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BAHAMAS CAN ADVANCE WITH WIN OVER HAITI IN CAZOVA SR VOLLEYBALL By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net CONSECUTIVE losses at the CAZOVA Senior Championships for Men have Team Bahamas in an unfavourable position and out of contention at the group stage. Team Bahamas lost to Jamaica in three sets - 25-18, 25-19 25-18 - last night at the tournament hosted in Couva, Trinidad. On night one, the Bahamas lost a tough five-set match to Barbados - 22-25, 25-19, 12-25, 25-18, 15-11. Prince Wilson, captain of Team Bahamas (the 2012 champions) said he felt his team did not play to their true potential. “We only played in patches and we need to improve overall very quickly as we look to win the tournament and qualify to the next round. Bahamas coach Covance Mortimer echoed the views of his captain, saying: “We did not keep focus for the match at all. There were

9TH EDITION FEATURES MORE THAN 60 TOP STUDENT ATHLETES By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net he NBA and FIBA launched the ninth edition of the Basketball Without Borders Americas camp, featuring over 60 of the top student athletes from 16 countries in the region. Executives from both organisations, in conjunction with the Bahamas Basketball Federation, officially opened the event with an introductory press conference at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium yesterday. BBF President Charles “Softly” Robins called it an honour for the Bahamas to play the role of host and make history as the event comes to the English-speaking Caribbean for the first time. “The BBF is greatly honoured to have this event grace our shores with its presence. It is expected that our local basketball community will benefit tremendously as a result of your exposure and influence through the game of basketball,” he said. “Our country at large is honoured to be the first Englishspeaking Caribbean to host this prestigious event. These help to build character, provide skills development and exposure through the game of basketball. Basketball in the Bahamas has risen to new heights over the past few years. “We see an increase in the amount of males and females playing Division I basketball in America and now entering the NBA and WNBA. I invite you to enjoy the sun, sea and sand and feel what it

SUMMER CAMP: The NBA and FIBA launched the ninth edition of the Basketball Without Borders Americas camp at the Kendal Isaacs Gym yesterday. Photo: 10thYearSeniors is like to live and play basketball in paradise.” The day opened with a Life Skills Seminar where they had an opportunity to engage in a question-andanswer period with NBA veteran Anderson Varejao (Brazil), Tiago Splitter (Brazil), WNBA legend Ebony Hoffman and Dallas Mavericks forward Dwight Powell. (Canada) It marks Powell’s second visit

to the Bahamas after his Stanford Cardinal participated in the 2012 Battle 4 Atlantis. “The biggest thing I remembered was the people here. Everyone was super nice, and not easy to say that in a way to properly represent just how much that means, but everyone is so welcoming here. Conversations with everyone from taxi drivers, to people working in the resort to the ones you see

around town, everyone is really nice and genuine.” He expects his own experience will be different as a professional but ultimately hopes to make his biggest impact with the participants. “I’m staying at The Cove this time, rooms are a little nicer,” the third year forward joked. “Obviously I’ve had a little more life

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BAHAMIAN PLAYERS LOOKING TO MAKE IMPACT AT HOME By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net AMONG the scores of elite level prep talent at the Basketball Without Borders Americas Camp this week, Bahamian players are looking to stand out and make an impact at home. Players took to the court for the first time together as the camp opened yesterday for positional skill development and evaluation scrimmages. Six local basketball standouts will be afforded the opportunity to compete at event. The group of student-athletes athletes includes four boys - Dominic Bridgewater (Anatol Rodgers Timberwolves), Samuel Hunter (British Colombia Prep Panthers), Kai Jones and Derryn Johnson (St Anne’s Blue Waves) and two girls - Briontae Riley (Doris Johnson Mystic Marlins) and Diondrea Nixon (Taber-

nacle Baptist Falcons). The evaluation scrimmages gave camp personnel an opportunity to scout the players ahead of last night’s draft which will determine their teams for the remainder of the week. A former student at St John’s College, Hunter, a 6’8” 214-pound forward, recently completed his sophomore year at British Colombia Prep in Canada. “It was sort of the same for me playing against unfamiliar players on the court. I play in Canada and I play prep basketball so I know some of the guys who were here from Canada and I know they play at a high level, but I’m glad I was able to get exposed to this level of competition. “It’s way tougher than we usually get here in Nassau so it’s better for us,” he said. [This week] I’m trying to be a sponge and take in every little detail, even if it’s footwork, a new move, anything I can take it to

get better, I think it’ll help me a lot. Jones is a raw 6’8” wing who projects to the next level while Johnson - a 6’3” guard - was the leading scorer for the St Anne’s Blue Waves last season. Riley was also one of the leading forces behind the Doris Johnson Mystic Marlins’ success the past two seasons, which led to numerous tournament titles, including two GSSSA Championships and one national title. Nixon’s Falcons also claimed the GBSSAA title in Grand Bahama this past season. Bridgewater is also a member of the BBF’s junior national team programme and will compete on the men’s Centrobasket Under-17 team in Santo Domingo, July 2630. He played alongside Hunter at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation’s Under-16 Tournament last July where Bridgewater won MVP en route to leading the Bahamas to the gold medal. “It was normal, it was fun, we

still had to play hard and put your all into it because they’re coming to compete hard as well,” he said. “I’m looking to take away a lot, getting information from them to increase my game to make me better.” Basketball Without Borders features the top 66 boys and girls from 16 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean. Players and coaches will lead the campers through a variety of activities on and off the court, including movement efficiency, positional skill development, 5-on-5 games and daily life skills seminars focusing on health, leadership and communication. There will also be a 3-Point Shootout and All-Star Game before the camp concludes in an awards ceremony. One boy and one girl will be named BWB Americas Camp MVPs at the conclusion of the camp.

