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VOL. 102 | NO. 179 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Scooters popular; some stolen Andrews: Fail safes help find, recover lost Birds By PHIL ATTINGER There have been some, module that runs and charges had taken apart the electric STAFF WRITER however, who haven’t used them. module on the handle bars, them properly. Andrews said So far, two were recovered, Polk Sheriff’s officials said. SEBRING — The popular a handful of the scooters have from Lorida and Avon Park, Deputies there recovered the Bird Scooter has given people “walked off.” Andrews said. Another was scooter and informed the shopping in Sebring’s down- About seven users took recovered by the Polk County Sebring Police Department, COURTESY GRAPHIC/DAN town area a quicker way to visit vehicles out of Community Sheriff’s Office after Dan which had the original theft FEATHERS shops, using the electric-motor Redevelopment Agency District Feathers, who assists Andrews report. two-wheeled vehicles to get and never returned them. in managing the fleet, tracked The remaining three scooters If you want to take a Bird Scooter them around faster than their “They’re no good outside a missing one to an address ended up on the bottom of outside the downtown area, you can feet can take them. downtown,” Andrews said. off State Road 60, west of Lake Lake Jackson, no longer usable. if you hug the shores of Lake Jackson, “They are a really small That hasn’t stopped some Wales. Any permanently disabled as seen from the Bird mobile app compact scooter, think of a people from trying to make the Officials with the Polk County scooter is a $1,200 loss, which also shows some of the nearest little child’s Razor scooter, but public transit option a personal Sheriff said they found the Andrews said. It’s something clusters of available electric scooters motorized and a little bit more one, he said, even though black Bird Scooter and talked Bird Scooter’s insurance com- to rent. The new scooters have substantial wheels and things the scooters start beeping with a 50-year-old man at the pany will cover, it’s still a loss to helped many get around, although like that,” Fleet Manager Dan loudly once outside the CRA address, who said he’d bought the 75-vehicle fleet that serves some have helped themselves to the Andrews of Legacy Bicycles scooters. district, and will shut down, a it off an unknown man at a said. failsafe feature of the computer convenience store for $50. He SCOOTERS | 2A State, local crime rate down; violent crimes up By PHIL ATTINGER STAFF WRITER

SEBRING — Overall crime went down in Florida in 2020, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but violent crime went up. In Highlands County, those results were mixed. While murders went down, rape didn’t go down by much and aggravated assault increased significantly. Burglary and larceny went down, but motor vehicle theft went up significantly, too. Florida saw 1,285 murders last year, an increase of 260, or up 14.7% from 2019, according to the FDLE annual crime report. Of those, 1,025 were committed with a gun, approximately 80% of the PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF total, up 20.2% from 2019. Balloons gather along with guests Saturday at Citrus Terrace Apartments to honor Queenie Roux and her daughter, Queen, who both died in a Burglaries, robberies and larcenies car crash in Atlanta, shortly after moving from Sebring. dropped significantly during the year as many people worked at home or stayed home more often because of the corona- virus pandemic. 2020 had 13,439 rob- Queenie, Queen remembered beries, a drop of 17% from 2019; 51,928 burglaries, down 17.8%; and 291,923 larcenies, down 18.5%. Florida as a state also saw fewer with balloons and hugs reported rapes, from 8,439 in 2019 down to 7,650 in 2020 — a decrease of 9.3%. By PHIL ATTINGER Motor vehicle thefts also dropped slightly. STAFF WRITER Meanwhile, aggravated assaults increased by 9.5%, from 55,333 in 2019 to a total of SEBRING — After more than 100 60,567 last year. people released dozens of balloons Accounting for state population into the sky, in memory of a lost growth, all crime was down 15.7% in mother and child, local leaders urged 2020. others to spread love. Highlands County, with 103,434 people “You have 30 seconds. Tell someone in 2019 and 104,834 people in 2020, saw you love them now. Hug someone a slightly larger drop in the crime index, now,” said Ada McGowan, CEO of FDLE reported. The total numbers of Highlands County Citizens with Voices reported crimes dropped from 2,621 in at Saturday evening’s memorial at 2019 to 2,185 in 2020 — a 16.6% drop. Citrus Terrace Apartments. The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office With that, she and the rest turned saw a 17.7% drop in reported crime for to embrace each other in honor 90,786 people, including those in the city of Queenie Roux, and her 3-year- limits of Avon Park. The Sebring Police old daughter, Queen, who died Wednesday in a car crash in Atlanta, Department saw a 13.7% drop among its PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF 11,208 people, and the Lake Placid Police Georgia. Department saw a huge 39.2% drop Queenie was moving from her home Balloons begin to lift up as people release them in honor of Queenie Roux and her daughter, among its 2,840 people. at Citrus Terrace to a new life for Queen, during a memorial event Saturday evening at Citrus Terrace Apartments in Sebring. herself and her six children. Saturday Inside the Town of Lake Placid, in all Rashael Reed, to give Queenie’s family, the family. categories, seemed to have lower crime evening’s highlight, after a prayer for unity in the community and the friends and community a place to Wednesday’s two-car collision on numbers. However, the crime rate was mourn her passing. Interstate 75 took not only the lives of lower, on average in the Avon Park and world, was a balloon release with all the pink and yellow, and also purple, “I’m going to miss her,” Moses said. Queenie and Queen, but also a baby unincorporated areas, combined, with a As for the temporary memorial Queenie had carried for at least two rate of 1,805.3 per 100,000 people. silver and gold balloons that Queenie and Queen could have wanted. display in front of Queenie’s old months, according to family. Queenie Lake Placid, inside town limits, had apartment, Moses said she was told it had four other children in the car, a rate of 2,746.5, and Sebring had the The memorial was organized by Queenie’s neighbors, Velma Moses and couldn’t stay, but she planned to box highest single-area rate with 4,175.6. up the decorations and gift them to QUEEN | 2A The clearance rate per 100 offenses got better from 42.4 in 2019 and 50.8 in 2020. Sebring had the best clearance rate of 53.4, followed by the Sheriff’s Office at 51.6 and Lake Placid Police at 20.5. Teacher planning time may be extended Murders in Highlands dropped from 11 in 2019 to nine in 2020. Reported rapes By MARC VALERO has been talking with the “We have been continuing Highlands Virtual School. went down from 30 to 29, but aggravated STAFF WRITER teachers union about to work with the union School Board Member assaults went up from 181 to 220 — a extending the school day. At on that language, we are Donna Howerton said the 21.5% increase. Five of the murders took SEBRING — Teachers at one point the district was probably closer at this district was looking at ex- place in unincorporated areas and/or some district schools may looking at extending it a point,” Lethbridge said. tending the day for students Avon Park, three in Sebring city limits and have additional planning whole hour and also extend- Some of that planning, they and teachers, so due to the none inside Lake Placid town limits. time in the upcoming ing the student school day. are proposing, would be for preferences expressed in Eight rapes took place inside Sebring school year as the School As they worked through it, PLC (professional learning the the teacher survey, only and another 21 in the unincorporated Board of Highlands County it took many turns and the community) and individual the teachers will have an areas and/or Avon Park. Meanwhile, 157 and teachers union work on recommendation has shift- planning as well. extended day, which will be of 2020 aggravated assaults took place in finalizing an agreement. ed to extending specifically Superintendent Brenda at the end of the day. either Avon Park or the unincorporated At a recent School teacher planning time by 30 Longshore said the extended Andrew replied, “Yes, that areas, while 53 were in Sebring and 10 Board meeting, Deputy minutes at the elementary planning time would be is what we are looking at.” Superintendent Andrew schools and Avon Park High, at the elementary schools, CRIME | 2A Lethbridge said the district he said. Avon Park High and PLAN | 2A

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5 THINGS human beings and get rid That Will Make You QUEEN of the anger and hate that FROM PAGE 1A permeates the nation so SMARTER much today. besides Queen. They sur- McGowan’s urging for 1. By some accounts, considered the condi- vived the crash and are everyone to embrace took mustard was the fi rst con- ment so essential to his still recovering in Atlanta. a while to get going, but diment humans ever put culinary experiences that Another child was at it kept going, with some on their food. Egyptian he kept a pot with him at home in Sebring and was shedding tears into warm pharaohs stocked their all times, so as not to be spared the trauma. shoulders when they let tombs with mustard disappointed if he were Mike Crenshaw, com- themselves feel the loss. seeds to accompany them to be served a meal in a munity resident, said this The evening might have into the afterlife, but the household that wasn’t hit home for him because ended in an informal Romans were the fi rst to fully stocked. he lost a 6-year-old party, had the skies not grind the spicy seeds into 4. As members of grandson back in January. shed rain, fi rst as a drizzle a spreadable paste and Brassica or Sinapis He said it’s important and then more substan- mix them with a fl avorful genera, mustard plants that people start looking tial drops. liquid—usually, wine or are close relatives to a at each other as fellow vinegar. surprising variety of com- 2. Pythagoras endorsed mon vegetables, includ- a poultice of mustard ing broccoli, caulifl ower, seeds as a cure for scor- turnips and cabbage. pion stings. Hippocrates 5. In addition to their praised mustard paste main ingredient, most as a miracle remedy mustards have one thing capable of soothing pains in common: the ingredi- and aches; and ancient ents’ country of origin. Roman physicians used it Together, Canada and to ease toothaches. Nepal’s crops account for 3. King Louis XI didn’t more than half of global travel without mustard. mustard production. The French monarch Source: mentalfl oss.com PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF Family and friends of Queenie Roux and her 3-year-old LOTTERY NUMBERS daughter, Queen, hold back tears as they watch a fl ock of balloons sail away as part of a memorial service Saturday PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF POWERBALL JACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY night at Citrus Terrace Apartments in Sebring, to honor the mother and daughter, lost in a car crash on Interstate 75 in Saturday, June 26, 2021 Friday, June 25, 2021 A fl ock of balloons fl ies up after a memorial Saturday evening at Atlanta, Georgia. Citrus Terrace Apartments in Sebring in honor of Queenie Roux 8-31-39-43-60-17-x3 1-2-6-16-25-34 and her daughter, Queen. Winning Numbers Winning Numbers Next Jackpot: Next Jackpot: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Tuesday, June 29, 2021 $88 MILLION $250,000 MEGA MILLIONS FANTASY 5 planning,” he said. “There community” where planning time, he said. PLAN is just never enough time teachers get together and Avon Park High was the Friday, June 25, 2021 Saturday, June 26, 2021 FROM PAGE 1A for them to accomplish review data to deter- only secondary school 17-20-42-45-65-12-x4 1-2-3-18-27 everything in the hours of mine where there are that was very interested Winning Numbers PICK 5 Lethbridge said recently the day they are given. defi ciencies and develop in extending it the full Next Jackpot: the district is purchasing “So with all of the strategies to attack those hour. Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Sunday, June 27, 2021 new curriculum, which issues of the pandemic, defi ciencies, Lethbridge For Avon Park High it $61 MILLION 3-5-3-8-3-7 will take time to learn. teachers are really trying said. will be like a pilot pro- LOTTO Saturday, June 26, 2021 Anytime you change cur- to work with students to A survey of administra- gram to determine if the 5-3-1-7-5-9 riculum there is a period close the [learning] gap.” tors and schools showed extra time shows results Saturday, June 26, 2021 PICK 4 of time to absorb it. Along with additional that a whole hour of with increased student 6-15-22-25-33-44 “We also know through individual planning time, extra time was too much achievement, Lethbridge Next Jackpot: Sunday, June 27, 2021 this plan, teachers would the extended planning and so the 30 minutes said. Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7-5-9-4-7 have increased individual would provide time for was a happy medium $18.5 MILLION Saturday, June 26, 2021 “professional learning for providing additional Winning Numbers 7-5-2-2-9 6-16-17-18-24-41 PICK 3 CASH 4 LIFE Sunday, June 27, 2021 United States, and is for a 20-mile ride, rents Stand on it, kick off Saturday, June 26, 2021 8-2-1-7 SCOOTERS now pushing to get into by the minute and can go three times, then push 3-13-33-41-48-2 Saturday, June 26, 2021 FROM PAGE 1A smaller communities. up to 15 mph. PocketLint. the throttle button to Winning Numbers 3-5-3-9 In the long run, it’s com published step- start it up, PocketLint. Top Prize: PICK 2 downtown Sebring. hoped the scooters by-step instructions in com said. Squeeze with Sunday, June 27, 2021 There also have been may help solve some January 2020 on renting your right hand to accel- $1,000/DAY FOR LIFE Sunday, June 27, 2021 problems with a few users perceived parking issues the popular transports. erate and brake with your 4-3-7 using the scooters to do and offer a mass transit First, the user downloads left. When you stop, park Saturday, June 26, 2021 back-tire burnouts on option within the district. a mobile app and receives by a bike rack and don’t 9-7-9 sidewalks and streets, Andrews, assisted by a unique QR code (matrix block public pathways. Andrews said, but for the Dan Feathers, who helps barcode) to scan into the When you’re done, most part, everyone using him manage the fl eet, scooter to start the rental open the app and tap them is being courteous, collects scooters each period. You also have to the button to lock the conscientious and legal. night and stages them on create a login and enter a scooter. The app will then The Sebring City the streets each morning. method of payment. show you how much the Council unanimously Feathers provided the PocketLint.com states a ride time costs. approved a proposal in Highlands News-Sun map in the app will show Of course, those who early February to have with a map of the geo- you any nearby e-scoot- took a scooter way out- a fl eet of electric rental fence that limits where ers. When you fi nd one, side the CRA district and scooters in the CRA the scooters can go [See tap its button to unlock way past their appointed district and posted a few graphic]. Andrews can it, and use your phone ride time may fi nd it costs locations on Lakeview also set the hours of use. — via the app — to snap them a whole lot more. Drive. Bird Scooters has Each scooter — basical- a photo of the scooter’s Highlands News-Sun rental programs in Tampa ly a motorized skateboard QR code. You might also Staff Writer Marc Valero and South Florida and with bigger tires, handle- have to scan your driver’s contributed to this report. in big cities all over the bars and a battery-pack license for the fi rst rental.

Park and the unincorpo- almost in half from rape, six for robbery, 19 CRIME rated areas, 69 in Sebring 2019 to 2020, from 4,024 for aggravated assault, FROM PAGE 1A and fi ve in Lake Placid. to 2,232. Of those, the 12 for burglary, 27 for Out of 1,405 larcenies Sheriff’s Offi ce had 1,697, larceny and one for motor were in Lake Placid. in 2020, down 17.8% Sebring Police had 387 vehicle theft. Of Highlands’ 39 rob- from 1,709 in 2019, FDLE and Lake Placid Police Lake Placid Police beries in 2020, down from tallied 1,043 in Avon Park had 67. arrested 66 adults and 58 in 2019, there were 15 and the unincorporated Of the Sheriff’s Offi ce one juvenile. Of those, six in Sebring and another areas, with another 302 arrests last year, 1,532 were aggravated assault 24 in either Avon Park or in Sebring city limits and were adults and 165 were and fi ve were for larceny. the unincorporated areas. 60 in Lake Placid town juveniles. Of those, two The Florida Fish and None were reported in limits. were for murder, three Wildlife Conservation Lake Placid. Of 151 motor vehicle for rape, 17 for robbery, Commission arrested All areas had burglaries, thefts in 2020, up 75.6% 74 for aggravated assault, 46 in 2020 — 44 adults :,1'2:75($70(176 larcenies (theft of per- from 86 in 2019, there 48 for burglary, 209 for and two juveniles — one sonal property) or motor were 130 in Avon Park larceny and 20 for motor for larceny and one for 560 U.S. 27 North vehicle theft. Of 333 and the unincorporated vehicle theft. aggravated assault. The Family Owned Sebring, FL 33870 burglaries in 2020, down areas, 18 in Sebring city Sebring Police arrested Florida Highway Patrol (863) 385-4796 39% from 546 in 2019, limits and three in Lake 361 adults and 26 juve- arrested 35, all of them & Operated there were 259 in Avon Placid town limits. niles. Of those, one was adults. Since 1978 CarpetPatioBlinds.com Total arrests dropped for murder, four were for adno=00064449

