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OSD honors retirees for their service to the district.

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JOHN DAVIS

Lafayette High held its annual Commencement for the class of 2016 Friday at Tad Smith Coliseum.

LHS Principal Glenn Kitchens reflects on his first year.

Saying Goodbye

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Class of 2016 departs from Lafayette

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Some of the most successful athletes and decorated scholars to ever attend Lafayette High School started the next phase of their lives Friday night. Red and gold washed over Tad Smith Coliseum at the 50th annual Lafayette Commencement ceremony as 188 students turned their tassels, walked the stage and away with a diploma.

It was a fitting scene for the graduates, many who have been on the same campus for 13 full years. For Dr. Glenn Kitchens, the principal at the high school, Friday was special because it was his first graduation at Lafayette. The event culminated his first full year back in the district after spending 12 years working in Water Valley.

“It was great. It was so different in so many ways but at the same time, it was still a high school graduation. It's a big event. It's about everybody getting a

diploma and kids and families are so very excited,” Kitchens said. “I thought we had a great Valedictorian speech, a great Salutatorian speech. Those kids did a super job.”

A large percentage of the graduates earned academic recognition ranging from distinction to honors and special honors.

“We did have a lot of seniors with honors. At awards night a few weeks ago, we handed out a tremendous amount of scholarships to this class,” Kitchens said.

“They're going to be going to schools and colleges all over the place. We expect a lot out of them. They will be studying a wide range of disciplines. The students that had the senior song, with the guitarist, they were just outstanding. They have music in their future. It's been a great year and a great graduation to finish.”

Friday's ceremony seemingly went off without any hiccups. Kitchens felt the entire program went off seamlessly, and everything was wrapped up from start to

finish in 70 minutes.

“We hoped that the people that were here enjoyed a real nice program so they could focus on celebrating,” Kitchens said. “I wish the graduates the best in the future. We welcome them back home to Lafayette any time. If we can help them in any way, offer them any assistance in any way, we want them to know that once a Commodore, always a Commodore. As we like to say at our school everyday, everybody wants to be a Commodore.

Not everybody can be but they all want to be. They are officially alumni and they're always welcomed home. We also want them to go out to the ends of the earth if that's where they are supposed to be and serve people and do well.”

Samuel Meals delivered the Valedictorian speech this year. He told the audience he would keep his speech short since most are forgotten about anyway.

He delivered on his promise as it was just TURN TO GOODBYE PAGE 13

Magnolia Montessori School holds end of the year presentations

11 Sports

For the second straight season, the Chargers were the best baseball team in Class 5A.

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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

Hart to sign latest book, ‘Redeption Road’ at Square Books

BY KATHRYN WINTER STAFF WRITER

John Hart, a writer who was listed four times on the New York Times bestseller list, will be signing his newest book, Redemption Road, at Square Books on Friday at 5 p.m. Redemption Road has been five years in the making. Hart’s last book, Iron Horse came out in 2011. Hart is the only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels.

Set in small town North Carolina, and steeped in a Southern sense of shared traditions, values and family ties tracing back through generations, Redemption Road brings its well-drawn characters together in a formidable web of corruption, abuse and evil. The story unfolds a suspenseful story of tortured souls, traumatized children, corrupt law enforcers, and a serial killer.

Hart introduces his first female leading player, Detective Elizabeth Black. A

loner and a giver, Black excels at powering through her own secret pain to catch the bad guys and protect t heir badly damaged victims. She clings to her faith in a higher moral authority-even when it clashes with the criminal justice system-and the innocence of a fallen cop convicted of a chilling murder.

After Hart finishes a book, he typically takes three months off.

“I like to let old ideas wash away and fill the well with new ones. After Iron Horse, we moved to Virginia, so I took time off to be fully there for my wife and kids as we settled into our new home,” he said. “I began what was supposed to be my fifth book, expecting the process to be as linear and flowing as the first four. It wasn’t. The book wasn’t working but I soldiered on. A year later I finally stopped and scrapped 300 pages.”

Born in Durham, North Carolina, Hart is a former

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Author John Hart will be signing his latest book at Square Books on Friday. banker, stockbroker and criminal defense attorney.

After earning graduate degrees in law and accounting, he released he would find release through writing. He now writes full time. After the birth of his first child, Hart left his law

practice to take a stab at chasing his dream of writing novels for a living. After spending a year in a carrel at the Rowan County Public Library, the result was his debut bestseller, The King of Lies.

