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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Inside 3 News

Adams' PULSE: A Tribute seeks to heal through art

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Lloyd Smith, 93, is assisted into the 1940 bi-plane by Ageless Aviation pilot Darryl Fisher. Smith was the 2000th flight for the organization, which started in Oxford in 2011.

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Bright blue skies were thanked in a prayer by Community Church pastor Fish Robinson. The 1940 bi-plane that was carrying a handful of our nation's greatest heroes also made the list for God's blessing Thursday morning.

The men and women who organize the Ageless Aviation Dreams program accomplished their mission of making the veterans who live at Brookdale of Oxford remember their service, and youth, all at the same time. Darryl Fisher was the man who piloted the plane that was re-built with care in Cleveland. His first mission, back in March of 2011, was held at University-Ox-

ford Airport. Lloyd Smith, a 93-year-old prisoner during World War II, was the veteran who went up for the 2,000th flight. He was joined by five others, Kenneth Morton, Frank Miller, Ernest (Ernie) Aune, Angus L. Emerson III and Bruce Burt. Some served in the U.S. Army, while others were memTURN TO AVIATION PAGE 13

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The Library's haunted house scares up some funds for humane society

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The Library Sports Bar and The Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society partnered together for the 10th time last week to hold their annual haunted house.

John Desler, owner of The Library, started the haunted house in 2007. Desler and his crew at The Library do all the decorations while the Humane Society supply all of the volunteers who collect tickets and dress up, jump and scream to scare everyone that comes through the house.

Desler and his team picks the nights when the haunted house is held and shuts down the bar for those nights. Some employees with The Library are still kept on hand during those nights to help out with anything if needed.

All of the proceeds from the haunted house go to benefit the Humane Society. For one run through of the house, it costs $7 and then $12 for unlimited run throughs. Some people came both nights and several would go through the house over and over again. Many of the house’s visitors were college students who came in groups, but there were also several younger kids and older adults who came through the house, often more than once.

This year the haunted house raised nearly $2,400 to benefit the Humane Society, the most they have ever gotten from this particular fundraiser. The money will be going directly into the shelter’s general fund, which is where they need the most money right now.

Visitors enter the haunted house at the main entrance of The Library on Van Buren. There was a trail carved through the library using streamers, cobwebs and huge sheets of paper. Music blared through the bar’s speaker system while Desler spoke through the system providing visitors with maniacal laughter

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A worker records a boy’s reaction to being chased out of the haunted house by a chainsaw. This year’s haunted house at The Library brought in One of the haunted house visitors, Eli, ended up becoming part of the more money than ever before. haunted house and scaring patrons as they waited in line for their tickets. and promises of fright and doom.

As people made their through the bar climbing the steps and walking around obstacles they were greeted with bright flashing lights, spots of darkness and ghouls of every kind waiting to jump out of the shadows. Upon exiting the haunted house, once visitors finally think they were free from the torment, there was someone waiting with a chainsaw to make them scream in terror one last time.

Cyd Dunlap has been with the Humane Society for 23 years and has been serving as president of the board there for two decades.

She said that serving the shelter and working to help animals in the community is just a part of who she is.

“I think it’s just a passion I was born with,” Dunlap said. “I have tried to quit one time, but that only lasted maybe a month before I went back and picked up right where I left off.”

Dunlap said that the Humane Society is really grateful for the work Desler and his team at The Library put into the haunted house ever year. She said that she can tell that Desler not only enjoys being able to help out the shelter, but also has a good time on the microphone adding to the spooky atmosphere of the evening.

Though she’s been involved in the haunted house every year it has been happening, Dunlap

said that she still looks forward to it. She loves seeing everyone come out and get scared for a good cause.

“I really like walking around and watching all the characters scare people,” she said. “I think my favorite is watching everyone get scared by the chainsaw. It’s just really fun to stand there and watch everybody running out. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Adams’ PULSE: A Tribute seeks to heal through art The banners set up around the room were several yards of fabric that I’d written on. I used them once in a show I did in Columbus and I felt like they had a place in this show. The words I used are, in a way, a mantra for me. When you were being punished in elementary school, they would make you write the same thing over and over.

For me, I wanted to do the same thing, but remind myself that I am loved and that I should not doubt that. There are many people like me out there, even if I fell alone sometimes, and writing that over and over again was me telling myself that and putting it out into the world. I wanted them to be there in the show so that as you were dealing with loss, hurt and confusion as you walked through the space, the first thing you would see when you looked away from the portraits was positive.

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Last week, local artist Jonathan Kent Adams’ instillation PULSE: A Tribute hung in the Union Ballroom of the Ole Miss Student Union. The instillation was a collection of portraits featuring the face and story of every victim and one survivor of the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The portraits hung in throughout the room at eyelevel.

On the back of each painting was the caption Adams put with each photo when posting them on Instagram for the first time. The caption told the subject’s story and many had snippets from memorial posts made by friends and loved ones of the victim. Adams sat down with Oxford Citizen reporter Chaning Green the morning after the exhibit’s close to discuss the work.

CHANING GREEN: How did this exhibit come to be in the Union Ballroom?

JOHNATHAN ADAMS: I began the portrait series the day after the attack happened and finished about a month after. Holden Hays is the president of FEMISS. He follows me on Instagram, where I was originally posting the work.

