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Sports Tehama Tracker Thursday's results 1B Friday April 19, 2013 MLB Giants 2 WARRIORS Milwaukee 7 Inexperienced, but Denver bound SF — Crawford 3-4, 1 RBI MIL — Gallardo, 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER NHL Minnesota San Jose LATE Wednesday's results TRACK & FIELD Red Bluff at Foothill Meet Red Bluff 2 p.m. Red Bluff winners Girls Natalie Renfroe — 800m (2:31.14), 1,600m (5:48.64), 3,200m (13:33) Lily Brose — 100m (12.40) Adrienne Hinkston — 400m (1:01.32) Kayla Thayer — Discus (113-6), Shot put (33-0.5) Team — 4x400 (50.81), 4x400 (4:16.31) Boys Stephen Hackstaff — 100m (10.88), 200m (22.47), 400m (52.03) Austin Torres — Triple jump (40-11.25) OAKLAND (AP) — David Lee has worked for eight seasons to be in the NBA playoffs. The last time he even attended a postseason game was between the Bulls and Wizards in Chicago before the 2005 draft. ''It's been a long time to wait,'' said Lee, who spent his first five seasons with the New York Knicks. ''I'm having to do more to calm myself down than to get hyped to be ready for it.'' A lot of Lee's teammates can relate. Andrew Bogut is the only Golden State Warriors starter who has ever been to the playoffs. Only five players have been to the postseason. Heck, only five players on the current roster were even in the NBA the last time the franchise made the playoffs in 2007. When the sixth-seeded Warriors begin their first-round series at third-seeded Denver on Saturday, it will be uncharted territory for most involved, including second-year coach Mark Jackson. For the first time, the former NBA point guard will be in a suit on the bench instead of a jersey on the court when the ball is thrown up for the first time. See PLAYOFFS, page 2B AP photo The Warriors' Stephen Curry has yet to play a playoff game in his career. That will change Saturday. BREWERS 7, GIANTS 2 Today's games SOFTBALL Shasta Tournament Shasta Red Bluff 8 a.m. Chico Red Bluff FG 10 a.m. Fort Bragg Red Bluff 2 p.m. Corning Lassen 4 p.m. BASEBALL Foothill Red Bluff 7 p.m. Corning Lassen 4 p.m. TRACK & FIELD West Valley Invite at Oroville (Harrison Stadium) Corning AP photo Red Bluff Noon MLB San Diego Giants CSNB Tampa Bay Cain struggles as Giants get swept 7:15 p.m. SD — Volquez SF — Bumgarner Athletics San Francisco Giants' Javier Lopez throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Thursday in Milwaukee. CSNC 4:10 p.m. OAK — Anderson TB — Cobb On the tube AUTO RACING 11:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for STP 400, at Kansas City, Kan. (same-day tape) 1:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for STP 400, at Kansas City, Kan. BOXING 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Champion Javier Fortuna (21-0-0) vs. Miguel Zamudio (24-1-1), for WBA interim featherweight title, at Atlantic City, N.J. EXTREME SPORTS Noon ESPN — X Games, at Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil 4 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Greater Gwinnett Championship, first round, at Duluth, Ga. Noon TGC — PGA Tour, The Heritage, second round, at Hilton Head Island, S.C. 3:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA, LOTTE Championship, third round, at Kapolei, Hawaii MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. MLB — Kansas City at Boston NHL HOCKEY 5:30 p.m. NBCSN — Nashville at Chicago SOCCER 5:25 p.m. ESPN2 — Mexican Primera Division, Leon at Chiapas Around town The Tehama County Police Activities League is sponsoring a free girls basketball league for girls grades 6th through 8th. Sign ups are Tuesdays and Fridays at 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at Reeds Creek Elementary School 18335 Johnson Road in Red Bluff. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Matt Cain's struggles continued against the Milwaukee Brewers. Yovani Gallardo homered and struck out six in his first start since being arrested on a drunken driving charge, and the Brewers beat San Francisco 7-2 Thursday for a three-game sweep. ''We knew how good these guys are,'' San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. ''They will get back on track. It's baseball. We came in here and (Milwaukee) played well. They swung the bats well and they pitched well. These last two games we faced pretty good pitchers and they did a good job on us.'' San Francisco lost for the fourth time in six games and fell to 0-4 when Cain pitches. Cain (0-2) gave up seven earned runs and seven hits while striking out four without a walk in six innings. The Brewers led 7-0 after three innings. ''It didn't really matter what pitch it was in those three innings,'' Cain said. ''Everything was coming back to the middle. Right in the middle. I was just not executing the pitches at all.'' See GIANTS, page 2B AP photo Milwaukee Brewers' Rickie Weeks steals second with the Giants' Brandon Crawford covering during the third inning Thursday in Milwaukee. SACRAMENTO KINGS After frustrating season, uncertainty awaits SACRAMENTO (AP) — After three stints as an interim coach, this season was supposed to be Keith Smart's first real chance to show what he could do on the NBA sidelines with a full summer and training camp to prepare. Instead, the pending sale and relocation of the Sacramento Kings to a Seattle group became a daily distraction for Smart's squad. The Kings finished 28-54, missed the playoffs for the seventh straight year and head into another offseason with the roster the same as the franchise's future off the court — uncertain. ''Sometimes you don't reach that goal the first time. Sometimes there's pain and frustration,'' Smart said. ''And that's what we had this year — pain and frustration. Now you've got to try and do it all again.'' Maybe. The Maloof family has had a signed agreement since January to sell the Kings to a group that wants to move them to Seattle and rebrand them the SuperSonics — who left the Pacific Northwest for Oklahoma City in 2008. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has streamlined a new arena financing plan and put together a competing investor group to buy the team and keep it California's capital city. NBA Commissioner David Stern has said expansion is not an option right now and a decision between the two bids is unlikely until at least May. Since players first learned of the pending purchase agreement on their smartphones three months ago, they've been peppered with questions before every game — at home and on the road — and from family and friends wondering what will happen. Sometimes even players would ask reporters in the locker room about developments. With that disruptive backdrop, they still had to play and practice like pros. Most kept quiet about how much the possible relocation really affected the team's focus until after a 112-108 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in the regular-season finale Wednesday night. ''Since I've been here, it's been the same thing, every year the same thing,'' said center DeMarcus Cousins, drafted fifth overall by Sacramento in 2010. ''I'm tired of it and I know the fans are tired of it.'' The Kings have some big roster decisions to make this summer — but can't until an ownership group is stabilized. See KINGS, page 2B