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Park heads to
Sticking together state spelling
Triplets coming to MSU together after
brother’s acceptance to ACCESS program
bee for third
By Alex Holloway
aholloway@cdispatch.com
and final time
Denise Newton believes a February accep- Armstrong eighth
tance letter from Mississippi State University
will completely change her son Rees’ life.
grader has won the
Rees, a senior at Frisco High School in
Texas, is one of six students to be selected
Mississippi competition
for MSU’s ACCESS (Academics, Campus
Life, Community Involvement, Employment
two out of three years
Opportunities, Socialization and Self-Aware- By ISABELLE ALTMAN
ness) program — a highly-selective program ialtman@cdispatch.com
that integrates students with special needs
into the university’s student body and cam- Soyeon Park has
pus life. won the state spell-
Even better for the Newtons, Rees’ accep- ing bee every year
tance will allow their triplet children — in- she’s attended.
cluding Rees’ brother, Davis, and his sister, This year, now
Brantley-Kate — to take another step in life that she’s an eighth
together as all three will enroll at MSU this grader, is her last
fall. year to try.
Park
“ACCESS, I think, will truly change the Park, a student
complete trajectory of his life,” Denise said. at Armstrong Middle School in
“I think it’s one of those things we’ll look back Starkville, has emerged as Oktib-
on and say it’s a gamechanger, absolutely.” beha County’s winner in a spell-
Denise said Rees, Davis and Brantley-Kate ing competition for third through
were born 28 weeks premature. Davis and eighth graders in February, mean-
Courtesy photo
Brantley-Kate came home after 14 weeks at ing she’ll be representing the coun-
Triplets Davis Newton, Brantley-Kate Newton and Rees Newton
the hospital, she said. Rees came home after stand on the Famous Maroon Band’s practice field during a visit ty at the Mississippi Spelling Bee
16 weeks but was in and out of the hospital for to campus. The triplets are attending MSU in the fall, with Davis in Jackson Tuesday. The last two
almost the entire first year after. and Brantley-Kate in the band and Rees attending through the times she competed at the state
See Triplets, 6A university’s ACCESS program. level — in 2016 and 2017 — she
won first place and earned a trip to
See Park, 6A

Monday Profile
Local antique shop owner offers wisdom on helping others Fred Haley
and his rescue
Chihuahua,
BY AMANDA LIEN not exactly trusted in society. an American relic, a former Senorita, sit
alien@cdispatch.com I don’t know where that came general store built in 1901 that outside Haley’s
from. still has the original shelving store, Quirky

T
wo local antique dealers
only spent a few minutes
inside Quirky Antiques,
Fred Haley’s antique store
on Second Street North near
Second Avenue, but they still
gave Haley something to think
about.
“Antique dealers are a
little like used car dealers,” he
mused. “The kind of people
Antiques at the
“I used to do that back in units, as well as handwriting
intersection of
the (1970s),” he added. “Hunt- from the store’s past clerks, on Second Street
ing for antiques, I mean. But the walls. and Second
that doesn’t really excite me “They’d allow people to buy Avenue North
anymore. Now, I like to keep it on credit and just write it up on on Wednesday.
low key. I like to take my time, the wall,” Haley said. “They’d Haley has been
think about things. I’ve lived a give pretty much anything on a teacher and
business owner
while. That’s what happens.” credit.” in Mississip-
Quirky Antiques, and Haley Prior to becoming Quirky pi since the
himself, specializes in Amer- Antiques, the shop was used as 1970s.
ican relics. The store itself is See Haley, 3A Amanda Lien/Dispatch Staff

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Say What?
Did you hear? “I know a lot of people who don’t want to vote for
Donald Trump but don’t necessarily want to vote for the
Some lawmakers worry about presidential version of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.”
allowing sports bets on phones Attorney Connie O’Connor on the liberal direction
of Democratic presidential candidates. Story, 5A.

‘We know cellphones are addictive

and gambling is addictive’
Rhode Island Rep. Teresa Tanzi
Should media avoid naming
The Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —
to an activity that can be
highly addictive.
“We know cellphones
the gunmen in mass shootings?
For states looking to profit are addictive and gam-
‘A lot of these shooters
want to be treated like Mourners pay tribute to New
off the new world of legal bling is addictive,” said
sports betting, there’s an Tanzi, a Democrat. “It’s
app for that. The ques- two corrosive elements to-
celebrities. They want
Zealand victims, await burials
tion for state lawmakers: gether, and we don’t know
Should they allow it? what those two things to-
As state legislatures
across the U.S. decide
gether will exponentially to be famous.’
produce. I just don’t see Adam Lankford, a criminologist The Associated Press
whether to authorize that there’s adequate cau-
sports gambling, lawmak- at the University of Alabama
tion moving forward.” CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Thousands of people paid trib-
ers are debating whether
She wants the state to By LISA MARIE PANE ute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman
the bets — like almost The Associated Press
launch a public aware- at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to
everything else in daily
ness campaign to educate bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims’ bodies.
life — should be allowed A few months after teen shoot-
people about the signs of Hundreds of flowers were piled up amid candles, balloons and notes
to happen online or made ers killed 12 classmates and her of grief and love outside the Al Noor mosque and the city’s botanic gar-
gambling addiction and
only in-person. father at Columbine High School, dens. As a light rain fell, people clutched each other and wept quietly.
to dedicate sports betting
Among their concerns Coni Sanders was standing in line “We wish we knew your name to write upon your heart. We wish we
is that the accessibility of revenue to help problem
at a grocery store with her young knew your favorite song, what makes you smile, what makes you cry,”
online betting, especially gamblers. Tanzi also said
daughter when they came face to read one of the tributes, which contained cut-out paper hearts under a
on mobile devices, could that any mobile app de-
face with the magazine cover. nearby tree. “We made a heart for you. 50 hearts for 50 lives.”
be a pathway for minors to signed to take sports bets It showed the two gunmen who
should include informa- Two days after Friday’s attack, New Zealand’s deadliest shooting in
start gambling and make had carried out one of the deadliest modern history, relatives were still waiting for authorities to release the
sports betting more addic- tion about how people can school shootings in U.S. history.
get help if they are devel- bodies. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as
tive. Sanders realized that few people possible after death, usually within 24 hours.
The debate was on oping an addiction. knew much about her father, who
Rep. Anastasia Wil- Supporters arrived from across the country to help with the burials
display this past week in saved countless lives. But virtually in Christchurch. Authorities sent in backhoes to dig graves at a site that
Rhode Island, where the liams, who supported the everyone knew the names and the was newly fenced off and blocked from view with white netting.
Legislature sent a bill to addition of mobile sports tiniest of details about the attackers
the governor that expands bets, said Rhode Island who carried out the carnage.
the state’s sports betting needs to embrace tech- In the decades since Columbine, Adam Lankford, a criminologist umbine,” Sanders said. “The media
law by allowing wagers to nology. If it doesn’t, she a growing movement has urged at the University of Alabama, who was so fascinated — and so was
take place online. warned that gambling news organizations to refrain from has studied the influence of media our country and the world — that
Rep. Teresa Tanzi, who revenue will go to other naming the shooters in mass slay- coverage on future shooters, said they really grasped onto this every
voted against the bill, said states. ings and to cease the steady drum- it’s vitally important to avoid exces- detail. Time and time again, we
she worries about giving “Change is here to beat of biographical information sive coverage of gunmen. couldn’t escape it.”
people unlimited access stay,” she said. about them. Critics say giving the “A lot of these shooters want to Criminologists who study mass
assailants notoriety offers little to be treated like celebrities. They shootings say the vast majority of
help understand the attacks and in- want to be famous. So the key is to shooters are seeking infamy and
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Haley
Continued from Page 1A
a storage unit for a group
of local antique collectors.
After Haley opened the
building as a store four
years ago, he tried to
capture the spirit of the
general store the building
used to be by leaving
chairs out front, both for
sale and for sitting, and by
always keeping his door
open.
“Back then, (the gen-
eral store) was the focal
point of the community,”
he said. “People came
here for their grocery
needs and gardening
needs. It was a communi- Amanda Lien/Dispatch Staff

cation center.”
Prior to selling an-
tiques, Haley had a long
career as an educator.
After graduating from
Mississippi State Univer-
sity in 1969, he taught
seventh grade science at
Bayou View Junior High
before working in the
administration depart-
ment during Gulfport’s
school desegregation in
the 1970s.
In 1974, Haley wanted
to get married, but real-
ized he couldn’t do that on
a teacher’s salary. So he
opened an antique busi-
ness, Haley’s Collectibles,
which quickly began to
turn a profit.
“I was on top,” he said.
“I remember thinking,
‘man, how great is this?
I’m so successful.’”
Haley’s sister, who
The handwriting on the wall of Quirky Antiques belongs to clerks at the general store
the building held in the 1900s. Clerks would keep track of credit customers owed
this way.
was also an educator, saw
Haley’s success and rec-
ommended he read one of
her favorite motivational
books, “See You at the
Top” by Zig Ziglar. He said
that book reminded him
of what really mattered:
giving back to others.
“It wasn’t antiques and
cars and clerks and boats
that would make me hap-
py,” he said. “It was about
helping other people. How
simple is that, and how
easy?”
Haley started build-
ing a course based on
Ziglar’s book for junior
high school students
and teachers. He then
traveled with Ziglar,
Mary Kay and other en-
trepreneurs, opening for
their keynote speeches at
events worldwide.
In the 1985, Haley
realized he needed to
be back in a classroom.
He went back to Gulf-
port and consulted with
school systems and col-
Amanda Lien/Dispatch Staff
leges on how they could
incorporate the course
based on “See You at the
Top” into their curricu-
lum.
“Even then, I needed
to get back into the class-
room,” he said. “I wanted
to get back to teaching
kids. But things were
changing in education.”
In 1990, Haley moved
back Columbus and
began teaching at Cook
Elementary Fine Arts
Magnet School, then an
Fred Haley admires a 1970s art deco lamp for sale at
Quirky Antiques. Haley’s store sells everything from
bureaus and china to lamps and antique swords.
alternative school for 13- be found outside his
to 18-year-olds. He taught store, offering neighbors
there for two years before free popcorn or refill-
deciding teaching wasn’t ing someone’s bike tire
as much for him as it was when it starts going flat.
in the 1970s. Once, he said, he asked
From then until 2005, a woman he saw sleeping
Haley was the resident on the sidewalk near the
director at Camp Henry soccer complex if she
Pratt, a summer camp needed some food, then
that was owned by the
purchased her a hotel
YMCA until 2018. He left
room and clothing before
that position in 2005, and
driving her to the state
began making plans to
open Quirky Antiques, social security office in
hearkening back to his Jackson.
1970s-era venture, only “He’s just a kind man,”
now with more worldly said Donna Kuyerkdall,
experience and a lifetime Haley’s friend and patron
of wisdom. of Quirky Antiques. “He’s
He misses teaching, always here for someone
but is fulfilled by the else. And he never tires
work he does at Quirky of helping them. He
Antiques. He can often always has time.”

Under the Capitol dome

Analysis: Mississippi lawmakers

seek early exit to session
One of the big general bills awaiting
final consideration is Senate Bill
2116, which would ban most abortions
once a fetal heartbeat is detected
By EMILY
WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mis-
sissippi lawmakers are
aiming for an early end
to their scheduled 90-day
session.
This is the fourth and
final year of the current
term, and most members
of the House and Senate
are seeking re-election.
Finishing early gives all
representatives and sena-
tors more time with their
families and their other
jobs (legislating is a part-
time gig, after all). And
an early wrap-up gives
incumbents more time to
campaign in their home
districts.
The session started
Jan. 8 and is scheduled to
end by April 7.
During a typical week
in a typical session, law-
makers are in Jackson
from late Monday after-
noon until about the mid-
dle of Friday morning, with
the heaviest workloads on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays. They are
usually at the Capitol only
one weekend near the end
of the session, when nego-
tiators wrangle over the fi-
nal details of a budget and
bond bills for the year that
begins July 1.
This session has been
more leisurely than most,
with the House and Senate
taking several long week-
ends by leaving on Thurs-
days instead of Fridays.
Most of the big dead-
lines for general bills have
passed, and only a few top
issues are unresolved go-
ing into these final weeks.
Legislators also still need
to agree on most budget
and bond bills.
The probability of a pay
raise for teachers and the
possibility of a pay raise
for other state employees
will be central issues the
next couple of weeks.
Senators approved a
plan to give teachers an
extra $500 a year over
two years, for a total of
$1,000. The House upped
the ante last week, voting
for $2,000 a year over two
years, for a total of $4,000.
The final plan is likely
to fall somewhere in be-
tween.
Working within the re-
quirement of a balanced
budget, legislators will
have to decide how much
they want to spend on
teachers’ raises and how
much, if any, they want
to spend on pay raises for
other state government
employees. Leaders have
not yet offered proposals
for state employee raises.
One of the big general
bills awaiting final con-
sideration is Senate Bill
2116, which would ban
most abortions once a fe-
tal heartbeat is detected,
about six weeks into preg-
nancy. The House made
some changes but kept the
main point of the Senate
bill intact. Senators could
either seek final negotia-
tions or accept what the
House did and send the
bill on to Republican Gov.
Phil Bryant, who pledges
to sign it into law.
Several other states,
including Kentucky and
Georgia, are considering
similar fetal heartbeat
bills as abortion oppo-
nents, energized by a
more conservative U.S.
Supreme Court, seek a
court case to challenge
the high court’s 1973 de-
cision that legalized abor-
tion nationwide.
Another bill still await-
ing consideration by the
Mississippi Legislature
deals with campaign
spending. Senators last
week amended House Bill
1205 to say state or local
governments could not re-
quire disclosure of donors’
names to certain types of
tax-exempt groups in-
volved in politics.
Republican Sen. Jenifer
Branning of Philadelphia
said people should be able
to donate to 501 (c) (4) so-
cial welfare organizations
without facing repercus-
sions from those who dis-
agree with their views.
But Democratic Sen.
David Blount of Jackson
said keeping donors’
names secret “would be
the biggest step back-
ward” since Mississippi
enacted a campaign fi-
nance disclosure law. He
said the public should
know whose money is in-
fluencing politics. Blount
also said anonymity can
lead to demonstrably
false claims in campaigns:
“When people don’t have
to put their names on
things, they act a fool.”

