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Tuesday Volleyball — Corning at Willows, 5:30 p.m. Volleyball — Los Molinos at Lassen, 5 p.m. Soccer — Red Bluff at Foothill Tournament Tennis — Corning at Anderson, 3:30 p.m. Tennis — Foothill at Red Bluff, 3:30 p.m. MLB — SFat ARI, 6:30 p.m., CSNB; SEA at OAK, 7 p.m., CSNC The Vs On Wednesday the Daily News will launch a new school year-long promo- tion honoring the accom- plishments of student-ath- letes in Tehama County. Basically it will be the standard prep athlete of the week feature you’ve may have seen in newspapers before, including the Daily News. A male and female athlete will be chosen each week and honored with their pic- tures and short blurbs about their accomplishments every Wednesday. While that feature would be fine on its own, Publisher Greg Stevens pre- sented an idea to make it even more special. At the end of the school year the Daily News will host a banquet to honor all the athletes named throughout the school year. We’re still working out all the kinks to the idea. However with a program we believe the commu- nity will fully embrace, we’ve decided to go ahead and start it Wednesday and iron out the details as we go along. In a way we’ll be a little like any sports team starting a season, we’re not going to be 100 per- cent efficient until we get some games under our belt. As for a name for the project, we wrestled with the idea of going with, “The Daily News presents the Tehama County Male and Female Athletes of the Week.” OK, we didn’t. Instead we wanted something we thought would have a nice ring to it and be a bit more hip, so we’re going to award the athletes who create out-of-this-world performances “The Vs.” Victory, valor, values — there’s a lot of great descriptive words that start with this underused letter. Just like earning a varsity letter, we hope earn- ing a V becomes something student-athletes can strive for. As for who is eligible for a V — for now our rules are simple. We’re looking for varsity athletes who do something special, who in any given week repre- sent either victory, valor or values. We’ll limit it to one V per athlete per sport. This way we honor more students, but if an ath- lete excels at both volleyball and basketball then that athlete can be recognized once for each. As we work out more details regarding the ban- quet, we’ll keep readers informed. In the meantime, I hope you’ll join me in con- gratulating our first V recipients Wednesday and spend a school year watching some V-worthy per- formances in person. Daily News Sports Editor Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or by e-mail at sports@redbluffdailynews.com. Rich Greene Sports 1B Tehama wins gold, silver Tuesday September 7, 2010 Courtesy photos SOFTBALL NorCal-Northern Nevada Special Olympics Special to the DN On Aug. 28 Tehama County sent two teams to Yuba City to participate in the annual NorCal-Northern Nevada Special Olympics Softball Tourna- ment. There were 28 teams representing 11 counties competing in eight divi- sions based on skill level. The Tehama County Hot Shots brought home the Gold Medal in the 4-Medium Division by first defeating Washoe County of Reno by a final of 13-7. They then went on to take down Carson City Nev. by a score 15-5 in the final to secure the gold. The Hot Shots are coached by Ken Hess and Trey Samons with Debbie Hess acting as Team Mom. The Tehama County Bombers brought home a Silver Medal in the 4- Low Division. In their first game they fought hard only to fall to Yuba-Sutter 7-4. They rebounded strong by defeat- ing Mendocino County 13-3 securing the silver. The Bombers are coached by Chris Travis and Billy Rickett with Amy Travis acting as Team Mom. It was a successful year for the Tehama County Special Olympics softball program. Tehama County Special Olympics would like to thank all of their sponsors and supporters because they could not do it without your help. Athletics offense does plenty Giants close in Seattle 2 Athletics 6 OAKLAND (AP) — Brett Anderson had a com- fortable cushion for a change. He could breathe and just pitch. Coco Crisp and Matt Carson each hit a solo home run to back Anderson, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Monday. ‘‘Brett looked like Brett,’’ Carson said. Anderson (4-6) allowed four hits in a season-high 7 2-3 innings and left to a standing ovation. He ended a four-game losing streak that matched the longest of his career. Then again, most every- one seems to be shutting down Seattle lately. The Mariners have scored three or fewer runs in 11 straight games. Crisp homered in the first, Oakland’s only leadoff homer of the season. It was the third leadoff drive of his career and first since Aug. 18, 2003, with Cleveland against Tampa Bay. ‘‘It’s always good to get run support, especially the first play of the game,’’ Anderson said. ‘‘You can settle in and throw strikes.’’ Oakland has won six in a row at home against the Mariners. Franklin Gutier- rez hit a solo homer in the seventh for Seattle’s first run and Jose Lopez had a ninth- inning sacrifice fly. After Crisp homered, Daric Barton followed with Giants 2 Arizona 0, 11 innings PHOENIX (AP) — With a runner on third base in the ninth inning, Buster Posey hit a flare to right field that was caught by a diving Gerardo Parra. Two innings later, Posey and the Giants got a break. Posey hit a two-out single to the same spot Parra robbed him earlier and Nate Schierholtz followed with a two-run triple, helping San Francisco inch closer to the NL West lead with a 2-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. ‘‘Off the bat, I thought it was going to be down,’’ Posey said of the first ball he hit at Parra. ‘‘You kind of know when they’re going to fall and he came out of nowhere to make a great catch.’’ Madison Bumgarner matched zeros with Arizona starter Ian Kennedy into the eighth inning and three Giants reliev- ers combined to escape a jam after he left. Parra preserved the scoreless tie with his diving catch in the ninth, but San Francisco’s Santiago Casilla (6-2) struck out the side in the 10th. MCT photo Coco Crisp connects on a solo homer during Monday’s game. a triple that took a tough bounce off the wall in right field for Ichiro Suzuki. Kurt Suzuki’s RBI groundout one batter later made it 2-0. Crisp added an RBI sin- gle in the fourth and Jack Cust singled in a run in the seventh. Anderson struck out four and didn’t walk a batter. He earned his second win since coming off the disabled list for a second time this year on July 30 from an elbow injury. He got Casey Kotch- man to ground into a double play in the second, the first of 13 straight outs by the pitcher before Suzuki’s two- out single in the sixth. ‘‘He’s shown he can do that before. Overall, we did- n’t do a whole lot against them,’’ Mariners interim manager Daren Brown said. ‘‘He’s going to get ahead and pound the strike zone, and that’s what he did.’’ Anderson, one of the organization’s top pitching prospects as a rookie last season, sure would like to get on a roll to end what has been an up-and-down year. ‘‘I felt really good from the mid-to-late second inning and the rest of the way,’’ Anderson said. ‘‘You’ve just got to grind it out a couple more starts. I’ve pitched fairly well since coming off the DL the sec- ond time.’’ Anderson was rewarded in April with a $12.5 mil- lion, four-year contract that includes club options for 2014 and 2015. A’s manager Bob Geren wants to see Anderson stay healthy and continue to be effective. ‘‘He feels great, his body, and he’s pitching well,’’ Geren said. ‘‘He’s been pret- ty consistent. I just feel like he’s going to finish strong.’’ The A’s have won all their meetings with the Mariners in the Coliseum this season since an open- ing-day loss back on April 5. Oakland won for the 15th time in its last 20 day games and improved to a major league-best 32-15 in afternoon contests. The A’s jumped on Jason Vargas (9-9) right away. He lost his fourth straight start and was done after 4 1-3 innings, matching his short- est outing of the year. He allowed five runs and seven See A's, page 2B Aubrey Huff got the winning rally started with a two-out single off Aaron Heilman (5-7) in the 11th, then Posey fol- lowed with his dink single in front of Parra, whose dive came up just short this time. Schierholtz put San Francisco ahead with his triple to the right-center gap and Brian Wil- son matched a career high with his 41st save in the bottom half, giving the Giants their sixth victory in eight games. San Francisco pulled within a half-game of first-place San Diego, which entered Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on a 10-game losing streak. ‘‘It’s fun, especially since we’re back in it now,’’ Bum- garner said. ‘‘It’s fun to come out here every day and every- body’s excited to get to the park and compete.’’ Not everyone was able to enjoy it on a day hard liners and even bats seemed to be flying into the stands on nearly every at-bat. The worst of it came when two kids were injured on con- secutive at-bats in the fourth inning. A 13-year-old boy, who was sitting just beyond the pro- tective netting on the third-base side, was injured when Posey lost his bat swinging through a pitch by Kennedy. The boy was struck on the right side of the head and was carried off on a stretcher to a hospital. Medical workers were still attending to him when Pablo Sandoval set a foul ball into the upper deck that struck a 2- year-old girl on the forehead. She also was taken to the hos- pital. ‘‘Anytime that happens it is scary,’’ Posey said. ‘‘Balls See GIANTS, page 2B