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Veterans salute the color guard during the presentation of the flag of the United States of America.

This year's Veteran's Day a little more special than others

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Three days after the historic election for president in the country, the men who fought for freedom, and to keep those elections going, got a deserved pat on the back from the Oxford and Lafayette com-

munity. The annual Veteran's Day celebration at the National Guard Armory had a different, more jubilant feel.

The man headed into the White House, Donald J. Trump, has been a staunch supporter of veterans during his run for the presidency and there is a definite financial need for the millions of veterans

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in the country. There are some 3,200 veterans that live in Lafayette County, and five organizations, such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who help tend to those veterans locally. Each of them had a representative at the ceremony Friday, and TURN TO VETERAN’S PAGE 5

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Vitter inaugurated as 17th UM Chancellor

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

This week the University of Mississippi inaugurated it’s 17th Chancellor, Jeffery S. Vitter, during a well-attended ceremony that was held in the Gertrude C. Ford Performing Arts Center.

There ceremony was attended by someone of the most important people in Mississippi and Oxford politics including Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves, Secretary of State for Mississippi Delbert Hosemann Jr. and Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson. Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Morris Stocks welcomed everyone to the Ford Center that afternoon and thanked everyone for coming out to witness the historical event.

A fanfare processional of representatives of different university departments made their way to their seats followed by the Presentation of Colors by the university’s ROTC units. Stocks then proceeded to introduce the Vitter Family and their special guests, including actor and longtime friend of the university Morgan Freeman.

Speeches welcoming Vitter to the position were then given by several political figures. The first to speak were Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. Representing the state government were Lt. Gov. Reeves and Speaker of the House Philip Gunn. Mayor Patterson spoke on behalf of the city of Oxford. The Vice President

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University of Mississippi Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter addresses those gathered Thursday afternoon at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts during the investiture ceremony held in his name.

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Plans discussed to pay for garage

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

This coming Tuesday, the City Board of Oxford will vote whether or not to adopt the Downtown Parking Commission’s recommendation that the city build a parking garage.

There are early plans being drawn up by the commission that would give the city ideas on how the multi-million dollar undertaking would be funded.

Tom Sharpe is the chair of the Downtown Parking Commission. He has been working with the commission for three years now, but the commission itself has been around for more than half a decade. The main thing they’ve been focusing on for the past year and a half or so is the construction of this parking garage that would sit behind the Oxford University Club. The garage will cost the city an estimated $9 million.

Nothing has been finalized in regards to the parking garage. The revenue model that Sharpe and the commission has put together is in the very earliest of stages. The only piece already completed that would tie into the model is the raising of the parking meter price from $1 an hour to $1.25 an hour. The Board of Aldermen approved the price increase at the City Board meeting Nov. 1, where they also heard the first reading of an ordinance that would extend paid parking hours from ending at 10 p.m. to midnight.

The next phase of this plan would have the city charging for all free parking currently available around the Square. That includes the lot behind High Point Coffee, Holly’s and the Growler as well as the lot behind Something Southern. Whether or not the would begin charging for this parking before or after the construction of the parking garage is not yet clear as nothing has been officially decided. The parking lot near the Oxford Park Commission underneath the water tower would absolutely remain free under this plan.

Sharpe said that the commission is also looking

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Parking rates on the will rise from $1 an hour to $1.25 an hour, effective January 1.This is one way that the Downtown Parking Commission is looking at having people who park on the Square, pay for a parking garage that could possibly go on the Square. for a way to charge for a small portion of the parking garage, but keep the majority of the spots free. For example, people might be able to reserve a number of spots on the first level for a monthly fee, or they may have metered parking on the first two levels. All of this, however, are just ideas being thrown around.

Sharpe reiterated that he, along the rest of the commission, wants to keep as many parking spots available for free and available to the public as possible.

The point of charging to park in what are now the free lots, is to fund the garage and create an additional 500 spaces, most of which would be free. By doing it this way, the city would not need to pass a bond issue and raise taxes.