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TOP NCAA WOMEN IN NOVEMBER JUNKANOO JAM By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net THE Junkanoo Jam traditionally features some of the top NCAA Division I women’s basketball programmes visiting the Bahamas during the Thanksgiving holiday and that trend looks to continue in 2017 as the new field was announced. This edition, hosted November 23-25 and for the second year at Hilton Resort’s World Bimini, will feature the Baylor Bears, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Iowa State Cyclones, Pennsylvania Quakers, San Diego State Aztecs, Tulane Greene Wave, Central Michigan Chippewas and Missouri State Bears. The tournament features two four-team divisions in a two-game bracket competing for separate tournament championships. Missouri State, Baylor, Penn and Georgia Tech will compete in the Junkanoo Division while Tulane, Iowa

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Davonn Mackey: ‘It is a very special moment for me’ By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net DAVONN Mackey had an opportunity to share his recent success with friends, family and supporters at the St George’s Gymnasium in Grand Bahama as he awaits his rookie ball assignment. Mackey was the latest Bahamian player to ink a deal with an MLB franchise when he signed with the Oakland Athletics in a deal that includes a $225,000 signing bonus. “It is a very special moment for me and I just want to thank everyone who came out. I thank God first for allowing me to work hard and to get to this point,” he said. “I want to thank my family for sticking by my side throughout it all, my church family and my friends who were there to push me. It has

been a wonderful experience thus far and I just hope that I can keep on going and moving forward.” Mackey signed out of In the BigInning Baseball Academy in Maracay, Venezuela. The Grand Bahama native was recently a member of the gold medal-winning team for Grand Bahama Little League in the 1618 division of the Bahamas Baseball Federation’s Andre Rodgers National Championship. He becomes the second player to join the Athletics’ farm system. BigInning Academy offers elite level skills training for prospective players on the path to professional baseball. Carlos Lara of In The BigInning Academy was on hand at the signing touted Mackey’s potentinal. “He’s a great kid. He has a gift and we should enjoy it because he should be a name to watch in baseball.”

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Mackey is the youngest of seven siblings. His older brother, Seberon Mackey, recently completed his senior season as a pitcher for Jackson State University where he finished with a 2-0 record, nine strikeouts and a 2.19 era. Their mother, Jennifer Mackey, credits her oldest son and early mentors for making baseball the family business. “Davonn is the youngest of seven children. I have to thank Ms Staphanie Higgs who pushed my oldest son Keel into baseball and he in turn pushed the other boys into baseball from T-ball. Age,” she said. “I have to thank everyone in the family and church members that have contributed in some way, especially his six siblings. Davonn is gone now, he got his opportunity, I just want to see the other baseball players, his teammates go as well. In all things put God first, push towards it and

they’ll make it also.” Stephen Adderley, of the Grand Bahama Little League, said it produces a feeling of humility and purpose to see a player who began the game at the earliest level, blossom into a young professional. “We seem to be having more and more of these with these young men signing contracts and going to school. When they started the programme and you see them come in at 4-5 you never know which ones will make it to this level. It’s always good to see someone who started as a baby in the league make it to this point in their career,” he said. “It’s not always the one who is the most talented, it is the guy who works hardest and who wants it more. Davonn is a good example for those guys. There may be guys who were more talented but he wanted it more and this is why he is where he is now.”

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Olympic panel praises ‘outstanding’ Los Angeles, Paris hosting plans By GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Los Angeles and Paris have been praised by an International Olympic Committee panel for having “outstanding” plans to host the 2024 Summer Games. Storytelling skills and cutting-edge technologies from LA, plus “stunning backdrops” in Paris where the modern Olympics was reborn, were anticipated eagerly by an IOC evaluation commission which assessed the bidders in a 180page dossier and 15-minute video published yesterday. “Their candidatures have put the Olympic Movement in a win-win situation, with very little to separate the two projects,” said Patrick Baumann, the panel chairman and an IOC member. Both cities should get hosting rights for the 2024 or 2028 Olympics on September 13, at the IOC’s annual meeting being held in Lima, Peru. Paris is viewed as favourite for 2024. The evaluation was prepared for IOC members who will meet bid leaders at a key campaign event on July 11-12 in Lausanne. Members are also now expected to ratify the proposal for a double hosting award, which the IOC executive board formally made last month. In statements issued Wednesday, both cities’ bid campaigns said they were delighted with the evaluation. Challenges highlighted for the two cities include public transport and traffic management plans in Los Angeles, which groups most venues in four clusters: Downtown, Valley, South Bay and Long Beach: The panel noted that the

IOC would want to review in advance new laws that are needed to guarantee tax and funding aspects of the Paris project. Many events would take place in the city centre, and use the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Louvre art gallery as a backdrop. LA’s privately-financed project scored better than Paris, which calls for hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, in the IOC’s own polling of public support for hosting the Summer Games. It is always unclear in Olympic bidding contests how much the technical analysis of candidates’ plans affect the choice of more than 85 IOC members eligible to vote. Still, Los Angeles and Paris have long been viewed as high-class, low-risk options. The IOC has seemed grateful to have them after years of spiralling spending and cost overruns by host cities, and public opposition that ended other bids. IOC President Thomas Bach has pushed for a double award since December, aiming to seize the chance of stability for the next decade. Seeking to avoid construction costs and risks of creating white elephant venues, LA and Paris are praised for proposing to use existing and temporary arenas for 97 and 93 per cent, respectively, of their Summer Games’ needs. The only permanent venue yet to be built in Los Angeles is the $2.6 billion stadium in Inglewood to be shared by the NFL’s Rams and Chargers. It would host the opening ceremony on July 19, 2024. Plans for an athletes’ village have been a potentially

