“It feels good, we’re just blessed,” Sisk said after helping lead the Lady Chargers mile relay that secured the victory for the team. “Words can’t explain how good this feels.”

Sisk, who finished first in the triple jump with an amazing leap of 40 feet, 2 inches, was 2.25 inches off the overall record in the event set by former Ole Miss standout Brittany Reese. Ott then set a new class record in the pole vault with a mark of 10-0, a record that was previously held by her sister and former teammate Ann Crabtree.

Ott’s victory in the pole vault gave the Lady Chargers some breathing room over the Lady Pirates, who were only three points (72-69) behind heading into the final two events of the meet.

Ott said she knew how big her win was because she saw teammate Kristen Dickerson fall in the 100 meter hurdles and not able to record a point. She also knew that the 4×100 relay team fell during an exchange and finished last which resulted in only one point. She then got a huge hint how big her points were going to be when half the team showed up to watch her finish pole vault.

“I knew that was a big hurt when Kristen fell. I was vaulting during the 4×100 and saw Mary Helen (Rychlak) fall. After that, half the team came up to the fence to watch me vault. They wouldn’t tell me what was going on. They weren’t going to tell me that if me and Sally didn’t place first or get up with the Pearl girls that they were going to take the lead on us again,” Ott said. “They were sitting there and pushing me on. I had a feeling that me placing first was very important. I just tried and tried and finally I did it.”

“We got Coach (Jamie) Perkins, we’ve got Coach (Scott) Kendricks, they’ve been such a big help to us. We have a great group of girls. We all push ourselves so hard. Our school has never had a three-peat in track, boys or girls, so this was our first one,” Ott added. “We were going into it know that. Our whole senior class wanted to go out with a bang. We wanted everybody to step it up in their final game. We weren’t going to slack off in our sports. We wanted our senior year to be memorable and show the junior class coming up what they can do.”

For more on Lady Chargers’ win, as well as other information involving Oxford’s boys at Friday’s meet, see Monday’s Sports section. (May 12, 2012)

Hernando defeated the Chargers 7-1 to gain a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-three series that sends the victor on to the 5A North Half championship next week. The Tigers broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the third inning with four runs on three hits and an error. Oxford committed four errors in the contest, while Hernando starter Drew Rutledge held the Chargers to just four hits in his complete-game effort.

“We worked all week, talked about it all week, to see the baseball deep and hit it the other way. Make the right side of the field field it and some guys that we try to count on to do that didn’t do that for whatever reason,” Oxford coach Chris Baughman said about why he thought his team struggled offensively. “We had some real big swings from guys tonight that looked like they were trying to do too much. We didn’t do anything we asked them to do and it cost us.”

“(Rutledge) was good, he was spotting his fastball, he was throwing his changeup for strikes but he got us out on our front foot. We told the guys to stay back, stay back and we didn’t,” Baughman said. “Give credit to him, he threw a great game, but we didn’t rise to the level we needed to rise to in the final four of the North Half. We didn’t rise to that level, we didn’t play at that level.”

Oxford starter Steven Whitfield (6-3) went the distance as well for Oxford. He produced three innings where he sat the Tigers down in order but he also missed a few pitches that led to extra base hits for the Tigers, including two home runs for Trey Freeman.

“Steven is not the type of kid that can miss a spot and be OK. They had a big inning where he missed a spot on the home run. He missed a couple of spots. He was more effective later in the game and was spotting it up,” Baughman said. “I give them credit. I told our guys this bunch can play. They scared me ever since I came up here last Saturday to scout them. We just didn’t match the level that they played at. We’re going to try to come out (Saturday) and do that.”

Tonight’s second game begins at 6. A third game, if necessary, would be played at Hernando on Monday night at 6. (May 5, 2012)

Here is an inteview with Adamson following Friday night’s win that sent the Chargers on to the next round against either Hernando or Saltillo. For more on the Chargers’ big win, see Monday’s Sports section.

  (April 28, 2012)

http://foxnews.com/on-air/shepard-smith/index.html#/v/1579502066001/web-extra-shep-sits-down-with-the-new-york-giants/?playlist_id=86930 (April 27, 2012)

Whitfield logged 6.2 innings of work to earn the win. Whitfield finished with nine strikeouts against three walks. He didn’t give up a run until the sixth when the Chargers were already ahead 3-0. Luke Gibbs relieved Whitfield with two outs and an Indian on base in the seventh. Yazoo was unable to tie the game and force extra innings as Gibbs struck out Darius Wright, the second batter he faced, to end the contest.

OHS coach Chris Baughman said it was good to see his team earn the win over the Indians in the opener after entering the playoffs with back-to-back division losses.

“We came in limping a little bit like we did last year with back-to-back losses. That team right over there (Yazoo City) is scary. I knew it. I tried to tell our kids that his not your typical Delta team,” Baughman said. “Their pitcher did what he had to do. They’re very athletic. They swing it fairly well and Steven did a great job on the mound keeping them off balance. He threw well enough for us to win. It’s a big win, getting the first one out of the way and now going home to play.”

The Chargers (16-10 overall) never trailed in the contest as they scored a run in the top of the first inning and two more in the second on a two-run single by William Elliott. Yazoo got as close as two runs (3-1) in the bottom of the sixth, but the Chargers tacked on two more insurance runs in the top of the seventh.

Henry Webb lined a ball past third base and into left field to score a run, while an error allowed another run to score. Elliott, Webb and James Lear all had two hits in the game, while Lear led the Chargers with three runs scored. Michael Bianco recorded a double in the second and came around to score on Elliott’s single.

The Chargers’ second game with the Indians is at 3 p.m. at Edwin Moak Field. The winner of the series faces No. 1 seed Ridgeland in the next round. (April 21, 2012)

Three of the five teams in the division will advance to the 4A playoffs. Lewisburg leads the standings currently with a 5-1 mark. Senatobia, which split with LHS this year, is 4-3 while North Pontotoc is 3-3. New Albany is 1-3 in the division heading into tonight’s contest.

In the loss at North Pontotoc Thursday, Lafayette led 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Lady Vikings took the lead for good with three runs. Katrina Wilson, Kendall Glass and Rae Drewrey each had a hit while Tori Blackbourn and Drewrey each drove in a run. Kelsey Kesler was issued the pitching loss for LHS after allowing three runs and seven hits in her six innings. Kesler finished with three strikeouts against no walks.

First-pitch with the Lady Bulldogs is set for 5 and it will the first of three straight division games to end the regular season. (April 13, 2012)

Hollis is currently the starting catcher for LHS, which returns to action tonight at North Pontotoc. Hollis has also been a member of the Blue Angels travel team located in Southaven and has been a member of the EAGLE All-Area team for three straight seasons. Hollis has also been a three-year letterwinner in volleyball and two-time letterwinner in powerlifting at LHS.

Here are two pictures of a ceremony held Thursday at LHS honoring Hollis and her announcement to join the Lady Rebels.

 (April 12, 2012)

Kennedy had two years left on a deal that paid him $1.3 million annually. Kennedy just finished his sixth full season at Ole Miss and led the Rebels to a 20-14 record and spot in the Men’s National Invitation Tournament. (April 11, 2012)