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2023-10-05 15:33:51

MATCHES 19-20: ULM WARHAWKS (4-14, 0-4) vs. SOUTHERN MISS GOLDEN EAGLES (5-10, 0-4)
7 p.m., Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 5 p.m., Friday, October 6, 2023 | Southern Miss Wellness Center | Hattiesburg, Mississippi
TV/STREAM: ESPN+ Thursday, Friday | LIVE STATS: Thursday, Friday

MATCH NOTES

MONROE, La. – The ULM volleyball team continues Sun Belt Conference play at 7 p.m. Thursday and 5 p.m. Friday at Southern Miss. Both teams are aiming for their first SBC victories of the season. Both teams have not won since Sept. 15, a streak of seven matches for ULM and five matches for USM.

FOLLOW THE WARHAWKS –
Links to live video and stats for all matches are available on ULMWarhawks.com. Navigate to the volleyball schedule page and select that day’s opponent.

BOTKIN CONTINUES STRONG FIRST HALF OF SEASON –
Sophomore Brynn Botkin is tied for second on ULM with 149 kills with a .198 hitting percentage. She has a team-best 27 serve aces and is fourth on the team in digs with 120. She has nine double-figure kill matches, five double-figure digs matches, and three double-doubles in 2023. She also ranks fourth in the Sun Belt in service aces per set with .45.

For the second-straight season, Botkin was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Battle For The Boot from September 15-16. Botkin put up 13 kills with six digs, three service aces and one block once morest Southeastern on Sept. 15. She added nine kills, 11 digs, two aces and two blocks once morest Southern on Sept. 15. She capped the tournament with seven kills while hitting .313 with five digs and an ace at Northwestern State on Sept. 16.

In the month of September, Botkin led ULM with 148 kills with a team-best 27 aces and is tied for third on the team with 117 digs. She has nine double-figure kill matches, five double-figure dig matches and three double-doubles in September, posting 12 kills and a season-high 17 digs once morest Indiana State on Sept. 1, 13 kills and 16 digs at McNeese on Sept. 19, and 15 kills and 16 digs last Friday at Texas State.

Botkin also was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Lindenwood Invitational. Botkin totaled 30 kills (2.3 per set) and 29 digs (2.2 per set) in the three-match event. She opened the tournament with 12 kills and a season-high 17 digs once morest Indiana State on Sept. 1. She added seven kills and 11 digs once morest Lindenwood on Sept. 1 before capping the tournament with 11 kills and one dig once morest Austin Peay on Sept. 2.

ROBERSON TOPS 1,000 ASSISTS –
Sophomore setter Bailey Roberson made history at the New Orleans Invitational when she passed 1,000 career assists, becoming only the fifth Warhawk ever to do so in the 25-point rally scoring era (2008-present). She currently stands at 1,197 career assists (6.54 per set), which places her fourth all-time in the 25-point rally scoring era. She leads the Warhawks in 2023 with 362 assists (5.03 per set). She has surpassed 20 assists ten times this season and has five assist-dig double-doubles in 2023 with the latest one being once morest Texas State (23 assists, 12 digs). The Decatur, Texas, native had 835 assists as a true freshman in 2022, the fourthmost for ULM in a single season since the start of the 25-point rally scoring era.

Roberson also was named to the New Orleans Invitational All-Tournament Team with 40 assists over two matches once morest Southern and UNO.

JEFFUS LEADS THE ATTACK –
Middle blocker Logan Jeffus has been one of the most productive players for the Warhawks in 2023. Jeffus leads the Warhawks with 153 kills with a .289 hitting percentage. She has 36 total blocks (13 solo, 23 assist) and 46 career block solos, which ranks fourth in the 25-point rally scoring era. She has reached double digit kills six times in 2023.

She has been named to two All-Tournament teams this season. She was named Most Valuable Player of the New Orleans Invitational (Sept. 8-9) following leading the team with nine kills and two blocks vs. Southern on Sept. 8 and added a career-high matching 16 kills with two blocks on Sept. 9 at UNO. She hit a career high .615 (9-1-13) once morest Southern before topping it once morest UNO at .652 (16-1-23). Her .652 hitting percentage once morest UNO broke her own school-record hitting percentage for a four-set match in the 25-point rally scoring era.

Jeffus was named to the All-Tournament Team at the EIU Panther Invitational to open the season on Aug. 25-26. She had 25 kills over three matches, including a career-high 16 in the five-set win once morest Akron on Aug. 25.