key difference between the bids. LA proposes to use existing student accommodation at UCLA described by Baumann’s team as “outstanding in all aspects.” The Paris plan to build a $1.45 billion village near the Stade de France, which would host track and field plus the opening ceremony on August 2, 2024. The village has shaped up as the riskiest project in either bid, though it will be underwritten by the national government. However, the IOC panel described its “idyllic waterfront setting” and praised the plan to convert the athletes’ residence into “muchneeded housing ... in one of the youngest, most diverse areas of the city.” LA scored better than Paris in the IOC-commissioned polls conducted in February which sought the opinions of 1,800 adults at city, regional and national level. In the city of LA, 78 per cent of residents supported the project and eight per cent were opposed. In Paris, it was 63 per cent for and 23 per cent against. Paris was judged stronger on public transport, with the IOC panel praising the “amazing feature in such a huge metropolis” of “highcapacity public transport within 400 metres of every venue.” Both cities have full government guarantees to plan and fund security for the games, the report said, noting that the current risk levels are “high” in Paris and “low to medium” in Los Angeles. Details of the dossier will be pored over in Lausanne next week, with the IOC members expected to vote for awarding both games at

THE Eiffel Tower is lit with colours for the Paris 2024 during the launch of the international campaign of Paris as candidate for the 2024 Olympic summer games in Paris on February 3. (AP) the same time. If they do, the choice of the host cities may even be agreed among the two bid-

ders informally, ahead of the meeting in Lima. “Both cities are open to being approached by the

IOC after such a vote to discuss how to achieve a win-win-win,” Bach said last month.

A LOS Angeles 2024 sign stands in front of Staples Center, in Los Angeles on May 11. (AP)

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Lathaniel to join Proghorns on full athletic scholarship this fall By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net ANOTHER Bahamian basketball talent received an opportunity to further his academic and athletic career through basketball. Lathaniel Bastian is expected to join the Gillette Proghorns men’s basketball programme on a full athletic scholarship this fall. The 6’7”, 205-pound forward will join a programme with a rich tradition under head coach Shawn Neary. Located in Gillette, Wyoming, the Proghorns compete in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association’s Region IX. In just eight years since its inception, Gillete is a three time national tournament qualifier, twotime Region IX champion and has produced 15 All-Region players. Locally, Bastian spent his high school years with the Doris Johnson Mystic Marlins under head coach Denycko Bowles and was also a member of Bowles’ International Basketball Academy - Bahamas. “Coach Bowles was the coach at Doris Johnson, he saw that I needed work, he saw that I was shaky in the game and he did all that he could to develop me into the player I am now,” Bastian said. “He saw potential in me. I used to be nervous, with the crowd

LATHANIEL BASTIAN (centre) in action for the Bahamas. He is expected to join the Gillette Proghorns men’s basketball programme on a full athletic scholarship this fall. watching me I really want to play well for the crowd. Going over there [the United States] no one really knew so I realised I don’t have to play for the crowd I can play for myself and that’s where my game really elevated and I became more dominant. That’s where I started developing. My time at

IBA helped my confidence and it helped me be physical and develop my game.” Bastian participated in a pair of showcases this offseason - the Darrell Sears Showcase in Grand Bahama and the IBA/Get Me Recruited Super 60, Hot 100 Showdown in New Providence.

Following his career at Doris Johnson, he spent a year with the Game on Rise Academy, a prep school in Ocala, Florida. Game on Rise Academy is a year-round basketball training, recruitment assistance programme. The organisation boasts “85 combined years of academic tutoring, athletic training, weight training, counselling, mentoring, life skill and time management teaching.” The format of the prep institutions academic and athletic regimen is marketed to appeal to international students. Bastian was afforded the opportunity to compete against other academies, junior colleges and prep schools. It gives players an opportunity to train another year if the offers to colleges were unavailable immediately after high school. “There is a small niche in basketball where these guys finish high school and they are not good enough to immediately play in college or they simply just haven’t been recognised,” Game On Rise founder Mike Kirkland told the Ocala Star Banner. “So we have provided an area where kids can come to train and gain a solid extra year to help them earn a scholarship playing basketball. We have a loaded database of coaches and scouts that we contact regularly and help get these players to the next level.”

TOP NCAA WOMEN IN NOVEMBER JUNKANOO JAM FROM PAGE 1 State, San Diego State and Central Michigan comprise the Bimini division. Missouri State and Baylor will tip off the tournament on Thursday, November 23, Penn and Georgia Tech will play their first game on Friday, November 24. The losing teams will compete in the third-place game on Saturday, November 25 at 1 pm, followed by the championship game at 3:15pm.

Tulane will square off with Iowa State in the opening round on November 24. The winner of that game will play the winner of San Diego State vs. Central Michigan for the tournament divisional crown at 7pm on November 25. The third place contest will commence earlier on that Saturday at 4:45pm. The Junkanoo Jam was a staple of the Grand Bahama sporting calendar for 13 editions. Due to the

damage inflicted by Hurricane Matthew, the tournament was forced to relocate to the Gateway Christian Academy Gym in Bimini. Since the inception of the Junkanoo Jam in 2002, many of the nation’s top women’s programmes have converged on Grand Bahama to test their skills in meaningful regular season competition. Bahamian players have been featured in the last two editions.

Local favourite Jonquel Jones, now with the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, returned to Grand Bahama at the 2014 Junkanoo Jam. Jones delivered an MVP performance and led her George Washington Colonials to the Freeport Division title at the St George’s Gymnasium. In 2015, Shanea Armbrister was featured with her Georgia Bulldogs as they competed in the eight team field.

