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Today through Saturday■ “The Heiress”: Starkville Community Theatre presents this stirring costume dra-ma about a young woman in the Victorian Age challenging strictures placed on her life by society and a domineering father. Show times are 7:30 p.m. at Playhouse on Main, 108 E. Main St., Starkville. Limited seating; contact the box office for reserva-tions, 662-323-6855.

Wednesday■ WWII talk: Military historian Stephen Bourque discusses his book “Beyond the Beach,” on impacts of Allied bombings on French cities before and during Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, at 3:30 p.m. in MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library Grisham Room. Free to the public. For information, call 662- 325-3604.

PubLic meetingsToday: Board of Aldermen, 5:30 p.m., City HallFeb. 12: Planning and Zoning Commis-sion, 5:30 p.m., City HallFeb. 12: Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Board of Trustees, 6 p.m., Greensboro CenterFeb. 15: Board of Al-dermen work session, 5:30 p.m., City HallFeb. 18: Board of Su-pervisors, 5:30 p.m., Oktibbeha County Courthouse

Residents seek Kratom ban in Lowndessome state lawmakers skeptical of kratom’s harmfulness, due to lack of data on drug

Angela Jourdan has seen firsthand what the addictive, but legal, sub-stance Kratom can do to a family.

During Monday’s meeting of the Lown-des County Board of Supervisors, Jourdan

recounted her year-long ordeal, using a packet of 13 chronologically-arranged photographs to illustrate her family’s descent from a “perfect life” into fear and violence.

The title page of the document bore simply: 2018.

It began, she told the supervisors, in February, when her husband was intro-

duced to the substance at work as a way to keep him awake during long over-night shifts. By April, it was a $600-to-$800 per week habit. By the end of the year, Jourdan had a lifetime restraining order against the man she still calls her “husband and best friend.”

“When he started doing this, I start-See Kratom, 3A

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■ A Chevron gas station off Highway

45 in Columbus has a street-facing flashing sign advertising the

sale of Kratom. A citi-zen-formed task force asked Lowndes Coun-ty supervisors to pass

an ordinance making the sale of Kratom a

misdemeanor. — Pho-to by Amanda Lien/

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BGC Golden Triangle seeking grant funding for new clubs

By ALex [email protected]

The Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle is pushing along with prelim-inary steps to seek funding for a new center in Oktibbeha County.

BGC Golden Tri-angle CEO Nadia Colom spoke to the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors at Monday’s meeting to request support in seeking a communi-ty block grant to help fund the project.

Colom said the current Oktib-beha County club, located at Lynn Lane in Starkville, has been a good facility. However, the club has seen growth beyond what the building can accommodate. BGC Golden Triangle impacted more than 1,600 children last year, Colom said, and about 700 of them were in Oktibbe-ha County.

“We’ve been in the facility that we’re currently in now for about 16 years,” Colom said. “While it has served a tremendous purpose for us in being able to see at least 140 chil-dren each day at the club, this sum-mer we had a difficult time turning down 100 more children who could have been served because we just didn’t have the space.”

Colom further noted the

Starkville facility doesn’t have the kitchen amenities to provide hot meals to students, as the Columbus club does.

“The schools have been a tre-mendous partner so we’ve been able to do some things in the summer as far as providing breakfast and lunch, but in the after-school hours, it really becomes something that’s a challenge for us,” she said.

Supervisors unanimously voted to allow Colom to work with the

Golden Triangle Planning and De-velopment District to seek a block grant for funding the club.

“This could be just what we’re looking for,” District 5 Supervisor Joe Williams said. “We never know until we submit the proposal.”

District 4 Supervisor Bricklee Miller said the new club is a “great idea” and encouraged Colom to re-turn to the board once the grant ap-plication is submitted.

oktibbeha supervisors authorize working with gtPdd to apply for community block grant

Alex Holloway/Dispatch Staff Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle CEO Nadia Colom talks to Ok-tibbeha County supervisors during Monday’s meeting. Supervisors unani-mously approved allowing the Boys and Girls Club to work with the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District to seek a community block grant for a new Starkville facility.

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Man arrested for choking, punching woman in carsuspect held in the oktibbeha county Jail on $15,000 bonddiSpAtch StAff report

A Starkville man has been arrested for aggravated as-sault after reportedly choking and punch-ing a female victim.

Police arrested Christopher Harris, 26, on Thursday on suspicion of aggravated assault, possession of a weapon by a fel-on and a misdemeanor charge of discharging a weapon within the city limits. Harris was arrested on three warrants.

According to an affidavit The Dispatch obtained from Starkville Municipal Court, Harris strangled a female victim with both hands while she was parked, seated and buckled in a vehicle seat. The affi-davit says he then used one hand to repeatedly punch the victim in the head while continuing to strangle her with the other.

The incident happened in the early morning hours of Jan. 22 at the Forest Creek Apartments on Louisville Street.

Harris was previously convict-ed and sentenced to probation for possession of more than 30 but less than 250 grams of marijuana in Jan-uary 2018.

Harris is being held in the Oktib-beha County Jail on $15,000 bond.

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Super Bowl reaches 100.7M people, down from 2018

DAVID BAUDERAP Media Writer

PASADENA, Calif. — The New England Pa-triots’ competitive but ac-tion-starved Super Bowl victory over the Los An-geles Rams was seen by 100.7 million people on television and streaming services, the smallest au-dience for football’s annual spectacle in a decade.

A boycott by disgrun-tled New Orleans Saints fans, a campaign by fans of quarterback Colin Kaeper-nick and a game with only one touchdown combined to shrink the audience. On CBS alone, the game was seen by 98.2 million peo-ple, compared to 103.4 mil-lion who watched on NBC last year, according to the Nielsen company.

Since reaching a peak of 114.4 million viewers for the Patriots’ 2015 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, the Super Bowl audience has slipped each year since. The Super Bowl is traditionally the most-watched television event of the year in the U.S., and its audience hadn’t dipped below 100 million since the Pittsburgh Steelers-Ar-

izona Cardinals game in 2009.

CBS dealt with a city that held a major grudge. Many fans in New Orle-ans, where the hometown Saints were victimized by a blown referee’s call toward the end of its loss to the Rams in the NFC championship, skipped the game entirely. Prelim-inary ratings from New Orleans showed that Su-per Bowl viewership this year was half what it was in 2018.

New Orleans’ Times Picayune newspaper print-ed a mostly blank front page on Monday with the words, “Super Bowl?” What Super Bowl?”

The newspaper asked, “you think the NFL is sad that the Saints weren’t in it to spice up the night?”

There was also a cam-paign on Twitter by people who said they would not watch the game because of Kaepernick, the for-mer San Francisco 49ers quarterback who hasn’t been able to land a job in the NFL since leading demonstrations in protest of police treatment of mi-norities.

Game traditionally the most-watched television event of the year in the u.S.

By JULIE PACEAP Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Don-ald Trump will call for optimism and unity in his State of the Union address, using the moment to attempt a reset after two years of bitter partisanship and deeply personal attacks.

But will anyone buy it?Skepticism will emanate from

both sides of the aisle when Trump enters the House chamber for the prime-time Tuesday address to law-makers and the nation. Democrats, emboldened after the midterm elec-tions and the recent shutdown fight, see little evidence of a president willing to compromise. And even

the president’s staunchest allies know that bipartisan rhetoric read off a teleprompter is usually under-mined by scorching tweets and un-predictable policy maneuvers.

Still, the fact that Trump’s ad-visers feel a need to try a different approach is a tacit acknowledg-ment that the president’s standing is weakened as he begins his third year in office.

The shutdown left some Repub-licans frustrated over his insistence on a border wall, something they warned him the new Democratic House majority would not bend on. Trump’s approval rating during the shutdown dipped to 34 percent, down from 42 percent a month earlier, according to a recent sur-vey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Af-fairs Research.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders indicated the pres-ident would highlight what he sees as achievements and downplay dis-cord.

“You’re going to continue see the president push for policies that help continue the economic boom,” Sanders said Monday night while appearing on “Hannity” on Fox News. “You’re also going to see the president call on Congress and say, ‘Look, we can either work together and get great things done or we can fight each other and get nothing done.’ And frankly, the American people deserve better than that.”

But Washington’s most recent debate offered few signs of coop-eration between Trump and Dem-ocrats. Under pressure from con-servative backers, Trump refused to sign a government funding bill that did not include money for his long-sought border wall. With hun-dreds of thousands of Americans missing paychecks, Trump ulti-mately agreed to reopen the gov-ernment for three weeks to allow negotiations on border security to continue.

Trump to call for unity, face skepticism in State of Union“you’re also going to see the president call on Congress and say, ‘Look, we can either work together and get great things done or we can fight each other and get nothing done’”

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The denunciations be-gan within hours of the dis-closure that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page fea-tured a person in blackface standing next to a person in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Democratic activists and presidential contenders quickly called for his res-ignation. By the time the Democratic governor held a press conference to de-fend himself, both the na-tional and state party had also demanded he leave.

Northam has refused to step down so far — he says he’s not in the photo. But the pressure he faces high-lights his party’s insistence on policing its own when it comes to wrongdoing re-lated to race and, in some cases, sexual misconduct. As the Republican Party has frequently shied away from disciplining or ex-pelling its own members, Democrats have largely embraced a hard line.

That stance allows Democrats to draw a stark contrast with Pres-

ident Donald Trump and other Republicans who have made racist or sex-ist remarks. It’s also a response to the demands of an increasingly diverse Democratic Party whose staunchest supporters are African-Americans and women, whose last presi-dent was a black man and who has two black people, one Latino and several women running for presi-dent.

“We can’t call out Don-ald Trump, we can’t call out Steve King, if we’re not

walking the talk,” said Kar-ine Jean-Pierre of Move-On, a group founded in the late ‘90s to fight impeach-ment proceedings against President Bill Clinton over his affair with a White House intern.

The contrast with King, an Iowa Republican con-gressman, is one Demo-crats are eager to make. King had a long history of controversial rhetoric about immigrants, but it wasn’t until he defended white supremacy in an interview with The New York Times last month that Republicans in Con-gress moved to strip him of committee assignments and called for his resigna-tion.

Turmoil over governor tests Democrats’ zero-tolerance policy‘We can’t call out Donald trump, we can’t call out Steve King, if we’re not walking the talk’

Karine Jean-Pierre of MoveOn

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NEW YORK — Fed-eral prosecutors in New York issued a subpoena Monday seeking doc-uments from Donald Trump’s inaugural com-mittee, furthering a fed-eral inquiry into a fund that has faced mount-ing scrutiny into how it raised and spent its mon-ey.

Inaugural committee spokeswoman Kristin Ce-lauro told The Associated Press that the committee had received the subpoe-na and was still reviewing it.

“It is our intention to cooperate with the inqui-ry,” she said.

A second spokes-man, Owen Blicksil-ver, declined to answer questions about which documents prosecutors requested. The U.S. At-torney’s Office in Man-

hattan, which issued the subpoena, declined to comment.

The investigation is the latest in a series of criminal inquiries into Trump’s campaign and presidency. Special coun-sel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coor-dinated with Russia and whether the president obstructed the investiga-tion. In a separate case in New York, prosecutors say Trump directed his

personal lawyer Michael Cohen to make illegal hush-money payments to two women as a way to quash potential sex scandals during the cam-paign.

The Wall Street Jour-nal, citing a copy of the subpoena, reported that prosecutors asked for “all documents” related to the committee’s donors and vendors, as well as records relating to “ben-efits” donors received af-ter making contributions.

Prosecutors subpoena Trump’s inaugural committee

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Kratomcontinued from Page 1a

ed doing research,” Jour-dan told supervisors. “I found that 65 to 70 percent of stores in Lowndes Coun-ty sell (Kratom). And that’s scary. That’s wrong.”

Jourdan and other mem-bers of a community-based drug and crime task force appeared before supervi-sors to ask them to pass an ordinance making it a misdemeanor offense to sell Kratom in any form within the county limits. If passed, Lowndes County would be one of six Missis-sippi counties to criminal-ize the substance.

Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, with leaves containing two addictive compounds — mitragynine and 7-hy-droxymitragynine — that interact with opioid recep-tors in the brain, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

There is no minimum age to purchase Kratom. It is sold in convenience stores as a .25-ounce bot-tled liquid, similar to an energy shot, or as an e-cig-arette cartridge. There are also capsuled and powdered versions of the substance available online from major retailers such as Amazon.com.

Jourdan and Lt. Eddie Hawkins with the Missis-sippi Bureau of Narcotics, who also spoke at the meet-ing, fear that the accessi-bility of the substance will raise addiction rates.

“We’ve already heard about student athletes in high schools using (Kra-tom) to improve athletic performance,” said Haw-kins. “And it’s hard to tell them that it’s a dangerous substance because why would you stop taking it when it makes you feel good and perform well?”

Hawkins fears a lack of available information about Kratom will discourage legislation against the sub-stance. Aside from statis-tics collected by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017, little to no data exists on the distribution, purchase and usage of Kra-tom at the national, state or county level.

“We do know there are something like 44 deaths the FDA has linked par-tially to Kratom,” Hawkins said. “But that’s it. There isn’t even enough data and research about the effects, or about overdose treat-ments.”

Supervisors voted to hold a public hearing on the ordinance next month during a regularly sched-uled supervisor’s meeting. Board president Harry Sanders told The Dispatch he expects the ordinance will pass.

“I think we’re all ready to vote on it,” he said. “And after the public has a chance to comment, we will.”

State legislationWhile supervisors and

Columbus city councilmen only have the authority to make the sale of Kra-tom a misdemeanor, the Mississippi Legislature can add Kratom to its list of Schedule 1 narcotics, which would make its sale a felony.

A House bill (HB 1168 filed by Rep. Jeff Smith of Lowndes County) has been filed to make Kratom a Schedule 1 drug in this year’s session, something Sen. Chuck Younger (R- Columbus) tried unsuc-cessfully to get passed in the Senate last year.

Younger had never heard of Kratom until last year, when Monica Flow-ers, director of Last House on the Block for Women, approached him about the substance.

“She said a lot of the women there were really having trouble with this stuff,” said Younger. “So I proposed the bill.”

Younger’s bill died in the Senate’s Drug Policy committee.

“The chairman of the committee, David Jor-don, was really behind it, but some senators got calls from people saying it was great for pain relief,” Younger said. “That’s bull. It’s just another way to get high, in my opinion.”

This session, Younger said he hoped to attach his bill to opioid legislation pre-sented by Sen. Sally Doty (R, Brookhaven). Doty told The Dispatch on Monday she is reluctant to agree.

“I’m on the drug policy committee and I remember Chuck’s bill coming up last year,” Doty said. “My feel-ing is there wasn’t enough information for me to be comfortable supporting it. I do know a lot of constit-uents said that (Kratom) was really providing some pain relief for them. Again, I think we need more infor-mation.”

Another avenue is to add Kratom to the list of Schedule 1 drugs that are added during committee meetings.

“We haven’t met as a committee yet, but every year there are new drugs that come up,” Doty said. “It’s possible that Kratom could be added to the list of scheduled drugs.”

Flowers told The Dis-patch Kratom has been around for “four or five years” and several of her residents have grown de-pendent on the drug.

“A lot of these women

are opioid or heroin ad-dicts,” she said. “For them, it gives them the same high and it’s legal and easy to get here.”

Flowers said Kratom had become such a prob-lem that they began using more sophisticated drug tests to detect Kratom.

“Most tests don’t detect it, so we started sending our tests to a lab that does more extensive testing,” she said. “Since then, we’ve had several residents who’ve failed tests for Kra-tom. It’s a serious prob-lem.”

By mAry [email protected]

Typically, after Colum-bus High School senior Jordan Harris finishes his British Literature class at East Mississippi Com-munity College, he heads home for the day.

For the rest of the school year, though, Har-ris will drive to his for-mer elementary school, Fairview Elementary, to mentor younger students Mondays through Thurs-days. Harris, along with nine other volunteers, will spend the next semester at Fairview Elementary and Franklin Academy leading the PALS (part-ners in active learning and support) program at Columbus Municipal School District.

“I was thinking how it would have been nice to have someone there to help me out at school be-

fore I got home,” Harris said. “It would be really nice if I could be there for these kids.”

Laurie Davis, a coun-selor at McKellar Tech-nology Center, is spear-heading the mentorship program for high school students who are taking dual enrollment courses.

“They have pretty much taken all the high school classes, a lot of them are taking full-time college classes,” Davis said. “They had some time throughout the day that they weren’t taking classes. I got to thinking, this would be a way to give back to our school

and the community.”The PALS program

started Monday after-noon with five high school students volunteering at both Franklin and Fair-view.

Fairview Principal Ben Alexander said he used benchmark assessment scores to gauge which students need specialized attention. Each mentor will work with one to two elementary students each day for about 90 minutes — focusing first on class assignments with the hope of building a rap-port with the elementary students that transcends academics.

“It’s going well right now,” Alexander said. “It’s easier for kids sometimes, to connect with people they consider their peers. Sometimes they look at us like we are adults. When you are a little bit younger and on their level, there

can be a deeper connec-tion there. So what we are hoping is that connection will help those students behaviorally and academ-ically as well and maybe make sure those students reach their full potential.”

Fifth grade student Cameron Mitchell, 11, worked with Harris on a math assignment Monday afternoon.

“It’s nice because he could have been at home doing what he wants to do,” Mitchell said. “But he’s helping us get our grades up and sometimes I do need help with math.”

Alexander said he is excited for his students to have those mentorships.

Davis said the elementa-ry school principals are in charge of choosing students and class assign-ments for the high school mentors.

“They’re mentoring them and helping them academically,” Alexander said. “We will take any help we can get. These (mentors) have a good academic background and to have them come in and help our students is a good resource.”

Though in the early stages, Davis said she hopes to have more stu-dents volunteer next year to help all elementary schools within the dis-trict.

CHS seniors volunteer for elementary mentoring pilot program

Mary Pollitz/Dispatch Staff Columbus High School senior Jordan Harris helps Cameron Mitchell, 11, with subtraction and addition Monday afternoon at Fairview Elementary. Harris, along with nine other CHS seniors, will mentor small groups of students at Franklin Academy and Fairview Elemen-tary with the partners in active learning and support (PALS) program over the course of this semester.

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Drawing the line between pain management and addictionUntil Monday’ s meeting, it

was obvious that the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors had never heard of Kratom, although those in the addic-tion recovery field have been dealing with the effects of the product for years.

Kratom comes from a trop-ical tree native to Southeast Asia, whose leaves contain two addictive compounds that interact with opioid receptors in the brain, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

There is no minimum age to purchase Kratom. It is sold in convenience stores as a ¼ oz. bottled liquid, similar to an en-ergy shot, or as an e-cigarette cartridge. There are also cap-suled and powdered versions of

the substance available online.Monday, supervisors heard

from a parade of speakers — including a woman who said her life was ruined by her husband’s abuse of Kratom, law enforcement official and medical professionals — all urging the supervisors to pass an ordinance making the sale of Kratom a misdemeanor – the maximum punishment a municipality can prescribe.

A bill to make the sale of Kratom a felony authored by Chuck Younger last year, died in committee, which probably underscores the difficulty in determining where legitimate pain relief ends and recreation-al use begins.

For some, Kratom is seen as a legitimate means of

pain management or a su-per-strength energy drink. For others, it’s viewed as a legal substitute for heroin and other forms of opiates. A legal high, is the way Younger describes it.