He saw them and he was moved and he reached out to me. He then began contacting people around campus and telling them that he thought they should see this body of work, and, through his connections with the Isom Center, he managed to book the space.

GREEN:Why were you moved to create these portraits? Why did you do it?

ADAMS: It was really just for me.

Art is a place that I can turn to heal. It just started as my own desire to visit these people in my art and touch on their pain and loss and what it means that injustices

CHANING GREEN GREEN: Tell me about the audio Jonathan Kent Adams speaks at his arts show Thursday night in the Ole Miss Student Union Ballroom. The show that was playing during the show?

ADAMS: The audio was from a was a tribute to the victims of the June 12 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. video made by Ryan Murphy Prolike this still happen in America. I GREEN: Why did you give each what that is, you’re still thinking ductions and the Human Rights wanted to go back to that place portrait a ring of color around about it, about something, and Campaign. The video had celebriover and over again, and I did for them and why are some missing that is what I wanted. Something ties reading the victims’ names is off. I wanted to convey that and giving a story about them. I about 30 days. facial features?

I don’t know, I guess for me, it ADAMS: Well, with the colors, I sense of uneasiness about the wanted to use the audio form the was just important that I remem- wanted to connect the portraits. I whole ordeal. video, but I also wanted to make sure I had their permission to do ber not to be numb. So many bad wanted that, if you saw them onthings happen and often, we just line on my Instagram feed, you GREEN: Why did you arrange it so. I first started contacting Ryan Murphy’s people, but it was all scroll on to the next article, so to would know they are connected. I the way that you did? speak. I wanted to remind myself know the rainbow isn’t a symbol ADAMS:When I was working on about “American Horror Story” of the impact of this. These people exclusive to the queer community, these, I never envisioned them in and “Scream Queens,” which are who have actually lost people, but I wanted to, in some way con- a space, I was just taking it a pic- the shows he has, so I emailed they can’t be numb to it. They can’t nect that with what I was doing. In ture at a time, so I had to think Chad Griffin, who is the President just put their art supplies away the show, it just turned out that I about it. I arranged the portraits of the Human Rights Campaign. and forget about it. They are still could display them in a way that hanging in the middle of the room He immediately responded and constantly being confronted with connected with that rainbow so that it would feel more interac- CC’d Ryan Murphy’s team. They the absence of another person. theme. tive, that you could walk through were all really excited, told me I I wanted to, on some level, reThe missing features on their and get a feel of these people. I could do whatever I wanted with it late to that. I know I can’t truly faces are meant to have a lot to do wanted you to feel surrounded, in and want me to send them picknow how they feel, but I wanted with the loss and there being a way. I liked that. Walking into a tures and video of the show, which to get a better understanding of something missing. I wanted it so room that has sort of a cold-hotel- I’m honestly a little nervous about these people and their story, and that if you saw the portraits on lobby feel and seeing pictures on it. Everyone has been so kind that’s why I did this. I was never your social media feed, for you not the wall is forgettable. To have throughout this whole process. expecting to do a show with them. to just scroll past them, but for you them hanging in front of you, havI was just focusing on each por- to have to stop for a second. Even if ing to weave in and out of them, I chaning.green@journalinc.com trait. I did two or three a day. you pause and don’t understand liked that.

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OBITUARIES RICHARD JOHNSON Richard Clyde Johnson, 62, passed away Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. The funeral service will be at First Baptist Church on Monday, Oct. 31 at 11 a.m. with Dr. Robert Allen and Dr. Eric Hankins officiating. Burial will follow at Eastover Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 4 until 6 p.m. at Waller Funeral Home.

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bers of the Air Force. All of them got to touch the sky again in a plane that can hover at 85 miles per hour and was originally used to train the great pilots of WW II. “It is so pure in terms of us giving back and honoring the seniors and veterans.

They don't expect it, they don't think they will ever fly again and we give that to them free of charge,” Fisher said. “Not only is it to treat them, but when we see their reaction and the spring it puts in their step, it's amazing. Every time that I fly, I tear up every time because of the emotion that is involved with it.”

Sports Clips helps sponsor the flights, and Fisher said they have been very helpful with the funding. He has served veterans in 32 different states since the mission first started in Oxford.

“Their founder and president, Gordon Logan, is Air Force veteran and he flew C 130s. They have a culture of supporting veterans,” Fisher said. “They found out about what we do about three and

a half years ago. They contacted me via e-mail and said they love what I'm doing, how can we help? We formed a partnership in this and they're not only a help financially but they have 1,800 stores nationwide and they send out volunteers.”

Fisher lives in Carson City, Nevada but the first flight took place in Oxford because his father Bill was having his bi-plane worked on in 2011.

“He called me and asked if I would pick the plane up with him and then fly back to Oregon. I'm in the senior living business and I knew (Brookdale's) Sandra (Enfinger) was close to Cleveland, so I got the crazy idea to just stop in and see if she had a veteran who wanted to go for a flight,” Fisher recalled.

“We stopped here and I didn't know what to expect. I took up one that day, Hugh Newton, a World War II veteran. He was so moved and such a rich experience that on the way back home, we gave 25 more flights. All free.

I called back to my wife each night and said 'This is amazing, I can't believe we're doing this.' The reaction was so cool.”

When Fisher arrived back

home, his wife suggested starting a non-profit foundation that has continued to build.