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police Chief Jakari Young told The property where Wallace Wallace was arrested and Gov. Brian Kemp thanked law reporters at a news conference. was found is affiliated with the placed in Raynor’s handcuffs, enforcement officers for the DAYTONA BEACH — A man Wallace was accused of pro-gun group known as the the chief said. quick work apprehending the accused of shooting a Florida shooting Daytona Beach officer NFAC, Young said. The organi- Wallace was in custody in suspect. police officer in the head was Jason Raynor, 26, after Raynor zation is known to demonstrate DeKalb County, Georgia, and “Our family and the people of captured early Saturday on a approached Wallace as he sat against white supremacy and was expected to be returned to Georgia are praying for Officer wooded property just outside in a vehicle Wednesday night. police violence. Young said the Daytona Beach. Raynor’s full recovery,” Kemp of Atlanta that’s affiliated with Wallace has been charged with treehouse was fortified with Raynor remained hospital- said. an all-Black, pro-gun organiza- attempted first-degree murder weapons and ammunition. ized and was showing “positive The execution of the search tion, police said. of a law enforcement officer “There is no place for hate signs of improvement,” Young warrant involved U.S. Marshals, Othal Toreyane Resheen with a firearm. in Florida,” Florida Gov. Ron said. the FBI, Homeland Security Wallace, 29, was found in a Young said law enforcement DeSantis said on Twitter. “He still has a ways to go,” Investigations, Georgia State treehouse on the 3-acre prop- searched for 56 hours with little “Our law enforcement will be Young said of the officer. Patrol and DeKalb County erty during the execution of a sleep to track down Wallace. protected. Justice will be swift.” Also on Twitter, Georgia police, Young said. search warrant, Daytona Beach Families hold onto hope as condo collapse toll rises to 9

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SURFSIDE — Miami- Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the death toll from the build- ing collapse has risen to nine as search and rescue efforts continue. She said one victim had died in the hospital, while workers had pulled more bodies from the wreckage since yesterday. Scores of rescue workers remained on the WILFREDO LEE/AP PHOTO massive pile of rubble, People pray, late Saturday, June 26, 2021, during a prayer vigil working to find survivors for the victims and families of the Champlain Towers collapsed among the more than building in Surfside at the nearby St. Joseph Catholic Church in 150 people who remain Miami Beach. unaccounted for. “We were able to of that rubble,” he told number of people unac- recover four additional ABC’s “This Week.” counted for down to 156, LYNNE SLADKY/AP PHOTO bodies in the rubble as “We’re not going to stop and crews also discovered Charles Adams plays the saxophone at the Elbo Room, Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale. well additional human doing that — not today, other unspecified human remains. As of today, one not tomorrow, not the remains. The remains victim passed away in the next day. We’re going to are being sent to the hospital, and we’ve recov- keep going until every- medical examiner, and End to COVID-19 hotel housing ered eight ... victims on body’s out.” authorities are gathering site. So, I am confirming The Noriega family DNA samples from today that the death toll described Hilda as a family members to aid in for homeless raises worries is at nine. We’ve identified fiercely independent and identification. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS country face uncertainty Adams is one of roughly four of the victims and vivacious retiree — in A video posted online over the end of a federal 50 homeless people still notified the next of kin.” Mike’s words, “the young- showed an official brief- FORT LAUDERDALE — freeze on most evictions at the Fort Lauderdale Four days after est 92-year-old I know ... ing families. When he said Everyone on the streets on July 31. The ban kept motel. He was on the Thursday’s collapse, more 92 going on 62.” they had found remains knows “Sir Charles,” many people from being street for a year before than 150 people remain Hilda Noriega had among the rubble, people the skinny guy with the turned onto the streets that. unaccounted for in called Champlain Towers began sobbing. saxophone, sunglasses, during the pandemic, “I didn’t get a lot of Surfside, and authorities South home for more Late Saturday, four of felt hat and megawatt yet it also artificially kept sleep. I lost a lot of and loved ones fear the than 20 years. But six the victims were identi- smile. At a gig this week many units off the market weight,” he said. toll will go much higher. years removed from her fied, as Stacie Dawn Fang, at the iconic Elbo Room meaning less long-term The motel program As rotating teams of husband’s death, she was 54; Antonio Lozano, 83, beach bar, he danced housing for those already was supposed to end a rescuers continued to ready to leave. The condo and Gladys Lozano, 79; with a soda in his hand homeless. few weeks ago, “but we use heavy machinery and was up for sale, and her and Manuel LaFont, 54. as the bouncers teased City officials and advo- don’t want to put people power tools to clear the plan was to move in with The Paramount Miami him, the ladies applauded cacy groups are working back on the street,” said rubble from the top and family. Worldcenter tower in and patrons slipped a few to secure housing for the city spokeswoman Ashley tunnel in from below, the She had loved living downtown Miami was dollars into his tip jar. homeless leaving hotels, Doussard. “We’re having Noriega family hoped near the ocean and also lit with the words But after the magic of a but it’s challenging. Big a really difficult time that their 92-year-old friends, but “when you “One World, One Prayer.” street musician’s nightlife cities like Los Angeles finding places for them matriarch Hilda Noriega lose a spouse, you want Organizers plan to light wore off, the 63-year-old and San Francisco, which to go.” had somehow survived. to be surrounded by up the condo building returned to a seedy Fort put up at least 10,000 and Families were priori- When Mike Noriega family ... and she wanted with the message every Lauderdale motel, laid 2,000 people respectively, tized first. That left single heard that part of the to spend more time with night for two minutes his head on a pillow and face staffing shortages men like Adams. His case- condominium tower her family and grandchil- on the hour until all wondered how many to help with logistics like worker told him he may where his grandmother dren,” said Sally Noriega, victims of the Champlain nights he had left with a securing the required have to go to a shelter in lived had collapsed, he Hilda’s daughter-in-law. Towers South collapse are roof over his head. ID documents and a couple weeks. rushed with his father to Sally called Hilda a accounted for. Charles Adams has background checks, said Gazing at his polished the scene. They arrived sweet, loving person Also late Saturday, spent the last three Samantha Batko, senior saxophone in its case, at a nightmarish 30-foot who built a life with her Surfside Mayor Charles months living at a researcher at the Urban Adams shook his head. pile of pancaked concrete husband and raised a Burkett said a city official motel paid for with Institute. “I don’t like it, the and mangled metal, the family after coming to the had led a cursory review federal money aimed at Additional federal filthiness, thieves, drug remains of her 12-story U.S. from Cuba in 1960. of the nearby Champlain preventing the spread resources are coming, dealers, drug addicts,” he building. “She was just one of Towers North and of COVID-19 by taking including tens of billions said of shelters. “I can’t be But among the flying those people who from Champlain Towers East homeless residents off of dollars from the around people like that.” debris, they stumbled the first time she met a buildings but “didn’t the streets. But as hotels Department of Housing The shades were still across mementos that person she instantly loved find anything out of the reopen to tourists and and Urban Development, on, as always, but in a bore witness to Hilda’s that person, and that ordinary.” funding wanes, tens of but it takes time to set up rare moment the cool cat life on the sixth floor in person instantly loved The news came after thousands of homeless new programs. Experts admitted he’s worried: Champlain Towers South: her,” Sally said. word of a 2018 engineer- nationwide are being warn there will be a lag. “I don’t have any other an old picture of her with Carlos Noriega, Hilda’s ing report that showed forced from the motels. “Those programs are place to go.” her late husband and son and police chief of the building, which was Several cities like New in the process of being It’s a stressful picture their infant son, and a nearby North Bay Village, built in 1981, had “major Orleans ended their rolled out now, and all of unfolding in cities nation- birthday card that friends was one of the emergency structural damage” to a programs months ago those resources are not wide for many homeless from her prayer group responders clambering concrete slab below its amid financing shortages. in hand in communities,” Americans who found sent two weeks earlier atop the pile. pool deck that needed Experts warn there aren’t Batko said. themselves with a stable with the acronym “ESM,” The Noriegas don’t extensive repairs, part enough shelter beds, At the Fort Lauderdale address, often for the Spanish for “hand-deliv- entirely know what to of a series of documents which means sending motel, Adams gets free first time in years, during ered,” scrawled across the make of the treasured released by the city of many back on the streets. lunches and dinners, COVID-19. yellow envelope with a mementos found amid Surfside. In one Vermont commu- clean linens and doesn’t New York City is moving butterfly etching. the chaos, but Sally said: Further documentation nity, social workers are have to hunt for a place roughly 9,000 homeless “There was a message “We are a family of faith. showed the estimated offering camping equip- to shower before a gig. A people out of hotels and in the mess of all this,” We’ll just leave it at that.” cost of the repairs would ment to some homeless caseworker at the motel, back into traditional said Mike Noriega, who They are among dozens total over $9 million. people no longer eligible which the city requested shelters now that hotels last spoke with his grand- of anguished families That included more to stay at motels come not be named because are filling with tourists. mother the day before the awaiting word on the fate than $3.8 million for month’s end. it’s now open for tourists, Placing the homeless in disaster. “It means not of loved ones. The wait garage, entrance and pool Cities drew from works on scheduling hotels is far more ex- to give up hope. To have has been agonizing. remediation and nearly various federal pots to mental health appoint- pensive than congregant faith.” “Our top priority $3.2 million for fixes to fund the homeless hotels. ments and other social housing and was always Surfside Mayor Charles continues to be search- the exterior façade. The Federal Emergency services. a stopgap. Some states Burkett on Sunday morn- and-rescue and saving While officials said no Management Agency Fort Lauderdale housed used federal pandemic ing assured families that any lives that we can,” cause for the collapse extended its funding roughly 130 people in money to buy hotels to rescuers were working Miami-Dade Mayor early Thursday has been through September, but motels last summer until use as shelters or convert nonstop. “Nothing else Daniella Levine Cava determined, Florida the approval process is it shuttered the program into more permanent on our mind, with the said. Gov. Ron DeSantis said so arduous that many amid funding shortages. housing. California and only objective of pulling The mayor said the a “definitive answer” jurisdictions are not Tents quickly sprang up, Oregon have already their family members out identification of three was needed in a timely bodies had dropped the manner. taking advantage of it. and the city restarted the acquired some and King The crunch comes program in April, spend- County, Washington, is as millions across the ing $1.2 million overall. doing the same. A4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 28, 2021 www.highlandsnewssun.com NATIONAL NEWS Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for viewing by the public at rights. None served more than William F. Winter Archives and six years. JACKSON, Miss. — Never History Building in Jackson. In 2004, the Mississippi before seen case files, pho- The records include case Attorney General’s office re- tographs and other records files, Federal Bureau of opened the investigation. That documenting the investigation Investigation memoranda, led to the June 2005 conviction into the infamous slayings of research notes and federal of Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku three civil rights workers in informant reports and witness Klux Klan leader and Baptist Mississippi are now open to testimonies. There are also minister, on manslaughter the public for the first time, 57 photographs of the exhumation charges. years after their deaths. of the victims’ bodies and During his state trial in 2005, The 1964 killings of civil subsequent autopsies, along witnesses testified that on FBI VIA AP FILE rights activists James Chaney, with aerial photographs of June 21, 1964, Killen went to Andrew Goodman, and Michael the burial site, according to On June 29, 1964, the FBI began distributing these pictures of civil rights Meridian to round up car- Schwerner in Neshoba County an announcement from the workers, from left, Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York, James Cheney, 21, loads of klansmen to ambush sparked national outrage and Mississippi Department of from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York, who disappeared Schwerner, Chaney and helped spur passage of the Archives and History. near Philadelphia, Miss., June 21, 1964. Goodman, telling some of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They The collection is being stored klan members to bring plastic later became the subject of the in three catalog records: Series Philadelphia, Mississippi when and segregationist Sen. Jim or rubber gloves. Witnesses movie “Mississippi Burning.” 2870 houses the attorney they disappeared in June of Eastland told President Lyndon said Killen then went to a The previously sealed general’s research files, Series 1964. Johnson it was a “publicity Philadelphia funeral home as materials — dating from 1964 2902 houses the FBI memos A deputy sheriff in stunt” before their bodies were an alibi while the fatal attack to 2007 — were transferred to and Series 2903 houses the Philadelphia had arrested dug up, found weeks later in an occurred. the Mississippi Department of photographs. them on a traffic charge, earthen dam. Killen died in prison in 2018. Archives and History from the The three Freedom Summer then released them after Nineteen men were indicted Mississippi then-Attorney Mississippi attorney gener- workers, all in their 20s, had alerting a mob. Mississippi’s on federal charges in the 1967 General Jim Hood officially al’s office in 2019. As of last been investigating the burn- then-governor claimed their case. Seven were convicted closed the investigation in week, they are now available ing of a black church near disappearance was a hoax, of violating the victims’ civil 2016. Floyd case expert OKed to testify in Nashville officer trial By JONATHAN MATTISE of Hambrick, who had THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a felony record. The defense can’t show the NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury a photo of Daniel judge has ruled that pros- Hambrick with money ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS/THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL VIA ecutors in the first-degree and several handguns, AP murder trial of a Nashville or other photos used to police officer next month “counter” the 8 x 10 photo Albuquerque Fire Rescue crews work on victims of the fatal can call a law enforce- of Hambrick that prose- balloon crash at Unser and Central SW in Albuquerque, N.M., ment expert witness who cutors can display. on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Multiple people were killed in the earlier this year testified Delke didn’t know who crash. that Derek Chauvin used Hambrick was when he excessive force against chased him and shot him George Floyd in the three times, an arrest 5 who died in moments prior to the affidavit states. COURTNEY PEDROZA/THE TENNESSEAN VIA AP FILE Black man’s death. The ruling does not ad- The ruling Friday by In this Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, Nashville Police Officer Andrew dress the defense’s hope Judge Monte Watkins also Delke sits in court as attorney David Raybin debates a new trial to keep the jury from New Mexico hot lets the defense team of location at the Justice A. A. Birch Building in Nashville, Tenn. seeing any video evidence 27-year-old white Officer of the shooting. Andrew Delke use a Raybin asked the air balloon crash former Nashville district inclusion, arguing that Hambrick while he was judge to exclude all attorney as an expert prosecutors missed a fleeing from the officer on video evidence because witness in the July 2018 deadline to add the wit- foot and carrying a gun. of additional footage that ness and were now trying Delke’s attorneys have identified fatal shooting of 25-year- the defense argued could to inject the landmark argued the officer acted old Daniel Hambrick, have shown a key, unseen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to agency spokesman Chauvin case into Delke’s in line with his training who is Black. blip in the chase, but Peter Knudson. trial. Prosecutors said and Tennessee law in The judge’s approval of was not retained in the ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. “This is a tragedy that they wouldn’t mention responding to “an armed Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles investigation. Prosecutors — Authorities on Sunday is uniquely felt and hits that case, but Raybin suspect who ignored re- Police Department countered that it’s un- released the names of uniquely hard at home wondered how it would peated orders to drop his sergeant who testified likely that the additional, the pilot and two couples here in Albuquerque and not come up during gun.” Nashville District as a use-of-force expert unreviewed video would who died after a hot air in the ballooning com- questioning. Attorney Glenn Funk has during the Chauvin trial, show anything new. balloon they were riding munity,” Albuquerque Johnson, the former argued Delke had other and former Nashville In the surveillance foot- in struck a power line and Mayor Tim Keller said. prosecutor, testified in alternatives, adding that District Attorney Torry age available, there is a crashed onto a busy street According to an NTSB a pretrial hearing that the officer could have Johnson, helps set up blip of a blind spot in the in Albuquerque. database, there have he believes Delke had stopped, sought cover some of the final parame- angles seen, a point the New Mexico State been 12 fatal hot air probable cause to pursue and called for help. ters before the trial begins defense has focused on. Police on Sunday identi- ballooning accidents in Hambrick, both in his Friday’s order solidifies on July 12. It will be The defense has said the fied the pilot as 62-year- the United States since police cruiser and later some other rules for the preceded by jury selec- weapon became pointed old Nicholas Meleski 2008 with two of those on foot when Hambrick trial. Defense attorneys tion the week before. at Delke during the chase, and the four passengers occurring in Rio Rancho got out of a car. can’t bring up the former Defense attorney David but prosecutors have cast as Susan Montoya, 65; just outside Albuquerque, Delke fatally shot arrests and convictions Raybin opposed Stiger’s doubt about that. John Montoya, 61; Mary which is mecca for hot air Martinez, 59; and Martin ballooning. Martinez, 62. The ages of The city hosts a nine- the Martinez couple were day Balloon Festival reversed when authorities in October that draws Infrastructure deal back on track after walk-back released their identities hundreds of thousands THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wavering Republicans, Louisiana, even predicted and others that the White Saturday. of spectators and pilots who have privately and that Senate Minority House was working All were Albuquerque from around the world. It WASHINGTON — A not-so-privately regis- Leader Mitch McConnell with Republicans before residents. is one of the most photo- bipartisan deal to invest tered their displeasure at would even support the Biden tries to push the State Police said graphed events globally. nearly $1 trillion in the the linkage. final bill. broader package through John Montoya died at a Meleski was known for nation’s infrastructure “Over the weeks and “If we can pull this off, I Congress. hospital from his injuries flying a multi-colored appeared to be back on weeks in negotiations think Mitch will favor it,” Still, it remained to while the other victims balloon with a Zia symbol track Sunday after a stark with Democrats and he said on NBC’s “Meet be seen what impact were declared dead at the which appears on the walk-back by President with the White House the Press.” “I think Leader Biden’s comments would crash scene Saturday. New Mexico state flag. Joe Biden to his earlier on an infrastructure bill, McConnell will be for it, have on progressive Witnesses told author- The retired UPS driver insistence that the bill the president’s other if it continues to come lawmakers in the House ities that the balloon had been a licensed be coupled with an even agenda was never linked together as it is.” and Senate, who have descended toward the balloon pilot since 1994 larger Democrat-backed to the infrastructure Montana Sen. Jon pushed Biden not to ground around 7:30 a.m. and was a regular at the measure in order to earn effort,” Utah Republican Tester, a Democrat, pre- moderate his agenda in Saturday and struck an Balloon Fiesta. his signature. Sen. Mitt Romney said dicted the measure would pursuit of bipartisanship. overhead power line. Paul Fields, an Republican senators on CNN’s “State of the draw more than the House Speaker Nancy The gondola detached Albuquerque resident who brokered the agree- Union” on Sunday. He minimum 10 Republican Pelosi, D-Calif., has said from the envelope and who was friends with ment with the White said that if Biden had not senators needed to pass her chamber would not fell about 100 feet (30 Meleski, said he was an House and Democrats put out the statement, the bipartisan accord in take up the bipartisan meters) and crashed in amazing pilot who made to fund badly needed “I think it would have the 50-50 Senate, where proposal until the Senate the median of a busy city every passenger smile. investments in roads, been very, very hard for 60 votes are required to first acted on the larger street before catching on “The skies will be a bridges, water and broad- Republicans to say, yes, advance most bills, but Democrat-backed bill. fire, authorities said. little less bright without band internet indicated we support this.” he said there would likely “I think it’s very import- The envelope of the him,” Fields said. they were satisfied with “We’re not going to sign be “bumps in the road” ant for the president to balloon floated away, Martin “Marty” Biden’s comments that he up for a multitrillion-dol- along the way. know that House progres- eventually landing on a Martinez retired from was dropping the both- lar spending spree,” he “We’ll work those prob- sives, and I believe, you residential rooftop. the Albuquerque Police or-nothing approach. added, referencing the lems,” he said on CBS know, the Democratic The National Department as a patrol In a statement issued larger Democratic bill. News’ “Face The Nation.” Caucus, is here to ensure Transportation Safety officer and had been Saturday after 48 hours of Romney said he “I think we’ll get far more that he doesn’t fail,” New Board and Federal a police field sergeant behind-the-scenes ma- believed there was now than 60 votes.” York Rep. Alexandria Aviation Administration for Albuquerque Public neuvering by the White sufficient GOP support The bipartisan accord Ocasio-Cortez said on will be investigating the Schools the past 16 years. House to salvage the deal, in the Senate to reach has been a key priority “Meet the Press.” “And cause of the crash. Some Albuquerque Biden said it was not his the 60-vote threshold for Biden as he tries to we’re here to make sure The NTSB sent two officers who responded “intent” to suggest he was to overcome a potential deliver on a campaign that he is successful in investigators to the to the crash had worked issuing a veto threat on filibuster and pass the promise to restore making sure that we do scene and will look into with Martinez and were the bill. bipartisan package. bipartisan cooperation have a larger infrastruc- the pilot, the balloon sent home because it took That proved to be Another GOP negotiator, to Washington and to ture plan.” itself and the operating a toll on them, police enough for some Sen. Bill Cassidy of show centrist Democrats environment, according Chief Harold Medina said. www.highlandsnewssun.com June 28, 2021 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | A5 WORLD NEWS

