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he is there teaching class and practicing for two-and-a-half to three hours, and on weekends, he’s in the dojang all afternoon. It’s an “addiction” for Delmastro. “I pretty much go when I like I’m not doing anything,” Delmastro said. “I have work, and if I’m not working I have band, and if I don’t have band, I go (to the dojang.)” His journey with Taekwondo began years ago, when Delmastro turned eleven. His older brother, Andrew was taking Hapkido from Kama when Delmastro saw him participate in a demonstration. “After that, I had questions about it,” Delmastro said. “He told me that master Ra offered Taekwondo too, so Andrew and I started Taekwondo at the same time.”

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The Oxford School District Department of Special Education teaches and prepares students with disabili-ties for their future. The journey from education to post-education living can be difficult. Dr. Patricia Austin, Director of the Department of Special Education, believes that students with dis-abilities require more than academics in order to get the skills they need to become independent members of society. “With a lot of kids with disabilities, we have got to be able to offer these kids everything we can possibly do so that when they are an adult, they are not as de-pendent for everything, so that they are independent people in the community,” Austin said. “Hopefully, they can go to college and get a job, and that’s why it’s so important. If we just focused on academics, we would miss that connection to adult living.” To provide these students with skills outside of aca-demics, Austin wrote a BOLTS grant, which stands for Building Opportunities for Transitions and Suc-cess. This grant funded $48,000 this year to the De-partment of Special Education for activities and pro-

grams that provide students with disabilities skills for their “transition.” “Transitions, when we speak of it with students with disabilities, is preparing those students to go from the school environment to post-school environment which is adult living,” Austin said. “We are preparing students to go to college, go to a job or go to a Techni-cal Training Program. This is teaching them skills so that they can be independent in the community.” The grant supports six transition activities this year,one of which is “Transition Videos.” “With the videos, the intention was to do some short movies about jobs that are available within the communities whether the job is a chain, McDonalds is one that is in many communities, or it could be jobs unique to Oxford such as Holli’s Sweet Tooth. The in-tention is to give students an idea of what is involved when you work at those kinds of places.”That’s where the the OHS Broadcast Media depart-ment comes into the picture. “(The broadcast department) puts together the Transition Videos, which are about things students who are in the Special Education department could do after they graduate,” OHS Broadcast Media advi-sor Marni Herrington said. “(The broadcast students)

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music and the voice of a female an-nouncer set the backdrop for robots facing off in an enclosed competi-tion area. The objective is to trans-port plastic rings from the edge of !"#$%&&'$!&$!"'##$'&()$&* $+#,)$&-$.$board in the center through manual control of the robot or pre-pro-gramming. Fifteen OHS students discuss strategy around their robot.

The inaugural Mississippi FIRST Tech Challenge robot-/0)$ 0".1+/&-)"/+$ (.)$ "#23$ /-$ 42#$Miss’s Jackson Avenue Center on March 2. Junior Mark Zhao says 23 teams from around the state par-ticipated in the event in the hopes &* $5#0&1/-,$&-#$&* $ !(&$ !#.1)$ !&$qualify for the FTC World Champi-onship in St. Louis.

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6<$ !"/-E$ (#$1.3#$ .$ )&2/3$ ':-$0&-)/3#'/-,$!".!$(#HF#$-#F#'$+.'!/0/-pated in this program before,” Zhao said.

He says the team hopes to ad-vance to the national competition next year, but that result can only 5#$ .00&1+2/)"#3$ (/!"$ !"#$ "#2+$ &* $.$ 3#3/0.!#3$ !#.1$&* $ )!:3#-!)>$("&$.'#$(/22/-,$!&$+2.-$.-3$+:!$/-$+'.0-!/0#$!/1#$.-3$".'3$(&'EB$I#/3?$).?)$he provided guidance and took care of logistics for the team, but relied greatly on the help of Dr. Mike D&))/-,>$.$0"#1/)!'?$+'&*#))&'$("&$".)$ +'#F/&:)2?$ (&'E#3$ (/!"$ J#,&$League robotics teams.

