June 13, 2015

Military tuition bill could boost enrollment locally

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A bill lowering in-state tuition costs for veterans could have a potentially lasting impact on local colleges and universities.

The bill was passed by the state Legislature in early May and deals

with the cost of higher education for both active-duty military personnel and veterans. It takes effect July 1.

In the provisions of the bill, active military personnel and certain veterans can receive typical instate tuition rates at a South Carolina college regardless of whether

the person is a South Carolina resident. The only stipulation is the military personnel must be living in the state.

With the lower cost of going to an in-state college or university, the benefits of staying within

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Eugenia Davis sits in the cockpit of a mini jet plane at Shaw Air Force Base on Friday during a visit by the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office’s Boys & Girls Youth Conferences. This is the ninth year of the program for the boys and the seventh for the girls.

Annual program aims to teach local children life skills

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al Boys & Girls Youth Conferences on Friday, it was their first time past the front gate.

Juskon latches on to the arm of Staff Sgt. Jonathan Van Eaton as handler Staff Sgt. Brittany Monahan keeps the dog under control during a demonstration of the animal’s skills at the event Friday.

Homeowner says car crash ‘sounded like judgment day’ Witnesses say vehicle went airborne, then struck home

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Robert and Rebecca Burgess had just gone into their home at 8 E. Patricia Drive in Sumter on Friday afternoon when they received a jolt that

sent Robert flying out of his La-Z-Boy and onto the living room floor.

Witnesses said they saw a car hit a utility pole and launch into the air more than 40 feet before landing just off the Burgess’ porch and into their home.

“It sounded like judgment day to me,” Robert Burgess said.

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“They get to see what we do and better understand our lifestyle,” said Tech. Sgt. Brian Humphreys.

“We want them to know we are there for them and their families.”

From watching an attack dog demonstration to wrestling with a fire hose, the children appeared to enjoy the outing, the first time the program has made a visit to Shaw.

“They’re learning,” said Lt. Petrina Wiley. “We are absolutely ecstat-

ic about being able to bring them on base and help them learn to excel.”

Sheriff’s office Senior Cpl. Albert Harvin Jr. said the program is one of Sheriff Anthony Dennis’ priorities.

“We are giving them a chance to look and observe some of the things they can do and lead them in the right direction,” Harvin said.

Harvin said in previous summers they have taken field trips to the waterpark in Orangeburg and toured a jail.

He said he gets a lot out of the program himself.

“To get a chance to work with these kids and let them know we are not out to lock them up,” he said. “Some of them come here with an attitude and leave with a smile on their faces.”

During the event, the children

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Robert and Rebecca Burgess had just moved from the front porch to their living room when a car went airborne and landed on their house just inches from their porch Friday afternoon.

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Even 5 minutes in hot car dangerous for kids, pets

BY COLLYN TAYLOR intern@theitem.com It doesn’t take long after the calendar flips to June for the temperature to skyrocket into the high 90s or even triple digits.

The Weather Channel is predicting the highs for today and Sunday to reach the triple-digit mark, and with those temperatures come added dangers.

Summer is usually the season when the bulk of incidents involving children or pets left alone in a car occur while the driver goes to do something.

One of the most recent cases occurred on Wednesday, when a Virginia woman left her 1-year-old and 6-year-old in the car while, ironically, she was being booked by law enforcement for leaving her children in a car about two weeks earlier, according to an Associated Press story.

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Dogs left in cars during the summertime can get dangerously hot in a short amount of time.

South Carolina has laws aimed at preventing children from being left in cars for too long. According to the law, children cannot be left unattended in a car for more than

five minutes. If the driver of the car is caught, he or she would be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to two years in prison if convicted.

While there is a five-minute leeway, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Braden Bunch said even in those five minutes, it could be dangerous.

“Your car is still like a greenhouse and will heat up quickly,” he said.

Bunch said cars are “more like an oven in the summer” and can present real dangers to children and pets, enough so that Bunch said to not do it in general.

Leaving children or pets in a car during the warmest months of the year can lead to irreparable harm.

According to WebMD, the temperature in a car can rise 30 to 40 degrees per hour, and if a child’s body temperature reaches 104 degrees, it could cause heat stroke. Symptoms of heat stroke can include dizziness, agitation, disorientation, loss of consciousness or death.

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enforcement, fire fighters and emergency medical personnel can use any means to get into a car to rescue a child without a court order. They would also not face any civil action for their actions to rescue the passenger.

Bunch said to prevent people from leaving children or pets in a car, people who see it happening should tell the person leaving the child or pet in the car the dangers and advise him or her not to do it.

While it might not be the easiest thing to do, Bunch said, it is an important step to ensure the safety of a child.

Bunch also said if people see someone left unattended in a car, they should call the authorities so they can take the next steps.

Authorities are always available at 911. Sumter County Sheriff’s Office can be reached at (803) 436-2000, and Sumter Police Department at (803) 436-2700.

Magic time

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The Sumter County Library’s summer reading program is well underway, and one of its most popular performers will appear at the Sumter Opera House on Wednesday.

Zelnik the Magician, back for his third encore, will take the stage at 10 a.m. for some sleight of hand and large-scale tricks of the trade, all in support of the library’s summer reading program titled “Every Hero Has a Story.”

Zelnik frequently draws his assistants from the audience, and Wednesday is likely to be no exception. Whether you’re a believer or not, Children’s Librarian Karen Edgar says, Zelnik will amaze you.

Admission is free to the public, and adults as well as children are invited to attend. For more information about the library’s summer reading program, call (803) 773-7273.

Morris will host woman’s baptist convention Morris College will be the host site for the 2015 Annual Session of the Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina.

A welcome night worship service will be held at 7 p.m.

Monday in the Neal-Jones Auditorium at Morris.

Dr. Audrey Potts-Neal, convention president, will deliver her annual address at 11 a.m. on June 18.

For additional information, contact the Morris College Office of Church Relations at (803) 934-3260.

Paralegal manager earns excellence award Central Carolina Technical College Paralegal Program Manager Gary H. Johnson has been awarded the Miller Communications Excellence in Education Faculty Award for the month of June.

“The CCTC Paralegal Program has thrived under Gary’s guidance and direction, and we are fortunate to have him on our team,” said Becky Rickenbaker, the college’s public relations director.

Johnson will be a guest on the “Good Morning Sumter” radio show from 8:15 to 8:30 a.m. Monday, along with Central Carolina President Tim Hardee and the show’s host, Derek Burress.

The paralegal associate degree program is a concentrated study that includes core knowledge as well as specific legal concepts, such as civil litigation, real estate, family law and workers compensation.

Students gain an understanding of the court system and the process of civil and criminal litigation.

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Western half of Wise Drive to remain closed until Tuesday

BY COLLYN TAYLOR intern@theitem.com Alice Drive hit another snag this week, and the western half of Alice and Wise drives will remain closed until Tuesday.

The intersection has been closed since June 8 for repairs and was scheduled to re-open on June 13. According to

a press release from the South Carolina Department of Transportation, the intersection will remained closed until Tuesday to do additional drainage work.

According to the release, the City of Sumter had to “relocate a sewer line that interfered with the cross line pipe that was being laid across Wise Drive, prompting the change in the contractor’s schedule.”

Once the drainage work is done, the intersection will fully open.

Work will shift then to the Alice Drive and Wesmark Boulevard intersection where it will continue through September. After that, the final layer of asphalt will be applied.

SCDOT Engineer Jeffery Wilkes said the project is still “earmarked” to be finished in October.

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POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A Whirlpool side-by-side refrigerator, a 7MM camouflage stock rifle with a Bushnell 3x50 scope, a Savage 7MM synthetic stock rifle, a 20-gage shotgun with an oak wood stock, a Remington 12-gage automatic shotgun, an oak stock camouflage sling, a men’s gold wedding ring and a gold chain valued at $7,550 was reported stolen about 10:52 p.m. Friday from the 400 block of Allen Drive.

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com The Sumter Family YMCA is offering an abundance of day camps for children to enjoy this summer.

Fun Factory, a camp for ages 3 to 10, started this week. Each week of camp activities include age-appropriate games, swimming, sports, arts and crafts.

The camp lasts for 10 weeks and includes field trips each week to different locations, including going to the zoo, water park, skating and bowling.

About 115 children are enrolled in the camp.

Counselors focus on each child’s needs and work to make sure everyone is a part of the fun, said Carmelia “Cam” Bankhead, director of youth development.

“This camp allows them to be physically active and engaged in a fun environment,” Bankhead said.

Travis Byrd, is one of 50 camp counselors at the Y this summer. He got involved with the camp because he wants to be a teacher, and is a student at Morris College majoring in mathematics secondary education. The camp offered him an opportunity to work with children.

“Working with kids is a passion of mine,” he said. “This camp allows the children to build a bond over the 10-week period and really get to know each other.”

The Y offers several other camps for children to enjoy.

Camp Mac Boykin is an outdoor wildlife camp for 7- to 12-year-olds located in Pinewood on 55 acres of land.

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Desmond Durant, camp counselor at the Sumter Family YMCA, is seen with some of the 3- and 4-year-olds from the Fun Factory camp. camp theme. Campers will also have the opportunity to enjoy the excitement of overnight camp on certain days throughout the summer. The overnight camp days are on Thursdays: June 25, July 16 and Aug. 6.

Camp opportunities are also available for older children and teenagers.

Teen Scene Camp offers field trips, service projects and more for ages 11 to 13.

The Y is also offering five different specialty sports camps, including volleyball, water, basketball, boxing and multi sports camp.

Hours for Fun Factory, Camp Mac Boykin and Teen Scene are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with before care available from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. and after care available from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hours for the sports specialty camps are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with extended care available from 7:30 a.m. to 9

a.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Camp rates for Fun Factory, Camp Mac Boykin and Teen Scene are $90 per week for YMCA members and $135 per week for nonmembers. Camp rates for the specialty camps are $60 per week for members and $90 per week for nonmembers.

Registration is open for all three camps, which run on a weekly basis for a total of 10 weeks.

A one-time, $25 enrollment fee, along with a copy of the child’s immunization records should be provided to the ‘Y’. A $25 deposit per child, per week, is also required at registration.

Camp sessions may be mixed and matched throughout the summer.

Online registration is not available.

For more information call (803) 773-1404, stop by the Y at 510 Miller Road or visit the website at ymcasumter.org/.

A .40 caliber handgun, two large pickle jars filled with quarters, one large pickle jar filled with dimes, two large pickle jars filled with nickels and five sterling silver rings valued at $1,500 was reportedly stolen between 11 a.m. and 5:08 p.m. Saturday from the 100 block of Hoyt Street. The residence also reportedly sustained $350 in damage.

A bag of golf clubs valued at $2,000 was reported stolen about 2 p.m.

Friday from a truck parked in the 1300 block of Broad Street.

Forty 100-pound tractor weights, a tool box and miscellaneous tools were reported stolen about 9:35 a.m. Saturday from two tractors parked in the 3600 block of Leonard Brown Road.