ALYSSA THOMAS HAS 13 POINTS, 8 BOARDS, 7 STEALS IN SUN’S WIN SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Alyssa Thomas had 13 points, eight rebounds and a career-high seven steals to help the Connecticut Sun ease past the San Antonio Stars 89-56 last night. Courtney Williams led the Sun (9-7) with 17 points and Jasmine Thomas reached 700 assists for her career. Williams scored 13 points in the first half to help Connecticut build a 40-24 lead. Alyssa Thomas had seven points, six rebounds, five assists, and five steals before halftime. Kayla McBride scored 12 points on 3-of-12 shooting for San Antonio (1-15). Kelsey Plum and Sydney Colson each added 11 points. Moriah Jefferson had a head injury in the first half and did not return. The Stars shot just 34 per cent, turned it over 18 times and were outrebounded 4431.

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also too many mental errors on our path and in the fifth set our game just broke down completely.” The Bahamas has been placed in Group E with Jamaica, Haiti and Barbados. They face Haiti today in the final game of the group stage. The playoffs are slated to begin on Friday (July 8) and wrap up on Sunday (July 9). With a win against Haiti, the Bahamas can

still advance to the quarterfinals. The tournament serves as a qualifier for the World Championships with the first two teams earning their automatic berths into the next round. The CAZOVA Senior Championships for Women will be hosted July 26-31 at the same venue. The Bahamas will be placed in Group D with Martinique, Trinidad & Tobago and Guadeloupe.

ARSENAL SIGNS LACAZETTE FROM LYON FOR CLUB RECORD $68M By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press ARSENAL signalled its intention to make an immediate return to the Premier League’s elite by paying a club record 60 million euros ($68 million) to sign Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, one of Europe’s most prolific players in recent years. Arsenal said on its website yesterday that the 26-year-old Lacazette “has agreed to join us on a longterm contract, for an undisclosed fee.” However, Lyon confirmed the figure of 60 million euros in a statement, with the amount exceeding the estimated 50 million euros that Arsenal paid to Real Madrid for playmaker Mesut Ozil in 2013. Arsenal said Lacazette is expected to travel with the tour party to Sydney this weekend and will likely make his home debut in the Emirates Cup on July 29 or July 30. “I am of course delighted and very proud too because Arsenal is a legendary club,” Lacazette told the club’s website. “Throughout my childhood, thanks to Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club so today that dream has been fulfilled. “Arsenal is also the club which plays the best football in England, so I really wanted to come here.” Lacazette had two years remaining on his Lyon contract but made it clear he wanted to leave after the seven-time French champions failed to qualify for the Champions League. He was expected to join Atletico Madrid but the move fell through after the Spanish club’s transfer ban was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport last month. Ironically, Arsenal has also missed out on Champions League football for the first time since 1997 and will play in the Europa League next season.

STUDENT athletes take part in the Basketball Without Borders Americas camp yesterday.

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ALEXANDRE Lacazette reacts after his team scored their side’s third goal during the second leg semi-final soccer match between Olympique Lyon and Ajax in the Stade de Lyon, Decines, France, on May 11. (AP) Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hopes the arrival of Lacazette will help his side to mount a title bid after finishing a disappointing fifth in the Premier League last season. “We are very happy to have Alexandre join our group,” Wenger said. “He has shown over a number of years that he can score goals and that he is a very efficient finisher. As well, he has very interesting technical qualities and a strong character.” “He is a guy who is a great addition for us, and someone who will help us challenge at the top level this season.” Lacazette, who scored a personal best tally of 28 league goals last season, also reached the 100 league goals mark for Lyon and 129 overall since coming through the club’s youth academy and making his debut during the 2009-10 campaign. He is fourth on Lyon’s all-time list of scorers behind Serge Chiesa,

Bernard Lacombe and Fleury Di Nallo, and has been capped 11 times by France. Lacazette was the leader of a golden generation of Lyon players including Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti and Bayern midfielder Corentin Tolisso who have also left for more prestigious sides. Those three, and Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema, all came through Lyon’s academy, one of the most respected in European football. Arsenal’s decision to sign the player raises questions over the futures of Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud. Sanchez has been linked with Manchester City, while Giroud said he wants to stay at Arsenal despite interest from Everton. At Lyon, Lacazette will be replaced by striker Bertrand Traore of Burkina Faso, who signed a five-year deal from Chelsea, and forward Mariano Diaz, who was brought in from Real Madrid.

experience so I can enjoy the paradise that this country is a little bit more and appreciate it a little better. Hopefully I can help these guys in any way I can. Some may think they know everything, some may be a bit nervous to be in this situation but we’re here to help. Whether it’s here to let kids know what they need to improve on or letting kids know they have a shot at making it, I’m just here to do whatever I can. This is a global game and it helps us all if everyone gets better.” Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Michael Pintard cited his history as a young basketball player in Grand Bahama as the foundation for many of his relationships and the discipline for his future. “Basketball has played a role in my life and many lasting relationships in my life have been forged on the court in competition. Basketball produces discipline, not just in preparation for the game but in following the gameplan. It is no different in the game of life. The values that you earn in this sport can open many doors are the same that are important to carry through life. After all it is always pointless to excel only on the basketball court and not in the game of life. “It is my hope that you enjoy the competition and the camaraderie even more,” he said. “The work that these organisations have been doing internationally for a number of years has been transformative. It is well known to a number of Bahamians who have seen what philanthropy and mentorship can do to affect young lives. It has led to many athletes going back to their countries with entire communities transformed through their work. I congratu-