“After four bestsellers I was overconfident. If I just write, I told myself, then all elements for the book would, in time, resolve,” Hart said. “That’s the lesson it took a year to learn: that without the right protagonist I had no foundation for the story. When I started fresh, I knew exactly who the main character was supposed to be: Elizabeth Black, a bit character in that failed first attempt, but always fascinating, always asking to be more. When I began anew she was the lead character, complex, strong and willing to sacrifice. The novel that became Redemption Road took two more years to complete, but I refused to submit anything but the best book I could possibly write. My

readers deserve that kind of effort.”

His other novels include: The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child and Iron Horse. David Baldacci, also a New York Times bestselling author said Redemption Road has taken it to another level. “Read this novel, and then go back and read all of his others. He’s that good,” Baldacci said.

Hart has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature.

With other two million copies in print, his novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in over 70 coun-

tries.

“My only real dream,” Hart said, “Has been to write well and to be published well.”

He is already working on his sixth novel, a sequel to The Last Child.

“I always inspired to write, for it seemed the best of all jobs. Imagination, freedom and creation, who wouldn’t want that? I thought of Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham, fortune and glory,” he said.

“The challenge was in finding the courage to stop thinking of writing and to actually write something good enough to be published. In spite of all frustrations, I never lost sight of the dream. That’s the power of dreams-they never really let you go.”

BRIEFING LGBT+ fundraiser set for Thursday Thursday night The Lyric will be hosting the Come On Phil The Love fundraiser with all proceeds benefiting Unity Mississippi, a non-profit organization based in Jackson since 2004 that is

dedicated to serving and educating the LGBT+ community and their allies.

The event begins at 6, and will have an all-inclusive $10 cover and feature four live performances by local and regional bands.

There will be an art auc-

tion featuring the work of local artists, which they have personally donated to support the cause.

Woodson Ridge Farms will be providing food to those who attend. Before the performance will be a short film block put on in conjunction with the Crossroads Film Society.

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OSD honors retirees for their service to the district

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Wednesday afternoon, friends, family and colleagues gathered in the commons area of Oxford Middle School to say farewell and celebrate the work of 13 faculty and staff members who are retiring from the Oxford School District.

The people retiring from the district held various positions. Miriam Rone has worked as the librarian for Oxford Middle School for over 21 years. Shadra Mathis severed as the district’s Accounts Payable Clerk for nearly three decades. Jill Campos was a teacher at Oxford Elementary School for 20 years.

Every person that was honored at this ceremony Wednesday had dedicated a significant portion of his or her life to serving the children of the Oxford School District. School Board President Marian Barksdale considers this to be one of the many reasons why these district employees deserve a proper send off.

“I love to come and honor the retirees,” she said. ”They’ve very much given their lives to our district. In most cases, this is where they’ve spent the bulk of their careers. My children have experienced some of the teachers and administrators. Not only am I personally thankful to them, but I’m also thankful for what the district has gained from them being here.”

Ktherenia Walker loved her time working as a teach-

Retiring OMS teacher Arleen Dowd poses like Superman in flight during her farewell speech during the ceremony.

CHANING GREEN plaque and waited for HarSuperintendent Brian Harvey speaks about the career and service of retiring teaching assis- vey to finish speaking. She tant Ktherenia Walker at the OSD's retirement ceremony held at Oxford Middle School then gave a speech on the importance of being an edWednesday afternoon. ucator. She compared her ing assistant at Oxford Ele- whose lives they’ve im- teacher of 31 years, she fellow teachers and district mentary. She spent just over pacted, to say thank you,” stood up pulled out a bag workers to super heroes, citHarvey said after the cere- and told the audience that ing what her students said 30 years in the position.

“It feels good to retire; I mony. “You’ll see parents, she was going to need a the fictional caped crusaders shared with realwas ready,” Walker said. “I you’ll see former students minute.

The former middle school world teachers. She said that really enjoyed working in and parent who are here to the district. I was a teacher’s honor them and it’s just a teacher threw on her bright her students described both assistant for 30 years, and I special time. Their moving red cape, accepted her as heroic and brave rescuers. really loved what I did. It to another phase of their was a pleasure to see those lives and it’s an opportunity kids when they get it, when for us to say thank you and that little light goes off in send them off on a positive their eyes. Seeing them note.”