ALAMANAC Today is Monday, June UK health minister resigns after breaching COVID rules 28, the 179th day of 2021. There are 186 days left in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a non-executive director at the the year. Department of Health, a role LONDON — U.K. Health that pays about 15,000 pounds Today in history Secretary Matt Hancock, who ($21,000) a year. has led the country’s response Johnson’s Conservative On June 28, 1940, to the coronavirus, resigned government has been branded President Franklin D. Saturday, a day after apologizing a “chumocracy” by critics for Roosevelt signed the for breaching social distancing hiring special advisers and con- Alien Registration Act, rules with an aide with whom tractors from outside the civil also known as the Smith he was allegedly having an service without long-customary Act, which required adult affair. levels of scrutiny. foreigners residing in the Hancock had been under Hancock’s department U.S. to be registered and growing pressure since the tab- has been accused of waiving fingerprinted. loid Sun newspaper published procurement rules to award lu- images showing him and senior crative contracts for protective On this date aide Gina Coladangelo kissing equipment and other medical in an office at the Department essentials, often to personal In 1838, Britain’s Queen of Health. The Sun said the contacts. Hancock has said Victoria was crowned in closed circuit television images he was driven by the need to Westminster Abbey. were taken May 6 — 11 days MATT DUNHAM/AP POOL PHOTO secure essential supplies quickly In 1919, the Treaty of before lockdown rules were at the height of the outbreak. Versailles was signed in eased to allow hugs and other In this file photo dated Thursday, May 27, 2021, Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock has faced weeks of France, ending the First physical contact with people Hancock speaks during a coronavirus media briefing from Downing Street in pressure since the prime min- World War. outside one’s own household. London. ister’s former top aide, Dominic In 1950, North Korean In a resignation letter to Cummings, accused him of the pandemic, but even before of this crisis,” Hancock, who forces captured Seoul, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, botching the government’s COVID-19 struck us.” is married, said in his letter of capital of South Korea. Hancock said the government response to the pandemic. Johnson had earlier expressed resignation. In 1951, a TV version owed it “to people who have Cummings, now a bitter critic of confidence in Hancock despite “I want to reiterate my apol- of the radio comedy sacrificed so much in this the government he once served, widespread calls to fire him. ogy for breaking the guidance, program “Amos ‘N’ Andy” pandemic to be honest when told lawmakers last month that Jonathan Ashworth, health and apologize to my family and premiered on CBS. (It we have let them down.” Hancock “should have been spokesman for the opposition loved ones for putting them was the first network “And those of us who make fired” for alleged lies and errors. Labour Party, said “it is right through this,” he said. “I also TV series to feature an these rules have got to stick by He also published a WhatsApp that Matt Hancock has resigned. need (to) be with my children at all-Black cast, but came them and that’s why I’ve got to message in which Johnson But why didn’t Boris Johnson this time.” under criticism for racial resign,” he wrote. branded Hancock “totally have the guts to sack him and Hancock, 42, is the latest in stereotyping.) Sajid Javid, who was the (expletive) hopeless.” why did he say the matter was a string of British officials to be In 2010, the Supreme U.K. Treasury chief earlier in Cummings himself was ac- closed?” accused of breaching restric- Court ruled, 5-4, that Johnson’s government before cused of breaking the rules and Some lawmakers from the tions they imposed on the rest Americans had the right resigning in February 2020, undermining the government’s governing Conservatives had of the population to curb the to own a gun for self-de- will replace Hancock as health “stay home” message when he also called on Hancock to quit spread of the coronavirus. fense anywhere they secretary. Javid was also home drove 250 miles across England because he wasn’t practicing The government is also facing lived. secretary in then Prime Minister to his parents’ home during what he has been preaching questions about the circum- In 2013, the four Theresa May’s government. the spring 2020 lockdown. during the pandemic. stances in which Hancock plaintiffs in the U.S. Johnson said he was sorry to Johnson resisted pressure to “The last thing I would want hired Coladangelo, a university Supreme Court case that receive Hancock’s resignation fire him, but Cummings left his is for my private life to distract friend who was appointed to his overturned California’s and that he “should leave office job in November amid a power attention from the single-mind- department last year. She was same-sex marriage ban very proud of what you have struggle in the prime minister’s ed focus that is leading us out initially employed as an unpaid tied the knot, just hours achieved — not just in tackling office. after a federal appeals adviser and this year became court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4 1/2 years. Blinken, Lapid meet in Rome amid reset US-Israel relations Ten years ago: Taliban fighters raided an inter- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS countless cycles of unrest. national hotel in Kabul “Israel has some serious res- and killed 10 people on ROME — U.S. Secretary of ervations about the Iran nuclear the eve of a conference to State Antony Blinken and Israeli deal that is being put together discuss plans for Afghan Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Vienna,” Lapid said, before forces to take over secu- in Rome on Sunday as their pledging that Israel would rity when international new governments look to turn make its objections privately. troops left by the end of the page on former President Netanyahu had loudly and 2014. Donald Trump and former publicly opposed the deal when Five years ago: Prime Minister Benjamin the Obama administration was Three suicide bombers Netanyahu, whose close alliance negotiating it. armed with assault aggravated partisan divisions Blinken acknowledged the rifles stormed Istanbul’s within both countries. disagreement. “As the closest Ataturk airport, killing Lapid said he had spoken with of friends do, we will have 44 victims and wound- Democrats and Republicans occasional differences,” he said. ing nearly 150; no one since taking office and had “We have the same objective; claimed responsibility, “reminded them all that we sometimes we differ on the but Turkish officials share America’s most basic, tactics, and we, I think, are very said they suspected the basic values — freedom, democ- ANDREW HARNIK/AP PHOTO clear and direct to each other Islamic State group. racy, free markets and constant Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards his plane at Andrews Air Force when that’s the case and that’s One year ago: The search for peace.” Base, Md., Tuesday, June 22, 2021 to travel to Berlin Brandenburg Airport in exactly how it’s supposed to be.” world surpassed two Blinken noted that even Schonefeld, Germany. Though opposed to a new coronavirus milestones though the two governments are accord, Israel’s new government – 500,000 confirmed new, “the foundation that we’re Dome defense system. A major are things you can do quietly seems intent on trying to influ- deaths, 10 million con- working on is one of an endur- push to revive the long-dormant under the radar, on the ground, ence the talks rather than scut- firmed cases, while also ing partnership, a relationship, peace process between Israel to improve the situation.” tle them altogether. Netanyahu hitting another high mark friendship between the United and the Palestinians could That approach — of man- enraged many Democrats when for daily new infections. States and Israel.” unsettle the delicate balance. aging the conflict rather than he condemned the “very bad The push means aiming for “Nobody thinks it’s a good trying to solve it — may succeed deal” before a joint session of Today’s birthdays smaller achievements, such as idea to start charging through in papering over domestic Congress in 2015. shoring up the informal cease- on a major new peace initia- divisions. But it also maintains a So far, the reset seems to be Comedian-movie fire that ended last month’s war tive,” said Ilan Goldenberg, a status quo that the Palestinians functioning. But with the Israeli director Mel Brooks is 95. with Gaza’s militant Hamas rul- Mideast security expert at the find increasingly oppressive and coalition barely two weeks old, Comedian-impressionist ers and replenishing Israel’s Iron nonprofit Center for a New hopeless, and which has fueled significant challenges loom. John Byner is 84. Actor American Security. “But there Kathy Bates is 73. Actor Alice Krige is 67. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 61. Actor Mary Stuart Ethiopia airstrike survivors recall massacre Masterson is 55. Actor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reaching them, or from taking John Cusack is 55. Actor them to hospitals in the regional Gil Bellows is 54. Actor- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — capital, Mekele, just 37 miles singer Danielle Brisebois Maerg was serving customers at away, health workers said. is 52. Jazz musician his cafe in Ethiopia’s Tigray village The military said the airstrike Jimmy Sommers is 52. of Togoga when the military targeted Tigray fighters dressed in Actor Tichina Arnold is airstrike occurred, filling the civilian clothes who had gath- 52. Actor Steve Burton room with dust and bringing ered to celebrate Martyrs’ Day. is 51. Entrepreneur Elon down debris that struck him on But witnesses told the AP that Musk is 50. Actor Camille the head. although fighters loyal to Tigray’s Guaty is 45. Country “Everything was covered in former leaders had been active in singer Kellie Pickler is 35. black smoke, it was like a hell,” the surrounding countryside days he told The Associated Press by before the airstrike, armed men Bible verse phone, recounting one of the were not in Togoga on the day of deadliest attacks in the Tigray As far as the east is the attack. conflict. “There was so much from the west, so far Most of the victims were wom- blood.” heath he removed our AP PHOTO en and children, said a doctor Seven people were killed in transgressions from us.” who treated people at the scene. his cafe alone, and some 30 were — Psalms 103:12. In this image made from video, an injured victim of an alleged airstrike on a In a war that has been largely wounded, including his sister-in- There is only one way village arrives in an ambulance at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the fought in the shadows, with com- law, who suffered burns on her to rid ourselves from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. An airstrike hit munications and transport links face, hands and legs. Outside, he fruit of sin. We must give a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday and often cut since fighting in Tigray said, he saw dozens more bodies. killed at least 51 people, according to health workers who said soldiers blocked ourselves to the Lord who began in November, the airstrike As time passed, he watched in medical teams from traveling to the scene. can remove them from us in Togoga was a rare instance horror as survivors realized that of a massacre emerging almost as far as the east is from saved,” he said. marketplace on Tuesday, which Ethiopian soldiers were blocking immediately. Within minutes, one the west. Such witness accounts are health officials said killed at least medical aid from arriving. former resident had tweeted the emerging after Ethiopia’s military 64 people and injured dozens “We feel very angry because news. Within hours, there was has said it was responsible for the more. Many died when soldiers a lot of lives could have been international condemnation. airstrike that struck Togoga’s busy blocked medical teams from A6 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 28, 2021 www.highlandsnewssun.com VIEWPOINTS

HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 Timothy D. Smolarick Romona Washington VP & Publisher, D-R Media Corporate Executive Editor [email protected] [email protected] Amanda Young Rob Kearley Advertising Director Corporate Circulation Director [email protected] [email protected] SUN ANOTHER VIEW For the Florida Chamber’s This is no way to thin the herd The Bureau of Land GUEST COLUMN horses are warehoused Horses bought at Management’s annual in government pastures, auction typically are report card, helicopter roundup of Kathleen Parker corrals and private ranch- crammed into dou- wild horses and burros es that the BLM rents, ble-decker trucks without in the desert southwest, many adoptive parties, costing taxpayers about water for a journey set to begin in mid-July, once paid, herded their $60 million per year. that may last as long an F is like horses straight to slaugh- is beginning to look like a It won’t surprise many as 24 hours. Footage frontier standoff between ter auctions. to learn that the wild- obtained by the San animal advocates, legis- “This is the government horse lobby is outgunned Antonio Express-News making the lators and horse adopters laundering horses,” a by the cattle-rancher several years ago showed of dubious intent. lawyer for the American lobby. Even so, some on horses being beaten and The issue is familiar: Wild Horse Campaign, Capitol Hill are taking prodded toward the kill Wild horses get in the Brieanah Schwartz, told notice. Sen. Dianne booth, repeatedly stabbed honor roll way of cattle ranchers the Times. “They call Feinstein, D-Calif., in the neck to paralyze it adoptions, knowing The Florida Chamber of Commerce’s legisla- who want to control recently wrote a letter to them, and then hung by the horses are going to tive report card is a reliable, annual reminder more public lands for Interior Secretary Deb one back leg while their slaughter. But this way of how out of touch the state’s most influential their own herds, claiming Haaland requesting that throats are slit. Their the B.L.M. won’t get its business group is with the priorities of the that the horses harm the the department suspend deaths are slow and fingerprints on it.” state’s working class. landscape. As compared its wild horse and burro excruciating, their fear Even though the bureau Lawmakers who vote for the interests of to, say, the millions of Adoption Incentive and panic immense. limits to four the number working families get failing grades from the domestic livestock that Program and launch an If such images aren’t of horses that anyone chamber, while lawmakers who put business decimate arid public investigation into the enough to warrant can adopt per year, savvy interests first make the dean’s list. lands with high-density program. immediate action, then dealers have found ways This year’s report card, however, also was grazing? This would be In a similar letter, we can hardly think of around such restrictions. a notable for the business-related bills the laughable if not for the about 30 House members ourselves as a humane They also have managed chamber chose not to grade lawmakers on. brutality such thinking also asked Haaland to species. Congress should to ignore an unenforce- Take Senate Bill 2006, which prohibits a leads to. suspend the sales and force the bureau to park able pledge not to sell business — including the entire cruise ship Make no mistake: urged passage of the its helicopters and allow their horses to slaughter- industry operating in Florida — from requiring Some of the wild horses Save America’s Forgotten new practices to take houses. Where there’s a that customers show proof of a COVID-19 and burros are adopted Equines (SAFE) Act, shape. Surely a nation of profit, there’s a way, and vaccination. To think all this time we thought by people who love and which would ban horse entrepreneurs and animal lying apparently comes the chamber wanted less government regula- want to save them. But slaughter in the United lovers can figure out ways easily to the greedy. tion, not more. many, many more are States and stop the export to preserve and protect The obvious question: Also missing from the report card was Senate “adopted,” only to be of American horses for these iconic symbols of How many wild horses Bill 7072, which infringes on the free speech ultimately killed. slaughter abroad. freedom and wild beauty. and burros are too many? rights of certain businesses to decide what they A recent, devastating Congress can’t act soon Humans and horses Currently, more than will or won’t publish. Sure, the bill was written report by New York Times enough. Because horse share a unique bond 79,000 wild horses and to lower the boom on big social media plat- writer Dave Phillips slaughter is illegal in the that can be traced back about 15,000 burros roam forms like Facebook, but what’s to stop a newly revealed how a program United States, some of several million years. The about 26 million acres in emboldened Legislature from passing more intended to protect the the thousands of mus- suffering we are about ten states, according to laws that punish other businesses for speech equines actually became tangs chopper-chased to witness – and by our the bureau’s latest figures. they don’t like? a slaughterhouse pipe- into a confined area this passivity, endorse – is a Ideally, experts say, both Another new law that wasn’t graded by the line. Basically, the bureau summer and fall will end betrayal of something populations combined chamber: Senate Bill 2512, which permanently created a $1,000-a-head up in Canada or Mexico, deep and ancient and would be about 27,000. cuts in half the amount of money for affordable Adoption Incentive where slaughterhouses profound. The wailing of In other words, we are housing from a trust fund set up specifically Program in 2019 to are plentiful and un- tortured horses may be oversupplied. for affordable housing. Less money for housing remove 20,000 mustangs imaginably cruel. The beyond earshot, but the Also too much is the means less construction. That means less busi- and burros from federally inhumanity toward these fact of it should rattle our cost of maintaining ness for Florida Realtors, who are so annoyed protected areas each year terrified wild creatures bones. No more. surplus horses that they’re backing a state constitutional amend- and put them in “good demands that we open Kathleen Parker’s email aren’t adopted or sold. ment to restore full funding for housing. homes.” It seemed like a our eyes. With apologies address is kathleenpark- Currently, about 50,000 Problem is, grading lawmakers on those hos- beautiful idea, except that in advance: [email protected]. tile-to-business bills would have meant push- ing back against the powerful political forces who supported them: Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature. Learning summer job dignity That’s not going to happen. The chamber these days is, if anything, a subsidiary of the Florida Republican Party, which is the party of big business in Florida, not working families. for $1 an hour We’re old enough to remember back in They called me “The in a Yahoo News report exchanging your skills November when newly minted House Speaker Trail Blazer,” Good Buddy. that, after last summer’s and labor for cold hard Chris Sprowls offered up a windy, 5,000-word That was my citizens horrible scarcity of cash. speech that found space to complain about band radio handle in the summer jobs, there are When I got my first “cancel culture” but never once mentioned summer of 1977, when 1.2 million part-time jobs paycheck in 1977, I quick- the health-care issues still facing many Florida the hit movie “Smokey available — more than ly learned that saving up families or the state’s unemployment crisis. and the Bandit” created a 2019’s pre-pandemic for my CB radio would CB craze and millions of numbers. be even harder than I That’s something else the chamber — un- GUEST COLUMN surprisingly — didn’t grade lawmakers on: Bills kids like me dreamed of But fewer teens are expected. that would have improved unemployment getting one. Tom Purcell willing to take such jobs. I was introduced to my benefits for workers who need help the most Much to my surprise, According to the U.S. three silent partners — during hard times. my father permitted me aluminum tool that was Department of Labor, federal, state and local The chamber’s report card doesn’t reflect to do so — even though I as long as a golf club and in 1978 about 7 in 10 taxing authorities — who the values of working-class Floridians or even needed to attach a large the shape of a tennis-ball teenagers like me took didn’t have to get their free-market principles. CB radio antenna to the cannister. It had three part-time jobs, but in sneakers covered with Among the bills lawmakers got dinged for by roof of our house. springs on the bottom. recent years prior to the dew to earn a chunk of the chamber: voting against another dramatic He saw the CB radio By pressing the tool pandemic it was down to my $1 hourly wage. expansion of school vouchers without any as an opportunity for me down onto a golf ball, 4 in 10. By the end of the accountability safeguards (House Bill 7045), to learn how to manage the springs would retract Why? summer, however, I’d against a bill that prohibits local governments my own finances — how and the ball would be The University of finally saved enough to from requiring new gas stations to also install to open a bank account, captured. Pennsylvania’s Wharton buy my CB radio. It was electric-car charging stations (House Bill 839), plan ahead, get a job and I was assigned a section School said it’s because one of the most reward- or against a likely unconstitutional new law save money to achieve of dewy grass the size of more teens are taking ing purchases I ever made that prohibits contributions above $3,000 for my goal. a football field and had internships or volunteer — because I built up my constitutional amendment petition campaigns Too young to work a one hour to complete the work to strengthen their dignity one lousy golf-ball (House Bill 1890). retail job, I applied for job — for which I was college applications. plunk at a time. The chamber has spent years agitating for and got the only work paid one dollar (about $4 In a sense, that means In the long run, dignity laws like that last one, intended to deprive available to me: golf-ball in today’s money). colleges are punishing is the biggest reward of citizens of their right to amend Florida’s con- picker at a local driving Needless to say, I was kids who choose to work. a summer job. I highly stitution. Understandable, from the chamber’s range. going to have to work That’s regrettable recommend taking one, point of view, since a worker-friendly initiative Until summer arrived, many unpleasant morn- because summer jobs Young Buddies. like boosting the minimum wage to $15 an when I could start later ings to save enough for offer a treasure trove of Tom Purcell is an hour would never have become Florida law in the day and work more a CB radio, which, if I real-world learning op- author and humor colum- without amending the state constitution. hours, I woke at 5:30 a.m. remember correctly, was portunities: how to plan nist for the Pittsburgh We’ve been conditioned over the years to every morning before about $130 at the time. and execute projects, Tribune-Review. Email associate F with failure. When it comes to the school and rode my bike This memory came collaborate with different him at Tom@TomPurcell. Florida Chamber of Commerce’s report card, two miles to the range. back to me when I read personalities and expe- com. an F should be considered a spot on the honor I was handed an rience the satisfaction of roll. An editorial from the Orlando Sentinel. www.highlandsnewssun.com June 28, 2021 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | A7

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By RICARDO ALON- House officials fret that to listen carefully to SO-ZALDIVAR the persuadable universe objections and concerns, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS may be shrinking. and respond with factual Early success with information that’s on WASHINGTON — vaccination has paradox- point. Thrown off-stride to ically made things more “When you start telling reach its COVID-19 vac- difficult. Now that cases them things they can cination goal, the Biden and deaths have dropped relate to, it kind of calms administration is sending to levels not seen since them down,” she said. A-list officials across the the onset of the pandem- Her own motivation country, devising ads ic, officials say it’s be- is personal. Finch said for niche markets and come harder to convince a close friend lost two enlisting community Americans of the urgency brothers days apart to organizers to persuade of getting a shot — par- COVID-19, and that unvaccinated people to ticularly younger people motivates her to keep get a shot. who already knew they working. “People are still The strategy has the were at low risk of serious dying,” she said. trappings of a political complications. While applauding the campaign, complete with Biden officials say they Biden administration’s data crunching to identify recognize that it’s going to efforts to get Americans groups that can be won take more than celebrity vaccinated, some public over. pitches to close the deal. health experts say there But the message is In Knoxville, Tennessee, are limits to what persua- about public health, not a retired hospice and sion can achieve. ideology. The focus is JOHN LOCHER/AP FILE PHOTO home care administrator The administration has a group health officials has become a volunteer ruled out vaccine pass- term the “movable mid- In this April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 response ports that could become a dle” — some 55 million vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. organizer in the Black ticket to benefits such as unvaccinated adults seen community. Cynthia international travel. But as persuadable, many of Earlier in the day, first rates have dropped below Mississippi earlier in the Finch is one of many Dr. Leana Wen, a former them under 30. lady Jill Biden held the 1 million a day, and week, Gulf Coast resident around the country to Baltimore health com- “We’re not just going to hand of a woman at a there’s no sign yet of a Sherie Bardwell was whom federal health missioner, said a federal do the mass vaccination drive-thru vaccination turnaround. The adminis- unimpressed. She said officials have turned as verification system that sites,” said Health and site in Kissimmee. tration has acknowledged Biden’s comment that “trusted messengers.” people could use to prove Human Services Secretary Doug Emhoff, the that it will fall short of “vaccines might feel like Finch dubbed her local their vaccination status Xavier Becerra. “It’s door husband of Vice President its goal of having 70% of a miracle, but there’s no vaccine strategy the “3 could still be an incentive. to door. It’s mobile clinics. Kamala Harris, has racked adults vaccinated by July faith required,” sounded V’s.” She started with “Setting an aspirational We’re doing vaccinations up thousands of frequent Fourth. to her like a dig at people what she calls “vaccine goal of 70% was the right at church, the PTA meet- flyer miles, visiting at At this point, about with Christian beliefs. partners,” such as local goal for the Biden admin- ing, the barber shop, the least 18 or 19 states by his 170 million American “She said shots are hospitals and universities, istration, but I wish they grocery store.” count. adults have received at miracles that don’t re- to create a framework. had not been so hesitant Officials have seized on The administration also least one vaccine dose, quire faith. The Bible says Then she organized about vaccination a compelling new talking has recruited celebrities representing roughly just live by faith,” said volunteers to give shots requirements,” she said. point, courtesy of the and athletes, including two-thirds of those 18 Bardwell, who followed by working with profes- “We are going to be coronavirus. The potent country music star Brad and older. An Associated news about the first lady’s sional groups including in a position where the delta variant that has Paisley and the Tampa Press analysis suggests visit. Bardwell said both a Black nursing sorority. majority of the country is ravaged India is spreading Bay Lightning hockey that Biden’s self-imposed she and her husband had Finally, she reached out to going to be vaccinated,” here. Now accounting for team. It has teamed up goal may not be reached COVID-19 and she was pastors and community said Wen. “Why should about 1 in 5 virus samples with Twitch and Riot until late July at current hospitalized. organizations to provide they be held hostage by genetically decoded Games to reach online rates of vaccination. “My thoughts are, if venues where people a minority of the popula- in the U.S., the more gamers and with Panera Analysts at HHS have you’ve already had the could come to get their tion, who are potentially transmissible mutation and Chipotle to offer free developed a rough sketch coronavirus, why do you vaccines. Finch estimates endangering everybody has gained a foothold food to those getting a of those in the movable need the vaccine?” asked those efforts have led else?” in Mountain West and shot. middle. They tend to be Bardwell. “If the vaccine to thousands of people Administration officials heartland states. Many of The message, as younger, mainly 18-29. was the ‘miracle,’ then getting fully vaccinated. show no signs of budging those infected are young Surgeon General Vivek Most are not college edu- why are you still at risk She said she is used to in their position. “The and unvaccinated. Murthy put it: “If you cated, and political inde- of contracting the virus dealing with skepticism, federal government is The White House has are vaccinated, you are pendents predominate. after receiving the shot? particularly given the not planning to create a lent its top names to the protected. If you are not, Black and Latino adults It just doesn’t make sense history of substandard database of people who vaccine push. the threat of variants is are more likely to fall in to me.” Doctors advise care in minority com- have been vaccinated,” President Joe Biden real and growing.” this category than people recovered patients to munities and the use of Murthy said. visited a mobile vaccina- It’s unclear how well the of other backgrounds. get vaccinated so as to Black patients in medical tion site in Raleigh, North levers of persuasion are It can be a hard sell. maintain protection. experiments without Carolina, on Thursday. functioning. Vaccination After Jill Biden’s visit to Privately, some White their consent. She tries

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High Low High Low Ocala Daytona Beach City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 89/72 86/74 Apalachicola 84 77 c 85 77 pc Bradenton DeLand Clearwater 90 78 t 89 78 t Today 6:29a 8:45a 3:14p 11:52p Tue. 6:49a 10:22a 4:12p --- Beverly Leesburg 88/74 Coral Springs 87 78 pc 88 77 t Hills 88/74 Daytona Beach 86 74 pc 86 75 t Clearwater 89/72 Fort Lauderdale 87 79 pc 85 79 t Today 4:17a 9:37a 3:03p 10:30p Orlando Fort Myers 91 75 t 91 75 t Tue. 4:53a 10:31a 4:00p 11:11p Brooksville 90/75 Titusville Gainesville 88 71 t 89 72 t St. Petersburg 92/73 Jacksonville 84 71 t 87 73 t 86/74 Today 4:38p 12:04a ------Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Key Largo 86 80 c 86 80 t Tue. 8:13a 12:47a 5:36p 11:17a Kissimmee Key West 87 81 t 88 81 t U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states Sunday) High ...... 111 at Palm Springs, CA Low ...... 32 at Dakota Hill, CO Tarpon Springs 88/75 Melbourne Melbourne 87 77 pc 87 76 t Vero Beach 90/77 Plant City Haines City 87/77 Miami 89 79 pc 88 78 t Today 2:58a 9:39a 3:05p 9:44p Today Tue. Today Tue. Tue. 3:48a 10:27a 4:00p 10:38p 91/74 89/75 Naples 89 75 t 89 75 t City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Ocala 89 72 t 89 73 t Winter Haven Venice Albuquerque 72 59 t 73 62 t Kansas City 81 69 t 80 69 c Tampa Okeechobee 87 73 t 85 72 t 90/74 Today 5:51a 8:02a 2:36p 11:09p Anchorage 60 52 pc 64 56 pc Knoxville 89 70 t 90 70 t 92/77 Orlando 90 75 t 90 74 t Tue. 6:11a 9:39a 3:34p 11:49p Atlanta 88 72 pc 81 71 t Las Vegas 107 87 pc 100 81 pc Bartow Frostproof Panama City 87 74 c 86 74 t 90/74 Baltimore 94 74 s 96 75 s Los Angeles 89 69 s 84 68 pc St. Petersburg 89/74 Pensacola 88 74 c 89 76 pc Birmingham 90 72 c 85 70 t Louisville 91 75 t 92 76 c 92/77 Avon Park Pompano Beach 86 79 pc 86 78 t Marine Boise 102 73 s 105 75 s Memphis 90 75 t 92 75 c Wauchula 89/74 Vero St. Augustine 85 74 t 86 75 t Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland Boston 94 76 pc 93 74 s Milwaukee 72 66 t 80 69 t 91/73 Basinger Beach St. Petersburg 92 77 t 91 76 t Sebring direction in knots in feet chop Buffalo 86 71 t 85 70 t Minneapolis 82 67 t 82 65 t 88/73 88/76 Sarasota 91 76 t 92 76 t Sarasota Myakka City 90/73 Burlington, VT 90 71 t 86 70 pc Montgomery 91 70 pc 90 71 t Tallahassee 89 72 c 89 72 t Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs 91/76 92/74 Charleston, WV 89 68 t 92 70 pc Nashville 91 73 pc 92 73 pc Okeechobee Tampa 92 77 t 91 77 t ESE 6-12 1-2 Light Charlotte 91 71 pc 90 71 t New Orleans 88 78 t 89 78 t 87/73 Vero Beach 88 76 pc 88 75 t Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola Port Chicago 78 70 t 80 69 t New York City 91 77 s 93 77 pc Venice Venus Indiantown West Palm Beach 88 80 pc 87 78 t ENE 6-12 1-3 Light 90/76 Charlotte Cincinnati 89 73 t 90 72 t Norfolk, VA 87 74 s 90 76 s 90/74 91/73 88/75 Cleveland 85 73 t 88 71 t Oklahoma City 77 67 t 78 68 t UV Index Today Sun and Moon Columbia, SC 88 73 pc 88 71 t Omaha 83 67 t 84 66 pc Sebring Winter Haven Columbus, OH 91 73 t 91 72 t Philadelphia 92 73 s 96 75 pc The Sun Rise Set Concord, NH 94 71 pc 94 69 s Phoenix 109 88 pc 102 86 t Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Today 6:33 a.m. 8:25 p.m. Dallas 84 73 t 86 74 t Pittsburgh 91 71 t 89 71 t Temperatures Temperatures Tuesday 6:33 a.m. 8:25 p.m. Denver 72 55 pc 77 57 pc Portland, ME 92 70 pc 90 68 s Minutes to burn ...... 10 Des Moines 82 68 t 83 67 t Portland, OR 113 69 s 95 64 s High/low 89/75 High/low 87/76 The Moon Rise Set The higher the number the greater the risk. Detroit 84 72 t 83 69 t Providence 91 73 pc 91 73 s Normal high/low 92/69 Normal high/low 92/73 Today none 10:30 a.m. Duluth 78 60 sh 78 59 t Raleigh 89 71 pc 88 72 t Record high 99 in 1952 Record high 99 in 1952 Tuesday 12:05 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Record low 60 in 1998 Record low 64 in 1971 Pollen Index Fairbanks 73 54 c 71 57 pc St. Louis 88 74 t 88 74 t Precipitation (in inches) Precipitation (in inches) Last New First Full Fargo 78 58 s 85 61 pc Salt Lake City 93 68 s 95 69 s Hartford 95 74 pc 95 71 t San Antonio 86 75 t 84 74 t 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.06” 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.25” Helena 92 60 s 98 62 s San Diego 74 67 pc 73 67 pc Month to date 4.39” Month to date 5.56” Honolulu 87 74 pc 89 75 s San Francisco 72 60 pc 74 60 pc Normal month to date 7.30” Normal month to date 6.93” Cause ...... Mold Houston 82 75 t 85 75 t Seattle 110 66 s 88 61 s Year to date 12.85” Year to date 16.33” Jul 1 Jul 9 Jul 17 Jul 23 Source: National Allergy Bureau Indianapolis 88 73 t 87 71 t Washington, DC 93 76 s 97 77 pc Normal year to date 21.20” Normal year to date 20.92” Last year to date 24.05” Last year to date 12.88” Solunar Table Air Quality Today The World Monthly Rainfall Leesburg Minor Major Minor Major Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Today Tue. Today Tue. Month 2021 2020 Avg. Record Today 9:57a 3:44a 10:23p 4:10p City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Tue. 10:52a 4:40a 11:16p 5:04p Jan. 0.29 0.58 2.48 7.46/1948 Temperatures Amsterdam 77 60 t 71 57 t Mexico City 63 55 t 67 57 t Wed. 11:42a 5:31a ---- 5:53p Feb. 5.86 1.44 2.54 10.61/1998 High/low 87/74 Main pollutant ...... Ozone Baghdad 118 85 pc 118 86 pc Montreal 86 70 sh 83 71 pc March 0.41 0.14 3.60 12.18/1960 Source: The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you Beijing 91 69 pc 80 69 t Ottawa 86 66 sh 82 67 pc Precipitation (in inches) Airnow.gov will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover April 4.16 3.30 2.63 7.36/1951 Berlin 85 66 pc 85 65 pc Paris 73 55 t 66 55 t May 0.05 1.66 2.74 12.72/1957 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.84” during those times. Major periods begin at the times June 5.56 6.09 7.87 16.44/1992 shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are Buenos Aires 51 44 c 53 43 pc Rio de Janeiro 80 68 s 74 65 pc Weather Trivia™ shorter. July 6.88 8.25 16.45/1945 Airport Cairo 101 76 s 100 76 s Rome 88 66 s 85 67 pc Aug. 6.73 7.48 14.59/1949 Q: Cancun 86 78 t 86 78 t St. John’s 68 46 sh 55 45 c Possible weather-related delays today. Check with What valuable element does Sept. 10.53 6.08 17.26/1960 lightning provide to the soil? Weather History Dublin 65 49 pc 67 50 pc San Juan 88 77 pc 89 78 s Oct. 1.81 2.58 9.43/1952 your airline for the most updated schedules. Edmonton 93 63 s 97 67 s Sydney 63 54 pc 64 53 c Nov. 4.02 2.11 7.81/1988 Hi/Lo Outlook Delays The battle of Monmouth, N.J., was Halifax 80 63 pc 83 61 pc Tokyo 81 69 c 76 70 r Dec. 2.58 2.76 12.52/2002 Orlando 90/75 storms afternoon fought on June 28, 1778. Reports Kiev 78 61 r 80 62 t Toronto 86 69 sh 84 68 t