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SRO at OHS is “different from being on the street” doing pa-!'&2$(&'E$*&'$!"#$4M*&'3$T&2/0#$Department. “There is a lot less paper-(&'E>$ 0&1+.'#3$ !&$ +.!'&2>G$Weekley said. “Out there you -#F#'$'#.22?$E-&($(".!$?&:$.'#$getting into, and here you gen-#'.22?$E-&(B$ <-$ !"#$ )0"&&2>$ /!$ /)$more routine.” Weekley says his job in-volves taking care of security issues. “Here I just mainly am a +'#)#-0#$(/!"$!"#$)!:3#-!)>$1.E-ing sure the building is secure,” Weekley said. “It is just making sure that you are all safe.” Before he came to Oxford, R##E2#?$(.)$.-$CI4$/-$!"#$R.-ter Valley School District from 2006 to 2012. He says his status .)$ 0#'!/A#3$ CI4$ (.)$ +.'!$ &* $!"#$'#.)&-$"#$(.)$0.22#3$!&$"#2+$Thomas out at OHS. Weekley says that be-ing an SRO in Water Val-2#?$(.)$-&!$F#'?$3/**#'#-!$from being one in Ox-ford, except for student body size. “The high school in Water Valley may have 600 k i d s , ” Weekley said.

In contrast, OHS has 958 students total. Thomas says he hopes to have even more SROs come into the district to “keep kids safe.” 7"#$ -#($ &*A0#')$ (&:23$ 0&1#$from the Oxford Police Depart-1#-!>$("/0"$ &F#')##)$ !"#$ CI4$(&'E$ #F#-$ !"&:,"$ !"#$ CI4)$(&'E$/-$!"#$)0"&&2$3/)!'/0!B$7"#$V#+.'!1#-!$ /)$ .2)&$("#'#$ -#($&*A0#'$R##E2#?$0.1#$*'&1B$ 6R#$(&:23$2&F#$!&$".F#$&-#$in every school, and I see that in the future possibly,” Thomas said. $ =!$!"#$-#($"/,"$)0"&&2>$)#-0:'/!?$ (/22$ 5#$ 1&'#$ 3/*A0:2!$ !&$E##+$:+$(/!"B$ 67"#$ -#($ )0"&&2$ (/22$ 5#$F#'?$(/3#2?$)+'#.3$&:!>G$7"&1-.)$)./3B$6R#$3#A-/!#2?$(/22$-##3$!&$ )#+.'.!#$ &:'$ &*A0#')B$ 7"#'#$(/22$ 5#$ .$ 2&!$ &* $ '&:-3/-,$ .-3$covering a lot of territory.”

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have gotten footage of custodial jobs, bus driver jobs, and we’ve gone out in the community to places like Ace Hardware and Holli’s Sweet Tooth. We get footage of the job skills needed to work all of the jobs. We ‘splice’ the video together.” OHS Special Education student Mack Hall, as part of his transition, assists in the making of the videos by recording the “voice over” for the videos. “What Mack does is he narrates the videos,” Her-rington said. “He tells the skills that someone from the Special Education Department would need to work at that job.” “I’ve heard good reviews,” Dr. Charles Dodson, Principal of the C.M. Scott Center, said. “I had the chance to see one of his broadcasts that was with one of the local stores, Holli’s Sweet Tooth. It was interesting and intriguing.” Hall has also taken part in various “community-based” training programs at many of the business that the videos have highlighted.

“(Hall) has, over the summer, done training at Holli’s Sweet Tooth,” Austin said. “He did training at Vincent’s Boot and Shoes. He also did Sneed’sAce Hardware.” Hall thinks that the Transition Videos are impor-tant and that the “need to work hard” is important in being part of society. Austin stresses the importance of community sup-port for the not only the Transition Videos, but for the BOLTS grant. “Getting everybody working together along with community support is critical,” austin said. “If we didn’t have the support of the community and they weren’t willing to open there doors, we would have a much more difficult time. We need to keep going out and talking with businesses and showing them that we’ve got a lot of great kids with great skills that will make great employees. We’ve got kids that will do well in college.” Hall currently is participating in a “community-based” program at Baptist Memorial Hospital where he works in the food service department. Austin says “he is doing very well and enjoys it.”