Each teacher that was relearn, when you realize what you’ve been going over tiring was invited one at a and over finally kicks in for time up to a podium to them, yeah, that was my fa- stand beside Harvey. The retiree would accept a plaque vorite part.“ Superintendent Brian from him and listen as the Harvey presided over the re- superintendent recounted the retiree’s history with the tirement ceremony.

“These individuals have district, and would often tell served in certified capacities of the personal connection in both our own district as he had to the retiree. When well as others, and this is Harvey called forward Arsuch a special for those leen Dowd, a middle school

Dowd poses for photos with some of ther former students.

She invited every teacher gathered before her to raise an arm, and then the other one, assuming the iconic stance of Superman in flight. Dowd told each person with hands raised to fly into the future and boldly proceed into their next stage of life. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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BRIEFING LHS hoops camp starts Tuesday Lafayette boys basketball coach John Sherman is hosting a camp for children in grades one through six Tuesday through Thursday. The camp will run from 8 until 11:30 each morning in the LHS gym. Cost is $45 for pre registration and $50 at the door. The $45 cost is good through Friday. Each camper will receive a red and white regulation size basketball, a camp T-shirt and certificate of participation. Fundamentals taught by Sherman includes dribbling, passing, cutting, shooting, rebounding, defensive stance, footwork, work ethic, motivation and a whole bunch of fun.

Current Commodores will also take part in the instruction.

Charger Basketball Camp May 31-June 3 The annual Charger Basketball Camp, featuring Oxford High coach Drew Tyler and his players, will be held May 31 through June 3 at the Turner Center on the University of Mississippi campus.

Cost for early registration is $110. Registration at the door is $120. It is open for boys ages through seventh grade.

Assistant coach Tyler Reed is also part of the instruction on fundamentals. Gym shorts, tennis shoes and T-shirts are needed each day for campers, who will receive a specific camp T-shirt, a regulation basketball, a 2016 Charger Camp medallion.

Other special awards will be given out during the course of the camp, which runs each day from 8 a.m., until noon.

Those interested in attending can pick up an application at University Sporting Goods or at the schools.

LHS baseball hosts camp June 1-3 Children in grades through sixth can learn fundamentals from Lafayette coach Greg Lewis and his staff. Cost of the camp is $40, while groups of five or more will receive a discount of 25 percent. Registration is set for 8:15 on Wednesday, June 1. A glove, bat, baseball cap and water is needed for the campers. For questions, contact Lewis at (662) 816-9349 or at greg.lewis@go commodores.org

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

LHS Principal Glenn Kitchens reflects on his first year Glenn Kitchens just wrapped up his first school year as principal of Lafayette County High School. Kitchens is a graduate of Delta State where he earned a bachelor’s degree before coming to the University of Mississippi for his master’s and doctorate. He has worked as high school teacher before taking a job as assistant principal at Layette Elementary School. Before returning to the Lafayette County School District to serve as the high school’s head principal, he worked as a principal in Water Valley for 12 years.

Even though he has been extraordinarily busy wrapping up his first school year at LHS, Kitchens took time to sit down with us this past Tuesday.

CHANING GREEN: You’ve worked in Lafayette County Schools before, correct?

GLENN KITCHENS: Yes, I spent seven years here in what was then Lafayette Elementary School from 1996 to 2003. I was the assistant principal. There were just two schools back then, one for K-six and for seven-12. The current high school wasn’t even built then. During my seven years there, the high school was built and the K-six became a K-four.

Since I’ve been gone, the Lafayette Upper Elementary School has been built.

When I first got here, there were only two schools, now I’ve come back to four schools. The campus has doubled in size.

GREEN: Why did you make the transition from elementary school to high school?

KITCHENS: My initial training was in secondary education, and I taught at Mooreville High School in Lee County. I taught primarily juniors and seniors. Then I finished up my

schools every spring, but there was something different about that conversation we had that Saturday morning. It started again and we prayed and talked and weighed options. I came up and visited with everyone and it just became a thing that we had to do.

We weren’t going to be at peace until we did it. So here we are.

CHANING GREEN

Principal Glen Kitchens sits at his desk at Lafayette County High School where he just wrapped up his first year as the head administrator. master’s degree and a few things were out there and life just kinda takes the turns that it takes and I actually drove over here to Lafayette County because they were advertising for a high school assistant principal. I spoke with someone and came over for a visit and met the new principal at the time.

Everyone was new that year. I came and met with them and interviewed.

