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Ashland University in Ohio is the No. 1-ranked men’s track and field team in the NCAA Division II. Daniel Roberts who is the son of the late Mr. Roberts and Elena Faiai-Roberts of Matu’u is a junior and will be competing along with his teammates in the nationals in Bradenton, Fla. at the end of May.

Ashland’s men have compiled four automatic and 22 provi-sional marks for the 2017 nationals and they boast the top three men’s hammer throwers in Division II (senior Jordan Crayon No. 1 at 69.87 meters/229-feet-3, junior Daniel Roberts No. 2 at 68.95 meters/226-feet-2 and senior Bryn Campbell No. 3 at 65.38 meters/214-feet-6).

Daniel’s mom told Samoa News, “ I will fly down to watch Daniel compete. Wish him luck!” He is pictured here in action at an earlier event. Good luck Daniel — put American Samoa on the Track and Field map. [Courtesy photo]

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Former Faga’itua Vikings Shalom Luani getting his Raiders helmet fitted – as he’s getting settled with the Raider Nation as a Defensive Back. Luani will see his first game time opportunity as a Raider in the 2018 NFL Pre-Season. [photo: courtesy]

Shalom Luani pictured in front of his new Raiders locker yesterday as he’s getting ready for the 2018 NFL Season. [photo: courtesy]

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Now, the Golden State Warriors want Draymond Green to pack his 3-point shot for the altitude of Salt Lake City.

Green showed Quin Snyder his hot hand and range up close, knocking down five 3-pointers and scoring 21 points before a brief knee scare late in the Golden State Warriors’ 115-104 victory over the Utah Jazz on Thursday night for a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.

“We love that shot. It gives us a huge lift,” Stephen Curry said of Green’s perimeter touch. “Hopefully that jumper travels when we go to Utah because those shots will be open.”

Kevin Durant added 25 points with 13 free throws, 11 rebounds and seven assists, while Curry had 23 points, seven assists and played smoth-ering defense as Golden State stayed unblemished through six playoff games.

Gordon Hayward overcame a poor Game 1 and slow start in this one to score 33 points, and Rudy Gobert had 16 points and 16 rebounds before fouling out for a Jazz team missing injured point guard George Hill. He was ruled out earlier in the day because of a sore left big toe.

Game 3 is Saturday night in Salt Lake City.

Green received chants of “Dray-mond!” when he headed for the locker room with 7:24 to play, then cheers when he returned at the 5:16 mark. He came up awkwardly after hit-ting the floor on a drive, then grabbed at his left knee — which the team said he “tweaked.”

“I knew my knee was just locking up a little bit. I had it before,” he said.

Snyder made it clear when the series began he won’t be alienating Green again by daring him to let it fly from long range — or saying anything that could be perceived as a slight.

Five months after the Jazz coach commented about allowing the emotional Golden State star to shoot from way out, Snyder said before the game he had learned his lesson about fueling the All-Star forward.

Green has been fueling him-self just fine, and his teammates, too — delivering on the offen-sive side this game after estab-lishing the Warriors’ defensive intensity during the first five playoff games.

All his 3s were in the first half as the Warriors led wire to wire again. Golden State’s six straight victories to begin a postseason are a franchise record.

Green also had seven rebounds, six assists, four steals and another block to bring his six-game playoff total to 20.

The Jazz will have to hope more of their shots start falling once back home.

Hayward began 1 for 5 but bounced back to shoot 11 of 21 after going 4 for 15 in Game 1.

“We play with attitude when we get down. We have to do it from the beginning,” Gobert said. “I think we need to play angry from the first minute.”

Utah cut the lead to six on Rodney Hood’s jumper with 9:55 remaining in the third and trailed by 10 heading into the final 12 minutes. The Warriors went on a 5-0 run but had a tough time closing it out.

“There’s no excuse for that. We’re 6-0, you couldn’t ask for a better start, but this is the playoffs and we can’t let teams

get confident,” Klay Thompson said. “I thought we did that tonight.”

Warriors coach Steve Kerr missed his fourth straight game as he deals with symptoms stemming from complications after two back surgeries fol-lowing the 2015 championship run. Kerr won’t travel with the team to Utah as he seeks answers in his healing and goes to medical appointments. Mike Brown and a veteran coaching staff are leading the way.

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By FFAS MEDIA/Brian VitolioThe Faga’itua Vikings

clinched the high school boys’ J-V soccer championship thanks to a last minute goal against the Tafuna Warriors on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium.

Christopher Kitiona headed in the game-winning goal in the last minute of the game to break the 1-1 tie, avoiding a possible extra period and pen-alty shootout to determine this year’s champions.

In the first half, Walter Pati scored for Tafuna 14 minutes into the game, and the goal came after the Warriors domi-nated the ball and territory.

After that, the momentum started to shift slowly to Faga’itua, and it culminated in a score by Kitiona on a shot from inside the goalie’s six-yard box. That score came with only a minute to spare in the first half, and tying the game at 1-1.

With darkness looming, both coaches were looking at a pen-alty shootout to determine a winner, but Kitiona’s late-game heroics proved the difference maker for the Vikings.

