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Weekend SAT —Track — John Frank Invitational at Central Valley SAT —Softball — Red Bluff at Lassen College Tourney, 9 a.m. SAT —The Masters —Third round, 12:30 p.m., CBS SAT —NASCAR — Samsung Mobile 500, 4 p.m., FOX SAT —MLB— OAK at MIN, 4 p.m., CSNC; STLat SF, 6 p.m., CSNB SUN —The Masters — Final round, 11 a.m., CBS Sports 1B Weekend April 9-10, 2011 Vikings slip by Tehama Tracker SOFTBALL Lassen Tournament Red Bluff went 2-1 during the first day of play at the Lassen Tournament at Lassen College. Red Bluff beat Fernley 12-4 in their last game of the day. Megan McColpin picked up the win in a game that was called after five innings. Haley Harris had a triple and drove in three runs. McColpin scored three times and had an RBI. Emily McE- naney also scored three times. Brittney Fletcher had a double and 3 RBIs and Bryce Eztler went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Katie Hall had a triple and an RBI. Red Bluff powered past Sparks 14-1 in a game called after the fourth inning due to mercy and tournament rules. A Haley Harris grand slam sealed the game for the Lady Spartans. Bryce Etzler struck out seven batters in four scoreless innings of work — allowing just two hits. Megan McColpin tripled twice as part of a 3-for-3 game, scoring three times and driving in a run. Etzler also went 3-for-3 and drove in two runs and scored twice. Brooke Clatty drove in four runs behind a double and a pair of sacrifice flies. The Lady Spartans ran into Anderson’s ace pitcher Cheri- Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff midfielder Jill Bilodeaux sends a pass through the Pleasant Valley defense, Friday. SOCCER Pleasant Valley 1 Red Bluff 0 By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor Despite a strong performance from the Lady Spartans defense, Pleasant Valley found enough space in the 73rd minute, Friday night, to grab the game’s lone goal in a 1-0 Vikings win. It was a valiant effort against a Vikings team that improved to 10-1-3 on the season and had already beaten Red Bluff 3-0 this year. Just a minute before the goal, Red Bluff had almost found the back of the net themselves, when Lexi Nanfito hit the crossbar from 20 yards out. It was one of the Spartans’ few scor- ing chances in the second half. But while Pleasant Valley main- tained possession for the final 40 min- utes, Red Bluff’s back line of Rachel Ward, Nicole Mitchell, Erin Fennel and Breanna Groom stood tall. Red Bluff controlled play better in the first half and Jill Bilodeaux and Alex Levindofske combined on a nice combination that resulted in a cross hit- ting the post in the 11th minute. Junior Giants meet real Giants dan Hawkins and took a 5-0 loss. Hawkins struck out the first nine batters she faced and recorded 17 strikeouts for the game. McColpin and Emily McEnaney had the lone Red Bluff hits. Red Bluff plays Paradise at 9 a.m., Saturday. TENNIS Oroville 3 Red Bluff 6 Red Bluff’s strong singles play led the Spartans to a 6-3 win over Oroville, Thursday. Thunder Shaffer avenged an earlier loss by winning a marathon 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 match over Steven Vang in No. 1 sin- gles action. Red Bluff won 5-of-6 singles matches to claim the meet before doubles started. Cody Yarbrough defeated Cheng Yang 6-3, 6-2. C.J. Varner knocked off Sai Thao 6-4, 6-4. Paul Hendricks beat John Xiong 6-4, 6-2 and Arthur Ger- mano defeated James Moua 6-3, 6-0. Germano and Aaron Vasey had the lone Red Bluff win in doubles, defeating Moua and Sephen Cordiero 10-4. Red Bluff improved to 5-2 on the season. Yreka 5 Corning 4 Corning lost a heartbreaker to Yreka , Friday, falling 5-4 in a meet tied throughout the day. The schools split singles play 3-3. Corning then won a doubles match. Yreka countered with a doubles win. In the last deciding doubles contest, the Cardinals rallied from down 6-3 to take a 7-6 lead, but in the end couldn’t pull out the win. Singles winners were: Ryan Howell defeating Austin Kische 6-4, 7-6; Erik Espinoza knocking off Noah Lawson 6-0, 4-6, 11-9 and Robert Garcia over Jared Larsen 6-4, 7-5. Espinoza and Javier Curiel had Corning’s double win, defeating Lawson and James Airheart 8-2. BASEBALL Red Bluff 0 Shasta 10 Courtesy photo Kendall Williams, Alicia Flores, Moses Floes, Dylan Hausman,and Ayden Vance pose with Lou Seal at the Play Ball Luncheon in San Francisco. Special to the DN “Play ball” usually signals the start of America’s pastime, but for six Los Molinos kids, it meant