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R . I . P.

G a n g n a m

Style. All

hail “Har-

lem Shake.”

This inane

30-sec danc-

ing meme

has revolu-

tionized the

commercial

music mar-

ket, and all for the better. Though

Baauer’s actual composition “Har-

lem Shake” only has a fraction of

the amount of views as the most

popular 30-second memes, the

music itself is arguably deeper in

meaning than the wildly thrash-

ing dance videos, namely in that

Baauer’s piece constitutes a blatant

parody of modern popular music.

Incidentally, this makes Harlem

Shake just like Gangnam Style;

however, while Psy’s “Gangnam

Style” satirizes pop music’s shallow

materialism through its sardoni-

cally sumptuous lyrics, Baauer’s

Harlem Shake seems to spoof pop

music through musical structure

itself.

Compared to the intricate

variation and development inher-

ent in classical music, commercial

songs have followed an inexorable

trend of deconstructivism for de-

cades; while Sinatra crooned over

lush quasi-Romantic harmonies

and Coltrane created a veritable

classical framework for jazz, songs

by everyone from Elvis to Usher

have done nothing but revolve

incessantly around a short riff, a

four-bar chord progression, or a

couple of samplings repeated over

and over and over again. How far

can this lazy “minimalism” get?

Not much farther than in “Harlem

Shake,” which simply blares out a

vuvuzela-like synthesizer wiggle

throughout the entire song.

Various reviewers have de-

scribed Harlem Shake as painstak-

ingly building up to a climax, and

then “thrashing about” afterwards

without direction for another one

and a half minutes. Basically, Har-

lem Shake tries to achieve inter-

nal organization, but even when

it makes the listeners expect a

change, it refuses to go anywhere,

looping right back to the impish

synthesizer blare and bass bounce.

Though these reviewers hit upon a

good point, what they don’t seem

to realize is that every other Bill-

board Top 100 song does the same

thing. Every song has verses and a

chorus that loop around over and

over. Maybe the key shifts and

maybe the refrain gets louder, but

does the music go anywhere differ-

ent? Not at all.

Commercial music seems

to have a penchant for lyrics both

malaprop (“You were Romeo - I

was a scarlet letter” – Taylor Swift)

and shallow (“Mommy got a boom

bang bing bang ding dang” – Pit-

bull); somehow, even though cash-

stuffed celebrities just can’t seem

to find meaningful lyrics, listeners

simply buy into it. Harlem Shake

epitomizes this with its annoy-

ingly repeated sample “Con los

terroristas,” putting billions of

people in the throes of a thrashing,

lion-growling pro-Taliban rave.

Bin Laden wouldn’t have possibly

imagined how popular being “with

the terrorists” could become.

And ironically, all this shame-

less eschewal of aesthetics in Har-

lem Shake makes Baauer’s song all

the more effective. The synthesizer

is hypnotizing, the bass is a guilty

pleasure, but above all, “Harlem

Shake” is bare-bones – no senti-

mentalism, no clichés, no extra-

neous trash - it has everything it

needs to make it work, and abso-

lutely nothing else.

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I passed

my book-

shelf with

all my

childrens’

books, and

I realized

how long

it has been

since I had flipped through

their pages. I miss them - af-

ter all, they were like friends

that guided me through

childhood. Maybe, though,

they are still with me. Lately,

I feel like the closer I am to

making decisions about my

future, the less I know what I

want to do. I find myself re-

lying on what I’ve learned in

these childhood stories.

I was nine when my sis-

ter read me The Phantom

Tollbooth. The story was of a

bored little boy named Milo

who finds a tollbooth in his

room. He passes through the

tollbooth to find adventures

in a magical land. I was fas-

cinated, and in the way that

children confuse stories with

reality, I waited for a toll-

booth to appear in my bed-

room.

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already I

was see-

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ments of

the far off

land ev-

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When I

heard the

boy down

the street

practicing

the drums

at night, I

thought of

the mon-

ster, Din,

who only

w a n t e d

to be ap-

preciated.

Whenever

I caught

m y s e l f

spacing out in class, I scared

myself out of my daydreams

with images of the gray

Doldrums. I imagined what

sounds looked like, from

sneezes to laughter.