“It all started in Oxford and now we have gone to 32 states and have three airplanes and about 30 official volunteers,” Fisher said. “We operate off donations and people's support. We just go out and fulfill our mission.”

The most difficult airplane was chosen for pilots to train in before Americans got involved with the Axis powers so that they could be prepared for anything. Every current nut and bolt has been rebuilt, Fisher said.

“This was designed for 19 and 20-year-old guys full of testosterone to go out and abuse. It's a tough airplane,” Fisher said. “Then it was a crop sprayer. They're an amazingly tough airplane and perfect for this mission.”

The bi-plane is housed in Florida and it has traveled all the way up to New Hampshire. Fisher was heading back home from up north when he was able to stop in Oxford for another round of flights.

Family and friends sat on the tarmac to watch the flights that lasted approximately 15 minutes for each

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veteran. Smith earned the rank of Staff Sergeant during the war. He was a ball turret gunner in a bomber and his plane was shot up during a raid over Brunswick, Germany. The plane crashed into the ocean 23 miles from Belgium. A German patrol boat picked Smith and the surviving crew up and held them in a dungeon until he was transported to the infamous Stalag 17B Prison Camp in Krems, Austria. He resided there for the next year and a half before being liberated by General George Patton and the Third Army.

Smith was transported to Camp Lucky Strike where he stayed for a few months in the attempt to gain weight on his bony frame. He was transported back to America, arriving in Boston where he feasted on all the fried oysters he could eat. That was in 1945 with the war coming to the end. In total, Smith served three years in the U.S. Army Air Corp.

“He's a real hero. We run into people like him all across the country that are heroes,” Fisher said. “They have done so much and sacrificed. And what we're giving them is a gift at a time when they need it the most.”

Jeff Busby, the president of the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, thanked all the veterans for the freedom they gave during the opening ceremony.

“We often take things for granted and as I look out here, so many in the audience that served are my mentors and people that I have looked up to for so many years,” Busby said.

“Thank you for the service, thank you for the freedoms that ya'll blessed with us today.”

Robinson told the audience that he worked in the Cleveland factory that refurbished the bi-planes used in the flight. He was thankful to Ageless Aviation for not forgetting about the veterans and the fact that there is a price to be paid for freedom.

“I guarantee you this, one day we're going to get old.

It's a fact of life and were all going to want somebody to do something for us,” Robinson said. “To the Brookdale community, thank you for letting me learn so much from your residents that teach me so much.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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November is National Novel Writing Month

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Several interesting causes lay claim to the month of November.

The month is designated as No Shave November, National Model Railroad Month, Peanut Butter Lovers Month and more.

Among the fun and strangeness is also National Novel Writing Month.

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNo WriMo as it has been shortened to colloquially, was born in 1999 in the San Francisco Bay Area. A couple friends were looking for something to do during the dreary month of September, and they eventually decided to challenge themselves to write a novel. They soon found themselves asking what qualified as a novel and how will they know when they’ve written one.

They decided, without any particular literary reasoning, that a rough draft of a novel would constitute 50,000 words. So in September of 1999, they sat down and cranked out a 50,000word narrative. They did so again the next year and more people joined the movement. The month was soon moved to No-

vember, a month where the weather was even more dismal and people had less conflicting schedules than they did in the month of the autumn equinox.

NaNo WriMo is no an internationally recognized nonprofit that continues to grow and become more publicized every year.

Alex Watson is a research and instruction librarian and assistant professor with the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi. He has been participating in National Novel Writing Month for nearly 10 years now. He was in graduate school in his home state of Michigan. He was working the night shift at the front desk of the library at the University of Michigan and found that the being on the clock behind a desk from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. left him with a lot of time on his hands. NaNo WriMo had been on his radar for a couple years, but in 2007, he decided to just give it a shot.

“I decided that once it hit midnight, I would just start writing and see what happens,” Watson said. “I was actually able to win that year. I never finished the novel, but I got the first 50,000

words of it done, and it was a ton of fun.”

By “win” Watson means he completed the challenge. There is no contest, no judging, no grand prize, just the satisfaction of setting a monumental goal and achieving it. Over past years, the organization offered incentives to participants who reached the word count that included physical copies of their novel, published through a partnership with Amazon, CreateSpace. There are still perks like coupons and merchandise and swag that can’t be found anywhere else.

In 2015, 431,626 people participated in NaNo WriMo, including 80,137 students and educators in the Young Writers Program, an offshoot of NaNo WriMo that encourages younger people and their teachers to write their novel.

Watson serves as a municipal liason for the organization. These liaisons serve as the go-between for NaNo WriMo and participants by providing support and organizing get-togethers known as Write Ins. The state of Mississippi is divided into two zones: Mississippi Coastal and Mississippi Elsewhere. Watson is the municipal liaison for Mississippi Else-

where, covering basically everyone participating in the challenge that lives north of Hattiesburg.

Watson said that despite the how much work goes into preparing for the event as both a participant and a liaison, he loves National Novel Writing Month and looks forward to it every year.