late coaches, volunteers and everyone who continues to pour their lives into the next generation.” Following the seminar and opening press conference, the action then shifted to the court when the players were separated into skill position development stations. FIBA Americas President Usie Richards said the event is another milestone in the growth of basketball within the region. “We would like to express our gratitude and thanks to the NBA for allowing us to partner with them and it has worked out just as great as we expected. I wanted to recognise the contribution that not only comes from the players and the coaches who participate in these programmes,” he said. “We are pleased for the first time to be in an English-speaking Caribbean country. It is a great pleasure on behalf of FIBA to see how basketball is growing in this region. The most important aspect for me is the interaction, the growth and development for these young individuals, that basketball is not the sole aspect of life but the development of yourselves as individuals to become productive members of society.” Current NBA assistant coaches James Borrego (San Antonio Spurs), Jim Boylan (Cleveland Cavaliers), Darvin Ham (Atlanta Hawks) and David Vanterpool (Portland Trail Blazers) will also serve as BWB Americas coaches. Local coaches include Quentin Hall, Nigel Ingraham, Wayde Adderley, Derek Cummings, Anton Francis and Felix Musgrove. Patrick Hunt (President of the World Association of Basketball Coaches; Australia) and Ronald Cass (FIBA coach) will serve as camp directors for the boys and girls, respectively. Armando Rivas (Chicago Bulls) will serve as the camp’s athletic trainer.

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A’S BEAT WHITE SOX 7-4 TO MOVE MELVIN CLOSER TO MILESTONE By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An improving changeup that repeatedly fooled the White Sox hitters was more than enough to offset the stomach illness that bothered Athletics pitcher Sonny Gray most of the afternoon. Another three-hit game from Jed Lowrie and four stolen bases by Rajai Davis definitely helped Gray feel a lot better, too. Gray pitched six mostly sharp innings to beat Chicago for the second time in two weeks and Oakland defeated the White Sox 7-4 on Wednesday. “He was sick all day today and to get six out of him like we did . he stepped up because he was not feeling too good before the game and he’s not feeling great right now,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s back to looking like he has in the past, and a lot of it

had to do with health. Now he’s back doing his thing like we’ve expected him to do.” Jed Lowrie added three hits and two RBIs, Bruce Maxwell doubled in two runs and Jaycob Brugman homered to help the A’s to their second straight home win following eight consecutive losses at the Coliseum. The win was manager Bob Melvin’s 499th with the A’s and the 992nd of his career. Gray (4-4) surrendered a two-run home run to Matt Davidson in the fifth, the only blemish during an otherwise strong outing. Gray gave up two runs on three hits with five strikeouts, and has allowed four runs over his last 21 innings — a 1.71 ERA. “I think I’ve just gotten into a little bit of a groove, a little bit of a rhythm,” Gray said. “When I’m at my best I’m not necessarily going to strike a lot of people out

to fall to 0-6 in six career starts in Oakland. It’s the 10th time in 14 starts that the right-hander has pitched five innings or fewer. “I obviously killed the bullpen,” Pelfrey said. “We obviously didn’t give up, we kept fighting and I didn’t do my part especially going up against somebody like Sonny Gray on the other side.”

CHICAGO White Sox starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey throws to the Oakland Athletics during the second inning yesterday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) run blast off reliever Sean three-hit game of the seabut I’m going to get a lot of son. groundballs, and I’ve been Doolittle in the ninth. Lowrie singled in the Davidson’s homer was his getting that a lot lately. I just feel like I’m able to do first and in the third before 18th. breaking the game open White Sox starter Mike what I want.” Todd Frazier also homer- with a two-run single in the Pelfrey (3-7) retired 10 bated for the White Sox, a two- fourth. It’s Lowrie’s eighth ters and allowed four runs

STOLEN THUNDER Oakland’s Rajai sDavis finished with a career-high tying four stolen bases, two coming in the fourth when he singled and scored. Davis also had two more in the sixth, becoming the first A’s player with four steals in one game since Coco Crisp did it on Aug. 6, 2011. The franchise record is five, shared by major league stolen base record-holder Rickey Henderson and Bert Campaneris. “When Raj gets on he’s one of the premiere guys in the league and that’s what he can do,” Melvin said.

WILD BETANCES COSTS YANKEES IN 7-6 LOSS TO BLUE JAYS By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dellin Betances threw a full-count breaking ball with no bite to Russell Martin that sailed well high and outside, forcing in the goahead run with his fourth walk of the eighth inning. The All-Star reliever swiped at the toss back from catcher Austin Romine as manager Joe Girardi walked to the mound and fans booed on another long afternoon for the New York Yankees. “The team is fighting. You can’t put the blame on those guys. I’ll take the blame,” Betances said after Wednesday’s 7-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Justin Smoak and Kendrys Morales hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning off Michael Pineda, who also allowed Kevin Pillar’s leadoff homer in the fourth that put the Blue Jays ahead 5-0. Aaron Judge started a comeback with his major league-leading 29th homer, a two-run homer in the fourth. The Yankees surged ahead 6-5 when Ji-Man Choi hit a two-run homer in the fifth and

Didi Gregorius’s two-run double later in the inning chased Marco Estrada, who was pitching on his 33rd birthday. Judge’s homer tied Joe DiMaggio’s Yankees rookie record, set in 1936, and Choi’s came in his New York debut. Martin tied the score 6-6 with a seventh-inning homer against Chad Green, then walked to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth. With a runner on first, Roberto Osuna struck out Judge for the final out. “Our best against their best,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said, “and our best won.” Miguel Montero, making his Blue Jays debut, fouled off a pair of 3-2 pitches leading off their eighth against Betances (3-4) before taking an inside curve. Worried about a bunt, Betances walked Kevin Pillar on four pitches, then put on No. 9 hitter Ryan Goins with four more. He started Jose Bautista with another ball — his 10th in a row— before recovering to throw a called third strike past the slugger. Betances fell behind Martin 2-0, evened the count, and missed with a pair of curves.

