Football News Indian Super League: FC Goa beat Mumbai City FC 2-0
Mumbai: FC Goa ended Mumbai City FC’s unbeaten run of nine games after registering a comfortable 2-0 win in an Indian Super League game on Friday. Spanish midfielder Edu Bedia (28th minute) and star striker Ferran Corominas (79th minute) struck on either side of the break at the Mumbai Football Arena as a sizable number of fans cheered the visiting team. Right from the beginning, the two teams played aggressive. The visitors had an early chance in the second minute.A throw-in from Seriton Fernandes from the right reached Corominas, who gave a low pass to Brandon Fernandes. But the midfielder sold a dummy to skipper Mandar Rao Dessai behind him. Dessai shot from a distance but an alert Mumbai custodian Amrinder Singh parried it away.Goa had more chances but Mumbai defenders thwarted the attack either from near the box or inside the box. Also, the match officials were kept on their toes with Goa player Seriton Fernandes and Mumbai’s Milan Singh, Lucian Goian earning yellow cards inside the first 25 minutes.Also Read | Happy Birthday Graeme Smith – A legendary skipper who helped South Africa scale the summitAfter wasting a couple of free-kicks, Goa’s aggression finally paid off in the 28th minute with Bedia netting in the opener. Brandon Fernandes ran from the midfield and then put Corominas on the goal. Corominas’ shot was saved by Amrider but the deflection fell in path of Bedia, who shot on target and the ball took deflection of Mumbai defender Subhasish Bose, before rolling in. At the half-way mark, Goa were 1-0 ahead.After the change of ends, Mumbai were initially more aggressive. But, it was Goa’s goalkeeper Mohammad Nawaz, who ensured that his side stayed ahead as he made couple of superb saves.Two back to back chances came for Mumbai, but they failed to equalize. In the 63rd minute, Paulo Machado’s free-kick was nodded by Lucian Goian, but it hit the crossbar.Mumbai defender Bose brought down Corominas inside the box as the referee pointed to the dreaded spot. A calm and composed Corominas successfully converted the penalty as he slotted the ball into the right corner to double the lead.Also Read | Karim Benzema boosts Real Madrid into semi-final of Copa del Rey with win over GironaWith the win, Goa logged three points to move to the third spot in the standings with 24 points. This was Goa’s seventh win in 13 games, while it was Mumbai’s only third defeat in 14 games. In their previous encounter in Goa, the home team had hammered Mumbai 5-0. For all the Latest Sports News News, Football News News, Download News Nation Android and iOS Mobile Apps.
THE third instalment of the GT Motorsports Georgetown Grand Prix is set for this Sunday at the organisation’s Thomas Lands track.The third round of the annual championship is expected to feature a full contingent of drivers as they seek to gain valuable individual points.Expected to be the highpoint is the X30 Juniors with the resumption of the battle between rivals Nathan Rahaman and Zachary Persaud. There is a tight battle between leader Persaud (111 points) and Rahaman (109) with the duo trading wins in round two earlier this year.Still in the fight are Rayden Persaud (82) and Paige Mendonca (79).In the Easy Cup Rookie class, Naresh Alves leads after two rounds with 111 points ahead of Ackeem Thomas (99) and Rylie Ramroop (84).In the Easy Cup Super, Kristian Jeffrey (70) leads Stefan Jeffrey (61) and Steven Nobrega third while in the 60cc Kids Cup, Justin Ten-Pow holds a commanding 154-point lead over Nicholas Sawh and Ben Phang, who are tied for second place on 90 points.In the X30 Masters (125cc Masters), Shan Seejattan leads with 77 points ahead of Mahendra Boodhoo (51) and Vishal Sawh (48).Down in the X30 Senior class, Matthew Phang leads with 103 points, ahead of Steven Nobrega (98), John Phang (91) and Elan Rahaman (73)Sunday’s event begins at 18:00hrs.
