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Tripling the word scores and the fun Youngsters piece together the points at North American Scrabble contest By JONATHAN BISSONNETTE [emailprotected]

PAWTUCKET – Elevenyear-old Zach Ansell hails from Los Angeles. Thirteen-year-old Noah Kalus resides in New Platz, a small village in upstate New York, situated approximately midway between Albany and New York City. While the two boys’ hometowns could not be more different, what united the pair and brought them to Pawtucket this weekend was their love of Scrabble, as the duo teamed together as “The East West Word Wizards” at the North American School Scrabble Championship, held at the Hasbro headquarters. The Wizards were among 56 teams of 118 fourththrough eighth-grade students from across the United States and Canada who converged together this weekend in an effort to spell success via the famous lettered tiles. The 13th annual championship was hosted by Hasbro and the North American Scrabble Players Association,

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SOUTH KINGSTOWN — More than 15,000 parents, friends, and supporters gathered to celebrate University of Rhode Island’s 129th commencement on Saturday and Sunday. Reading the ceremony’s dedication was Qutaiba Albluwi, URI chaplain of the Muslim Community Center of Kingston, who is also a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science. “Dear graduates, today is a day of celebration and gratitude,” he said. “We proudly honor your achievement; we sincerely pray for the continuity of your success and we wish you further and bright accomplishment.” The university conferred degrees on 3,204 undergraduate and 668 graduate students. About 60 percent of the undergraduate and 65 percent of the graduate degrees were awarded to students who were from Rhode Island. URI President David M. Dooley welcomed the audience and reflected on the social, political, and ethnic heterogeneity represented by the class of 2015. “Watching our students march today, and yesterday, I could not help but notice the striking diversity represented by our graduates,” he said. “They come from all across America, from many nations of the world, from many social/economic backgrounds, races, ethnicities, orientations, and political persuasions. Indeed the entire University of Rhode Island reflects the marvelous diversity of our national and world.” “Together we make up a community, a community that comes together today to celebrate our mutual achievements and to share our joy with each other,” he added. The class of 2015 had 26 international undergradu-

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Scrabble or NASPA. Teams competed in seven rounds of tournament play and were ranked based on their win-loss record and cumulative point spread. The top two teams then met Sunday afternoon in the finals, with a chance to win the coveted champion’s trophy and a $10,000 prize. Kalus said that his affection for Scrabble came from his family, who would frequently play the board game as part of their game nights. “I really got into it and I got good at it. I started doing some tournaments and I’m here now,” he said excitedly from the Hasbro headquarters Saturday morning. The 2015 championship represented his fourth trip to the national tournament. Ansell said that he was the first person in his family to “really enjoy” the popular board game. He said he read ‘Word Freak,’ a 2001 non-fiction narrative about competitive Scrabble, and that is what got him into the game. From there, Ansell joined a local Scrabble club, then started playing in tournaments. This week-

URI ates and 78 graduate students. Undergraduate were about 55 percent women and 44 percent men. Graduate students were about 60 percent women and 40 percent men. The oldest undergraduate student was 67, and the youngest was 19. The oldest graduate student was 66 and the youngest 22. U.S. veterans numbered 103 undergraduates — twice as many as last year — and 41 graduate students. Dooley also recognized federal officials on the dais, including U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and U.S. Reps. David Cicilline and James Langevin, as well as the URI Board of Trustees. Student speaker Matthew Quainoo delivered a strong message of encouragement to his classmates. Graduating in two years at age 19, Quainoo began earning college credits by taking advanced placement classes in high school and will pursue his master’s degree in

end was his second trip to the national championship. “I really feel that I think it’s better the second time, because then you know what to expect and how to handle it,” Ansell said. Kalus said the game helps to build his vocabulary, while at the same time affording him the opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. “It’s almost a bonding opportunity,” he said of playing Scrabble. Ansell said that the game helps with language and math skills, as adding scores and learning probabilities can go a long way for a player. John Chew, co-president of NASPA, said that there is something about crabble that “brings a passion” in those who play. “For us, we’re looking at our future here. As soon as they graduate out of the school program, they are going to be competing at an adult level … for us, it’s a lifelong calling,” Chew said. “Each game is different,” Chew later noted. “Scrabble has been likened to creating a crossword puzzle, the outcome is different each time and is something beautiful to look at in the end. There’s a

theological studies at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J. “To my fellow students, I congratulate you. You are like luminous stars in the universe scintillating with the light of hope for our human family,” he said. “Do not fear the daunting darkness of our world, for you are the light that will dispel the darkness with the radiance of integrity and justice.” The commencement included the conferring of five honorary doctorates to individuals who had made unique contributions to the university, the people of the State of Rhode Island and the nation. Since 1941, URI has awarded 451 honorary degrees, which are the highest awards bestowed by the university. This year’s honorary degree recipients included: Shirley Cherry, a former Portsmouth High School teacher/librarian and former tour director for the Dexter Parsonage, the former home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery,

lot to learn about playing the game.” Chew said he felt that Scrabble offers the right balance between skill and luck — that there is enough luck involved that a person can feel they drew the wrong tiles if they lose, but there’s enough skill involved for a winner to feel good about themselves and the way they played the game. “The more you study the game, the more words you learn, the luckier you end up being,” he noted. “It’s one of those rare situations in life where you can make yourself lucky by improving your skills.” Although many students in fourth- through eighth-grade today are finding entertainment online or through video games, Chew thinks there is still room in the future for a classic board game like Scrabble. “It’s definitely a challenge, and I was less optimistic about that a few years ago than I am now. I think that some of the novelty is wearing off on online interaction, even among kids and even among teenagers,” Chew said. “Because if you can get kids to play each other at a board game face to face, they realize that there’s something there in the direct personal interaction

Alabama; Rolf-Dieter Schnelle, a longtime board member of the URI International Engineering Program, an international diplomat and former German Consul General in Boston; and, Angus C. F. Taylor, president and CEO of Hexagon Metrology, and a distinguished global leader and advocate for dual-language immersion programs. Receiving a posthumous honorary degree was Leo F. DiMaio Jr., director emeritus of URI’s Talent Development Program, which helps disadvantaged Rhode Island students at URI. His granddaughter, Angelica M. DiMaio, URI class of 2015, accepted the award on her grandfather’s behalf. Also receiving an honorary degree was Cranston native Rudolph E. Tanzi, who holds the Joseph P. and Rose. F. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. In 1980 he helped find the gene for Huntington’s disease and hopes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease

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that’s missing online.” “When you’re playing somebody online, you don’t know who you’re playing, you don’t know if they’re old or young, or if they are looking up all of the words in the dictionary before they play them,” Chew said, adding that in a faceto-face game, “you come to the table only with what you brought in your brains.” One subject upon which the teammates disagreed is how they prefer to play. Kalus said he enjoys face-to-face competition. “If you’re online, a lot of people cheat and it's kind of annoying,” he said. “Also, when you're online, you don’t see each other. I find it a lot more enjoyable in real life.” However, his fellow Wizard begged to differ. “I actually prefer the online version,” Ansell said. “You don’t have to set anything up, you can play even if there’s no one in your country playing. You can still play people without having to go on an airplane.” Chew also said that he felt the competitive aspects involved in the game were something that those playing on Saturday welcomed. “Over the last 10 to 20 years, I

by 2020. Time magazine listed him on the 2015 “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and he had been named one of the “Top 20 Translational Scientists in the World.” Tanzi was also the commencement speaker and began by acknowledging his Rhode Island roots. “Believe me, growing up, I had more of my share of coffee milk and stuffies,” he laughed. “ Although I am now a professor at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, I can proudly say, ‘Once a Rhode Islander, always a Rhode Islander!’” Life will be easier after college, Tanzi said, but it was important to make good choices. “Your choices create your experiences and your experiences create who you are!” he said. “So, my first piece of advice: Always take the time to make good choices.” He emphasized serving others as the key to happiness and success. “Training and preparation combined with the intention

think in the school systems in North America, there’s been a movement away from competitive activities as being too difficult for children’s psyches to tolerate, and that pendulum is definitely swinging back,” he said. “Kids really want to know who is better than whom at everything from football to chess to Scrabble.” The popular board game teaches a variety of useful skills, he said, from expanding your vocabulary — which leads to becoming more articulate and iterate — to quickening one’s arithmetic skills. Additionally, in School Scrabble — in which teams of two square off - you learn the virtues of cooperation and supporting your teammate. Chris Cree, co-president of NASPA, agreed. “It's never-ending mathematical equations. We find that the best players tend to be both mathematical and musical, the right-left brain, the creative aspect, and the spatial sense of the board allows for creativity, to see two or three moves ahead,” Cree said. “It’s just the best of all worlds to me.”

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to serve others will always allow you to make the right choices,” he said. “Ironically, whether in your family, your community, a sports team, or your workplace, you best serve yourself when you focus on serving others.” “Replace that desire for recognition with the passion for service to others, and your potential for success and happiness will have no limits,” he added. In closing, Dooley talked about the meaning behind words “rights, privileges, and responsibilities,” which are part of the conferring of academic degrees. “The first word in our incantation — “rights” — has perhaps the most obvious meaning. You have the right to assert that you have been awarded a degree from University of Rhode Island, to display that degree, and to claim the legacy of this distinguished university,” he said. “With that comes the “privilege” of joining in a new way community of which you may, or may not,

have been previously a part,” he continued. “It is a distinguished community, composed of many diverse individuals of high achievement, of big vision, of bold purpose — over 100,000 strong.” “By joining that community, you accept the “responsibilities” as well as the “privileges” of belonging,” he said. “The foremost responsibilities are to honor those who belong with you, to work to make our community stronger, and to bring it honor.” Closing the ceremony, Dooley thanked the audience for all everyone had already done to “make this world a better place for all.” “As we leave this ceremony today, let us commit to one another, as the community of the University of Rhode Island, to seek the truth, to pursue what is noble and right, to celebrate whatever we see or find that is pure, or lovely, or admirable, to always strive for excellence and always to offer praise when it is earned,” he said.

Singing girls leave road warriors in weekend box office dust ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ tops ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ladies of “Pitch Perfect 2” hit all the right notes opening weekend, amassing a $70.3 million debut, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. The Elizabeth Banks-directed sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit and video-on-demand phenomenon cost Universal Pictures only $29 million to produce and was expected to open in the $50 million range. The first film, for comparison, grossed only $65 million domestically across its entire run. “It’s aca-awesome,” said Universal Pictures’ President of Domestic Distribution Nick Carpou, using one of the catchphrases of the film about a cappella singing. “We knew that the film would be a success, but there’s something that happens when movies grow in their success

beyond a range that’s easily predictable. When that happens, the sky’s the limit.” Audiences for the musical comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson were 75 percent female and 62 percent under the age of 25, according to Universal. Carpou attributed some of the massive success to savvy positioning and the widespread appeal of the popular music and the charismatic, diverse cast. He noted that ads during the NBA playoffs and a Super Bowl spot helped to grow the film’s audience base. George Miller’s critically acclaimed “Mad Max: Fury Road” landed a distant second in its debut weekend with a solid and expected $44.4 million from 3,702 locations. The high-octane, postapocalyptic film cost a reported $150 million to make and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. Although it cost significantly more than “Pitch Perfect 2” to produce and didn’t come close to

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matching its opening, “Mad Max: Fury Road” still had a promising and successful first weekend in theaters — especially considering the fact that it is R-rated. “We’re very excited about the opening,” Warner Bros. President of Domestic Distribution Dan Fellman said. “We’re going to have some long legs and some great success on this movie.” The film, which also played in IMAX and 3D, is one of the best reviewed in the studio’s history. Fellman said that many of the showings ended with applause, only adding to the hope that word of mouth will contribute to a lengthy and successful run. Audiences for the film were 70 percent male and 46 percent under the age of 35, according to Warner Bros. For Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian, the weekend is an undisputed success for both studios. “Mad Max: Fury Road” also

made $65 million internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $109.4 million. “Each film absolutely found its target audience,” Dergarabedian said. “They were running on parallel tracks, and both exceeded expectations by not cannibalizing each other. It was the perfect release strategy for two very different, high-profile films ... it really paid off handsomely.” Holdovers “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Hot Pursuit” and “Furious 7” claimed the rest of the spots in the top five. After opening in China six days ago, the “Avengers” sequel brought in $185 million internationally in its fourth weekend. The film has now grossed $1.1 billion globally. ——— Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for

Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1.”Pitch Perfect 2,” $70.3 million ($26.9 million international). 2.”Mad Max: Fury Road,” $44.4 million ($65 million international). 3.”Avengers: Age of Ultron,” $38.8 million ($185 million international). 4.”Hot Pursuit,” $5.8 million. 5.”Furious 7,” $3.6 million ($6.6 million international). 6.”Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2," $3.6 million ($1.7 million international). 7.”The Age of Adaline,” $3.2 million ($1.5 million international). 8.”Home,” $2.7 million ($4.5 million international). 9.”Ex Machina,” $2.1 million ($300,000 international). 10. “Far from the Madding Crowd,” $1.3 million ($828,000 international).

Presidential hopefuls agree: Iraq was a mistake WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen years later, American politics has reached a rough consensus about the Iraq War: It was a mistake. Politicians hoping to be president rarely run ahead of public opinion. So it’s a revealing moment when the major contenders for president in both parties find it best to say that 4,491 Americans and countless Iraqis lost their lives in a war that shouldn’t have been waged. Many people have been saying that for years, of course. Polls show most of the public have judged the war a failure by now. Over time, more and more GOP politicians have allowed that the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq undermined Republican President George W. Bush's rationale for the 2003 invasion. It hasn’t been an easy evolution for those such as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who voted for the war in 2002 while serving in Congress. That vote, and her refusal to fully disavow it, cost her during her 2008 primary loss to Barack Obama, who wasn’t in the Senate in 2002 but had opposed the war. In her memoir last year, Clinton wrote that she had voted based on the information available at the time, but “I

got it wrong. Plain and simple.” What might seem a hard truth for a nation to acknowledge has become the safest thing for an American politician to say — even Bush’s brother. The fact that Jeb Bush, a likely candidate for the Republican nomination in 2016, was pressured this past week into rejecting, in hindsight, his brother’s war “is an indication that the received wisdom, that which we work from right now, is that this was a mistake,” said Evan Cornog, a historian and dean of the Hofstra University school of communication. Or, as Rick Santorum, another potential Republican candidate, put it: “Everybody accepts that now.” Santorum didn’t always see the war that way. He voted for the invasion as a senator and continued to support it for years. Last week, he mocked Jeb Bush’s reluctance to give what now seems the obvious answer when he was initially asked to reconsider the war in light of what’s known today. “I don’t know how that was a hard question,” Santorum said. It’s an easier question for presidential hopefuls who aren’t bound by family ties or their own congressional vote for the war, who have the luxury of

judging it in hindsight, knowing full well the terrible price Americans paid and the continuing bloodshed in Iraq today. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz weren’t in Congress in 2002 and so didn’t have to make a realtime decision with imperfect knowledge. Neither was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who served an earlier stint in Congress. All these Republicans said last week that, in hindsight, they would not have invaded Iraq with what’s now known about the faulty intelligence that wrongly indicated Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in an interview Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” summed up that sentiment: “Knowing what we know now, I think it’s safe for many of us, myself included, to say, we probably wouldn't have taken” that approach. Rubio, in a long exchange on “Fox News Sunday,” tried to navigate the Iraq shoals once again, making a glasshalf-full case that while the war was based on mistaken intelligence, the world still is better off with Saddam gone.

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Lincoln High students show off their sticky, sweet, salty and – perhaps most importantly, sturdy – constructions as part of an ‘Edible Monument Contest.’ The exercise demonstrated the students’ ability to think and build creatively. Students built their version of Il Duomo from Florence, Chichen Itza from Mexico, Big Ben from England, The Great Wall of China, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa out of such materials as marshmallow Fluff, sugar wafers, crackers, gum drops and pretzel sticks.

URI hosting wide variety of summer camps

S. KINGSTOWN — The University of Rhode Island hosts many summer camps on a wide variety of themes for all ages from late June through August; for the complete listing, visit: web.uri.edu/camps/ Summer Engineering Academy is designed for high school students who want to explore the possibilities created by engineering in a hands-on, engaging fashion. Runs June 29 through July 24, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. OR the Robotics and Programming Session runs June 29 through July 24 from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more, contact [emailprotected]. KidsEye! is an intensive and fun five-day summer camp held at the University that exposes young people to the basic elements of the filmmaking process for ages 11-17. Runs July 6-10. Visit filmfestival.org/kidseye.php. Computer Camp teaches students ages 8-15 a variety of computerrelated topics including Microsoft Office, web development, 3D programming, computer graphics and animation. For more, visit cscamp.cs.uri.edu/index.ph p.

