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Continental could go live by year’s end

Mulvaney: Furloughs at Shaw not necessary

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Plant engineering manager looks ahead of January’s opening goal

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com A year and a half after breaking ground in a muddy field off U.S. 521, Sumter’s Continental Tire the Americas plant is now a fully fledged, 1-million-square-foot manufacturing facility with machinery in place and ready to be switched on by the beginning of next year.

Plant officials led media on a tour of the nearly completed facility Thursday, touting the Germanybased manufacturer’s ability to start turning out tires — and provide more than 300 jobs — by the time Continental hits its projected opening date in January.

Tom Tompkins, the plant engineering manager, thinks the plant could even begin production before the end of the year.

“We hope to begin in January 2014, but we’re striving to do better than that,” he said during the stepby-step tour of Continental’s manufacturing process. “Most of the machines are functional. They’re just in the testing phase. We’ve already produced test tires as a finished product.”

The tires already produced in Sumter have been shipped to Continental headquarters in Hanover, Germany, to be put through testing for quality control.

“Right now, they’ve

be revealed. And as a condition of a settlement agreement, the plaintiff will also have to waive any future appeal opportunities.

The verdict comes as Drakeford also stands to gain millions of dollars from the federal lawsuit against Tuomey. Back in 2005, Drakeford ultimately refused to sign a part-time contract to perform surgeries exclusively

U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., said Thursday he fully expects the civilian employees recently furloughed at Shaw Air Force Base to be paid for the four days they were absent and that a law passed the day before the federal shutMULVANEY down should have prevented the furloughs READ from happenMORE ing in the first INSIDE place.

“We thought Americans that the bill voice anger, that we had frustration in passed the day stalemate / before the govA5 ernment shutdown covered all civilian employees. It was intended to cover all civilian employees. It took the Defense Department a week to determine it covered all civilian employees, and it did,” Mulvaney said.

In addition, the congressman from Indian Land said not only should those civilians not have gone on furlough, but also that “they’re going to get paid for those four days.”

The recent furloughs for civilian employees at Shaw Air Force Base, as well as other military installations across the state, triggered outcries from state politicians. This was especially true for state Democrats, accusing the Republicandominated delegation of acting in a way that was harmful to the state’s economy and military personnel.

Last week, state Sen. Thomas McElveen called for “Congress to give partisan bickering a rest and get to work doing the people’s business,” adding the South Carolina delegation was “causing problems for people back in their home districts.”

The attacks from state Democrats continued Thursday when state House minority leader Todd Rutherford, D-Columbia, said the South Carolina delegation was practicing a “strategy of holding the government hostage in order to refight the battle over the Affordable Care Act.” In his release, Rutherford singled out several congressmen by name, including Mulvaney.

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Workers lay the foundation for a cafeteria outside the nearly completed Continental Tire the Americas plant on Thursday. About 150 contractors remain on site to complete the finishing touches, down from a construction peak of 600 workers.

all passed,” Tompkins said.

In just over a year, Continental has managed to construct a plant covering 23

acres, pressing some of the concrete columns upholding the roof in place using casts. At peak construction, 600 workers

labored to bring the plant together, although today only about 150 are still SEE PLANT, PAGE A8

ABOVE: An elevated, orange conveyor belt running from the building’s glass “store front” will take finished tires to a separate warehouse.

ABOVE RIGHT: Crews work to complete the lobby of the Continental plant this week. The plant’s front entrance and office area are the last part of the main plant building still under construction.

RIGHT: Continental Sumter plant engineering manager Tom Tompkins, left, and human resources manager David Ray walk through the facility on Thursday. They hope to remove the hard hats when the plant begins operations.

Tuomey whistleblower loses malpractice suit

BY BRADEN BUNCH bbunch@theitem.com The local orthopedic surgeon whose whistleblowing led to the federal lawsuit against Tuomey Healthcare System found himself on the losing end of a jury’s verdict.

After a weeklong trial, Dr. Michael Drakeford was found liable by a jury at the Sumter County Judicial Center on Thursday in a medical malpractice lawsuit stem-

ming from 2010 involving his operations on a patient’s knee.

The jury heard closing arguments on Wednesday, only to return the next morning to hear instructions from Third Circuit Court Judge George James Jr. and begin deliberations. After two-anda-half hours of deliberations, the jury returned with a verdict determining Drakeford liable and began deliberating punitive damages.

Before the jury could return its decision, however, lawyers for Drakeford and the plaintiff announced to James they were trying to reach a settlement figure.

It was not known if lawyers for the two sides were able to reach an agreement as of press time Thursday; however, James did receive the jury’s decision and placed it under seal. Should a settlement be reached, the decision of the jury will not

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Register for youth basketball at the Y FROM STAFF REPORTS The Sumter Family YMCA is now accepting registration for Church League Basketball for youth.

Developed in the early 1960s, the program has continued to grow during the last 50 years with each season featuring more than 300 boys and girls participating in the league.

“Our basketball program is open to all youth,” said Junko Allen, Y athletic director. “You do not have to be affiliated with a certain church to participate. We are also seeking volunteer coaches and scorekeepers.”

Registration is open for boys and girls ages 3 to 15 until Oct. 25. The cost for ages 5 to 15 is $50 for Y members and $75 for potential members. The cost for Biddy Ball, which is for 3- and 4-year-olds, is $25 for members and $40 for potential members.

To register your child for basketball, visit the Sumter Family YMCA at 510 Miller Road, or register online at www.ymcasumter.org.

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Proposed textbooks available for review Textbooks and instructional materials that have been proposed for use in South Carolina’s public schools are now on display at 24 colleges and universities in the state through Nov. 15 with instructions for submitting comments available at each site.

State Board of Education members will review citizens’ comments before a final decision is made on adopting the materials. The State Board of Education is scheduled to vote on the adoption of these items Dec. 11.

Locally, the textbooks and instructional materials are available for viewing at Morris College campus, 100 W. College St., in the Richardson-Johnson Room of the Learning Resources Center.

Haley raises $950K; Sheheen raises $565K COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley raised $950,000 during the past three months, and her Democratic challenger, Vincent Sheheen, raised $565,000 as they prepare for a rematch in the governor’s race next year.

The full reports for either candidate weren’t available online Thursday, which was the deadline to report thirdquarter fundraising totals.

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Kadence Mahmound, a 4-year-old kindergarten student at Oakland Primary, hugs Sparky, the fire-prevention dog, Tuesday. The Shaw Air Force Base fire-prevention team also brought “Pluggie,” an automated fire hydrant, to teach children about fire prevention and a fire truck for the children to climb on. More than 600 students from pre-kindergarten through first grade had the opportunity to participate.

Cook with care Tri-county area observes fire-prevention week, month

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com October is Fire Prevention Month, and Gov. Nikki Haley designated Oct. 6-12 as Fire Prevention Week.

“The No. 1 cause of house fires in South Carolina and the whole country are kitchen fires,” said Battalion Chief Johnnie Rose with the Sumter County Fire Department.

In 2011, more than 150,000 house fires started in the kitchen and led to 470 deaths, he said. That same year, more than 5,000 injuries were sustained in house fires.

In 2012, 72 South Carolinians were killed by fires with 97 percent of these deaths occurring in homes, according to the governor’s office.

Sumter had seven deaths last year and five already this year, Rose said.

“We understand one death is too much,” he said. “Hopefully in 2014, we can get to zero.”

Sumter Fire Department is doing a number of fire-prevention activities with schools during the next two weeks, and the local department also offers free in-home extinguisher demonstrations and free smoke detectors.

“Sumter had the best program in the world,” Rose said. “There shouldn’t be a house in the city or county without a smoke detector. Call (803) 436-2600, and we’ll come in 24 hours, free of charge. We’re trying to save lives.”

• Information on how to handle a vehicle fire.

Presenters will be available to answer questions, too, Richbourg said, and a free lunch will be provided for those in attendance.

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Clarendon County has already had between 750 and 800 fires this year, said Chief Frances Richbourg. While not limited to house fires, that is still “quite a few,” she said.

Her fire department will be holding its fourth-annual Fire Prevention Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the training grounds behind the main station, 219 Commerce Drive, Manning.

“Each year it gets a little better,” Richbourg said. “We’ll have a variety of fire prevention-type stops, activities for children and for adults. It should be a day filled with information and fun.”

Activities include: • A law enforcement booth; • Wildlife and forestry displays; • Cooking demonstrations; • Fire-extinguisher demonstrations; • A smoke-detector table; • A water-safety demonstration; • An extrication from a vehicle scenario; and

Similar to Sumter, the Lee County Fire Department is visiting eight schools.

Firefighters from this station take a small camper in which a house fire is simulated, said Chief Mike Bedenbaugh.

Children are able to test doors to see if they are hot, which means a fire might be behind them. The students learn how to crawl below the smoke line with simulated fog and the best way to get out a window during a fire, Bedenbaugh said. They also answer a dispatcher’s questions over a phone.

A firefighter goes through suiting up as well and allows the children to interact with him or her to try to eliminate any fear a child might have, he said.

“This year, the focus is on cooking in the kitchen,” Bedenbaugh said. “We take them through the dos and don’ts in the kitchen.”

His county averages 579 fires a year ranging from field to house fires, he said.

Grease fire survivor will deliver baby soon

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com Marissa Dodd is all too familiar with kitchen fires.

On Aug. 18, a grease fire caused second- and thirddegree burns to the pregnant Sumter woman’s face, arms, chest, stomach and hips.

The 21-year-old underwent graft surgery with animal skins, but it didn’t take on her left arm and chest.

Since talking to The Item in late August, Dodd has had further skin-graft surgery with samples taken from her leg.

“It is very, very painful,” she said. “All around my left thigh is a pretty purple.”

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While the burns look better, they still bother her sometimes.

“I can feel the nerves coming back, so I get sharp pains, and my arm itches,” Dodd said.

She also has to do regular therapy with her arm.

“I have to stretch it, or the joints get stiff,” Dodd said.

“The more I work it, the better I work it, the better it gets.

Like whenever I had my first son, I had a C-section, and the more I walked the better I got. With my arm, it’s just taking a lot longer, and it’s stressing me out. I’ve talked to people who’ve had knee surgery, and they said therapy can take like three months.”

For about a month and a

half, she has made weekly trips to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., for checkups. She is doing so well, though, the doctors told her to come back in two weeks, which would be today. Depending on how that visit goes, it may be another two weeks or a month before her next visit, Dodd said.

In the meantime, she is scheduled for a cesarean section on Oct. 22.

“I actually had an OB appointment this morning (Wednesday),” she said.

“They checked his heart beat, and he’s doing perfectly fine.”

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Sumter Civic dances across the ‘Spectrum’

BY IVY MOORE ivym@theitem.com The Sumter Civic Dance Company presents Spectrum, its 14th contemporary dance concert, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Patriot Hall. The annual performance is one of the dancers’ favorites, according to company director and chief choreographer Andrea Freed-Levenson.

In fact, she said, “Contemporary dance is here to stay. If you look at the Internet and TV, with shows like ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ it’s very visible. The music offers a wide variety; there’s no swing, jazz or ballet, but there are elements of ballet. All dance is technically ballet based.�

Freed-Levenson also said, in describing contemporary dance, “The lyrics, the music and the movement should all come together as a package.�

That’s made more company members want to attempt choreography, she said, “and they’re doing great.�

So great, in fact, that Freed-Levenson extended the annual Young Choreographer’s Award to four of her dancers who auditioned pieces.

Ruby Edwards, Angela Vatrano, Ta’Niss Robinson and Claire Estep each have choreographed a piece for Spectrum.

Since the program is contemporary, the audience should recognize some of the music. Erin Levenson has choreographed a piece to Regina Spektor’s “On the Radio;�

Andrea Barras Govier and Freed-Levenson have collaborated on the movements to Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life,� which

WANT TO GO? WHAT: Spectrum by the Sumter Civic Dance Company WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth St. COST: $8 in advance (can be purchased at Freed School of Performing Arts, 527 N. Guignard Drive, or from any member of the company) and $10 at the door PHONE: Call (803) 773-2847 for more information

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ABOVE: Members of the Sumter Civic Dance Company rehearse at Patriot Hall for Thursday’s contemporary dance concert Spectrum.

LEFT: Taylor Cox rehearses the opening piece. The concert is set for 7 p.m. Thursday.

will be danced by the Thomas Sumter Academy Intermediate Dancers; and Freed-Levenson has choreographed Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love� for four dancers.

The Evanescence piece, Freed-Levenson said, “is a little spooky.

We’re getting ready for Halloween.�

The company also invites dancers from the Caroline Mack Center for the Arts to perform at each contemporary concert, Freed-Levenson said. Mack has choreographed a dance to Elaine O’Neal Stallworth’s “Motherless Child� for Alycen Clayton and Aleah James and collaborated with Clayton, her student, for the piece set to Jason Mraz and Cobie Caillat’s “Lucky.�

A new teen company has been added to Sumter Civic Dance Company, Freed-Levenson said, and she expects it to remain permanently with the senior and apprentice companies. They’ll be doing “Walk the Walk�

by Poe. The program opens with “Fable,� which Freed-Levenson choreographed to John Miles’ music; she describes the piece as “lyrical contemporary,� and added there are several

“uptempo� pieces in the program, also.

With about 40 dancers participating, Thursday’s concert covers the Spectrum of contemporary dance, Freed-Levenson said.

When the company was established more than 30 years ago, it gained nonprofit status and adopted its mission to provide entertainment and education for the public through performances and demonstrations.

The company is partially funded by the Sumter County Cultural Commission, which receives support from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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HEADING DOWN THE RIVER Wilson Hall sixth-graders Brystol Barnes, Isabelle Weston, Waverly McIver, Abbi Tetterton and Campbell deHoll, along with a middle school teacher Ben McIver, raft down the Nantahala River during their recent four-day class trip to Camp Kanuga in Hendersonville, N.C. In addition to rafting and camping, the students participated in four classes taught by the Mountain Trail Outdoor School: a cooperation and low-ropes course, a hands-on course in rappelling, an orienteering and wilderness survival course and a course in forest ecology.

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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES:

Kimberly Christopher, 25, of 1095 N. St. Pauls Church Road, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seconddegree burglary. On Monday, Christopher reportedly broke into a home in the 2100 block of South St. Pauls Church Road and stole metal bed frames and a metal bar stool.

Jessica Young, 33, of 1095 N. St. Pauls Church Road, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seconddegree burglary. On Monday, Young reportedly broke into a home in the 2100 block of South St. Pauls Church Road and stole metal bed frames and a metal bar stool.

Terry Young, 34, of 1095 N. St. Pauls Church Road, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seconddegree burglary. On Monday, Young reportedly broke into a home in the 2100 block of

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William Townsend, 21, of 118 Anderson St., was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree burglary and petty larceny. On Monday, Townsend reportedly broke into a home in the 900 block of North St. Pauls Church Road and stole scrap metal, cans and galvanized tin.

Alex Yoder, 25, of 141 Anderson St., was arrested Tuesday and charged with seconddegree burglary and petty larceny. On Monday, Yoder reportedly broke into a home in the 900 block of North St. Pauls Church Road and stole scrap metal, cans and galvanized tin.

Randy Anmario Dixon, 23, of 861 Carolina Ave., Apt. 38, was arrested Tuesday and charged with driving under suspension and

leaving the scene of an accident. At 6:28 p.m., Dixon was reportedly involved in a traffic collision at South Pike Road and Hilliard Street, at which point he reportedly fled on foot. Dixon was later located when police responded to a disturbance at the apartment.

He reportedly admitted to being in the wreck and fleeing because his license is suspended.

Johnny Rene Griffin, 46, of 916 Hicks Drive, was arrested Monday and charged with driving under suspension, fifth offense, and being a habitual traffic offender. At 11:08 a.m., Griffin was reportedly pulled over on Oswego Highway near U.S. 378.

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SHOOTING:

At 8:57 p.m. Wednesday, four or five shots were reportedly fired into a home in the 900 block of Boulevard Road. Witnesses reported seeing a black sedan with dark-tinted windows and a spoiler on

the trunk, and a person inside reportedly fired a handgun into the home.

Police found three bullet holes and recovered two shell casings and two bullet fragments from the scene. No injuries were reported from the shooting.

EMS CALLS:

On Monday, Sumter County Emergency Medical Services responded to 47 calls.

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On Tuesday, Sumter County Emergency Medical Services responded to 44 calls.

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On Wednesday, Sumter EMS responded to 50 calls. Forty-seven were medical calls, one was a fire stand-by, and two were listed as “other trauma.�

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Americans voice anger, frustration in stalemate

BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer The regular book study group at the Rev. Tim Ahrens’ church in middle America always ends with a prayer — most deeply personal, often about a family or friend’s illness. But after one recent meeting, the members held hands in a circle and turned to something far different. “All they wanted to pray about is the government ... and that cooler heads will prevail,� said Ahrens, pastor of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio. “It speaks to the fact that this is deep in the hearts of the people.

There’s just a huge concern about the tenor of who we are and how we conduct the business of the country.�

With the government shutdown in its second week and a possible default just days away, many Americans view this epic political clash with frustration, anger and a stoic, here-we-goagain acceptance: They don’t like what they see, don’t agree on who’s to blame and aren’t sure what would be the best solution. But they hope that someone — anyone — comes up with a way out of the mess. “The bottom line is there’s a logjam that’s ideological and idiotic,� said Ahrens. “What’s happening is awful.

What we see is an inability for people to work together and communicate. There’s no excuse for that.�

The red-blue divide has become deeper and

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Vicki Maturo, of Culver City, Calif., protests against the government shutdown outside the federal building in Los Angeles on Oct. 2.

more ominous in recent weeks as the two parties have bickered their way closer to possible economic disaster. The White House and Democrats have opposed efforts to defund or delay the 3-year-old health care law, and President Obama has vowed not to negotiate over increasing the federal borrowing authority, which would allow the U.S. to continue to pay its bills and avoid a potential government default. House Speaker John Boehner has insisted the president must negotiate on changes to health care and spending cuts to end the shutdown and raise the debt limit, though he said he’s not “drawing lines in the sand.�

It’s all very exasperating to Freda Wilhite, a 75-year-old retired restaurant manager. “I blame it on all of them,� she said, sitting in a leather armchair in the lobby of the Capital Towers senior-living building in Raleigh, N.C.

“I think Obama is being kind of crappy about it.

