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Pompeo: Cyberattack on Japan may constitute ‘armed attack’ BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

Top American and Japanese of-ficials said Friday that a cyberat-tack on Japan could be regarded as an “armed attack” requiring a response by the U.S. under a joint security treaty binding the two allies.

“The United States and Japan affirmed that international law applies in cyberspace and that a cyberattack could, in certain cir-cumstances, constitute an armed

attack under Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty,” said Secretary of State Michael Pom-peo during a news conference in Washington.

Pompeo had met with his Japa-nese counterpart, Foreign Minister Taro Kono, along with acting De-fense Secretary Pat Shanahan and Japan Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, as part of the U.S.-Japan 2+2 Ministerial Meeting.

“We stressed the need to work together to protect classified infor-mation, maintain technological su-

periority and preserve our shared defense and economic advantages from theft and exploitation,” Pom-peo said.

They did not elaborate on the cir-cumstances under which such cy-berattacks would be deemed armed attacks, nor the nature of a U.S. response.

The U.S. is obligated under Article 5 to help Japan defend its territories in the case of an armed attack. The issue of mutual

SEE POMPEO ON PAGE 6

‘ The United States and Japan affi rmed thatinternational law appliesin cyberspace and that acyberattack could, incertain circumstances, constitute an armed attack under Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. ’

Michael PompeoU.S. secretary of state

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BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

The United States is send-ing more air power than ever in support of this year’s contingent of 1,700 Marines to Australia’ Northern Territory.

Marines have begun arriving in Darwin, Australia, with the bulk of the force scheduled to arrive this month, according to a statement Friday from Marine Rotational Force-Darwin.

Aircraft deploying for the ro-tation include 10 MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotors, four AH-1Z Vipers and three UH-1Y Venom helicopters, Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Colin Kennard said in an email.

The aircraft represents “the most capable Aviation Combat El-ement” sent to Darwin since the rotational deployments began in 2011, he said.

“These aircraft increase the training value for MRF-D activi-ties and increase our ability to re-spond to contingencies within the Indo-Pacific region,” he said.

Northern Australia is a superb flying environment during sum-mer, Euan Graham, a senior fel-low at Australia’s Lowy Institute, wrote in an article published on the think tank’s website in August 2017.

“In the dry season, from April to November, flying conditions are near perfect,” he wrote.

The Marines’ aviation combat element is composed of aircraft

from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363 and Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, as well as Marines and equip-ment from Marine Wing Support Detachment 24, Marine Aircraft Logistics Squadron 24 and Ma-rine Aircraft Control Group 18, Kennard said.

“The majority of these Marines and aircraft are based in Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay,” he said.

“These aircraft and the Ma-rines that fly and maintain them will be hosted at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin.”

To facilitate operations for the U.S. helicopters, temporary air-field matting has been installed at the air base, Kennard said.

“This temporary airfield pro-vides a space for these aircraft to park, refuel, land and takeoff, and was constructed by Austra-lian soldiers and U.S. Marines,” he said.

The aircraft , along with Com-bat Logistics Battalion 1 , will support an infantry battalion — 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regi-ment — an artillery battery from 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regi-ment, as well as a platoon from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, from various bases in California, Kennard said.

Those Marines will be hosted at Robertson Barracks, Darwin, he added.

During the rotation, a company

of Marines will be hosted by the Australian Army 3rd Brigade at Lavarack Barracks in Towns-ville, he said.

“Training will occur at various locations throughout Australia and the region, including Kanga-roo Flats Training Area, Mount Bundey Training Area, Shoal-water Bay Training Area, as well as exercises and engagements ashore and afloat throughout the Indo-Pacific region,” Kennard said.

Marines from the rotational force will also participate in Tal-isman Saber, a biennial exercise that involves tens of thousands of U.S. and Australian troops train-ing Down Under for a month in summer.

The Marines will be involved in training that addresses the entire spectrum of conflict, from humanitarian assistance exer-cises like Crocodile Response to intense large-scale combat op-erations during Exercise Koolen-dong, Kennard said.

The Marines will work with the Australian army’s 1st, 3rd and 7th brigades, he said.

There are plans for the Ma-rines to train ashore and afloat throughout the Indo-Pacific re-gion, Kennard said, but he didn’t disclose the nations where that might [email protected]: @SethRobson1

BY CHRISTIAN LOPEZ

Stars and Stripes

A Navy P-8A Poseidon and a destroyer recently joined with the Indian navy’s P8-I Neptune for submarine-hunting drills near Diego Garcia.

It was the first U.S. anti-sub-marine warfare exercise with India since the countries agreed in September to closer coopera-tion between their militaries.

Prior to signing the Communi-cations, Compatibility and Secu-rity Agreement, the United States had to remove advanced commu-nication equipment from military platforms sold to India, such as the Neptune. That meant less se-cure, temporary systems had to be put in place for Indian units to communicate during bilateral exercises.

The San Diego-based destroyer USS Spruance and a Poseidon — the Navy’s next-generation mari-time patrol aircraft — from Patrol Squadron 8 in Jacksonville, Fla., took part in the exercise, which started April 15 according to a Navy statement. It is unclear how long the event lasted.

The exercise primarily focused on antisubmarine warfare train-ing, information sharing and co-ordination from aircraft to ship, according to the Navy.

“The U.S. Navy is committed to engaging with regional partners in establishing common practices and developing mutual capabili-ties,” Cmdr. Matthew Smidt, ofthe USS Spruance, said in the statement. “Spruance is proudto exercise alongside the IndianNavy.”

Flying anti-submarine warfarepatrols in the 7th Fleet area of op-eration “is a team event,” pilot Lt. James Lowe, of Patrol Squadron 8, said in the statement .

“Our goal is to further stan-dardize our procedures so we can work more efficiently in futurereal-world operations.”

U.S. Navy ships and aircraft in-teract routinely with their Indiannavy counterparts between port visits and exercises, accordingto the statement. Those include Malabar, trilateral exercise be-tween the U.S., Japan and [email protected]: @Clopez_Stripes

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US Marines in Australia to have heavy air power

US, Indian navies practice hunting submarines together

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An Indian navy P-8I Poseidon aircraft conducts a low altitude fly-by during an anti-submarine warfare exercise with the U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean on April 15.

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BY SETH ROBSONAND HANA KUSUMOTO

Stars and Stripes

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — American forces say they’ll consider any detailed proposal for shared civilian use of a base in western Tokyo during the 2020 Olympics.

The Japanese government has suggested that allowing civilian planes to land at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force, could help increase the number of flights arriving during the games, the Mainichi newspa-per reported Friday.

However, no decisions have been made about dual use of Yokota or any other U.S. mili-tary facility, Air Force Col. John Hutcheson, a USFJ spokesman, said in an email Friday.

“Any future commitments of specific U.S. military support to the Olympics and Paralympics will be balanced against opera-tional readiness concerns and al-liance obligations,” he said.

U.S. military and embassy of-ficials are waiting for detailed Japanese requests related to the Olympics, Hutcheson said.

“U.S. Forces Japan is excited

about working with the gov-ernment of Japan to ensure a successful 2020 Olympics and Paralympics,” he said. “When we’ve had the appropriate time to analyze these detailed requests, we will be better postured to de-termine how we might be able to support them.”

Japanese officials hope that ac-cess during the games might open the door to permanent civilian use of Yokota to help cope with in-creasing numbers of foreign visi-tors, the Mainichi reported.

Yokota is home to the 374th Airlift Squadron and a variety

of aircraft ranging from C-130J transports to CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotors.

It’s also a hub for incoming ser-vicemembers and their families and strategic airlifters bringing personnel and supplies from the West Coast.

The U.S. and Japan agreed at a 2003 summit to consider joint military and civilian use of Yoko-ta, and the concept was included in a 2006 USFJ realignment road map, but discussions did not move forward, the Mainichi reported.

In March 2011, after Japan was struck by a massive earthquake

and tsunami, several civilianaircraft were diverted from Nar-ita International Airport, east ofTokyo, to the air base.

In January, the U.S. and Japan agreed on new routes for civilianaircraft passing near Yokota into Tokyo’s Haneda InternationalAirport.

“This agreement reflects theUnited States’ unequivocal sup-port for the games as well as sup-port for Japan’s goal to increase tourism to 40 million travelers by 2020,” Hutcheson [email protected]@stripes.com

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will be the first state guests of the new Japanese emperor after he takes the throne next month, Japan’s government announced Friday.

On May 1, Crown Prince Na-ruhito is expected to succeed his father, Akihito, to become

Japan’s 126th emperor and usher in the new imperial era known as Reiwa. The era name — an-nounced April 1 — translates to “beautiful harmony.”

The president and his wife will be in Japan May 25-28 and will visit with the new emperor and his wife, Masako, Japan’s Min-istry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

“Their Majesties the Emperor

and Empress will host a State Banquet in honor of the President and the First Lady,” the statement said. “Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, will hold a meeting with President Trump.”

The visit will be an ideal op-portunity for the two countries to advance Japan-U.S. relations, the ministry said. “The Government of Japan sincerely welcomes the visit of the President and the First

Lady,” the statement added.It will be the president’s sec-

ond trip to Japan. In November 2017, he met Abe in the capital and spoke to U.S. troops, civil-ians and families at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, the home of U.S. Forces Japan. Trump is scheduled to go back to Japan the following month for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, according to Reuters news agency.

Akihito took the throne in 1989 upon the death of his father,Emperor Hirohito, whose reignlasted more than six decadesand was marked by imperial ex-pansion, militarization, defeat in World War II and great postwar economic growth.

Stars and Stripes reporter Hana Kusumoto contributed to this report. [email protected]: @SethRobson1

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Trumps to be 1st state guests of Japan’s new emperor

Left: Marines spar during a Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructor Course at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji in Gotemba, Japan, on April 10 . Marines stationed in 15 countries came together in the shadow of Mount Fuji for three weeks of training designed to turn them into martial arts instructors. The rigorous course wrapped up on April 10, according to a statement from Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Trainees practiced martial arts drills that included sparring in difficult environments, such as in the woods and mud, the statement said. They also engaged in hand-to-hand combat, top right, and rope-climbing, bottom right, with Mount Fuji providing the backdrop. Nutrition and anatomy and physiology classes also were required.

Photos courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps

Tokyo eyes nearby US air base for handling flights during 2020 Olympics

Marines converge in Japan, train to become martial arts instructors


BY MATT KEELER

Stars and Stripes

CAMP CASEY, South Korea — The 2nd Infantry Division applied the new Army Combat Fitness Test to its Best Warrior Competition for the first time Thursday, and soldiers compet-ing were impressed.

“This was a good move,” said Warrant Officer James Benecke, of the 2nd Sustainment Brigade.

The new test, which includes six new fitness events, is intended to “better connect fitness with combat readiness,” according to the Army’s official website. The plan is to adopt the new test for on-the-record fitness evaluations servicewide no later than Octo-ber 2020, according to the Army website.

“It more accurately reflects the kind of fitness we are going to need in a combat situation,” Be-necke said. “I don’t see when I am ever going to have to do two min-utes’ worth of push ups and sit ups when I am getting shot at.”

Most of the Best Warrior com-petitors were taking the entire standard test for the first time.

“This is the future of the Army,” said Sgt. Maj. Anthony Gregerson, the division fire sup-port element operations sergeant major. “It is the focal point of the Army and where we are moving; if we don’t train on it, we are set-ting our soldiers up for failure at the next level.”

The 2nd Division incorporated the new standards into the com-petition this year to better pre-pare the contestants for higher echelon competitions, Gregerson said.

A variant of the push up event still exists in the new program, but the sit up event has been re-placed with multiple events that will engage the core muscles to test strength and endurance, such as the standing power throw and the leg tuck.

In addition, the test includes a three-repetition maximum dead-lift, hand-release push ups and a sprint-drag-carry shuttle circuit, and concludes with a 2-mile run.

One representative from differ-ent ranks — officer, warrant offi-cer, noncommissioned officer and junior enlisted — along with a sol-dier from the Korean Augmenta-tion to the United States Army, or KATUSA, will be selected to rep-resent the division at the Eighth Army level in May.

The same five soldiers will compete against other units across the Korean Peninsula for the chance to compete in Hawaii at the United States Army Pacific level and later at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., for the Army title.

A KATUSA contestant cannot

advance beyond the Eighth Army event, but that did not deter Cpl. Jaewoo Chang, the senior KATU-SA for 2nd Sustainment Brigade, from entering the competition.

“The best warrior competition is the best Army experience for a KATUSA,” Chang told Stars and Stripes.

Chang joined the competition not expecting to win . He just wants to do his best, develop as a leader and set a positive example for future KATUSAs, he said.

“It was not easy, but fun,” Chang said after finishing the combat fitness test. “It is better than the personal fitness test . Each event is like a sport, so we encourage each other to do better.”[email protected]

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Clockwise from top: A soldier assigned to 2nd Infantry Division performs the leg tuck during the Best Warrior Competition at Camp Casey, South Korea, on Thursday. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eric Sanders performs the sprint-drag-carry. Spc. Reno Boyd performs the three-repetition maximum deadlift. Spc. Reno Boyd performs the hand release push up.PHOTOS BY MATT KEELER/Stars and Stripes

‘This is the future of the Army’2nd ID uses updated Army Combat Fitness Test in Best Warrior Competition


BY NORMAN LLAMAS

Stars and Stripes

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — A group of servicemembers, de-pendents, civilians and Italians have brought back an all-volun-teer program to help acquaint in-coming Americans with dozens of local communities surround-ing the base.

Called Vicini Americani, Ital-ian for “American neighbors,” the program relaunched Friday during the “Spring into Spring” festival at the base’s Freedom Park.

“Some of the program’s goals are to foster friendship and cooperation amongst U.S. [personnel] and Italians liv-ing as neighbors in the surrounding communities,” said Wesley Yancey, a community support coordinator at the 31st Fighter Wing.

Originally started in 2012 by Maj. Gen. Scott J. Zobrist, wing com-mander at the time, the program “fizzled away” soon after he left Italy, Yancey said. It now has the support of Brig. Gen. Daniel T. Lasica, the current wing com-mander, he said.

“Additional goals of the pro-gram include promoting com-munity events such as festivals, exhibitions and theater produc-tions,” Yancey said.

Americans will also learn about local history through cul-tural events and other activities.

The program will be made up of both American and Italian community members who will work to encourage other Ameri-cans to embrace their local com-munities, Pordenone province and the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.

The intent is “to help orient newly arrived Aviano team mem-bers” and establish “effective,

ongoing relationships between the communities and the base,” said Master Sgt. Corina Crucea-nu, one of the Vicini Americani program managers.

It can be a challenge to move to a new base, let alone a whole different country where the lan-guage and culture are different from home.

In-processing briefs and tours can’t address all the issues new arrivals may face. To help boost awareness of Vicini Americani, Tech. Sgt. Lindsay Dunlap vol-unteered to run the program’s social media accounts.

“My goal is to build a good social media presence so

that in a year or two, this program be-comes the source of information people go to first,” Dunlap said.

Local resources can be helpful, but some airmen and their families may not be taking the

fullest advantage of them, said Alessandro Valenti, honorary commander of the wing’s dental squadron.

“I have been an expat myself for many years and I know how difficult it is to live abroad with-out the help of the local communi-ty,” he said. Without local advice, the Americans could miss out on many “good opportunities a life in Italy could give.”

For example, their Italian neighbors could help them get to know local tastes and traditions — such as food, seasonal “feste” and activities — assist couples with finding off-base schools for children, offer travel recommen-dations or advise them on cook-ing and groceries.

“As I said, as a former expat myself, I feel the responsibility to help these young Americans,” Valenti [email protected]

BY NANCY MONTGOMERY

Stars and Stripes

VICENZA, Italy — Pop quiz time: A servicemember drives to work here every day for a week at 62 mph on a stretch of road with a 56 mph limit and cameras. A year later, she’s notified that she owes $979 for five speeding tickets.

In addition, while lost, she un-wittingly drove into restricted zones three times over the past 18 months, also caught on camera, for three more tickets totaling $221. How much does the ser-vicemember owe?

A: $1,200.B: $840 if she pays within five

days.C: It depends on how long it’s

been since officials identified her as the driver.

D: Nothing. She’s out of here.The correct answer, according

to officials with U.S. Army Gar-rison Italy, could be any of the above other than D.

Italian authorities recently complained that Americans cov-ered by the U.S.-Italy status of forces agreement weren’t pay-ing or even responding to their tickets.

About a month ago, the garri-son began working with the Cara-binieri to make a cumbersome ticketing notification and fine-collection process more efficient.

As a result, some on base said they’re receiving hundreds or thousands of euros in ticket fines at once.

“We have to be good neighbors to the Italian community and pay our debts,” said Master Sgt. Joshua Tolbert, of the garrison’s provost marshal office. “First, we’d like people not to speed and break the law.”

Italy has long been known for ubiquitous traffic cameras, tricky restricted zones and delayed tick-et notification to foreign drivers, often for infractions they didn’t know they’d committed.

Fines can be hefty. Speeding from about 7 mph to 25 mph over the limit, for example, brings a penalty of between 173 to 695 euros, or $196 to $786.

By contrast, penalties for the same offenses in Germany start at about $22.50 and top out at $225, according to the German legal journalism site bussgeld-katalog.org.

The results of the garrison’s new process were evident on Facebook. “They are issuing me 62 TICKETS from 2017-2018 they ‘lost in the system,’ ” one woman wrote on the Army Wives Caserma Ederle page. “Paid over 2,496 euro (about $2,800)!”

Some wrote that having to pay fines they’d just learned about within five days to get a 30% dis-count was coercive.

“We’re not unsympathetic,”

Tolbert said. “But it’s their (Ita-ly’s) system.”

Authorities have 360 days once a foreign motorist has been iden-tified to notify them of a ticket, according to Italian law.

Rental car agencies routine-ly identify tourists to authori-ties. Drivers can see when they were identified by credit card charges.

Military members and depen-dents driving their own vehicles are identified by the garrison.

Carabinieri and Vicenza po-lice provide a monthly list with, on average, 60 license plate num-bers that ran through the Italian system without a match, said Dennis Brown, operations offi-cer for the garrison’s emergency services directorate.

Many months may have al-ready elapsed by then since the cars were caught on camera, but the 360-day clock does not start until the garrison’s vehicle regis-tration office runs the plates and provides Carabinieri the name and sometimes birthdate of a matching vehicle’s owner.

Military post office box num-bers and unit addresses are not provided to the Italians, so the garrison runs down more con-tact information as a courtesy.

“We do everything we can to find the individual,” Brown said. “We go above and beyond what we’re really required to do by the SOFA.”

If someone has transferred back to the U.S., Brown says so in a letter to the Carabinieri and that’s the end of the matter as far as the garrison is concerned.

If the offender is still with the garrison, an email from the base provost marshal informs them that they’ve been cited for a traf-fic infraction.

Until a few weeks ago, the Car-abinieri sent the emails, Brown said, but many people did not re-spond. “Now we do it. We’ve seen quite an uptick in response.”

The email requests that people come to the military police sta-tion on one of several suggested dates, where they’ll be assisted by the Carabinieri and provided an interpreter. When they show up, they’re taken next door to the Carabinieri and handed their ticket.

“They can pay on the spot” or wait and still get the 30% dis-count within five days, Tolbert said.

Nonpayment after 60 days re-sults in the fine being doubled.

Drivers can appeal or challengethe ticket, and officials encouragepeople to seek counsel from mili-tary lawyers.

Tickets from 2017, for example,could be invalidated if the driverreceived it more than 360 days after the garrison identified themto Italian authorities.

According to a 2016 story in IlGiornaleit, Italian cities collectonly about 35% of traffic fines, in-cluding from Italians.

As much as garrison officials encourage Americans to paytheir fines, the Army can’t force them to do so. Ramifications ofdodging the debt appear to be limited but include the Italian use of a collection agency to seekpayment and possible reports to a credit bureau. [email protected]:@montgomerynance

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NORMAN LLAMAS/Stars and Stripes

Master Sgt. Corina Cruceanu, left, one of the Vicini Americani program’s managers, speaks with a potential volunteer during the Spring Into Spring Festival at Aviano Air Base’s Freedom Park on Friday in Italy.

Some need crash course in Italian ticketing, fines

‘ We have to be good neighbors to the Italian community and pay our debts. First, we’d like people not to speed and break the law. ’

Master Sgt. Joshua TolbertU.S. Army Garrison Italy’s provost marshal office

American-Italian outreach group to relaunch at Aviano


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defense has been in the forefront in recent years as China and Japan routinely clash over sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, a group of uninhabited isles in the East China Sea west of Okinawa.

In 2013, China an-nounced it was instituting an air defense identifica-tion zone over part of the East China Sea, including the Diaoyu Islands, which is China’s name for the Sen-kakus. Japan and the Unit-ed States have ignored the designation.

Japanese officials had been recently pressing the United States to broaden the scope of Article 5 to include cyberattacks, ac-cording to Japanese media reports earlier this year.

Iwaya told reporters that the inclusion of cyber-attacks was “significant from the perspective of deterrence.”

“Not just China but differ-ent countries are pursuing superiority in technologies that back up the capabil-ity in new domains such as space and cyber and elec-tromagnetic spectrum,” Iwaya said.

“So, during this 2+2 meeting, we agreed that it is quite important to coop-erate in the cross-domain capability building. And this alignment in our di-rection will be the founda-tion of our alliance going forward, specifically in the cyberspace,” Iwaya said.

The officials said they had not yet begun discuss-ing a possible increase in how much money Japan spends to support U.S. mili-tary personnel stationed in the country.

Shanahan said the dis-cussions had instead focused on how the two na-tions could “operationalize” their forces.

“The defense minister talked about some of the basic building blocks, but our multiple conversations — and this isn’t the first conversation — is how do we really develop capabil-ity in the cyber and space domain, because it’s an area where we’re not lim-ited by geography. And the capabilities industri-ally and militarily are very complementary.”

[email protected]: @WyattWOlson

Pompeo: Japan pressing US to broaden Article 5 scope

From staff and wire reports

An airman deployed to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar died Friday, according to a news re-lease issued Saturday by the De-

partment of Defense.Staff Sgt. Albert J. Miller, 24,

of Richmond, N.H., died in a noncombat-related incident, ac-cording to the news release. The incident is under investigation.

Miller was assigned to the 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Dover Air Force Base, Del. He was supporting Operation Free-dom’s Sentinel.

WMUR-TV reported that Col.

Joel Safranek, the commander of the 436th Airlift Wing, said the wing “extends its deepest sympa-thies and heartfelt condolences to the Miller family, friends and fel-low airmen.”

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Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A man sus-pected of involvement in a myste-rious dissident group’s February raid on North Korea’s embassy in Madrid was arrested in Los An-geles by U.S. authorities.

Christopher Ahn, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested and charged Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The specific charges against Ahn were not immediately clear.

The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condi-tion of anonymity.

Separately, on Thursday, feder-al agents raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, a leader of the Free Joseon group, the person said. Hong was not arrested.

Free Joseon, also known as the Cheollima Civil Defense group, styles itself as a government-in-exile dedicated to toppling the ruling Kim family dynasty in North Korea.

The group said it consists of North Korean defectors living in countries around the world, but that it has not worked with or contacted defectors “living under tight security” in South Korea.

Lee Wolosky, a lawyer for the group, said in a statement that he was “dismayed that the U.S. De-partment of Justice has decided to execute warrants against U.S. persons that derive from crimi-nal complaints filed by the North Korean regime.”

“The last U.S. citizen who fell into the custody of the Kim re-gime returned home maimed from torture and did not survive,” Wolosky said, referring to college student Otto Warmbier’s 2017 death.

“We have received no assur-ances from the U.S. government about the safety and security of the U.S. nationals it is now target-ing,” he added.

A Spanish police investigator in the case told the A P in Madrid on

Saturday that Ahn was identified by the Spanish police at a later stage of its investigation into the Feb. 22 raid and that an interna-tional arrest warrant was also is-sued against him.

The investigator, who spoke under condition of anonymity given the sensitivities of the case, said that because of judicial se-crecy, he couldn’t confirm how many arrest warrants had been issued by Spanish authorities be-yond the two initially confirmed.