The only people paying for the garage to go up on the Square would be people who already park on the Square.

“It’s fair that the people who would be using the parking garage, pay for the parking garage,” Sharpe said. “Not everyone that lives in Oxford comes to the Square. To raise taxes for everybody just to benefit the business on the Square wouldn’t be fair. It’s a fairer system where the users are the payers.”

The parking garage has received both a lot of support and criticism from business owners and city

officials alike, but Sharpe said he and he commission are no stranger to controversy. He was with the commission when they first proposed the parking meters and got a hard pushback from people who lived in the city. He said that now that the parking patterns have adapted to the meters and the city has a new source of revenue, everyone seems satisfied and even happy with meters.

Sharpe is hoping public opinion will follow the same route when it comes to the garage.

“The parking commission is tasked with recommending to the mayor and Board of Aldermen ways in which to manage parking on and around the Square,” Sharpe said. “We weren’t created for the sole purpose of creating a parking garage, but to just find the best way to manage parking around the Square overall.”

The parking commission recommended a plan for a parking garage before, but after the installation of the meters, parking patterns around the Square changed so drastically that they no longer felt comfortable moving forward with the plans. These plans were scraped and the commission began studying the new parking situation of the Square over the course of nearly two years, and it is from that study in which

they put together the idea for the parking garage they recommended to the board on November 1.

Sharpe has been a resident of Oxford for over 30 years now. He was on the research faculty with the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy for 25 years. He retired and left Oxford in 1999 upon accepting a position at an out-of-state university. He was also serving as Aldermen at Large for the Oxford City Board at the time. He returned to Oxford in 2009. He lived in Oxford for 28 years before moving away in 1999 and his happy he and his wife came back in 2009. He considers Oxford home. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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of the Board of Trustees for the State Institutions of Higher Learning C. D. Smith Jr. then spoke, welcoming Vitter to the ranks of Mississippi chancellors.

The last to speak was Rose Flenorl who chairs the UM Foundation.

Following the speeches was the ceremonial Presentations of Insignia of the Office of the Chancellor. This was a time for representatives of the different aspects of the university life to formally present Vitter with different ceremonial artifacts significant to his position as chancellor. Representatives from the Faculty Senate, the Ole Miss Alumni Association, the Staff Council the medical school, and the Associated Student Body presented Vitter with the University Crest, the University Key, the University Mace, The Creed, Guyton’s Computer Model of the Cardiovascular System and the Great Seal of the University.

Vitter was asked if he accepted the charge of chancellor.

“Hell yeah. Damn right,” was his response.

When President of the IHL Board Douglas Rouse placed the university medallion around Vitter’s neck, he was officially inaugurated as the 17th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.

Vitter took the podium to give his speech. He thanked his wife for always standing by his side and pushing him to be the best man he could be. He said that he would not be

standing where he his today without her being there to lift him up. He acknowledged his children sitting in the front row with the rest of his family and with great emotion, mentioned his late parents and all they did for him.

Vitter’s speech focused on moving forward as a university and as the Ole Miss family. He announced plans to launch what he called the Flagship Constellation. The initiative would be taking a variety of university students, alumni, partners and faculty member and bringing them together to solve problems. Vitter said that this interdisciplinary approach will be able to tackle major issues and will fit in among the university’s longstanding history of innovation.

The IHL Board first appointed Vitter as UM Chancellor late last October. His first day on the job was January 1 of this year.

Vitter is a native of New Orleans who graduated with a degree in math from Notre Dame in 1977.

He went on to earn a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke University.

The ceremony is meant to be the focal point of the month of November’s campus theme “The Power of Higher Education to Transform Lives, Communities and World.”