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Ever have that gut feeling?
“Your brain can be fooled and some antibiotics to clear it the enzymes here,” he point-
your heart is an idiot but your up.” ed, “were just a little bit over
gut doesn’t know how to lie.” With that I delved imme- here it would eat your stom-
— Anonymous diately into the book to learn ach away.” Then he explained
more about the gut. a limited version of the mi-

Y
ou know that
little pooch
you get in
your stomach as
you age, well I just
learned it’s not
your stomach at all.
A friend gave me a
book called “Gut,”
by Giulia Enders.
I plopped it on the
bookshelf, thinking
I would probably Shannon Bardwell
not read it. How
interesting could
a book be on the workings of
your stomach ... I mean gut.
Then my best friend forever
had a colonoscopy and after-
wards the doctor asked, “Have poster of the gut. The doctor
you experienced any pain in
your left side?”
The BFF (best friend
forever) answered, “No.” The
doctor continued, “Well, you
have diverticulitis and there’s
inflammation. I’ll give you
Here’s what The raculous workings of the gut.
New York Times But there is so much more to
said about “Gut,” learn than by standing behind
“Ender’s wonder at the door of the doctor’s office.
the strange ways of I promise you, Ender’s book is
the gut is matched so entertaining.
only by her incre- Giulia Enders was doing re-
dulity at the limited search for her medical doctor-
public knowledge ate at the Institute for Medial
on the subject.” Microbiology in Frankfurt,
I flashed back Germany. At the 2014 Science
to my own colo- Slam in Berlin her presenta-
noscopy. (All my tion on the gut went viral on
friends are having YouTube — thus the book.
colonoscopies and My favorite anecdote highlights, but I recommend you may as well have licked
cataract surgeries. It’s what explaining an intestinal the book: them clean with your tongue.
we do now.) While waiting on blockage goes something Stress of any kind activates Wet sponges with food
the doctor I stood behind the like this: Remember when nerves that inhibit the diges- particles are nice homes for
door examining the life-size you were young and you were tive process, which means we microbes.
holding a water hose crimped not only extract less energy The stomach starts high on
came in, finding me behind in your hand and you asked from our food, we take longer your left side and swings over
the door. “How does all this your sister to look down the to digest it, putting the gut to the bottom of the right rib-
work?” I asked. “How does the hose then you let it go and you under unnecessary strain. cage. Any pain felt lower than
food go down, then up again, got grounded for a week. By If you dilute bacteria on that is not a stomachache.
across and back down?” the way, Giulia’s sister, Jill, your plate cutlery, and cutting Email reaches Shannon
The doctor’s eyes twinkled, illustrates the book. Smart board with water, then wipe Bardwell of Columbus at ms-
“It’s miraculous. You know if girls. Here’s some helpful them with a kitchen sponge deltachild@msn.com.

MUSINGS

Where’s the outrage?

I once kidded an inept
editorial writer I worked
with by asking him, as he
prepared to write, “Are
we concerned or outraged
today?”
He gave me a weak
smile, which meant he
would have hit me if it
were not for the fact that
he’d never hit anyone. If
he’d decided to hit me, he
wouldn’t have known what Marc Dion
to do first, and the trick to
hitting someone is not to
do anything FIRST.
Of course, I was just being mean to the guy, the
way Robert Dole was being mean to an entire nation
when he famously asked, “Where’s the outrage?”
The outrage, she is gone. Or at least the old
familiar outrage is gone.
Which is good, at least in some cases.
I can remember (and not dimly) when many of
my elders were outraged by divorce, interracial
marriage, interfaith marriage, single motherhood,
homosexuality and a number of other things. They
expressed their outrage by degrading, insulting,
refusing to hire, refusing to associate with and
sometimes hitting people who did those outrageous
things.
I still know a lot of outraged people, but there’s
very little agreement among them as to what de-
serves outrage.
Some are outraged by the thought of transgender
people peeing in their bathroom of their choice in
the Walmart. Others think the peeing issue isn’t
important, but that the whole nation should be
outraged over the lack of “common sense” gun laws.
I put “common sense” in quotes because I’ve never
known what it is, except on the most basic level of
wearing boots when you go out in the snow.
And there’s a snowdrift of outrage piling up on
my lawn. People I know are outraged about abor-
tion, Hillary Clinton’s emails, Russian collusion, R.
Kelly, sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church,
lack of respect for the flag, kneeling during the
National Anthem, stigmatizing drug addicts, and so
much more.
At my age (I’m nearly 62), the proper response
to all this outrage is to say, “In my day, we weren’t
offended by everything.”
But that’s a lie. I knew people who were offended
by people of another color moving into the neigh-
borhood, or by the Catholic John F. Kennedy being
elected president.
The only difference was in my day there was a
kind of agreement as to what constituted outrageous
behavior. Right or wrong, there was a general notion
of what was right or wrong. That notion crushed a
lot of people’s lives.
Now, when some Nazis are “fine people,” and you
can autograph a Bible with the same hand you’ve
used to grab many an unwilling female rump, you’d
think we have less outrage, but we do not.
It’s Facebook outrage, and it comes with memes,
but it’s what passes for outrage in the country of the
outrageous. And we are outrageous, we Americans,
forever pushing past the boundaries of what the last
generation thought was forbidden behavior.
I’m not sure who we’ll be 50 years from now,
when I am gently rotting in the ground, but it is my
hope we’ll continue to outrage those standards of
conduct we see as crushing people’s lives.
The Nazis, though, I hope a lot of us continue to
be outraged by Nazis. And I can tell you right now
that I never want to use a public bathroom with a
Nazi, no matter what their sexual preference.
Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a
reporter and columnist for The Herald News, the daily
newspaper of his hometown, Fall River, Massachu-
setts. For more on Dion, go to go to www.creators.com.
State of the nation
Is diversity a root cause of dual loyalty?
“We can’t be divided by
race, religion, by tribe. We’re
defined by those enduring
principles in the Constitution,
even though we don’t neces-
sarily all know them.”
So Joe Biden told the fire-
fighters union this week.
But does Joe really believe
that? Or does that not sound
more like a plea, a wistful
hope, rather than a deep
conviction? Patrick Buchanan
For Biden surely had in
mind the debate that exploded
last week in the House Democratic caucus on how to
punish Somali-American and Muslim Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar for raising the specter of dual loyalty.
Rebutting accusations of anti-Semitism lodged
against her, Omar had fired back: “I want to talk about
the political influence in this country that says it is OK
to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
Omar was talking about Israel.
Republicans raged that Nancy Pelosi’s caucus
must denounce Omar for anti-Semitism. Journalists
described the raising of the “dual loyalty” charge as a
unique and awful moment, and perhaps a harbinger of
things to come.
Yet, allegations of dual loyalty against ethnic
groups, even from statesmen, have a long history in
American politics.
In 1915, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, at a con-
vention of the Catholic Knights of Columbus, bellowed:
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated
Americanism ... German-Americans, Irish-Americans,
English-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Ital-
ian-Americans.
“There is no such thing as a hyphenated American
who is a good American. The only man who is a good
American is a man who is an American and nothing
else.”
The New York Times headline the next morning:
“Roosevelt Bars the Hyphenated.”
It continued: “No Room in This Country for Dual
Nationality, He Tells Knights of Columbus. Treason to
Vote as Such.”
What would Roosevelt think of the dual citizenship
of many Americans today? If someone is a citizen of
more than one country, how do we know where his
primary allegiance lies?
Does not dual citizenship, de facto, imply dual
loyalty?
Nor was the Rough Rider alone in his alarm. As
America edged toward intervention in the European
war, President Woodrow Wilson, too, tore into “the
hyphenates”:
“The passions and intrigues of certain active groups
and combinations of men amongst us who were born
under foreign flags injected the poison of disloyalty
into our most critical affairs. ...
“I am the candidate of a party, but I am above all
things else, an American citizen. I neither seek the fa-
vor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element
amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power
before loyalty to the United States.”
In another address, Wilson declared:
“There is disloyalty active in the United States,
and it must be absolutely crushed. It proceeds from
... a very small minority, but a very active and subtle
minority. It works underground but it shows its ugly
head where we can see it, and there are those at this
moment who are trying to levy a species of political
blackmail, saying: ‘Do what we wish in the interest of
foreign sentiment or we will wreak our vengeance at
the polls.’”
What did Ilhan Omar say to compare with that?
Roosevelt and Wilson had in mind some German
and Irish citizens whose affection for the lands and
peoples whence they came made them adversaries of
Wilson’s war, into which we would soon be dragged by
a WASP elite with deep ties to Great Britain.
Our Founding Fathers, too, were ever alert to
the dangers of dual loyalty. In his Farewell Address,
President Washington warned against a “passionate
attachment” to any foreign nation that might create the
illusion of some “common interest ... where no common
interest exists.”
Did FDR fear dual loyalty? His internment of
110,000 Japanese, mostly U.S. citizens, for the duration
of World War II, suggests that he did.
Did not the prosecution of American Communists
under the Smith Act, begun by Truman and continued
by Eisenhower, suggest that these first postwar presi-
dents saw peril in a secret party that gave allegiance to
a hostile foreign power?
Where Wilson, TR and FDR distrusted ethnic and
racial minorities, Truman went after the ideological
enemies within — the Communists.
What defines us, said Joe Biden, are the “enduring
principles in the Constitution, even though we don’t
necessarily all know them.”
But if these principles, of which many Americans
are not even aware, says Joe, are what define us and
hold us together, then what is it that is tearing us apart?
Is it not our differences? Is it not our diversity?
Is it not the powerful and conflicting claims of a
multiplicity of races, religions, tribes, ethnicities, and
nationalities, as well as clashing ideologies, irreconcil-
able moral codes, a culture war, and conflicting visions
of America’s past — the one side seeing it as horrible
and hateful, the other as great and good?
“Diversity is our greatest strength!” we are ever
admonished.
But where is the evidence for what appears to be not
only an inherently implausible claim but a transparent-
ly foolish and false one?
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syndicated colum-
nist, was a senior advisor to presidents Richard Nixon,
Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. His website is http://
buchanan.org/blog.
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Left or center? Democrats mull Ethiopia minister: ‘Clear

similarities’ in Boeing crashes
best options to beat Trump The Associated Press

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Preliminary in-

‘I know a lot of people who don’t want to vote for
Donald Trump but don’t necessarily want to vote for
the presidential version of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
and ALEX ANDRA JAFFE
The Associated Press
DUBUQUE, Iowa — As she wait-
ed to meet former Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooper at a recent house
party in Dubuque, attorney Connie
O’Connor was anxious about the
liberal direction of the Democratic
presidential primary.
“I know a lot of people who don’t
want to vote for Donald Trump but
don’t necessarily want to vote for
the presidential version of Alex-
andra Ocasio-Cortez,” she said,
referring to the recently elected
progressive congresswoman from
New York. “I think we forget those
people are out there.”
But about 80 miles away, union
organizer Eli Shepherd pointed to
the thousands of people flocking
to a Bernie Sanders rally at the
University of Iowa as proof that the
self-described democratic socialist
is best positioned to beat the Repub-
lican now in the White House.
“People get brought in (to the
campaign) because it’s something
they deeply care about,” Shepherd
said. “When there’s a campaign
that’s actually focused on that,
that’s what’s exciting, that’s what’s
transformative, that’s how you win.”
Democrats have a long fight
ahead over this question of who’s
right.
The early days of the Democrat-
ic contest are dominated by a de-
bate over whether candidates such
as Sanders are moving the party
too far left or whether the embrace
of liberal priorities will fire up the
base and help defeat Trump.
That debate is sure to deepen
if former Vice President Joe Biden
enters the race and tries to estab-
lish himself as a prominent centrist
counterweight to Sanders, a Ver-
mont senator. In the opening days
of his 2020 campaign, former Texas
Rep. Beto O’Rourke has also sought
to appeal to both parties.
“There’s a tension, and that’s
what presidential campaigns are
about,” said Simon Rosenberg of
the New Democratic Network.
So far, the candidates are racing
to prove their progressive bona fi-
des on issues such as “Medicare for
All” and the Green New Deal.
Yet surveys suggest Democratic
voters are less eager to tack left. A
Monmouth Poll last month found
56 percent of registered Democrats
said their top priority was a candi-
date who could beat Trump even if
they disagreed with that person on
most issues. A Pew Research Cen-
ter poll in January found that 53 per-
cent of Democrats wanted the party
to become more moderate, while 40
percent wanted it to become more
liberal.
formation from the flight data recorder of an Ethi-
opian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and
killed 157 people shows “clear similarities” with an
earlier disaster involving the same kind of Boeing
aircraft in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister
said Sunday.
The disclosure came as thousands marched in
the capital of Addis Ababa, accompanying 17 emp-
ty caskets at a funeral for the Ethiopian victims of
Flight 302. The caskets were empty because au-
thorities have said that recovering and identifying
the remains will take months.
The crash of Ethiopian Flight 302 on March 10
and that of a Lion Air plane in Indonesia in October
— both of them Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners — have
prompted the United States and other countries to
ground the aircraft.
The flight recorders from Flight 302 that went
down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa for
Nairobi were recovered “in a good condition that
enabled us to extract almost all the data inside,”
Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges told report-
ers.
Information collected so far from the flight data
recorder has indicated “clear similarities” between
both crashes, she said.

