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Weekend Tennis — League championships PGA— THEPLAYERSChampionship, 11 a.m., NBC NBAPlayoffs, Sat, 2 p.m., ESPN, Sun, 12:30 p.m., ABC MLB— Giants at Mets, Sat and Sun 10 a.m., CSNBA Sat —NASCAR— Southern 500, 4 p.m., FOX Sun — Rays at A’s, 1:05 p.m., CSNCA Sports 1B Weekend May 8, 2010 Double trouble Mercy wins Tri-Cities baseball, softball titles Mercy finished off a per- fect 6-0 run through league play, Thursday, with a 13-0 win at Redding Christian. The Tri-Cities League champion Warriors finished the regular season with a 13-8 record overall. Chris Bartlett pitched Mercy’s first shutout of the season in the league finale against Redding Christian — striking out seven batters along the way. Michael Uhalde went 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, scored four times and stole five bases. Pat Farmer had a pair of hits and drove in two runs and stole three bases. Cameron Vietti stole five bases, had a pair of hits and drove in two runs. Scott Farmer went 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Dylan Thomas and Bartlett each had two hits and Mitch Lopez stole three bases. The Lady Warriors softball team lost 3-2 in their regular season finale against Redding Christian, but still own a par- tial share of the league title. If Redding Christian stumbles in one of their final two games, Mercy would win the league outright. Benicia Grace went 3-for-3 in Thursday’s game and drove in a run as Mercy took a 2-0 lead. But Redding Christian scored three times in the sixth inning to drop Mercy to 5-1 in the league. Natasha Czajka struck out seven for Mercy, who finished Daily News photo by Rich Greene Corning’s Vada Bree Sutfin tags out West Valley’s Cassidy Horner, Friday afternoon, on an outfield assist from Lady Cardinals center fielder Michelle Silva. By RICHGREENE DNSports Editor CORNING— West Valley not only dashed Corning’s Northern Ath- letic League title hopes once, Friday, they did it twice. West Valley swept a doubleheader with Corning with a 12-6 and then an 8-0 victory. Corning fell to 3-4 in the NALand West Valley jumped their league lead- ing record up to 9-1. After the teams combined for nine runs in the final inning of Game 1, the second tilt of the doubleheader started out as a pitcher’s dual. Freshman Coring pitcher Hailey Winterson battled West Valley’s Molly McWilliams out for out four innings. NEW YORK (AP) — Rod Bara- jas’ left index finger was aching, so he knew he was limited at the plate. ‘‘I told myself I probably got one good swing,’’ he said. ‘‘Once I take that swing, my finger’s going to go numb.’’ So he took that one swing against Sergio Romo with the score tied in the ninth inning, one on and one out. Did the finger indeed go numb? ‘‘My whole body went numb after it went over the fence,’’ Barajas said. Barajas and hot-hitting rookie Ike Davis both homered twice, and Davis did a 360 degree flip into the dugout to catch a foul ball in the ninth as the happy-at-home Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 6-4 Friday night for their eighth straight win at Citi Field. Lefties had been 0 for 17 against Jonathan Sanchez this year coming in, but Davis hit solo drives in the second and fourth innings, connecting on a fastball and a curveball for the first multihomer game of his young big league career. He combined with Barajas in the second to give New York back-to-back homers for the first time at Citi Field, which opened last year. Davis had noticed the stat about Sanchez and left- ies on the scoreboard. ‘‘I thought it was a mistake,’’ Davis said. ‘‘That’s not even possible.’’ Then in the fifth inning Winterson walked Ashley Long. McWilliams blooped a single of her bat and then both runners advanced into scoring position on a passed ball. Melanie Andrew delivered an RBI to bring across the first run of the game. After Winterson induced an infield pop up for the second out, West Valley took advantage of a Corning fielding error to score a second run. Amber Buchanan then knocked in a third with an RBI single and two bat- ters later Jessica Wilcox sealed the game with a two-RBI single to make it a 5-0 West Valley lead. West Valley added three more runs in the sixth inning and had two runners on with a chance to close it out with a Mercy-rule win. His catch came with runners at the corners against Pablo Sandoval with two outs in the ninth. Alex Cora helped break Davis’ fall in the dugout. ‘‘My biceps are a little sore from holding onto the fence,’’ Davis said. He made a similar catch against the Chicago Cubs’ Jeff Baker on April 21 in Davis’ third big league game. ‘‘Most of the time you don’t get chances repeatedly like that,’’ Davis said. ‘‘I got long arms, I guess.’’ Davis also started the winning rally, walking with one out against Romo (0- 3). Barajas had hurt his finger in the seventh, when Eli Whiteside reached out for a Mike Pelfrey hit-and-run pitchout that wasn’t outside enough and whacked Barajas in the mitt for catcher’s interference. Barajas took a ball in the ninth and sent a slider high down the left-field line for his ninth homer this season and 101st of his career. It landed just about where his first home run did, giving the Mets their first game-ending hit this season, their fifth ever at Citi Field. ‘‘Just a hanging breaking ball,’’ Romo said. ‘‘Everyone in this league is dangerous if you hang a breaking ball.’’ Sanchez allowed three home runs for the first time in 72 major league starts, giving up a season-high four runs and seven hits in seven innings. The Lady Eagles jumped all over Corning early in the first game with a pair of runs in the first inning sparked by McWilliams leadoff double. McWilliams would add a pair of two-run homers later in the game and the West Valley lead bloomed to 12-2 entering the bottom of the seventh inning. Corning didn’t go down without a fight. Winterson singled. Then following a strikeout, Angelica Ramos walked and Karlie Jennings reached on an error to load the bases. Anna Curry then delivered an RBI single and Lizeth Wilfong then cleared them once again with a three-RBI dou- ble to make the score 12-6. Giants comeback in New York falls short ‘‘Gopher balls got us tonight,’’ Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Francisco Rodriguez (2-0) allowed a tying solo homer to pinch-hitter John Bowker in the ninth. The Giants then put two on — with second baseman Luis Castillo making a diving stop on Mark DeRosa’s infield hit to hold Aaron Rowand at third. Davis’ catch left Sandoval with an 0-for-5 night. He is hitless in 14 con- secutive at-bats, dropping his average from .337 to .296. ‘‘He’s really pressing,’’ Bochy said. ‘‘He’s fighting it all a little bit right now.’’ Jason Bay ended an 0-for-14 slide with a one-hop RBI double to the cen- ter-field wall in the first. Davis home- red off the right-field overhang with one out in the second and, two pitches later, Barajas made it 3-0. The only others to hit consecutive homers at spa- cious Citi Field were Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez on June 9, followed by Arizona’s Mark Reynolds and Miguel Montero on Aug. 3, according to STATS LLC. Pelfrey rebounded from shoulder stiffness when he allowed six runs at Philadelphia last weekend. He gave up three runs and eight hits in 7 1-3 innings. A little tightness remained. ‘‘It’s way better than last time,’’ he said. Athletics can’t solve Price, Rays OAKLAND (AP) — David Price scattered three hits over 7-plus innings, Sean Rodriguez hit a two- run double and the Tampa Bay Rays improved their franchise-best start with a 4-1 victory over the Oak- land Athletics on Friday night. At 22-7, the Rays are off to the best start to a season since the New York Yan- kees began 23-6 in 2003. Tampa Bay won its fifth straight, 10th in 12 and improved to 13-1 on the road. Tampa Bay’s road start is the best since the Tigers won their first 17 games outside Detroit in 1984. Price (4-1) outdueled Gio Gonzalez (3-2), allow- ing one unearned run while walking four and striking out six in 7 2-3 innings. Gonzalez gave up three runs on three hits over seven innings, walked five and struck out seven. After Rajai Davis reached on a fielder’s choice in the second inning, Price retired 15 of the next 16 before Jake Fox walked to open the eighth. Willy Aybar singled in a run in the fourth to put Tampa Bay on the board and pinch-hitter Reid Brignac added an RBI sin- gle in the ninth. Rodriguez had two hits in his previous 17 at bats before his double in the seventh. He was thrown out at third trying to stretch it into a triple. The A’s loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth on a pair of walks and Cliff Pennington’s infield single, which ended Price’s night after he threw a season-high 119 pitches. Reliever Randy Choate got Daric Barton to hit a grounder to Evan Longoria, whose throw pulled Carlos Pena off the bag and allowed Fox to score. Ryan Sweeney grounded out to short to end the rally. Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his eighth save in as many chances. Rays second baseman Ben Zobrist had the night off, with Rodriguez earning a start in the fourth game of Tampa Bay’s nine-game stretch out West over nine days. Manager Joe Maddon plans to find some rest for lots of his regulars during this swing. Designated hit- ter Aybar was set to be off Saturday, with Pat Burrell playing, while first base- man Pena will get a break in Anaheim early next week. ‘‘We’re going well right now,’’ Maddon said. ‘‘I want everybody included. I want everybody to feel ownership right now.’’ 8-8 overall. Tehama Tracker Spartans baseball Red Bluff closed out their regular season with an 8-5 win at Shasta ending a 9-game win streak