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Weekend Sat — Softball All-Star game at Hooker Oak Recreation, 6 p.m. Sat — Belmont Stakes, 9 a.m., ESPN; 2:30 p.m., ABC Sun — Medford at Red Bluff Bulls, 11:30 a.m. Sun — Baseball All-Star game at Hooker Oak, 12:05 p.m. Sun — NBA Finals, Celtics at Lakers, 5 p.m., ABC French Open — Women’s Final, Sat 6 a.m., Men’s Sun, NBC Sports 1B Weekend June 5-6, 2010 Eight is enough Courtesy photo Wesley Inman, Micheal Uhalde, Mitchell Inman, Harlow Johnson and Jarrett Gash are a handful of players who will help usher the return of Mercy football in 2010. Mercy to have 8-man football program in 2010 By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor Once again the Warriors are ready to come out and play. After being forced to cancel its 2009 football sea- son due to lack of participa- tion, Mercy High School has announced it will field an 8-man football team for the upcoming 2010 season. The team will be coached by Jerry Bartlett, who was recently named Tri-Cities League baseball Coach of the Year. The school has already had 17 student-athletes sign- up and be fitted for helmets. Practices are set to begin Aug. 9 at Sacred Heart School. Mercy will play in the 8-man North League along- side Big Valley, Butte Valley, Dunsmuir, Happy Camp, Liberty Christian and defending Division VI champion Hayfork. The Warriors 11-man program had seen its fair share of success over the years. From 1995 to 2000 they reached five section championship games — winning the Division V title in 1998 and 2000. The Warriors were coming off of a 5-4 record in 2008 when they had to cut the program in August 2009. Athletic Director Jim Weber told the Daily News at the time the decision was made because of a decrease in the level of interest shown by students toward the football program. Because of scheduling reasons the Warriors had to wait a season before switching to an 8-man program. Local soccer team has global aspirations Spartans track breaks records The Red Bluff Spartans track and field program broke a number of school, league and even division records in 2010. The boys junior varsity team claimed back-to-back Eastern Athletic League championships led by Zach Iverson and Jonah McInnis. Iverson won back-to- back EAL junior varsity 400-meter titles and McInnis set a school record in the junior varsity triple jump with a mark of 45’5.5”. McInnis only lost one event all season. Taylor Hickson set a varsity school record in the 110- meter hurdles with a time of 15.52 seconds. The junior varsity girls team had a number of tremendous individual showings. Alana Hinkston won the 200 and 400 meters at both the EALand Division I junior varsity championships. It was her second title in the 400. Meaggan Rector set junior varsity shot put records as she captured the league and division titles with a best mark of 37’7”. Jessica Taylor set a junior varsity girls school record in the 1600 meters at 5:52.69. Riley Kittle tied the school’s junior varsity girls record in the high jump with a leap of 5’ and claimed the league and division title. The junior varsity girls 4x100 team of Hinkston, Jessie Slade, Morgan Moore and Joanna Smith-Conrad set a school record of 52.12 seconds and won the league and divi- sion titles The 4x400 relay team also were league and division champions. Uribe, Huff homers sparks Giants rally PITTSBURGH (AP) — Juan Uribe and Aubrey Huff each hit a two-run homer in a comeback sixth inning and the San Francis- co Giants erased a four-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 on Friday night. The start of the game was delayed nearly three hours by rain. Eli Whiteside added a solo home run as the Giants went deep three times against Zach Duke (3-6), who waited through weather delays totaling 6 hours, 7 minutes over two nights to pitch only to fail to hold a 4-0 lead. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez (4-4) gave up four unearned runs that followed first baseman Buster Posey’s two-base error on Duke’s grounder and Andrew McCutchen’s two-run double in the second. The left-hander settled down and pitched shutout ball until being lifted with one out in the seventh. Sanchez has beaten the Pirates twice in two starts this sea- son, not allowing an earned run in 14 1-3 innings. Freddy Sanchez, the former Pirates All-Star infielder, had three hits to raise his average to .358 in his first game in Pitts- burgh since being traded to the Giants on July 29. Duke was supposed to start Wednesday against the Cubs, only to be pushed back to Friday when the game was rained out following a delay of 3 hours, 12 minutes. Friday’s start was delayed 2 hours, 55 minutes to 10 p.m. EDT, or about the same time the game would have started if it had been played in San Francisco. Maybe the Giants only needed to get back on West Coast time to find their offense. Down 4-0, they scored twice in the fifth after Posey dou- Courtesy photo Team USA-North Valley United pose for a picture. Team USA-North Valley United, an Under-15 girls’ soccer team com- prised of players from local high schools and middle schools, traveled to Medford, Ore. over Memorial Day weekend to compete in the Rogue Val- ley Cup soccer tournament. The team features Red Bluff High School’s Brenna Groom, West Cotton- wood Middle School’s Jenna Hinkle and Meckenzee Pettis and West Valley High School’s Jessie McPhetridge and Jaclyn Hollmer. The tournament hosts more than OAKLAND (AP) — Delmon Young sin- gled in the top of the 11th inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5- 4 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. Justin Morneau, who hit a home run and drove in two runs, dou- bled against Andrew Bailey (0-2) to lead off the inning. After Jason Kubel struck out, Young’s grounder down the first base line barely eluded Daric Barton. Matt Guerrier (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Jon Rauch pitched the 11th for his 14th save in 16 chances. 