But I also think the Senate or the Congress, whoever it is, is being just as crappy for not trying to reach an agreement — do anything — to keep the government going.�

Asked which side should give in, Wilhite threw up her hands. “Lord, I don’t know,� she said. “Somebody should give a little and somebody should give a little more. I don’t know how to fix it. I just know I don’t like it.�

Neither does Ivan Nelson, a third-generation central Illinois farmer. “It make me angry, but the worst part of it is I’m sitting here not knowing what I’m angry about,� said the 67-yearold corn and bean farmer, taking a morning break from harvesting. “These guys created the (political) system. If they can’t live with it, they can correct it. You think they’d be smart enough to do that.�

The public frustration may cross party lines, but a new Associated Press-GfK poll held Republicans more responsible for the gridlock, with 62 percent mainly blaming the GOP for the shutdown. In contrast, 52 percent think the president isn’t doing enough to cooperate with the Republicans, according to the survey. The poll also said 82 percent of Democrats see the shutdown as a major problem for the country, compared with 58 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of independents.

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EARLY DEADLINE: Deadline for Church News to be published in the Oct. 25 edition is noon Wednesday, Oct. 16.

Allen Chapel AME Church, 471 Lynam Road, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — “Purple Sunday” at 10 a.m. in observation of Domestic Violence Month. Adult choir anniversary program at 4 p.m. * Sunday, Oct. 27 — “Pink Sunday” at 10 a.m. in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 8749 Old Highway Six, Santee, announces: * Sunday — Youth Sunday at 10 a.m. * Sunday, Oct. 20 — The Lord’s Supper will be administered at 10 a.m. * Sunday, Oct. 27 — “Pink Sunday” for breast cancer research will be held.

pastoral anniversary celebration at 4 p.m.

Cross Road CFM / St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church, 845 Webb St., announces: * Saturday — Gospel singing at 5 p.m. On the program: Buck & the Heavenly Lights; Singing Cousins; McDuffie Singers and more.

Dalzell United Methodist Church, 3330 Black River Road, Dalzell, announces: * Saturday, Oct. 19 — Holiday bazaar 9 a.m.-2 p.m. featuring food, crafts and gift items.

Call (803) 316-1765 or (803) 469-0160.

Faith Presbyterian Church, 65 Lynam Road, announces: * Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 14-16 — Revival at 7 nightly.

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 182 S. Pike East, announces: * Thursday, Oct. 31 — Fall Harvest Festival at 6 p.m.

Church of Christ, 313 Mooneyham Road, announces: * Saturday — Octoberfest gospel singing at 6 p.m. with Palmetto Gospel Singers; Gospel Jubilee; Resurrection; and others.

Full Proof Deliverance Ministry, 2758 S.C. 341 S., Olanta, announces: * Tuesday, Oct. 15 — Noon prayer at 11:30 a.m. * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Youth worship program at 4 p.m.

Church of the Holy Cross, 335 N. Kings Highway, Stateburg, announces: * Saturday, Oct. 19 — Church benefit yard sale 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

Grace Full Gospel Church, 1540 Bradham Blvd., announces: * Sunday — Homecoming. The Knopp Family will provide music at 10 a.m. The Rev. Trae Smoak will speak at 11 a.m.

Clark United Methodist Church, 2980 U.S. 401 N., Oswego Highway, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Homecoming at 2 p.m.

Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Saturday — Gospel concert at 6 p.m. with Believers Quartet, Dennis Benton and Cross Anchor. * Saturday, Oct. 26 — Fall festival 4-8 p.m. with games, hay rides and more.

Corinth Missionary Baptist Church, 25 Community St., announces: * Sunday, Oct. 27 — Ninth

Grant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 5405 Black River Road, Rembert, announces: * Saturday — Free Spirit Church League basketball game at 9 a.m. at R.E. Davis Elementary School. Gospel fest at 6 p.m. * Sunday — Homecoming.

Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. with worship at 10 a.m.

High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Thursday, Oct. 31 — Hallelujah night celebration 6-8 p.m. featuring face painting, balloon art, treats, bounce house, and more.

Historic Santee AME Church,

1045 Dingle Pond Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday — 3 p.m. pastor appreciation service.

Howard Chapel AME Church, 6338 Old Manning Road, New Zion, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming reunion at 11 a.m. The Rev. Oliver Davis Jr. will speak.

Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., announces: * Saturday — Veterans Affairs Association workshop 9-11:30 a.m. * Sunday — Armed Forces Appreciation Day program during 7:45 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. services. * Friday, Oct. 18 — Third Friday Praise Jam at 8 p.m. * Saturday, Oct. 26 — Christian and Academic School Golf Tournament at 8 a.m. at Crystal Lakes, 1305 Clara Louise Kellog Drive. Deadline to register is Oct. 19.

Kingdom M-Pact Worship Center, 24 Council St., announces: * Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 22-24 — Revival at 7 nightly.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday — Knitting Hearts Cafe 10 a.m.-noon. www. knittingheartsministry.org LaGree AME Church, 2920 Kolb Road, announces: * Saturday — WMS will visit Carriage House of Sumter at 10 a.m. * Sunday — Sons of Allen Sunday.

Lakewood Baptist Church, 3140 Nazarene Church Road, announces: * Saturday — Gospel singing and fish fry 1-3 p.m. Dennis Thompson will provide music.

Land Flowing with Milk & Honey Ministry, 1335 Peach Orchard Road, announces: * Saturday, Oct. 19 — Men’s and women’s conference as follows: 8-10 a.m. women’s session; 10:30 a.m.-noon men’s session; and 6 p.m. service.

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Liberty Hill AME Church, 2310 Liberty Hill Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Gospel program at 3 p.m.

Macedonia Fire Baptized Holiness Church, 9788 Silver Road, Silver community, Manning, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 27 — Sixth pastoral appreciation service for the Rev. Ethel W. Sweat at 3 p.m.

Manning Baptist Temple, 1375 AM Nash Road, Manning, announces: * Sunday — 37th Homecoming at 10:30 a.m.

Charlie Sexton and Linda Foster will provide music.

Maranatha Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 314 W. Huggins St., Manning, announces: * Saturday — Community guest day at 9:30 a.m. with divine service at 11 a.m.

Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, 7355 Camden Highway, Rembert, announces: * Sunday — 16th pastoral appreciation service at 9:30 a.m.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday — Morris College Day at 10:45 a.m. * Tuesday, Oct. 15 — Durham Ministerial Alliance of Morris College worship and fellowship service at 7 p.m. * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Deacon and Deaconess Ministry anniversary celebration.

Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 130 Loring Mill Road, announces: * Today-Sunday — 151st church anniversary celebration as follows: 7 p.m. today, Revival; 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday, games, prizes, food and singing; and 4 p.m.

Sunday, closing celebration and dinner.

New Birth Holiness Church, 42 Larkin St., announces: * Sunday, Oct. 27 — PreAnniversary gospel service at 4 p.m. to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the church. On the program: Deason Jose

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New Fellowship Baptist Church, 105 S. Purdy St., announces: * Saturday — Gospel fest at 6 p.m. On the program: Deacon Jose Sessions; Church of Christ Singers; Perry Taft; and others.

New Harmony Presbyterian Church, 1474 New Harmony Church Road, Alcolu, announces: * Sunday-Wednesday, Oct. 16 — Revival. Patrick Womack will speak at 9:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and at 7 nightly Monday-Wednesday. Dinner at noon Sunday. Visit www. newharmonypca.org or call (803) 473-7006.

New Israel Missionary Baptist Church, 5330 Old Camden Highway, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — The Lord’s Supper will be administered at 1 p.m. * Sunday, Oct. 27 — “Pink Sunday” in recognition of breast cancer awareness.

New Start Community Church of the Nazarene, 4686 J.W. Rhames Road, Manning, announces: * Sunday — Gospel singing 6-8 p.m. featuring Dennis Thompson.

New Testament Lighthouse Church, 1114 Boulevard Road, announces: * Saturday — Gospel singing at 7:30 p.m. featuring Grace Revealed.

Providence Baptist Church, 2445 Old Manning Road, announces: * Tuesday, Oct. 15 — Ladies prayer walk at 6:30 p.m. * Wednesday, Oct. 16 — Wylma DuBose Group meeting at 10 a.m. at the home of Joyce Hodge. * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Combined service with Home Branch Church at 6 p.m. * Monday, Oct. 21 — Widow’s luncheon at 11 a.m.

Quinn Chapel AME Church, 2400 Queen Chapel Road, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — 25th adult

choir anniversary celebration at 4 p.m.

Sheppard Ministries, 8490 Two Mile Road, Lynchburg, announces: * Friday, Oct. 18 — Gospel singing fundraiser at 7 p.m. at Freedom Worship Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1490 Florence Highway, featuring His Calling and others.

St. James United Methodist Church, 720 Broad St., announces: * Today-Saturday — Community health fair as follows: 7 p.m. today, Zumba; Saturday — 8 a.m. prayer walk/run; 8-10 a.m. Tuomey wellness van; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. healthcare exhibits. Call (843) 319-0765.

St. John Baptist Church, 3944 Brewer Road, Manning, announces: * Sunday, Oct. 20 — Appreciation program for Evangelist Ruth Pugh at 4 p.m.

Sumter Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 103 N. Pike West, announces: * Sunday — Yard sale and mini bake sale 10 a.m.-3 p.m. * Tuesday, Oct. 15 — Calvin Taylor Musical Ministries. will provide music at 6 p.m.

Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 155 Wall St., announces: * Sunday, Oct. 27 — 104th church anniversary services 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Union Station AME Church, 945 S. Main St., announces: * Saturday — Community health fair 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Westend Community Church, 101 S. Salem St., announces: * Saturday, Oct. 19 — Brothers Reaching Brothers 9-10:30 a.m.

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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Canadian STOCKHOLM (AP) — If there were a literary award bigger than the Nobel Prize, Alice Munro would probably win that, too. “Among writers, her name is spoken in hushed tones,� fellow Canadian author Margaret Atwood once wrote. “She’s the kind of writer about whom it is often said — no matter how well known she becomes — that she ought to be better known.�

Munro, 82, was awarded literature’s highest honor Thursday, saluted by the Nobel committee as a thorough but forgiving chronicler of the human spirit, and her selection marks a number of breakthroughs.

She is the first winner of the $1.2 million prize to be fully identified with Canada. Saul Bellow won in 1976, but though he was born in Canada, he moved to the U.S. as a boy and is more closely associated with Chicago.

Munro is also the rare author to win for short stories. “When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers, and little attention was paid by the world.

Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe,� Munro said in a statement issued by her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. She said she hopes the Nobel “fosters further interest in all Canadian writers� and “brings further recognition to the short-story form.�

Her books have sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S. alone, and she has long been an international ambassador for the short story, proof that the narrative arc and depth of characterization expected from a novel can be realized in just 30 to 40 pages.

Critics and peers have praised her in every way a writer can be praised: the precision of her language; the perfection of detail;

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Canadian author Alice Munro is seen at a press conference at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2009. On Thursday it was announced that Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature.

the surprise and logic of her storytelling; the graceful, seamless shifts of moods; and the intimacy with every shade of human behavior.

Her stories are usually set in Ontario, her home province.

Among her best-known is “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,� about a woman who begins losing her memory and agrees with her husband that she should be put in a nursing home. Canadian actress-director Sarah Polley adapted the story into the 2006 film “Away from Her,� starring Julie Christie.

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Munro won a National Book Critics Circle prize in 1998 for “The Love of a Good Woman� and was a finalist in 2001 for “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.� She is also a three-time winner of the Governor General’s prize, Canada’s highest literary honor.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Blood banks are declaring fewer critical shortages these days and in some cases, cutting staff in response to dwindling demand for blood — the result of fewer elective surgeries being performed and medical advances that curb bleeding in the operating room.

The nation’s blood-collection system has undergone a dramatic change from just a decade ago, when agencies that oversee the blood supply worried whether they could keep up with the needs of an aging population.

Now, blood banks are making fewer but more targeted appeals for donations and reducing the size of their operations.

Blood centers shifted “from a collect-asmuch-as-you-can mentality to a collect-toneed mentality,� said Dr. Darrell Triulzi, medical director for the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh and a former president of AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks. “They started collecting only what they needed. That’s new to the industry. We’re still learning how to do that well.�

Job cuts have been a part of the process.

The Indiana Blood Center announced in June that it would eliminate 45 positions in a restructuring that also involved reducing its mobile operations, closing a donor center and cutting other costs because demand from hospitals had fallen 24 percent from the previous year.

The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks in Springfield, Mo., announced in March that it was cutting staff by nearly 18 percent. Blood centers in Florida, West Virginia and Connecticut have taken similar steps.

The blood-collection system began changing dramatically with the Great Recession, when Americans who had lost their jobs and health insurance put off non-critical procedures.

The need for blood is still falling even as the economy recovers. Demand dropped by 8.2 percent from 2008 to 2011 and continues to drop, according to a report by the AABB.

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PLANT from Page A1 working to put the finishing touches on the facility.

A crew is laying the foundation for a cafeteria and health clinic beside the main building, and the glass-walled lobby still looks like a construction site, but officials hope to get a â&#x20AC;&#x153;certificate of occupancyâ&#x20AC;? this month that will allow them to move out of trailers and into their offices without putting on a hard hat.

Many of the initial 300 positions at the plant have already been filled, said human resources manager David Ray, and those workers have been shipped to other Continental plants as far away as Mexico and Europe for on-site training. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of our people have come from the four surrounding counties,â&#x20AC;? Ray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bulk of them are probably from Sumter and Clarendon, and a lot of the others come from Kershaw, Lee and some from Richland.â&#x20AC;?

Ray came to Sumter from a similar job with Boeing, where he worked with the aircraft manufacturer at the time it opened its North Charleston plant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re two different environments, but (Sumter) is a very clean, modern plant, very

MULVANEY from Page A1 Speaking from Washington, D.C., as the federal shutdown entered its 10th day, Mulvaney said the recent temporary furlough of civilian employees at Shaw was simply a case of a slowmoving government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the folks in the military know, the Pentagon is a bureaucracy, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question,â&#x20AC;?

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ASHINGTON — For all the hyped indignation over GOP “anarchism,” there has been remarkable media reticence about the president’s intransigence. He has refused to negotiate anything unless the Republicans fully fund the government and raise the debt ceiling — unconditionally.

For all his protestations about protecting the full faith and credit of the United States — jittery markets are showing that his brinkmanship could have precisely the opposite effect — the president’s real intent is to score a humiliating victory over the GOP. So far, so good. Republicans have fallen to 28 percent approval, the lowest level ever for either party in 21 years of polling and Charles a staggering KRAUTHAMMER 10-point drop in the last month.

Democrats have also declined, but only four points and, in the end, partisan politics is a zero-sum game.

If you lose less than the other guy, you win — because every seat in Congress will be allocated to one party or the other, no matter how disgusted the country is with both.

To be sure, the administration has, as always, overplayed a good hand, with punitive shutdowns — such as of the World War II Memorial — clearly intended to be blamed on the GOP. People aren’t that stupid.

They know a gratuitous abuse of government (lockout) power when they see it.

Moreover, Republicans have been passing partial funding bills for such things as national monuments and cancer research, forcing Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate to kill them with a stone cold heart.

Even worse for Democrats, their current partisan advantage is a wasting asset.

The rule is simple: shutdown good, debt ceiling bad. Every day the debt ceiling approaches, President Obama’s leverage diminishes.

Obama insists he won’t negotiate on the debt ceiling as a matter of principle. It’s never been used as leverage for extraneous (i.e., nonbudgetary) demands, he claims.

Nonsense. It’s been so used dozens of times going back at least to 1973 when Ted Kennedy and Walter Mondale tried to force campaign finance reform on President Nixon. Obama himself voted against raising the debt ceiling when he was a senator in 2006.

So much for principle.

Moreover, should Obama miscalculate the brinkmanship, he’ll become the first president to ever allow a default. Precisely opposite to the principle he pretends to be espousing — and ruinous to what’s left of his presidency. Breaching the debt ceil-

ing would indeed, as he claims, be an economic disaster, aborting an already historically anemic recovery.

As president, he would take the blame. He can’t allow it.

It’s a bluff. He will blink.

That’s why, as the debt ceiling approaches, the initiative will increasingly swing to House Speaker John Boehner. The real question is: What will Boehner do with it?

His answer thus far has been peculiar: He simply wants the president to sit down and negotiate.

Negotiate what? “There’s nothing on the table,” said Boehner on Tuesday.

“There’s nothing off the table.”

Stranger still. You cannot negotiate if you don’t know what you want. The Republicans need to present a simple, broadly popular set of demands to attach to the debt ceiling. The president will deal. In his Tuesday press conference, he’d already abandoned his original ultimatum of give me a long-term extension or I don’t budge. Now it’s: Give me an extension of any length and I’ll come to the table.

On Thursday, Boehner took that exit ramp, offering Obama a six-week debt-ceiling extension during which negotiations would be conducted. Unless Obama reverses himself and refuses, his “no negotiations” posture evaporates.

What, then, to ask for?

Paul Ryan, as usual, points the way with a suggestion that would turn the partial and imperfect success of the last debt-ceiling fight — the automatic spending cuts (“sequester”) that seriously reduced discretionary spending — into the larger success of curbing entitlements, which is where the real money is.

After all, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs (plus interest payments) already claim more than half the federal budget. And they are poised to explode, eating up (estimates the Congressional Budget Office) 97 percent of revenues within 25 years.

Raising (and indexing) the retirement age while changing the inflation measure for entitlements would alone be major achievements. Democrats could be offered relief on the sequester — which everyone agrees needs restructuring anyway, since it cuts agency budgets indiscriminately, often illogically, by formula.

It’s win-win. A serious attack on the deficit — good.

Refiguring sequestration to restore some defense spending and some logic to discretionary spending — also good. Forcing the president off Mount Olympus — priceless.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Thanks for support during difficult time Sure, there have been other occasions when we could have written a letter to express how we feel about the Sumter community. We are pretty sure that we are not the only family in the area that has had some emotional response to a significant experience involving both public and private individuals and services that make Sumter what it is. Shoot, we’ve read several. Why even bother reaching out in a manner that seems redundant and cliché? Because we can — and, because we should, and, because we are able to speak fondly from the heart. We need — no, we would like to — thank the nurses, doctors, staff and volunteers at Tuomey Regional Medical Center that treated us all with dignity and compassion. You know

who you are. Your ability and acute sense of emotion to work us through the extreme highs and lows of our loved one’s stay made us feel central to his care. You supported our decisions as a family — and, you did so while providing informed advice and empathetic hearts. We won’t forget. Dalzell United Methodist Church, the fire of your love is inextinguishable. Dynamite comes in small packages, and you truly blew us away — we weren’t surprised, and we won’t forget. How could we ever forget the unsolicited acts of kindness and attention from the Sumter fire and police departments? As a band of heroes you showed, so well, how to recognize the contributions of a patriot. We will always recall the gentle care of our friends at Bullock Funeral Home. Our hero’s life was touched by your dedication to and affiliation with the

A recent editorial from a South Carolina newspaper: OCT. 5

The Sun News of Myrtle Beach on Vaught’s remarkable career: Long after his retirement as a three-star Army general, James B. Vaught maintained a sense of command as he spoke about causes and issues important to him.