A Spanish judge said an inves-tigation uncovered evidence that “a criminal organization” shack-led and gagged embassy staff before escaping with computers, hard drives and documents.

Cheollima said on its website that it was responding to an ur-gent situation at the embassy and was invited onto the property, and that “no one was gagged or beaten.”

The group said there were “no other governments involved with

or aware of our activity until after the event.”

The Spanish court report said the intruders urged North Ko-rea’s only accredited diplomat in Spain, So Yun Sok, to defect.

In March 2017, the group said it had arranged the escape of Kim Han Sol, the son of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who was assassinated at a Malaysian airport earlier that year.

The Cheollima website said the group shared “certain informa-tion of enormous potential value” from the raid with the FBI, under mutually agreed terms of confidentiality.

BY DAN LAMOTHE

The Washington Post

As a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the East China Sea last month, Chinese vessels shad-owed it on the high seas, service officials said. It was a reminder to the Americans of where they were: in a strategic area a couple of hundred miles from China’s shores.

The situation underscored the evolving U.S. response to the rise of China and the Coast Guard’s role operating missions typically closer to home. The Coast Guard is increasingly orienting itself to-ward China, senior officials said, by deploying new cutters, reposi-tioning older ones and dispatch-ing servicemembers to countries such as Vietnam and Sri Lanka to help train those nations’ coast guards.

Adm. Karl Schultz, the Coast Guard commandant, said that as the Defense Department shifts its focus to competing with Rus-sia and China, the Navy is “over-subscribed.” The factors he cited include “realities in the South China Sea” and the loss of two Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions in 2017.

“The Coast Guard brings some capacity to that equation,” Schultz said in an interview. “The Coast

Guard brings some authorities below the threshold of war. We’re U.S. warships, but we look differ-ent, with a white hull and an or-ange stripe.”

The deployment of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf to the Asia-Pacific region from Al-ameda, Calif., in January marked an expansion of Coast Guard op-erations there.

The vessel, part of the service’s growing fleet of modern cutters,

is under the control of the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Asia-Pacific re-gion during the deployment, de-spite the Coast Guard being part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The USCGC Bertholf has car-ried out several missions that are typically assigned to the Penta-gon, including a high-profile tran-sit of the Taiwan Strait in March alongside the USS Curtis Wilbur, a Navy destroyer, that was meant

to demonstrate that international waterways near China remain open.

More recently, the USCGC Bertholf made a port stop in Hong Kong on April 15, the first time the Coast Guard has visited the Chinese territory in 17 years. The ship has carried out sanc-tions enforcement operations in the East China Sea, preventing illegal ship-to-ship transfers of cargo meant for North Korea.

US airman deployed to Qatar dies in noncombat incident

Former Marine arrested in probeof raid on North Korean Embassy

MANU FERNANDEZ/AP

North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, Spain was raided on Feb. 22.

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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf arrives in Hong Kong on April 15 on a deployment that marks an expansion of Coast Guard operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

To help counter China, US turns to Coast Guard


MILITARY

BY MARTIN EGNASH

Stars and Stripes

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Jewish service-members and families in the Grafenwoehr commu-nity marked the start of Passover with traditional Seder dinners Friday.

A Seder is the festive Passover meal in which par-ticipants celebrate the story of the Israelites’ exodus out of Egypt.

“Passover is one of the biggest holidays for the Jewish community,” said Maj. Andrew Shulman, a reservist chaplain who came to the garrison to con-duct the Passover services. “It’s one of those holi-days where if you don’t see some people for the rest of the year, you will at least come together and take part in Seder together.”

Tower Barracks held its first Seder meal Friday with about 40 members of the Grafenwoehr Jewish community.

The dinner included traditional foods like mat-zah and gelfite fish, and the traditional Seder songs, prayers and scripture passages recounting the exodus.

“It really means a lot to the families here that we do Seder,” Shulman said. “There aren’t a lot of synagogues in this area, let alone one that would do Seder in English. Between us and Ramstein (Air Base), we might have the only English ones between here and England.”

Shulman estimates that there are about 250 Jew-ish soldiers in the [email protected]: @Marty_Stripes

BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN Stars and Stripes

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ser-vicemembers and contractors from the United States and other coalition countries celebrated Easter at NATO’s Resolute Sup-port headquarters in the Afghan capital on Sunday.

Several church services were held to mark the day Christians believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

Two Protestant services were held in the morning — including one at sunrise during which a fire was lit to symbolize renewal.

“For Christians, Easter is im-

portant because it celebrates new life,” said Forward Support Base Chaplain Maj. Kathy Scott, who led the later service.

“We celebrate the resurrected Lord Jesus, but we also celebrate the new life in us that can take place, new attitudes, new behav-iors, new ways of thinking.

“To me, that’s what’s impor-

tant, to give people hope as they work here, which can seem very, very dark.”

Father Giovanni Scaleses, chaplain at the Italian Embassy in Kabul, visited the base to lead a Catholic mass. He distributed communion to those in atten-dance, which included several

nuns doing charity work in the country.

NATO’s Kabul headquartershouses servicemembers frommost of the roughly 40 countriesthat make up the coalition, which is tasked with training and advis-ing Afghan security forces. [email protected]: @pwwellman

BY NIKKI WENTLING

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Two law-makers who are on opposite ends of the political spectrum put their focus on Department of Veterans Affairs reform last week as the agency nears a deadline to estab-lish a new program for veterans to access private doctors.

Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., held town hall meetings in their districts, Crenshaw voic-ing his support for allowing more veterans to seek community care and Ocasio-Cortez describing it as a fix for the health care indus-try and not veterans.

The freshmen lawmakers have become media sensations in their respective parties, each gaining hundreds of thousands of social media followers during their first months in the House.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday at her town hall in the Bronx.

Neither Crenshaw nor Ocasio-Cortez were in Congress when lawmakers approved the VA Mis-sion Act last year on a biparti-san basis. The law created a new community care program for VA patients that replaces the Veter-ans Choice Program, which has been in place since 2014 and was widely criticized as confusing and inflexible.

The Mission Act gave VA Secre-tary Robert Wilkie broad authori-ty to determine the new eligibility rules for private care.

Under his proposed rules, vet-erans who must drive more than 30 minutes to reach their VA men-tal health or primary care provid-ers — or wait longer than 20 days for an appointment — would be allowed to use a private doctor.

For specialty care, veterans could go outside the VA for medi-cal treatment if a VA provider

was longer than a 60-minutedrive away or there was a delay oflonger than 28 days .

Veterans can also seek private care if the care that they requireisn’t available at their VA hospi-tal or clinic, if they live in a statewithout a full-service VA facility, if a VA doctor deems it’s in theirbest medical interest or if thecare at their VA facility isn’t up toquality standards.

Details about how the newrules will be put into effect re-main unclear seven weeks beforethe deadline to implement them on June 6.

Ocasio-Cortez criticized the re-form effort Wednesday, accusingthe forces behind it of putting thehealth industry before veterans.

“They’re trying to fix the VA for insurance corporations and, ulti-mately, they’re trying to fix the VA for a for-profit health care in-dustry that does not put people orveterans first,” she said in a videoprovided by WPIX 11 News.

Crenshaw, also a newcomer toCongress, came to the forefrontfollowing a cameo on “SaturdayNight Live,” during which he for-gave cast member Pete Davidson for joking about his eyepatch. Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL,lost an eye in an improvised ex-plosive device blast during a de-ployment to Afghanistan.

His response to the new pro-gram was the opposite of Oca-sio-Cortez’s — he says the rulesmight not go far enough to ex-pand veterans’ access to privatedoctors.

“This is a step in the right di-rection,” Crenshaw said Thurs-day during his town hall. “I thinkthe Mission Act will allow thatflexibility, and if it doesn’t, then we need to tweak it to do that.” [email protected]: @nikkiwentling

House lawmakers spotlight opposite views on VA reform

Troops, contractors celebrate Easter in Kabul

Far left: Forward Support Base Chaplain Maj. Kathy Scott delivers an Easter sermon at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday .

Left: A nun doing charity work in Afghanistan attends a service with coalition troops .PHOTOS BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN/Stars and Stripes

PHOTOS BY MARTIN EGNASH/Stars and Stripes

Soldiers and families fill their plates with traditional foods during a Passover celebration at Grafenwoehr, Germany, on Friday .

Attendees read about the Israelites’ exodus out of Egypt during the Grafenwoehr celebration.

Start of Passover marked at US Army base in Grafenwoehr


WAR ON TERRORISM

BY BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI AND KRISHAN FRANCIS

Associated Press

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sun-day — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen since a bloody civil war ended a decade ago.

Defense Minister Ruwan Wi-jewardena described the bomb-ings as a terrorist attack by religious extremists and said seven suspects were arrested, though there was no immediate claim of responsibility. He said most of the blasts were believed to have been suicide attacks.

The explosions at three church-es and three hotels collapsed ceil-ings and blew out windows, killing worshippers and hotel guests. People were seen carrying the wounded out of blood-spattered pews. Witnesses described pow-erful blasts, followed by scenes of smoke, blood, broken glass, alarms going off and victims screaming.

“People were being dragged out,” said Bhanuka Harischan-dra, 24, of Colombo, a founder of a tech marketing company who was going to the city’s Shangri-La Hotel for a meeting when it was bombed. “People didn’t know what was going on. It was panic mode,” he said. “There was blood everywhere.”

The three hotels and one of the churches, St. Anthony’s Shrine, are frequented by foreign tour-ists. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minis-try said the bodies of at least 27 foreigners were recovered and included people from Britain, the U.S., India, Portugal and Tur-key. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said several American citizens were among the dead.

Prime Minister Ranil Wick-remesinghe said he feared the massacre could trigger instability in Sri Lanka, a country of about

21 million people, and vowed to “vest all necessary powers with the defense forces” to take action against those responsible. The government imposed a nation-wide curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, called on Sri Lanka’s government to “mercilessly” punish those re-sponsible “because only animals can behave like that.”

Police spokesman Ruwan Gu-nasekara said at least 207 people were killed and 450 wounded.

The scale of the bloodshed re-called the worst days of Sri Lan-ka’s 26-year civil war, in which the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group from the ethnic Tamil minority, sought independence from the Buddhist-majority country. Dur-

ing the war, the Tigers and other rebels carried out a multitude of bombings. The Tamils are Hindu, Muslim and Christian.

Sri Lanka, situated off the southern tip of India, is about 70 percent Buddhist, with the rest of the population Muslim, Hindu or Christian. While there have been scattered incidents of anti-Chris-tian harassment in recent years, there has been nothing on the scale of what happened Sunday.

There is also no history of violent Muslim militants in Sri Lanka. However, tensions have been running high more recent-ly between hard-line Buddhist monks and Muslims.

Two Muslim groups in Sri Lanka condemned the church attacks, as did countries around

the world, and Pope Francis ex-pressed condolences at the end of his traditional Easter Sunday blessing in Rome.

“I want to express my loving closeness to the Christian com-munity, targeted while they were gathered in prayer, and all the victims of such cruel violence,” Francis said.

Six nearly simultaneous blasts took place in the morning in Co-lombo at St. Anthony’s Shrine — a Catholic church — and the Cin-namon Grand, Shangri-La and Kingsbury hotels. After a lull of a few hours, two more explosions occurred at St. Sebastian Catho-lic church in Negombo, a mostly Catholic town north of Colombo, and at the Protestant Zion church in the eastern town of Batticaloa.

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate has claimed a sui-cide attack in the capital that killed seven people.

The group said in a statement Sunday that four “martyrdom seekers” targeted the Telecommunications Ministry the day before.

Afghan officials say a suicide bomber struck outside the ministry, clearing the

way for four other gunmen to enter the heavily guarded compound in central Kabul.

All the attackers were killed in an hours long gunbattle.

There was no immediate explanation

for the discrepancy in the number of attackers.

ISIS has carried out several attacks in Af-ghanistan , mainly targeting the country’s Shiite minority. They have also clashed with the more well-established Taliban.

ISIS affiliate claims Kabul suicide attack that killed 7 people

‘Blood everywhere’ 8 blasts rock churches, hotels on Easter in Sri Lanka; Americans among the dead

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St. Sebastian’s Church was damaged in a blast north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday .

The Washington Post

LONDON — The Sri Lankangovernment blocked access to so-cial media platforms on Sunday in the wake of explosions that killedmore than 200 people on the holi-est day of the Christian calendar.

Officials said they ordered thesocial media blackout in an at-tempt to stop the viral spread of misinformation about the attacksonline, a digital scourge that typi-cally follows international newsevents and one that major tech giants long have struggled to curtail.

Already, researchers said theyhad seen a spike in false reports about the perpetrators and the number of victims.

But the government’s decisionalso raised fresh concerns — inthe eyes of local residents, tech companies and international ob-servers — that the temporaryblockade on social media would make it harder for Sri Lankans to obtain accurate, timely informa-tion or communicate with loved ones overseas.

“If I don’t reply to your mes-sages it is because WhatsApp andFacebook appears to have beenshutdown in Sri Lanka,” Colomboresident Roshni Fernando wrote on Twitter.

Talking to The WashingtonPost, Fernando said she grew upin London but recently moved tothe Sri Lankan capital, one of thecities targeted in the attacks.

“People can now only com-municate through SMS here, orTwitter, I guess,” said Fernan-do, explaining that she was alsounable to access YouTube andInstagram.

Spokespeople for Google-owned YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter did not immediately re-spond to requests for comment.

Government limits access to social media


BY KATHLEEN FOODY

Associated Press

LITTLETON, Colo. — Community mem-bers in suburban Denver marked the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting Saturday with a remembrance ceremony that celebrated the school’s sur-vival and by volunteering at shelters, doing neighborhood cleanup projects and laying flowers and cards at a memorial to the 13 people killed.

“We’re changed,” Dawn Anna, whose daughter, Lauren Townsend, was among the students killed in the school’s library, said before a crowd of more than 2,000 gathered in a park near the high school. “We’re weaker in some places but, hope-fully, we’re stronger in most of them. Our hearts have giant holes in them. But our hearts are bigger than they were 20 years ago.”

The events ended a three-day slate of somber gatherings honoring the victims and lending support to their families, sur-vivors of the April 20, 1999, attack and the school’s students and staff. The decades since have brought similar violence at schools in America, and some survivors and victims’ families have found them-selves acting as a support system for those affected by other tragedies.

Speakers on Saturday portrayed healing

and recovery as the result of daily work — not a destination to be arrived at in a set amount of days, weeks or years.

Forgiveness, though, is achievable, said Patrick Ireland, a student who became

known as “the boy in the window” when cameras captured him dangling from a second-story window before falling during the 1999 school shoot-ing. He relearned to walk and talk during months of physical and cognitive therapy.

“Our innocence was stolen,” Ireland said. “How can that ever be repaid? But forgiveness is a process. It takes time. It takes practice, repetition, translat-ing that rhythm into moving.”

The afternoon cer-emony at times had the feel of a reunion. Former students in-

troduced classmates to their husbands or wives, and the crowd jumped to their feet when a retired teacher led a call-and-re-sponse cheer of the school’s mantra.

“We are!” Ivory Moore yelled, his voice straining.

“Columbine!” the crowd replied, some pumping their fists in the air.

There were tears, too, particularly as photos of the victims at various ages flashed across a projector screen during a video that featured current Columbine students pledging to honor them with com-munity service each year on April 20.

At the ceremony’s end, Frank DeAn-gelis, the school’s principal at the time of the shooting, read the 13 names aloud in a

wavering voice. A bell rang 13 times and white doves soared into the cloudy sky for each individual.

Starting in the morning, a steady stream of visitors stopped at a memorial that sitson a hill overlooking the school. The siteincludes an oval outer wall of stone withplaques featuring quotes from officialsand Columbine students and teachers and an inner ring with plaques for each person killed.

People walked silently through, occa-sionally stopping to hug a friend or wipeaway tears.

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Maren Strother, 16, of Denver, looks over the plaques for the victims of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School massacre before a vigil at the memorial in Littleton, Colo.

13 victims of Columbine massacre in ’99 honored

‘ Our hearts have giant holes in them. But our hearts are bigger than they were 20 years ago ’

Dawn Annamother of Lauren Townsend, who

was killed at Columbine High

School


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Trump asked spy chiefs for help with probe

Dem hopefuls demuron new Trump probe after he leaves office

Member of an armed civilian border group arrested in NM

BY DEB RIECHMANN AND SUSANNAH GEORGE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency. Trump told Mike Rogers, director of the Na-tional Security Agency, that news stories alleging that Trump’s 2016 White House campaign had ties to Russia were false and the pres-ident asked whether Rogers could do anything to counter them.

Rogers and his deputy, Richard Ledgett, who was present for the call, were taken aback.

Afterward, Ledgett wrote a memo about the conversation and Trump’s request. He and Rogers signed it and stashed it in a safe. Ledgett said it was the “most un-usual thing he had experienced in 40 years of government service.”

Trump’s outreach to Rogers, who retired last year, and other top intelligence officials stands in sharp contrast to his public, combative stance toward his in-telligence agencies. At the time of the call, Trump was just some 60 days into his presidency, but he already had managed to alienate large parts of the intelligence ap-paratus with comments denigrat-ing the profession.

Since then, Trump has dug in. He said at a news conference in Helsinki after his 2017 summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin that he gave weight to Pu-tin’s denial that Russia meddled in the 2016 election despite the firm conclusion of U.S. intelli-

gence agencies that it had. Earlier this year, Trump called

national security assessments “naive,” tweeting “perhaps intel-ligence should go back to school.”

Yet in moments of concern, as Mueller’s investigation into Rus-sian interference in the 2016 elec-tion got underway, Trump turned to his spy chiefs for help.

The phone call to Rogers on March 26, 2017, came only weeks after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had angered Trump by stepping aside from the investiga-tion. James Comey, the FBI direc-tor who would be fired that May, had just told Congress that the

FBI was not only investigating Russian meddling in the election, but also possible links or coordi-nation between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

The call to Rogers and others like it were uncovered by Muel-ler as he investigated possible obstruction.

The special counsel said the evidence did not establish that Trump asked or directed intel-ligence officials to “stop or in-terfere with the FBI’s Russia investigation.”

During the call to Rogers, the president “expressed frustration with the Russia investigation,

saying it made relations with the Russians difficult,” the report said.

Trump said news stories link-ing him with Russia were not true and he asked Rogers “if he could do anything to refute the stories.” Even though Rogers signed the memo about the conversation and put it in a safe, he told investiga-tors he did not think Trump was giving him an order.

Trump made a number of simi-lar requests of other top intelli-gence officials.

On March 22, 2017, Trump asked then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo and National Intelligence

Director Dan Coats to stay be-hind after a meeting at the WhiteHouse to ask if the men could“say publicly that no link existedbetween him and Russia,” the re-port said.

In two other instances, the president began meetings to dis-cuss sensitive intelligence mat-ters by stating he hoped a mediastatement could be issued say-ing there was no collusion withRussia.

After Trump repeatedlybrought up the Russia investiga-tion with his national intelligencedirector, “Coats said he finallytold the President that Coats’sjob was to provide intelligenceand not get involved in investiga-tions,” the report said.

Pompeo recalled that Trumpregularly urged officials to getthe word out that he had not done anything wrong related to Rus-sia. But Pompeo, now secretary of state, said he had no recollec-tion of being asked to stay behindafter the March 22 meeting, ac-cording to the report.

Coats told Mueller’s investi-gators that Trump never askedhim to speak with Comey aboutthe FBI investigation. But otheremployees within Coats’ officehad different recollections of howCoats described the meeting im-mediately after it occurred.

The report said senior staffer Michael Dempsey “said thatCoats described the president’scomments as falling ‘somewhere between musing about hating the investigation’ and wanting Coats to ‘do something to stop it.’Dempsey said Coats made it clearthat he would not get involved withan ongoing FBI investigation.”

BY HUNTER WOODALL

Associated Press

AMHERST, N.H. — Some Democratic contenders for presi-dent aren’t saying whether they would re open investigations into President Donald Trump if they were to oust him from the White House in 2020.

Their reluctance comes as some liberals, including fellow 2020 challenger Sen. Elizabeth Warren, have increased the pres-sure on Democratic leaders to pursue impeachment following the release of a redacted version of the Mueller report.

During recent stops in early-voting states, two U.S. senators in the race and South Bend, Ind. , Mayor Pete Buttigieg wouldn’t say whether they’d press the Jus-tice Department to reopen inves-tigations into Trump.

“Well, let’s see because when I’m elected president that will still

be about two years from now, so ask me that question then,” Sen. Kamala Harris, of California, said Saturday while campaigning in South Carolina.

Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jer-sey, and Buttigieg focused on existing investigations of the president. Campaigning in Ne-vada on Friday, Booker said it’s premature to say whether he would instruct his attorney gen-eral to reopen the Trump investi-gations if he’s elected president.

“You are talking about Janu-ary 2021,” Booker told reporters in Reno. “We have a lot of inves-tigations that are going on right now.”

Buttigieg echoed that senti-ment Friday as he prepared to campaign in New Hampshire this weekend, saying that “it depends what the basis for it is.”

“It’s certainly the case that there are various unanswered questions,” he said. “I don’t know

that that has to happen from a president directing an attorney general to do something, though, because a lot of this just works through the legal system.”

A voter attending a house party for Warren in New Hampshire on Saturday thanked her for calling for impeachment. However, some Democratic voters are wary of how impeachment could embold-en Trump supporters.

Associated Press

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A New Mexico man belonging to an armed group that has detained Central American families near the U.S.-Mexico border was ar-rested Saturday in a border com-munity on a criminal complaint accusing him of being a felon in possession of firearms and am-munition, authorities said.

The FBI said in a statement it arrested Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, in Sunland Park with the as-sistance of local police.

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said in a sepa-rate statement that Hopkins was a member of the group that had stopped migrants.

Hopkins was booked into the Dona Ana County detention cen-ter in Las Cruces.

The FBI statement did not provide information on Hopkins’ background, and FBI spokesman Frank Fisher told The Associated Press that no additional informa-tion would be released until after Hopkins has an initial appear-ance Monday in federal court in

Las Cruces.Balderas said in a statement

that Hopkins “is a dangerousfelon who should not have weap-ons around children and families. Today’s arrest by the FBI indi-cates clearly that the rule of lawshould be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes.”

Federal authorities on Fridaywarned private groups to avoid policing the border after a stringof videos on social media showedarmed civilians detaining largegroups of Central American fam-ilies in New Mexico.

Customs and Border Protectionsaid on its Twitter account that it “does not endorse or condone pri-vate groups or organizations that take enforcement matters intotheir own hands.”

Jim Benvie, a spokesman for United Constitutional Patriots,said in a video that the group’s members were assisting a “stressed and overstrained Bor-der Patrol” and said the group is legally armed for self-defense andnever points guns at migrants.

JOHN LOCHER/AP

Sen. Cory Booker, shown at a weekend event in Las Vegas , is among Democratic presidential hopefuls who are hesitant to say if they would support investigating President Donald Trump after he leaves office.

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Then-National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers, shown testif ying on May 23, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, was asked by President Donald Trump in 2017 if he could counter public claims of Trump presidential campaign ties to Russia, according to the Mueller report.


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BY MARK SHERMAN

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Justice Elena Kagan’s father was 3 years old when the census-taker came to the family’s apartment on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 10, 1930.

Robert Kagan was initially wrongly listed as an “alien,” though he was a native-born New Yorker. The entry about his citizenship status appears to have been crossed out on the census form.

Vast changes in America and technology have dramatically al-tered the way the census is con-ducted. But the accuracy of the once-a-decade population count is at the heart of the Supreme Court case over the Trump administra-tion’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The justices are hearing argu-ments in the case Tuesday, with a decision due by late June that will allow for printing forms in time for the count in April 2020.

The fight over the census question is the latest over immi-gration-related issues between Democratic-led states and ad-vocates for immigrants, on one side and the administration on the other. The Supreme Court last year upheld President Don-ald Trump’s ban on visitors to the U.S. from several mostly Muslim countries.

