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Tracker Wednesday's results Tehama TRACK & FIELD Girls results Central Valley Corning 100m: Karly Lira, 14.69 200m: Lira, 31.53 400m: Caitlin McCoy, 1:05.11 800m: Mayra Diera, 2:51.22 1600m: Diera, 6:08 3200m: Silvia Diaz, 14:24.81 100m hurdles: McCoy, 16.87 300m hurdles: McCoy, 52.32 4x100: Lira, Corning winners 117 10 Sports Lady Spartans beat LP SOFTBALL Tara Healey, Lilia Vazquez, Courtney Thomson, 58.94 4x400: Lira, Vazquez, Thomson, Mireya Zuniga, 4:55.32 Shot put: Morgan Parker, 34'11.5" Discus: Parker, 105'9" High jump: Vazquez, Addie Ford, 4'6" Pole vault: Jennifer Crane, 6' Long jump: Ford, 12'8" Triple jump: Ford, 28'3" Boys results Central Valley Corning 400m: Dominic Azevedo, 55.91 800m: Jesus Diera, 2:16.53 4x400: Azevedo, Diego Contreras, Enrique Torres, Timothy Mesa, 3:58.90 Pole vault: Favian Castrejon, 11' Long jump: Ryan Holland, 19'10.75" Triple jump: Holland, 43' Corning winners TENNIS Corning Central Valley 2 7 Durante Rodrigeuz: W, 6-2, 7-6 Erik Espinoza: W, 6-2, 6-1 Javi Curiel: W, 6-4, 6-1 Robert Garcia: W, 6-2, 6-0 Omar Diaz: W, 5-7, 6-3, 10-4 Curiel/Garcia: W, 8-3 Diaz/Dan Gaskell: W, 8-5 Today's games 91st Red Bluff Round-Up 1st Performance 7 p.m. BASEBALL Red Bluff Las Plumas Corning 4 p.m. Doubleheader Central Valley Portola Los Molinos 4/7 p.m. 54.33 76.66 Red Bluff Las Plumas By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor The Lady Spartans didn't get a base runner until the fourth inning, but once they did they cashed them in, Thursday, inn a 5-2 win over Las Plumas. 2 5 Lady Thunderbirds sophomore pitcher Kelsie Menefee retired the first nine Red Bluff hitters and Las Plumas took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning, before the Spartans snapped to life. Harris doubled to the fence to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning. Megan McColpin then beat out a bunt and moved Harris over to third base before Bryce Etzler cashed in the first run with an RBI sin- gle. with the first of two success- ful sacrifice bunts in the game, which led to a Tayler Zazueta sacrifice fly to tie the game. Brittney Fletcher followed This time it was Etzler get- ting an inning started with a double. Morgan Weaver then had a quality at bat that ended with her singling home Etzler for a 3-2 Spartans lead. That was enough for McColpin, for retired the next six Thunderbirds. Red Bluff then tacked on some insurance runs in the sixth inning. 4 p.m. SOFTBALL Wolfpack Invite Red Bluff Anderson Red Bluff Shasta Red Bluff Fortuna Portola Los Molinos 4 p.m. SOCCER Red Bluff Shasta 6 p.m. TRACK & FIELD WV/Chico Invitational at Chico State MLB Giants N.Y. Mets SF — Zito, 1-0 NYM — Niese, 2-0 Cleveland Athletics CLE — Jimenez, 1-0 OAK — Godfrey, 0-2 NBA Warriors Dallas Oklahoma City Kings 5:30 p.m. CSNB 7 p.m. CSNC 7:05 p.m. 4:10 p.m. CSNB By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor The Spartans' 17-game winning streak hadn't had a game like this before. Down to its last out Red Bluff ral- lied in dramatic fashion, Wednesday, to upend Shasta 5-4. For a moment it appeared the game was going to end as a 4-3 Shasta victo- ry when Cole Robinson flied out to center field for the game's final out. But the home plate umpire ruled the Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff pitcher Robby Lasby tosses a pitch during the first inning,Wednesday night. said. BASEBALL Red Bluff Shasta 4 5 It was a game that hit both ends of the spectrum all night. There were errors by both teams throughout the night, but there were also plenty of spectacular defensive plays. Red Bluff took a 2-0 lead in the sec- ond when Lasby led off the inning with a single. sacrifice bunt and Shasta overthrew the first baseman allowing Lasby to come around and score. Tyler Boone was then hit by a pitch to load the bases. Following two Red Bluff outs, Evan Sinclair drew a walk to push across Reed and the Spartans had their two- run lead thanks to a hit and a pair of errors. Reed then reached on an error. Taylor Figgs laid down an excellent Follow us on Twitter: @TehamaSports catcher's glove had caught Robinson's bat. Robinson was awarded first base for catcher's interference and the game continued with pinch runner Jamie Gonzalez already on base. Modesto Ramirez followed with an RBI single to tie the game at 4-4 and the Wolves intentionally walked Robby Lasby, who had pestered them all night, to load the bases. That brought up Tyler Reed, who sent a bouncer up the middle of the infield. Shasta misplayed the ball — one last haunting error in a mistake- filled inning — and Robinson crossed home plate as the winning run. "We got the breaks in the last two innings, but they got them in the first four," Red Bluff coach Joe Gallaty between second and short and once again the Spartans were too late to get the force out at second, allowing anoth- er run to score and Shasta led 3-2. Shasta pitcher Dean McMurtrey retired the next six Spartan hitters in order and the Wolves took to the sixth inning to expand their lead. It was McMurtrey helping himself out with a single to get the rally started. Parks drew a walk and two batters later Morris was hit by a pitch to load the bases. The Spartans went to the bullpen and called upon Jared Poore to face Shasta lead off hitter Steven