A yellow tiller valued at $800 was reportedly stolen from the outside a business in the 2000 block of Broad Street about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The assistant manager said nothing was stolen from the inside of the store, however the lock and cable around the outside machinery was cut.

DAMAGED PROPERTY The front door of a business in the 100 block of W. Liberty street reportedly sustained $1,000 in damage about 4:50 a.m. Wednesday.

Defendant or plaintiff? S.C. State may be either in lawsuit

BY BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press CHARLESTON — South Carolina State University will be part of a lawsuit alleging the state still has a segregated system of higher education — the only question is whether the school will be a plaintiff or a defendant, the attorney who filed the suit said Friday.

Current and former S.C. State students have sued the state and the Commission on Higher Education saying duplication of S.C. State programs at other public universities has hurt enrollment and the bottom line at the Orangeburg school.

The suit alleges that if white students can receive the

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courses elsewhere, they are not likely to attend the state’s only historically black public university.

The debt at the financially troubled school is expected to reach almost $24 million by month’s end. State lawmakers earlier this year removed its board of trustees, and a new board was put in place.

The lawsuit suit filed earlier this year in federal court in Columbia seeks for monetary damages for the plaintiffs and a special mediator to recommend a remedy for what it calls a segregated higher education system.

Orangeburg attorney Glenn Walters said if the university doesn’t join as a plaintiff because the school isn’t getting adequate state funding, he

will name the school as a defendant.

“We certainly want SC State University joining our lawsuit” as a plaintiff, he said.

“They have never filed suit to say the state Legislature has failed to provide proper funding.”

Charles Way, the chairman of the new S.C. State board, said the board has been handling other matters and has not yet been briefed on the case.

If the school is named as a defendant, Walters said, “the students will argue their degrees were diminished by negligence and improper management of the school by the university itself.”

Attorneys for the state and the commission have re-

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Wilkes said the issue of SC State’s role in the lawsuit must be resolved before other matters, including whether the case will be made a class action suit, can be addressed.

The lawsuit is not expected to go to trial until next year.

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Eight of the states are in the West, with projects in conifer forests and sagebrush rangelands, where wildfires have been especially destructive in the last decade. Sagebrush is also habitat for sage grouse, an imperiled bird under consideration for federal protections.

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King’s ‘Finders Keepers’ torments readers

BY ROB MERRILL The Associated Press The power of books over readers is a frequent theme in the work of Stephen King.

Who can forget Annie Wilkes in “Misery,” chopping off novelist Paul Sheldon’s foot with an ax?

“Finders Keepers” gives us a con named Morris Bellamy whose obsession with the work of a writer named John Rothstein goes way too far. It’s not a spoiler to say Bellamy kills Rothstein (it happens on page 14), steals his unpublished notebooks and dreams about the words inside them during his 35 locked-up years.

While Bellamy’s doing time, a young

boy named Pete Saubers, who is also in love with the work of the late Rothstein, finds those notebooks and figures out they could secure his family’s fortune. Mom and dad are on the brink of divorce, dad’s life having radically changed when he was a victim of the “Mercedes Killer” a few years ago.

Enter King’s new Scooby Gang, introduced in “Mr. Mercedes.” Retired cop Bill Hodges, autistic office manager Holly Gibney and Harvard student Jerome Robinson get involved with the case after Pete’s sister Tina tells them she thinks her brother is in trouble.

What follows happens fast. At 432 pages, this qualifies as a novella in the King canon. The plot tumbles along,

with the past informing the present and the suspense building until the end. At times it feels too contrived, almost as if King is picturing the movie in his head, flashing back decades to fill in holes in the story.

But there’s nothing else to nitpick about. If you like King, it goes down easy. There are flies on dead bodies, melting faces and eyeballs split like grapes. You’ll find yourself cheering for Bellamy’s long, agonizing death.

Best of all, on the final page, you’ll know that what started with “Mr. Mercedes” is meant to be a trilogy.

Psychopath Brady Hartsfield is getting his mojo back at the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, and that means book three probably isn’t far away.

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‘Jurassic World’ is lacking in suspense

BY JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Along the scaly spine of the Tyrannosaurus Rex runs the evolution of Hollywood blockbustering.

Twenty-two years ago, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” set the standard for the kind of movie the industry has, ever since, bred like test-tube dinos.

“Jurassic World,” the latest incarnation of the franchise, is lacking the deft sense of wonderment, wit and suspense that guided the original. Director Colin Trevorrow, who ended his first and only other feature, “Safety Not Guaranteed,” with a Spielbergian magical twist, has instead made a more biting thriller hung up on the corporate mandates of post“Jurassic Park” Hollywood.

What was once a charmingly hokey, if fatally misguided island resort off Costa Rica created by a wealthy, wide-eyed carnival showman has grown

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Indominus Rex is seen about to attack in a scene from the film “Jurassic World,” directed by Colin Trevorrow, in the next installment of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking “Jurassic Park” series. The Universal Pictures 3D movie released in theaters Friday. into a sprawling, monorail-traversed theme park worth billions.

“Bigger, louder, more teeth” is the demand of the park’s corporate overlords, which includes the serene CEO Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan). But the real face of the new Jurassic World is operations manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), a business suit-clad executive who calls the dinosaurs “assets” and describes the park in terms of revenue,

not awe.

When her two nephews, a brooding teenager named Zach (Nick Robinson) and his younger, more excited brother Gray (Ty Simpkins), arrive for a visit, Claire still spends most of her time in the NASA-like control room or hosting potential sponsors.

The only one who seems to understand the dinosaurs is Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady, a kind of Velociraptor Whisperer. He’s trained a foursome of

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because it’s not smoothed by humor. If the modern blockbuster could use anything, it’s a rework by a few talented comedy writers.

The 3-D “Jurassic World” is also an ugly, over-saturated movie; CGI has run amok here as much as dinosaurs.

Pratt, the Harrison Ford heir apparent, slides perfectly into the film. But it’s Howard who makes the biggest impact as a corporate cog whose controlled world is imploding.

A Thousand Horses perform at the CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee.

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BY RON HARRIS The Associated Press Southern rock specialists A Thousand Horses pride themselves on being influenced by some of the genre’s greats, such as The Black Crowes and The Allman Brothers. You can hear those influences throughout their latest album, “Southernality.”

Raptors, each sporting their own nickname, by clicking sounds.

When the dinosaurs’ intelligence is again underestimated, chaos returns to the park, courtesy of a wily, ferocious hybrid of mysterious genetic makeup called the Indominus Rex. The corporate commentary in the screenplay, by Trevorrow, Rick Jaff, Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly, comes across as heavy handed partly

Push play on the album’s first track, “First Time,” and the listener is treated to a raucous keyboard-fueled song that is uncomfortably close to Black Crowes’ “Jealous” in vocals and instrumentals.

Thankfully, A Thousand Horses come a bit more into

their own on “Smoke,” the first single from the album and one that enjoyed country chart success in the United States and Canada.

Lead singer Michael Hobby equates a woman to a bad cigarette habit, and somehow it fits the band fine.

PUBLIC NOTICE CAPER REPORT REVIEW AND PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 6 p.m., Santee-Lynches Regional Council of Governments (SLRCOG) on behalf of the Sumter County Regional HOME Consortium will hold a Public Hearing at the Santee-Lynches RCOG office at 129 South Harvin Street, Sumter, SC. This Hearing concerns the Sumter County HOME Consortium’s Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) which will be submitted to the HUD Regional Office on or before July 1, 2015. The CAPER outlines the availability and utilization of HUD HOME funds for the period of April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. A Summary of the Program Year’s activities will be available for public review at the SLRCOG office at 125 South Harvin Street, Sumter, SC. The SLRCOG and its member local governments do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability in the administration of, access to, treatment, or employment in its Federally-assisted programs or activities. Persons with questions or comments concerning the Public Hearing may contact Sharon Durden, ECS Department, (803) 774-1988.

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Rachel Dolezal, a leader of the Human Rights Education Institute, stands in front of a mural she painted at the institute’s offices in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Dolezal, now president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, is facing questions about whether she lied about her racial identity with her family saying she is white but has portrayed herself as black.

Parents say NAACP leader lied about her racial identity SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, is facing questions about whether she lied about her racial identity, with her family saying she is white but having portrayed herself as black.

Rachel Dolezal would not answer questions about her background in an interview with The Spokesman-Review newspaper.

“That question is not as easy as it seems,” she said Thursday. “There’s a lot of complexities, and I don’t know that everyone would understand that.”

Dolezal is president of the local branch of the civilrights organization, an adjunct professor in the Africana Studies Program at Eastern Washington University and chairwoman of Spokane’s police overnight board.

Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart say an inquiry is underway into whether she violated city polices when she listed herself as white, black

and American Indian on her application for the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission.

“If this is true, I’ll be very disappointed,” Stuckart said Thursday, adding that the council will meet soon to discuss the issue.

Dolezal’s mother, Ruthanne, said the family is Czech, Swedish and German, with some Native American roots.

Ruthanne Dolezal said that she and her daughter have not been in touch for years, but that Rachel Dolezal began to portray herself as AfricanAmerican eight or nine years ago after the family adopted four black children.

Rachel Dolezal says the controversy is emerging because of legal issues between family The NAACP says in a statement that it respects Dolezal’s privacy as she faces what they call a legal issue with her family.

Eastern Washington University would not discuss a personal issue, spokesman Dave Meany told the newspaper.

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday in connection with the probe into a Massachusetts man who was fatally shot by terrorism investigators as they sought to question him about a possible plot to kill police officers.

Nicholas Rovinski is expected to appear in federal court Friday, when the charges against him will be announced, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling said.

Rovinski, of Warwick, was taken into custody Thursday night without incident, Boston FBI office spokeswoman Kristen Setera said. Federal officials searched Rovinki’s house at least two days last week, but they wouldn’t discuss details of the search.

Rovinski couldn’t be reached for comment while in custody on Thursday night. A telephone call to his house rang unanswered, and a woman inside yelled through the front door to a reporter outside, “Get out of here.”

Federal authorities say Boston resident Usaama Rahim plotted for at least a week to attack police. An FBI affidavit supporting a criminal complaint against Rahim’s nephew David Wright says Rahim, Wright and another man met on a Rhode Island beach “to discuss their plans,” but it doesn’t identify the other man.

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This undated self portrait shows Usaama Rahim, who was shot to death by terror investigators in Boston, June 2. A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday in connection with the probe into the Massachusetts man who was fatally shot by terrorism investigators as they sought to question him about a possible plot to kill police officers.

Rahim, who had been under surveillance, was confronted last week because he had bought knives and talked of an imminent attack on “boys in blue,” the FBI said.

The FBI said Rahim, who had previously discussed beheadings, bought three fighting knives and a sharpener on or before May 26 and told Wright he would begin trying to randomly kill police officers.

