubles our keeper and He will keep
He keeps us on a evil one. He will the door of my lips.” (Psalm and mistakes, and brings us us safe at all times. “The Lord
twenty-four hour also keep us safe 141:3) K JV into His glorious presence is thy keeper: the Lord is thy
guard duty protect- from satan by not n He keeps us in perfect without a single fault with shade upon thy right hand.”
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does not so much the Lord is faithful, keep us in perfect peace. Even faultless before the presence of M. B. Church (Healing & Yoke
as slumber. “Behold, he that and he will strengthen you and in the midst of what we are his glory with exceeding joy.” Destroying Ministry) in Macon
keepeth Israel shall neither protect you from the evil one.” going through or the turmoil (Jude 1:24) K JV Mississippi, under the lead-
slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm (2 Thessalonians 3:3) NIV and confusion that is going n He keeps us safe in all ership of her husband, Pastor
121:4) KJV n He keeps us from talking on around us, He will give us our ways. God has command Willie J. Ivy Sr. You can contact
n He keeps us safe from the when we need to be quiet. It’s peace. “Thou wilt keep him His angels to guard us and her via email at minsivy@
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