The tollbooth never ap-

peared in my room, though.

With Milo, I had already

wandered the streets of

Digitopolis and Dictionopo-

lis and found the Princesses

Rhyme and Reason. I learned

to see the world as an indi-

vidual and magical place.

Numbers weren’t just quan-

tities, but treasures, more

valuable than gems. Words,

as the Faintly Macabre knew,

were equally as valuable and

powerful when wielded with

prudence. Nothing, neither

colors or perspective nor

sounds, came freely.

I’ve grown up since I

first read the book, and obvi-

ously I’m no longer afraid of

the Doldrums. However, the

idea that every facet of life is

a kingdom worth exploring

has not left me. When I see

deepening sunset, I may not

think of the Maestro orches-

trating the violins to paint

the skies, but still a sense of

appreciation remains, that

the colors in the world are

thoughtfully given and done

in beauty. What other colors

have I yet to see, I wonder?

In many ways, The Phan-

tom Tollbooth opened my

eyes to the world around

me. As I grow up and have

more serious adventures of

my own, its lighthearted and

whimsical message has reso-

nated even more strongly.

I entered the world be-

yond the tollbooth when I

was nine, and I never left.

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Track & Field Event Guide

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“Freshman 

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Distance includes the 800 me-

ter dash, 1600 meter dash,

and 3200 meter dash. The

800-meter dash is equivalent to

two laps around the track. The

1600-meter dash is equivalent

to three laps around the track.

The 3200-meter dash is equiva-

lent to four laps around the

track, or one mile.

Relays iclude 4x1, 4x2, and 4x4. The

4x1 event is a relay in which runners run

in lanes over one lap of the track with

four runners completing 100 meters

each. The 4x2 is a relay in which teams

of four runners each run 200 meters

each. The 4x4 event is a relay in which

teams comprise four runners who each

complete 400 meters or one lap.

Long jump is an event in

which athletes combine speed,

strength, and agility in an at-

tempt to leap as far as possible

from a take off point.

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step and jump or the hop, skip

and jump, triple jump is a track

and field sport, similar to the long

jump, but involving a “hop, bound

and jump”; the competitor runs

down the track and performs a

hop, a bound and then a jump into

the sand pit.

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field athletics competition, in

which an athlete throws a heavy

disc—called a discus—in an at-

tempt to mark a farther distance

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a pushing motion) a heavy spherical object —the shot—as far

as possible.

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High Jump is an event in which competitors

must jump over a horizontal bar placed at

measured heights without the aid of certain

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“Shelby has hit 6’ 2” 

in the high jump and 

he’s only going to 

get better.”

­Chris Bush

   

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to get their 

extensions and 

work on their 

phases”

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“Our top 

guy there is 

Darius

Liggins”

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“Mike 

McGhee is 

going to have 

to step up for 

us.”

  ­Chris Bush

Sports Briefs:Power Lifting

The powerlifting team recently broke the region and North Half re-cord for team points, and they are preparing for state after qualifying nine lifters. “This has been the best season in the history of Oxford powerlifting,” assistant coach Chris Cutcliffe said. “We’ve been lift-ing 5 days a week, because we’re going to have some tough competi-tion at state.”

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hile many kids spent Spring Break on the beach or at the lake, the Oxford baseball team hosted their annual