An anti-terror task force of FBI agents and Boston police officers, faced with an imminent threat, confronted Rahim on a sidewalk and fatally shot him when he refused to drop his knife, authorities said.

Boston police Commissioner William Evans said

officers confronted Rahim because “military and law enforcement lives were at threat.” He said the officers “made the right call,” drawing their guns only after backing away and giving Rahim “multiple chances” to drop the military-style knife he was holding.

Rahim’s relatives have disputed investigators’ version of events, citing a blurry surveillance video released by police. They said the video showing the terror investigators fatally shooting him doesn’t show him brandishing a weapon or approaching officers aggressively. They said he was not the initial aggressor and did not appear to be breaking any laws as he walked toward a bus stop on his way to work on June 2.

Wright, of Everett, Massachusetts, was arrested last week on a charge of conspiracy with intent to obstruct a federal investigation. He’s in custody pending a June 19 hearing.

Prosecutors said he posed a serious risk of fleeing or obstructing justice if not held pending the hearing.

But Wright’s attorney, Jessica Hedges, denied that, saying he has deep roots in the Boston area and an “incredibly loving and supportive family.”

Hedges urged the government to be “as transparent as possible” and “abide by the law” as it investigates this case, saying “we have serious concerns about that already.”

6 Harper Lee letters fail to sell at auction “We were surprised, stunned & dazed by the Princeton review,” she wrote. “The procurator of Judea is breathing heavily down my neck — all that lovely, lovely money is going straight to the Bureau of Internal Revenue tomorrow.”

In another letter she tells Caufield: “Daddy is sitting beside me at the kitchen table. ... I found myself staring at his handsome old face, and a sudden wave of panic flashed through me, which I think was an echo of the fear and desolation that filled me when he was nearly dead. It has been years since I have lived with him on a day-to-day basis.”

The sale comes as Lee’s second book, “Go Set a Watchman,” is set to be released in July. It was written before the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Mockingbird” but takes place 20

NEW YORK (AP) — Six letters by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to one of her close friends failed to sell at auction Friday.

The archive had been expected to bring as much as $250,000 at Christie’s, which said the bidding did not reach the reserve price.

Four of the letters date from before “Mockingbird” while Lee was caring for her ailing father, Amasa Coleman Lee, the model for her protagonist Atticus Finch.

The signed and typed letters were written to Lee’s friend, New York architect Harold Caufield, between 1956 and 1961, according to Christie’s, which is selling them on Friday.

In one, she writes about her “stunned” reaction to the huge success of the book, published in 1960 and made into a movie starring Gregory Peck in 1962.

years later. Lee’s agreement to release the book stunned the literary world. “Watchman” has been ranked No. 1 in new releases of classic literature and fiction on Amazon.com for weeks.

“She’s arguably one of the most important American novelists of the postwar period who has not published a great deal,” said Tom Lecky, Christie’s head of books and manuscripts.

“She’s remained a private figure so the appearance of an archive like this is a very important moment in the marketplace. Only three other letters of hers have come up at auction within the last 35 years.”

Christie’s said the seller, who wished to remain anonymous, acquired the letters on the open market. The auctioneer intentionally has blurred the contents in its catalog and online to protect the author’s privacy.

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TUITION FROM PAGE A1 South Carolina to get a college degree increase.

Keith Britton, director of admissions services at University of South Carolina Sumter, said he thinks the bill will make military personnel “more readily complete the admissions process” for higher education.

Britton said he hopes the bill will positively impact the enrollment at USC Sumter. Enrollment for the fall 2015 semester is unknown, but USC Sumter’s enrollment is usually about 1,000 full-time students, according to its academic bulletin.

Britton said the university has a video conference Monday with South Carolina Committee on Higher Education to discuss the bill.

According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 21 million veterans, and roughly 14 million had some type of college education, which is about 66 percent of the veteran population. That number includes those who went to college but did not graduate.

As of 2013, there were 37,647 activeduty military personnel in South Carolina, according to Governing magazine, all of whom would be eligible for in-state tuition July 1.

Many veterans do not get stationed in their home state, so the cost of higher education would be more expensive because it would be considered out of state. According to the USC Sumter website, the cost for instate tuition is $3,147 per semester, while out-of-state tuition is more than double at $7,869 per semester.

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Britton said college tuition prices are rising year by year, and anything to give service members an “added benefit” to go to college is a good thing. He said the bill is a step forward because it shows “our thanks and appreciation to try to eliminate barriers” for military members to get a college education.

USC Sumter already has a partnership with the military. The university has the Base Education Center at Shaw Air Force Base, which serves as a student services center for military personnel enrolled with the school.

The center deals with admissions, placement testing, counseling, advisement and registration.

Britton said the bill is a good complement to the education center.

The bill also has a provision that people related to a person active in

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the military or a veteran could receive reduced tuition no matter how long the military member has lived in the state.

According to the Department of Defense’s website, there are 5,437 activeduty troops stationed at Shaw, all of whom will have the opportunity to receive in-state tuition. There are also 11,000 family members, and some of them will qualify for in-state tuition as well.

Those going to college in the state can transfer to another South Carolina college and receive the in-state rate at the new university.

USC Sumter’s fall semester starts Aug. 20, and Britton said he’s excited about the opportunity to work with military personnel more and for the opportunity to “put them in a position to continue their education.”

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Antonio Fletcher Jr. gets the opportunity to hold a firehose during the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office’s Boys & Girls Youth Conferences at Shaw Air Force Base on Friday. Students saw various demonstrations during their visit.

STUDENTS FROM PAGE A1 broke up into several groups and walked around a large, grassy field with a variety of military vehicles, a fire truck, an ambulance and other displays.

Christopher Fordham, a junior at Sumter High School, said he was considering a military career because he has an uncle who is serving but wasn’t interested in a combat role.

“I don’t like killing things,” he said.

Mani Robinson, who said she will be attending Crestwood High School in the fall, said a military career

doesn’t interest her.

“I want to be a pediatrician,” she said.

At one station, bomb disposal officers displayed their suits and the remote control robots they use to disarm explosives. The Kevlar suit weighs 78 pounds and the helmet about the same, he said.

He passed the helmet around to the children, and some could barely lift it.

Other displays included a mouthto-mouth resuscitation practice dummy, and another had a variety of military weapons the students could handle if they wanted.

All exhibits were closely monitored by uniformed military personnel.

Another station had a small mock-up of a jet fighter, which several children were able to sit in.

Cpl. Fred Brantley took his turn at squeezing into the cockpit.

“I felt like a can of sardines,” he said.

Wiley said this is the ninth year the program has been held for boys and the seventh for girls.

“The basic principle is to teach these children life skills,” she said.

“It gives them a chance to see what the military does for our community and what they do that is beyond military service.”

“It’s a wonderful experience,” she said.

He was sitting directly above where the car landed.

Rebecca said it sounded like “thunder” as it shook the house.

When they picked themselves up and opened their front door, they said they saw a woman, a passenger and two children in the automobile that was stuck under the foundation of their home.

Others at the scene said it appeared the woman driver had a seiROBERT zure and lost control of BURGESS the car. They said it split a utility pole that launched the car into the home.

Evidence at the scene illustrated that point, as there were no tire marks or even disturbances to flower gardens the car apparently flew over.

Brittney Shaw, a neighbor to the Burgesses, said she had gone to get her mail when she saw the whole thing happen.

“The car was airborne from the street to the house,” she said.

Shaw rushed over to check on the Burgesses and found they were OK, just a little shaken up.

South Carolina Highway Patrol was investigating the case and did not have a report available at press time.

People at the scene said all four people in the vehicle appeared to be OK, but all were taken by ambulance to a local hospital. Their conditions were not available, but Highway Patrol listed the incident as a collision with injuries Friday evening.

Prison worker arrested, accused of aiding 2 N.Y. escapees DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at an upstate New York maximumsecurity prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday.

Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell was arrested and will be arraigned on charges of first-degree promoting prison contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, state police said.

Mitchell is accused of befriending inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and giving them contraband.

District Attorney Andrew Wylie said

earlier the contraband didn’t include power tools used by the men as they cut holes in their cell walls and a steam pipe to escape through a manhole last weekend.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers continued to search for the escapees, concentrating Friday on a rural area near the prison. The hunt for the inmates was focused on an area where residents reported seeing two men jumping a stone wall outside the far northern New York town of Dannemora.

About 300 searchers were added, bringing the total number of state, fed-

eral and local law enforcement officers involved in the manhunt to more than 800.

Mitchell’s family has said she wouldn’t have helped the convicts break out.

An instructor in the tailor shop where the men worked, Mitchell is also suspected of agreeing to be a getaway driver but didn’t show up, leaving the men on foot early Saturday morning.

Mitchell has a job with a yearly salary of $57,697, overseeing inmates who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing machines at the prison. Amid the criminal case, she was suspended without pay.

Within the past year, officials looked into whether Mitchell had improper ties to the 34-year-old Sweat, who was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriff’s deputy, Wylie said. He gave no details on the nature of the suspected relationship.

The investigation didn’t turn up anything solid enough to warrant disciplinary charges against her, the district attorney said.

Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Matt’s 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river.

OBITUARIES REGINALD D. ENGLISH Deacon Reginald D. English, 87, husband of Eartha L. English, departed this life on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at his residence.

He was born on Jan. 29, 1928, in Darlington, a son of the late Frederick and Ernestine Bacote English.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 1136 Oriole Circle, Sumter, SC 29150.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

JAMES KENNEDY JR. James Kennedy Jr., 60, departed this life on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at his residence.

He was born on May 3, 1955, in Sumter, a son of Dorothy Pack Kennedy and the late James Kennedy.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 1826 Georgianna Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 and at the home of his sister, Linda (Rodney) Speed, 1610 Radical Road, Sumter, SC 29153.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc.

of Sumter.

MARY LOIS COLONES FLORENCE — Mary Lois Colones, 94, of Florence and formerly of Sumter, passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2015.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the funeral home.

Arrangements will be announced by StoudenmireDowling Funeral Home.

FRANCIS COARD SR. Francis Coard Sr., age 94, widower of Wilhemina Junious Coard, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Feb. 22, 1921, in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Jack and Harriett Gaymon Coard.

The family is receiving friends at the home, 1125 Gaymon Road, Pinewood.

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trusted to Dyson’s Home for Funerals of Summerton.

FRANCES MAE WRIGHT BISHOPVILLE — Funeral services for Frances Mae Wright, who passed away on June 9, 2015, will be held at 2

p.m. on Saturday at South Side Ministries in Pageland. Internment will follow at Mill Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

Services directed by the management and staff of New Life Funeral Services of Bishopville.

FREE SPEAKING PROGRAMS Attorney Glenn Givens is offering free speaking programs to local social and civic organizations and businesses with fifteen or more meeting attendees on the following separate topics: 1. Wills, Dying without a Will and Probate; 2. Trusts and Estate Planning; and 3. Powers of Attorney and Living Wills.