Total 16.33 45.76 51.12 73.28/1959

Sarasota 91/76 storms afternoon Nitrogen showed more casualties caused by heat London 71 59 t 65 56 t Vancouver 89 68 s 79 63 s Totals are from a 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. Tampa 92/77 storms afternoon A: than bullets. Madrid 85 57 s 90 59 s Winnipeg 79 54 s 87 63 s Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. POP: Probability of precipitation SPORTS • LOCAL • STATE • NATIONAL

Monday, June 28, 2021 SECTION B Habs brace for biggest test: Sports on TV „ Today, June 28 COLLEGE BASEBALL Defending champion Lightning 7 p.m. ESPN2 — College World Series: Mississippi St. vs. Vanderbilt, Game 1, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Final, which opens at Tampa Bay on Monday. Omaha, Neb. MONTREAL — Artturi “We’ve got a lot of con- CYCLING Lehkonen is keeping his fidence,” Lekhonen said 7:30 a.m. composure after becom- Saturday, two days after NBCSN — UCI: Tour de France, ing part of the Montreal his goal at 1:39 of overtime Stage 3, Lorient to Pontivy, 114 miles Canadiens’ illustrious history sealed a 3-2 win over Vegas MLB BASEBALL by scoring the franchise’s in Game 6 of the semifinals 7 p.m. most important goal in and vaulted Montreal to its MLBN — LA Dodgers at NY Yankees nearly three decades. first Cup Final appearance OR Kansas City at Boston If the upstart Canadiens’ since winning its 24th title in 12 a.m. (Tuesday) remarkable playoff run has 1993. MLBN — San Francisco at LA been fueled, in part, by a “I’ve received a lot of mes- Dodgers (Joined in Progress) desire to earn respect, then sages after that, but can’t get NBA BASKETBALL their journey is not yet too hyped up about it yet,” 9:10 p.m. complete. The team with the the 25-year-old checking line ESPN — Western Conference Final: CHRIS O’MEARA/AP PHOTO worst record of the NHL’s 16 forward added. “If you want LA Clippers at Phoenix, Game 5 NHL HOCKEY Tampa Bay Lightning center Yanni Gourde (37) celebrates with center playoff qualifiers now has to be the best, you’ve got to the daunting task of facing beat the best.” 8 p.m. Anthony Cirelli (71) after scoring a goal against the New York Islanders NBCSN — Stanley Cup Final: during the second period in Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup the defending champion Lightning in the Stanley Cup BRACE | 3B Montréal at Tampa Bay, Game 1 semifinal playoff series Friday, June 25, 2021, in Tampa. PARA HOCKEY 5 p.m. NBCSN — World Para Championships: Canada vs. U.S., Gold Medal Game, Ostrava, Czechia (Taped) SOCCER (MEN’S) 11:30 a.m. ESPN — UEFA European Championship: Croatia vs. Spain, Round of 16, Copenhagen, Denmark 2:30 p.m. ESPN — UEFA European Championship: France vs. Switzerland, Round of 16, Bucharest, Romania 8 p.m. FS1 — Copa América: Argentina vs. Bolivia, Group A, Cuiabá, Brazil FS2 — Copa América: Uruguay vs. Paraguay, Group A, Rio de Janeiro TENNIS 6 a.m. ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, First Round, London 11:30 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, First Round, London 6 a.m. (Tuesday) ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, First Round, London ---

JIM TAYLOR/CORRESPONDENT MARK J. TERRILL/AP PHOTO Avon Park’s Jaden Hilton muscles a single into left field. Los Angeles Clippers guard Paul George, left, and guard Patrick Beverley talk during the second half in Game 4 of the NBA basket- Avon Park edges Hardee in state T-Ball tourney ball Western Conference Finals against the Phoenix Suns Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Los By JIM TAYLOR single by Raeven Hurd increased Angeles. CORRESPONDENT Hardee’s lead to 6-0. Avon Park responded in the bottom FROSTPROOF — The Avon Park of the first as all 10 batters allowed in Clippers staring T-Ball All-Star team held off the an inning got base hits that produced Hardee T-Ball All-Star team, 29-28, nine runs. on Saturday in the second round of A leadoff single by Kaeley at 3-1 deficit the Florida Dixie State Tournament as Cunningham, followed by run produc- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Avon Park recorded the last out of the ing base hits by Jaden Hilton, Lowell game moments before high winds and Ferguson and Richard Cecil Jr. quickly LOS ANGELES — Paul George and heavy rains crept into the area. cut Hardee’s lead in half at 6-3. the Los Angeles Clippers have pulled In T-Ball, hitting the ball is great, Singles by Harper Turner, Kody off their share of comebacks during but teams who make the most defen- McIntyre and Brooke King drew Avon this year’s postseason. They might sive plays to stop the other team from Park to within one at 6-5 before a two have hit the wall during their mara- scoring will usually rule the day. run single by Maxwell Albritton into thon run. Hardee started the game hot on right center gave Avon Park a 7-6 lead. Los Angeles — playing its 17th game offense, scoring six runs in the top of A single by Bakely Germaine and a in 36 days — lost 84-80 to the Phoenix the first. Singles by Easton Gicker and double by Jacob Garcia added two Suns on Saturday night in Game 4 of Corbyn Smith followed by a T-Ball ho- more runs as Avon Park finished the JIM TAYLOR/CORRESPONDENT the Western Conference finals. The mer by Maxx Rodriquez into right field Clippers have been down 2-0 in each put Hardee up 3-0. Later, a two-run AVON | 7B Avon Park outfielder Maxwell Albritton of their series this postseason, but are makes the throw back to the infield. staring at a 3-1 deficit for the first time with Game 5 set for Monday night in Phoenix. “We’ve been down before. It’s tough. We’ve had our backs against the wall and we’ve been in elimination games,” Verstappen dominates Styrian GP said Reggie Jackson, who scored 20 points. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS this season.” The Clippers rallied from a 16-point Verstappen has won three deficit in the third quarter to get SPIELBERG, Austria — Red of the last four races, and within one, but couldn’t complete Bull driver Max Verstappen only a tire issue when lead- the comeback. They went 0 for 12 has won half of the races this ing in Azerbaijan prevented from the floor with a chance to tie Formula One season. him from making it four. or take the lead, which is the worst And if that wasn’t worrying With a clean start from shooting stretch over the past 25 enough for his rivals, his pole in Sunday’s race, the postseasons, according to ESPN Stats car keeps getting faster and Red Bull driver denied Lewis & Information. faster. Hamilton an early attack LA got within 71-70 with 10:11 The championship leader and he remained ahead for remaining on George’s free throw, but dominated the Styrian Grand the entire race, beating his neither team scored again for 3 min- Prix on Sunday to win back- Mercedes rival by more than utes, 49 seconds until Chris Paul threw to-back races for the first 35 seconds. it to Deandre Ayton for an alley-oop time in his career. Hamilton’s teammate to put Phoenix back up by three. The DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP POOL PHOTO Leading from start to Valtteri Bottas finished third Clippers missed seven shots and finish, it was “super nice to ahead of Sergio Perez as Red committed two turnovers during that Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands celebrates after drive,” the Dutchman said. “I Bull and Mercedes occupied near four-minute stretch. winning the Styrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring could keep my pace consis- the top four places for the “We were just trying to play through racetrack in Spielberg, Austria, Sunday, June 27, 2021. tent to the end. The balance of the car was the best so far STYRIAN | 3B DEFICIT | 3B B2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 28, 2021 www.highlandsnewssun.com