Faisal Alam, a gay Muslim activist, spoke at USC on Tuesday night about bridging the various stereotypes of Islam with followers who are progressive or gay.Breaking out · Activist Faisal Alam struggled growing us a gay Muslim, and went on to found a support organization for LGBT Muslims. – Dan Doperalski | Daily Trojan The Queer and Ally Student Assembly hosted Alam in Doheny Library in an effort to provide a different perspective to the LGBT and Muslim community.“There is a notion that Islam is out to take over the world — that we will bring Islamic fundamentality to the U.S. … and so there is this association with that in the U.S. today,” Alam said.QuASA Executive Director Emily Allen said the organization wanted to host an event that incorporated a wide variety of people — in this case, the Muslim and LGBT communities.“This event caters to the Islamic community and other people who want to know more about this section of the queer community,” Allen said.Alam spoke to a full crowd in the Intellectual Commons about a side of Islam that many Muslims and Americans might not be familiar with.“Islam is a very diverse and dynamic faith. There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world and 56 countries with Muslim majorities,” Alam said.Alam said he struggled with coming out as a gay Muslim growing up in a small town in Connecticut, and that when he was growing up, he was taught that a gay Muslim cannot and should not exist.“This notion that [being a gay Muslim] was not acceptable or that it didn’t exist obviously caused me a lot of pain, because by the time I got to high school, when I realized that I was gay, I was faced with this question of: How can I be gay if I’m Muslim, if God doesn’t make someone like that and if it’s not acceptable?” Alam said.Alam said that because he was so heavily involved in a Muslim community growing up, he wanted to get involved in the global Muslim gay community. For this reason, he started an e-mail listserv for gay Muslims.“Within minutes, people started to join, because that’s how much silence there is among people in our community about this issue. But for six months, not one person out of the 50 people who had joined wrote a message,” Alam said.He launched the organization Al Fatiha in 1998 to address the issues of LGBT Muslims and provide support in reconciling their faith and their sexual orientation.“The world is really not black or white — regardless of what Osama Bin Laden, George Bush or Barack Obama want us to believe,” Alam said. “I believe there is great diversity in the world and a lot of complexity in the world. And a lot of times we are looking for quick answers and we don’t want to look at the history of the world we live in.”
AnnaMarie Gatti struggled at the beginning and end of her first collegiate start on Friday.But when it was all said and done, Gatti pitched well, allowing only three runs and throwing four shutout innings in between a one-run first and a two-run sixth.Three runs against North Carolina — the offense which leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in runs, batting average, home runs, on-base percentage and slugging percentage — was a positive for SU head coach Leigh Ross.“I think definitely a growing experience for Anna,” Ross said. “After that first inning — as a growing experience I mean, she was very shaky out there, it was her first time in an ACC game — I thought she handled it well… I was really happy with what she did.”Entering the season, Ross thought she’d have three aces in Gatti, Sydney O’Hara and Jocelyn Cater. But then Gatti, a freshman who came to Syracuse (14-19, 1-7 Atlantic Coast) as the No. 67 recruit in the country, went down with an injury in the fall. O’Hara missed three weeks with an injury until she relieved Gatti in Friday’s game. Cater has been forced to carry the burden — her 100 innings pitched are tied for the most in the ACC.AdvertisementThis is placeholder textEven if Gatti’s not at her best, the team will take what it can get, assistant coach Mike Bosch said. Bosch is “pretty positive” that Gatti will throw in the next four or five games. And as she returns, Gatti’s success hinges on regaining timing, changing her style and trusting herself.Syracuse will use its newfound pitching depth when it plays four games in four days. SU travels to Canisius (14-10, 4-0 Metro Atlantic) on Thursday and hosts a three-game series against Pittsburgh (25-14, 6-9) consisting of a Saturday doubleheader at 1 p.m. and a Sunday game at noon.“I hope — fingers crossed — that we’re getting back to full strength with our pitching staff,” Ross said. “It gives us more options and it’s going to let us go deeper. With (Cater) you know what you’re going to get, but you can’t run her into the ground.”Gatti is planned to be a reinforcement for the second game of doubleheaders, Ross said. She’ll provide a change-of-pace arm, which SU can throw at opponents.Her change-up — the reason SU recruited her, Bosch said — and drop-curve contrast with O’Hara’s hard, up and away pitches, Ross said. But those pitches only become effective once Gatti regains her timing, something she said she lacked on Friday, Bosch said, leaving her with the change-up as her only weapon.“In high school… I would have two strikeouts per inning,” Gatti said. “… Going into (UNC), I figured I should have that. Now I’m brought down to earth in that I understand that that’s not going to happen. I have an amazing defense behind me… so I’m going to trust my defense and try to get ground balls.”Bosch has also created a detailed scouting report on each SU match-up. He knows all about the hitters — stances, aggressiveness, who to pitch to with a base open, if they’re a slap hitter — and gives his pitchers video.One of the biggest adjustments for Gatti will be just getting healthy. She’s still babying her foot a bit, but knows she’s capable of performing at a high level.Said Gatti: “I have good enough stuff to compete with anyone.” Comments Facebook Twitter Google+ Published on April 8, 2015 at 9:43 pm Contact Sam: sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR
