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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Thursday's results Friday April 12, 2013 TENNIS Red Bluff 9 West Valley 0 Thunder Shaffer (W) 6-0, 6-4 CJ Varner (W) 6-1, 6-0 Arif Selvitopu (W) 6-3, 6-2 Curtis Twitchell (W) 6-3, 6-1 Cory Twitchell (W) 6-1, 6-4 Devan Schoelen (W) 6-2, 6-1 Shaffer/Varner (W) 10-1 Twitchell/Twitchell (W) 10-3 Garrett Ward/Jay Boone (W) 10-6 USASA SNOWBOARDING NATIONALS Hess boards to 2nd at nat'ls Special to the DN Snowboarder Randy Hess, a 2008 Red Bluff High School graduate, finished second overall at the United States of America Snowboard Association National Championships at Copper Mountain, Colo., last week. Hess competed in the 18to 22-year-old Men's Jams Division, where he qualified for all five disciplines and finished fifth in Giant Slalom, fourth in Halfpipe, 17th in Slopestyle, seventh in Boardercross and fifth in Slalom. In the halfpipe competition, Hess finished with a best average of 37, which beat fifth- MLB Giants 7 Chi. Cubs 6 SF — Pagan 1-4, 2 RBI CHC — Rizzo 1-5, 2 RBI Athletics LATE L.A. Angels NHL San Jose 3 SO 2 Detroit SJ — Couture, 1 goal DET — Kindl, 1 goal NBA Randy Hess Oklahoma City LATE Warriors GIANTS 7, CUBS 6 Today's games TRACK & FIELD McCoy, Alvarado shine for Corning at NAL meet BASEBALL Red Bluff West Valley 4 p.m. Corning Anderson H 4 p.m. Hayfork Doubleheader Los Molinos Starts: 2 p.m. University Prep Mercy 3:30 p.m. SOFTBALL tro's a two-out fielding error spurred a four-run fourth. With runners on first and third in the fourth, Castro botched Vogelsong's grounder, allowing the first run to score. Scott Feldman (0-2) then gave up an RBI single to Angel Pagan and hit Brandon Crawford with a pitch ahead of Sandoval's double that pulled the Giants to 5-4. ''I think that one is basically not understanding that the pitcher hit the ball and you had plenty of time,'' Cubs manager Dale Sveum said about Castro's error. ''You didn't have to over- By DN Staff Report The Corning Cardinals boys and girls track and field teams represented well with a host of wins Wednesday in a Northern Athletic League meet at Central Valley High School. On the girls side, Corning High's Jessica Beckley topped the field in the 200and 400-meter finals with times of 27.68 and 1:07.12, respectively. Maria Diaz edged out Anderson High's Becky Acevedo in the 800-meter finals with a time of 2:53.97. Acevedo posted a time of 3:08.41. In the 100-meter hurdles, Corning High's Caitlin McCoy (17.37) beat Anderson's Melissa Frields (17.75) and repeated a victory over Frields in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 51.12. McCoy continued her winning ways when she teamed up with Audrey Mora, Guadalupe Miron and Karly Lira in the 4x400-meter relay event by finishing with a time of See GIANTS, page 2B See CARDS, page 2B West Valley Red Bluff H place finisher John Welch, of Burlington, Vt, by 3.7 points. In the Giant Slalom event, Hess finished with a two-ride total of 66.84, which beat sixth place finisher Kyle Vaughn's total of 66.88. Hess finished with a total of 51.33 in the Slalom event, edging sixth place finisher Hayes Herman's total of 51.54. The competition draws more than 1,100 competitors ranging in ages from 4 to 75. Hess lives in South Lake Tahoe, is a driver for UPS and is the son of Ken and Debbie Hess, of Red Bluff. 4 p.m. Hayfork Doubleheader Los Molinos Starts: 3:30 p.m.. NBA Warriors CSNB LA Lakers 7:30 p.m. AP photo Kings CSNS San Antonio 5:30 p.m. MLB Giants CSNB Chi. Cubs 11:20 a.m. SF — Cain CHC — Villanueva Detroit CSNC Athletics From left, San Francisco Giants' Gregor Blanco, Angel Pagan and Hunter Pence celebrate their 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game in Chicago on Thursday. 7:05 p.m. DET — Vogelsong OAK — Colon On the tube AUTO RACING 9:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR Sprint Cup, practice for NRA 500, at Fort Worth, Texas Noon SPEED — NASCAR Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for NRA 500, at Fort Worth, Texas 2 p.