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Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar,

‘Miserlou’ composer, is dead
By LINDSEY BAHR
and JOHN ROGERS
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
Dick Dale, whose pound-
ing, blaringly loud pow-
er-chord instrumentals on
songs like “Miserlou” and
“Let’s Go Trippin’” earned
him the title King of the
Surf Guitar, has died at
age 81.
His former bassist
Sam Bolle says Dick Dale
passed away Saturday
night. No other details
were available.
Dale liked to say it was
surf-rock instrumental.
His fingering style was
so frenetic that he shred-
ded guitar picks during
songs, a technique that
forced him to stash spares
on his guitar’s body. “Bet-
ter shred than dead,” he
liked to joke, an expression
that eventually became the
title of a 1997 anthology re-
leased by Rhino Records.
Dale said he developed
his musical style when
he sought to merge the
sounds of the crashing
ocean waves he heard
while surfing with melo-
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he and not the Beach Boys dies inspired by the rocka-

who invented surf music
— and some critics have
said he was right.
An avid surfer, Dale
started building a devot-
ed Los Angeles fan base
in the late 1950s with
repeated appearances
at Newport Beach’s old
Rendezvous Ballroom. He
played “Miserlou,” “The
Wedge,” “Night Rider”
and other compositions at
wall-rattling volume on a
custom-made Fender Stra-
tocaster guitar.
“Miserlou,” which
would become his signa-
ture song, had been adapt-
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folk tune Dale heard as
a child and later trans-
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Park
Continued from Page 1A
the Scripps Spelling Bee
in Washington, D.C.
“It was exciting,” she
said about going to D.C.
“You got to meet a lot of
people and you got to look
at national monuments
and stuff, so it was fun.”
Park has lived in
Starkville for four or five
years, she said, moving
from Canada. While she’s
competed in the spelling
bee every year for the last
four years — 2018 was
the only year she did not
make it out of the local
competition — it’s not
her favorite subject. That
would be art. She’s also
involved this year in the
Science Olympiad and
a National History Day
competition.
She’s been to enough
spelling bees by now that
she’s got tricks she uses
to study. If she keeps
missing the same word,
she enters it into the web-
site Quizlet. By feeding
her the definition and
offering tips, the website
will help her spell the
word over and over again
until she gets the hang of
it.
Even so, Park said,
it sometimes helps to
guess, which is what she
did with her first “win
word” during a bee when
she was in fifth grade.
“I just had to guess on
Triplets
Continued from Page 1A
While the whole of
Rees’ condition doesn’t
have a formal diagno-
sis, Denise said he’s had
17 major surgeries and
has cerebral palsy and
periventricular leukoma-
lacia — a condition where
areas around his brain’s
ventricles died due to
damage from being born
prematurely.
But despite the chal-
lenges, Rees — who is ac-
tive in his school’s theater
program — has adapted
well.
“Adaptively, he’s on
a level with his peers,”
Denise said. “He drives
a car. He’s in some re-
source classes at school
but in the rest of them,
he’s in the regular class-
es. Hanging out with
peers and those sort of
things, you can’t tell a dif-
ference.”
Rees said he’s look-
ing forward to getting
on campus and hopes to
continue his involvement
with theater once he ar-
rives.
“I think it’s going to be
exciting that I get to be in
a smaller class, and ex-
perience all of the games
and get to join clubs,” he
said. “I want to join the-
ater and do acting — I’m
just really excited overall
to come to Mississippi
State.”
Getting in
The Newtons have
spent their whole lives
together, and Denise said
as the family started pre-
paring for college, they
wanted that to continue.
“I wanted to stay with
them because I didn’t
want to leave them,”
Brantley-Kate said, “and I
wanted to experience col-
lege with two of my best
friends.”
Rees said he also want-
ed to stick with his broth-
er and sister.
“I wanted to go to col-
Soyeon Park won the 2017 Mississippi state spelling bee in Jackson. This year the
eighth grader from Armstrong Middle School in Starkville will attend the Mississippi
Spelling Bee Tuesday. If she wins she will go to the national competition for the third
time, in Maryland in May.
it based on the alternate
pronunciation because I
wasn’t 100 percent sure
on it,” she said.
Even so she said she
doesn’t have any favorite
words — or least favorite
words she finds frustrat-
ing to spell. She simply
likes reading.
Parks said she’s both
nervous and excited for
Tuesday’s state compe-
tition, but added it won’t
be too upsetting if she
doesn’t win.
“I’m definitely ner-
vous, but if I don’t make
lege and be able to experi-
ence it, and be there with
my brother and sister and
not be far away,” Rees
said. “I was really excited
and I was like ‘I actually
get to go.’ My parents are
really happy that I get to
go too.”
Denise started look-
ing into colleges that
have programs for special
needs students and found
MSU’s ACCESS program.
The family visited MSU
on spring break last year,
and Denise said it was ap-
parent from the outset the
kids wanted to attend.
They began the AC-
CESS application process
in August, which Denise
said was “very involved.”
She and her husband,
John, visited MSU with
Rees for an ACCESS open
house event in October.
Rebecca Spencer, as-
sistant director of AC-
CESS, said Rees left an
impression even on that
first visit.
“He was just so posi-
tive,” she said. “He was
excited to be there. He
engaged well with the
staff and students who
were there for the open
house, and he just really
stood out to us as some-
body that was on our ra-
dar when his application
came in as a possible per-
son to interview.”
The Newtons returned
in January for an inter-
view.
After that, it was a mat-
ter of waiting, until Rees’
acceptance letter arrived
in February. When the
day came, Denise said,
Rees was over the moon.
“I don’t even know if
there’s a word that de-
scribes how excited he
is,” Denise said. “He’s just
so thrilled that he gets to
go do the same thing that
all his friends are talking
about and that Brant-
ley-Kate and Davis are
talking about and experi-
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Courtesy photo/Mississippi Education Association
it, I’ve already gone (to Middle School as well
the national competition) as our entire district are
twice, so I don’t think it’ll cheering for her tomor-
be as much of a big deal,” row,” Armstrong Middle
she said. School Principal Julie
If Park wins, she will Kennedy said.
go on to the National The Lowndes County
Spelling Bee in Maryland winner is
in May. Heritage
Whatever the out- Academy
come, her family and e i g h t h
school district are proud grader Sid
of her, Starkville-Oktib- Stegall,
beha Consolidated School who is at-
District officials said. tending the
“We’re extremely state com- Stegall
proud of her accomplish- petition for
ments, and Armstrong the first time.
ence college life.” tunities to develop and
Rees’ siblings shared grow and get the whole
his excitement. college experience,” Ca-
“That meant for us that pella said. “Everybody
we could stick together,” out there knows how
Davis said. “It means that much that can mean to a
Rees could come to Mis- person, that experience,
sissippi State and experi- and learning how to live
ence a four-year college on your own and make
and have as much that new friends, and get aca-
we could have instead of demic skills that go along
staying at home for two with social skills and soft
years and trying to go to skills so that you can live
college after that.” your best life.”
Julie Capella, assis-
tant dean and director of
student support services,
said that, while it’s good
the Newton triplets will
continue to stick together,
Rees made it into the pro-
gram on his own merits.
“If Rees had not met
our criteria, which is pret-
ty stringent, even though
this is a wonderful story,
we wouldn’t have been
able to accept him, be-
cause you really have to
be the right fit to be in
ACCESS,” Capella said.
ACCESS
MSU’s ACCESS pro-
gram started in 2010
with one student. The
program has 22 students
this year and will have 25
in the fall. ACCESS is a
four-year program where
students work toward a
certificate of completion,
which includes partici-
pation in the university’s
graduation ceremony
once they’re done.
Spencer said the pro-
gram focuses both on
academics and job readi-
ness, with job shadowing
opportunities for students
in the fall and spring se-
mesters.
Capella said programs
like ACCESS give stu-
dents who otherwise
wouldn’t have the chance
to go to college a way to fit
in and have the same kind
of experiences as other
students.
“Programs like this
give students the oppor-
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March dance
MSU elated over fifth seed in
first NCAA berth since 2009
BY PAUL D. BOWKER
pbowker@cdispatch.com

Three minutes into the NCAA Selec-

tion Show on Sunday, a roar erupted from
a room inside Davis Wade Stadium.
That’s precisely how long it took. Three
minutes.
Less than 10
minutes after that, THE LINEUP
Mississippi’s State MSU vs. Liberty
NCAA Tourna- n WHEN: 6:27 p.m.
ment-bound men’s Friday n WHERE: SAP Cen-
basketball team ter, San Jose, Calif.
was off to begins n WHAT: First round
its preparation of East Regional
for a game Friday n Tru
n AT STAKE: Winner
against Liberty plays Virginia Tech or
University. Assis- Saint Louis in Round 2
tant coaches head- on Sunday
ed to the basketball
offices to download Ole Miss vs.
Liberty game vid-
eos.
Oklahoma
n WHEN: 11:40 a.m.
There was work Friday
to be done. n WHERE: Colonial
Bulldogs head Life Arena, Columbia,
coach Ben How- S.C. n WHAT: First round
land sat down for of South Regional
a press conference n AT STAKE: Winner
alongside seniors plays Virginia or Gard-
Quinndary Weath- ner-Webb in Round 2
on Sunday
erspoon and Aric
Holman, two of the
MSU women
guys who helped n WHAT: NCAA Tour-
State reach the nament watch party
NCAA tournament n WHEN: 6 p.m.
for the first time in today
10 years. n WHERE: Humphrey
Coliseum
They’re back in n DOORS OPEN:
the NCAA’s March 4:45 p.m.
Dance with a num- n OPENING WEEK-
ber five seed and a END: MSU will be
home for Rounds 1
23-10 record. and 2 to be played
“I’m really proud either Friday and Sun-
of Aric and Q,” How- day, or Saturday and Jim Brown/USA TODAY Sports
land said. “They Monday Mississippi State Bulldogs guard Quinndary Weatherspoon (11) shoots against the Tennessee Volunteers during the first
worked incredibly half of a quarterfinal matchup in the SEC tournament at Bridgestone Arena. MSU will face Liberty Friday in the first round
hard to get this team and this program to of the NCAA tournament.
this point.”
Howland laughed softly as he remem-
bered Holman as a 178-pound freshman
who is now a 220-pound powerful forward. OLE MISS BASKETBALL
“Me and Q came here with a goal,” Hol-
man said. “We kept our word and stayed to
the ground.”
And that’s why that quick roar late Sun-
day afternoon meant so much.
Rebels to face Oklahoma in 8-9 matchup in South
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS the Rebels winning two of the match- SEC Tournament this past Thursday.
The Bulldogs will realize that dream on
ups from 1999-2001. Friday’s NCAA game matches up the
Friday at the SAP Center in San Jose, Cal- OXFORD – For just the ninth time The Rebels find themselves in the eighth and ninth seeds in the South,
ifornia. The game is scheduled for a 6:27 in 109 seasons, the Ole Miss men’s bas- NCAA Tournament for the first time in and the winner could face ACC power
p.m. tipoff, Mississippi time. ketball team is heading to the NCAA
If State wins its first-round game, the four years after one of the biggest turn- Virginia on Sunday.
Tournament. around seasons in the nation. In the “You’re just going to play a team
Bulldogs will play No. 4 seed Virginia Tech The Rebels, gathering with a large
or No. 13 Saint Louis in Sunday’s second first year under SEC Coach of the Year that’s good, that’s won (a lot of games),
group of fans at The Pavilion, heard Davis and behind the play of All-SEC that’s well coached. That’s number
round in San Jose. Virginia Tech (24-8) their names called during the March
and Saint Louis (23-12) will play Friday fol- guards Breein Tyree and Terence Da- one,” Davis said. “Oklahoma will be
Madness Selection Show on Sunday
lowing MSU’s game. Two wins sends the vis, Ole Miss went from 12-20 a season like playing a good SEC game. But
evening.
Bulldogs to the Sweet 16 in Washington. ago to 20-12. The eight-win improve- number two, just be who we are. It still
“I thought we were safely in, I real-
Not that Howland or any other Dawg ly did,” Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis ment is the biggest turnaround season leads up to preparation for that game.
is even thinking about Sunday just yet. It said. among Power 5 schools and ranks 11th You can’t skip to the games. We get an
took so long for State to reach this point Ole Miss received an at-large bid nationally. Predicted to finish last in extra day on Friday, so we’ll go real-
that overlooking Liberty, the 12th seed and will be a No. 8 seed in the South the SEC, Ole Miss tied for sixth with a ly, really light on Monday. We’re just
with a 28-6 record, isn’t even a consider- Region, its highest seed since earning 10-8 mark in conference play. going to come to The Pavilion and do
ation. a No. 3 seed during the 2000-01 sea- “It never gets old,” said Davis about some shooting, and then we’ll dive into
“I’ll make that clear to my team tomor- son. reaching the NCAA Tournament. This Oklahoma. You’ll have a good amount
row (Monday),” Howland said. “Anybody The Rebels will face No. 9 seed is the third team he has reached the of time, but you have to go through
can beat anybody.” Oklahoma in Columbia, S.C. on Fri- NCAAs with. that same preparation and keep these
The working orders are crystal clear. day. Ole Miss and Oklahoma have met Ole Miss has lost four of its last five guys really fresh minded and anxious
See MSU Men, 4B three times throughout history, with games, including to Alabama in the to play on Friday.”

MAGNOLIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY RACING

Smith holds on for sprint
car win in season opener
By DAVID MILLER
Special to The Dispatch
Pennsylvania native Mark Smith
held off a late charge from Matt Cov-
ington to win the United Sprint Car
Series feature Sunday at Magnolia
Motor Speedway.
Smith started fifth and took the
lead from Johnny Bridges on lap 8.
Smith would enjoy a 12-lap spell with
limited lap-traffic thanks to a caution
on lap 12.
A gnarly flip and tumble by Shelby
Brown in the 17B car on lap 20 reset
the field and gave Covington, who won
Saturday at Hattiesburg, his best shot
at Smith. Covington worked inside
Smith off turn 2 and pulled even with
him with five laps to go, but Smith
re-established his lead in the next cor-
ner and pulled away for the win, his
fifth of the season and second in seven
days.
Smith said the timing of their fea-
ture – the race started at sunset – and
the subsequent drop in temperature
likely slowed him down due to choos-
ing a harder tire, but “once I got roll-
ing, I was fine.”
“I had a harder left rear on than
[Covington] did, just because the
track was so abrasive there early,”
Smith said, “and the harder tire was
actually working better for me once it
got a few laps to get rolling. Other than
that, it was a pretty good race.”
Covington, who started seventh David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
and finished second Sunday, said he Mark Smith (M1) passes Jim Shuster early in Sunday’s USCS feature at Magnolia Motor
See Magnolia, 3B Speedway. Smith won the race.
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briefly CALENDAR Basketball

24. Rice (28-3) did not play. Next: NCAA Tour-
nament.
25. Florida State (23-8) did not play. Next: TBA.
Albany (Ga.) 10, Lane 1
SOUTH