Following Vaught’s death Sept. 20, Horry County Council Chairman Mark Lazarus spoke for many when he commented that the retired lieutenant general will be greatly missed. Recalling Vaught’s command to Lazarus to “get it done!” in a conversation about paving work on International Drive, Lazarus said: “It’ll give me more determina-

tion to get the paving done.”

That was Jim Vaught, who in most cases, did not need to remind anyone that he had been in the military. He attended The Citadel and served 38 years in the Army, having been drafted in 1945 and commissioned a second lieutenant in February 1946.

His distinguished military career included assignments with the storied 82nd Airborne Division, command of the 24th Infantry Division and with the Army General Staff, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Office of the Secretary of Defense. His last active duty command before his 1983 retirement was of a field army in Korea.

Since retirement, he served as a consultant and adviser to military and civilian agencies, including the

secretary of defense’s special operations policy and advisory group.

A native of Conway, his family’s Horry County roots go back to 1683, and he was a direct descendant of Francis Marion, the legendary “Swamp Fox” of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps Vaught was so forthright as a citizen because of his military experience. He was well-informed on the issues and he felt deeply about a citizen’s right and responsibility to speak out.

It was indeed fitting that in the Horry County Council meeting room, the chair he often occupied now includes a bronze label inscribed with the words: “In Memoriam Lt. General James B. Vaught, 1926-2013.”

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military community around you. You accommodated our family and friends above and beyond our expectations.

Speaking of family and friends, thank-you notes have been written, dishes returned and email messages acknowledged. The great thing is that we all know that you didn’t reach out for a thank-you note, cleaned dish, returned phone call or email reply. We will not forget the agape love we have experienced since Aug. 4, 2013. “Thank you” seems so empty, but please know that our hearts are full of thanks for everything you have all done. Losing a loved one is uncomfortable and undesirable. Being embraced in love and compassion by a community is comforting and welcoming and unforgettable.

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DRAKEFORD from Page A1 at Tuomey and instead reported the contracts being offered by the hospital to the federal government. It was these contracts that were the subject of the federal lawsuit against the local hospital that ultimately led to Tuomey being found in violation of Stark Law and the False Claims Act earlier this year.

While the case is under appeal and still open to settlement itself, Tuomey is currently facing a $237 million judgment handed down

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by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Margaret Seymour last month.

Were Tuomey forced to pay the full $237 million it currently faces, as part of the whistleblower laws involving federal lawsuits, Drakeford would be eligible to receive between $35 million and $59 million.

In the past, Drakeford has said any money he receives from the Tuomey lawsuit would go toward a charitable foundation.

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Astronaut Scott Carpenter has his space suit adjusted by a technician in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in August 1962. Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts, died Thursday. He was 88.

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Carpenter, 2nd U.S. astronaut in orbit, dies at 88 DENVER (AP) — Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth, was guided by two instincts: overcoming fear and quenching his insatiable curiosity. He pioneered his way into the heights of space and the depths of the ocean floor.

“Conquering of fear is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and it can be done a lot of different places,” he said.

His wife, Patty Barrett, said Carpenter died Thursday in a Denver hospice of complications from a September stroke. He lived in Vail.

Carpenter followed John Glenn into orbit, and it was Carpenter who gave him the historic sendoff: “Godspeed John Glenn.” The two were the last survivors of the famed original Mercury 7 astronauts from the “Right Stuff” days of the early 1960s. Glenn is the only one left alive.

In his one flight, Carpenter missed his landing by 288 miles, leaving a nation on edge for an hour as it watched live and putting Carpenter on the outs with his NASA bosses. So Carpenter found a new place to explore: the ocean floor.

He was the only person who was both an astronaut and an aquanaut, exploring the old ocean and what President John F. Kennedy called “the new ocean” — space.

NASA Administrator

‘We will miss his passion, his talent and his lifelong commitment to exploration.’

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Charles Bolden said Thursday that Carpenter “was in the vanguard of our space program — the pioneers who set the tone for our nation’s pioneering efforts beyond Earth and accomplished so much for our nation. ... We will miss his passion, his talent and his lifelong commitment to exploration.”

Life was an adventure for Carpenter and he said it should be for others: “Every child has got to seek his own destiny.

All I can say is that I have had a great time seeking my own.”

The launch into space was nerve-racking for the Navy pilot on the morning of May 24, 1962.

“You’re looking out at a totally black sky, seeing an altimeter reading of 90,000 feet and realize you are going straight up. And the thought crossed my mind: What am I doing?” Carpenter said 49 years later in a joint lecture with Glenn at the Smithsonian Institution.

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spca pet of the week Dougie, a 1-year-old tricolored neutered male lab mix, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. He is friendly, playful, affectionate, gentle and active. Dougie loves to play with other dogs. He would make a great new buddy for any family and a great new friend for another family dog. The SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www. sumterscspca.com.

Sumter SPCA Paws and Pals will hold a Mutt Strut / Appreciation Day from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Elaine D. Korn Memorial Center, 1100 S. Guignard Drive (next to the SPCA). Free admission. Participating bands include Pack Road Project, Essence Band, 4-Way Stop, Kerolinea and Victoria Elizabeth & Hippie Mike.

Event will feature exciting activities for your dog, “HowlO-Ween” costume contest for dogs, fun and games for kids, face painting, free nail trimming for dogs, and more.

Dogs must be leashed and current on rabies vaccinations.

Call (803) 773-9292 for more information.

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MHS’ Darley selected to Shrine Bowl

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ready to play.

“I hope we go out and play like we’re capable of playing,” the longtime Crestwood head coach said. “We’ve got to make sure we’re ready when we go out on the field on Friday. I just want us to play up to our capabilities and see what happens.”

Hartsville is averaging almost 40 points a game out of its Wing-T offense, but that isn’t what impresses Crolley the most. The Foxes have allowed just 40 points — and 27 of those game in their 30-27 overtime victory over Marlboro County last week.

Manning High School’s Cam Darley has been selected to the South Carolina squad for the 77th Annual Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas all-star football game.

Rosters for the game were released on Thursday. It will be played on Dec. 21 at Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg beginning at 1 p.m.

The 6-foot-3-inch, 240pound Darley is listed as an athlete on the Sandlapper roster. He is playing inside linebacker on defense for the Monarchs and tight end on offense.

Manning head coach Tony Felder said it’s his under- DARLEY standing that Darley will play defensive end in the game.

“They’re going to let him put his hand down and play defensive end,” said Felder, who has the Monarchs off to a 5-1 start in his first year as head coach.

“We had him with his hand down as a defensive end, but we needed help at inside linebacker, so we had to move him there.”

Felder’s been pleased with Darley’s play at linebacker.

Darley has 53 tackles, five quarterback hurries, two QB sacks, two passes broken up and one caused fumble.

“Even as a sophomore and a junior, he’s been getting it done,” Felder said. “The thing about him is he can tackle. If he gets his hands on you, you’re going down.”

The Monarchs will travel to Darlington today to try and stay unbeaten in Region VI-3A. They opened region play with a 28-13 victory over Lakewood

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Running back Jason McDaniel (35) and the rest of the Crestwood High football team will look to end the 21- game winning streak of defending 3A state champion Hartsville today when the Knights welcome the Red Foxes to Dalzell.

Golden opportunity Knights look to end defending 3A champ Hartsville’s 21-game winning streak

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PREP FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

The Crestwood High School Knights play host to defending 3A state football champion Hartsville today at Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium in Dalzell. The Red Foxes are 6-0 this season, leaving them on a 21-game winning streak.

Crestwood head coach CROLLEY Keith Crolley sees this as a big opportunity for his team.

“The odds are they are going to lose a game here sometime,” Crolley said.

Sumter at South Florence, 7:30 p.m.

Hartsville at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Marlboro County, 7:30 p.m.

Manning at Darlington, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Marion at Lee Central, 7:30 p.m.

Timmonsville at East Clarendon, 7:30 p.m.

Scott’s Branch at Carvers Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Cardinal Newman at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Orangeburg Prep at Laurence Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at The King’s Academy, 7:30 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Oakbrook Prep, 7:30 p.m.

Greenwood Christian at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m.

“So it would be good with me if that happens this week.”

For that to happen though, Crolley knows his 5-1 team will have to be

Local SCISA teams set for state swim meet

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS jdriggers@theitem.com The Wilson Hall varsity swimming team won a 6-team meet at the YMCA of Sumter on Oct. 1, with several top finishes for both individual swimmers and relay teams.

Now, with 18 swimmers on the docket, the Barons are hoping to ride that momentum into Saturday’s SCISA state meet at the Augusta Aquatics Center in Augusta, Ga.

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Wilson Hall is joined by St. Francis Xavier High School and Thomas Sumter Academy, both of which will field teams of

nine swimmers.

Head coach Jennifer McFaddin is hoping her WH squads can match the success they experienced at their recent home meet.

“They did very well that day,” she said. “That gave them some excitement and some confidence towards the state meet.”

The Lady Barons took first place overall and in several individual and team events. Lindsey Tisdale SEE SCISA SWIM, PAGE B5

Ky’Jon Tyler (23) and the rest of the Sumter High offense will look to control the clock today and try to keep South Florence’s high-powered offense off the field.

Gators face tall task in Bulldogs

SHS hopes to slow down explosive South Florence

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com Reggie Kennedy has seen the offensive statistics for the South Florence High School football team, and he’s watched the Bruins perform on film.

So what’s the defensive strategy against a team KENNEDY that has outscored the opposition 286-55 in a 6-0 start, coach?

“The offense has to keep their offense off the field,” said Kennedy, the first-year Sumter

head coach who will take his 2-4 team to Florence’s War Memorial Stadium today for a 7:30 p.m. game against South Florence. “We’re going to have to have 10- to 12-play drives against them. They are so explosive on offense; we’ve got to keep them from getting their hands on the ball too much.”

The Bruins’ lowest point output this season was 40 in the season opener against Clover. They are averaging almost 400 yards of total offense a game, 206.7 through the air and 183.2 on the ground.

The Lakewood High School football team faces a tall task today when it travels to Bennettsville to take on Marlboro County. As difficult as it might be, Gators head coach Perry Parks sees it as a grand opportunity.

“We talk about having a winning season, winning the region, we have a chance to do that with a victory in this game,” said Parks, whose team will bring a 2-4 record into the contest. “On Friday PARKS night, we go against a team that nobody expects us to have no success with. This is a great chance for us.”

Both teams will enter the contest with 0-1 marks in Region VI-3A. Lakewood lost to Manning 28-13 last week, while the Bulldogs fell to defending 3A state

SEE SUMTER, PAGE B5

SEE GATORS, PAGE B5

KEITH GEDAMKE / SPECIAL TO THE ITEM

Tyshawn Johnson (7), Chris Rembert, back center, and the rest of the Lakewood HIgh defense will have its hands full today as the Gators travel to Bennettsville to face Marlboro County.

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THE ITEM

Gordon takes pole at Charlotte

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press

BANK OF AMERICA 500 LINEUP

CONCORD, N.C. — Jeff Gordon is feeling rejuvenated as the NASCAR Sprint Cup season winds down.

Gordon carried over a strong performance in Kansas last weekend to Thursday night by winning the pole for the race Saturday GORDON night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Gordon, who is fourth in the Chase standings, said it’s been a frustrating season but that he’s feeling better with each passing race.

“I feel like we knocked it out of the park tonight,’’ Gordon said.

Gordon turned a lap at 194.308 mph to edge Kevin Harvick for his ninth

By The Associated Press After Thursday qualifying; race Saturday At Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 194.308.

2. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 194.203.

3. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 193.959.

4. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.791.

5. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 193.694.

6. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 193.535.

7. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 193.458.

8. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 193.417.

9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 193.403.

10. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 193.112.

11. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 192.995.

12. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 192.974.

13. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 192.754.

14. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 192.719.

15. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 192.575.

16. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 192.362.

17. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 192.232.

18. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 192.123.

19. (33) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 192.02.

pole at Charlotte, tied for the second most in track history.

Greg Biffle qualified third for the Saturday night race, Jimmie Johnson was fourth, and Kasey Kahne — who held the pole for most of the night — will start fifth on Saturday night.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. cele-

20. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 191.993.

21. (51) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 191.959.

22. (14) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 191.782.

23. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 191.748.

24. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 191.632.

25. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 191.564.

26. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 191.469.

27. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 190.961.

28. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 190.59.

29. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 190.55.

30. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 190.349.

31. (30) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 190.342.

32. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 189.673.

33. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, 189.195.

34. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 189.069.

35. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 188.923.

36. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 188.607.

37. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points.

39. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

40. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points.

41. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, Owner Points.

42. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

43. (95) Blake Koch, Ford, Owner Points.

brated his 39th birthday by qualifying sixth for his 500th Sprint Cup start.

Ryan Newman was seventh, followed by Juan Pablo Montoya, Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch.

Gordon enters the weekend 32 points behind leader Matt Kenseth with six races left. Kenseth qualified 20th.

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Barons JV squad tops Cardinals COLUMBIA — Wilson Hall had two defensive touchdowns as it picked up a 36-6 junior varsity football victory over Cardinal Newman on Thursday at the CN field.

The Barons, who improved to 6-1 on the season, has McLendon Sears return an interception 49 yards for a score, while Evans Boyle picked up a fumble and went 32 yards for a TD. Hayes Goodson led the defense with 13 tackles, including six for loss. Greyson Young also had an interception and Banks Burms recovered a fumble.

Drew Talley blocked a punt and also caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from Dawson Price. Price also had a 66-yard scoring run.

Jett Wheeler added a 9-yard TD run and Andrew McCaffrey kicked a 27-yard field goal.

HARTSVILLE CRESTWOOD

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KELLEYTOWN — Crestwood High School fell to 5-2 on the year with a 13-6 loss to Hartsville on Thursday.

Demetrius Roach caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Sylas Green for the Knights’ only score.

B TEAM FOOTBALL LAURENCE MANNING ORANGEBURG PREP

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football team remained unbeaten on Thursday with a 28-0 victory over Orangeburg Prep at the Indians field in Orangeburg.

The Swampcats were lead by Brewer Brunson’s two TD runs and a 36-yard halfback pass to Garrett Black.

Brunson ended the night with 131 total yards on 14 carries and added a 2-point conversion as well. Black tallied 137 yards on 10 carries and one rushing TD. Black and Seth Stamps each had interceptions for LMA. Kodie Reaves recorded a safety and 10 tackles to lead the defense.

Laurence Manning returns home to play Clarendon County next Thursday at 7 p.m.

VARSITY GIRLS TENNIS THOMAS SUMTER PALMETTO CHRISTIAN

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Thomas Sumter Academy defeated Palmetto Christian 9-0 on Wednesday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

SINGLES 1 -- H. Jenkins (TSA) defeated K. Quinn 6-2, 6-1.

2 -- Green (TSA) defeated Goolsby 6-1, 6-0.

3 -- B. Jenkins (TSA) defeated Ripple 6-1, 6-1.

4 -- Chappell (TSA) defeated D. Quinn 6-0, 6-1.

5 -- Townsend (TSA) defeated K. Crandall 6-2, 6-0.

6 -- Decker (TSA) defeated A Crandall 6-0, 6-0.

DOUBLES 1 -- H. Jenkins/Townsend (TSA) defeated K. Quinn/D. Quinn 8-0.

2 -- Green/Chappell (TSA) defeated Ripple/K. Crandall 8-1 3 -- B. Jenkins/Hood (TSA) Goolsby/Campbell 8-2.

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Tigers advance to ALCS OAKLAND, Calif. — Justin Verlander retired the first 16 Oakland batters he faced and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 3-0 victory in the deciding game of their American League division series on Thursday.

Detroit, which won the series 3-2, will now face Boston in the AL championship series. The bestof-7 series will begin on Saturday in Boston.

Verlander stuck out 10 batters in eight innings.

Miguel Cabrera hit a home run for the Tigers.

S.C. STATE N.C. CENTRAL

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DURHAM, N.C. — Richard Cue completed 18 of 27 passes for 191 yards and a touchdown to help South Carolina State rout North Carolina Central 44-3 on Thursday night.

Justin Taylor ran for 75 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries, and Charles Brown had 70 yards on 11 attempts for the Bulldogs (5-2, 3-0 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference).

(8) LOUISVILLE RUTGERS

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville intercepted passes on back-to-back drives in the fourth quarter, the last to set up Teddy Bridgewater’s 3-yard

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera (24) celebrates with teammate Torii Hunter (48) after Cabrera’s 2-run homer in the fourth inning of Game 5 of the ALDS against Oakland on Thursday in Oakland, Calif. The Tigers won the game 3-0 and took the series 3-2.

touchdown pass that clinched the Cardinals’ 24-10 victory over Rutgers on Thursday night.

Defense was the story for the eighth-ranked Cardinals (6-0, 2-0 American Athletic Conference), who had four interceptions and sacked Gary Nova eight times.

LYNX WIN WNBA TITLE

DULUTH, Ga. — Maya Moore scored 23 points, Rebekkah Brunson had 15 points and 12 rebounds and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Atlanta Dream 86-77 on Thursday night to win their second WNBA title in three years.

Tiffany Hayes finished with 20 points and Alex Bentley had 18 for Atlanta, which was swept in the

best-of-5 finals for the third time in four years.

OVERTON LEADS BY 1

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — Jeff Overton opened the new PGA Tour season on a good note.

Over the last 11 holes at the Frys.com Open, Overton made three birdie putts over 25 feet and a 20-foot eagle putt to finish at 7-under 64 for a one-shot lead over Brian Harman.

LEE LEADS IN MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — South Korea’s Ilhee Lee shot a 7-under 64 to take a 1-stroke lead over American Brittany Lang after the first round of the LPGA Malaysia.

From staff, wire reports

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY 9 a.m. -- Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Portugal Masters Second Round from Vilamoura, Portugal (GOLF).

2 p.m. -- Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour SAS Championship First Round from Cary, N.C. (GOLF).

2:30 p.m. -- International Soccer: World Cup Qualifying Match from Cologne, Germany -- Germany vs. Ireland (ESPN2).

3:30 p.m. -- International Soccer: World Cup Qualifying Match from London -- England vs. Montenegro (FOX SPORTS 1).

5 p.m. -- PGA Golf: Frys.com Open Second Round from San Martin, Calif. (GOLF).

5:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 Practice from Concord, N.C. (ESPN2).

6:05 p.m. -- Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

6:30 p.m. -- Women’s College Volleyball: Kentucky at Florida (SPORTSOUTH).

