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Tehama Tracker Wednesday���s results 1B Sports Thursday April 11, 2013 MLB 0 Colorado 10 Giants Zito delivers again, Giants sweep Rockies Posey: 3-5, 2B, 3B, 3 RBI Zito: 7 IP, 0 ER, 4 K, Win Athletics LATE L.A. Angels NBA New Orleans LATE Kings Tuesday���s results BASEBALL 15 Anderson 1 Corning Tony Ramirez: 2-3, RBI 13 Anderson 8 Corning Tarren Dahlgren: 2-4, 2 RBI Tyelar Nelson: 2-4, RBI Tristan McIntyre: 2-4 7 Liberty Christian 20 Los Molinos SOFTBALL 10 Red Bluff 0 West Valley Hailee Nicholls: 6IP, 2 hits, W Bailey Akins: 4-4, HR, 2 RBI Alyssa Hethcoat: 2-4, 2 runs Samantha Jones: 2-4, 2 runs Red Bluff 6 West Valley 4 Haley Harris: 2-3, 2 2Bs, 2 runs Bailey Akins: 2-4, RBI 7 Anderson 10 Corning Kimmy White: 3-4 Kaitlin Cox: 2-4, 2B Anderson 5 Corning 5 Kristin Cox: 3-4, 2B. 2 RBI Kaitlin Cox: 3-4, 2B TENNIS Corning 7 Anderson 2 Today���s games SOFTBALL Corning Anderson 5 p.m. TENNIS Red Bluff West Valley 3:30 p.m. University Prep Corning 3:30 p.m. Mercy Gridley 3:30 p.m. GOLF Sac River League at Noon West Valley, Tucker Oaks MLB Giants 11:20 a.m. SF ��� Vogelsong, 0-1 CHC ��� Villanueva, 0-0 Athletics L.A. Angels CSNC 7:05 p.m. OAK ��� Griffin, 1-0 LAA ���Vargas, 0-0 NBA Oklahoma City Warriors TNT 7:30 p.m. NHL San Jose Detroit CSNC 4:30 p.m. twice. Durant and Oklahoma City teammate Nick Collison attended the game during the team���s off-day ahead of Thursday���s matchup at Golden State. Durant was eager to see the NL MVP, saying: ������My man Buster. I just like his intensity.������ The Giants won their ninth in a row overall against Colorado. They also have beaten the Rockies nine straight times at AT&T Park. Andres Torres hit a two- run single, Joaquin Arias singled in a run in a rare start and Marco Scutaro hit a sacrifice fly as the Giants went ahead 7-0. They chased Jeff Francis (1-1) in the second inning for the shortest start of his career. The Giants had a seasonhigh 16 hits a day after getting 14. Zito had an RBI single in the fifth. He singled the next inning for his first career multihit game, prompting a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 41,606 and chants of ������Barry! Barry!������ He has a four-start hitting streak dating to the 2012 postseason. Zito allowed seven hits in seven innings, struck out four and walked one. Javier Lopez and Chad Gaudin completed the seven-hitter. The Rockies arrived in San Francisco riding a fivegame winning streak and left with a three-game skid. Colorado had homered in each of its first eight games before being shut out for the first time in 2013. Warriors hope to take next step OAKLAND (AP) ��� Booed one year and celebrated the next, Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob admits he feels ������a little bit������ vindicated now. The Warriors are going to the playoffs for the first time since 2007 and just the second time in 19 years, no small feat for a franchise that has been beat up by most of the NBA for two decades. The thirdyear owner finally has the team headed in the right direction, and he���s not about to back down from his bold and boisterous ways. ������We���re not satisfied with this at all,������ Lacob said. ������We want to make the playoffs, like we did now. We want to go to the next round. I don���t know if it���s this year or next year, we���re going to keep going. And we���re going to win an NBA championship here ��� I guarantee it.������ First things first. Nobody expects the Warriors will even come close to reaching basketball���s biggest stage this season ��� not even Lacob, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who bought the franchise along with movie mogul Peter Guber for an NBA-record $450 million in 2010. But if they want to make any more noise this year, they���ll need to finish out the regular season strong. Golden State (45-33) remains a game ahead of Houston (44-34) for the Western Conference���s sixth seed, which is critical to avoid powerhouses Oklahoma City and San Antonio in the first round. Both teams have four games remaining, and the Rockets own the tiebreaker after taking three of four against the Warriors this season. Golden State has no time to relax, either. The defending conference champion Thunder visit Oracle Arena on Thursday night. Warriors coach Mark Jackson shed tears in an emotional locker room celebration after beating Minnesota 105-89 on Tuesday night to clinch a playoff berth. He tried to gather himself and deliver a message he hopes resonates with his players, many of whom have never been to the playoffs. ������I told them, ���Don���t you dare go to the baggage claim, because this is just a layover. This is not our final destination,������ Jackson said. ������Celebrate that we got here, but this is not our final destination.