A Faga’itua player made a perfect throw-in that went over the head of two defenders, and Kitiona himself. The defenders were caught flatfooted, allowing the Viking’s hero to chase after the ball on a one-v-one situation with Tafuna’s goalie. Kitiona headed the bouncing ball over the grasp of the Warrior’s goal-keeper, and into the back of the net for the win.

Because of the many can-

cellation of games this season due to transportation issues, a playoff format was added to the J-V division, instead of the usual crowning by best record. Teams were accorded seed-ings based on their completed games, and this had Samoana as the top team, followed by Tafuna, Leone, Faga’itua and Fa’asao-Marist.

As the top team in the post-season, Samoana was given a bye in the first round of the play-offs. That round was played on

Saturday, April 29, 2017 with No. 4 Faga’itua beating No. 5 Fa’aso-Marist 3-0, while the Warriors edged the Lions 1-0.

Tafuna would advance to the final while the Vikings had to compete in another playoff game, this time against

the Sharks, the league’s top seed and last year’s defending champions.

Faga’itua got off to a great start against Samoana on May 1, 2017 leading 2-0 midway through the second half. But the Sharks came back and tied the

game 2-2, and it stayed that way after the extra period.

In the penalty shootout that followed, the Vikings won it 4-3, with the kicks going to a sixth person each after the first five from both teams had it tied 3-3.

Christopher Kitiona, right, of Faga’itua chases after the ball during the ASHSAA Boys’ J-V soccer championship game between the Vikings and Warriors on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. Kitiona scored both goals in the final to help Faga’itua clinch the title.

[FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]

Henry ‘Milo’ Tiatia (right) of Tafuna with a successful tackle against Faga’itua’s Misipele Musu (left) during the ASHSAA Boys’ J-V soccer championship game on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]

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The Faga’itua Vikings’ Junior Varsity boys soccer team, champions of their division after beating the Tafuna Warriors 2-1 on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]


RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer

In a 30-minute interview with The Associated Press the day before Notre Dame’s spring game last month, Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly answered questions about being on the hot seat this season, the perception that he blames players, whether he was looking for another job at the end of last season, what he was looking for in new coor-dinators and more.

Some highlights:On the perception by critics

that he blames players.— “I demand. I never

demean’em. We have a high level of accountability. We’re very demanding and (the players) expect me to be honest with them on a day-to-day basis. They would say that ‘That’s Coach Kelly being Coach Kelly. If he came in and sugarcoated it, he’s full of it. That’s just not him.’

“But what I will change this year is that I can’t be honest with assessments of players to the media. Totally honest. Because it’s portrayed as throwing players under the bus. Being disloyal to a player. They don’t know the relationship with the player. Based upon what happened last year and the fallout that occurred from other media sources, it doesn’t do the university — it doesn’t do our program — any good for me to be forthright when it comes to those kinds of assessments of our players.”

On becoming more involved in all aspects of the team.

— “So I think you look at it as a CEO. You’re in charge of this division, you’re in charge of that division, and you hold your group accountable if they don’t get their job done. I’m not running the business that way anymore. I’m on the floor. I’m involved with everything that’s going on. I’m not micro-managing anything. But I want our players to know that I am involved in everything they’re involved with on a day-to-day basis.”

On being on the hot seat this season.

— “If you have a 4-8 season and you follow it up with another bad season at Notre Dame that to me would say that you don’t know how to fix it. You haven’t figured out what the problem is at Notre Dame. I’m very confident that I know what the issue was. So will we win 12 games? I can’t guar-antee that we’ll win 12 games. But we’re certainly not going to have the same issues that we had last year. Which were

pretty clear that we were not a gritty, tough football team in the fourth quarter. If we do all the other things the right way, which, I’ve been doing it a long time, I think I know how to do those things.”

On speculation and uncon-firmed media reports that he was interested in finding another job at the end of last season.

— “I was 4-8. I can tell you that my agent and I never had conversations with anybody. It in the offseason came up that maybe my name was used to enhance some other searches. But, no, we were never looking

for jobs.”On new defensive coordi-

nator Mike Elko.— “We were going from

schemes to fundamentals on defense. We were a heavy scheme team. Then when I got over and took over the defense with (assistant coach) Mike Elston we went back to fun-damentals and we saw a great change in our success rate on defense. So I was looking for somebody who was going to really focus on the fundamen-tals on defense. That’s Mike Elko.”

On new offensive coordi-

nator Chip Long.— “I wanted to find a play

caller. Somebody that had the knack. The art. Calling plays is a feel thing, it’s an art. You can be in this business for 30 years and you still can’t call plays. You’ve got a connection and feel that this guy can call plays. I’ve seen that that was some-thing that was going to be diffi-cult for me. And it was in a way difficult when I stepped back a little bit at times because I have not felt comfortable because I haven’t found tahe guy. I found the guy.”

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Kauvaha Tua, left, and Walter Pati, right of Tafuna, accept their second place trophy for the ASHSAA Boys’ J-V soccer division on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium.

[FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]


ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tim Beckham is making the most of his latest opportunity to prove himself with the Tampa Bay Rays.

The first overall pick from the 2008 draft homered twice for the second time in eight games, driving in four runs to lead the Rays over the strug-gling Miami Marlins 5-1 on Thursday night.

The 27-year-old shortstop, demoted to the minors last Sep-tember and filling in this season for the injured Matt Diffy, is batting .338 with two doubles, two triples, six homers and 15 RBIs in his last 17 games.