The court also has temporarily blocked administration plans to make it harder for people to claim asylum and is considering an ad-ministration appeal that would allow Trump to end protections for immigrants who were brought to this country as children.

The citizenship question has not been asked on the census form sent to every American household since 1950, and the administration’s desire to add it is now rife with political implica-tions and partisan division.

Federal judges in California, Maryland and New York have blocked the administration from going forward with a citizenship question after crediting the anal-ysis of Census Bureau experts who found that a question would damage the overall accuracy of the census and cause millions of Hispanics and immigrants to go uncounted. That, in turn, would cost several states seats in the U.S. House and billions of dollars in federal dollars that are deter-mined by census results.

The three judges have rejected the administration’s arguments that asking about citizenship won’t harm accuracy and that the information is needed to help enforce provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act.

The Census Bureau’s consis-tent view since the 1960 census has been that asking everyone about citizenship “would produce a less accurate population count,” five former agency directors who served in Democratic and Repub-lic administrations wrote in a Su-preme Court brief.

No population count is per-fect, and census designers strive to create a questionnaire that is clear and easy to answer.

In older censuses, a govern-ment worker known as an enu-merator would visit households and record information. In mod-ern times, people fill in their own forms on paper or electronically.

But the potential for errant an-swers is ever-present, said Deb-bie Soren, the treasurer of the Illinois chapter of the Jewish Ge-nealogical Society.

“Sometimes, people didn’t al-ways want to be forthcoming, including in their ages, for what-ever reason. Sometimes, there might be a language barrier, or the person reporting the informa-tion might not be the best one to report it,” Soren said.

BY JESSICA GRESKO

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2010, reporters at South Dakota’s Argus Leader newspaper decided to request data about the government’s food assistance program, previously known as food stamps. They thought the information could lead to a series of stories and potentially help them identify fraud in the now $65 billion-a-year program.

They sent a stream of what they thought were routine requests for information to Washington.

Government officials eventually sent back some information about the hundreds

of thousands of stores nationwide where the food program’s participants could use their benefits. But the government with-held information reporters saw as crucial: how much each store received annually from the program.

Trying to get that data has taken the paper more than eight years and landed it at the Supreme Court, which will hear the case Monday.

Argus Leader news director Cory Myers, who directs a staff of 18 at the Sioux Falls paper, said getting the information is about “knowing how our government is operat-ing” and “knowing what government is doing with our tax money.”

A supermarket trade association oppos-

ing the information’s release argues the in-formation being sought is confidential. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case could be narrow or could significantly affect the interpretation of a law that grants public access to government records.

The Argus Leader is owned by USA Today publisher Gannett and is the larg-est newspaper in South Dakota. It wrote about the government’s initial release of information.

But Jonathan Ellis, one of the reporters behind the requests, said there’s more to learn if the paper gets what it’s seeking, such as which companies are profiting the most from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP.

BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT

The Washington Post

A SpaceX capsule designed to ferry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station suf-fered a failure during an engine test Saturday afternoon that sent a billowing plume of smoke into the air over Cape Canaveral, Fla.

No one was injured, and it was not clear what caused the acci-dent or how serious it was. In a statement, the company said the failure occurred as it was con-ducting “a series of engine tests.” The initial tests were “completed successfully, but the final test re-sulted in an anomaly on the test stand.”

The failure comes at a criti-cal time for the California-based company founded by Elon Musk. It hopes to fly astronauts to the space station as soon as this year as part of NASA’s “commercial crew program.” And it comes

ahead of tests of the capsule’s es-cape system, which is designed to jettison the spacecraft away from its rocket in the event of an emergency.

Now, both of those could be de-layed as the company investigates what went wrong.

The engines that failed Satur-day are part of that abort system. Reports from local media outlets showed a large reddish cloud of smoke that, according to Florida Today, of Melbourne, “could be seen for miles.”

“Ensuring that our systems meet rigorous safety standards and detecting anomalies like this

prior to flight are the main rea-sons why we test,” SpaceX said in its statement. “Our teams areinvestigating and working closely with our NASA partners.”

In a statement on Twitter,NASA Administrator Jim Briden-stine said: “This is why we test. We will learn, make the neces-sary adjustments and safely moveforward with our commercial crew program.”

Earlier this year, SpaceX con-ducted a successful uncrewed testflight of its spacecraft, known asCrew Dragon, which flew to the space station, docked and thenreturned home.

CRAIG BAILEY, (MELBOURNE) FLORIDA TODAY/AP

A cloud of smoke rises on Saturday over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where a SpaceX capsule suffered failure during an engine test, as seen from Cocoa Beach, Fla.

BRIANA SANCHEZ, THE ARGUS (S.D.) LEADER/AP

Argus Leader investigative reporter Jonathan Ellis and news director Cory Myers pose in Sioux Falls, S.D. Their quest for government data on food assistance has led to the Supreme Court.

SpaceX capsule suffers failure that sends clouds of smoke over Fla. coast

‘ Our teams are investigating and working closely with our NASA partners. ’

SpaceXin a statement

Accuracy at core of Supreme Court case over census

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BY IVAN MORENO

Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — A British cy-bersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide com-puter virus has pleaded guilty to developing malware to steal banking information.

Federal prosecutors in Wis-consin and Marcus Hutchins’ attorneys said in a joint court fil-ing Friday that the 24-year-old agreed to plead guilty to develop-ing malware called Kronos and conspiring to distribute it from 2012 to 2015. In exchange for his plea to those charges, prosecutors dismissed eight more.

“As you may be aware, I’ve pleaded guilty to two charges re-lated to writing malware in the years prior to my career in secu-rity,” Hutchins said in a statement on his website.

“I regret these actions and ac-cept full responsibility for my mistakes. Having grown up, I’ve since been using the same skills that I misused several years ago for constructive purposes. I will

continue to devote my time to keeping people safe from mal-ware attacks.”

Hutchins faces up 10 years in prison but could receive a more lenient sentence for accepting re-sponsibility, the court filing said. Attorneys said Hutchins under-stands he could be deported.

Sentencing has not been scheduled.

Hutchins’ arrest in Las Vegas in August 2017, as he was about to board a flight to England, came as a shock; just months earlier he was hailed as a hero for finding a “kill switch” to the WannaCry virus that crippled computers

worldwide. At the time, he told The Associated Press in an in-terview that he didn’t consider himself a hero but that he was combating malware because “it’s the right thing to do.”

Prosecutors said Hutchins made incriminating statements during a two-hour interrogation, and that later during a jailhouse phone call that Hutchins was told was being recorded, he told an unidentified person that he “used to write malware” years before.

“I knew it was always going to come back,” Hutchins said on the call, but that he didn’t “think it would be so soon.”

Prosecutors said in court filings that Hutchins sold the Kronos software to someone in Wiscon-sin and that he “personally de-livered” the software to someone in California. The malware was designed “to intercept commu-nications and collect personal in-formation, including usernames, passwords, email addresses, and financial data” from computers, prosecutors said.

Kronos was “used to infect nu-

merous computers around the world and steal banking informa-tion,” prosecutors said, withoutproviding an exact number.

It’s unclear how much Hutchins’ profited from creatingthe malware, but in online chats, the FBI intercepted on November2014, Hutchins’ lamented he hadmade only $8,000 from five sales.Hutchins said he thought he would be making around $100,000 an-nually by selling Kronos withone of his conspirators, who is notnamed in the indictment.

Cyber expert pleads guilty in malware case

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Marcus Hutchins, a British cybersecurity expert shown during an interview in May 2017 in Ilfracombe, England, has pleaded guilty to developing malware.

Associated Press

DALLAS — Nationwide physi-cian staffing company EmCare says a breach exposed personal data for about 31,000 patients, in-cluding in some cases their Social Security numbers and clinical information.

EmCare Inc. said Saturday that an unauthorized third party gained access to the informa-tion through employee email accounts.

The company said that it

learned Feb. 19 that the breach exposed names, dates of birth and Social Security and driver’s li-cense numbers for some patients, employees and contractors.

Company representative Aliese Polk said the breached employee email accounts contained per-sonal information on fewer than 60,000 people, including about 31,000 patients.

The company, based in Plan-tation, Fl a., says it doesn’t know if the personal information was

taken, and there’s no indication it was used for fraud or identity theft.

EmCare said it began notifying affected people on Friday. It said it is taking additional security steps to prevent another breach, including giving employees more training about email security.

The company said it arranged for identity protection and credit-monitoring services for patients and employees whose Social Se-curity or license numbers were

exposed.EmCare and competitors such

as TeamHealth provide emergen-cy room staffing and billing and other services for hospitals.

A Yale University study last year found that when EmCare gets a contract to run an emer-gency room, it often leaves insur-ance networks and then presents patients with surprisingly high out-of-network bills. EmCare de-scribed the study as flawed and dated.

Doctor-services firm: Patients’ private data exposed


WORLD

Citizenship of 551 reinstatedby Bahrain’s king

Easter Sunday servicePope Francis waves after delivering his “Urbi et Orbi” (“to the city and the world”) message in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday. Francis celebrated Easter Mass , marking the most joyful moment of the year for the faithful .

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Sudanese to name civilian council in bid to pressure army

Protesters punch main Turkish opposition leader at funeral for soldier

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emir-ates — Bahrain’s king on Sunday reinstated the citizenship of 551 people convicted and stripped of their nationality amid a series of mass trials conducted during the island nation’s yearslong crack-down on dissent.

A surprise royal order gave no explanation for King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s decision other than to say that he had the final decision in such cases.

Bahrain, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, faces wide-spread international criticism over its campaign. The Sunni monarchy crushed an Arab Spring uprising in 2011 that was supported by the nation’s Shiite majority.

The tiny island off the coast of

Saudi Arabia has seen low-level unrest since then, which authori-ties have blamed on Iran.

“The study and evaluation of the situation of convicts should be based on criteria pertaining to the seriousness, impact and con-sequences of the crimes, as well as on the danger the convict may pose on national security,” the state-run Bahrain News Agency said in announcing the king’s decision.

Authorities later will announce the names of those having their citizenship restored.

Last week, 138 people lost their citizenship in a mass trial.

The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said then that the verdict brought to 990 the number of people ordered stripped of their nationality since 2012.

BY FAY ABUELGASIM AND SAMY MAGDY

Associated Press

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese pro-test organizers say they will announce a civilian transitional council on Sunday in a bid to “exert more pressure” on the military to hand over power following the overthrow of long-ruling President Omar al-Bashir earlier this month.

The Sudanese Professionals Association led four months of protests that eventually ended al-Bashir’s 30-year reign, which was marred by multiple armed conflicts and widespread corruption. The umbrella group of unions says more than 100 people were killed by security forces since De-

cember when the protests were sparked by an increase in the prices of basic goods.

The Sudanese military overthrew and arrested al-Bashir on April 11 and appoint-ed a military council that has said it will rule for up to two years while elections are organized. The military has arrested se-nior officials from al-Bashir’s government and sacked top judges and prosecutors.

The protesters nevertheless fear the military will cling to power and have de-manded an immediate transition to a civil-ian body that would govern for four years.

Mohammed al-Asam, a senior mem-ber of the SPA, told The Associated Press late Saturday that “we are ready with a clear plan for a transition with qualified names.”

The association said it would announce the names at a press conference later Sun-day outside the military’s headquarters in Khartoum, where thousands of protesters have kept up a sit-in since April 6.

“We want a civil council immediately with a military representation. This is our demand,” said al-Asam, who was de-tained for more than three months before being released after al-Bashir’s ouster. He was held in the Koper prison in the capital, where al-Bashir himself is now imprisoned.

The 28-year-old doctor urged the inter-national community to press the military to hand over power to civilians. He said the military council is becoming more power-ful every day and that “this is dangerous to

the revolution.”The military meanwhile told the chair-

man of the African Union Commission thatit is working to “create an environment so political forces can rule in a peaceful anddemocratic way,” according to the state-run SUNA news agency.

SUNA said Lt. Gen. Omer Zain-al-Abdin, head of the political committee of the military council, met with AU commis-sion chairman Moussa Faki in Khartoumon Saturday.

The African Union on Monday gave Su-dan’s military 15 days to hand over powerto a “civilian-led political authority” or face suspension from AU activities. The AU said a civilian authority should holdelections “as quickly as possible.”

Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey — Pro-testers assaulted the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party during a funeral held Sunday for a soldier who was slain during clashes with Kurdish rebels. The politician was not hurt, party of-ficials said.

People threw punches at Re-publican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as security officials tried to escort him away from the funeral in a village out-side Ankara, television footage showed. An angry crowd then surrounded a house where he was taken for safety.

Kilicdaroglu was later driven out of the village in an armored vehicle.

The soldier was among four

killed Saturday in a clash against the rebels of the outlawed Kurd-istan Workers’ Party rebels, or PKK, near Turkey’s border with Iraq. The group is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the Euro-pean Union.

The Ankara governor’s of-fice said legal action had been launched against the assailants.

Kilicdaroglu’s pro-secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, won control of Ankara and Istanbul during local elections on March 31. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party previously governed in the two cities.

Erdogan led the Justice and Development party’s divisive election campaign, portraying the local races as a matter of national

survival and equating oppositionparties with terrorists.

The funeral assault cast a shad-ow on a rally organized in Istan-bul to celebrate the CHP mayoralcandidate’s win, which ended theruling party’s and its Islamistpredecessor’s 25-year hold on thecity of 15 million.

The ruling party is now seekinga rerun of the election, claiming widespread irregularities. Tur-key’s top electoral body is consid-ering the ruling party’s appeal.

Ekrem Imamoglu, 48, was con-firmed as mayor on Wednesdayfollowing two weeks of appealsand recounts requested by theruling party. He has taken a con-ciliatory tone, promising to bringpeople together following the po-larizing elections.

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A man punches Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, on Sunday during the funeral of a soldier who was slain during clashes with Kurdish rebels .


Egyptians provided with incentives inel-Sissi referendum

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Ukraine’s presidential vote pits comedian against incumbent

British queen celebratesbirthday on Easter Sunday

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Associated Press

CAIRO — Egyptian pro-gov-ernment media, business people and activists urged a “yes” vote Sunday on constitutional changes that would allow President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to stay in power until 2030. Some voters were of-fered free rides or food parcels to increase turnout in the national referendum.

Critics have blasted the consti-tutional changes as a major step in the return to authoritarian rule, eight years after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising.

El-Sissi led the military over-throw of an elected but divisive Islamist president in 2013 and has since presided over an un-precedented crackdown on dis-sent. Authorities have arrested thousands of people, including

many prominent pro-democracy activists, and rolled back free-doms won in 2011.

Sunday marked the second of three days of voting. The referen-dum is virtually certain to result in a “yes” vote, but the govern-ment hopes for a strong turnout to lend it legitimacy. Election of-ficials have said results are ex-pected within a week.

Yasser Rizq, chairman of the state-owned al-Akhbar daily and an el-Sissi confidant, portrayed the referendum as a show of support for the general-turned-president.

“People are taking part to say ‘Yes’ for el-Sissi to extend his cur-rent term until 2024 and allow him to run for another six-year term,” Rizq wrote in his Sunday column.

Abdel Mohsen Salama, the chairman of the state-owned al-Ahram media organization,

urged people to vote as an “ur-gent necessity.”

Pro-government business peo-ple and lawmakers, meanwhile, offered incentives to voters.

In Cairo’s neighborhood of Kit Kat, buses hired by lawmakers transported people free of charge to a polling center.

In two polling centers in Cairo,

some voters were being handed bags of food staples — like oil, rice and sugar — after they cast their ballots. The practice is com-mon in Egypt’s elections and ref-erendums, both before and since 2011.

Opposition voices have largely been shut out amid the rush to hold the referendum. Parliament,

packed with el-Sissi supporters,overwhelmingly approved the amendments on Tuesday. Thelocal media is dominated by gov-ernment supporters.

Trucks with loudspeakers drove around central Cairo onSunday morning, playing patri-otic songs and urging people tovote.

Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians cast ballots Sunday in a presiden-tial runoff in which the incum-bent was struggling to fend off a strong challenge by a comedian who denounces corruption and plays the role of president in a TV sitcom.

Opinion surveys ahead of the vote have shown President Petro Poroshenko, 53, trailing far be-hind comic actor Volodymyr Zel-enskiy, reflecting public dismay with endemic corruption, a mori-bund economy and a five-year fight against Russia-backed in-surgents in the country’s east.

Zelenskiy, 41, got twice as many votes as Poroshenko in the first round three weeks ago. Like his sitcom character, a teacher thrust into the presidency after

a video of him blasting corrup-tion goes viral, he has focused on fighting graft, riding the wave of public distrust of Ukraine’s politi-cal elite.

Poroshenko, a billionaire candy magnate before taking office, has relied on traditional political barnstorming, using sympathetic television stations to extensively cover his appearanc-es. Zelenskiy has largely stayed away from the campaign trail and eschewed interviews. He has run his campaign mainly on Ins-tagram, where he has 3.7 million followers.

The campaign was marked by fierce mutual criticism and jock-eying for dominance, wrapping up with Friday’s debate at the nation’s largest sports arena.

The incumbent campaigned on

the same promise he made whenhe was elected in 2014: to lead thenation of 42 million into the Euro-pean Union and NATO.

But Poroshenko’s message hasfallen flat with many voters whoare struggling to survive on mea-ger wages and pay soaring utility bills.

Zelenskiy, who comes from Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speak-ing east, has opposed Porosh-enko’s push for a bill that wouldoutlaw the Russian language.

He has focused heavily oncorruption allegations that have dogged Poroshenko and show-ered the president with questions about his assets during Friday’sdebate. Poroshenko denies anylink to an alleged embezzlement scheme involving one of his com-panies and a top associate.

Associated Press

PARIS — With French police suicides on the rise, officials are expressing shock and anger after some yellow vest protest-ers encouraged police to kill themselves.

Radical protesters have clashed with police nearly every weekend for five months on the margins of largely peaceful yellow vest dem-onstrations for economic justice.

On Saturday, Associated Press reporters heard some protest-ers in Paris shouting “Kill your-

selves!” at police firing tear gas and rubber projectiles and charging the crowd to contain the violence.

Police unions denounced the protesters’ call, which promptedindignation online. Interior Min-ister Christophe Castaner calledit a “disgrace.”

Police unions held silent pro-tests Friday after two officerskilled themselves last week. Unions say police ranks have seen28 suicides so far this year, com-pared with 68 overall in 2018.

Associated Press

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 93rd birth-day, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday.

The queen marked Easter by attending a service with other se-nior royals at St. George’s Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle, west of London.

She was joined by Prince Wil-liam and his wife, Kate, the Duch-ess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, whose wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is expecting

their first child in the coming weeks and did not attend.

Sunday was the first of two birthday celebrations each year for the queen. She marks her of-ficial birthday in June with the Trooping the Color parade.

The two-birthday tradition dates back more than 250 years, when it was instituted by King George II.

Her 97-year-old husband, Prince Philip, has retired from public duties and did not attend the service.

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A voter prepares to cast her ballot on constitutional amendments during the second of three days of voting at a polling station in Cairo on Sunday.

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II waves to the public as she leaves after attending the Easter Mattins Service at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in England on Sunday.

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A dog looks out of a voting booth as a man casts his vote during the second round of presidential elections in Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday.


BY ODED BALILTY AND ISABEL DEBRE

Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel — Last year, Shir Kat-zenell made a drastic life change, leaving a prestigious job in the Israeli army to pursue a childhood dream: becoming a mermaid.

Ever since getting hooked on Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” as a kid, Katzenell confided, she has longed to turn into one. While her friends moved on, Katzenell’s enchantment with mermaids endured. She fantasized about swimming underwater alongside fish in a 10-pound tail and se-quined bikini. Then she actually gave it a try.

As it turns out, she’s not the only one.Together with a friend and fellow mer-

maid-fan, Michelle Koretsky, she started an unlikely social scene: a group of aspir-ing mermaids in Israel, which has grown on Facebook to nearly 1,000 members. It’s the Israeli pocket of a worldwide communi-ty that she claims is gaining prominence.

“It was a crazy revelation,” said Kat-zenell. “I realized I was part of something big.”

Now, as a 34-year-old “full-time mer-maid,” she sells brightly-colored tails, some with dizzying $800 price tags, and teaches people the skill of swimming in them.

The tail-clad group convenes regularly to romp in public pools across the country and participate in demonstrations to raise awareness about ocean preservation.

“Some come because they’re just inter-ested or feel a special connection to the water. Others because they really dream of becoming mermaids,” Katzenell said. “They’ve often been embarrassed, told they were weird or crazy. But here they can find people who understand them.”

On a recent night at a Tel Aviv pool, dozens of mermaid enthusiasts slipped on their shimmering skin. Huddled on deck, they chatted about the latest developments in mermaid culture, including “The Little Mermaid” remake release date, silicone tail costs and relevant book recommenda-tions. They glided through the water and splashed around, their glittery tails slap-ping against the surface.

One of the clan’s few mer-men, Yuval Avrami, marveled at how his fabric fin flit-ted in the water, describing it as a “dream come true.” He said he learned about the trend through transgender friends and be-came fascinated by “the transition from one species to another, the ability to inhabit a new, magical identity.”

Another member, an aerobics instruc-tor named Udi Frige, said he had been swimming in the sea with his legs pressed together for decades, imitating mer-maid choreography from the hit movie “Splash.”

Frige, 39, compared confessing his mer-maid obsession to coming out in the LGBT community. “It’s my thing, it’s unique, it’s who I am,” he said. “It requires lots of diffi-cult explanation, especially if people don’t know me.”

For others, it’s just a source of innocent joy.

“When I’m flying through the water with my tail, I forget all my worries,” said Kore-tsky, the community co-leader. “For that second, I’m a child again. I’m free.”

PHOTOS BY ODED BALILTY/AP

Gal Amnony, a member of the Israeli Mermaid Community, poses for a portrait as he wears a tail on Feb. 28 at his home in Ramat Gan, Israel.

A dive into Israel’s mermaid community WORLD

Right: Shir Katzenell and her son, Erez, pose for a portrait wearing their mermaid tails on Feb. 27 at their home in Or Akiva, Israel.

Bottom right: Hadas Kellner wears a mermaid tail on Feb. 22 at her home in Yahud, Israel.

Below: Inbar Ben Yakar poses in her mermaid tail on March 4 at her home in Kiryat Yam, Israel.


leau in Cleveland and Peterson in Los Angeles.

They got married Saturday at a spot Belleau said “couldn’t be more perfect,” The Plain Dealer reports .

Belleau sa id airports became happy and sad places for the cou-ple as they’d reunite and then too quickly have to depart. She has since moved to California.

Man finds naked stranger on couch

TN NASHVILLE — Police said a Tennessee man

returned home to find a naked stranger sitting on his couch drinking juice.

WKRN-TV cited a Nashville police report that said the resi-dent summoned officers and told them he called out to the stranger, who responded by screaming and dropping the juice.

When officers asked the man to exit the home, they say he did so but was wearing only a T-shirt.

The resident reported the man had consumed ice cream from the home in addition to the juice.

Police took James Wooten, 67,

into custody on charges including aggravated burglary.

Road crew misspells ‘school’ in crossing

FL DORAL — A road crew in Florida should get an

“F” for spelling.A motorist spotted the error,

realizing that workers in Doral had made a mistake when paint-ing the word “school” at a pedes-trian crossing in the road. Instead of S-C-H-O-O-L, it was spelled S-C-O-H-O-L.

WPLG brought it to the city’s attention, and the city tweeted that the private contractor has now corrected its work.

Dolphin, sea turtle deaths prompt probe

MS GULFPORT — Offi-cials are investigating

a rash of deaths among dolphins and sea turtles on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

WLOX-TV reported nearly 40 dead dolphins and sea turtles have been found in recent weeks.

Two veterinarian pathologists from Mississippi State University have been performing necropsies on dead dolphins at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, looking for answers.

The institute’s director, Moby Solangi, said he believes the deaths are linked to floodwater that has emptied into the Missis-sippi Sound from south Louisi-ana’s Bonnet Carre Spillway.

The spillway opened Feb. 27 to alleviate Mississippi River flood-ing, sending freshwater coursing through Lake Pontchartrain into areas that are normally brackish or salty.

