TWENTY YEARS AGO — Dexter Butcher has 113 yards and a touchdown, but he slips while trying to cut toward the goal line on a two-point conversion as Block loses to West St. John 16-14 in the Class 1A playoffs.

TEN YEARS AGO — More than bragging rights will be on the line when Mississippi State and Ole Miss take on each other in the Egg Bowl as a win by either team will assure them a berth in a bowl game.

FIVE YEARS AGO — Seventeen-year-old Trey Denton of Canton shoots a final-round 70 to finish three shots ahead of David Viviano of Lafayette, La. to win his second straight Gulf States PGA Junior Thanksgiving Classic.