Once the article came out, Undergraduate Student Government president Trenton Stone reached out to administrators, USG members and students and encouraged the University to send a status update to the community about the situation and available resources. “[The statement] added onto the harm our students are already feeling because of Dr. Kelly,” Gross said. “We thought it was important to write a response to model for our administration what it should look like to honestly and caringly [respond] to our students.” Concerned Faculty of USC released a letter Wednesday criticizing USC’s response to the BuzzFeed News report detailing former student’s sexual abuse accusations against former campus men’s health doctor Dennis Kelly. The letter was addressed to Interim Provost Elizabeth Graddy and Chief Health Officer Sarah Van Orman. In a joint statement to the Daily Trojan, Graddy and Van Orman wrote that the letter was meant to respond quickly to the BuzzFeed News article and inform students of the processes the Engemann Student Health Center and USC have to report issues, provide feedback and seek support through counseling services. The letter, which was also posted on the group’s website, comes in response to a statement sent to the USC community Aug. 9, stating that the University offered free counseling services for current and former health center patients through USC or a third-party service. In the statement, the University said it would communicate as much as possible to the USC community while the lawsuit is pending. Concerned Faculty of USC also continues pushing for a faculty-led group to investigate and review issues on campus rather than law firms, so that more information is shared with the community. The group stated that it would also like the University to release internal investigations on Tyndall and former Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen Puliafito, who left the University following years of illicit drug use while on the job. Ariela Gross, a law professor who leads the Concerned Faculty of USC, said they wanted to see a more “compassionate” response from the University, rather than a list of resources and discussion of legal matters. Stone said USG will implement its own reforms, including a bystander training initiative started in Spring 2019, a task force on sexual assault and free weekly legal counseling appointments. The BuzzFeed News article found that at least three alleged victims who complained to the University never heard back from USC. In a separate statement to the Daily Trojan last week, USC called the allegations of unanswered complaints “misleading.”
“I was happy to see a published response, given there had not been one since early in the 2019 spring semester,” Stone wrote in an email to the Daily Trojan. “I can understand the sentiment from the Concerned Faculty of USC response letter. Regardless of anything, the safety of students should be paramount to any other objective and, in moving forward, this should be true across all departments [at] USC, including the student health center.” “We strive to be compassionate and supportive to all members of our USC community … In no way do we want any member of our community to feel compromised or mistreated,” they wrote in the statement. “USC followed up on the handful of complaints it received,” the statement read. “Nearly every allegation in the lawsuit was anonymous, which makes it difficult to conduct an investigation.” Concerned Faculty of USC, which consists of about 350 faculty members, also published a report detailing potential reforms to the student health center last week based on interviews it conducted with health center officials and students. Still, the group also recommended an expanded mental health staff and a 24-hour crisis center for students, among other reforms. As more information is revealed about Kelly and the students who say their claims were ignored, Gross expects the group will find more changes that should come about. Gross said there have been some reforms since a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed former campus gynecologist George Tyndall’s decades of alleged sexual abuse, including hiring a team of female gynecologists. “We need an investigation that brings to light to the public what happened, who’s being held accountable, what changes are being made, and that has to involve the faculty, students and staff,” Gross said. “That can’t be something that just happens secretly between a lawyer and some members of the Board of Trustees.”