If your organization or business is interested, has fifteen or more meeting attendees and meets in Sumter, Clarendon or Lee County, contact Glenn at (803) 418-0800; ext. 108.

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AROUND TOWN drink. Call James L. Green The Carolina Coin Club will at (803) 968-4173. meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at the Parks & Rec- An Applebee’s flapjack fundAre you interested collecting? reation Building,155 Hayn- in coin raiser breakfast to support sworth St. The club meets Crestwood High School FFA on the third Tuesday of will be held 8-10 a.m. on each month. Visitors are al- Saturday, June 20, at Appleways welcome. Call (803) bee’s Neighborhood Grill & 775-8840 for more informaBar, 2497 Broad St. Call tion.

Jason Gore at (843) 333-9712 or (803) 469-6200, extension The Mayesville Summer En4514. Mr. Gore can also be richment Camp Program will reached via email at Jason. be held 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. gore@sumterschools.net or Monday-Friday, June 15 email Brittany Robinson at through Aug. 7, at the Mayesville Institute School. brittanyrobinson9@gmail. com.

Sponsored by the Mayesville Educational and Indus- The Sumter Vitiligo Support trial Institute, the program Group will hold its first vitiligo will involve academic ensupport group walk from 9 richment as well as a host a.m. until noon on Saturday, of physical activities for June 20, at Salterstown participating youth ages Community Park, 800 Salt4-17. Weekly fees are $10, erstown Road. Attendees $7 and $5 for first, second are asked to bring two nonand third child respectively. perishable food items.

Fee includes daily breakWear purple to show supfast, lunch and a snack. For port. Event will feature applications or additional music, food and more. information, call Dr. DeboWomen On a Move, a newly rah L. Wheeler at (803) 983formed non-profit organiza7221 or Margie Jefferson at tion, will host a business mixer (803) 453-5441. from 5 to 7 p.m. on SaturThe Sumter Parents of Murday, June 20, at Team Robdered Children will meet inson MMA, 262 S. Pike from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tues- West. day, June 16, at the Birnie The Clarendon County Branch HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy NAACP will hold its monthly St. Refreshments will be meeting at 4 p.m. on Sunserved. day, June 21, at St. Mark JMBC Toastmasters Ministry AME Church, Summerton. will hold its charter ceremony The 2015 Sumter County Comat 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June munity Development Corpora16, at Jehovah Missionary tion Housing and Job Fair will Baptist Church, 803 S. Harbe held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on vin St. The public is invited Saturday, June 27, at South to meet members and lisSumter Resource Center, ten to people speak about 337 Manning Ave. the importance of commuThe Lincoln High School Presnication skills for today’s professional. Refreshments ervation Alumni Association will meet at 4 p.m. on Sunwill be served. day, June 28, at the Lincoln South Carolina Legal Services High School cafeteria on Expungement Workshop Part Council Street. Call James 4 will be held at 10 a.m. on L. Green at (803) 968-4173.

Wednesday, June 17, at The Sumter Chapter of the NaClarendon School District 1 tional Federation of the Blind Community Resource Cenwill meet at 7 p.m. on Tuester, 1154 Fourth St., Sumday, July 14, at Shiloh-Ranmerton. Come let Attorney dolph Manor. Cory Davis, Lonnie Doles begin or conmotivational speaker, will tinue the process of clearspeak. The spotlight will ing your record so you can shine on Leland Brooks and be eligible for various cathe associate member is reer opportunities. Call Rosa Lee Wells. Contact Kathleen L. Gibson at (803) Debra Canty, chapter presi485-2043 or (803) 225-0832 dent, at DebraCanC2@fronto learn about this free tier.com or at (803) 775workshop.

5792. Add the group to your The Sumter Combat Veterans contacts for updated inforGroup will meet at 10 a.m. mation on the recorded on Friday, June 19, at the message line at (206) 376South HOPE Center, 1125 S. 5992.

Lafayette Drive. All area The Vietnam Veterans of veterans are invited.

America, Chapter 960, benefit The Lincoln High School Prespoker run will be held on ervation Alumni Association Saturday, Aug. 8, beginning will hold a dinner fundraiser and ending at Lakevue 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, June 19, at the Lincoln High Landing, Manning. Start time is 11 a.m. and end School gymnasium on time is 4 p.m. All motorcyCouncil Street. Cost is $8 cles, automobiles and per dinner and menu inboats welcome. Entry fee is cludes turkey wing, grilled $10 and entry forms may be chicken, rice with gravy or macaroni salad, mixed veg- obtained by calling (803) 460-8551 or (803) 478-4300. etables, roll, dessert and a

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Make plans to EUGENIA LAST take off for the weekend.

Travel and social plans will get you energized and promote personal improvements. A positive change in your love life is apparent, and a commitment will result in greater stability.

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learning quest. Communication and digging into a topic that excites you will result in meeting someone who can change your life, your outlook and your future.

Romance is in the stars, and a day trip with someone special is encouraged.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Overreacting, overdoing, overspending and overindulging TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your will all lead to trouble. Avoid emotions will be difficult to control. getting into an emotional Don’t let anyone manipulate you argument with someone you love. into doing something you don’t Focus on creative endeavors and want to do. Problems with working as a team player for the overindulgence or taking on too best results. much will put a damper on an important relationship.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be quick Make changes at home that will cut your overhead and help you to respond and eager to try new bring in more cash. Making a move things. Don’t trust what’s being or investing in an affordable said. Ask questions and make decisions based on what you want, property will give you greater not what others are doing. freedom to concentrate on your Domestic changes will lead to professional and financial goals. larger quarters or living with CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): someone new.

Don’t let the changes going on CANCER (June 21-July 22): Call in a around you be a cause for alarm. favor if it will help you reach a Concentrate on your home and creative goal. When it comes to family and how you can make love, you are best to look forward, things better for the ones you love. not back. Gravitate toward partners Don’t overspend to impress who offer strength, someone. You can’t buy love. encouragement and stability. Keep personal information a secret when AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t let an outsider upset you. Emotions dealing with colleagues.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Get involved will change and fluctuate, so do your best to stay mellow. Get in organizations that can offer you started making the changes that something in return. Making a will make you feel good about the contribution will raise your profile way you look and feel. Question and bring about work-related your motives as well as those of changes that will increase your others. income and your power. A makeover will add to your appeal.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Listen attentively and decipher what’s VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t get angry or let someone’s lack of fact and what’s fiction. Question manners or diplomacy coerce you anything that appears to be into a no-win situation. Focus on unrealistic, and make choices home and family, and make plans based on what you know you are to visit people or places that capable of doing on your own. interest you.

Don’t give in to demands or money-grabbers.

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31-32-48-49-53 Powerball: 25; Powerplay: 2

6-16-17-25-36 Megaball: 7; Megaplier: 5

PICK 3 FRIDAY

PICK 4 FRIDAY

LUCKY FOR LIFE THURSDAY

9-2-1 and 6-6-9

2-9-6-9 and 7-0-4-3

17-27-35-38-43; Lucky Ball: 15

SPCA CAT OF THE WEEK

Juno, a housebroken and spayed 2-year-old calico and white American short hair, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. She is extremely loving, sweet, affectionate and friendly. She loves to cuddle and be given loads of attention. Juno is great with other cats. She would make the perfect new family addition.

The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. For a look at all of the other wonderful animals available for adoption, visit the website at www.sumterscspca.com.

SECTION

Florida, Miami meet for 1st time in CWS B3

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015

Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

LEGION BASEBALL

Production at the top Watchers, Soles and 2-out hits lead Sumter to rout of Lake City

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com It was good for the Sumter P-15’s to have leadoff man Phillip Watcher back in the lineup on Friday night.

It was even better for them to get the kind of late 2-out production they did against Lake City.

Jacob Watcher and River Soles combined for five runs batted in a game-changing fourth inning, and the P-15’s scored eight runs with two outs en route to a 13-3 victory in seven innings against Post 73 at Riley Park.

The non-League III victory ups Sumter’s overall record to 10-1 while Lake City falls to 1-6. Sumter returns to league action on Monday with the P-15’s hosting Camden in the opening game of crucial 3-game series.

“We hit the ball well the first few innings, but right at people for the most part,” P-15’s head coach Steve Campbell said. “But we knew if we kept hitting the ball hard they were eventually going to drop, and once they did, it seemed like they found a hole every time.”

Especially from the fourth inning on. Sumter was leading 3-1, but back-to-back 2-out hits

by Jacob Watcher and Soles

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumter shortstop Jacob Watcher tries to make a throw to first as Lake City’s Chris Godwin (9) attempts to slide in safely during the P-15’s 13-3 SEE SUMTER, PAGE B3 victory in 7 innings on Friday at Riley Park. Watcher had two hits and drove in four runs to lead the team offensively.

PALMETTO PRO OPEN

PREP SOCCER

Former PPO champs face tougher road

Gators’ Gil inks with USC Salkehatchie

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com Jamie Loeb has good memories of the Palmetto Pro Open.

The first and last time she visited the Palmetto Tennis Center, she walked away with the 2013 Palmetto Pro Open crown – one of three United State Tennis Association’s Pro Circuit singles titles she has.

“It was a great experience the first time,” Loeb said. “I’m looking forward to being back and competing again. It’s going to be a little bit different this year.”

Different indeed. For the first time since its inception eight years ago, the PPO has upgraded from a $10,000 event to a $25,000

SEE PPO, PAGE B3

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER michaelc@theitem.com

Curry and Andre Iguodala scored 22 points apiece and the Warriors, showing why they were the league’s best team all season, squared the NBA Finals at 2-2 on Thursday night with a 103-82 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Game 5 is Sunday night at Oakland’s rambunctious Oracle Arena, where the teams split two overtime games last week. This wasn’t desperation for the Warriors, but it was close as none of

Lakewood High School’s Vannia Moreno Gil has gone from a freshman on the varsity girls soccer team with a love for the game to a player who will get the chance to play the sport at the next level.

Moreno Gil recently signed a scholarship with the University of Salkehatchie in Allendale. The Indians are a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association and Region X. “As a freshman when I started playing it was just for fun beGIL cause I love the game, Moreno Gil said. “But as a freshman I never really saw myself going to college to play soccer, but as the years passed I realized how important soccer was in my life. I really wanted to play soccer in college.”

The Gators forward, who led the team in goals scored the past two seasons, prepared herself each year to improve.

Lakewood head coach Lawrence Carrigan said she made the most of every opportunity she got.

“From speaking with her, she was shy and quiet her ninth- and 10th-grade years and came out a little more vocal her junior year,” Carrigan said. “And this past year, her senior year, I think it kind of helped her knowing that the girls would have to look to her for leadership so she became

SEE WARRIORS, PAGE B4

SEE GIL, PAGE B3

SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO

Former Palmetto Pro Open singles champion and this year’s NCAA Division I singles winner Jamie Loeb will be one of several former strong PPO competitors in this year’s qualifying round which begins on Sunday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

NBA FINALS

Warriors even series, top Cavaliers 103-82

BY TOM WITHERS The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Golden State’s Stephen Curry (30) drives on Cleveland’s Matthew Dellavedova (8) during the Warriors’ 103-82 victory on Thursday in Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland. The victory evened the best-of-7 series at 2-2.