This theme was chosen to reflect the university’s commitment to improving quality of life through education on both a personal and global level. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen

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Ferris art crosses many mediums

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Martha Ferris is an artist of many trades. Ferris spent several years working as a actor in Los Angeles where she met her husband, writer Kos Kostmayer. She left acting behind for a career as an artist and has not stopped since. She recently had a show in Oxford’s own Treehouse Gallery operated by Vivian and Walter Neil. Ferris recently sat down with Oxford Citizen reporter Chaning Green to discuss her work.

CHANING GREEN: So moved her from L.A.?

MARTHA FERRIS: I grew up in Mississippi, but left for about 20 years and then found my way back here about 20 years ago. I went to college just outside of Chicago. After that I lived in St. Louis, New York and California. While in California, I was living in Los Angeles and that’s where I got together with my husband. He and I then moved together back near Vicksburg to the farm where I grew up.

GREEN:Why did you come back?

FERRIS: We were ready for a change. I had been making a living as an actor. I left that behind for a career as a visual artist. My husband is a writer who was writing screenplays, which can be done anywhere. We realized we didn’t want to stay in L.A. and we didn’t have to, so we left. Once we moved back here, my husband evolved into writing novels. It was just a really good move for the both of us.

of art. Why is that?

FERRIS:Well, I guess you can call me a restless artist. I really love a lot of different mediums and I love experimenting. I wind up just being more inclined to different things at different times. The Italian studies are gouaches on paper. That medium is portable, and when we travel and go to Italy, that’s what I do when we’re in Italy. In my studio, I can expand. I really just love working in different mediums at different times. The encaustics I do gave me the opportunity to layer imagery and do some collaging.

The large black drawing evolved out of a time when I had had foot surgery. It was CHANING GREEN about a year ago, and I was Martha Ferris laughs in conversation with some patrons of the Treehouse Gallery in Oxford housebound for a while. I who came to view her work. Ferris is a native Mississippian who grew up on a farm just south couldn’t get to my studio, of Vicksburg. but I had some small black paper and some gold and silver pens. So I just started playing with that. When was able to move back into my studio, I just got some bigger black paper. I found the work to be just really absorbing. Most of them, I do based on photographs I’ve taken.

GREEN: Do you have a favorite style?

FERRIS: I don’t have a favorite style, really. It’s funny. I guess that can be taken as a statement on my status as a restless artist. I’ll work on a painting for a while, like “The View From the Balcony.” That’s the last piece I was working on right before the show. I mean right up until the point we were getting ready to leave for Oxford. Before that, I was working on a large black drawing. I’ll work in one area, and then be ready to move on to a new medium.

and apply this African process called tritik, where you fold it and fold it and fold it and stitch it very tightly with black cotton.

After that, you drop it in bleach and when you take it out, you snip away all the thread you so tightly stitched in and, when you unfurl it, you have a repeating patter.

I was so delighted by that.

I also learned different things in that class about working with fabric, dipping it in dye and hot wax. I even learned silk screening, which is a process I still use in some of my work. I was on a new path. I started out as a fiber artist working on cloth.

That lead me, eventually, to where I am now. I guess that’s why I like working with so many different mediums.

In that way, I’m a self-taught, I didn’t go to art school. Each step was a discovery of a new area or new way to make art.

GREEN: Is anyone else in your family an artist?

FERRIS: Oh yes. My sister, Shelby Fitzgerald makes jewelry. She lives in England.

Her work is fantastic. She makes very unique jewelry. I have a brother, Bill Ferris, who lived in Oxford for years. He helped found the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He writes and documents so much about the South. So the arts are prevalent in my family, yes.

GREEN: What do you love about being an artist?

Two gallery visitors look over Ferris work hanging in the Treehouse Gallery Ferris is was the FERRIS: I love getting to recipient of the 2016 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Ward in Visual Arts for her 2015 work everyday. I love walkexhibit in Fischer Galleries, “Foreign and Familiar Places.” ing into the studio. As soon as I step foot in it, there’s a FERRIS: Oh, I’ve always geles and decided that it was signed up for a class called deep sense of calm. I love been interested in it, ever time for a career change, I Painting and Dyeing on Fab- that I get to play all day. since I was a child. I loved to looked at the course cata- ric.