An elementary school-aged Cam Brown stood in his father’s office inside Quicken Loans Arena wearing a funky shirt, shorts and two mismatched tennis shoes. Much of his body was marked up in Sharpie. He believed that if he looked as embarrassing as possible, his mom wouldn’t take him to see the his father, Mike Brown, then-head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. But Brown had thought wrong. His mom forced him to go wearing exactly that and Mike remembers just about falling over when he saw his son in the arena. Growing up, despite always playing sports, Brown’s favorite pastime was reading, Mike said, and he’d often rather do so than watch the NBA. That’s something Brown had to do often with a father who has coached in the NBA for 18 years, including head coaching stints with Cleveland (2005-10, 2013-14) and the Los Angeles Lakers (2011-13).Years later, Brown is still a basketball fan, but he found a different passion: football. Brown developed into one of the most elite pass rushers in Division III football, finishing his senior season at Case Western Reserve second in the country in sacks with 15 total. “I’m just a lot more comfortable in the defense that we’ve been running,” Brown said. “I’ve been a lot more confident in my own abilities. I’ve tried to open up the full array of pass rush moves I have and just really try to focus in and lock in on studying every opponent and try to open some things up for me.”Despite being recruited by several schools including Case Western Reserve, Brown didn’t start his college career as an athlete, electing to attend Cincinnati as a regular student. But by the second semester he yearned for the competition of organized sports. His father, now an assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors, had warned him that those who choose to cut their athletic careers short normally regret it.AdvertisementThis is placeholder textHe re-approached Case Western Reserve.“When he contacted us a year later, he had gotten bigger, grown and developed physically even though he hadn’t played,” head coach Greg Debeljak said. “So we were really excited to have him aboard. We knew we were getting a really, really good player.”At a young age, Brown favored basketball just like his brother Elijah, now a member of the Detroit Pistons G-League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Drive. After realizing he wouldn’t be taller than 6-foot or 6-foot-1, it became clear Brown had more of a future in football. In ninth grade, he was the starting junior varsity offensive guard at Mater Dei High School (California), something his father knew wasn’t the correct fit. With Brown’s athleticism, long arms and quickness, Mike told him to ask to play on the defensive line. Brown didn’t listen until he attended Westlake High School (Ohio), where he played both offensive guard and defensive end, with the latter turning out to be his specialty.“So that’s the one thing I mess with him now,” Mike said. “I said, ‘Hey buddy, the sky’s the limit now because you have a lot of success but if you would’ve listened to me a long time ago and pursued the defensive line thing, you’d be playing it for awhile and been that much more experienced.”Courtesy of Case Western Reserve AthleticsWhat helps set Brown apart is his preparation, Debeljak said. Brown will come out from a meeting and go on the field and walk through all of the things the coaches talked about, such as footwork, on his own. That’s something Debeljak said he rarely ever sees other players do.A lot of his work ethic can be attributed to what he was exposed to growing up in NBA facilities, Brown said. His father agreed.“He’s seen a guy like LeBron James in the gym on an off day busting his behind, getting better on the court, in the weight room or wherever…” Mike said. “Most kids think that he walks into a phone booth, takes off his clothes and comes out as super-LeBron. But in reality the extra time that LeBron spends in the gym or the weight room, taking care of his body and so on and so forth, is remarkable, especially based on how good of a player he already is.”Part of Brown’s preparation is knowing it’s not just about lifting the most weight. Debeljak said he takes excellent care of his body, utilizing the Golden State Warriors’ medical staff and training staff that’s available to him in the