6:30 p.m. -- High School Football: Lower Richland at Camden (WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. -- College Soccer: Maryland at Virginia (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. -- NBA Exhibition Basketball: Cleveland at Orlando (NBA TV).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Orangeburg Prep at Laurence Manning (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Hartsville at Crestwood (WSIM-FM 93.7).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Sumter at South Florence (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Timberland at Lake City (WWFN-FM 100.1).

7 p.m. -- High School Football: Cardinal Newman at Wilson Hall (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. -- HIgh School Football: Irmo at Ridge View (WNKTFM 107.5).

7:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage from Concord, N.C. (ESPN2, WEGX-FM 92.9).

8 p.m. -- High School Football: Pike (Ind.) vs. Carmel (Ind.) from Carmel, Ind. (ESPNU).

8 p.m. -- College Hockey: Western Michigan at Notre Dame (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: National League Championship Series Game One -- Los Angeles Dodgers at St. Louis (TBS).

8:30 p.m. -- College Football: Temple at Cincinnati (ESPN).

8:30 p.m. -- Women’s College Volleyball: Missouri at Tennessee (SPORTSOUTH).

9:15 p.m. -- International Soccer: World Cup Qualifying Match from Mexico City -- Mexico vs. Panama (ESPNEWS).

10 p.m. -- High School Football: St. John’s Bosco (Calif.) vs. Santa Margarita (Calif.) from Santa Margarita, Calif.

(FOX SPORTS 1).

10:05 p.m. -- High School Football: Prep Zone Scoreboard Show (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

11 p.m. -- Women’s College Volleyball: UCLA at Oregon (ESPNU).

Midnight -- NHL Hockey: Los Angeles at Carolina (SPORTSOUTH).

12:30 a.m. -- LPGA Golf: Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia Third Round from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (GOLF).

1 a.m. -- Formula One Racing: Japanese Grand Prix Pole Qualifying from Suzuka, Japan (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

PREP SCHEDULE Today Varsity Volleyball Sumter in Wando Inviational, TBA Saturday Varsity Swimming Wilson Hall, Thomas Sumter in SCISA State Meet (at Augusta Aquatics Center in Augusta, Ga.), TBA Varsity Volleyball Sumter in Wando Inviational, TBA Junior Varsity Volleyball Sumter in JV Jam Tournament (at Lugoff-Elgin High), TBA

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

By The Associated Press Today Temple (0-5) at Cincinnati (3-2), 8:30 p.m.

Saturday EAST E. Michigan (1-4) at Army (2-4), Noon Lehigh (4-1) at Columbia (0-3), Noon Albany (NY) (1-5) at Delaware (4-2), Noon Rhode Island (2-4) at New Hampshire (1-3), Noon Monmouth (NJ) (3-3) at St. Francis (Pa.) (1-4), Noon South Florida (1-4) at UConn (0-3), Noon Harvard (3-0) at Cornell (1-2), 12:30 p.m.

Brown (2-1) at Bryant (3-2), 1 p.m.

Holy Cross (2-4) at Bucknell (1-3), 1 p.m.

Fordham (6-0) at Georgetown (1-3), 1 p.m.

Lafayette (1-3) at Princeton (1-1), 1 p.m.

CCSU (2-4) at Sacred Heart (5-1), 1 p.m.

Wagner (2-4) at Duquesne (2-2), 1:10 p.m.

Yale (3-0) at Dartmouth (1-2), 1:30 p.m.

Miami (Ohio) (0-5) at UMass (0-5), 3 p.m.

Michigan (5-0) at Penn St. (3-2), 5 p.m.

Stony Brook (2-3) at Colgate (1-4), 6 p.m.

Villanova (3-2) at Towson (6-0), 7 p.m.

SOUTH Missouri (5-0) at Georgia (4-1), Noon Pittsburgh (3-1) at Virginia Tech (5-1), Noon N.C. Pembroke (4-0) at Charlotte (3-2), Noon Valparaiso (0-4) at Mercer (4-1), Noon Navy (3-1) at Duke (3-2), 12:30 p.m.

Drake (2-3) at Davidson (0-5), 1 p.m.

The Citadel (2-4) at Georgia Southern (3-2), 1 p.m.

Bethune-Cookman (4-1) at Howard (1-4), 1 p.m.

Dayton (3-2) at Stetson (1-4), 1 p.m.

Charleston Southern (5-0) at VMI (1-4), 1:30 p.m.

Elon (2-4) at Wofford (3-2), 1:30 p.m.

Prairie View (4-2) at Alabama St. (4-2), 2 p.m.

W. Carolina (1-4) at Auburn (4-1), 2 p.m.

Norfolk St. (2-3) at Delaware St. (1-4), 2 p.m.

N.C. A&T (3-1) at Hampton (0-4), 2 p.m.

Jackson St. (4-2) at MVSU (1-4), 3 p.m.

Samford (3-2) at Appalachian St. (1-3), 3:30 p.m.

Boston College (3-2) at Clemson (5-0), 3:30 p.m.

Troy (3-3) at Georgia St. (0-5), 3:30 p.m.

Richmond (2-2) at James Madison (4-2), 3:30 p.m.

Florida (4-1) at LSU (5-1), 3:30 p.m.

Virginia (2-3) at Maryland (4-1), 3:30 p.m.

Syracuse (2-3) at N.C. State (3-2), 3:30 p.m.

East Carolina (4-1) at Tulane (4-2), 3:30 p.m.

Penn (2-1) at William & Mary (3-2), 3:30 p.m.

Tennessee St. (4-1) at Jacksonville St. (5-0), 4 p.m.

Northwestern St. (3-2) at Nicholls St. (3-2), 4 p.m.

Marshall (3-2) at FAU (2-4), 5 p.m.

Furman (2-3) at Chattanooga (3-2), 6 p.m.

Gardner-Webb (4-2) at Coastal Carolina (5-0), 6 p.m.

Florida A&M (1-4) at Savannah St. (1-5), 6 p.m.

Alabama (5-0) at Kentucky (1-4), 7 p.m.

Alabama A&M (2-4) at Southern U. (2-3), 7 p.m.

UAB (1-4) at FIU (1-4), 7:30 p.m.

Bowling Green (5-1) at Mississippi St. (2-3), 7:30 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin (2-3) at SE Louisiana (3-2), 8 p.m.

Texas A&M (4-1) at Mississippi (3-2), 8:30 p.m.

MIDWEST Indiana (3-2) at Michigan St. (4-1), Noon Nebraska (4-1) at Purdue (1-4), Noon Campbell (1-3) at Butler (4-2), 1 p.m.

Missouri St. (1-5) at N. Dakota St. (4-0), 2 p.m.

Cent. Michigan (2-4) at Ohio (4-1), 2 p.m.

Murray St. (3-2) at SE Missouri (0-5), 2 p.m.

Indiana St. (1-4) at South Dakota (2-2), 2 p.m.

Buffalo (2-2) at W. Michigan (0-6), 2 p.m.

Kent St. (2-4) at Ball St. (5-1), 3 p.m.

Baylor (4-0) at Kansas St. (2-3), 3:30 p.m.

E. Washington (3-1) at North Dakota (2-2), 3:30 p.m.

Northwestern (4-1) at Wisconsin (3-2), 3:30 p.m.

Grambling St. (0-6) vs. Alcorn St. (4-2) at Indianapolis, 4 p.m.

Akron (1-5) at N. Illinois (5-0), 5 p.m.

S. Illinois (3-3) at N. Iowa (4-1), 5 p.m.

Illinois St. (2-3) at Youngstown St. (5-1), 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Memphis (1-3) at Houston (4-0), Noon Texas (3-2) vs. Oklahoma (5-0) at Dallas, Noon Kansas (2-2) at TCU (2-3), Noon Iowa St. (1-3) at Texas Tech (5-0), Noon South Carolina (4-1) at Arkansas (3-3), 12:21 p.m.

Rice (3-2) at UTSA (2-4), 4 p.m.

Middle Tennessee (3-3) at North Texas (2-3), 7 p.m.

Louisiana-Monroe (2-4) at Texas St. (3-2), 7 p.m.

Tulsa (1-4) at UTEP (1-4), 8 p.m.

FAR WEST San Jose St. (2-3) at Colorado St. (2-3), 3:30 p.m.

New Mexico (2-3) at Wyoming (3-2), 3:30 p.m.

Oregon (5-0) at Washington (4-1), 4 p.m.

Marist (3-2) at San Diego (3-2), 5 p.m.

Stanford (5-0) at Utah (3-2), 6 p.m.

Georgia Tech (3-2) at BYU (3-2), 7 p.m.

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Hawaii (0-5) at UNLV (3-2), 8 p.m.

Boise St. (3-2) at Utah St. (3-3), 8 p.m.

Colorado (2-2) at Arizona St. (3-2), 10 p.m.

California (1-4) at UCLA (4-0), 10:30 p.m.

Oregon St. (4-1) at Washington St. (4-2), 10:30 p.m.

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 4 1 0 .800 N.Y. Jets 3 2 0 .600 Miami 3 2 0 .600 Buffalo 2 3 0 .400 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 4 1 0 .800 Tennessee 3 2 0 .600 Houston 2 3 0 .400 Jacksonville 0 5 0 .000 North W L T Pct Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 Cleveland 3 2 0 .600 Cincinnati 3 2 0 .600 Pittsburgh 0 4 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 5 0 0 1.000 Kansas City 5 0 0 1.000 Oakland 2 3 0 .400 San Diego 2 3 0 .400 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 Washington 1 3 0 .250 N.Y. Giants 0 5 0 .000 South W L T Pct New Orleans 5 0 0 1.000 Carolina 1 3 0 .250 Atlanta 1 4 0 .200 Tampa Bay 0 4 0 .000 North W L T Pct Detroit 3 2 0 .600 Chicago 3 2 0 .600 Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 Minnesota 1 3 0 .250 West W L T Pct Seattle 4 1 0 .800 San Francisco 3 2 0 .600 Arizona 3 2 0 .600 St. Louis 2 3 0 .400 Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Carolina at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Houston, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

New Orleans at New England, 4:25 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Atlanta, Miami Monday’s Game Indianapolis at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 17 Seattle at Arizona, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 20 Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Detroit, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.

Houston at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Cleveland at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

Open: New Orleans, Oakland Monday, Oct. 21 Minnesota at N.Y. Giants, 8:40 p.m.

PF 95 98 114 112

PA 70 116 117 130

PF 139 115 93 51

PA 79 95 139 163

PF 117 101 94 69

PA 110 94 87 110

PF 230 128 98 125

PA 139 58 108 129

PF 135 152 91 82

PA 159 136 112 182

PF 134 74 122 44

PA 73 58 134 70

PF 131 145 118 115

PA 123 140 97 123

PF 137 113 91 103

PA 81 98 95 141

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 4 3 1 0 6 13 10 Boston 2 2 0 0 4 7 2 Detroit 3 2 1 0 4 6 7 Tampa Bay 3 2 1 0 4 7 7 Ottawa 3 1 0 2 4 8 9 Montreal 3 1 2 0 2 9 8 Florida 3 1 2 0 2 5 11 Buffalo 4 0 3 1 1 4 10 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 3 3 0 0 6 12 3 N.Y. Islanders 3 2 0 1 5 12 7 Carolina 3 1 1 1 3 6 9 New Jersey 4 0 1 3 3 9 15 Columbus 2 1 1 0 2 6 6 N.Y. Rangers 3 1 2 0 2 6 14 Washington 3 1 2 0 2 10 12 Philadelphia 4 1 3 0 2 5 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 3 3 0 0 6 14 4 Colorado 3 3 0 0 6 11 3 Winnipeg 3 2 1 0 4 12 10 Chicago 3 1 1 1 3 10 10 Dallas 2 1 1 0 2 4 5 Nashville 3 1 2 0 2 6 9 Minnesota 3 0 1 2 2 7 10 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 3 3 0 0 6 17 4 Vancouver 4 3 1 0 6 15 12 Calgary 4 2 0 2 6 15 15 Anaheim 3 2 1 0 4 8 11 Los Angeles 4 2 2 0 4 11 13 Phoenix 3 1 2 0 2 6 11 Edmonton 3 1 2 0 2 11 15 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games St. Louis 3, Chicago 2 Calgary 3, Montreal 2 Los Angeles 4, Ottawa 3, OT Thursday’s Games Colorado at Boston, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Today’s Games Phoenix at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at Columbus, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Washington, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Chicago, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Ottawa at San Jose, 10 p.m.

WNBA FINALS (Best-of-5) Minnesota 3, Atlanta 0 Oct. 6: Minnesota 84, Atlanta 59 Oct. 8: Minnesota 88, Atlanta 63 Thursday: Minnesota 86, Atlanta 77

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Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clowney to start if healthy

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; AllAmerican Jadeveon Clowneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time on South Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sidelines is apparently over.

Gamecocks defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward said Thursday that the injured Clowney will start if healthy Saturday when No. 14 South Caorlina (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) takes on the Arkansas (3-3, 0-2).

Clowney took himself out of last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 35-28 victory over Kentucky a short time before kickoff, saying he was in too much pain from a strained CLOWNEY muscle near his ribcage.

The last-minute absence upset South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he wants to

play, we will welcome him to come play for the team if he wants,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Spurrier said moments after the Kentucky win â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and led to questions whether the 6-foot-6, 274-pound lineman wsa fully committed to the Gamecocks or if he was protecting himself for next springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NFL draft where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consider a top prospect.

Ward said Clowney successfully finished a second straight day of

practice after missing workouts earlier in the week because of the injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healthy, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to start,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ward said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He practiced two days in a row and I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting better every day.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Clowney was not available for comment, but had a large smile on his face and waved to reporters as he walked into the locker room after practice.

D-line making impact for Tigers

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw has the No. 13 Gamecocksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense clicking as of late and USC is on pace to surpass 6,000 yards of total offense for the first time ever.

Shaw has USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense clicking

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw is on pace to lead the 14th-ranked Gamecocks to their best offensive season in program history. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to let injuries stop him.

Shaw has a 21-4 career mark as a starter.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four wins shy of surpassing ex-Gamecocks QB Todd Ellisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; school record of 24 victories. Shaw has completed nearly 69 percent of his passes this fall and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thrown an interception.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped the Gamecocks average a school-best 476 yards a game and on theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on track to surpass 6,000 yards of offense for the first time.

Yet, Shawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season looked in jeopardy two weeks back after a hit on his right, throwing shoulder sidelined him in the first quarter of South Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 28-25 win at UCF. Shaw came out of the locker room with a grimace on his face, his arm in a sling and ice bags on what looked like a badly damaged shoulder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he came off the field, it looked like he was out for the season maybe,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said.

The Gamecocks said Shaw would be out 2-3 weeks, but two days later, the QB was confidently throwing passes

more half a football field. Shaw started he next game, Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 35-28 win at Kentucky and threw for 262 yards and a touchdown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was my senior year, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss another game,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shaw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just knew I was going to be able to play.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In a week when South Carolina was embroiled in a back-and-forth debate about the commitment of injured AllAmerican defensive end Jadeveon Clowney , the Gamecocks have rarely had to worry about where Shawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head is at. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always had the mentality that I was going to play through it, no matter what,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shaw said.

Still, Shaw wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold himself up as an example of how to play the game and defended Clowney, who pulled himself out of the Kentucky game because of a strained muscle near his ribcage. Shaw said he and teammates fully support of Clowney and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quit on the Gamecocks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel that way at all,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shaw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t faze us at all. I think it is just that everybody surrounding it is making it a big deal. All I know is Clowney has helped us win a lot of games and he will in the future as well.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shaw plans to help South Carolina to win, too, no matter how many more hits he may endure the rest of the season.

CLEMSON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Clemson defensive tackle Grady Jarrett is glad to see the third-ranked Tigers getting attention for their defense.

The accolades will continue if the unit keeps shutting teams down.

Clemson has held its past four opponents to 14 points of less, something that hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been done since the first four games of the 2000 season. And a big reason is the play of the defensive line, which leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with 19 sacks.

Defensive end Vic Beasley leads the country with eight sacks.

The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 ACC) hope to keep that defensive success going against Boston College (3-2, 1-1).

Clemson has risen in the rankings in recent seasons fueled by a record-setting, quickstrike offense behind quarterback Tajh Boyd and receiver Sammy Watkins.

Jarrett believes the defensive line, a question mark when the season began, has stepped up to make a name for itself and contribute to the Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; undefeated start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On TV, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Vic as an impact player and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve somebody on defense finally getting some no-

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Defensive end Corey Crawford (93) and the rest of the Clemson defensive line are starting to gain some attention for their play this season. The Tigers have held their last four opponents to 14 points or less.

tice,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jarrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone on the d-line is getting attention as well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for us.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Clemsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense leads the nation in with almost four sacks per game, ranks second with 10 tackles for loss per game, is fourth with nearly seven threeand-outs per game and is fifth in third-down defense with opponents converting less than 25 percent of the time.

Defensive coordinator Brent Venables likes what he sees from his front line, but says

there are many areas left to clean up if the Tigers are to compete for titles.

Despite holding Syracuse to two touchdowns in a 49-14 victory at the Carrier Dome last week, the Tigers gave up 397 yards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their most on the year since Georgia put up 545 yards in Clemsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season-opening victory. A big reason is the run defense, which ranks 12th in the 14-team ACC in allowing more than 171 yards a game on the ground.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

Kelly, Greinke set for Game 1 of NLCS

BY R.B. FALLSTROM The Associated Press

SCHEDULE

By The Associated Press

Tuesday: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0

Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Oakland 2, Detroit 2 Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0 Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Thursday: Detroit at Oakland

National League St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 1 Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3

ST. LOUIS — Carpets were still drying out from a champagne bath and a few players looked bleary eyed after a workout at Busch Stadium. A day after advancing, there wasn’t much time to rest for the St. Louis Cardinals.

“Obviously, it was a great celebration and a lot of fun,’’ reliever John Axford said Thursday. “The clubhouse guys, I don’t know if they even went home.’’

The Los Angeles Dodgers don’t have home-field advantage in the NL championship series, but they got a few extra days to savor early postseason success. Zack Greinke was getting ready to go in Game 5, then went on stand-by, and now he guards against feeling too good in the opener Friday night.

“Once we won it, it was just kind of make the best adjustments possible,’’ Greinke said. “I mean, there’s not much you can really do.’’

No telling which side will benefit, the team on a roll or the team coming off a break. Joe Kelly, who flourished as a replacement starter with St. Louis and gets the call for Game 1, was elevated to the fifth starting spot and then waited almost two weeks before actually getting on the mound.

“You could be laid off for eight days and come out and play absolutely the best baseball you’ve ever done,’’ Kelly said. “You could come out and play the next day and not have a good game. This is all about execution.’’

