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CONTRIBUTEDPHOTO The Corning Manchester United U16soccer players pose with their third-place medals Sunday at the U.S. Youth Soccer Presidents Cup National tournament in Oklahoma. ByChipThompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter TUSLA, OKLAHOMA TheManches- ter United U16 boys soccer team from Corning took third place Sun- day in the U.S. Youth Soccer's Pres- idents Cup National tournament played June 14-19 at the Mohawk Soccer Complex in Tulsa, Okla- homa. The team had a tough go, losing all three of its preliminary games Thursday through Saturday, before bouncing back to beat Alliance Soc- cer Club Galaxy of Maryland 4-0 in the consolation match Sunday. The Corning team fell 3-0 Thurs- day to the 99 FSC Force Premier club of North Carolina, which would move on to the championship game Sunday against Boilers FC Gold club out of Indiana. The Boilers took the Presidents Cup with a 1-0 win after a scoreless tie Friday against Force Premier. Corning dropped Fridays match with Alliance 2-1 and fell to the Boil- ers Saturday 1-0. The Corning team is the first team in history from the Cal North division, which covers the counties of Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, SOCCER Corningteamtakes3rdinnation First Cal North team in history to reach the Presidents Cup Nationals tournament Staff Report CHEYENNE, WYOMING In an event that is timed in hun- dredths of a second, beating nearly 200 other competitors by a tenth of a second is huge. That happened in the first round of barrel racing at Chey- enne Frontier Days on Tuesday where all of the barrel racers had an opportunity to advance to the second round of competi- tion. Sydni Blanchard from Al- buquerque, N.M., had the fastest time of the day at 17.46 seconds. That earned the former college champion and Wrangler Na- tional Finals Rodeo qualifier a whopping $6,212. Blanchard's success came aboard her big sorrel mare named Famous Heartbreaker. Prior to her run in Cheyenne, she was 61st in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association world standings with $14,040 in season earnings. If her success at Frontier Park continues, she could make a significant move in the standings and have an opportunity to qualify for her third NFR. The barrel racers competed in what is known as slack on Tues- day. This gives more contestants an opportunity to compete at one of the oldest and most pres- tigious rodeos in the nation. Slack continues on Wednesday with steer ropers and tie-down ropers starting their first round. Action kicks off Friday af- ternoon with the Cinch Rodeo Shoot-Out, starting at 12:15 p.m. The following are first-round barrel racing results from the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Barrel Racing: 1, Sydni Blanchard, Albuquerque, N.M., 17.46 seconds, $6,212. 2, Tillar Murray, Fort Worth, Texas, 17.56, $5,324. 3, Mary Burger, Pauls Valley, Okla., 17.69, $4,437. 4, Mary Walker, Ennis, Texas, 17.70, $3,845. 5, (tie) Lisa Lockhart, Oelrichs, S.D., and Kelly Tovar, Rockdale, Texas, 17.71, $2,662 each. 7, Jana Griemsman, Pied- mont, S.D., 17.73, $1,775. 8, Kelly Yates, Pueblo, Colo., 17.74, $1,183. 9, (tie) Jane Melby, Burneyville, Okla., and Megan Swint, Lithia, Fla., 17.78, $739. RODEO BLANCHARDLEADS IN BARREL RACING New Mexico rider narrowly takes first place in opening round at Cheyenne Frontier Days DAN HUBBELL — CONTRIBUTED Sydni Blanchard and Famous Heartbreaker stopped the clock in 17.46seconds to win the first round of barrel racing at Cheyenne Frontier Days. By Andrew Baggarly Bay Area News Group BOSTON Home runs are up this season, and so are suspicions that the baseballs are wound tighter. The San Francisco Giants al- lowed five homers and hit two in an 11-7 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday, with Hanley Ramirez turning three horse- hide spheres into Yawkey Way souvenirs. After their fifth consecutive loss, though, the Giants might be more tightly wound than the balls. Matt Cain only lasted into the third inning and the Giants nearly erased an 8-0 deficit be- fore Ramirez's third two-run blast of the night virtually en- sured that Bruce Bochy's team would leave Fenway Park still looking for their first victory here in 101 years. The Giants are 0-5 since the All-Star break after losing this two-game series. They could find two positives: Their offense, despite leaving a maddening 11 runners on base, broke out of its doldrums. And over their win- less stretch, they've only lost two games off their lead in the NL West. The Dodgers lost and still trail by 4½ games. The Giants (57-38) and Red Sox do not travel in the same circles, but there was plenty of familiarity in this rare inter- league matchup. Drew Pomer- anz, whom the San Diego Pa- dres traded to Boston on Sat- urday, was facing the Giants for the fourth time this season, and was winless against them despite a 2.60 ERA. Ramirez and Cain also were well acquainted, having tangled 55 times over their careers with Cain allowing two home runs. Ramirez doubled his out- put. He hit two-run shots in the second and third innings, the latter of which knocked Cain from the game after recording just seven outs. The Red Sox tacked on three more runs in BASEBALL Ramirez hits 3 of Sox's 5 homers off Giants REDSOX11,GIANTS7 Up next: San Francisco Giants at New York Yankees, 4:05p.m. Friday, TV on CSN-BA. THESCORE ASTROS 7, ATHLETICS 0 Up next: Tampa Bay Rays at Oak- land Athletics, 7:05p.m. Thursday, TV on CSN-CA. THESCORE By Samuel Petrequin The Associated Press FINHAUT-EMOSSON,SWITZERLAND Nairo Quintana was expected to celebrate Colombia's national hol- iday with a major offensive in the Alps that would see him close in on Tour de France leader Chris Froome. It didn't happen. Despite being a specialist in mountain stages, Quintana sur- rendered to the defending cham- pion in the first Alpine leg of this year's Tour — won by Rus- sian all-rounder Ilnur Zakarin on Wednesday. Froome made the most of a brutal final ascent to the artifi- cial lake of Finhaut-Emosson to tighten his grip on the race and take another step toward a third title in four years at cycling's big- gest event. "It's been a very difficult Tour for Nairo," said Froome, after the Colombian lost another 28 sec- onds. "He's still a great rival and a big challenger for me, but he lost more time today. I think for him to re-enter into the game again he's going to have to do a real good time trial tomorrow." Having already lost a consid- erable amount of time during the first two weeks of racing, Quin- tana was expected to be in the thick of the action in the Alps. Instead, he was powerless to do anything but watch when Froome TOUR DE FRANCE Quintana cracks as Froome pads lead By John Hickey Bay Area News Group OAKLAND The Oakland A's had hoped the second half would see their starting rotation fall into place. So far the results are mixed at best. Rookie Daniel Mengden had another tough go of it Wednes- day in a 7-0 loss to the Houston Astros, walking five and allowing five hits in five innings. He did well to limit the damage to just three runs. But with the Oakland offense, which had been averaging 5.4 runs per game since the All-Star break, dominated by Houston starter Doug Fister, this proved to be as non-competitive a game as the A's have played in a while. Oakland is 4-2 coming out of the break, but that's been mostly due to the offense. 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