Database online for historical documents

NH CONCORD — New Hampshire officials

launched an online database that gives users access to more than 16,000 historical documents.

The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources said the support tool, available by sub-scription, is for anyone interested in the state’s history and its his-toric places.

The tool is called the Enhanced Mapping and Management Infor-mation tool, or EMMIT.

Documents are available asdownloadable PDFs and includeNational and State Register of His-toric Places nominations, historicdistricts, individual inventory sur-veys and project area forms.

Harvard group endsits goat barbecue

MA CAMBRIDGE — AHarvard University

residence hall is ending a de-cades-old tradition of skinningand barbecuing a goat in thecourtyard.

The Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported that Dun-ster House Faculty Deans CherylChen and Sean Kelly informedstudents of the decision in an email , citing student discomfort with the tradition and healthconcerns.

They sa id Dunster will con-tinue to hold a “goat roast,” justwithout an actual goat. From wire reports

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

18 The number of spare tires a Missouri man is accused of stealing off Jeeps over a month’s time. The Springfield News-Leader reported that James Gilland, 43, was charged with felony stealing. Police allege he took the iconic spare tire off the back of Jeep Wrangler and Liberty models in Springfield. Police allege Gilland sold the aluminum rims of the tires as scrap metal and sold the tires to a car dealership. He was jailed on $150,000 bond.

Man charged in theftof cooking grease

VA ANNANDALE — Police said a central Virginia

man made off with a whopper of a haul from Burger King: hundreds of gallons of used cooking grease. He faces grand larceny charges.

News outlets reported Alvaro Mendez Flores, of Richmond, ad-mitted to the April 4 theft.

Court documents state Mendez Flores backed up his box truck to the grease dumpster at the An-nandale Shopping Center and used a hose to begin siphoning the used oil into a 1,600-gallon tank.

Cooking grease can be used to make biodiesel fuel. Grease thefts have increased as biodiesel prices have risen.

Wife wields piece of firewood to end fight

WV ELKVIEW — Author-ities said a wild squab-

ble between two West Virginia brothers came to an abrupt end when one of their wives cracked her brother-in-law in the head with a log.

A criminal complaint filed by the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said Edward Guy Cornish, 48, is facing multiple charges after a fight with his brother in Elkview.

The complaint said Cornish first pointed a rifle at his brother but the brother was able to wrestle the gun away. Deputies said Cor-nish then pulled out a large knife and tried to stab his brother.

That’s when the brother’s wife hit Cornish in the head with a piece of firewood, knocking him over.

Carnival permanently closed following brawl

PA ASTON — A large brawl that broke out at

a Pennsylvania fire department’s annual carnival spurred the major fundraiser to come to a permanent end.

Police said fights started break-ing out after a large crowd had gathered at the Aston Township Fire Department’s Spring Car-nival. As more people became involved, police from several departments responded to help break up the brawl.

Five youths were charged with disorderly conduct, but it wasn’t clear if anyone was injured.

The fire department issued a statement that said no more carnivals would be held be-cause the event has “turned into a landing spot for out-of-town troublemakers.”

Couple wed where they met at airport bag claim

OH CLEVELAND — Proving life and love

can be a carousel, a couple got married at the Ohio airport bag-gage claim where they met 12 years ago.

Michelle Belleau’s boss sent her to pick up Ron Peterson at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in 2007. A long-distance relationship developed, with Bel-

THE CENSUS

Super dog walkerA woman wearing a “Wonder Woman” cape walks her dogs in Cadman Plaza Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Friday .

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Associated Press

“All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” are coming back to TV, live and for one night only.

Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-cre-ations of episodes from the influential sit-coms born in the 1970s.

Norman Lear, who created “All in the Family” and its spinoff “The Jeffersons,” and Jimmy Kimmel are hosting the ABC prime-time special airing next month, the network said April 18.

Harrelson and Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, with Foxx and Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson. Ellie Kem-per, Justina Machado and Will Ferrell also will appear, ABC said, with more stars to be announced.

The original shows starred Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton as the blue-collar Bunkers, and Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as the upwardly mobile Jeffersons.

People say “these two shows were meant for the ’70s and would not work today,” Lear said in a statement. “We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two

great casts depicting ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’ the timelessness of human nature.”

Ferrell, Lear and ABC late-night host Kimmel are among the executive produc-ers of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’ ” Sitcom veteran James Bur-rows will direct the 90-minute special.

“All in the Family” was a TV ground-breaker when it debuted in 1971, using

comedy as a vehicle to explore racism, women’s rights and other hot-button is-sues. “The Jeffersons” (1975-85), about a successful black family in a largely white world, featured the TV rarity of an inter-racial couple.

Lear, 96, was an executive producer on a recently canceled Netflix reboot of another of his hit series, “One Day at a Time,” which was reimagined with a Latino family.

Moves like Jagger: Mick’s partner debuts dance

Talk about your “Moves Like Jagger.” Recovering rocker Mick Jagger made a stealth appearance at the ballet, slipping backstage Thursday evening to support his partner, Melanie Hamrick, as she present-ed her new dance based on Rolling Stones songs.

It was Hamrick’s first work as chore-ographer. Jagger arranged the score of three Stones classics: “Sympathy for the Devil,” “She’s a Rainbow,” and “Paint it Black.” Hamrick created the ballet for the 20th anniversary of Youth America Grand Prix, the world’s largest ballet scholarship

competition.Jagger, 75, didn’t appear onstage or in

the audience, but he did greet the crowd atNew York’s Lincoln Center via a backstagemicrophone.

The rocker recently underwent medi-cal treatment, reportedly for a heart valveissue, forcing postponement of the Stones’ No Filter tour.

Other news� “Real Housewives of New Jersey”

husband Joe Giudice has lost his appeal to avoid deportation to Italy. His attorneyssaid April 18 they were “extremely disap-pointed” by the Board of Immigration’sdecision and have appealed to the federalcircuit court in Philadelphia. Giudice and his wife, Teresa, pleaded guilty in 2014 tofinancial fraud. Giudice is an Italian citizenwho was brought to the U.S. as a baby andsays he wasn’t aware he wasn’t an Ameri-can citizen. Teresa Giudice served nearly ayear in prison and was freed in December2015. Joe Giudice was released from prison last month and was sent to an Immigrationand Customs Enforcement detention facil-ity in southeast Pennsylvania.

FACES

‘All in the Family,’ ‘Jeffersons’ to be rebooted in live special

Metz finds her film ‘Breakthrough’‘This is Us’ star could easily relate to messages of faith, positivity

Chrissy Metz scored a few minor movie roles before finding fame on TV’s “This is Us,” but “Breakthrough” is her first top billing in a major-studio film. REBECCA CABAGE, INVISION/AP

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Jimmy Kimmel, above, and Norman Lear, who created “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” will host live re-creations of episodes from the groundbreaking series.

BY MIKE CIDONI LENNOX

Associated Press

Chrissy Metz says she believed in mir-acles well before getting the call to meet producer DeVon Franklin to discuss tak-ing the lead in director Roxann Dawson’s faith-based drama “Breakthrough,” which was released on April 19.

Metz was already familiar with the film’s story of Joyce Smith, whose son, John, fell through ice on a lake in Jan-uary 2015 and was drowning for 15 minutes before paramedics started re-suscitation efforts. By the time the boy was in the emergency room, he had gone so long without a pulse that doctors were ready to pronounce him dead.

Smith wouldn’t accept it. She was given permission to pray at her son’s feet as a last attempt at CPR was performed — and, much to everyone’s surprise, John’s pulse returned. Eventually, he re-covered fully from the accident.

Metz, 38, recalled her first meeting about the film adaptation with producer Franklin and executives from distribu-tor 20th Century Fox. “I thought we were just generally meeting, and then I ended up sharing the story of my moth-er’s medical emergency.”

In 2017, Metz’s mother, Denise, suf-fered a massive stroke, and even in front of her mother, doctors were openly pes-simistic about a return to quality life.

Metz recalled her fury. “I told those doctors, ‘You might think you know my mom, but you don’t know my mom. And you don’t know what she’s capable of . . . So, if you don’t have anything nice or positive to say, you need to actually leave my mother’s room,’ ” she said. “And then, of course, we come to find out that Joyce

said those things to John’s doctors.”Metz’s mom is home, walking, mak-

ing what Metz called “a strong recov-ery” — and provided inspiration for her daughter’s portrayal of Joyce.

“To play, wholeheartedly, a woman who believes in miracles, you have to believe in miracles to some degree, I think,” explained Metz, who didn’t con-nect with the real-life Smith until two weeks into filming.

“I felt like I already knew her,” Metz noted. “I watched her on TV. I read her book, ‘The Impossible.’ ” But making the one-on-one contact did inform her per-formance. “Meeting her, you can’t help but realize she has been through hell and back, and is better for it.”

Three years ago, Metz was perhaps the least-known of the seven original “This Is Us” leads. While each in the cast has landed extracurricular gigs since the acclaimed and popu-lar series’ 2016 debut, Metz is the first to be top-billed in a major studio theatrical release.

“It’s mind-blowing to know that when I first stepped foot on ‘This Is Us,’ I felt like the inadequate, doesn’t have a résumé, can I do this girl?” Metz said. “I learned so much from the cast collectively,” she continued, credit-ing her “This Is Us” co-stars for teaching her what it took to head up the “Break-through” cast.

Metz said movie scripts “aren’t pouring in,” but they’re coming, and the big issue is whether the movie is

the right thing at the right time.She said she connected with her

“Breakthrough” character and the film’s message of hope, as well as the producers’ eagerness to let her pursue another passion: singing. Metz performs the new Diane Warren song, “I’m Standing With You,” over the film’s end titles.

“For me, it’s important for a movie to change me or change someone else,” Metz said.

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BY JAMES STAVRIDIS

Bloomberg Opinion

I recently wrote a column on the chal-lenges posed by China both on the South China Sea and globally on the deep seabed. But there is another

element to the maritime “Great Game” China is playing: the Arctic Ocean. This may seem counterintuitive — last time I looked at a map, China did not have any Arctic waterfront. But this has not stopped Beijing from an aggressive program of building influence in what the Canadians call the High North.

When I was supreme allied command-er of NATO, I asked my friend Gen. Walt Natynczyk, then the Canadian military’s chief of staff, whether he was worried about a Russian invasion of the Canadian Arctic. He chuckled and said, “Jim, if they tried to invade, my mission would prob-ably turn out to be search and rescue.” His point — how difficult it is to execute operations up there — was well taken. But China, which until recently has no experi-ence in that harsh environment, is learn-ing quickly and expanding its reach and expertise aggressively.

China petitioned and in 2013 won a seat as an observer on the influential Arctic Council, composed of nations that have ter-ritory in the northern latitudes — Canada, Denmark (by virtue of Greenland), Ice-land, Norway, Russia and the U.S. — plus Sweden and Finland. China has been a vocal member of the group; when I was

with NATO and attended several Arctic Council gatherings (including one for all the chiefs of defense with forces there), I was surprised to see the high level of the Chinese delegations attending.

The Chinese are also building nuclear-powered icebreakers, something the U.S. has not even contemplated. At more than 30,000 tons, the Chinese ships will out-pace any other nation’s capability with the exception of Russia (which operates the world’s largest fleet of icebreakers, includ-ing several huge nuclear-powered models), and will join a fleet of six conventionally powered ships. The U.S., on the other hand, has only three active Coast Guard ice-breakers, two of which are quite small.

Icebreakers are key to two crucial ele-ments of what makes the Arctic so strategi-cally vital. The first is the enormous trove of hydrocarbons that will be uncovered as the ice melts. Some estimates approach 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and nearly 100 billion barrels of oil. Icebreakers open the logistics paths for placement of the necessary oil and gas rigs. Additionally, the melting Arctic ice will create shipping routes that could be geopolitically central for China’s One Belt, One Road global de-velopment strategy.

But the centerpiece of China’s Arctic ambitions is its increasing military, politi-cal and economic alignment with Russia. For several years, the two superpowers have been conducting military exercises both at sea (including in the Baltic Sea, in the heart of European waters) and Sibe-

ria. They see working together as a hedgeagainst the U.S., and their cooperation willcreate significant challenges for the NATO nations with Arctic territory.

How can the U.S. prepare to face a risingChinese challenge in the Arctic? First, by working with the NATO allies in improv-ing wide-area surveillance and situational awareness of both Russian and Chineseoperations. Second, the Pentagon should build at least a half-dozen icebreakers ca-pable of operating year-round. Third, theU.S. military should exercise more rou-tinely in the region alongside its Canadianpartners.

And finally, Washington must betterintegrate government efforts with a focuson the Arctic — the Department of De-fense and Department of Homeland Secu-rity (where the Coast Guard resides) mustwork together of course, but also the De-partment of Energy (hydrocarbon devel-opment), the EPA (environmental studies)and the State Department (coordinating with allies, partners and friends).

With all the rising security tensionsacross the globe, the last thing we need tobe worrying about is true military conflictin the polar regions, north and south. But keeping that peace means working with al-lies to keep an eye on what China and Rus-sia are up to on the Arctic ice.James Stavridis is a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO, and dean emeritus of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

BY KAREN TUMULTY

The Washington Post

President Donald Trump should not be impeached. It would be a terrible thing for the country.

This is not because he doesn’t deserve it. The long-awaited report by spe-cial counsel Robert Mueller has provided a devastating inside look at Trump’s White House, where he has created a culture of recklessness and deceit.

More than two years of admirably ac-curate investigative reporting on the part of the media — the same accounts that the president so often labeled “fake news” — gave the country a basic outline of how this presidency operates.

But the sworn testimony that Muel-ler compiled from insiders revealed that Trump has created, as my colleagues Philip Rucker and Robert Costa wrote, “an atmosphere of chaos, dishonesty and malfeasance at the top echelons of govern-ment not seen since the [Richard] Nixon administration.”

With Mueller’s decision not to charge the president with a crime — preordained not by the weight of the evidence, but by the Justice Department’s long-standing view that a sitting president cannot be indicted — he has left it to Congress to determine what to do with the bill of particulars he put together.

“The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s cor-rupt exercise of the powers of the office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law,” he wrote.

Mueller’s report amounts to an invitation to — and road map for – impeachment.

It is important to remember that this would be a political, not a legal, adjudica-tion. The Constitution does not define what

constitutes the “high crimes and misde-meanors” that merit removal from office; they are whatever Congress deems them to be.

But doing it at this particularly tender moment in our history is something that lawmakers should resist.

Even a successful impeachment by the House would come screeching to a halt in the Republican-controlled Senate, where chances of the constitutionally mandated two-thirds vote it would take to convict are virtually zero. The only thing the exercise would accomplish is further inflaming both the president’s political base and the opposition.

What’s more, the process would prob-ably take a year or more, during which the country would become not only more deeply divided, but thoroughly preoccu-pied, as anyone who was sentient during the 1998-99 impeachment saga of Presi-dent Bill Clinton will recall.

All of this would take us right into the height of the 2020 presidential campaign season when voters will be given their opportunity to say directly whether they believe Trump is fit to occupy the Oval Office.

As I’ve traveled with a number of the Democratic candidates in the early states, I have been struck by how infrequently the subject of the Mueller investigation has come up. The crowds are large and enthusiastic, eager for the contest to get underway, but seem far more interested in hearing about issues such as health care, jobs and the environment, which have a more direct impact on their own lives.

This is the debate that needs to happen — and that would be smothered if the election becomes a referendum on impeachment.

Nor would this missed opportunity be the only danger.

One of the features of Clinton’s charac-

ter, both a flaw and a survival skill, was his ability to “compartmentalize” — to at-tend to the business of his presidency evenas it was teetering on oblivion. That is onereason his job approval reached its high-est point in the Gallup poll — 73% — thesame week the House voted to impeachhim in 1998. (It is also worth noting that the Republicans lost five House seats inthe midterm elections that year, largely inpunishment for an overreach that nearlycost them their majority.)

What we have seen from Trump is the op-posite, both in his public behavior and thebehind-the-scenes accounts in the Muellerreport; under pressure, he becomes more erratic and reckless, prone to pushing legal boundaries and making policy pronounce-ments by tweet.

That the president did not succeed in hisefforts to obstruct Mueller’s investigation,the special counsel wrote, was “largely because the persons who surrounded thePresident declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.” But there arefewer and fewer of those non sycophantsaround him.

None of this is to argue that Trumpshould not be held accountable for his ac-tions, or that Congress — which has a con-stitutional duty to provide oversight of theexecutive — should do nothing in the wakeof Mueller’s devastating report.

But there is another option: Eitherhouse, could, with a majority vote, formal-ly censure Trump, something that has nothappened to any chief executive since theSenate censured Andrew Jackson in 1834.

While this would be dismissed in somequarters as merely a symbolic act, it would be a historic rebuke of the Trump presi-dency — and would, properly, leave it tothe voters to decide whether they have had enough of it.

China is joining rush for Arctic riches

Don’t impeach Trump. There’s another way.


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Saturday’s scoresEAST

Adelphi 7, Saint Rose 4Alderson-Broaddus 6, Kentucky Wes-

leyan 5, 10 inningsArcadia 6, Lebanon Valley 2Bethany (W.Va.) 4-7, Chatham 3-4, 1st

game, 10 inningsBrown 8, Columbia 5Canisius 7-10, St. Peter’s 5-5Charleston 7, Northeastern 5Clarion 3-3, Indiana (Pa.) 2-8College of N.J. 19, William Paterson 7Creighton 3, Seton Hall 1Davidson 3-5, George Washington 0-6Fairfield 7, Monmouth 1Franklin & Marshall 22, Haverford 4Georgetown 12-10, Rider 7-9Hofstra 6, UNC Wilmington 4Ithaca 4, Houghton 3Johns Hopkins 16, Dickinson 14Kean 4, Rutgers-Camden 0Lehigh 5-7, Bucknell 3-6LIU Brooklyn 13, Fairleigh Dickinson 8LIU Post 8, Molloy 1Marist 6-11, Manhattan 4-4, 2nd game,

10 inningsMcDaniel 17, Ursinus 16Merchant Marine 10, Moravian 8Messiah 16, Widener 6Millersville 6, West Chester 2Navy 3-3, Army 0-11Niagara 9-0, Iona 6-14Pittsburgh 4-0, Notre Dame 2-9Princeton 7-9, Cornell 2-15Purdue 6, Rutgers 2Rutgers-Newark 10, Stockton 5St. John’s 3, Villanova 1Saint Joseph’s 6, La Salle 5, 10 inningsSt. Joseph’s (L.I.) 3, Purchase 1St. Lawrence 11, RPI 6Seton Hill 5-1, California (Pa.) 2-4Shippensburg 2-1, Lock Haven 1-4Siena 5, Quinnipiac 4, 13 inningsStony Brook 7, Albany (NY) 4Swarthmore 13, Gettysburg 4Towson 2-10, Delaware 1-8, 1st game,

10 inningsTrinity (Conn.) 9, Hamilton 8UMass 6, Maine 5UMBC 10-4, Hartford 8-7Vassar 9, Union (N.Y.) 1Wagner 8, Mount St. Mary’s 2Washington (Md.) 8, Muhlenberg 5Washington & Jefferson 12-8, Geneva

4-0West Virginia 1-4, Kansas 0-3, 2nd

game, 11 inningsWilson 16, Centenary (N.J.) 2Yale 6, Penn 5

SOUTHAlabama A&M 13-8, Alabama St. 6-12Albany (Ga.) 15, Paine 1Appalachian St. 9, Troy 7Auburn 6, Mississippi 5, 10 inningsBarton 6-6, Southern Wesleyan 4-1Belmont 4, Murray St. 3Birmingham-Southern 14, Sewanee 4Carson-Newman 12, Coker 11, 10 in-

ningsCoastal Carolina 9-12, Georgia South-

ern 7-13Dayton 6-0, George Mason 4-2Duke 5, Clemson 3East Carolina 5-9 UConn 2-7E. Kentucky 7, Jacksonville St. 5Elon 11-8, William & Mary 9-2, 1st

game, 10 inningsEmbry-Riddle 9, Lynn 1Erskine 7, Mount Olive 4Faulkner 11, Stillman 1FAU 8-4, W. Kentucky 5-11FGCU 3-2, Jacksonville 1-1Florida A&M 7-11, Savannah St. 5-7Florida St. 5-3, Virginia 3-13Furman 4-1, W. Carolina 3-5Gardner-Webb 8-1, Winthrop 1-7Georgia 4, Missouri 2Georgia Tech 7-4, Virginia Tech 5-3Hampden-Sydney 20, Shenandoah 6High Point 4-5, Presbyterian 2-4Jackson St. 19, MVSU 3Lee 16, Montevallo 6Liberty 3-2, N.C. A&T 0-8Little Rock 7-4, Louisiana-Monroe 3-2LSU 11, Florida 2Louisiana Tech 11, Marshall 1Lynchburg 5, Bridgewater (Va.) 4Maryland 14-9, Ohio St. 8-10, 2nd

game, 11 inningsMemphis 11-5, Tulane 8-20Mercer 15, VMI 6Miami 16-6, Louisville 11-9Miles 14, Tuskegee 10Millsaps 4, Oglethorpe 3, 10 inningsMiddle Georgia 9, Brewton-Parker 7Newberry 21, Lincoln Memorial 5Norfolk St. 6-4, Coppin St. 0-3North Alabama 8, North Florida 4North Carolina 8-11, Boston College 7-

10, both games, 11 inningsN.C. Central 7-5, Bethune-Cookman

2-8North Greenville 10-14, Chowan 2-2Northwestern St. 6-6, McNeese 0-5Old Dominion 8-6, FIU 6-12Radford 11-5, Longwood 6-4Richmond 8-3, VCU 5-16Roanoke 16-7, E. Mennonite 5-8Samford 3-14, UNC Greensboro 2-0, 1st

game, 10 innningsSouth Alabama 10, Georgia St. 7South Carolina 3-3, Texas A&M 2-6S.C.-Beaufort 10, Thomas (Ga.) 7S.C. Upstate 8, Campbell 7South Florida 7-12, The Citadel 2-9Southeastern (Fla.) 7, Keiser 1Southern U. 7-5, Texas Southern 6-6,

1st game, 12 inningsSE Louisiana 11, Nicholls 1Southern Miss. 8, Charlotte 6Spalding 5, Principia 3Stetson 4-1, Kennesaw St. 0-2Tennessee 8, Kentucky 2UAB 7-1, UTSA 3-4UNC Asheville 11, Charleston South-

ern 4UT Martin 6-4, Austin Peay 3-5Vanderbilt 13, Alabama 5Virginia Wesleyan 13, Guilford 9

Wake Forest 4-9, N.C. State 3-8Webber International 8, Warner 1Wingate 8, Queens (N.C.) 7Winston-Salem St. 4, Emmanuel (Ga.)