ROGERS DIGGING HER WAY TO SBC LEADERS LIST –
Junior defensive specialist/libero Cameron Rogers is the team leader in digs. Rogers leads the Sun Belt in total digs with 288 and ranks sixth in the conference in digs per set with 4.11. She had reach double-digit digs in each of the last 15 matches and topped 20 digs in four of those matches. She totaled a career-high 27 digs in ULM’s five-set win over Akron on Aug. 25 and matched that number on Tuesday at McNeese. Rogers was named Libero of the Tournament at the New Orleans Invitational (Sept. 8-9) with 32 total digs across two matches.

Rogers has totaled 955 digs throughout two-plus seasons at ULM. Over this past weekend once morest South Alabama, she placed herself in ULM’s Top-5 digs list in the 25-point rally scoring era with two digs over Albany Schaffer’s 953 from 2016-19. Rogers is on pace to become just the fourth Warhawk in the 25-point rally scoring era to reach 1,000 career digs, which has only been achieved by Marcela Araya (1,896, 2011-14), Kacey LeBlanc (1,113, 2015-17) and Christy Tribble (1,025, 2008-10).

Rogers also entered ULM’s career service aces list. Her 66 career service aces are tied with LeBlanc for fifth on ULM’s all-time list in the 25-point rally scoring era.

WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? –
ULM freshman outside hitter Ariana Brown is tied for second on the team with 149 kills (2.29 per set). She has reached double-digit kills in eight matches, including a season-high 14 kills in the five-set win over Akron on Aug. 25. She tallied 12 kills and a season-high eight digs at Grambling on Aug. 29 and added 13 kills and seven digs vs. Austin Peay on Sept. 2. She picked up 10 kills and a season-high three blocks on Tuesday at McNeese. Brown totaled 24 kills in the past weekend series vs. South Alabama.

ROAD WARRIORS –
The 2023 season has involved a good amount of time on the team bus. The Warhawks traveled on the road for the first 16 games of the season and are making their first appearance in Fant-Ewing Coliseum on Thursday vs. South Alabama. A similar scenario happened last season when ULM only played one home game in 14 non-conference games.

KEARNS TAKES CONTROL –
Head coach Matt Kearns is in the middle of his first season as a collegiate head coach at ULM. Kearns was a graduate assistant coach and assistant coach for six seasons for Northern Kentucky. While he was there, the Norse posted a 108-69 record. Before that, he was a student coach and technical advisor at Xavier from 2013-2017.

JEFFUS, THOMAS, ROBERSON, ROGERS HEADLINE RETURNERS –
Top returners for the Warhawks include middle blocker Logan Jeffus, outside hitter Taylor Thomas, setter Bailey Roberson and defensive specialist/libero Cameron Rogers.

Jeffus had 24 block solos in 2022, which ranks third-most in a single season for ULM in the 25-point rally scoring era (since 2008). Her 33 career block solos rank fifth in the same time span. She also finished third in single season hitting percentage last season at .284

Thomas recorded 186 kills, which ranked third on the team, and 278 assists, the second highest in the club in 2022.

Roberson racked up 835 assists in 2022, which ranks fourth in a single season in the 25-point rally scoring era for ULM.

Rogers tallied 442 digs as a sophomore in 2022, which is fifth-most in a single season for ULM in the 25-point rally scoring era.

DEPTH PROVIDED BY BIG RETURNING GROUP –
In addition to the four returners highlighted above, ULM has six more returners on the roster. Outside hitter Emily Adams returns following playing in 52 sets over 25 matches last season. Outside hitter/right side Brynn Botkin piled up 181 kills last year while playing in 106 sets over 31 matches. Defensive specialist Callie Humphrey saw time in 108 sets over 31 matches, picking up 210 digs. Outside hitter/right side Lydia Mesusan saw increased playing time late in the 2022 season, playing in 36 sets over 18 matches. Outside hitter/defensive specialist Sandlin Short saw limited action, playing in nine sets over six matches. Right side/middle blocker Madeline Villarreal returns following playing in 38 sets over 14 matches. Villarreal missed the last six weeks of the 2022 season with an injury.

TALL FRESHMEN GROUP LOOKS TO MAKE IMMEDIATE IMPACT –
Matt Kearns will work with eight freshmen newcomers in 2023. Seven of the eight players stand 6-0 or taller, including middle blocker Kenzie Behl (6-0), outside hitter Ariana Brown (6-0), right-side hitter Addison Chapman (6-3), setter Morgan Howard (6-0), outside hitter Maddie Peterson (6-0), middle blocker Hannah Redrow (6-2) and middle blocker Kylie Stehlin (6-2). Only defensive specialist/libero Olivia Sanchez (5-9) stands under 6-0. Six of the eight newcomers also come from Texas, while Peterson comes to ULM from Florida and Stehlin is from Missouri.

A LOOK AHEAD –
The Warhawks continue their journey around the Sun Belt when they travel to Boone, North Carolina, to take on Appalachian State at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct 13 and 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct 14.

