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Arizona women’s basketball uses inside superiority to dominate CSU Bakersfield
Whatever difficulties the Arizona Wildcats have had early in the season, coming into a game against 0-8 Cal State Bakersfield didn’t seem like much of a challenge. It wasn’t. The Wildcats used their size to dominate both early and late on the way to a 76-39 victory.
“Was disappointed after the GCU game, just in how we kind of led and at the end, let it slip away,” Barnes said. “I hope that you saw we got better today. Obviously, it’s hard to gauge against different opponents, against a zone, but we weren’t so stagnant against the zone. So we really took pride in working on some different situations and understanding where to get shots from, how to get shots against man or zone, and I thought we did a better job executing and sharing the ball. Hope it looked like that today. And moved the ball better. We didn’t hold it a lot. We still did it sometimes, but baby steps.”
Both Breya Cunningham and Isis Beh hit their first three shots. Cunningham had 13 points, five rebounds, two assists, one block, and one steal in 18 minutes of play. Beh contributed eight points on 4-for-4 shooting, two rebounds, one assist, and three steals in 11 minutes on the court.
“She brought really good energy,” Barnes said of Beh. “And what I love is that she looked to score. She’s such an unselfish player. But we are better when she gets the ball and she’s a threat. We aren’t good when she doesn’t look at the basket.”
Beh was returning after missing two games while in concussion protocol, although she came off the bench rather than her usual starting position. Sahnya Jah also returned after missing the GCU loss for undisclosed reasons.
Skylar Jones tied Cunningham for the game high with 13 points in 23 minutes. She went 4 for 4 in the first half, including hitting both of her 3-point shots. Jones ended the game shooting 5 for 6 from the floor. She dished out three assists but had four of the Wildcats’ turnovers. She also had one steal.
Most important for Jones was that she played more fundamentally sound. It’s something that she has been working on in practice.
“I think that’s why I shot five for six today, because I shot on balance and I shot the open shots and didn’t force anything,” Jones said. “I don’t think I had a charge today. I didn’t have charge today! That’s the first time in like, four games! Those charges have make me a little bit more hesitant with driving to the basket. So I think I need to just play basketball and stop overthinking it and go off two feet, because that’s making my percentage go up, and it’s more accurate when I shoot off two feet and not out of control. Coach, don’t nod your head.”
With the game well in hand, Barnes was able to get plenty of playing time for her young players. Katarina Knežević took full advantage. She had the best game of her young career with nine points, five rebounds, three assists, and three steals in 25 minutes.
As a team, the Wildcats took care of the ball better than they have all season. They had just 10 turnovers, three less than their previous season low against California. Four of the five starters did not turn the ball over at all. With 18 assists, it was the first time the team had a positive assist-to-turnover ratio this season.
“A lot of our turnovers come from the guards trying to get the ball inside or passing too fast off of one foot, not having balance, things like that,” Cunningham said. “Once we were focused in, conscious of how we were passing, we were slowed down. That was one of our goals before the game, was to have a positive assist (to turnover).”
They also had a season-low nine personal fouls. The most whistles came on Cunningham, but she only had two fouls.
“We need to learn that a lot of us need to be on the floor so we can’t pick up early fouls and stupid reaching fouls or fouling with our hands down, things like that,” Jones said. “So I think that was the main focus of us is moving our feet more and more communication, which was seen today, which was good. Which is probably why we had a few less turnovers. Not me, though, I have four, but as a team, we did have less turnovers. We only had like 10.”
Barnes was happy about the decrease in fouls, although she admitted that some of that was likely due to the opposition’s ability to put pressure on Arizona’s defenders.
“I think we’re getting a little bit more disciplined,” Barnes said. “I think some of it was not being really aggressive, us being a little bit passive, like not as much pressure on the ball, which I recognize that. And then just the talent offensively. I think it’s a lot harder to contain when you guard really freak athletes. So I think there’s a combination of both of those things. But the thing is, in the past, you would have seen us slapping down. So we’re working on that. But these are things that we’re working on daily. We are working on playing without fouling.”
Arizona held CSUB below 10 points in three of four quarters. The Roadrunners scored nine in the first quarter, six in the third, and eight in the fourth. The shot 29.2 percent from the floor and hit 6 of 21 shots from beyond the arc.
Things got ragged on the offensive end for the Wildcats at several points, especially when they had a lot of newcomers on the floor at the same time. After shooting 56.7 percent from the floor in the first half, they dropped to 34.3 percent in the second half. However, they also shut down the Roadrunners on the defensive end.