“It comes down to two things: first of all, I love reaching out to people who want to write,” Watson said when asked why he continues to participate. “It’s the sort of thing that everyone says, like, ‘Oh, I would love to write something one day.’ And to have someone actually take the plunge, even if they don’t succeed, it’s just awesome. You can do all kinds of things with it, rewrite it, polish it, but you can’t do anything with nothing. The other thing is that it really is an incredible boom to my own productivity. I write during the year and have a fiction blog that I post on daily, but with this, it forces me to do more long form. It gives me drive. Plus, I’ve won every year since I’ve participated. I have a streak to keep alive too.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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Master Ra teaches women to defend themselves

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Around 300 members of the Phi Mu sorority gathered in gymnasium of Della David Elementary School Wednesday night where Master Sung Ra of Team Ra Martial Arts taught a free self-defense seminar.

Master Ra has done about three of these seminars since 2005, the year after he opened his studio that sits on University Avenue near South 17th Street. He prefers working with smaller groups of women and girls because it is easier to work with students on a more individualized level, but is happy when he has the opportunity to educate any way he can.

Ra does all of these classes and seminars on a volunteer basis. He considers it community service, something that is really important to the mission of his taekwondo studio.

“Many things contribute,” Ra said when asked why providing this service to the community is important to him. “I travel a lot for conferences and seminars, and I never watch TV when I’m home. But sitting up in the hotel, I don’t drink or smoke or any-

thing, so I get bored sometimes.

There’s a station called HLN and they have this show called ‘Forensic Files.’ I got addicted to it and would look for it every time I’m on the road.”

Ra went on to say that while he was watching these shows and seeing the trauma many of these people underwent, he realized how much of it could be avoided with basic self-defense practices.

“During the reenactments with the actors, I would look at them and think ‘What are they doing?

With proper training, they could have had a chance to avoid this,’” he said. “A lot of women think they’re at a disadvantage, and, if you’re comparing sheer size to size or muscle mass to muscle mass, that can be true, but that is now what martial arts is really about. It’s about ability and diverting energy and using that against your opponent.”

Building confidence and letting people know they are not defenseless is one of the main reasons why he does these free classes and seminars. When he teaches larger groups, like sororities, he gives them the option of paying if they are able to do so. He then donates that money to ei-

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Master Sung Ra of Team Ra Martial Arts demonstrated different self-defense techniques to nearly 300 members of the Phi Mu sorority Wednesday night at the Della Davidson Elementary School gym. ther St. Jude’s or Le Bonheur Children’s Hospitals.

Women frequently come to Ra asking for self defense lessons because they fell threatened, whether it be because of their domestic situation, a news story, an assault on a peer or loved one or a variety of other reasons. He said that he is grateful for the opportunity to help these women learn to protect themselves, but some-

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times, bad things have already happened to them.

“I enjoy these, but sometimes it’s sad,” Ra said. “Whenever a group of girls come in and they might not know each other so well, I can have a few girls over here laughing and I see another girl over there who is not laughing. Something has happened.

This has already happened to them and they don’t want it to

happen again.”

The training that Ra does is, by nature, very physical. He teaches the women what to do if someone is choking them, how to put the most power behind a kick and how to get your arm free if someone grabs you by the wrist. This touching, though in a safe and controlled environment, can be very triggering for some of the participants.

“I’ve had instances where someone was abused and they come in for lessons,” Ra said. “I’ll be showing them a move and my hands go around their throat and she will just start shaking and having flashbacks. You don’t always know whom you’re dealing with. If they call me and it’s a private group, I ask them to bring friends in even numbers so that they can be more comfortable with people they know.”

Master Ra will be teaching another free, women’s only self-defense seminar at his studio on Nov. 6. Any woman interested in being a part of the class can sign up for free online at www.letsgokick.com/fightback chaning.green@jouranlinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN Photos by Chaning Green The Oxford community celebrated Halloween this weekend with several activities around town. The OPC held their Goblin Egg Hunt at Avent Park Thursday, Dunk or Treat came to the Ole Miss Pavilion Friday, the Department of Physics on campus showed kids how to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen during their night of Spooky Physics and the Rebel Challenge Course offered community members some sweet incentive to see how far they could make it in this year’s Candy Climb.

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ast week's win over Senatobia in football earned the Lafayette Commodores the top spot in Division 2-4A. That pennant should be remembered, and cherished, as it will be the final in 2-4A for the Commodores, who are moving up to Class 5A starting next season.

Enrollment numbers were released from the state department of education, and those numbers are used by the MHSAA to figure out where schools should lined up in terms of classification.

Lafayette's overall school district has continued to grow over the last few years, and this year, Lafayette posted an enrollment of 806 at the high school, which passed athletics past the Class 4A threshold. Lafayette Athletics Director Gary Drewrey expected the move up when he first took his position over three years ago.

“It's not a surprise for us. Coach (Michael) Fair knew when he took the job here and all of our coaches have known we were going to move up, whether it was this time or the next,” Drewrey said. “Would we have preferred it being two years from now? Yes. At the same time, we have been preparing the past three years. We have already started addressing it all the way down to the seventh grade with our coaches. We have been preparing for 5A because more kids means you need more coaches out there and there are still some more we need to hire.”

Drewrey was excited about the move up, and the ability to play new schools in a new division. The MHSAA has not set the new divisions up, and that will come in December around the football championships.