Bethel (Minn.) 1-13, Old Westbury 0-0

Sunday’s Men’s College NBA Campbell 8, High Point 6
Golf Prep Baseball Major Scores
EAST
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cumberlands (Ky.) 12, Shawnee St. 2
Flagler 9, Augusta 7
Hofstra 10, Liberty 5
State finishes fourth at Schenkel; Pichaikool is runner-up Today’s Games Saint Louis 55, St. Bonaventure 53
Yale 97, Harvard 85
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Jacksonville 8, UNC-Greensboro 4
Kentucky St. 15, Morehouse 3
STATESBORO, Ga. – Junior Peng Pichaikool and freshman Ford West Lowndes at Starkville Christian, TBA SOUTH x-Toronto 49 21 .700 — Lock Haven 6, Winston-Salem St. 3
Auburn 84, Tennessee 64 x-Philadelphia 45 25 .643 4
Clegg remained steady in Mississippi State’s fourth-place finish at the LSU Shreveport 18, Houston-Victoria 5
Schenkel Invitational over the weekend.
Tuesday’s Games Georgia St. 73, Texas-Arlington 64 Boston
Brooklyn
43 27 .614 6
36 36 .500 14
Middle Georgia 8, Blue Mountain 2
MIDWEST Milligan 18, Montreat 11
Sunday’s result marked the fourth consecutive tournament that Starkville High at Madison Central, 6 p.m. Michigan St. 65, Michigan 60 New York
Southeast Division
14 56 .200 35 Rutgers 4, Florida Gulf Coast 1
SOUTHWEST St. Michael’s 7-5, Gallaudet 2-2
both players have finished in the top 15 on the player leaderboard at the Caledonia at Pontotoc, 7 p.m. Cincinnati 69, Houston 57 W L Pct GB Siena Heights vs. Cleary, ccd.
FAR WEST Miami 33 36 .478 — Truett-McConnell 12, Point (Ga.) 4
par-72, 6,947-yard Forest Heights Country Club. New Hope at Louisville, 6:30 p.m. UC Irvine 92, Cal St.-Fullerton 64 Orlando 33 38 .465 1 MIDWEST
Pichaikool, who finished as the individual runner-up, has now Top 25 Fared Charlotte 31 38 .449 2 Adrian 8, Marietta 4
Starkville Academy vs. Leake, (DH) 4 p.m. Washington 30 40 .429 3½ Anderson (Ind.) 4, St. Norbert 3
collected top-15 finishes in all six tournaments he has played in for Atlanta 24 47 .338 10 Charleston (W.Va.) 6, Notre Dame (Ohio) 5
MSU this season. Sunday was his second-best finish in 2018-19, as he West Lowndes vs. Noxapater, 5 p.m. Associated Press Central Division Clarke 6, Graceland (Iowa) 2
placed behind ranked opponent and medalist Steven Fisk, representing Prep Softball Men’s Top 25 Fared
Sunday
W L Pct GB
x-Milwaukee 52 18 .743 —
Indiana 44 26 .629 8
Columbia (Mo.) 6-6, Park 5-3
Dakota Wesleyan 1-9, Mount Martin 0-5
host Georgia Southern on its home course. Today’s Games Detroit 36 33 .522 15½
Franklin 9, Wilmington (Ohio) 8
1. Gonzaga (30-3) did not play. Next: TBA. Friends 5, Ottawa (Kan.) 3
The Bangkok, Thailand native carded a field-best three eagles over 2. Virginia (29-3) did not play. Next: TBA. Chicago 19 52 .268 33½ Grand View 1, Peru St. 0
the weekend, highlighted by two in the final round. Pichaikool collected Starkville High vs. Noxubee, 6 p.m. 3. North Carolina (27-6) did not play. Next: TBA. Cleveland 17 53 .243 35 Briar Cliff 10-1, Jamestown 1-2
4. Kentucky (27-6) did not play. Next: TBA. WESTERN CONFERENCE
an eagle on the par-5 18th hole on both Friday and Sunday to close West Lowndes vs. Houlka, (DH) 5 p.m. 5. Duke (29-5) did not play. Next: NCAA Tour- Southwest Division
Kansas Wesleyan 9, Bethany (Kan.) 8, 13 in-
nings
W L Pct GB
each round. Sunday’s eagle on 18 gave him a one-stroke edge for the Tuesday’s Games nament.
Houston 44 26 .629 —
Lincoln (Ill.) at William Penn, 2, ccd.
6. Michigan State (28-6) beat No. 10 Michigan Mount Mercy 13, Culver-Stockton 3
runner-up spot on Georgia Southern’s Brett Barron. Victory Christian vs. Victory Baptist, 4:30 p.m. 65-60. Next: NCAA Tournament. San Antonio 41 29 .586 3 Ohio Dominican 5, Tiffin 4
New Orleans 30 42 .417 15
Pichaikool’s runner-up finish tied a career-best achievement 7. Texas Tech (26-6) did not play. Next: TBA. Dallas 28 41 .406 15½
Omaha 3, N. Dakota St. 0
from earlier during the season at the Louisville Cardinal Challenge in Starkville High at Choctaw, 6:30 p.m. 8. Tennessee (29-5) lost to No. 22 Auburn 84- Memphis 28 42 .400 16
St. Francis (Ill.) 6, Indiana South Bend 2
64. Next: TBA. St. Francis (Ind.) at Marian (Ind.), 2, ppd.
September. Columbus at West Lowndes, 6:30 p.m. 9. LSU (26-6) did not play. Next: TBA.
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
St. Xavier 10, Roosevelt 1
10. Michigan (28-6) lost to No. 6 Michigan State Texas Rio Grande Valley 6, Kansas St. 5
Shooting 1-under-par for the event, Clegg earned a share of 13th New Hope vs. Leake Central, 6:30 p.m. 65-60. Next: TBA.
Denver
Portland
46 22 .676 —
42 27 .609 4½
Wabash 6, Hanover 5
place. As of Sunday, Clegg and Georgia’s Trent Phillips are the only two Caledonia vs. Itawamba, 7:30 p.m. 11. Houston (31-3) lost to No. 24 Cincinnati 69- Oklahoma City 42 28 .600 5
FAR WEST
57. Next: TBA. Luther 9, Wesleyan (Conn.) 1
SEC freshmen golfers with four or more top-15 finishes. Utah 40 29 .580 6½ Oregon 1, Washington 0, 10 innings
Garrett Johnson was MSU’s next-best finisher, grabbing a share
West Lowndes vs. Columbus, 5 p.m. 12. Florida State (27-7) did not play. Next: TBA. Minnesota 32 38 .457 15

of 28th at 4-over-par. Senior Austin Rose shot a 5-over 221, and fellow College Baseball
13. Purdue (23-9) did not play. Next: TBA.
14. Nevada (29-4) did not play. Next: TBA.
15. Kansas State (25-8) did not play. Next:
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
x-Golden State 47 21 .691 —
Transactions
senior Ross Bell shot 8-over. Playing as an individual, redshirt freshman Tuesday’s Games TBA. L.A. Clippers 41 30 .577 7½ Sunday’s Moves
Ben Nelson tied for 43rd at 7-over-par. 16. Virginia Tech (24-8) did not play. Next: TBA. Sacramento 34 35 .493 13½ BASEBALL
Louisiana-Monroe at Southern Miss, 6 p.m. 17. Kansas (25-9) did not play. Next: TBA. L.A. Lakers 31 39 .443 17 COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended
State had its best round Friday on the opening 18 holes, shooting 18. Buffalo (31-3) did not play. Next: NCAA Phoenix 17 54 .239 31½ Houston manager AJ Hinch one game for his
a 5-under 283 which put them in a tie for the lead. A 283 on Saturday Maine at Alabama, 6 p.m. Tournament. x-clinched playoff spot actions and comments leading up to and follow-
19. Wisconsin (23-10) did not play. Next: TBA. Saturday’s Games ing his ejection from Friday’s game.
put MSU in second by three strokes, but Georgia Southern shot an Little Rock at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m. 20. Wofford (29-4) did not play. Next: NCAA Boston 129, Atlanta 120 American League
unprecedented 20-under-par on Sunday to move from third to first. The Phoenix 138, New Orleans 136, OT BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned 2B Ste-
Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m. Tournament.
Washington 135, Memphis 128 vie Wilkerson, OFs Austin Hays and Anthony
Bulldogs shot 6-over-par in the final round to conclude the weekend 21. Maryland (22-10) did not play. Next: TBA.
Dallas 121, Cleveland 116 Santander and RHPs Cody Carroll, Branden
Wednesday’s Games 22. Auburn (26-9) beat No. 8 Tennessee 84-64. Golden State 110, Oklahoma City 88 Kline and Yefry Ramirez to Norfolk (IL). Re-
with a 2-under 862. Next: NCAA Tournament. San Antonio 108, Portland 103
The Dawgs have another quick turnaround as they play their third Lane College at Mississippi University for Women 23. Marquette (24-9) did not play. Next: TBA. Denver 102, Indiana 100
assigned INF Christopher Bostick and RHP
Gabriel Ynoa to minor league camp.
24. Cincinnati (28-6) beat No. 11 Houston.
tournament in as many weeks at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate, a two-day (DH), 2 p.m. Next: NCAA Tournament.
Utah 114, Brooklyn 98
Sunday’s Games
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Reassigned OF
Brandon Barnes, C Tim Federowicz and INF
event, set to begin Saturday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 25. Villanova (25-9) did not play. Next: NCAA
Mississippi State at Samford, 6 p.m. Tournament.
New York 124, L.A. Lakers 123
Miami 93, Charlotte 75
Michael Freeman to minor league camp.
HOUSTON ASTROS — Reassigned C Jamie
Friday’s Games Sunday’s Women’s Philadelphia 130, Milwaukee 125 Ritchie and RHP Cy Sneed to minor league
Detroit 110, Toronto 107 camp.
State women place fifth in Clover Cup Old Dominion at Southern Miss, 6 p.m. College Major Scores Orlando 101, Atlanta 91 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Traded RHP Jason
Sacramento 129, Chicago 102 Adam to Toronto for cash.
MESA, Ariz. – Sophomore Aubree Jones and junior Ela Grimwood Arkansas at Alabama, 6 p.m. EAST
Bucknell 66, American U. 54
Houston 117, Minnesota 102 LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned LHP
L.A. Clippers 119, Brooklyn 116 Dillon Peters and 2B Luis Rengifo to Salt Lake
helped the State women’s golf team to a fifth-place finish on Sunday in Auburn at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m. Princeton 65, Penn 54 Monday’s Games (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Luke Bard
Robert Morris 65, St. Francis (Pa.) 54 Detroit at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
the Clover Cup. Ole Miss at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. SOUTH Utah at Washington, 7 p.m.
from Salt Lake. Placed RHP Keynan Middleton
on the 60-day DL.
The Bulldogs displayed their toughness at the Long Bow Golf Club,
College Softball
Florida Gulf Coast 72, Liberty 49 Denver at Boston, 7:30 p.m. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP Austin
Radford 57, Campbell 45 New York at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
which is known for its difficulty. The team finished round three with a MIDWEST Golden State at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Pruitt to Durham (IL).
National League
299 (+11). Tuesday’s Games Missouri St. 94, Drake 79 Miami at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Named Brandon
SOUTHWEST New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Head coach Ginger Brown-Lemm likes the improvement her South Alabama at Southern Miss, 6 p.m. Abilene Christian 69, Texas A&M-CC 68 Chicago at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Gomes vice president and assistant general
manager, Will Rhymes director of player devel-
squad is displaying in the late season. Women’s College Tennis Indiana at Portland, 10:30 p.m. opment, Alex Slater director of baseball oper-
“We had this final round going in a great direction, but struggled
Associated Press Tuesday’s Games ations and Duncan Webb director of baseball
Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
finishing it up,” said Brown-Lemm. “We are making headway with this Bradley at Southern Miss, 1 p.m. Women’s Top 25 Fared Houston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
resources.
NEW YORK METS — Reassigned OF Gre-
Sunday
young squad, and we learned some good lessons out here in Arizona. Thursday’s Games 1. Baylor (31-1) did not play. Next: NCAA Tour-
Golden State at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
gor Blanco and INF Danny Espinosa to minor
league camp.
I am proud of our progress. Aubree and Ela had top-20 finishes and Stillman College at Mississippi University for nament. Brooklyn at Sacramento, 10 p.m. BASKETBALL
2. UConn (31-2) did not play. Next: NCAA Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. National Basketball Association
really had a good weekend overall. We will clean up some things very Women (DH), 3 p.m. Tournament. Wednesday’s Games NBA — Suspended Oklahoma City G Russell
quickly as we leave for Auburn on Thursday.” 3. Notre Dame (30-3) did not play. Next: NCAA Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Westbrook one game for receiving his 16th
Jones battled the conditions for her tie for eleventh with a score of Friday’s Games Tournament. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7 p.m. technical foul of the 2018-19 season.
4. Mississippi State (30-2) did not play. Next: New Orleans at Orlando, 7 p.m. FOOTBALL
233 (+7). Auburn at Mississippi State, 6 p.m. NCAA Tournament. Utah at New York, 7:30 p.m. National Football League
5. Louisville (29-3) did not play. Next: TBA. Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Agreed to terms with QB
“I played solid golf all week on some tough course conditions Alabama at Texas A&M, time TBA 6. Stanford (28-4) did not play. Next: NCAA Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m. Ryan Fitzpatrick on a two-year contract.
between the wind and the greens,” said Jones. “It was up and down
at times, but I was happy with the way I came back and never stopped
Women’s College Tennis Tournament.
7. Oregon (29-4) did not play. Next: TBA.
Miami at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Toronto at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m.
Dallas at Portland, 10 p.m.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
8. Iowa (26-6) did not play. Next: NCAA Tour- NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned G Cam
fighting. I am really looking forward to the rest of this spring with my Tuesday’s Games Johnson from Binghamton (AHL) to Adirondack
team. We have some good golf ahead of us.” Bradley at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.
nament.
9. Maryland (28-4) did not play. Next: TBA.
10. N.C. State (26-5) did not play. Next: TBA.
Baseball (ECHL).
OTTAWA SENATORS — Assigned G Filip
Grimwood found some momentum on the back nine with a pair Friday’s Games 11. Oregon State (24-7) did not play. Next: vs. Sunday’s College Gustavsson from Belleville (AHL) to Brampton
(ECHL).
of birdies. She finished round three even which pushed her to a tie for TBA.
Southern Miss at Mountain View Intercollegiate 12. Gonzaga (28-4) did not play. Next: TBA. Major Scores American Hockey League
16th. 13. Iowa State (25-8) did not play. Next: TBA. EAST BELLEVILLE SENATORS — Assigned F Bos-
Freshman Hannah Levi had a top-25 finish with a 227 (+11), while (Tucson, Arizona) 13. Marquette (26-7) did not play. Next: TBA. Assumption 5, LIU Post 4 ton Leier to Brampton (ECHL). Recalled G Jake
Baruch 6-1, SUNY Maritime 5-12 Paterson from Brampton.
senior Kendall Wisenbaker, playing as an individual, tied for 38th with a Junior College Golf 15. Syracuse (24-8) did not play. Next: TBA.
16. South Carolina (21-9) did not play. Next: Delaware Valley 6, FDU-Florham 2
Mount Aloysius 2-8, Thiel 1-3
MANITOBA MOOSE — Assigned F Joey
Ratelle to Utah (ECHL).
score of 231 (+15). Tuesday’s Games TBA. Navy 6-11, Bucknell 3-10 ECHL
17. Texas A&M (24-7) did not play. Next: TBA.
Sophomore Blair Stockett tied for 57th with a 236 (+20), and 18. Kentucky (24-7) did not play. Next: TBA.
New Rochelle 14-7, John Jay 6-8 ALLEN AMERICANS — Signed D Ben Owen.
freshman Lauren Miller tied for 59th with a 237 (+21). Itawamba at Meridian Spring Invitational 19. Miami (24-8) did not play. Next: TBA.
Pace 4, Stonehill 1 BRAMPTON BEAST — Released D Anthony
Penn 8, Fairleigh Dickinson 5 Cortese.
The Bulldogs will return to action on Saturday at Auburn’s Evans Junior College Baseball 20. UCLA (20-12) did not play. Next: TBA.
21. Drake (27-6) lost to Missouri State 94-79.
Ramapo 10, McDaniel 4
St. Joseph’s (Maine) 5, Clark 4
IDAHO STEELHEADS — Released G Bobby
Fowler as emergency backup.
Derby Experience. Tuesday’s Games Next: TBA. St. Joseph’s (N.Y.) 9-16, Yeshiva 3-1 INDY FUEL — Signed D Braden Hellems.
22. Texas (23-9) did not play. Next: TBA. Shepherd 10, Glenville St. 4 COLLEGE
EMCC at Itawamba (DH), 3 p.m. 23. Arizona State (20-10) did not play. Next: Springfield 5, Rutgers-Camden 4 UMKC — Fired men’s basketball coach Kareem
Alabama men finish fourth at Linger Longer Invitational Junior College Tennis
TBA. West Liberty 3, Concord 1 Richardson.