In either case, those who spoke before the supervisors Monday say it has the potential for addiction.

Kratom is part of a larger debate that pits the legitimate need to relieve pain against the potential of abuse and addic-tion.

By their nature, substances powerful enough to effectively treat chronic pain are likely to create dependence, which is only a step away from addic-tion.

But not all pain-relief sub-

stances have the same poten-tial for abuse.

Also in this session, legisla-tors are considering a bill that would legalize medical mari-juana, a measure 33 states and the District of Columbia have already approved.

Although there is some evidence that marijuana can be addictive in some cases, most people who use marijuana do not develop the sort of depen-dence generally associated with drugs such as heroin and other opiates. Withdrawal symptoms are generally mild among those who stop using marijuana.

What we all should be able to agree on is that, first, people suffering chronic pain should have access to pain-relief un-

der a doctor’s supervision. Rest assured, those who argue most strenuously for banning power-ful forms of pain-relief are not subject to the chronic pain that many people legitimately need, potential for dependence/ad-diction aside.

We can also agree that ad-diction is a scourge on our soci-ety and all practical measures should be taken to prevent it.

Almost 100 years ago, Brit-ish essayist G.K. Chesterton observed that “art, like moral-ity, consists of drawing a line somewhere.”

What our elected officials are now grappling with is draw-ing the line between pain-man-agement and addiction.

It matters very much where that line is drawn.

Voice of the peopleComments on Triplett letter

I read Mr. Triplett’s response to my letter, and it seems he is threat-ened by a Muslim, trans-gender, or atheist running for office and hold-ing office. Isn’t this America where everyone is allowed to participate in the process? I myself welcome diversity in our elected officials as this allows for differing views and perspectives. He is afraid these peo-ple from diverse backgrounds will further their agendas. How funny this is since daily I am pelted with right wing politicians furthering their own agendas with ridiculous laws meant to disenfranchise the minorities and anyone who doesn’t agree with their views. I’m not pleased with this, but I realize that unfortunately personalities become more important than principles and adherence to the constitution for some people. We are not all bigoted and close minded in this country nor in this city nor in this state. Please broaden your horizons! Travel around and speak to people and observe their lifestyles. Mr. Triplett is threatened by CHANGE. Education system usurped by Com-munists? Please! The education system encourages free thought and of course that also threatens the close-minded. It saddens me to think there are people out there like Mr. Triplett. Fear mongering by the religious right has them scared to death of diversity. How sad.

Jerry M FortenberryColumbus

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2019. There are 329 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Feb. 5, 1937, President Frank-

lin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; the proposal, which failed in Congress, drew accusations that Roosevelt was attempting to “pack” the nation’s highest court.

On this date:In 1917, Mexico’s present constitu-

tion was adopted by the Constitution-al Convention in Santiago de Quere-taro. The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, an act severely curtailing Asian immi-gration.

In 1918, during World War I, the Cunard liner SS Tuscania, which was transporting about 2,000 American troops to Europe, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Irish Sea with the loss of more than 200 people.

In 1958, Gamal Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic (a union of Egypt and Syria which lasted until 1961).

In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stepped onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions.

In 1983, former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie, expelled from Bolivia, was brought to Lyon (lee-OHN’), France, to stand trial. (He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison — he died in 1991.)

— The Associated Press

state of the nation

Sacrificing Northam will not be enough “Once that picture with

the blackface and the Klans-man came out, there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the com-monwealth of Virginia.”

So decreed Terry McAu-liffe, insisting on the death penalty with no reprieve for his friend and successor Gov. Ralph Northam.

Et tu, Brute? Yet Northam had all but

sworn Saturday he had no knowledge of the 1984 year-book photo and that he was not either man in the photo.

McAuliffe, who is considering a run for president, joined Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Julian Castro and Joe Biden in the pile-on. All had washed their hands of Northam.

That a moderate Democratic gover-nor is near friendless in a fight for his life reveals much about the Democratic Party.

Earlier last week, Northam was at the center of another blazing controver-sy. He had backed legislation to permit abortions up to birth.

And then he volunteered that, if a child were born after a botched abor-tion, the “infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

Northam seemed to be not only endorsing third-trimester abortion, but infanticide, “mercy killing,” the murder of a living but wounded baby after birth. A public outcry forced the legislature to back off the bill.

Then the photo from the yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School surfaced. Yet, in term of moral gravity, which is worse?

Public advocacy of late-term abor-tions with an option to execute babies who survive, or a stupid and insensitive 35-year-old photo of two beer-drinking guys, one dressed up in Klan costume, the other in blackface.

Other Democrats are saying that even if Northam is not in the “racist” photo, he admitted to putting shoe polish on his face, to imitate Michael Jackson and his moonwalk, for a 1984 dance contest.

To some Democrats, third-trimester abortions are a step forward for wom-en’s rights. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was cheered in Albany for enacting a law to guarantee late-term

abortions should Roe v. Wade be over-turned.

By week’s end, Virginia Democrats were bewailing the “horrible” history of their state, where, in 1619, the first slave ship arrived at Point Comfort with men and women from Africa who would work the plantations until the Civil War ended, 250 years later.

One cannot rewrite history. Four of America’s first six pres-

idents — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe — were Virginians. All were slave owners. Richmond, the capital of Virginia, was the capital of the Confederacy. The commander in chief of the Confederate armies was a Virginian, Robert E. Lee.

Northam attended Virginia Mili-tary Institute, where Thomas Jona-than (“Stonewall”) Jackson had been Instructor of Artillery. The VMI cadet corps fought proudly in the Battle of New Market.

The most memorialized of Virginia’s heroes, in its monuments and statues, are colonists, Revolutionary War and Confederate soldiers and statesmen, and 19th- and 20th-century senators and governors. Almost all supported slavery or segregation.

When the Warren Court outlawed segregation in 1954, Virginia and the South replied with the Dixie Manifesto, declaring open defiance and “mas-sive resistance” to the court order to integrate.

Not until Nixon’s presidency was the order carried out.

In recent years, there has been a running debate about what kind of country America is.

Is she a blood and soil nation, a separate people, with their own unique history, heroes, holidays, language, literature, myths and music? Or is America a propositional nation, united solely by its values, whose mission it is to transmit these values to mankind?

The question raised this weekend, however, is even more divisive.

Is America a good country, or has she, like Virginia, such a past of sins and crimes as to make her eternally ashamed and for which she should make eternal amends? Does America owe the world?

Should Western civilization be held responsible for what it has done through the centuries to persons of col-or the world over? Should we conduct a purging of monuments to all of Amer-ica’s “white racists,” as antifa and its allies are determined to do in Virginia?

The Democratic Party may believe that by throwing Northam to the wolves it will satisfy these forces. It won’t.

We are at the beginning of a Kul-turkampf to purge America of all monuments and tributes to the white males who created, built and ruled the country, and once believed that they, their nation, their faith, and their civilization were superior to all others. And, without apology, they so acted in the world.

Those two guys drinking beer in blackface and Klan robes and a hood thought they were being funny, but to the unamused members of a radical-ized Democratic Party, there is nothing funny about them.

And, after Northam, these intolerant people will demand that the Democrat-ic Party nominate a candidate who will echo their convictions about America’s past.

Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syndicated columnist, was a senior advi-sor to presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. His website is http://buchanan.org/blog.

Patrick Buchanan

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Doyle FultonDoyle Halford Fulton was

born near Lena, Mississippi, on April 17, 1929, to Edna and Hal Halford. She died on Sunday, January 27, 2019, at a skilled nursing facility in Austin, Texas.

Visitation will be February 6, at 11 a.m. at Wilcox Funeral Home with a memorial service following at 2 p.m.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Hal; her sister, Exa Halford Sartin; her husband, Carl H. Fulton; and her son, Carl H. Fulton, Jr.

Survivors include her son, Hal Edwin Fulton, of Austin, Texas, as well as two granddaughters, Tara Fulton Butzlaff of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Rebecca Fulton Williamson of Carthage, Mississippi; and one great-granddaughter, Alyssa Williamson of Carthage, Mississippi.

As a young child, Doyle remembered sitting on the knee of a Mississippi senator during his visits with her father. She also sang on the radio (station WJDX) and played violin at local events.She attended Mississippi College and majored in English. During her freshman year writing a term paper on William Faulkner, she had the idea to call him from a pay phone. Much to her surprise, Faulkner’s wife answered and handed the phone to her husband, who graciously gave her a phone interview. More than twenty years later, this earned her a few paragraphs in Blotner’s definitive biography of Faulkner.

One night, she was sitting with a group at a basketball game. One of the boys said,“Well, I think I’ll go to a movie,” and in response she said, “Ask me to go, and I’ll go with you.” He shrugged and said, “You can go if you want to.” They never suspected, at the time, that they would end up celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.

Doyle was a devoted wife, proud of her husband Carl, who was a pilot in World War II and the Korean War. He also flew as part of a “sky parade” at Harry Truman’s inauguration. His Air Force career took them to Albany, Georgia, where Doyle had one of her favorite jobs ever: writing ad copy at radio station WGPC.

Also, working at the station was an office boy, who later took a stage name and became country singer, Ray Stevens. They renewed their friendship in the 1970s and remained friends for many years. It was also at the radio station that she wrote the slogan “You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse” for the popular appliance manufacturer. A company representative heard it on the radio and bought the rights for $100. She framed the letter and the slogan was used nationally for more than 25 years.

Always loving to learn, Doyle returned to school in the 1960s and earned her master’s degree in library science from Mississippi State University. She taught English or served as librarian in many towns including Thomastown, Good Hope, Carthage, Forest, Kosciusko, Madden, and Columbus. She told her students, “A term paper should be like a girl’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the subject.”

Doyle had an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. When a congressman was speaking at her school, the principal asked her to accompany him to lunch. As a result, she and G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery became close friends and remained so until his death more than forty years later. Doyle never met a stranger and while taking her students to a play in Jackson, she recognized Eudora Welty and stopped to speak to her and introduce her students to her.

Her friends included two governors’ wives, authors Jesse Stuart and Barry Hannah, children’s author Lena de Grummond and many others from all walks of life.

Doyle loved dogs, flea markets and collecting clocks. She and her husband logged many miles on their ’69 Harley with her in the sidecar. God, family, books and music were important to her and she couldn’t go more than an hour without listening to the news. She never hesitated to express her opinion by writing a letter or a sarcastic poem to local newspapers, and occasionally, they were brave enough to print them.

Doyle specifically requested that in lieu of flowers, friends should do something nice for someone else.

She made life interesting and fun for those around her, and she will be sorely missed.

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William Clardy, Jr.William Vaughn Clardy, Jr.,

77, of Cabot, passed away on January 31, 2019.

He was born on April 4, 1941, in West Point, Mississippi, to the late William V. and Eva Mae Mosley-Clardy, Sr. He was a dedicated employee for over 45 years with Larry Vassar Leasing. He was a wonderful husband, dad, Pepaw, brother and friend to everyone he knew.

He was preceded in death by his sisters, Mary Frances Clardy, Onzelle Clardy-Levrette and Alice Clardy-Stahl; a son, Ty Harris; and his father-in-law, Willard Dobrinski.

He leaves behind his beloved wife, Yvonne Clardy; his children, Coby Carson (Chris), Michael Earnhart (Maggie), Becky Merriman (Rick) and Johnny Bruce; eight grandchildren; his siblings, Paul Clardy (Kay), Tom Clardy (Beth) and Ivy Dean Gilreath (Robert); as well as numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.

If love could keep you here, you would be here forever!

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:00 A.M. at A Natural State Funeral Service, 2620 West Main Street, Jacksonville, Arkansas with funeral services to begin at 11:00 A.M. Interment will be at Monk Cemetery, Ward, Arkansas following the funeral services.

A special Thanks to Kindred Hospice of Conway. Thank you, Christina, Cynthia, Brandy and Barb, for the support and care for the last eight and half months.

William’s online guestbook is available at www.anaturalstatefuneralservice.com.

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By MATTHEW LEEAP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but U.S. defense officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply

biding their time until the Americans leave the bat-tlefield as planned.

IS militants have lost territory since Trump’s surprise announcement in December that he was pulling U.S. forces out, but military offi-cials warn the fighters could regroup within six months to a year after the Americans leave.

A Defense Department watchdog report released Monday warned of just such a possibility.

The Islamic State group “remains a potent force of battle-hardened and well-disciplined fighters that ‘could likely resurge in Syria’ absent continued counterterror-ism pressure,” the report from the inspector gener-al said.

Trump’s decision to leave Syria, which he ini-tially said would be rapid but later slowed down, shocked U.S. allies led

to the resignations of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the top envoy to the anti-IS coalition, Brett McGurk.

The withdrawal will fulfill Trump’s goal of bringing troops home from Syria, but military leaders have pushed back for months, arguing that IS remains a threat and could regroup. U.S. policy has been to keep troops in place until the extrem-ists are eradicated.

Fears that IS fighters are making strategic ma-neuvers ahead of a U.S.

pullout could also fuel criticism that Trump is telegraphing his military plans — the same thing he accused President Barack Obama of doing in Afghanistan.

U.S. officials in recent weeks say IS has lost 99.5 percent of its territory and is holding on to fewer

than 10 square kilome-ters of turf in Syria — an area smaller than New York’s Central Park. In late November and De-cember that figure had been estimated at be-tween 400 and 600 square kilometers, according to officials briefed on the matter.

US officials fear IS fighters are lying low, not defeatedMilitary officials warn the fighters could regroup within six months to a year after the Americans leave syria

By NOMAAN MERCHANTThe Associated Press

HOUSTON — The U.S. government is pre-paring to begin construc-tion of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property.

Heavy construction equipment was expected to arrive starting Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Cen-

ter shows an excavator parked next to its proper-ty.

Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. While President Donald Trump and top Democrats remain in a standoff over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, U.S. Customs and Border Pro-tection has pushed ahead with building what’s al-ready funded.

That construction was

often described as fenc-ing, and the government funding bill that included construction was support-ed by some Democrats in the House and Sen-ate. CBP refers to what it plans to build as a “border wall system.”

According to designs it released in September, CBP intends to build 25 miles of concrete walls to the height of the existing flood-control levee in Hi-dalgo County next to the Rio Grande, the river that forms the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. On top of the concrete walls, CBP will install 18-foot steel posts and clear a 150-foot enforcement zone in front.

Maps released by CBP

show construction would cut through the butter-fly center, a nearby state park, and a century-old Catholic chapel next to the river.

Many landowners op-pose a border wall and have vowed to fight the U.S. government if it tries to seize their property through eminent domain. Court fights over con-demning land could take weeks if not months.

CBP said in its state-ment that it intends to start construction on federally owned land. Environmental advocates expect the government to use land that’s part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

US government prepares to start building portion of Texas border wall

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NEW YORK — After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspir-acy steeped in violence, a jury began deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Cha-po” Guzman.

The day ended without jurors reaching a verdict for Guzman, who faces life in prison if convicted. They

were to resume delibera-tions Tuesday morning.

The jury has heard months of testimony about Guzman’s rise to power as the head of the Sinaloa car-tel. Prosecutors say he is responsible for smuggling at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States and for a wave of killings in turf wars with other cartels.

Guzman, 61, is notori-ous for escaping from pris-on twice in Mexico.

Fate of Mexican drug lord El Chapo now rests with US jury

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Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles of new barriers in the rio Grande Valley

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Mavis KoehnMACON — Mavis J.

Koehn, 72, died Feb. 3, 2019, at Windsor Place in Columbus.

Arrangements are

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Diane SpannNOXUBEE — Diane

Spann, 62, died Feb. 3, 2019.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

Bell Carr Jr.FAYETTE, Ala. —

Bell Carr Jr., 88, died Jan. 31, 2019, at Diversi-care Nursing Home in Winfield, Alabama.

Graveside services are at noon Tuesday at Zion Chapel Cemetery near Fayette with David Lee Nalls officiating. Otts Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.

Mr. Carr was born Nov. 8, 1930, in Fayette, to the late Bell Carr Sr. and Roverta Cannon. He attended school in Fayette and was an Alabama Army Nation-al Guard veteran. He was formerly employed with Arvin Industries in Fayette.

He is survived by

his daughters, Tammy Metcalfe of Vernon, Shelia Nalls of Sulli-gent, Jackie Holliness of Columbus and Debra Kelly of Georgia; brother, Melvin Carr of Louisville, Kentucky; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchil-dren.

Frances McDanielCOLUMBUS —

Frances Gerhart McDaniel, 82, died Feb. 5, 2019, at Baptist Me-morial Hospital-Golden Triangle.

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HealthheaLth tiP■ Whole eggs are so nutritious that they’re often referred to as “nature’s multivitamin.” It is a myth that eggs are bad for you because of the cholesterol. Studies show that they have no effect on blood cholesterol in the majority of people.

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dog flu and youIn Wes Anderson’s animated

film “Isle of Dogs,” an outbreak of canine influenza rips through the fictional Japanese city of Mega-saki. The town’s mayor, fearing the virus will spread to humans, banishes all dogs to Trash Island, aka Isle of Dogs. The ultra-smart exiled pups, missing the great meals their owners once provided, eventually find a way to help upend the government conspiracies that forced them out of town.

This dystopian film is, of course, a work of fiction. In real life, there’s never been a docu-mented case of animal-to-human transmission of a dog flu virus. (They’re named subtype H3N8 and subtype H3N2; each name identi-fies its antigen.) But it’s important to know that your pooch is vulner-

able to the virus, and somewhere under 10 percent of infected dogs die of flu-related compli-cations.

Canine influen-za is transmitted through droplets that become airborne when a dog breathes, barks or sneezes (cats can catch it from them). Symptoms include cough, runny nose, fever, lethargy, eye discharge and reduced appetite. Your vet’s treatment will include support care to keep your dog hydrated and prevent a secondary bacterial infection.

So make the flu shot an annual healthy habit for your entire fam-

ily — one kind for people and one for dogs that spend a lot of time around other animals in boarding or day-care facilities, parks or dog runs. The vaccine is ad-ministered in two doses, three weeks apart, and like its human counter-part, getting it early (September

or October) makes sense, but it’s never too late to help!

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleve-land Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.

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MADISON — The U.S. Air Force has renewed a contract with a Mississip-pi aerospace company to supply parts and maintain training jets.

Vertex Aerospace said Monday that the $97.5 mil-lion contract covers more than 170 twin-engine T-1A Jayhawk planes used in ad-vanced flight training by the military.

Vertex says it has man-aged parts and mainte-nance services for the training jets since 1992. Vertex says it services the jets at military bases in Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida.

Based in Madison, Ver-tex overhauls and distrib-utes parts for military air-craft and ground vehicles.

Pact extended for Mississippi firm to service military jets

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“The county has peo-ple that lobby for it, so once you get that applica-tion done, make sure you come back to the board and we can get it to the correct people who lobby for the county,” she said. “A lot of times that goes a lot further than just here at the local level when you’ve got somebody and they actually can go into these offices and ask peo-ple that have one-on-one relationships with them if this can happen.”

Facility plans BGC Golden Triangle

is planning to build its new facility in Westside Park on North Long Street. Co-lom said the new facility is being designed with ideas Mississippi State Univer-sity architecture students crafted during a design charette in the fall.

The organization also is looking to build a new club in West Point, and Colom said she’s waiting to hear back from the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture’s Rural Development program with regards to the feasibility of seeking grant funding for the proj-ect.