“In some cases, like basketball, we're moving from the toughest 4A division in the state with Byhalia and Rosa Fort, New Albany, Ripley and Senatobia. This division that we have in basketball isn't going to be any tougher than the one we're leaving from,” Drewrey said. “That's why we hired (John) Sherman and Shayne Linzy and TURN TO LAFAYETTE PAGE 17

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Oxford defeated Lewisburg 3-0 to win the MHSAA Class II volleyball title Saturday at Millsaps College's Hanger Gym. It was the Lady Chargers' first title since 1998.

Mission accomplished Lady Chargers capture first MHSAA state title since 1998

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

JACKSON — A laser focus paid off in the end for the Oxford Lady Chargers Saturday afternoon in the MHSAA Class II volleyball title match. For the first time since 1998, OHS was able to celebrate after the final match of the season. The Lady Chargers defeated Lewisburg 3-0 (25-11, 25-19, 25-17) at Millsaps College to capture a title that the team has been chasing all season long. In the case of Oxford coach Tara Ross, the title comes in her 10th season leading the program.

Tears of joy formed in the eyes of the parents and those that have supported the Lady Chargers all season long.

Some of the players shed tears, but there way more smiles and smothering hugs that showed their emotion.

“It’s hit, but then again it hasn’t hit me just yet,” Ross said minutes after the title. “We said from day one that this was our goal and we would have been totally disappointed if we hadn’t made

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There was no doubt it was going to be our day.

Oxford sisters Jordan and Ragan Freeze

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Lafayette ready for move up to 5A next year

it. The fact that we came here and won it, these girls have just worked so hard.

Our whole goal this season was mental toughness and strength and I feel like they have done nothing but show that.

I’m beyond proud for all of them.”

Saturday’s win was the third of the season over Lewisburg, a perennial power in the north that has won titles more recently than the Lady Chargers, who finish their magical year 31-5 overall. Oxford defeated Corinth a third time a week ago to advance into the semifinals, and Lafayette a third time at the start of the playoffs. Even with the fact of it being tough to beat a team that many times in a season, Jordan and

Ragan Freeze both felt good about the match heading in.

“There was no doubt, it was absolutely going to be our day,” said the two sisters who hugged repeatedly after the win. “We’ve wanted it too bad. It was our game to lose.”

Jordan Freeze added that there was a lot of momentum carrying the team, and that all of the energy was left on the court.

“Coming off slow the second set and still finishing, we knew we had that momentum going into the third and that we were going to finish,” Jordan Freeze said. “It was surreal. It’s our last game and Ragan deserved it more than anything. I’m going to miss playing with her. Nobody thought we would be here but us. We finished the race.”

Maggee Hobson led the Lady Chargers with 18 kills, while Jordan Freeze had 16 to complement. Ross thanked each player, and her coaches, including lead assistant Austin Lanteigne.

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FRIDAY All Ross wanted from her Oxford Lady Chargers was a consistent performance in the Class II volleyball playoffs. She got that the majority of the semifinal match, and the end result was a 3-0 win over Ridgeland.

Senior Hobson whistled kills on to floor at the Hangar Dome.

She finished with 14 overall, on the same court she played the Mississippi Association of Coaches All-Star game this past summer. The Lady Chargers were never seriously threatened

by Ridgeland in the match as they led almost the entire way of every set, winning 25-15, 25-17 and 25-17. They had a chance to win the third by a much larger margin but after getting to 24-8, they lost nine straight before closing it out.

“I'm comfortable down here, it's not anything new,” Hobson said. “I have no words. I can't explain how it feels to have this opportunity. I feel like we were focused, like this was a business trip, let's take care of it. We really did well.”

Grace Ann Joyce added 12 kills for the Lady Chargers, while Jordan Freeze had 10 in the win to

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“It means the world. You don't know how long their going to be around in your life and just being here for my senior memories, I couldn't ask for more from them,” Hobson said. “It was really great.”

One thing Ross was looking for her team to learn from was finishing out a match. The last point was tough to come by because the players seemed to want it so badly, they lost their rhythm. Ross felt it was good to have it happen in the semifinals as opposed to the championship.

“I told them that they have to be prepared, that we can't take points off. We can't lose focus,” Ross said. “I'm excited and so proud of us, but as a coach, you just can't take off that time.”

The feeling heading into the match was a good one because the Lady Chargers had already defeated Ridgeland during the year.

“Coach Hawkins prepared well and he threw in some stuff from JOHN DAVIS the first time that we played Oxford senior Summer Batoon gets set to serve during Friday's Class II volleyball semifinal match with Ridge- them and it was in a tournament which is a totally different dyland at Millsaps College. Oxford won 3-0 to advance to the title match. namic,” Ross said. “But I was 95 complement the efforts of Hob- knew she had a business trip to Hobson's grand parents drove percent sure we would be (in title son, who credited the play of the take care of and she did her job 14 hours from Dodge City, match). I felt good coming in.” middle for their play overall. in every way,” Hobson said. “I Kansas to watch the Oxford vic“Jordan had an amazing game. feel like their middles did their tory. She was really excited to john.davis@journalinc.com Also Emma Reed (Farese), she job today.”

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Oxford soars to win over Center Hill

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

Over the last three weeks, Oxford's Chargers used the running game to pound their way to victory. Friday night, the offense looked like the past few seasons when former quarterback Jack Abraham was triggering things for the Chargers.