GREEN: At your show at The first project was to the Treehouse Gallery, you GREEN: How did you first draw and point. But then, logue for UCLA’s continuing chaning.green@journalinc.com had so many different styles become interested in art? when I was acting in Los An- education programs. I take a piece of black cloth Twitter: chaningthegreen

OBITUARIES DEBRA BOUNDS Debra Hoskins Bounds, 60, of Water Valley passed away Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. A visitation was held Saturday, Nov. 12 Serenity-Daniels Funeral Home in Water Valley. A funeral service will be held Sunday, Nov. 13 at Springhill North Church in Water Valley at 2 p.m. Burial will follow at Yocona Cemetery, located off

County Road 349 in Taylor.

OVERIA BEAN Overia Bean, 94, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at North Mississippi Medical Center Nursing Home in Pontotoc.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Serenity-Autry Funeral Home of Pontotoc.

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Junior Leadership Lafayette now taking applications

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce has officially begun taking applications for leadership program for high schoolers, Junior Leadership Lafayette. This year’s program was sponsored by Floyd Hubbell at Your Extra Closet.

Junior Leadership Lafayette is open to any 10th grader living in Lafayette County. These students can attend either the city or county school districts, Regents, Oxford-University School or be homeschooled.

Like Leadership Lafayette, the program is broken into individual leadership sessions. Students get together periodically over the course of several months to learn about different aspects of the community. The kids also

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each of them need continued help.

Gail Waston, who serves the VFW as the quartermaster and post commander, helped organize the ceremony. He introduce some of the key guests, including retired Brigadier General James Edwin Mitchell, who gave the keynote address.

Wilson reminded that Veteran's Day is totally different than Memorial Day because the honor and respect for that specific day is for those who gave their lives in battle as opposed to those that were able to make it home like Wilson, who fought in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968.

“Veteran's Day on November 11th is a celebration,” said Wilson, who served in the U.S. Army for 35 years.

Jeff Busby, the president of the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, thanked the veterans during his speech.

“So many of the men and women in this room have granted us the freedom to go to the church of our choice and the freedom to go the ballparks and play,” Busby said.

“The city, the county and the university, we talk

fit the ones who do not quite have it all figured out. The program is set to help students grow as people and professionals. Coming in with the mindset of having it all figured out can be limiting to the programs impact on an individual.

“I think the core of this program is the investment we’re making in our youth.

We realize that these are our future leaders. These are the people who will be making decisions in our government, they’ll be our teachers and this is literally us investing in the future. That’s the most wonderful thing.”

Students wishing to participate in the program can obtain applications from their school counselors or from the Chamber's office on Jackson Avenue.

have the opportunity to grow by participating in workshops and learning how different components of the community work together toward a common goal.

Rather than working on group projects like Leadership Lafayette, Junior Leadership completes three community service projects.

This year, the organization is partnering with Mississippi Blood Services, Lovepacks and the Lafayette County Literacy Council. After they put in a total of nine community service hours, the students will be divided up into three different groups where they will be assigned one of the three aforementioned organizations. These groups will then deliver presentations about their assigned organization during the program’s graduation.

Lolita Gregory oversees the program. She’s been with Ju-

nior Leadership Lafayette since for nearly a decade. She completed the JLL’s sister program Leadership Lafayette in 2007 whn, upon graduating, she was asked to come on board with the Junior Leadership steering committee. After a few years, she was appointed to chair the committee.

Gregory said that a big part of her passion about Junior Leadership comes from her time with their sister program. She said that learning more about the community you live in is essential to becoming a more productive member of that community.

She said that Leadership Lafayette allowed her to do exactly that.

“I loved it,” Gregory said when asked about her time with Leadership Lafayette.

“When you live in a town, even when you attend school at the university and think

you know it, you don’t. The program really allows you to look in depth at all the different, wonderful things that make up this community.”