West Point hasn’t had a club since 2001. Colom said BGC Golden Trian-gle is looking to build its new West Point Facility on Fifth Street near the civic center. Students cur-rently attend the club’s after school programs at Fifth Street School about a block away, a temporary

site until the new perma-nent facility is built.

Colom told The Dis-patch there are prelimi-nary designs in place for both clubs. However, she said BGC Golden Trian-gle hasn’t yet finalized the design or costs for either and hopes that step will be finished in the coming weeks.

“We haven’t gotten fine-turned down to cost-estimated project yet,” she said. “I would say we’ll have that later this month. We’re going to have to because that application for the com-munity block grant will require it.”

BGC Golden Triangle

launched the “36 Rea-sons” fundraising cam-paign in November 2017, which seeks to raise $1 million to $1.5 million for the new clubs in Starkville and West Point. Colom said the campaign has, so far, raised about $50,000 for the Starkville club and $35,000 for the West Point club.

Colom added that BGC Golden Triangle’s plan is to share resourc-es between facilities in Columbus, Starkville and West Point for the entire region. For example, she said Columbus has a bas-ketball gym that’s suit-able for all of the Golden Triangle clubs to use, and

there are plans to have an outdoor multipurpose field in West Point and an indoor swimming pool in Starkville that fill the same regional use goals.

She added that the club’s impact could go be-yond just club members.

“What we’re proposing is not just a home for the Boys and Girls Club, but a facility that the communi-ty can fully embrace and take pride in, that can be put in an area where ev-eryone can have access to it,” Colom said. “There are services there that provide support to the en-tire community.”

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Name your poison, Moak Griffin will deliver it.

The Heritage Academy senior can outscore you if he needs to, either from the perimeter or with strong moves to the basket. The multi-sport standout is equally capable of controlling a game with his rebounding or with his play-making ability.

Griffin’s versatility stems from the fact that he has been playing multiple sports — football, basketball, golf, and more — since he was little. It’s not sur-prising that some of his coaches have encouraged him to be a member of the school’s track and field team.

That possibility will have to wait at least a few more weeks because Griffin

and the Heritage Academy boys basket-ball team have work to tend to in their “third season.”

Griffin helped Heritage Academy make a final push to end the regular sea-son on a strong note by averaging 13.5 points, four rebounds, and four assists in victories against Winston Academy and Hartfield Academy last week.

For his accomplishments, Griffin is The Dispatch’s Prep Player of the Week.

“He is an outstanding basketball play-er,” Heritage Academy boys basketball coach Russ Whiteside said. “Unfortu-nately, this late in his senior season is the first time we’re actually getting to see it because of all of the injuries he has had to overcome.”

Griffin’s injuries — back and anterior

From Special Reports

Mississippi State senior center Teaira McCowan and MSU freshman Reggie Perry were honored Monday for their accomplishments.

McCowan was one of 20 women’s basketball players named to the late season watch list for the John Wooden Award. McCowan leads No. 6 MSU (21-1, 9-0 Southeastern Conference) in scoring (16.9 points per game) and rebounding (13.7 per game). She is sixth in the nation with

58 blocked shots and fifth in field goal percent-age (66.1 percent).

McCowan already has broken the MSU career records for rebounds (1,316) and dou-ble-doubles (57) this season en route to four weekly SEC honors. The Brenham, Texas, na-tive has recorded 18 double-doubles.

Among active players, McCowan is second in the country in career rebounds, fourth in

By ScoTT [email protected]

STARKVILLE — In softball circles, most teams begin their seasons with their pitchers project-ed to be ahead of their of hitters.

The Mississippi State softball team will buck that trend this season.

Buoyed by the return of a talented group of offen-sive players, MSU figures to be able to score plenty of runs while newcomers take over in the circle.

The ability to score runs is a big reason why coach Vann Stuedeman is excited about her team’s season opener against Middle Tennessee State at 3 p.m. in the Bulldog Kick-off Classic at Nusz Park. MSU will play five games in the event this weekend.

“On paper, this team has a chance to be really good of-fensively,” Stuedeman said. “We have speed and we have good contact hitters up and down the lineup. This team should be able to score some runs. That’s a relief because we will be largely unproven in the circle.

“It will be good to be the kind of team that ‘if we give up a run, that’s fine, we will get our own.’ ”

It’s time.Sitting in front of

the television watch-ing a baseball game, it never occurred to me that sports would take such a prominent role in my life.

There were dreams, of course, of playing in the major leagues or being on TV with the best in the world, but they never materialized.

Instead, a life quickly emerged on the sidelines as part spectator and story-teller. Re-member the first time you realized a “job”

didn’t feel like work and something clicked? That was my immediate feeling when I started working at The Daily Campus, the student newspaper of the University of Connecticut.

More than 30 years later, it’s time to tell a new story. Wednesday will be my last day as sports ed-itor of The Dispatch. The finale comes on National Signing Day, an annual event that is synonymous with new opportunities for so many across the country. For me, the day signals a last chance to tell a few more stories of deserving student-ath-letes in our area. It also opens a new door to a job as a communications spe-cialist at the Mississippi University of Women.

It’s hard to describe the emotions when you’re letting go of something you’ve done for all of your professional life. It’s kind of like a mix of excite-ment, apprehension, and longing wrapped up into one. The longing comes from a time in younger days when there weren’t as many responsibilities and you could throw yourself into your work and not have any other concerns.

There were very few times I envisioned doing anything else. Growing up — even into my college

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Jim Lytle/Special to The DispatchHeritage Academy senior Moak Griffin reaches for a rebound in a game against Starkville Academy earlier this season. Griffin played a key role in victories against Winston Academy and Hartfield Academy last week.

Shifting gears after long run in business

Adam Minichino


The Mississippi University for Women basketball teams split a doubleheader against Oakwood University on Mon-day night at Pohl Gymnasium.

In the opener, Starlandria Walton had 15 points to help send senior Tenazhia Hinkson out with an 83-42 victory in her final home game.

In the men’s game, former Starkville High School and East Mississippi Community College standout Keith Harris had 23 points, but The W men lost to Oakwood 83-77.

In the women’s game, Wal-ton was 7-for-10 from the field to lead a balanced scoring attack for the Owls (15-6). Keyahna Jones and Katlyn Duke had

eight rebounds, while Autumn Taylor, former West Point High standout Qiayon Bailey, and Duke had 12, 11, and 10 points, respectively.

The W used a 17-3 run to close the first quarter to take a 21-7 lead after 10 minutes. The Owls led 44-21 at halftime.

In the men’s game, Harris, a junior, was 9-for-19 from the field. He added three steals, five rebounds, and one blocked shot.

Tavonta Jones had 16 points, four rebounds, and four steals, and former Starkville High standout Josh Skinner had 15 points, three assists, one block, and one steal for The W (6-16). Tre Pinkston added 10 points for the Owls.

The W turned 22 turnovers

by Oakwood into a 26-14 edge in points off turnovers.

The Ambassadors used a 15-4 run late in the first half to take a 41-30 halftime lead. The lead grew to 15 points, 54-39, before the Owls rallied. A tip-in and a 3-pointer by Harris cut the deficit to 10. The W scored nine-straight points to trim the margin to 76-72 with four min-utes remaining.

Prior to the game, The W honored seniors DJ Clark and Skinner in their final home games.

The W will face off against Oakwood in a doubleheader Saturday in Huntsville, Ala-bama. The women’s game will start at 7 p.m., followed by the men’s game at 9 p.m.

The W splits doubleheader vs. Oakwood

Bulldogs looking to pack punch on offense

Jim Lytle, Mark Zerof/Special to The Dispatch, USA TODAY Sports LEFT: Mississippi State senior center Teaira McCowan blocks a shot in the team’s Maroon and White Scrimmage, while (RIGHT) MSU forward Reggie Perry (1) shoots the ball against Kentucky forward Reid Travis (22) in the first half at Rupp Arena.

MSU’s MCCOWaN, PErry hONOrEdSenior makes late season watch list for Wooden award; Freshman earns SEC award

Healthy Griffin contributing in multiple ways for Heritage Academy

Prep BasketballToday’s Games

Noxubee County at ColumbusLouisville at New HopeVardaman at West LowndesBelmont at AberdeenHamilton at NoxapaterNanih Waiya at Columbus ChristianMississippi Association of Independent Schools

(MAIS) Class AAA, District 2 tournamentAt Leake Academy

No. 4 Heritage Academy girls vs. No. 5 Canton Academy, 5 p.m.No. 4 Winston Academy boys vs. No. 5 Starkville Academy, 6:15 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesMurrah at StarkvilleWest Lowndes at Nanih WaiyaHamilton at VardamanEupora at Aberdeen

MAIS Class AAA, District 2 tournamentAt Leake Academy

No. 2 Winston Academy girls vs. No. 3 Starkville Academy, 4 p.m.No. 1 Heritage Academy boys vs. Winston Academy or Starkville Academy, 5:15 p.m.No. 1 Leake Academy girls vs. Heritage Academy or Canton Academy, 6:30 p.m.No. 2 Leake Academy boys vs. No. 3 Canton Academy, 7:45 p.m.

Prep SoccerToday’s Matches

Columbus Christian at Indianola Academy, 3 p.m.Magnolia Heights at Heritage Academy, 5 p.m.

Men’s College BasketballWednesday’s Games

Texas A&M at Ole Miss, 6 p.m.LSU at Mississippi State, 8 p.m.Georgia at Alabama, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesKentucky at Mississippi State, NoonOle Miss at Georgia, NoonLouisiana Tech at Southern Mississippi, 4 p.m.Alabama at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m.Mississippi University for Women at Oakwood, 9 p.m.Women’s College Basketball

Thursday’s GamesAlabama at Florida, 6 p.m.Ole Miss at South Carolina, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesSouthern Miss at Louisiana Tech, 1 p.m.Mississippi University for Women at Oakwood, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s GameTennessee at Mississippi State, 1 p.m.

College SoftballThursday’s Game

Ole Miss at Central Florida, 5:30 p.m.Friday’s Games

Alabama vs. Murray State (Troy, Alabama), 12:30 p.m.Houston Baptist at Southern Mississippi, 1 p.m.Ole Miss vs. Ohio State (Orlando, Florida), 1:30 p.m.Valparaiso at Mississippi State, 3 p.m.Stephen F. Austin at Mississippi State, 5:30 p.m.Alabama at Troy, 5:30 p.m.Central Arkansas at Southern Mississippi, 6 p.m.

TodayCOLLEGE BASKETBALL

6 p.m. — Drake at Loyola-Chicago, CBS Sports Network6 p.m. — Boston College vs. Duke, ESPN6 p.m. — Michigan State vs. Illinois, ESPN26 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Wake Forest, ESPNU6 p.m. — South Carolina at Kentucky, SEC Network7 p.m. — Michigan at Rutgers, Big Ten Network7 p.m. — St. John’s at Marquette, FS18 p.m. — Dayton at St. Louis, CBS Sports Network8 p.m. — Kansas vs. Kansas State, ESPN8 p.m. — Missouri vs. Tennessee, ESPN28 p.m. — Florida vs. Auburn, ESPNU8 p.m. — Vanderbilt at Arkansas, SEC Network10 p.m. — San Diego State at New Mexico, ESPN2

NBA7 p.m. — Toronto at Philadelphia, TNT9:30 p.m. — Miami at Portland, TNT

SKIING5:25 a.m. — FIS World Alpine Championships, women’s super-G, Sweden, NBC Sports Network5:25 a.m. (Wednesday) — FIS World Alpine Championships: men’s super-G, Sweden, NBC Sports Network

SNOWBOARDING2 p.m. — FIS World Freestyle Championships: parallel slalom, Utah, NBC Sports Network6:30 p.m. — FIS World Freestyle Championships: parallel giant slalom, Utah, NBC Sports Network8 p.m. — FIS World Freestyle Championships: big air, Utah, NBC Sports Network

WednesdayCOLLEGE BASKETBALL

5 p.m. — Connecticut at Temple, CBS Sports Network6 p.m. — Maryland at Nebraska, Big Ten Network6 p.m. — Notre Dame vs. Miami, ESPN26 p.m. — Wichita State at East Carolina, ESPNEWS6 p.m. — Notre Dame vs. Miami, ESPNU6 p.m. — Texas A&M at Ole Miss, SEC Network6:30 p.m. — Georgetown at Providence, FS17 p.m. — Creighton at Villanova, CBS Sports Network8 p.m. — Wisconsin at Minnesota, Big Ten Network8 p.m. — LSU vs. Mississippi State, ESPN28 p.m. — Oklahoma State vs. TCU, ESPNU8 p.m. — Georgia at Alabama, SEC Network8:30 p.m. — California at Oregon, FS19 p.m. — Nevada at Colorado State, CBS Sports Network10 p.m. — UNLV at Boise State, ESPNU

COLLEGE FOOTBALL11 a.m. — National Signing Day Special, ESPN21 p.m. — National Signing Day Special, ESPNU

GOLF10 p.m. — European Tour Golf: ISPS Handa Vic Open, men’s and women’s first round, Australia, TGC

NBA7 p.m. — Washington at Milwaukee, ESPN9:30 p.m. — San Antonio at Golden State, ESPN

NHL7 p.m. — Boston at New York Rangers, NBC Sports Network

SKIING5:25 a.m. — FIS World Alpine Championships: men’s super-G, Sweden, NBC Sports NetworkNoon — FIS World Freestyle Championships: slopestyle, Utah, NBC Sports Network11 p.m. — FIS World Freestyle Championships: aerials skiing, Utah, NBC Sports Network

SNOWBOARDING1 a.m. (Thursday) — FIS World Freestyle Cham-pionships: snowboard cross racing, Utah, NBC Sports Network

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BRiEfLyMississippi StateTrack and field team has 800-meter runners ranked

STARKVILLE — Three top-30 runners in the 800 meters lead the Mississippi State men’s track and field team to a No. 3 national ranking in the event in the second edition of the USTFCCCA’s #EventSquad Rankings.

The rankings determine the top school in each event based on their four best athletes in that event. MSU’s four runners in the 800 average a time of 1 minute, 49.8 seconds. Sophomore Marco Arop leads the pack with a mark of 1:47.63 that helped win the event at the Razorback Invitational on Jan. 26. His time is third in the Southeastern Conference and seventh in the nation.

Dejon Devroe is tied for 21st in the nation (No. 5 in the SEC), while Daniel Nixon’s mark of 1:49.92 at the Vanderbilt Invitational is 30th in the country and seventh in the conference. Kenya Small rounds out MSU’s top four runners at 1:52.20.

MSU is 18th in the men’s 200 with an average time of 21.50 led by Terryon Conwell, who finished second in the event at the Razorback Invitational with a mark of 21.13. Karson Kowalchuk (21.36), Okheme Moore (21.44), and Rasheed Tatham (22.09) also contributed to the Bulldogs’ ranking.

Kowalchuk leads the No. 24 men’s 60 squad with a mark of 6.79. Moore (6.82), Cameron Crump (6.86) and Lawrence Crawford (6.93) round out the Bulldogs’ top four 60 sprinters.

MSU will be back in action Friday and Saturday in a split meet. Some of MSU’s student-athletes will return to Nashville, Tennessee, for the Music City Challenge, while others will head to Clemson, South Carolina, for the Tiger Paw Invitational.

n Registration extended for fam packages for World University Games: At Starkville, Registration to join the women’s basketball team in Naples, Italy, for the World University Games this summer has been extended to March 15.

Fans traveling with MSU will see some of the most beautiful sites in the country and watch the Bulldogs July 2-9, 2019, as they represent the United States.

The packages feature a seven-night hotel stay, tickets to the Bulldogs’ pool play games and the opening ceremony, a breakfast buffet each morning, two group dinners and a reception.

It also includes tours on a private air-conditioned coach bus to the beautiful sites of Pompeii, Sorrento, the Amalfi Coast and Capri Island.

Fans who join the Bulldogs will also receive a USA Team hat and pin, city entry fees, parking fees, taxes, free hotel wi-fi and access to a dedicated travel agent.

A single-person package costs $4,995, while double packages run $3,995 per person. The package does not include flights, airport transfer, meals outside the breakfast buffet, travel insurance, service tips and additional excursions.

For more information, go to www.USATeam.org or email [email protected].

AlabamaFootball team sets 2019 Homecoming Weekend

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama announced Thursday its 2019 Homecoming football game will be Saturday, Oct. 26, against Arkansas.

Further details about Homecoming weekend activities, includ-ing kickoff time for the game, will be released as they are finalized.

Alabama is 84-13-1 in Homecoming games, including a 12-0 re-cord under coach Nick Saban. Alabama is riding a 17-game winning streak on Homecoming that dates back to 2002.

n No. 5 women’s golf team 14th at Northop Grumman Regional Challenge: At Palose Verdes, California, the No. 5 women’s golf team improved six shots from its opening-round 307 to card a 301 Monday in the second round of the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge.

Despite the improvement, Alabama (608) fell two spots in the standings to 14th place entering Tuesday’s final round.

Alabama is one of nine teams in the 16-team field ranked among Golfstat.com’s top-15 teams in the nation, while 13 rank among the nation’s top-35 entering this week’s event.

Angelica Moresco carded the team’s low round on the par-71, 6,017-yard Palos Verdes Golf Club, finishing with a 1-over par 72 to climb into a tie for 17thplace with a 5-over 147 (72-75).

Jiwon Jeon is one shot back and tied for 23rd at 6-over par 148 (73-75).

Kenzie Wright is tied for 47th with a 36-hole total of 11-over par 153 (76-77). Mary Mac Trammell had Alabama’s biggest individual improvement, bettering her first-round score of 84 by seven strokes and finishing the day with a 77 to end with a two-day score of 161.

Carolina Caminoli rounds out the Crimson Tide starters with a 167 (83-84).

Stanford, ranked No. 13 in the nation, carded the low round of the field with a 279 to vault into first place with a two-day total of 6-over 574. The Cardinal hold a six-shot lead over No. 12 UCLA (580). Second-ranked Texas is in third with a 586, one stroke ahead of No. 1 USC’s 587. Wake Forest, ranked 14th in the nation, rounds out the top five teams with a 592.

Live scoring can be found at GolfStat.com.n Men’s indoor track and field team No. 9, women’s team

No. 14: At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the men’s indoor track and field team is No. 9 and the women’s team is No. 14 in the latest NCAA Division I Track & Field National Rating Index the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Monday.

The Crimson Tide men have been a fixture in the top 10 and the women have remained in the top 15 nationally since the presea-son rankings came out.

Shelby McEwen, who is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the men’s high jump, leads the men’s team. He had a personal-best leap of 7 feet, 7 inches last weekend. His mark is ¾ of an inch off the school and Southeastern Conference records.

Tamara Clark and Portious Warren lead the women’s team. They are ranked seventh nationally in their specialties. Clark is sev-enth in the 60 meters with a season-best time of 7.23, while Warren is seventh in the shot put with a season-best mark of 56-8 1/2.

Alabama will close its indoor regular season next weekend at the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa, the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Indiana.

Junior CollegesEMCC football team will hold tryouts Feb. 15

SCOOBA — The five-time national champion East Mississippi Community College football team will hold tryouts Friday, Feb. 15.

A morning college session for high school graduates with National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) eligibility remaining will begin with a 9:45 a.m. registration at EMCC’s Sullivan-Windham Field. A tryout session for current high school seniors will follow with a 1 p.m. registration.