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St. Louis’ Joe Kelly, left, and Los Angeles’ Zach Greinke will each get the start tonight as the Cardinals and Dodgers square off in Game 1 of the NLCS in St. Louis.

other Cardinals youngsters, he’s seemed oblivious to the pressure.

“It’s Game 1 of the NLCS, but me being me, I’m going to go out there and just pitch like it’s another game,’’ he said.

The staff aces won’t go until later in the best-of-seven series, with the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw set for Game 2 and the Cardinals’ Adam Wainwright ready for Game 3.

Rookie Michael Wacha, who has flirted with a no-hitter his last two starts, goes in Game 2 for St. Louis.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he’d probably announce the rest of the starting assignments on game day.

The series matches a largely homegrown team seeking its second World

Series appearance in three years against one that’s been among the biggest spenders trying to get there for the first time in a quarter-century. The Dodgers spent well over $200 million to put together their team.

“I think the payroll gets thrown out there in general, and then it becomes an expectation,’’ Mattingly said.

“You’ve got these high-profile guys, you’ve got big names, guys making big money, you’re supposed to win.’’

They won the NL West for the first time in four years, then eliminated the Braves in four games in the NLDS. Greinke is among a half-dozen Dodgers making $15 million or more and Mattingly said it’s like having a pair of aces.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS VS. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All games televised by Fox Oakland-Detroit vs. Boston Saturday: Oakland-Detroit at Boston Sunday: Oakland-Detroit at Boston Tuesday: Boston at Oakland-Detroit Oct. 16: Boston at Oakland-Detroit x-Oct. 17: Boston at Oakland-Detroit x-Oct. 19: Oakland-Detroit at Boston x-Oct. 20: Oakland-Detroit at Boston

All games televised by TBS Los Angeles vs. St. Louis Today: Los Angeles (Greinke 15-4) at St. Louis (Kelly 10-5), 8:30 p.m.

Saturday: Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-9) at St. Louis (Wacha 4-1), 4 p.m.

Monday: St. Louis (Wainright 19-9) at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Tuesday: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 8 p.m. x-Oct. 16: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. x-Oct. 18: Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. x-Oct. 19: Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m.

All games televised by Fox Wednesday, Oct. 23: NL at AL Thursday, Oct. 24: NL at AL Saturday, Oct. 26: AL at NL Sunday, Oct. 27: AL at NL x-Monday, Oct. 28: AL at NL x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: NL at AL x-Thursday, Oct. 31: NL at AL

Season Series Dodgers won 4-3.

Projected Lineup Dodgers: LF Carl Crawford (.283, 6 HRs, 31 RBI, 15 SBs), 2B Mark Ellis (.270, 6, 48), SS Hanley Ramirez (.345, 20, 57, 10 SBs), 1B Adrian Gonzalez (.293, 22, 100), RF Yasiel Puig (.319, 19, 42, 11 SBs), 3B Juan Uribe (.278, 12, 50), CF Skip Schumaker (.263, 2, 30), C A.J. Ellis (.238, 10, 52).

Cardinals: 2B Matt Carpenter (.318, 11, 78, .392 OBP; led MLB with 199 hits, 126 runs and 55 doubles), RF Carlos Beltran (.296, 24, 84), LF Matt Holliday (.300, 22, 94, .389 OBP), 1B Matt Adams (.284, 17, 51 in 108 games), C Yadier Molina (.319, 12, 80), CF Jon Jay (.276, 7, 67, 10 SBs), 3B David Freese (.262, 9, 60), SS Pete Kozma (.217, 1, 35) or Daniel Descalso (.238, 5, 43).

Projected Rotations Dodgers: RH Zack Greinke (15-4, 2.63 ERA), LH Clayton Kershaw (16-9, MLB-best 1.83, NL-leading 232 Ks, 236 IP), LH Hyun-Jin Ryu (14-8, 3.00), RH Ricky Nolasco (13-11, 3.70 with Marlins and Dodgers; 8-3, 3.52 since trade from Miami).

Cardinals: RH Joe Kelly (10-5, 2.69 in 37 games, 15 starts), RH Michael Wacha (4-1, 2.78 in 15 games, 9 starts), RH Adam Wainwright (19-9, 2.94, 223 Ks, NL-high 241 2-3 IP), RH Lance Lynn

(15-10, 3.97) or RH Shelby Miller (15-9, 3.06, led MLB rookies in wins).

Relievers Dodgers: RH Kenley Jansen (4-3, 1.88 ERA, 28/32 saves), RH Brian Wilson (2-1, 0.66), RH Ronald Belisario (5-7, 3.97, 1 save), LH J.P. Howell (4-1, 2.03), LH Paco Rodriguez (3-4, 2.32, 2 saves), LH Chris Capuano (4-7, 4.26, 20 starts), RH Chris Withrow (3-0, 2.60, 1 save, 26 games, 43 Ks, 34 2-3 IP).

Cardinals: RH Trevor Rosenthal (2-4, 2.74, 3 saves), LH Kevin Siegrist (3-1, 0.45, 39 2-3 IP, 17 hits, 50 Ks, 18 BBs), RH Carlos Martinez (2-1, 5.08 in 21 games), RH Seth Maness (5-2, 2.32, 16 GIDP in 62 IP), RH Edward Mujica (2-1, 2.78, 37/41 saves), RH John Axford (7-7, 4.02 in 75 games; 1-0, 1.74 in 13 games with Cardinals after trade from Milwaukee), LH Randy Choate (2-1, 2.29 in 64 games).

Matchups Two of the most storied and successful teams in National League history — fierce rivals in the 1940s — these signature franchises share a famous link in pioneer executive Branch Rickey.

They’ve met three times in postseason play: St. Louis won the 1985 NLCS in six games and a 2004 division series in four before the Dodgers

swept their 2009 NLDS in three straight. ... Los Angeles is without CF Matt Kemp, shut down on the final day of the regular season with swelling of a bone in his sprained left ankle. OF Andre Ethier was limited to pinch-hitting duty in the division series against Atlanta because of his own left ankle injury. But if it has healed sufficiently, he could play the outfield in this series for the first time since Sept. 13. ... By winning 97 games to tie Boston for the best record in the majors, St. Louis earned home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs. That came in handy during a five-game division series against wild-card Pittsburgh and could be an edge again. The Cardinals went 6-0 on their final homestand and 54-27 overall at Busch Stadium, the second-best home record in the majors. Then they won two of three home games in the NLDS. Los Angeles, however, had the NL’s best road record at 45-36. ... Wacha has been almost untouchable in his last two starts, displaying remarkable poise for a 22-year-old rookie. He lost a no-hit bid against Washington on an infield single with two outs in the ninth inning of his final regular-season outing, then pitched 7 1-3 hitless innings at Pittsburgh before Pedro Alvarez homered in Game 4 of the NLDS. With the Cardinals facing elimination, Wacha won 2-1 to send

the series back to St. Louis. ... More than a dozen players remain from the Cardinals team that won the 2011 World Series. ... The Dodgers and Cardinals played it fairly even in seven games this season, with Los Angeles outscoring St. Louis 30-27. ... Lefty batting Crawford this year hit .481 (13 for 27) with four doubles against the Cardinals, who have all right-handed starters. ... Keep an eye on Holliday. He has great success against much of the Dodgers. In 43 career plate appearances against Kershaw, Holliday has walked 10 times and is hitting .303 (10 for 33) with a homer. He’s 9 for 26 (.346) with two homers when facing Grienke. Against Nolasco he’s even better: 12 for 26 (.462) with six extra-base hits and seven RBIs. ...

Beltran is 16 for 47 (.340) with a homer and three RBIs against Nolasco, but he’s also K’d 11 times. ... Slick-fielding but light-hitting Kozma is 4 for 5 with three RBI against Kershaw. ... Ethier is only Dodgers regular who has any success against Wainwright. He has three homers and three doubles in 33-at bats and is hitting .303 against the Cardinals ace. ... Lance Lynn is 2-0 with a 2.50 ERA in three career starts against Los Angeles. In 55 plate appearances against Lynn, the Dodgers have only two extra-base hits, both doubles. He could start Game 4.

Red Sox SS Bogaerts coming of age in playoffs

BY JIMMY GOLEN The Associated Press BOSTON — To Red Sox teammate Jonny Gomes, it doesn’t matter that Xander Bogaerts just turned 21 and had never appeared in a postseason game before this week.

“When you’re between the lines, it hides your age,’’ Gomes said. “It hides your draft status. It hides your contract.’’

Bogaerts walked twice and scored two runs in the Game 4 clincher against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, one night after he entered the game as a Boston pinch-runner and scored the game-tying run. In all, he has appeared in two games in the postseason, scoring three runs with a perfect on-base percentage: 1.000.

All before his first

official at-bat.

“I just went up there and tried to get on base,’’ Bogaerts, who turned 21 on Oct. 1, said on Thursday while the Red Sox waited to BOGAERTS learn their AL championship series opponent. “For me, I wanted to reach on base. I didn’t want to hit a homer.’’

A highly touted prospect who was called up in August, Bogaerts is a big reason the Red Sox were willing to part with Jose Iglesias in the deal that brought right-hander Jake Peavy to Boston. Bogaerts had 11 hits in 44 regular-season atbats, but he also walked five times and scored seven runs.

And it was in Game 4 that he

showed he was ready.

Bogaerts pinch-hit for Stephen Drew in the seventh inning and laid off a 3-2 pitch to draw a walk. He went to third on a single and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch. He walked again in the ninth — again on a full count — took second on a wild pitch, went to third when Shane Victorino was hit by a pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly.

Bucs not satisfied after breakthrough year

BY WILL GRAVES The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Despite a breakthrough season in which Pittsburgh saw its fortunes turn on the diamond and in the turnstiles, the Pirates know the hard part is ahead of them — staying in the playoff picture for more than one year.

PITTSBURGH — The Streak, the one that loomed over the Pittsburgh Pirates for two ignominious decades, is dead. Over. Done. Discarded. Smashed by an improbable summer and a thrilling fall.

Now what?

Unburdened from the yoke of failure that loomed for 20 years as an ominous cloud over the franchise, the Pirates can point to the future with eyes wide open.

What exactly the fu-

ture holds, however, remains unclear.

In a way, the man who shrewdly guided the franchise from 105loss laughingstock three years ago to a 94-game winner that pushed the St. Louis Cardinals to the brink HURDLE in the NL division series knows the easy part is over.

“The sustainability is what separates great organizations,’’ manager Clint Hurdle said. “We were able to take a huge

step forward this year in restoring the pride and the passion of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ organization, and rebonding our city with a ball team.’’

The evidence lay in the signature Jolly Roger flags that came out of hiding across the city after spending a generation tucked away like an abandoned family heirloom. It could be seen at packed PNC Park, where record crowds — most of them wearing black — poured through the turnstiles in the playoffs and made baseball matter again in a city where

it has long played distant third fiddle behind football and hockey.

It could be felt in a clubhouse comprised of young talent and established veterans. Center fielder Andrew McCutchen cemented his status as a star with an MVP-worthy season.

Third baseman Pedro Alvarez tied for the NL lead in home runs with 36. Rookie pitcher Gerrit Cole illustrated his electric 100 mph fastball.

Catcher Russell Martin helped turn a pitching staff into a dominant force in September.

LOCAL SPORTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

Speedway racing resumes on Saturday

BY CODY TRUETT Special to The Item Racing will resume at Sumter Speedway on Saturday after an extended break as it will host the Rourk Plumbing Fall Nationals.

There will be racing and increased purses in all divisions.

Gates will open at 3 p.m. with hot laps start at 5. Racing action will begin at 6.

There will be racing action in the Bomber-4, Crate Late Model, Ridge Runner/Super Street,

Young Guns/Rookie, Stock-4 and Street Stock divisions.

The Bomber-4, Ridge Runner/Super Street, Stock-4, and Street Stock divisions will all pay $500 to the respective winners.

The Young Guns/Rookie division will pay $50 to the winner.

The highlight of the night will be the NDRA

DARLEY from Page B1 last week.

The Falcons are 4-2 overall after losing to Crestwood 28-20 in their region opener last week.

Felder is impressed with Darlington’s offense.

“They’ve got a quarterback who can throw it deep, and they’ve got two receivers who are pretty stout,” Felder said.

“And they throw the ball. They’ll throw it 35 to 40 times a game.”

After throwing 47 passes in his first three starts, Falcons QB Shakeem Thomas has thrown 38 and 39 passes the past two games. The top receivers are Tra’Quan Dubose and Brandon Dowdy. Dubose had 18 catches for 375 yards and one TD, while Dowdy has 15 catches for 204 yards and two TDs. The Falcons also have a strong running back in Trayvon Thomas. He’s rushed for 689 yards and eight scores on 115 carries.

“The best thing we can do is try and keep them off the field,” Felder said.

“We’re going to need our offense to be able to consume some clock. That will make a big difference.”

With John Maddox, Ra’Quan Bennett and Dontavis Conyers in the offensive backfield, Manning has been successful running the football this year.

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KNIGHTS from Page B1 “Their defense is just tremendous,” Crolley said. “We’ve got to be able to do something offensively to have a chance.”

The Knights, of course, will be operating out of the Wing-T as well.

Ty’Son Williams leads the way, having rushed for 845 yards and nine touchdowns on 100 car-

ries. Jason McDaniel isn’t far behind with 724 yards and six scores on 95 attempts.

Hartsville is allowing 50 rushing yards a contest and 1.9 yards per carry. Dequan Reddick leads the defense with 13 tackles for loss.

“We want to be stingy with giving them the football,” said Crolley,

SUMTER from Page B1 “They are actually really simple in what they do,” Kennedy said. “They line up four wide, either 2x2 or 3x1. They just have an outstanding running back and an outstanding quarterback. They line up seven yards deep in the shotgun and it’s like they’re running downhill.”

Rodney Brunson is South’s running back. He has rushed for 824 yards and nine touchdowns on 121 carries. He is averaging 137.3 yards a game after rushing for 168 yards on 25 carries in last week’s 44-7 win over Ridge View.

Quarterback Nick Jones has completed 91 of 147 passes for 1,199 yards and 18 TDs against just four interceptions. He spreads the ball around with five receivers having between 14 and 22 receptions. Tabari Hines has 22 catches for 390 yards and nine of the TDs. The Gamecocks haven’t been particularly effective stopping either the run or the pass. SHS is allowing 169.7 rushing yards and 181.2 passing yards a contest.

“We feel like we’ve got to take one of them away and

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The winner will take home the $1,000 top prize.

Grandstand tickets are $10 for adults and pit passes are $20 for adults.

Active duty military will be admitted to the grandstands free of charge. For the kids in attendance, there will be candy on the front straightaway during intermission.

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whose team is rushing for an average of 345 yards a game. “We want to hold on to the ball as long as we can, and when we do give them the ball, we want it to be when we’re kicking it off to to them.

“We have a tough row to hoe against their defense, but hopefully we’ll be able to take advantage of the opportunities we have.”

Crolley said Harts-

make them a 1-dimensional team,” Kennedy said. “We’ve worked on some things where hopefully we’re going to be able to do that. They really feed off of one another, so we’re going to try and take one of them away.”

Of course, Kennedy hopes his offense can control the ball and limit the Bruins’ opportunities. He thought Sumter showed the ability to do that in its 30-17 victory over winless Richland Northeast last week.

“We slowed the pace of the game down with our offense last week,” Kennedy said.

“After looking back over the first five games, I thought we were giving up too many snaps to our defense. When Blythewood had 83 plays (in a 34-19 Sumter loss), that really caught my eye. We’ve got to keep the defense off the field a little more. They’ve been playing well, but they were just on the field too much.”

Sumter ran 55 plays to 53 for RNE last week.

Kennedy thinks the offensive line is starting to gel as it has gained experience.

“The offensive line is starting to grow up a little bit,” he said.

“They’re starting to understand the speed of the game and the physicality of the game.”

Quarterback James Barnes

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SCISA SWIM from Page B1 placed first in both the 500yard freestyle and 200 individual medley, breaking the school record for both events.

She was also the anchor on the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams, both of which took first place as well.

Tisdale will likely be a top 5 seed in both of her events at state, McFaddin said.

“She’s a very seasoned swimmer and has been with us for a long time,” McFaddin said. “She’s had some great times in both of her individual events, and I’m really excited to see how she’ll do at state.

Tisdale teams with Ali Hilferty, Elise Pyon and Olivia Hilferty on the WH relay teams that McFaddin also expects to perform very well on Saturday.

“Both relay teams should be ranked in the top five,” she said.

“I think they should do very well at state.”

On the boys side, Sam Hilferty injured his knee playing football, but McFaddin believes he’ll still be able to perform well in the 100 backstroke event. John Ballard, another football player, should fare well in the 50 freestyle event, McFaddin added.

St. Francis Xavier has just nine swimmers, but all nine qualified for state.

The Padres are led by senior team captain Zachary Shrift, who will compete in the 200 medley and freestyle relays.

Elena Gibson and Daniel Gibson are returning swimmers, competing in multiple team and individual events, while seventh-grader Joseph Morrow and sixth-grader Ana Hartman provide two more year-round swimmers competing in multiple events as well.

For Thomas Sumter, the state meet will mark the cul-

ville runs the Wing-T a bit differently than Crestwood, throwing it a little bit more. However, the Red Foxes have attempted just 21 more passes than the Knights — 50 to 29.

Hartsville is averaging 325 rushing yards a contest. Sophomore Brian Rivers is the top rusher with 829 yards and 12 TDs on 77 attempts. Shy McPhail has 412 yards and four

had a productive week against RNE after struggling the two previous weeks.He completed 11 of 19 passes for 174 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 46 yards on nine carries. SHS had 211 yards rushing against Northeast, but had no one with more than 49 yards. Xzavion Burson had 49 yards on a run, while wide receiver Justin Martin had a 39-yard touchdown run on a reverse.

Ky’Jon Tyler was Barnes’ favorite target with five catches for 92 yards. Tyler has 36 receptions for 489 yards and seven scores on the season. Burson had three catches for 50 yards, giving him 22 catches for 316 yards and two scores on the year.

Kennedy knows South Florence will have a little extra motivation since Sumter has won the last two meetings between the schools. However, he has been pointing out to his team this is the Region VI-4A opener for both teams and there are many goals that can still be reached starting today.

“We wanted to go undefeated, have a winning season, win the region and make the state playoffs,” Kennedy said. “Most of those things are still there for us to accomplish. We’ve talked about this being the time of the year where we’re playing our best football.”