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Dana Kennedy: A caregiver advocating for Arizona’s aging population | Arizona Capitol Times
For Dana Kennedy, the state director at the Arizona branch of the American Association of Retired Persons, aging is not only a political issue, but a personal one. A social worker by profession, Kennedy brings her own experience of caring for aging family members and clients to her work advocating for Arizona seniors at the state Capitol and beyond.
Kennedy sat down with the Arizona Capitol Times to discuss the biggest issues impacting aging Arizonans and her personal connections to her advocacy work.
The questions and answers have been edited lightly for style and clarity.
Can you tell me a bit about your career trajectory?
I became a social worker in Orange County, California, during the Orange County bankruptcy. I did home health and hospice, so I basically connected family members to the services to help keep them in their own home. With the county going bankrupt, people were going to have to pay for (services), so I made the tough decisions (about whether) they were able to stay safe in their own home or not. That’s when I realized our long-term care system was broken. With a bachelor’s degree in social work, you really need to get your master’s, but I wanted to focus on macro policy and help solve our long-term care policy problem. So I ended up going to Boston University, and I got my master’s in social work. In both undergrad and grad school, I got certificates in gerontology, the study of aging. I’ve always been an aging nerd. I became an AARP member when I was 20. After graduate school, I went to (Washington) D.C., and that’s a very broken system as well. I wanted to work on long-term care policy, and people are like, that’s not a sexy issue, that’s never going to happen. Fast forward to being the state director at AARP, it’s my dream job.
What do the day-to-day responsibilities look like in your role?
It changes all the time. Within one week I have been at the Capitol doing a press conference regarding a bill that we were trying to get unstuck, then the following weekend I was in Long Beach representing AARP at the National Conference for Mayors. Then the following week I was down at the Corporation Commission because we’re intervening in the rate case. So I can go anywhere from working with mayors to working with state legislators to working on utility issues. At the same time, I’m also a caregiver. I just lost my dad, but I was flying back and forth to California to help my dad transition to hospice and then pass away, and I’m bringing my mom out next week for a clinical trial at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute. So I work on all these really important issues, but at the same time I’m helping myself as well as our staff navigate aging issues, because we’re all going through it. And if we’re not going through it, we will one day. So it’s really a fascinating job, and it’s everything that I ever wanted to do.
What initially drew you to issues affecting seniors?
I’m the first person in my family to go to college … and I worked my way through college. I was a paid caregiver, and I took care of a person who became disabled giving birth to her first child. She was in a wheelchair, and then her mom had a stroke, so I took care of both of them. It was such a hands-on experience. At the same time, my great-grandfather came to live with me and my mom when I was in high school. I watched the role reversal of what my family went through, (where the children) act like the parent, even though they’re not the parent. It didn’t really work out with my great-grandfather living with my grandparents, so he came to live with my mom and myself. So I always had this desire to work with aging, and I really wanted to work with families to help them deal with the transition of dealing with aging parents, that role reversal.
Can you talk a bit about how your personal experiences with aging family members inform the work you do?
It’s so important. (My great-grandfather) lived to be 99 years old, and he was completely cognitively intact until his last day. But I helped my family navigate him being able to make his own decisions. I know what’s best for my family. It doesn’t mean that my family is going to take my advice. That’s where it gets really hard with parents and the aging population because they still have autonomy until they’re not able to make decisions. When you go from mild cognitive impairment to all the sudden moderate cognitive impairment to severe cognitive impairment, then it’s that slippery slope of wondering, how do I take their keys away? They need somebody to come into the home to help with transferring, but they don’t want anybody to come into the home. And they get to make that decision until they’re not able to. I think (my experience) allows me to understand that everybody gets to make their own decisions, but at the end of the day, we need to make sure that they have the tools to be able to make that decision.
What is the most pressing issue impacting Arizona’s aging population?
It’s a national issue, and it’s Social Security. The Social Security solvency issue is front and center. We’ve all heard that Social Security is always going to be there. But Congress has kicked the ball down the road all these years, and all of a sudden we’re at a critical point. What’s going to happen if Congress doesn’t act? There’s going to be an automatic cut to Social Security. We have a population issue. People pay into Social Security, it’s a pay as you go system, and people aren’t having as many babies and we’re also not allowing immigrants into this country right now. So we need people to continue to pay into Social Security.
What has been your biggest accomplishment in this role?