She went on to say that her time with the program allowed her to network and learn more about the many different businesses and organizations that make up the city and county. She said it gave her a better understanding of the community that she called home.

Gregory said that one of the best qualities of Juinor Leadership Lafayette is that it does not force students to participate, but rather mentors and guides willing participants who are already on the path the being successful leaders in the community.

“The goal of the program is to enhance the leadership skills that are already there,” she said. “When these kids come to us, they’re already

leaders. They’re busy doing tons of things. We just work to expose them to things in the community that they might not be aware of and a lot of these students are still trying to figure out what they’d like to be when they grow up and what they want to do in life. Some I’m really impressed with and already have it all figured out.”

Students that come into the program often leave with a different mentality than when they entered, Gregory said. Showing them the ins and outs of how the community operates gives them a different perspective, one many of the participants carry with them long after the program’s completion.

While the handful of the kids who come into the program with their future plans figured out still learn a lot, Gregory said that she thinks the program can really bene-

about the problems we have. We don't have problems. We wouldn't have the city or the county without these men and women that sacrificed themselves for us, that gave up their lives for the freedom that we have. So as we go through this day, I certainly hope you call some of them and thank them. Without them, we wouldn't have what we have.”

General Mitchell talked about his father's service, a man who fought in World War II and also again in Korea. He also talked about the service of his granddaughter and grandson and other members of his family during his talk. In total, his family has served 13 combat tours in various wars over the decades.

“My family knows the kind of selfless service you have provided this country. Vets are special because I know your patriotism, your valor and your fidelity to this country,” Mitchell said. “You served, and you protected this great country. Today, our nation has about 22 million vets. When you stop and do the division, that only represents about 7 percent of the population in our country. Think how special you are, vets out there, representing

only seven people out of 100, who have stepped forward to defend this nation in times of conflict.

Others may have served not in times of conflict, but they, too, are veterans.

And you're special.”

Mitchell, a fourth generation Mississippian from just outside of Tupelo, said that Oxford means a lot to him, and so do the veterans. Mitchell added that veterans are more likely to be employed than other Americans. And veterans, on average, make $10,000 more a year than those that have not served.

“You're also more likely to be civic and community leaders in the small towns across this nation, and the large cities,” Mitchell said.

“You're more likely to be our nation's successful business leaders. These facts may surprise some Americans, but they don't surprise me. You are the heart and soul of our country and you have stepped forward in times of need when the nation asked you.”

Veterans who have retired to the county are encouraged to check in with the VFW or some of the other organizations so they can be added to the roll so to speak.

“We have people moving and retiring to this area that we don't know

anything about. A lot of them are veterans and we find out just by talking with them and things of that nature,” Wilson said.

“I talked with a lady who and connection with the never checked in with any correct numbers.” of the veterans organizajohn.davis@journalinc.com tions here and that's the reason we lose contact Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Rebels' Thornberry in a good place both on, off the course

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Cutline: Lafayette's Randy Anderson heads around the left side of the formation during Friday's MHSAA Class 4A playoff game with Louisville. The Commodores won 24-7.

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raden Thornberry continued to impress on the golf course for the Ole Miss Rebels this fall. The sophomore won three of the five tournaments he played in, and he had a chance to win the other two. He is currently ranked No. 18 in the nation by Golfweek and his stroke average was 68.7. Thornberry has already won five tournaments during his career, a figure that ranks second best in school history.

Thornberry has been the leader of a very solid Ole Miss team. The Rebels will come into the spring ranked no. 21 in the nation.

The squad went 65-2 in the fall, which was the best winning percentage of anyone in the NCAA. Thornberry didn't know if he was that much better, but he did feel like his game was really coming around at the right time.

“I'm hitting it good enough. My putting is on a hot streak right now and I'm just trying to keep that up,” Thornberry said. “I have momentum now and I'm happy with that.”

Inside 50 yards, Thornberry has been dangerous this fall. He added that he feels like one of the best putters in the college game right now.

