JACKSON, Tenn. – Jacksonville State gave up six runs in the first four innings and lost 6-3 to Belmont in an elimination game of the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament. Belmont's Chase Brookshire had a career-high 14 strikeouts and tossed a complete game. Belmont (38-20) will advance to Friday's elimination game, while Jacksonville State ends the season at 32-26, marking the ninth time in the last 10 years the Gamecocks posted 30 or more wins. Belmont scored once in the second inning and three times in the third for a 4-0 lead. JSU managed a run in the top of the fourth, but Belmont crossed the plate twice in the bottom half of the inning for a 6-1 advantage. Brookshire (5-2) issued just one walk, while allowing only five hits to pick up his fifth win of the season. His 14 strikeouts were the most in an OVC tournament game since 2001. JSU'sTaylor Shields (8-3) gave up seven hits and five runs in three innings on the mound to suffer his first lost since March 16. The Gamecocks scored in the fifth after Andrew Bishop scored on a Cal Lambert's sacrifice fly, and then scored their final run in the sixth on Griff Gordon's solo home run to right field for the final margin. Gordon, who finished with three hits, was just a double away from hitting for the cycle for the Gamecocks, while Eddie Mora-Loera extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a single in the second inning.

It's not wholly unusual for politicians -- even presidents -- to suffer the wrath of hecklers during speeches. President Obama went a round or two today (Thursday) with a heckler from Code Pink, an anti-war group that interrupted his speech in Washington at the Nation Defense University.

Here at The Star's editorial board, we don't necessarily advocate such boorish behavior. But it is nonetheless interesting, if not entertaining, to look back at a few moments of heckling history.

-- Phillip Tutor

Hayden Norris, 2 ½, and his mother, Robin, welcomed their father and husband, Sgt. Kevin S. Norris, home Wednesday afternoon at McClellan. Norris spent the past year in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, with the National Guard Atlas Company, 167th Infantry. The guardsmen were escorted by Calhoun County sheriff’s deputies, Calhoun County police officers and state troopers. Awaiting them were loved ones and friends waving American flags, the Jacksonville State University ROTC Honor Guard, members of the media from radio and television stations and newspapers and refreshments, including a large cake decorated in red, white and blue.