YANKEES’ JI-MAN CHOI, centre, celebrates with teammates after hitting a fifth-inning, two-run, home run in his first day as a member of the Yankees yesterday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) “In the short term I’m concerned about him. Long term I’m not,” Girardi said. Betances has walked 17 of his past 55 batters, including 11 of his past 22. He’s rushing his lower body, causing him to fly open. “I’m between two different deliveries, and it’s not helping me when I’m out there,” he said. Betances, a 6-foot-8 right-hander picked for his fourth straight All-Star Game, admitted he was frustrated.

“It’s a big body,” Romine said. “It’s hard for him to get stuff going the way he needed to go.” Adam Warren relieved, threw a called third strike past Smoak, then retired Morales on a flyout. Last-place Toronto took two of three from New York and won consecutive games for the first time since June 18-19. Leading the AL East by four games on June 13 with a 38-23 record, the Yankees have lost 16 of their past 22 and are 0-6-1 in their past seven series. “You can turn it around and get hot and win a lot of games like we were before,” Girardi said. Danny Barnes (2-2) threw 1 2/3 innings and Osuna converted his 20th consecutive save chance and 21st overall this season. Brett Gardner singled with two outs, and Osuna struck out Judge, who unsuccessfully tried to check his swing on a low, outside slider. “I got fooled,” Judge said. HERE COMES THE JUDGE Judge joined Mark McGwire in 1987 (33) and Jose Abreu in 2014 (29) as the only rookies with 29 homers before the All-Star break. He reached DiMaggio’s Yankees

record in New York’s 83rd game. “Any time you’re in the sentence as someone like DiMaggio is pretty incredible,” Judge said. “It’s quite an honor.” DEBUTS Montero went 0 for 4, two days after he was acquired from the Chicago Cubs. Choi, who went 1 for 4, was called up by the Yankees from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after Chris Carter was designated for assignment. Choi’s drive into the right-field seats would have traveled 457 feet unimpeded, according to MLB’s Statcast. Choi became the seventh player to start at first base for the Yankees this year and 10th to play the position. PINEDA SCUFFLING Pineda was 6-2 with a 3.32 ERA in the first two months of the season, but has alternated good and bad performances in his past seven outings. He gave up five runs and nine hits in three-innings plus, raising his ERA to 4.39. “His slider has not been good,” Girardi said. “He needs to find that because that pitch is really important to him.”

CUBS RALLY FOR 7-3 VICTORY OVER RAYS By JAY COHEN Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — For most of the day, it looked like another frustrating loss for the Chicago Cubs.

Then Jon Jay came to the plate Jay connected for his third career pinch-hit homer and Ian Happ hit a tiebreaking two-run single an inning later, helping the

Cubs rally for a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday. “When you’re not starting the game, I know I have a chance to come off the bench and impact the game and I was able to do that today,” Jay said. “So I definitely like being in those situations.” Chicago (42-42) returned to .500 for the 19th time with its third win in its last eight games. The reigning World Series champions have not been more than two games over or two games under .500 at any point since May 27. “We’ve shown our flashes of the type of team we can be,” said Jay, who signed with the Cubs in the offseason. “We’ve just got to continue to keep fighting.” The Cubs trailed 3-0 before Jay drove a 1-2 pitch from Erasmo Ramirez (4-3) over the wall in left-center for a tying homer with two out in the sixth inning. Jay then popped out of the dugout for a curtain call, obliging the crowd of 39,855 on a picturesque day at Wrigley Field. Happ got his big hit in the seventh, driving in Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo with a bouncer up the middle against Tampa Bay’s drawn-in infield. Happ had two hits and is batting .357 (10 for 28) in his last seven games. “Happer just rolling it through the middle obviously was a game changer,” manager Joe Maddon said. Tampa Bay (44-42) wasted a chance for a two-game sweep in its reunion with Maddon, who skippered the Rays for nine years before leaving after the 2014 season and taking over the Cubs. Mallex Smith went 4 for 4 and scored three times for the Rays, who had won three of four. Blake Snell pitched five scoreless innings in his best outing of

the year, working around four hits and four walks. “It’s definitely as step forward, but I got to get into the sixth inning, I have to,” Snell said. “I’m aware of it, but hopefully a step in the right direction.” Smith doubled and scored on Evan Longoria’s sacrifice fly in the sixth, giving Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead against John Lackey. But that was it for the Rays. “Just unfortunate we couldn’t hold the lead,” manager Kevin Cash said. Pedro Strop (3-2) replaced Lackey and pitched a scoreless seventh for the win. Tampa Bay was only down by two when it put two runners on against Carl Edwards Jr. with two out in the eighth. But Koji Uehara came in and struck out Longoria to end the inning. LOOK OUT Longoria tumbled over a door while trying to grab Rizzo’s foul popup in the fifth. But he stayed in the game. “It hurt,” he said. “I was scared, yeah, anytime you go into the wall. That wall’s a weird height, you get nervous a little bit when you go over it. It didn’t feel great.” AILING LACKEY Lackey is dealing with right plantar fasciitis, but he won’t pitch again until after the All-Star break and brushed off any concern. “I got a ways before I got to pitch again, so I think I’ll be all right,” he said. “But I mean I’m 38 years old, I’m bothered by a lot of things.” WHEN SCHWARBER RETURNS The Cubs are monitoring Kyle Schwarber’s progress at Triple-A Iowa, and the outfielder could return to the majors soon. When he comes back, he might get another shot at the leadoff spot.

Schwarber was the leadoff hitter at the beginning of the year, but was pushed down in the lineup when he got off to a slow start. He was hitting .171 with a .295 on-base percentage in 64

games at the time of his demotion on June 22. “I would not be concerned with putting him back there, just depending on what he looks like when he gets back,” Maddon said.