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SCISA STATE SWIM MEET PARTICIPANTS WILSON HALL GIRLS Anna Katherine Graves (50 freestyle, 100 back) Stewart Holler (200 freestyle, 100 back) Maggie Ballard (200 freestyle) Grace Towery (200 freestyle,100 freestyle) Aubrie Yarbrough (50 freestyle, 100 freestyle) Angelica Agnos (200 IM, 100 freestyle) Holly Poag (200 IM, 100 butterfly) Mary Copeland Heath (100 freestyle) Lindsey Tisdale (200 IM, 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) Olivia Hilferty (200 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) Ali Hilferty (50 free, 200 free, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) Elise Pyon (50 free, 100 back, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) BOYS Eric Hartzell (500 freestyle) Sam Hilferty (100 backstroke, 100 breast stroke) Andrik Rivera-Nesrala (100 breast stroke) John Ballard (50 freestyle) Gray Holler 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) Dylan Dean (200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay) ST. FRANCIS XAVIER GIRLS Elena Gibson (200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle) Ana Hartman (200 freestyle relay) Rebecca Twitty (200 freestyle relay) Lila Floyd (200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle) BOYS Tristan Storey (200 medley, freestyle relays) Zachary Shrift (200 medley, freestyle relays) Daniel Gibson (200 medley, freestyle relays, 50 freestyle,100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke) Joseph Morrow (200 medley, freestyle relays 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke) Corey Santandonato ( 200 medley, freestyle relays) THOMAS SUMTER GIRLS Sarah Donaldson (100 breaststroke, 200 medley relay) Brooke Smith (100 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 200 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay) Samantha Studer (Individual event) Ava Claus (Multiple individual events) Hunter Arrants (Individual event) BOYS Chris Beaudet (Relay events) Jeremy Beaudet (Relay events) Tyler Singletary (Relay events) Ed Lee (Multiple individual events)

mination of several comebacks for TSA swimmers. Senior Sarah Donaldson has been on the squad for seven years and has overcome shoulder injuries to qualify for the 100 breaststroke and 200 medley relay events.

Brooke Smith, the other captain on the team, suffered a back injury last season and was unable to swim. She made a remarkable recovery this season to qualify in the 100 freestyle, 200 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay events.

scores on 77 attempts, Aryon Dudley had 329 yards and six touchdowns on 53 attempts and Zach Hayden has 222 yards and four scores on 25 attempts.

“We’ve got to be able slow them down offensively,” said Crolley, whose team opened its Region VI-3A schedule with a 28-20 victory over Darlington last week.

This will obviously be the first meeting between

the teams since Hartsville defensive lineman Ronald Rouse collapsed on the Kelleytown Stadium field and later died at a Hartsville hospital.

Crolley said there will be no sort of remembrance at today’s game at the request of Hartsville. “They said they appreciated it, but they remember him with his uniform, and they want this to be about football,” he said.

GATORS from Page B1 champion Hartsville 30-27 in overtime.

Parks lamented his team’s inability to make plays at critical times against the Monarchs.

“We dropped two passes in the end zone; there were three or four long passes that we dropped,” the secondyear head coach said. “We turned it over in the red zone (inside the Manning 20-yard line) one time, we had a bad snap at the 1-yard line. Those were things that could have changed the outcome of the game.”

Lakewood quarterback Roderick Charles, who was returning from injury, completed just 7 of 30 passes for 112 yards. However, Parks wasn’t upset with Charles’ play.

“There were only about three or four of the (incompletions) that were his fault,” Parks said. “He was extending plays with his legs out there; he was working hard. When he does that, we’ve got to be able to catch the football.”

Marlboro is led by quarterback London Johnson.

The junior threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns while running for 71 more yards against Hartsville.

Parks said the Bulldogs spread the field offensively and generally work out of an empty backfield. That affords Johnson the opportunity to run or throw the football.

“He’s a special player,” Parks said of Johnson. “He’ll throw it if the receiver is open, but he’s such a great athlete that where he’ll really hurt you is with his feet.

We’ve got to be able to contain him. We need to get pressure on him, but we can’t let him get out on the edge.”

Parks is hoping his young team will have a chance if it finally puts things together.

“We need to go out there trying to put together four quarters of football,” he said. “If we do that, we have a chance. We’re never going to be a top program in this region if we don’t start doing that.”

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RECRUITING

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

Lattaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stanley to announce college choice today visit with USC. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also considering Tennessee, LSU and Mississippi.

OL Chad Mavety (6-feet6-inches, 330 pounds) of Nassau Junior College in New York has taken an official visit to Florida State and will visit Alabama and Ohio State officially.

USC is one of several schools under consideration for those two final trips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recently (USC assistant) Coach (G.A.) Mangus called me and said they want me, they need me,â&#x20AC;? Mavety said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They think their tackle is going to leave and they are only going to recruit one JUCO offensive tackle and they think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m that guy. They want me to come in there and step in right away and lead that offensive line at left tackle. They are not coming at me just for fun. They need me. They said they are going to recruit me real hard and are going to come up and see me soon. They think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m extremely talented.â&#x20AC;?

Mavety said Ohio State, Alabama, FSU and Tennessee have been recruiting him the hardest in recent months, but he said USC has a decent chance to get one of those visits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely going to consider them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to hold that against them. I know how the recruiting game works, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m mature enough to understand that. I definitely have to look into it more and talk with (USC OL) Coach (Shawn) Elliott. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll figure out if I want to go down there and check it out and see if it is the place for me.â&#x20AC;?

Tennessee and Texas A&M are two other schools heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considering for those visits. Mavety is a native of Sparta, N.J., who did not sign with a school out of high school. He will graduate in December and will have two years to play two.

Juniors: DB Kaleb Chalmers of Greenwood High has been to games at Clemson, USC, UGA, Tennessee and UNC. He has offers from Clemson, USC, UNC, Duke, Stanford and Tennessee and is hearing from Wake Forest, NCSU and UGA aong others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clemson, North Carolina, Duke, Tennessee -- Wake Forest is showing me a lot of interest -- those are probably the top schools showing me the most interest right now,â&#x20AC;?

Chalmers said. He does not have any favorites. Chalmers could visit Clemson and/or USC again this fall, but does not have any definitive plans.

DE Chauncey Rivers of Stone Mountain, Ga., committed to USC in July, and said he remains firmly committed.

However, other offers continue to come in and Clemson is pushing pretty hard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are contacting me real hard and want me to come up there,â&#x20AC;? said Rivers, who is hearing from Clemson assistant Marion Hobby. He was at USC on Saturday and plans to

be at USC for the Clemson game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very strong, real firm,â&#x20AC;? Rivers said of his USC commitment. Rivers has picked up recent offers from UK, Missouri, Vanderbilt and Ohio. He also has offers from Florida and Auburn along with USC and Clemson.

OL Brian Chaffin of Charlotte was at USC on Saturday.

He has offers from Mississippi State and Charlotte and is also hearing from USC, Clemson, UNC, NCSU, WF, Duke and East Carolina among others.

His previous game visits were to Duke and ECU, and he plans to visit Clemson, Vandy, Tennessee and Northwestern among others.

One of the most heavily recruited linebackers in the country is Ricky DeBerry (6-2, 240) of Richmond, Va. He has 44 offers, including Clemson and USC. Some of the others are Florida, Ohio State, Southern California, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Phil Michigan State, KORNBLUT Wisconsin and Iowa. DeBerry visited Clemson for the UGA game and got a good feel for the place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the game day atmosphere and I like the school in generalâ&#x20AC;? DeBerry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the coaching staff. (Head) Coach (Dabo) Swinney is a great guy, a players coach. It was pretty special for me.â&#x20AC;?

DeBerry was at Tennessee on Saturday and will go to Penn State for the Nebraska game. He hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visited USC, but said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very interested in them as well.â&#x20AC;? He plans to visit more schools then narrow his list next spring. He also wants to get to Ohio State, Nebraska, and some other southern and western schools. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also going to visit the two instate schools. DeBerry does not have favorites at this point.

DB Jarius Morehead (6-1, 185) of Whitsett, N.C., attended a Clemson camp in the summer of his freshman season and liked what he saw. The Tigers remembered him and recruiter Robbie Caldwell recently scouted one of his games. He liked what he saw and made Morehead an offer from the Tigers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He told me the whole staff liked my highlight tape,â&#x20AC;? said Morehead, who has not been back to Clemson since, but hopes to get in for a game this season. Morehead also has offers from NCSU, UNC, Tennessee, ECU, Charlotte, WF and Georgia Tech. He said NCSU is showing a lot of interest, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also getting a good push from UNC. He does not have favorites and plans a decision for the beginning of his senior season.

WR Shaddell Bell (6-3, 195) of Atlanta made his first ever trip to Clemson for the WF game. He had previously been offered by the Tigers and now everyone recruiting corner

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atta High School offensive lineman Donell Stanley is ready to reveal his college decision. Stanley has known his choice for a couple of weeks and has set today at 1 p.m. at his school for his announcement Stanley had a final four of South Carolina, Clemson, North Carolina and Alabama and actually narrowed his decision to the two in-state schools.

USC wide receiver target Braxton Berrios of Raleigh, N.C., made an official visit to Tennessee over the weekend, and he will now work on his final decision. He also took officials to USC, Miami and Oregon and he will choose one of those four. The announcement is expected to come on Saturday.

USC running back target Derrell Scott made an official visit to Tennessee over the weekend as well. USC and North Carolina State are the other top contenders for him.

The Gamecocks and Wolfpack have been out front.

Blythewood High linebacker Jalen Williams decided a grayshirt offer from Clemson, with a chance for a scholarship in the 2014 class, was a better option than an immediate scholarship from Appalachian State, so he announced a commitment to the Tigers last week.

He also strongly considered Towson.

Williams also had offers from Wofford, Presbyterian, Furman, Coastal Carolina, Charleston Southern, Air Force and Campbell, but the chance to play at the highest level was too much to ignore. Williams camped at Clemson last summer and it was then that the Tigers ramped up their interest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was the best performance I ever had, at a camp at Clemson that day,â&#x20AC;? Williams said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What stood out was the way they went out on a limb to offer me. Coach (defensive coordinator Brent) Venables and (recruiter) Jeff Davis and a couple of other guys off the Clemson staff, I caught their eye. I love everything about Clemson.â&#x20AC;?

An added connection in this case is Clemson recruiting coordinator Jeff Scott, a former head coach at Blythewood.

Last season, Williams had 102 tackles with eight for loss and three quarterback sacks. He tentatively became the 18th commitment for Clemsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class.

Former USC commitments senior defensive back Wesley Green and junior defensive end Arden Key of Lithonia, Ga., were at the Kentucky game on Saturday. The teammates are still strongly considering the Gamecocks as they look at other options as well. Green was at Georgia for the Louisiana State game and will take an official visit with the Bulldogs. He also will set an official

else has to catch Clemson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clemson is my favorite,â&#x20AC;? Bell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Southeast and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only about two hours away.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved Clemson. My top two are Clemson and Tennessee, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still looking at other schools and the best fit for me. I can see myself picking Clemson, but you never know what can happen on a day-today basis.â&#x20AC;?

Bell plans to return to Clemson for the FSU game. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also been to Auburn this season. He could have a decision in the spring. Last season, Bell had 27 catches for 250 yards and six touchdowns.

Junior linebacker Austin Bryant of Thomasville, Ga., has a Clemson offer and is planning to visit for the FSU game. His other offers are FSU, GT, Ole Miss, NCSU and Vandy. He visited Auburn for its season opener and was at UGA a week later when USC was in town.

Athlete RayRay McCloud (5-9, 175) of Tampa, Fla., has been to Clemson twice for camps and has an offer from the Tigers, as well as one from USC. He also has offers from Florida, Arizona, UK, Louisville, Ole Miss, South Florida, Tennessee and Wisconsin. This season, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been to games at Florida and USF. McCloud plans to visit USC and Clemson at some point. He does not have favorites and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a decision at the earliest until the beginning of next season.

Last season, McCloud rushed for 1,383 yards and 13 touchdowns.

NCSU is the latest to offer junior WR Freddie Phillips of Pelion High. He was at a recent Wolfpack game. UNC was his first offer. Clemson has shown interest in Phillips, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been there for a game this season. He plans to get to a USC game as well.

DB Calvin Brewton (6-0, 175) of Miami has Clemson and FSU as his early leaders.

Brewton has yet to visit Clemson, but would like to make a game this season. Brewton has been to an FSU game. Clemson, FSU, USF, West Virginia and Louisiana Lafayette are his current offers with interest from several schools across the Southeast.

Basketball News: Clemson menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach Brad Brownell landed perhaps the most highly-touted recruit of his tenure with the Tigers last week in 6-8 Donte Grantham of Hargrave Prep in Virginia.

Grantham chose the Tigers over Michigan. Both coaching staffs were in to see him.

Grantham recently made an unofficial visit to Clemson. He made an official visit to Michigan in early September. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew Clemson is where I wanted to go earlier this week,â&#x20AC;?

Grantham said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came back home from my visit on Sunday, I sat down and thought about it and on Mon-

day I knew that Clemson is where I wanted to go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in Clemson for an unofficial visit last week. It was great. I went to the football game and it was really cool. I had a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;?

Grantham is a West Virginia native and was that stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s player of the year last year. He made an official visit to Clemson last spring, and the Tigers had been hard after him ever since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just love everything about it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just family up at Clemson,â&#x20AC;? Grantham said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the atmosphere, I love the coaches, I just love everything about Clemson. Clemson has also been there since Day 1 and that means a lot to me.

Also, playing in the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) is something that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always dreamed about. Playing in the ACC is second to none.â&#x20AC;?

Grantham averaged 18 points and nine rebounds per game last season.

Hamilton added that the year of experience at the prep school will benefit Grantham once he gets to Clemson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an older kid, a post-graduate this year, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the age of a sophomore next year. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing with a bunch of guys around him who are super talented so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get pushed daily. I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to step in and help that program. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tremendous passer and a great teammate.â&#x20AC;?

Grantham also considered Cincinnati and WVU in his final group. He is Clemsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second commitment for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class.

USC target Donte Buford of Jacksonville, Fla., made an official visit to Oklahoma over the weekend. He is scheduled to visit Miami this weekend and USC the first weekend in November. Buford is a Simpsonville native and has been hotly pursued by Gamecock head coach Frank Martin.

Juniors: 6-10 Derrik Smits of Zionsville, Ind., and 6-6 Bronson Kessinger of Cordyon, Ind., visited Clemson for the WF footall game. Smits is the son of former Indiana Pacers star Rik Smits. Clemson has offered along with Butler and Xavier. Kessinger has offers from Indiana State and Evansville and is also getting a lot of interest from Purdue.

DeSean Murray, a 6-5 player from Mount Holly, N.C., committed to Presbyterian.

Baseball News: Catcher Jared Martin of Chattahoochee Valley JC in Phenix City, Ala., committed to USC on Sunday. Martin visited USC over the weekend. He also visited UGA last month. The Atlanta native batted .354 with three home runs and 45 runs batted in last season. Defensively, Martin committed just one error and threw out nine of 17 runners attempting to steal.

Martin gives the Gamecocks 14 pledges in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class.

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OBITUARIES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

ALBERTA McFADDEN NEW ZION — Alberta “ABC” Oliver McKenzie McFadden, 69, widow of James McFadden, died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at Kingstree Nursing Facility, Kingstree.

She was McFADDEN born Nov. 26, 1943, in New Zion, a daughter of the late David and Carrie Ham McKenzie. She attended the public schools of Clarendon County. She was employed as a nurse’s assistant for many years in Bronx, N.Y. Survivors are five sons, Tyrone Walker, Michael (Sandra) McFadden, James (Denise) McFadden, Cory (Sabrina) McFadden and Micheal Davis, all of New York City; one additional daughter-in-law, Sonya Steed of Florence; three sisters, Carrie McKenzie and Johnnie Mae (Lee Ernest) McCray, both of Kingstree,

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and Mary Alice Cooper of New Zion; one brother, Willie McKenzie; 13 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Celebratory services for Mrs. McFadden will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Howard Chapel AME Church, Old Manning Road, New Zion, with the Rev. Oliver Davis, pastor, officiating, and the Rev. Jerome McCray presiding.

Mrs. McFadden will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time.

Burial will follow in Goodwill Freewill Baptist Church, 649 Hebron Road, Cades.

The family is receiving friends at 10700 Black River Road, New Zion.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

JAMES E. TONEY BISHOPVILLE — Funeral services for James Edward Toney, who passed away on Oct. 4, 2013, will be held at

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12:30 p.m. Saturday at New Zion AME Church with the Rev. Archie S. Temoney officiating.

Burial will follow in Broad Branch Cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at 126 Shaw St., Bishopville.

Funeral services are entrusted to New Life Funeral Service LLC of Bishopville.

Online condolences may be sent to www. newlifefuneralservice. com.

ROBERT WILLIAMS BISHOPVILLE — Funeral services for Robert Williams, who passed away on Oct. 4, 2013, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Lisbon Presbyterian Church.

Burial will follow in Broad Branch Cemetery. The family is receiving friends at 29 Dooney Lane, Bishopville.

Funeral services are entrusted to New Life Funeral Service LLC of Bishopville.

Online condolences may be sent to www. newlifefuneralservice. com.

SANDRA T. THOMAS CAMDEN — Funeral services for Sandra T. Thomas, who passed away on Oct. 8, 2013, are incomplete at this time.

The family is receiving friends at 15 Lila D Lane, Camden.

Services are entrusted to New Life Funeral Services LLC of Bishopville.

Online condolences may be sent to www. newlifefuneralservice. com.

MARY KATE J. YARBROUGH Mary Kate Jones Yarbrough, 68, wife of James Mims, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at a local nursing center.

Born in Pamplico, she was a daughter of the late William James Jones and Queen Esther Barrineau Stone. Mrs. Yarbrough was a member of Lakeside Out-

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reach Church and the retired owner and operator of Lighthouse of Hope homeless shelter.

Surviving are her husband of Sumter; three sons, Jeffery Yarbrough and David “Rusty” Yarbrough, both of Sumter, and Gary Yarbrough of Manning; two sisters, Betty Jean Adams of Coward and Angie J. Griffin of Sumter; 11 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Ronnie Yarbrough; three sisters; and two brothers.

Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Pinewood Cemetery with the Rev. Kenny Griffin officiating.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home of the Rev. Kenny Griffin, 20

The Fifth Annual Sumter Sunrise Rotary 5K Run/Walk will be held on Saturday, Oct. 26.

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. at Rotarty Centennial Plaza located at the intersection of Main and Liberty streets. The race will start at 9.

The registration fee is $20 for those who register by Oct. 19. It is $25 thereafter. Children age 10 or under compete free of charge.

For more information, go to http://www.sumtersc.gov/sumter-sunrise-rotary-5k-runwalk.aspx.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Recent repaves enrage drivers

BY DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Pat Warren brought a chunk of asphalt into the media center at Kansas Speedway last year and dropped it onto a table with a thud that seemed to reverberate throughout the room.