“Playing every day, you get opportunities to make adjust-ments and to compete more, and that’s what the game’s about,” Beckham said.

“You’ve got ups and downs throughout the season. How you take your downs speaks a lot about you, how you embrace the struggle, how you embrace different opportunities speaks a lot about you.”

Matt Andriese (2-1) scat-tered five hits, walked three and struck out eight over seven innings to match his lon-gest outing this season. Dee Gordon hit a run-scoring single off Chih-Wei Hu in the ninth before Alex Colome got the final out for his eighth save.

The Rays won three of four games to take the Citrus Series between the intrastate rivals, winning twice before small crowds in Miami before returning home to mostly-empty Tropicana Field on Wednesday and Thursday. The attendance was announced as 10,118 for the series finale.

Beckham had a pair of two-out, two-run homers, the only hits off Dan Straily (1-2) through four innings. Kevin Kiermaier added a RBI single off Nick Wittgren’s glove to make it 5-0 in the sixth.

Straily, who gave up a leadoff double to Evan Long-oria in the fifth, allowed four runs and three hits in five innings. Two of his five walks preceded Beckham’s home runs.

“That whole game turned on two pitches,” Straily said. “It just goes to show you, you never know what pitch is going to affect the game. It’s very frustrating.”

Beckham had the first multi-homer game of his career April 26 at Baltimore. He had 10 RBIs in 11 career games, including six starts, against Miami.

The Marlins have lost seven of nine games to fall a season-low-tying three games under .500 (12-15).

“For the most part, I’m not overly concerned,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said. “I like my club, confident that we’re going to play better than this, and we’re going to get more consistent than this.”

TRAINER’S ROOMMarlins: Gordon was back

in the lineup after having the previous night off.

Rays: C Wilson Ramos, coming back from right knee surgery, has been cleared for limited catching drills. ... RHP Erasmo Ramirez was placed on the paternity list and Hu was recalled from Triple-A Durham.

OZUNA ZONEMarlins LF Marcell Ozuna

singled in the second inning, giving him at least one hit in each of the 21 games he’s faced Tampa Bay during his career.

That’s the longest-active hitting streak against a single opponent in the majors. Bos-ton’s Dustin Pedroia has a 20-game streak against the Oakland Athletics.

CITRUS SERIESThe four-game home-and-

series drew crowds of 16,095 and 16,011 in Miami on Monday and Tuesday before dipping to 12,285 and 10,118 for the pair in St. Petersburg. The Rays improved to 55-52 all-time against the Marlins.

RARE FEATMiami’s J.T. Realmuto got

his second triple of the season hitting leadoff Wednesday. According to Elias, Realmuto became the first catcher since Pittsburgh’s Jason Kendall (2001 and 2002) to have two triples in a season from the leadoff spot. Prior to Kendall, the last catcher to do it was Mickey Cochrane in 1925.

UP NEXTMarlins: RHP Tom Koehler

(1-1) takes the hill Friday night against New York Mets RHP Rafael Montero (0-2). Miami was won five of seven in the season series.

Rays: RHP Chris Archer (2-1) faces Toronto LHP Fran-cisco Liriano (2-2) Friday night. Manager Kevin Cash said he doesn’t anticipate any carry-over from last Sunday when Jose Bautista glared at the mound after Archer threw behind him in the first inning. Archer said the pitch got away from him.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The numbers C.J. Beathard put up the past two seasons as Iowa quarterback were far from staggering, espe-cially in this age of high-pow-ered spread offenses in college football.

Beathard said at times it was frustrating watching other quar-terbacks put up more prolific numbers, but the tutelage he received in a pro-style offense under coach Kirk Ferentz and coordinator Greg Davis is what made him attractive to the San Francisco 49ers in the draft last week.

“I think it really bene-fited me coming from a pro-style offense,” Beathard said Thursday on the eve of his first practice as a pro. “Being under center and actually calling a play in a huddle. Nowadays, there’s so many colleges where they don’t have to do it. I just thank Coach Ferentz and Coach Davis for doing that.”

That was a reason why San Francisco traded up to take Beathard in the third round last week with the 104th overall pick. With a roster lacking a long-term answer at quarter-back, coach Kyle Shanahan said Beathard was the one quarter-back he wanted in his first draft as a head coach, calling him a natural thrower.

That confidence wasn’t lost on Beathard.

“That means a lot,” he said. “It means a lot to me that they believe in me and trust me like that. I love what Coach Sha-nahan does.”

Beathard, the grandson of Super Bowl-winning execu-tive Bobby Beathard, threw for 4,738 yards in two seasons as starter at Iowa. He had 34 touch-down passes and 15 intercep-tions during those two seasons, helping lead the Hawkeyes to a 12-0 regular season and Rose Bowl berth in 2015 and an 8-5 record last year.

He showed his toughness by playing through a sports hernia injury for almost all of 2015, a trait he learned watching players like Rodney Harrison and Junior Seau when Bobby Beathard was general manager in San Diego.

“I wanted to be as much like those guys as I could,” he said. “Those guys are as tough as it comes.”

That earned him the respect of his teammate in college — and NFL coaches like Shanahan.

