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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday���s results Wednesday January 30, 2013 BOYS HOOPS Shasta 55 Red Bluff 34 Chester 83 Los Molinos 48 GIRLS HOOPS Red Bluff 57 Shasta 47 Red Bluff Brittany Clatty ��� 21 pts Dunsmuir 43 Mercy 61 GIRLS SOCCER Corning 1 U-Prep 3 Corning Anissa Munoz ��� 1 goal Laura Madera ��� 1 assist Kaitlyn Huntley ��� 12 saves 49ERS Manningham to cheer from sideline By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Mario Manningham hobbled into the Superdome stands on crutches and found an out-of-the-way seat to watch his San Francisco teammates go through media day frenzy on the field below, his emotions mixed. It���s been nearly two weeks since the 49ers wide receiver underwent reconstructive surgery on his left knee and almost a year since he made the catch of his life in the New York Giants��� Super Bowl victory. Manningham hoped to be playing on the New Orleans turf Sunday, when the 49ers face the Baltimore Ravens in the franchise���s first Super Bowl in 18 years and with a perfect 5-0 championship record to protect. Instead, the soft-spoken wideout could win another ring, this time as a spectator. ������Possibility,������ he said of capturing back-to-back titles. ������This is different for me right now. I���m not down, I just wish I could help my team. You���re never down. It���s not bitterness. It���s not like I did something for me not to be out there. I���m not out there because of injury.������ Yet this is hardly how Manningham envisioned it when he left the Giants and headed out West to play for Jim Harbaugh and the team he helped beat in last year���s NFC championship game. He did his very best not to sound See 49ERS, page 2B Corning U-Prep 0 NBA Warriors 108 Cleveland 95 DN Sports Editor Today���s games WRESTLING Red Bluff 6 p.m. Anderson 6 p.m. NBA Boston Tyler Smail wasn���t the first person in his office to know he won two tickets to the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday. Smail, who works in Red Bluff as a financial adviser at Edward Jones, knew something was waiting in his inbox after See SMAIL, page 2B By ANDRE BYIK GS ��� Thompson 32 pts CLE ��� Waiters 18 pts Kings DN Sports Editor Tyler Smail Red Bluff boys bitten by Wolves 55-34 at home 4 Corning By ANDRE BYIK HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS SOCCER Shasta Red Bluff man wins tickets to Super Bowl CSNC 4:30 p.m. On the tube MEN���S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Villanova at Notre Dame 5 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Texas at Kansas St. NBA 5 p.m. ESPN ��� Miami at Brooklyn 7:30 p.m. ESPN ��� L.A. Lakers at Phoenix NHL 5 p.m. NBCSN ��� Chicago at Minnesota SOCCER 11:55 A.m. ESPN2 ��� Premier League, Southampton at Manchester United 7 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Mexico vs. Denmark, at Glendale, Ariz. Around town Red Bluff Jr. Spartans head coach elections Elections will be held on at 6:00 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Hampton Inn. The group looks forward to seeing all interested candidates there to help the program���s continued growth. Visit http://www.rbjrspartans.com/ to find the contact information for board members. Red Bluff Jr. Spartans can also be found on Facebook. Ray Lewis denies taking banned substance NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis declined to directly address a Sports Illustrated report that he sought help from a company that makes the unorthodox product to speed up his recovery from a torn right triceps. Lewis was the NFL���s leading tackler in the playoffs after missing 10 regular-season games with the injury. Daily News photo by Andre Byik Red Bluff High���s Greg Dufour, left, attempts a shot against the Shasta Wolves at home Tuesday. WARRIORS 108, CAVALIERS 95 The Red Bluff varsity boys basketball team is still finding its way through the Sac River League after dropping a home game Tuesday against the Shasta Wolves 55-34. After winning their season opener against West Valley, the Spartans (9-12, 13 Sac River League) have dropped their last three league contests. But after a rough go against Enterprise on Friday, the Spartans started things off relatively clean Tuesday, committing few turnovers in the first quarter moving the ball better. It just didn���t turn into offense. Red Bluff found themselves in a 14-5 hole at the end of the period. Shasta guard Austin Ajamin scored eight in the period and orchestrated a solid performance all night. He finished with 