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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results 1B Sports Friday April 5, 2013 BASEBALL Shasta Lake Bass Semifinals GIANTS HOME OPENER 7 Red Bluff 10 Shasta Red Bluff Walker Dodero 2-4, 2 RBI Will Macdonald 2-3, 1 RBI, 1 run Tyler Boone 2-4, 2 runs Evan Sinclair 2-4, 2 runs MLB Seattle 2 Athletics 8 SEA — Morse 2-4, 1 RBI OAK — Reddick 2-3, 4 RBI, 1HR Wednesday's results BASEBALL Red Bluff 4 Wheatland 0 21 Red Bluff Trinity 1 East Nicolaus 7 10 Corning Roberto Espinoza 1-3, 2 RBI, 4.1 IP 0 ER , Justin Pye 2-4, 2 RBI Nathan Fultz, 2 RBI Nick Hoag 2-3, 1 RBI Corning 0 Orland 5 Today's games NBA Warriors CSNB Phoenix 7 p.m. Dallas CSNC Kings 7 p.m. NHL Calgary Sharks 7:30 p.m. MLB St. Louis CSNB Giants 1:35 p.m. STL — Westbrook, 1-2 SF — Zito, 2-1 Athletics CSNC Houston 5:10 p.m. Zito gears up for another strong year SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Zito is coming off his biggest season in years, a redeeming, comeback season. Yet he sees absolutely no reason to be nostalgic about anything he accomplished during the Giants' 2012 championship run. Not even that season-saving Game 5 win he pitched in the NL championship series against St. Louis. The Cardinals come to AT&T Park today for the Giants' home opener, and Zito will be on the mound to face them once again amid much fanfare as the city celebrates another title during a festive pregame ceremony. Zito expects to be so focused on his start that he will do his best to ignore the highly anticipated sideshow as San Francisco kicks off a six-game homestand that also includes three games with the NL West rival Colorado Rockies. ''I can't predict how I am,'' Zito said. ''I would like to stay focused on what I have to do and my process and not get caught up too much in the festivities and stuff like that. That's great for the fans, obviously. That's for them to enjoy but for us we've got to focus on our tasks.'' The Giants will raise the championship flag before the Friday afternoon contest, then honor NL MVP and batting champion Buster Posey before Saturday's game. Zito played a key role in winning the trophy. Matt Cain, who pitched the franchise's first perfect game last June 13, understands the madness of it all on opening day or in the home opener. He was in Zito's spot for the 2011 home debut in front of a sellout crowd following the 2010 title run — the first championship since the storied franchise moved West from New York in 1958. ''You'd definitely like to enjoy taking part in them but your main goal is to go out there and worry about pitching and just stay on that routine,'' Cain said. With San Francisco facing elimination down 3-1 in the best-of-seven NLCS, Zito beat the Cardinals in St. Louis to send the series back to the Bay Area. The Giants won two more to reach the World Series, then Zito beat Justin Verlander and the well-rested Detroit Tigers in Game 1 to help lead a stunning 4-0 sweep. And, to think only two years earlier, the high-priced lefty was left off the postseason roster for all three rounds as San Francisco won it all. Now, Zito begins the seventh year of his $126 million, seven-year contract with something to prove again. Whether he carries over any momentum from 2012, Zito has no idea. These days, he doesn't count on anything — and approaches each day, each outing, with a fresh perspective. That mindset worked so well last year, and he hopes OAK — Straily, 202 HOU — Peacock, 1-2 On the tube AUTO RACING 9 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for STP Gas Booster 500, at Martinsville, Va. 5 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for STP Gas Booster 500, at Martinsville, Va. (same-day tape) BOXING 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Lightweights, Rustam Nugaev (22-6-0) vs. Jonathan Maicelo (16-0-0), at Santa Ynez, Calif. GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, second round, part I, at Rancho Mirage, Calif. Noon TGC — PGA Tour, Texas Open, second round, at San Antonio 3 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, second round, part II, at Rancho Mirage, Calif. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10 a.m. MLB — N.Y. Yankees at Detroit 1:30 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, St. Louis at San Francisco or San Diego at Colorado (4 p.m. start) 4:30 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Chicago Cubs at Atlanta or Oakland at Houston (8 p.m. start) NBA 5 p.m. ESPN — Oklahoma City at Indiana 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Houston at Portland NHL 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Calgary at San Jose PREP BASKETBALL 11:30 a.m. ESPN2 — National Invitational, boys' semifinal, teams TBD, at Bethesda, Md. 1:30 p.m. ESPN2 — National Invitational, boys' semifinal, teams TBD, at Bethesda, Md. SOCCER 10:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Mexican Primera Division, Guadalajara at Chiapas (delayed tape) TENNIS 10 a.m. ESPN2 — WTA, Family Circle Cup, quarterfinal, at Charleston, S.C. Follow us on Twitter for live game coverage, exclusive online articles