About a week or so passed and they called back and told me that they really enjoyed meeting with me and visiting with me and asked if I would consider coming back to meet with the people over the elementary school. They thought I would be a good fit there. I did and met Mr. Herod and we just hit it off immediately. I think we kinda both new that this would probably be happening.

GREEN: How did it feel to make that switch?

KITCHENS: I did have a fear of the transition. I had only had experience with secondary education in my teaching career to date. So, I had an aunt who, at that time, taught second grade for about 26 years. She ended up teaching a full 40 years before she retired. I went and visited her and said, ‘Aunt Carol, I’m just afraid.’ She asked me what I was afraid of and I said, ‘I don’t know how to teach a child

how to read. That’s not what we’re trained to do in secondary education.

That’s the primary function of a grammar school.’

She said, “They’re not hiring you to teach children how to read. They’re hiring you to help run an organization where the teachers will be able to do their job, which is teaching the children how to read.” So she just gave me this whole new perspective of what she as a teacher needed out of a principal. Not that a principal shouldn’t know how to teach a child how to read, but that is not my primary concern. That is not what I was being hired for.

then, I couldn’t get it off my mind. It made no sense. We were settled in, we’d just moved in to a new house; everything was in place for us to be here for a long time, maybe for good. But, it just wouldn’t go away.

My wife and I continued to talk and pray and think and I ended up going to visit them at Water Valley.

I didn’t want to move, and I did not want to go to Water Valley. It was something I just did not want to do, but it was very clear that’s what I was supposed to do. Nothing could be more clear that that was where God was calling us to go.

GREEN: What came after LES? KITCHENS: Well, during year seven as Assistant Principal at LES, my wife and I started to feel like this was where we wanted to spend the rest of our lives, or at least most of it.

So we bought some property and built a house that we thought would be our home for the next several decades. We moved in in February of 2003 and moved out in June of 2003, maybe July. That summer I was at a conference on the coast where I met a lady who told me I should come and meet with some people in Water Valley, that they were in search of a new principal there for the high school. I was like, “No, no thank you.” But

GREEN: What brought you back to Lafayette County?

KITCHENS: Well, I was in Water Valley for 12 years, and I loved every day from day one. There were opportunities during those years and it was never a consideration. So last spring, again, we felt like, okay, this is home. This is where we’re gonna be. We had diligently begun looking for a new house. We wanted to move and settle in for the long haul. We were not so far off from making some pretty big decisions when I get a call from Patrick Robinson, the then principal at LHS, and, for the first time in 12 years there, that call was different. I had received different calls from

GREEN: What do you love about being a principal? What keeps you coming back here everyday?

KITCHENS: Well, I loved being a teacher, so my favorite part of being a principal being able to go into 64 different classrooms and be a student for eight or ten minuets and watch a peer in this business teach young people. I not only enjoy that as an observer and a learner, because I always learn something or am reminded of something, but my favorite thing is getting to sit in those classrooms and share with people what I’m seeing. If a questions comes up I can say, “oh, I was just in that classroom last week, and this is what’s going on.” It also helps you to validate for other people if they have questions about a classroom. I think that is my very favorite part, but I also really enjoy the relationships I get to make and build here.

When you’re a teacher, you have 150 or so kids and the teachers on either side of you in the hallway.

As a principal, I don’t know if you know those kids as well as you do when you’re a teacher, but you do get a broader understanding of the teachers on your staff. You see them in their classrooms and you learn about their lives and their families and where they went to school, where they’re headed and what their goals and hopes and dreams are. I just really like the relationship factor of being a principal. Being able to help someone find resolve or peace or joy, or whatever that person might need out of a situation, I enjoy that. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

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Magnolia Montessori School holds end of the year presentations

CHANING GREEN

Charlie Mac Hiatt reads a poem from a book by Shel Silverstein to Magnolia Montessori School Benjamin Cummings presents on the Order of Operations. Students can present on any topic Director Stacey Sanford as a part of his end of the year presentation. they studied during the school year.

Left to right, Lucy Seicshnaydre, Anor Kneupper and Courtney Kneupper. After deciding on a Andre Liebenberg and Abram Jankowski. Projects are spread out across the school and students topic, students complete a project based on that subject and prepare to present it. must be ready to present to any of the current or perspective parents that are walking around.

Cadence Clinton and her sister. The reasoning behind completing a final project rather than having a final exam is based in the ideology of Montessori education that promotes the idea that children should be allowed to gravitate toward subject they are natrually interested in, Elizabeth Hiatt and James Clay Hiatt. Students presented on a topics including poetry, sciin order to make learning an adventure rather than an assignment. ence, writing, math and everything in between.

