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Friday Baseball — Lassen at Red Bluff, 6 p.m. Baseball — Los Molinos at Esparto, 4 p.m. Baseball — West Valley at Corning, 6 p.m. Softball — Los Molinos at Esparto, 4 p.m. Softball — Red Bluff at Lassen, 4 p.m. Soccer — Red Bluff at Foothill, 6 p.m. Sports 1B Friday April 1, 2011 Spartans tee off at home Tehama Tracker BASEBALL GOLF EAL - South Meet By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor The Spartans took second place on both the Front and Back 9s to take six points out of Wednesday’s Eastern Athletic League - South meet at Wilcox Oaks. Peter Mitzel led Red Bluff with an 81 and had the second lowest round of the day. Oroville’s Chris Wilson led everyone with a 73 and the Tigers won both the Front and Back 9s. The Wilcox Oaks’ Back 9 gave the Spartans a nice home course advantage, said Mitzel. Justin Martinson chipped in at 18 to end his round with an 86. “It felt great,” Martinson said. “I felt like it was finally over — a great way to end.” Front 9. 97. Daniel Frantz shot a 40 on the Jordan Chapin finished with a Kyle Riley played the Back 9 only and shot a 50. Sean Collins shot a 51 on the Back 9 and Giovanni Romiti shot a 56 on the Front 9. “I feel like we’re off to a good start,” Mitzel said. Team scores Front 9: Oroville 210, Red Bluff 227, Las Plumas 239, Lassen 256, Paradise 268. Back 9: Oroville 231, Red Bluff 234, Las Plumas 245, Lassen 278, Paradise 286. Top Individuals 1. Chris Wilson, Oroville, 73; 2. Peter Mitzel, Red Bluff, 81; 3. Elliot Sanders, Oroville, 84. 4. Justin Martinson, Red Bluff, 86. t5. Johnathon Craig, Oroville, 91; t5. Tyler Hobson 91, Oroville; t5. Nathan Maurer, Las Plumas. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff’s Peter Mitzel watches his putt on the 18th green. Title defense begins against rivals Giants 1 L.A. Dodgers 2 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven dominant innings and Matt Kemp scored the go- ahead run on a throwing error by catcher Buster Posey in the sixth, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 victory over the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants in their season opener Thursday night. Kershaw (1-0) allowed four hits and walked one in his first opening-day start. The 23-year-old left- hander struck out three of the four batters he faced in the first, giving him 500 strikeouts in his career. Jonathan Broxton, back in the closer’s role after losing it in the second half of last season, gave up a one-out homer to Pat Bur- rell in the ninth but hung on for the save after a See GIANTS, page 2B Corning 4 4 1 West Valley 1 5 5 Not only did Corning finally get to play again, Wednes- day, they also picked up a win. The Cardinals who hadn’t played since March 11, defeat- ed West Valley 4-1 behind six strong innings from Austin Arbogast. Arbogast struck out six batters and also drove in a run at the plate. Austin Grootveld drove in a run and tripled and Michael Garcia drove in the other run, scored and picked up the save. Tyler McIntyre doubled, Tyler Price scored a run and Austin Mallon got a hit. Quintin Flores was hit by a pitch twice, stole a base and scored a run. SOFTBALL Los Molinos 8 --—14 Burney 7 — 10 header, Tuesday. Los Molinos defeated Burney in both ends of a double- Breanna Gratreaks led Los Molinos during an 8-7 win, walking twice, tripling, scoring three runs and driving in two more. Haley Ables had a double and an RBI, Shilo Wabas walked twice and drove in a run and Jessica Williams walked twice and scored. Audrianna Gillet and Candace Wabs both had hits and Cynthia Barajas and Katie Morgan both drew walks. Los Molinos won the second game 14-10. Hayfork 13 Mercy 0 Emily Arnold pitched a perfect five innings for Hayfork, who knocked off Mercy 13-0 on Tuesday. TRACK & FIELD Corning and Yreka at West Valley Caitlin McCoy won the 800 meters in 2:33.97 during a tri meet at West Valley, Wednesday. Silvia Diaz grabbed the 3200 meters with a time of 14:28.27. Mid-Valley Mt. Valley Los Molinos produced a pair of winners at a Mid-Valley and Mountain Valley League meet, Wednesday, at Orland. Dominique