Morant, MEM 5 55 31 151 30.2 GROUP B NASCAR XFINITY POCONO GREEN WOMEN’S DOUBLES Steve Jones 73-71-72—216 PRO BASEBALL Beal, WAS 5 56 31 150 30.0 GP W D L GF GA PTS 225 RECYCLED BY J.P. MASCARO & Championship Retief Goosen 73-71-72—216 Jokic, DEN 10 116 46 298 29.8 a-Brazil 3 3 0 0 9 1 9 SONS Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Darija Jurak Darren Clarke 70-74-72—216 AMERICAN LEAGUE Young, ATL 14 134 105 412 29.4 Colombia 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 Sunday (1), Croatia, def. Raluca-Ioana Olaru, Mike Weir 74-69-73—216 EAST DIVISION Antetokmpo, MIL 13 154 59 376 28.9 Peru 3 1 1 1 4 7 4 At Pocono Raceway Romania, and Nadiia Kichenok (2), Ukraine, Jose Maria Olazabal 70-69-77—216 W L PCT GB Embiid, PHI 11 101 91 309 28.1 Ecuador 3 0 2 1 4 5 2 Long Pond, Pa. 6-3, 6-1. Paul Goydos 70-69-77—216 Boston 47 31 .603 — Booker, PHO 14 128 95 379 27.1 Venezuela 3 0 2 1 2 5 2 Lap length: 2.50 miles Shane Bertsch 74-74-69—217 1 George, LAC 17 144 114 449 26.4 a — advanced to second round Gene Sauers 69-75-73—217 Tampa Bay 47 32 .595 /2 (starting position in parentheses) PRO GOLF Toronto 40 36 .526 6 Brooks, MEM 5 50 21 129 25.8 Monday’s Games 1. (13) Austin Cindric, Ford, 90 laps, 52 points. Joe Durant 73-69-75—217 1 James, LAL 6 54 14 140 23.3 Brazil vs. Ecuador, 8 p.m. Robert Karlsson 71-74-73—218 New York 40 37 .519 6 /2 2. (14) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 90, 50. Baltimore 24 54 .308 23 Irving, BKN 9 77 26 204 22.7 Venezuela vs. Peru, 8 p.m. 3. (2) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 90, 43. LPGA TOUR Steve Flesch 71-73-74—218 CENTRAL DIVISION Middleton, MIL 13 101 52 286 22.0 END OF GROUP STAGE 4. (7) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 90, 46. KPMG WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Dicky Pride 70-74-74—218 W L PCT GB Harris, PHI 12 105 35 261 21.8 5. (3) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 90, 41. Saturday Doug Barron 72-71-75—218 Chicago 44 32 .579 — McCollum, POR 6 50 10 124 20.7 USL CHAMPIONSHIP 6. (6) Daniel Hemric, Toyota, 90, 40. Atlanta Athletic Club Stephen Leaney 70-72-76—218 Cleveland 41 33 .554 2 Harden, BKN 9 51 56 182 20.2 ATLANTIC DIVISION 7. (4) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 90, 38. Johns Creek, Georgia Scott McCarron 74-76-69—219 Detroit 34 44 .436 11 W L T PTS GF GA 8. (5) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 90, 36. Yardage: 6,740; Par: 72 David Frost 73-74-72—219 Kansas City 33 43 .434 11 WNBA Tampa Bay 7 2 0 21 15 6 9. (33) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 90, 31. THIRD ROUND Esteban Toledo 77-69-73—219 Pittsburgh 5 3 2 17 13 11 Lizette Salas 67-67-67—201 Scott Dunlap 73-73-73—219 Minnesota 33 43 .434 11 EASTERN CONFERENCE 10. (19) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 90, 34. Charlotte 5 4 0 15 14 12 Nelly Korda 70-63-68—201 Kent Jones 75-71-74—220 WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB 11. (17) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 90, 26. Hartford 4 2 1 13 16 8 Patty Tavatanakit 70-71-65—206 Tom Byrum 74-72-74—220 W L PCT GB Connecticut 10 5 .667 — 12. (8) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 90, 25. Miami 4 5 1 13 12 14 Giulia Molinaro 70-70-66—206 Ken Tanigawa 74-71-75—220 Houston 48 30 .615 — Chicago 9 8 .529 2 13. (9) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 90, 24. 1 Charleston 3 2 2 11 9 10 Celine Boutier 73-64-69—206 Tom Gillis 73-72-75—220 Oakland 46 33 .582 2 /2 1 14. (26) Santino Ferrucci, Toyota, 90, 23. New York 8 8 .500 2 /2 New York Red Bulls II 2 6 2 8 11 22 Dottie Ardina 70-70-68—208 Wes Short, Jr. 73-72-75—220 Seattle 41 37 .526 7 Washington 7 8 .467 3 15. (24) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 90, 22. 1 Loudoun 1 7 0 3 7 15 Esther Henseleit 71-68-70—209 Duffy Waldorf 73-71-76—220 Los Angeles 37 40 .481 10 /2 1 16. (16) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 90, 21. Atlanta 5 9 .357 4 /2 CENTRAL DIVISION Madelene Sagstrom 70-68-71—209 Bob Estes 69-73-78—220 Texas 30 48 .385 18 1 17. (12) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 90, 20. Indiana 1 15 .063 9 /2 W L T PTS GF GA Hyo Joo Kim 71-69-70—210 K.J. Choi 77-72-72—221 Saturday’s Games WESTERN CONFERENCE 18. (20) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 89, 19. Birmingham 6 3 1 19 10 8 Xiyu Lin 69-71-70—210 Glen Day 75-73-73—221 Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 WL Pct GB 19. (29) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, 89, 18. Louisville 5 2 2 17 17 10 Yealimi Noh 69-72-70—211 Kirk Triplett 76-72-73—221 Detroit 3, Houston 1 (7 innings, 1st game) Seattle 12 3 .800 — 20. (18) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 89, 17. Tulsa 5 4 0 15 17 19 Austin Ernst 69-71-71—211 David McKenzie 73-74-74—221 Houston 3, Detroit 2 (7 innings, 2nd game) 1 21. (23) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 89, 16. Las Vegas 10 4 .714 1 /2 Indy 4 4 2 14 12 13 Wichanee Meechai 73-67-72—212 Miguel Angel Jimenez 70-74-77—221 San Francisco 6, Oakland 5 (10 innings) 1 22. (38) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 89, 15. Dallas 8 8 .500 4 /2 Atlanta 2 3 3 3 12 13 10 Ryann O’Toole 71-69-72—212 John Huston 71-73-77—221 Seattle 3, Chicago White Sox 2 1 23. (27) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 89, 14. Minnesota 7 7 .500 4 /2 OKC Energy 2 4 4 10 8 11 Cydney Clanton 70-67-75—212 Jay Haas 75-68-78—221 Tampa Bay 13, L.A. Angels 3 Phoenix 6 7 .462 5 24. (37) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, 89, 13. Sporting KC II 2 6 4 10 15 22 Alena Sharp 69-68-75—212 Chris DiMarco 76-75-71—222 Texas 8, Kansas City 0 Los Angeles 6 7 .462 5 25. (15) Austin Hill, Toyota, 89, 0. Memphis 2 4 2 8 7 11 Brooke Henderson 74-70-69—213 Brett Quigley 73-77-72—222 Toronto 12, Baltimore 4 Saturday’s Games 26. (30) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 89, 11. MOUNTAIN DIVISION In Gee Chun 70-73-70—213 Billy Andrade 76-73-73—222 Cleveland at Minnesota (ppd., weather) Dallas 85, Washington 74 27. (39) Loris Hezemans, Chevrolet, 89, 10. W L T PTS GF GA Leona Maguire 72-70-71—213 Steve Pate 72-76-74—222 Sunday’s Games New York 101, Atlanta 78 28. (32) Carson Ware, Chevrolet, 88, 9. Rio Grande Valley 5 3 2 17 13 10 Gabriela Ruffels 76-65-72—213 Kenny Perry 71-78-73—222 Boston 9, N.Y. Yankees 2 Sunday’s Games 29. (28) Jesse Little, Toyota, 88, 8. El Paso 4 0 3 15 8 3 Yu Liu 72-69-72—213 John Senden 74-74-74—222 Detroit 2, Houston 1 (10 innings) Connecticut 74, Chicago 58 30. (36) Mason Massey, Toyota, 88, 7. Colorado Springs 4 2 2 14 17 13 Nanna Koerstz Madsen 70-71-72—213 Michael Allen 76-76-71—223 L.A. Angels 6, Tampa Bay 4 Seattle at Las Vegas 31. (34) Jesse Iwuji, Chevrolet, 88, 0. New Mexico 4 3 2 14 11 8 Jessica Korda 69-72-72—213 Jeff Maggert 77-74-72—223 Minnesota 8, Cleveland 2 Los Angeles at Phoenix 32. (35) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 88, 5. San Antonio 2 2 6 12 13 12 Danielle Kang 73-67-73—213 Willie Wood 74-70-79—223 Seattle 3 Chicago White Sox 2 (1st game) Monday’s Games 33. (25) David Starr, Toyota, 87, 4. Austin 3 3 3 12 9 9 Charley Hull 68-71-74—213 Corey Pavin 76-74-74—224 Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 No Games Scheduled. 34. (31) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, Real Monarchs SLC 1 5 4 7 8 13 Lindsey Weaver 73-70-71—214 Cameron Beckman 72-75-77—224 Kansas City at Texas Tuesday’s Games suspension, 78, 3. PACIFIC DIVISION Gerina Piller 70-73-71—214 Olin Browne 75-69-80—224 Oakland at San Francisco Connecticut at Washington, 7 p.m. 35. (10) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, 45, 8. W L T PTS GF GA Georgia Hall 75-67-72—214 Woody Austin 72-72-80—224 Seattle at Chicago White Sox (2nd game) New York at Atlanta, 7 p.m. 36. (40) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, clutch, 42, 1. Phoenix 6 2 1 19 22 9 Chella Choi 70-72-72—214 Joey Sindelar 75-74-76—225 Monday’s Games Wednesday’s Games 37. (1) Harrison Burton, Toyota, accident, Orange County 4 2 2 14 13 9 Mina Harigae 70-70-74—214 Billy Mayfair 78-76-72—226 L.A. Angels (Bundy 1-7) at N.Y. Yankees Chicago at Dallas, 8 p.m. 36, 11. San Diego 4 4 2 14 14 17 Sei Young Kim 76-69-70—215 Matt Gogel 75-83-69—227 (King 0-3), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at Phoenix, 10 p.m. 38. (11) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, accident, LA Galaxy II 3 4 3 12 20 16 Lexi Thompson 73-70-72—215 Carlos Franco 76-80-72—228 Detroit (Manning 1-1) at Cleveland (Morgan Las Vegas at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. 24, 3. 0-2), 7:10 p.m. Tacoma 2 3 2 8 8 12 39. (21) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, accident, So Yeon Ryu 72-70-73—215 Tim Herron 71-77-80—228 Kansas City (Duffy 4-3) at Boston (Richards Sacramento 2 5 1 7 9 13 24, 1. Megan Khang 73-73-70—216 Fred Funk 73-76-80—229 4-5), 7:10 p.m. PRO HOCKEY Las Vegas 2 6 1 7 12 24 40. (22) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, accident, Ally Ewing 73-70-73—216 Russ Cochran 77-74-79—230 Baltimore (Eshelman 0-1) at Houston Oakland 1 2 2 5 6 9 11, 1. Inbee Park 71-68-77—216 John Daly 73-81-79—233 Brittany Lang 74-72-71—217 Jay Don Blake 82-79-79—240 (Greinke 8-2), 8:10 p.m. 2021 NHL STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS NOTE: Three points for victory, one for tie. RACE STATISTICS Minnesota (Maeda 3-2) at Chicago White Friday’s Games Time of Race: One hour, 54 minutes, 53 Albane Valenzuela 73-73-71—217 David Eger 85-83-79—247 FOURTH ROUND Pittsburgh 2, New York Red Bulls II 1 Luna Sobron Galmes 75-70-72—217 Sox (Giolito 5-5), 8:10 p.m. STANLEY CUP FINAL seconds. Tuesday’s Games Tulsa 2, Rio Grande Valley 1 Janie Jackson 76-68-73—217 KORN FERRY (Best-of-7) Winner’s Average Speed: 117.519 m.p.h. L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Colorado 3, New Mexico 1 Dana Finkelstein 75-68-74—217 MAINE OPEN Margin of Victory: 0.331 seconds. Tampa Bay at Washington, 7:05 p.m. San Diego 2, Las Vegas 1 Michelle Wie West 77-69-72—218 Falmouth, Maine TAMPA BAY (C3) VS. MONTREAL (N4) Caution Flags: 6 for 21 laps. Seattle at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Saturday’s Games Lauren Stephenson 77-68-73—218 Saturday Monday’s Game Lead Changes: 11 among 8 drivers. Detroit at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. Charleston 3, Loudoun 0 Mariah Stackhouse 74-70-74—218 Par 71 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. Lap Leaders: H.Burton 0-21; J.Allgaier 22-31; Kansas City at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay 1, Hartford 0 Lydia Ko 72-72-74—218 THIRD ROUND Wednesday’s Game D.Hemric 32-35; T.Gibbs 36-45; A.Cindric 46- Baltimore at Houston, 8:10 p.m. Indy 3, Louisville 3, tie Amy Yang 72-72-74—218 Chad Ramey 67-65-68—200 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. 48; N.Gragson 49; A.Cindric 50-56; T.Gibbs Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Miami 2, Charlotte 1 Moriya Jutanugarn 76-67-75—218 Ben Kohles 69-69-63—201 Friday’s Game 57; D.Hemric 58-71; J.Clements 72-73; Texas at Oakland, 9:40 p.m. Sporting KC II 3, Memphis 2 Yuka Saso 73-70-75—218 Brady Schnell 66-67-68—201 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 8 p.m. A.Labbe 74; A.Cindric 75-90 San Antonio 1, Real Monarchs SLC 1, tie Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Caroline Masson 71-72-75—218 Jim Knous 64-69-68—201 Monday, July 5 Austin 0, Oakland 0, tie Dani Holmqvist 69-74-75—218 Taylor Moore 72-65-65—202 NATIONAL LEAGUE Tampa Bay at Montreal, 8 p.m. Led): A.Cindric, 3 times for 26 laps; EAST DIVISION Phoenix 2, Sacramento 1 Ariya Jutanugarn 70-72-76—218 Spencer Levin 69-65-68—202 Wednesday, July 7 H.Burton, 1 time for 21 laps; D.Hemric, 2 W L PCT GB Sunday’s Games Annie Park 78-68-73—219 Brett Stegmaier 64-69-69—202 x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. times for 18 laps; T.Gibbs, 2 times for 11 New York 40 33 .548 — LA Galaxy II at Tacoma Minjee Lee 73-72-74—219 Anders Albertson 72-63-68—203 Friday, July 9 laps; J.Allgaier, 1 time for 10 laps; Washington 37 38 .493 4 OKC Energy at Atlanta Marina Alex 72-69-78—219 Lee Hodges 67-66-70—203 x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, 8 p.m. J.Clements, 1 time for 2 laps; N.Gragson, 1 Atlanta 37 40 .481 5 Tuesday’s Game Anna Nordqvist 71-70-78—219 Dylan Wu 70-70-64—204 Sunday, July 11 time for 1 lap; A.Labbe, 1 time for 1 lap. Philadelphia 36 39 .480 5 Oakland at San Diego, 10:30 p.m. Jin Young Ko 75-71-74—220 Stephen Franken 68-71-65—204 x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Wins: A.Cindric, 4; A.Allmendinger, 2; Miami 33 44 .429 9 Wednesday’s Games Alison Lee 74-72-74—220 Nicolas Echavarria 69-69-66—204 x — played only if necessary. J.Allgaier, 2; T.Gibbs, 2; J.Burton, 1; CENTRAL DIVISION Pittsburgh at Loudoun, 7 p.m. Jeongeun Lee 73-73-74—220 Seth Reeves 71-67-66—204 RECENT STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS M.Snider, 1; J.Berry, 1. W L PCT GB Atlanta at Birmingham, 8 p.m. Christina Kim 75-70-75—220 Kyle Reifers 68-66-70—204 2020 — Tampa Bay Lightning NASCAR XFINITY STANDINGS Milwaukee 45 33 .577 — El Paso at Rio Grande Valley, 8 p.m. Su Oh 73-72-75—220 Brent Grant 64-66-74—204 2019 — St. Louis Blues 1. A.Cindric, 680 points; 2. A.Allmendinger, 1 New Mexico at Real Monarchs SLC, 10 p.m. Sarah Burnham 73-71-76—220 Chicago 42 35 .545 2 /2 David Kocher 71-69-65—205 2018 — Washington Capitals 579; 3. D.Hemric, 568; 4. J.Allgaier, 532; 5. Cincinnati 38 38 .500 6 Thursday’s Game Jeongeun Lee6 69-74-77—220 Conrad Shindler 69-69-67—205 2017 — Pittsburgh Penguins H.Burton, 512; 6. J.Burton, 493; 7. B.Jones, 1 Orange County at Colorado, 9 p.m. Jennifer Kupcho 77-69-75—221 St. Louis 37 40 .481 7 /2 Adam Svensson 67-71-67—205 2016 — Pittsburgh Penguins 462; 8. J.Haley, 458; 9. N.Gragson, 437; 10. 1 Perrine Delacour 76-70-75—221 Pittsburgh 28 47 .373 15 /2 Friday’s Games Taylor Pendrith 69-68-68—205 2015 — Chicago Blackhawks M.Annett, 413; 11. J.Clements, 407; 12. WEST DIVISION Miami at New York Red Bulls II, 7 p.m. Pajaree Anannarukarn 74-72-75—221 Cameron Young 67-69-69—205 2014 — Los Angeles Kings M.Snider, 366; 13. B.Brown, 357; 14. J.Berry, W L PCT GB Charleston at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Eun-Hee Ji 74-71-76—221 Steve Lewton 68-67-70—205 2013 — Chicago Blackhawks 348; 15. R.Herbst, 341; 16. T.Gibbs, 322. San Francisco 50 26 .658 — Louisville at Sporting KC II, 8 p.m. Lauren Kim 73-72-76—221 Joshua Creel 71-62-72—205 2012 — Los Angeles Kings 1 Tulsa at OKC Energy, 8:30 p.m. Hinako Shibuno 76-70-76—222 Los Angeles 46 31 .597 4 /2 Kevin Roy 68-69-69—206 2011 — Boston Bruins NASCAR GANDER OUTDOORS 1 Saturday, July 3 Angela Stanford 72-74-76—222 Jamie Arnold 67-70-69—206 San Diego 46 33 .582 5 /2 TRUCK CRC BRAKLEEN 150 2010 — Chicago Blackhawks Birmingham at Indy, 7 p.m. Paula Reto 74-72-81—227 Wade Binfield 70-65-71—206 Colorado 31 47 .397 20 Saturday 2009 — Pittsburgh Penguins Charlotte at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Justin Lower 72-68-67—207 Arizona 22 56 .282 29 At Pocono Raceway 2008 — Detroit Red Wings Sacramento at San Diego, 7 p.m. PGA TOUR Hayden Buckley 71-68-68—207 Saturday’s Games Long Pond, Pa. 2007 — Anaheim Ducks Memphis at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP Trey Mullinax 72-67-68—207 Arizona 10, San Diego 1 Lap length: 2.50 miles 2006 — Carolina Hurricanes Austin at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Saturday Erik Barnes 71-66-70—207 Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 1 (starting position in parentheses) 2005 — No Winner (lockout). New Mexico at El Paso, 9:30 p.m. TPC River Highlands Max Rottluff 68-68-71—207 L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 2 1. (7) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 60 laps, 50 2004 — Tampa Bay Lightning Tacoma at Las Vegas, 10:30 p.m. Cromwell, Connecticut Peter Uihlein 68-68-71—207 Miami 3, Washington 2 points. 2003 — New Jersey Devils LA Galaxy II at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m. Yardage: 6,841; Par: 70 Mark Blakefield 66-69-72—207 Milwaukee 10, Colorado 4 2. (22) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 60, 0. 2002 — Detroit Red Wings Sunday, July 4 THIRD ROUND Josh McCarthy 67-72-69—208 N.Y. Mets 4, Philadelphia 3 3. (10) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 60, 42. 2001 — Colorado Avalanche Hartford at Loudoun, 5 p.m. Kramer Hickok 63-69-68—200 Brandon Harkins 69-69-70—208 San Francisco 6, Oakland 5 (10 innings) 4. (18) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 60, 33. 