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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

Goodbye FROM 1

under 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.

“It's been an honor growing up with such kind people. I would like to tell the truth, I don't know half of you people half as well as I should like,” Meals said early in his speech. “I like half of you half as well as you deserve. I regret that this is the end of our long journey together. We are leaving high school as better people, and better than we arrived.”

Like most speeches, Meals made sure to thank the teachers for all their hard work, saying it's not always easy to work with high school students. He also thanked the parents for the food, shelter, laundry washed, and love given along the way.

“I thank you parents for paying taxes that enable us to be here tonight,” Meals said. “I would like to thank God, but since I might offend someone, I will only thank him for the short time that we have together on this beautiful earth.

Emily Robinson won the Commodore Award this year for her success in the classroom, and in the sports of softball and volleyball.

JOHN DAVIS

There were a lot of smiles on the faces of Lafayette graduates, including Keontre Toles, right.

Lastly, I would like to thank the Class of 2016 for being who we are and for making the last 13 years of my life the best on earth.”

Taylor Bost was this year's Salutatorian and she urged her classmates to do whatever they end up choosing to focus on in the future, to do it well, and never stop improving.

“I encourage all of you to

challenge yourselves,” Bost said not long before ending a quote by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who spoke at Stanford's ceremony in 2005. “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

One graduate who was awarded special distinction was Brelynn Hudgins, the goalie on the LHS soccer

team, and a member of the school's U.S. Air Force ROTC unit. Hudgins, who held the rank of first lieutenant, heroically helped a car accident victim on April 28. The victim was unconscious and the vehicle was smoking, and still running.

Hudgins pulled the man from the wreck and then returned to check on others. He rendered first aid

Lee McLarty is handed his diploma during Friday night's ceremony at Tad Smith Coliseum. until first responders came the highest award given by on the scene. Major Harvey the Air Force ROTC. Rice presented the Sliver Valor Award to Hudgins john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd during the ceremony. It is

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May, 2016 is one to remember for OHS athletics

M

ay, 2016 should be remembered, and cherished, by anyone who is a fan of the Oxford High Chargers.

Heck, it should be cherished by anyone who lives in this community, this county and this region. We should all appreciate just how special the past three weeks have been for the school district from a sports standpoint.

Both the Oxford track teams made history when they won the MHSAA Class 5A state title in Pearl. Neither had won it on the same day before, and the Chargers had never won three straight titles in a row.

Less than a mile away, this past Thursday, the OHS baseball team won its second straight championship. That was a first for a program that has prided itself on fielding very solid baseball teams over the years.

The meat of the May sandwich was the tennis team, and the tennis players overall. The Chargers won a ninth straight title under head coach Louis Nash. And seven of his kids won individual titles, or four of the five that the MHSAA awards on that basis. It was the first time in school history that four titles were won in the same month. It was also the first time that six were won in the same year. Boys powerlifting won a fourth title back in April, while the girls made history with its first title back in February. Four of the last six years, Oxford has won five or more titles in a calendar year. And none fewer than four titles in a single season during that time period. In other words, it’s been a dominating last half decade for sure.

For all the miles put on vehicles in the last 15-16 days for our local parents and supporters traveling back and forth to the Metro Jackson area, it was well worth it. The trophies are just the tip of the iceberg for what the accomplishments mean. The memories, the hard work put in, the focus, the determination needed to win a title, all merge when those medals and awards are given out. Parents, grand parents, other family members and friends live to see those moments. It’s a final TURN TO OXFORD PAGE 13

JOHN DAVIS

Oxford won its second straight MHSAA Class 5A state title in baseball Thursday at Trustmark Park in Pearl.

Back-to-Back Chargers relish a second straight 5A title

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

PEARL – If the MHSAA would have allowed it, the Oxford Chargers, and their supporters, would have hugged at Trustmark Park until the wee hours of the morning following Thursday’s 10-0 win over Hattiesburg. For the second straight season, the Chargers were the best baseball team in Class 5A. They started the year ranked No. 1 in the state, and nation for that matter.

They had a target on their back all season long. When it counted, the Chargers were at their best. And they finished on top, even with a lot of the state firmly against them.