14 points on the night. The Spartans did find some rhythm in the second quarter, when they cut the Wolves��� lead to three at 1916 off some sharpshooting from Connor Ross and some aggressive play in the paint from Lucas Burns. Ross drilled two 3s in the period but wouldn���t score again. Burns added four in the frame and finished with eight points and five boards. But with Red Bluff���s uptick in offense production also came an uptick in turnovers. The Spartans committed eight in the period and Shasta capitalized. They would run the score up to 31-20 at the half. Red Bluff wouldn���t be able to find steady production in the paint and was out scored 24-14 in the second half. Up next for the Spartans is a non-league match against Central Valley (11-9, 3-1 Northern Athletic League) at home Friday. MLB Warriors roll with starters sitting out CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Tired, short-handed and eager to get home, the Golden State Warriors could have taken the night off. Instead, they looked like a team that needs to be taken seriously. Klay Thompson scored a career-high 32 points and the Warriors, playing without three starters and a key reserve, beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-95 Tuesday night. The Warriors were missing guard Stephen Curry (ankle), center Andrew Bogut (ankle) and forward Harrison Barnes (knee). Also, Carl Landry, one of the first players off Golden State���s bench, didn���t play because of a shoulder injury. In all, the Warriors were missing an average of 49.1 points and 19.5 rebounds, but that didn���t matter. Golden State shot 54 percent, including 11 for 16 on 3-pointers as it hit the first nine from beyond the arc. The Warriors took control in the second quarter and built a 16-point lead in the second half. ������No matter who is out there, we���re still going to play Warriors basketball,������ said David Lee, had 20 points and 13 rebounds. ������We could have mailed it in on the last game of a road trip, but everybody stepped up with a bunch of guys out.������ The Warriors played the finale of a four-game road trip and were coming off a victory in Toronto on Monday. ������That���s a big-time win,������ Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. ������That���s a statement game for us. I���m extremely proud of my guys. It would���ve been very easy to chalk one up (a loss) because we were short-handed, but I challenged them ��� and they stepped up.������ Jarrett Jack, starting at point guard, had 26 points and 12 assists. ������I had to channel my inner Stephen Curry tonight,������ he said. Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving, who missed the morning shootaround because he was sick, scored 14 points on 5for-17 shooting in 36 minutes. Irving was coming off the best week of his career when he averaged a league-best 35.7 points in three wins, was selected as a reserve to the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and was named the See WARRIORS, page 2B MCT file photo A Miami newspaper reports Alex Rodriguez, among other players, is in listed records of a Florida clinic that sold performance enhancing drugs. A-Rod implicated in PED use again NEW YORK (AP) ��� Alex Rodriguez was ensnared in a doping investigation once again Tuesday when an alternative weekly newspaper reported baseball���s highest-paid star was among a half-dozen players listed in records of a Florida clinic the paper said sold performance-enhancing drugs. The Miami New Times said the threetime AL MVP bought human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances during 2009-12 from Biogenesis of America LLC, a now-closed anti-aging clinic in Coral Cables, Fla., near Rodriguez���s offseason home. The new public relations firm for the New York Yankees third baseman issued a statement denying the allegations. The newspaper said it obtained records detailing purchases by Rodriguez, 2012 All- Star game MVP Melky Cabrera, 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon and 2011 AL championship series MVP Nelson Cruz of Texas. Cabrera left San Francisco after the season to sign with Toronto, while Oakland resigned Colon. Other baseball players the newspaper said appeared in the records include Washington pitcher Gio Gonzalez, who finished third in last year���s NL Cy Young Award voting, and San Diego catcher Yasmani Grandal. Biogenesis, which the New Times said was run by Anthony Bosch, was located in a beige, nondescript office park. The former clinic is no longer listed as a business in its directory, See A-ROD, page 2B