2000 — New Jersey Devils Real Monarchs SLC at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. Bubba Watson 66-66-68—200 Paul Haley II 70-68-70—208 St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 1 5. (4) Austin Hill, Toyota, 60, 42. Cameron Smith 67-68-66—201 Alex Chiarella 66-72-70—208 Sunday’s Games 6. (5) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 60, 38. Russell Henley 67-66-68—201 Patrick Fishburn 67-69-72—208 Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 0 NWSL 7. (1) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 60, 37. PRO SOCCER Jason Day 69-62-70—201 Brandon Crick 69-71-69—209 Milwaukee 5, Colorado 0 W L T PTS GF GA 8. (2) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 60, 39. Harris English 67-68-67—202 T.J. Vogel 69-71-69—209 Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Mets 2 Orlando 4 1 3 15 12 8 9. (8) Ryan Preece, Ford, 60, 0. Brice Garnett 65-68-69—202 Tag Ridings 70-70-69—209 Washington 5, Miami 1 UEFA EURO 2020 CHAMPIONSHIP North Carolina 4 2 1 13 12 4 10. (24) Derek Kraus, Toyota, 60, 27. K.H. Lee 69-64-69—202 Rodrigo Lee 72-67-70—209 Pittsburgh at St. Louis At Sites In Europe Portland 4 3 0 12 12 6 11. (20) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 60, 0. Dustin Johnson 70-68-65—203 Evan Harmeling 69-70-70—209 Oakland at San Francisco SECOND STAGE Washington 3 1 3 12 8 7 12. (16) Christian Eckes, Toyota, 60, 27. Gotham FC 3 1 2 11 6 2 Matt Jones 70-66-67—203 Dawie van der Walt 69-70-70—209 Arizona at San Diego Round of 16 13. (13) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 60, 24. Robert Streb 68-68-67—203 Eric Cole 71-68-70—209 Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers Louisville 3 3 1 10 6 10 14. (14) Ty Majeski, Toyota, 60, 27. Saturday’s Games Brian Harman 68-68-67—203 Chase Wright 67-71-71—209 Monday’s Games Houston 3 3 1 10 8 8 15. (15) Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, 60, 25. At Amsterdam Bryson DeChambeau 69-66-68—203 Brandon Wu 72-68-70—210 Pittsburgh (Anderson 3-7) at Colorado Chicago 2 4 2 8 5 13 16. (17) Tanner Gray, Ford, 60, 21. Denmark 4 Wales 0 Satoshi Kodaira 63-72-68—203 Nicholas Thompson 70-70-70—210 (Freeland 0-2), 5:10 p.m. Reign FC 2 4 1 7 5 8 17. (3) Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 60, 34. At London Mark Hubbard 69-65-69—203 Whee Kim 72-67-71—210 Philadelphia (Velasquez 2-2) at Cincinnati Kansas City 0 6 2 2 4 12 18. (23) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 60, 19. Italy 2 Austria 1 (extra time) Troy Merritt 68-65-70—203 Dan McCarthy 75-64-71—210 (Miley 6-4), 6:40 p.m. Note: Three points for victory, one for tie. 19. (21) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet, 60, 18. Sunday’s Games Abraham Ancer 72-66-66—204 Jake Knapp 70-68-72—210 N.Y. Mets (Eickhoff 0-0) at Washington Saturday’s Games 20. (29) Lawless Alan, Toyota, 60, 17. At Budapest, Hungary Lucas Herbert 70-67-67—204 Ben Silverman 69-69-72—210 (TBD), 7:05 p.m. Gotham FC 3, Reign FC 0 21. (25) Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, 60, 16. Sam Burns 66-71-67—204 Steve LeBrun 64-73-73—210 Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 10-4) at Czech Republic 2 Netherlands 0 Houston 2, Orlando 1 22. (33) Howie Disavino III, Chevrolet, 60, 15. Brendon Todd 68-69-67—204 Blake Trimble 74-66-71—211 Milwaukee (Peralta 7-2), 8:10 p.m. At Seville, Spain Louisville 3, Chicago 0 23. (38) Ray Ciccarelli, Toyota, 60, 14. Hank Lebioda 69-68-67—204 James Driscoll 71-69-71—211 Arizona (Smith 2-3) at St. Louis (TBD), Belgium 1 Portugal 0 North Carolina 2, Portland 0 24. (30) Tyler Hill, Chevrolet, 60, 13. Jim Herman 68-69-67—204 Sangmoon Bae 72-68-71—211 8:15 p.m. Monday’s Games Washington 2, Kansas City 1 25. (11) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 59, 18. Marc Leishman 69-66-69—204 Billy Tom Sargent 72-67-72—211 San Francisco (DeSclafani 8-2) at L.A. At Copenhagen Friday, July 2 26. (19) Hailie Deegan, Ford, 59, 11. Patrick Cantlay 68-66-70—204 Kevin Yu 73-66-72—211 Dodgers (Bauer 7-5), 10:10 p.m. Croatia vs. Spain, 12 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m. 27. (34) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 59, 10. Kansas City at Gotham FC, 7 p.m. Ian Poulter 68-66-70—204 Robby Ormand 70-68-73—211 Tuesday’s Games At Bucharest, Romania 28. (35) Josh Reaume, Chevrolet, 59, 9. Seamus Power 66-67-71—204 Brian Richey 66-72-73—211 Miami at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Reign FC at Houston, 8:30 p.m. 29. (32) Todd Peck, Chevrolet, 59, 8. France vs. Switzerland, 3 p.m. J.B. Holmes 70-68-67—205 Andy Pope 71-69-72—212 Tampa Bay at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, July 3 30. (26) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, 59, 8. Tuesday’s Games Adam Scott 69-69-67—205 Rick Lamb 68-71-73—212 San Diego at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Portland at Louisville, 7:30 p.m. 31. (36) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, 58, 6. At London Kevin Na 69-68-68—205 Andrew Novak 75-64-73—212 N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. Sunday, July 4 32. (37) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 58, 5. England vs. Germany, 12 p.m. Zach Johnson 66-70-69—205 Patrick Flavin 67-70-75—212 Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. North Carolina at Orlando, 6 p.m. 33. (6) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 58, 16. At Glasgow, Scotland Brooks Koepka 69-67-69—205 Nick Voke 71-69-74—214 Arizona at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. 34. (39) Bryan Dauzat, Chevrolet, 57, 3. Sweden vs. Ukraine, 3 p.m. Sepp Straka 66-70-69—205 Jonathan Randolph 68-72-74—214 Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. 35. (12) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 55, 2. Patrick Reed 69-66-70—205 Marcelo Rozo 71-68-75—214 San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. AUTO RACING 36. (31) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, engine, Charley Hoffman 72-63-70—205 MLS 52, 3. Maverick McNealy 65-70-70—205 EASTERN CONFERENCE F1 STYRIAN GRAND PRIX 37. (27) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, engine, EUROPEAN PGA TOUR PRO BASKETBALL W L T PTS GF GA Guido Migliozzi 69-65-71—205 BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN Sunday 38, 1. New England 7 1 2 23 17 11 Brian Stuard 69-66-70—205 Sunday At Red Bull Ring 38. (28) Danny Bohn, Toyota, transmission, 2021 NBA PLAYOFFS Orlando City 6 1 3 21 18 7 Scottie Scheffler 69-65-71—205 Munich, Germany Spielberg, Austria. 17, 1. Philadelphia 5 2 4 19 15 10 Harold Varner III 70-68-68—206 Yardage: 7,284; Par: 72 THIRD ROUND Lap length: 2.48 miles 39. (9) Jack Wood, Chevrolet, accident, 0, 1. Nashville 3 1 6 15 13 11 Andrew Putnam 70-67-69—206 Final Round CONFERENCE FINALS (starting position in parentheses) RACE STATISTICS New York City FC 4 3 2 14 16 10 Chez Reavie 70-67-69—206 Viktor Hovland, Norway 68-67-64-70—269 (Best-of-7) 1. (1) Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Time of Race: One hour, 13 minutes, 35 Columbus 4 3 2 14 9 7 Carlos Ortiz 70-65-71—206 Martin Kaymer, Germany 70-67-70-64—271 EASTERN CONFERENCE Bull Racing, 71 laps, one hour, 22 minutes, seconds. D.C. United 4 5 1 13 9 11 Doug Ghim 68-66-72—206 Jorge Campillo, Spain 67-68-67-71—273 MILWAUKEE (3) VS. ATLANTA (5) 18.925 seconds. Winner’s Average Speed: 122.334 m.p.h. New York 4 5 1 13 14 13 Ryan Armour 70-64-72—206 Victor Dubuisson, France 69-69-69-67—274 (Series tied 1-1) 2. (2) Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Margin of Victory: 1.337 seconds. CF Montreal 3 3 4 13 11 10 Peter Malnati 68-70-69—207 Darren Fichardt, S. Africa 67-71-65-72—275 Friday’s Game Mercedes, 71, 35.743 seconds behind. Caution Flags: 4 for 13 laps. Atlanta 2 2 6 12 11 10 Austin Eckroat 72-66-69—207 Justin Harding, S. Africa 69-69-68-69—275 Milwaukee 125, Atlanta 91 3. (5) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, 71, Lead Changes: 8 among 7 drivers. Cincinnati 3 5 1 10 9 17 J.J. Spaun 71-67-69—207 Sam Horsfield, England 64-77-66-68—275 Sunday’s Game +46.907. Lap Leaders: T.Gilliland 0-4; Z.Smith 5; Inter Miami CF 2 6 2 8 9 16 Kyle Stanley 70-68-69—207 Shaun Norris, South Africa 67-69-70-69—275 Milwaukee at Atlanta 4. (4) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, B.Rhodes 6-7; Z.Smith 8-24; S.Creed 25-27; Toronto FC 1 7 2 5 12 20 Paul Casey 71-67-69—207 Vincent Norrman, Sweden 69-69-71-66—275 Tuesday’s Game 71, +47.434. J.Nemechek 28-32; T.Peck 33; K.Busch 34- Chicago 1 7 2 5 7 17 Robby Shelton 73-64-70—207 Andy Sullivan, England 68-69-69-69—275 Milwaukee at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m. 5. (3) Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 53; J.Nemechek 54-60 Western Conference Henrik Norlander 65-71-71—207 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 67-68-70-70—275 Thursday’s game 70, 1 lap behind. Leader’s Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps W L T PTS GF GA Beau Hossler 65-70-72—207 Niall Kearney, Ireland 65-68-72-71—276 Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. 6. (12) Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 70, 1. Led): K.Busch, 1 time for 20 laps; Z.Smith, 2 Seattle 7 0 4 25 20 7 Kevin Chappell 68-67-72—207 Dan Van Tonder, S.Africa 70-71-65-70—276 7. (7) Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 70, 1. times for 18 laps; J.Nemechek, 2 times for Saturday, July 3 Sporting Kansas City 7 3 2 23 22 15 Talor Gooch 64-70-73—207 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 70-72-66-69—277 8. (9) Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 12 laps; T.Gilliland, 1 time for 4 laps; x-Milwaukee at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m. LA Galaxy 7 3 0 21 17 15 Justin Rose 70-63-74—207 Andrew Johnston, England 66-75-68-68—277 70, 1. S.Creed, 1 time for 3 laps; B.Rhodes, 1 time Monday, July 5 Colorado 5 3 1 16 15 11 Kevin Kisner 70-63-74—207 Matthias Schmid, Germany 68-69-69-71—277 9. (8) Fernando Alonso, Spain, Alpine, 70, 1. for 2 laps; T.Peck, 1 time for 1 lap. x-Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota United 4 4 2 14 10 12 Sam Ryder 69-69-70—208 Sergio Garcia, Spain 73-69-68-68—278 10. (11) Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, 70, 1. Wins: J.Nemechek, 5; B.Rhodes, 2; Houston 3 3 5 14 15 16 Jonas Blixt 68-68-72—208 Calum Hill, Scotland 69-68-72-69—278 11. (18) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa T.Gilliland, 1; S.Creed, 1. WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland 4 5 1 13 13 15 Tyler Duncan 69-67-72—208 Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark 70-70-70-68—278 Romeo Racing, 70, 1. NASCAR TRUCKS STANDINGS PHOENIX (2) VS. L.A. CLIPPERS (4) Real Salt Lake 3 2 4 13 14 11 Cameron Percy 70-66-72—208 Matthew Jordan, England 67-70-70-71—278 12. (14) Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Aston 1. J.Nemechek, 575 points; 2. B.Rhodes, 489; (Phoenix leads series 3-1) Los Angeles FC 3 4 3 12 12 12 Joaquin Niemann 68-67-73—208 Takumi Kanaya, Japan 72-67-69-70—278 Martin, 70, 1. 3. A.Hill, 469; 4. Z.Smith, 428; 5. T.Gilliland, Thursday’s Game San Jose 3 7 1 10 12 20 Doc Redman 69-66-73—208 Jacques Kruyswijk, S.Africa 69-72-69-68—278 13. (13) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, 408; 6. S.Creed, 406; 7. M.Crafton, 392; 8. L.A. Clippers 106, Phoenix 92 Austin FC 2 5 3 9 6 11 Tom Lewis 67-67-74—208 Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 66-70-72-70—278 McLaren, 70, 1. G.Enfinger, 373; 9. S.Friesen, 350; 10. Saturday’s Game Vancouver 2 6 2 8 10 16 Lanto Griffin 71-67-71—209 Adrien Saddier, France 66-69-74-69—278 14. (17) Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 70, 1. C.Hocevar, 335; 11. C.Smith, 314; 12. Phoenix 84 L.A. Clippers 80 FC Dallas 1 4 4 7 9 14 Denny McCarthy 72-66-71—209 Justin Walters, South Africa 72-66-69-71—278 15. (15) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa J.Sauter, 283; 13. T.Ankrum, 281; 14. A.Self, Monday’s game NOTE: Three points for victory, one for tie. Kris Ventura 69-69-71—209 Matthew Baldwin, England 68-73-68-70—279 Romeo Racing, 70, 1. 273; 15. D.Kraus, 259; 16. R.Truex, 228. L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Saturday’s Games Mackenzie Hughes 67-71-71—209 Scott Hend, Australia 73-68-72-66—279 16. (19) Mick Schumacher, Germany, Haas Wednesday’s game Sporting Kansas City 2, Los Angeles FC 1 Aaron Wise 73-65-71—209 Andres Romero, Argentina 72-68-70-69—279 F1 Team, 69, 2. x-Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. Cincinnati 2, Toronto FC 0 Ryan Moore 72-65-72—209 Sean Crocker, United States 71-67-73-69—280 17. (16) Nicholas Latifi, Canada, Williams, TENNIS Friday’s game Houston 1, Real Salt Lake 1, tie Nate Lashley 69-67-73—209 Josh Geary, New Zealand 69-71-71-72—280 68, 3. x-L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Philadelphia 3, Chicago 3, tie Kevin Tway 70-66-73—209 Masahiro Kawamura, Japan 65-70-73-69—280 18. (20) Nikita Mazepin, Russia, Haas F1 ATP/WTA TOUR x — played only if necessary. CF Montreal 1, Nashville 1, tie Stewart Cink 68-67-74—209 Adrian Otaegui, Spain 68-69-74-69—280 Team, 68, 3. EASTBOURNE INTERNATIONAL Vancouver 2, Seattle 2, tie Tom Hoge 67-71-72—210 Thomas Pieters, Belgium 73-68-68-71—280 19. (10) George Russell, Great Britain, Saturday LA Galaxy 3, San Jose 1 Andrew Svoboda 69-69-72—210 Garrick Porteous, England 67-71-74-68—280 SATURDAY Williams, 36. At Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club Minnesota 1, Portland 0 Phil Mickelson 69-69-72—210 Robin Roussel, France 71-69-72-68—280 20. (6) Pierre Gasly, France, Alphatauri, 1. Eastbourne, Great Britain Sunday’s Games Patrick Rodgers 65-71-74—210 Matthias Schwab, Austria 71-70-69-70—280 PHOENIX 84, L.A. CLIPPERS 80 F1 DRIVER’S STANDINGS MEN’S SINGLES New York 0 Atlanta 0 David Hearn 70-68-73—211 Kristoffer Broberg, Sweden 70-71-70-70—281 PHOENIX (84) 1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Championship D.C. United at New York City FC William McGirt 71-67-73—211 Jazz Janewattnd, Thailand 68-73-71-69—281 Bridges 3-6 0-0 6, Crowder 1-8 0-0 3, Ayton Racing, 131 points. Alex de Minaur (2), Australia, def. Lorenzo Columbus at Austin FC Will Gordon 71-67-76—214 Sihwan Kim, United States 70-68-72-71—281 8-14 3-3 19, Booker 8-22 9-11 25, Paul 6-22 2. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, Sonego (3), Italy, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5). New England at FC Dallas Richard Mansell, England 74-68-68-71—281 6-7 18, Craig 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 2-4 0-0 5, 119. WOMEN’S SINGLES Thursday’s Game PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR J.C. Ritchie, South Africa 66-72-74-69—281 Nader 0-1 0-0 0, Saric 1-1 0-0 3, Payne 2-8 0- 3. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 84. Championship Portland at Austin FC, 9:30 p.m. BRIDGESTONE CHAMPIONSHIP Steven Brown, England 72-70-73-67—282 0 5. Totals 31-86 18-21 84. 4. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 76. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Anett Saturday, July 3 Saturday Alejandro Canizares, Spain 69-71-70-72—282 L.A. CLIPPERS (80) 5. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, 59. Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-3, 6-3. New England at Columbus, 5 p.m. At Firestone Country Club Daniel Gavins, England 69-71-72-70—282 George 5-20 12-18 23, Morris Sr. 2-8 0-0 4, 6. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 52. WOMEN’S DOUBLES Toronto FC at D.C. United, 5:30 p.m. Akron, Ohio Julien Guerrier, France 69-72-71-70—282 Zubac 5-8 3-4 13, Beverley 1-4 0-0 2, Jackson 7. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 42. Championship Miami at CF Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Purse: $3 million Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 70-69-71-72—282 8-24 2-2 20, Batum 1-6 0-0 3, Mann 4-9 3-5 8. Pierre Gasly, France, Alphatauri, 37. Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara (2), New York at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. Yardage: 7,400; Par: 70 Min Woo Lee, Australia 66-73-69-74—282 12, Cousins 0-0 1-2 1, Kennard 1-4 0-1 2. 9. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, McLaren, 34. Japan, def. Nicole Melichar, United States, Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. THIRD ROUND Zander Lombard, S. Africa 69-73-67-73—282 Totals 27-83 21-32 80. 10. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Aston and Demi Schuurs (1), Netherlands, 6-1, 6-4. San Jose at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Steve Stricker 63-68-72—203 James Morrison, England 73-69-69-71—282 Phoenix 29 21 19 15— 84 Martin, 30. Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m. Jerry Kelly 69-70-68—207 Louis Oosthuizen, S. Africa 70-67-71-74—282 L.A. Clippers 20 16 30 14— 80 11. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Alpine, 17. ATP WORLD TOUR Cincinnati at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Ken Duke 67-71-70—208 Dale Whitnell, England 69-73-70-70—282 3-Point Goals— Phoenix 4-20 (Payne 1-2, 12. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 12. MALLORCA CHAMPIONSHIPS Los Angeles FC at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m. David Toms 72-72-66—210 Wil Besseling, Netherlands 72-69-68-74—283 Johnson 1-3, Crowder 1-6, Paul 0-3, Booker 13. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 10. Saturday Sunday, July 4 Jim Furyk 71-68-71—210 David Horsey, England 71-70-69-73—283 0-5), L.A. Clippers 5-31 (Jackson 2-9, Mann 14. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, 8. At Santa Ponca Vancouver at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Ernie Els 72-67-71—210 Benjamin Poke, Denmark 72-69-71-71—283 1-2, Batum 1-4, George 1-9, Kennard 0-3, 15. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Romeo Mallorca, Spain Seattle at Colorado, 9 p.m. Kevin Sutherland 70-69-72—211 Nacho Elvira, Spain 69-70-72-73—284 Morris Sr. 0-3). Fouled Out— Phoenix 1 Racing, 1. MEN’S DOUBLES Sporting Kansas City at LA Galaxy, 10:30 p.m. Marco Dawson 69-69-74—212 Grant Forrest, Scotland 69-73-74-68—284 (Booker), L.A. Clippers 1 (George). 16. Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Romeo Semifinals Paul Broadhurst 67-69-76—212 Wade Ormsby, Australia 65-75-75-69—284 Rebounds— Phoenix 59 (Ayton 22), L.A. COPA AMERICA Racing, 1. Simone Bolelli, Italy, and Maximo Gonzalez Fred Couples 72-73-68—213 Antoine Rozner, France 76-66-67-75—284 Clippers 51 (George 16). Assists— Phoenix FIRST ROUND MANUFACTURER’S STANDINGS (4), Argentina, def. Philipp Oswald, Austria, Paul Stankowski 74-70-69—213 Jeff Winther, Denmark 74-68-71-71—284 16 (Paul 7), L.A. Clippers 13 (George 6). Top four teams in each group advance 1. Red Bull Racing, 215. and Marcus Daniell (2), New Zealand, 6-1, 7-5. Scott Parel 71-69-73—213 Maverick Antcliff, Australia 70-69-73-73—285 Total Fouls— Phoenix 27, L.A. Clippers 19. GROUP A 2. Mercedes, 178. Rod Pampling 70-75-69—214 Louis De Jager, S. Africa 72-68-73-72—285 A— 18,222 (18,997). GP W D L GF GA PTS 3. McLaren, 110. WTA TOUR a-Argentina 3 2 1 0 3 1 7 Rocco Mediate 74-71-69—214 Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium 70-72-75-69—286 4. Ferrari, 94. BAD HOMBURG OPEN NBA INDIVIDUAL LEADERS a-Paraguay 3 2 0 1 5 2 6 Lee Janzen 73-71-70—214 Lorenzo Gagli, Italy 71-71-74-70—286 5. Alphatauri, 45. Saturday SCORING AVERAGE a-Chile 3 1 2 0 3 2 5 Colin Montgomerie 75-69-70—214 Seb Garcia-Rodriguez, Spain 64-73-71-78—286 6. Aston Martin, 40. At Bad Homburg Tennis Club GP FG FT PTS AVG a-Uruguay 3 1 1 1 3 2 4 Tim Petrovic 72-70-72—214 David Law, Scotland 69-71-74-72—286 7. Alpine, 29. Hamburg, Germany Doncic, DAL 7 96 27 250 35.7 Bolivia 3 0 0 3 1 4 0 Brandt Jobe 72-73-70—215 Thorbjørn Olesen, Denmark 69-73-74-70—286 8. Alfa Romeo Racing, 2. WOMEN’S SINGLES Durant, BKN 12 145 88 411 34.3 a — advanced to second round Stephen Ames 74-70-71—215 Marcel Schneider, Germany 69-73-70-74—286 9. Williams, 0. Championship Lillard, POR 6 62 47 206 34.3 Monday’s Games Vijay Singh 72-74-70—216 Freddy Schott, Germany 73-69-72-73—287 10. Haas F1 Team, 0. Angelique Kerber (4), Germany, def. Mitchell, UTA 10 105 63 323 32.3 Argentina vs. Bolivia, 8 p.m. Tom Lehman 74-72-70—216 Darius Van Driel, Netherlands 71-71-70-75—287 Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2. Tatum, BOS 5 47 45 153 30.6 Uruguay vs. Paraguay, 8 p.m. Bernhard Langer 71-74-71—216 Dean Burmester, S. 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OMAHA, Neb. — Awkward is the only way to describe Vanderbilt’s appearance in the all-SEC College World Series finals beginning tonight against Mississippi State. The Commodores MARK J. TERRILL/AP PHOTO were supposed to play North Carolina State in a Los Angeles Clippers guard Paul George, right, reacts after being charged with a foul as Phoenix REBECCA S. GRATZ/AP PHOTO Suns forward Jae Crowder stands by during the second half in Game 4 of the NBA basketball winner-take-all bracket Western Conference Finals Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Los Angeles. final Saturday and found Vanderbilt’s CJ Rodriguez (5) celebrates with teammates after out 12 hours before the scoring off a wild pitch from North Carolina State in the fourth NBA record for free throw The last time it happened the start the Wolfpack inning during a baseball game in the College World Series, accuracy during the reg- was in the 2016 West had been removed from Friday, June 25, 2021, at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. DEFICIT the tournament because FROM PAGE 1B ular season (83.9%), but finals, when Golden State were 21 of 32 on Saturday beat Oklahoma City. of COVID-19 protocols. The game was declared a our spot here and we championship would be it, get a breakthrough and night, including 8 of 13 in “There’s no room for got here because of our tainted because Vanderbilt play faster. It was tough the fourth quarter. error. We’ve just got to no-contest. “We certainly sympa- abilities and what we can made the finals without to get it to go down,” said They were far worse take it a game at time do.” completing bracket play, George, who scored 21 from beyond the arc, now,” said Terance Mann, thize with their team, their fan base, too, understand- The No. 7 Bulldogs albeit through no fault of points but was 5 of 20 going 5 of 31. According who had 12 points off the (48-17) played two bracket its own. from the field and made to Sportradar, that 16.1% bench. ing that we don’t know the level of hurt that they are finals against Texas, win- “The way that we came only one of his nine shooting percentage is “Just got to try and go ning 4-3 on Saturday on through it and the games 3-point attempts. tied for sixth worst in an get Game 5 and be ready exposed to right now, but we certainly recognize it,” Tanner Leggett’s walk-off that we’ve had to play — For a team that hasn’t NBA playoff game where to try to force a Game 7.” base hit. and now you’re having to had any rest between a team has tried 30 or It also remains to be Vandy coach Tim Corbin said Sunday. “Our guys have fought play Vanderbilt — there series, the hectic schedule more 3-pointers. seen if Kawhi Leonard since the day we got will be no asterisk for us,” might be finally taking “It could be. But it’s no might be back. The All- “None of us wish to be in this particular position. here,” MSU coach Chris Lemonis said. “And I hate it a toll, especially against excuses at this time of the Star forward has missed Lemonis said. “We haven’t for N.C. State. I have three a Suns squad that had season,” Lue said about six straight games due We certainly would want to play them on the field or had an easy game yet. coaches who worked for seven days of rest after the fatigue factor. “Guys to a sprained right knee It’s been very tight, tough Elliot (Avent) on my staff. sweeping the Denver could be a little tired. after he averaged 30.4 have played them on the field, but we didn’t. So we ballgames. But, man, they I have a long relationship Nuggets in the second We’ve just got to fight points in the postseason. keep finding a way to with Elliot. My nieces and round. through.” George said he wasn’t are in the situation where we move forward.” persevere. It’s been earned nephews all went to N.C. The lack of energy was The Clippers are the sure on Leonard’s status. by our guys and I look State. I have a lot of respect especially telling in two first team to lose the first “If he’s not 100% we Vanderbilt is the reigning national champion, having forward to seeing them there. ... areas that have been two games in a series and don’t want him out there. play on this stage.” “But for our guys, that bedrocks of success for come back to win twice That’s a brother and won the CWS in 2019. There was no tournament Vanderbilt won two of stuff’s out of our control. the Clippers this season: in a postseason. They will teammate. His health the three regular-season All we can do is show up free throws and 3-point attempt to become the long term is more import- last year because of the pandemic. meetings with MSU in and play, and whoever is shooting. fourth to be down 3-1 in a ant right now,” George Nashville in April. Vandy’s in the other dugout we The Clippers set an conference final and rally. said. The No. 4 national seed Commodores (48-16) are Kumar Rocker, a possible compete against.” at this point after winning top-10 pick in the Major PITCHING PLANS two elimination games, League Baseball draft Mississippi State will most recently 3-1 Friday and the 2019 CWS Most start Christian McLeod in against an N.C. State team Outstanding Player, Game 1. He’s made one STYRIAN that had only 13 players pitched a three-hitter in appearance in the CWS, FROM PAGE 1B available. the first game of that series lasting just 1 1/3 innings and could be available if and giving up four runs in second consecutive time. “We’re here for a reason,” the finals go three games. a 6-5 win over Virginia last “The car was on fire,” first baseman Dominic Lemonis dismissed any Tuesday. Verstappen said over the Keegan said. “We earned suggestion that this year’s team radio after crossing the finish line. Verstappen won a few tenths from Hamilton in most of the laps and BRACE was already more than FROM PAGE 1B three seconds ahead of DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP PHOTO Hamilton after 10 laps. The Lightning are as “Straight away I felt Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car good as they come in good balance in the car,” during the Styrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring advancing to the cham- he said. “It was good to racetrack in Spielberg, Austria, Sunday, June 27, 2021. pionship round for the third time since 2015, and manage the tires basically to overtake Verstappen, tire. from the start. We just following a 1-0 win over Hamilton pitted again in Racing on its home the New York Islanders in kept on going, trying to the penultimate lap and track in the Austrian hit our lap times and that Game 7 of their semifinal successfully beat the fast- Alps, Red Bull stretched series on Friday. worked really well today.” est lap time held by Perez its winning streak to four It was Verstappen’s 14th Tampa Bay is 13-0 at that time, earning him races, as Hamilton’s wait when coming off a career win and fourth of a bonus point though the for his 99th career victory CHRIS O’MEARA/AP PHOTO the season, increasing his playoff loss in winning deficit to Verstappen grew reached the seven-week Members of the Tampa Bay Lightning pose for a photo with the lead over the seven-time seven straight series, and to over half a minute. mark. became the fourth team Prince of Wales trophy after defeating the New York Islanders world champion in the “It was a bit of a lonely The last time Hamilton during Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup semifinal playoff drivers’ standings to 18 in the NHL’s salary-cap race, really. I was trying to went without a win in era to repeat as a finalist. series Friday, June 25, 2021, in Tampa. points after eight races. keep up with those guys four straight races came A race win is worth 25 The Lightning feature a six-game second-round Ducharme spending the but the speed they have... more than three years a playoff-experienced points. They obviously made ago, spanning the last win in their previous past week in self-isolation With Red Bull gaining lineup which includes meeting in 2015. after testing positive for some big improvements three races of 2017 and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, more momentum over over the last couple of the first three of the Both teams are similar COVID-19. Mercedes in every race, who has posted shut- in how their respective Assistant Luke races,” Hamilton said. “It following season. outs in four straight Hamilton is gradually was impossible to keep The top four went more general managers remade Richardson is filling in for losing sight of his record series-clinching wins. their rosters by adding Ducharme, who is expect- up. I don’t know where we than a full lap ahead of The run dates to Tampa eighth title this season. are losing all this time.” the rest of the field, led by size and playoff experi- ed to return for Game 3 That, however, was not Bay’s 2-0 win over Dallas ence to offset past playoff on Friday in Montreal. Bottas had the second McLaren’s Lando Norris in Game 6 of last year’s on the Briton’s mind after fastest time in qualifying in front of both Ferraris. collapses. “For sure, when we eight of 23 races. Final. Last year, Tampa Bay’s talk about adversity, they but started the race from In a tumultuous start to Montreal forward Corey “I try not to con- fifth following a three- the race for the midpack Julien Brisebois’ additions faced adversity. They cern myself with that. Perry wasn’t interested in of Pat Maroon, Barclay went through some ups place grid penalty for runners, Ferrari’s Charles revisiting what happened Naturally, they are faster spinning in the pitlane Leclerc and Alpha Tauri’s Goodrow and Blake and downs and learned so there is not a lot I last year during his one Coleman played key roles from it,” Ducharme said during Friday’s practice. Pierre Gasly touched season with Dallas. can do in that respect,” “From where I started in heavy traffic, which on a team coming off of the Lightning. “There’s Hamilton said. And yet, he’s more an embarrassing four- a reason why they’re back this was the maximum forced Leclerc to pit right familiar than any of Losing 0.25 seconds today. Bit of damage away to repair damage game, first-round loss to in the Final this year.” on Verstappen on the his teammates when it Columbus in 2019. The Canadiens have limitation,” said the Finn to his front wing, while comes to assessing the straights left Hamilton after holding off a late Gasly went out of the “It was all building the respect of Lightning with few options. He Lightning, considering blocks to get here,” coach captain Steven Stamkos. challenge from Perez for race with damage to his the NHL was limited to pushed and reduced the third place. rear-right tire. Jon Cooper said, referring “They’re going to get deficit on some laps, inter-division play only to the Lightning’s past the best team that they’ve Red Bull squandered a Leclerc managed to this year. but then had to be more potential 1-3 finish with work his way back to playoff failures. “But played against so far, and cautious on others to “You look up and down look, we haven’t won the we’re going to get the best a slow pit stop for Perez, seventh place, just behind their lineup ... you can protect his tires from which lasted for nearly teammate Carlos Sainz. Stanley Cup this year, team that we’ve played overheating. talk about them all day we’re chasing it just like against so far,” Stamkos five seconds due to an Gasly’s teammate Yuki long,” Perry said. Left with no chance issue with the left-rear Tsunoda still scored a Montreal.” said. “You don’t get to the “They added grit at the This year, Montreal’s finals by luck.” point for Alpha Tauri in deadline last year, and 4 GREAT VENUES! 10th, finishing behind Marc Bergevin, made Canadiens assis- kind of taken off,” he similar moves in adding tant captain Brendan Proudly Aston Martin’s Lance added. “We’re excited for Serving Stroll and Alpine’s forwards Perry, Tyler Gallagher had enough Highlands this opportunity. We’re Toffoli and Eric Staal, faith in Bergevin’s vision Fernando Alonso in here for a reason. They’re County eighth and ninth, and defenseman Joel to stay in Montreal here for a reason.” Edmundson — all former by signing a six-year, 4 GREAT VENUES! respectively. The teams haven’t Tax included on All Offers! Williams driver George Cup winners — to a $39 million contract COUPONS MAY NOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFERS OR DISCOUNTS. met since the Lightning team that had won four extension in October. Russell, who is a candi- completed a four-game date for Mercedes from playoff series (including “The one question I GOLF 9 HOLES season-series sweep of a preliminary round last had to ask myself was ob- 2022 if Bottas were to Montreal with a 4-0 win $ 00 $ 00 leave the team, had to year) since 2011. viously you want to leave Incl. tax. Incl. tax. at Tampa Bay on March 5, 20 13 retire after two-thirds The Canadiens, who the league a winner,” EXPIRES 6/30/21 EXPIRES 6/30/21 2020. Montreal is 2-8-2 in swept Winnipeg in the Gallagher said. “There of the race with a pow- its past 12 meetings and SUMMER 10 PLAY CARD GOLF & GRILL Mon-Fri er-unit issue. second round, have won were ups and downs this 0-5-1 at Tampa Bay since 11 of 13 games since year, but the belief in this $ 00 $ 00 The Austrian GP on the a 2-1 overtime win on 170Incl. tax. 56 Incl. tax. same track is scheduled falling behind 3-1 in the group has never wavered, JUNE 1 - SEPT. 30, 2021 2 (18) HOLE ROUNDS + $20 April 1, 2017. adno=00065476 SANDHILL GRILL GIFT CARD for next Sunday. first round to Toronto. never changed. We always EXPIRES 6/30/21 EXPIRES 6/30/21 The Lightning have a And Montreal keeps knew this was possible. 2250 South Little Lake Bonnet Rd. • Avon Park 2-1 playoff series edge winning despite having We just did what we were Tee Time Hotline: 863-453-7555 over Montreal, including interim coach Dominique capable of doing.” B4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 28, 2021 www.highlandsnewssun.com

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