Tight end George Kittle, a teammate at Iowa and a fellow 49ers draft pick, said the num-bers don’t begin to describe Beathard’s impact.

“He basically willed us to 20 wins in two years,” Kittle said. “That’s pretty impressive. He put the team on his back mul-tiple times in games we might not have been playing well.”

Beathard gets his start with the 49ers at rookie minicamp on Friday as part of a rookie class that includes first-round defen-

sive stars Solomon Thomas and Reuben Foster.

The Niners took Thomas third overall after trading down a spot and then traded up from the second round to get Foster 31st overall despite ranking him third on their draft board.

There have been questions about Foster’s health, with some speculation that he will need a second rotator cuff surgery on his injured right shoulder.

Shanahan told the team’s flagship radio station KNBR on Thursday that team doctors felt good about Foster’s health and don’t think he will need another operation.

“I just look at it as, you go with what your doctors say. And then you always think about, ‘All right, what about the worst-case scenario? What if this is true?’ The worst-case scenario is, the shoulder doesn’t heal correctly and you got to do it again,” Shanahan told the

station. “When you have to do it again, you got to get another surgery, so it’d be tough to play this year and you’d end up having him the next year.”

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FILE - In this March 4, 2017 file photo, Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis. Beathard said at times it was frustrating watching other quarterbacks put up more prolific numbers but the tutelage he received in a pro-style offense under coach Kirk Ferentz and coordinator Greg Davis is what made him attractive to the San Francisco 49ers in the draft last week. “I think it really benefited me coming from a pro-style offense,” Beathard said Thursday, May 4, 2017, on the eve of his first practice as a pro.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The “new” version of Brian Kelly is fitter, more connected to his team, less connected to his offense, not as likely to unload on a player at practice and — for the first time in his career — entering a season in real danger of losing his job.

Notre Dame football broke in 2016, a dysfunctional 4-8 meltdown . Kelly knows as well as anybody that another season like that in 2017 could very well be his last as head coach of the Fighting Irish.

Faced with that reality, Kelly has essentially relaunched his program, overhauling his staff, redefining his role and imple-menting a new culture that almost makes it feel as if there was already a head coaching change in South Bend.

It can be argued that no seat in college football gets hotter than the one on which the head coach of Notre Dame sits. But no one believes in Kelly’s ability fix the Fighting Irish and deal with the weekly referendum that will be this football season more than ... Brian Kelly.

“I use the analogy, if you’re a really good hitter and you’re in the major leagues and you have one year when you fall below, you make a couple of adjust-ments, you take some BP, you have a good offseason and you start hitting again,” Kelly said in an interview with The Associ-ated Press the day before spring practice ended for the Fighting Irish last month. “I’m going to hit again. I know how to coach.”

Kelly has reason to feel good about betting on himself. Last season was just the second in 27 years as a head coach in which he had a losing record. The other came in his first season rebuilding Central Michigan. In his previous six seasons at Notre Dame, Kelly was 55-23 with an appearance in the national championship game — a season that has now been vacated by the NCAA for rules violations . That’s a long way from Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, but there is no denying Kelly has been the most successful Notre Dame head coach since Lou Holtz left after the 1996 season.

After winning 10 games in

2015, Kelly was rewarded with a six-year contract extension. The Fighting Irish started the 2016 season ranked No. 10 with one of the best quarterback pros-pects in the country.

Then everything went wrong.Kelly performed a post-

season autopsy that included meeting for the first time in his career with every one of his

players. Their message to him: “We (the coaches) weren’t hard enough on them. We weren’t demanding enough,” Kelly said. A lack of consistent leadership that started at the top left Notre Dame with a team that wilted when facing adversity and lost seven games decided in the fourth quarter.

In remaking his staff — a pro-cess that started last September when defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder was fired four games into the season — Kelly parted ways with some coaches who had worked with him going back to his first head coaching job at Division II Grand Valley.

Between on-field coaches, strength and conditioning coaches and support staff, Kelly made 14 offseason hires.

“How many times will (the administration) allow you to have three and a half million dollars in contracts after a 4-8 season?” Kelly said. “I think that was a pretty good refer-endum on how they feel I’m the right guy for the job.”

Kelly hired Mike Elko away from Wake Forest to be defen-sive coordinator and 33-year-old Chip Long from Memphis to coordinate the offense and call the plays, a job that Kelly has been reluctant to relinquish during his tenure at Notre Dame.

It is a new approach for Kelly that allows him to satisfy another of his players’ requests. They wanted him around more and involved in all aspects of the team. This winter, for the first time, Kelly attended the players’ 6 a.m. strength and conditioning workouts, and made a point to eat more meals at the training table.

“When you change your own role you have different relation-ship with the players,” Kelly said. “Whereas I was maybe more of the hammer, if you will, when it came to our players, I have set that up within our pro-gram where the level of account-ability is being shared by every-

body. And so I don’t have to be that guy that is the heavy on every single player.

“So it allows the guys to feel that they can come to me and I’m approachable and they can play for Brian Kelly on Satur-days. ‘I want to play for Coach. Coach really cares about me.’”

Kelly, who also has lost about 20 pounds since the end of the season, is not claiming a per-sonal transformation. It’s not so much a new Kelly as it is a new role for Kelly.

