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Sports Tehama Tracker Friday's results 1B Tuesday January 15, 2013 BOYS HOOPS Red Bluff 64 Paradise 30 U-Prep 61 Los Molinos 44 Yreka 45 Corning 58 GIRLS HOOPS Paradise 42 Red Bluff 52 U-Prep 70 Los Molinos 34 Corning 52 Yreka 48 Saturday's result WRESTLING 6th Corning 106 113 120 126 132 152 160 182 220 49ERS Sutter Tournament Allen Cervantes 3rd Devon Hiller 4th Hector Valencia 6th Shane Hansen 6th Josh Shults 3rd Dakota Henry 4th Ben Meister 4th Calvin Abel 6th Quinton Jones 5th Today's games BOYS HOOPS Corning Lassen 7:30 p.m. Redding Christian Los Molinos 7:30 p.m. Liberty Christian Mercy 7:30 p.m. GIRLS HOOPS Lassen Corning 7:30 p.m. Redding Christian Los Molinos 6 p.m. Liberty Christian Mercy 6 p.m. BOYS SOCCER Mercy Los Molinos 3:30 p.m. Corning Yreka 4:30 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER Corning Yreka 3:15 p.m. On the tube MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. ESPN — Tennessee at Kentucky ESPN2 — Notre Dame at St. John's 6 p.m. ESPN — Wisconsin at Indiana TENNIS 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Australian Open, first round, at Melbourne, Australia (same-day tape) 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Australian Open, second round, at Melbourne, Australia Midnight ESPN2 — Australian Open, second round, at Melbourne, Australia Around town Simpson University will host an evening with renowned baseball broadcaster Jon Miller, known as the "Voice" of the San Francisco Giants, on Sunday, Feb. 10, inside its gymnasium at 2211 College View Drive. The 5:30 to 7 p.m. event (doors open at 5) will include baseball stadium-themed food, silent and live auctions, and tales from the legendary Miller, who has announced Giants games for 16 seasons on KNBR Radio and NBC Bay Area. Tickets cost $30 per person, or $300 for a table of 10. Sponsor tables can be purchased for $500 and include a photo with Miller prior to the event and acknowledgement in the event program. Seating is limited; tickets can be purchased online at http://simpsonu.edu/jonmiller. Super Bowl within reach, at last SANTA CLARA (AP) — Running back Frank Gore arrived for work Monday ready to push through another tough week of game preparation and do everything he can to keep his team playing right into February. The San Francisco 49ers are one win from the place they've planned to be all along: the Super Bowl. ''Mainly, we're going to plow ahead,'' coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday. ''We're going to continue our work ethic and humility.'' The NFC West champion and No. 2-seeded Niners (12-4-1) will hit the road Friday for Atlanta to face the top-seeded Falcons (14-3) in the NFC title game Sunday. Any topics that strayed from the job at hand, Harbaugh wanted no part of such chatter — whether talk of his big brother John's Baltimore Ravens' success or former 49ers coach and current Falcons defensive coordinator, Mike Nolan. The Niners have been to New Orleans once already back in November and won in the Superdome, and they're eager to schedule another trip to the Big Easy for the biggest game yet on Feb. 3. ''We all know it's hard to get back to this point, but we did it,'' Gore said. ''We also know how that feeling was when we didn't get the job done last year. We'll try our best to not get that feeling again.'' This group has been working for the opportunity to reach another championship Sunday since the moment San Francisco's season ended last January with a mistake-filled 20-17 overtime loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Now, it's strong-armed, playmaking Colin Kaepernick under center with a chance to send his team to the franchise's first Super Bowl since after the 1994 season. Kaepernick dazzled for the sellout home crowd at Candlestick Park in a record-setting playoff debut as San Francisco eliminated the Green Bay Packers with a 45-31 victory Saturday night. The tattooed, second- MCT photo The 49ers' Colin Kaepernick runs for a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. year pro rushed for a quarterback playoff record 181 yards with a pair of touchdowns — one a 56-yarder — and threw two TD passes to Michael Crabtree. Kaepernick, whose celebratory flexing of the biceps has become a Twitter sensation, was unfazed after an early pick six that put Green Bay ahead four plays into the game. ''The one thing, I've said this from day one about Colin, since he started playing, he's always been confident,'' center Jonathan Goodwin said. ''When you see a guy that's playing quarterback in this league that young and he's that confident, hats off to him.'' If the 49ers can win in yet another hostile road environment this weekend, they will keep alive the chance of a Harbowl — San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh against his brother, whose Ravens stunned the top-seeded Broncos at Denver and will play at New England for a Super Bowl berth. ''Haaa, haaa! Once again, huh?'' Gore said with a grin when the possibility was mentioned. Not that anyone in the family — or on the 49ers, for that matter — is thinking too far ahead. ''Proud of them both and excited for them,'' father Jack Harbaugh said Monday. ''Understand how hard they've worked and the preparation that's gone into it.'' His simple message to both coaches: ''Get ahead, stay ahead.'' John beat Jim in their lone head-to-head at Baltimore on Thanksgiving night 2011. A strong start will be a key for the 49ers, forced to play catch up after Sam Shields ran back the early interception by Kaepernick 52 yards