There will be a $20 registration fee (cash or check) for all partic-ipants. Checks can be made payable to EMCC Football.

Interested players are encouraged to bring their workout gear, cleats, towels, and running shoes for participation in EMCC’s football tryouts. All participants must provide an up-to-date athletic physical form and valid insurance card to take part in the tryouts.

For more information, contact EMCC assistant football coach Cade Wilkerson (662-416-3640, or email him at [email protected]).

ICC football team will hold tryoutsFULTON — The Itawamba Community College football pro-

gram has set tryout dates for Feb. 20 and March 6.Coach Sean Cannon and staff will host the tryouts at Eaton

Field on the Fulton campus. Registration will begin at 1 p.m. on both dates. The tryout will begin at 2 p.m.

The tryout will be a combine-style workout, and the fee is $20. All athletes must have an up-to-date physical to participate.

For more information, contact Cannon at [email protected].

ICC schedules 2019-20 cheerleaders, mascot tryouts

FULTON — Itawamba Community College has scheduled its 2019-20 cheerleader and mascot tryouts for 4 p.m., March 21, on the Fulton Campus in the Fitness Center gym.

Tryouts will include the all-female cheer squad, coed cheer squad and the mascot, Chief Winnemaw.

Clinics are scheduled for 4-6 p.m. March 19 and 20 in the Fitness Center gym on the Fulton Campus. The cost is $30, and checks and money orders should be made payable to Itawamba Community College. All participants are required to attend both sessions, according to cheer sponsor Evie Storey.

For tryouts, coed cheer participants will be required to perform a cheer, the ICC Fight Song, five partner stunts and standing and running tumbling. The cheer and ICC Fight Song will be taught to participants at the clinics.

Those who try out for mascot, Chief Winnemaw, will be required to perform a one- to two-minute skit using music and props.

For more information, contact Storey at 662-620-5078 or email [email protected].

— From Special Reports

The DispaTch • www.cdispatch.com2B TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2019

BaseballFree Agent Signings

NEW YORK — The 72 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources. For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses:

AMERICAN LEAGUEBOSTON (2) — Re-signed Steve Pearce, 1b-of, to a $6.25 million, one-year contract; re-signed Nathan Eovaldi, rhp, to a $68 million, four-year contract.CHICAGO (2) — Signed Kelvin Herrera, rhp, Washington, to an $18 million, two-year contract; signed Jon Jay, of, Arizona, to a $4 million, one-year contract.CLEVELAND (1) — Re-signed Oliver Perez, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract.DETROIT (4) — Signed Matt Moore, lhp, Texas, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Tyson Ross, rhp, St. Louis, to a $5.75 million, one-year contract; signed Jordy Mercer, ss, Pittsburgh, to a $5.25 million, one-year contract; signed Gordan Beckham, 2b, Seattle, to a minor league contract ($700,000).HOUSTON (3) — Signed Robinson Chirinos, c, Texas, to a $5.75 million, one-year contract; signed Michael Brantley, of, Houston, to a $32 million, two-year contract; signed Wade Miley, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract.LOS ANGELES (4) — Signed Trevor Cahill, rhp, Oakland, to a $9 million, one-year contract; signed Matt Harvey, rhp, Cincinnati, to an $11 million, one-year contract; signed Jonathan Lucroy, c, Oakland, to a $3.35 million, one-year contract; signed Cody Allen, rhp, Cleveland, to an $8.5 million, one-year contract.MINNESOTA (2) — Signed Nelson Cruz, dh, Seattle, to a $14.3 million, one-year contract; signed Martin Perez, lhp, Texas, to a $4 million, one-year contract.NEW YORK (6) — Re-signed Brett Gardner, of, to a $7.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed CC Sabathia, lhp, to an $8 million, one-year contract; re-signed J.A. Happ, lhp, to a $34 million, two-year contract; re-signed Zach Britton, lhp, to a $39 million, three-year contract; signed DJ LeMahieu, inf, Colorado, to a $24 million, two-year contract; signed Adam Ottavino, rhp, Colorado, to a $27 million, three-year contract.OAKLAND (3) — Signed Joakim Soria, rhp, Milwaukee, to a $15 million, two-year contract; signed Marco Estrada, rhp, Toronto, to a $4 mil-lion, one-year contract; signed Jerry Blevins, lhp, New York Mets, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million).TAMPA BAY (1) — Signed Charlie Morton, rhp, to a $30 million, two-year contract.TEXAS (6) — Signed Jeff Mathis, c, Arizona, to a $6.25 million, two-year contract; signed Jesse Chavez, rhp, Chicago Cubs, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed Lance Lynn, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $30 million, three-year contract; signed Asdrubal Cabrera, inf, Philadelphia, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract; signed Shawn Kelley, rhp, Oakland, to a $2.75 million, one-year contract; signed Jason Hammel, rhp, Kansas City, to a minor league contract ($1.5 million).TORONTO (2) — Signed David Phelps, rhp, Seattle, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Freddy Galvis, inf, San Diego, to a $5 million, one-year contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUEARIZONA (1) — Signed Greg Holland, rhp, Washington, to a $3.25 million, one-year con-tract.ATLANTA (3) — Signed Brian McCann, c, Houston, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Josh Donaldson, 3b, Cleveland, to a $23 million, one-year contract; re-signed Nick Markakis, of, to a $6 million, one-year contract.CHICAGO (2) — Signed Daniel Descalso, if, Arizona, to a $5 million, two-year contract; signed Tony Barnette, rhp, Texas, to a $750,000, one-year contract.COLORADO (1) — Signed Daniel Murphy, 2b-1b, Chicago Cubs, to a $24 million, two-year contract.LOS ANGELES (5) — Re-signed David Freese, 1b-3b, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Clayton Kershaw, lhp, to a $93 million, three-year contract; announced Hyun-Jin Ryu, lhp, accepted $17.9 million qualifying offer; signed Joe Kelly, rhp, Boston, to a $25 million, three-year contract; signed A.J. Pollock, of, Arizona, to a $55 million, four-year contract.MIAMI (1) — Signed Neil Walker, inf, New York Yankees, to a $2 million, one-year contract.MILWAUKEE (1) — Signed Yasmani Grandal, c, Los Angeles Dodgers, to an $18.25 million, one-year contract.NEW YORK (6) — Signed Jeurys Familia, rhp, Oakland, to a $30 million, three-year contract; signed Wilson Ramos, c, Philadelphia, to a $19 million, two-year contract; signed Rajai Davis, of, Cleveland, to a minor league contract ($1.6 million); signed Hector Santiago, lhp, Chicago White Sox, to a minor league contract ($2 million); signed Jed Lowrie, inf, Houston, to a $20 million, two-year contract; signed Justin Wilson, Chicago Cubs, to a $10 million, two-year contract.PHILADELPHIA (2) — Signed Andrew McCutchen, of, New York Yankees, to a $50 million, three-year contract; signed David Robertson, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $23 million, two-year contract.PITTSBURGH (4) — Re-signed Jung Ho Kang, inf, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Lonnie Chisenhall, of, Cleveland, to a $2.75 million, one-year contract; signed Jordan Lyles, rhp, Milwaukee, to a $2.05 million, one-year contract; signed Francisco Liriano, lhp, Detroit, to a minor league contract.ST. LOUIS (2) — Re-signed Adam Wainwright, rhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Andrew Miller, rhp, Cleveland, to a $25 million, two-year contract.SAN DIEGO (2) — Signed Ian Kinsler, 2b, Boston, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed Garrett Richards, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $15.5 million, two-year contract.SAN FRANCISCO (2) — Re-signed Derek Holland, lhp, to a $7 million, one-year contract; signed Drew Pomeranz, lhp, Boston, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.WASHINGTON (4) — Signed Kurt Suzuki, c, Atlanta, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Patrick Corbin, lhp, Arizona, to a $140 million, six-year contract; signed Anibal Sanchez, rhp, Atlanta, to a $19 million, two-year contract; signed Brian Dozier, 2b, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $9 million, one-year contract.

BasketballNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 38 16 .704 —Boston 34 19 .642 3½Philadelphia 34 19 .642 3½Brooklyn 28 27 .509 10½New York 10 42 .192 27

Southeast Division W L Pct GBCharlotte 26 26 .500 —Miami 24 27 .471 1½Washington 22 31 .415 4½Orlando 22 31 .415 4½Atlanta 18 35 .340 8½

Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 39 13 .750 —Indiana 34 19 .642 5½Detroit 23 29 .442 16Chicago 12 41 .226 27½Cleveland 11 42 .208 28½

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBHouston 31 22 .585 —San Antonio 32 23 .582 —Dallas 24 28 .462 6½New Orleans 23 31 .426 8½Memphis 21 33 .389 10½

Northwest Division W L Pct GBDenver 37 16 .698 —Oklahoma City 33 19 .635 3½Portland 32 20 .615 4½Utah 30 24 .556 7½Minnesota 25 27 .481 11½

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 37 15 .712 —L.A. Clippers 29 25 .537 9Sacramento 28 25 .528 9½L.A. Lakers 27 26 .509 10½Phoenix 11 44 .200 27½

Monday’s GamesAtlanta 137, Washington 129Detroit 129, Denver 103Milwaukee 113, Brooklyn 94Indiana 109, New Orleans 107Houston 118, Phoenix 110Sacramento 127, San Antonio 112

Today’s GamesBoston at Cleveland, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Indiana, 6 p.m.Detroit at New York, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Memphis, 7 p.m.Orlando at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Miami at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesDenver at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.New Orleans at Chicago, 7 p.m.Washington at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Phoenix at Utah, 8 p.m.Houston at Sacramento, 9 p.m.San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Indiana, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Orlando, 6 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7 p.m.Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

GolfWorld Ranking

Through Feb. 31. Justin Rose ENG 9.932. Brooks Koepka USA 8.873. Dustin Johnson USA 8.784. Justin Thomas USA 8.115. Bryson DeChambeau USA 7.806. Jon Rahm ESP 6.407. Xander Schauffele USA 6.368. Rickie Fowler USA 6.209. Rory McIlroy NIR 5.9210. Francesco Molinari ITA 5.6611. Tony Finau USA 5.2812. Jason Day AUS 5.2613. Tiger Woods USA 5.1114. Tommy Fleetwood ENG 5.0115. Patrick Reed USA 4.8416. Bubba Watson USA 4.5517. Marc Leishman AUS 4.4418. Patrick Cantlay USA 4.3319. Webb Simpson USA 4.2320. Matt Kuchar USA 4.1821. Jordan Spieth USA 4.0922. Gary Woodland USA 4.0323. Alex Noren SWE 3.9524. Paul Casey ENG 3.9125. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 3.7626. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 3.6827. Cameron Smith AUS 3.6328. Sergio Garcia ESP 3.5329. Phil Mickelson USA 3.4630. Tyrrell Hatton ENG 3.3831. Adam Scott AUS 3.3232. Rafa Cabrera Bello ESP 3.2733. Keegan Bradley USA 3.2734. Henrik Stenson SWE 3.2035. Ian Poulter ENG 3.1936. Li Haotong CHN 3.1537. Matt Wallace ENG 2.9938. Billy Horschel USA 2.9839. Kyle Stanley USA 2.9640. Branden Grace RSA 2.8141. Eddie Pepperrell ENG 2.7942. Matthew Fitzpatrick ENG 2.7443. Kiradech Aphibarnrat THA 2.7044. Shane Lowry IRL 2.6845. Thorbjorn Olesen DEN 2.6146. Kevin Kisner USA 2.5347. Andrew Putnam USA 2.4248. Lucas Bjerregaard DEN 2.3849. Chez Reavie USA 2.3850. Emiliano Grillo ARG 2.36

PGA Tour scheduleFeb. 7-10 — AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Monterey Penin-sula (Shore Course), Pebble Beach, Calif.Feb. 14-17 — Genesis Open, Riviera CC, Los AngelesFeb. 21-24 — WGC-Mexico Championship, Chapultepec GC, Mexico CityFeb. 21-24 — Puerto Rico Open, Coco Beach Golf & CC, Rio Grande, Puerto RicoFeb. 28-March 3 — Honda Classic, PGA National (Champions), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.March 7-10 — Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill Golf & Lodge, Orlando, Fla.March 14-17 — The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.March 21-24 — Valspar Championship, Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead), Palm Harbor, Fla.March 27-31 — WGC-Dell Match Play, Austin CC, Austin, TexasMarch 28-31 — Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales), Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicApril 4-7 — Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks), San AntonioApril 11-14 — Masters, Augusta National GC, Augusta, Ga.April 18-21 — RBC Heritage, Harbour Town GL, Hilton Head Island, S.C.April 25-28 — Zurich Classic, TPC Louisiana, Avondale, La.May 2-5 — Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, N.C.May 9-12 — AT&T Byron Nelson, Trinity Forest GC, DallasMay 16-19 — PGA Championship, Bethpage State Park (Black), Farmingdale, N.Y.May 23-26 — Charles Schwab Challenge, Colonial CC, Fort Worth, TexasMay 30-June 2 — Memorial, Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio

LPGA Tour ScheduleFeb. 7-10 — Vic Open, 13th Beach GL, Barwon Heads, AustraliaFeb. 14-17 — ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, The Grange GC, Adelaide, AustraliaFeb. 21-24 — Honda LPGA Thailand, Siam CC, Chonburi, ThailandFeb. 28-March 3 — HSBC Women’s World Championship, Sentosa GC, SingaporeMarch 21-24 — Bank of Hope Founders Cup, Wildfire GC at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, PhoenixMarch 28-31 — Kia Classic, Aviara GC, Carlsbad, Calif.April 4-7 — ANA Inspiration, Mission Hills CC, Rancho Mirage, Calif.April 17-20 — LOTTE Championship, Ko Olina GC, Kapolei, HawaiiApril 25-28 — Hugel-Air Premia LA Open, Wilshire GC, Los AngelesMay 2-5 — LPGA Mediheal Championship, Lake Merced GC, Daly City, Calif.May 23-26 — Pure Silk Championship, Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Va.May 30-June 2 — U.S. Women’s Open, CC of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

PGA Tour Champions Schedule

Feb. 8-10 — Oasis Championship, The Old Course at Broken Sound, Boca Raton, Fla.Feb. 15-17 — Chubb Classic, The Classics at Lely Resort, Naples, FloridaMarch 1-3 — Cologuard Classic, Omni Tucson National, Tucson, Ariz.March 8-10 — Hoag Classic, Newport Beach CC, Newport Beach, Calif.March 29-31 — Rapiscan Systems Classic, Fallen Oak, Biloxi, Miss.April 19-21 — Mitsubishi Electric Classic, TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Ga.April 26-28 — Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf, Top of the Rock, Ridgedale, Mo.May 3-5 — Insperity Invitational, The Woodlands CC, The Woodlands, TexasMay 9-12 — Regions Tradition, Greystone G&CC, Birmingham, Ala.May 23-26 — KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, Oak Hill CC, Rochester, N.Y.May 31-June 2 — Principal Charity Classic, Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa

HockeyNHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 52 39 11 2 80 205 146Toronto 52 32 17 3 67 185 146Montreal 53 29 18 6 64 160 155Boston 52 28 17 7 63 149 135Buffalo 51 25 20 6 56 148 156Florida 50 21 21 8 50 156 175Detroit 53 21 25 7 49 150 174Ottawa 52 19 28 5 43 159 194

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Islanders 51 30 15 6 66 151 125Washington 52 28 18 6 62 175 166Pittsburgh 52 28 18 6 62 183 160Columbus 51 28 20 3 59 163 159Carolina 52 25 21 6 56 148 155Philadelphia 53 24 23 6 54 153 177N.Y. Rangers 52 22 22 8 52 148 175New Jersey 51 20 24 7 47 152 173

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAWinnipeg 52 34 16 2 70 185 146Nashville 54 31 19 4 66 166 139Dallas 53 28 21 4 60 138 134Minnesota 52 26 22 4 56 146 149Colorado 51 22 21 8 52 170 167St. Louis 50 23 22 5 51 143 151Chicago 53 20 24 9 49 167 196

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACalgary 53 34 14 5 73 197 152San Jose 53 30 16 7 67 190 169Vegas 54 29 21 4 62 160 148Vancouver 53 24 23 6 54 153 164Edmonton 52 23 24 5 51 151 172Arizona 52 23 24 5 51 138 150Anaheim 53 21 23 9 51 124 168Los Angeles 52 21 27 4 46 120 157

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Monday’s GamesLos Angeles 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OTPhiladelphia 2, Vancouver 1Toronto 6, Anaheim 1Dallas 5, Arizona 4

Today’s GamesN.Y. Islanders at Boston, 6 p.m.Vancouver at Washington, 6 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Buffalo, 6 p.m.St. Louis at Florida, 6 p.m.Vegas at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.Arizona at Nashville, 7 p.m.San Jose at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.Columbus at Colorado, 8 p.m.Chicago at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesOttawa at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

TennisATP Tour Cordoba Open

MondayAt Kempes StadiumCordoba, Argentina

Purse: $527,880 (ATP250)Surface: Clay-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, def. Maxi Marterer, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.Pedro Cachin, Argentina, def. Cameron Norrie, Britain, 6-4, 6-4.

Guido Pella (8), Argentina, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-1, 6-3.Malek Jaziri (6), Tunisia, def. Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4).

DoublesFirst Round

Pablo Carreno Busta and Gerard Granollers, Spain, def. David Marrero and Jaume Munar, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 10-8.Nicholas Monroe, United States, and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, def. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

ATP Tour Open Sud de France

MondayAt Arena MontpellierMontpellier, France

Purse: $600,500 (ATP250)Surface: Hard-Indoor

SinglesFirst Round

Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5).Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, def. Ugo Humbert, France, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.Jeremy Chardy (6), France, def. Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, 6-1, 6-1.

DoublesFirst Round

Leander Paes, India, and Benoit Paire, France, def. Jonathan Eysseric and Gilles Simon, France, 6-4, 6-2.Luke Bambridge and Jonny O’Mara, Britain, def. Austin Krajicek, United States, and Artem Sitak (2), New Zealand, 6-4, 6-2.

ATP Tour Sofia OpenMonday

At Arena ArmeecSofia, Bulgaria

Purse: $600,500 (ATP250)Surface: Hard-Indoor

SinglesFirst Round

Matthew Ebden, Australia, def. Adrian Andreev, Bulgaria, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5).Marius Copil, Romania, def. Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

ATP Tour RankingThrough Feb. 3

Singles1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 109552. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 83203. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 64754. Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 50605. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 48456. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 46007. Kei Nishikori, Japan, 41008. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 39609. John Isner, United States, 315510. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 314011. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 288012. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 280513. Borna Coric, Croatia, 260514. Milos Raonic, Canada, 225015. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 222516. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 200017. Lucas Pouille, France, 195518. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 195519. Marco Cecchinato, Italy, 187020. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 183521. David Goffin, Belgium, 183022. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 182023. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 170524. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 161025. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 1485

Doubles1. Mike Bryan, United States, 104802. Jack Sock, United States, 81053. Nicolas Mahut, France, 67904. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 64505. Jamie Murray, Britain, 58205. Bruno Soares, Brazil, 58207. Mate Pavic, Croatia, 52908. Oliver Marach, Austria, 52209. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, 511010. Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, 500010. Robert Farah, Colombia, 5000

WTA RankingThrough Feb. 3

Singles1. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 70302. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 59203. Simona Halep, Romania, 55824. Sloane Stephens, United States, 53075. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 51006. Angelique Kerber, Germany, 49657. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 49408. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 48459. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 356510. Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 346711. Serena Williams, United States, 340612. Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, 333013. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 328514. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 323015. Garbine Muguruza, Spain, 304016. Julia Goerges, Germany, 291017. Madison Keys, United States, 278618. Wang Qiang, China, 260519. Caroline Garcia, France, 255020. Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 235521. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 233522. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 219723. Danielle Collins, United States, 193424. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 189625. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 1825

Doubles1. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 83202. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 79703. Timea Babos, Hungary, 70653. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 70655. Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 68856. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 57977. Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, 57358. Andrea Sestini Hlavackova, Czech Republic, 55609. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 537510. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 4555

TransactionsMonday’s Moves

BASEBALLNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — Announced the retirement of president Jeff Idelson, effective after induction weekend in July.

American LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS — Acquired RHP Nick Wittgren from Miami for RHP Jordan Milbrath. Designated RHP A.J. Cole for assignment.HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Devenski on a one-year contract.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with LHP Jerry Blevins on a minor league contract.

National LeaguePITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with LHP Francisco Liriano on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Traded G Rodney Hood to Portland for Gs Nik Stauskas and Wade Baldwin and 2021 and 2023 second-round draft pick. Released G Kobi Simmons.WNBAWASHINGTON MYSTICS — Re-signed F LaToya Sanders.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Named Zac Taylor coach.CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived LB Tanner Vallejo.MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Brian Flores coach.NEW YORK GIANTS — Terminated the contract of LB Connor Barwin.TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived QB Austin Davis.

Canadian Football LeagueWINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DL Noble Nwachukwu.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Recalled D Haydn Fleury from Charlotte (AHL).WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Re-signed G Pheonix Copley to a three-year contract extension.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

MINNESOTA UNITED — Re-signed D Eric Miller.NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed F/M Alexandru Mitrita to a multiyear contract.REAL SALT LAKE — Signed F Sam Johnson as a designated player.

National Professional Soccer LeagueSKY BLUE FC — F Signed Paige Monaghan.WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Re-signed F Cali Farquharson.

TENNISATP/WTA/ITF/GRAND SLAM BOARD — Named Jennie Price independent chair of the Tennis Integrity Unit’s supervisory board.

COLLEGEGRAND VIEW — Announced it is adding a women’s wrestling program to begin during the fall semester.

BoxingSchedule

SaturdayAt Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Indio, Calif., Alberto Machado vs. Andrew Cancio, 12, for Machado’s WBA super featherweight title; Rey Vargas vs. Franklin Manzanilla, 12, for Vargas’ WBC World super bantamweight title; Joseph Diaz Jr. vs. Charles Huerta, 10, super featherweights.At Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, Calif. (SHO), Gervonta Davis vs. Abner Mares, 12, for Davis’ WBA featherweight title; Erickson Lubin vs. Ishw Smith, 10, super welterweights; Javier Fortuna vs. Sharif Bogere, 10, lightweights; Eddie Ramirez vs. Juan Heraldez, 10, junior welterweights; Xavier Martinez vs. Deivi Julio Bassa, 10, junior lightweights.

SundayAt Save Mart Arena, Fresno, Calif., Jose Carlos Ramirez vs. Jose Zepeda, 12, for Ramirez’s WBC World super lightweight title; Raymundo Beltran vs. Hiroki Okada, 10 super lightweights; Genesis Servania vs. Carlos Castro, 10, featherweights; Bryan Vasquez vs. Enrique Tinoco, 10, super featherweights; Andy Vences vs. Dardan Zenunaj, 10, super featherweights; Saul Rodriguez vs. Aelio Mesquita, 10, lightweights.

Feb. 15At Grand Casino, Hinckley, Minn. (ESPN), Rob Brant vs. Khasan Baysangurov, 12, for Brant’s WBA World middleweight title.

Feb. 16At Los Angeles (FOX), Leo Santa Cruz vs. Miguel Flores, 12, for Santa Cruz’s WBA featherweight title; Omar Figueroa Jr. vs. John Molina Jr., 10, welterweights.

Feb. 23At Minneapolis Armory (FS1), Anthony Dirrell vs. Avni Yildirim, 12, for the vacant WBC super middleweight title.

March 2At Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (SHO), Erislandy Lara vs. Brian Castaño, 12, for Lara’s WBA Super Welterweight World title; Luis Ortiz vs. Christian Hammer, 10, heavyweights; Ricardo Núñeztakes vs. Edner Cherry, 12, super featherweights.

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Monday’s Men’sMajor College Scores

EASTColgate 84, Lehigh 62Delaware St. 70, SC State 68Marist 78, Canisius 71, OTSavannah St. 68, Md.-Eastern Shore 63Siena 61, Fairfield 50

SOUTHBethune-Cookman 69, NC A&T 53Florida A&M 73, NC Central 57Grambling St. 79, MVSU 57Jackson St. 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 52Louisville 72, Virginia Tech 64

MIDWESTPenn St. 59, Northwestern 52

SOUTHWESTIowa St. 75, Oklahoma 74Prairie View 69, Alabama St. 67Texas Southern 84, Alabama A&M 74Texas Tech 81, West Virginia 50

FAR WESTE. Washington 82, N. Arizona 64Montana St. 69, N. Colorado 66S. Utah 75, Idaho 64

The Associated Press Men’s Top 25 Fared

Monday1. Tennessee (20-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Missouri, Tuesday.2. Duke (19-2) did not play. Next: vs. Boston

College, Tuesday.3. Virginia (20-1) did not play. Next: vs. No.

2 Duke, Saturday.4. Gonzaga (21-2) did not play. Next: vs. San

Francisco, Thursday.5. Kentucky (18-3) did not play. Next: vs.

South Carolina, Tuesday.6. Nevada (21-1) did not play. Next: at

Colorado State, Wednesday.7. Michigan (20-2) did not play. Next: at

Rutgers, Tuesday.8. North Carolina (17-4) did not play. Next:

vs. N.C. State, Tuesday.9. Michigan State (18-4) did not play. Next:

at Illinois, Tuesday.10. Marquette (19-3) did not play. Next: vs.

St. John’s, Tuesday.11. Virginia Tech (18-4) lost to No. 16

Louisville 72-64. Next: at Clemson, Saturday.12. Houston (21-1) did not play. Next: at UCF,

Thursday.13. Kansas (17-5) did not play. Next: at

Kansas State, Tuesday.14. Villanova (18-4) did not play. Next: vs.

Creighton, Wednesday.15. Purdue (16-6) did not play. Next: vs.

Nebraska, Saturday.16. Louisville (17-6) beat No. 11

Virginia Tech 72-64. Next: at No. 22 Florida State, Saturday.

17. Iowa State (18-5) beat Oklahoma 75-74. Next: vs. TCU, Saturday.

18. Texas Tech (18-5) beat West Virginia 81-50. Next: at Oklahoma, Saturday.

19. Wisconsin (16-6) did not play. Next: at Minnesota, Wednesday.

20. Iowa (17-5) did not play. Next: at Indiana, Thursday.

21. LSU (17-4) did not play. Next: at Mississippi State, Wednesday.

22. Florida State (16-5) did not play. Next: at Syracuse, Tuesday.

23. Buffalo (19-3) did not play. Next: vs. Central Michigan, Saturday.

24. Maryland (17-6) did not play. Next: at Nebraska, Wednesday.

25. Cincinnati (19-3) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Thursday.

The Associated Press Men’s Top 25

The weekly poll, with first-place votes in parenthe-ses, records through Feb. 3, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Rec. Pts Prv1. Tennessee (48) 20-1 1579 12. Duke (12) 19-2 1532 23. Virginia (4) 20-1 1478 34. Gonzaga 21-2 1423 45. Kentucky 18-3 1310 76. Nevada 21-1 1228 87. Michigan 20-2 1217 58. North Carolina 17-4 1167 99. Michigan State 18-4 1051 610. Marquette 19-3 1029 1011. Virginia Tech 18-3 948 1212. Houston 21-1 838 1313. Kansas 17-5 809 1114. Villanova 18-4 801 1415. Purdue 16-6 697 1716. Louisville 16-6 561 1517. Iowa State 17-5 545 2018. Texas Tech 17-5 482 1619. Wisconsin 16-6 462 2420. Iowa 17-5 242 —21. LSU 17-4 205 1922. Florida State 16-5 180 2523. Buffalo 19-3 153 1824. Maryland 17-6 144 2125. Cincinnati 19-3 142 —Also Receiving Votes: Washington 135, Mississippi State 133, Auburn 128, Kansas State 114, Baylor 44, Wofford 15, Lipscomb 5, Syracuse 3.

USA Today Top 25The weekly poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 3, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Rec. Pts Pvs1. Tennessee (32) 20-1 800 12. Duke 19-2 755 23. Virginia 20-1 734 34. Gonzaga 21-2 717 45. Kentucky 18-3 652 66. Nevada 21-1 607 77. Michigan 20-2 581 58. North Carolina 17-4 563 109. Marquette 19-3 546 910. Virginia Tech 18-3 492 1111. Michigan State 18-4 463 812. Houston 21-1 439 1313. Villanova 18-4 435 1414. Kansas 17-5 404 1215. Purdue 16-6 322 18

16. Iowa State 17-5 279 2017. Louisville 16-6 240 1618. Texas Tech 17-5 238 1519. Wisconsin 16-6 185 2320. Iowa 17-5 158 2521. Mississippi State 16-5 106 2122. LSU 17-4 97 1923. Cincinnati 19-3 89 —24. Florida State 16-5 85 —25. Buffalo 19-3 76 17Also Receiving Votes: Kansas State 70, Baylor 55, Washington 54, Maryland 53, Auburn 50, Furman 12, N.C. State 9, Arizona State 7, Ole Miss 7, North Texas 7, Hofstra 6, Wofford 6, Texas 1.

Southeastern Conference Men

Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.Tennessee 8-0 1.000 20-1 .952LSU 7-1 .875 17-4 .810Kentucky 7-1 .875 18-3 .857S. Carolina 6-2 .750 11-10 .524Alabama 4-4 .500 13-8 .619Mississippi St. 4-4 .500 16-5 .762Ole Miss 4-4 .500 14-7 .667Florida 4-4 .500 12-9 .571Auburn 4-4 .500 15-6 .714Arkansas 4-4 .500 13-8 .619Missouri 2-6 .250 11-9 .550Texas A&M 1-7 .125 8-12 .400Georgia 1-7 .125 10-11 .476Vanderbilt 0-8 .000 9-12 .429

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesSouth Carolina at Kentucky, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)Vanderbilt at Arkansas, 8 p.m. (SEC Network)Missouri at Tennessee, 8 p.m. (ESPN2)Florida at Auburn, 8 p.m. (ESPNU)

Wednesday’s GamesTexas A&M at Ole Miss, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)Georgia at Alabama, 8 p.m. (SEC Network)LSU at Mississippi State, 8 p.m. (ESPN2)

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Friday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Saturday’s GamesKentucky at Mississippi State, Noon (WCBI)Ole Miss at Georgia, Noon (SEC Network)Auburn at LSU, 1 p.m.Arkansas at South Carolina, 2:30 p.m. (SEC Network)Florida at Tennessee, 3 p.m.Texas A&M at Missouri, 5 p.m. (SEC Network)Alabama at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m. (SEC Network)

Sunday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Monday’s Women’sMajor College Scores

EASTCanisius 67, Iona 47Md.-Eastern Shore 78, Savannah St. 46Niagara 81, St. Peter’s 57SC State 63, Delaware St. 60

SOUTHJackson St. 60, Ark.-Pine Bluff 41LSU 61, Missouri 51MVSU 54, Grambling St. 52NC A&T 72, Bethune-Cookman 48NC Central 64, Florida A&M 57

MIDWESTMaryland 80, Illinois 66Rio Grande 71, Chicago St. 55

SOUTHWESTBaylor 74, Texas 68Prairie View 71, Alabama St. 59Texas Southern 53, Alabama A&M 45

FAR WESTN. Colorado 84, Montana St. 73

The AP Women’s Top 25 FaredMonday

1. Baylor (20-1) beat No. 14 Texas 74-68. Next: vs. TCU, Saturday.

2. Louisville (21-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 15 Syracuse, Thursday.

3. Oregon (21-1) did not play. Next: at California, Friday.

4. Notre Dame (21-2) did not play. Next: at No. 25 Miami, Thursday.

5. UConn (19-2) did not play. Next: vs. East Carolina, Wednesday.

6. Mississippi State (21-1) did not play. Next: vs. Tennessee, Sunday.

7. Oregon State (19-3) did not play. Next: at No. 11 Stanford, Friday.

8. Marquette (19-3) did not play. Next: vs. Georgetown, Friday.

9. N.C. State (21-1) did not play. Next: at No. 24 Florida State, Thursday.

10. Maryland (20-2) beat Illinois 80-66. Next: vs. Northwestern, Thursday.

11. Stanford (18-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 7 Oregon State, Friday.

12. South Carolina (16-5) did not play. Next: vs. Mississippi, Thursday.

13. Gonzaga (21-2) did not play. Next: at Portland, Saturday.

14. Texas (18-5) lost to No. 1 Baylor 74-68. Next: at Kansas, Saturday.

15. Syracuse (17-4) did not play. Next: at No. 2 Louisville, Thursday.

16. Iowa (17-5) did not play. Next: vs. No. 23 Michigan State, Thursday.

17. Utah (18-3) did not play. Next: vs. Southern Cal, Friday.

18. Texas A&M (18-4) did not play. Next: at Missouri, Thursday.

19. Kentucky (18-5) did not play. Next: at Auburn, Thursday.

20. Arizona State (15-6) did not play. Next: at Washington State, Thursday.

20. Rutgers (17-5) did not play. Next: vs. No. 10 Maryland, Sunday.

22. Iowa State (17-5) did not play. Next: vs. West Virginia, Saturday.

23. Michigan State (16-5) did not play. Next: at No. 16 Iowa, Thursday.

24. Florida State (19-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 9 N.C. State, Thursday.

25. Miami (19-5) did not play. Next: vs. No. 4 Notre Dame, Thursday.

LSU 61, Missouri 51 MISSOURI (16-7): Porter 3-7 1-1 7, Al-

dridge 3-6 3-7 10, Cunningham 4-6 2-2 14, Jor. Roundtree 1-1 0-0 2, Smith 4-13 1-4 10, Schuchts 0-1 0-0 0, Tahane 1-1 0-0 2, Chavis 0-3 0-0 0, Green 0-1 0-0 0, Levy 3-4 0-2 6, Troup 0-4 0-0 0, Winfrey 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 19-47 7-16 51.

LSU (13-8): Mitchell 5-7 6-10 17, Aifuwa 5-8 0-0 10, Norton 4-6 2-2 10, Pointer 4-11 2-5 10, Spencer 3-4 0-0 6, Bidikuindila 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks 0-3 0-0 0, Richard-Harris 0-2 4-4 4, Seay 1-2 2-3 4, Totals 22-43 16-24 61.Missouri 13 10 13 15 —51LSU 12 9 21 19 —61

3-Point Goals—Missouri 6-23 (Porter 0-2, Aldridge 1-3, Cunningham 4-5, Smith 1-4, Schuchts 0-1, Chavis 0-3, Green 0-1, Levy 0-1, Troup 0-3), LSU 1-6 (Mitchell 1-1, Pointer 0-1, Mer. Brooks 0-3, Jae. Richard-Harris 0-1). Assists—Missouri 9 (Porter 2), LSU 11 (Kha. Pointer 5). Fouled Out—Missouri Porter, Cunningham, Re-bounds—Missouri 30 (Porter 8), LSU 28 (Mitchell 12). Total Fouls—Missouri 26, LSU 18. A—1,756.

The AP Women’s Top 25The weekly poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 3, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Rec. Pts Prv1. Baylor (25) 19-1 697 12. Louisville (3) 21-1 668 33. Oregon 21-1 632 44. Notre Dame 21-2 608 55. UConn 19-2 596 26. Mississippi State 21-1 578 67. Oregon State 19-3 513 98. Marquette 19-3 483 109. N.C. State 21-1 470 710. Maryland 19-2 459 1111. Stanford 18-3 447 812. South Carolina 16-5 352 1613. Gonzaga 21-2 316 1514. Texas 18-4 313 1215. Syracuse 17-4 303 1816. Iowa 17-5 279 1317. Utah 18-3 209 1418. Texas A&M 18-4 206 2019. Kentucky 18-5 173 1920. Rutgers 17-5 160 1720. Arizona State 15-6 160 2122. Iowa State 17-5 150 2323. Michigan State 16-5 130 2224. Florida State 19-3 111 2425. Miami 19-5 20 —Also Receiving Votes: South Dakota 17, North Carolina 13, UCF 10, Missouri 7, West Virginia 5, New Mexico 4, Drake 3, California 2, Minnesota 2, Rice 2, BYU 1, Central Michigan 1.

AP Voting for Adam Minichino

Dispatch sports editor Adam Minichino is a voter on The Associated Press’ weekly women’s college basketball poll. Here is his ballot for this week:1. Baylor2. Oregon3. Louisville4. Mississippi State5. Notre Dame6. UConn7. Oregon State8. Marquette9. North Carolina State10. Maryland11. South Carolina12. Stanford13. Syracuse14. Iowa15. Gonzaga16. Arizona State17. Utah18. Rutgers19. Texas A&M20. Texas21. Florida State22. West Virginia23. North Carolina24. Minnesota25. South Dakota

SEC Women Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.Miss. State 9-0 1.000 21-1 .954S. Carolina 8-1 .889 16-5 .762 Texas A&M 7-2 .778 18-4 .818Kentucky 5-4 .556 18-5 .783Auburn 5-4 .556 17-5 .773Missouri 5-4 .556 16-7 .696 Arkansas 5-4 .556 16-7 .696 Tennessee 4-5 .444 15-7 .682LSU 4-5 .444 13-8 .619 Georgia 4-5 .444 13-9 .591Alabama 3-6 .333 11-11 .500Ole Miss 2-7 .222 8-15 .348Vanderbilt 1-8 .111 6-16 .273Florida 1-8 .111 5-17 .227

Monday’s GameLSU 61, Missouri 51

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

Wednesday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Thursday’s GamesTexas A&M at Missouri, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)Kentucky at Auburn, 6 p.m.Ole Miss at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Alabama at Florida, 6 p.m.Arkansas at LSU, 8 p.m. (SEC Network)

Friday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Saturday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Sunday’s GamesFlorida at Georgia, 11 a.m. (ESPNU)Tennessee at Mississippi State, 1 p.m. (ESPN)Auburn at Arkansas, 1 p.m. (SEC Network)Vanderbilt at Missouri, 3 p.m. (SEC Network)

Monday, Feb. 11South Carlina at Connecticut, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)Kentucky at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

BY SCOTT [email protected]

SCOOBA — East Mississippi Community College freshman Donte Powers knew why his team didn’t win earlier this season at Holmes C.C.

Powers was determined not to let that hap-pen again.

“We were not very good on defense that night,” Powers said. “You could use whatev-er words to describe a team that didn’t guard anybody. It was a tough night. Our goal to-night was to come out with a different mind-set. We wanted them to feel us on the defen-sive end.”