off-season. In addition, Brown emphasizes stretching and yoga with a trainer. “I think he recognizes that it’s not all about strength, it’s certainly about athleticism and the stretching that’s the one thing that makes him stand out,” Debeljak said. “He really can move and put himself in position because he is so flexible and so fluid with his movements that not a lot of defensive lineman at our level can do.” Brown spends a lot of time with the Warriors, either streaming their games while at school or attending games in the offseason. His father does the same with Case Western Reserve football. The pair talk on the phone or FaceTime almost every day.There are many perks that come with having an NBA coach for a father. Brown often travels with the team and has been part of the past two NBA Finals, which both ended with Golden State hoisting the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.But Mike has always tried to avoid his sons getting special treatment, something Brown is thankful for. Mike didn’t want anyone thinking they had a spot on the court or field because of who he was.“My whole thing was, ‘Hey, you guys got to even try to go out there and worker harder than the next guy because of who you are in order to prove to people you’re worthy of anything that comes your way,’” Mike said.Brown isn’t sure what he will do as a career. In the summer he has worked as an intern, now a high-ranking one, at the Las Vegas Summer League through a connection with his father’s agent. However, one thing is for sure: his future will involve sports.“It’s been such a big part of my life,” Brown said. “I’m not sure what I would be without it.” Published on November 21, 2018 at 8:33 am Contact Eric: estorms@syr.edu Comments Facebook Twitter Google+
Gutsy little Clippers?Under the circumstances – particularly coming off Tuesday’s heartbreaking loss – Wednesday’s was a courageous victory. Paul was funny when he was queried as to whether he would have called his team gutsy two years ago.“My memory is not that good anymore,” he said. “I don’t even remember our team two years ago. I don’t know.”Barnes: Team has bad blood with allInterestingly, the hard-nosed Barnes believes there is a general dislike between the Clippers and, well, everyone.“We have bad blood against the whole league and I think they have it against us,” he said. “It’s whatever. Sometimes it gets physical and we’re OK with that. Just like tonight, it was a big win. It took 48 minutes to get it, but we did a great job.”This and thatThe Clippers, who won the regular-season series 3-1 over the Trail Blazers (48-26), could play them in the first round of the playoffs. If the post-season began today, they would. The Clippers have six games left, the Trail Blazers eight. … After Saturday’s game at Denver (28-47), the Clippers play the Lakers on Sunday and Tuesday. The final three games will be April 11 against Memphis, April 13 against Denver and April 14 at Phoenix. Newsroom GuidelinesNews TipsContact UsReport an Error Chris Kaman pushing Chris Paul to the floor late in the third quarter Wednesday seemed a foolish and highly unprofessional move on Kaman’s part. But the Clippers settled it professionally when they shrugged off the 11-point deficit they had at the time and rallied for a 126-122 victory at Portland. The Clippers trailed by as many as 19 points in the second quarter.The victory came the day after Paul and the Clippers gave up a 17-point second-quarter lead and lost 110-106 to the rival Golden State Warriors at Staples Center. In that game, Paul was taken to school on one play by the Warriors’ Steph Curry, whose dribble move sent Paul twisting to the hardwood. He didn’t go down all the way, instead bracing himself with one hand, like a boxer who had just been belted and was trying to avoid a knockdown.Paul rebounded with a season-high 41 points while doling out 17 assists Wednesday. But afterward he wouldn’t admit that Kaman’s shove, which resulted in a flagrant 1 foul, helped him take his game to a higher level. Teammate Matt Barnes said from a team standpoint, it definitely helped.“I think we were already playing well, but it just gave us a little bit more incentive,” said Barnes, whose Clippers (50-26) next play Saturday at Denver. “Any time you go and rough our point guard up, it’s going to turn us all a little bit.”