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World Language Week among the big doings at Lincoln High LINCOLN — Principal Kevin McNamara and Mrs. Lea Miguel, Applied Learning Department Chair, offer their congratulations and recognize several students across grade levels at Lincoln High School who have attained national recognition for excellent performance on the 2015 National Spanish Examinations: Gabriela Carson earned a silver medal, while Michael Matkowski earned a bronze medal. In addition, Jamie Froment, Olivia Genesse, Daniel Hasegawa, Alexa Labossiere, Angelo Landry, Camryn Thompson, Ethan Williams, Amanda Broadmeadow, Ross Lancaster, Kathryn Packard, and Jennifer Salvadore received honorable mention. “Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,” said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, National Director of the Exams, “because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with over 157,000 students participating in 2015.” The National Spanish Examinations are administered each year in grades 6 through 12, and are spon-

sored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Students of French at Lincoln High School also participated in the National French Contest for the third year in a row. Margaret Tarmey received national and state honorable mention and Aidan Mazagonwalla received state honorable mention. In all, 90,913 students from across the United States participated in the Contest in 2015. The Applied Learning students also enjoyed a week of celebrating different cultures during their own World Language Week April 27May 1. Students viewed the true story of Colombian immigrants and their struggle for survival on the streets of New York in the critically acclaimed film “Entre Nos.” There was also a day of competition in the area of international trivia. Nationally recognized Latin dance instructor Jeff Allen taught lessons on the Dominican style of dance known as Bachata. And Providence’s own Le Creperie donated delicious crepes to the dance participants as well. To test the students’ ability

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to think and build creatively, an edible monument contest was held. Students constructed Il Duomo from Florence, Chichen Itza from Mexico, Big Ben from England, the Great Wall of China, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa out of such materials as marshmallow Fluff, sugar wafers, gum drops and pretzel sticks. Finally, the Transition Program run by Mrs. Patricia Kilsey catered an international themed luncheon for students and faculty that was very well attended. It was a wonderful week of learning about and appreciating other cultures of the world.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Megan Miranda, an eighth grader from Mount St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket won first place in the fifth annual ‘Eighth Grade Gandhi Essay Contest’ sponsored by the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Winning eighth grade essayists and community service activists were recognized during a recent award ceremony held in the URI Multicultural Center. The essays offered personal reflections on a quote from Gandhi the famed Indian nonviolent activist. Students were asked to explain what the quote, “if we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children,” means to them. The contest received 159 entries from eighth graders at 15 public and private schools. While 22 of the top 159 essayists were recognized, the top three were presented with cash prizes. Jessica Rogers from Burrillville Middle School, and George Saban Jr., from Dr. Edward A. Ricci Middle School in North Providence were awarded with second place. Third place was awarded to Atticus Duncan of Narragansett Pier Middle School. In addition, the Gandhi Compassionate and Selfless Service award was presented to four eighth graders who, in the last year, exemplified admirable youthful idealism through compassionate activities that benefited their school and community members. Students were nominated by their teachers and counselors for their service to others in their schools and communities and their excellent character. Hailey Chapman from Tiverton Middle School, Patrick Him from Gilbert Stuart Middle School, Jillian Brosofsky from Nathan Bishop Middle School, and Mercedes Otero from Segue Institute for Learning all received the award. URI Gandhi Essay Contest Finalists 2014: * Megan Miranda, Mount St. Charles

Academy, Woonsocket * Olivia Charbonneau, Mount St. Charles Academy * Jordan Remillard, Mount St. Charles Academy * Rachel Mercier, Mount St. Charles Academy * Andrew Goyette, Mount St. Charles Academy * Gianna Crispino, Mount St. Charles Academy * Jessica Rogers, Burrillville Middle School, Harrisville * George Saban Jr., Dr. Edward A. Ricci Middle School, North Providence * Atticus Duncan, Narragansett Pier Middle School * Maia Johnson, Narragansett Pier Middle School * Owen McFadden, Narragansett Pier Middle School * Grace St. Jean, Narragansett Pier Middle School * Isabel Chamberlain, Narragansett Pier Middle School * Teddy Anderson, St. Michael’s Country Day School, Newport * Mason Savaria, Winman Junior High School, Warwick * Elise Sacoccia, Winman Junior High School * Marissa Stern, Winman Junior High School * Alyssa O’Keefe, Winman Junior High School * Hannah Tillotson, Winman Junior High School * Riya Sen, Archie R. Cole Middle School, East Greenwich * Alexandra Lee, Archie R. Cole Middle School * Dante A’Vant, Sacred Heart School, Providence Gandhi Award for Compassion and Selfless Service * Hailey Chapman, Tiverton Middle School, Tiverton * Patrick Him, Gilbert Stuart Middle School, Providence * Jillian Brosofsky, Nathan Bishop Middle School, Providence * Mercedes Otero, Segue Institute for Learning, Central Falls First-place winner Megan Miranda, from Mount St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, poses with URI Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies director and professor of Psychology Paul Bueno de Mesquita.

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PAWTUCKET — The Pawtucket Veterans’ Council will conduct the city's Memorial Day rites on Monday May 25 at several locations (all include wreath laying) as follows: Shell at Slater Park, 9 a.m. Hiker Memorial at 9:15 a.m. Korean War Monument at Park Place, 9:30 a.m. Mineral Spring Ave. Cemetery at 10 a.m. The principle ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, Roosevelt Ave. and Exchange St. The Mayor and city councilors and state officials are invited as well as the general public — especially veterans and military families. The events will be led by Capt. Jim Robbins, Capt. James Hollis, Past Commander Maurice Trottier, Mrs. Penny Trottier (Pres. of RI State VFW Ladies Auxiliary), Robert Balthazard (President of the Fleet Reserve) Chaplain Kenneth Lafountaine and Kenneth Postle. (Postle will be presenting prizes to the Pawtucket students who were winners in the recent veterans appreciation essays). In the event of inclement weather, the 11 a.m. ceremony will be held inside at Gatchell FW Post, Fountain and Blake Streets. In addition, students from various city schools, their bands and choral groups will play a major role in the events. For further information call Jack Lucas at 401725-0191.

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THE TIMES — Monday, May 18, 2015

America’s next Mideast war likely to emerge from Syria Jeb Bush has spent the week debating with himself over whether he would have started the war his brother launched on Iraq. When he figures it out, hopefully, our would-be president will focus in on the campaign to drag us into yet another Mideast war — this time to bring down Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria. While few would mourn the passing of the Assad dynasty, there is a problem: If Assad falls, a slaughter of Christians will follow and the battle for control of Damascus will be between the Syrian branch of alQaida, the Nusra Front, and the crazed terrorists of the Islamic State. Victory for either would be a disaster for America. Where is the evidence of an unholy alliance to bring this about? Pat Buchanan Turkey, which turned a blind eye to ISIS volunteers slipping into Syria, has aided the Nusra Front in setting up its own capital in Idlib, near the Turkish border, to rival the ISIS capital of Raqqa. In the fall of Idlib, said Bashar Assad, “the main factor was the huge support that came through Turkey; logistic support, and military support, and of course financial support that came through Saudi Arabia and Qatar.” Why would Turks, Saudis and Qataris collude with Sunni jihadists? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan detests Assad. The Saudis and Gulf Arabs are terrified of Shiite Iran and see any ally of Tehran, such as Assad, as their mortal enemy. This also explains the seven weeks of savage Saudi bombing of the Houthi rebels, who dumped over a U.S.-Saudi puppet in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, then seized the second and third cities of Taiz and Aden. But while the Houthis bear no love for us, they have been fighting al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Thus, the Saudi bombing has given AQAP, the most dangerous terrorist foe we face, freedom to create sanctuaries and liberate hundreds of fellow terrorists from prison. The Israelis seem to be in on the game as well. While they have taken in rebels wounded on the Golan Heights and returned them to their units, there are reports of Israel aiding the Nusra Front with intelligence and even air strikes. This week, an Israeli official bluntly warned that Hezbollah has amassed 100,000 short-range rockets capable of striking northern Israel, thousands of which could hit Tel Aviv. The rockets are said to be hidden in Shiite villages in southern Lebanon. Israel is preparing, writes The New York

Times’ Isabel Kershner, “for what it sees as an almost inevitable next battle with Hezbollah.” As Hezbollah has been the most effective fighting ally of Assad, an Israeli war on Hezbollah could help bring Assad down. But, again, who rises if Assad falls? And who else, besides Christians and Alawites, starts digging their graves? As one might expect, Sen. Lindsey Graham is all in. Late in April, he declared, “Assad has to go. ... We’re going to have to send some of our soldiers back into the Middle East.” Graham is willing to commit 10,000 U.S. ground troops. “I would integrate our forces within a regional army. There is no other way to defend this nation than some of us being on the ground over there doing the fighting.” Wednesday, The Washington Post laid out the game plan for war on Syria. While we cannot create a NATO with kings, emirs, sheiks, and sultans, says the Post, “[T]here is a way that Mr. Obama could serve both the U.S. interests and those of the Gulf allies: by attacking the Middle East’s most toxic, and destabilizing force, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Syria’s dictatorship is Iran’s closest ally in the region, and its barbarity opened the way for the rise of the Islamic State. Recently, it has suffered battlefield reverses, in part because of increased Gulf aid to rebel forces. “If Mr. Obama were to ... create safe zones in northern and southern Syria for the rebels, the balance could be tipped against Damascus and Tehran — and U.S. allies would have tangible reason to recommit to U.S. leadership.” Consider what is being recommended here. The Post wants Obama to bomb a Syrian nation that has not attacked us, without congressional authorization — to aid rebels whose most effective fighters are al-Qaida and ISIS terrorists. And we’re to fight this war — to nullify ultra-rich but unhappy Gulf Arabs? Obama must also “do more about Iranian aggression,” says the Post. But against whom is Iran committing aggression? In Syria, Iran is backing a regime we recognized until a few years ago, that is under attack by terrorist rebels we detest. In Iraq, Iran is backing the government we support, against ISIS rebels we detest. Bottom line: A U.S. attack on Syria is being pushed by the War Party to propel us into a confrontation with Iran, and thereby torpedo any U.S. nuclear deal with Iran. Cui bono? For whose benefit? Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”

Wisconsin GOP peeping into welfare recipients’ grocery bags Republicans may like to rail against big government. But here in Wisconsin — where conservative lawmakers just introduced a bill to dramatically restrict what people can buy with their own food stamps — Republicans want to cook up a new kind of nanny state. This isn’t a new idea altogether. Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) already can’t buy prepared foods or booze with their benefits. More recently, some conservative politicians and policy wonks have suggested restricting food stamp recipients from using government aid to buy soda or junk food. But now, Wisconsin Republicans want to bar people from using their food stamps to buy shrimp, lobster, and other shellfish, and require them to use at least two-thirds of their SNAP benefits on items found on a specific and arbitrary list of products. If the bill were to pass, bulk dry beans — a very affordable and nutritious choice — would be out, but canned beans would be in. That is, unless they’re green beans, in which case they’re off limits. Fruit juice is allowed, as long as it’s not organic. Canned tomatoes are in, but spaghetti sauce is out. The Food Research and Action Center says the proposal would create a “grocery nanny state.” As a former food stamp recipient myself, I can’t even imagine what a trip to the grocery store would be like — or how humiliating it would be to check out and discover that half of my purchases weren’t allowed. Imagine holding up an entire line of shoppers as a clerk goes through your groceries, sorting them into “yes” and “no”

piles. And with only $70 to feed an adult woman for a month, how much lobster do the Republicans think I would’ve been buying anyway? Like the rest of our fraying social safety net, food stamps are intended to help Americans out when we’re down on our luck. To qualify, you have to be incredibly

Who had the worst week in DC? This past week, likely GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush swung and missed on the question of whether he would have authorized the use of force against Iraq in 2003, knowing what we know now. Then he swung and missed again. And again. It started Monday, when Bush told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly that he definitely would have approved the war. “So would’ve Hillary Clinton,” he said. And “almost everybody who was confronted with the intelligence they got.” The problem? He misheard the question. Kelly didn’t ask what he would have done then. She asked what his decision would be “knowing what we know now.” Of course, these things happen. So Bush called into conservative radio host Sean Hannity’s show Tuesday to clarify his position on the deeply unpopular war. Except, not. “I don’t know what that decision would have been, that’s a hypothetical,” Bush said when asked the

Enforce smoking bans Joke of the year: No smoking in elderly housing. Where are the watchdogs? We like to sleep, not breathe smoke. It’s worse then ever.

Kiss them goodbye Mayor Grebien just wrote a letter to the PawSox owners asking them to stay in Pawtucket. Please. They don’t want to stay in that ballpark. Get a team that wants to be in that park. They’re breaking a lease. You break it a little earlier. — Old Timer

By Jill Richardson poor — so poor that nobody would be tempted to avoid work to obtain public assistance. My $70 per month for food was definitely helpful. But when I was that poor, I had a hard time paying for gas, rent, utilities, and everything else in my life. I was eager to earn more money and get off food stamps — and I did after a few months. If you want to see what an average food stamp recipient looks like, look in the mirror. Anyone can fall on hard times. Every single person I’ve met who’s fallen that low has worked their tails off to get back on their feet. Being poor is stressful enough without being kicked while you’re down. The last thing food stamp recipients need is a handful of rich politicians telling them what they can and can’t eat. OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.

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Looking for OA meeting I’m calling to find out if anybody can tell me where there’s an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. — Overweight

Hygiene, not sex ed The school department wants to teach children sex education when they should be teaching oral hygiene at an early age. A lot of kids don’t know how to brush their teeth properly. Their parents don’t.

Do your job, Councilman Conflict? What conflict? Powerful Speaker Mattiello hires baseball consultant ($225 per hour) and he doesn’t see any conflict. This is for West’s Book “Secrets and Scandals.” — Beat Goes On

Do something about the signs! Re: All the signs in Slater Park and Newport Avenue for hot dogs and burgers. Just wondering if he has a license. — Concerned Citizen

A directive to Council President Dave Moran: Like Bill Belichick, do your job. Do not sign this tax increase. That’s $300500 for us.

Blaming the immigrants Just calling regarding the driving in this screwed-up state. No one gives anyone a break. I can see being a melting pot, but seeing how many illegals are out here driving...doesn’t anyone have a clue?

Guess what time it is? Celona strikes again

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“knowing what we know now” question. Okay, okay. Everybody misses a hanging curveball once in a while. So, on Wednesday, Bush surely took care of business on the question, right? Nope! “Going back in time and talking about hypothetical, ‘what would have happened, what could have happened,’ I think does a disservice” to the men and women who served in Iraq, Bush said at a Nevada town hall. Finally, on Thursday, in Tempe, Ariz., Bush found the right answer. “If we’re all supposed to answer hypothetical questions: Knowing what we now know, what would you have done? I would not have engaged. I would not have gone into Iraq.” Good! That only took four days and four different answers. Jeb Bush, for forgetting that three strikes makes an out, you had the worst week in Washington. Congrats, or something. — Chris Cillizza, Washington Post

Re: former Sen. Celona: He’s just another scumbag politician from Rhode Island. He knows it was wrong, and he still did it. If he can’t pay the fines, let him go to jail.

Once again, elections are over, and we’re going to see a tax increase. We can’t afford even a 1 percent tax increase, Mr. Mayor. — Just can’t take any more

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Leading Israeli settler figure Levinger, 80

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leading figure in Israel's settler movement, was laid to rest Sunday in the West Bank city of Hebron, where he helped establish a controversial Jewish community after Israel captured the territory from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. Thousands attended his funeral outside Hebron's holiest site, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque. Relatives said Levinger died Saturday after an illness. Levinger led the first settlers to Hebron, where Jews lived for centuries until dozens were massacred in Arab riots in 1929. Tensions still run high in Hebron, where about 800 settlers now live in heavily guarded areas amid 180,000 Palestinians. The rabbi left Jerusalem on Passover eve in 1968 along with several dozen followers and checked into the Park Hotel posing as Swiss tourists. The next day, Levinger declared their true identity and announced their intention to re-establish Hebron's Jewish community. Levinger was charged with assault on several occasions. In 1990, he served 3 months of a five-month term for killing an Arab shopkeeper after he was attacked by a crowd of Palestinians throwing rocks. Levinger was seen as a pioneering leader of the movement to build settlements in areas that Israel captured in 1967, which have deep religious and historical significance for many devout Jews.

Elisabeth Bing, pioneer of Lamaze births, 100

NEW YORK (AP) — When Elisabeth Bing became interested in childbirth techniques in the 1950s, women were often heavily medicated, dads were generally nowhere near the delivery room and expectant parents had far less information than many do today. Bing, the Lamaze International co-founder who popularized what was known as natural childbirth and helped change how women and doctors approached the delivery room, died Friday at 100 in her New York apartment, the organization said Saturday. The cause of her death wasn’t immediately known. Trained as a physical therapist, Bing taught breathing and relaxation techniques to generations of expectant mothers, wrote several books about birth and pregnancy and encouraged women — and men — to be more prepared, active and inquisitive participants in the arrival of their babies. “I was certainly considered a radical,” she wrote in Lamaze’s magazine in 1990. By then, she noted, childbirth education had become common: “This so-called fad has been proven not to be a fad.” Born July 8, 1914, in Berlin, Bing fled Nazi Germany with her family for England, where she got her physical therapy training. Working with new mothers got her thinking about delivery practices, an interest she brought with her to the United States in 1949. She learned about ideas advanced by some doctors, including French obstetrician Dr. Fernand Lamaze, for using breathing and mental preparation to manage labor pain without medication. She and the late Marjorie Karmel established what is now Lamaze International in 1960 to spread the strategies.