��������� Even still, it���s a milestone first stop. The owners overhauled the franchise by hiring Jackson, a former NBA point guard, off the ESPN broadcast table. They also lured On the tube CSNB Chi. Cubs SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Buster Posey drove in three runs while NBA star Kevin Durant cheered him from the stands, Barry Zito pitched another gem and the San Francisco Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 10-0 win Wednesday. Staked to a quick lead, Zito (2-0) won his 11th straight decision, dating to last postseason. San Francisco earned its 16th consecutive victory in games he started, the longest such run by a Giants pitcher since 16 in a row by Carl Hubbell for New York in 1936, STATS said. Zito has thrown 14 scoreless innings so far, the deepest the lefty has gone without giving up a run to start a season in his 14-year career. Posey hit an RBI triple in the first, a run-scoring double in the second and RBI single in the fifth. He scored AUTO RACING ��� 11 p.m., NBCSN ��� Formula One, practice for Chinese Grand Prix, at Shanghai COLLEGE SOFTBALL ��� 8 p.m., ESPN2 ��� California at UCLA GOLF ��� Noon, ESPN ��� Masters Tournament, first round, at Augusta, Ga. MLB ��� 11 a.m., CSNB ��� San Francisco at Chicago Cubs ��� 4 p.m., MLB ��� Regional coverage, Baltimore at Boston or N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland ��� 7 p.m., CSNC ��� Oakland at L.A. Angels MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY ��� 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 ��� NCAA Division I, playoffs, semifinal, Yale vs. UMass-Lowell, at Pittsburgh ��� 5 p.m., ESPN2 ��� NCAA Division I, playoffs, semifinal, St. Cloud St. vs. Quinnipiac, at Pittsburgh NBA ��� 5 p.m., TNT ��� New York at Chicago ��� 7:30 p.m., TNT ��� Oklahoma City at Golden State NHL ��� 4:30 p.m., CSNC ��� San Jose at Detroit ��� 4:30 p.m., NBCSN ��� Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay ��� 7:30 p.m., NHLN ��� Colorado at Los Angeles SOCCER ��� 9 a.m., UEFA Europa League, quarterfinal, 2nd Leg, Chelsea FC at FC Rubin Kazan ��� Noon, UEFA Europa League, quarterfinal, 2nd Leg, Tottenham Hotspur FC at FC Basel 1893 ��� 2 p.m., UEFA Europa League, quarterfinal, 2nd Leg, Fenerbache SK at S.S. Lazio (same-day tape) AP photo Stephen Curry has the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs. sports agent Bob Myers as assistant general manager, then relieved Larry Riley as GM last year to give Myers the top role. Neither had held those titles at any level. The transition has not always been smooth. Fans battered Lacob with boos last season during Hall of Famer Chris Mullin���s jersey retirement ceremony after the team traded fan favorite Monta Ellis for center Andrew Bogut, who is just starting to regain his past form following left ankle surgery that side- lined him most of the season. Embarrassed at the time, Lacob is able to laugh at that moment now. ������What booing?������ he said, chuckling. ������Maybe a little bit (of vindication). But you can���t worry about that. I understand why people did that. We have to move on from that, and we���ve got to be tougher than that. I���ve got to be tougher than that, and we���ve got to move forward. And we���re going to get to where we want to go.