Even in the two tournaments he didn't win, Thornberry gave himself a chance to win. If he had played a little better on the back nine holes, he might have just done that.

“You can't ask for anything else but to have a chance to win all five of the tournaments though,” he added. “The team did really well this fall. I think we were ranked No. 70 in the preseason and now we're up to 17. I think we will make NCAAs if play how we should. I don't think that's a stretch at all. Last year we would have had to play a little over our head to make it, but TURN TO REBELS PAGE 14

Sailing On Lafayette eliminates Louisville from 4A playoffs

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A Louisville team that visited William L. Buford Stadium in September was different Friday night. The Wildcats played with more energy and had more of a plan on both sides of the ball. In the end of 48 minutes, none of it mattered.

Lafayette's Commodores didn't take the Wildcats lightly and as a result, they are heading on in the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs.

The Commodores may not have beaten the Wildcats as badly as the first meeting, but the 24-7 win in the second round was thorough and complete if not completely dominating. Friday's win was the 10th straight for the Commodores, who will now host Amory in the semifinals this coming week.

Veteran Louisville coach MC Miller had hoped that the Commodores, who beat the Wildcats 42-7 the first time, would take a different approach with his improved bunch this go around. Miller was more pleased with how his team looked against Lafayette, but it wasn't enough.

“We did play a lot better than we did the last time we were up here but we still got too many simple mistakes we made,” Miller said. “We're a young ball club and we're making too many mistakes. We just have to grow up and we

should be a little stronger next year. They played hard, but they missed tackles and missed catches, simple things that you expect to do.”

Miller felt like the Commodores (10-2) were a little better than the first meeting, and he credited them with playing hard on top of that.

“I was hoping they would take us lightly after the way they beat us but they didn't, they still played hard and they played good,” Miller said. “We were just trying to hang in there. They're going to be hard to beat. I think they're a championship-level team. I think it's going be between them and Noxubee County in this 4A thing. They have a good team.

They have balance, they can run it and they can throw it, too. That's what got us.

When we shut the run down, then they came back out here with a pass. And when we shut the pass down, they can run it on us.”

Lafayette coach Michael Fair took Miller's words as a complement. He was proud of his Commodores because he preached to them all week about playing hard because Louisville (7-6) had improved. Coming in, the Wildcats had won six of their last seven games and the only loss was a close one to Noxubee.

“They have shuffled around and found themselves as the year has gone on and we knew that just from watching film. And they have some athletes. I tell

our guys that we're not good enough to take anybody lightly,” Fair said. “I was very, very proud because you hear from the first time you start coaching that it's always hard to beat somebody twice.

(Miller) got great effort from our guys tonight. I thought our guys played really hard.”

The Commodores were very solid on defense again. Even though they allowed their first touchdown of the playoffs, it was hard earned on the part of the Wildcats, who were much more polished on offense and still couldn't move the ball on Lafayette most of the night.

Running back Jamarcus Quarles was the focal point of the Wildcats on defense, and they bottled him up as well as anybody. Still, Quarles had 54 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries in the first half before tacking on 78 more yards in the second.

Lafayette quarterback Will Ard and Tyler Williams fueled the offense as much as any two players during the first half. They hooked up for the first score, a 22-yard fade route that Williams gobbled up in man coverage. Williams also had a 34-yard reception in the third quarter that set up Robbie Langley's 22-yard field goal.

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Tyler Williams makes big plays in LHS win

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Every time the Lafayette Commodores get one-onone coverage on the outside of the offensive formation, Tyler Williams makes sure to signal head coach Michael Fair. Williams has been a coverage killer all season long for the Commodores and in Friday night's MHSAA Class 4A playoff win over Louisville, his ability to make plays in the passing game was the difference.

Williams scored the first touchdown of the game for the Commodores on a 22yard throw from quarterback Will Ard. That came right as the first quarter was coming to an end, and the Commodores in need of doing something on offense. As the game progressed, when the Commodores needed to move the ball, they went up top to Williams. His 32-yard reception in the third quarter set up Robbie Langley's field goal, which improved the Commodores lead to 17-0 with just over three minutes left in the period.