GREENSBORO, Ga. – The No. 24-ranked Alabama men’s golf

team finished in fourth place overall at the Linger Longer Invitational Tuesday’s Games
with a team total of 859 (288-276-295). The Crimson Tide began the Gulf Coast at Itawamba, 1 p.m.
day in first place, but carded a third-round total of 7-over par 295 to slip
three spots on the event’s final day. Despite that, UA was able to earn
Junior College Softball
Wednesday’s Games
NBA
the best finish of its three tournaments played this spring.

76ers’ Embiid hates the Celtics,

“I am proud of our team that we put ourselves in position to win this EMCC at Northwest (DH), 1 p.m.
tournament,” Alabama head coach Jay Seawell said. “The final round Itawamba at Northeast (DH), 2 p.m.
didn’t go as well as we had hoped. We played average today and we will
learn from that. We got excited about how we finished the last three of
on the air
four holes. We were down pretty big and our guys responded, which is
something we need to learn to do a lot more often. We still have a lot to
work on but this was a positive to learn from.”
Junior Josh Sedeno led Alabama throughout the three-day,
Today
BOWLING
now he needs to beat them
54-hole tournament, as he finished tied for fourth-place. The Roseville, 7 p.m. — PBA Bowling: WSOB PBA, Cheetah THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in this one, and then ruined their
Calif., native ended the tournament with a 7-under par 209 (70-67-72) to Championship, Allen Park, Mich., FS1 Christmas with another nationally
collect the second top-five finish of his career. He finished four strokes COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) In this era of players wanting to televised victory.
back of individual medalist Spencer Ralston of Georgia, who finish 6 p.m. — NCAA Women’s Selection Special, join up with other players, or even just
with an 11-under par 205. Sedeno’s second-round 18-hole score of A long-time rivalry that delivered
5-under par 67 was a career-best round, while his 54-hole total is the
ESPN being friendlier with some opponents a famous fight between Hall of Fam-
second-best of his Alabama career. 7 p.m. — NCAA Women’s Selection Special, than guys on their own teams, it’s ers Larry Bird and Julius Erving has
Sophomores Wilson Furr and Jake DeZoort both placed among ESPNU nice to know there is still some good, become so one-sided that Embiid
the top-40 individuals. Furr tied for 30th overall with a 2-over par 218 COLLEGE SOFTBALL old-fashioned hatred in the NBA. declared earlier this season that it
(72-69-77), while DeZoort was two shots behind him at 4-over par 220 6 p.m. — Florida at LSU, SEC
(72-72-76) to tie for 37th overall. Freshman Prescott Butler carded the Yes, Joel Embiid hates the Celtics. wasn’t even a rivalry anymore, be-
CURLING (WOMEN’S) He hates Boston so much that he
Tide’s lowest round on Sunday with a 1-under 71 and finished play cause the Celtics always win.
1 p.m. — World Women’s Curling Championship:
tied for 44th with a 6-over 222 (83-68-71). Freshman Frankie Capan III got fined $25,000 last time the 76ers Boston has won 17 of the last 19
rounded out the UA golfers in 67th overall with a 228 (74-78-76), on the U.S. vs. Russia, Denmark, NBCSN
played them because he was so sick regular-season meetings, the last
par-72, 7,073-yard The Landing at Reynolds Lake Oconee course. GYMNASTICS (WOMEN’S)
The 15th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs claimed the team title after of losing to the Atlantic Division foes of which was a 112-109 victory in
11 a.m. — FIG World Cup: apparatus finals,
carding a final round score of 11-under par 277 on Sunday to finish that he lost his cool afterward. Philadelphia in February. Embiid
Azerbaijan (taped), NBCSN
play with a 19-under 845, six shots better than No. 21 Liberty (-13, 851).
NBA BASKETBALL On Wednesday, he gets his last believed he’d been fouled by Al Hor-
Louisville, ranked No. 25 in the nation, finished in third with a 10-under
7 p.m. — Golden State at San Antonio, ESPN chance during this regular season to ford in the final minute — the NBA’s
854, five shots ahead of the Crimson Tide. UNC Greensboro (-3, 861)
and Virginia (-2, 862) rounded out the top six and the only teams to 9:30 p.m. — Indiana at Portland, ESPN beat Boston. Last 2-Minute Report would later
finish below par in the 15-team field. NHL HOCKEY The 76ers host the Celtics, who agree — and was fined for his pub-
“Overall, this was a really good week for our team,” Seawell added.
7:30 p.m. — Vancouver at Chicago, NHL knocked them out of the playoffs last lic criticism of the officiating that
“We shot the tournament’s low round on Saturday and we’ve been included profanity.
season, spoiled their opening game
through a lot of adversity as a team this spring. This performance
helped take away any doubt and helped remind us that we are capable
of being a pretty good golf team.”

Tennis WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MSU women fall to Alabama in 4-2 heart-breaker
Mississippi State women’s tennis squad (11-6, 2-3 SEC) fell in the
final moments of a nail-biting battle to conference foe Alabama (13-7,
2-4) on Sunday at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre.
The Bulldogs took an early edge, taking two tight matchups
NCAA tourneys may be in cards for Vegas
to secure the lead after doubles play. On court two, State’s Emma THE ASSOCIATED PRESS overturned a federal law barring most the next championship-wide bid pro-
Antonaki and Anastasia Rentouli came back from an early deficit to states from allowing gambling on col- cess, which begins in August.
topple UA’s Alba Cortina-Pou and Luca Fabian 6-3. In a back-and-forth LAS VEGAS — Women’s basketball lege and pro sports. “It would be a very different ap-
affair, MSU’s Magda Adaloglou and Tamara Racine persevered past fans were treated to quite a show this “Championships can now be played proach to the regional, but I’ve cer-
the Crimson Tide pair of Andie Daniell and Moka Ito 6-4. week in Las Vegas with four confer-
The court 3 match between the tandem of Janina Braun and Sara where there’s single-game betting,” tainly been in favor of the NCAA con-
Lizariturry and the Tide’s Ann Selim and Kim Gintrand was suspended ence tournaments played there. Could said NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Os- sidering the postseason here. (NCAA
with the Bulldogs leading 5-4. an NCAA regional be in the cards down burn. “Prior to that ruling it wouldn’t President) Mark Emmert has been to
Singles came down to the final moments of the contest. the road — or even a Super Regional? have been possible, but, now, it’s up to Las Vegas,” Scott said. “He has been
Alabama tied up the match early, with Fabian overtaking MSU’s Consider the coaches, administra- the various bids that go out.” a guest to our men’s events, and we’ve
Lizariturry 6-2, 6-2 on court 5. State’s Racine then overpowered tors and players big proponents of the
Cortina-Pou 6-3, 6-4 on court 4 to put the Bulldogs back up 2-1, but the ESPN commentator Deb Antonel- had him meet with officials here. I
Tide would claim the next three points for the victory.
idea. li has been on a mission to bring the think the NCAA policy about the post-
The Crimson Tide’s Selim answered Racine’s win with a 6-2, 6-4 “I think Las Vegas is one of the few Sweet 16 to Las Vegas as a Super Re- season has evolved and is still evolving.
ousting of State’s Braun at No. 6 to even up the score once again at 2-2. places that it could make sense,” Pac- gional for the past nine years. She feels I think the NCAA postseason in Las
Alabama’s 66th-ranked Daniell then held off MSU’s 113th-ranked 12 commissioner Larry Scott said of
Adaloglou at the top position in a 7-6(5), 6-3 decision. that it would be the perfect destination, Vegas is more a question of when, not
hosting a Super Regional with either
With State needing both of the last two matches to secure the win, similar to what college softball has in if.”
eight or 16 teams. “Multiple arenas,
State’s 81st-ranked Antonaki was edged by the Crimson Tide’s Ito on Oklahoma and baseball in Nebraska. Fans definitely don’t mind flocking
court 2 in a tough three-setter 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. a lot of hotel capacity. ... One of the
Nothing can be done in the imme- to Las Vegas. Attendance was solid
MSU was likely going to claim the final point of the day. Rentouli’s things our fans love about Las Vegas is
match was suspended upon the clincher at No. 2, as she was leading the frequency of flights, it’s relatively diate future to have Las Vegas host a at all of the tournaments. The Pac-12
Alabama’s Jacqueline Pelletier 6-2, 5-4 on court 3 and was serving for inexpensive, well-located, easy to get regional as the NCAA women’s tourna- women drew well with an average of
the match, up 40-15.
to, experiences for all kinds of different ment is locked in with its sites through over 4,200 fans per session for the four
price points. There’s no doubt it would 2022. While getting a regular regional days of the tournament, and that was
Southern Miss men blank Rattlers for third straight win be a fan favorite for folks. And the city would just require the city bidding on without the men’s conference tourna-
HATTIESBURG -- The Golden Eagle men’s team rolled to a 4-0
has the capacity to handle an event of one, the idea of having all 16 teams play ment being played at the same time.
victory over Florida A&M.
It marked the squad’s third consecutive win, as well as a return to that scale, magnitude and complexity. in Las Vegas to create a Super Region- That number was on par with what the
action for Teeradon Tortrakul, who had been sidelined since the sea- It would be very interesting to consider al is a little more complicated. It would conference drew its first year in Seattle
son’s early going due to an injury. He was cruising in doubles alongside that.” need membership approval since it in 2013 when that city was the host.
Chung-Han Tsai with a 5-2 lead before the point was clinched, then won This wasn’t even a conversation un- would be a tournament format change. Those in attendance were treated
in singles, 6-2, 6-2. The women’s basketball committee to great basketball and first-class half-
Jorman Reyes had a new doubles partner in Mieszko Kwasniewski til last year when the NCAA announced
and did not miss a beat in a 6-2 win. Tom Cecchetto also jumped back a temporary lifting of its longstanding has had discussions this year about the time entertainment, including some
in the fray and had a nice 6-1, 6-1 sweep in singles. rule banning championship events regional format that includes the num- acts from MGM properties. There was
Southern Miss improved to 28-4 at home the last three years, and from states where single-game betting ber of sites and locations. The commit- also a fun mascot basketball game at
its three-match win streak marked its first since defeating New Orleans, is allowed. The move came soon after tee hopes to have the review done by the half of one of the contests, as well
Nicholls and Charlotte late last season.
—From Special Reports
a Supreme Court ruling in May that the end of summer in preparation for as a baby race.