180 teams, coming from throughout Washington, California, Nevada, Ore- gon and Idaho. Team USA-North Valley United competed up in the Under-16-17 divi- sion and swept their bracket, turning in four shutout performances during the preliminary round to advance to the final on Monday. They defeated Ore- gon Rush Nike 5-0 in the final at US Cellular Park to win the championship. The team attended the tournament as a warm-up to the United World Games tournament in Klagenfurt, Austria, where the team will compete later this month. Coached by Mark Starr of the Redding Soccer Park and Steven Hoxie, the team is comprised of players representing ten local schools including Anderson, Enter- prise, Foothill, Red Bluff, Shasta, Trin- ity, U-Prep and West Valley High Schools and Anderson and East Cot- tonwood Middle Schools. The team heads to Munich, Germany on June 12, where they will play a friendly match with a local team before head- ing on to Austria. Twins starter Scott Bak er went 7 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on six hits. He walked one and struck out three. Young also drove in a run in the sixth. Kubel added an RBI single for the Twins. Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a home run and drove in two for the A’s, Rajai Davis also hit a home run and Kurt Suzuki, who had two hits, added an RBI. Dallas Braden, winless in five starts since his perfect game on May 9, lasted 6 1/3 innings, giving up four runs on six hits. He walked one and struck out two. The A’s had won seven of their previous nine home games and entered Friday with the best home ERA (2.79) in the AL. Baker remained unbeat- en in five starts against the A’s. Morneau, who has hit safely in seven straight, hit his 13th home run of the season, a two-run shot with two outs in the first that trav- eled well up into the right field bleachers. After Suzuki’s infield single scored a run for the A’s in the fourth, the Twins added a pair of runs in the sixth to make it 4-1. Kubel singled home a run and Young doubled home anoth- er. Kouzmanoff, who hit a home run for the third con- secutive game, a career best, made it 4-3 with his two-run shot off the facing of the sec- ond deck in left field. Davis’ second home run of the season just cleared the fence near the left-field line in the eighth to tie the game and end Baker’s night. Davis owns a .324 bat- ting average (22 for 68) over his last 19 games. He’s a lifetime .328 hitter against the Twins. bled and eventually came home on a double play, and White- side homered into the left-field bleachers. An inning later, Freddy Sanchez singled ahead of Uribe’s two-out homer, a drive to straightaway center that landed in the ‘‘R’’ in the ‘‘Pirates’’ that is carved in the outfield shrub- bery. After Posey singled, Huff hit an even deeper drive that carried over the right-field stands for his seventh homer. Uribe’s was his eighth. The Pirates put runners on second and third with two out in the seventh, but Santiago Casilla struck out Neil Walker on a 98 mph fastball. Guillermo Mota followed with a score- less eighth, getting a momentary scare when left fielder Huff stumbled before running down Garrett Jones’ drive to the wall. Brian Wilson worked the ninth for his 14th save in 15 opportunities. The Pirates had only one hit, Andy LaRoche’s single in the seventh, after their four-run second. Oakland loses to Minnesota 5-4 in extra innings Flyers even series PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a series that has felt like a swap meet with the way the Flyers and Blackhawks have traded goals, Philadelphia found itself with some extra room to work with in the third period of Game 4. Then Chicago roared back, reminding the Flyers and their nervous fans how tight and fast-paced these Stanley Cup finals have been. Mike Richards, Matt Carle and Claude Giroux all scored first-period goals and Philadelphia withstood a late surge by Chicago to beat the Blackhawks 5-3 on Fri- day night. With two straight home victories by a total of three goals, goalie Michael Leighton and the Flyers have bounced back to tie the series at 2. Game 5 is Sunday night in Chicago and there’s no rea- son to think it won’t be just as intense as the first four. Jeff Carter scored an empty-netter in the final seconds to help the Flyers become the first team this series to win a game by more than one goal. The Flyers, who became the third team in NHL history to win a series after trailing 3-0 in the second round of these playoffs, are now trying to become the third team to win a Stanley Cup after losing the first two on the road.