Quarterback John Reece McClure did his part through the air, completing 18 of his 29 passes for 272 yards and four touchdowns in Oxford's 49-18 rout of the Center Hill Mustangs on senior night at Bobby Holcomb Field.

Oxford (7-3 overall, 5-1 in Division 1-5A) went to the air immediately on its first drive, going 77 yards on five plays.

McClure threw the ball all five downs, and capped the drive when he found JaQuan Webb from 35 yards out for his first of two touchdown receptions.

With a 2-point run fromHiram Wadlington, the Chargers were off and running at 8-0.

After a fumble on their second drive, the Chargers stayed in the air for their third drive capping a seven-play, 66-yard drive with a McClure 11-yard pass to Barry Flowers to put the Chargers up 15-0 by the end of the first quarter.

Midway through the second quarter, the Charger offense continued their aerial attack with a seven-play, 62-yard drive. McClure hooked up with Webb for a 25-yard score to take a commanding 22-0 lead with 5:39 left in the second quarter.

Oxford coach Chris Cutcliffe wanted to keep the offense balanced. Over the last three games, the Chargers ran the ball more than 75 percent of the time. Against Center Hill,

Oxford ran the ball only eight times while throwing the ball 25 times in the first half. Cutcliffe believes he has shown other teams that they are a threat to do both on any given play.

“I think we are a balanced offense,” Cutcliffe said. “I think we can throw or run the ball and it makes you harder to defend if you are a legitimate threat to do both. We're going to take what we feel like the defense is giving us at any given time. Throwing the ball was what we wanted to do tonight.”

Even with the Chargers clearly establishing a ground game the prior three weeks, the Chargers have built a reputation of throwing the football with quarterbacks such as Abraham, Parker Adamson and Guy Billups. It shouldn't JOEY BRENT have been a surprise to Center Oxford tailback Lance Stewart led the rushing attack with 75 yards on just five carries in the Chargers' 49-18 win Hill (2-8, 1-5) to see Oxford over Center Hill at Bobby Holcomb Field. throwing the football early, and often, in the contest.

“We've thrown the ball successfully for a long time around here,” Cutcliffe said. “I think people know that we can throw the football. I don't think that is going to catch somebody off guard. I just think that is our reputation, that's what we've been known to do and we can still do that successfully.”

With the Center Hill game now behind them, the Chargers can put their full attention to the Lake Cormorant Gators who are currently tied for second with Oxford at 5-1 in 1-5A. The winner of next week's game at Lake Cormorant will host a first round playoff game Nov. 11 while the loser will have to go on the road to Oxford junior wide receiver Jaquan Webb caught two touchdown passes in the 49-18 win over Center Hill Friday night to earn Player of the Week honors.

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Commodores win final tune up before 4A playoffs begin

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Outside noise, whether it be positive or not, isn't something the Lafayette Commodores, or head coach Michael Fair, have paid much attention to the past three months. Losses in the first two weeks of the 2016 season were erased with eighth straight victories for the Commodores, who capped the regular season Friday night with a 34-6 win at Bhyalia.

It was the final tune up before the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs begin this coming weekend at home for the Commodores, who won Division 2-4A with a perfect record.

Fair said the winning streak never came up with the players, adding that he never talked about it with them either.

“These guys come to school on Monday and they're ready to get on it and prepare,” Fair said.

“It's been fun to coach a group like that. They haven't gotten

caught up in what has happened. They really have been moving forward and really preparing for the next opponent.

As a coach, you really appreciate that mentality because that's how we think.”

If the Commodores had been worried or consumed with a lot of outside noise at the start of the year, Fair feels like the team would have folded after Horn Lake, and then especially after losing to Grenada.

“We started out 0-2 in the sea-

son with a new coaching staff and new things following a successful program. These kids, they didn't listen to all of that,” Fair said. “We knew we had a special group of young men and if we kept sticking to what we were doing, it would work. And it has. I'm very fortunate there.”

In the win over Byhalia, the Commodores scored first and led the entire game. The Indians scored late in the second half with the clock running out. A lot of the starters got a rest as Fair

inserted members of the junior varsity in the second half.

Jamarcus Quarles started the scoring on the night for LHS on a rush. The special teams unit came up big again as Lafayette blocked a punt and scooped it up for a score. Dillon Woods caught a touchdown pass to cap the first-half scoring for the Commodores, who were up 210 at intermission. Jamie Shaw scored both touchdowns in the TURN TO COMMODORES, 17

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Oxford’s Webb impresses with break-out performance

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

Whenever Oxford wide receiver JaQuan Webb touches the ball, other people may mistaken that blue blur for Sonic the Hedgehog. Don't worry, he's not Sonic, but he's close even if Charger coach Chris Cutcliffe might not think Webb is 100 percent yet.

"I think he's getting closer and closer to 100 percent," Cutcliffe said. "I don't think he's quite there yet. He is playing well. He's getting back into the swing of things and back comfortable. I think that has shown in his play the last two weeks."

After catching his only reception for a touchdown last week against Clarksdale, Webb caught four passes for 96 yards and two touchdowns, all career highs, in Oxford's 49-18 victory over the Center Hill Mustangs. It was his best overall effort of the year after he suffered a foot injury against Madison Central earlier in the year. It was also good enough for him to earn him Oxford's Player of the Week honors.

Wide receiver coach Logan Dodson credits Webb for working hard to get back onto the field after suffering the foot injury in

early September.