by the Wolves. The last team to beat Shasta — Red Bluff. EJ Stanton threw five innings to pick up the win and Storm Lewis earned the save for Red Bluff. Shasta was climbing back into the game, when Trevor Gipson led off the sixth inning with an opposite field homer to swing momentum back to the Spartans. Maison Etzler went 3-for-4 and Derek Jones, Scott Avery, Trevor Miller and Gipson each had two hits. Red Bluff and Shasta both finished 10-4 in the EAL, a win behind Pleasant Valley. Cardinals baseball Corning closed out their regular season with an 11-0 win over West Valley, Thursday and finished tied for second in the Northern Athletic League at 7-3. Cody Fox had quite a day for Corning, throwing five innings of shutout ball as well as homering and driving in three runs. Marc Mason drove in a pair, Daniel Mahutga drove in one and scored three times and Michael Garcia also drove in a run. Corning is 16-6-1 on the season. Scoreboard MLB American League Thursday’s late result Tampa Bay 8, Seattle 0 Friday’s results Tampa Bay 4, Oakland 1 Los Angeles 8, Seattle 0 New York 10, Boston 3 Texas 4, Kansas City 1 Toronto 7, Chicago 4, 12 innings Baltimore at Minnesota, ppd., rain Detroit at Cleveland, ppd., rain Saturday’s games Tampa Bay (W.Davis 3-1) at Oakland (Sheets 1-3), 1:05 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 2-2) at Cleveland (Masterson 0-3), 10:05 a.m. Baltimore (Millwood 0-3) at Minnesota (Liriano 4-0), 10:10 p.m., 1st game New York (Sabathia 4-1) at Boston (Buchholz 3-2), 12:10 p.m., FOX Toronto (Cecil 2-1) at Chicago (Peavy 1-2), 4:05 p.m., WGN Kansas City (Meche 0-3) at Texas (Harden 2-1), 5:05 p.m. Baltimore (Guthrie 0-4) at Minnesota (S.Baker 3-2), 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Los Angeles (Saunders 1-5) at Seattle (Fister 2-1), 6:10 p.m., MLB Sunday’s games Tampa Bay at Oakland, 1:05 p.m.,CSNCA Detroit at Cleveland, 10:05 a.m. Toronto at Chicago, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. Kansas City at Texas, 12:05 p.m. Los Angeles at Seattle, 1:10 p.m. New York at Boston, 5:05 p.m., ESPN National League Thursday’s late result Los Angeles 7, Milwaukee 3 Friday’s results New York 6, San Francisco 4 Chicago 14, Cincinnati 7 Florida 4, Washington 2 Milwaukee 3, Arizona 2 Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 0 San Diego 7, Houston 0 St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado at Los Angeles, late Saturday’s games San Francisco (Wellemeyer 1-3) at N.Y. (J.Santana 3-2),10:10 a.m.,CSNBA Florida (Jo.Johnson 3-1) at Washington (Chico 0-0), 10:05 a.m. Atlanta (Medlen 1-1) at Philadelphia (Blanton 0-1), 12:10 p.m. San Diego (Garland 3-2) at Houston (F.Paulino 0-4), 4:05 p.m. St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 0-1), 4:05 p.m. Chicago (Gorzelanny 1-3) at Cincinnati (Harang 1-4), 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Wolf 2-2) at Arizona (C.Valdez 1-0), 5:10 p.m. Colorado (Chacin 1-0) at Los Angeles (Haeger 0-3), 7:10 p.m. Sunday’s games San Francisco at New York,10:10 a.m.,CSNBA Chicago at Cincinnati, 10:10 a.m., WGN Atlanta at Philadelphia, 10:35 a.m., TBS Florida at Washington, 10:35 a.m. Best-of-7 Friday’s results Cleveland 124, Boston 95 Cleveland leads series 2-1 Phoenix 110, San Antonio 96 Phoenix leads series 3-0 Saturday’s games Orlando at Atlanta, 2 p.m., ESPN Orlando leads series 2-0 L.A. Lakers at Utah, 5 p.m., ESPN L.A. Lakers lead series 2-0 Sunday’s games Cleveland at Boston, 12:30 p.m., ABC Cleveland leads series 2-1 Phoenix at San Antonio, 5 p.m., TNT Phoenix leads series 3-0 NHL Conference Semifinals Best-of-7 Friday’s results Philadelphia 5, Boston 4, OT Boston leads series 3-1 Chicago 7, Vancouver 4 Chicago leads series 3-1 Saturday,May 8 Detroit at San Jose, 7 p.m.,CSNCA San Jose leads series 3-1 Montreal at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m., VERSUS Series tied 2-2 Sunday’s game Vancouver at Chicago, 5 p.m., VERSUS Chicago leads series 3-1 MLS Saturday’s games N.Y.at San Jose,7 p.m.,tape delay CSNCA Chicago at Toronto FC, 1 p.m. Los Angeles at Seattle FC, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Real Salt Lake, 1 p.m. New England at Columbus, 4 p.m. D.C. United at FC Dallas, 6 p.m. Houston at Chivas USA, 7:30 p.m. PGA Players Championship At TPC Sawgrass, Players Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., NBC Yardage: 7,215;Par: 72 Lee Westwood 67-65 — 132 -12 Ryuji Imada Second Round Leaders 67-66 — 133 -11 Francesco Molinari 68-65 — 133 -11 Heath Slocum 67-66 — 133 -11 Lucas Glover Robert Allenby Charley Hoffman 68-68 — 136 -8 Ben Crane Luke Donald 67-69 — 136 -8 67-69 — 136 -8 70-65 — 135 -9 66-70 — 136-8 NBA Conference Semifinals St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m. San Diego at Houston, 11:05 a.m. Colorado at Los Angeles, 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Arizona, 1:10 p.m.