������ Jackson also took his share of criticism for promising the playoffs before the team finished 23-43 during last year���s labor lockout-shortened season. The biggest lesson he learned from his first year on the sideline was simple: ������You better get talent,������ he said. That���s just what Myers and his team did. The Warriors sent Dorell Wright to Philadelphia in a three-team trade that netted Sixth Man of the Year candidate Jarrett Jack from New Orleans. They signed free agent Carl Landry, drafted Harrison Barnes seventh overall and found role players in rookies Festus Ezeli and Draymond Green. Most importantly, Stephen Curry���s twice-surgically repaired right ankle has held up. David Lee turned in an All-Star season, and Bogut is getting back to being the player that Milwaukee drafted No. 1 overall in 2005. ������I���m happy for our players and our fans. Well deserved, and a long time coming,������ Myers said. When the Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks to advance to the second round in 2007, only five current players were even in the NBA. Another five were still in high school. So forgive the Warriors for dancing around the locker room for what 16 of 30 NBA teams get to celebrate each April. Many never had the chance before. ������We understand this is a small step, but it is a huge accomplishment for a lot of guys in this locker room,������ Curry said. Lacob sure savored the moment from courtside, listening to chants of ������Playoffs! Playoffs!������ from a 30th straight sellout crowd while standing on the same floor he had been booed off of last year. He also congratulated each player at his locker and thanked every coach and staff member for a job well done. At one point, his son, assistant general manager Kirk Lacob, even questioned why the team was celebrating so much. Lacob had to remind him: ������You���ve got to celebrate the little moments, too. Every step counts.������ ������It���s a very nice accomplishment,������ Lacob said. ������Everybody should be proud. It���s a great reflection on the entire organization and all the changes we made, a lot of really hard work by a lot of people. At the end of the day, these players made it happen and they deserve all the credit in the world. This is the first step. Now we���ve got to take it to the next step.������ The Masters not always kind to favorites AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) ��� The first tee shot clattered through a pair of pines on the left side of the 13th fairway, finally landing on the wrong side of Rae���s Creek. Tiger Woods tried again, and this wasn���t any better. Fans peered across the fairway and only heard the ball rifle through some bushes. ������He���s hitting another one,������ a man announced from the gallery. The third shot with a fairway metal caused them to retreat until it turned with a slight draw, clipping a pine branch and settling in the second cut of rough. Woods played nine holes Wednesday morning in his final tuneup for the Masters, and how he played was of little consequence. Even so, that snapshot from the 13th tee was another reminder how quickly the best plans can fall apart, even for the No. 1 player on top of his game, especially at Augusta National. Think back to Woods at his absolute best. He won 10 times in 2000, including three majors, and finished no worse than fifth in 19 of his 22 tournaments worldwide. Going into the Masters, he either won or finished second in 10 of his previous 11 PGA Tour events. It felt as though everyone was playing for second at Augusta that year. What happened? Woods made a double bogey and a triple bogey in a span of three holes, shot 75 in the opening round and never caught up. The hype over Woods is not that strong this year, though there is no doubt who is driving the conversation. Those who have played with him on the course or hit balls next to him on the range talked about how he never missed a shot. His putting has been pure since he got that tip from Steve Stricker last month at Doral. And it shows in the scores. Woods has won his last two tournaments, at Doral and Bay Hill, and neither was terribly close. When the Masters begins Thursday, he is the odds-on favorite to end his five-year drought in the majors, and win a green jacket for the first time since 2005. Trouble is, Augusta National doesn���t play favorites. It has been 11 years since the No. 1 player in the world ��� Woods ��� won the Masters. There is always the usual assortment of players who seem to contend every year for a green jacket. Phil Mickelson is a three-time Masters champion, his most recent in 2010 when he arrived at Augusta National without having come close to winning that year. Fred Couples was tied for the 36hole lead last year at age 52. Rory McIlroy has shown he can play the course, at least on the weekdays. Lee Westwood has been among the top three twice since 2010. But for every Woods there is Zach Johnson. For every Mickelson there is Trevor Immelman.