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his month, notable and they can give Rhode professionally successIsland’s college graduates ful commencement sound, practical advice, to speakers are again gathering live in a very challenging, at the nation’s and changing world. M. Charles Colleges and Universities to give Bakst, 71, the robed graduating Providence, retired Class of 2015 senProvidence Journal iors’ practical tips political columnist. and advice as to how “Stand for someto have a rewarding thing and act upon personal and profesit. Don't assume sional life. High-prosomeone else file speakers can already has done it Herb Weiss oftentimes translate or will do it. Work into big bucks for to advance yourself speaking fees but these wide- but remember there are ly recognized speakers can plenty of people, even right bring prestige to the educahere in Rhode Island, who tional institutions. have not had the advanCNN.web has announced tages you've had. They the this year’s high profile could use a break too. Help speakers for the upcoming them.” commencement season. Scott A. Davis, 58, According to website, like Eastside, Owner of the every year these speakers Rhode Island Antique Mall. are politicians, journalists, “In today’s age of informilitary leaders, entertainmation, simply having ers and business CEOs. knowledge is not worth Here’s a sampling: much. The secret to sucPresident Barack Obama cess in the future will not and First Lady Michelle lie so much in what you Obama, Oscar winning know, but in your ability to actors, Anthony Hopkins synthesize information, and Denzel Washington, whether already known or Novelist and Essayist newly acquired, and to Author Salmon Rushdie, draw insightful and valuBill Nye, the “Science able conclusions from it.” Guy” and Journalist Katie Scott Rotondo, 41, Couric. Pawtucket, accountant at May be its time to end Tivoli Audio. the practice of bringing in “Always be willing to high-paid commencement expand your intellectual speakers. For this writer, toolbox. Challenge the way regular folks will do. things are done, and your Below you might just see own beliefs from time to many potential commencetime. Take in other peoples ment speakers, just waiting opposing points of view not for the 10 minutes of fame with rancor and disdain but to stand before hundreds of with dignity and respect.” graduating seniors to give Lisa A. Proctor, 55, their “pearls of wisdom” on East Providence, living a better life. You may healer/counselor. not recognize them on the “You can not necessarily street, but many in their say all things are possible community know who they with God because many do are for their achievements not believe, but I would say of making their Cities and a lot of situations we find Towns a better place to live. ourselves in heal when we While not high profile, live honestly, purely, comthrough life’s experiences mitted and have a merciful honed every day at work or and compassionate heart in their personal worlds, towards others.”

Rudy Cheeks, 65, a musician and columnist of Motif, Providence. “If you can find what you love and make it the center of your life, you're doing good and will likely be happy. Whatever you do, “building community” should be an element in your life. Meet your responsibilities (e.g. if you want to create your own family, make sure you are ready for it and committed to it). When you become an "active consumer," be a smart and thoughtful consumer.” Kathy Needham, 53, Rumford, CFO of Pawtucket Times. “Follow this old adage, autograph your work with excellence, it is a signature of who you are. “Take great pride in all you do but always remember to be humble. Know that success is a personal goal.” Gayle L. Gifford, 61, Providence, a strategy consultant to nonprofits, “Be an informed citizen of the world. Read quality news from home and abroad. Travel. Look. Hear. Participate to create the community you want your children and grandchildren to live in. Hopefully that community is one of justice, peace and inclusion. Don’t work all day in a job that destroys what you value. Play outside.” Crystal R. Parifitt, 41, Pawtucket, owner of FurBabies, a small pet salon. “Live within your means, below if you can … owning the biggest and best is overrated. Don’t go after financial gain, choose financial stability because in 20 years you will regret the time you spent ‘chasing’ when you should have been living.” Nancy Thomas, Cranston, president of Tapestry Communications. “What you have done

has largely been expected of you. Now, what do you expect of yourself! Find more than one thing you can do. Pursue your education. You’re not done. Read, discuss, have opinions. Let the negative inspire you, and the positive be your lens. And, as it has always been, there is no work as important as that of raising a child. Find your path to doing well at both.” Barbara Peters, Newport, former AARP RI communications director, “Life is full of successes and disappointments. When we are young we tend to "cry” when the material things we want don't immediately come our way. Forget the disappointments and concentrate on your successes. Nobody will hand you what you think you deserve. (Only) hard work, dedication to your craft and sensitivity to the feelings of others will bring the rewards to you that are truly deserved.” Cheryl Babiec, Pawtucket, Pawtucket School Teacher. “As an old saying goes ... ‘One Man's Junk is Another Man's Treasure’ continues to hold true with the test of time. One of my yard sale "finds" had the following inspirational verse (though the author is unknown): ‘Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.’ Herb Weiss, LRI ’12 is a Pawtucket writer covering aging, health care and medical issues. He can be reached at [emailprotected].

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Police arrest man accused of threats against Obama MANSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been arrested by police and the U.S Secret Service after they said he made death threats against President Barack Obama. Mansfield police and Secret Service agents Friday went to the West Village apartments on West Street to speak with the man who they say made threats to kill the president. He refused to cooperate and would not leave his apartment. A SWAT team and negotiator were brought in and the man eventually left his apartment and was taken into custody. Police say a search of his apartment did not find anything that appeared to be a public safety hazard. The man was taken to the hospital to be evaluated.

URI establishes fund with bequest from late professor S. KINGSTOWN (AP) — The University of Rhode Island has established a fund to support students in its Graduate School of Oceanography thanks to an endowment from a late professor. The school says the Napora Fund for Biological Oceanography was created with a $255,000 bequest from former professor emeritus Theodore Napora. The South Kingston resident died in February 2014. The university says it recently received his bequest. The fund will support research and activities of students in the graduate program. School officials say Napora was instrumental in developing the program.

East Coast shark now a Twitter star BOSTON (AP) — They're gonna need a bigger Twitter. An organization studying great white sharks is enjoying some welcome attention after one of the creatures they've been monitoring started gaining a loyal social media following. @MaryLeeShark is the fake Twitter handle for a very real, nearly 3,500pound great white whose movements can be tracked online and in real time. She's drawn over 44,000 followers with playful updates and witty replies as real life shark cruises up and down the East Coast. "Oh heyyyyy.... you're right by my house, come by for a nightcap?" invited one recent Twitter commenter as she popped up off the coast of Long Island, New York. "I would settle for an ice bag to put on my aching Twitter fin. -:()" Mary Lee replied. "What do you do during Shark Week?" another recent commenter asked. "Swim. Eat. Tweet. Etc. Exhausting. -;()," Mary Lee responded. The shark, which was tagged off the coast of Cape Cod, is among hundreds of sharks that OCEARCH, a Utah-based organization, has tagged and tracked since 2007. The fake Twitter handle isn't affiliated with OCEARCH. But OCEARCH expedition leader Chris Fischer, who named Mary Lee after his mother, says the organization appreciates the attention the maritime missives have generated. "They're really clever, they really like sharks and they're on mission, so we're just kind of rolling with it," he said from the orga-

nization's latest expedition in Australia. OCEARCH has even jumped on the bandwagon, launching "official" Twitter handles for two other sharks it's monitoring off the East Coast. @Shark_Katharine and @RockStarLydia both have sizable followings of their own. The person behind the @MaryLeeShark account did surface when The Associated Press sent a Twitter message. The account's operator identified themselves only as a daily newspaper reporter living on the East Coast and expressed pleasant surprise at the attention — and OCEARCH's support. "The recent explosion of followers has been a lot of fun, but also like a second job. I do everything manually - no robo tweets," the account owner wrote. "The best part is that (@MaryLeeShark) plays a role in helping to replace fear with facts by retweeting and commenting on @OCEARCH tweets. I (try) to be respectful of the important work OCEARCH does and have fun at the same time." OCEARCH's multi-year project uses GPS trackers affixed to the shark's dorsal fin to post real time data on dozens of great whites across the globe — Mary Lee was hanging out near Ocean City, Maryland on Sunday, for example — with the goal of better understanding the shark's life cycle and encouraging conservation of the endangered ocean predators. Shark researchers say the work is important because there's still a lot unknown about the behavior of mature white sharks.

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• Mother’s Day Road Race to raise awareness and money for migraine research featuring a 10-mile race and a 5k race starting at 9 p.m. Event takes place rain or shine at the North Kingstown Golf Club in Quonset Business Park. Those interested should register at mothersdayrace.com or register at 7 a.m. on race day.

• The Cumberland Public Library will have its starlight story time for children of all ages and their families Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. This is a chance to put on pajamas and participate in reading, singing and fun. • Hypnosis for Health at Cumberland Public Library, featuring Patrick Bowe, 6 p.m.

• The Cumberland Public Library is having its Tales for Threes on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. This is a chance to interact with your three-year old through fun stories and singing. No registration needed.

• The Commissioners of the Burrillville Housing Authority will meet in regular session at the Burrillville Housing Authority community room, Ashton Court, Harrisville, Rhode Island at 6:30 p.m.

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• The 2015 American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Day at the State House will take place in the Governor’s State Room at the Rhode Island State House in Providence. Cancer advocates, survivors, and members of the legislature are invited to attend starting at 2 p.m. This is an important day for those living with cancer and their family members and friends to come to the State House to tell their personal stories to their Legislators. Register by contacting Todd Ellison at [emailprotected] or (401) 2432622. Training will be provided in advance for advocates.

•The American Lung Association’s Better Breathers Support Group for sufferers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is scheduled to meet May 13 and June 10 from 1 to 2 p.m. at VASA Hall, 43 Bald Hill Road. The first meeting will be an interactive session to discuss how to best educate people in Rhode Island about COPD. The main topic for the second meeting will be medications used to treat the disease and new delivery devices for those medications. Attendees are requested to refrain from wearing scented personal care products.

• Thursday Night Live, 6-11p.m. Whether you like to experience our local Stadium Theater, enjoy a concert and dinning, you'll find this event a Thursday nightlife a great night out. If nightlife means enjoying your favorite beverage and food, with an energetic and friendly crowd of locals with the love for music, you will not want to miss Thursday Night Live! Located: Parking Lots of the Legendary Chan’s Jazz Club & The Historic Ciro’s Tavern.

Woonsocket • Hearts With Hope is holding a Mother's Day brunch at St. Joseph's Veteran's association on from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Proceeds will go to the Rachel Autiello 5K, hosted by the RI Athletic Club, which is also being held simultaneously that morning in her honor in Woonsocket. Menu includes eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, hash browns, juice, coffee, cinnamon rolls, beans and toast. Cost is $12 per adult, $7 per child under 10 and kids 3 and under eat free. For more, call 401-742-9278

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Woonsocket • The Woonsocket Knights of Columbus will host an Open Meeting at 7 p.m. at All Saints Church Hall for members and guests.

North Smithfield • The Garden Club of North Smithfield will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Forestdale to make teacup flower arrangements. Participants will need to bring their own supplies. New members welcome. Call Jo-Ann 767-6889 for a detailed list of supplies if you plan to attend.

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Central Falls •Election of officers for the Korean War Veterans Association, Ocean State Chapter 1, is scheduled to be held Thursday, May 14, at a meeting that will start at 3 p.m. at American Legion Post 79, 44 Central St. For more information, call Antero “Ted” Martins, chapter commander, at (401) 724-4664 or (401) 864-5507.

Friday • CrAfternoons are back at the North Smithfield Public Library, Fridays from 2-4 p.m. (or until materials run out), drop-in when you can, no registration necessary. Each Friday there will be set out in the children’s room a simple craft that can be completed by kids of all ages.

Saturday • The Lincoln Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Chapel St. Congregational Church, 185 Chapel Street. (Rain date, May 23.) The sale will feature perennials, herbs and vegetables. For more information call 333-2199.

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• “Dancing into Summer” 4:308:30 p.m.; located at River Island Park. A celebration featuring many forms of dancing such as: breakdancing, salsa, belly dancing and ballroom.Plus exhibits and refreshments.

• “Salute to Veterans” 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; located at the Armed Forces Park on Davidson Street. We honor those that have served our country. This event will feature live entertainment and there will also be a display of military vehicles and a military museum exhibit. •Buy Local Maker’s Fair and Festival, River Island Park, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Blackstone Valley Independent Business Alliance will feature local artisans and their goods; Finest Quality catering truck.

Cranston • The Champlin Scout Reservation at 233 Scituate Ave in Cranston will be holding the annual Envirothon Competition from 8:30 a.m. until noon.

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• The Village at Waterman Lake welcomes veterans to attend their Veterans Appreciation Celebration to show thanks for their service. Veterans and their guests will enjoy a complimentary prime rib luncheon beginning at 1:15 p.m. and entertainment by local singer Chris Jason. Note that seating will be limited, so call 949-1333 for reservations. At 2:30 p.m., an outdoor concert open to all, guests and the public, will feature a performance by the Reggie Centracchio Quintet, specializing in the sounds of big band classics. Coffee and desserts will be offered. For more information visit villageretirement.com or call 949-1333.

• The Cumberland Public Library will have its Babies and Books storytime, for birth to 23 months, on Mondays at 10 a.m. Connect with your baby through stories, rhymes and songs. A play time will follow. . • The Cumberland Public Library will have its starlight story time for children of all ages and their families Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. This is a chance to put on pajamas and participate in reading, singing and fun.

• The Cumberland Public Library is having its Tales for Threes on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. This is a chance to interact with your three-year old through fun stories and singing.

•Fogarty Manor Tenant Association BINGO is open Monday and Wednesday Nights, doors open at 4 p.m.; game runs from 6:30-8 p.m. (214 Roosevelt Ave.)

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• The Leon Mathieu Senior Center and Shri Studio have partnered to offer a “Yoga for Seniors” on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Shri Studio, 21 Broad St. This class is designed to introduce seniors to gentle yoga postures and meditation techniques from their chairs, helping them reduce stress, improve focus, build strength, and increase flexibility. The fee for Leon Mathieu Senior Center members is $5 per person per month. Transportation is available from the Senior Center to the Studio for those who need it. For more information and/or to register for the class contact the Senior Center at 728-7582.

• Creative Writing Group, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.;Local writers meet weekly to share support, suggestions and criticism. An informal gathering of both published and unpublished writers who find a group useful for incentive and inspiration. There is no charge to join. Meetings are held Wednesday evenings 7:30-9 p.m.

• Adult Knitting Circle, hursdays, 7-8:30 p.m., knitters and crocheters of all levels of experience are invited to attend this crafting circle. Led by experienced knitter and crocheter, Jen Grover. Donations of yarn are appreciated. Woonsocket Harris Public Library, 303 Clinton St., 401-769-9044. • Community Care Alliance is hosting its 13th Annual Community Champions Music Series at Chan’s Eggroll & Jazz, 267 Main Street. Tickets: $15; Come and hear great jazz music by Becky Chace. Doors at 5:30 p.m., music begins at 7. For tickets contact Wendy at 401235-7245.

• An evening of ghost stories and New England legends. Contact: Russell Gusetti at 401-725-9272 or [emailprotected]. From the leading authorities on spooks & legends, witness a night of haunted history and eerie tales from across New England featuring Jeff Belanger, Emmy-nominated host, writer and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS, writer and researcher for the Ghost Adventures series on the Travel Channel, founder of Ghostvillage.com, and a noted speaker and media personality. He'll be joined by Carl L. Johnson, Tim Weisberg, Andrew Lake and Frank Grace for this production which is being filmed as part of a PBS documentary that will air this fall. Tickets: $15 adv./$20 day of show via the website listed below. Tickets can be purchased at www.legendtrips.com/new_en gland_legends_ghosts.shtml

• The North Smithfield Library presents storybook yoga at 11 a.m. This is for children ages 3 to 9. Direction will be given by Debbie Quinn of Color Me Yoga. This will include simple yoga and a storybook read aloud. Registration requested by dropins welcome. Call 767-2780.

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• The Cumberland Public Library will have its Babies and Books storytime, for birth to 23 months, on Mondays at 10 a.m. Connect with your baby through stories, rhymes and songs. A play time will follow. No registration needed. • The Cumberland Public Library will have its starlight story time for children of all ages and their families Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. This is a chance to put on pajamas and participate in reading, singing and fun.

• The Woonsocket Knights of Columbus Council 113 will hold it's regular business meeting at 7 p.m.at All Saints Church on Rathbun Street. All members are encouraged to attend as this will include the election of officers.

• The Cumberland Public Library is having its Tales for Fours and Fives on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. This is a chance for parents and preschoolers to interact through stories, movement activities and songs.