for the game's first points in the divisional playoff matchup. Atlanta suddenly has some serious momentum at home — and the 49ers know bouncing back from tough breaks is no given at this stage of the postseason with the stakes so high. The Falcons won in thrilling fashion on their home field Sunday, beating the Seattle Seahawks 30-28 on Sunday behind quarterback Matt Ryan and kicker Matt Bryant's game-winning 49yard field goal with 8 seconds left. ''It's a big task,'' Harbaugh said. ''They had a great season, top seed. They're coming off of a game that gives them a lot of momentum. They're solid in every regard.'' The 49ers don't want to put themselves in such a position where the game is close late and Atlanta has a chance to win at the end again. ''I'd like to see us start faster and continue to do what we do,'' linebacker Patrick Willis said. If the strong-armed, fleetfooted Kaepernick can keep this up, San Francisco should feel great about its chances of chasing a sixth championship. Fans at soldout Candlestick Park got into that goal Saturday by waving red rally flags reading ''Quest for Six.'' Still, the 49ers have a five-game road playoff losing streak dating to a 28-3 NFC championship win at Chicago in January 1989 on the way to the organization's third Lombardi Trophy. Harbaugh was a backup quarterback with the Bears at the time. ''I remember Jerry Rice catching a ball down the Niners sideline,'' he said. ''Cold as heck, we got whipped.'' San Francisco also is seeking its first threegame winning streak of the season. ''We're always confident,'' Gore said. ''We'll try to go down there and do it.'' Notes: Harbaugh said David Akers remains the team's kicker, while backup Billy Cundiff will stay on the roster. ... AllPro DL Justin Smith, who returned Saturday night after missing two games with a partially torn left triceps, got through the game without any problems. ''Played well. Came out of the game as clean as possible,'' Harbaugh said. ''It looked good in practice and the feedback that we were getting from him was positive.'' ... Harbaugh had no update on LT Joe Staley's bruised right arm. X-rays Saturday were negative. MLB A's manager gets 2-year extension OAKLAND (AP) — Bob Melvin has repeatedly described the comfort of managing right at home in the Bay Area — and Billy Beane has described the comfort in having a winning, ''modern-day'' manager leading the Oakland Athletics. Melvin is staying put in the very place he wants to be well into the future. The A's manager received a two-year contract extension Monday that takes him through the 2016 season. Later Monday, Oakland announced it had reached agreement on a $1 million, one-year contract with catcher George Kottaras, a raise of $275,000. Beane is thrilled to have a manager in place to guide the small-budget A's for years to come. ''To get an extension like this from people you respect and admire and supported you, it really makes you feel good and makes you feel better about doing your job,'' said Melvin, voted AL Manager of the Year after leading Oakland to a surprising West division title. ''My expectations are the same as last year. We're going to compete hard and expect to win. Based on having the results we had last year, we'll have that much more confidence coming into spring training.'' Oakland became the first team in major league history to win a division or pennant after trailing by five games with less than 10 to play, sweeping three games against Texas to win the division over the Rangers. ''It's really a reflection of our commitment to Bob and Bob's commitment to us. If you know you have the right guy, there's no sense in waiting until he's got one year left,'' general manager Billy Beane said. ''This was probably the simplest negotiation I've ever had in my career here. That's a reflection of the relationship that Bob has with the organization. We're happy to give him this well-deserved extension. It didn't take very long. The actual writing it up took longer than the actual negotiations.'' Oakland lost to Detroit 3-2 in a best-of-five AL division series. The A's ended a five-year stretch without a winning record or playoff berth, finishing 9468. The A's did it with a payroll of $59.5 million — lowest in the majors — and 12 rookies. They did it with significant injuries to their starting pitchers and lost their third baseman, Scott Sizemore, to a season-ending knee injury on the first full-squad workout of spring training. And they did it after losing right-hander Bartolo Colon to a 50game suspension in August for a positive testosterone test, then re-signed him this winter. The 51-year-old Melvin, a former big league catcher who grew up in Menlo Park and played at Cal, took over from the fired Bob Geren in June 2011. Melvin led the Diamondbacks to the NL West title in 2007 and also won 93 games in his rookie season with Seattle in 2003. ''We knew we had the right guy right from the get go. Continuity is important,'' Beane said. ''It's real- MCT file photo Oakland A's manager Bob Melvin, right, shares words with Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leland. ly important. Once again last year was certainly enjoyable. It's easy to look at a year like last year and everybody has fun when you're winning. This relationship with Bob and myself and the front office and the players started when he took over.'' Melvin received a threeyear contract from Oakland late in the 2011 season. The A's went 47-52 after he took over that year. His local ties are only a bonus. Melvin played three seasons with the San Francisco Giants.