"He's really done a great job of just working on (rehabbing his injury)," Dodson said.

"It's tender, it was his foot. He's a speed guy.

He's done a great job of really buying that role. He came back during the New Hope game and he got 15 to 20 plays there. He got a little more the next week and now obviously he's in the full rotation. He's been in big time explosive plays tonight. He got two big time touchdowns for us. He's done a really good job of working hard this week."

With many players on offense coming back from injury, Dodson believes Webb makes for even a bigger threat for the Oxford offense at a time where the entire team being in good health is pivotal for the playoffs.

"He definitely gives us that threat," Dodson said regarding Webb's speed. "We have a great offensive line where we can run the ball or we can air it out to him or one of our speed guys. We've done a great job of being balanced I feel like. They're doing a great job JOEY BRENT of blocking. They take a little pride in that Oxford junior wide receiver Jaquan Webb caught two touchdown passes in the 4918 win over Center Hill on Friday night to earn Player of the Week honors. and it showed tonight."

‘Special’ senior class leads Lafayette the right way

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It's been 11 weeks since Michael Fair coached his first game at Lafayette. Since that season opener against Horn Lake, Fair has seen the younger members of his team mature and the experienced players foster that development. He credited the 2016 senior class as a big key to the equation and why the Commodores have now won eight straight games heading

into the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs. The seniors are the ones who get the Player of the Week honor this week with the 2016 regular season officially in the record books.

“We knew who we wanted to be as a staff. Those first couple of weeks, we were trying to find our identity as a football team,” Fair said. “I know we found it. Our guys have embraced it. We want to be a physical football team and be real physical on the line of scrimmage on both sides. And

we want to make plays on the back end. Our guys have really bought into that.”

Fair may have only coached the seniors this year, but he bonded with them right away and now feels like he has been with them for “five years.” It's an eclectic mixture as some like Dillon Woods, Tyler Williams and Matt Toles have started for a while, while others had to get used to that responsibility this fall.

“It's a special group of young

men. Some of them have been playing behind some exceptional athletes and haven't gotten their shot at playing until this year,” Fair said. “This group is special to me and we have bonded well. I asked them to do a lot of things that probably was out of their comfort zone. They never said a word or batted an eye. They just did what was best for the team.

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Fair added. “I tell them all the time that I need you to be a leader in this situation, I need you to be the guy that everybody looks to in the classroom. I've asked that of several different guys, several different weeks and they have all responded to that and a large part of why we're having so much success right now.”

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hired Michael Fair. I'll be shocked that four years from now we're not in the top half of 5A. Our school is growing that fast. People are moving into our district, the secret is out. We have a great thing going out here and folks want to be a part of it.”

Fair has experience coaching in higher classification levels. He did that as an assistant for several seasons at South Panola under Ricky Woods.

“I think it's a great opportunity for our school.

It's a great opportunity for our football program,” Fair said. “It's going to be a big challenge but I think the opportunity to compete against larger schools and get our brand out there in different communities throughout the state is something I'm really excited about. We're going to use it as motivation for our players in the offseason and expect to get the most out of them. I'm really excited about it. We're going to do everything we can to

eat up that gap between us and our opponents and put a very competitive football team on the field next year.”

The schools that Lafayette will be playing against will have a little more depth based on the numbers provided. LHS ranks sixth from the bottom in 5A, with Olive Branch being at the top with 1,080 students. Oxford will not be in Class 5A as the Chargers have moved up to 6A with an enrollment number of 1,198 students.

Before leaving Senatobia, Fair said he had prepared himself mentally for the increase in students, adding he didn't like surprises.

“They were very up front with that during the interview process. Coach Drewrey and Dr. (Adam) Pugh both mentioned it, that there was a strong possibility that we would be going to 5A,” Fair said.

“I just think it's a great opportunity for us and a great challenge for our kids. I would very surprised if we weren't very competitive on the foot-

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second half for the Commodores, who are 8-2 overall now and finished 5-0 in 24A play.

Up next for the Commodores is a home meeting with Shannon, the No. 4 seed out of Division 1-4A. “I think that's the good thing about coaching at Lafayette. They know what is about to happen. This is not their first rodeo,” Fair said about the playoffs starting. “You're not building a program up to where you have to explain to them what the playoffs are like. It's a singlegame elimination tournament and if you lose, you go home and we take up the shoulder pads that next Monday. You don't have to tell these guys that, they know it. That's how we treat it, it's a tournament. We've played our way into it, we have a good seed and we know we're going to be challenged each and

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either Germantown or Grenada.

“It's a huge game,” Cutcliffe said.

“That's why we've said we've been in this playoff mode, because our goal at this point has been to host a playoff game.

That's still out there for us. Like I told our guys, it's in our hands. We don't have to scoreboard watch; we just have to worry about ourselves.”

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to sign up for a whooping.

With this division in football, we're only going to be looking for three ballgames. And Oxford won't be in our division, so we're really just talking about looking for two ballgames.”

Finding teams to play for coaches can get tough, Fair said, especially when you have a program that has won titles and always in the playoffs.