CLEVELAND — Stephen Curry shook off Iman Shumpert with a dribble, stepped back behind the line and splashed a 3-pointer that seemed to submerge a mute button on rocking and rolling Quicken Loans Arena.

Curry clenched both fists, slapped his chest and yelled, “C’mon!”

At last, this was the MVP and these were the Golden State Warriors — so deep, so deadly.

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SPORTS

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY

7 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Lyoness Open Third Round from Atzenbrugg, Austria (GOLF).

8:30 a.m. – Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans Start from Le Mans, France (FOX SPORTS 2).

9 a.m. - NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Quicken Loans 400 Practice from Brooklyn, Mich. (FOX SPORTS 1).

10 a.m. - NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Great Clips 250 Pole Qualifying from Brooklyn, Mich. (FOX SPORTS 1).

11:45 a.m. - International Soccer: European Championship Qualifying Match from Dublin, Ireland – Scotland vs. Ireland (FOX SPORTS 2).

11:50 a.m. - International Soccer: European Championship Qualifying Match from Yerevan, Armenia – Portugal vs. Armenia (ESPN).

Noon - NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Quicken Loans 400 Practice from Brooklyn, Mich. (FOX SPORTS 1).

1 p.m. – Track and Field: IAAF Diamond League from New York -- Adidas Grand Prix (WIS 10).

1 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Group F Match from Moncton, New Brunswick – Colombia vs. France (WACH 57).

1 p.m. - PGA Golf: St. Jude Classic Third Round from Memphis, Tenn.

(GOLF).

1:30 p.m. - NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Great Clips 250 from Brooklyn, Mich. (FOX SPORTS 1, WEGX-FM 92.9).

1:30 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Toronto at Boston (MLB NETWORK).

3 p.m. - LPGA Golf: Women’s PGA Championship Third Round from Harrison, N.Y. (WIS 10).

3 p.m. - PGA Golf: St. Jude Classic Third Round from Memphis, Tenn.

(WLTX 19).

3 p.m. – College Baseball: College World Series Game One from Omaha, Neb. – Virginia vs. Arkansas (ESPN).

3 p.m. - International Soccer: European Championship Qualifying Match from Faro-Loule, Portugal – Germany vs. Gibralter (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 p.m. - Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Senior Players Championship Third Round from Belmont, Mass.

(GOLF).

4 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Group F Match from Moncton, New Brunswick – Mexico vs. England (WACH 57).

4 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Group E Match from Montreal – Spain vs. Brazil (FOX SPORTS 1).

4 p.m. - Major League Baseball: Atlanta at New York Mets (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

5 p.m. - College Track and Field: NCAA Outdoor Championships from Eugene, Ore. (ESPN2).

5 p.m. – IRL Racing: IndyCar Series Honda Toronto Indy Pole Qualifying from Toronto (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

5:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Drivin’ for Linemen 200 Pole Qualifying from Madison, Ill. (FOX SPORTS 2).

6 p.m. - Professional Golf: Web.com Tour Rust-Oleum Championship Third Round from Westlake, Ohio (GOLF).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Baltimore (WACH 57).

7 p.m. – MLL Lacrosse: MLL All-Star Game from Houston (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans from Le Mans, France (FOX SPORTS 1).

7 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Group E Match from Montreal – Costa Rica vs.

South Korea (FOX SPORTS 2).

8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Final Game Five – Chicago at Tampa Bay (WIS 10).

8 p.m. – College Baseball: College World Series Game One from Omaha, Neb. – Miami vs. Florida (ESPN).

8 p.m. – Horse Racing: Stephen Foster Handicap and Fleur de Lis Handicap from Lexington, Ky. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Drivin’ for Linemen 200 from Madison, Ill. (FOX SPORTS 1).

8:55 p.m. – International Soccer: U-20 World Cup Quarterfinal Match from Hamilton, New Zealand – Portugal vs.

Brazil (FOX SPORTS 2).

9 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Deontay Wilder vs. Eric Molina for the WBC Heavyweight Title and Jose Pedraza vs. Andrey Kilimov for the IBF Junior Lightweight Title from Birmingham, Ala. (SHOWTIME).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego (MLB NETWORK).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Nicholas Walters vs. Miguel Marriaga for the WBA Featherweight Title and Felix Verdejo vs. Ivan Najera in a Lightweight Bout from New York (HBO).

11 p.m. – Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans from Le Mans, France (FOX SPORTS 2).

12:20 a.m. – International Soccer: U-20 World Cup Quarterfinal Match from Wellington, New Zealand – Senegal vs. Uzbekistan (FOX SPORTS 2).

12:25 a.m. – International Soccer: U-20 World Cup Quarterfinal Match from Auckland, New Zealand – United States vs. Serbia (FOX SPORTS 1).

3:30 a.m. – Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans from Le Mans, France (FOX SPORTS 1).

GOLF The Associated Press Friday At TPC Southwind Memphis, Tenn.

Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,239; Par 70 Second Round a-denotes amateur Brooks Koepka 64-67—131 Austin Cook 68-64—132 Steven Alker 65-68—133 Chris Smith 67-67—134 Russell Knox 70-64—134 Fabian Gomez 66-68—134 OTHER: Tommy Gainey 66-74—140

-9 -8 -7 -6 -6 -6 E

PGA OF AMERICA/LPGA-KPMG WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Friday At Westchester Country Club, West Course Harrison, N. Y. Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 6,670; Par: 73 Second Round Sei Young Kim 70-68—138 -8 Karrie Webb 68-71—139 -7 Inbee Park 71-68—139 -7 Brooke Henderson 67-73—140 -6 Suzann Pettersen 74-66—140 -6

CONSTELLATION SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Friday At Belmont Country Club Belmont, Mass.

Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 6,812; Par: 71 Second Round Bernhard Langer 65-65—130 Russ Cochran 69-65—134 Jesper Parnevik 70-66—136 Steve Pate 73-63—136

.559 .525 .508 .492 .443

– 2 3 4 7

L 23 26 29 30 31

Pct .596 .559 .517 .483 .475

GB – 2 41/2 61/2 7

L 27 29 30 33 37

Pct .557 .517 .500 .450 .403

GB – 21/2 31/2 61/2 91/2

NASCAR

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland 6, Seattle 0 Oakland 7, Texas 0 Baltimore 6, Boston 5 L.A. Angels 6, Tampa Bay 2

FRIDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Toronto (Dickey 2-6) at Boston (Buchholz 3-6), 1:35 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-2) at Texas (Lewis 5-3), 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 7-5) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 4:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 4-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 7-4), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 4-3) at St. Louis (Lynn 4-4), 4:10 p.m.

Seattle (Montgomery 0-1) at Houston (McHugh 6-2), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-7) at Baltimore (B.Norris 2-4), 7:15 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 3-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 3-5), 10:05 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

By The Associated Press EAST DIVISION W New York 32 Washington 31 Atlanta 29 Miami 25 Philadelphia 22 CENTRAL DIVISION W St. Louis 39 Chicago 32 Pittsburgh 32 Cincinnati 27 Milwaukee 23 WEST DIVISION W Los Angeles 35 San Francisco 34 San Diego 31 Arizona 27 Colorado 27

L 29 29 31 36 39

Pct .525 .517 .483 .410 .361

GB – 1/2 21/2 7 10

L 21 26 27 32 38

Pct .650 .552 .542 .458 .377

GB – 6 61/2 111/2 161/2

L 25 27 31 32 32

Pct .583 .557 .500 .458 .458

GB – 11/2 5 71/2 71/2

THURSDAY’S GAMES

San Diego 6, Atlanta 4, 11 innings Miami 6, Colorado 0 N.Y. Mets 5, San Francisco 4 Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati 3 Milwaukee 6, Washington 5

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Colorado at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia (O’Sullivan 1-4) at Pittsburgh (G.Cole 9-2), 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta (S.Miller 5-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 7-4), 4:10 p.m.

Colorado (Hale 2-0) at Miami (Latos 1-4), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 4-3) at St. Louis (Lynn 4-4), 4:10 p.m.

Washington (J.Ross 0-1) at Milwaukee (Nelson 3-6), 4:10 p.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 3-6) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-4), 7:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 3-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-2), 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-1) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-5), 10:10 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Colorado at Miami, 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

NBA FINALS FINALS

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Cleveland 2, Golden State 2 June 4: Golden State 108, Cleveland 100, OT June 7: Cleveland 95, Golden State 93, OT Tuesday: Cleveland 96, Golden State 91 Thursday: Golden State 103, Cleveland 82 Sunday: Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m. x-June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. x-June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m.

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tampa Bay 2, Chicago 2 June 3: Chicago 2, Tampa Bay 1 June 6: Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 3 June 8: Tampa Bay 3, Chicago 2 Wednesday: Chicago 2, Tampa Bay 1 Today: Chicago at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.

Monday: Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-June 17: Chicago at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington New York Connecticut Atlanta Chicago Indiana

W 2 3 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 2 2 3

AMERICAN LEAGUE GB

Pct 1.000 .750 .667 .333 .333 .000

WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota Tulsa Phoenix Seattle Los Angeles San Antonio

W 3 2 1 1 0 0

L 0 1 1 2 1 2

Pct 1.000 .667 .500 .333 .000 .000

GB – – 1/2 11/2 11/2 21/2 GB – 1 11/2 2 2 21/2

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta 72, San Antonio 69 New York 68, Phoenix 57 Connecticut 67, Chicago 65 Minnesota 94, Seattle 70

FRIDAY’S GAMES

-12 -8 -6 -6

Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Indiana, 7 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

SUNDAY’S GAMES

MLB STANDINGS Pct

26 29 30 30 34

STANLEY CUP FINALS

FEDEX ST. JUDE CLASSIC PAR SCORES

By The Associated Press EAST DIVISION W L

New York 33 Tampa Bay 32 Toronto 31 Baltimore 29 Boston 27 CENTRAL DIVISION W Kansas City 34 Minnesota 33 Detroit 31 Chicago 28 Cleveland 28 WEST DIVISION W Houston 34 Texas 31 Los Angeles 30 Seattle 27 Oakland 25

THE SUMTER ITEM

Chicago at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 3 p.m.

Atlanta at Connecticut, 3 p.m.

Tulsa at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m.

Seattle at Los Angeles, 5 p.m.

Washington at New York, 6 p.m.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dale Earnhardt Jr. waits on pit row on Friday prior to qualifying for Sunday’s Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.

Earnhardt, Edwards don’t miss pressure of making Chase playoff

BY NOAH TRISTER The Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Just over halfway through the Sprint Cup regular season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. can be about as carefree as he wants on the racetrack.