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felt his car was “good enough to
run third,” and that he and his crew
tightened up the car too much. The
caution, however, presented an op-
portunity to win, but only if Coving-
ton could pass Smith early and find
some luck to hold on.
“But I didn’t have enough for
Mark,” Covington said. “He’s fast.”
Covington hopes his results over
the weekend are a “precursor” to
how his season will unfold. Cov-
ington, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, native,
won the USCS race Saturday in
Hattiesburg, where he held off se-
ries points leader and three-time
NASCA R Monster Energy Series
points champion Tony Stewart.
Covington’s races at Hattiesburg
and Magnolia were his first two
races of the season since switching
race engines from Wesmar to Shark
over the offseason.
“You can’t ask for much more
from this weekend,” Covington
said.
Davie Franek, Danny Smith and
Corey Bailey rounded out the top 5
Sunday.
Stewart was expected at Magno-
lia this weekend but didn’t make it.
The race was originally slated to
take place Saturday, but weather
pushed race day to Sunday.
Hughes wins Crate race
Spencer Hughes passed Bryant
Marsh on lap 14 and earned his first
Durrence Layne Late Model feature
win of 2019.
Hughes, a former Durrence Layne
Street Stocks national champion,
spent last season racing Super Late
Models for Leon Henderson on a lim-
ited schedule, supplementing the gaps
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Kentucky completes weekend sweep of State with 4-1 win
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Despite a
strong SEC pitching debut by fresh-
man Kayla Boseman, Mississippi
State fell to Kentucky, 4-1, on Sunday.
The Wildcats (20-7, 6-0 SEC) swept
the Bulldogs (19-8, 0-3 SEC).
Boseman allowed a two-run first in-
ning, but settle down to keep the Wild-
cats off the board until a two-run dou-
ble by Katie Reed in the sixth extend
the Kentucky lead to 4-0. Junior Fa
Leilua led off the seventh inning with
a solo home to break up the shutout,
but the Bulldog rally fell short.
Tossing a complete game, Boseman
was tagged with her first loss of the
season, falling to 2-1. She gave up the
four runs off four hits and three walks
while striking out five. Kentucky’s Au-
tumn Humes (7-4) only allowed two
Bulldog hits and a lone hit by pitch in
the contest while fanning five.
Kentucky took advantage of a one-
out walk in the first, bringing the run
home off an Abbey Cheek double to
right center. An Alex Martens single
up the middle allowed Cheek to score
to push the Wildcat lead to 2-0. The
Wildcats extended their lead in the
sixth inning with a two-run double by
Reed.
Mississippi State’s first hit of the
game came in the top of the first with
a bunt single by junior Candace De-
nis. MSU would not have another base
runner until the fifth inning when se-
nior Sarai Niu got on base with a two-
out hit by pitch.
Leilua plated the lone Bulldog run
of the game with a solo home run to
left field in the seventh to cut the Ken-
tucky lead to 4-1, but junior Humes re-
tired the side with help of two strike-
outs to snuff out the MSU comeback.
With her second home run of the
series, Leilua tied teammate Mia Da-
vidson and Georgia’s Alyssa DiCarlo
for the SEC and NCA A lead in home
runs with 14 this season. Davidson and
Leilua are now tied for fifth in MSU’s
single-season history. Davidson set
the Bulldog single-season record as a
freshman last season with 19.
OLE MISS SCORES SWEEP:
The Rebels finished off a perfect 5-0
week at home, defeating Samford and
No. 18 Oklahoma State at the Ole Miss
Softball Complex in Oxford.
The Rebels (21-7) tallied 16 runs on
16 hits over the two games, including
10 extra-base knocks to garner victo-
ries over the Bulldogs (9-21) and Cow-
girls (20-7) by 6-3 and 10-1 margins,
respectively.
Ole Miss has won seven straight.
The hitting of Autumn Gillespie and
Kylan Becker was a huge force behind
the offensive success of the day for
Ole Miss. Gillespie went 4-for-5 across
the two games with a pair of homers
and two doubles, driving in two runs
and scoring three times, while Becker
hit safely in half of her eight at-bats,
smacking a pair of triples en route to
two RBIs and two runs scored.
In Sunday’s opener, Ole Miss fell
behind the Bulldogs early but for
the second straight game the Rebels
showed their resolve, coming back
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Spencer Hughes (11) passes Bryant Marsh for the lead in their Durrence Layne
Late Model feature Sunday at Magnolia Motor Speedway.
on the calendar with spells in Crates,
Street Stocks and Modifieds.
Hughes earned 10 wins across all
divisions in 2018, and he’s eager to
pick up a Super Late Model ride at
some point this season. For now, he’ll
continue to drive Louisiana-native
Bryan Foy’s No. 7 Modified car in both
the U.M.P. series and United States
Modified series.
“You could say [Foy’s car] is my
ride for this year,” Hughes said. “[The
Foys] are super good people, and I’m
looking forward to racing with them
more.”
Hughes also looks to continue
racing for the owner of the No. 11
Crate car he piloted Sunday. Hughes,
though, declined to name the owner of
the car.
“I don’t know the extent of this ride,
but we’re going to race anywhere we
can,” Hughes said. “I’d like to go off
from a two-run deficit to upend Sam-
ford.
Ava Tillmann garnered her fifth
win of the season, throwing four com-
plete innings with three runs allowed
(two earned) five hits. Molly Jacobsen
picked up the save finishing off the
final three frames with a pair of hits
allowed and five strikeouts.
Gillespie gave the Rebels an early
lead in the second, sending a cannon-
ing shot to left-center for a solo dinger.
Samford, however, quickly erased the
advantage and grabbed one of their
own with an RBI double and a sacri-
fice fly in the third.
After a Kelsey Royalty RBI single
extended the Bulldog lead to two in
the fourth, the Rebels began their
comeback in the home half.
Jessica Puk was hit by a pitch to
start the inning, followed by a Gilles-
pie walk to put a pair on. Kaylee Hor-
ton brought Puk in with a double to
center field, advancing Gillespie to
third. Brittany Finney was hit by a
pitch to load the bases and pinch hit-
ter Gabby Alvarez uncorked a double
to left-center to score a pair, putting
Ole Miss back in front.
In the second game against Okla-
homa State, the Rebels jumped all
over the 18th-ranked Cowgirls for
their second win over the Cowgirls in
as many days.
Finney earned the win in a com-
plete-game effort, surrendering just
one unearned run on four hits, strik-
ing out eight Cowgirls in her sixth win
of her senior campaign.
The Rebels wasted absolutely no
time in getting their offense rolling,
with the first five batters reaching
safely. Kylan Becker got things start-
ed with a single and was brought
home from second by Abbey Latham’s
double.
From there, the rout was on. Ole
Miss got back-to-back home runs
from Puk and Gillespie to go up 4-0.
Finney laced a double down the right
field line to bring Horton in from third
and Whitley scored Finney with a sin-
gle up the middle to round out scoring
for the inning, giving Ole Miss a 6-0
lead after the opening frame.
The Cowgirls scored an unearned
run in the second to bring the deficit
to five but Ole Miss got it right back
in the home half as Roth brought in
Latham with a ground out to second.
In the third, Kylan Becker smacked
her second triple of the game to
scratch across Mikayla Allee and in
doing so broke the Ole Miss career
record for triples with the 12th of her
career. Just a few moments later, Beck-
er came home herself on a wild pitch
to extend the Rebel lead to 9-1.
The Rebels will take their red-hot
play back into SEC action this coming
weekend, hitting the road for a three-
game series with the No. 16 Game-
cocks Saturday through Monday.
SOUTHERN MISS SHUTS OUT
FLORIDA ATLANTIC: Southern
Miss shortstop Lacey Sumerlin, who
has been one of the most clutch hit-
ters in the Golden Eagles’ lineup this
season, proved to be just that for the
Golden Eagles on Sunday.
David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
and run some bigger races with the
Crate stuff, and maybe we can pick up
a (Super) Late Model ride by the end
of the year.
Marsh took second Sunday, while
Sid Scarbrough, Steve Russell and
Mathew Brocato rounded out the top
5.
In other race action:
n Jamie Pickard won the 602
Sportsman feature. Corey Penning-
ton, Russ Brasel, Nick Thrash and
Tody Ratcliff rounded out the top 5.
n Jay Burchfield won the Street
Stocks feature. Jason Baker, Lee Ray,
Levi Aldridge and Jamie Sudduth
rounded out the top 5.
n Scooter Ware won the factory
stocks feature. Cody Chism, Tyler
Collett, Jason Byrd and John Johnson
rounded out the top 5.
With two outs in the top of the first
inning and Destini Brown on third
base, Sumerlin lined an RBI single to
center field to give the Golden Eagles
a 1-0 lead.
Holding a 1-0 lead entering the bot-
tom of the third inning, Southern Miss
collected an insurance run courtesy of
a sacrifice fly to center field from first
baseman Sarah Van Schaik that scored
Karley Nichols from third base.
The Golden Eagles finished out
the game with a 2-0 win, thanks in
large part to the performance of junior
right-handed pitcher Abby Trahan in
the circle.
Trahan went the distance in Sun-
day’s contest, tying her season-high of
nine strikeouts, en route to notching
a complete-game shutout. In seven
innings pitched, Trahan surrendered
just two hits, did not issue any walks,
and collected her fifth win of the sea-
son.
ALABAMA WINS 31ST
STRAIGHT: The Tide closed out its
week at the Rainbow Wahine Classic
with a 6-2 win over Hawaii late Satur-
day night.
Alabama (31-0) remains undefeat-
ed on the season, defeating tourna-
ment-host Hawaii (19-9) for the sec-
ond time this week. The Crimson Tide
scored five unanswered runs to start
the game before the Rainbow Wahi-
ne erased the shutout with a two-run
home run in the sixth. An RBI single
in the top of the seventh pushed across
the final run in the 6-2 victory. Six dif-
ferent players earned a hit in the win
for Alabama, including a 2-for-4 day
from senior Reagan Dykes. In the cir-
cle, junior Sarah Cornell (11-0) went
the distance with a season-high seven
strikeouts.
After a hitless first inning, senior
Merris Schroder and junior Claire
Jenkins hit back-to-back singles with
one out and sophomore Maddie Mor-
gan followed with a third, driving in a
run to make it 1-0. Later with two in
scoring position and two out, an errant
throw allowed the inning to continue
and a run to cross to make it 2-0. The
Tide would load the bases but a fly ball
in foul territory ended the top half of
the inning.
With two on and one out in the top
of the fourth, a booted ball bounced
into the outfield as Morgan scored
from second on the error to push the
lead to 3-0. After a groundout, a single
back up the middle from junior Bailey
Hemphill plated two more to make it a
5-0 game.
After tallying just one hit in the first
five innings, Hawaii hit its second with
one out in the bottom of the sixth and
its third hit of the day two batters lat-
er put them in the run column, as the
two-run home run trimmed the Tide’s
lead to 5-2. An RBI single from Dykes
gave Alabama an insurance run in the
top of the seventh. Hawaii put two on
base in the bottom of the seventh but
did not score, as Alabama held on to
win, 6-2.
Next weekend, the Tide resumes
SEC play with a three-game road se-
ries at Texas A&M (16-10, 1-4 SEC)
beginning Friday 6 p.m.
Monday, March 18, 2019 3B
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Ole Miss blasts
Alabama with
big inning
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
OXFORD — Ole Miss baseball was
dominant Sunday afternoon, as a sev-
en-run third inning set the tone early in
a 12-2 victory over Alabama at Swayze
Field, giving the Rebels (14-6) an em-
phatic series victory to open Southeast-
ern Conference play.
Making his fifth career start, Gun-
nar Hoglund was phenomenal for the
Rebels. The freshman pitched the first
five innings of the game before being
relieved in the sixth. He finished the
game with a career-high eight strike-
outs, doubling his career total, while
allowing only two hits and two walks.
His lone earned run came after he was
pulled from the game.
The Rebel offense was quiet for the
first two innings before a third-inning
explosion propelled the club out to a 7-0
lead. The stretch began when Anthony
Servideo hit a single to right field that
brought in Tim Elko.
The scoring continued with a Grae
Kessinger double to left field that
brought in both Servideo and Jacob Ad-
ams across the plate. Thomas Dillard
kept the action going with a single to the
outfield that brought in Kessinger. With
the bases loaded, Tyler Keenan singled
up the middle to give the Rebels two
more runs before Ryan Olenek scored
the final run of the inning on a sacrifice
fly from Cooper Johnson.
The Ole Miss offense got going again
in the fifth inning, adding five more to its
total and bringing the score to 12-0. The
first of the inning came when Johnson
brought Olenek in with a single to the
outfield. Adams then sent Keenan home
with an infield single that the shortstop
was unable to convert into an out.
The marquee play of the fifth inning
came when Kessinger hit what appeared
to be a routine blooper into the outfield
with the bases loaded. However, three
Crimson Tide players looked into the
sun as the ball dropped between them,
and the resulting Kessinger double
brought all three baserunners around
to score.
With the score comfortably at 12-0,
the Rebels went to the bullpen after Ho-
glund walked the first batter of the sixth
inning, and Austin Miller entered the
game for the Rebels. Alabama was able
to score its only runs during the inning
on a single to right field that brought in
two. One run was credited to Hoglund,
with one going to Miller.
After this, Miller found his groove
and finished with 2.1 innings pitched
while notching a career-high five strike-
outs. Houston Roth closed out the 12-2
win for Ole Miss, allowing no runs over
the final 1.2 innings.
Ole Miss returns to action Tuesday
and Wednesday for a two-game series
with Arkansas-Pine Bluff before hitting
the road for a weekend series at Missou-
ri.
SOUTHERN MISS SWEEPS: Bry-
ant Bowen drove in five runs with three
hits as Southern Miss swept its opening
Conference USA baseball series with
a 10-5 victory over Louisiana Tech on
Sunday at J.C. Love Field.
Southern Miss (11-6, 3-0 C-USA)
won for the seventh time in its last eight
games and swept the Bulldogs (11-8,
0-3) for the first time 2017. Louisiana
Tech was the only team to win a confer-
ence series last season against the Gold-
en Eagles, taking two of three games
in Hattiesburg. The Golden Eagles are
now 14-4 against the Bulldogs since
they joined C-USA in 2014.
As it had all weekend, Southern Miss
hit the ball well Sunday, collecting 12
hits against five Tech pitchers.
The Golden Eagles finished the se-
ries with 40 hits, getting more than 10
in each of the three games, and their
27 runs in the series tied the number
Southern Miss scored in a season-open-
ing series win with Purdue.
Sunday, Bowen hit a home run, dou-
ble and single, and walked twice, reach-
ing base in all five at-bats. He also drove
in five runs and scored twice.
Matthew Guidry homered and sin-
gled, Will McGills doubled and singled
and Gabe Montenegro singled twice.
Cole Donaldson doubled and singled
and drove in three runs, while Hunter
Slater walked three times and scored a
run.
For a second consecutive day, the
Bulldogs managed seven hits, with
Steele Netterville hitting a double and
single and Mason Robinson singling
twice. Mason Mallard hit a home run,
drove in two runs and scored three
times.
Southern Miss’ second of five pitch-
ers, Mason Strickland (2-0), picked up
the win, pitching three innings and al-
lowing one run on three hits. He walked
one and struck out one.
Left-hander Ryan Och pitched the
final two innings and picked up his sec-
ond save. He walked three batters and
struck out one in two scoreless frames.
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SEC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Auburn wins SEC title, and wants more

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of winning back-to-back SEC reg- Tournament. The Vols will have to
ular-season titles for the first time win their first-round game to reach
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Au- with an 84-80 win to wrap up the 30 victories for only the second
burn Tigers are taking home their season a week ago, and the Tigers time in school history.
first Southeastern Conference also are the last team to beat Ten- “Now it’s time to play for the big
Tournament championship since nessee in Knoxville. one,” Tennessee senior Admiral
1985 and aren’t satisfied. Now Pearl has his first SEC Tour- Schofield said after being held to a
Not with the NCAA Tournament nament title at the expense of the season-low four points.
up next. first team he coached in the league. Chuma Okeke scored 18 points
Bryce Brown scored 19 points, “I get no greater pleasure in and had 13 rebounds for Auburn,
and Auburn won the SEC Tourna- beating Tennessee for this SEC and Danjel Purifoy added 10. Junior
ment title by routing eighth-ranked championship because I spent so guard Jared Harper, Auburn’s sec-
Tennessee 84-64 on Sunday.
many wonderful years as a Ten- ond-leading scorer, went 1 for 11
“We still have a lot more to prove,
a lot more to accomplish as a team,”
nessee Vol,” Pearl said. “Got great and had nine points. Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
Sunday’s answer
said Brown, a senior guard who
respect for their fans and program,
their tradition in basketball.”
Lamonte’ Turner led Tennessee
with 24 points. Grant Williams, the
Sudoku
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YESTERDAY’S
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hadn’t won an SEC Tournament placing puzzle
Sudoku based on
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game before this week. On the court, Pearl thanked SEC two-time SEC player of the year, a 9x9 grid
placing with based
puzzle severalon 5 1 2 9 6 4 7 3 8

