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The Golden Eagles pounded out 12 hits on Tuesday night. Credit: Southern Miss

Golden Eagles hold off Bulldogs. … Tougaloo is on the big stage tonight. … MSU’s Justin Varnado is a center of attention. … Majors climbing.

College baseball: Southern Miss 10, Mississippi State 7. The Golden Eagles jump out to a 10-1 lead, then hang on to beat the Bulldogs.

Men’s college basketball: Tougaloo plays in first round of the NAIA National Championship tonight. . The Bulldogs will face Fresno Pacific (8:45 p.m., Kansas City, Mo.)

Men’s college basketball: Washington wary of Mississippi State’s Jarvis Varnado.Newsday is fired up about the prospect of an MSU-Connecticut block party. And Bulldogs coach Rick Stansbury can talk the talk.

College baseball: Millsaps climbs to No. 6 in the D3baseball.com poll. You can’t stop the Majors, you can only hope to contain them.

Men’s college basketball: NCAA Tournament, Morehead State 58, Alabama State 43. The team that foiled Jackson State’s NCAA plans loses in ridiculous play-in game.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.