3MIDWEST

Aurora 5, Marian (Wis.) 2Avila 10, Saint Mary (Kan.) 9Ball St. 3, Miami (Ohio) 2, 2nd game,

ppd.Bellevue 9, Presentation 6Beloit 4, St. Norbert 2Benedictine (Ill.) 6, Illinois Tech 4Benedictine (Kan.) 10, Graceland

(Iowa) 6Buena Vista 15, Wartburg 8Butler at Xavier, ccd.Calvin 2-5, Kalamazoo 1-2Central Methodist 4-10, William Penn

1-3Chicago 11, Ripon 5Clarke 7, Mount Mercy 6Columbia (Mo.) 6-11, Williams Baptisit

5-3Concordia-Chicago 11, Milwaukee En-

gineering 10Cornell (Iowa) 15, Monmouth (Ill.) 5Cornerstone 6, Michigan-Dearborn 5Dakota Wesleyan 11, Doane 4Denison 3, Ohio Wesleyan 2DePauw 9, Hiram 4Evansville 6, Indiana St. 2Freed-Hardeman 11, Park 3Hastings 13, Dordt 1Illinois 7, Penn St. 6Illinois St. 7, S. Illinois 6Iowa 17, Nebraska 9Jamestown 11, Morningside 9Judson 5, Robert Morris-Chicago 4Kansas Wesleyan 8, Ottawa (Kan.) 6Kent St. 11, N. Illinois 10LaGrange 12, Peace 0Lakeland 6-2, Concordia (Wis.) 2-6MacMurray 3, Westminster (Mo.) 0Michigan 4, Northwestern 1MidAm Nazarene 14, Culver-Stockton

12Midland 8, Briar Cliff 1Missouri Baptist 6, Hannibal-LaGrange

5Mount Marty 5, Hastings 1Oakland 3-1, UIC 2-8Oklahoma 2, Minnesota 1Oral Roberts 11-6, N. Dakota St. 5-7New Orleans 20, Missouri St. 12Rochedster (Mich.) 7, Aquinas 1Rockford 4, Edgewood 3Sacramento St. 10, Chicago St. 1St. Francis (Ill.) 7, Saint Xavier 2St. Francis (Ill.) 7-2, St. Xavier 2-15St. Scholastica 11, Minn.-Morris 1SE Missouri 9, Tennessee Tech 4S. Dakota St. 11-6, W. Illinois 9-7, 2nd

game, 10 inningsSIU Edwardsville 4-16, Valparaiso 3-6Sterling 20, York (Neb.) 8Tabor 15, Friends (Kan.) 4Trinity Christian 10. St. Ambrose 3Trinity International 8, Olivet Naza-

rene 5UCF 11-4, Wichita St. 3-6Waldorf 3, Valley City St. 2Washington (Mo.) 3, Emory 2Wayne St. (Mich.) 6, Wis.-Parkside 2Wayne St. (Neb.) 9, Minnesota St. 5William Woods 7-5, College of the

Ozarks 2-2Wis.-Stout 10, Wis.-Oshkosh 3Wis.-Superior 19, Martin Luther 9Wis.-Whitewater 9, Finlandia 3Wright St. 14-6, Milwaukee 12-7

SOUTHWESTAbilene Christian 6, Lamar 5Arkansas 10, Mississippi St. 2Cent. Arkansas 6, Sam Houston St. 2Dallas Baptist 14-7, Bradley 3-6Grambling St. 10-19, Ark.-Pine Bluff 8-

2, 1st game, 11 inningsHendrix 6, Rhodes 1Houston 8, Cincinnati 4Houston Baptist 8, Incarnate Word 6LSU Alexandria 9, Wiley 2Oklahoma Baptist 14, East Central 4Oklahoma City 13, Okla. Panhandle

St. 3Oklahoma St. 11, Texas 10Oklahoma Wesleyan 15, Southwesten

(Kan.) 5Rice 7, Middle Tennessee 5Science & Arts 6-10, Texas Wesleyan

1-1SE Oklahoma 10, NW Oklahoma 7SW Christian 13, Wayland Baptist 3SW Oklahoma 17, S. Nazarene 6Stephen F. Austin 3, Texas A&M-CC 0Texas College 8, Huston-Tillotson 2Texas St. 7, Arkansas St. 6, 10 inningsTexas Tech 13, Baylor 3UT Arlington 9, Louisiana-Lafayette 5UT Rio Grande Valley 7, Cal Baptist 3

FAR WESTBYU 4, Washington 0Cal Lutheran 3, Redlands 2Cal Poly 5, Long Beach St. 4Colorado Mines 4, Colorado Christian

1CSU Bakersfield 16, N. Colorado 4, 7

inningsFresno St. 6, San Jose St. 1Gonzaga 6, Santa Clara 5Grand Canyon 5, Seattle 4, 10 inningsHawaii 3, Cal St. Fullerton 1La Verne 4, Occidental 2Nevada 16, UNLV 5New Mexico 10, UC Riverside 9New Mexico St. 12, Utah Valley 11Oregon St. 15-9, Arizona 3-3Portland 20, San Diego 0Saint Mary’s 6, Loyola Marymount 4San Diego St. 5, Air Force 4San Francisco 9, Pacific 4Stanford 10, Oregon 0UC Irvine 2, CSU Northridge 0UCLA 6, California 1UC Santa Barbara 4, UC Davis 3Utah 6, Arizona St. 3Washington St. 10, Southern Cal 10,

tie, 12 innings, darknessWhittier 8, Caltech 6

MLSEastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GAD.C. United 4 1 2 14 12 7Toronto FC 4 1 1 13 18 11Philadelphia 4 3 1 13 12 9Columbus 4 3 1 13 8 8Orlando City 3 3 2 11 12 13Montreal 3 3 2 11 8 14Chicago 2 2 3 9 12 11Cincinnati 2 4 2 8 8 13New England 2 5 1 7 6 12New York 1 4 2 5 8 9Atlanta 1 3 2 5 5 8New York City FC 0 1 5 5 7 11

Western Conference W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles FC 6 1 1 19 21 6LA Galaxy 6 1 0 18 13 7Seattle 5 0 1 16 14 5FC Dallas 5 2 1 16 14 9Houston 4 1 1 13 13 8Minnesota United 3 3 1 10 17 15Real Salt Lake 3 4 1 10 10 14Sporting KC 2 2 3 9 15 11San Jose 2 5 0 6 10 17Vancouver 1 5 2 5 6 11Portland 1 5 1 4 9 18Colorado 0 6 2 2 12 23

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s gamesReal Salt Lake 3, Cincinnati 0Toronto FC 4, Minnesota United 3LA Galaxy 2, Houston 1

Saturday’s gamesChicago 4, Colorado 1Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0Orlando City 1, Vancouver 0FC Dallas 2, Atlanta 1New England 1, New York 0Portland 3, Columbus 1San Jose 4, Sporting Kansas City 1

Sunday’s gamesNew York City FC at D.C. UnitedSeattle at Los Angeles FC

Wednesday, April 24Chicago at New York City FCD.C. United at ColumbusMontreal at New EnglandLA Galaxy at Minnesota UnitedSan Jose at Seattle

Saturday, April 27Orlando City at New York City FCPortland at Toronto FCSan Jose at FC DallasPhiladelphia at VancouverColorado at AtlantaCincinnati at New YorkColumbus at HoustonNew England at Sporting Kansas City

SaturdayEarthquakes 4, Sporting KC 1Kansas City 0 1—1San Jose 2 2—4

First half—1, San Jose, Hoesen, 2 (Go-doy), 6th minute; 2, San Jose, Hoesen, 3 (Yueill), 12th.

Second half—3, San Jose, Salinas, 2 (Eriksson), 46th; 4, San Jose, Eriksson, 2, 61st; 5, Kansas City, Gutierrez, 2 (penalty kick), 66th.

Goalies—Kansas City, Tim Melia, Adri-an Zendejas; San Jose, Daniel Vega, An-drew Tarbell.

Yellow Cards—San Jose, Espinoza, 45th; Godoy, 46th; Thompson, 54th. Kan-sas City, Sanchez, 48th; Croizet, 54th.

Timbers 3, Crew 1Portland 2 1—3Columbus 0 1—1

First half—1, Portland, Mabiala, 1 (Valeri), 31st minute; 2, Portland, Ebo-bisse, 3 (Blanco), 35th.

Second half—3, Columbus, Santos, 2, 69th; 4, Portland, Moreira, 1 (Paredes), 90th.

Goalies—Portland, Jeff Attinella, Steve Clark; Columbus, Zack Steffen, Joe Bendik.

Yellow Cards—Portland, Valentin, 25th; Conechny, 78th; Blanco, 89th.

A—11,707.

Revolution 1, Red Bulls 0New York 0 0—0New England 0 1—1

Second half—1, New England, Penilla, 1 (Caicedo), 73rd minute.

Goalies—New York, Luis Robles, Ryan Meara; New England, Cody Cropper, Matt Turner.

Yellow Cards—New England, Agudelo, 52nd. New York, Wright-Phillips, 51st.

A—14,514.

FC Dallas 2, Atlanta United 1Dallas 1 1—2Atlanta 0 1—1

First half—1, Dallas, Ferreira, 3 (Bar-rios), 6th minute.

Second half—2, Dallas, Acosta, 2 (Bar-rios), 84th; 3, Atlanta, Martinez, 2 (pen-alty kick), 90th.

Goalies—Dallas, Jesse Gonzalez, Jim-my Maurer; Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Alec Kann.

Yellow Cards—Dallas, Hedges, 59th; Barrios, 63rd; Gonzalez, 74th; Hayes, 90th; Acosta, 90th. Atlanta, Gonzalez Pirez, 40th; Larentowicz, 61st.

A—43,351.

Orlando City 1, Whitecaps 0Vancouver 0 0—0Orlando 0 1—1

Second half—1, Orlando, Nani, 4 (Ruan), 88th minute.

Goalies—Vancouver, Zac MacMath, Maxime Crepeau; Orlando, Brian Rowe, Greg Ranjitsingh.

Yellow Cards—Orlando, Nani, 62nd. Vancouver, Cornelius, 90th; Bangoura, 90th.

Union 3, Impact 0Montreal 0 0—0Philadelphia 2 1—3

First half—1, Philadelphia, Burke, 2, 14th minute; 2, Philadelphia, Monteiro, 1 (penalty kick), 45th.

Second half—3, Philadelphia, Bedoya, 2 (Wagner), 56th.

Goalies—Montreal, Evan Bush, Clem-ent Diop; Philadelphia, Andre Blake (Matt Freese, 54th), Matt Freese.

Yellow Cards—Philadelphia, Medun-janin, 62nd; Burke, 67th. Montreal, Bush, 78th.

Red Cards—Philadelphia, Wagner, 90th.

A—15,407.

Fire 4, Rapids 1Colorado 1 0—1Chicago 1 3—4

First half—1, Chicago, Nikolic, 3 (Gai-tan), 34th minute; 2, Colorado, Kamara, 5, 40th.

Second half—3, Chicago, Sapong, 4 (Katai), 53rd; 4, Chicago, Mihailovic, 1 (Gaitan), 61st; 5, Chicago, Katai, 1, 80th.

Goalies—Colorado, Tim Howard, Clint Irwin; Chicago, David Ousted, Richard Sanchez.

Yellow Cards—Chicago, Adams, 84th. Colorado, Rubio, 31st.

Red Cards—Colorado, Price, 88th.A—12,967.

Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Na-

than Eovaldi on the 10-day IL, retroac-tive to Thursday. Recalled RHP Marcus Walden and LHP Bobby Poyner from Pawtucket (IL). Sent 2B Marco Hernan-dez to Salem (Carolina) for a rehab as-signment.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated RHP Alex Cobb from the 10-day IL. Op-tioned RHP Josh Lucas to Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Branden Kline from Norfolk and returned Kline to Norfolk.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated DH Hanley Ramirez for assignment. Re-instated INF Francisco Lindor from the 10-day IL.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned LHP Dillon Peters to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled RHP Luke Bard from Salt Lake.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent LHP Ga-briel Moya to Pensacola (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed C Mike Zunino on paternity leave. Optioned RHPs Emilio Pagan and Casey Sadler to Durham (IL). Recalled C Nick Ciuffo and RHP Jake Faria from Durham. Transferred RHP Jose De Leon to the 60-day IL.

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned LHP Kyle Bird to Nashville (PCL).

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned

OF Tim Locastro to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Taylor Clarke from Reno.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Josh Sborz to Oklahoma City (PCL). Reinstated LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu from the 10-day IL.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Aus-tin Dean to New Orleans (PCL). Selected the contract of 3B Jon Berti from New

Orleans. Fired hitting coach Mike Paglia-rulo. Named Jeff Livesey interim hitting coach. Promoted minor league hitting coordinator Eric Duncan to assistant hit-ting coach. Transferred RHP Riley Ferrell to the 60-day IL.

NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Jacob deGrom on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Tuesday. Recalled RHP Chris Flexen from Syracuse (IL). Sent 3B Todd Frazier to Syracuse for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed INFs Jean Segura and Scott Kingery and RHP Victor Arano on the 10-day IL, Segura ret-roactive to April 17. Recalled RHP Drew Anderson, LHP Austin Davis and INF Mitch Walding from Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed INF Eric Gonzalez on the 60-day IL and OF Starling Marte on the 10-day IL. Assigned RHP Dovydas Neverauskas to Indianapo-lis (IL). Recalled INF Cole Tucker from Indianapolis. Selected the contract of OF Bryan Reynolds from Indianapolis. Sent OF Lonnie Chisenhall to Indianapolis for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent RHP Luke Gregerson to Memphis (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed OF Man-uel Margot on the paternity leave. Re-called UT Jose Pirela from El Paso (PCL).

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Fined Portland F Maurice Har-kless $15,000 for throwing his headband into the spectator stands in a game on Friday.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

CALGARY FLAMES — Signed F Martin Pospisil to a three-year, entry-level con-tract.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled G Ilya Samsonov from Hershey (AHL).

RBC HeritageSaturday

At Harbour Town Golf LinksHilton Head Island, S.C.

Purse: $6.9 millionYardage: 7,099; Par: 71

Third RoundDustin Johnson 68-67-68—203 -10Ian Poulter 70-67-67—204 -9Rory Sabbatini 67-69-68—204 -9Shane Lowry 65-68-71—204 -9Patrick Cantlay 67-72-66—205 -8Scott Piercy 67-70-68—205 -8C.T. Pan 71-65-69—205 -8K.J. Choi 70-66-69—205 -8Trey Mullinax 66-68-71—205 -8Emiliano Grillo 68-67-70—205 -8Matt Kuchar 69-69-68—206 -7Sam Burns 67-70-69—206 -7J.J. Spaun 70-69-68—207 -6Kevin Streelman 69-69-69—207 -6Chez Reavie 68-71-68—207 -6Rafa Cabrera Bello 68-69-70—207 -6Charley Hoffman 68-69-70—207 -6Daniel Berger 66-69-72—207 -6Webb Simpson 69-73-65—207 -6Michael Thompson 68-71-69—208 -5Seamus Power 68-72-68—208 -5Eddie Pepperell 71-69-68—208 -5Peter Malnati 67-72-69—208 -5Alex Noren 67-74-67—208 -5Denny McCarthy 70-68-70—208 -5Troy Merritt 69-67-72—208 -5Boo Weekley 69-70-70—209 -4Tommy Fleetwood 71-68-70—209 -4Luke Donald 70-70-69—209 -4Joel Dahmen 70-68-71—209 -4Jason Kokrak 69-68-72—209 -4Billy Horschel 67-70-72—209 -4J.T. Poston 71-71-67—209 -4Brian Gay 71-68-71—210 -3Scott Stallings 70-69-71—210 -3Kevin Na 67-72-71—210 -3Zach Johnson 69-69-72—210 -3Harris English 72-69-69—210 -3Brian Stuard 68-70-72—210 -3Matthew Fitzpatrick 71-71-68—210 -3Nick Taylor 72-70-68—210 -3

Mitsubishi Electric Classic Champions Tour

SaturdayAt TPC Sugarloaf

Duluth, Ga.Purse: $1.8 million

Yardage: 6,987; Par: 72 (36-36)Second Round

Scott McCarron 68-70—138 -6Rocco Mediate 73-68—141 -3Kent Jones 74-68—142 -2Joe Durant 72-70—142 -2Miguel Angel Jimenez 72-70—142 -2Kirk Triplett 72-70—142 -2Duffy Waldorf 76-67—143 -1Stephen Ames 73-70—143 -1Bob May 69-74—143 -1Stephen Leaney 74-70—144 EKen Duke 73-71—144 EJeff Sluman 77-67—144 EGlen Day 73-71—144 EJerry Kelly 71-73—144 EColin Montgomerie 74-71—145 +1Billy Andrade 76-69—145 +1Willie Wood 73-72—145 +1Vijay Singh 72-73—145 +1Michael Bradley 72-73—145 +1Dan Olsen 74-72—146 +2Woody Austin 75-71—146 +2Jose Maria Olazabal 74-72—146 +2Kevin Sutherland 76-70—146 +2Esteban Toledo 73-73—146 +2Ken Tanigawa 73-73—146 +2Bernhard Langer 77-69—146 +2Tim Petrovic 73-73—146 +2Kenny Perry 77-69—146 +2Jerry Smith 72-74—146 +2

Lotte ChampionshipLPGA Tour

SundayAt Ko Olina GCKapolei, Hawaii

Purse: $2 millionYardage: 6,397; Par: 72

FinalB. Henderson, $300,000 65-68-69-70—272 -16Eun-Hee Ji, $180,553 64-65-74-73—276 -12A.Jutanugarn, $116,150 67-71-66-73—277 -11Minjee Lee, $116,150 67-66-70-74—277 -11Gaby Lopez, $68,043 72-69-70-67—278 -10Danielle Kang, $68,043 67-73-69-69—278 -10Hyejin Choi, $68,043 65-71-70-72—278 -10Nelly Korda, $48,932 63-68-71-77—279 -9Haru Nomura, $40,364 67-72-73-68—280 -8So Yeon Ryu, $40,364 66-72-73-69—280 -8M. Jutanugarn, $40,364 67-67-75-71—280 -8Nicole B. Larsen, $30,643 68-69-80-64—281 -7Hyo Joo Kim, $30,643 70-69-72-70—281 -7Jeongeun Lee, $30,643 75-67-68-71—281 -7B. Altomare, $30,643 68-73-69-71—281 -7P.Anannarukarn, $30,643 68-71-69-73—281 -7S. Yokomine, $22,849 74-70-70-68—282 -6Chella Choi, $22,849 67-71-74-70—282 -6Emma Talley, $22,849 69-68-74-71—282 -6Minami Katsu, $22,849 70-70-70-72—282 -6C. Ciganda, $22,849 68-73-67-74—282 -6Jin Young Ko, $22,849 69-69-70-74—282 -6A. Munoz, $22,849 68-66-73-75—282 -6Inbee Park, $18,881 71-71-72-69—283 -5


BY DAVE ORNAUER

Stars and Stripes

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — After watch-ing the tournament title bounce around Japan the last two years, the Yokota softball team can once more call itself DODEA Japan champion.

Isabella Garcia drove in the tie-break-ing run with a two-out double on a 2-2 count in the top of the fourth, driving in Adrianna Diaz with what proved to be the game-win-ning run in an 11-9 win over Nile C. Kinnick on Saturday.

“I have no words. I was in tears,” first-year head coach Preston Heitstuman said. “I was so unbelievably proud of them. They put ev-erything they had into this weekend.”

It was the sixth time this season the Pan-thers have faced the Red Devils, and the second time they’ve beaten Kinnick. Unlike previous encounters with the Red Devils, the Panthers refused to become undone by an un-timely error.

“We didn’t let one mistake decide the rest of the game for us,” Kaela Jackson said. “We trusted each other.”

Garcia was 3-for-3 with two RBIs, Becca Bauman went 2-for-3 and Isabella Mollison 2-for-2 for the Panthers. Diaz got the win, while Faith Sells of Kinnick took the loss.

Kinnick won the DODEA Japan tournament title in 2017 before going on to win its second Far East Division I title; Robert D. Edgren won the Japan district title a year ago.

“They outplayed us today. They deserved to win today. We have some things we need to work on,” Kinnick coach Katrina Kemper said. “I predict they’ll win the Division II title,” she said.

DeMarco pitches Yokota to win Riley DeMarco pitched a shutout and the

Panthers took advantage of five second-in-ning errors to break open the DODEA Japan baseball tournament’s final game at Yokota

Air Base, with Yokota blanking E.J. King 8-0. The Panthers finished 4-0 in the five-team tournament, the only team to go unbeaten.

“We may not always have the individual ability, but we’ve always come together as a team,” said LeSean Thomas, the Panthers’ assistant the last three years and their head coach this season. “We’ve always had a great group of kids .”

Lange leads Perry over Kinnick Kai Lange capped a weekend in which he

scored 11 goals by netting a hat trick in Sat-urday’s final of the DODEA Japan boys soc-cer tournament at Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni . That helped host Matthew C. Perry shock favored Nile C. Kinnick 4-1 in the title match.

It was sweet revenge for the Samurai, who lost 6-0 to the Red Devils in last year’s final at Yokosuka Naval Base, Kinnick’s home turf. In that match, the Red Devils held Lange scoreless.

“The kids are starting to believe they can play football,” Lange’s father and Samurai coach Mark Lange said.

It’s the third time Perry has won this tour-nament, but the first time since 2014.

“When kids start to believe, they can do some amazing things,” Mark Lange said. “We have a lot of kids new to soccer, but they’re starting to gel and it’s a good time to gel. Today, they were not to be denied.”

Kinnick takes girls soccer title Ella Eisenhardt, a senior, scored twice and

Jillian Mock and Jenna Lynch each notched a goal as Kinnick blanked the host Zama Tro-jans 4-0 Saturday to regain the DODEA Japan girls soccer title it last won in 2016, when Eisenhardt was a freshman. The Red Devils finished third the last two years .

“We didn’t let our nerves get the best of us and we just played Kinnick soccer,” Eisen-hardt said.

Kadena falls short at ASIJ Another host team turned the tables on the

team that vanquished them a year ago, as American School In Japan’s girls soccer team dethroned defending champion Kadena on penalty kicks in Saturday’s ASIJ Soccer Fes-tival final in Tokyo.

The teams went to a shootout after playing evenly through full time. Megan Kirby netted her 20th goal for the Panthers, while Shuly Zuo got her 10th during regulation time for the Mustangs.

Kinnick’s Watson shines on track As a receiver, Chris Watson helped Nile C.

Kinnick win its first Far East Division I foot-ball title. As a guard, he helped lead the Red Devils to their second D-I boys basketball final, where they lost to Humphreys.

Watson is spending his last months at Kin-nick (he transfers to Pennsylvania after this school year) on the track. To hear him tell it, much of what he does there mirrors the grid-iron and hardwood.

“A lot of it translates over,” he said.Watson won the 100 and 200 meters and

long jump during Saturday’s meet at Yokota Air Base Japan, and has already qualified for next month’s Far East meet in each event.

Among other multiple winners in Satur-day’s event was Aiko Galvin, a Yokota fresh-man. She was victorious in the 800 and 1,600.

She said that while she wants to run in col-lege like her older brother Daniel, she doesn’t want track to become a task instead of fun.

“I don’t want it to consume my life; I want it to remain fun,” said Galvin, daughter of Yokota coach Dan Galvin and younger sister of Panther junior Mickey Galvin and Daniel, holder of two Pacific records .

“Since I’m the youngest, sometimes people say that my brothers are fast, so I should be fast, too. There are a lot of expectations.”[email protected]

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Nile C. Kinnick’s Rebecca Loffreda is safe at first as Yokota first baseman Isabella Mollison looks back for the ball during Saturday’s DODEA Japan softball tournament final. The Panthers won 11-9.

BY NORMAN LLAMAS

Stars and Stripes

VICENZA, Italy — No one had any real cause to complain aboutthe spring weather this weekendduring an eight-game softball event at Caserma Del Din.

The outcome on the field wasjust as sunny for the Naples Wild-cats, who won two games apiece from Vilseck and Wiesbaden onFriday and Saturday.

In its first game Saturday, Naples took on Vilseck, a team that the Wildcats had not beat-en in several years before thisweekend.

Naples pulled off a 13-12 win .“I feel like our girls are work-

ing well together and our de-fense is definitely coming along,”Naples coach Amy Driscoll said.“I’m proud of my girls and I tell them all the time, no matter whatthe score is, we never give up, wenever quit.”

In the third game of the day,the Wildcats took on Wiesbaden.The highlight came in the thirdinning, when Naples turned in atriple play on a groundout to firstbase.

When it was all said and done, Naples won 9-3.

Vicenza almost made it an all-Italian weekend sweep.

In the game versus Vilseck, the Cougars were down as manyas five runs in the fourth inning before mounting a comeback that nearly won them the game. Thegame clock was against them,though, as the game was called with the Falcons clinging to an11-10 lead.

“We’re playing good ball,” Cougars coach Timothy Streeter said. “Anyone can win on anygiven day, but our girls are con-stantly learning and fighting.”

Vicenza completed a sweep ofWiesbaden with a 14-10 victory in the final contest.

If there was a player who stoodout, it had to be Vicenza juniorpitcher Chenoa Gragg. She was pitching fast and very consis-tently. The opposing coaches cer-tainly took notice.