and more. @TehamaSports See ZITO, page 2B Courtesy photo Mercy High School's Jessica Curl pauses over the weekend at the annual Golden Gate Arabian Horse Show in Sonoma County. Curl tops disciplines at Arabian horse show Mercy High School junior Jessica Curl over the weekend took home top honors and a couple of championships at the 55th annual Golden Gate Arabian Horse Show at the Sonoma County Fairground. Curl also plays volleyball, basketball and softball at Mercy High. She competed in Half-Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Open, Sport Horse Amateur to Ride, Hunter Pleasure Junior to Ride and Hunter Pleasure Owner to Ride 18 years of age and under events, winning each discipline and capturing championships in Sport Horse and Hunter Pleasure. In Sport Horse events, judges consider performance, manners, quality and suitability as horses are shown at the walk, trot, canter and hand gallop, according to arabianhorses.org. In Hunter Pleasure, manners take precedent, followed by obedience, consistency, movement and pretty, according to aprilreeveshorsetraining.wordpress.com. "This horse should look like the kind of horse you could trust to go riding in the worst windstorm and he would continue on his merry way without a hitch," the horse training blog states. ATHLETICS 8, MARINERS 2 A's spoil Maurer's debut for Mariners OAKLAND (AP) — After getting off to an 0for-10 start with his new bushy beard, Josh Reddick was happy to silence those critics calling on him to shave. Reddick homered in his first at-bat and drove in four runs to lead the Oakland Athletics to an 82 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday. ''I think everybody's getting a little too superstitious too early,'' Reddick said. ''We're four games in. Let it go. It's not like I'm going to go oh-fer for the whole year. That's just fans being fans on Twitter. So I just got to let it go in one ear and out the other. My face. I'll do what I want with it.'' Yoenis Cespedes also homered as Oakland gave Brandon Maurer a rude welcome to the big leagues. A.J. Griffin (1-0) allowed two runs in six innings and John Jaso drove in a run against his former team as the Athletics won back-to-back games to earn a split of the season-opening series. After being held to one run and six hits in the first two games, Oakland broke out with 14 runs, 21 hits and 13 extra-base hits the past two games. ''I feel like we weren't the team we know we can be,'' Reddick said. ''We AP photo Oakland Athletics' Yoenis Cespedes connects for a two-run home run off Seattle Mariners' Brandon Maurer in the sixth inning Thursday in Oakland. kind of really woke up yesterday and today. To split the series is good for us, and just have a happy flight going to Houston with a little bit of confidence on our side.'' Michael Morse homered for the third straight day and joined Ken Griffey Jr. in 1997 as the only Mariners to homer four times in the first four games. But that wasn't enough as Maurer (0-1) struggled in his major league debut. ''I know what I need to learn now,'' Maurer said. ''I know some things I need to work on, so I'll take that. I think I'll be a little more comfortable the next time.'' Maurer made the jump from Double-A to the majors based on a strong spring training, becoming the first Mariners pitcher to make the opening-day rotation without pitching in Triple-A in 20 years. Maurer was Seattle's minor league pitcher of the year last season and is being counted on to perform in the majors this season. He got off to a rough start in his debut when Coco Crisp led off with a single and Reddick hit a one-out drive into the seats in right-center to make it 2-0. Reddick had been hitless in his first 10 at-bats this season after hitting 32 homers last season when he was a major part of Oakland's surprising success. He finished this game with a homer, double and four RBIs. ''The longer it goes the more you press a little bit,'' manager Bob Melvin said. ''To hit a home run like that and be the big blow of the game at that time and then have good at-bats after that makes you relax. Hopefully we're past all of that.'' Maurer didn't give up another hit until the fifth when Chris Young doubled and scored on Jaso's single. Maurer ran into more trouble in the sixth when Jed Lowrie and Reddick opened the inning with doubles and Cespedes followed with his second homer of the season to make it 6-2. Maurer allowed six runs and eight hits in six innings with no walks and one strikeout. ''I'm sure he learned a lot today, and he'll continue to learn,'' manager Eric Wedge said. ''That's just part of it. But he threw the ball well overall. Once he got settled in there, he got into a little bit of a groove. Got Coco out there, first hitter in the sixth, then they got to him quickly and I had to get him out of there. I wanted him to finish that inning after they had the swings. I wanted him to walk off the field, and he did.'' Griffin retired the first seven batters in his first start of the season and didn't allow a run until the fifth when Dustin Ackley started a rally with an infield hit. After a hit See A'S, page 2B