Fair felt Williams had a big night, and he knows that when Williams gives him that look, the ball has a great chance of finding his hands because Fair has confidence in him to make the play.

“He is always looking at me, so when he see me look at him, we're probably coming his way,” Fair said with a smile. “We have a

good relationship and it's been a long season and we're able to do those kinds of things. I think he trusts me to put him in a situation he can be successful and I trust him to go get it.”

This is the second time this season that Williams has earned the Player of the Week honor for Lafayette.

Louisville coach MC Miller was very aware of Williams' talent, and he was aware that he was committed to play for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

“He's hard to cover because he's a big guy. You throw it to him, he's going to get it because he knows how to fight for it and take the ball and make something happen,” Miller said.

Williams said he gave 100 percent on every play Friday, and was pleased with his play.

“Me and Will Ard had communication great throughout the whole game and we definitely made some magic happen,” Williams said. “We're taking it one game at a time. We're going to come out Monday with the same intensity.

Focus has been our main thing throughout the week.”

When Williams gets single coverage, he gets excited. That's when the eye contact with Fair comes in.

As for his favorite catch in the win, it was the touchdown catch over a defender in the corner of the end zone. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Oxford defeats Grenada in the battle of the Chargers

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

GRENADA – Last week the Oxford Chargers had 14 penalties, 4 rushing yards, three turnovers, their second region loss, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Friday night at Grenada High School, they still had 10 penalties, but 241 rushing yards to go along with it. They also had just one turnover, and most importantly a 34-16 victory over the home standing Grenada Chargers in the first round of the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs.

Oxford coach Chris Cutcliffe was pleased that his Chargers executed throughout the game and bounced back well after the loss to Lake Cormorant.

“I thought it was a great win against a really quality opponent,” Cutcliffe said. “I thought our guys competed really hard and executed in all three phases. I was really proud of how we played.”

Running back Hiram Wadlington led the offensive attack for Oxford (8-4 overall) rushing the ball 27 times for 161 yards and two touchdowns on the night.

Wadlington said that after having a subpar effort against Lake Cormorant last week that the Oxford coaches challenged him and his teammates to make plays against the third-best scoring defense in 5A. “Our coaches really challenged us this week,” Wadlington said.

“They gave up just 13 points per game (entering the contest). The coaches kept putting that in our heads and that they had a great defense. We knew that we had to score and that our defense had to play great and that's what happened tonight. They have a couple stars on their defense, but that didn't matter to us.We just took it one play at a time and executed.”

The game turned late in the third quarter with Oxford up just 21-16 facing a 4th-and-1 on the Greanda 45-yard line. Wadlington not only got the first down, but found a hole up the Oxford sideline and scored a touchdown to put Oxford in a comfortable 27-16 lead going down the stretch.

“That was a huge play,” Cutcliffe said. “We were in a situation where in short yardage I felt good about going for it there. Our offensive line executed really well and Hiram made a huge play.”

Oxford's defense took over from there, forcing Grenada (9-3) out of their game plan from running the ball to throwing the football down by two scores. Oxford was able to force a punt and a turnover on downs before icing the game with a five-play, 28-yard drive capped by a Lance Stewart's

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Oxford running back Hiram Wadlington finished with 161 yards and two touchdowns for the Chargers in their win over Grenada.

2-yard run. Oxford also had a time-wasting 13 play, 65-yard drive that ended in a missed field goal, but it took more than six minutes off the fourth quarter clock.

“I thought our defense played really well,” Cutcliffe said. “They really defended the run well. We did give up the long touchdown pass and that happens sometimes on 50-50 balls. Sometimes their guy gets it. Overall, particularly

“This is a rivalry game,” Cutholding them to just three points in the second half was a big ac- cliffe said. “Both teams are going to be excited and ready to play. complishment.”