• The Cumberland Public Library will have its Tales for Twos on Thursdays at 10 a.m. This is a time for parents to encourage their two-year-old’s emerging language skills with stories and songs. No registration is needed.

• Father Holland Catholic School (formerly St. Joseph's School) Teacher Appreciation Pasta Dinner/Silent and Live Auction. May 29 at St. Joseph's Church Hall. Silent auction 5:30-7:00 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.; live auction (including a trip to Africa) to follow dinner. Auction items generously donated by over 120 local businesses and national companies. All are invited: parishioners, the current school community, alumni, and townsfolk. Come enjoy an adults-only evening of fellowship, a delicious meal, and exciting auction. Tickets $10 each. Contact St. Joseph's Church (401-5682411) or Fr. Holland Catholic School (401-569-4589) for tickets.

• The Pawtuxet Valley Community Chorus proudly presents ‘Lifting Our Voices in Song’ on Saturday, May 30, 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 31, 2 p.m.; West Warwick High School auditorium. Tickets: Adults: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; children 10 and under, $5; For tickets contact any chorus member or call 401-8623105; also visit pvchorus.com.

Pawtucket •Fogarty Manor Tenant Association BINGO is open Monday and Wednesday Nights, doors open at 4 p.m.; game runs from 6:30-8 p.m. (214 Roosevelt Ave.)

Woonsocket •Cash Mob gathers at 6 p.m. in parking lot across from Landmark Medical Center, 186 Cass Ave. Two local businesses will be announced by Buy Local at 6:15 as the evening’s targets.

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Cumberland • The Cumberland Public Library is having its Tales for Threes on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. This is a chance to interact with your three-year old through fun stories and singing.

•Fogarty Manor Tenant Association BINGO is open Monday and Wednesday Nights, doors open at 4 p.m.; game runs from 6:30-8 p.m. (214 Roosevelt Ave.)

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• Vietnam Veterans of America, James Michael Ray Memorial Chapter #818 at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln SeniorCenter, 150 Jenckes Hill Road in Lincoln. Come at 6 p.m. and have dinner with us. All Vietnam Veterans welcome. Formore information call Joe Gamache at 401-6516060.

Woonsocket • The 118th and 1118th Engineer Companies formerly stationed at the South Main Street Armory in Woonsocket will hold their sixth annual reunion at St. Joseph Veterans Association, 99 Louise St. Social hour from 6 p.m., pictures at 6:30 and dinner at 7. For more, contact Tom Dunayeski at 508-883-4567 or Sonny Vadeboncoeur at 401766-7953.

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•Blackstone Valley Amateur Radio Club meeting, 7:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Valley Historical Society, 1873 Old Louisquisset Pike. New members and guests invited.

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•Fogarty Manor Tenant Association BINGO is open Monday and Wednesday Nights, doors open at 4 p.m.; game runs from 6:30-8 p.m. (214 Roosevelt Ave.)

Woonsocket • Adult Knitting Circle, hursdays, 7-8:30 p.m., knitters and crocheters of all levels of experience are invited to attend this crafting circle. Led by experienced knitter and crocheter, Jen Grover. Donations of yarn are appreciated. Woonsocket Harris Public Library, 303 Clinton St., 401-769-9044. woonsocketlibrary.org

Pawtucket • The Major Walter G. Gatchell V.F.W. Post 306, 171 Fountain St., is holding a spaghetti and meatball dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door. For more , call the post after 4 p.m. at (401) 722-7146.

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Blackstone • Fourth Annual ‘Blessing of the Bikes’ at St. Paul's Church, 48 St. Paul St., Blackstone; 11 a.m.2 p.m.; All kinds of bikes will be blessed; refreshments will be served.

Norfolk • All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast, 810 a.m.; Federated Church of Norfolk, 1 Union Street in Norfolk center. The menu includes made-to-order omelets, made-from-scratch pancakes, ham, sausage, hash brown potatoes, caramel French toast and mini cinnamon rolls. Adults $7, seniors $5 and children under 10 eat for free. For more, call the church office at 508528-0262.

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• Watercolors With Jerry: The Lincoln Public Library will host a 4-week watercolor class taught by local artist Jerry Aissis, Mondays June 1, 8, 15, and 22 from 6-7:45 p.m. $100 plus supplies. Fee may be paid in cash or in check to Jerry Aissis. (Payment expected at time of registration) Supplies list is available for pickup. Class size is limited to (10) students. No waiting lists; no phone registrations. If interested, register at the reference desk in the library. Check Events at lincolnlibrary.com

• The Leon Mathieu Senior Center and Shri Studio have partnered to offer a “Yoga for Seniors” on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Shri Studio, 21 Broad St. This class is designed to introduce seniors to gentle yoga postures and meditation techniques from their chairs, helping them reduce stress, improve focus, build strength, and increase flexibility. The fee for Leon Mathieu Senior Center members is $5 per person per month. Transportation is available from the Senior Center to the Studio for those who need it. For more information and/or to register for the class contact the Senior Center at 728-7582.

•Fogarty Manor Tenant Association BINGO is open Monday and Wednesday Nights, doors open at 4 p.m. and the game goes from 6:30-8 p.m. (214 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket)

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• The Pawtuxet Valley Community Chorus proudly presents ‘LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG’ on Saturday, May 30, 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 31, 2 p.m.; West Warwick High School auditorium. Tickets: Adults: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; children 10 and under, $5; For tickets contact any chorus member or call 401-8623105; also visit pvchorus.com.

• The Woonsocket Harris Public (303 Clinton St.) hosts Adult Knitting Circle on Thursdays from 7-8:30 p.m.; Knitters and crocheters of all levels of experience are invited to attend this crafting circle. Led by experienced knitter and crocheter, Jen Grover. Donations of yarn are appreciated. For more call 401-769-9044 or visit woonsocketlibrary.org

• Protect your home and help to create a safer Rhode Island for all residents by attending the Woonsocket Eco-Depot collection – hosted by Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation – from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Woonsocket Parks and Recreation Department at 1117 River Street, Woonsocket. Free of charge to Rhode Island residents only,available free of charge to Rhode Island residents only. For an appointment, visit codepotri.org or call 401-9421430 x241.

Woonsocket • Come support the Woonsocket Lady Novans Middle School softball team. Join us for an all-youcan eat breakfast of homefries, eggs, ham, beans, toast, coffee, tea and juice. The breakfast will take place from 8 a.m. until noon at Ciro’s Tavern, 42 Cherry Street, Woonsocket. Cost is $8 for adults and for kids 10-andunder, $6. A 50-50 raffle will be held too. Tickets are available at Ciro’s.

Cumberland • The Cumberland Public Library will have its Tales for Twos on Thursdays at 10 a.m. This is a time for parents to encourage their two-year-old’s emerging language skills with stories and songs. No registration needed.

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Not everyone’s on the guest list for sister’s big wedding DEAR ABBY: My only sister, “Carolyn,” is getting married in two months. I’m ecstatic for her. She and her girlfriend turned 50 this year, and this is the happiest I have ever seen her. They are perfect together. Carolyn asked me to be her maid of honor and I gladly accepted. I am also decorating for her small wedding and reception. When I received my wedding invitation last week, I was shocked and saddened. It was addressed to me and my kids only. My significant other, “Greg” (the kids’ father), and I were married for 22 years and divorced three years ago. We have had some tough times but did reconcile. Even though we are divorced, we stayed together and never split households. I have no idea how to tell Greg. I asked Carolyn if excluding Greg had been an oversight, and she said she would just prefer that he not be there. I can respect that, and I don't want to cause any drama or take anything away from her day. Does this seem appropriate? My feelings are hurt, and I could have used Greg’s help with things. How do I tell him he's not invited? — IN A WEDDING QUANDARY

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DEAR QUANDARY: Tell Greg the same way you told me. And after you do, don’t be surprised that the relationship Greg has with Carolyn and her wife will be more distant than it has been. It's possible that when you and Greg divorced, she developed a dislike for him that didn't abate after you reconciled, and it's sad that she chose this occasion to display it. Personally, I think her choice is one she’ll regret in the future, but neither you nor I can change it.

DEAR MULTI-TASKER: If you arrive home with low energy, put on some walking shoes and go for a walk/jog or do some other form of exercise. When you return home, your mind will be alert. Then, have a piece of fruit with some cheese or a boiled egg. This should hold you until dinner. Water is healthy, and you should be able to drink it in unlimited amounts. After you have had your snack, get your homework out of the way. If you do, there should be an hour or so in the

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fter topping out over 80 degrees on Sunday, the workweek will start with patchy fog in the mornings Monday and Tuesday then clearing with cooler temperatures. A cold front Tuesday will bring clouds and showers as well as the chance of a thunderstorm. Behind this front, we are expecting a beautiful stretch of weather from Wednesday into next weekend.

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Amtrak to restore full Northeast Corridor service today

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clock" to restore service along the route between Washington and Boston following Tuesday night's crash that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. "Our infrastructure repairs have been made with the utmost care and emphasis on infrastructure integrity including complete compliance with Federal Railroad

Administration directives," Boardman said in a statement Sunday. Federal regulators on Saturday ordered Amtrak to expand use of a speed-control system long in effect for southbound trains near the crash site to northbound trains in the same area. The agency also ordered the company to examine all curves along the Northeast

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"The only way that an operable train can accelerate would be if the engineer pushed the throttle forward. And ... the event recorder does record throttle movement. We will be looking at that to see if that corresponds to the increase in the speed of the train," board member Robert Sumwalt told CNN's "State of the Union." The Amtrak engineer, who was among those injured in the crash, has told authorities that he does not recall anything in the few minutes before it happened. Investigators have also been looking into reports that the windshield of the train may have been struck by some sort of object, but Sumwalt said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program on Sunday that he wanted to "downplay" the idea that

damage to the windshield might have come from someone firing a shot at the train. "I've seen the fracture pattern; it looks like something about the size of a grapefruit, if you will, and it did not even penetrate the entire windshield," Sumwalt said. Officials said an assistant conductor on the derailed train said she heard the Amtrak engineer talking with a regional train engineer and both said their trains had been hit by objects. But Sumwalt said the regional train engineer recalls no such conversation, and investigators had listened to the dispatch tape and heard no communications from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck the train.

Storm system pushes east after drenching Plains OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A powerful storm system stretched from Texas to Minnesota on Sunday, bringing heavy rains, flash flooding and the possibility of more severe weather. Scattered severe storms developed Sunday afternoon and evening in eastern Minnesota, western Wisconsin and parts of Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. Rain-soaked Texas saw flash flood warnings, high-water rescues and motorists stranded on roads overwhelmed by torrential rains. A river in northwest Oklahoma threatened to top its banks and affected crops, oil wells and rural roads, while 2 to 3 inches of rain fell in three hours in parts of Arkansas, prompting a flash flood warning. "We've gotten a lot of rain in a short time," Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Keli Cain said. "The ground is saturated, so every time we get another big soaking, the rain causes more flash flooding." The storm system is the result of a cold front extending from the north central Plains into the southern Plains that pushed up behind warm, moist air, according to Bill Bunting, chief of operations for the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in

Norman, Oklahoma. "It's a very strong upper level disturbance," Bunting said, noting it stretched at one point nearly to the U.S. border with Mexico. "It's as extensive an area as we've seen this year." The Dallas-Fort Worth area received between 3 to 5 inches of rain overnight, according to National Weather Service senior meteorologist Eric Martello, and total rainfall is running about 5 inches above normal for this time of year. In Johnson County, which WFAA reported received 5 to 8 inches of rain overnight, people had to be rescued from their homes. San Antonio and Austin also saw flooding Sunday. The National Weather Service said tornadoes touched down near Elmer and Tipton in southwest Oklahoma on Sunday, with state emergency officials say the most significant damage was to homes, businesses and power lines. One also touched down Saturday east of Kansas City, Missouri. A storm in Lyon County, Kansas, was strong enough to push railcars off the tracks on Saturday, and the National Weather Service said a tornado. Trees, farm buildings and empty railcars were toppled in central Iowa early Sunday morning.

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Baseball

Mounties, Wizards take field in fight against ALS Third annual fundraiser game honors memories of coaches’ loved ones By JON BAKER [emailprotected]

WEST WARWICK – Mount St. Charles head coach Tom Seaver readily admitted his mind at times drifted to more important issues while facing West Warwick High in a non-league affair at McCarthy Field on Saturday night. For the third consecutive year, Seaver and Wizards’ coach Rich Grenier had assembled the contest to raise money and awareness in the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Seaver lost his brother, Paul, to Lou Gehrig’s Disease on Feb. 5, 2013, at the tender age of 52. The wife of Grenier’s long-time assistant, John Mottola, died of ALS last July 5. “ALS is a degenerative disease that slowly shuts

down a human’s upper- and lower-body’s motor neurons, and it remains one of the most debilitating and devastating illnesses one can suffer,” Grenier said. “We couldn’t be more proud to host this game.” The Mounties captured the game, 8-3, but that was trivial compared to the ultimate goal –Grenier announced afterward that the fans had raised well over $300 and Seaver flashed him a thumbs-up from across the diamond. “This game was all about the meaning of the lives of Lori Mottola and Paul ‘Wally’ Seaver, my brother,” Seaver said somberly. “ALS was and is utmost in our minds and hearts. Secondarily, we wanted to play a good game, and I thought we did.” See MOUNT, page B3

To donate, or to learn more: On the Web: http://www.ccals.org http://www.alsa.org On Twitter: #ChallengeALS

Photo by Jon Baker

On Saturday at McCarthy Field in West Warwick, the West Warwick High baseball team hosted Mount St. Charles in their third annual ALS Charity Game. Pictured from left: West Warwick head coach Richard Grenier Sr., West Warwick assistant Richard Grenier Jr., Mount St. Charles head coach Tom Seaver, Mount assistant Matt LaButti, West Warwick assistant David Mottola, longtime West Warwick assistant John Mottola.

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PawSox

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Pawtucket’s Rusney Castillo skips out of the way of a pitch in the dirt during Sunday’s game at McCoy. The PawSox fell to Columbus, 4-1.

Photo by Jerry Silberman | RISportsphoto.com

Cumberland’s Sydney Provencal pitched well from the circle on Saturday, leaving in the fifth with a lead, but the Clippers couldn’t hold on and fell to Coventry, 8-6.

Knotty Oakers outlast Clippers, 8-6 BRANDEN MELLO

Pawtucket bats quiet again in 4-1 loss to Columbus Sunday

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COVENTRY — Saturday was supposed to be a rest day for Coventry pitcher Sophia Gervasio after the senior struggled to throw strikes in her last two starts. But after Cumberland’s first four hitters of the game produced hits against junior starter Maxine Colvin, Gervasio was forced into action. The senior only allowed three runs and didn’t walk a batter until the seventh inning, while Coventry’s potent offense went to work overcoming a five-running deficit. Alyssa Derrick, Brooke Keresztessy and Carly Furtado all scored a pair of runs, while freshman Jess DaBreo drove in two runs and scored a run in an 8-6 Division I crossover victory.“ “I think I pitched very well compared to the way I was pitching,” Gervasio said. See CLIPPERS, page B2

Run-starved Sox drop 3rd straight By BRENDAN McGAIR [emailprotected]

Photo by Jerry Silberman | RISportsphoto.com

Coventry’s Mackenzie Ricci crosses the plate too late for Cumberland catcher Emily Anderson to make a play.