“Coach Kelly certainly hasn’t changed who he is,” team captain and star offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey. “We’ve all known who he is. He’s a straight shooter with us and we’ve been straightforward with him since the season has ended.”

Hearing Kelly yell at receiver Equanimeous St. Brown — “Do you want to play!” — from across the field for going to the sideline without explanation during the last open practice of the spring, it was clear that Kelly has not totally given up the hammer. But the players say they are seeing a different side of him.

“He said to us early in the winter, ‘You know I love you guys by getting things done for you guys.’ That was kind of like a business man approach,” said senior safety Drue Tran-quill. “I’ve seen him kind of (taper) off that a little bit and become more of a personal guy. Whereas younger guys were like, you know, ‘I haven’t really had a conversation with Coach Kelly.’ Now guys are starting to feel that. And guys are starting to want to put their necks out on the table and play for him.”

Coaches talk all the time about ignoring the noise and eliminating distractions. Kelly’s biggest challenge this season could be insulating his team from any speculation about him, especially if early season games against Georgia and Michigan State do not go well.


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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2016, file photo, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, left, runs onto the field with his players before an NCAA college football game against Army in San Antonio. This is a first for Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly. He has been a college head football coach for the last 27 years and until now he had never reached this fork in his career path: Get better or get fired.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tim Beckham is making the most of his latest opportunity to prove himself with the Tampa Bay Rays.

The first overall pick from the 2008 draft homered twice for the second time in eight games, driving in four runs to lead the Rays over the strug-gling Miami Marlins 5-1 on Thursday night.

The 27-year-old shortstop, demoted to the minors last Sep-tember and filling in this season for the injured Matt Diffy, is batting .338 with two doubles, two triples, six homers and 15 RBIs in his last 17 games.

“Playing every day, you get opportunities to make adjust-ments and to compete more, and that’s what the game’s about,” Beckham said. “You’ve got ups and downs throughout the season. How you take your downs speaks a lot about you, how you embrace the struggle, how you embrace different opportunities speaks a lot about you.”

Matt Andriese (2-1) scat-tered five hits, walked three and struck out eight over seven innings to match his lon-gest outing this season. Dee Gordon hit a run-scoring single off Chih-Wei Hu in the ninth before Alex Colome got the final out for his eighth save.

The Rays won three of four games to take the Citrus Series between the intrastate rivals, winning twice before small crowds in Miami before returning home to mostly-empty Tropicana Field on Wednesday and Thursday. The attendance was announced as 10,118 for the series finale.

Beckham had a pair of two-out, two-run homers, the only hits off Dan Straily (1-2) through four innings. Kevin Kiermaier added a RBI single off Nick Wittgren’s glove to make it 5-0 in the sixth.

Straily, who gave up a leadoff double to Evan Long-oria in the fifth, allowed four runs and three hits in five innings. Two of his five walks preceded Beckham’s home runs.

“That whole game turned on two pitches,” Straily said. “It just goes to show you, you never know what pitch is going to affect the game. It’s very frustrating.”

Beckham had the first multi-homer game of his career April 26 at Baltimore. He had 10 RBIs in 11 career games, including

six starts, against Miami.The Marlins have lost seven

of nine games to fall a season-low-tying three games under .500 (12-15).

“For the most part, I’m not overly concerned,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said. “I like my club, confident that we’re going to play better than this, and we’re going to get more consistent than this.”

TRAINER’S ROOMMarlins: Gordon was back

in the lineup after having the previous night off.

Rays: C Wilson Ramos, coming back from right knee surgery, has been cleared for limited catching drills. ... RHP Erasmo Ramirez was placed on the paternity list and Hu was recalled from Triple-A Durham.

OZUNA ZONEMarlins LF Marcell Ozuna

singled in the second inning, giving him at least one hit in each of the 21 games he’s faced Tampa Bay during his career. That’s the longest-active hitting streak against a single opponent in the majors. Boston’s Dustin Pedroia has a 20-game streak against the Oakland Athletics.

CITRUS SERIESThe four-game home-and-

series drew crowds of 16,095 and 16,011 in Miami on Monday and Tuesday before dipping to 12,285 and 10,118 for the pair in St. Petersburg. The Rays improved to 55-52 all-time against the Marlins.

RARE FEATMiami’s J.T. Realmuto got

his second triple of the season hitting leadoff Wednesday. According to Elias, Realmuto became the first catcher since Pittsburgh’s Jason Kendall (2001 and 2002) to have two triples in a season from the leadoff spot. Prior to Kendall, the last catcher to do it was Mickey Cochrane in 1925.

UP NEXTMarlins: RHP Tom Koehler

(1-1) takes the hill Friday night against New York Mets RHP Rafael Montero (0-2). Miami was won five of seven in the season series.

Rays: RHP Chris Archer (2-1) faces Toronto LHP Fran-cisco Liriano (2-2) Friday night. Manager Kevin Cash said he doesn’t anticipate any carry-over from last Sunday when Jose Bautista glared at the mound after Archer threw behind him in the first inning. Archer said the pitch got away from him.

Beckham has 2 homers, drives in 4, Rays beat

Marlins 5-1

Miami Marlins pitcher Dan Straily can’t hang onto a ground ball by Tampa Bay Rays’ Corey Dickerson during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 4, 2017, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Straily was charged with an error. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

STEPHEN WHYNO, AP Sports Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight technical fouls, three ejections and a whole lot of bad blood later, the Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics have themselves a series.