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No. 22 Auburn (26-9) hadn’t even Commissioner Greg Sankey for for- was held to 13. Jordan Bone had 11 agiven
9x9 grid with several
numbers. The object 8 7 4 3 1 2 5 9 6
played for the title since 2000, and giving him and letting him return and Jordan Bowden scored 10. given numbers.
is to place The object
the numbers
to the league as a coach. Pearl was Tennessee struggled to bounce is
3 5 8 2 7 1 9 6 4
the fifth-seeded Tigers won their 1 to place
to 9 in thethe numbers
empty spaces
still under an NCAA show cause back after an emotional win over 1sotothat
9 ineach
the empty spaces
row, each 7 2 6 8 4 9 3 1 5
fourth game in as many days to
penalty when Auburn hired him in No. 4 Kentucky in the semifinals. so that each
column row, each
and each 3x3 box 4 9 1 6 3 5 8 7 2
capture only the second SEC Tour- column
nament championship in program 2014 for violations committed when Coach Rick Barnes said he told his containsand theeach
same3x3 box
number 9 6 5 4 2 3 1 8 7
contains the same number
history. The Tigers now have won he was at Tennessee. He was fired assistants the Vols looked a little only once. The difficulty
only once. The difficulty 1 8 3 7 5 6 2 4 9
eight straight and 10 of their last in 2011 for lying to NCAA investi- drained at the start. level increases from
level increases from 2 4 7 1 9 8 6 5 3
gators about a cookout he held for “We just came out with no ener- Monday to Sunday.
11 heading into the NCAA Tourna- Monday to Sunday. Difficulty Level 3/16

ment. recruits. gy,” Williams said. “We came out

Better yet, Auburn and coach “I hope the SEC’s better with me like we expected things to happen.
Bruce Pearl have become the nem- in it,” Pearl said. It’s hard to bounce back from that,
esis to his old program, beating Tennessee (29-5) likely cost it- especially how Auburn plays, how
Tennessee three straight times. self any chance at the program’s explosive they can be, especially
Auburn ruined Tennessee’s hopes first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA when they start making shots.”

MSU men
Continued from Page 1B
“You have to respect The MSU men’s team Tennessee. will receive a “very lim- Sunday’s Cryptoquote:
everyone and fear no finished with a 10-8 re- Howland is thrilled ited quantity” of tickets
one,” Howland said. cord in the Southeastern that his Bulldogs have for the first- and sec-
And while excitement Conference and fell to made the spring ritual ond-round games in San
quickly spreads around Tennessee in the quar- known through the coun- Jose. The MSU Athletic
campus about its men’s terfinal round of the try, and world, as March Ticket Office will take re-
team, it’s only half the SEC Tournament on Fri- Madness. quests from the top 1,000
show. Tonight, the State day night. The Bulldogs “This is the greatest Bulldog Club members
women await their seed- were one of seven SEC sporting event in all of with a limit of up to six
ing in the NCA A Wom- schools to make the tour- sports in America,” How- tickets. If any tickets re-
en’s Basketball Tourna- nament field, including land said. “It’s thrilling main after that, requests
ment. A selection show tournament champion for us to be a part of that.” will be taken from all
public event will be held Auburn and regular-sea- Now, about those tick- Bulldog Club members
at Humphrey Coliseum. son champion LSU. Also ets. beginning at 8 a.m. Tues-
The doors open at 4:45 in the field are Ole Miss, MSU announced Sun- day. Tickets are $100
p.m. Kentucky, Florida and day night that the school apiece.

NCAA TOURNAMENT GLANCE

FIRST FOUR At Colonial Life Arena Columbia, S.C. Arena Texas Tech (26-6) vs. Northern Kentucky
At UD Arena Columbia, S.C. Virginia-Gardner-Webb winner vs. Mis- Jacksonville, Fla. (26-8)
Dayton, Ohio Duke-N.C. Central-North Dakota State sissippi-Oklahoma winner Kentucky-Abilene Christian winner vs. Buffalo (31-3) vs. Arizona State-St.
Tuesday, March 19 winner vs. VCU-UCF winner At Nationwide Arena Wofford-Seton Hall winner John’s winner
Fairleigh Dickinson (20-13) vs. Prairie At SAP Center Columbus, Ohio At Vivint Smart Home Arena Second Round
View A&M (22-12) San Jose, Calif. Tennessee-Colgate winner vs. Cincinna- Salt Lake City Saturday, March 23
Belmont (26-5) vs. Temple (23-9) Virginia Tech-Saint Louis winner vs. Mis- ti-Iowa winner Kansas-Northeastern winner vs. Au- At The XL Center
Wednesday, March 20 sissippi State-Liberty winner At SAP Center burn-New Mexico State winner Hartford, Conn.
N.C. Central (18-15) vs. North Dakota At Capital One Arena San Jose, Calif. Sunday, March 24 Florida State-Vermont winner vs. Mar-
State (18-15) Washington Kansas State-UC Irvine winner vs. Wis- At Nationwide Arena quette-Murray State winner
Arizona State (22-10) vs. St. John’s (21- Regional Semifinals consin-Oregon winner Columbus, Ohio At Wells Fargo Arena
12) Friday, March 29 At KFC Yum! Center North Carolina-Iona winner vs. Utah Des Moines, Iowa
EAST REGIONAL Duke-N.C. Central-North Dakota State_ Louisville, Ky. State-Washington winner Michigan-Montana winner vs. Neva-
First Round VCU-UCF winner vs. Virginia Tech-Saint Regional Semifinals At BOK Center da-Florida winner
Thursday, March 21 Louis_Mississippi State-Liberty winner Thursday, March 28 Tulsa, Okla. At Vivint Smart Home Arena
At Jacksonville Veterans Michigan State-Bradley_Louisville-Min- Virginia- Gardner-Webb_ Mississip - Houston-Georgia State winner vs. Iowa Salt Lake City
Memorial Arena nesota winner vs. LSU-Yale_Mary- pi-Oklahoma winner vs. Kansas State- State-Ohio State winner Gonzaga_Fairleigh Dickinson-Prairie
Jacksonville, Fla. land-Belmont-Temple winner UC Irvine_Wisconsin-Oregon winner At The Sprint Center View A&M winner vs. Syracuse-Baylor
Tennessee-Colgate_Cincinnati-Iowa winner
LSU (26-6) vs. Yale (22-7) Regional Championship winner vs. Purdue-Old Dominion_Villano- Kansas City, Mo.
Maryland (22-10) vs. Belmont-Temple Sunday, March 31 Regional Semifinals Sunday, March 24
va-Saint Mary’s winner At BOK Center
winner Semifinal winners Regional Championship Friday, March 29
At Wells Fargo Arena SOUTH REGIONAL North Carolina-Iona_Utah State-Wash- Tulsa, Okla.
Saturday, March 30 Texas Tech-Northern Kentucky winner
Des Moines, Iowa First Round Semifinal winners ington winner vs. Kansas-Northeastern_
Michigan State (28-6) vs. Bradley (20-14) Thursday, March 21 Auburn-New Mexico State winner vs. Buffalo_Arizona State-St. John’s
MIDWEST REGIONAL winner
Louisville (20-13) vs. Minnesota (21-13) At The XL Center First Round Kentucky-Abilene Christian winner_Wof-
Friday, March 22 Hartford, Conn. Thursday, March 21 ford-Seton Hall winner vs. Houston-Geor- At Honda Center
At Colonial Life Arena
Columbia, S.C.
Purdue (23-9) vs. Old Dominion (26-8)
Villanova (25-9) vs. Saint Mary’s (22-11)
At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial gia State_Iowa State-Ohio State winner
Regional Championship
Anaheim, Calif.
Regional Semifinals ACROSS
Arena
Duke (29-5) vs. N.C. Central-North Dako- Friday, March 22 Jacksonville, Fla. Sunday, March 31 Thursday, March 28 1 Jostle
ta State winner At Colonial Life Arena Semifinal winners Gonzaga-Fairleigh Dickinson-Prairie
VCU (25-7) vs. UCF (23-8) Columbia, S.C.
Kentucky (27-6) vs. Abilene Christian
(27-6) WEST REGIONAL View A&M_Syracuse-Baylor winner vs. 5 Sharif of “Dr.
At SAP Center
San Jose, Calif.
Virginia (29-3) vs. Gardner-Webb (23-11)
Mississippi (20-12) vs. Oklahoma (19-13)
Wofford (29-4) vs. Seton Hall (20-13) First Round
Thursday, March 21
Florida State-Vermont_Marquette-Mur-
ray State winner
Zhivago”
At Vivint Smart Home Arena
Virginia Tech (24-8) vs. Saint Louis (23- At Nationwide Arena Salt Lake City At The XL Center Michigan-Montana_Nevada-Florida win- 9 Italian seaport
12) Columbus, Ohio Hartford, Conn. ner vs. Texas Tech-Northern Kentucky_
Mississippi State (23-10) vs. Liberty Tennessee (29-5) vs. Colgate (24-10)
Kansas (25-9) vs. Northeastern (23-10)
Auburn (26-9) vs. New Mexico State Florida State (27-7) vs. Vermont (27-6) Buffalo-Arizona State-St. John’s winner 10 Jeweler’s unit
(28-6)
Second Round
Cincinnati (28-6) vs. Iowa (22-11)
At SAP Center
(30-4) Marquette (24-9) vs. Murray State (27-4)
At Wells Fargo Arena
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 30
12 Cast member
Friday, March 22
Saturday, March 23 San Jose, Calif. At Nationwide Arena Des Moines, Iowa Semifinal winners 13 Commerce
At Jacksonville Veterans
Memorial Arena
Kansas State (25-8) vs. UC Irvine (30-5)
Wisconsin (23-10) vs. Oregon (23-12)
Columbus, Ohio
North Carolina (27-6) vs. Iona (17-15)
Michigan (28-6) vs. Montana (26-8)
Nevada (29-4) vs. Florida (19-15)
FINAL FOUR
At U.S. Bank Stadium 14 Salad ingredient
Jacksonville, Fla. Second Round Utah State (28-6) vs. Washington (26-8) At Vivint Smart Home Arena Minneapolis 16 Storage spot
LSU-Yale winner vs. Maryland_Bel- Saturday, March 23 At BOK Center Salt Lake City National Semifinals
mont-Temple winner At The XL Center Tulsa, Okla. Gonzaga (30-3) vs. Fairleigh Dickin- Saturday, April 6 17 Flightless birds
At Wells Fargo Arena
Des Moines, Iowa
Hartford, Conn.
Purdue-Old Dominion winner vs. Villano-
Houston (31-3) vs. Georgia State (24-9)
Iowa State (23-11) vs. Ohio State (19-14)
son-Prairie View A&M winner
Syracuse (20-13) vs. Baylor (19-13)
East champion vs. West champion
South champion vs. Midwest champion
18 Conceited one
Michigan State-Bradley winner vs. Louis- va-Saint Mary’s winner Second Round Friday, March 22 National Championship 21 View
ville-Minnesota winner Sunday, March 24 Saturday, March 23 At BOK Center Monday, April 8
Sunday, March 24 At Colonial Life Arena At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Tulsa, Okla. Semifinal winners 22 Stiffness
23 Dull photo finish
24 March sign
26 Use a spade
NASCAR 29 Vast
30 Florence’s river Sunday’s answer
31 French friend