Ceja won the 400 meters in 54.88 and Gilbert Zamora won the 300-meter hurdles in 44.50. Mercy had a pair of fourth place finishes with Jeremie Jones in the shot put and Desiree Crane in the 100-meter hur- dles. TENNIS Red Bluff 6 Oroville 3 The bottom of Red Bluff’s ladder played strong, Wednes- day, and the Spartans gutted out a 6-3 win over Oroville. Cody Yarbrough defeated Sai Thao 6-1, 6-1. Paul Hen- dricks defeated John Xiong when he had to retire due to injury with the score 6-4, 4-6, 2-1. Arthur Germano battled for a 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 win over James Meria and Aaron Vasey defeated Stephen Cordiero 6- 1, 7-6. In doubles play Yarbrough and Hendricks defeated Cheng Yang and Xiong 10-7 and Germano and Vasey knocked off Cordiero and Hernandez 10-3. Corning 5 West Valley 4 The Cardinals No. 3 doubles team help lift Corning to tightly-contested 5-4 win over West Valley, Wednesday. Robert Garcia and Kyle Hanson gave Corning the final point they needed by defeating Tayler Flournoy and Robert Wilkins 8-6. Garcia also won his singles match over Flournoy 6-4, 7- 5. Ryan Howell won both his matches. He beat Jordan Burk 6-4, 6-0 in No. 1 singles and then teamed with Durante Rodriguez to defeat Burk and Bryan Shafer 9-7. Erik Espinoza got Corning’s other win, defeating Devo MCT photo Brandon Belt collects his first major league hit,Thursday night. Wilkins 6-2, 6-1. “You can’t get much closer,” coach Mike Albee said. “We battled thru a cross wind and injuries to win this close match.” The most wonderful time of the year Finally, the nice weather has come back to Red Bluff. Seems ever since spring sports started, we’ve been kind of missing out on one of the main ingredi- ents — spring. That’s ok, adapt- ing every once in awhile is fine. Sometimes a coach has to move his prac- tice schedule around to adjust for the rain or a columnist has to move his column to the bottom of the page. It’s fine, because eventually we all knew these days would Rich Greene come. These beautiful, beautiful days. There might not be a better time to live in Red Bluff. But you already, knew that. It’s especially true, for us sports fans. Already spoiled with the Final Four and the opening of the baseball season — the local scene around here just adds icing to the cake. The Round-Up is just a few weeks away and sandwiched around it will be some great high school sports. For all the losses Spartan fans have had to deal with it the past few months — Red Bluff’s suc- cess in spring makes up for it. It starts with the softball pro- gram, which this year will be looking for a three-peat. Teams fear the Lady Spar- tans the way other sports often treat a Pleasant Valley. Red Bluff gets everyone’s best effort — and best of all the Lady Spartans give it right back. If you have never seen them play — trust me, spend an after- noon and do it. They play with fundamen- tals, they play with skill and they play with passion. Hard to find another team around that does that. On the other diamond the Spartans’ baseball team is in the midst of another strong season under coach Joe Gallaty. There’s some solid senior leadership on the team and a nice collection of juniors con- tributing. The Spartans golf team is also defending a title after win- ning the Division I champi- onship a season ago. Sopho- more sensations Daniel Frantz and Peter Mitzel are back to lead the way. Red Bluff’s track team is going to make noise as well. Colin Dahlberg seems to have his injuries behind him and should prove to be on the sec- tion’s best by May. The girls are led by Erin Eicholtz, a true stu- dent-athlete to root for. Thunder Shaffer, C.J. Varner, Cody Yarbrough and Paul Hen- dricks lead a strong Spartans tennis team that is getting better with experience and the Lady Spartans’ soccer team always provides a match with plenty of excitement. So Spartan fans, enjoy this weather and these winning teams. If you’re free tonight there’s a doubleheader waiting for you. The softball team plays at 4 p.m. and the baseball team follows at 6 p.m. Put on the shades and screen and go soak up some sports along with the sun.