Tensions boiled over in a contentious, technical foul-filled Game 3 Thursday night as the Wizards rode another hot start to a 116-89 victory that cut their series deficit to 2-1. Wash-ington built a big lead for the third consecutive game, holding and extending it this time as the score and the physical play got out of hand.

Washington’s Kelly Oubre Jr. was tossed for charging and knocking over Kelly Olynyk after a hard offensive foul, each coach got a technical foul and the hatred that built up during the regular season captured the spotlight more than John Wall continuing to torment the Celtics or the Wizards finding a solution for Isaiah Thomas.

“I guess that’s playoff bas-ketball,” said Thomas, who was held to 13 points after scoring 53 in Game 2. “We don’t like them and they don’t like us.”

Wall led the Wizards with 24 points as he, Otto Porter and Bojan Bogdanovic keyed a 22-0 first-quarter run that made it 34-12. Unlike in Games 1 and 2, when Washington let 16-0 and 16-8 leads slip away, the defense was there on Thomas and the rest of his teammates to limit the Celtics to 35.1 percent shooting.

Boston coach Brad Stevens took a page from Rasheed Wallace’s “Both teams played hard” playbook, repeating that the Wizards “played well” over and over. That was also his response to the physical nature of the game that included technicals for him and Wiz-ards coach Scott Brooks, and the fourth-quarter ejections of reserves Terry Rozier and

Brandon Jennings.Oubre created the most

fireworks with his outburst, leaping up from the ground to bowl over Olynyk in the second

quarter, leading to a flagrant 2 foul and ejection. Though Wall hopes it’s a learning experience for a young player, Oubre could be facing a suspension for his actions with a crucial Game 4 looming Sunday.

“We can’t respond that way,” Brooks said. “When you keep getting hit in the head, you might respond that way and I think that’s what he did. I’m not saying that that was the right thing to do. We have to focus on playing basketball.”

The Wizards were by far the better basketball team on Thursday night, shooting 46.7 percent thanks to 19 points each from Porter and Bogdanovic. They locked down defensively on Thomas, who never got into a rhythm and was on the wrong end of some post-ups against bigger opponents.

Hard fouls were part of the first two games of the series, but nothing like Game 3, as Celtics

center Al Horford described the Wizards play as “the way that they junk the game up a little bit.” Players and coaches on each side criticized officials for

not having control of the game and letting it get out of hand, and the result was more than a few post-whistle extracurriculars.

“I guess just two teams that really don’t like each other,” Wall said. “We’re two teams that’s trying to compete and trying to win this series.”

TIP-INSCeltics: Horford led the

team with 16 points. ... G Avery Bradley scored seven points after reporting soreness Wednesday from a hip pointer in Game 2. ... Jae Crowder has scored 10-plus points in a playoff career-high four con-secutive games. He finished with 14. ... Gerald Green started in place of Amir Johnson after not playing in Game 2 and had eight points.

Wizards: Bogdanovic made four of the seven 3-pointers he attempted. ... C Marcin Gortat had 13 points and 16 rebounds, saying he has to dominate in the paint if the Celtics go small. ... Outscored Boston 56-28 in the paint.

THOMAS’ TEETHA symbol of the rough-and-

tumble play, Thomas needed to have his dental work adjusted at halftime but missed only the first 1:40 of the third quarter.

“They came out, so I had to get ‘em back in,” the 5-foot-9 All-Star said of his temporary teeth.

Thomas isn’t worried about his mouth or his play as the series goes on, saying he strug-gled to adjust to Washington’s triple-teams early and couldn’t get into a rhythm in shooting 3 of 8 from the floor. He said next game he needs to be more aggressive and assertive.

MAHINMI RETURNSCenter Ian Mahinmi made

his playoff debut for the Wiz-ards after missing the past nine games with a left calf strain. Mahinmi played nine minutes and made his only shot.


Wizards beat Celtics 116-89 in technical foul-filled Game 3

Boston Celtics guard Terry Rozier (12) shoots over Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter Jr. (22) and Washington Wizards center Marcin Gortat (13), from Poland, during the second half in Game 3 of a second-round NBA playoff series basketball game, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Wash-ington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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DEAR ABBY: I divorced my narcissistic husband after our children were raised. Over the years, I have tried to have a relationship with all of my children and their families.

When I asked one of them for a three-day weekend with her children, she texted me saying they all had a lot going on. Then she added, “Maybe next year.” I may not BE here next year!

I know she may never read this, but it doesn’t matter to me if it will help someone who does read it. I have decided to change my will. If I’m not worth my children’s time, they don’t deserve my money. Your thoughts? -- WORTHLESS UP NORTH

DEAR WORTHLESS: Could it be possible that your daughter and her family are actually busy? Not knowing how you raised your children, it’s hard to render an opinion, but from your reaction, you appear to have a troubled relationship with this daughter. Rather than disinherit her, try to find out what motivated her to text what she did so fences can be mended. If that’s not possible, then you have every right to reallocate your assets as you wish.