The game plan was narrow in focus. The results were resounding, as EMCC moved into a first-place tie atop the Mississippi As-sociation of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) North Division standings with a 70-59 victory before a large, rowdy crowd Monday night at Currie Coliseum.

Northeast Mississippi C.C.’s loss to Itawamba C.C. on Monday night in Booneville coupled with EMCC’s win has the teams tied for first with four regular-season games re-maining. Northeast Mississippi C.C. beat EMCC 68-65 on Jan. 28. The rematch will be Feb. 21 in Booneville in the regular-season finale.

Leading 33-27 at halftime, EMCC (12-7, 6-2 North) was dominant in the next 15 min-utes. The Lions held the Bulldogs without a field goal for close to seven minutes to start the second half.

Noel Jones sparked EMCC by hitting 3-pointers, while Darrious Agnew energized the student section with two monster dunks.

Powers was everywhere, too, grabbing critical rebounds, collecting assists, and forc-ing some turnovers in the passing lane.

“That stretch to start the second half was as well as we can play,” EMCC sophomore guard Terryonte Thomas said. “When we start clicking and this place starts rocking, that’s a good thing. The bond on this team is really strong. We feed off each other so well. A lot of us have been together for two years. It’s special out there on the court.”

Holmes C.C. (12-6, 4-3) failed to recover from the onslaught to start the second half.

Thomas rammed home a 24-foot 3-pointer from the top of the key for a 40-29 lead. By the time Jones hit both of his, the Lions led 52-31. The surge came after EMCC had one field goal in the first eight minutes. The Lions also lost sophomore forward Malik Harper at the 12-minute, 15-second mark of the first half when officials stopped play and ruled he had thrown a punch during a scuffle under the basket.

Shortly after the ejection, Holmes C.C.’s Czar Perry hit a 3-pointer to give the Bulldogs a 14-10 lead. Perry had 37 points in Holmes C.C.’s 75-74 victory on Jan. 10 in Goodman. He scored his team’s final six points Monday night and finished with 12.

“We just let one guy get loose and totally beat us by himself,” EMCC coach Billy Beg-ley said. “Wasn’t totally sure how this game might go, but we were going to try to con-trol him. He got some points tonight, but the

game was over with then.”Agnew led EMCC with 16 points and six

rebounds. Thomas had 12 points and six assists, while Dewayne Cox had 12 points. Jones had nine points on three 3-pointers. Markedric Bell had nine points and eight re-bounds.

“It’s just always next man up,” Begley said. “After the ejection, it’s like who can go in next and help us make plays. We struggled in the second half with the press. This is the first time all year we have seen a team press us this much in a game. That experience will help us. We made mistakes that a team full of sophomores shouldn’t make.

“However, the first 15 or so minutes of the second half were really good. Our defensive effort was where it needs to be.”

The top four teams from the North Divi-sion will advance to the eight-team state tour-nament at Jones College.

Powers, Agnew, and Bell played at Starkville High School together, which helps explain the Lions’ bond.

“Everybody is excited about what we can do here to end the season,” Powers said. “Coach told me it’s been (19 games), so no-body is a freshman anymore. We go about 10 deep. Our job is to come in off the bench and provide some energy. (Begley) wouldn’t play us if we weren’t being counted on to help the team win.”

In the opener, coach Sharon Thompson’s EMCC Lady Lions earned a 71-49 victory.

In the first meeting, Holmes C.C. earned a 61-57 victory.

Brianna Page had a career-high 25 points and seven rebounds for EMCC (8-11, 5-3), while Tye Metcalf had 14 points and seven assists and Aamiya Rush had 12 points and seven rebounds.

The Lady Lions erased a 28-24 halftime deficit with a 16-2 run to open the second half. Metcalf had 12 of her 14 points in the final half. The team shot 69 percent from the field (18-for-26) in that half.

EMCC is tied for second with Northeast Mississippi C.C. in the division race.

n In other action Monday night, ICC swept Northeast Mississippi C.C.

In the women’s game, Shaniyah Buford had 19 points and former Columbus High standout Zaria Jenkins and former Starkville High standout Tabreea Gandy had 14 points to lead the women’s team to a 79-6 win.

Kealy Wilson added 10 points for ICC (16-2, 8-0).

Dayzha Rogan led Northeast Mississippi C.C. with 25 points. Former New Hope High standout Lanoria Abrams had 12.

In the men’s game, Ma’Darius Hobson had a game-high 19 points in ICC’s 73-61 victory.

Rance Champ had 16 points and Anfernee Diggins had 14 for the Indians (9-10, 3-5).

Follow Dispatch sports writer Scott Walters on Twitter @dispatchscott

EMCC men move into tie for first

BY DOUG FEINBERGThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Coach Geno Auriemma doesn’t seem too concerned that UConn has its most losses in six years.

After all, the Huskies entered the Final Four unbeat-en the last two seasons only to walk away without a na-tional championship.

“Last time I checked, there’s 365 Division I teams in America, 364 of them would trade places with me in a heartbeat,” he told reporters after the Huskies beat Cincinnati on Saturday. “I’m not going to lose any sleep over this.”

UConn suffered its second loss of the season on Thursday, falling to then-No. 3 Louisville. The Hus-kies dropped to fifth on Monday in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll, their lowest ranking since Feb. 12, 2007. UConn moved into the top five a week earlier and has remained there every poll since — a span of 232 consecutive weeks. That is more than double the next-longest streak, held by Louisiana Tech. The Lady Techsters had a 96-week run in the top five from 1979-84.

Louisville moved up to second this week behind Baylor. The Lady Bears received 25 of 28 first-place votes from a national media panel Monday. The Cardi-nals received the other three. Oregon and Notre Dame rounded out the top five teams in the poll.

Mississippi State, Oregon State, Marquette, North Carolina State, and Maryland were next. The Wolfpack lost their first game of the season, falling to North Car-olina on Sunday.

Miami entered the poll at No. 25 while BYU fell out a week after getting ranked.

TOP FIVE MUSING: After UConn’s run, the next longest active streak of top-five appearances belongs to Louisville with 32. Notre Dame is right behind with 30. Oregon has seven and Baylor five.

BIG TEN SHOWDOWN: Maryland moved back into the top 10 for the first time in a few weeks. Mary-land has a Big Ten showdown with No. 20 Rutgers on Sunday, when first place in the conference is on the line. However, Brenda Frese’s team visited Illinois on Monday night and will play host to Northwestern on Thursday. The Scarlet Knights don’t play until Sun-day’s game. Rutgers handed Maryland its first loss of the season on Dec. 31.

MOVING ON UP: Marquette continued its histor-ic year, moving into eighth in the poll this week. That is the highest ranking for the Golden Eagles and the best ranking for any team in the Big East Conference since Xavier was fifth on March 14, 2011.

BY STEVE MEGARGEEThe Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Missouri men’s bas-ketball coach Cuonzo Martin is downplaying his return to Tennessee as a visiting coach for the first time since the end of his tenure coaching the Volunteers.

Martin already faces enough of a chal-lenge trying to upset the No. 1 Vols (20-1, 8-0 Southeastern Conference). Tennessee takes a school-record 16-game winning streak into Tues-day night’s game against Missouri (11-9, 2-6).

“It’s just the task at hand, preparing to win a basketball game,” Martin said. “I don’t see it any other way really.”

That matter-of-fact approach has helped Mar-tin earn respect from rival coaches, though he never completely won over Tennessee’s fan base.

Martin went 63-41 at Tennessee from 2011-14 after replacing Bruce Pearl, who led the Vols to NCAA tournament bids in each of his six seasons on the job before getting fired amid an NCAA in-vestigation that landed the program on probation. Martin left for California after three seasons.

Although Martin has coached against Tennes-see twice since taking over Missouri’s program in 2017, both games were in Columbia. Missouri beat Tennessee 59-55 last season and lost to Ten-nessee 87-63 on Jan. 8.

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said Missou-ri’s teams take on the blue-collar personality of Martin, who played at Purdue from 1991-95 and survived non-Hodgkin lymphoma after being di-agnosed during his pro career.

“He was a hard, tough-nosed guy, the kind of guy that you knew if you weren’t ready to play, he was going to come after you,” Barnes said. “I think his teams are like that.”

Barnes called Martin “one of the finest people I’ve been around” and recounted a brief conver-sation the two coaches once had at a Georgia ho-tel. Barnes said he had just taken the Tennessee job when Martin said that “you’re going to love it” there. Martin says he has no recollection of that meeting.

Martin’s Tennessee tenure was somewhat bittersweet. He led Tennessee to three-straight NCAA tournament victories and a regional semi-final berth in his last season with the Vols, yet he never was as beloved as his popular predecessor.

BY JOHN MARSHALLThe Associated Press

The Tennessee men’s basketball team has had a couple of shaky moments after earning its first No. 1 ranking in 11 years. The Volunteers are rolling now.

Coming off decisive victories against South Caro-lina and Texas A&M, Tennessee remained atop The Associated Press men’s basketball poll for the third-straight week.

The Vols received 48 of 64 first-place votes from a media panel in the poll released Monday. No. 2 Duke had 12 first-place votes and No. 3 Virginia four. Gon-zaga and Kentucky rounded out the top five.

“These guys have worked hard,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said after the Texas A&M game. “They’ve really become a team. If you could’ve been in the huddle the last seven minutes, I didn’t have to say a word. “

Tennessee (20-1, 8-0 SEC) struggled against Van-derbilt in its first game at No. 1 and got off to a slow start against West Virginia. The Vols stomped on the Game-cocks and Aggies by a combined 39 points to break a century-old school record with their 16th-straight win. Tennessee will play Missouri and Florida this week.

While the top four remained the same, the top 10 became jumbled after Michigan and Michigan State lost.

The Wolverines, still undefeated two weeks ago, dropped two spots to No. 7 after losing to Iowa . The Spartans fell three spots to No. 9 following a loss to Indiana , which had lost its previous seven games. Michigan State learned last week that guard Joshua Langford would not return this season because of a knee injury.

No. 5 Kentucky, No. 6 Nevada, and No. 8 North Carolina all moved up because of the losses.

WOLPACK, BULLDOGS BOUNCED: Two losses and an epically bad shooting night bounced North Carolina State from No. 23 to out of the poll without receiving a single vote.

The Wolfpack opened the week with an overtime loss to Virginia, then fell flat in a loss to No. 10 Vir-ginia Tech.

One of the ACC’s top offenses, N.C. State was held to 24 total points, the worst output by an ACC team since the shot clock began in the 1985-86 season.

The Wolfpack made nine shots while shooting 16.7 percent, lowest in the history of a league found-ed in 1953.

Mississippi State was the only other team to drop from the poll, falling out from No. 22 after losing to Alabama.

Tennessee remains at No. 1 as top four teams stay same

UConn slips to No. 5, its lowest ranking since 2007

Ex-Vols coach Martin downplays his return to coach at Tennessee

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years — some described me as shy. My first jobs as a sports writer gave me an opening to be inquisitive and to talk to people I might never have met. That work offered a chance to listen, to learn, to travel, and to tell stories. I loved it. I think I became a “people person,” not someone who would always carry a conversation, but some-one you could trust.

That’s why I know I am mak-ing the right decision because I am listening to myself. I first heard that voice in 2017 when I was riding with Zack Plair to cov-er the Mississippi State women’s

basketball team in the Final Four in Dallas. As Zack navigated the back roads in the state of Arkan-sas, I sat in the passenger seat and tried to keep him from see-ing me cry. I’m not sure what hit me, but I had an overwhelming sense I needed to be somewhere else — namely with my son at his baseball tournament. You can call me an old softie, but it was one of the first times it dawned on me I had my priorities in the wrong place.

The same feeling hit me last year when I was on the road covering the MSU women’s basketball team. This time, I

teared up in a booth at a Waffle House drinking chocolate milk. Again, I felt I needed to be with my son. Austin didn’t need me to be there. He and his Next Level team did just fine. For me, though, the time had come to re-evaluate what I was doing and to consider what was most important in my life.

That’s why today I want to say thank to everyone who has allowed me to be a part of their story and who has helped along the way. There have been plenty of wonderful people and great trips.

I would be remiss if I didn’t

mention Barb Kowal and Carl Adamec for playing pivotal roles. Barb was one of the nation’s best sports information directors. At UConn, she taught an aspiring journalist about professionalism, respect, and thoroughness. Those are tenets I used as the foundation of my career.

Carl remains one of the nation’s premier college bas-ketball writers. He served as a mentor for me when I started covering the UConn women’s team. He listened. He watched. He asked the tough questions. I learned how to be a reporter by sitting next to him at games

and observing him. I also learned to love women’s basket-ball, which has shaped much of my professional career.

Now it’s time to spend more time being part of the story rather than telling it. I won’t get a chance to write about the exploits of my son or his teammates, but I will be there cheering all of them on. It’s where I need to be.

Adam Minichino is sports editor of The Dispatch. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @ctsportseditor.

COLLEGES


STARKVILLE — The 34th annual Super Bulldog Week-end, a Mississippi State spring homecoming tradition, will be April 12-14 on the MSU cam-pus.

Fans will get a glimpse of Joe Moorhead’s 2019 football team as it closes spring ball with the Maroon and White Game at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 13 at Da-vis Wade Stadium. Admission is free. MSU’s clear bag and metal detector policies will be in place.

Coach Chris Lemonis’ na-tionally ranked baseball team will welcome Alabama to the new Dudy Noble Field for a three-game Southeastern Con-ference series. Game 1 will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Game 2 will be at 3 p.m. Saturday. Game 3 will be at 3 p.m. Sunday.

There will be two chances to view Daryl Greenan’s wom-en’s tennis team in SEC action during Super Bulldog Week-end. The squad will play host to Texas A&M at 3 p.m. Friday and LSU at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Saturday’s slate begins with the MSU women’s soccer team, fresh off its first NCAA tourna-ment appearance, taking on Au-burn in an 11 a.m. spring exhi-bition at the MSU Soccer Field. First-year head coach James Armstrong, who served as the associate head coach at Auburn the past six seasons, will lead MSU.

Additional details on Super Bulldog Weekend will be an-nounced at a later date.

MSU baseball team will hold Fan day on Saturday

The MSU baseball program

will hold Fan Day from 3-5 p.m. Saturday at the Palmeiro Center, located adjacent to Dudy Noble Field and Hum-phrey Coliseum.

The event will follow the MSU men’s basketball team’s game against Kentucky at noon tipoff. Fans are reminded that basketball parking restrictions will remain in place until after the game.

Doors to the Palmeiro Cen-ter will open at 2:30 p.m. Fans are asked to enter through the southeast entrance of the build-ing. The 2019 roster and coach Chris Lemonis will sign auto-graphs, while other activities include photos with the 2018 College World Series partici-pant trophy, Maroon Memories Stadium Tours, appearances by Jak, Bully, and the MSU Di-amond Girls, as well as a Lil’

Dudes Zone with inflatable games for kids.

To help ensure everyone in attendance has a chance to meet all the student-ath-letes and coach Lemonis, stu-dent-athletes may only sign posters while coach Lemonis will autograph one item of choice per person. Posters and schedule cards will be available for free to fans.

The baseball team also will hold Cowbell Yell at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Dudy No-ble Field. The event will take place prior to the MSU men’s basketball team’s game against Alabama.

Gates to Dudy Noble Field will open at 5:30 p.m. In the event weather plays a factor in the day, the event will move into the Palmeiro Center.

The first 1,000 students to

enter the gates at Cowbell Yell will receive a free 2019 ‘Dudes’ T-shirt. MSU students can sign up for “The Dudes,” the official baseball student support group that offers exclusive prizes for attending games during the 2019 season.

Cowbell Yell also will fea-ture the debut of the 2019 intro video, remarks from Lemonis and members of the baseball program.

A variety of Maroon Memories will be available to enhance your Fan Day and Cowbell Yell experiences, in-cluding early entry, front of the line passes, and more. The full menu of Memories went live for purchase Monday.

MSU will play host to Youngstown State at 4 p.m. Fri-day, Feb. 15, in its season open-er at Dudy Noble Field.

Schedule announced for MSU’s 34th-annual Super Bulldog Weekend

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double-doubles, eighth in blocks, 21st in field goals made, and 38th in total points.

Four schools have mul-tiple players on the list, led by Connecticut with three selections (Naphee-sa Collier, Crystal Dan-gerfield, and Katie Lou Samuelson), followed by three schools with two selections apiece: Baylor (Kalani Brown and Lau-

ren Cox), Notre Dame (Arike Ogunbowale and Jessica Shepard), and Or-egon (Ruthy Hebard and Sabrina Ionescu).

The Pacific-12 Con-ference leads all confer-ences with five selections, followed by the Atlantic Coast Conference with four.

Texas A&M’s Chenne-dy Carter and Missouri’s Sophie Cunningham also

made the cut.The 15 finalists will

be revealed ahead of the NCAA tournament. The Wooden Award winner will be announced April 12 at the College Basket-ball Awards.

Perry named SEC Freshman of the Week

After delivering two career-high scoring per-

formances, Perry was named SEC Freshman of the Week.

The honor is the first of Perry’s career. It is MSU’s second SEC week-ly award for the 2018-19 season. Lamar Peters captured SEC Player of the Week on Dec. 10.

Perry averaged 19.5 points, nine rebounds, and two blocks per game. He poured in a career-best

21 points and matched a SEC season-high with 11 rebounds at Ole Miss en route to his second double-double in his last three outings.

Perry hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 3 minutes, 32 seconds remaining to break a 73-all tie and help push MSU to its first win in Oxford since 2010-11.

Perry opened the week with a then career-high 18

points on 9-for-12 shoot-ing at Alabama

Kentucky forward PJ Washington and Tennes-see guard Jordan Bone were named SEC co-Play-ers of the Week.

The MSU men will play host to LSU at 8 p.m. Wednesday (ESPN2). The MSU women will play host to Tennessee at 1 p.m. Sunday (ESPN).

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cruciate ligament — have been well doc-umented. His knee injury denied him an opportunity to contribute on the court to Heritage Academy’s run to the Missis-sippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) Class AAA State title. This season, a hand injury suffered against Starkville Academy and a sprained left ankle in his first game back against Magnolia Heights have forced Griffin to miss about a month of the campaign. As the postseason begins, Griffin said he is healthy and the Patriots are primed to make a long run in the playoffs.

“It is team first. We break it down with ‘together,’ ” Griffin said. “Nobody really cares about assists or points or rebounds. We just kind of all play together. I just do whatever I need to for my teammates.

“I just try to come to practice each day and try to work my hardest and set an example. I think I have been doing an all right job. There is always room for im-provement.”

Top-seeded Heritage Academy (23-4) will take on the winner of the game be-tween Winston Academy and Starkville Academy at 5:15 p.m. Thursday in the MAIS Class AAA, District 2 tournament

at Leake Academy. The winner of that game will advance to the tournament’s title game Saturday.

Heritage Academy will play host to the Class AAA North State tournament next week.

In December, Griffin earned defen-sive MVP in the MAIS Senior All-Star football game. He had two interceptions and caught a touchdown pass to help his White team earn a 24-22 victory against the Blue team. Griffin also had at least five pass breakups and multiple tack-les. His 52-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter helped his squad rally from a nine-point deficit.