Portland coach Terry Stotts didn’t like the way his team responded. He liked, so to speak, the way the Clippers did, though.“Well, it’s easy to say we didn’t handle it very well, but I would probably say more that the Clippers really picked up their aggressiveness,” Stotts said. Paul stunned by Kaman’s actionsPaul did say he was taken aback by Kaman’s rather silly display. The two were fighting for a rebound and in the process Paul – seemingly inadvertently – pushed Kaman below the belt with his left hand. Kaman then literally just pushed Paul in the back and down went Paul. Glen “Big Baby” Davis went after Kaman, but was sent to the deck by an intervening LaMarcus Aldridge, who shoved Davis away. Paul also went after Kaman. “I was really surprised,” Paul said. “I used to sort of know Kaman really well, but I didn’t know what happened or not. I stole it and then with the push. It’s all good. No hard feelings.”
Newsroom GuidelinesNews TipsContact UsReport an Error Scott denied that it was taking a toll on the team with Bryant’s absences.“It’s not a distraction. It’s just our way of life right now,” Scott said. “This is what we have to do to maintain him getting him where he needs to be at the end of this season and to next season.“It’s hard on him physically as well as mentally. He’s such a competitor and he wants to play. But I’m glad he trusts me enough to determine whether we need him to play or not. He trusts me. I trust him. It’s a process.”Scott also said that Bryant is not tarnishing his reputation in the twilight of his career.“This is not going to mess with his legacy whatsoever. His legacy is set,” Scott said. “From a physical standpoint and a mental standpoint, he wants to play. Sometimes you’ve got to save players from themselves. I don’t want to play him 35-36 minutes where at the end of this season or next season he’s spent.“He signed a two-year deal, and he wants to play those two years out and play at a high level. We want to preserve him as much as possible.”Hill, Price probableSo Bryant is expected to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, preserving the Kobe Bryant-LeBron James showdown.The Lakers are also expecting to have other reinforcements.Lakers forward Jordan Hill, who hyperextended his knee against Miami on Tuesday, told reporters he was “feeling good” but was a little sore. He is listed as probable against Cleveland, seemingly escaping a more serious injury.“He feels good. Said his knee is sore, but he did not have an MRI this morning, and that was a good sign,” Scott said. “We’ll see how he feels tomorrow. We’ll see if he can go through the walkthrough.”Scott said point guard Ronnie Price had an MRI on his elbow and was waiting to hear from the medical staff. Price is listed as probable for Thursday. Lakers coach Byron Scott joked after Tuesday’s ugly loss to the Miami Heat that he might need a bottle of vodka nearby if he watched the game film.Scott admitted Wednesday that he sometimes loses sleep trying to figure out how to coax more wins from the team.Perhaps the idea of trying to keep Kobe Bryant in the mix is also causing some restless moments for Scott.Bryant’s workload continues to be a major discussion, particularly in light of a poor performance Tuesday in which he was 3 of 19 from the field and just 2 of 9 from 3-point range. He also missed another potential game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Bryant missed six of the last 12 games before Tuesday, including the previous two games, to rest his aging 36-year-old body that has 19 years of NBA wear and tear.But Scott shot down the idea of shutting down Bryant for the rest of the season.“There have been no discussions between myself and Mitch (Kupchak, Lakers general manager). We have come nowhere near that point,” Scott said. “It will continue to be a game-by-game situation. We will continue to address it. I’m pretty sure if we are nowhere near playoff contention, we might discuss it, but there have been no discussions to this point.”Scott said he will continue to find ways to “preserve” Bryant, who is scheduled to make $23.5 million this season and $25 million next season.Bryant rarely practices these days. He has a 32-minute cap when he plays, whether there is overtime or not. He is scheduled to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, then take Friday off against the Utah Jazz as part of the Lakers’ plan to hold him out on the back end of back-to-back games.