There’s a few things that I’m really proud of. During COVID, we were the very first state in the nation to get visitation policies for people in long-term care facilities, and I’m really proud of that. We worked with Governor (Doug) Ducey on that. Families were locked out and residents were locked in and it was really hard. I’m also really proud that you know we got the (Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program), which lowers the cost of prescription drugs for everybody. We also supported Proposition 104. That was a city tax issue, and it was when I first started at AARP, but that provided $31.5 billion in transportation infrastructure over 30 years. People don’t realize that transportation is such an important issue as you age. Most likely you’re going to lose your keys one day. What happens when you lose your keys and you can no longer drive? You become socially isolated. Social isolation is like smoking a pack of cigarettes every single day, it’s really damaging.
What has been the most challenging part of this role?
I don’t understand why I have such a hard time getting some bills passed. (This session) we wanted to allow cameras in a long-term care facility and (that bill) died. Three years in a row it died. That for me is a really hard pill to swallow. I’ve done three full distance Iron Men, so I don’t give up. I’m persistent. I have a very, very strong mental game and giving up is just not in my DNA. If there’s a will, there’s a way, and I’m going to find it. As long as I have to read another report of somebody being abused and neglected in a long-term care facility, I will continue to advocate to be able to provide tools to stop that abuse and neglect.
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Arizona Lottery Powerball, The Pick results for June 20, 2026
Odds of winning the Powerball and Mega Millions are NOT in your favor
Odds of hitting the jackpot in Mega Millions or Powerball are around 1-in-292 million. Here are things that you’re more likely to land than big bucks.
The Arizona Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at Saturday, June 20, 2026 results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers
16-20-44-48-50, Powerball: 15, Power Play: 2
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning The Pick numbers
08-14-30-36-38-39
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Winning Pick 3 Evening numbers
Evening: 8-9-7
Winning Fantasy 5 numbers
02-17-23-38-39
Check Fantasy 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Triple Twist numbers
14-20-21-27-28-30
Check Triple Twist payouts and previous drawings here.
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What time is the Powerball drawing?
Powerball drawings are at 7:59 p.m. Arizona time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
How much is a Powerball lottery ticket today?
In Arizona, Powerball tickets cost $2 per game, according to the Arizona Lottery.
How to play the Powerball
To play, select five numbers from 1 to 69 for the white balls, then select one number from 1 to 26 for the red Powerball.
You can choose your lucky numbers on a play slip or let the lottery terminal randomly pick your numbers.
To win, match one of the 9 Ways to Win:
- 5 white balls + 1 red Powerball = Grand prize.
- 5 white balls = $1 million.
- 4 white balls + 1 red Powerball = $50,000.
- 4 white balls = $100.
- 3 white balls + 1 red Powerball = $100.
- 3 white balls = $7.
- 2 white balls + 1 red Powerball = $7.
- 1 white ball + 1 red Powerball = $4.
- 1 red Powerball = $4.
There’s a chance to have your winnings increased two, three, four, five and 10 times through the Power Play for an additional $1 per play. Players can multiply non-jackpot wins up to 10 times when the jackpot is $150 million or less.
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
All Arizona Lottery retailers will redeem prizes up to $100 and may redeem winnings up to $599. For prizes over $599, winners can submit winning tickets through the mail or in person at Arizona Lottery offices. By mail, send a winner claim form, winning lottery ticket and a copy of a government-issued ID to P.O. Box 2913, Phoenix, AZ 85062.
To submit in person, sign the back of your ticket, fill out a winner claim form and deliver the form, along with the ticket and government-issued ID to any of these locations:
Phoenix Arizona Lottery Office: 4740 E. University Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85034, 480-921-4400. Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes of any amount.
Tucson Arizona Lottery Office: 2955 E. Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85716, 520-628-5107. Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes of any amount.
Phoenix Sky Harbor Lottery Office: Terminal 4 Baggage Claim, 3400 E. Sky Harbor Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85034, 480-921-4424. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes up to $49,999.
Kingman Arizona Lottery Office: Inside Walmart, 3396 Stockton Hill Road, Kingman, AZ 86409, 928-753-8808. Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes up to $49,999.
Check previous winning numbers and payouts at https://www.arizonalottery.com/.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by an Arizona Republic editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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Troopers arrest ‘LARPer’ who was running late for competition in northern Arizona
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — A hurry to a LARPing tournament ended with a very real arrest in northern Arizona.
On June 11, troopers stopped a driver clocked at 106 mph in a 65 mph zone in Flagstaff, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The driver told troopers she was running late for a “LARPing tournament” in Colorado.
LARP stands for live-action role-playing, a hobby where participants dress in costume and act out characters in fictional settings.
She was arrested for criminal speeding and booked into the Coconino County jail.
“Speeding to save a fictional realm is no excuse for drivers on Arizona highways,” DPS said in a Facebook post.
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