Griffin’s time at safety in the All-Star game marked a return to the position he played in the regular season for the Patriots before he moved to outside line-backer, where he helped solidify a de-fense that proved to be stingy in a run to a MAIS Class AAA, District 2 title.

Whiteside, who is the defensive co-ordinator on the school’s football team, said Griffin is finally getting in basket-ball shape. He said it has taken a little while for Griffin to get into “basketball mode,” but he said that hasn’t prevented

the 6-foot standout from impacting the action in a lot of ways.

“He may come out one night and have assist numbers of a point guard,” White-side said. “He may come out and have scoring numbers of a two guard. He may have rebounding numbers of a four-five guy. He does a lot for our team in every facet of the game. He guards well. His on-ball defense is really good, and the kind of leadership he gives you really can’t replace.”

Whiteside said the leadership Griffin provides is based on a “team-first” ap-proach. He credited Griffin for being on the bench last season and providing a lot of energy for his teammates in the run to the championship. This season, Grif-fin is delivering that spark on the court. Whiteside there is no telling how good of a basketball player Griffin could be if he was healthy and he focused on that sport.

“He is an unbelievable athlete,” Wh-iteside said. “He could probably go out there and compete in track and field if he wanted to. He could probably go out there and play baseball if he wanted to. He just has that kind of God-given abili-

ty and athleticism that not many people have.

“He could do whatever he wanted (if he was healthy and he concentrated only on basketball). I am not going to sit here and say he is a college basketball play-er because he just hasn’t played. If that was something that he decided — with no injuries — that he was going to con-centrate on, he is pretty driven in every-thing he does, and competitive, so if all of that fell into place and he wanted to do it, he could probably go do it.”

Griffin said he is most proud of the fact that he plays with a lot of heart and leaves it out on the court. That emotion might have bubbled over when he in-jured his hand against Starkville Acad-emy. Griffin offers a slight smile as he acknowledges the injury was his fault, but he said he is glad he is healthy again and set for a productive “third” season in what has been a busy senior year.

“This is where our hard work and our practice is going to show off,” Griffin said, “and I think we can do some spe-cial things.”

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By chARLES odUmThe Associated Press

ATLANTA — Bill Be-lichick is now standing shoulder to shoulder with the NFL’s all-time great-est coaching icons.

When considering his place in history, Beli-chick’s accomplishments transcend the Super Bowl era after his New England Patriots’ 13-3 Super Bowl 53 win over the Los An-geles Rams on Sunday night.

Belichick has joined George Halas and Curly Lambeau as the only coaches to win six NFL titles.

Vince Lombardi won five titles, including two Super Bowls. Lombardi is the namesake of the

Super Bowl trophy which was displayed Monday when Belichick and Ju-lian Edelman, the MVP of Sunday’s game , dis-cussed the Patriots’ latest championship.

Belichick said it was “incredibly flattering” to hear his name men-tioned with the coaching legends. He said Halas was friends with his fa-ther Steve Belichick, who played for the Detroit Li-ons and was a longtime assistant coach at Navy.

“I grew up watching coach Halas,” Belichick said.

Lombardi, “Papa Bear” Halas and Lambeau are the names which have been mentioned with Bill Walsh, Chuck Noll, Paul Brown, Don Shula, Tom

Landry, Joe Gibbs and others as the greatest NFL coaches.

That was before Be-lichick began collecting championships. He now has two more Super Bowl titles than Noll’s previous record of four and must be included in any group-ing of all-time greatest coaches.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Mon-day described Belichick’s record of success as “in-credible” and “unprece-dented.”

“We’re grateful to see him continue to have great football teams and bring them together in a way I don’t think any oth-er coach has ever done in the history of the game,” Goodell said.

Belichick still has quarterback Tom Brady, so the Patriots can’t be overlooked in the ear-ly discussion of teams which could reach Super Bowl 54 in Miami.

“I competed against some of those coaches and some I didn’t com-pete against but I was aware of,” Belichick said. “Coach Lombardi, as a kid growing up and watching the first Super Bowl. It’s incredibly flattering.”

Belichick said the championship is “a team accomplishment” and said “our entire team and organization put forth a superior and supreme ef-fort to achieve that. That’s really what it’s all about, about how all of us came together and pulled our

own weight so we could achieve our team goals. ... It’s what we were able to accomplish as a team that makes me the most proud.”

Brady, 41, said Sunday he plans to keep playing . Similarly, Belichick, 66, has made no mention of retiring, so there’s no reason to think he has finished setting new stan-dards for his profession.

Edelman said early in his career he saw Be-lichick on a treadmill, watching game film, late at night at the team’s prac-tice facility.

The wide receiver said he told Belichick “You sure like football.” Edelman said the coach responded “’Beats being a plumber. See you tomor-

row.’”Belichick provided ev-

idence of his attention to detail on Monday when he questioned Edelman’s version of that exchange. The coach’s clarification came immediately after taking the microphone.

“First of all, I think Ju-lian might have misquot-ed me,” Belichick said in his typical dry tone. “I have a ton of respect for plumbers. Those people do a great job. I think I said it beats working. But anyway.”

With that, it was on to football. It’s not too early to start planning a way to break that tie with Halas and Lambeau.

Patriots Belichick joins Halas, Lambeau with six championships

MSU finished 38-23 last sea-son. The Bulldogs hit .292 and averaged 5.2 runs per game. In the Tucson Regional cham-pionship round, MSU dropped a one-run decision to regional champion Arizona.

Sixteen letterwinners and five position starters return from that team.

MSU begins the season ranked No. 24 in the presea-son National Football Coaches Association rankings. It is the second preseason ranking in program history (2001).

“Special. That’s the word for this season,” MSU senior utility player Emily Heimberger said. “The seniors want to carry this program where it has not gone before. We want to leave a leg-acy for the younger players. Since last season ended, we have been working hard, get-

ting ready for this moment. We just think this can be a special team and a special season.”

Mia Davidson had a special season in 2018, earning South-eastern Conference Freshman of the Year honors. The North Carolina native set a school re-cord with 19 home runs.

This season, Davidson has made several preseason watch lists and is one of 50 players on USA Softball’s Player of the Year list.

“Mia is the most focused player I have ever been around,”

MSU senior outfielder Kat Moore said. “She just excels at everything. It’s the kind of work ethic that rubs off on everyone. She isn’t going to rest after last season. This year, she wants to be even better.”

Davidson said the softball season is long and she can’t get caught up in the individual acco-lades from a year ago. Instead, she feels like she should be judged by her team’s success.

“This year is different be-cause I have already been through a year of college soft-

ball,” Davidson said. “This is an exciting challenge to me. Offensively, we have a lot of fire-power. We have a lot of speed. Just excited to start the season so we can build off last season.”

Stuedeman typically has mixed and matched a pitching staff with few defined roles. Some players may alternate between starting and reliev-ing. Rarely, do pitchers throw complete games. That strategy should continue as Stuedeman gets a handle on her staff.

“We have five pitchers and you will see them all this weekend,” Stuedeman said. “There is so much that each of them can do to help this team win. We have spent more time with the pitchers during the start of practice. As the season progresses, this staff will get better and better.”

The returning experience

rests with junior right-hander Candace Davis (4-3, 3.11 earned run average, 56 1/3 innings) and sophomore right-hander Emily Williams (5-1, 1.74, 52 1/3).

Junior right-hander Alys-sa Lozer is also expected to make an immediate impact af-ter transferring from Arizona State.

“She is a power pitcher. She will be able to throw 67, 68,” Stuedeman said. “She has a chance to be dominant. Just proud of all of our pitchers and each will contribute. Now it’s time to play games and see where we stand.”

Freshman left-hander Grace Fagan and freshman right-hander Kayla Boseman round out the staff.

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HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb.

5). This year starts off like a Sheryl Crow song in that “every day is winding road,” but there’s a real sense that you’re getting closer to regular contentment, and you’ll achieve it, mostly through the building of healthy daily habits. Big strokes of luck will drop in, but it’s day-to-day improvements that will matter. Scorpio and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 46, 8, 13, 40 and 11.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). City dwellers know that to drown out the noise everywhere, you have to listen to your own. White noise can help you sleep. Talk can comfort you. Beats can move you. Choose your sounds;

choose your environment. TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You can tell when someone is being competitive with you, and unless you’re actually in an official competition, there’s no reason to let the race go on. Sidestep. Don’t engage.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s something that won’t be right until you fix it, and the time to fix it has come. As the Roman poet Horace said, “He who post-pones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

CANCER (June 22-July 22). One secret to your success is that you have talent, and yet you don’t rely on it. Consistent

work is more important than tal-ent, and the magic mix of both things together makes for an absolute unstoppable success.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). To avoid a thing is a way of focus-ing on it, and thus attracting it. So avoidance is attraction. Instead, keep your eye on the prize. Imagine what you do want, not what you don’t.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re skeptical, and it’s a beneficial quality right now. There’s too much out there to believe and it can’t all be true. Someone needs to sort it out, and that someone is you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Loud and clear is a good way to communicate; it usually works mighty fine. But if you have to choose between the two, take clear. It will outdo loud even at the faintest volume.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Though it may seem that you’ve been at a certain stage for a while now, you cannot be contained where you are. You’re extending your spirit beyond it, outside it, above it and around it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You have an excellent sense about how to best lead people today. You’ll get a feeling about when you should go easy and when you should push things along, perhaps with a hard truth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s said that crime doesn’t pay, and yet there are still criminals at large who would beg to differ — if it didn’t count as an official confession. But what about honesty? Of course honesty pays, immediately if not amply.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ve censored yourself to accommodate those younger, older, more formal, more pi-ous... but when you’re at home with your nearest and dearest, you want to feel you can just be yourself. Lift the ban.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Maybe you won’t solve a problem by walking away from it, but you’ll solve it after you walk away from it. Movement and a new environment will juice your mind’s problem-solving capabilities.

SOLUTION:Cock-and-bull story

FAMILY CIRCUS

DEAR ABBY: I need your advice. I’m

a 66-year-old woman who has been single most of my life. I am semi-retired and don’t look or act my age.

I recently met the man of my dreams on a dat-ing app. We are the same age, and the attraction is mutual. How-ever, there’s one thing I’m having trouble with. He lives on Social Security, which is OK, but he has no upper teeth. He lost his false teeth. His bottom teeth are rotten, and he has no intention of replacing them.

I would be willing to pay for his teeth, but because I’m not sure how to approach the sub-ject, I have decided not to see him anymore. We have agreed to stay in contact by texting. I don’t know how to handle this. Can you help me? — TURNED OFF IN VIRGINIA

DEAR TURNED OFF: Your ideal man has more problems than having lost his uppers. His lack of attention to dental hygiene is a danger to his health. If you care about him, point it out. And when you do, explain that there are low-cost options for getting treatment

— such as con-tacting a school of dentistry where students treat patients under the super-vision of qualified professors. If his problem is fear of dentists, that can be dealt with too.

Rather than write any checks to pay for his new teeth, encour-age him to be more proactive in taking care

of himself. If you do, you’ll be doing him a favor.

DEAR ABBY: I have read let-ters in your column about lazy adult sons moving back home. I’d like to present the other side of the story.

After being gone 15 years, my son lost his job, house and wife and had to move back with us. I admit I was apprehensive, but on his first day home he started to rebuild our 30-year-old patio. After that, he painted our house, installed air conditioning in our garage, planted and harvested a garden, which he maintained, landscaped the yard and helped in numerous other ways.

Soon he found a good job and a great girlfriend. He eventually bought a home and

moved out. He lives nearby and still maintains our vehicles and helps out a lot around the house with things my wife and I find difficult to do. He borrowed my truck one day and brought it home with four new tires!

Abby, I thought you might be interested to read an upbeat story on this subject for a change. (I have a great daughter, too — but that’s a different story.) — GRATEFUL DAD IN NEVADA

DEAR GRATEFUL DAD: You are absolutely right that I am interested. Thank you for such an upbeat letter. I don’t know what your recipe was for child rearing, but I’m sorry you didn’t share it. Your son is a gem!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO MY ASIAN READERS WHO CELE-BRATE THE LUNAR NEW YEAR: I wish a happy, healthy new year to all of you who celebrate this holiday. The Year of the Pig begins today. People born in the Year of the Pig are warmhearted, loyal, honest and gentle. (They can also be naive, gullible, sluggish and short-tempered.) On the up-side, they seem to be blessed with intelligence and creativity. Notable individuals born in the Year of the Pig include Stephen King, Julie Andrews, Duke Ellington, Lucille Ball, Magic Johnson, Ernest Hem-ingway and Elton John.

Dear Abby

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The following vehiclehas been abandoned atShelton's Towing Inc.,1024 Gardner Blvd.,Columbus, MS 39702

2002 Ford MustangVin#4T1BE46K89U279404

This vehicle will be putup for sale on the 26thday of February, 2019at 10:00 am atShelton's Towing, Inc.,1024 Gardner Blvd.,Columbus, MS 39702.

PUBLISH: 1/22, 1/29,& 2/5/2019

ADVERTISEMENT FORBIDS

The MS Regional Hous-ing Authority IV, Colum-bus, Ms. will receivebids for their “New Of-fice Building and 504Renovations at ProjectMS 019-017, Grenada,MS”. Bids from Con-tractors will be receivedat the Management Of-fice of the Housing Au-thority at 2845 SouthFrontage Road, Colum-bus, MS, until 2:00p.m., Thursday, Febru-ary 28, 2019 at whichtime and place all bidswill be publicly openedand read aloud. This isa rebid on this project.

Specifications andDrawings can be viewedin the office of RJZ Ar-chitecture, PA, Architec-ture Engineering; 91Sunset Drive, Suite C,Grenada, Mississippi38901. Bid documentsare being made avail-able via original papercopy. Plan holders arerequired to register foran account atwww.jones-zanderplanroom.com to view andorder Bid Documents.All plan holders are re-quired to have a validemail address for regis-tration. Bid documentsare non-refundable andmust be purchasedthrough the website.Questions regardingwebsite registration andonline orders pleasecontact Plan HousePrinting at (662) 407-0193. The non-refund-able deposit is $100.00 .

All bids must be submit-ted in a sealed envel-ope and the words“New Office Buildingand 504 Renovations atProject MS 019-017,Grenada, MS” and "BidDocuments" clearly writ-ten on the outside ofthe bid envelope. Con-tact person for furtherdetails is RJZ Architec-ture, PA (662-226-7115). See also Sec-tion 00200-2, Para-graph 1.

All bid envelopes shallcontain, on the exteriorside, the Contractor’sCertificate of Respons-ibility number. NO EX-CEPTIONS

All bids shall be writtenon the form providedand shall be sealed inan envelope. All othermethods of bidding, ex-cept telegraphic modific-ations, will be con-sidered non-responsive.No modifications on ex-terior of envelope. NOEXCEPTIONS

No bidder may with-draw his bid within 45days after the date setfor the opening thereof,and each bidder mustcomply with the laws ofthe State of Missis-sippi and all local lawsrelative to the perform-ance of said work.

Award will be made tothe lowest responsibleand responsive bidderwhose bid meets the re-quirements of this Invit-ation for Bids. The MSRegional Housing Au-thority IV reserves theright to reject any andall bids or to waive anyinformalities in the bid-ding.

Submitted by:Mr. Brian Power,Executive Director

Dates to be Published:January 29, 2019February 5, 2019

TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OFSALE

WHEREAS, on January18, 2008, Martha H.Imes executed a Deedof Trust to T. Harris,Collier, III, as Trusteefor Trustmark NationalBank, as Lender, withMortgage Electronic Re-gistration Systems, Inc.,(“MERS”), as Benefi-ciary, which is recordedin the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, MS, inBook 2008 at Page1744;

WHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned toTrustmark NationalBank in Book MORT2018 at Page 26904;

WHEREAS, on Decem-ber 13, 2018, Trust-mark National Banksubstituted JamesEldred Renfroe as Trust-ee in the aforemen-tioned deed of trust withthis recorded in BookMORT 2018 at Page26906;

WHEREAS, there beinga default in the termsand conditions of theDeed of Trust and en-tire debt secured hav-ing been declared to bedue and payable in ac-cordance with its terms,Trustmark NationalBank, the holder of thedebt has requested theTrustee to execute thetrust and sell said landand property pursuantto its terms in order toraise the sums due,with attorney’s andtrustee’s fees, and ex-penses of sale;

NOW, THEREFORE, I,James Eldred Renfroe,Trustee for said Deed ofTrust, will on February6, 2019, offer for saleat public outcry, andsell within legal hours(being between thehours of 11:00 a.m.,and 4:00 p.m.) at themain front door of theLowndes County Court-house in Columbus,MS, to the highest andbest bidder for cash,the following describedproperty situated inLowndes County, MS,to-wit:

PARCEL NO. I: Lot 13 ofCountry Club Subdivi-sion, a subdivision ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi, according tothe map or plat thereofof record in SubdivisionPlat Book 1 at Page 88in the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi; Subject to therestrictive covenantsand conditions con-tained in the instru-ment dated February27, 1951, recorded inDeed Book 222 atPages 124-125, inclus-ive, in the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi.

PARCEL NO. II: Part ofLot 12 of said CountryClub Subdivision, moreparticularly described asfollows, to-wit:

Begin at the extremeSouth corner of Lot 12of said Country ClubSubdivision; thenceNorthwesterly along theSouthwest side of saidLot 12 for a distance of37.5 feet; thence North-easterly 225.5 feetalong a straight linewhose projection will in-tersect the West right-of-way line of ChoctawRoad 30 feet Southerlyfrom the Southeastcorner of Lot 12, (theSoutheast corner of Lot12 being the Northcorner of Lot 13 of saidCountry Club Subdivi-sion); thence South-westerly 243 feet, moreor less, to the Point ofBeginning, Subject tothe restrictive coven-ants and conditions ashereinabove referred to;LESS AND EXCEPT thefollowing describedtracts, to-wit:

(A) That part of ParcelNo. I, more particularlydescribed as follows, to-wit: Begin at the ex-treme North corner ofsaid Lot 13 of saidCountry Club Subdivi-sion; thence Southerlyalong the West side ofChoctaw Road a dis-tance of 30 feet; thenceSouthwesterly 114.8feet along a straight linewhose projection will in-tersect the Southwestside of said Lot 12 at apoint 37.5 feet North-westerly from the Southcorner of said Lot 12;thence Northeasterly138 feet, more or less,to the Point of Begin-ning.

(B) That part of Parcels Iand II, more particularlydescribed as follows, to-wit:

Begin at the extremeSouth corner of said Lot13 of said Country ClubSubdivision; the North-easterly along the Eastside of said Lot 13 adistance of 85 feet;thence Northwesterly adistance of 211 feet toa point on the Southw-est side of Lot 12 ofsaid Country Club Subdi-vision (which point is37.5 feet Northwesterlyfrom the South cornerof said Lot 12); thenceSoutheasterly along theSouthwest side of saidLot 12 and the rear ofsaid Lot 13, a distanceof 251.5 feet to thePoint of Beginning.

INDEXING INSTRUC-TIONS: Lot 13 and Partof Lot 12, Country ClubSubdivision, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.

I will convey only suchtitle as is vested in meas Trustee, with no war-ranties.

WITNESS my signaturethis 2nd day of January,2019.

