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ByAndreByik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter ONTARIO The Corning Senior League baseball team's remark- able journey through the Western Regional Tournament here ended Monday in the semifinals. The team of 15- and 16-year- olds fell to Central East Maui Lit- tle League, 5-0, cutting short its chance to travel to the Senior League Baseball World Series in Bangor, Maine. Central East Maui jumped to a 2-0 lead in the second inning, and added to its lead in the fifth and sixth innings. Corning's Chance Nelson went 1-for-2 batting, Devin Wunsch went 1 for 3, Trent Conoly went 1 for 3, and Noah Miller went 1 for 2. Corning's run through the Western Regional Tournament — whose representatives included teams from Southern California, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, Wash- ington, Arizona and Hawaii — in- cluded an impressive record in pool play. Corning finished 3-1 in Pool B, dispatching such teams as Boulder Arrowhead Little League out of Montana, Mountain Ridge Little League out of Nevada and Clacka- mas/Mountain View Little League out of Oregon. Corning fell to Southern Cali- fornia representative Manhattan Beach Little League, 5-2, on Sun- day to round out pool play. In that game, Wunsch went 1 for 4 with an RBI, Conoly scored a run and Brady Meeds notched a run of his own. Corning already had clinched a spot in the Western Regional Tour- nament semifinals, but because of the loss were faced with Pool A winner Central East Maui, which has yet to lose in the tournament. SENIOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Corningfallsinsemifinals CorningboyslosetoCentralEastMaui in Western Regional Tournament By Michael Wagaman The Associated Press NAPA Raiders kicker Sebas- tian Janikowski has done a lot of changing during his 15-year NFL career. He's gone from being the brash, hard-living, party-chasing kid out of Florida State who made head- lines for all the wrong reasons to a much calmer father of two who prefers quiet times with his chil- dren over the social scene. "It doesn't seem like it's been that long," Janikowski said. "It feels like I just got drafted, for real. Fifteen years and still going strong." What hasn't changed is Jan- ikowski's powerful left leg. The 36-year-old remains one of the strongest kickers in the league and is closing in on the NFL re- cord for the most made field goals of 50 yards or longer in a career. To get it, Janikowski will have to bounce back from a rough 2013 and foster a better relation- ship with second-year holder Mar- quette King. The duo struggled to find any sort of rhythm together after Jan- ikowski's holder the previous 14 seasons, Shane Lechler, signed with Houston as a free agent. Kickers being creatures of habit, the change in holders was RAIDERS TRAINING CAMP Kicker Janikowski hoping to bounce back By Craig Massei The Associated Press SANTA CLARA Colin Kaeper- nick cradled his eight-month-old nephew, Ezekiel, in his arms, then lifted the infant into the air, gen- tly bouncing him up and down. A few feet away, Bruce Miller bumped fists with fans draped over the first row of seats. And Vernon Davis flashed a megawatt smile, pointing playfully at the le- gion of fans chanting his name. The San Francisco 49ers are getting ready for their new house of energy and emotion. The team conducted its first training camp practice at Levi's Stadium on Monday afternoon, getting familiar not only with its new home field, but also thou- sands of fans who flocked to the stadium for a public practice and then got an opportunity to min- gle with players afterward. An allotted total of 10,000 tick- ets were distributed for the prac- tice through an internet lottery, and with fans cheering and a 49ERS TRAINING CAMP Team holds 1st camp practice at new stadium Forthefirsttimeinitshistory, the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers will have to disclose the amount of pollutants its dams are sending into waterways. WATER Corpsagreestomonitor dam pollution FULLSTORYONPAGEB4 The Red Bluff Lady Spartans will start tryouts for the fall tennis season at 3:30p.m. Aug. 11at the high school's tennis courts. Clearance slips from the student store are required to be completed. TENNIS Lady Spartans hosting tryouts Aug. 11 The Corning Cardinals varsity football team starts practice at 8a .m. today while the junior varsity and freshman teams begin practice at 8a.m. Aug. 11. FOOTBALL Corning Cardinals football practice starts By Doug Gould The Associated Press NEW YORK His nickname is Kung Fu Panda. The New York Mets probably have other, not so cute, monikers for Pablo Sando- val. Sandoval drove in three runs with three hits, including a go- ahead double with two outs in the ninth inning Monday that propelled the San Francisco Gi- ants to a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets. "You know Pablo, he gets a little anxious sometimes," man- ager Bruce Bochy said. "But you can tell he's comfortable up there and seeing the ball well and he fought off some tough pitches, too. Not once, but two, three times today." San Francisco took three of four at Citi Field while the Mets dropped a home series for the first time since June 10-12 against Milwaukee. Sandoval, who hit a two-run double in the third off Dillon Gee that tied the game at 2, de- livered again in the ninth. Gregor Blanco singled with two outs off Mets closer Jenrry Mejia (5-4). Blanco stole second and, after Buster Posey drew his fourth walk of the game, San- doval sliced a ground-rule dou- ble into the seats down the left- field line. Mejia, the Mets' sixth pitcher of the afternoon, had allowed just one earned run since June 18. "I don't try to do too much in those situations," Sandoval said. "I just try to get a good pitch to hit. I try to focus on the mo- ment." Sandoval is hitting .344 (32 for 93 over his past 23 games. The 2012 World Series MVP has 13 hits in his last 25 at-bats with runners in scoring position. Sergio Romo (5-3) got the win with one scoreless inning and Santiago Casilla pitched a per- fect ninth for his ninth save. The Mets, who got a two-run, first-inning homer from Daniel Murphy and an RBI infield sin- gle by David Wright in the fifth off Tim Hudson, took a 3-2 lead into the seventh. But the Giants tied it off Jeurys Familia, end- ing his streak of 13 relief appear- ances since June 30 without per- mitting an earned run. Hunter Pence, who had two doubles, two triples and two homers in the series, led off with a long drive that glanced off the glove of leaping left fielder Chris Young as center fielder Juan Lagares also jumped for the ball at the wall. After Blanco walked, Fa- milia threw a wild pitch that made it 3-all. Sandoval singled, but Lagares threw out Blanco at the plate. That only set up another chance for Sandoval. "He hits anything," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "He hits the ball off the plate, he hits NATIONAL LEAGUE GIANTS RIDE PANDA EXPRESS PAST METS Sandoval's two-out double in ninth the difference for SF KATHY KMONICEK – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco Giants starter Tim Hudson pitches against the New York Mets in the first inning on Monday in New York. KATHY KMONICEK – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud and Giants' Pablo Sandoval watch Sandoval's ground-rule double that scored the winning run in the ninth inning. An American missionary with Ebola is getting better and has received the second dose of an experimental treatment, according to the aid organiza- tion she works for in West Africa's Liberia. DISEASE American aid worker with Ebola improving FULL STORY ON PAGE B5 GIANTS PAGE 2 RAIDERS PAGE 2 49ERS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, August 5, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1