PAWTUCKET – To date the PawSox have been the recipients of pretty good pitching and consistent defense. The third component, however, has been missing for the vast majority of the season. It was another day of struggles with the bats on Sunday as Pawtucket managed just six base hits in a lackluster 4-1 loss to Columbus, who won the last three games of the four-game set. The lone run the PawSox managed came on a solo home run by newcomer Luis Jimenez. The round tripper was the 102nd of Jimenez’ nine-year minor-league career. The PawSox are the third team that the 27-year-old has suited up for this season. He was on Milwaukee’s opening day roster before getting designated for assignment and claimed by the Red Sox. Jimenez appeared in one game for Boston before being outrighted to Pawtucket last Friday after clearing waivers. PawSox manager Kevin Boles plans to play Jimenez mainly at third base with the DH spot also a possibility. Jimenez was a victim of a See PAWSOX, page B3

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TODAY BOYS Baseball 3:30 p.m. N. Providence at St. Raphael 4 p.m. Woonsocket at Hendricken Lincoln at La Salle Portsmouth at Cumberland Lacrosse 4 p.m. Pilgrim at Burrillville/North Smithfield Volleyball 6 p.m. Central at Lincoln 6:30 p.m. North Smithfield at Mount Hope Shea at St. Raphael GIRLS Softball 3:30 p.m. Burrillville at Ponaganset North Smithfield at Scituate 3:45 p.m. Smithfield at Cumberland 4 p.m. St. Raphael at Moses Brown Woonsocket at Davies Lacrosse 4:15 p.m. Burrillville/North Smithfield at East Providence TUESDAY BOYS Baseball 3:45 p.m. West Warwick at Tolman Mount St. Charles at Scituate 4 p.m. Mount Hope at Burrillville Rogers at Central Falls 4:15 p.m. Shea at Wheeler Volleyball 6:30 p.m. Coventry at Mount St. Charles Chariho at Tolman GIRLS Softball 3:45 p.m. Mount St. Charles at Smithfield 4 p.m. Westerly at Tolman 6 p.m. Cumberland at Lincoln Lacrosse 6:30 p.m. Cumberland at La Salle WEDNESDAY BOYS Baseball 3:45 p.m. St. Raphael at Cranston East 4 p.m. Cumberland at East Greenwich Scituate at North Smithfield Pilgrim at Woonsocket Shea at Juanita Sanchez 4:15 p.m. Paul Cuffee at Burrillville 7 p.m. Cranston West at Lincoln

Volleyball 5:30 p.m. Lincoln at Mount Pleasant Shea at Classical GIRLS Softball 3:30 p.m. Barrington at St. Raphael 3:45 p.m. Woonsocket at Burrillville Davies at North Smithfield THURSDAY BOYS Baseball 3:45 p.m. Smithfield at Mount St. Charles Ponaganset at Tolman 4 p.m. Woonsocket at Ponaganset 4:15 p.m. Davies at Wheeler 7 p.m. Hendricken at Lincoln Volleyball 6:30 p.m. East Providence at Mount St. Charles La Salle at Tolman GIRLS Softball 3:30 p.m. Mount St. Charles at Cumberland Davies at Burrillville 3:45 p.m. Central Falls at Mount Pleasant 4 p.m. Lincoln at Tolman Lacrosse 4 p.m. Burrillville/North Smithfield at Warwick Vets FRIDAY BOYS Baseball 3:45 p.m. Wheeler at Tolman 4 p.m. Exeter/West Greenwich at Burrillville East Providence at Cumberland Shea at Central Falls Lacrosse 4 p.m. Warwick Vets at Burrillville/ North Smithfield SATURDAY GIRLS Softball 1 p.m. Tolman at Mount St. Charles 2 p.m. Lincoln at Cranston West 3:45 p.m. Cumberland at Smithfield CO-ED Track 2 p.m. R.I. Class A Championships, (at Ponaganset HS)

AREA ROAD RACE SCHEDULE

Monday, May 25 WOONSOCKET — George Nasuti Novans Pride 5K, 8:30 a.m. The Gym, LLC, 2168 Diamond Hill Road. Third annual event begins with a kids fun run. Contact Michael Debroisse at (401) 475-6000 or [emailprotected] for more information. Saturday, May 30 NORTH SMITHFIELD — Northmen/Navigant 5k Run/Walk Challenge, 9 a.m. North Smithfield Athletic Complex, 1850 Providence Pike. 5k course starts on the Providence Pike with an Olympic style finish on the track. T-shirts to the first 300 entries. Parking at the Middle School Parking lot. Entertainment: live music along the route. Food Court. Awards to top 3 male and female overall. Awards to the top 2 in each age division: 18 & under,

19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 & over. Contact Paul Nordstrom at (401) 641-3206 or visit [emailprotected] for more information. GLOCESTER — Chieftain Challenge 5K, 10 a.m. Ponaganset High School, 91 Anan Wade Road. Registration through May 28 8 p.m. - $20 per person. Registration on day of race - $25 per person. The Ponaganset Middle School Physical Education and Health Department invite you to join in on a run along the 3.1 mile course on Anan Wade Road, and Route 102 to show your support for lifelong fitness. Our Middle School Student Running Club is training to compete, and raise funds for the construction of cross-country trails at our new campus. Post-race festivities will feature: Awards presentation, Wellness Fair attractions, Food & more.

On The Banner PHOTO FEATURED IN PIC OF THE DAY LAST WEEK April 24, 2015 - Mount senior pitcher Alex Lataille (16) throws against Tolman in the bottom of the 2nd inning at McCoy Stadium Friday. Third baseman Michael Dixon, is at right. Ernest A. Brown/RIMG photo

May 24 Woonsocket-area Post 85 Legion Baseball holds tryouts WOONSOCKET — The Woonsocket-area American Legion Post 85 baseball team is holding tryouts on Sundays, May 17 and 24 from noon to 3 p.m. at Renaud Field. The program includes players from Woonsocket, North Smithfield, Burrillville and students of Mount St. Charles, who are age 14 to 19 years old. A junior Legion player cannot turn 18 at any point in 2015 calendar year; a senior player who is 19 must have been on a Legion roster in 2014. Senior Legion players who turn 20 at any point during 2015 calendar year are not eligible to play. Please bring birth certificate to tryouts. For more informtation contact Steve Girard at [emailprotected] or call (401) 309-7993.

May 25 Registrations being accepted for Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club RBI Baseball PAWTUCKET — The Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket will be offering RBI Baseball, a competitive amateur summer league for boys and girls ages 13-15 year olds; all participants must be in this age range as of May 1, 2015. RBI League play begins on June 15. Tryouts for the Summer League will take place on June 7, with time and location to be announced. The RBI registration form is online at bgcpawt.org. The registration fee for the 2015 RBI Baseball Season is $60, additionally, all participants must have a current Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket membership ($40 per year for residents of Pawtucket and Central Falls and $60 per year for non-residents). All returning players will remain on the same team unless they are traded. All players must pay registration fees in full at the time of sign-up and provide a copy of their birth certificate for age verification. Registration will be accepted through May 25, or until the maximum of 120 players has been reached. You can register in person at the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket’s Elson Clubhouse at One Moeller Place, Pawtucket RI (off School Street) or mail completed forms to the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket.

Clippers Continued from page B1 “My mentality was completely different and on Friday [Coventry coach Chris Daigneault] gave me a nice, little pep talk and he told me I needed to focus because I was out of it.” “I wouldn’t expect us to get 10runned because we can come back and hit, but I don’t know what happened early in the game,” Daigneault said. “Max went out there and they hit her and they are good hitters. I’m really proud of Soph because she went in there, shut them down and gave up one run the rest of the way.” Cumberland (7-6 Division I-North) has now lost back-to-back close games to two of the elite teams in the state. The Clippers dropped a 2-1 decision Friday to I-North leading Tolman, while Kat Calabro’s two RBIs and a run scored weren’t enough for the Clippers to take down the Oakers. Coventry (10-3 Division I-South) is in prime position to be the No. 4 seed. The Oakers sit one game in the loss column ahead of Smithfield for fourth and the Oakers own the tiebreaker thanks to an early-season victory over last season’s beaten finalist. “It is ridiculous what we’re doing right now because we were down 5nothing in this game and the other day we were down 5-3 to Mount,” Daigneault said. “We have to try and find a way to stay up. Unless a mira-

Monday, May 18, 2015 cle happens, fourth is the best we’re going to do and this was one of the teams that was chasing us.” The turning point in the game came in the bottom of the fifth inning when freshman lefty Jocelyn Boddington replaced Sydney Provencal in the circle. Boddington, who has been superb this season, gave up a single to junior Kaitlin Mattera and then walked Derrick, Keresztessy and Furtado before coach Marty Crowley reentered the sophomore. DaBreo cut the deficit to just one when she walked to score Derrick and the Oakers took their first lead of the contest when Marisa Fascio hit a tworun single down the left-field line. Lauren Giampietro extended the lead with a sacrifice fly to plate DaBreo. “That inning got us back in the game,” Daigneault said. “We did get four walks, but we also had some hits in that inning. We have a lot of patience at the plate, but when Jess came up I told her to hammer the first pitch she saw, but she hit it foul.” Gervasio, who hadn’t thrown seven innings in game this month, had no trouble setting down the Clippers in the sixth after she was handed the two-run lead. The seventh proved to be different because No. 9 hitter Kailey Brodeur singled. Sam Jalbert delivered her second hit of the game and the bases were loaded with two outs when Provencal walked. Gervasio then forced catcher Emily Anderson to fly out to Giampietro to finish the contest.

“I needed some confidence and I needed it really bad,” Gervasio said. “Now, I’ve got it. I think I’m good now. I knew we could come back because I knew we had the bats to score some runs.” Coventry needed to come back because the Clippers were simply rampant in the opening inning. Leadoff hitter Taylor Fay, who scored twice, started the game with a single. Jalbert, Madison Leite and Provencal all singled before Colvin was replaced by Gervasio. Calabro and Katie Kent both delivered two-run singles to put the Clippers up 5-0 before the Oakers had an at-bat against Provencal. “To be honest, I was scared when I came in the game because I thought Max was going to do great,” Gervasio said. “I was ready to just support her, but you know what happened.” Derrick tripled and scored in the first, but Coventry’s comeback didn’t begin in earnest until the fourth when DaBreo scored Keresztessy with a sacrifice fly and Fascio singled in Furtado. Fay scored a run in the top of the fifth, but the Oakers countered with five in their half of the inning to win for the seventh time in the last eight games. Coventry 8 Cumberland 6 Cumberland 500 010 0 - 6 8 1 Coventry 100 250 x - 8 11 3 Sydney Provencal, Jocelyn Boddington (5), Provencal (5) and Emily Anderson; Maxine Colvin, Sophia Gervasio (1) and Jess DaBreo.

Boys’ Track & Field

Drezek, Talbert, Kaba shine at Classical Classic CLASSICAL CLASSIC BOYS Saturday – Conley Stadium Local placements: Freshmen 1,500: 3, Jack Halloran (Lincoln) 4:38.60. Sophomore 1,500: 1, Ben Drezek (Cumberland) 4:28.10. Freshmen Discus: 3, Matt Thibaudeau (Lincoln) 96-6. Freshmen Hammer Throw: 1, Evan Grivers (Lincoln) 139-7; 2, Yanzel

Dominguez (Central Falls) 125-0; 3, Thibaudeau 124-2. Open Weight Throw: 3, Dilyn Cote (Woonsocket) 20-5 ¾. Large 1,500: 1, Abdullah Kaba (Cumberland) 4:14.30. Large 110 Hurdles: 1, Jared Talbert (Cumberland) 15.0. Large Shot Put: 2, Andrew Walters (Cumberland) 45-2. Large Javelin Throw: 3, Joe Taylor (Lincoln) 157-2.

Small 200: 1, Yeury Galva (Central Falls) 22.8. Small 800: 2, Samuel Adolfo (Central Falls) 2:05.7. 4x400 Small: 1, Central Falls (Galva, Adolfo, Stive Mendes, Jailson Varela Sanches) 3:34.3. 4x800 Small: 3, Burrillville (Ben Cornell, Zachary Durand, Tom Libby, Jeff Pichie) 8:57.30. Long Jump Small: 3, Manee Castillo (St. Raphael) 19-3 ½.

BLACKSTONE VALLEY MEMORIES

May 18 Bruce Villeneuve, a six-foot right-hander, allowed only three hits, struck out nine and did not issue a walk as Saint Raphael Academy rallied in the sixth inning for a 2-1 decision over Rogers as the Saints finished the first round of Eastern Division play tied for first place with a 5-2 record. In the sixth frame, Chick Vaslet led off with a triple, Tom Grasso followed immediately with a similar three-base blow and then with two out Ron Inzer, SRA’s big catcher, tapped down the third base line and was struck by the throw to first base as he crossed the bag that enabled Grasso to tally the eventual winning run.

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Bruce Paquette retired the first 13 batters he faced and yielded only three hits in the game to hurl Cumberland to a 1-0 win over Woonsocket in Northern Division action. Coach Ed Hogan’s Clippers tallied their lone run in the second when Ken Graveline singled, went to second on Tony Bucci’s bunt and scored on Rocky Cavallo’s single. Mike Coffey cracked two singles and Tony Pucciarelli had one to account for the Villa Novans’ hits.

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Players receive Major League Uniforms, games are played under the lights Monday through Thursday at 8 pm and teams play twice a week. Game times and dates are subject to change. Experienced baseball managers, chosen to provide baseball leadership, and who have knowledge of baseball and game competition, are assigned to coach all teams. All games will be played at baseball fields in the City of Pawtucket. Interscholastic and experienced umpires will officiate all games. For more information about the RBI Baseball Program contact Matt Bergeron, RBI Director at (401)722-8840 or [emailprotected] or visit www.bgcpawt.org.

The fee to play is $125 per person and includes lunch, dinner, the golf tournament (an 18-hole scramble format), and a goodie bag. Registration and lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m., with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The dinner, auction, and awards ceremony is expected to start at 6 p.m. The proceeds will benefit the tourism-based environmental programs that protect and promote the Blackstone Valley. Visit www.golfblackstone.com to sign up, become a tournament sponsor, or for more information.

May 28

Cumberland Parks & Recreation holds beginner golf clinics for kids, adults

New England Patriots to host free Moms Football Safety Clinic at Gillette

CUMBERLAND — The Cumberland Parks & Recreation Department will conduct beginner golf clinics for children ages 6-15 and adults at Wentworth Hills Country Club in Plainville, Mass. The children’s clinics consist of four one-hour lessons, held Tuesday through Friday, June 23-26. Each lesson will focus on a different swing skill. Children will also learn the basics of golf safety, golf etiquette, and respect for the game. The cost of each children’s clinic is $109. The adult clinics also consist of four one-hour lessons, each spaced one week apart (the same day and time for four weeks), that will start on Tuesday, June 30. Each lesson will focus on a specific part of the game, and at the end of each clinic, adults will have knowledge of the basic fundamentals, such as how to use a full swing with irons and woods, and “short game” skills (pitching, chipping and putting). The cost of each adult clinic is $159. The instructor for the clinics is Barrie Bruce, a PGA teaching professional from the Barrie Bruce Golf Schools. Equipment and practice balls will be provided. All participants need are a pair of sneakers and a good attitude. Call the Parks and Recreation Department at (401) 334-9996 for more details or to reserve your space in any of the clinics.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots, in partnership with USA Football, will host a free Moms Football Safety Clinic on Thursday, May 28. The event will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Dana-Farber Field House at Gillette Stadium. The clinic is designed for moms who have a son or daughter playing youth football or who are thinking about playing. The goal of this clinic is to provide moms with the latest information about the safety of the game through USA Football’s “Heads Up Football” program. The clinic will feature presentations on concussion awareness, heat and hydration, proper equipment fitting and strength and conditioning. This event will also consist of interactive on-field drills to teach moms some of the proper techniques of blocking and tackling. Women interested in participating are required to sign up for the event by Wednesday, May 27. Participation will be based on a first come, first served basis as space is limited. To learn more or to register, visit www.patriots.com/momsclinic.

June 8 10th annual Blackstone Valley Heritage Golf Tournament slated BURRILLVILLE — The 10th annual Blackstone Valley Heritage Golf Tournament will take place on Monday, June 8 at the Crystal Lake Golf Course on Bronco Highway.

June 23-30

Steve Nadeau spun a four-hitter, fanned eight and issued a lone walk as Saint Raphael Academy streaked to its sixth straight Blackstone Valley Division win blanking Lincoln 8-0. Mike Calabro and Mark Swider accounted for two hits and two RBI apiece and Vivi Duarte singled, doubled and scored two runs for the 8-2 Saints. Losing pitcher Tom Fay had one of the four hits off Nadeau.

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– By Bill Mulholland

Spring/Ongoing Cumberland has openings for fall coaches at high school, middle school levels CUMBERLAND — The Cumberland School Department is looking to fill six head coaching vacancies (five high school and one middle school) for the 2015 fall season. Cumberland High is in need of coaches for its varsity and junior varsity field hockey, varsity and junior girls’ varsity tennis, and varsity cheerleading teams. McCourt Middle School is in search of a boys’ soccer coach. Those interested should visit www.schoolspring.com to apply for these positions. For additional information on any of the positions, contact Cumberland High athletic director Chris Tashjian via email at [emailprotected] or call 401-658-1600, ext. 343.

Post 85 American Legion baseball seeks business sponsors The Woonsocket-area American Legion Post 85 baseball team is seeking a manager for their junior league team during the upcoming season. The program includes players from Woonsocket, North Smithfield, Burrillville and students of Mount St. Charles. The program is also seeking business sponsorships for their players. Anyone who is interested in either coaching or sponsoring, contact Steve Girard at [emailprotected] or call (401) 309-7993.

Adult volleyball league seeks new players BELLINGHAM — Bellingham Volleyball is looking for new players for the spring session. Any adult age 18 and up is welcome. Games take place at South Elementary School, Harpin Street, every Tuesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Players of all levels are welcome in this recreational pick up league, which plays with different teams every week. For more information e-mail Doug Robbie at [emailprotected] or call (508) 9664053.

SPORTS

Monday, May 18, 2015

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PawSox Continued from page B1 tough hop in the seventh inning when Columbus first baseman Jesus Aguilar hit a bouncer that deflected off the third-base bag and into left field. “Like the (offensive) approach and love the third-base play. Very athletic over there,” said Boles about Jimenez. “You at his numbers and his history and there’s some impact in his bat. He showed it (Sunday) and we’re very excited to have him here.” The addition of Jimenez can help a Pawtucket offense that entered Sunday with a .233 team batting average. Sunday was also the second straight game that the PawSox were unable to get a hit with a runner in scoring position. “It’s not about luck. It’s about ‘we need to do a better job, plain and simple,’” said Boles. “I know that we’re capable more with our offensive approach. The guys, they give their best every day, but we’re going to need to make sure we stay focused on what we’re doing and get a little more consistent.”