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AP Source: Heat, Waiters agree on new deal By TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Dion Waiters bet on himself last season, and it paid off. Waiters and the Miami Heat have agreed on a four-year deal, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations. The deal is worth a maximum of $52 million, provided all incentives are met, said the person who spoke yesterday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because nothing can

be finalised until at least today under league rules. Waiters averaged 15.8 points in 46 games last season for the Heat. He was a significant part of how Miami turned its season around after an 11-30 start, going 30-11 in the second half. The Heat were 27-19 when Waiters played, 14-22 when he did not. Last season was his first in Miami, coming in to essentially fill the role vacated when Dwyane Wade left for Chicago last summer. “Big Congrats to @dionwait-

ers3 on the new deal with The Heat,” Wade tweeted Wednesday. “It was only right bro!!!” Miami missed out on landing Gordon Hayward this week, when the All-Star forward decided that he will be signing with the Boston Celtics. So Plan B for Miami meant retaining its own free agents like Waiters and James Johnson. The Heat are making progress toward a deal with Johnson, who has made no secret that he has wanted to be back in Miami. “We’re going to hopefully

make the right selections,” Heat President Pat Riley said going into the offseason. “I hope that Dion and James and the rest of our free agents like it here enough that we’re going to be fair with them and they’re going to be fair with us.” The 25-year-old Waiters missed Miami’s last 13 games because of a badly sprained ankle, and the Heat wound up losing a tiebreaker for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot. He played for $2.9 million last season, saying he took a small

deal in order to prove he was worthy of big dollars in the future. Waiters said after the regular season that his plan, and his hope, was to stay with the Heat. “We’re just getting started,” Waiters said in April. “It’s only the beginning. It’s only the beginning.” Miami is Waiters’ third team, after his career started with stops in Cleveland and Oklahoma City after he left Syracuse and turned pro. He’s averaged 13.2 points in 335 career games.

CAVALIERS’ KYRIE IRVING, seated from left, LeBron James, Richard Jefferson, Kyle Korver and JR Smith sit on the bench during the second half of Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, California, on June 4. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Veteran Richard Jefferson returning to the Cavaliers By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Richard Jefferson isn’t messing with any retirement talk this summer. After saying he would stop playing after the Cavaliers won the NBA title in 2016 and changing his mind, Jefferson said

Wednesday that he will be back with Cleveland next season — his 17th as a pro. The 37-year-old announced his plans on an episode of his “Road Trippin’” podcast. Jefferson, who had contemplated quitting, has one guaranteed season left on his contract worth $2.5 million. He averaged

5.7 points and 2.6 rebounds in 79 games for the Cavs, serving mostly as a backup for LeBron James. He provided Cleveland with a big lift off the bench during the NBA Finals, when he was asked to guard Golden State’s Kevin Durant and was perhaps the Cavs’ most productive reserve. Jefferson’s return is the latest

news in what has been an interesting offseason for the Cavs. General manager David Griffin parted ways with the team after failing to resolve differences with owner Dan Gilbert. Also, the team dangled All-Star forward Kevin Love in trade talks before the draft. In recent days, former All-Star

guard Chauncey Billups removed himself from consideration to be the club’s president of basketball operations. Last week, the Cavs reached agreement on contracts with free agents Kyle Korver and Jose Calderon. Those deals will become official later this week when the league’s moratorium ends.

SPARKS AND LYNX SET FOR FIRST MEETING THIS SEASON By DOUG FEINBERG Associated Press CHERYL Reeve insists that today’s game with the Los Angeles Sparks isn’t a WNBA Finals rematch. It’s just a matchup of the top two teams in the league again. A good measuring stick for both teams. “It’s not the finals. It’s a regular-season game, and both teams are jockeying for position, and I’m sure both teams are going to want to win the game pretty badly,” Minnesota’s coach said yesterday. The two teams, who are 1-2 in The Associated Press WNBA Power Poll , played a thrilling five-game series last fall and the championship was decided on a lastsecond shot by the Sparks. In Reeve’s mind, as well as her players, it’s done with. They are on to this year and trying to win a fourth title in seven years. “I think for fans, it would be a natural thing to still have it on their minds, because they don’t have the chances that we have to get back to work and move on to a different opponent, and you have to focus on that,” she said. “So I kind of get that the fans are going to be

geeked up, and rightfully so because it’s L.A. And anytime you’re playing L.A. that’s how we feel.” Minnesota (12-1) has only lost once since that epic finals series, dropping a home game to Connecticut last month. “I think we sensed it from the beginning of the season. It’s not one particular team. I think we just feel like we have something to prove as a unit,” said Lynx center Sylvia Fowles, who is averaging 20.7 points and 10.1 rebounds this season. “It has nothing to do with L.A. We’re not trying to take anything away from L.A. But it definitely sparks something in us. It definitely sparks something in us, because we did lose to this team last year.” Fowles sees a lot of similarities between the two teams. The Lynx are led by a core group of Fowles, Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Rebekkah Brunson and Seimone Augustus. The Sparks have most of their group back from the title team with Candace Parker, Nneka Ogwumike and Chelsea Gray. “They’re similar to us in a lot of ways. They rebound. They run. They score. It’s pretty much us in a dif-