“This is the first time that ourgirls get to face a pitcher thatthrows in the high 50s to low 60s,”said Wiesbaden assistant coach Kent Enyeart of Gragg. “We havea lot of brand-new players, so our team is definitely very young and improving.”

By the end of the two-day event,all but the hosts had only one thing on their minds: the driveback home.

The German teams both had 10or more hours of trave ling beforegetting back home. Naples hadonly a few hours less scheduledon the road. But thanks to its ef-forts on the field, it likely seemed a bit [email protected]

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told The Associated Press on Wednesday, hours before Ander-son’s emphatic display.

As Brad Keller’s fastball to Anderson’s backside showed, not everyone is buying MLB’s pitch.

MLB’s promoters have made their stance clear on social media. Cut4 and the league’s other ac-counts, including its main @MLB handle, routinely highlight play-ers showing the kind of raw emo-tion Anderson displayed. When Keller, a right-hander with the Royals, plunked Anderson two innings after his homer, Cut4 doubled down.

“Imagine hating someone hav-ing fun this much,” @Cut4 tweet-ed with an image of the ensuing benches-clearing fracas.

Anderson’s antics and MLB’s response on social media high-lighted the new marketing strat-egy, but it also underscored that the game’s rules haven’t caught up. Both Keller and Anderson were ejected from the game, and both were suspended by the league Friday. Keller was banned

five games — one turn in the rotation for the starting pitcher — and Anderson was also banned a game “for his conduct after the benches cleared.”

MLB’s disciplinary system for such incidents is based on prece-dent, though the league is explor-ing potential changes to better discourage retaliatory plunkings.

The league has been criticized in recent years for failing to pro-mote its top talents — two-time AL MVP Mike Trout, in par-ticular — and McHugh’s group has made player marketing a top priority since she took charge last year.

Those marketing efforts are clearest in its “Let The Kids Play” campaign. It debuted with an advertisement last October that featured emotional displays from players like Giancarlo Stan-ton, Javier Baez, Yasiel Puig and Mookie Betts. The ad ends with a message from a most notable baseball kid, Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr.

“No more talk,” Griffey says. “Let the kids play.”

The league is also encouraging players to use fashion as a meansof self-expression. It has loosenedrules regarding on-field footwear — think Bryce Harper’s brightgreen Phillie Phanatic cleats onopening day — and it’s also try-ing to take more photo and videoof players arriving at the park.

Not everyone is thrilled by MLB’s efforts, particularly in regards to diversity. Red Soxace David Price criticized the league’s efforts to promote black players just this month. He toldMassLive.com it was “a joke” that Betts, his teammate and the AL MVP, wasn’t featured in that ador any others currently on MLB Network.

Asked about Price’s comments,McHugh said “we love Mookie Betts” and that she hopes to fea-ture him in an ad soon.

“We cast a wide net and always have a long wish list of players from across the league that wewanted to include,” she said, add-ing that “we’re looking forwardto working with Mookie on some-thing next.”

All-in: ‘Traditionalists’ urge players to respect the game by tamping down on their emotions

Crawford beats Khan by TKO after low blow

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Terence Craw-ford knocked Amir Khan down just a few punches into their fight.

The punch that finally ended it was below the belt.

Crawford retained his welter-weight title by technical knock-out Saturday night when Khan wasn’t able to continue after being hit with a low blow in the sixth round.

Crawford threw a left hand that hit Khan on his right hip and Khan retreated toward his cor-ner in pain. After taking a couple minutes trying to shake off the pain, his corner told the referee that Khan couldn’t continue.

“I could tell I was breaking him down. It was just a matter of time,” Crawford said.

Crawford (35-0, 26 KOs) had knocked Khan down in the first round, but the final couple rounds had been competitive, with both fighters throwing hard shots from close range.

Referee David Fields didn’t appear to see the final one that hit Khan (33-5) low. Khan could have taken five minutes trying to recover, but his trainer, Virgil Hunter, made the decision before then that Khan was finished.

Judge has ‘significant strain,’ out for awhile

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge won’t be back with the New York Yankees anytime soon, a further blow to an injury-decimated team with a mediocre record 3 ½ weeks into the season.

New York’s biggest offensive threat and the heart of its club-house went on the injured list for the third time in four seasons Sunday, a day after straining the oblique muscle on the left side of his abdomen against Kansas City.

“Pretty significant strain in there,” manager Aaron Boone said.

Capitals’ Oshie out with broken right clavicle

ARLINGTON, Va. — Washing-ton Capitals winger T.J. Oshie is expected to miss the rest of the playoffs after undergoing surgery to repair a broken right clavicle.

Oshie was injured late in Game 4 at the Carolina Hurricanes on a hit from behind from Warren Foegele. Oshie went right shoul-der-first into the boards, and Foegele was given a two-minute minor penalty for boarding.

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The White Sox’s Tim Anderson, left, talks to Kansas City Royals catcher Martin Maldonado after being hit by a pitch during the sixth inning of Wednesday’s game in Chicago.

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Terence Crawford, right, punches Amir Khan during the fifth round of their WBO world welterweight title fight on Sunday in New York.


MLB SCOREBOARD American League

East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 14 7 .667 —New York 10 10 .500 3AToronto 10 12 .455 4ABoston 8 13 .381 6Baltimore 8 14 .364 6A

Central DivisionMinnesota 11 7 .611 —Cleveland 12 8 .600 —Detroit 9 10 .474 2AChicago 8 11 .421 3AKansas City 7 14 .333 5A

West DivisionSeattle 16 8 .667 —Houston 13 7 .650 1Texas 11 8 .579 2AOakland 11 12 .478 4ALos Angeles 8 13 .381 6A

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 12 8 .600 —New York 11 9 .550 1Atlanta 10 10 .500 2Washington 9 10 .474 2AMiami 6 15 .286 6A

Central DivisionPittsburgh 12 6 .667 —Milwaukee 13 9 .591 1St. Louis 11 9 .550 2Chicago 9 10 .474 3ACincinnati 8 12 .400 5

West DivisionLos Angeles 14 9 .609 —Arizona 11 10 .524 2San Diego 11 11 .500 2AColorado 8 13 .381 5San Francisco 8 14 .364 5A

Saturday’s gamesChicago White Sox at Detroit, ppd.N.Y. Yankees 9, Kansas City 2Minnesota 6, Baltimore 5, 1st gameToronto 10, Oakland 1Cleveland 8, Atlanta 4, 1st gameBoston 6, Tampa Bay 5Atlanta 8, Cleveland 7, 2nd gameMinnesota 16, Baltimore 7, 2nd gameTexas 9, Houston 4Seattle 6, L.A. Angels 5St. Louis 10, N.Y. Mets 2Arizona 6, Chicago Cubs 0Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 1, 5 in-

ningsMiami 9, Washington 3Milwaukee 5, L.A. Dodgers 0Philadelphia 8, Colorado 5Cincinnati 4, San Diego 2

Sunday’s gamesKansas City at N.Y. YankeesMinnesota at BaltimoreChicago White Sox at DetroitBoston at Tampa BayHouston at TexasSeattle at L.A. AngelsToronto at OaklandAtlanta at ClevelandWashington at Miami San Francisco at PittsburghL.A. Dodgers at MilwaukeeN.Y. Mets at St. LouisArizona at Chicago CubsPhiladelphia at ColoradoCincinnati at San Diego

Monday’s gamesChicago White Sox (Banuelos 1-0) at

Baltimore (Hess 1-3)Detroit (Boyd 1-1) at Boston (Sale 0-4)Kansas City (Keller 2-1) at Tampa Bay

(TBD)Minnesota (Odorizzi 1-2) at Houston

(Peacock 2-0)N.Y. Yankees (Happ 0-2) at L.A. Angels

(Harvey 0-2)Texas (Minor 2-1) at Oakland (Estrada

0-2) Arizona (Godley 1-1) at Pittsburgh

(Musgrove 1-1)Philadelphia (Arrieta 3-1) at N.Y. Mets

(Matz 1-1)Milwaukee (TBD) at St. Louis (Flaherty

1-1)Washington (Hellickson 2-0) at Colo-

rado (TBD)

Saturday Reds 4, Padres 2

Cincinnati San Diego ab r h bi ab r h biPeraza 2b 5 1 1 0 Tts Jr. ss 4 1 1 0E.Sarez 3b 3 1 1 0 F.Mejia c 3 0 1 0Puig rf 3 0 0 1 Machado 3b 3 0 0 0M.Kemp lf 3 0 0 0 Renfroe rf 4 0 0 0J.Iglss ss 4 0 1 1 Hosmer 1b 4 1 3 2Schbler cf 3 1 1 0 Myers cf 4 0 1 0K.Frmer 1b 4 0 1 0 Kinsler 2b 3 0 1 0Brnhart c 4 0 1 1 Pirela lf 4 0 0 0L.Cstll p 2 0 0 0 Lauer p 1 0 0 0Winker ph 1 1 1 1 G.Grcia ph 1 0 0 0Dav.Hrn p 0 0 0 0 Wisler p 0 0 0 0Stphnsn p 0 0 0 0 L.Urias ph 1 0 0 0A.Grrtt p 0 0 0 0 Wngnter p 0 0 0 0Hughes p 0 0 0 0 Warren p 0 0 0 0Detrich ph 0 0 0 0 F.Reyes ph 1 0 0 0R.Iglss p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 4 7 4 Totals 33 2 7 2Cincinnati 100 110 100—4San Diego 010 000 010—2

E—Lauer (1). DP—Cincinnati 1. LOB—Cincinnati 6, San Diego 7. 2B—E.Suarez (4). 3B—Tatis Jr. (1). HR—Winker (6), Hos-mer (2). SB—Peraza (2). CS—Schebler (1). SF—Puig (1). IP H R ER BB SOCincinnatiCastillo W,2-1 6 4 1 1 1 9Hernandez H,2 1 1 0 0 0 1Stephenson H,2 C 1 1 1 1 1Garrett 0 1 0 0 0 0Hughes H,2 B 0 0 0 0 0Iglesias S,4-5 1 0 0 0 0 3San DiegoLauer L,2-3 5 6 3 2 2 5Wisler 2 1 1 1 0 3Wingenter 1 0 0 0 1 2Warren 1 0 0 0 1 1

A.Garrett pitched to 1 batter in the 8th HBP—by Castillo (Mejia). T—3:04. A—37,137 (42,445).

Mariners 6, Angels 5Seattle Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biHaniger cf 5 1 1 1 Fltcher 2b 4 0 1 0Do.Sntn lf 5 1 1 1 L Stlla ph-2b 1 0 0 0Encrnco 1b 5 1 1 1 Trout cf 4 0 0 0Vglbach dh 3 1 1 1 Simmons ss 5 2 3 0MSmth pr-dh 0 0 0 0 Pujols 1b 5 1 2 2Bruce rf 5 1 2 0 Lucroy c 5 0 2 1T.Bckhm ss 4 0 1 0 K.Smith dh 3 2 1 0Narvaez c 3 1 1 0 Bour ph 1 0 0 0Healy 3b 2 0 0 0 Goodwin rf 3 0 2 1D.Grdon 2b 4 0 1 2 Bourjos lf 4 0 1 0 Cozart 3b 3 0 1 1Totals 36 6 9 6 Totals 38 5 13 5Seattle 200 210 100—6Los Angeles 001 120 001—5

E—T.Beckham (8). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Seattle 8, LA 10. 2B—Simmons (7), Pujols (3), Lucroy (2), K.Smith (2). 3B—Goodwin (1). HR—Haniger (6), Santana (5), En-carnacion (6), Vogelbach (8), Pujols (3). SB—M.Smith (7). SF—Cozart (2). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleKikuchi W,1-1 5 10 4 4 2 3Sadzeck H,1 1C 1 0 0 0 2Rosscup H,4 B 0 0 0 1 1Gearrin H,4 1 1 0 0 0 1Swarzak S,3-4 1 1 1 1 0 1Los AngelesCahill L,1-2 4B 6 5 5 2 5Bedrosian 1C 1 0 0 1 3Bard 1 2 1 1 1 1Cole 2 0 0 0 1 3

WP—Bedrosian. T—3:41. A—41,147 (45,050).

Indians 8, Braves 4 First game

Atlanta Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biAlbies 2b 4 1 1 0 L.Mrtin cf 5 1 1 1Dnldson 3b 4 0 1 0 Ramirez 3b 3 1 0 0F.Frman 1b 3 1 0 0 Kipnis 2b 4 0 2 1Acn Jr. lf 2 0 0 0 C.Sntna 1b 5 1 3 1Mrkakis dh 3 0 1 2 Bauers dh 4 0 0 0D.Swnsn ss 4 0 0 0 G.Allen lf 4 1 1 1B.McCnn c 4 1 1 1 Naquin rf 4 1 1 1Joyce rf 3 1 1 1 Plwecki c 2 1 0 0Clbrson ph 1 0 1 0 Moroff ss 3 2 2 2Incarte cf 3 0 0 0 Camargo ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 4 6 4 Totals 34 8 10 7Atlanta 101 000 200—4Cleveland 100 160 00x—8

LOB—Atlanta 5, Cleveland 9. 2B—Al-bies (4), G.Allen (2). HR—B.McCann (1), Joyce (2), Moroff (1). SB—C.Santana (1), Naquin (2), Moroff (1). SF—Markakis (2). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaTeheran L,2-2 4C 7 5 5 4 6Parsons 0 3 3 2 2 0Biddle 1B 0 0 0 0 2Webb 1 0 0 0 1 2Tomlin 1 0 0 0 0 1ClevelandKluber W,2-2 7 5 4 4 2 8Wittgren 1 0 0 0 0 1Hand 1 1 0 0 0 0

Parsons pitched to 5 in the 5th HBP—by Kluber (Acuna Jr.). WP—Webb. T—3:04.

Braves 8, Indians 7Second game

Atlanta Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biAlbies 2b 5 1 1 2 Lindor ss 5 1 1 0Dnldson dh 3 1 1 0 L.Mrtin cf 3 2 1 0F.Frman 1b 4 0 0 1 Ramirez 3b 4 2 2 2Acn Jr. lf 5 0 1 2 C.Sntna dh 4 1 1 1Mrkakis rf 3 2 2 0 Gnzalez lf 4 0 2 1Camargo 3b 5 1 0 0 Bauers 1b 3 0 1 2D.Swnsn ss 3 2 1 2 Naquin rf 4 0 0 0Flowers c 3 1 2 1 R.Perez c 4 0 0 0Incarte cf 4 0 1 0 M.Frman 2b 3 1 1 0Totals 35 8 9 8 Totals 34 7 9 6Atlanta 000 010 205—8Cleveland 250 000 000—7

DP—Atlanta 2. LOB—Atlanta 7, Cleveland 10. 2B—Acuna Jr. (2), Marka-kis (5), Bauers (3). 3B—Flowers (1). HR—D.Swanson (5). CS—Donaldson (1). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaToussaint 1B 6 7 7 1 2Carle 3C 2 0 0 2 2Sobotka 1 1 0 0 1 3Winkler 1 0 0 0 2 1Jackson W,2-0 1 0 0 0 0 1Minter S,2-2 1 0 0 0 0 3ClevelandBauer 6B 3 2 2 2 10Otero C 1 1 1 0 1Ramirez B 2 0 0 0 1Perez H,3 C 1 1 1 0 0Cimber L,1-1 C 1 4 4 3 1Olson 0 0 0 0 1 0Anderson BS,1 B 1 0 0 1 0

O.Perez pitched to 1 batter in the 9th T.Olson pitched to 1 batter in the 9th HBP—by Toussaint (Martin), by Tous-saint (Martin), by Toussaint (Gonzalez), by Carle (Santana). WP—Toussaint. T—3:54. A—23,035 (35,225).

Phillies 8, Rockies 5Philadelphia Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biMcCtchn lf 5 2 2 1 Blckmon rf 5 2 4 2C.Hrnan 2b 5 1 2 1 Dahl cf 5 0 2 0B.Hrper rf 5 1 1 3 Oh p 0 0 0 0Hoskins 1b 5 1 3 0 Story ss 5 0 2 1Ralmuto c 5 1 2 0 McMahon 3b 4 0 1 0Quinn cf 3 1 1 0 M.Rynld 1b 4 0 2 0Gsselin ss 4 0 1 3 Tapia lf 5 1 1 1Franco 3b 4 1 2 0 Hampson 2b 4 1 1 0Nola p 1 0 0 0 Butera c 4 1 1 0Morgan p 0 0 0 0 Snztela p 2 0 0 0N.Wllms ph 1 0 0 0 Valaika ph 1 0 0 0Dmingez p 0 0 0 0 B.Shaw p 0 0 0 0Walding ph 1 0 0 0 Dunn p 0 0 0 0Neshek p 0 0 0 0 Estevez p 0 0 0 0Neris p 0 0 0 0 D.Jhnsn p 0 0 0 0 Dsmnd ph-cf 0 0 0 1Totals 39 8 14 8 Totals 39 5 14 5

Philadelphia 001 300 301—8Colorado 111 000 020—5

E—McCutchen (1). DP—Colorado 1. LOB—Philadelphia 6, Colorado 10. 2B—C.Hernandez (3), Gosselin (1). 3B—Black-mon (2). HR—McCutchen (4), B.Harper (5), Blackmon (2), Tapia (1). CS—Dahl (2). SF—Desmond (1). S—Nola (1). IP H R ER BB SOPhiladelphiaNola W,2-0 5C 9 3 3 1 9Morgan H,6 B 0 0 0 0 1Dominguez 1 2 0 0 0 1Neshek B 3 2 2 0 0Neris S,3-3 1C 0 0 0 0 2ColoradoSenzatela L,1-1 6 7 4 4 1 3Shaw C 1 1 1 0 0Dunn 0 3 2 2 0 0Estevez B 0 0 0 0 1Johnson 1 1 0 0 0 1Oh 1 2 1 1 0 1

Dunn pitched to 3 batters in the 7th HBP—by Nola (Reynolds). WP—Nola, Oh. T—3:25. A—40,530 (50,398).

Twins 6, Orioles 5First game

Minnesota Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biJ.Plnco ss 5 0 0 0 Villar ss 4 0 0 0Ma.Gnzl 3b 5 0 0 0 Mancini rf 5 1 2 1Cruz dh 5 0 1 1 Smth Jr lf 4 1 2 2E.Rsrio lf 5 2 3 2 R.Nunez dh 5 1 2 1Astdllo 1b 4 1 2 1 R.Ruiz 3b 3 0 2 0Cave rf 4 0 0 0 Sucre ph 1 0 0 0Schoop 2b 3 1 1 0 Alberto 2b 4 0 0 0J.Cstro c 2 1 1 0 C.Davis 1b 4 1 2 0Buxton cf 3 1 1 2 P.Svrno c 4 1 2 1 Mullins cf 3 0 1 0 Rckrd ph-cf 1 0 0 0Totals 36 6 9 6 Totals 38 5 13 5Minnesota 020 013 000—6Baltimore 003 001 010—5

LOB—Minnesota 7, Baltimore 10. 2B—E.Rosario (4), Schoop (3), J.Castro (1), Buxton (9), Mancini 2 (9), C.Davis (3). HR—E.Rosario 2 (8), Astudillo (2), Smith Jr. (4), R.Nunez (3), P.Severino (2). SB—Villar (4), Mullins (1). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaBerrios W,3-1 6 8 4 4 3 5Hildenberger H,3 1 2 0 0 0 0Rogers S,2-2 2 3 1 1 0 5BaltimoreStraily L,1-2 5 6 3 3 3 4Yacabonis C 2 3 3 0 0Castro 1B 1 0 0 0 0Scott 2 0 0 0 0 5

HBP—by Berrios (Villar), by Yacabonis (Schoop). WP—Straily. T—3:16.

Twins 16, Orioles 7Second game

Minnesota Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biGarver c 6 2 3 5 Rickard lf-rf 5 1 1 0Ma.Gnzl 3b 5 1 2 0 Villar 2b 4 1 1 0Cruz dh 5 4 4 3 C.Davis p 0 0 0 0E.Rsrio lf 4 2 2 2 Mancini rf 2 1 1 0Astdllo rf 1 0 0 0 P.Svrno c 1 0 0 1C.Cron 1b 5 2 2 1 Nunez dh-lf 4 3 3 3Cave rf-lf 5 0 1 0 Abrto 3b-lf 4 1 2 2Schoop 2b 5 3 3 4 Sucre c-1b 4 0 1 0Adranza ss 5 1 0 0 Ri.Mrtn ss 4 0 2 0Buxton cf 5 1 2 1 R.Ruiz 1b-3b 4 0 0 0 Mullins cf 4 0 0 0Totals 46 16 19 16 Totals 36 7 11 6Minnesota 316 300 021—16Baltimore 000 202 030— 7

DP—Minnesota 2. LOB—Minnesota 3, Baltimore 3. 2B—Garver (4), Cruz (4), Schoop (4), Buxton 2 (11), Villar (3). HR—Garver 2 (5), Cruz 2 (3), E.Rosario (9), C.Cron (3), Schoop 2 (4), R.Nunez 2 (5), Alberto (1). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaPerez W,2-0 6 6 4 4 1 2Romero 2 4 3 3 0 0Duffey 1 1 0 0 0 0BaltimoreCobb L,0-1 2C 10 9 9 0 2Wright 3B 5 4 4 0 2Kline 2 2 2 2 0 0Davis 1 2 1 1 0 1

WP—Romero. T—2:50. A—28,409 (45,971).

Brewers 5, Dodgers 0Los Angeles Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h biPderson lf 3 0 1 0 Cain cf 4 1 1 0J.Trner 3b 2 0 0 0 Yelich rf 3 3 2 2A.Brnes c 0 0 0 0 Braun lf 4 1 1 3Seager ss 4 0 1 0 Aguilar 1b 3 0 0 0Pollock cf 3 0 0 0 Ju.Grra p 0 0 0 0Bllnger rf-1b 3 0 0 0 Albers p 0 0 0 0Freese 1b-3b 4 0 0 0 Mstakas 3b 3 0 1 0C.Tylor 2b 3 0 0 0 T.Shaw 3b 1 0 0 0Frguson p 0 0 0 0 H.Perez 2b 4 0 1 0Y.Grcia p 0 0 0 0 Pina c 4 0 2 0K.Hrnan ph 1 0 0 0 Arcia ss 3 0 0 0Gale c 2 0 0 0 Ch.Andr p 1 0 0 0Verdugo ph-rf 1 0 0 0 Gamel ph 1 0 0 0Ryu p 2 0 0 0 Claudio p 0 0 0 0Floro p 0 0 0 0 Thms ph-1b 1 0 0 0Muncy 2b 1 0 0 0 Totals 29 0 2 0 Totals 32 5 8 5Los Angeles 000 000 000—0Milwaukee 001 001 30x—5

LOB—Los Angeles 7, Milwaukee 5. 2B—Cain (6), Pina (1). HR—Yelich 2 (13), Braun (4). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesRyu L,2-1 5C 6 2 2 1 9Floro C 0 0 0 0 0Ferguson C 2 3 3 1 1Garcia 1 0 0 0 0 1MilwaukeeAnderson W,2-0 5 1 0 0 2 5Claudio H,6 2 1 0 0 0 2Guerra 1 0 0 0 2 0Albers 1 0 0 0 1 1

T—2:51. A—40,402 (41,900).

