Archive - 2013
April 24th
An 8-5 record and a second Gator Bowl appearance in three years.
That's what the Mississippi State Bulldogs accomplished last season under fourth year head coach Dan Mullen.
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Sometimes it takes some time for a team to become familiar with a new coach and have success.
For the Ackerman High School baseball squad, it's ahead of schedule.
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Mississippi State was unable to find much offense, but fortunately the Bulldogs had Stephanie Becker.
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Two men wearing hazmat suits — MSU students Jarred Johnson and Brian Brotherton — could be seen in hazmat suits cleaning up a mess near the Colvard Student Union Tuesday.
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Graveyard tours do not have to be meditations on death.
Leah Gibson, a senior at Starkville High School, is the student coordinator for a different kind of graveyard tour. There will be ghost stories, but she said the bulk of the tour would focus on the lives led by those now buried at Oddfellows Cemetery and other locales across the city and county.
A litany of resistance that has harried an effort to build a new Starkville City Hall seemed farthest from the minds of city officials on hand Tuesday on Main Street to unveil the artistic rendering of the facility.
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April 23rd
Tuesday evening was all about perfection for the Starkville Academy Volunteers.
As the team defeated visiting Pillow Academy 15-0, Hunter Bolin and Stephen Robertson combined to throw a perfect game.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – It is pretty much automatic that when Ross Mitchell enters a game, he is going to win it.
It was no different Tuesday night.
The Mississippi State sophomore right hander pitched six solid innings in relief and the No. 17 (Collegiate Baseball) Bulldogs cruised to a 12-1 win over the Memphis Tigers in front of 3,428 at Autozone Park.
The Starkville High School football coaching staff probably felt more like traffic cops than coaches on Tuesday afternoon.
For the first time since winning the Class 5A State championship last December, the Yellowjackets hit the field for practice.
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The Starkville Yellowjackets had to deal with a bunch of Tigers for the second-consecutive Class 5A tennis match in the postseason.
After sweeping through Saltillo last Thursday to open the playoffs, Starkville defeated Hernando at home on Tuesday 6-1.
With the victory, the Jackets punched their ticket to the North Class 5A round against Oxford on Friday.