DEAR ABBY: I have a huge problem with low self-esteem. For most of my life I was ridiculed, teased and bullied, not only by my classmates and co-workers, but also by my own family. It started when I was very young and continued well into my early 30s. (I am 35 now.) Because of this, I find it incredibly difficult to date anyone.

I always seem to find it easier to talk down about myself than to make myself happy. Please help me, Abby. I’m at a loss about what to do. -- SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES IN OHIO

DEAR ISSUES: I’m glad you wrote. The seeds of low self-esteem were planted when you were so young you didn’t understand what was being done was a form of abuse. Because it continued for so long, you should seek professional help to overcome it. It is important that you get it from a licensed therapist. Your physician or your insurance company can refer you to qualified people. Please don’t wait.

DEAR ABBY: Prior to meeting me, my husband was in a long-term relationship with a woman, “Karen,” who was also a close friend of his sisters. Their relationship and the friendships ended due to Karen’s behavior. Years passed, and then my husband met me.

Now, 10 years later, the sisters have decided to befriend Karen again. This would normally not be an issue, but Karen is invited to all family parties and weddings. It is very uncomfortable for my hus-band and me, as we feel we don’t have the option to skip these events. I have tried to quietly object, but I’m being painted as “immature.” Please help. -- UNCOMFORTABLE IN ILLINOIS

DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE: If you and your husband prefer not to socialize regularly with Karen, you certainly don’t have to. However, your discomfort with her does not entitle you to insist your sisters-in-law exclude her from all of their parties. Attend the ones you must, make the best of them, and send your regrets for the rest.

Happy Birthday: Put your best foot forward. Explore your creative ideas and look for ways to make them part of your life. Socialize, network and engage in projects that give you the freedom to use your skills to come up with something that you’ve never done before. The experience you gain from trying something new will lead to an unexpected opportunity. Your numbers are 8, 10, 21, 23, 34, 37, 48.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let anger get the best of you when dealing with one of your peers. Listen to what’s being said and consider all scenarios before you do something that might leave you open for criticism or blame. Focus on physical improvements. 3 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Get involved in activities that include people from all walks of life. Engage in discussions that will allow you to express your opinions and share ideas with others. Pursue a project that you have been interested in for a while. 5 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotional deception or disillusionment will be apparent. Do your homework and find out what’s legit and what isn’t before you make a move that could put you in a precarious position. Aim to stabilize your personal relationships. 2 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Good ideas will develop if you collaborate with others. Getting together with someone you haven’t seen for a long time or setting up a meeting with a colleague who inspires you will lead to new beginnings and future plans. 4 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If someone puts pressure on you, back away. Don’t feel the need to give in when you don’t have all the information required to make a wise choice. Ask questions and offer alternatives if there are things you don’t agree with. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Participate in events and activities that will help you get ahead. Learn all you can and take on a challenge that will help you reach your objectives. Don’t let someone from your past lead you in an extravagant direction. 3 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Someone will put emotional pressure on you. Don’t give in to persuasive or manipulative tactics that can affect the way you do your job or advance professionally. Make deci-sions based on what will help get you ahead. 3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An important partnership will need a little reassurance. Open up about the way you feel and where you see things headed and you will get the help needed to follow your heart. A short trip looks auspicious. 4 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll bypass a compromising situation if you remember a past experience and how it should have been handled. Learn from your mistakes and you will avoid get-ting involved in a project with disastrous possibilities. 2 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stay on top of what friends, relatives and peers are doing. Listen carefully and be ready to make alternative suggestions in order to maintain control. A financial gain will come from an unusual source. Find out what’s expected in return. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Emotional trouble will surface when dealing with domestic concerns and relationships with the people you live with. Make an effort to compromise, but don’t go past the halfway mark. Only be prepared to give what you expect to receive. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotional deception will cause frustration and anger. Before you confront someone, get the facts. Knowing what you are up against will help you come out on top. Use intelligence, honor and fair play, not brute force. 3 stars

Birthday Baby: You are confident, reliable and determined. You are steadfast and loyal.

ACROSS 1 Throw a party 5 Bindlestiffs 10 Some dinner

meats 14 Wrinkly

skinned fruit 15 Captain’s

“to the left” 16 Popular

cookie brand 17 Thought

process in which ideas suggest other ideas

20 Disgusted and not taking it anymore

21 Shop power cutter

22 Butter units 25 Proofer’s

notation remark

26 Letters of pressure on tires

29 Common test answer

31 How a bug might settle into a rug?

35 Hole-punching tool

36 Door’s swinger

38 Chimney duct 39 Weekend

warriors 43 Emulate a lion 44 Type of cash

in a business 45 Vital part of

a sting operation?