Marlins 9, Nationals 3Washington Miami ab r h bi ab r h biEaton rf 4 0 1 0 Grndrsn lf 3 2 2 2Rendon 3b 1 1 0 0 Conley p 0 0 0 0Kndrick 3b 2 0 1 1 Kinley p 0 0 0 0Soto lf 4 0 0 0 Berti ph 0 1 0 0M.Adams 1b 4 0 2 2 Gerrero p 0 0 0 0B.Dzier 2b 4 0 0 0 Prado 3b 5 1 1 0Gomes c 4 0 2 0 Bri.And rf 3 2 2 1Difo ss 4 0 2 0 N.Wlker 1b 5 0 0 1Schrzer p 3 0 0 0 S.Cstro 2b 5 0 2 2Sipp p 0 0 0 0 Alfaro c 3 0 0 0A.Adams p 0 0 0 0 Rojas ss 3 1 2 0Grace p 0 0 0 0 Glloway cf-lf 4 1 1 0M.Tylor ph 1 0 0 0 J.Urena p 2 0 0 0V.Rbles cf 4 2 2 0 R.Hrrra ph-lf 1 1 1 1 Brinson cf 1 0 0 0Totals 35 3 10 3 Totals 35 9 11 7Washington 002 010 000—3Miami 201 013 11x—9

E—Gomes (1), Scherzer (1). DP—Miami 1. LOB—Washington 9, Miami 8. 2B—Eaton (4), M.Adams (3), Difo (2), V.Robles (6), Bri.Anderson 2 (4), Rojas (6), Galloway (1). HR—Granderson (3). SB—S.Castro (1), Galloway (1). SF—Granderson (2).Washington IP H R ER BB SOScherzer L,1-3 5B 11 7 6 0 9Sipp C 0 0 0 0 0Adams 1 0 1 1 2 2Grace 1 0 1 1 2 1MiamiUrena W,1-3 6 8 3 2 1 4Conley 1 1 0 0 0 2Kinley 1 1 0 0 0 3Guerrero 1 0 0 0 2 2

HBP—by Urena (Rendon), by Adams (Alfaro). WP—Adams 2, Grace. T—3:12. A—9,910 (36,742).

Red Sox 6, Rays 5Boston Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biBnntndi lf 4 1 1 5 Meadows rf 4 0 1 2Betts rf 4 0 2 0 Pham lf 5 0 2 0Mreland 1b 2 0 0 0 Choi 1b 2 1 1 0Pearce 1b 3 0 1 0 Adames ss 2 0 0 0Mrtinez dh 3 1 1 0 Y.Diaz 3b-1b 4 1 1 1Bgaerts ss 3 1 0 0 Lowe 2b 4 0 2 1Devers 3b 4 0 1 0 Av.Grci dh 4 1 1 1Brdly J cf 3 2 1 0 Krmaier cf 4 1 1 0Lin 2b 4 0 0 0 Dn.Rbr ss-3b 4 0 1 0Leon c 2 1 0 1 M.Perez c 1 0 1 0Chavis ph 1 0 1 0 Heredia ph 0 1 0 0C.Vazqz c 0 0 0 0 Ciuffo c 1 0 0 0Totals 33 6 8 6 Totals 35 5 11 5Boston 050 000 001—6Tampa Bay 010 100 210—5

DP—Boston 2, Tampa 1. LOB—Boston 6, Tampa 6. 2B—Pearce (1), Devers (5), Cha-vis (1). 3B—Meadows (1), Choi (1), Lowe (1), Kiermaier (3). HR—Benintendi (2), Diaz (5), Garcia (4). SF—Benintendi (2).Boston IP H R ER BB SOPorcello 5C 6 2 2 1 5Hembree H,1 C 1 1 1 0 0Poyner 0 1 1 1 1 0Walden H,1 C 0 0 0 0 2Barnes W,2-0 BS,1 1 1 1 1 0 3Brasier S,5-6 1 2 0 0 0 1Tampa BayMorton 6 5 5 5 2 9Faria 2 1 0 0 1 1Alvarado L,0-1 1 2 1 1 1 1

Poyner pitched to 2 batters in the 7th HBP—by Morton (Leon), by Porcello (Meadows). T—3:12. A—22,940 (42,735).

Pirates 3, Giants 1 (5 inn.)San Francisco Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h biDuggar rf 3 0 1 1 C.Tcker ss 3 1 1 2Parra lf 3 0 0 0 Kang 3b 3 1 1 1Posey c 2 0 0 0 Crvelli c 2 0 0 0Belt 1b 2 0 0 0 Bell 1b 2 0 0 0Lngoria 3b 2 0 0 0 B.Rynld cf 2 0 1 0B.Crwfr ss 1 0 0 0 Shuck rf 2 0 0 0Pillar cf 2 1 2 0 P.Reyes 2b 1 1 0 0Panik 2b 2 0 0 0 J.Mrtin lf 2 0 1 0D.Hllnd p 2 0 1 0 Taillon p 0 0 0 0Totals 19 1 4 1 Totals 17 3 4 3San Francisco 000 01—1Pittsburgh 000 12—3

E—Kang (1). DP—Pittsburgh 1. LOB—San Francisco 4, Pittsburgh 2. HR—C.Tucker (1), Kang (3). SB—Parra (2). S—Taillon 2 (3).San Francisco IP H R ER BB SOHolland L,1-3 5 4 3 3 1 7PittsburghTaillon W,1-2 5 4 1 1 1 3

T—1:32. A—17,663 (38,362).

Blue Jays 10, Athletics 1Toronto Oakland ab r h bi ab r h biSogard 2b 6 0 2 1 Semien ss 3 0 0 0Galvis ss 5 1 2 1 Grssman lf 1 1 1 0Grichuk cf 5 0 0 0 M.Chpmn 3b 3 0 2 0Smoak dh 4 2 2 2 Hundley ph 1 0 0 0Hnson ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Pscotty rf 4 0 2 0T.Hrnan lf 3 1 1 0 K.Davis dh 3 0 0 0Brito ph-lf 0 1 0 0 Canha 1b 0 0 0 1Tellez 1b 5 2 3 3 Mrales 1b-p 3 0 0 0Drury 3b 4 2 3 2 Pinder lf-ss 3 0 1 0McKnney rf 4 1 2 1 Profar 2b 4 0 0 0Maile c 3 0 0 0 Lureano cf 3 0 0 0 Phegley c 3 0 0 0Totals 40 10 15 10 Totals 31 1 6 1Toronto 001 512 001—10Oakland 000 000 001—1

LOB—Toronto 9, Oakland 6. 2B—Tellez (1), Drury (3), McKinney (6), Grossman (3). HR—Smoak (4), Tellez (4), Drury (2). SB—Sogard (2). SF—McKinney (1), Canha (1). S—Maile (1).Toronto IP H R ER BB SOShoemaker 3 3 0 0 0 1Gaviglio W,2-0 4 0 0 0 0 5Luciano 2 3 1 1 2 1OaklandFiers L,2-2 3B 9 6 6 0 4Hendriks 1C 3 1 1 0 4Buchter 1 2 2 2 1 2Wendelken 1 0 0 0 0 2Rodney 1 0 0 0 0 0

HBP—by Morales (Drury). WP—Hen-driks. T—3:05. A—31,140 (46,765).

Diamondbacks 6, Cubs 0Arizona Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biJ.Dyson cf 4 0 1 1 Zobrist rf 4 0 0 0E.Escbr 3b 5 1 2 1 Bryant 3b 3 0 1 0D.Prlta lf 5 1 1 1 Rizzo 1b 3 0 1 0A.Jones rf 5 0 0 0 J.Baez ss 4 0 0 0C.Wlker 1b 4 1 4 0 Cntrras c 2 0 1 0K.Marte 2b 5 0 1 0 T.Davis c 1 0 0 0Ahmed ss 3 2 1 0 Heyward cf 3 0 1 0J.Mrphy c 2 1 1 2 Dscalso 2b 3 0 0 0Greinke p 1 0 1 0 R.Rsrio p 0 0 0 0Clarke p 1 0 1 0 Schwrbr lf 3 0 0 0 Darvish p 1 0 0 0 Zagunis ph 1 0 0 0 Webster p 0 0 0 0 Collins p 0 0 0 0 Bote 2b 1 0 0 0Totals 35 6 13 5 Totals 29 0 4 0Arizona 210 003 000—6Chicago 000 000 000—0

E—Contreras (4). DP—Arizona 2, Chi-cago 1. LOB—Arizona 9, Chicago 5. 2B—C.Walker (6), Greinke (2), Bryant (7). HR—E.Escobar (2), D.Peralta (3), J.Murphy (3). SF—J.Dyson (1). S—Greinke 2 (2).Arizona IP H R ER BB SOGreinke W,3-1 6 3 0 0 2 4Clarke S,1-1 3 1 0 0 0 2ChicagoDarvish L,1-3 5 5 3 3 3 7Webster 1C 6 3 2 0 2Collins B 1 0 0 0 0Rosario 2 1 0 0 1 2

HBP—by Clarke (Rizzo). WP—Clarke. T—3:08. A—37,667 (41,649).

Cardinals 10, Mets 2New York St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h biNimmo cf 3 0 0 0 M.Crpnt 3b 2 1 1 0P.Alnso 1b 4 0 0 0 Gyorko 3b 1 0 0 0Sewald p 0 0 0 0 Gldschm 1b 5 1 1 1Cano 2b 3 0 1 0 DeJong ss 5 2 2 1Rhame p 0 0 0 0 Ozuna lf 1 3 0 0D.Smth ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Thomas cf 1 0 0 0Cnforto rf 4 0 0 0 J.Mrtin rf-lf 5 1 3 3W.Ramos c 3 0 0 0 Molina c 3 1 2 2d’Arnud c 1 0 0 0 Wieters c 0 0 0 0McNeil lf-2b 3 1 1 0 De.Fwlr cf-rf 4 0 0 0A.Rsrio ss 3 1 1 1 Wong 2b 2 1 0 0J..Dvis 3b 3 0 0 1 Mikolas p 3 0 1 2Flexen p 2 0 1 0 Gllegos p 0 0 0 0Avilan p 0 0 0 0 Broxton lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 4 2 Totals 32 10 10 9New York 000 000 200— 2St. Louis 032 013 01x—10

LOB—New York 4, St. Louis 7. 2B—De-Jong 2 (9), J.Martinez (3). 3B—A.Rosario(2). HR—Goldschmidt (8). SB—Ozuna (3). SF—Molina (1). S—Mikolas (1).New York IP H R ER BB SOFlexen L,0-1 4B 7 6 5 4 0Avilan 1B 1 2 2 1 2Rhame 1B 1 1 1 2 0Sewald 1 1 1 1 0 0St. LouisMikolas W,2-1 8 4 2 2 2 4Gallegos 1 0 0 0 0 1

T—2:45. A—47,059 (45,538).

Yankees 9, Royals 2Kansas City New York ab r h bi ab r h biMrrfeld 2b 4 1 1 1 LMahieu 2b 4 1 1 1Mondesi ss 3 0 0 0 Judge rf 4 1 2 1A.Grdon lf 4 0 0 0 Wade pr-rf 1 1 0 0H.Dzier 3b 1 0 1 0 Voit 1b 5 0 1 0Owings 3b 1 1 1 1 Torres ss 5 0 1 1O’Hearn 1b 4 0 0 0 C.Frzer lf 5 1 3 2Soler rf 3 0 0 0 Ford dh 3 1 0 0Duda dh 4 0 2 0 Urshela 3b 4 1 3 0Gllgher c 4 0 0 0 Romine c 4 1 2 1B.Hmltn cf 3 0 1 0 Tuchman cf 3 2 1 3Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals 38 9 14 9Kansas City 000 001 001—2New York 110 402 10x—9

DP—New York 2. LOB—KC 6, New York9. 2B—H.Dozier (4), C.Frazier (2), Urshela (4), Romine (1). 3B—B.Hamilton (1). HR—Merrifield (3), Owings (2), LeMahieu (1), Judge (5), C.Frazier (5), Tauchman (3). IP H R ER BB SOKansas CityFillmyer L,0-1 4 7 6 6 2 3Sparkman 3 6 3 3 2 2Newberry 1 1 0 0 0 2New YorkTanaka W,2-1 7 4 1 1 3 7Holder 2 2 1 1 1 1

T—3:00. A—42,013 (47,309).

Rangers 9, Astros 4Houston Texas ab r h bi ab r h biSprnger rf 5 1 2 2 Choo rf 5 1 1 0Altuve 2b 5 0 0 0 Da.Sntn 2b 5 1 3 1Bregman 3b 2 0 1 0 Andrus ss 2 1 0 0Brntley dh 4 0 2 0 Mazara dh 3 1 0 0Correa ss 4 0 1 0 Gallo lf 4 2 2 1Gurriel 1b 4 0 1 0 A.Cbrra 3b 4 2 2 3Reddick lf 4 1 1 0 Frsythe 1b 3 0 1 1Stassi c 4 1 1 2 Knr-Flf c 4 1 0 0Mrsnick cf 4 1 2 0 DShelds cf 4 0 1 2Totals 36 4 11 4 Totals 34 9 10 8Houston 000 020 200—4Texas 501 030 00x—9

E—Correa (2). DP—Houston 1, Texas 2. LOB—Houston 7, Texas 5. 2B—Breg-man (4), Brantley (5), Correa (7), Maris-nick (3), Choo (8), Da.Santana (2), Gallo (3). 3B—DeShields (1). HR—Springer (6), Stassi (1), Gallo (8). SB—Da.Santana (3), Kiner-Falefa (1). CS—Da.Santana (1).Houston IP H R ER BB SOCole L,1-3 4B 9 9 8 3 8Devenski C 1 0 0 0 0Rondon 1 0 0 0 1 1Guduan 2 0 0 0 0 3TexasSampson 4B 7 2 2 1 3Kelley W,3-0 1C 1 0 0 0 0Chavez 2 3 2 2 0 1Martin 1 0 0 0 0 0

HBP—by Chavez (Bregman). WP—Sampson. T—2:51. A—39,636 (49,115).


MLB

Pujols passes Ruth on RBI listbut Angels lose

BY GREG BEACHAM

Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Albert Pujols was humbled after he caught and passed Babe Ruth for fifth place on baseball’s career RBI chart.

Yet even the Los Angeles An-gels slugger’s 636th homer was no match for the Seattle Mari-ners’ latest power display.

Pujols passed Ruth with an early RBI double and a late solo homer, but the Mariners added four more homers to their major league-leading total in a 6-5 vic-tory over the Angels on Saturday night.

Pujols tied Ruth when he drove in Andrelton Simmons in the third inning, and passed the Babe by hitting the third homer of his 19th big league season in the ninth. Pujols has 1,993 RBIs, surpass-ing Ruth’s total from the portion of his career after RBIs became an official statistic in 1920.

“It’s pretty special,” Pujols said. “You’re talking about — if not the best, then one of the best — hitters to ever play this game. ... It would have been even sweet-er if we would have come out with a win, but unfortunately it didn’t happen.”

The Angels couldn’t follow up Pujols’ one-out homer off Antho-ny Swarzak, who finished off his third save and Los Angeles’ sixth consecutive defeat after the Mar-iners’ power hitters staked them to an early lead.

Mitch Haniger and Daniel Vogelbach homered in the first inning off Trevor Cahill (1-2) be-

fore Edwin Encarnacion and Do-mingo Santana connected later, giving the Mariners 53 homersalready this season.

“Cahill threw the ball reallywell against us back at our place,”Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “We’re seeing a lot of pitchesand really making the pitchers work, and tonight we got to him.”

Yusei Kikuchi earned his first major league win for the Mari-ners, persevering through five innings of 10-hit ball with plentyof help from his homer-happyteammates.

His teammates doused himwith a postgame beer shower tocelebrate.

“For him to get that first win,it’s huge for his confidence,” DeeGordon said. “He’s pitched so wellthese last three or four games,and for him to come out tonightand lock in against a tough lineup, it’s pretty cool.”

Gordon delivered a two-run single for his 1,000th career hitin the fourth inning for the Mari-ners, who improved to 11-1 on the road with their third straight winin Anaheim. Seattle has scored97 runs in those 12 road games while winning nine in a row tomatch the third-longest road win-ning streak in team history.

The Mariners already have thesecond-most homers in Marchand April in big league history,albeit with a head start fromtheir March 20-21 series in Japan against Oakland and the March28 start to the rest of the season.Only Mark McGwire’s 2000 St.Louis Cardinals hit more homersbefore May.

MARK J. TERRILL/AP

Angels first baseman Albert Pujols reflects after hitting an RBI double during the third inning Saturday against the Mariners. He passed Babe Ruth for fifth place on the career RBI list .

Roundup

Associated Press

NEW YORK — All-Star slugger Aaron Judge hurt his left oblique while taking a swing and was expected to head to the injured list as the already banged-up New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 9-2 Saturday.

Judge homered early, but hurt himself in the sixth inning while hitting a single. He was taken to a hos-pital for an MRI and further tests.

Judge winced after taking a swing in the sixth and gingerly made his way to first base. He left the game after being checked by a trainer.

The Yankees, who began the game with 12 players on the injured list, hit four home runs. Judge con-nected in the first, Clint Frazier had a solo drive in the second and Mike Tauchman and DJ LeMahieu homered on consecutive pitches in the fourth.

Judge and Frazier hit their fifth homers of the season in the opening two innings off Heath Fillmy-er (0-1).

Masahiro Tanaka (2-1) pitched seven innings of one-run ball.

Chris Owings homered in the ninth for Kansas City.

Brewers 5, Dodgers 0: Christian Yelich hit two home runs, pushing his major league-leading total to 13, and Chase Anderson pitched five strong in-nings in a spot start in host Milwaukee’s win over Los Angeles.

Ryan Braun added a three-run homer for the Brewers, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

The Brewers, who ended the Dodgers’ six-game winning streak, got on the board in the third when Yelich hit a solo homer with two out off Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-1). With that homer, Yelich broke the fran-chise record for home runs in March and April, set by Eric Thames in 2017. His second came in the sixth inning, and his 13 homers in the first month of the season matched the franchise record for homers in a month, set by Prince Fielder in May 2007.

Anderson (2-0) allowed a single to open the game and then retired 15 of the next 17 batters before being lifted for a pinch hitter. He walked two batters and struck out five.

Alex Claudio, Junior Guerra and Matt Albers combined to pitch four innings of one-hit relief.

Indians 8, 7; Braves 4, 8: Corey Kluber working seven solid innings and Carlos Santana celebrated his U.S. citizenship with three hits, as host Cleveland topped Atlanta in the opener of a doubleheader.

Kluber (2-2) shook off a rough first inning and al-lowed four runs and five hits. He didn’t get out of the third inning in his previous start.

In the second game, Ronald Acuna Jr.’s two-run double highlighted the Braves’ five-run rally in the ninth inning as Atlanta stormed back to gain a split.

The Braves trailed 7-0 after two innings but chipped away late and stopped a four-game losing streak.

Diamondbacks 6, Cubs 0: Zack Greinke pitched three-hit ball over six innings and was backed by three home runs as Arizona won at Chicago and for the fifth time in six games.

Greinke (3-1) won for the third time in four starts.

Red Sox 6, Rays 5: Andrew Benintendi hit a grand slam and a tiebreaking ninth-inning sacrifice fly and catcher Christian Vazquez picked off Tommy Pham for the final out as Boston won at Tampa Bay to capture a series for the first time this season.

The Red Sox had lost four of their first six series and split the other two during a 6-13 start, their worst since 1996.

Marlins 9, Nationals 3: Curtis Granderson hom-ered and host Miami broke out at the plate after changing hitting coaches, roughing up ace Max Scherzer in beating Washington to win a series for the first time this season.

Brian Anderson doubled twice and the Marlins finished with 11 hits in their first game under new batting coach Jeff Livesey.

Cardinals 10, Mets 2: Miles Mikolas tossed eight stellar innings and drove in two runs, leading host St. Louis over New York.

Jose Martinez had three hits and three RBIs and Paul Goldschmidt hit his eighth home run.

Twins 6, 16; Orioles 5, 7: Eddie Rosario hom-ered twice for a second straight game, Byron Buxton hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the sixth inning and Minnesota won at Baltimore in the opener of a doubleheader.

Rosario also doubled and made a leaping catch at the wall to take away an extra-base hit from Chris Davis. Willians Astudillo went deep for the Twins.

In the second game, Minnesota routed the Ori-oles with eight homers, matching their single-game mark set on Aug. 29, 1963, against Washington.

Blue Jays 10, Athletics 1: Rowdy Tellez and Brandon Drury hit back-to-back homers in a five-run fourth inning and Justin Smoak also homered as Toronto won for the fifth time in six games on its road trip.

Blue Jays pitcher Matt Shoemaker injured his left knee in a rundown chase in the third inning.

Toronto’s training staff was summoned again after just seven pitches by Shoemaker’s replace-ment, Sam Gaviglio. Gaviglio (2-0) was checked out and remained in the game, throwing four scoreless innings to win.

Pirates 3, Giants 1 (5): Cole Tucker hit a two-run homer in his major league debut and host Pitts-burgh beat San Francisco in a game shortened to five innings because of rain.

Tucker, a first-round pick in the 2014 draft, sent a pitch from Derek Holland (1-3) a projected 431 feet into the bushes beyond the center field wall with two outs in the fifth inning to put the Pirates in front.

Rangers 9, Astros 4: Joey Gallo hit another long home run, Asdrubal Cabrera accounted for five runs and host Texas beat Houston.

Gerrit Cole (1-3) needed 43 pitches to get through a five-run first inning and didn’t get the first out until a called third strike against Gallo with the bases loaded on his 32nd pitch. The right-hander struck out eight, but allowed nine runs over 4 1⁄3 innings.

Phillies 8, Rockies 5: Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer, Andrew McCutchen also connected and Philadelphia won at Colorado.

Phil Gosselin drove in three big runs to back scuf-fling Phillies ace Aaron Nola (2-0). Hector Neris got five outs for his third save.

Gosselin started at shortstop after Jean Segura (left hamstring strain) and Scott Kingery (right hamstring strain) were placed on the 10-day injured list earlier in the day. The backup came through for the banged-up Phillies, delivering a three-run dou-ble off Antonio Senzatela (1-1) in the fourth inning to give them a 4-3 lead.

Reds 4, Padres 2: Luis Castillo matched a season high with nine strikeouts and Jesse Winker added a pinch-hit homer as Cincinnati extended San Diego’s losing streak to six games.

The Reds won their third straight after arriving in San Diego mired in a four-game losing streak.

Castillo (2-1) pitched six innings and was charged with one run, four hits and a walk.

JULIO CORTEZ/AP

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge hit a solo homer but later left with an injured left oblique muscle in his team’s 9-2 win over the Royals on Saturday in New York.

Judge hurt as Yanks rout Royals

Mariners homer four times in win


NHL PLAYOFFSScoreboard

First round(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCEColumbus 4, Tampa Bay 0

Columbus 4, Tampa Bay 3Columbus 5, Tampa Bay 1Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 1Columbus 7, Tampa Bay 3

Toronto 3, Boston 2Toronto 4, Boston 1Boston 4, Toronto 1Toronto 3, Boston 2Boston 6, Toronto 4Toronto 2, Boston 1Sunday: at Torontox-Tuesday: at Boston

Washington 3, Carolina 2Washington 4, Carolina 2Washington 4, Carolina 3, OTCarolina 5, Washington 0Carolina 2, Washington 1Saturday: Washington 6, Columbus 0Monday: at Carolinax-Wednesday: at WashingtonNew York Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 0N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3, OTN.Y. Islanders 3, Pittsburgh 1N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 1N.Y. Islanders 3, Pittsburgh 1

WESTERN CONFERENCEDallas 3, Nashville 2

Dallas 3, Nashville 2Nashville 2, Dallas 1, OTNashville 3, Dallas 2Dallas 5, Nashville 1Saturday: Dallas 5, Nashville 2Monday: at Dallasx-Wednesday: at Nashville

St. Louis 4,, Winnipeg 2St. Louis 2, Winnipeg 1St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 3Winnipeg 6, St. Louis 3Winnipeg 2, St. Louis 1, OTSt. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2Saturday: St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2

Colorado 4, Calgary 1Calgary 4, Colorado 0Colorado 3, Calgary 2, OTColorado 6, Calgary 2Colorado 3, Calgary 2, OTColorado 5, Calgary 1

Vegas 3, San Jose 2San Jose 5, Vegas 2Vegas 5, San Jose 3Vegas 6, San Jose 3Vegas 5, San Jose 0San Jose 5, Vegas 2Sunday: at Vegasx-Tuesday: at San Jose

SaturdayCapitals 6, Hurricanes 0

Carolina 0 0 0—0Washington 1 2 3—6

First Period—1, Washington, Back-strom 4 (Carlson, Wilson), 7:33 (pp).

Second Period—2, Washington, Back-strom 5 (Ovechkin), 14:21. 3, Washington, Connolly 1 (Ovechkin, Backstrom), 16:11.