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2023-10-05 17:15:42

We publish here an unknown poem by the Iraqi poet Rushdi Al-Amel (1934 – September 19, 1990) that has not been published before, and was not included in his complete poetic works, which were published by Al-Mada publishing house in 2010.

The poet had sent a cassette tape to his friend and relative Damir Al-Ani, who resides in Morocco, containing this poem, in 1989, that is, one year before the poet’s death, in the hands of the late Moroccan poet Muhammad Al-Toubi. Due to some circumstances, this poem remained in his drawers for more than 30 years, until a few days ago he sent it to the poet’s son, Ali.

Rushdi Al-Amel belongs to the post-pioneer stage, along with Saadi Youssef, Youssef Al-Sayegh, Mahmoud Al-Braikan, and Hussein Mardan. The worker’s poetry was distinguished by his political commitment, mixing it with a delicate romantic feeling that did not leave him throughout his short life. As a poet and a human being, we do not find much difference between Rushdie’s first poem, in the early fifties, and the last poem he wrote in the late eighties, so much so that it can be said that Rushdie only wrote one poem, starting with “Songs Without Tears,” published in 1957, until his last poem. The worker was subjected to persecution during the royal era. He was expelled from school in his youth, exiled to Cairo, and then returned to Iraq following the 1958 coup. After the 1963 Baathist coup, he was imprisoned in “Qasr al-Nihaya.” After the 1968 coup, its writing was banned more than once.

Among his poetry collections: “Whispers of Astarte” 1951, “Songs Without Tears” 1956, “The Eyes of Baghdad and the Rain” 1961, “Words Have Doors and Sails” 1971, “You First” 1983, “The Migration of Colors” 1983, and “ Ali’s Garden 1986, and The Stone Road 1988.

(Planned by artist Faisal Laibi)

The turn

I was overcome with sadness

I tore my sails on the sidewalks of the night

I lie back laughing at everything

Who we were and was

The embers of poetry and revolution in

The date and letters in the flag

And the strings on the guitar

And hoarseness in the singer’s voice and songs

No sorrow suffocates my voice, no volcanoes of anger

All I ever enjoyed were houses made of reeds

Everything that makes me laugh or cry is mirrors and games

Oh, the time when you were lost in the mind of birds. That time has passed

Here I am, my kingdom is silence, and the gate of my sadness is closed

My paths, wherever I turn my face, are impossible

In my blood, a snake cries out to a place that I will never reach

On my lips, the rose withers and the ear cries

So leave me the bouquet of forgetfulness in the burdened basket of my soul

I am not an illusion that has passed you by, and you are not stingy

The roses are tired of the dew, and the branch is tired of the leaves

The horizon narrowed with moving wings

All the clusters were squeezed and the river ran its course

And the orange eyes turned white

The chest becomes dry and the infants do not produce breast milk

And the men lay down from oppression

The snow turned into piles of mud

A mound of sand

However, the earth is not fed up with its dead and still is

The guillotine spins

In the open path, I cast my shadow behind the door and left

The forest and the river are behind me

and the coast

She entered the remote temple

I crouched down on the ground

I touched the cold wood and the chair

Deserted in the confessional corner

I said, Mr. Priest, I prayed without a heart

And I sang without a voice

And I fought without a sword

and death

Once on River Street, in front of a pale-faced woman

I knelt down

Once in a prison torture room

I cried

Once for a child with bulging eyes in the street

I was stolen

Once in the battle, I didn’t know

Who kills whom?

What for

So I ran away

Try me, cut my flesh into pieces

I saw God in my face crying, so I cried

However, whenever a deep grave leaves me, I scream

They dragged me without sin to the court of patience

They tore the shroud of the dead for me and I was resurrected

Here I am, my lord priest, asking for forgiveness

Without sin

My days are bright, and my nights are innocent

Ask the Lord even if it is an inch of land

Hire me where I was born

Here I am, there you are, two faces on the stage

In one of the corners

We walked out between shadow and light, naked

Our ghosts wear silence and hide masks

A game in the clown theater, between the mirrors

Well, we are without land, without face, and without name

No history

The wing of the whirlwind threw us

And we started the game

You are a clever and critical director

You are the play

I am the poet and the poems, the choir and the lover

The singer cries

I am the judge, I am the witness

The accused is absent in every case

The chamberlain kneels: Your Honor

The delegations of justice and the second accused have come

And the sword of justice

Who is the second accused?

It is the public, Your Honor

And here came the prompter

The session begins at midnight: in the name of justice and law

And the symbol through which the Lord rules us

The scene ends with the execution of the witness and the judge

The second accused was detained, and the singer’s guitar was detained

With the flogging of the mad poet and the lovers in the Kingdom of God and the burial of the play

The critic and director are legally required to pay municipal fees

The enforcement agencies must close the case.