Spring Break Tournament. The tourna-ment provides teams from the surround-ing areas, along with a few from out of state, an opportunity to play for free, and gives teams in Mississippi the chance to be on track to reach at least 27 games at the end of the regular season. “You’ve got to play during Spring Break,” head baseball coach Chris Baugh-man said. “If you don’t, you’re not go-ing to get your twenty-seven games in be-cause of the stipulations MHSAA has on it. MHSAA only allows one game during the school week from Monday through Thursday, unless there’s a rain out, so if you don’t play during Spring Break you’re going to be cut short of your allotted amount of games.” The tournament also provides the members on the team an opportunity to bond outside of school, along with pre-paring them for division play. “I think it does help the team come together and build camaraderie,” senior !"#$%&'%()*"+'(%&),"(+%()-./'0 “It gives us a chance to get a lot of reps in and get us out of a slump,” senior catcher Henry Webb said. “It’s a big con-$'%+1%)2!!-#%().+')/-).)3!!')4.5)#!)3%#).)winning streak going into division play.” The Chargers went two-and-one in the tournament, coming from behind to beat Horn Lake 6-5 in extra innings, drop-ping a game 8-2 to a nationally ranked Christian Brothers team from Tennessee, and defeating cross town rival Lafayette. Baughman was impressed overall, but he felt his team could have played better de-fensively. “The Thursday night game was really 6"+78)9."3:;.+) -./'0) ) <=%)$+/-:%') !"()ball game against Lafayette at 1:15 a.m., and beat them 19-9 with a ten run rul-/+37)4:/1:) /-) #:%)$(-#) #/;%)>)1.+)(%;%;-ber Oxford doing that to them. Overall I was a little disappointed in how we played defensively. We’re pitching it well enough 6!() "-) #!)4/+7) '%$+/#%&5) -4/+3/+3) /#) 4%&&)enough for us to win, but we just keep giv-ing people runs defensively.” Baughman felt many players stood out throughout the tournament, but one senior stood out. “If we had to pick a player of the tournament for us it would have to be Wil-liam Elliott,” Baughman said. He came back from his wrist injury the Friday night before the tournament, and he had a really great tournament. I also thought Brooks Krouse did a good job moving from the bottom to the two spot, I thought Pittman Phillips did well at shortstop, and I think

Henry Webb and Hunter Roth swung well.” After the tournament was completed the team travelled to Tupelo high school to take on Tupelo and Starkville. The Chargers pulled away from Starkville 5-2, but lost to Tupelo 7-6. It was during this game that senior William Elliott suffered a gruesome injury. “He was having a great game,” Baughman said. “He had just made one of the best high school plays I’ve ever seen by laying out for a line drive and sav-ing two runs. After that he made another ?&.5)4:%(%):%)&!-#).)@5)2.&&)/+)#:%)-"+).+')slid to catch it. The play where he got hurt came at a time when we were up two runs. *6#%():%)3!#):"(#)/#)A"-#)'%@.#%')#:%)#%.;08

Elliott recalled the events of his accident. “We were tied with two outs, and I was thinking to myself, ‘if I catch it then we go in, hit, and win this thing,” El-iott said. “The wind was blowing pretty hard and I went all out to get the ball and caught it, but I hit the support bar on a chain link fence and I fell. I don’t really remember much except for slight pain and some blood running down my face.” The collision with the fence gashed Elliott’s chin open, knocked back a few teeth, knocked out a tooth, gashed his eye, and broke his alveolus ridge, which is the gum line. “I had surgery to repair my alveolus ridge, got stiches to my eye, and I’m going to have to have some dental work done,” Eliott said. “If my gum line doesn’t prop-erly reconstruct then I’ll have to get sur-gery again.” This is Eliott’s second major injury this year and requires him to miss some more time, but he’s hoping to come back as soon as possible. “I was so excited to be back and play,” Eliott said. “I was going a hundred percent in the Spring Break Tournament and the games after, but I think I might’ve broken a mirror or something because my luck seems bad. I’m on a strict liquid diet for two weeks, but I hope to be back soon.”) ,:%)#%.;)&!-#)#:%/()$(-#)'/B/-/!+)3.;%)to New Hope 8-0 last Tuesday and at the time of press had not played New Hope, Kossuth, or East Union.