“We could run terrible,” he said. “We could have accidents every week and still make the Chase.”

That’s certainly an extreme way of putting it, but Earnhardt is one of several drivers who can rest easy, having already won a race to put themselves in almost certain position to EDWARDS make NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup. So those racers can relax — and maybe drive a bit more aggressively for the win, because it probably doesn’t matter if a move backfires.

“Once you have a win and you’re in the Chase you can really kind of let it hang out and have a little more fun,” said Carl Edwards, who won at Charlotte three races ago.

“It takes a little bit of the anxiety away and little bit of the pressure, and everybody is just a little bit more loose.”

Nobody has mathematically clinched a spot yet in the Chase — drivers have to be in the top 30 in points to make it. But the 10 drivers with victories have little reason to worry about their postseason

QUICKEN LOANS 400 LINEUP The Associated Press After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Mich.

Lap length: 2 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 201.992 mph.

2. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 201.613.

3. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 201.449.

4. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 201.067.

5. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 201.056.

6. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 200.988.

7. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 200.915.

8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 200.658.

9. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 200.579.

10. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200.468.

11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 200.418.

12. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 199.579.

13. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 199.933.

14. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 199.928.

15. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 199.662.

16. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 199.435.

17. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 199.352.

18. (55) David Ragan, Toyota, 198.983.

19. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 198.462.

20. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 198.38.

21. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 198.216.

22. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet,

chances.

That’s not to say they’ll be mailing in these next few weeks. Earnhardt added a pair of third-place finishes after his victory at Talladega in May. He’s been out of the top 10 the last two races, but that’s a risk he’s willing to accept, especially if it’s a byproduct of trying to finish first.

“Winning races is so important. ... Only the winners get the acknowledgement

198.183.

23. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 198.129.

24. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 197.585.

25. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 196.727.

26. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 196.694.

27. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 196.56.

28. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 196.415.

29. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 196.399.

30. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 195.716.

31. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 195.588.

32. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 195.578.

33. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 195.578.

34. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 195.487.

35. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 194.679.

36. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 194.049.

37. (34) Brett Moffitt, Ford, owner points.

38. (26) Jeb Burton, Toyota, owner points.

39. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, owner points.

40. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, owner points.

41. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, owner points.

42. (32) Mike Bliss, Ford, owner points.

43. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, owner points.

Failed to Qualify 44. (62) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 187.349.

and are relevant, so for our sponsors, partners, for network, for awareness, everything comes down to winning. People don’t remember this great run you had, that you finished fifth,” Earnhardt said. “Since we’ve got the win, we’re locked in. We can calm down and not be nervous and worried about our points in that situation, and we just go race. Second, fifth, it’s really about the same thing.”

SPORTS ITEMS

Koepka shoots 3-under 67 for lead at St. Jude; Gainey expected to make cut MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brooks Koepka is tuning up quite nicely for the U.S. Open at the event he added at the deadline.

Koepka, who had a share of the lead after the first round, shot a 3-under 67 Friday to GAINEY lead the St. Jude Classic by a stroke after 36 holes.

He turned in a four birdieone bogey round for a 9-under 131.

Bishopville native Tommy Gainey carded a 74 on Friday to pull at even par for the tournament. He is under the projected cut line, which is approximately 1-over par.

Fellow American Austin Cook (64) was at 132.

P-15’S TO HOLD MICHAL HOGE NIGHT

Sumter American Legion Post 15 will have Michal Hoge Night on Monday, June 22, when the P-15’s play host to Dalzell-Shaw Post 175 in a baseball game at Riley Park.

Hoge is the former Dalzell

player who suffered severe injuries in a diving accident last month. All money from the gate and other events on the evening will go to the Charity Fund for Michal Hoge.

Post 15 is accepting items that can be used in a raffle.

Anyone interested in donating items can call (803) 9685115 for more information.

Those interested can donate to the Charity Fund for Michal Hoge, SAFE Federal Credit Union, PO Box 2008, 160 W. Wesmark Boulevard, Sumter S.C. 29151.

KIM SHOOTS 5-UNDER 68 FOR LEAD IN WESTCHESTER

HARRISON, N.Y. — Sei Young Kim of South Korea eagled the 15th hole for a 5-under 68 Friday to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the second major of the season.

Kim overtook Hall of Famer Karrie Webb, who birdied the 18th for a 71.

Two-time defending champion Inbee Park (68) joined Webb a stroke back.

USA 0 SWEDEN 0 WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The United States played to a 0-0 tie with Sweden and former coach Pia Sundhage Friday night in one of the most anticipated matches of the group stage at the Women’s World Cup. Abby Wambach came off the bench in the second half, but her header in the 72nd minute was popped up and over the crossbar by Swedish goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl.

A win would have assured the United States a spot in the knockout round as the Americans seek their third World Cup title, but first since 1999.

PATRIOTS SIGN VETERAN FLYNN

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have signed Matt Flynn to shore up the quarterback position with Tom Brady facing a four-game suspension.

That suspension could be reduced after Brady’s hearing with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on June 23.

From staff, wire reports

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THE SUMTER ITEM

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015

SUMTER

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LEAGUE III STANDINGS

FROM PAGE B1 put the P-15’s firmly in the driver’s seat.

Sumter had loaded the bases with no outs, but a strikeout followed by an out called on runner’s interference – the second such one for the P-15’s this year – kept the bases juiced but with two down. Up stepped Jacob Watcher who lined a pitch into left center that wound up falling in and scoring all three runners after the two LC outfielders stumbled over each other and nearly collided trying to make the play.

“They were pitching outside most of the day,” said Jacob Watcher, who finished with two hits and four runs driven in. “I was just trying to stay back and put a good swing on it. I found a little hole out there.

“We did a much better job of putting together big innings today than we have the last few games.”

Soles followed with a 2-run homer, his second long ball of the year, as Sumter grabbed an 8-1 lead after four innings.

It was 8-3 in the fifth when the P-15’s plated three more runs with two outs. Javon Martin drove home the first with an RBI single and scored on a late fielding error next batter after Phillip Watcher’s base knock had driven in another run, making it 11-3 total. Phillip Watcher went 2-for-4 with an

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Sumter Camden Manning G. Creek Dalzell Hartsville

League W L Pct. 9 0 1.000 4 1 .800 3 5 .286 1 4 .200 1 4 .200 1 5 .167

Overall GB W L 9 1 3.5 4 1 5 1/2 3 5 6 1 4 5 1/2 1 5 6½ 1 5

MONDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 15, Hartsville 3 Lake City 15, Dalzell-Shaw 2 Goose Creek 6, Camden 5

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 3, Hartsville 0 Dalzell-Shaw 2, Manning-Santee 1

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 2, Hartsville 1 Camden 18, Goose Creek 0

THURSDAY’S GAME

Manning-Santee 8, Dalzell-Shaw 5

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 13, Lake City 3, 7innings Dalzell-Shaw at Orangeburg Camden at Goose Creek

TODAY’S GAME

Manning-Santee at Camden, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAME

Rockdale, Ga. at Manning-Santee (DH), noon

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumter catcher Reese Hankins makes a block on a ball in the dirt during the P-15’s 13-3 victory in 7 innings on Friday at Riley Park.

RBI and two runs scored in his return to the lineup.

“Phillip is a spark plug at the top of the lineup,” Campbell said. “He really sets the table and he did that tonight which allowed the guys behind him to catch on fire.”

Phillip Watcher missed two games this week to seek the advice of his trainers and coaches

down at The Citadel in Charleston. He was the designated hitter on Friday, and it will be two weeks before he is able to throw again, Campbell said.

The top of the lineup accounted for five of Sumter’s 11 hits, but there was production throughout the order. Reese Hankins had two hits and scored a pair of runs while

COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

Hurricanes, Gators will play for 242nd time, but first in Omaha

BY ERIC OLSON The Associated Press

Fulmer (13-2, 1.82).

OMAHA, Neb. — Miami and Florida have met 241 times on the baseball diamond, but never at the College World Series. That changes Saturday night when the powerful programs from the Sunshine State square off at TD AmeriO’SULLIVAN trade Park.

The Hurricanes (49-15) are back in Omaha for the 24th time and first since 2008, making this the MORRIS longest gap between appearances since they started showing up here in 1974.

The Gators (46-19) are at the CWS for the ninth time, the fourth since 2010.

Neither team has played a non-conference opponent more often. Florida leads the series 127-113-1 and has won 19 of the last 24, including two of three in February in Gainesville.

“It’s a really big advantage for both of us to have seen each other’s lineup before,” Gators freshman star JJ Schwartz said. “We know what to expect. There are going to be no surprises. It’s a big rivalry, so I think we’re going to come out and play the best we can.”

Virginia (39-22), the 2014 national runner-up, plays Arkansas (40-23) in the Bracket 1 opener on Saturday afternoon. Bracket 2 games Sunday pit TCU (4913) against LSU (53-10) in the afternoon and Cal State Fullerton (39-23) against defending national champion Vanderbilt (47-19) at night.

The Hurricanes-Gators matchup figures to be a good test for the new flatseam baseball, which has sparked a 44 percent increase in home runs this season.

Miami’s David Thompson shares the NCAA home run lead with 19, teammate Zack Collins has hit 15 and the team total of 62 ranks 11th nationally (and is second to Vanderbilt’s 66 among CWS teams). Florida’s Schwartz has 18 homers, Harrison Bader has 15 and the team has 60 to rank 13th.

Virginia ace Nathan Kirby, who strained a back muscle two months ago, should be available by Monday. Kirby started two CWS games last year, when he was a consensus All-American. Coach Brian O’Connor said the left-hander looked good throwing a 40-pitch simulated scrimmage Monday.

O’Connor said he doubted Kirby would be used as a starter. “In all fairness to him,” the coach said, “I just don’t think he’s built up for that.”

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“The ball was carrying a little bit today, and there were a few balls in the seats,” Miami coach Jim Morris said Friday after his team’s batting practice. “I like the home run. I don’t want to go back to the ‘90s, where pop-ups were going out, but it’s a great thing, a beautiful park.”

Some things to watch as the CWS begins its 66th run in Omaha: PITCHING MATCHUPS

Miami left-hander Andy Suarez (9-1, 2.96 ERA) will go against Florida’s Logan Shore (9-6, 2.50) and Virginia’s Connor Jones (7-2, 2.96) will face Arkansas’ Trey Killian (3-4, 4.74). Sunday starters: TCU’s Preston Morrison (11-3, 2.55) vs.

LSU’s Jared Poche’ (9-1, 2.91) and Cal State Fullerton’s Thomas Eshelman (8-5, 1.58) vs. Vanderbilt’s Carson

TIGERS BETTER PREPARED

LSU and its fans seemed to take over Rosenblatt Stadium in the days when the Tigers were winning their six national championships, the last one in 2009. The Tigers went 0-2 in their first appearance at TD Ameritrade in 2013, and coach Paul Mainieri blames himself. There was a folksy vibe to Rosenblatt; TD Ameritrade has more of a corporate feel.

