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Rallying

MA’s Wesley Harris (back) is mobbed after scoring the go-ahead run in game one. Other Patriots include Will Patton, Anderson Sawyer (44), Josh Thompson (20), Jordan Brock (22) and Harris Gholson.

Patriots advance to final four
• Marshall meets Kirk for north half crown

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

Marshall Academy rallied in game one of the state playoff quarter-finals and dominated in game two.

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Behind The Scoreboard
By Claude Vinson

Lakers rolling

The first round in the best of seven in the NBA was concluded late Friday for all of the teams except two. The team which Doc Rivers has rejuvenated was forced to a seventh and final game in their series with the lowly but undaunted Atlanta Hawks. Even this writer never gave the Hawks a chance of going the distance with Boston.

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Concentration

Karina Mays, playing for Potts Camp in the 5- and 6-year-old league, focuses on the softball in Marshall County Dizzy Dean action.

Lady Pats host camp

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

The Marshall Academy Lady Patriots hosted a fast pitch softball clinic Sunday afternoon at the school.

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MA Patriots finish in top five at state meet

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

The Marshall Academy relay team had the highest finish in last week’s state track meet at Mississippi College in Clinton – winning second in two events.

Tyler Sanders, Wesley Harris, Tyler Childers and Hank Owens placed second in the state in the 800 meter relay (1:33.74) and the 400 meter relay (44.47).

John Tomlinson took fifth in the 110 meter high hurdles (18.44).

Wesley Harris finished fourth in the 100 meter dash and Tyler Childers fifth in the same event.

Harris also took fifth in the 200 meter dash.

In field events, Brent Adams placed third in the high jump, fifth in the long jump and fifth in the triple jump.

Lady Lions, Lions named to all-star teams

Four H.W. Byers basketball players have been selected to play in area all-star games.

Justin Owens and Marvin Rayford Jr., who play for coach Sylvester Kilgore’s Lions, and Marian Parker and Simone Ryan, who play for coach Jason Thompson’s Lady Lions, will have the opportunity to shine in the Northeast Mississippi All-Star contests.

The games are set for Saturday, June 7, at Itawamba Community College in Fulton.

Adams honored

The M-Club Chapter of the Ole Miss Alumni Association, along with various football support groups, honored several members of the 2007 and 2008 Rebel squads recently during Red-Blue activities. Quarterback Seth Adams (right) of Holly Springs received the Clower-Walters Scholarship for the 2007 season. The Clower-Walters Scholarship, going to an outstanding senior football player, was established in 1974 by the late humorist Jerry Clower to honor the late Carl Walters, a longtime Mississippi sportswriter who covered Ole Miss football.

Holly High athletes going to state

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

Five Holly High athletes will compete in the Class 3A state track championships this Saturday at Pearl High School.

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