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Jones scores 26 for East stars

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

Kenyatta Jones put on an offensive show in his last high school basketball game Saturday.

The 2011 Byhalia High School graduate scored a game-high 26 points and was named the Offensive Player of the Game in the Northeast Mississippi Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game.

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Photos by Ronnie Day Ballpark fun Kizer Bottom Dirt Drag and the Rugrats recently met in 6 and under Marshall County Dizzy Dean baseball action. (Above) Brayden Clifton hustles toward first base after hitting the ball. (Above, left) Markavious Faulkner takes a big swing at the plate. (Above, right) First baseman Jacob Staggs stretches for the ball as Cagney Tiffany tries to reach the bag. For more photos from the game, click here.

Bearcat places in NCAA’s top 10

Rust College track and field team member Demeatrick Clayton, of Vaughan, placed ninth out of 20 participants in the high jump at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships, Saturday, May 28, in Delaware, Ohio.

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Bougard, Fayne get awards at Georgia meet

Two Byhalia athletes, competing with the Memphis Mustangs Track Club, received the Most Outstanding Young Men and Young Women Athlete Awards.

The honors came at the fifth annual Mark Trail Flying Eagles Memorial Day Invitational (USATF Youth Meet) on May 28-29 in Locust Grove, Ga. (Atlanta area).

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Behind The Scoreboard
By Claude Vinson

NBA and French Open

It is not very often that we mix apples and oranges in this column but once in a great while, it does happen. In this case it is entirely necessary.

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Tournament champions

Byhalia’s 10 and under softball team placed first in the Marshall County Preseason Tournament. In back are coaches (from left) Daniel Ables and Michelle and Chad Feathers. Players are (middle row) Breonna Lewis, Abigail Sidle, Makayla Ables, Hailey Edwards, Danielle Hanks and Paige Smith; and (front row) Rachael Lester, Carey Becker, Macey Bass, Taylor Rooker, Brianna Ables and Brittany Feathers.

MA hosts football camp next week

Marshall Academy will host a football camp June 13-16 for second through seventh graders.

The camp will be led by new head coach Barrett Donahoe and other members of his staff. It will focus on fundamentals.

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West Union’s Bynum signs with BMC

Austin Bynum of West Union High School, one of Mississippi’s top high school and junior golfers, recently signed a scholarship with Blue Mountain College.

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All-star cheerleaders

Marshall Academy junior high cheerleaders (from left) Wesleyann Ray, M.C. Hutchens and Cheyenne Bolden were selected as junior high all-stars after the recent camp. They will go to Houston, Texas, later this year and cheer in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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