You have two faces

A face that gives the eye its innocence

Having fun like kids

And he rests beautiful and final at night

The second

He is filled with boredom

Tell me how to see the rib

The third is in curves

Disappointment and oppression, reflected in rippling laughter

How painful is honesty from both sides?

You have two hearts, one heart for bitter anger

The wind wails over him and the fire calms him down

It is ignited by sparks

The other is like a gentle wave

The moon swims in it

Which one would be far away if I returned to you?

Which one is waiting?

I will continue to divide my path between the two paths

And grant the source of surgery to the hearts

I have two votes

A whispering voice presents official papers

For national guards, for sellers in human flesh markets and for merchants

The other voice, demented, is for the revolution and the revolutionaries

Oh woman

You know me by two faces and you do not see me

You listen to the sounds on my lips but do not hear me

You live in the heartbeat and you do not know me

We are strangers seeking refuge in the cold of the desert

We are fugitives without names

We flee in the nakedness of our steps

Of city masks

This is the time of false love

Leave me at night stations, alone

Waiting for my time

May 1988

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2023-10-05 15:56:15

College football, NFL TV schedule: Oct. 5-9

Published 10:53 am Thursday, October 5, 2023

COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON TV
Thursday, Oct. 5
6 p.m. CBSSN – Sam Houston at Liberty
7 p.m. ESPNU – Western Kentucky at Louisiana Tech

Friday, Oct. 6
6 p.m. ESPNU – Cornell at Harvard
6:30 p.m. ESPN – Kansas State at Oklahoma State
7 p.m. FS1 – Nebraska at Illinois

Saturday, Oct. 7
11 a.m. Fox – Maryland at Ohio State
11 a.m. ABC – Oklahoma vs. Texas
11 a.m. ESPN – LSU at Missouri
11 a.m. ESPNU – Toledo at Massachusetts
11 a.m. SEC Network – Western Michigan at Mississippi State
11 a.m. ACC Network – William & Mary at Virginia
11 a.m. CBSSN – Boston College at Army
11 a.m. Peacock – Rutgers at Wisconsin
1 p.m. The CW – Marshall at North Carolina State
2 p.m. Pac-12 – Washington State at UCLA
2 p.m. Big Ten – Howard at Northwestern
2 p.m. HBCU Go – Bethune-Cookman at Alabama State
2:30 p.m. CBS – Alabama at Texas A&M
2:30 p.m. ABC – Virginia Tech at Florida State
2:30 p.m. ESPN – Syracuse at North Carolina
2:30 p.m. ESPNU – Texas State at Louisiana-Lafayette
2:30 p.m. ACC Network – Wake Forest at Clemson
2:30 p.m. CBSSN – North Texas at Navy
2:30 p.m. Peacock – Purdue at Iowa
2:30 p.m. ESPN+ – Grambling at Alcorn State
3 p.m. Fox – Central Florida at Kansas
3 p.m. ESPN2 – South Florida at UAB
3 p.m. SEC Network – Vanderbilt at Florida
3 p.m. ESPN+ – Jackson State vs. Alabama A&M
5:30 p.m. Pac-12 – Colorado at Arizona State
6 p.m. ESPN – Kentucky at Georgia
6 p.m. ESPN+ – South Alabama at Louisiana-Monroe
6 p.m. ESPN+ – Old Dominion at Southern Miss
6 p.m. ESPNU – Florida A&M at Southern U.
6:30 p.m. ABC – Notre Dame at Louisville
6:30 pm NBC – Michigan at Minnesota
6:30 p.m. SEC Network – Arkansas at Ole Miss
7 p.m. Fox – Fresno State at Wyoming
7 p.m. ESPN2 – Texas Tech at Baylor
7 p.m. FS2 – TCU at Iowa State
7 p.m. ACC Network – Georgia Tech at Miami
7 p.m. CBSSN – San Jose State at Boise State
9 p.m. Pac-12 – Oregon State at California
9:30 p.m. ESPN – Arizona at Southern California

NFL ON TV
Thursday, Oct. 5
7:15 p.m. Prime Video – Chicago at Washington

Sunday, Oct. 8
8:30 a.m. NFL Network – Jacksonville vs. Buffalo
Noon CBS – New Orleans at New England
Noon Fox – Houston at Atlanta
3:25 pm CBS – Kansas City at Minnesota
7:20 pm NBC – Dallas at San Francisco

Monday, Oct. 9
7:15 p.m. ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 – Green Bay at Las Vegas

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post’s sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post’s sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper’s 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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