It was compelling evidence of the need to repave the racetrack.

Speedway president understood that the sideby-side, multi-groove racing that had made Kansas a favorite among drivers would be jeopardized by replacing the decade-old asphalt with fresh stuff.

But he also knew that the risk of having another softball-sized chunk of pavement coming up during a race, and maybe smashing into a car at 200 mph, wasn’t worth it.

“The general perception of drivers is not positive about repaves,’’ Warren said. “They worry about what the track is going to be like when they come back.’’

It’s a worry that proved valid in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race.

Race winner Kevin Harvick said it was like driving on a “razor blade.’’ Runner-up Kurt Busch and third-place driver Jimmie Johnson called it “treacherous.’’

Chase contender Kyle Busch, who has crashed out of each Sprint Cup race at Kansas since last year’s repave, may have been most harsh.

“The racetrack,’’ he said, “is the worst racetrack I’ve ever driven on.’’

Roughly a dozen tracks on the Sprint Cup

circuit have undergone repaves in the last decade, most out of necessity. Pavement tends to slip down the grade over time, resulting in seams in the corners, and big chunks like the one found at Kansas create safety hazards.

One of the most infamous issues was the gaping pothole that developed during the 2010 running of the Daytona 500, causing a delay in NASCAR’s signature race.

The new surfaces solve that problem, but it also creates new ones.

There isn’t enough abrasiveness on the new asphalt to lay down rubber, and that keeps cars from sticking in the corners. The result is a single-file parade rather than the passing that makes races exciting.

The repaves also have produced higher speeds, and more heat in tires, and that’s led to concerns about blistering and overall durability.

Goodyear has developed a “multi-zone’’ tread in part to deal with repaves. It has two distinct sections, one intended to provide grip and the other to provide durability. But finding that happy medium between traction and tire wear is proving to be a challenge.

“They continuously put the tire company and the competitors in a box with the type of asphalt they put on the track,’’ Harvick said. “Goodyear has done a fine job of putting together a tire with the cards they’re dealt, but we still have a lot of issues.’’

Leeds Court.

Online condolences may be sent to www. sumterfunerals.com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

GENE DUNCAN Gene Duncan, 69, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at Agape Hospice Facility, Columbia.

Born July 1, 1944, in Lee County, he was a son of Lizan Holloman Duncan and the late Rev. Henry Duncan.

The family will receive friends and relatives at the home of his mother, 50 Duncan Road, Rembert.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

AREA SCOREBOARD ROAD RACING SUMTER SUNRISE ROTARY 5K

Kyle Busch called the repaved Kansas Speedway the worst track he’d ever driven on. Several other drivers were none too pleased with it, either. After a wreck-filled race on Sunday, drivers are pleading with NASCAR to look at new ways to resurface racetracks.

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TURKEY TROT

Registration is being taken for the 31st Annual Turkey Trot 5K and Gobbler Dash to be held on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28.

The fee is $20 for a runner who registers by Nov. 25 and $10 for each additional family member. Late registration (Nov. 26-28) is $30 per individual and $15 for additional family members.

The race is free for children ages 4-9.

There will be prizes for all participants and awards to the overall top three finishers. T-shirts are only guaranteed for the first 300 early registrants.

Check-in will be at 8 a.m. with the races starting at 9.

There will be special prizes and awards for the craziest hat, ugliest shots, most decorative water bottle, oldest and youngest finishers, first dog and first stroller across the finish line, the person that traveled the farthest and the Stan DuBose Award for the oldest finisher.

To register online, go to www.ymcasumter.org.

For more information, call (803) 774-1404 or go to www.facebook.com/SumterYmca.

BASKETBALL YMCA CHURCH LEAGUE

Registration for the YMCA of Sumter Church Basketball League is under way and runs through Oct. 25.

There are leagues for boys and girls ages 3-15.

For children ages 3-4, the cost is $25 for a member and $40 for a potential member. For ages 5-15, the cost if $40 for a member and $75 for a potential member.

Practice begins in November with the season running from December through February.

For more information, call the YMCA at (803) 773-1404 or visit www.ymcasumter.org.

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The Wateree Basketball Officials Association is holding South Carolina High School League Basketball Officials Association training classes for prospective officials on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at the Sumter County Recreation Department located at 155 Haynsworth Street.

The classes are necessary to officiate middle school, junior varsity and varsity high school games. Each training class will cover National Federation rules for high school basketball, South Carolina Basketball Official Association mechanics, and SCBOA exam preparation.

The state wide clinic and exam will be held on Nov. 16 at Lexington High School.

For more information, contact Granderson James, at (803) 968-2391 or by email at grandersj@aol.com.

GOLF KUBALA MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

Registration is now open for the Charlie Kubala Memorial Golf Tournament, which will be on Monday at Beech Creek Golf Club.

For more information or to register, go to www.sumtersheriff.org where online registration and payments are available or call Lt. Lee Monahan (803) 436-2161.

ETC. EAST CLARENDON STATE TITLE TEAMS

The East Clarendon High School athletic booster club is inviting all members of the school’s past state championship teams back for a special ceremony on Oct. 18 at Shad Hall Field in Turbeville.

All players, coaches, surviving family members of former players or coaches and anyone associated with the Wolverines’ state championship football teams of 1940, 1965 and 1985 and the state championship baseball teams of 195860 are invited to a pregame dinner prior to EC’s homecoming contest against C.E. Murray. A special pregame ceremony will be held to recognize all in attendance.

The 2013 state championship softball team will be recognized at tonight’s football game against Timmonsville during a special halftime ring ceremony.

For more information, contact Rusty Green at (843) 659-8801, Suzie Alexander at (843) 6592126 or Dwayne Howell at (843) 373-0305.

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The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) Sumter Section will meet at 5 p.m. today at Morris College. Call (803) 773-1987.

The Devine Sistas of PrettyGirlsRock Social Club will hold its second Pink Heel Walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Patriot Park. Call Audrika at (803) 406-5917 or Contessa at (803) 795-9553.

A giveaway and free dinner for the community will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at 186 Green Lane, Bishopville. Giveaway items include: clothing; shoes; end tables; lamps; television; books; Bibles; and more. Call (803) 4283488.

Neighborhood Associations will have an “Empowering Our Neighborhood Celebration” noon-4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct.12, at South Sumter Park, Sumter Street. Call (803) 730-5089, (803) 840-4690 or (803) 7747776.

The Gamecock Shriners 3rd Annual Music Fest will be held noon-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Gamecock Shrine Club, 1865 U.S. 15 South. Bands include Southeastern Way, 4 Way Stop, Reazon and more.

Cost: $5 per person.

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The Rembert Area Community Coalition (RACC) will hold its Second Annual Dinner Gala Affair 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Union Baptist Church Family Life Center, 5840 Springhill Road, Rembert. Tickets available at Imports LTD, 9 N. Main St.; Rembert Welcome Center, 8455 Camden Highway, Rembert; or at 14 Hospital St. Contact Dr. Juanita G. Britton at (803) 432-2001 or jbritton@raccinc.org or Lottie Spencer at (803) 883-4532 or lottiebspencer@yahoo. com.

Glowing Hearts Doing Their Part, a 5K nighttime charity run and walk to benefit Special Olympics, will be held 9 p.m.midnight Saturday, Oct. 12, at Dillon Park.

Registration begins at 8 p.m. Entry fee: $20 for individuals or $35 for couples. Call Deputy Jennifer Mays at (803) 436-2046 or visit www.sumtersheriff.org.

The Dalzell COPs will meet at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Ebenezer Community Center, 4580 Queen Chapel Road and the corner of Ebenezer Road, Dalzell. Call (803) 469-7789.

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Can National Geographic rescue its legacy?

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH

A “Furry Family Meet & Greet” will be held 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Dillon Park Pavilion. Sponsored by SPOT (Sumter Park of Tail-Waggers), event will feature goody bags, Connie Wilson Photography, pet professionals, and a “howl-o-ween” costume contest. Call (715) 966-5472.

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The National Geographic Channel reminds viewers of its core mission with the special “National Geographic Photographers: The Best Job in the World” (8 p.m., National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild, TV-PG).

The documentary commemorates the National Geographic Society’s magazine on its 125th birthday by showcasing the men and women who have spanned the globe, ascended mountains and plunged to the bottom of oceans to capture and bring home unforgettable images.

The magazine’s editor, Chris Johns, catalogs the dangers his people have faced at the hands of angry mobs, vengeful dictators, wild animals, and plane and helicopter crashes.

“Job” introduces viewers to the artists behind photos like the fearful “Afghan Girl,” taken by Steve McCurry.

Steve Winter relates how he took a shot of a rare one-horned rhino just as the tanklike creature was attacking him and the elephant he was riding.

Emory Kristof shows us the cameras he specially devised to scour the Atlantic floor and discover the Titanic’s gravesite.

Other photographers take us face-to-face with King Tut’s cadaver, a human trafficker and the faces of poverty in a Peruvian village.

These mini-profiles are sprinkled lightly on the hour’s main story, which follows an expedition to the top of one of Antarctica’s unexplored mountains. And here the rather depressing conventions of cable television take

over. While the still photographers and their works are treated with reverence, the mountain climbing team is championed as a band of adrenalized dudes.

Although some subscribers allow issues of the magazine to accumulate into giant yellow piles on their shelves or basement floors, National Geographic has always been a special publication. It wasn’t only a monthly, but an invitation to became a member of the National Geographic Society, an organization dedicated to exploration, science and discovery.

That’s what makes the National Geographic Channel’s broadcast of shows like “Doomsday Preppers” all the more disappointing — and toxic to the National Geographic Society itself.

“band of brothers” speech at Agincourt.

• Director Ron Howard documents a 2013 music festival featuring Jay Z in “Made in America” (9 p.m., Showtime).

• A conspiracy theory may help explain everything on “Hawaii Five0” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• The sitcom “Love That Girl” (9:30 p.m., TV One) returns for a second season.

• All in the family, all of the time on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC) profiles Pakistani teen and education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by Taliban militants.

• A new affliction changes people’s minds on “Haven” (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

Tonight’s Other Highlights

A campus rebellion puts a professor (Anthony Quinn) in charge in

the 1970 drama “R.P.M.” (6:15 p.m., TCM). AnnMargret co-stars.

Series Notes A new anchor woman on “The Michael J. Fox Show” (8 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG) * Comparison shopping on “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Special humans with superpowers are “The Tomorrow People” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Intimate apparel on “Sean Saves the World” (8:30 p.m., NBC, r, TV-14) * Out-of-thisworld makeovers on “The Neighbors” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Abbie’s sister escapes on “Sleepy Hollow” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Love song dedications on “Shark Tank” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

Late Night Cult Choice Nacho Figueras, Chris Franjola, Cameron Esposito and Gary Valentine appear on “Chelsea

• Game one of the National League Championship Series (8 p.m., TBS).

• “The Hollow Crown” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings) concludes with Shakespeare’s “Henry V” and Henry’s famous

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LEGAL NOTICES Beer & Wine License Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that PAS Enterprises, Inc. intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of Beer, Wine & Liquor at 2742 Paxville Hwy., Manning, SC 29102. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than October 27, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110

SUMMONS AND NOTICE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2013-CP-43-149 LIS PENDENS NO.: 2013-LP-43-290

containing 3.01 acres, more or less, on a plat by Edmunds Land Surveyors, RLS, dated July 25, 1991, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 91, at page 1343, the said lot being bounded, now or formerly, and measuring according to said plat as follows: NORTH by Lot No. 2, said plat, and measuring thereon 225.88' feet; EAST by Queen Chapel Road and measuring thereon 287.68' feet; SOUTHEAST by lands of the City and County of Sumter and measuring thereon 358.23' feet; and, SOUTHWEST by lands of the City and County of Sumter and measuring thereon 255.0' feet; and, NORTHWEST by Lot No. 1, said plat, and measuring thereon 325.0' feet, be all measurements a little more or less and according to said plat. This property is currently designated as Sumter County TMS#233-00-02-004.

Michael P. Morris (SC Bar #73560) Eve Moredock Stacey (SC Bar #5300) Robert P. Davis (SC Bar #74030) William S. Koehler (SC Bar#74935) Vance L. Brabham, III (SC Bar #71250) Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893) Andrew A. Powell (SC Bar #100210) J. Pamela Price (SC Bar # 014336)

PLAYER & McMILLAN, L.L.C THOMAS E. PLAYER, JR. ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF 305 NORTH MAIN STREET POST OFFICE BOX 3690 SUMTER, SC 29151-3690 (803) 775-2306

SUMMONS (Claim and Delivery) (Non-Jury) IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2013-CP-43-1554

Green Tree Servicing, LLC f/k/a Green Tree Financial Servicing Corp., a Limited Liability Company under the Laws of the State of Delaware Plaintiff, v.

Caroline B. Spears and Shantel Spears Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE-NAMED:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Robert L. McCants, Plaintiff, vs.

Thurgood Stevenson and Francis Stevenson, and any and all unknown persons who claim any right, title or interest in the property described in the Complaint, hereinafter referred to as "John Doe", Defendants.

DEFENDANTS

Summons & Notice

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

Summons & Notice

TO THE NAMED:

Summons & Notice

ABOVE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this Action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber, at 305 North Main Street, Post Office Drawer 3690, Sumter, South Carolina, 29151, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service.

If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, not less than ten (10) days after the time for answering has elapsed, Plaintiff will apply for an order referring all issues in this action, whether, matters of fact or law, or both, to the Master-in-Equity for Sumter County and for a hearing before him, who shall enter final judgment.

TO ALL OF THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, INCLUSIVE OF ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT, INCLUSIVE OF SUCH PERSONS WHETHER INFANTS OR UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY, AND IN THE CASE OF INFANTS UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN (14) YEARS OR PERSONS MENTALLY INCOMPETENT, TO THEIR PARENTS OR THE PERSONS WITH WHOM THEY RESIDE, OR THEIR CONSERVATOR, IF THEY HAVE ONE,

TAKE NOTICE THAT PAUL A. WEISSENSTEIN, JR., POST OFFICE BOX 2446, SUMTER, SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 29151, HAS, BY ORDER FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT FOR SUMTER COUNTY ON OCTOBER 3, 2013, ALONG WITH THE ORDER OF PUBLICATION, BEEN APPOINTED AS GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI FOR ALL DEFENDANTS IMPLEADED HEREIN WHO MAY BE INFANTS OR UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY. THAT UNLESS YOU APPLY FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN AD LITEM TO REPRESENT YOUR INTEREST IN SAID ACTION WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER THE SERVICE OF THIS NOTICE UPON YOU, EXCLUSIVE OF THE DATE OF SERVICE, THE ORDER APPOINTING PAUL A. WEISSENSTEIN, JR., ESQUIRE, AS GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI WILL BECOME ABSOLUTE. THE ORIGINAL SUMMONS, COMPLAINT, AND NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION, WERE FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OR COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR SUMTER COUNTY ON THE 3rd DAY OF October, 2013.

THIS IS AN ACTION TO QUITE TITLE TO AND PARTITION THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT. THE COMPLAINT IS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon the Complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants and that said action is brought pursuant to 15-53-10 through 15-53-140, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), said action being generally designated as Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, for the purpose of determining that Robert L. McCants is the fee simple owner of the below described property and for the further purpose of barring any claims, if any there be, of all unknown persons who might claim any right, title, estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein, pursuant to 15-67-10 through 15-67-100, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976). The premises affected by said claim in the action thereby commenced were at the time of the commencement of this action and at the time of the filing of this notice, described in the Complaint, as follows: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with any improvements thereon, lying, being and situate in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being more fully shown and delineated as Lot No. 3,

YOU ARE HEREBY required to Answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, to serve a copy of your answer to said Complaint on the persons whose names are subscribed below at Post Office Box 4216, Columbia, South Carolina 29240, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service hereof, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on August 27, 2013 at 9:50 a.m.

B. LINDSAY CRAWFORD, III THEODORE VON KELLER SARA C. HUTCHINS ADAM SCHANZ Crawford & Von Keller, LLC Post Office Box 4216 Columbia, SC 29240 (803) 790-2626 Green Tree August 22, 2013 Columbia, SC

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 13-CP-43-1176 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Flagstar Bank, FSB, Plaintiff, v.

Christopher S. Wilson; Jenny D. Dennis; Daniel M. Dennis, III, a/k/a Daniel M. Dennis; Francesca G. Wilson; Defendant(s). (010853-00504) SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Waived TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Francesca G. Wilson: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 4325 Live Oak Road, Dalzell, South Carolina 29040, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 1920001026, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 220 Executive Center Drive, Suite 109, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein. Columbia, South Carolina September 9, 2013 NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Sumter County, South Carolina on July 11, 2013. Columbia, South Carolina September 9, 2013 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC. Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice. You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date you are served with this Notice.

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, THE FORECLOSURE ACTION MAY PROCEED. Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Samuel C. Waters (SC Bar #5958) Cheryl H. Fisher (SC Bar #15213) Reginald P. Corley (SC Bar #69453) Jennifer W. Rubin (SC Bar #16727) Ellie C. Floyd (SC Bar #68635)

In Memory

THE ITEM Found: female basset hound on Ketch Ave. off Kingsbury Rd. Owner call to identify 983-2832.

Lost: male brown lab mix in the area of Patriot Pkwy. Wearing a camo collar. If found call 983-8434

BUSINESS SERVICES

220 Executive Center Drive Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina September 9, 2013 A-4420454 10/11/2013, 10/18/2013, 10/25/2013

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Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747.

PETS & ANIMALS

SBC Construction Decks & Fences, Screen Porches, Sun Rooms, Flooring, Concrete, Top Soil, Water problems, Insulated Windows. Free Est. 795-6046

Great Dane puppies for sale $400 Call 803-473-5338

All Types of Roofing & Repairs All work guaranteed. 30 yrs exp.

SC lic. Virgil Bickley 803-316-4734.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements Looking for people who have had LYME DISEASE. Call 803-481-8826 43nd Annual George Edward & Rhoda Victoria Andrews Richardson Family Reunion Sun, Oct. 13th, @ 1:15pm St. Marks UMC. Vicki 773-8008

Mrs. Rosa Bell Harrell 11/13/33-10/11/04 You were my world, my inspiration and my heart. But when you left me I thought I would fall apart. I would have given anything to have you back, but I know it was meant to be. For you are still watching from Heaven. And I know you are watching over me. Love, Peaches, Tayshawn, your sons , daughters, grandchildren & brother John Sweet kitten picked up by Animal Control at a local Piggly Wiggly.

Currently being fostered. Please call Kimberly 316-3884 to identify.

STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721 The Tree Doctor Any size tree removal & stump grinding. Trimming & clearing. No job too big or small. Call 775-8560 or 468-1946. We accept credit cards and offer senior discounts

AKC Maltese pups, 9 wks.