Third Period—4, Washington, Wil-son 2 (Carlson, Kuznetsov), 1:04 (pp). 5, Washington, Dowd 1, 8:57. 6, Washing-ton, Ovechkin 3 (Kuznetsov, Backstrom), 10:14 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Carolina 6-15-9—30. Washington 10-7-11—28.

Power-play opportunities—Carolina 0of 5; Washington 3 of 4.

Goalies—Carolina, Mrazek 2-3 (28 shots-22 saves). Washington, Holtby 3-2 (30-30).

A—18,506 (18,277). T—2:36.

Blues 3, Jets 2Winnipeg 0 0 2—2St. Louis 1 1 1—3

First Period—1, St. Louis, Schwartz 2 (Schenn), 0:23.

Second Period—2, St. Louis, Schwartz3 (Dunn, Bozak), 12:36 (pp).

Third Period—3, St. Louis, Schwartz4 (Pietrangelo, O’Reilly), 3:55. 4, Winni-peg, Byfuglien 2 (Hayes, Copp), 12:17. 5, Winnipeg, Little 1 (Byfuglien, Perreault), 19:22 (sh).

Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 5-1-14—20. St. Louis 11-16-9—36.

Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg 0 of 1; St. Louis 1 of 4.

Goalies—Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 2-4 (36 shots-33 saves). St. Louis, Binnington 4-2 (20-18).

A—18,524 (19,150). T—2:38.

Stars 5, Predators 3Dallas 1 3 1—5Nashville 1 1 1—3

First Period—1, Nashville, Grimaldi 3 (Ellis, Josi), 6:25. 2, Dallas, Dickinson 1 (Polak, Hintz), 13:08.

Second Period—3, Dallas, Radulov 3(Benn, Seguin), 0:40. 4, Dallas, Radulov 4 (Benn), 7:41. 5, Nashville, Johansen 1 (Josi, Forsberg), 9:18. 6, Dallas, Seguin 2 (Benn), 15:54.

Third Period—7, Dallas, Dickinson 2, 1:57. 8, Nashville, Turris 1 (Granlund),2:25.

Shots on Goal—Dallas 14-8-4—26.Nashville 9-8-16—33.

Power-play opportunities—Dallas 0 of 2; Nashville 0 of 1.

Goalies—Dallas, Bishop 3-2 (33 shots-30 saves). Nashville, Rinne 2-3 (26-21).

A—17,633 (17,113). T—2:31.

Radulov scores twice as Stars put Preds on brink

BY TERESA M. WALKER

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The young Dallas Stars have blos-somed this postseason, and now their top line of Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov are showing just how much dam-age they can do together.

The combination has put the West’s first wild card a win away from reaching the second round.

Radulov scored two goals in the second period and the Stars beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 on Saturday to push the Western Conference’s No. 2 seed to the brink of elimination.

The Stars lead this best-of-seven series 3-2 over the two-time defending Central Division champs. Dallas will have a chance Monday night at home in Game 6 to join Colorado and Columbus as the latest lower seed coming through in the opening round.

“I think we keep getting bet-ter, and we have to keep getting better,” Dallas coach Jim Mont-gomery said. “The next one’s the hardest one because it’s the po-tential to end someone’s season. That’s the challenge in front of us now.”

Jason Dickinson also scored twice, Seguin had a goal and an assist, and Benn matched the NHL playoff record for most as-sists in a single period with three

in the second. The Stars alsoscored at least five goals in back-to-back playoff games for theninth time in franchise history,the first since Games 3 and 4 ofthe 1991 conference finals whenthis team was still in Minnesota.

Ben Bishop, named a finalistfor the Vezina Trophy during thegame, made 30 saves for the win.

“It’s a great honor,” Bishop said of being a finalist. “As much as itis an individual award, it’s a team thing. The guys have done a greatjob in front of me all season.”

Rocco Grimaldi, Ryan Johan-sen and Kyle Turris scored forNashville. The Predators lost back-to-back playoff games forthe first time since Games 5 and6 of the 2017 Stanley Cup Final.Nashville coach Peter Laviolettesaid his Predators have been inthese situations before.

“They’ve answered the bell,”Laviolette said. “They’ll answerthe bell in Game 6 and we’ll bring it back here.”

Blues advance past Jets behind Schwartz hat trick

BY STEVE OVERBEY

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Jaden Schwartz knew there would be a silver lin-ing during his struggles in the regular season.

The St. Louis forward found it the last two games of the first round of the playoffs.

Schwartz scored three times and Jordan Binnington stopped 18 shots to help the Blues beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in Game 6 of their series Saturday night to ad-vance to the second round.

Schwartz scored just 11 times during the regular season and went through a frustrating 22-game scoreless drought from Dec. 20 to Feb. 12.

“Sometimes when pucks aren’t

going in, the net doesn’t seem as big,” Schwartz said. “When you get a bounce, or a break, it seems like you can carry that over. Ev-eryone will tell you that confi-dence in this, and any sport, is big.”

Schwartz has four goals in the playoffs — the Blues’ last four, starting the tiebreaking tally with 15 seconds left in the 3-2 win in Game 5. That goal helped set the stage for Saturday’s effort.

“We did a good job of carrying that over,” Schwartz said. “We were aggressive today and we kind of played without fear.”

The Blues became the first home team to win in the series, and advanced to the second round for the third time in four years. St. Louis will next face the win-

ner of the Dallas-Nashville series, which the Stars lead 3-2.

Bryan Little and Dustin Byfug-lien scored for Winnipeg, which tried to rally after falling behind 3-0 early in the third period. Con-nor Hellebuyck finished with 33 saves.

“It’s hard to say what went wrong,” Hellebuyck said. “We re-ally shouldn’t point fingers and try to find blame. That’s a good team over there and they played well. You could tell they wanted it.”

St. Louis outscored Winnipeg 6-2 over the final four periods of the series.

“It’s tough, tough to swallow,” Little said. “We had really high expectations. It’s disappointing right now.”

BY STEPHEN WHYNO

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — So much went right for the Washington Capitals that the chants from the crowd changed by the shift.

Fans chanted for Nicklas Backstrom’s four points, Braden Holtby’s 30-save shutout, Devante Smith-Pelly’s return to the NHL and T.J. Oshie’s absence that is arguably the biggest obstacle to Washington going back-to-back.

The defending Stanley Cup champions blew out the Carolina Hurricanes 6-0 in Game 5 on Saturday night to take a 3-2 series lead and move one victory from advancing to the second round.

In their first game since Oshie was knocked out indefinitely with an upper-body injury, the Capitals got two goals from Backstrom, power-play goals from Alex Ovechkin and Tom Wilson and second-ary scoring in the form of a goal by Brett Connolly

and a successful penalty shot by Nic Dowd to make a statement that they were back after laying an egg in two road losses that evened the series.

“That was a pretty great response,” Backstrom said after matching his 2018 playoff total with five goals through five games. “We weren’t satisfied with the games in Carolina. Tonight we played some Caps hockey, I thought. Everyone bought into every-thing, we worked together and it paid off.”

Ovechkin assisted on Backstrom’s second goal and Connolly’s first of the playoffs to again lead the way in a postseason win. The reigning playoff MVP has three goals and four assists in the series .

Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek was hung out to dry in allowing six goals on 28 shots, and Caro-lina’s power play came up empty when a few scor-ing chances would’ve built some momentum and couldn’t match Washington’s high-powered unit.

“They scored a couple power-play goals, we stunk it up on ours,” Carolina’s Justin Williams said.

Caps rout Hurricanes for 3-2 lead

JEFF ROBERSON/AP

St. Louis Blues forward Jaden Schwartz scored all of his team’s goals in a 3-2 defeat of the Winnipeg Jets Saturday in St. Louis. The Blues won the first-round playoff series 4-2.

‘ [The Predators] will answer the bell in Game 6 and we’ll bring it back here. ’

Peter LavioletteNashville Predators coach


NBA PLAYOFFS

Scoreboard

First round(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCEMilwaukee 3, Detroit 0

Milwaukee 121, Detroit 86Milwaukee 120, Detroit 99Saturday: Bucks 119, Pistons 103Monday: at DetroitAFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Tuesday CET; 9 a.m.

Tuesday JKTx-Wednesday: at Milwaukeex-Friday: at Detroitx-Sunday, April 28: at Milwaukee

Toronto 2, Orlando 1Orlando 104, Toronto 101Toronto 111, Orlando 82Toronto 98, Orlando 93Sunday: at OrlandoTuesday: at Torontox-Thursday: at Orlandox-Saturday, April 27: at Toronto

Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 1Brooklyn 111, Philadelphia 102Philadelphia 145, Brooklyn 123Philadelphia 131, Brooklyn 115Saturday: Philadelphia 112, Brooklyn

108Tuesday: at Philadelphiax-Thursday: at Brooklynx-Saturday, April 27: at Philadelphia

Boston 3, Indiana 0Boston 87, Indiana 74Boston 99, Indiana 91Boston 104, Indiana 96Sunday: at Indianax-Wednesday: at Bostonx-Friday: at Indianax-Sunday, April 28: at Boston

WESTERN CONFERENCEGolden State 2, L.A. Clippers 1

Golden State 121, Los Angeles 104L.A. Clippers 135, Golden State 131Golden State 132, L.A. Clippers 105Sunday: at L.A. ClippersWednesday: at Golden Statex-Friday, April 26: at L.A. Clippersx-Sunday, April 28: at Golden State

San Antonio 2, Denver 2San Antonio 101, Denver 96Denver 114, San Antonio 105San Antonio 118, Denver 108Saturday: Denver 117, Spurs 103Tuesday: at DenverThursday, April 25: at San Antoniox-Saturday, April 27: at Denver

Portland 2, Oklahoma City 1Portland 104, Oklahoma City 99Portland 114, Oklahoma City 94Oklahoma City 120, Portland 108Sunday: at Oklahoma CityTuesday: at Portlandx-Thursday: at Oklahoma Cityx-Saturday, April 27: at Portland

Houston 3, Utah 0Houston 122, Utah 90Houston 118, Utah 98Saturday: Houston 103, Utah 101Monday: at UtahAFN-Sports, 4:30 a.m. Tuesday CET;

11:30 a.m. Tuesday JKTx-Wednesday: at Houstonx-Friday: at Utahx-Sunday, April 28: at Houston

SaturdayRockets 104, Jazz 101

HOUSTON — Gordon 4-11 1-1 12, Tuck-er 3-11 4-6 12, Capela 5-9 1-5 11, Paul 7-15 2-2 18, Harden 3-20 14-16 22, Faried 2-2 0-0 4, House Jr. 2-5 0-2 5, Green 3-7 0-0 9, Rivers 4-6 1-2 11. Totals 33-86 23-34 104.

UTAH — Ingles 3-9 0-0 8, Crowder 1-3 2-3 5, Gobert 3-4 4-6 10, Rubio 3-6 4-6 10, Mitch-ell 9-27 12-17 34, O’Neale 2-8 0-0 5, Niang 3-7 0-0 8, Favors 5-6 3-6 13, Neto 0-1 0-0 0, Korver 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 32-77 25-38 101.

Houston 28 22 24 30—104Utah 30 25 21 25—101Three-point goals—Houston 15-

45 (Green 3-5, Gordon 3-8, Rivers 2-3, Tucker 2-6, Paul 2-7, Harden 2-13, House Jr. 1-3), Utah 12-41 (Mitchell 4-12, Kor-ver 2-5, Niang 2-6, Ingles 2-8, Crowder 1-2, O’Neale 1-5, Neto 0-1, Rubio 0-2). Re-bounds—Houston 52 (Capela 14), Utah 48 (Ingles, Gobert 8). Assists—Houston 19 (Harden 10), Utah 21 (Rubio 6). Total Fouls—Houston 25, Utah 22. Technicals—Rivers, Ingles, Utah coach Quin Snyder. A—18,306 (18,306).

Bucks 119, Pistons 103MILWAUKEE — Middleton 7-13 3-4 20,

Antetokounmpo 5-13 4-6 14, Lopez 8-13 0-0 19, Bledsoe 8-19 3-3 19, S.Brown 2-2 0-0 5, Wilson 0-1 0-0 0, Mirotic 3-5 3-3 12, Ilyasova 4-6 4-4 15, Hill 3-7 4-4 11, Frazier 0-1 0-0 0, Connaughton 2-6 0-0 4, Snell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-86 21-24 119.

DETROIT — Kennard 4-9 1-1 9, Grif-fin 10-24 5-5 27, Drummond 5-14 2-8 12, Jackson 6-15 0-0 15, Ellington 4-9 2-2 13, Maker 1-1 4-4 6, Pachulia 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 4-13 2-2 11, Galloway 2-8 0-0 6, B.Brown 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 37-96 18-24 103.

Milwaukee 32 35 33 19—119Detroit 24 30 24 25—103Three-point goals—Milwaukee 14-38

(Ilyasova 3-4, Mirotic 3-5, Middleton 3-6, Lopez 3-7, S.Brown 1-1, Hill 1-4, Wilson 0-1, Connaughton 0-3, Antetokounmpo 0-3, Bledsoe 0-4), Detroit 11-36 (Jackson 3-8, Ellington 3-8, Galloway 2-7, Griffin 2-7, Smith 1-4, B.Brown 0-1, Kennard 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwau-kee 51 (Antetokounmpo 10), Detroit 44 (Drummond 12). Assists—Milwaukee 24 (Hill, Bledsoe 5), Detroit 21 (Jackson 8). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 22, Detroit 24. Technicals—S.Brown, Drummond. A—20,520 (20,491).

Nuggets 117, Spurs 103DENVER — Craig 6-9 1-2 18, Millsap 1-

7 0-0 2, Jokic 10-22 8-8 29, J.Murray 8-14 5-5 24, Harris 2-9 2-2 8, Vanderbilt 0-0 0-0 0, Hernangomez 0-0 0-0 0, Plumlee 3-3 0-0 6, Morris 5-8 1-1 11, Beasley 2-7 2-2 7, Barton 3-10 3-4 12. Totals 40-89 22-24 117.

SAN ANTONIO — DeRozan 7-13 5-6 19, Aldridge 10-18 3-4 24, Poeltl 3-5 2-2 8, White 3-8 2-4 8, Forbes 3-6 2-2 10, Gay 0-7 2-2 2, Pondexter 0-0 0-0 0, Cunningham 1-1 0-0 3, Bertans 2-4 1-2 5, Motiejunas 3-4 1-2 7, Mills 3-6 6-8 12, Walker IV 1-2 0-0 2, Belinelli 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 37-79 24-32 103.

Denver 22 32 37 26—117San Antonio 34 20 25 24—103Three-point goals—Denver 15-31

(Craig 5-7, Barton 3-3, J.Murray 3-5, Har-ris 2-5, Beasley 1-4, Jokic 1-4, Morris 0-1, Millsap 0-2), San Antonio 5-17 (Forbes 2-4, Cunningham 1-1, Aldridge 1-2, Beli-nelli 1-3, Gay 0-1, Bertans 0-1, Walker IV 0-1, Mills 0-2, White 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Denver 45 (Jokic 12), San Antonio 46 (Poeltl, Aldridge 9). As-sists—Denver 25 (Jokic 8), San Antonio 23 (White, DeRozan 5). Total Fouls—Denver 22, San Antonio 22. Technicals—DeRozan. Ejected—DeRozan. A—18,354 (18,581).

76ers 112, Nets 108PHILADELPHIA — Butler 4-6 2-2 11,

T.Harris 10-20 4-6 24, Embiid 12-22 6-6 31, B.Simmons 7-12 1-1 15, Redick 3-11 0-0 9, Ennis III 3-6 0-0 7, Scott 3-6 0-0 8, Bolden 0-1 1-2 1, Marjanovic 1-3 2-4 4, Monroe 0-0 0-0 0, McConnell 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 44-88 16-21 112.

BROOKLYN — J.Harris 4-14 2-2 10, Dud-ley 3-4 0-0 8, Allen 7-11 7-7 21, Russell 6-19 5-5 21, LeVert 9-18 4-9 25, Graham 0-3 0-0 0, Carroll 0-6 2-2 2, Hollis-Jefferson 0-3 3-4 3, Dinwiddie 7-12 1-2 18. Totals 36-90 24-31 108.

Philadelphia 24 33 28 27—112Brooklyn 33 30 28 17—108Three-point goals—Philadelphia 8-26

(Redick 3-9, Scott 2-4, Butler 1-2, Embiid 1-3, Ennis III 1-3, Bolden 0-1, T.Harris 0-4), Brooklyn 12-38 (Russell 4-9, Dinwiddie 3-6, LeVert 3-8, Dudley 2-3, Graham 0-2, Car-roll 0-4, J.Harris 0-6). Rebounds—Phila-delphia 55 (Embiid 16), Brooklyn 42 (Allen 8). Assists—Philadelphia 25 (B.Simmons 8), Brooklyn 23 (LeVert, Russell 6). To-tal Fouls—Philadelphia 24, Brooklyn 26. Technicals—Butler, Dudley. Ejected—But-ler, Dudley. A—17,732 (17,732).

CalendarMay 14 — Draft lottery, Chicago.May 14-19 — Draft combine, Chicago.May 30 — NBA Finals begin.June 16 — NBA Finals latest possible

date.

BY MATTHEW COLES

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — James Harden never worried. In fact, he didn’t know he had missed his first 15 shots.

Through it all, he never changed the attacking style that made him the NBA’s leading scorer.

Harden overcame a poor shoot-ing performance and scored 14 of his 22 points in the fourth quar-ter, leading the Houston Rockets to a 104-101 win Saturday over the Utah Jazz for a commanding 3-0 lead in their first-round play-off series.

“Keep shooting. Keep being aggressive,” Harden said of his only thoughts. “My job is to go out there and produce. Be aggres-sive and in attack mode. Nothing changes.”

Not much has worked against Harden for the Jazz, and even when they thought they had him trapped, they weren’t able to con-

trol The Beard for a full game.“You’re going to give some-

thing up. The best thing you can do with him is just try to make it hard on him. Even when you do that, there’s times where he’s going to make plays,” Utah coach Quin Snyder said.

The Jazz didn’t take it easy on Harden, and took every oppor-tunity to knock him down, even when it sent him to the line. For one of the rare times this season, Harden passed up some shots. But he did take them — and make them — when they counted most.

Though the victory was hardly a thing of beauty, Houston coach Mike D’Antoni was grateful for the way it went down.

“Sooner or later we have to win games on defense. We did this time,” D’Antoni said of his team which is known for Harden’s le-thal three-point attack but has drastically improved on the de-fensive end since mid-season.

Harden made a three-pointer

and added two free throws with 42.4 seconds left to give the Rock-ets a 101-97 lead. After DonovanMitchell made two free throws,Harden missed another three-point attempt, but P.J. Tucker, who finished with 12 points and10 rebounds, grabbed the re-bound, was fouled, making one oftwo free throws.

Chris Paul said: “You trust [Tucker] to make those plays. ... He’s going to do anything and ev-erything to help the team win.”

Mitchell had a wide-open lookat a three-pointer on the ensuing possession, but like so many of hisshots in the hard-fought contest, it was off the mark.

Game 4 of the best-of-sevenWestern Conference series isMonday night in Utah.

“We didn’t shoot the ball well and we still won. That just gives us more confidence,” said Hard-en, who was 3-for-20 shootingwith 10 assists. He was 14-for-16from the line.

Harden rallies from 0-for-15

Roundup

RICK BOWMER/AP

Rockets guard James Harden went 0-for-15 to start Saturday’s game against the Jazz in Salt Lake City, but finished with 22 points.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Joel Em-biid scored and rebounded. He blocked shots and even threw the most important pass of the game.

The only thing he didn’t do is lose his cool after his hard foul triggered a scuffle.

After having to sit out the last game, there was no way Embiid was going to risk an ejection and miss his chance to help the Phila-delphia 76ers seize control of the series.

Embiid had 31 points and 16 re-bounds, and passed to Mike Scott for the go-ahead three-pointer with 18 seconds left as the 76ers beat the Brooklyn Nets 112-108 on Saturday to take a 3-1 series lead.

Embiid also had a flagrant foul that led to a scuffle and two ejec-tions during an eventful return to the lineup after missing Game 3 with a sore left knee.

“I know these guys are going to go at me because they want me to retaliate, so I’ve got to be mature when I’m on the court and just stay cool and not react,” Embiid said.

“Today I could have reacted but I felt like my team needed me more than they needed Jared Dudley, so I’ve just got to stay cool and mature and do my job.”

Tobias Harris had 24 points, eight rebounds and six assists for the 76ers. They can advance to the Eastern Conference semi-finals for the second straight season with a victory at home Tuesday night.

They got a big boost from the return of Embiid, who scored eight straight points in the fourth quarter after the Nets led by seven. He helped the 76ers over-come the loss of Jimmy Butler, who was ejected in the third quarter after Embiid’s hard foul

on Jarrett Allen.Even that ended up work-

ing out for the 76ers. Scott took what probably would have been Butler’s position on the floor in the final seconds and turned Embiid’s seventh assist into the go-ahead basket.

Embiid also had six blocked shots.

“Just look at the magnitude of what the numbers say, the influ-ence that the numbers say that he must have had on the game,” Sixers coach Brett Brown said. “To have 31 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists, six blocked shots and you win, well it’s hard to sort of say it any better than that. He was dominant.”

Dudley was inserted into the starting lineup for the Nets and had been agitating the 76ers with his defense and his talking, but was gone midway through the

third quarter as one of the centralfigures in the scuffle that spilled into the stands.

Embiid swung his arm force-fully while fouling Allen, andDudley quickly moved in and bumped Embiid. Butler then ran in and pushed Dudley to start the shoving. Dudley, Simmons andreferee Ed Malloy all got knocked into the seats, and after a lengthy video review, Butler and Dudleywere given technical fouls and ejected, and Embiid’s foul was ruled a flagrant 1.

Dudley said he was trying tosend a message. The Nets have been upset over an elbow Embiidhit Allen with in Game 2 that theyfelt should have been an ejection,and were further angered afterwhen Embiid laughed as he apol-ogized in his press conference.

Nuggets 117, Spurs 103: Nikola Jokic had 29 points and 12 rebounds, Jamal Murray added24 points and Denver beat host San Antonio, rebounding from aflat performance to tie the seriesat two games apiece.

LaMarcus Aldridge had 24 points and nine rebounds for SanAntonio. DeMar DeRozan added19 points before he was ejectedwith five minutes remaining after arguing with an official over anoffensive foul.

Bucks 119, Pistons 103: Khris Middleton had 20 pointsand nine rebounds and Milwau-kee beat host Detroit to take a 3-0series lead.

The Bucks can finish off theEastern Conference series Mon-day night in Detroit.

The Bucks overcame 27 points,seven rebounds and six assistsfrom Blake Griffin in his returnfrom a right knee injury. Hemissed the first two games of the series after sitting out four of thefinal six in the regular season.

Embiid’s return sparks 76ers

MARY ALTAFFER/AP

Nets forward Jared Dudley, left, and Philadelphia 76ers guard Jimmy Butler get into a shoving match during the second half of Game 4 on Saturday in New York. Both were ejected in the 76ers’ 112-108 win.

BY JAKE SEINER

Associated Press

NEW YORKhen Tim Ander-son spiked his bat

and yelled toward his White Sox team-

mates, Major League Baseball’s self-described

“spicy” Twitter account was among the first to weigh in.

“LET THE KIDS PLAY,” pro-claimed @Cut4, the offbeat arm of MLB’s social media portfolio with nearly 1 million followers. The tweet Wednesday included video of Anderson’s bat toss, and it sparked hundreds of comments — some cheering the fiery display, some condemning it.

Baseball is stuck in an ongoing debate regarding on-field decorum, and MLB’s marketing department is leaving no doubt where it stands. Since the group was restructured just over a year ago, MLB’s pro-motional efforts have taken up arms against the old school. While traditionalists want to punish un-

abashed revelry with fastballs to the backside, MLB senior

vice president of market-ing Barbara McHugh

wants her team feting those bat flips.

“That’s certainly what we’re trying to celebrate,” McHugh

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