JAMES ELDRED REN-FROE, Trustee

James Eldred Renfroe,648 Lakeland East Dr.,Ste A,Flowood, MS 39232,Phone 601-932-1011

Publish: 1/15, 1/22,1/29, 2/5/2019

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OFSALE

WHEREAS, on January18, 2008, Martha H.Imes executed a Deedof Trust to T. Harris,Collier, III, as Trusteefor Trustmark NationalBank, as Lender, withMortgage Electronic Re-gistration Systems, Inc.,(“MERS”), as Benefi-ciary, which is recordedin the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, MS, inBook 2008 at Page1744;

WHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned toTrustmark NationalBank in Book MORT2018 at Page 26904;

WHEREAS, on Decem-ber 13, 2018, Trust-mark National Banksubstituted JamesEldred Renfroe as Trust-ee in the aforemen-tioned deed of trust withthis recorded in BookMORT 2018 at Page26906;

WHEREAS, there beinga default in the termsand conditions of theDeed of Trust and en-tire debt secured hav-ing been declared to bedue and payable in ac-cordance with its terms,Trustmark NationalBank, the holder of thedebt has requested theTrustee to execute thetrust and sell said landand property pursuantto its terms in order toraise the sums due,with attorney’s andtrustee’s fees, and ex-penses of sale;

NOW, THEREFORE, I,James Eldred Renfroe,Trustee for said Deed ofTrust, will on February6, 2019, offer for saleat public outcry, andsell within legal hours(being between thehours of 11:00 a.m.,and 4:00 p.m.) at themain front door of theLowndes County Court-house in Columbus,MS, to the highest andbest bidder for cash,the following describedproperty situated inLowndes County, MS,to-wit:

PARCEL NO. I: Lot 13 ofCountry Club Subdivi-sion, a subdivision ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi, according tothe map or plat thereofof record in SubdivisionPlat Book 1 at Page 88in the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi; Subject to therestrictive covenantsand conditions con-tained in the instru-ment dated February27, 1951, recorded inDeed Book 222 atPages 124-125, inclus-ive, in the office of theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi.

PARCEL NO. II: Part ofLot 12 of said CountryClub Subdivision, moreparticularly described asfollows, to-wit:

Begin at the extremeSouth corner of Lot 12of said Country ClubSubdivision; thenceNorthwesterly along theSouthwest side of saidLot 12 for a distance of37.5 feet; thence North-easterly 225.5 feetalong a straight linewhose projection will in-tersect the West right-of-way line of ChoctawRoad 30 feet Southerlyfrom the Southeastcorner of Lot 12, (theSoutheast corner of Lot12 being the Northcorner of Lot 13 of saidCountry Club Subdivi-sion); thence South-westerly 243 feet, moreor less, to the Point ofBeginning, Subject tothe restrictive coven-ants and conditions ashereinabove referred to;LESS AND EXCEPT thefollowing describedtracts, to-wit:

(A) That part of ParcelNo. I, more particularlydescribed as follows, to-wit: Begin at the ex-treme North corner ofsaid Lot 13 of saidCountry Club Subdivi-sion; thence Southerlyalong the West side ofChoctaw Road a dis-tance of 30 feet; thenceSouthwesterly 114.8feet along a straight linewhose projection will in-tersect the Southwestside of said Lot 12 at apoint 37.5 feet North-westerly from the Southcorner of said Lot 12;thence Northeasterly138 feet, more or less,to the Point of Begin-ning.

(B) That part of Parcels Iand II, more particularlydescribed as follows, to-wit:

Begin at the extremeSouth corner of said Lot13 of said Country ClubSubdivision; the North-easterly along the Eastside of said Lot 13 adistance of 85 feet;thence Northwesterly adistance of 211 feet toa point on the Southw-est side of Lot 12 ofsaid Country Club Subdi-vision (which point is37.5 feet Northwesterlyfrom the South cornerof said Lot 12); thenceSoutheasterly along theSouthwest side of saidLot 12 and the rear ofsaid Lot 13, a distanceof 251.5 feet to thePoint of Beginning.

INDEXING INSTRUC-TIONS: Lot 13 and Partof Lot 12, Country ClubSubdivision, LowndesCounty, Mississippi.

I will convey only suchtitle as is vested in meas Trustee, with no war-ranties.

WITNESS my signaturethis 2nd day of January,2019.

JAMES ELDRED REN-FROE, Trustee

James Eldred Renfroe,648 Lakeland East Dr.,Ste A,Flowood, MS 39232,Phone 601-932-1011

Publish: 1/15, 1/22,1/29, 2/5/2019

PUBLIC NOTICE

INVITATION FOR BIDS

ERATE PRODUCTS ANDSERVICES NOTICE

Sealed bids will be re-ceived by the Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem up to and nolater than 10:00 a.m.February 27, 2019, atthe Columbus-LowndesCounty Library System314 7th Street NorthColumbus, MS, for theprocurement of Cat-egory 2 products andservices via Erate fund-ing. A copy of the Re-quest for Proposals(RFP) can be obtainedby emailing Millie Rod-abough at [email protected]. If aresponse is not re-ceived within 24 hours,it is the responsibility ofthe respondent to callTillman or Millie Rod-abough at 769-233-4515 or 662-630-0118to confirm receipt of theRFP request.

All interested biddersmust attend a mandat-ory pre-bid conferenceon February 13, 2019beginning at 10:00 a.m.at the Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem 314 7th StreetNorth Columbus, MS.Bidders not attendingthe pre-bid conferencewill not be considered.

Bids will be opened at10:00 a.m. February27, 2019 Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem 314 7th StreetNorth Columbus, MS.Bids must be submit-ted in a sealed envel-ope clearly marked asfollows:

“2019 Erate Bid”Bid Opening: February27, 2019 10:00 a.m.

Envelopes not somarked will not be con-sidered

As an alternate submis-sion mechanism, bidsmay be submittedthrough secure electron-ic submission. Vendorswishing to submit theirproposal via secureelectronic biddingshould email Millie Rod-abough for electronicsubmission instruc-tions. If a response isnot received within 4hours, it is the respons-ibility of the respondentto call Millie Rod-abough at 662-630-0118 to confirm receiptof the request.

The Columbus-LowndesCounty Library Systemhas the right to acceptor reject any or all bids.Publish by order of theColumbus-LowndesCounty Library System.

Director, Erin BusbeaColumbus-LowndesCounty Library System

Publish:January 29, 2019 andFebruary 5, 2019

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PUBLIC NOTICE

INVITATION FOR BIDS

ERATE PRODUCTS ANDSERVICES NOTICE

Sealed bids will be re-ceived by the Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem up to and nolater than 10:00 a.m.February 27, 2019, atthe Columbus-LowndesCounty Library System314 7th Street NorthColumbus, MS, for theprocurement of Cat-egory 2 products andservices via Erate fund-ing. A copy of the Re-quest for Proposals(RFP) can be obtainedby emailing Millie Rod-abough at [email protected]. If aresponse is not re-ceived within 24 hours,it is the responsibility ofthe respondent to callTillman or Millie Rod-abough at 769-233-4515 or 662-630-0118to confirm receipt of theRFP request.

All interested biddersmust attend a mandat-ory pre-bid conferenceon February 13, 2019beginning at 10:00 a.m.at the Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem 314 7th StreetNorth Columbus, MS.Bidders not attendingthe pre-bid conferencewill not be considered.

Bids will be opened at10:00 a.m. February27, 2019 Columbus-Lowndes County LibrarySystem 314 7th StreetNorth Columbus, MS.Bids must be submit-ted in a sealed envel-ope clearly marked asfollows:

“2019 Erate Bid”Bid Opening: February27, 2019 10:00 a.m.

Envelopes not somarked will not be con-sidered

As an alternate submis-sion mechanism, bidsmay be submittedthrough secure electron-ic submission. Vendorswishing to submit theirproposal via secureelectronic biddingshould email Millie Rod-abough for electronicsubmission instruc-tions. If a response isnot received within 4hours, it is the respons-ibility of the respondentto call Millie Rod-abough at 662-630-0118 to confirm receiptof the request.

The Columbus-LowndesCounty Library Systemhas the right to acceptor reject any or all bids.Publish by order of theColumbus-LowndesCounty Library System.

Director, Erin BusbeaColumbus-LowndesCounty Library System

Publish:January 29, 2019 andFebruary 5, 2019

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HOME REPAIRS & CON-STRUCTION WORKWANTED. Carpentry,small concrete jobs,electrical, plumbing,roof repairs, pressurewashing and mobilehome roof coating andunderpinning. No jobtoo small. 549-7031.

SUGGS CONSTRUCTIONBuilding, remodeling,metal roofing, painting& all home repairs.662-242-3471

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

claims. 662-364-1769.Licensed & Bonded

General Services 1360

FREE TRAINING forJOB SEEKING WOMEN;COMPUTER TRAINING,RESUME WRITING, & IN-TERVIEW SKILLS;Tues & Thurs Eveningclasses start February5th. Enroll now at Chris-tian Women's JobCorps. Min H.S. Dip-loma or Equivalent re-quired. Call 662-722-3016 or 662-597-1030

Need a Babysitter or aTutor? Call 662-574-0426. Teacher Certi-fied in most subjects.

Need a Privacy Fence?Call me! Licensed w/30+ years of exp. Callor text 662-549-7167.

RETAINER WALL, drive-way, foundation, con-crete, masonry restora-tion, remodeling, base-ment foundation, re-pairs, small dump truckhauling (5-6 yd) load &demolition/lot cleaning.Burr Masonry662-242-0259.

WORK WANTED:Licensed & Bonded-car-pentry, painting, & de-molition. Landscaping,gutters cleaned, bushhogging, clean-up work,pressure washing, mov-ing help & furniturerepair. 662-242-3608

Lawn Care / Landscaping 1470

JESSE & BEVERLY'SLAWN SERVICE. Mow-ing, cleanup, landscap-ing, sodding, & tree cut-ting. 356-6525.

Painting & Papering 1620

SULLIVAN'S PAINTSERVICE

Certified in leadremoval. Offering spe-

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

rock repairs.Free EstimatesCall 435-6528

Stump Removal 1790

ALLSTUMP GRINDINGSERVICE

GET 'ER DONE!We can grind all your

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

we'll grind it!662-361-8379

Tree Services 1860

A&T Tree ServiceBucket truck & stump

removal. Free est.Serving Columbussince 1987. Senior

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

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

VICKERS TREESERVICE, LLC

Tree trimming and re-moval. Fully insured.

Free estimates.*Now Accepting Credit

& Debit Cards*Call Curt 662-418-0889

or 662-549-2902“A cut above the rest”

General Help Wanted 3200

CONTRACTOR SEEKINGexperienced carpenterwith lots of experience.Please call:662-570-9464 for info.

GLASS GLAZIERneeded, experienced incommercial & residen-tial. Must have at least8 years experience instorefront, hardware,windows, shower doors,etc. & valid driver's li-cense. Excellent com-munication skills, posit-ive attitude & willing-ness to get the job doneright required! Salarywill be determined byexperience. ContactJuanita or Glen at205-932-5812.

FULL TIME Position.Must have valid driver'slicense & be able todrive truck w/ trailer fordelivery of equipment.Some Counter Sales,Mechanical Knowledge& lifting required. Applyin person at HandymanRentals, Inc. on Hwy 82West in Starkville.

General Help Wanted 3200

HEAVY EQUIPMENTSERVICE MECHANICwith verifiable experi-ence, own tools andclean MVR. Submitresume by fax to662-492-4490or email to: [email protected]

THE GOLDEN TrianglePlanning & Develop-ment District is accept-ing applications for part-time personal care at-tendants to work in theGolden Triangle area.Applicants must have avalid driver's license, re-liable transportation, &liability insurance onvehicle. Contact PhyllisFlake at Golden Tri-angle Planning & Devel-opment District, 106 Mi-ley Dr., Starkville, MS.No telephone callsplease.

Medical / Dental 3300

DENTAL ASSISTANTneeded. Must have cur-rent radiological license,CPR Certification, andat least 1 year experi-ence. Send resume toOffice ManagerPO Box 8936Columbus, MS 39705

HELP WANTED

CARE CENTER OFABERDEEN

RN SUPERVISORM-F, 8A-4:30P

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Apply in person atCare Center

505 Jackson St,Aberdeen

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Truck Driving 3700

CLASS A CDL DRIVERwith Truck & LowboyTrailer experience toload, haul, & unloadheavy constructionequipment. Overnighttravel required. Onlyqualified applicants withclean MVR, currentmedical examiner’scertificate and no acci-dents need apply. Faxresume to 662-492-4490 or email to [email protected]

Bargain Column 4180

BROWN WICKERweatherproof patio chairwith brand new cush-ions $50. 4 drawerchest of drawers $50.662-352-9593

HOME DESK perfect forstudent $25. Antiquemarble top plant stand$75. Pictures available.662-352-9593.

Burial Plots 4250

FRIENDSHIP CEMETERYBurial Space. Square#103 X-11. $800.Call Wortley Cole,662-574-5591.

Farm Equipment & Supplies 4420

2016 CAT Skidsteer w/mulcher. <1,000 hrs,$88,500. 2016 JohnDeere 5100E Tractor,210 hrs. $39,500.205-329-1790.

General Merchandise 4600

FREE TREE Giveaway2/7/19 from 8:30-4pmLowndes Co. SWCD,2282 MLK Jr. Dr, Col-umbus. 328-5921 ext 3One Bundle Per Person.

Sporting Goods 4720

ED SANDERS GunsmithOpen for season! 9-5,Tues-Fri & 9-12, Sat.Over 50 years experi-ence! Repairs, cleaning,refinishing, scopesmounted & zeroed,handmade knives.Located: Hwy 45 Alt,North of West Point,turn right on YokahamaBlvd, 8mi & turn left onDarracott Rd, will seesign, 2.5mi ahead shopon left. 662-494-6218.

Business Opportunity 6050

HISTORIC DOWNTOWNColumbus: 411 MainSt. Office, Retail, Res-taurant Space available.Call 423-333-1124.

Apts For Rent: Northside 7010

PEAR ORCHARD APTS2BR Townhouse - $585,W/D incl. Great loca-tion. $200 processingfee & $50 applicationfee. 662-328-9471 or662-889-7565.

Apts For Rent: South 7040

1BR/1BA 505 5th Ave.S. 1 block from down-town. Walking distanceto MUW. No pets. CAFBwelcomed. XL l/r, d/r,b/r & backyard. In-cludes w/d, air condi-tioner, gas heater, hard-wood floors, electricstove, refrigerator.$750/mo. $750 dep.662-364-6454.

Apts For Rent: West 7050

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Apts For Rent: Other 7080

1BR/1BA Apts for rent.College Manor Apts, dir-ectly across from MUW.Completely renovated,incl granite countertops,SS appls & W/D. 12 molease, dep req, $650/mo. 662-425-3817.

2BR/1BA located inHistoric DowntownColumbus. 2,000 sqft.Hardwood floorsthroughout. Open floor.Very nice. Incl W&D.$1200/mo. Call662-328-8655.

DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BA,CH&A, 1 story, W/D,historic district, 1 blockfrom downtown, $625/mo. + $625 dep. NOPETS. 662-574-8789.Peaceful & Quiet area.

1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-ments & townhouses.Call for more info.662-328-8254.

FIRST FULL MONTHRENT FREE! 1 & 2 Bed-room Apts/Townhomes.Stove & refrigerator.$335-$600 Monthly.Credit check & deposit.Coleman Realty,662-329-2323.

DOWNTOWN LOFT.Very big, nice 1 bed-room. Wood floors, lotsof windows. $700 permonth. Call Stewart,662-364-1610.

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Commercial Property For Rent 7100

OFFICE SPACE: 2,000square feet. 294Chubby Dr. Flexible leas-ing terms. Availablenow. 662-328-8254.

Commercial Property For Rent 7100

COMMERCIAL PROPER-TIES/Retail/OfficeSpaces starting @$285/mo. Downtown &East Columbus loca-tions. 662-435-4188.

OFFICE FOR RENT.30x15. Separate airconditioner & bathroom.$400/mo. Located inCaledonia. Call 662-574-0082.

HISTORIC DOWNTOWNColumbus Office, Retail,Restaurant Space avail-able. Call 662-328-8655 or 662-574-7879.

Houses For Rent: Northside 7110

2BR HOUSE. Stove, ref.,w/d hookup, windowa/c, heat electric.$485/mo. Lease-dep.+credit check. Cole-man Realty. 329-2323.

3BR/2BA. Fresh paint,new carpet, ch/a,fenced yard & appl furn.662-251-9696.

COLONIAL TOWN-HOUSES. 2 & 3 bed-room w/ 2-3 bath town-houses. $600 to $695.662-549-9555. Ask forGlenn or text.

HOUSE WITH APART-MENT NEAR MUW.323 13th St. N. 3 Blksfrom MUW. L/r, d/r,b/r, kitchen, large f/rw/ fireplace, 2BR/3BA.Laundry room, outsidefenced patio, screenedside porch & work roomWITH ATTACHED APART-MENT B/r, d/r, kitchen& bathroom. NO HUD.Ref. req. Dep. req.Pets allowed w/ extradep. $1075/mo.662-386-7506.

Houses For Rent: Caledonia 7160

2BR/1BA. Privacyfence. Walking distanceto school. $750/mo +$750 dep. 1 year lease.No pets. 662-242-0683.

Houses For Rent: Other 7180

1 ROOM/1BA, UtilitiesIncluded. $400/mo.One person only. Refsreq. Contact/leave amessage for more info:662-328-8655.

Mobile Homes for Rent 7250

3BR/2BA Trailer, NewHope school dist.$500/mo & $500 dep.Call between 10a-7p.662-386-4292.NO TEXT MESSAGES.

NICE 3BR/2BA MH inWest Lowndes schooldistrict. $485/mo +$485 dep. 662-242-7653 or 662-308-7781.

RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities &cable from $145/wk -$535/month. Colum-bus & County Schoollocations. 662-242-7653 or 601-940-1397.

Commercial Property 8050

RETAIL SPACE Availablein Historic Downtown.404 Main St. 3,000sq. ft. $1,300/mo.Call 662-328-8655or 662-574-7879.

Houses For Sale: Northside 8150

CONVENIENT 3BR/2BA.For Sale or Lease! 512Lincoln Rd. New paint,flooring, brick shop,fenced bkyd & patio.Zoned commercial, canbe home/office. 662-328-9634 for more info.

Houses For Sale: West 8350

FSBO: 3BR/2BA in May-hew, 1551 Garth Rd.Close to Columbus,Starkville & West Point.New HVAC, 1.7 acres,large metal bldg incl.$139,000. 662-418-8984 or 662-552-1400.

Investment Property 8550

GRAVEL FOR SALE onprivate property. Approx6 acres. Will sell orlease property locatedin NE Noxubee County.601-405-3717.

Lots & Acreage 8600

22 ACRES in Caledoniaon Wood Rd. All roadfrontage. Water & natur-al gas available. Resid-ential DevelopmentProperty. 662-356-6862or 662-574-3053.

250 ACRE pine planta-tion with 10 to 16 yearold trees, prime deerhunting, ideal for hunt-ing club, $1500/acre,will divide, MonroeCounty. 662-369-3778,or 662-256-5838.

WINTER SPECIAL1.95 acre lots.Good/bad credit.10% down, as low as$299/mo. Eaton Land.662-361-7711

Campers & RVs 9300

TOMBIGBEE RV Park,located on Wilkins WiseRd & Waverly Rd. FullHookups available.$300/mo. 662-328-8655 or 662-574-7879.

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