Rusney Castillo made his sixth consecutive start, a positive turn of events after the outfielder missed substantial time to early-season injuries. Sunday also marked the fifth straight game that Castillo was

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Continued from page B1 With that latest monetary gain, the two clubs have raised more than $1,300, and that will be given directly to the Compassionate Care ALS and the ALS Association/Massachusetts chapter charities. Seaver’s younger brother Paul (a 1977 Milford High grad) served as the head varsity basketball coach for Franklin High, JV coach at Wellesley High and as the coach of the Metrowest travel hoop program. As for Lori, who graduated from West Warwick in 1975, she was an avid fan of her husband’s baseball teams and adored watching her son David play ball for the town’s Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth league squads, not to mention the Wizards’ freshman state championship team. “With Paul’s passing and Lori having been diagnosed, we created a partnership three years ago to play it; we’re just trying to make the public more aware of the disease, and that it can affect anybody at any time,” Seaver said. “It was a big story with the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge,’ where politicians, sports teams owners and pro and collegiate athletes have ice water poured on them. “This was all about honoring and memorializing Lori and Paul.” Coaches and players all wore the No. 4 on their jerseys in honor of Gehrig, the New York Yankee great. They also chose to send to the plate all 15 of their players; that way, all could play a role. With 100 fans in attendance, Grenier announced: “There are a lot of people who don’t like talking about ALS, but we don’t mind at West Warwick and Mount St. Charles because people from both schools have been affected. Whenever you see or talk to Tom Seaver about his brother, you can see the emotion in his eyes, you can hear it in his voice. “You can say the same thing about John Mottola and his son David,” he continued. “Did you know May is ALS Awareness Month? Nobody knows that. We may not think about it getting better, but it is; we’re taking baby steps, and hopefully, they’ll turn into bigger steps toward finding a cure.” As for the game itself, senior captain Justin D’Abrosca paced the offense, going 2-for-2 with a triple and four RBI. Other crucial plate contributions came from classmates and fellow captains Tate Laquerre (2-for-3, stolen base, RBI, two runs) and Kevin Valentine (1-for-3, run); sophomore Joe Sanchioni (2-for-2, two runs); junior Eric Abruzzi (1for-2, run); sophomore Tyler Rudek and junior Alex Lataille (1-for-3, RBI). On the mound, Seaver employed five different

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Tim Couch struggled with his control at times on Sunday, but still managed to hold Columbus in check for only one run over five innings.

situated in the No. 2 spot in Pawtucket’s lineup. To Boles, Castillo can be placed anywhere among the first three spots in the batting order. “I think there’s some variety that can be obtained there. He can do a little bit of everything. He can run, he’s an impact bat and is another guy who can play the short game,” said Boles. “It depends on what we have in the rest of the lineup and

‘There are a lot of people who don’t like talking about ALS, but we don’t mind at West Warwick and Mount St. Charles because people from both schools have been affected.’ pitchers, including senior lefty Andrew Uttermann, and righties Abruzzi, Valentine, Rudek and sophomore Alex Hale, who closed. The fivesome combined to yield just six hits and four walks while striking out six. Abruzzi landed the win after yielding a hit and a walk with a strikeout in the third. Junior Matt Hopper took the loss, as he surrendered four hits, two runs (one earned) and two walks in the third and fourth innings. After scoring twice in the second to grab a 3-1 lead, Mount gained complete control with a four-run fifth inning, but the flurry started so innocently. The leadoff Valentine reached on an infield error, moved to second on a wild pitch and third on a passed ball before reliever Ray Zincone manufactured two quick outs. Laquerre’s hit to left plated Valentine, and Sanchioni beat out a Baltimore-chop to second. Zincone then struck senior captain Mike Dixon with a pitch to load the bases, and D’Abrosca crushed a bases-clearing triple to the right-center gap. “It was a fastball up, and I just went with it,” D’Abrosca said. “Coming off the bat, it felt good, and I saw it was going to the gap, so I just shot out of the box. I kind of

how it fits.” Castillo finished 1-for-4 with two strikeouts and two stolen bases. His single came on a 1-2 pitch in the first inning. An overtaxed Pawtucket bullpen received a much-needed fresh arm Sunday as lefty reliever Robby Scott was summoned from DoubleA Portland. Not surprisingly, Boles

had a feeling I could go for three (bases). I was just glad we got more runs in.” West Warwick answered with a pair in the fifth to slice the deficit to 7-3. With one out, Tom Doran laced a badhop single into left, and – after Rudek had fanned Mike Pellerin – Brogan Guilmette walked. Ernie Wright then knocked a grounder to third, the throw airmailed to first, and that allowed Doran to scamper home and Guilmette to third. The latter scored on a wild pitch. The Mounties tacked on another in the seventh when Abruzzi reached on an infield hit, took second on Valentine’s single to right, tagged to third on John Montani’s fly to center and scored on Lataille’s infield roller. The visitors had snared a 1-0 lead in the second when Cannata drew a one-out walk off of Tyler Boisclair, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Rudek’s ground single to center. The Mounties later loaded the bases, but squandered the opportunity when Lataille struck out. West Warwick tied it in the back half after Charlie Tashjian singled, took third on Hopper’s two-out hit to left and scored on a throwing miscue. The Mounties immediately responded with a pair in the top of the third. Laquerre blooped a single to right, then robbed second before Sanchioni sprinted to first on an infield grounder. Laquerre raced in on an ensuing error, and D’Abrosca’s single to left pushed Sanchioni across. MSC didn’t need long to ice it, though it was easy to tell Seaver was thinking about his beloved Paul. “He was the best coach I ever knew, and also the best brother anyone could ever have,” he said. “He had a passion for life, and for

turned to Scott after Keith Couch was removed from the game. Couch battled through command issues early on – he missed the strike zone on six straight pitches in the first inning and repeated the same in the second – but was able to turn in five innings of one-run ball. Scott pitched a scoreless sixth and eighth innings as part of a three-inning stint. It was the seventh where he ran into trouble as tworun home run by Jerry Sands highlighted a three-run uprising by the Clippers. Scott stuck out two and walked one as part of his 45-pitch, 27-strike outing. “I thought he did an admirable job,” said Boles about Scott, now in his third stint this season with Pawtucket. The PawSox nearly found themselves caught short in the bullpen as a result of playing a 13-inning affair on Friday and 14 more innings on Saturday. On Friday, it was Matt Spring warming up in the bullpen. A night later, it was Humberto Quintero’s turn to get loose. With Quintero in the lineup Sunday, Boles joked that it would revert back to Spring in the event that the PawSox and Clippers engaged in yet another lengthy tussle. Apparently the infield shift is not just limited to the major-league level.

A recent visit by Indianapolis saw the PawSox adjust their infield defense whenever left-hander Hunter Morris was in the box. In a scene reminiscent of whenever David Ortiz is up, Pawtucket strategically placed three infielders to the right of the second-base bag. “We’ve done quite a bit of that. We’ve done the 3-1 shifts and you’ll see we’ll make the adjustment with one strike in case there’s a guy who can bunt. They do it up at the major-league level and you’re starting to see it more and more throughout this league,” said Boles. “These guys have to be acclimated to them once they get called up to the big leagues.” EXTRA BASES: Getting Scott

on the PawSox roster was possible after infielder/outfielder Sean Coyle landed on the disabled list with left elbow inflammation. … Pawtucket now heads out for a seven-game road trip that will first take the locals to Indianapolis for four games followed by three in Louisville. Eduardo Rodriguez (32, 2.86) gets the nod Monday night followed by Brian Johnson on Tuesday and Henry Owens on Wednesday. … Columbus now owns the best record in the league (22-15) while the PawSox stand at 21-17. Follow Brendan McGair on Twitter @BWMcGair03

Photo by Jon Baker

Andrew Utterman started for the Mounties on Saturday in their non-league contest against West Warwick to raise funds and awareness in the battle against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

teaching kids about sports. He’s the reason I love what I do so much.” Seaver interrupted himself to tell his players to set down the water bucket they were carrying toward him. The skipper bolted and ran around first base before the mischievous trio caught up and dumped some of the contents over his shoulders. “That was Cannata,

Rudek and D’Abrosca,” he said. “I should get them for that, but – then again – remember the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ for ALS? I guess it makes sense. That was huge last summer, all over the country.” Stated D’Abrosca: “This means a lot to play in something like this. Coach always brings up his brother and what a great guy he was,

how his family supported him through his battle. “He told us that’s why he coaches, and we’re really glad he does.” Mount 012 040 1 -- 8 – 12 – 2 W Warwick 010 002 0 -- 3 – 6 – 4 Andrew Utterman, Eric Abruzzi (3), Kevin Valentine (4), Tyler Rudek (6), Alex Hale (7) and Colin Cannata. Tyler Boisclair, Matt Hopper (3), Ray Zincone (5), Ernie Wright (6) and Jake Woodside. 3B – Justin D’Abrosca.

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STEVE REED

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy was more methodical than electrifying Sunday. It was still effective. Always in control, the topranked McIlroy became the first two-time winner in the Wells Fargo Championship with a seven-shot victory over Webb Simpson and Patrick Rodgers. McIlory closed with a 3under 69 to finish at 21-under 267, shattering the tournament record by five strokes. He entered the day with a four-stroke lead over Simpson after a course-record 61 on Saturday. “Everything is firing on all cylinders for me,” McIlroy said. McIlroy also won Match Play Championship to wo weeks ago in San Francisco and has 11 PGA Tour titles. He has six top-10 finishes in his last eight PGA Tour starts. McIlroy also won at Quail Hollow in in 2010 for his first PGA Tour title, shooting 15 under. Anthony Kim set the previous tournament record of 16 under in 2008. “The golf course just sets up really well for me,” McIlroy said. Phil Mickelson called McIlroy’s performance this week “impressive.” Rodgers, playing on a sponsor exemption, was the only player to mount a serious challenge, getting within three shots after a birdie at No. 15. He played the final two holes in 3-over and finished with a 68. Simpson shot a 72. McIlroy got off to a shaky start with a three-putt bogey on No. 2 — his first in 167 holes — but quickly pulled it together. He didn’t have another bogey until the 17th hole, when he had built a seven-stroke lead and outcome was already decided. Simpson failed to capitalize on McIlroy’s early mistake, shooting 37 on the front nine that included a double bogey on the par-3 sixth when he three-putted from 8 feet. That dropped the

Charlotte resident six shots back and he was never in contention again. “He’s our best player right now and I wish more than anything I could have shot a couple under on the front to make it more exciting,” Simpson said. “Just didn’t have it today.” McIlroy reached 20 under on No. 12 when he knocked his approach shot from 132 yards to 2 feet of the cup for a tap-in birdie and it looked as if he might coast the rest of the way. But Rodgers, who earned his first top-25 finish on the PGA Tour, made it interesting when he played a seven-hole stretch in 6-under par, sparked by an eagle on the par-5 10th hole. But McIlroy didn’t flinch when Rodgers drained a 15-foot putt on No. 15 to pull within three shots of the lead. Instead, McIlroy countered by rolling in a birdie putt on his own on No. 14, moving to 21 under and regaining a four-shot cushion. McIlroy then put an exclamation point on the win by drilling his approach shot from 145 yards to 3 feet on No. 16 for his tournamentrecord 27th birdie. “I had a goal to go out there and birdie the par 5s and the two drivable par 4s and I knew if I made six birdies there was pretty much no chance that anybody could catch me,” McIlroy said. “With my length and the way I’m driving it, it’s a big advantage around here and it showed this week.” Rodgers ran out of gas on No. 17 when he dunked his tee shot in the water on the pesky par-3 17th hole and took a double bogey to fall seven shots back. Still, it was a solid finish for Rodgers, who earned an automatic berth in The Colonial next week by virtue of his top-10 finish. “It has given me a lot of confidence moving forward,” Rodgers said. Mickelson finished in a three-way tie for fourth place at 12 under with Gary Woodland and Robert Streb.

MLB

Yankees limp out of Kansas City after 6-0 loss to Royals DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Bronx Bombers sure haven’t lived up to their old moniker lately. Edinson Volquez baffled New York with three-hit ball for seven innings Sunday, and relievers Wade Davis and Jason Frasor wiggled out of jams the final two frames, preserving the Kansas City Royals’ 6-0 victory and the first shutout of the Yankees this season. Not that New York’s been lighting up any scoreboards. The Yankees have managed just 11 runs over their last six games, and five of those came in Saturday night’s win that ended a season-worst four-game losing streak. “We just haven’t swung the bats well,” said first baseman Mark Teixeira, who went 0 for 2 on Sunday before leaving with a bruised big toe. “It was just a bad

week for us.” Chris Capuano (0-1) made his season debut after rehabbing a quad strain that he sustained in spring training. The veteran left-hander gave up four runs on four hits and two walks, and left New York in a big hole when he was pulled four batters into the third inning. “It’s certainly not the outing I wanted for my first outing,” Capuano said. “I wanted to try to give the team a little boost heading into the off day, but there were a lot of good things that happened the first three innings to build on for next time.” Meanwhile, Volquez (3-3) was cruising right along. He struck out five without issuing a walk, and never allowed a leadoff man on base. Just one runner reached second on him all afternoon. “He was fantastic. He had all kinds of movement and action on his fastball,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

Wells Fargo Championship Par Scores The Associated Press Sunday At Quail Hollow Club Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $7.1 million Yardage: 7,562; Par 72 Final Rory McIlroy (500), $1,278,000 70-67-61-69—267 Patrick Rodgers, $624,800 68-68-70-68—274 Webb Simpson (245), $624,800 67-67-68-72—274 Phil Mickelson (115), $293,467 71-66-71-68—276 Gary Woodland (115), $293,467 70-71-68-67—276 Robert Streb (115), $293,467 65-69-71-71—276 Geoff Ogilvy (88), $228,975 69-69-71-68—277 Justin Thomas (88), $228,975 69-73-65-70—277 Jason Bohn (73), $184,600 72-68-69-69—278 Brendan Steele (73), $184,600 69-69-68-72—278 Shawn Stefani (73), $184,600 69-70-70-69—278 Kevin Streelman (73), $184,600 69-71-70-68—278 Scott Brown (58), $137,267 71-68-69-71—279 Danny Lee (58), $137,267 71-69-69-70—279 Jim Herman (58), $137,267 71-69-68-71—279 Kevin Chappell (54), $113,600 66-73-74-67—280 Tony Finau (54), $113,600 73-67-70-70—280 Boo Weekley (54), $113,600 71-70-67-72—280 Carlos Ortiz (52), $99,400 70-71-66-74—281 Stewart Cink (48), $71,621 67-76-68-71—282 Chesson Hadley (48), $71,621 67-77-70-68—282 Will MacKenzie (48), $71,621 69-68-70-75—282

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McIlroy finishes at 21 under, wins Wells Fargo AP Sports Writer

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LHP Vidal Nuno to Reno (PCL). Reinstated RHP Archie Bradley from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP David Hernandez to Visalia (Cal) for a rehab assignment. MIAMI MARLINS — Fired manager Mike Redmond and bench coach Rob Leary. Designated RHP Nick Masset for assignment. Reinstated RHP Henderson Alvarez from the 15-day DL. NEW YORK METS — Sent RHPs Vic Black and Dillon Gee to St. Lucie (FSL) for rehab assignments. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Tyler Lyons to Memphis (PCL). Recalled RHP Sam Tuivailala from Memphis. American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed 1B Dustin Geiger. Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded INF Steve Proscia to York (Atlantic) for a player to be named. ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed INF Manny Reyes and RHP Min Hur. Released INF Bill Miller. HOCKEY ECHL ONTARIO REIGN — Released G Coleman Vollrath from his amateur tryout agreement.