Busch grabs 200th win, tying Petty’s record

32 Salad ingredient 6 Damage — ...”
34 Domesticated 7 Middle East 29 Purr producers
37 Roof overhangs language 30 Wise saying
38 Kitchen appli- 8 Salad ingredient 33 Close
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS we were going to able to come back His team handed him a white flag ance 9 Neon and helium 35 Adam’s mate
through traffic and get through the with a logo emblazoned with “200 39 Deal maker 11 Circus sight 36 Cub’s home
FONTANA, Calif. — Kyle Busch field. Maybe the stars aligned a lit- WINS” to display from his window 40 Kitchen appli- 15 Salad ingredient
was dominating yet another race tle bit more perfectly today.” during his celebratory drive across ance 19 Gangsters’ guns
when a speeding penalty on pit road 41 Take a breather 20 Mine rock
Busch dominated the first two the track where he earned his first
dropped him to the middle of the 22 Indian gown
stages before that speeding penalty Cup victory way back in Septem- DOWN 23 Silent
pack at Auto Club Speedway. added a degree of difficulty to this ber 2005. He then stood atop his 1 Turn into 24 Salad ingredient
Busch had to pass 17 cars in 73 win. After he carved through the car and waved it toward his large 2 False 25 Writer Isaac
laps on sizzling old asphalt to get field he was aided by a timely late Southern California fan base before 3 Ties down 26 Goes motoring
his landmark 200th victory across caution that helped Busch take the taking his customary bow. 4 Whittle down 27 Dream up
NASCAR’s three major series. lead for good with 26 laps remain- “Feels just like No. 1,” he said. 5 Halloween mo. 28 “Whither thou
Busch didn’t even need 50 laps.
ing. “Feels just like yesterday. That was
He capped a series of brilliant pass-
The win was the fourth Cup vic- such an awesome race car. Dang.
es by drafting off Joey Logano and
tory overall and the third in seven I’m glad we put on a heck of a show
Brad Keselowski to seize the lead
years at Fontana for Busch. He has for these fans. To win 200, whatever
again, and with this superb driver
behind the wheel of a standout Joe earned 53 of his 200 wins in the Cup it means, it means a lot to me.”
Gibbs Racing Toyota, absolutely Series, along with 53 in the Truck “I just wish that we could keep
nothing was stopping Busch’s drive Series and 94 in Xfinity. it going, running strong, running
into history. Busch previously expressed am- well, and winning races.”
Busch tied Richard Petty’s NA- bivalence about the achievement, Logano was 2.534 seconds in
SCAR record with his 200th win saying 200 is just a number that back of Busch, while Keselowski
Sunday, making an impressive late doesn’t compare neatly with Petty’s finished third, unable to catch the
surge to claim the Cup Series race achievements. All 200 of Petty’s vic- winningest driver of their era while
on the same weathered Fontana tories were in NASCAR’s top Cup Busch became the first repeat win-
track where he got his first Cup win. Series. ner this NASCAR season.
“It certainly is a monumental Busch’s excitement was still ob- Busch equaled Petty’s victo-
moment for all of us,” Busch said. vious after crossing the line. ries mark in the 998th race of his
“I knew we had a great race car and “All I do is win, win, win, no mat- 17-year career. Petty competed in
we were fast. I just wasn’t sure how ter what,” he said over the radio. 1,184 NASCAR races over 35 years.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Alabama among No. 1 seeds in NIT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNC Greensboro coach Wes
Miller and his Spartans were
dealt a double dose of disap-
pointment this past week, losing
to Wofford in the championship
game of the Southern Confer-
ence Tournament and missing
out on the NCAA Tournament.
Now it’s on to the NIT.
“We talked all week there
was no guarantee we were go-
ing to be in the NCAA Tour-
nament,” Miller said Sunday
night. “We can’t let that disap-
pointment affect us.”
Even with the heartbreaking
championship loss last Mon-
day night, UNC Greensboro
(28-6) was hoping to give the
Southern Conference its first
at-large NCAA Tournament bid
and appeared to be in the field
until Oregon upset Washington
for the Pac-12 title on Saturday
night.
The Spartans were forced to
settle for the top seed in the Na-
tional Invitation Tournament.
“It’s been an emotional cou-
ple of hours,” Miller said. “Ob-
viously, we felt like we deserved
to be in the tournament. We felt
like we were good enough. To
find out that you don’t get in is
heartbreaking, and to find out
that you were one spot away,
maybe one day that’ll be some-
thing that makes it feel a little
better, but right now it makes it
feel a little bit worse.”
Indiana, Alabama and TCU
are the other No. 1 seeds for the
32-team tournament, which be-
gins Tuesday on the campuses
of the higher seeds.
Alabama, led by 17-year-
old point guard Kira Lewis Jr.,
failed to make a second straight
trip to the NCAA Tournament.
The Tide has lost four of its last
five games, but coach Avery
Johnson said he thinks his team
was only one victory away from
an NCAA bid.
“We don’t have anyone else
to blame,” Johnson said. “We’re
playing in the NIT because
we just weren’t good enough
during the regular season, and
we weren’t consistent enough.”
The Spartans, who open
against Campbell, lost to Wof-
ford for the third time in the
championship game of the
league tournament. Greens-
boro’s other losses this season
were a six-point setback at LSU,
a 17-point loss at Kentucky and
a conference loss at Furman.
This is the school’s first at-
large bid to the NIT, and that
was not lost on Miller.
“That’s really, really special.
We’re excited about the oppor-
tunity,” he said. “It’s a big-time
deal to be part of the NIT. It was
a lot easier to say on Wednesday
or Thursday, but I do think we
have the type of group that’s
going to wake up tomorrow re-
ally excited to play basketball,
even if it’s not in the Big Dance.
We’ve got to switch gears, be
excited to play at home on Tues-
day.”
Among the second seeds is
North Carolina State of the At-
lantic Coast Conference, which
was disappointed at being
snubbed by the NCAA Tourna-
ment despite a strong resume.
The Wolfpack meets Hofstra of
the Colonial on Tuesday.
The Wolfpack (22-11) was
33rd in the NCAA’s new NET
rankings, a more analytical sys-
tem that incorporated factors
such as game results, strength
of schedule, game location,
scoring margin and net efficien-
cy at both ends of the court.
In a statement, athletic direc-
tor Deborah Yow said she was
“disappointed” that “our total
body of work was not reward-
ed” with an NCAA invitation.
She pointed out that the Wolf-
pack beat eventual Southeast-
ern Conference Tournament
champion Auburn while playing
five games against ACC peers
Duke, North Carolina and Vir-
ginia, which all ended up with
No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tour-
ney. But N.C. State went just 3-9
in Quadrant 1 games and had
the nation’s worst nonconfer-
ence strength of schedule.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My niece
(age 25),
despite numerous
warnings against
getting pregnant,
deliberately did
three years ago.
This was a result
of an affair with
a man who is in
a live-in relation-
ZITS ship with another
woman.
My niece
ended up in the
hospital and had
to have some
Dear Abby
serious surgeries.
She lost her job and moved in
with my sister and her husband.
She’s working again, but she
and her daughter still live
with my sister because she
doesn’t earn enough to support
them (and gets no help from
the father). She has recently
GARFIELD announced that she’s pregnant
again by this same man!
My sister says she feels
compelled to support my niece
because she is concerned
about her grandchild(ren).
How do the rest of us “opt
out,” without seeming mean or
judgmental? I feel sorry for the
strain this is putting on my sis- great relationship, but I feel he
ter, but she keeps asking family
members to help out as she
is only working part-time and
her husband is on disability. I
don’t feel it is our
responsibility to
keep supporting
this self-cen-
tered, irresponsi-
ble adult. HELP,
please! — AUN-
TIE NO MORE
DEAR AUNTIE:
Unless you and
the rest of the
family want to
support your
niece and all the
children she may
have, draw the
line. Tell your
sister that “the
family” will chip
in ONE MORE TIME, but the
money must be used so she
and her daughter can consult a
lawyer about how to compel the
deadbeat dad to assume his
responsibilities toward his chil-
dren. There are also state child
support enforcement agencies
that can help her.
DEAR ABBY: I started dating
my next-door neighbor two
years ago. We have known each
other for 17 years. We hit it off,
and after about a month he
was spending every night with
me. He’s 72 and retired; I’m 55
and work full time. We have a
is stalling about marrying me.
In the beginning, he said
if we were together after one
year we would talk about selling
one or both of our houses
and having just one. It hasn’t
happened. I make his breakfast
each morning. Then I go to work
and he goes to his house. He
comes back at lunch to let my
dogs out. When I get home at
5, he comes over and I cook
supper. (He does buy some
groceries and will start dinner
every once in a while.) He then
stays until I leave for work the
next day. And he’s here every
weekend, too. He does go
home to shower.
I think after two years he
should know whether he wants
to marry me or not. His last
divorce was 20 years ago, and
mine was seven years ago. I
love him, and he says he isn’t
putting me off, he just wishes
I could be “patient.” I think
it’s stupid to have two houses
when he stays with me every
night. I pay my own bills, and
he pays his. Do you think I’m
wasting my time with him? —
READY FOR CHANGE IN SOUTH
CAROLINA
DEAR READY: Whether you
are wasting your time remains
to be seen. After two years I
don’t think you are being “im-
patient” to want a commitment
from him. That’s why you both
need to have a serious, lay-it-
on-the-line discussion about
what your goals are. If marriage
isn’t one of his, he should let
you know NOW.

CANDORVILLE
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March
18). You are a terrific and
ever-improving friend, and you
will enjoy that quality in others,
too, as friendship will be a
major theme this solar return.
Different sorts of endeavors
(financial, adventurous, pas-
sionate and more) will begin as
platonic ties. You’re ready for
the opportunity that comes up
in July, though you may not feel
BABY BLUES it. Leo and Sagittarius adore
you. Your lucky numbers are:
35, 9, 40, 37 and 19.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
The mystery will find you. It
won’t say, “Hey, over here, solve
me!” But it will pique your inter-
est enough to start the chain of
questions. There’s nothing so
satisfying today as a satisfied
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
curiosity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
When you’re moving fast, it’s
easy to forget to put things back
where they belong. The clutter
builds. The organization dimin-
ishes. Time is wasted looking
for things. Simple solution: Slow
down!
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
People reach out for various
reasons, hardly ever the ones
presented. Look deeper for the
need within the need. This is
what comes with being born a
complex creature — although
who knows the woes of algae?
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
There’s a difference between
dominance and superiority.
Those who understand this
will not take their power for
granted. They will realize that
power is always a cycle and act
accordingly.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s
a kind of “dark matter” situation
today. There’s no evidence that
the thing exists, but there’s
something affecting you, and
you’ll have plenty of theories
about this contributing factor to
your current reality.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You can’t improve a thing from
the same mindset from which
you created it. You have to grow
beyond it to see how you could
possibly next-level it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The heart wants what the heart
wants. That doesn’t make it
healthy, appropriate, logical or
in any way good for everyone in-
volved. Hearts aren’t the be-all
and end-all wisdom. It’s better
when all systems work together.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Carry out your promises to
yourself. These are the hardest
promises to keep, because
often they’re made in secret
and the accountability can be
shifty, but they’re also the most
important promises to keep.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). The way to get out of a
funk is simple (spiritual gener-
osity), but it’s something that
people in a funk don’t usually
think about. That’s why you
should keep instructions and
answers on hand for when you
need them.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Calm confidence is your
usual manner, but things will
come up today to throw you
off your game. Take back the
power. Speak gentle words, but
speak them with your signature
authority.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It is nearly impossible to
have polite conversation these
days, as even the weather can
be a polarizing topic. Decide you
want to connect with others,
making tolerance your fallback
position, and you’ll do the
impossible.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You don’t need to give
a TED Talk to prove your
relevance. You’ll exert yourself
wordlessly, influencing through
example, becoming the person
others will want to be like.

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small concrete jobs,
Akron, OH 44320; Ed-
electrical, plumbing,
die J. Bailey (Fields),
roof repairs, pressure
5808 Bromley Ave #1,
Las Vegas, NV 89107;
washing and mobile
home roof coating and
Deric King, 1816 Cone
St, Toledo, OH 43606;
underpinning. No job
too small. 549-7031.
Rodney Fields, Latoya
Fields, and Kennan
Fields; Suggs Construction Co.
and any unknown heirs
Building, remodeling,
roofing, & home repair.
of Joseph H. Fields, Licensed & Bonded.
Dessie B. Fields, Gloria 662-242-3471
Fields, Edith Clare 662-574-8470
Fields King, Hugh E.
Fields, all deceased.
Tom Hatcher, LLC
Custom Construction,
You have been made a
Defendant in the Mo-
Restoration, Remodel-
ing, Repair, Insurance
tion for Determination of claims. 662-364-1769.
Heirship and the Peti- Licensed & Bonded
tion for Final Distribu-
tion and to Close Es-
TONY DOYLE
tate filed in this Court CABINETS &
by Petitioner Betty M.
Fields Brown, Adminis-
CONSTRUCTION
tratrix, seeking a judi-
cial determination of the
rightful heirs-at-law of
Maud Fields, deceased.
You are summoned to
appear and defend
against the Petition filed Tile, Hardwood floors,
against you in this ac-
tion at 9:30 o'clock
Cabinets, Vinyl Siding,
Painting, Window &
A.M. on the 18th day of
April 2019 in the
courtroom of the
Door Replacement &
Framing, Remodeling,
Concrete & Roofing.
Lowndes County Chan- Free Bids
cery Courthouse in 662-769-0680
Columbus, Mississippi,
and in case of your fail-
ure to appear and de-
fend a judgment will be
General Services 1360
entered against you for EXPERIENCED
the things demanded in GIVER in Dementia/Hos-
CARE-
the Petition. pice care. Affordable,
You are not required to
trustworthy & reliable.
Home, hospital or nurs-
file an answer or other ing home care. Ref.
pleading, but you may avail. 662-574-5181.
do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand
and the seal of said
Court, this the 6th day
of February 2019.
BY: Lisa Younger Neese
/s/Shantrell W.
Granderson, D.C.
Clerk of Lowndes DAVID'S CARPET &
County, Mississippi UPHOLSTERY
(SEAL) CLEANING
1 Room - $40
2 Rooms - $70
Publication dates: 3/4,
3/11, & 3/18/2019 3+ Rooms - $30 Each
Rugs - Must Be Seen
Car Upholstery
Request for Bid Cleaning Available
662-722-1758
ROOFING REPLACE-
MENT HILL'S PRESSURE
WASHING. Commercial/
The Housing Authority of residential. House, con-
the City of Millport is ac-
cepting bids for Roofing
crete, sidewalks & mo-
bile washing. Free est.
Services. Bids will be re- Call 662-386-8925
ceived until 11:30 A.M.,
Local Time on the 3rd
day of April, 2019 at the REAR TINE Tiller, B&S
eng, starts easy, runs
Administrative Office of
the Housing Authority good, $150. Craftsman
located at 12080 Mower, 42". Exc cond.
$425. 662-327-9279.
Hwy.96, Millport, AL
35576, at which time
all Bids will be publicly
opened.
RETAINER WALL, drive-
way, foundation, con-
crete, masonry restora-
Plans and specifica- tion, remodeling, base-
tions may be obtained ment foundation, re-
from the office of JWT pairs, small dump truck
Consulting, P.O. Box
hauling (5-6 yd) load &
790, Corinth, MS demolition/lot cleaning.
38835-0790 or by call- Burr Masonry
ing (662) 664-4619. 662-242-0259.
Documents may be ob-
tained by prime con-
tractors by depositing WORK WANTED:
$50.00 for each set of Licensed & Bonded-car-
documents so obtained. pentry, painting, & de-
molition. Landscaping,
Deposits will be refun-
ded to bonafide bidders gutters cleaned, bush
submitting bids, on re- hogging, clean-up work,
turn of the bid docu- pressure washing, mov-
ments in good condi- ing help & furniture
tion within ten (10) days repair. 662-242-3608
after the bid opening.
Subcontractors and ma-
terial suppliers may pur-
Lawn Care / Landscaping
chase sets of the bid 1470
documents for $50.00
per set. This $50.00 is C & T LAWN
SERVICE
nonrefundable. Each re-
quest for plans and spe-
cifications should indic-
ate that the request is
for a prime contractor or
otherwise.
For all your lawn
The General Contract- services.
ors submitting bids or Call 769-0680 for
being considered for
free estimate.
this work shall be li- Mowing, Blowing,
censed to perform such Weed-eating,
work by the State of
Mississippi and shall
Pressure Washing,
Tree Trimming.
submit evidence of such
license before the bid JESSE & BEVERLY'S
may be opened or con- LAWN SERVICE. Mow-
sidered. Contractor Cer- ing, cleanup, landscap-
tificate of Responsibil-
ing, sodding, & tree cut-
ity Number must be on ting. 356-6525.
the outside of the bid
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