We've got to have a great week of preparation. We are going to have UP NEXT Oxford advances to the second to go out and play with even more round of the playoffs where the intensity and more energy and Chargers will play West Point at more physically against a really the friendly confines of Bobby good West Point team.”

“If we fix the little things that we Holcomb Field. The Chargers lost their first meeting to the Green beat ourselves against West Point, Wave at McAlister Field by the then we will beat them at home,” Wadlington said. score of 22-8.

EXTRA POINTS Cornerback CJ Terrell, who played quarterback during his freshmen year while on the freshmen team, threw a touchdown pass to John Reece McClure during the second quarter. McClure finished the night 13-for-20 for 153 yards with two total touchdowns and one interception. Preston Perkins caught his first touchdown of the season during the second quarter.

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this year, if we keep doing what we're supposed to do, we'll breeze through and make a run at it.”

The golf season has turned to just a practice routine, and being a student. Thornberry was planning to take a week off to recharge his battery. He has an amateur tournament in Arizona to compete in right after Christmas, so he was going to start preparing for that, and to defend the title he won there last year.

One of the big keys for Thornberry from an improvement standpoint has come off the course. He's tried to “grind a little more” in workouts and he has taken in what the team's sports psychologist, Josie Nicholson, has had to say.

“She does a really good job. She doesn't tell you things you don't know but she reassures of things you do know like try to hit good shots and try to avoid a bad one,” Thornberry said. “Simple stuff like that has really helped me out.”

This is Thornberry's third semester in school, and he feels that much more comfortable than he did this time a year ago.

“I struggled a little bit that first semester. My golf was struggling but that was many because I was confused and my head was spinning a little bit,” Thornberry said. “In the

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Ole Miss coach Chris Malloy raved

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about Thornberry's talents and what he has accomplished this fall. He said that he was more settled in life, which translated to better results overall.

“He's done a really good job. This time last year, people forget he was struggling with everything,” Malloy said. “It's just as a regular freshman, trying to get everything under control. There are so many things thrown at you and you never know how these guys are going to react to that. Once he got back from his second semester his freshman year, things started to slow down for him a little bit. He felt a little more comfortable in the golf game, and that's when you're able to improve.

“Once you have everything else around you set, then you can improve. It all goes hand in hand. He got his life in order and he started to improve and then he started to play his best golf at the end of his second semester,” Malloy added. “He didn't have the greatest summer. It was his first outside of the program and figuring out his way as well. Then he started to play better towards the end of the summer and just really carried that over into this semester. The sports staff we have around us has really started to help us and help him and now you're just going to see him get better and better.”

trying to do with it,” Fair said. “If folks keep putting people in the box, it leaves matchups on the outside, favorable at times. We got a couple of guys that can go get it. Tyler had a great night.”

The Commodores led Louisville 14-0 at the half and then led 17-0 after three quarters. Randy Anderson saw some time at quarterback from the Wildcat position. The last two weeks, Anderson has piled up the yards from that spot as a curveball for Ard. Jamie Shaw also continued to see action at tailback, scoring on a 2-yard run with 2:28 left in the game to completely ice the victory for the Commodores.

Fair liked the way Ard threw the ball, and against pressure. After missing his first five passes of the game, Ard was 8-for-15 at the half.

“He was under constant pressure. That's what Coach Miller's teams do. They slap get after the quarterback and they have for many, many years now,” Fair said. “I was proud of our offensive line. There were a couple of plays we wish we could have back, but overall, I thought they played real well. I thought we played well on defense. Coach (Ben) Ashley has got these guys flying around and nobody is thinking, they're just playing. That's the key to good defense.”

Up next is a third straight home game for the Commodores against the No. 1 seed out of Division 1-4A, Amory.

“It's exciting for our fans and great for us because we have a great routine we have for these home games,” Fair said. “Everybody is comfortable here and I'm just excited for these folks to come watch us play.

We've had some great crowds the last two weeks.”

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