THIS DAY IN SPORTS The Associated Press Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA May 18 1920 — Man o’ War, ridden by Clarence Kummer, wins the Preakness Stakes by 1½ lengths over Upset. 1931 — Fifteen-year-old Eddie Arcaro rides his first race, finishing sixth, at Bainbridge Park, Ohio. 1957 — Bold Ruler, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, wins the Preakness Stakes by two lengths over Iron Liege. It’s the sixth and last time Arcaro wins the Preakness. 1968 — Forward Pass wins the Preakness Stakes by six lengths to give Calumet Farm a record seven wins in by an owner in the race. Judy Johnson becomes the first female trainer to saddle a horse for the Preakness. Her horse, Sir Beau, finishes seventh in the field of 10. 1971 — The Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in the seventh game to win the Stanley Cup. 1985 — Patricia Cooksey becomes the first female jockey to compete in the Preakness Stakes. Tank’s Prospect wins the race and Cooksey’s mount, Tajawa, finishes sixth in the field of 11. 1990 — Edmonton’s Jari Kurri becomes the

leading goal scorer in Stanley Cup history when he scores his 90th postseason goal in the first period of Game 2 of the finals against Boston. Kurri adds two more goals as the Oilers beat the Bruins 7-2. 1996 — Louis Quatorze carries Pat Day to the jockey’s third straight Preakness Stakes victory. Louis Quatorze, 16th in the Kentucky Derby, runs 1 3-16 miles in 1:53 2-5 to equal the race record set by Tank’s Prospect in 1985. 1997 — Chris Johnson makes an 8-foot par putt on the second playoff hole to win the LPGA championship over Leta Lindley. It’s the third playoff in the championship since the tournament began in 1955, and the first since 1970. 2002 — War Emblem, ridden by Victor Espinoza, holds off fast-closing long shot Magic Weisner by three-quarters of a length to win the Preakness Stakes and set up a shot at the Triple Crown. Trainer Bob Baffert gets a third shot at a Triple Crown in the last six years. 2004 — Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 3, Houston 3 May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 May 8: L.A. Clippers 124, Houston 99 May 10: L.A. Clippers 128, Houston 95 May 12: Houston 124, L.A. Clippers 103 May 14: Houston 119, L.A. Clippers 107 May 17: Houston 113, L.A. Clippers 100 Golden State 4, Memphis 2 May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90 May 9: Memphis 99, Golden State 89 May 11: Golden State 101, Memphis 84 May 13: Golden State 98, Memphis 78

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE Golden State vs. Houston Atlanta vs. Cleveland May 19: Houston at Golden State, 9 p.m. May 20: Cleveland at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m. May 21: Houston at Golden State, 9 p.m. May 22: Cleveland at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m. May 23: Golden State at Houston, 9 p.m. May 24: Atlanta at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m. May 25: Golden State at Houston, 9 p.m. May 26: Atlanta at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m. x-May 27: Houston at Golden State, 9 p.m. x-May 28: Cleveland at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m. x-May 29: Golden State at Houston, 9 p.m. x-May 30: Atlanta at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m. x-May 31: Houston at Golden State, 9 p.m. x-June 1: Cleveland at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m.

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MLB SCHEDULE AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Minnesota 6, Tampa Bay 4 Detroit 4, St. Louis 3, 10 innings L.A. Angels 6, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Yankees 5, Kansas City 1 Houston 6, Toronto 5 Cleveland 10, Texas 8 Chicago White Sox 4, Oakland 3 Boston 4, Seattle 2 Sunday’s Games Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 0 Kansas City 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 Tampa Bay 11, Minnesota 3 Houston 4, Toronto 2 Cleveland at Texas, 3:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Boston at Seattle, 4:10 p.m. Detroit at St. Louis, 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 2-2) at Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 3-3), 1:07 p.m. Milwaukee (Fiers 1-4) at Detroit (Lobstein 33), 7:08 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 1-5) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 3-1), 8:10 p.m. Oakland (Pomeranz 2-3) at Houston (McCullers 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:08 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Texas at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Atlanta 5, Miami 3 Detroit 4, St. Louis 3, 10 innings Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 7, Arizona 5 N.Y. Mets 14, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 11, Cincinnati 2 Washington 4, San Diego 1 Colorado 7, L.A. Dodgers 1 Sunday’s Games Atlanta 6, Miami 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 8 Philadelphia 6, Arizona 0 Pittsburgh 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 4:10 p.m. Detroit at St. Louis, 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Milwaukee (Fiers 1-4) at Detroit (Lobstein 33), 7:08 p.m. Arizona (R.De La Rosa 4-2) at Miami (Haren 4-2), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Lackey 2-2) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 51), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 3-3) at Colorado (Lyles 2-3), 8:40 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:08 p.m. Arizona at Miami, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE Through May 16 BATTING: JIglesias, Detroit, .350; Brantley, Cleveland, .348; NCruz, Seattle, .348; Kipnis, Cleveland, .340; Fielder, Texas, .340; Vogt, Oakland, .337; AGarcia, Chicago, .336; AJones, Baltimore, .336. RUNS: Dozier, Minnesota, 29; Donaldson, Toronto, 28; Ellsbury, New York, 28; KMorales, Kansas City, 28; Trout, Los Angeles, 28; Cain, Kansas City, 27; Gardner, New York, 25; Hosmer, Kansas City, 25; Moustakas, Kansas City, 25. RBI: NCruz, Seattle, 30; KMorales, Kansas City, 30; Vogt, Oakland, 30; MiCabrera, Detroit, 29; Hosmer, Kansas City, 29; Reddick, Oakland, 28; Teixeira, New York, 28. HITS: Altuve, Houston, 50; Fielder, Texas, 50; Kipnis, Cleveland, 50; NCruz, Seattle, 49; Ellsbury, New York, 48; Hosmer, Kansas City, 48; Donaldson, Toronto, 46; Kinsler, Detroit, 46; KMorales, Kansas City, 46; Semien, Oakland, 46. DOUBLES: KMorales, Kansas City, 14; Cespedes, Detroit, 13; Brantley, Cleveland, 12; Cano, Seattle, 12; Beltran, New York, 11; Forsythe, Tampa Bay, 11; Infante, Kansas City, 11. TRIPLES: Orlando, Kansas City, 5; Bogaerts,

Boston, 3; ACabrera, Tampa Bay, 3; RDavis, Detroit, 3; Fuld, Oakland, 3; Gose, Detroit, 3; DSantana, Minnesota, 3. HOME RUNS: NCruz, Seattle, 15; Teixeira, New York, 11; MiCabrera, Detroit, 10; HRamirez, Boston, 10; ARodriguez, New York, 10; Trout, Los Angeles, 10; Valbuena, Houston, 10. STOLEN BASES: Ellsbury, New York, 14; Altuve, Houston, 13; Gardner, New York, 10; Springer, Houston, 10; DeShields, Texas, 9; Marisnick, Houston, 9; RDavis, Detroit, 8. PITCHING: FHernandez, Seattle, 6-1; Keuchel, Houston, 5-0; McHugh, Houston, 5-1; Pineda, New York, 5-1; Buehrle, Toronto, 5-3; 9 tied at 4. ERA: Gray, Oakland, 1.61; Keuchel, Houston, 1.87; NMartinez, Texas, 1.88; Richards, Los Angeles, 2.29; FHernandez, Seattle, 2.30; Odorizzi, Tampa Bay, 2.36; Santiago, Los Angeles, 2.41. STRIKEOUTS: Kluber, Cleveland, 64; Archer, Tampa Bay, 62; Pineda, New York, 55; FHernandez, Seattle, 55; Buchholz, Boston, 54; Gray, Oakland, 53; Salazar, Cleveland, 52. SAVES: Perkins, Minnesota, 13; AMiller, New York, 13; Soria, Detroit, 12; Street, Los Angeles, 12; Gregerson, Houston, 10; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 10; Uehara, Boston, 9; Rodney, Seattle, 9.

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Friday’s Games New York City FC 2, Chicago 2, tie FC Dallas 0, New York 0, tie Saturday’s Games Montreal 4, Real Salt Lake 1 Seattle 2, Vancouver 0 New England 1, Toronto FC 1, tie Houston 3, Portland 1 Sporting Kansas City , Colorado San Jose 2, Columbus 0 Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at Orlando City, 5 p.m. D.C. United at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 20 New England at Sporting Kansas City, 8 p.m. Friday, May 22 Chicago at Columbus, 8 p.m. Houston at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, May 23 Portland at Toronto FC, 5 p.m. D.C. United at New England, 7:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Montreal, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Seattle, 10 p.m. New York City FC at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m. Sunday, May 24 Philadelphia at New York, 5 p.m. Orlando City at San Jose, 7 p.m.

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NBA PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Chicago 2 May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 May 8: Chicago 99, Cleveland 96 May 10: Cleveland 86, Chicago 84 May 12: Cleveland 106, Chicago 101 May 14: Cleveland 94, Chicago 73 Atlanta 4, Washington 2 May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98 May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90 May 9: Washington 103, Atlanta 101 May 11: Atlanta 106, Washington 101 May 13: Atlanta 82, Washington 81 May 15: Atlanta 94, Washington 91

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TRANSACTIONS Sunday’s Sports Transactions The Associated Press BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Bryan Mitchell to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reinstated LHP Chris Capuano from the 15day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed 1B Ike Davis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled OF Craig Gentry from Nashville (PCL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent OF Austin Jackson to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP Andrew Bellatti to Durham (IL). Reinstated SS Nick Franklin from the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Placed LHP Ross Detwiler on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Designated RHP Kyuji Fujikawa for assignment. Recalled RHP Tanner Scheppers from Round Rock (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Ross Ohlendorf from Round Rock. Sent OF Josh Hamilton to Frisco (TL) for a rehab assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned

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By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE Through May 16 BATTING: DGordon, Miami, .420; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, .356; Galvis, Philadelphia, .347; Rizzo, Chicago, .344; Goldschmidt, Arizona, .333; YEscobar, Washington, .328; Holliday, St. Louis, .328. RUNS: Harper, Washington, 33; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 29; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 28; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 28; Myers, San Diego, 28; Simmons, Atlanta, 27; Fowler, Chicago, 26; Frazier, Cincinnati, 26; Rizzo, Chicago, 26; Upton, San Diego, 26. RBI: Stanton, Miami, 36; Harper, Washington, 33; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 32; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 32; Zimmerman, Washington, 28; Marte, Pittsburgh, 26; BCrawford, San Francisco, 25; Upton, San Diego, 25. HITS: DGordon, Miami, 63; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 47; Pagan, San Francisco, 46; FFreeman, Atlanta, 45; Rizzo, Chicago, 45; YEscobar, Washington, 44; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 44; Hechavarria, Miami, 44. DOUBLES: AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 17; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 16; Duda, New York, 14; FFreeman, Atlanta, 14; DeNorris, San Diego, 14; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 13; Arenado, Colorado, 11; Desmond, Washington, 11; Lind, Milwaukee, 11; NWalker, Pittsburgh, 11. TRIPLES: Hamilton, Cincinnati, 3; Pagan, San

Francisco, 3; Revere, Philadelphia, 3; Trumbo, Arizona, 3; 20 tied at 2. HOME RUNS: Harper, Washington, 13; Frazier, Cincinnati, 12; Stanton, Miami, 11; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 10; Pederson, Los Angeles, 10; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 9; 5 tied at 8. STOLEN BASES: Hamilton, Cincinnati, 17; DGordon, Miami, 12; Polanco, Pittsburgh, 11; Aoki, San Francisco, 10; Fowler, Chicago, 9; Rizzo, Chicago, 8; Upton, San Diego, 8. PITCHING: BColon, New York, 6-2; Shields, San Diego, 5-0; Wacha, St. Louis, 5-0; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-1; Harvey, New York, 5-1; SMiller, Atlanta, 5-1; GCole, Pittsburgh, 5-2. ERA: SMiller, Atlanta, 1.33; Burnett, Pittsburgh, 1.38; Greinke, Los Angeles, 1.52; Scherzer, Washington, 1.75; Harang, Philadelphia, 2.03; Wacha, St. Louis, 2.06; Harvey, New York, 2.31. STRIKEOUTS: Scherzer, Washington, 66; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 66; Shields, San Diego, 64; Cueto, Cincinnati, 56; Hamels, Philadelphia, 55; Arrieta, Chicago, 55; TRoss, San Diego, 54. SAVES: Familia, New York, 13; Rosenthal, St. Louis, 12; Grilli, Atlanta, 11; Storen, Washington, 11; Kimbrel, San Diego, 10; Casilla, San Francisco, 9; Melancon, Pittsburgh, 9; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 9.

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE North Division W L Rochester (Twins) 20 16 Pawtucket (Red Sox) 21 17 Scranton/WB (Yankees) 20 18 Buffalo (Blue Jays) 19 18 Syracuse (Nationals) 16 21 Lehigh Valley (Phillies) 12 26 South Division W L Charlotte (White Sox) 21 15 Norfolk (Orioles) 20 17 Durham (Rays) 20 18 Gwinnett (Braves) 16 21 West Division W L Columbus (Indians) 22 15 Indianapolis (Pirates) 22 16 Louisville (Reds) 17 20 Toledo (Tigers) 14 22

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Saturday's Games Buffalo 16, Toledo 2, 8 innings Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 3, Durham 2 Columbus 4, Pawtucket 3, 14 innings Charlotte 2, Syracuse 1 Louisville 3, Gwinnett 1

Norfolk 2, Indianapolis 1 Lehigh Valley 6, Rochester 5 Sunday's Games Toledo 5, Buffalo 2, 12 innings Columbus 4, Pawtucket 1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 5, Durham 0 Indianapolis 8, Norfolk 5 Rochester 5, Lehigh Valley 3 Louisville 7, Gwinnett 4 Charlotte 7, Syracuse 1 Monday's Games Gwinnett at Toledo, 6:30 p.m. Buffalo at Columbus, 6:35 p.m. Charlotte at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, 6:35 p.m. Norfolk at Louisville, 6:35 p.m. Durham at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. Lehigh Valley at Syracuse, 7:05 p.m. Pawtucket at Indianapolis, 7:05 p.m. Tuesday's Games Gwinnett at Toledo, 10:30 a.m. Buffalo at Columbus, 10:35 a.m. Durham at Rochester, 11:05 a.m., 1st game Norfolk at Louisville, 6:35 p.m. Charlotte at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, 6:35 p.m. Lehigh Valley at Syracuse, 7:05 p.m. Durham at Rochester, 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Pawtucket at Indianapolis, 7:05 p.m.

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LOOKING FOR SOMEdepartment (365$5,000.00 in cash, bank check or certified check Faxed to: THING HARD TO FIND? 1438) as soon as pos(401) 767-8509 Be sure to look in the sible for correction. at time of sale is required to bid; other terms will HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C. classified pages of The or Emailed to: be announced at time of sale. Attorney for the Holder of the Mortgage No adjustment will be [emailprotected] TImes every day. Surely you'll find interesting given for typographical 150 California Street things that you may want errors, which do not Bendett & McHugh, P.C. Newton, MA 02458 Complete instructions or need. The Times is the change the meaning or perfect marketplace you lessen the value of the 270 Farmington Avenue, Ste. 151 (617) 558-0500 should include: can enjoy in the comfort advertisement. Farmington, CT 06032 201405-0585 Publication dates, of your own home. There something for everyAttorney for the present Credit will be allowed Billing information and is one in The Times classionly to that portion of continued next column Holder of the Mortgage By order of the holder of the mortgage, the sale fieds! the advertisement originally scheduled for April 20, 2015 at 9:00 where the error occurred. a.m. has been postponed to May 21, 2015 at TOWN OF LINCOLN COLLECTOR’S SALE OF ESTATES FOR TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS 9:00 a.m. on the premises. AND/OR WATER CHARGES AND ASSESSMENTS DUE AND UNPAID HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C. Attorney for the Holder of the Mortgage 150 California Street Newton, MA 02458 (617) 558-0500 CITY OF PAWTUCKET COLLECTOR S SALE OF ESTATES FOR TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS DUE AND UNPAID WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CITY HALL JUNE 4, 2015 The undersigned, Finance Director of the City of Pawtucket, hereby gives notice she will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 137 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on June 4, 2015, at 10:00 A.M. Local Time, various parcels of real estate (for the levy upon which notice is hereby given) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the taxes and assessments which constitute a lien thereon, (including where applicable, any tangible taxes and/or any liens pursuant to Rhode Island General Laws 23-27.3-125.7), together with interest, costs and expenses incident to this sale, as set forth in the original Advertisement of May 11, 2015 published in The Times of that date, to which reference is hereby made. Property upon which taxes and assessments have been paid since the advertisement first appeared will not, of course, be included in the sale. Please be advised that if the property referred to in the advertisement of May 11, 2015 published in The Times of that date in which you have a substantial interest is sold at tax sale, then you have one (1) year to redeem it through the Collector s Office or through the tax sale purchaser by tendering the taxes paid, plus a ten percent (10%) penalty on the tax sale amount, plus one percent (1%) interest on the tax sale amount from the seventh month onward. After one (1) year, you may exercise your right to redeem through the tax sale purchaser, or, if a Petition to Foreclose your Right of Redemption has been filed in Superior Court, you may redeem through the Court until a Final Decree is entered forever foreclosing your right of redemption. JOANNA L HEUREUX FINANCE DIRECTOR CITY OF PAWTUCKET PAWTUCKET WATER SUPPLY BOARD COLLECTOR'S SALE OF ESTATES FOR TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS DUE AND UNPAID WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, PAWTUCKET CITY HALL MAY 20, 2015 The undersigned, Chief Financial Officer of the Pawtucket Water Supply Board, hereby gives notice he will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, in the Pawtucket City Council Chamber, City Hall, 137 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on May 20, 2015, at 10:00 A.M. Local Time, various parcels of real estate (for the levy upon which notice is hereby given) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the water charges, taxes and/or assessments which constitute a lien thereon, (including where applicable, any tangible taxes and/or any liens pursuant to Rhode Island General Laws 23-27.3125.7), together with interest, costs and expenses incident to this sale, as set forth in the original Advertisement of April 27, 2015 published in The Times of that date, to which reference is hereby made. Property upon which water charges, taxes and/or assessments have been paid since the advertisement first appeared will not, of course, be included in the sale. Please be advised that if the property referred to in the advertisement of April 27, 2015 published in The Times of that date in which you have a substantial interest is sold at tax sale, then you have one (1) year to redeem it through the Collector's Office or through the tax sale purchaser by tendering the taxes paid, plus a ten percent (10%) penalty on the tax sale amount, plus one percent (1%) interest on the tax sale amount from the seventh month onward. After one (1) year, you may exercise your right to redeem through the tax sale purchaser, or, if a Petition to Foreclose your Right of Redemption has been filed in Superior Court, you may redeem through the Court until a Final Decree is entered forever foreclosing your right of redemption. ROBERT E. BENSON CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PAWTUCKET WATER SUPPLY BOARD