“You have to be as proactive as you can and talk to some coaches about the possibility of getting that lined up beJOEY BRENT fore the end of the seaLafayette football coach Michael Fair is excited about the Commodores moving up to Class son,” Fair said. “With that extra district game that 5A 5A in 2017. brings, it will help. We still candidate to join the new- have been as successful as want to play really good ball field next fall.” look division, while Cleve- Lafayette has been is tryopponents. That's what Drewrey felt like with land also moved up to 5A. Lafayette has been known Oxford moving up, ing to find folks that will Drewrey said that movfor and this year is another Lafayette would fall into play you,” Drewrey said. ing up to 6A also helps testament to that. Our the division the Chargers “Even if you're playing a non-district games, we're have been playing in and from a scheduling standbigger school, they're not 3-2 and 5-0 in our district competing against the point in that fewer non-di- going to play you if they and we feel like those first likes of Center Hill, Lake vision games have to be have a weak team. We few really prepared us for Cormorant, Lewisburg put on. He added that he were very fortunate the district play. It makes us and Saltillo, just to name a was excited about playing last two years that better coaches and playfew. New Hope dropped to the teams that OHS been Charleston played us. I 4A, which takes away the competing against the last think they will keep on be- ers.” longest trip for the Comsix seasons. cause they're in the same modores.

“One of the problems situation in 3A that we've john.davis@journalinc.com Grenada is a possible been in. Folks aren't going Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd that you have when you

every week to get to the playoffs. All of the 10 games we've played have led up to this point.”

Preparations for the Red Raiders also included extra playing time for the reserves. The JV squad had a game with North Panola this past Tuesday, which means they had a lot of action this past week to sharpen the blade.

“The thing about these players is I think we will see a different team in practice on Monday compared to this past Monday because they understand the importance of this game,” Fair said.

“We played a lot of guys and feel real good about it. Our JV schedule, I feel, has really helped our program. That's something we're going to continue to do and those young guys get out there, they know what to do. They know how to do it and they're having a lot of fun out there.”

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EXTRA POINTS Webb led receivers with four catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns. Flowers complimented Webb with three catches for 69 yards and a touchdown … Lance Stewart led all rushers with five for 75 yards and a touchdown … Joe O'Keefe and Jaquavious Lloyd had touchdowns for the Chargers …

Quentin Wilfawn had an 20-yard interception return for a touchdown, eight tackles, a sack. Four of his stops went for a loss. Wilfawn needs seven tackles to break Will Britt's single-season school record of 156.

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The Daily Journal has part­time (28­30 hours per week) positions available in our production department located at 1242 South Green Street, Tupelo MS 38804.

As a member of our production team, candidates must possess:

Minimum D Class Commercial License Clean Driving Record Pay Based on Experience and Commercial Class License Deliveries are by Van and Box Truck Must be able to work flexible hours including nights, weekends and holidays (start and finish times vary according to production) Must be able to use pallet jack and move pallets of paper High school diploma or equivalent degree Being able to work safely around moving machinery and equipment

Game Tickets • Sports Lessons • Sporting Goods Team Jerseys • Memorabilia • Collectibles • & more!

Have tickets to sell?

Advertise in the Classifieds and reach hundreds of fans!

Email resumes to: humanresources@journalinc.com or come by The Daily Journal and fill out an application.

Call 662-842-2622

The Daily Journal Classifieds

Journal Publishing Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

www.djournal.com

In Print & Online!

2013 TOYOTA TACOMA 4X4

2011 CADILLAC DTS

2013 FORD FOCUS SE

2012 HYUNDAI ELANTRA LIMITED

2013 HYUNDAI ACCENT GLS

2008 CADILLAC SRX

STK# UV7613

LOADED, STK# UV7875

STK# UV7850

STK# UV7837

STK# UV7551

STK# UV7529

$

18,990 2012 BUICK LACROSSE

STK# UV7826 $

$

12,000 2010 NISSAN TITAN SE

4X4, STK# UV7607

15,500

$

14,900 2013 GMC SIERRA SLT

2013 LINCOLN MKZ

LEATHER, STK# UV7897

STK# UV7532

$

23,900

$

18,500

$

9,900

$

2012 DODGE RAM 1500 4X4

2005 FORD MUSTANG

8,250 2014 FORD ECONOLINE XLT

LARAMIE, CREW CAB, LIMITED, STK# UV7029

LOADED, STK# UV7908

15 PASSENGER, STK# UV7843

9,988

$

$

9,988

$

28,500

2016 BUICK ENCLAVE STK# UV7375 $

34,000

$

20,600

2015 BUICK ENCORE FWD, STK# UV6357 $

18,250

$

11,595

2015 HYUNDAI AZERA

2010 CADILLAC CTS

STK# UV7824

STK# UV7610

18,500

$

$

2012 NISSAN TITAN PRO-4X

2013 FORD FUSION S

LEATHER, STK# UV7868

STK# UV7517

17,988 2006 CHEVY CORVETTE

33K MILES, LOADED, STK# UV7625

$

11,000

$

27,500

$

24,550

2015 CHEVY TRAVERSE LTZ

2016 BUICK LACROSSE

STK# UV7170 $

LEATHER, STK# UV7337

31,900

$

26,500

*ALL PRICES ARE PLUS TAX & TITLE. FINANCING WITH APPROVED CREDIT.

DOSSETT BIG 4 www.DossettBig4.com

SOUTH GLOSTER TUPELO, MS Call 662-842-4162 or 888-892-4162

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2016