Johnson. Johnson ripped an RBI single off the sophomore and the Wolves had a 4- 2 lead and the Spartans were still in a jam. It held behind the pitching of Lasby until the fourth inning when some tough-luck errors would work against the Spartans. With one down, Andrew Lauritzen ripped a hard grounder and was able to beat out a bouncing throw to first. Lauritzen then stole second base and came home on a K.C. Toombs base hit. Wade Gulden followed with an but the shuttle pass for the force out wasn't good and everyone was safe, including the game-tying run crossing the plate. infield single. Following a strike out, the Spartans intentionally walked Carson Parks to load the bases. Austin Grewell grounded to second, Robert Morris then grounded in Xavier Martin flied out behind second base. The umpires called the infield fly rule, but the ball was dropped, just on the grass outside of the infield. Shasta's base runner took off from second base when the ball landed and the Spartans fired the ball over to third, where two Wolves were standing to record an unorthodox double play to get out of the inning. Then a bizarre play happened when The Spartans got back one run in the sixth inning when Figgs doubled home Lasby to cut the lead to 4-3. Poore set down the Wolves in order 10 a.m. her over and Zazueta knocked in her second run of the game with a single. Fletcher's sacrifice moved Later in the inning Brooke Clatty singled home pinch runner Samantha Jones for a 5-2 lead. Menefee singled off McColpin to begin the sev- Daily News photo by Rich Greene Brittney Fletcher puts down a sacrifice bunt,Thursday, against Las Plumas. enth inning, but the next three Thunderbirds couldn't get the ball out of the infield and Red Bluff improved to 12-2-1 on the season and a perfect 6-0 in league play. Red Bluff faces some stiff competition this weekend at the Wolfpack Invite. The Lady Spartans play Anderson, Shasta and Fortu- na, today. "We're kind of going down the home stretch now," Red Bluff coach J Howell said of the remaining few weeks. "I think we're kind of dialed in where we should be right now." "We've had crisp prac- tices. The intensity and focus has been really good in our last couple of games. You can kind of just tell that they just see their goals that they set out for themselves." Spartans top Shasta in thriller 1 p.m. 4 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The secret is out. Andrew Luck will be the Indianapolis Colts' new quarterback. knowledge of the situation said Thursday that the Colts have notified Luck that they plan to take the Stanford quarterback with the No. 1 pick in next week's NFL draft barring some unfore- seen event between now and then. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not publicly disclosed its plan. It's hardly a surprise that the Colts are turning to Luck as the cornerstone of their massive rebuilding project. Luck was projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2011 draft before returning to school for his fourth season. He gave up his final year of col- lege eligibility to enter this year's draft, which was dubbed the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes from the start. Contract negotiations are A person with direct not expected to begin before the draft, the person familiar with the situation told the AP. Will Wilson, Luck's agent, did not immediately respond to phone messages or text messages Thursday. ''We've exhausted the 1B Friday April 20, 2012 49ers' Baalke says NFL draft takes only a few minutes SANTA CLARA (MCT) — By the time the NFL draft begins next week, the 49ers will have poured thou- sands of hours into watch- ing, dissecting and dis- cussing hundreds of college players. Trent Baalke said Wednes- day it usually takes only a few minutes of watching film to determine whether a player is a keeper. But general manager "I think a lot of times you spend too much time evalu- ating certain players, and you either make them better than what they are or worse than what they were," Baalke said. "The initial reaction is usually the cor- rect one." Baalke cited the book "Blink" by Malcolm Glad- well, which posits that spon- taneous decisions are often more valuable and more accurate than long, drawn out conclusions. Baalke said the 49ers typ- ically go into a draft with about 150 players on their draft board. The normally tight-lipped Baalke went out of character Wednesday by saying there was one player in particular the 49ers were eying with their first-round pick, No. 30 overall, and that they were relatively confi- dent that player still would be available when they are on the clock. Baalke, who will be running his third draft since taking over for Scot McCloughan in 2010, has grown more That may be a sign that See 49ERS, page 2B AP source: Colts picking Luck No. 1 in the seventh, allowing the bizarre ending to the game to transpire. Red Bluff was playing at Foothill, Thursday night, in a battle of the top two teams in the Northern Section's Division I. process,'' new Indy general manager Ryan Grigson told reporters Wednesday. ''We've pretty much made up our minds and we're going to go from there. We feel good about it and we'll go from there.'' Grigson acknowledged that the Colts made their decision ''a little while'' ago, though he declined to say See LUCK, page 2B