“It was much different than the atmosphere we experienced at Rosenblatt, in a lot of little ways,” Mainieri said.

“A lot of it caught me by surprise. I don’t feel I had the team as prepared as I should have had them. I had built up the experience of Omaha so much that some of the things that had changed were a little bit of a letdown for the kids, quite frankly.”

OUT OF THE VOLS’ SHADOW

The 2014 national title and three CWS appearances since 2011 have gone a long way in building Vanderbilt’s brand in Tennessee.

“You couldn’t buy a Vanderbilt hat back in 2002 and 2003,” coach Tim Corbin said. “I remember going to a sporting goods store and asking, and it was a lot of (Volunteers) orange. There was nothing with black and gold.

So I think that part has been fun to see.”

MAKING RIGHT MOVES

Cal State Fullerton has gone 18-3 since a loss on April 25 left the Titans 21-20.

Titans coach Rick Vanderhook offered a list of reasons for the turnaround, notably, “I made them shave and get haircuts.”

Drew Talley singled and scored twice. Daquan Ingram’s second-inning RBI single started the scoring for Sumter while Chris Crawford walked twice and had a sacrifice fly in the second.

On the mound, Dawson Price took the rubber for the first time at Riley Park and had a solid debut. Post 73 scored a

GIL FROM PAGE B1 much more vocal and took charge.”

In her freshman season Moreno Gil didn’t score any goals, but things picked up the next three seasons. She scored three goals as a sophomore, 10 as a junior and 19 this past year.

“She had a nose for the goal and when she would get an opportunity she usually would put it in the net more times than not,” Carrigan said.

It is believed, though not confirmed, that Moreno Gil leaves Lakewood as the pro-

PPO FROM PAGE B1 one. Aside from prize money, the biggest difference will be in terms of level of competition.

Case in point, Loeb and Brooke Austin – the past two PPO champions – will now have to make their way through the qualifying round, which begins on Sunday at PTC. The main draw begins on Tuesday.

“I’ve had to go through qualifying before and probably have to go through it a lot this summer, so it’s not that new,” Loeb said. “But yeah I was in the main draw last time, so this is a different tournament now.”

Loeb said that these types of tournaments usually feature players ranked (by the Women’s Tennis Association) in the late 100s or early 200s. This year’s top seed, Taylor Townsend, is currently at 178 but has been ranked as high as 94 worldwide and is a former No. 1 Junior. She advanced to the third round of the 2014 French Open.

Samantha Crawford, another PPO high seed, is currently ranked at 255. She won the 2012 U.S. Open girls’ singles title and also qualified for the main draw that same year.

But it’s nothing Loeb or most players who compete on the Pro Circuit haven’t encountered before, she

single run in the fourth on back-to-back doubles, but Price limited the damage to just the lone run thanks to a double play moments later.

In the fifth, Lake City notched its second tally with an RBI single by Nate Bright and plated a third run on P-15’s fielding error.

But that was it for Price, who allowed five hits and struck out five and walked one in five innings of work. Matthew Miles pitched a perfect sixth and seventh to close out the game.

“Dawson pitched well tonight being on the mound here for the first time,” Campbell said. “He shook off any nerves and stepped up and did well.”

gram’s all-time scoring leader and is perhaps the first girls soccer player to sign to play at the college level.

“I’m not sure when the last girl to sign to play college was; I’m not sure how long ago that was because of different coaching changes over the years but from what I understand she’s the first one in awhile, if not the first one ever,” Carrigan said.

“I feel very proud of myself and it’d be very important for myself and the school,” Moreno Gil said. “I would consider it important because it means all of my hard work has paid off.”

said.

“I’ve been playing (tournaments) for a while now, since I was about 16, so you get to know a lot of these girls,” Loeb said. “You play against them a lot, so you get used to playing that level of competition. Now you just have to go out and play your best.”

Loeb has been at her best so far this year. A member of the USTA Collegiate National Team, Loeb won the 2015 NCAA Division I singles title this past season as a sophomore at the University of North Carolina.

“It’s been a good year and that (NCAA title) was definitely unexpected,” she said. “Now I have a busy summer planned. (The PPO) is the first pro tournament I’ve played in since January so I’m adjusting to that and hopefully will be able to improve my ranking as I go.”

Aside from the advanced level of talent, Loeb said the biggest key to making it through the tournament this year will have to do with pacing and conditioning.

“I know it’s going to be over 100 degrees a couple days, so that’s definitely going to be a factor,” she said. “I have to make sure I conserve my energy and get plenty of rest.

“After that, it’s just a matter of keeping things simple and playing smart.”

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Panthers rookie looks to make up lost ground

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be out here, but at least I got two days of work in.”

Thompson didn’t come to work this week completely unprepared.

Panthers linebackers coach Al Holcomb has been in steady communication with Thompson as he finished up his classwork. He’s been relaying what the team is installing in practice and sending him plays through a tablet Thompson received during rookie minicamp.

Regardless, there’s a big difference between studying defensive concepts on a computer and actually implementing them in practice.

“It’s going to take time for him to catch up a little bit,” said assistant coach Steve Wilks, who ran practice Thursday so that coach Ron Rivera could attend his daughter’s graduation from UCLA. “(But) you can see his athleticism out there, the way he’s flying around. He’s going to make a lot of plays for us this year.”

He certainly did at Washington, where he won the Paul Hornung Award given to the nation’s most versatile athlete. He had six touchdowns last season — four on defense and two as a running

CHARLOTTE — Panthers rookie linebacker Shaq Thompson has gone from cramming for final exams to cramming to learn an NFL playbook.

Carolina’s first-round draft pick returned to practice this week after missing most of the team’s first three weeks of voluntary workouts while finishing up his classwork at the University of Washington.

NFL rules prohibit rookies from participating in NFL practices — rookie minicamp being the notable exemption — until they have completed their spring semester to prevent kids from dropping out of school early. Because Washington is on the quarter system, Thompson just finished this week.

That has put him behind everyone else, but the 21-year-old Thompson said he’s ready to put in the extra time needed to catch up.

“It kind of (stunk) being out,” Thompson said at Thursday’s practice before being hurried inside so he could spend extra time with coaches. “I really wanted to

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Carolina rookie Shaq Thompson (54) runs a drill during an organized team activity in Charlotte on Thursday. Thompson returned to practice after missing most of OTAs having been on the quarter system at the University of Washington, which prevents players from participating in NFL practices until school is over.

Now he has to play catch up. back.

The Panthers drafted Thompson not to carry the ball, but rather to give them a third fast linebacker to play alongside 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis. The hope is that he can step in right away and start, thus giving them more speed and a better matchup against quality pass-receiving tight ends like Seattle’s Jimmy Graham.

He’s also viewed as the long-term replacement for the 32-year-old Davis, who has battled back from three torn ACLs in his knee to play

STANLEY CUP FINALS

Defensemen starring in tight, tense finals

BY GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press BRANDON, Fla. — After Steven Stamkos stepped off the Lightning’s practice rink on a 90-degree June day, the Tampa Bay captain made it clear he is well aware that he hasn’t scored a goal yet in his first Stanley Cup Final.

Stamkos and his Lightning teammates are determined to keep their cool and their focus when this exceptionally even series with the Chicago Blackhawks begins its sprint to the finish in Game 5 on Saturday night.

“Keep playing the game the right way, and eventually you’re going to get rewarded,” Stamkos said Friday.

Chicago’s Patrick Kane feels much the same way, both about his own goalless final and the Blackhawks’ game in general. Both stars are hoping for that breakthrough score this weekend at Amalie Arena, where either the Lightning or the Blackhawks will end the 2-2 series tie and move one win away from a title.

The Lightning and the Blackhawks realize the enormous stakes for Game 5 in a series that still hasn’t featured a two-goal lead for either team. They’re also attempting to direct that excitement into motivation instead of intimidation.

“You’ve got to get caught up in the moment,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said.

“You have to embrace where we are. It’s the middle of June, and we’re still playing hockey. The Stanley Cup is up for grabs in the best-twoout-of-three. I don’t think we should be afraid of that. I don’t think we should walk around being tense and looking at the magnitude of where we are, being afraid of the moment. This is the time of our lives.”

Chicago’s Duncan Keith and Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman have embraced this moment better than anyone.

Stamkos, Kane and the Final’s quiet forwards have been upstaged by these two star defensemen, who are both turning in dominant playoff performances.

In a postseason missing a breakout offensive performance or a dominant goaltending run, Keith or Hed-

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Chicago goalie Corey Crawford (50) keeps his eye on the puck as teammate Duncan Keith (2) battles with Tampa Bay’s Ryan Callahan (24) during the Blackhawks’ 2-1 victory in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday in Chicago. Both defenses have shined and been instrumental in the outcome of each game so far in the best-of-7 series. man are the odds-on favorites to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP. Barring a spectacular pile of goals from a forward, the series winner seems likely to feature the first defenseman to claim the Conn Smythe since Anaheim’s Scott Niedermayer in 2007.

Keith and Hedman are 1-2 in the NHL in postseason plus-minus ratings and total minutes. Keith leads the playoffs with 18 assists during his incredible extended ice time, while Hedman has set franchise playoff records for assists and points by a defenseman.

Although they play the game differently, they’re filling a similar do-everything role for their respective teams.

“In a lot of ways, yeah, (Hedman) is a guy like Duncan,” Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. “He makes, more times than not, the players he’s out there with better. He’s a catalyst when he’s in his own zone or the offensive zone.”

Only four defensemen in NHL history have recorded more than Keith’s 18 assists in this postseason, and nobody has done it since Brian Leetch’s 23 during the New York Rangers’ Stanley Cup run in 1994.

Keith’s numbers are uniformly strong in the postseason, but his sheer minutes are the most jaw-dropping aspect of it all. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville is relying largely on four veteran defenseman, showing little interest in his third pairing — or perhaps simply demonstrating confidence that Keith can handle more minutes that just about any defenseman in recent memory.

Keith has played 655 minutes and 55 seconds in the postseason — nearly 11 full regulation games. It’s tough to quantify whether those extra minutes have affected Keith’s overall aggressiveness, particularly on the offensive end, but it’s unlikely he’ll get or want any respite in the final games.

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at a high level. It’s a move that Davis fully endorsed.

“You have an opportunity to put a guy on your team right now that can eventually replace him that’s as athletic, if not even more athletic, why wouldn’t you take advantage of the opportunity?” said Davis, who announced the team’s pick at the podium during April’s NFL draft.

With wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin also returning to work this week following a strained hamstring, the Panthers now have their last two first-round picks back on the field.

Thompson said he was

WARRIORS FROM PAGE B1 the 32 teams which have fallen behind 3-1 in the finals has won a title.

“Tonight we came in with the mentality that we had to win this game,” said Curry.

So they did. These guys are California cool.

“We played desperate out there, man,” Klay Thompson said. “We played real hungry.