They are three of nearly two dozen coaches who will be featured in a new series of public service spots that will be included in 80 game telecasts on CBS, Fox Sports, FS1 and Big Ten Network. The first spot will air Sunday on BTN during Cal Poly’s visit to Iowa, and another will appear Monday on FS1 during Pitt’s game against Kansas State.MORE: Dick Vitale has millions of reasons to keep fighting pediatric cancer There are not a lot of subjects on which John Calipari, Roy Williams and Jim Boeheim can reach agreement. Each is a member of basketball’s Hall of Fame. Each knows what it’s like to win an NCAA championship. Each has sent players on to become NBA stars. So they’ve got much in common but still are rivals at their core.Except when they are teammates — as members of the Coaches vs. Cancer program. The spots feature multiple coaching greats, including Tubby Smith of High Point and Tom Izzo of Michigan State, as well as ACS researchers and cancer patients discussing the continuing fight to conquer the disease.“Cancer is universal — everyone is affected in some way. That’s why the college basketball coaching fraternity annually puts aside our rivalries and takes collective action to join the fight against this devastating disease,” Williams said in a release from ACS. “I’m proud to stand alongside my peers to raise awareness for increased access to early screening and detection. Together, we encourage all our fans to donate at CoachesVsCancer.org to help join the fight.”Coaches vs. Cancer has been around for nearly three decades, launched by Missouri legend Norm Stewart after his successful fight against colon cancer. Embraced by college basketball coaches from coast to coast and sponsored by the American Cancer Society, it has raised more than $125 million for the fight against various forms of this disease.
Facebook4Tweet0Pin0 Submitted by Washington Department of Fish and WildlifeOLYMPIA – State shellfish managers today approved a morning razor clam dig May 8-14 at Twin Harbors and May 10-11 at Long Beach.No digging will be allowed at either beach after noon.The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved the dig after marine toxin tests showed the clams at the two beaches are safe to eat.Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager, said two other razor-clam beaches – Copalis and Mocrocks – are now closed for the season, because harvest guidelines at those beaches have been met.“We still have clams available for harvest at Twin Harbors and Long Beach, and we want to give diggers a chance to catch their limit before the season comes to an end,” Ayres said. “After this opening, we’ll take another look at how the catch on those beaches measures up against the harvest guidelines.”Digging dates at those beaches, along with morning low tides, are as follows:May 8, Wednesday, 6:22 am -0.5 ft., Twin HarborsMay 9, Thursday, 7:00 am, -0.8 ft., Twin HarborsMay 10, Friday, 7:37 am, -0.9 ft., Twin Harbors, Long BeachMay 11, Saturday, 8:12 am, -0.8 ft., Twin Harbors, Long BeachMay 12, Sunday, 8:48 am, -0.7 ft., Twin HarborsMay 13, Monday, 9:23 am, -0.5 ft., Twin HarborsMay 14, Tuesday, 10:01 am, -0.2 ft., Twin HarborsTo participate, diggers age 15 or older must have an applicable 2013-14 fishing license to harvest razor clams on any beach. Licenses are available online (https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/), by phone (1-866-320-9933) and from license dealers around the state.Clam diggers are limited to 15 razor clams per day, and are required to keep the first 15 clams they dig. Each digger’s clams must be kept in a separate container.Ayres cautions clam diggers and other beachgoers to avoid disturbing western snowy plovers, which nest on the state’s coastal beaches from April through August. The small white birds are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act as threatened and by the state as endangered.Plovers – and their eggs – are extremely vulnerable at this time of year because the birds nest in the dry sand, Ayres said.Ayres also asks that diggers avoid signed upland beach areas at Long Beach and Twin Harbors, which are closed to protect nesting western snowy plovers.At Long Beach, the closed areas are located north of the Oysterville Road from the state park boundary north to Leadbetter Point. At Twin Harbors, the closed areas are located from just south of Midway Beach Road to the first beach-access trail at Grayland Beach State Park.