Oxford coach Chris Baughman fought back tears, and waited seconds, before he could talk about the best senior class to ever wear an OHS uniform. For Baughman, the uptight one who worries for the whole group, the expectations of being the best a second straight time were tough at times. In the end, the sweep in the title series, and the way the team played in the final game, were very, very pleasing to Baughman.

“It’s still kind of a relief that we got here and finished the deal. I never had to coach so hard having such a talented team,” Baughman said. “I felt like I put more pressure on myself this year. I don’t know if was because of how good we were supposed to be or how good we could be. I knew we could be very good, and that’s all I asked out of them, day in and day out, be as good as you can be. They finished the year better than I could I have imagined. Never did I think we would come out and put on the show that we did, hitting the ball as hard as we did, the last two games.”

Bradley Roberson, the school’s principal and the program’s former head coach, was also very happy for Baughman, his former assistant, and the kids.

“Chris is dear friend of mine, so there really is a lot of emotions going through my mind for him,” Roberson said.

“Chris is a winner. He’s a winner at everything he does whether it was coaching football, teaching match, whatever it is. He’s just a special guy. I get chills talking about him and the success that’s he had. It really is just as much of a thrill for me as it is for him

not just because of seeing the kids succeed, but also to see him succeed.”

Drew Bianco said that winning a second title felt just as good as it did in 2015. He was glad to be back, and to see if the Chargers could accomplish the feat again.

“We had a target on our back the whole year. We dropped some games that we should have won, but just getting back here, and winning it in this fashion, it feels just as good as the first one did,” Bianco said.

Jason Barber, who won Game 1 on the mound for the Chargers, said while the feeling of the first title was hard to top, winning a second time was “right there with it.” Houston Roth was the pitcher got the win in Game 2. He finished with six strikeouts in his final start for the Chargers.

“It feels just as good as the first one, if not better,” Roth said. “It’s amazing coming through and winning in walkoff fashion like that. It makes it really special, and it’s the senior year.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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To the Oxford Class of 2016: Thank You

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

It seems like just the other day Oxford’s Jason Barber and Houston Roth were dominating middle school ball on the mound, leaving their opponents frustrated.

They didn’t lose in middle school. If Barber wasn’t pitching one day, Roth was on the mound the other.

The team those days really just wasn’t fair just because opponents could never score on them.

Barber started immediately in the batting lineup when he reached high school. Oddly enough, the first time Barber was on the mound, albeit in relief, he took a loss to his pitching record against Columbus before recording his first win.

I’ll remember Roth’s start against Tupelo his freshmen year as a growing-up point. He was taken out after the game had been tied up and just couldn’t hold his emotions in check once he sat down in the dugout. At that point in time, Roth was someone that pitched to contact and didn’t have the velocity to blow it by the batters. Roth didn’t strikeout anybody in that game, but still pitched well enough to win, but four errors behind him prohibited him from putting that game in the win column.

Even though it really wasn’t his fault, it seemed like he worked hard from that point to not have something like that happen to him again. He never lost in the regular season again, amassing 25 wins over the course of his high school career. He finished with 34 wins in all.

There was a moment before Roth’s sophomore season, during a team scrimmage up, when he went up against Barber. He got emotional again because he wasn’t doing as well by his standards.

Coach Chris Baughman saw it differently. He went to Roth and basically told him to man up and realize who he was up against.

Baughman deliberately put those two on the mound for that scrimmage because he knew what Roth was capable of.

Roth at one point lead

Dillard delivers for Chargers in 5A title win

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

BEN MIKELL

The Oxford High senior class made baseball special again this spring, and memorable over the past few seasons. the nation in wins on the mound, going 12-0 before losing to New Hope in the 5A North Half series that season. It was also that year where he was able to control his emotions and become a much more focused pitcher.

Right before their junior campaign, Grae Kessinger moved from Center Hill back home to Oxford to join the Chargers with his childhood friends. I knew Kessinger was supposed to be a good shortstop. How good? He was four steps into center field during one of his first few games as a Charger fielding a ground ball and still threw the batter out. That’s when I realized he was truly in a class on his own defensively.

Kessinger made play after play in areas of the infield that would make SportsCenter’s Top 10 list look routine. He looked like Derek Jeter in his prime without the leaping throws.

What overshadowed their junior campaign was what Barber did on the mound. A 0.00 ERA is unheard of. A big reason Barber was able to accomplish that feat was he never allowed anything bad that happened during the game snowball. No error or big hit ever got to Barber. He makes no memory of it, doesn’t make excuses or pout about it, he just went to take it out on the next

batter. Barber got the nickname “Iceman” early on his freshmen year by his teammates because nothing ever seems to bother him while he is pitching.