an opportunity of a lifetime. On March 29th, the Giants Com- munity Fund hosted the Play Ball Luncheon, one of its largest annual fundraisers, at Pier 48 in San Francis- co. Giants team members and coaches signed autographs, took pictures and ate lunch with fans. The money raised, over $450,000 this year, sup- ports Giants Community Fund pro- jects including the Junior Giants pro- gram, a noncompetitive summer base- ball league, in 85 communities throughout California, southern Ore- gon, and western Nevada. Six Junior Giants players from Los Molinos, James Chrasta, Alicia Flo- res, Moses Flores, Dylan Hausman, Ayden Vance and Kendall Williams, were selected to attend this event. Not only did they get autographs, each kid escorted a Giants player into the banquet and sat with that player during lunch. “It was awesome [to escort a play- er] because I felt like I was on the red carpet, but it was an orange carpet,” said Moses, who escorted outfielder Pat Burrell. Kathy Hausman, commissioner of the Los Molinos Junior Giants league, was inducted into the Junior Giants Hall of Fame at the 2010 Play Ball Luncheon. A benefit of this was that her league members were among the Junior Giants players selected to escort members of the 2011 San Fran- Courtesy photo James Chrasta has his photo taken with Freddy Sanchez. cisco Giants team. “I didn’t realize it was going to be all those people,” said Alicia, who escorted relief pitcher Santiago Casil- la. “I thought it would be just us.” Dylan Hausman attended the lunch last year when his mom won her award. This year was better because last year he didn’t get to sit with an actual Giants player. “We talked about positions I played in little league. He [Ryan Vogelsong] is a pitcher, too,” Haus- man said. “It was amazing meeting a Giants player,” said Vance, who walked in with catcher Chris Stewart. Chrasta, who escorted 2010 National League Championship Series MVP Cody Ross, was one of four Junior Giants selected to read a question for a Giants player in front of a crowd of over 1,600 people. Jeremy Affeldt, relief pitcher, answered the question. After the long trip home, some watched the Giants play the A’s on television. “It was pretty cool because we just met them and then we see them on tv,” said Williams. Her player escort, pitcher Barry Zito, started the game against Oakland that night. It was a day filled with baseball fantasies, but what part of the day would they remember most? “Everything,” said Chrasta. Shasta blasted the Spartans 10-0, Friday night, in a game called after six innings due to the Mercy rule. “We didn’t play bad,” Red Bluff coach Joe Gallaty said. “It was their day — they were going to win one way or another.” A pair of inning ending double plays hurt Red Bluff, who dropped to 13-3 on the season, with two of those losses com- ing against the Wolves. The Spartans host Oroville on Tuesday. JR SPARTANS The Red Bluff Jr. Spartans will be holding veteran (returning) football and cheerleading sign-ups on Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Red Bluff Community Center. Open sign-ups for new football players and cheerleaders will be Sunday, May 15 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Red Bluff Community Center. If needed a lottery will be held to fill teams. The lottery will begin at 11:45 a.m. on May 15th. Because of the possi- bility of a lottery, there is no reason to arrive early and there is definitely no reason to stay overnight. Registration fees this year will be: $150 for football and $100 for cheerleading. There will also be a $50 refundable work bond per child. All registration fees and work bonds are due at sign-ups, with no exceptions made. This year all football players and cheerleaders will be required to purchase their uniform at an additional cost. The football uniform package will be $100. The cost of the cheer uniform will vary depending upon each cheer- leader’s individual needs. All uniform fees will be due on June 5th. If you have any questions please contact RBYF President Eric Coates at 209-0232 or email, rbyfpresident@yahoo.com. You can also follow us the Junior Spartans on facebook. AMERICAN LEGION Red Bluff American Legion Baseball will be holding a meeting Sunday at 4 p.m. at Round Table Pizza for all play- ers 17-and-under interested in playing baseball this summer. The meeting is important to attend whether signed up or not. If enough players are interested there may be another team formed. If you can not attend please call Coach Bono at 736-2121.