LYNX guard Renee Montgomery, left, shoots as Sparks forward Candace Parker defends during Game 4 of the WNBA Finals in Los Angeles. The two team meet again Thursday, July 6. (AP) ferent uniform,” Fowles said. “That’s what’s exciting about playing L.A. You get a little test for your run and see where we go from there.” This isn’t even the biggest regular-season matchup between the teams. Their first meeting last year saw both teams unbeaten — the latest in a season that two teams had met without a

blemish. They played a few days later to finish out a homeand-home with each team winning one game. This year they won’t play again until Aug. 11. Thursday night’s game at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul is a good chance to see where they stand against the league’s best. “(It) will be a measuring

stick,” Los Angeles coach Brian Agler said. “Where are we right now? We’re still focusing on improving.” Los Angeles (12-3) has been the hottest team this month, winning its past eight games. The Sparks haven’t been blowing by opponents though, rallying from a 17-point deficit to beat Washington in their

previous game. “I don’t think we’re close to being our best,” Agler said. “We still have room for a lot of growth.” ESPN analyst LaChina Robinson is glad the rematch didn’t happen earlier in the season when teams were still finding themselves. Los Angeles was missing a few of its players, including Parker, at the start of the season because of overseas commitments. “They have had time to grow,” she said. “If they had played this team back in late May or early June I don’t think it would have been a very good game. Look how much better Los Angeles has gotten. Teams have had time to jell. “When they meet again they’ll have even more time to fine-tune things. In my opinion it’s a two-team race right now. Honestly I look at it in the same way we saw Golden State and Cleveland all season. “We’ll wait till the end to see these two teams play. They are the two best teams. The dramatic finish of Game 5 as well as being the most exciting WNBA Finals we’ve had. There’s great anticipation looking forward to this matchup again.”

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TWO-TIME WIMBLEDON CHAMPION KVITOVA STUNNED BY AMERICAN BRENGLE By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Madison Brengle knew, of course, that her opponent, Petra Kvitova, was a twotime Wimbledon champion and a popular pick to win the title again this year. Brengle also was aware, of course, that she herself never had won so much as one main-draw match at the All England Club until this week. This, instead, is all the 27-year-old from Dover, Delaware, was focused on as she began playing Kvitova yesterday evening on Court No. 2: Please just let me win a game. The 95thranked Brengle did just that — and much, much more, stunning the 11thseeded Kvitova 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to reach the third round at Wimbledon. The reason for Brengle’s preoccupation with taking merely a single game? In her Wimbledon debut in 2015, she lost to Venus Williams 6-0, 6-0. “So, like, that’s always

in my head when I’m out here,” Brengle said, pointing a finger at her right temple. “It’s like, ‘Oh, my goodness, don’t do that ever again!’ That was really tough for me.” Turned out, she didn’t need to stress about a shutout for too long: Brengle broke the strong-serving Kvitova to take the very first game. “As long as I got on the board to start, then I could relax,” Brengle said with a smile, “because, trust me, an ‘O-and-O’ stays with you.” Now she’ll have this victory to cherish, along with another one from this year that also holds some significance: Brengle beat Serena Williams at a tuneup tournament at Auckland, New Zealand, back on January 4. Williams went on to win the Australian Open later that month and hasn’t played since — she is pregnant and taking at least the rest of this year off — so Brengle is, for the moment, the last woman to defeat the 23-time Grand Slam cham-

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pion. “That’s my thing,” Brengle said, holding up a fist and laughing. “I’m going to hold on to that one forever.” Kvitova, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, had been favoured by some British bookmakers to lift the trophy at fortnight’s end, despite competing in only her third tournament of her comeback. She was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder at her home in the Czech Republic in December and

needed surgery on her left hand, the one she uses to hold a racket. Still without full strength in that hand — clenching it for a celebratory fist pump remains difficult — Kvitova returned at the French Open in May, losing in the second round there. But then she won a grass-court title at Birmingham in June. “I feel just really empty right now. I know my body; it’s not great. But mentally I’m really glad that it’s over. I mean, it was kind of a fairy

tale, but on the other hand, it was very tough,” she said. “I just need to look forward and look to the future.” Kvitova said she felt ill Wednesday, and she was visited by a trainer in the third set. The temperature soared toward 85 degrees (near 30 Celsius) after being in the low 70s (20s Celsius) the prior two days. “When the match (got) longer and longer, I felt a little bit sick and tired. So I couldn’t really move. I was so slow,” she said. “I felt like, I don’t know, like an animal. But a very slow animal.” Brengle took advantage by playing plenty of slices and changing speeds and angles. She was out-hit by a wide margin in the second set, but her steadier play in the third was enough. In the first and last sets combined, Kvitova made 45 unforced errors to 11 for Brengle. Kvitova was one of a half-dozen seeded women to lose on Day 3, a group that also included No. 15 Elina Vesnina (beaten by

THE WEATHER REPORT

5-Day Forecast

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Statistics are for Nassau through 2 p.m. yesterday Temperature High ................................................... 91° F/33° C Low .................................................... 77° F/25° C Normal high ....................................... 88° F/31° C Normal low ........................................ 75° F/24° C Last year’s high ................................. 94° F/34° C Last year’s low ................................... 80° F/27° C Precipitation As of 2 p.m. yesterday ................................. 0.05” Year to date ................................................. 9.04” Normal year to date ................................... 14.62”

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new mom Victoria Azarenka, a former No. 1 and two-time Australian Open champion), No. 17 Madison Keys, No. 18 Anastasija Sevastova, No. 22 Barbora Strycova and No. 25 Carla Suarez Navarro. The action was much more straightforward in the men’s draw, with straightset victories by defending champion Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, who has won the last 26 Grand Slam sets he has played. For Keys, the 6-4, 6-7 (10), 6-1 exit in the second round against 86th-ranked Camila Giorgi of Italy was the American’s earliest in five appearances at the All England Club. “The whole time, I was just kind of waiting for her level to drop and it never really did,” said Keys, who recently had a second surgery on her left wrist to remove scar tissue from the original procedure in October. “It kind of just away from me really quickly and, not having a lot of matches under my belt, it was tough to get it all back.”

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