Finally, Thomas Dillard moved in this past season.

He made every ball he hit look like a missile. If it wasn’t a missile, it was a bomb.

Especially with the new BBCOR bats, I didn’t think there would be anyone for a long time that ever came through Oxford that would break Chad Cregar’s singleseason home run record of 13.

Anytime someone started to doubt him, he seemed to prove it on the diamond. It had been four years since any high school player hit a home run out at Trustmark Park. Dillard did it twice in the same game Thursday. I believe he is the first high school player to hit two homers in the same game at Trustmark since the BBCOR bats were introduced into the game.

While the big four get all the glory, I can’t forget the rest of the seniors in Sage (I don’t have a nickname for him) Mullins, “Big” Tag Gatlin, Jack “Pee-wee” Clemons, jokester Korbin Harmon, and shortest-guyon-the-team-every-singleyear Blake Parham. All four years, they made the baseball team fun to be around.

As statistician Dr. Sarah Lacy always said “there was

something in the water” when these players came through Oxford in reference to not just the talent on the baseball team, but with the likes of Jack Abraham, DK Metcalf, Zach Cousar, and Ken Presley on the football team and many others I haven’t mentioned.

It hasn’t been just football and baseball, it has been the entire athletic program that saw these group of kids collect a school-record 19 team state championships over their four years. Some helped collect more as eighth graders. That includes the first ever state championships for both soccer programs and the boys powerlifting program.

There were many more championships and major accolades that the athletes collected from an individual standpoint.

I’m glad I was privileged to see most of these athletes perform at every sporting event. I wished at times I could be in two, three, or even four places at once to see them all perform at the highest level.

To all the athletes in the Class of 2016, thank you for all the memories and the unbelievable rides in your respective sports. It was already a tradition of excellence before you got here, but everyone in this class gave the word “excellence” a new meaning.

PEARL — Thomas Dillard’s main goal before the 2016 season started was to be a state champion in baseball.

He came close before, but never got the ring. That is no longer an issue. A day after he was picked as the top player in Class 5A by the Mississippi Association of Coaches, Dillard showed his tremendous skills in a 100 win over Hattiesburg.

He hit two towering home runs at Trustmark Park in leading the Chargers to their second straight championship. It was the first time that any player, in any class, had hit a ball out of the park since 2011. His first shot hit the patio in right field. His second landed in the bullpen, and it ended the game in the bottom of the sixth. Walkoff fashion was the way Dillard wanted to go out, and everything went according to plan.

“I’m kind of in shock right now. I always wanted to win a state championship, but to win it like that was just amazing,” Dillard said. “I couldn’t think of a better way to end my high school career. I knew I was going to hit a home run, I’m not going to lie. I didn’t think I could go out any other way but like that. To end it like that is a blessing. I was really trying for it, and thankful to get it.”

Second baseman Drew Bianco made sure to fill up water bottles in the bottom of the sixth, not long before Dillard went to the plate. He had a feeling that the slugger would put his second shot out, and the Chargers would meet him at home to start punctuate the celebration.

“I went down to the bathroom to fill up the bottles to splash him. Jack (Clemons) said ‘What are you doing?’ I said ‘I just got that feeling,” Bianco said. “He already hit one and he was feeling it today, so I knew he had a good chance of getting another one.”

Jason Barber gave his fellow senior all the credit in the world, adding that Dillard was one of the best players he has ever competed with.

“I give him all the props in the world, and I’m excited to see what he does,” Barber said.

Dillard, who set the single-season home run mark earlier in the season, made sure to give credit to his teammates as well. He talked specifically about Barber and Houston Roth for their pitching ability.

“The thing that holds us together is Jason and Houston. It’s hard to have any other pitchers in the nation that will help you out,” Dillard said. “I had a good year, but without them, we would have been nothing this year. We battled through this year. We didn’t really play our best at the beginning of the year, but we really battled. We won when it really meant something. Ending the year No. 1 in the state is just a dream. Winning like that, it’s just crazy.”

With high school baseball out of the way, Dillard can focus his attention on next month’s Major League Draft.

He is rated as one of the top overall prospects in the nation, and he could be facing a touch decision on whether to attend Ole Miss in the fall, or play in the minors for the team that selects him.