It was just awesome to come out here and impose our will on both sides of the ball and play our brand of basketball.

That’s what’s been winning us games all year.”

LeBron James scored 20 points — 21 under his average in the series — with 12 rebounds and eight assists, but Cleveland’s megastar, who needed stitches to close a cut on his head sustained when banged it into a camera in the first half, didn’t score in the fourth quarter and couldn’t do enough for the undermanned Cavaliers.

Timofey Mozgov led Cleveland with 28 points and guard Matthew Dellavedova, again battling leg cramps after a hospital stay for dehydration, had 10.

The Cavs shot just 2 of 18 from the field and were outscored 27-12 in the fourth quarter. They also got nothing from their bench as J.R. Smith missed all eight 3-point attempts and Cleveland’s reserves combined to score seven points.

“Offensively we were terrible,” James said, noting the Cavs were 4 of 27 on 3-pointers. “Sometimes your offense just doesn’t show up.”

Missing All-Stars Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, the Cavs didn’t have enough firepower and their legs were heavy after playing three games in five days against a team that comes in waves.

The Cavs looked tired, and played tired. But they’re not done yet.

“We’re in a three-game series for the NBA Finals,” coach David Blatt said. “Six

tempted to set aside studying for his three final exams and focus on learning the Panthers’ playbook, but said “school comes first.”

Thompson still has one year left of school, but he’s putting his degree on hold so he can focus on football. He turned in his final paper on police brutality on Tuesday and was able to head to Charlotte for practice.

“I think I did well,” Thompson said of his finals. “I know I did well.”

Thompson worked with the reserves during practice as he slowly works his way back in.

GOLDEN STATE 103, CLEVELAND 82 GOLDEN STATE (103)

Barnes 4-9 4-4 14, Iguodala 8-15 2-2 22, Green 6-11 4-7 17, Curry 8-17 2-2 22, K.Thompson 4-9 0-0 9, Lee 3-7 3-6 9, Livingston 2-4 3-4 7, Barbosa 1-3 0-0 2, Bogut 0-0 0-0 0, Speights 0-2 1-2 1, Holiday 0-0 0-0 0, McAdoo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-77 19-27 103.

CLEVELAND (82)

James 7-22 5-10 20, T.Thompson 6-10 0-0 12, Mozgov 9-16 10-12 28, Dellavedova 3-14 2-2 10, Shumpert 2-9 0-0 5, Smith 2-12 0-0 4, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Perkins 0-2 2-2 2, Harris 0-0 1-2 1, Miller 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-88 20-28 82.

Golden State 31 23 22 27—103 Cleveland 24 18 28 12—82 3-Point Goals_Golden State 12-30 (Curry 4-7, Iguodala 4-9, Barnes 2-5, Green 1-3, K.Thompson 1-5, Barbosa 0-1), Cleveland 4-27 (Dellavedova 2-9, James 1-4, Shumpert 1-5, Jones 0-1, Smith 0-8). Fouled Out_None.

Rebounds_Golden State 53 (Iguodala, Barnes, Livingston 8), Cleveland 63 (T.Thompson 13). Assists_Golden State 24 (Green, Curry 6), Cleveland 16 (James 8). Total Fouls_Golden State 21, Cleveland 19. A_20,562 (20,562).

months ago I would have bought that. We’ve got to go back to the drawing board, go back to work, play the best basketball we can and try to win this thing.”

Building off a strong fourth quarter in Game 3 that gave them confidence, the Warriors showed a sense of urgency from the outset and took it to the Cavs. Iguodala, who played so well coming off the bench in the first three games, made his first start this season and made coach Steve Kerr’s decision look brilliant.

Known for his defense, Iguodala drained four 3-pointers, kept James in check and Curry, who finally found his range in the fourth quarter of Game 3, also dropped four 3s, including a deep dagger in the fourth over Shumpert to end any thought the Cavs had of a comeback.

Iguodala said he tried to make things tough on James, who went 7 of 22 from the field and 5 of 10 from the free-throw line.

Draymond Green added 17 points and Harrison Barnes had 14 for Golden State, which didn’t lose three straight games all season while racking up 67 wins.

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AFI honors, celebrates multi-talented Steve Martin

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Well, excuse me! The “AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steve Martin” (10 p.m. Saturday, TBS) celebrates a talent who has been a part of show business for more than five decades; in many ways Martin reflects the entertainment history of his generation.

He cut his teeth performing magic tricks and even worked at the recently opened Disneyland theme park in the 1950s.

He wrote for “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” in the 1960s, exploded on the scene with stand-up performances, comedy albums, “Saturday Night Live” appearances and movies in the 1970s and ‘80s. By the 1990s, he had enough “gravitas” to assume the everydad “Father of the Bride” roles perfected by Spencer Tracy.

Over the past two decades he has written a series of acclaimed books and emerged as a force in the world of bluegrass banjo music, an early love of Martin’s, something he was doing even while working around all those Mickey Mouse fans some 60 years back.

• Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a Wall Street broker with a sense of right and wrong! And even remorse. “My Deal With the Devil” (10 p.m. Saturday, Esquire) profiles Justin Paperny, who explains how his promising career as a broker began to unravel when he began to bend the rules and conspired with a conniving hedge fund manager.

Paperny recalls the moment he went wrong and the riches he hoped to gain when he made his own personal “deal with the devil.”

This one-hour special follows a repeat of the 2000 drama “Boiler Room” (7:30 p.m.), directed by Ben Younger.

• Two young mothers are the best of friends until one develops a crush on another’s boyfriend, in the 2015 made-fortelevision drama “I Killed My BFF” (8 p.m. Saturday, Lifetime). Don’t you hate when you do that!

• Based on a 2004 “alternative history” novel, “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” (10 p.m.

Saturday, BBC America, TV-14) is a costume-fantasy drama set in early 19th-century England.

Eddie Marsan and Bertie Carvel star in the title role as two practitioners of an ancient magic that had faded with the

arrival of modern times.

• Comedian Jeff Ross takes a page from Johnny Cash, entertaining the incarcerated and learning a bit about their lives in the orange-suited stand-up special “Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live at Brazos County Jail” (11 p.m. Saturday, Comedy Central, TV-MA).

• You know a show is in trouble when its very premise seems shaky. Hosted by travel writers, food bloggers and brothers Matt and Ted Lee, “Southern Uncovered With the Lee Bros.” (8 p.m. Sunday, Ovation) hopes to revive and rescue the reputation of Southern cooking. From what? From the unstinting praise and attention it has received for the past generation? I don’t get it.

Nor do I entirely understand the Lee brothers. Dressed nearly identically in retro-hipster garb, they drive around the South in a perfectly restored mid-20th-century car. There’s something a tad precious and predictable about that. But maybe I’m just getting old and cranky, what with my occasional urge to smother every hipster with his own beard and drown every food blogger in a vat of hollandaise sauce. But I digress.

The Lees do travel to some great places. First up, they drop in on an old-school soul food joint outside of their home city of Charleston, South Carolina.

In the kitchen you can see that three generations of women are preparing the day’s fare — not with the expensive kitchen gadgetry extolled on “MasterChef,” but in well-used slow cookers, the kind you might find at Wal-Mart or at a yard sale. That’s cool, authentic and worth celebrating.

Then the Lees return to form, visiting with a wine expert who stores cases of his Napa Valley good stuff submerged in the waters of Charleston Harbor. Is that a great new idea that challenges stereotypes about Southern culture and cuisine? Or just another expensive indulgence in the name of perfection that makes some of us recoil at the ever-shifting gospels of “foodie” culture?

Perhaps the whole point of the Lees and their show is to demonstrate that the South, beloved for its genuinely good food, can be just as fussy, trendy and insufferable as Wil-

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Bertie Carvel stars as Jonathan Strange and Eddie Marsan as Mr. Norrell in the new original mini-series “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” premiering at 10 p.m. today on BBC America. liamsburg, Brooklyn, or Portland, Oregon.

Where’s that vat of hollandaise when you need it?

• Leave it to Bravo to turn school fundraising into another predictable show about the horrible behavior of affluent women. “Mother Funders” (9 p.m. Sunday, TV-14) follows the vicious battles for status amid members of a Georgia Parent Teacher Organization.

CULT CHOICE Urban construction threatens a vibrant insect community in the 1941 animated musical “Mr. Bug Goes to Town” (8 p.m.

Sunday, TCM), produced by Fleischer Studios on the heels of its creative success with the 1939 adaptation of “Gulliver’s Travels.”

SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • A bridge collapses on “In An Instant” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).

• The Castor original remains just out of reach on “Orphan Black” (9 p.m., BBC America, TV-MA).

• Tommy’s gesture has strings attached on “Power” (9 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

• Amy Schumer, Samuel L.

Jackson, Stephen Merchant and Muse appear on “The Graham Norton Show” (11:15 p.m., BBC America, TV-14).

SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS, r): London radicals and ISIS; a massive coal ash spill; the remarkable memory of “the world’s smartest dog.”

• A crisis in Africa consumes the president on “Madam Secretary” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG).

• The Golden State Warriors host the Cleveland Cavaliers in game five of the 2015 NBA Finals (8 p.m., ABC).

• Finn has explosive evidence on “The Good Wife” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• A showdown between Caiaphas and James on “A.D. The Bible Continues” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Stannis goes on the march on the season finale of “Game of Thrones” (9 p.m., HBO, TVMA).

• A sudden interruption on “Nurse Jackie” (9 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA).

• ID serves up vintage paranoia with “The Search for Ted Bundy” (9 p.m., TV-14).

• Exiled from the office on “Happyish” (9:30 p.m., Show-

time, TV-MA).

• The Gig Harbor Killer appears to have struck again on “CSI” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• A romantic getaway for Ruby and Harrison on “American Odyssey” (10 p.m., NBC, TV14).

• With the site in limbo, the guys deal with a surge in traffic on the season finale of “Silicon Valley” (10 p.m., HBO, TVMA).

• John has some catching up to do on “Halt and Catch Fire” (10 p.m., AMC, TV-14).

• Election night jitters on the season finale of “Veep” (10:30 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

SUNDAY SERIES A hidden camera captures risky behavior at a teen’s party on “Dateline” (8 p.m., NBC) * Lisa pens a new town anthem on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-PG) * Sophia faces professional static on “Brooklyn NineNine” (8:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Cleveland offers professional advice on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Social mortification on “Golan the Insatiable” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

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DEAR ABBY — My next-door neighbor keeps asking to use my lawn mower. When he uses it, he runs over stumps and garbage in his yard. I feel he’s abusing my generosity. I have hinted that he should pick up things in the yard before he mows, but he never listens. How should I handle this?

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To our daughter, Dr. Marla Frederick, a professor at Harvard University, on being the 2015 Commencement speaker at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

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We the family of the late Sister Mary Elease Spann Walker are appreciative of all acts of kindness shown them during our time of bereavement. May God forever bless and keep you. By Sisters Louise & Sara & grandson & family.

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