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR Nationwide Series, pole qualifying for O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, at Fort Worth, Texas 3:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for NRA 500, at Fort Worth, Texas 5:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR Nationwide Series, O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, at Fort Worth, Texas 11 p.m. NBCSN — Formula One, qualifying for Chinese Grand Prix, at Shanghai BOXING 7 p.m. SHO — Super lightweights, Amir Imam (8-0-0) vs. Jeremy Bryan (16-2-0); Angelo Santana (14-0-0) vs. Carlos Cardenas (20-6-1), for vacant WBA interim lightweight title, at Las Vegas 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Featherweights, Rico Ramos (21-2-0) vs. Oscar Gonzalez (17-2-0), at Shelton, Wash. GOLF Noon ESPN — Masters Tournament, second round, at Augusta, Ga. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Atlanta at Washington or Philadelphia at Miami WGN — Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Follow us on Twitter for live game coverage, exclusive online articles and more. @TehamaSports Sandoval, Crawford lead rally for win CHICAGO (AP) — Bruce Bochy wasn't tempted to take out Ryan Vogelsong when he faltered early, and the pitcher rewarded his manager's confidence with a fine finish. Vogelsong gave up five early runs before retiring his final 10 batters and helped his cause by walking with the bases loaded as the San Francisco Giants rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday. ''He was out of sync, even said he was having a hard time getting the ball where he wanted,'' Bochy said. ''But he got in a good groove there after that one inning and started getting pitches where he wanted and he got in a good rhythm there.'' Vogelsong (1-1) yielded eight hits and five runs in the first three innings before going on a solid run in a foggy and damp, 40-degree day to help the World Series champion Giants win their fourth straight. ''I still don't feel all that great after that,'' Vogelsong said. ''I just was trying to throw the ball and hopefully things were going to change, and they did. We started hitting the ball and some people made some really good plays.'' Trailing 5-0 after three innings, the Giants got some help in staging their comeback: Cubs shortstop Starlin Cas- THE MASTERS Garcia, Leishman tied for lead AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Sergio Garcia might have written himself off too quickly at the Masters. When last seen walking off the course at Augusta National, the impetuous Spaniard was moping about his bad luck at this tournament and said last year it was increasingly evident he would never be fitted for a green jacket. Garcia matched his best score at the Masters on Thursday, a 6-under 66 with no bogeys on his card, to share the lead with Marc Leishman of Australia. And he still wasn't entirely happy, although this time with good reason. He hit the ball so well his score could have been so much better. ''To tell you the truth, if I manage to make a couple of the putts that kind of stayed around the lip, I could have been probably 7- or 8-under par through 10,'' Garcia said. ''It was that good. And it wasn't like I was hitting pitching wedge every since time. I was hitting 4-irons and 5-irons and 6irons, so it wasn't that easy.'' It sure felt easy for several players in a gentle opening round — even for an eighth-grader. Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old from China and youngest to compete in a major in 148 years, played well beyond his age and holed a 15-foot putt from just off the 18th green for a respectable round of 73 and a reasonable chance of making the cut. Tiger Woods wasn't far off as he began his quest for a fifth green jacket. Wild at the start, including a tee shot that knocked a cup of beer out of a spectator's hand, Woods settled into a groove and opened with a 70 as his girlfriend, Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn, watched on a few holes. In his four Masters wins, Woods has never opened with a score lower than 70. His key is not to shoot him- See MASTERS, page 2B AP photo Rory McIlroy chips to the 13th green in the first round of the Masters golf tournament Thursday.