“Ole Miss is just an amazing place. If I get drafted away from Ole Miss, then I get drafted away from Ole Miss,” Dillard said. “Right now, I’m an Ole Miss Rebel.

Either way, I can’t go wrong. It’s a great opportunity either way. My dream is to play professional baseball, so whatever way I can get there the fastest helps me out.

Whichever happens, it’s going to be a blessing.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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reward for them as much as it is for the athletes. In order to play baseball as well as Jason Barber and Houston Roth do, their parents have had to put in a lot of extra time helping it all happen.

The vast majority of those baseball Chargers have spent countless hours playing summer ball, travel ball, and taking individual lessons. A second straight title helps justify, or vindicate, all of that.

It’s hard to pinpoint one title as being better than another. In my case, it would be wrong for me to say one team worked harder than another. Really, it would be impossible for me to know that and since all the sports are different, hours spent at practice is far from an ideal way to help measure and form such a statement.

To me, and to a lot of others, each of the four May titles means a lot, and all four are equally special. All four of the head coaches are special, as are those individuals that assist the head coach. Of course, this senior class has been one of the most decorated from an achievement standpoint.

DK Metcalf is one of the best

athletes to have ever played at Oxford. Chris Baughman said that the seniors who wore the baseball uniform were the best, ever. And the tennis seniors have as many rings as Elizabeth Taylor did. (The younger readers can look her on on the Internet to see what I mean).

It will be hard for the Chargers, and Lady Chargers, to duplicate the success of May 2016 a year from now. It’s not like they won’t have talent, or new coaches, it’s just really hard to win every year, in every sport. The bar has been set, no pun intended, so high it’s hard to keep reaching the level.

That doesn’t mean that these athletes won’t try to reach it, and that our coaches won’t try and get them over it. That will be the fun part, the response. When championships are won, expectations increase. How do the future teams adjust or deal with them?

Sports is a fantastic way to entertain. It’s a great way to educate as well. We have some of the best entertainers and educators in the state locally. They showed their skills to the rest of the state this month, and we should all stand up and applaud because they truly were great.

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OLE MISS SOFTBALL/BASEBALL ROUNDUP Rebels garner win in NCAAs

Rebels in the frame. She was one of five players to have at least one hit in the win.

Hailey Lunderman and Ashton A night after Ole Miss made hisLampton each had two hits. tory Friday night by defeating Lampton had the other run Tulsa at Marita Hynes Field, the driven in for the Rebels, who also Rebels lost 9-1 in five innings to No. 3 seed Oklahoma in the NCAA used three errors by Tulsa to their benefit.

Softball regionals. The Sooners took control of the contest with seven runs in the bottom of the Aggies take second. Ole Miss was limited to final series just two hits by Oklahoma starter The Rebels' bid to win the SEC Paige Parker. The loss meant the West, and possibly the overall SEC Rebels had to win the rest of the weekend to stay alive and capture title, was thwarted by losing the first two games of the final series the regional title. to Texas A&M. Ole Miss lost 6-1 Friday's 5-1 win over Tulsa was Thursday night, and then fell 11-5 the first for the Rebels in the on Friday night. The Aggies finNCAA Tournament. Madi Osias earned the victory in the pitching ished with 16 hits in Game 2. Ole Miss (39-15, 17-12 in the SEC) circle, going the distance. Osias jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the finished with three strikeouts top of the first, but the Aggies reagainst three walks and four hits sponded with six runs in the botallowed. The Rebels never trailed in the contest, scoring four runs in tom of the second to take control.

Colby Bortles had a double and the bottom of the third inning to take control. Sarah Van Schaik hit drove in a run, while Henri Lartigue led Ole Miss with two RBIs. a three-run home run for the

In the first game of the series, the Rebels and A&M were tied 1-1 until the bottom of the sixth when the Aggies scored five runs. They finished with 11 hits, defeating starter Brady Bramlett in the process. Will Golsan had two hits in that loss, while Bortles had the lone RBI. Ole Miss was set to finish fourth in the SEC West heading into the final day of the regular season, two games behind LSU with the Tigers having won twice at Florida before the finale. A&M and Mississippi State were both two games ahead of Ole Miss with 19 wins. Saturday's final game with the Aggies was delayed due to rain, and pushed back almost two and a half hours.

The Rebels will return to action next week in the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama. Their seed, and start time for the opener, depended on how they fared in Game 3 against A&M and how other teams around them finished up.

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