Shots/dewormed UTD M $350 F $400 each. Call 803-499-1360 to get your baby & his baby bag today.Health guarantee in writing.

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MERCHANDISE Sweet Potatoes Approx. 70 lbs Box $22.00.

Call 803-473-3355.

U-PICK PEAS $10 per bushel, Bloomville Rd Manning about a mile past Oak Grove Church on the left, watch for sign, Call 803-473-8896.

Moving Sale! 1062 Lemon Ave Manning (Hwy 260 twd Dam Right on Patriot Rd Left on Lemon Follow signs) Sat 7-2

Large Fossilized Brain Coral.

Very Rare and hard to find. Perfect for students. $6.00.

Call 803-469-2689

LARGE GARAGE SALE 1st & 3rd Weekend Tables $1 & Up

Firewood for Sale Face cord $80, Smaller loads available 803 651-8672

FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Open every weekend.

905-4242

Multifamily Yard Sale 2350 Bethel Church Rd., 7:00 A.M. until 12:00 Furn, children's books, teacher supplies, stuffed animals, sewing machines, computer, monitors.

Lakeside Market Wedgefield Rd. Bananas 3LB $1.00 Thurs. Fri.

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales 1230 N. Lafayette Dr. Sat 8AM. Dog Pen, computer, desk, lots of stuff.

4 family: 3100 S Wise Dr. Noon Fri. to Noon Sat. Men/Women clothes, tools, golf clubs, furn., books. Country Flame Fireplace door, Christmas yard deer, Cabinet hardware, hshld goods.

Massive Multi family sale.

2855 Bend K Dr. Dalzell, Sat. 8 am - 1 pm. Halloween/holiday decor, craft items, too much to list.

Panda's Thrift Store Closing Sale: Box Sale: Oct 11th-17th, AUCTION: Oct 19th, 9AM.Yard Salers & Vendors welcome. Come Make Me A Deal! 803-968-6550 Sumter County Flea Mkt Hwy 378 E. 803-495-2281 500 tables. Sat. $8 free return Sun. 30 Wilshire Ct.(off W Oakland) Sat 7:30-1 No Early birds!

Ladies Petite, boys clothes, furn, bikes & more.

Yard/Bake/Hot Dog Sale Lemira Church, 514 Blvd Rd. Sat 7 am - 1 pm. Lots of treasures at bargain prices. Proceeds fund mission projects.

Multi family 590 Brutsch Ave. Patriot Landing Subd. Sat. 7-12.

ATVs, Motorcycle, & more

2184 Avalon Dr. Multi-family, Sat. 8 am - ? Furniture, knick knacks, other misc. items.

3679 Bloomville Road, Manning, Oct 12 Indoor Garage Sale, 8am-12. Tools, girl clothes/toys, movies, ect.

Gigantic Five Family Yard/bake/Craft Sale, Fri/Sat 8-2. Hshld goods, toys, furn, tools, antique candy case, commercial clothes steamer, homemade bread, cakes, cookies, Halloween, Christmas wreaths and gifts. Over 500 ceramic molds, greenware, bisque, and 2 kilns. All at yard sale prices. 30 Haley Ave, 2 miles past McLaughlin Ford on Hwy 15N towards Bishopville on the right.

Three Family Sale: 3110 Bear Track Circle (Kel-sam farm 5 mi. past Wal-mart 521N) Sat 8-12 Furn., linens, kitchen items, rugs, clocks, toys, dishes, crafts, Baked good, BBQ, Hot Wings. No Early Sales!

2335 Treetop Lane, Remodeling/yard sale. Sat. 8 am - 11 am.

Household items, ext. doors, lots of misc. items.

Multi Family Sale 1826 W. Oakland Ave. Sat. 7:30-until. Lots of good stuff!!

30 Sunhurst Ct. Sat. 7 - 11 am.

Cleaned out closets, attic, storage unit. Small appliances, furniture, kerosene heater, toys, baby items, clothes for all ages. Can't list it all.

Come see if there is something for you.

110 Frostwood Ct Sat & Sun 7-1 Furniture, Hshld items, clothes, curtains, Etc..

Estate Auction, Sat. Oct. 12 10am 481 Wilson Hall Rd. (Deerfield) Sumter.Details at www.aucti onzip.com ID#14336 Odom Auction Co. SCAL# 627 (803)433-2696 The Trading Post 3550 Camden Hwy, Dalzell, open Fri. 12 - 5 pm & Sat. 8 am - 2 pm.

Buy, Sell or Trade. 803-847-1805

309 W. Bartlette St. Sat Oct 12th. 9am-1pm. Furn, framed art. clothes, etc.

17 Rushmore Ct Sat 8-until roll-top desk, Furniture, Hshld items, leather jackets & more!

2880 Peach Orchard Rd, Sat. 7-12. Clothes, shoes, small hshld items and more.

317 Burns Dr Sat 7am-3pm Furn, tools & lots of Misc. items

106 Lindley Ave. Fri/Sat. 7-1 crib, comp. desk, tv stand, clothes,appliances, hshld & more 1775 Anburn Dr. Sat Household misc items.

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Large Bennefit Yard Sale for church friend fighting cancer Sat 7am-noon Boundry St Manning near Primary School.

2655 Camden Hwy, Sat. 7:30AM. BR set, leather couch, TVs, mower, kitchen items, Nordic Track, Lg fussball table, bicycles.

Lots of good clothes, shoes and much more.

Sumter Christian School yard sale. 420 S. Pike West, Sat. Oct. 12th. 7AM-1PM

210 Best St. Inside sale. Sat. 6 am - 12. Furniture, collectibles & other misc items. Downsizing!

Sale Sale Sale Get ready for the holidays.

Scarves, jewelry, fall & holiday wreaths & center pieces. Sat. 9 - 2 at the corner of Lynam Rd & Wedgefield Rd. (at the fruit & vegtable market).

2655 Indigo Dr. - McCrays to Kolb to Indigo. Fri 8-2; Sat 7-2.

Lots of variety - 2 family sale.

820 Bay Springs Dr. Sat 8 - 1.

Dvd's,Cat supplies, clothes, treadmill Come see!

1163 Briar Bend St Sat 7-2 Washer/Dryer, couch, Kit. Appliances & hshld items 3420 Green View Parkway (Lakewood Links) Near Club House 3 families, hshld , toys, games, clothes (sm-plus sz, Men & Women), Decor items, Nortake China, (Daphne Pattern), Oneida, Silver plate, (Service for 8), DVD's ornaments, Village, Tons of shoes & purses. Lots of misc. Priced to sell. Sat. 7 am -1 pm.

Huge Yard Sale Sumter Senior Services 110 N. Salem St Fri 8-12 Sat 7-12 Desks, office chairs, conference tables, cubicles dividers, glasses, refrigerators, freezers, ice machine, computer monitors, individual heating & air units, many misc office supplies & utensils. All Sales Final. First come first served.

Multi Family 661 Pringle Dr Sat 7-? Clothes, Hshld items. Lots of Misc!!

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL SALE Last chance... Friday, Oct 11th, 8 am - 5 pm & Saturday, Oct 12th, 7 am - 12 noon Everything priced to sell!!! Old Geddings Hardware building, 110 N Brooks Street, Manning CASH ONLY!!

Price Good Through 10-12-13

Web Designer Needed We are looking for a Part time Web Designer to maintain and update two company websites.

Hours 9AM-2PM. Mail resume and samples of work to: ATTN: Web Designer Position, 2381 Hwy 441, Suite C, Sumter, SC 29154 Exp. Auto Tech needed IMMEDIATELY. Must have tools, driver's license & work experience.

Apply in person 601 Broad St. Springhill Suites by Mariott seeking General Manager with management experience. Please email resume to: springhill2014@gmail.com Family Store Managerneeded.

Must have 2-5 yrs exp. in retail and be able manage store daily operations. Benefits are plus.

Please apply in person at 16 Kendrick St. Full time Administrative Assistant needed with Quickbooks & Bookkeeping experience required.

Apply in person @ 1282 N. Lafayette. No Phone Calls Please.

Covenant Place of Sumter (Medicare Part A certified) is now looking for quality candidates.

Come work for a community with a person centered approach to care where we treat our elders with dignity and respect in a home environment.

Opportunities: Full-time Day RN/LPN Full-time Night RN/LP Or Apply in person Covenant Place of Sumter 2825 Carter Rd Sumter SC 29150 (NO PHONE CALLS) EOE Assistant Manager needed by Sumter branch of World Acceptance Corporation. Valid drivers license and auto required. A career opportunity that offers excellent salary and a complete fringe benefit package. Promotion to manager possible within 15 months. No experience necessary. Apply in person at: World Finance, 45 S. Main St. EOE, M/F. Ask for Monique Glisson.

Taking Applications for a RediMix Truck Driver, CDL Class B License Driver and exp. req. Call Thomas Concrete at (803)433-8357 or come in to apply 630 S. Mill St. Manning.

PT LPN To work in Sumter Lee Jail Medical Unit Excellent Pay! Must have Clear Background. Apply online at www.southernhealthpart ners.com We Run Errands,odd jobs and housekeeping. Manning & Sumter Area. 803-983-3438 Vintage Toy Repair Call Mark C. Smith @ 803-464-0153 for Free Estimate.

Drivers HOME WEEKLY & BIWEEKLY EARN $900 - $1200/WK BC/BS Med. & Major benefits No Canada, HAZMAT or NYC! Smith Transport 877-705-9261.

2BR/2BA apt located in town near Sumter Mall. 803-236-5953. 1/2 off 1st month rent.

2BR 1BA, 25 Cuttino, All appliances & water furnished. $525/mo + dep. 983-9465 or 773-6655.

Newly Renovated Apt.at Wyboo Lakefront 3BR 1.5 BA Washer Dryer Conn. All appliances. incl. dishwasher. $750 Mo. Right past Lanes store on 260. Apprx. 20 mi. from Continental Tire. Call 803 773-6655 or 803 983-9465 Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO 3BR 1BA stove & refrig. Near Lakewood High School $450 Mo+ Dep. Call 469-8328 or 983-9711 Safe & Nicely Updated 2BR home. Water, dumpster, sec. lights inc'd. Conv. Shaw. No H/A or PETS! $485/mo + $350/dep. 803-968-5329

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Pinewood LR, DR, office, 3BR 1.5 BA huge yard Great House! $675mo./dep 803-494-4220 or 972-3110 3BR 1BA Brick Home for rent near Lakewood High. $550 Mo/Dep. Call 494-2270 1 David Ct 2BR 1BA $550 Mo & Dep. Call 803-210-9299 Taking applications for 2 & 3 BR Mobile homes. Large Rms, Clean, quiet areas $350 -$550 Mo. No pets. Call 803 840-5734

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Price Good Through 10-12-13

Beautiful Large triple wide MH on Lake with dock. 3BR 2 BA lrg den w/fireplace owner financing with small down payment. Call 803-795-6572

Nice 3BR/2BA SW on 1 acre. 5 min. to Shaw, all appl's, yard maint. incl. $600/mo+dep.

983-0371

STATEBURG COURTYARD

3BR/2BA on Old 521. Owner Financing. With large down payment. 803-983-8084

2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

Available Nov. 1st, 4000 sq ft space at Gamecock Plaza on McCrays Mill Rd. Good for furniture store or medical office.

Bobby Sisson 464-2730.

REAL ESTATE 4BR 2BA MH LR , Den W/fireplace, Large Fenced backyard, Dalzell Area. Payments Approx $375 MO. Owner Fin. with $7K Down. Call 803 236-5953

FSBO 5 Coulter Dr. Wedgefield, Cozy, Quiet, 3br 2ba DW, den w// fireplace, like new, priced drastically reduced to $54,900. Please call (803) 468-6029.

Manning Country Club 2 or 3 acers w/pond, Ready to build.

Serious inquires only.

Call (803)473-2499 or (803)460-9070

RECREATION

Deer Cob Corn for Sale 50Lb bag $7.00 (Will Deliver- 50 bag min) Call 803-938-2945

TRANSPORTATION

MUST SELL, MAKE OFFER. 1102 Manning Rd. 3BR//1BA, C//H//A renovated. Hardwood floors. Fenced Backyard. Easy Financing. 775-4391, 464-5960

2005 Ford Freestar, good cond., complete service last month. Runs good. Good gas mileage. Below 90,000 miles. Asking $5900. Call 803-494-4220 or 803-565-0056 Big Fall Special 150 cars $5,000 or less $$$ CASH $$$ Price is Right Auto Sales 3210 Broad St 803-494-4275 1994 Toyota Pkup needs transmission $800 cash only Call 495-3037 A Guaranteed Credit Approval AUTO LOANS

Ren. 1387 Raccoon Rd. (Lee Cty) 3BR/1.5BA. C/H/A 1,200sqft, also has approx 2,200sqft, 4rm bldg. on an add'l ac avail. Fin avail.

775-4391 464-5960.

We will arrange financing even if you have been turned down before.

Loans available for no credit, bad credit, 1st Time Buyers & Bankruptcy buyers. No co-signers needed. Call Mr. Ashley Brown at 803-926-3235

We buy junk cars, batteries, any old appliances, used running cars & any kind of junk . 803-236-0253

MUST SELL, MAKE OFFER: 411 N. Magnolia, renovated.

C/H/A. Garage, workshop & shed. Comm lot facing LaFayette. Fin Avail. 775-4391/ 464-5960

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2003 Volkswagen Passat

$9 995 GOODWIN AUTOMALL #30"% 45 r 46.5&3 4$

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GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2010 Nissan Cube

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3BR/2BA (Dalzell). Owner Financing. Requires $7,000 down.

803-983-8084

LOW CREDIT SCORE? Been turned down for bad credit? Come try us, we do our own financing.

We have 2-3-4-5 bedroom homes on our lot. Layaway program available. For more information, call 843-389-4215.

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GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2009 Jeep Patriot GOODWIN AUTOMALL

Mobile Home for Rent: 2 BR, 2 BA, $425 mo. + dep. off Pinewood Rd. 803-481-5592

GOODWIN AUTOMALL Price Good Through 10-12-13

GOODWIN AUTOMALL

Scenic Lake 2Br, 2Ba & 3 Br, 2 Ba. No pets. Call between 9am 5pm ONLY! (803) 499-1500.

$14 995

Price Good Through 10-12-13

$11 995

2 & 3 BR units avail. Water, sewer, stove/frig., C/H/A, Rent Starts $475/mo. 803-773-2588 No Sec. 8 & No pets

3600 Dallas: Dalzell, 3BR, 2BA. Big Lot. Big storage & workshop. 1/2 ac lot. Financing Available. 775-4391, 464-5960

For Rent 3 bd 1 ba house Home Branch Paxville area $675 month/deposit (803)473-7577

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2012 Toyota Camry

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1165 McArthur Dr 2BR 2BA $425 Mo/Dep. Call 775-2344

3BR/2BA Den w/fireplace, fenced yard, quiet neighborhood.

803-983-7865.

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2008 Honda CR-V

$10 995

American MHP, 2 & 3/BRs, lot rentals, water/sewer/garbage pkup inc'd. Sec. 8 ok. 803-494-4300.

Newly renovated Apts. 2BR All new appliances C/H/A, $650/mo, 7A Wright St. Call 803-773-5186 or 631-626-3460

2 Cherokee Rd. Fri 12-4, Sat 7-3.

Electronics, Hshld goods, furniture & misc. items.

Craftman 2 Bin Bagger for lawn tractor, like new $180 OBO Call 803-607-9696

Oaklawn MHP: 2 BR M.H.'s, water/sewer/garbage pk-up incl'd.

RV parking avail. Call 494-8350

RENTALS

2, 3 & 4/BR's Trailers for rent, Cherryvale & Dogwood Area $250 & up. (803) 651-9926

A/C People Special: Buy on Freon, R22, 30lb Cylinders. MUST SELL! Call Dixie Products for special pricing. 803-775-4391

1 & 2BR remodeled MHs. Appl. incl., heat pump. Water, sewage & trash P/U provided. $300 $330/mo+ dep. (803) 464-3437 or 464-7937, 12-8 pm.

Sewing Machine repairs. Over 30 yrs exp. Will come to your location. Call Mark C. Smith @ 803-464-0153.

PT Custodian hours 8 am - 12:30 pm Mon - Fri. Apply at Sumter County Library by Oct 20th.

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2003 Ford Focus

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Have An Outgoing Personality?

Like working with people? H/S or higher education? Willing to work afternoons and evenings - Sumter Mall? Then apply by writing: SALES, P.O. Box 102, Sumter, SC 29151. Send resume and why we should hire you.

Driver Trainees Needed Now! Learn to drive for US Xpress! Earn $800+ per week! No experience needed!

CDL -Trained and Job-Ready in 15 days! 1-888-263-7364

109 Lindley Ave. Sat. 7AM-?.

Multi Family Sale. Clothing, misc items & much, much more.

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2003 Honda Element

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$$$ AVON $$$ FREE TRAINING! 803-422-5555

Multi-Family Yard Sale: 940 Winston Rd. Sat. 7AM. Something for everyone.

4920 John Franklin (off Eagle Rd) Sat 7-12, Aquarium w/cab.

Leather sofa, tv, clothes, misc.

GOODWIN AUTOMALL

Going Out Of Business. All items at Wholesale price. Suzuki 4 wheeler, 14ft Duracraft, motor & trailer, 1997 EZ-Go Golf cart, 2009 EZ-GO Golf Cart.

Call 803-236-2605

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

Part-time Medical Assistant needed. Please send all response to P-Box 336 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

The SC Army National Guard wants High School Juniors, Seniors, Grads and GED holders, and Prior Service! Ask about college tuition. Receive paid technical training and more while serving your Country and Community on a part-time basis. Call now for this great opportunity!

SSG Michael Wright 803-667-0985 SSG Lorraine Lordy 803-360-1979

Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600. Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364

$9 995

Computer desk $45. 2 - Side tables $25 ea. Computer chair, $15. Desk $25. Antique sofa. Call 469-8444 leave message.

HUGE YARD SALE: (Ashbrook Subd). 20 McIntosh Ct., Fri/Sat 7-1.

Kids toys, clothes, & lots more.

317 W. Hampton Ave Multi-family yard sale. Sat., Oct. 12th, 8 am - 12 noon. Furniture, teen & adult clothes, books, Avon, household items, & many other misc. items. Lots of items & priced to sell!

Freewill Baptist 971 Blvd Rd. Oct 10, 11th 12th 7Am -until Hot dogs, drinks & sweets,

BIG AL'S 2013 New Crop Sweet Potatoes. For more information Call 803-464-6337.

$13 995 GOODWIN AUTOMALL #30"% 45 r 46.5&3 4$

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