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He’s the most winning coach in the history of Ole Miss basketball. He is one of two coaches to post an SEC record above .500 in his ten-ure. He only has had one year with-out post-season action, the same year he had his only season with less than 20 wins. Andy Kennedy has been the face of Ole Miss bas-ketball since 2007, when he turned around a dying program. It is not fair to be calling for his head on a chopping block dur-ing one of the craziest college bas-ketball seasons in years, when any other year, an Ole Miss team in the same situation would have easily locked in an at-large bid. I fully support Kennedy and the direction that he is taking this program in, and after one of the most thrilling SEC tournament vic-tories in the history of the tourna-ment, I think it’s time for the fans to -#!?)4.+#/+3):/;)#!)2%)$(%'0)C%D-)now made the NCAA tournament $%&'7) 4!+) .+) EFG) #!"(+.;%+#)and is still one of the best players coaches in his league. I was lucky enough to have tickets to the 2013 SEC basketball tournament in Nashville, and was able to attend every Ole Miss game, and then a few others. I have to say, the second half of the Florida game was the best-coached game I saw at the tournament, and was one of the best coaching exhibitions that I have seen from Kennedy. The #%.;)4.-)$(/+3)!+).&&)15&/+'%(-).+')listening to both the coaching staff, and one another. If the team played like they did during the second half of the Missouri and Florida games, I think that Ole Miss could have madce a run in the tournament past LaSalle. Even his coaching at the end of the game, by not calling the timeout put faith in his shooter and was the right call not to let the de-fense get set with a timeout call. Kennedy was recently named SEC coach of the year by NBC sports, and with greats such as Billy Donavan and John Calipari, be-cause the writers understand how '/6$1"&#)#:%)H&%)I/--);%+-D)2.-J%#-ball coach job is, and how impres-sive it is to string together 26 wins. Marshall Henderson is now the focus of an overwhelming amount of national media cover-age, and while most coaches would have a player that runs their mouth run endless laps around the gym, Kennedy understands Henderson’s nature. He was the coach that was willing to go and take a risk on a “trouble” player who had been to three different schools in three years. He also understands who this is the kind of excitement the pro-gram needs. He wants the program to deserve the recognition and con-tinue to be a national presence.

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TennisThe tennis, team defeated New Hope last Tuesday, and is traveling to Ridgeland on Wednesday to play Madi-son Central and Ridgeland. “We’re playing each other in practice, and we’re taking it very seriously,” junior Madison Cobb said.

InjuriesSenior William Elliott suffered his second major injury during a Spring Break game against Tupelo. Elliott collided with a sup-?!(#)2.()!+).)1:./+)&/+J)6%+1%)4:/&%)1.#1:/+3).)@52.&&0)),:%)1!&&/-/!+)gashed Elliott’s chin open, knocked back a few teeth, knocked out a tooth, gashed his eye, and broke his alveolus ridge. Elliott is on a strict liquid diet for two weeks and hopes to return soon.

Oxford’s golf team has high ex-pectations for the current season.

“Our goal is to win district and state, but we’d just like to sort of just blow

everyone else up as well,” senior Turner Arnold said. “We’re repeat-ing state champi-ons,” Coach Steve

Herring said. “The team has a chance to do something re-ally, really cool.”

Something that has contrib-uted to these high expecta-tions is the fact that the District and State tourna-ments will be hosted at

Oxford High school. This home field advantage is expected to give them a considerable boost. In addition, Coach Herring expects the team’s performance to heat up in direct correlation with the weather. “As soon as the weather turns and we can actually play on a de-cently warm day I think we’ll see some better scores right away then,” Herring said. “When the weather warms up the golf ball flies a little farther.” Coach Herring said that one of the most important things this year is the senior presence on the team. “Senior leadership is huge. We can’t go without Turner Arnold and Ward Toler this year. Those guys are our leaders. They have ex-tra pressure on them because they know they have to play. They set the pace,” Herring said. “I’m happy with it.” On Thursday, March 21 the Ox-ford Golf team competed against Tupelo.“We played Tupelo at the Universi-

ty field and got beat by five strokes, but we’re on schedule,” Herring said. “Your money time comes down to the district tournament, and then you have to qualify for state at the district tournament, and then the state tournament of course. You’re trying to get one stroke better every day until the state tournament.” “We lost to Tupelo, who is by far the best team not only in 5A but also in the state,” Arnold said. “With a full team we easily would have had a shot at winning.” Even though the team was not able to secure a victory, Turner Ar-nold had a very successful match. “I was the medalist, and Ben Hubbard won third,” Arnold said. “I birdied three of the last four holes to win.” The golf team looks to con-tinue play against New Albany on Monday, and will play Pontotoc later in the week as well. Starting in April the team will begin play-ing 18 hole matches as opposed to 9 hole, readying them for district.

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