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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday���s results GIRLS HOOPS Wednesday February 13, 2013 Enterprise 65 GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL | Enterprise 65, Red Bluff 42 Red Bluff 42 Hornets run away with win over Spartans Red Bluff (15-8, 3-4 SRL) Maggie Hansen ��� 14 pts Daisy Brose ��� 8 pts Chelsey Bushnell ��� 5 pts Emily Gallagher ��� 5 pts Jessica Macdonald ��� 4 pts Taylor Wood ��� 2 pts Lily Brose ��� 1 pt NBA Kings 101 Memphis 108 DN Sports Editor SAC ��� Cousins, 23 pts MEM ��� Gasol, 24 pts NHL Sharks OT 0 1 Nashville SJ ��� Niemi, 25 saves NSH ��� Wilson, 1 goal Today���s games BOYS HOOPS Red Bluff Enterprise 7:30 p.m. NBA Kings Dallas By ANDRE BYIK 5:30 p.m. On the tube MEN���S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. ESPN ��� Syracuse at UConn ESPN2 ��� Miami at Florida St. 6 p.m. ESPN ��� North Carolina at Duke ESPN2 ��� West Virginia at Baylor 8 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Oregon at Washington NH 4:30 p.m. NBCSN ��� St. Louis at Detroit SOCCER 11:30 a.m. FSN ��� UEFA Champions League, Dortmund at Shakhtar Donetsk 5 p.m. FSN ��� UEFA Champions League, Manchester United at Real Madrid (same-day tape) Around town Red Bluff Jr. Spartans head coach elections Elections will be held at 6 p.m. today at the Hampton Inn. The group looks forward to seeing all interested candidates there to help the program���s continued growth. Visit rbjrspartans.com/ to find the contact information for board members. Red Bluff Jr. Spartans can also be found on Facebook. A���s finalize minor league deal with lefty Okajima PHOENIX (AP) ��� The Oakland Athletics and free agent left-hander Hideki Okajima finalized a minor league contract Tuesday after he passed a physical and immediately got to work. Okajima played last season for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Japan���s Pacific League, going 0-2 with a 0.94 ERA and nine saves in 56 relief appearances. He allowed only one home run and walked six batters in 47 23 innings ������I���m very happy to be back, very happy to come back with Oakland,������ Okajima told reporters at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. ������It���s nice to be on the West Coast. The weather is good. And it represents a real opportunity for me.������ Okajima spent the 2007-11 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, then signed a minor league deal with the New York Yankees and was released at the start of 2012 spring training when he failed a physical. The Red Bluff Lady Spartans varsity basketball team, which has been hit hard by injuries in the past two weeks, couldn���t keep the Enterprise Hornets from continuing their perfect run through the Sac River League. The Hornets��� Kamira Sanders put in a stellar night with 23 points (21 in the second half) and Enterprise downed the Spartans 65-42 at Red Bluff High School on Tuesday. Red Bluff (15-8, 3-4 SRL) kept the game reasonably close in the first half, which saw the Spartans trailing the Hornets 26-20 at the half. But a quick offensive start by Enterprise had the Hornets up 36-23 with about four minutes left in the third quarter. The Spartans would trail the Hornets (24-1, 7-0 SRL) 44-27 going to the final frame. Red Bluff���s Maggie Hansen led the Spartans��� scoring effort with with 14 points (three 3-pointers). Daisy Brose had 8 points, Chelsey Bushnell added 5, Emily Gallagher finished with 5 points and Taylor Wood added 2 points of her own. Red Bluff senior Lily Brose came off the bench to shoot a couple of technical free throws and sank one. Up next for the Spartans is their annual Pink Out! game against the Shasta Wolves at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Red Bluff High School . Daily News photo by Andre Byik Red Bluff High���s Jessica Macdonald rises for a jumper at home Tuesday. OLYMPICS Wrestling dropped from summer games By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer Rulon Gardner���s epic upset of Russian wrestling great Alexander Karelin in 2000 remains one of the most compelling moments of the modern Olympics. Starting in 2020, youngsters looking to Gardner and Karelin for inspiration won���t have a chance to excel on the sport���s biggest stage. Gardner and nearly everyone else associated with the sport in the U.S. were jolted Tuesday when International Olympic Committee leaders dropped wrestling from the Summer Games. The move is set to take effect for the 2020 MCT file photo Jacob Varner of the United States, right, battled during his gold medal victory in a 1-0, 1-0 match against Ukraine's Valerii Andriitsev in 2012. Olympics and eliminates a sport that���s been a staple of both the ancient and modern games. ������It���s the IOC trying to change the Olympics to make it more mainstream and more viewerfriendly instead of sticking to what they founded the Olympics on, and that was basically amateur sports,������ Gardner told The Associated Press by phone from Logan, Utah. ������To get the death penalty out of nowhere.������ The decision by the IOC to phase out wrestling will leave the U.S. without one of its most successful Olympic sports. The only sports in which the Americans have won more medals than wrestling is swimming and track and field ��� and those two have far more medal opportunities. Americans have won a record 113 freestyle Olympic medals, by far the most of any nation. Though the U.S. had slipped in recent Olympic cycles, it bounced back with a See GAMES, page 2B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Red Bluff Spartans Kyle Case Red Bluff Lady Spartans Wrestling Soccer Red Bluff���s Kyle Case shined Saturday, when he took home a Sac River League title in the 154 pound weight class. Case defeated Enterprise���s Dustin Jesson 7-0 in the championship final. The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ��� Vince Lombardi Red Bluff sophomore striker Alyssa Mena scored two goals against the Foothill Cougars last week in the Spartans��� league-clinching win. Mena has amassed 10 goals on the season. St. Elizabeth Sports Medicine Team congratulates the Athletes of the Week! Alyssa Mena 800.990.9971 redbluff.mercy.org/sports