46 Bad thing to give away in a theater

49 Drop that’s sorrowful

50 Curvaceous thing on Superman

51 Strategic success

53 Be the subject of a “fail” video

55 Much more patriotic

58 Ski lodge beverage

62 Consecutive executions of computer programs

65 Why the world is not all good

66 Longish English assignment

67 Angler’s account

68 Operate with a beam

69 John with the tractors

70 Some Asian sauces

DOWN 1 Fit of

annoyance 2 Beast like

Shrek 3 Vehicle in

“Call of the Wild”

4 Hog, as a landline phone

5 Owns 6 Word with

“covert” or “photo”

7 ___ tube (TV set, in slang)

8 Black-and-white sea creatures

9 Work shifts or tours of duty

10 Extremely attractive one, per Donna Summer

11 Opera highlight

12 Sound from a certain house pet

13 Boy in the family

18 “I couldn’t care less” feeling

19 Port of Yemen

23 “The Three Tenors,” obviously

24 Time to hit the coffin, for a vampire

26 Praying father 27 Faint from joy 28 Homer’s

war epic 30 “Snowy” bird 32 English

church land 33 Anglers’ gear 34 “Oui” and

“si,” for two 37 Adlai’s 1956

running mate 40 First set of

wheels, often

41 Latin list shortener

42 Words you sing

47 Famous boat builder

48 Was a big drinker?

52 As such 54 Sentry

stations 55 Volcanic

discharge 56 Elevator man 57 Romantic

bloom 59 A form of

“goodbye” 60 “For Your

Eyes ___” (James Bond film)

61 Has birthday after birthday

62 “The Fresh Prince of ___-Air”

63 Ne’er-do-well 64 Pupil’s

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Universal CrosswordEdited by Timothy Parker May 5, 2017

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Friday, May 05, 2017

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Staff Appreciation Week

Thank You For Helping Us GrowOur 2016-2017 Accomplishments- JSA Summer Program 2016 - 4 participants

- Island-wide Science Symposium: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 5th place overall- Public Health Essay Contest: 1st and 2nd place overall- National Marine Sanctuary Fishing Derby Winners: 1st place K-3 division, 1st and

2nd place 4-8 division.- 1 student selected to the 2017 STEP-UP program- LBJ Dental Clinic and Colgate Contest: Country winner and runner up- PacificScienceSymposium,Hawaii:3studentsselectedtorepresentAmericanSamoa- 1 student nominated for the Junior Science and Humanities Symposia Program

Presidential Scholar AwardDOC Cleanest High School Campus Challenge- Cleanest Private School- Cleanest Cafeteria for Private Schools- Cleanest Gymnasium Private SchoolsIsland-Wide Spelling Bee ParticipationIsland-Wide Science Fair- Individual Categories Lower Elementary: One 1st place, two 2nd place and one 3rd place- Upper Elementary: one 1st place and one 2nd place- 1st place overall Elementary- High School Division: three 1st places, three 2nd places, and two 3rd places. 2nd and 3rd place

overallIsland-Wide Math Competition- 1st Place High School (15th consecutive year)- High School Division: 1st & 3rd Place Overall Individual Individual Grades High School: two 1st places, one 2nd place, three 3rd places

Elementary Division: 3rd place Overall

- Individual 8th Grade: one 3rd place

YWEC (Island Wide)- Elementary Division – three 1st places- High School Division – two 1st placesSpeech Festival- Individual Categories- one 2nd place and one 3rd placeHOSA State Leadership Conference Competitive Events- 1st Place Overall

Individual Categories: one 1st Place, four 2nd places, one 3rd placeSports- American Samoa Track Association Track Meet: Two 1st places and two 2nd places - Participation in FFAS Elementary Soccer League- 1 Student selected to represent American Samoa at the Under-12 Oceania Baseball

Tournament in Guam- 1 Student selected to represent American Samoa at the Oceania Football Confederation:

Champions League tournament in Tonga.- 3 Students selected for FFAS U16 training squadASHSAA- Girls Varsity Soccer: 2nd place overall- Boys Varsity Basketball: 5th place overall- Girls Varsity Basketball: 4th place regular season- Boys Varsity Soccer: 2nd place regular season- 1 student selected to represent American Samoa at the JPS Paradise Classic All-Star

volleyball tournament.Class of 2017 Accomplishments- 12 out of 19 seniors have SAT scores between 1000 and 1490 and 14 out of 19 seniors

have ACT scores of 19 or higher.

- Ouraccomplishmentsareareflectionofyourdedicationandcommitment.Wethankyouand appreciate all you have done for us!

Fa’afetai tele lava,SPA Board, PTO, Administration, and Student BodyStaffTeachers: Tina Tofaeono, Dana Eustaquio, Cheryl Montalbo, Jacqlin Ulu, Elisa Lei Sam, Loreta Alvarez Wisneske, Carmela Corpus, Nemai Tubui, Anneliese Sword, Jong Sam Park, Samuelu Si’ilata, Ah Sam Lei Sam, Vasati Moea’i, Cecilia Tuionoula, Jan Brugman, Mathew Lagafuaina, David Pouesi, Jenward Montalbo, and Lori PouesiAides/Resource: Failefa Suapilimai, Netini Misioka, Alapasa Vaimili, Maryann Ioane, Julius Lauvao and Annilyn Fuifui, Support Staff: Mack Lui, Tolini Lui, Peta Lynch, and Munoa LynchCooks: Faletausala Fa’aoso, Taginoa Vitolio, and Swan Ti’iti’iVolunteers: Angella Fitisone, Rejoice Vili, Mychaelene Faumuina and Paulo FitisoneAdministrative Staff: Kathy Fitisone, Taua-Alma Tuionoula, and Alex Baker This is ad is paid for by members of the SPA Student Council and the National and Junior National Honor Society.

This is ad is paid for by members of the SPA Student Council and the National and Junior National Honor Society.