The undersigned, Finance Director of the Town of Lincoln, hereby gives notice that he will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, in the Council Chambers, Lincoln Town Hall, 100 Old River Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island on June 12, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Local Time, the following described parcels of real estate (for the levy upon which notice is hereby given) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the taxes and assessments and/or water charges and assessments which constitute a lien thereon, (including where applicable, any tangible taxes and/or any liens pursuant to Rhode Island General Laws 23-27.3-125.7), together with interest, costs and expenses incident to this sale. Each of the following described parcels will be sold for the payment of the taxes and assessments. Information as to the nature of the said taxes and assessments, and the amounts due on the several parcels may be obtained from the undersigned and will be announced at the sale. For a more particular description of said estates, reference is made to the Assessor’s Plats as the same appeared in the Offices of the Assessor or Assessors of said Town of Lincoln. TERMS: CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TERMS: COMPLIANCE WITH R.I.G.L. 44-9-13.1 AND COMPLIANCE WITH R.I.G.L. 44-9-13. P01 L-046.0 TAXED TO ROBERT H. & CLAIRE A. JACKSON P01 L-056.0 TAXED TO ROBERT J. SHARP P01 L-064.0 TAXED TO SUZANNE & ROBERT LARIVEE P02 L-051.0 TAXED TO AUREA M. ROSA P02 L-098.0 TAXED TO IB PROP. HOLDINGS, LLC, TOWN OF LINCOLN, OPTIONS REALTY, LLC & RI WAREHOUSE INVEST., LLC P02 L-100.0 TAXED TO PRINCETON COMM. HOLDINGS, LLC P02 L-113.0 TAXED TO KONTINENTAL, LLC P03 L-053.0 TAXED TO MARK CORPUS & AMY DONNELLY P03 L-059.0 TAXED TO PAUL & KATHY LABONTE P03 L-144.0 TAXED TO JOSEPH G. LEFRANCOIS P04 L-001.0 TAXED TO STEVEN SEFLA & RITA DETO P04 L-058.0 TAXED TO EDWARD J. PINA, JR & DONNA M. PERRY P04 L-071.0 TAXED TO DOROTHY H. DAWLEY P05 L-025.0 TAXED TO K O W PROPERTIES, LLC P05 L-095.0 TAXED TO CHRISTOPHER S. FOSTER & LONSDALE FIRE DISTRICT P06 L-013.0 TAXED TO GUY T. & BETHANY E. TORTIS P06 L-023.0 TAXED TO KEVIN BEESE & RENEE M. MARTEL P06 L-058.0 TAXED TO GARY F. DE CORTE, JR. P06 L-065.0 TAXED TO VAN NGUYEN P06 L-125.0 TAXED TO RICARDO J. RODRIGUEZ P06 L-213.0 TAXED TO FAIRLAWN OIL SERVICE, INC. P06 L-214.0 TAXED TO FAIRLAWN OIL SERVICE, INC. P06 L-217.0 TAXED TO DAVART, INC. C/O FAIRLAWN OIL P06 L-228.0 TAXED TO TODD E. & JUDITH A. WESCOTT, WEST END DVPMT. CORP & RIHMFC P06 L-408.0 TAXED TO FAIRLAWN OIL SERVICE, INC. P06 L-447.0 TAXED TO MARYANNE A. VAUGHAN P07 L-126.0 TAXED TO EDWARD M. & PATRICIA MELUCCI P07 L-168.0 TAXED TO WILLIAM VINCENT & HOMEWOOD ACRES, RIGP P08 L-107.0 TAXED TO DEUTSCHE BANK NAT'L TR. CO. P09 L-010.0 TAXED TO MARKIE M. SANFORD P09 L-173.0 TAXED TO MARCUS L. WEATHERLY P09 L-185.0 TAXED TO MARJORIE GARNER P10 L-064.0 TAXED TO JOHN F., JR. & MARY L. BEGG P10 L-246.0 TAXED TO LAURA J. FERLAND P10 L-257.0 TAXED TO SILVAPROP, LLC P10 L-347.0 TAXED TO SILVAPROP, LLC P11 L-021.0 TAXED TO TRACEY L. SMITH P11 L-090.0 TAXED TO MICHAEL J. FEENEY P12 L-163.0 TAXED TO NORMAND R., JR. & NORMAND R. MIGNEAULT P12 L-176.0 TAXED TO NORMAND R. MIGNEAULT P12 L-179.0 TAXED TO SHARON MUSOTIC P12 L-223.0 TAXED TO SANDRA J. LUTYNSKI P13 L-142.0 TAXED TO VICTOR M. & KIMBERLY ALVES P16 L-154.0 TAXED TO PAUL E. & DEBORAH THERIAULT P18 L-001.0 TAXED TO ACCRINGTON REALTY, LLC P18 L-007.0 TAXED TO ACCRINGTON REALTY, LLC P18 L-008.0 TAXED TO ACCRINGTON REALTY, LLC P18 L-009.0 TAXED TO ACCRINGTON REALTY, LLC P20 L-076.0 TAXED TO JOSEPH M. & MICHELLE A. TORKOMIAN P21 L-031.0 TAXED TO KIM A. HALL P21 L-042.0 TAXED TO STEPHEN G. OUELLETTE P23 L-070.0 TAXED TO FAIRLAWN OIL SERVICE, INC. P23 L-135.0 TAXED TO DAVID K. & CYNTHIA L. ROBERTS, TRUSTEES P24 L-038.0 TAXED TO CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO., INC P24 L-040.0 TAXED TO CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO., INC P24 L-041.0 TAXED TO RAYMOND L. RICHARDS EST., CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO. & FREDERICK R. CONKLIN P24 L-042.0 TAXED TO CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO., INC. P24 L-056.0 TAXED TO CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO., INC. P25 L-232.0 TAXED TO ALDO A. CAMPANARO P26 L-008.0 TAXED TO CLAIRE DISPIRITO P26 L-267.0 TAXED TO WILLIAM T. & LINDA GOWEN P27 L-011.0 TAXED TO CONKLIN LIMESTONE CO., INC. P27 L-104.0 TAXED TO MICHAEL J. & TANYA M. DONAHUE P27 L-134.0 TAXED TO HARRY ZERVAS P27 L-162.0 TAXED TO SUSAN E. MALONEY P28 L-117.0 TAXED TO BEED REALTY COMPANY, LLC P29 L-170.0 TAXED TO CLAIRE J. & THOMAS P. BLISS P31 L-169.0 TAXED TO JOSEPH VELTRI & FIORE F. MAGNONE P32 L-166.0 TAXED TO FEDERAL HOME LOAN MTGE. CORP. P34 L-026.0/00300 TAXED TO 400 NEW RIVER RD., LLC P34 L-191.0 TAXED TO DOUGLAS G. VAUGHAN P35 L-180.0/00003 TAXED TO KAMI A. CLARK P36 L-172.0 TAXED TO EDWARD J. & DONNA M. BURBANK P37 L-036.0 TAXED TO CHRISTOPHER P. BROCHU P37 L-039.0 TAXED TO SEMINOLE DVPMT., LLC & THOMAS FUOCO, JR. P37 L-073.0 TAXED TO GINA M., JERRY A. SAHAGIAN & TINA T. GRILLI P37 L-089.0 TAXED TO SIXTY SPRING STREET, LLC P37 L-090.0 TAXED TO KATHERINE JOINVILLE & ELAINE K. MACK P37 L-115.0/00001 TAXED TO MANVILLE COMM. CENTER, INC. P37 L-159.0 TAXED TO PAUL L. & KAREN ZANGARI P37 L-186.0 TAXED TO CHANTEL BRANNON P37 L-207.0 TAXED TO RALPH & MURIEL FERRA P37 L-246.0 TAXED TO JASON J. OBREBSKI P37 L-281.0 TAXED TO GINA M. SAHAGIAN P38 L-115.0 TAXED TO BUILDING SYSTEMS INC. & DV PROPERTIES, LLC P38 L-120.0 TAXED TO EDWARD & NOEMIA NORBERG P42 L-019.0 TAXED TO ANTHONY PALUMBO P42 L-132.0 TAXED TO BABAJIDE & OLABISI ADEBAMOWO P45 L-012.0 TAXED TO PAUL LEONARD P45 L-034.0 TAXED TO CHARLES E. CONKLIN & ROBERT M. WALKER, JR. P45 L-171.0 TAXED TO PAUL LEONARD P45 L-216.0 TAXED TO EST. OF CARMINE MASELLO & ROBERT M. WALKER, JR. P45 L-298.0 TAXED TO JOHN B. & CATHERINE R. CZAJKOWSKI P45 L-356.0 TAXED TO JEFFREY T. CASTLE Property upon which taxes have been paid in full prior to the tax sale will not, of course, be auctioned at the tax sale. Please be advised that if the above property in which you have a substantial interest is sold at tax sale, then you have one (1) year to redeem it through the Collector’s Office or through the tax sale purchaser by tendering the taxes paid, plus a ten percent (10%) penalty on the tax sale amount, plus one percent (1%) interest on the tax sale amount from the seventh month onward. After one (1) year, you may exercise your right to redeem through the tax sale purchaser, or, if a Petition to Foreclose your Right of Redemption has been filed in Superior Court, you may redeem through the Court until a Final Decree is entered forever foreclosing your right of redemption. JOHN F. WARD Finance Director Town of Lincoln

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The Times does not knowingly accept advertise- Whirlpool 10,000 BTU air Excellent ments in the Employment conditioner. classifications that are condition. $60. Call 401not bona fide job offers. 585-2584 Classification 200 is provided for Employment In253 Bicycles For formation, Services and Referrals. This newspaSale per does not knowingly accept Employment ads that indicate a preference 26” Schwinn girls bike. Exbases on age from em- cellent condition. $30. ployees covered be Age 401-585-2584 Discrimination In Employment Act. Nor do we 257 Camping – in any way condone emSports - Outdoors ployment based solely upon discrimination practices. Camping stove with double burners. Mint condition. Excellent. $30. 401-333204 General Help 5967

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Red Sox bats scuffle in 5-0 loss at Mariners

Rockets complete comeback from 3-1 deficit, advance to conference finals

CURTIS CRABTREE Associated Press

SEATTLE — The Red Sox could not solve James Paxton, leaving Boston with a four-game split against the Seattle Mariners. Paxton stretched his scoreless streak to a career-best 20 innings in a 5-0 win Sunday as Boston finished a 5-5 trip. “We had some good at-bats,” Dustin Pedroia said. “We hit the ball hard. We just didn’t get hits or didn’t put it all together.” Paxton (2-2) allowed five hits in eight innings, struck out two and walked two, and Carson Smith pitched a perfect ninth. Steven Wright (1-1), staring in place of an injured Justin Masterson, gave up just three runs — two earned — and five hits in five innings. Boston put runners in scoring position just twice. Brad Miller snagged a hard hit groundball at shortstop from Pedroia to strand Blake Swihart at third base in the third inning. Swihart hit an inning-ending grounder with runners at second and third in the seventh inning as Paxton worked out of a jam. “He threw a lot of strikes, came right after us with the good fastball,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “We had a couple opportunities but the two-out hit wasn’t there.” Boston batted .201 on the trip and scored 23 runs. “We’re not hitting right now,” Hanley Ramirez said. “We’ve got to start hitting.” Consecutive singles from Seager and Logan Morrison put runners on the corners with no outs in the second inning. Seager scored from third on a passed ball off Swihart’s mask that went to the backstop, and Mike Zunino hit a two-out RBI single beyond the outstretched glove of Pedroia at shortstop. Miller homered just inside the right field foul pole in the fifth for a 3-0 lead, his fourth home run in five games and third in the last two days. “It stayed up a little bit more than I

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wanted it to,” Wright said. “... He’s just a good hitter, kept his hands back and was able to wrap it around the pole.” Wright needed to make the start after Masterson landed on the disabled list with right shoulder tendonitis on Thursday. Farrell felt Wright did enough to keep them in the ball game. “I thought he threw a number of good knuckleballs,” Farrell said. “Miller, who the last couple of days has kind of caught fire, gets a knuckleball up in the strike zone for a home run, but five innings, three runs keeps the game in check and it didn’t get away from him.” After Nelson Cruz walked in the eighth, Seager homered on the first pitch from Craig Breslow. PEDROIA ON-BASE Pedroia extended his on-base streak to 22 consecutive games, the fifth-longest streak of his career, with a walk in the first inning. Pedroia is hitting .280 with seven runs scored, two doubles, a home run, six RBIs and 14 walks over that span. TRAINER’S ROOM Red Sox: Masterson threw on flat ground before Sunday’s game. Farrell said the inflammation in Masterson’s right shoulder has lessened and he hopes to get Masterson back on the mound by midweek for some bullpen sessions before a rehab assignment. Mariners: CF Austin Jackson went 2 for 4 for Triple-A Tacoma as he began a rehab stint Saturday night. Jackson has been on the disabled list since May 4 with a right ankle sprain. Jackson is expected to play the field for Tacoma for the first time on Sunday. UP NEXT Red Sox: LHP Wade Miley (2-4, 5.60 ERA) will make his second-career start against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday. Miley lost his only decision against Texas despite allowing one run and three hits in 7 2/3 innings while with Arizona on June 13, 2012. Mariners: RHP Taijuan Walker (1-4, 7.22 ERA) has held opponents to three runs or fewer in four of his last five starts.

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HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets are heading to the Western Conference finals for the first time in 18 years after overcoming a 3-1 series deficit to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers. “It’s the ultimate confidence-booster,” James Harden said. “There’s only a handful of teams that’s done that. We fought back. We fought three really hard games and came away with it.” Harden scored 31 points, Dwight Howard had 16 points and 15 rebounds and the Rockets never trailed in a 113100 victory over the Clippers on Sunday, sending them to the conference finals for the first time since 1997. It’s the ninth time in NBA history that a team has overcome a 3-1 series deficit to win a playoff series. The Rockets overcame a 19point third-quarter deficit in Game 6 on Thursday night to stay alive. No such heroics were needed Sunday when they were up by 17 after three and Howard opened the fourth quarter with a 3-point play to push it to 88-68.

“When you’re down 19 on the road, it’s easy to give in and just say, ‘Maybe next year,’” Harden said. “But I think the injuries throughout the entire year kind of made us fight through adversity no matter what. We always find a way to fight, and another case was being down 3-1.” Blake Griffin scored five points in a 9-0 run to cut the lead to eight points with less than 2 1/2 minutes remaining. Harden made a pair of free throws after that, but a dunk by DeAndre Jordan got the Clippers within eight again. This time, Trevor Ariza hit a 3 from the corner to secure the victory. Howard was nervous until Ariza hit the final 3 and worried the Clippers might be the ones to orchestrate an unlikely comeback this time. “Please, we can’t let them pull an us on us,” Howard said he was thinking during their late run. Griffin had 27 points and Chris Paul had 26 points and 10 assists. The Western Conference finals begin Tuesday night at Golden State. Ariza finished with 22 points and made six 3-pointers.

Every fan in the arena was given a red shirt emblazoned with the words “Clutch City” in yellow letters, bringing back the moniker of the 1994 and ‘95 teams that won backto-back titles. These Rockets lived up to the nickname, winning their third straight game to become the first team to win a playoff series after trailing 3-1 since the Phoenix Suns did it in 2006 against the Lakers. After taking a two-game lead after four games the Clippers looked destined to be heading to the conference finals for the first time in franchise history. But they failed in all three chances to put Houston away and are now left to ponder their collapse as they head home early yet again. “It’s disappointing,” Griffin said. “We were close, but close doesn’t really count. Almost doesn’t count. We were up 3-1 and didn’t put them away. We can’t look at anybody but ourselves.” Los Angeles never led, but tied it twice in the first 4 minutes. The Clippers insisted Saturday that they’d gotten over Thursday’s loss, but looked listless early in this one as Houston built the lead.

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