TWENTY YEARS AGO — Vic Brown goes 2-for-4 with an RBI single during a three-run first inning as the Concordia All-Stars defeat West Monroe 8-4 to advance to the championship game of the Dixie Majors Tournament, where they would lose to Alexandria 10-4.

TEN YEARS AGO — Royce Foster, who compiled a 56-36-1 overall record in 11 seasons as varsity head football coach at Magee, Mendenhall and Collins, is named the new head coach of the Natchez ninth-grade and Natchez junior varsity football teams.

FIVE YEARS AGO — Lee Jones has five birdies as he shoots a 3-under-par 69 to take a one-shot lead over Trey Denton of Madison and a two-shot lead over Stephen Hollingsworth in the first round of the Mississippi Insurance IIAJC Youth Classic State Tournament.