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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Wednesday's results Thursday April 25, 2013 NBA PLAYOFFS Western Conference — 1st Round Houston Oklahoma City VISTA MIDDLE SCHOOL BASEBALL JV SPOTLIGHT BASEBALL 102 105 Spartans sweep Falcons, preserve record Oklahoma City leads series 2-0 Eastern Conference — 1st Round Atlanta 98 Indiana 113 Indiana leads series 2-0 Western Conference — 1st Round L.A. Lakers LATE San Antonio MLB Arizona 3 10 innings Giants 2 ARZ — Nieves, 1 RBI SF — Crawford 3-4, 2 RBI Athletics 5 Boston 6 OAK — Young 2-3, 4 RBI, 2 HR BOS — Ortiz 2-4, 1 RBI Courtesy photo The Vista Middle School baseball team went undefeated at the Sequoia Tournament earlier this month as they beat Grant, West Cottonwood and Mountain View. Pictured, from back left, are coach Doug Schrader, Michael Chapman, Kolby Button, Wesley Clawson, Koleby Potter, Eric Irving, Andre Avila, Derek Gordon and coach Kyle Goodman. From bottom left: Bowdie Davies, Evan Tanner, Tanner Tweedt, Austin Youngblood, Justin Nicholls and Colton Youngblood. NHL Sharks LATE Phoenix Tuesday's results Diamondbacks 3, Giants 2, 10 innings SOFTBALL 15 University Prep 1 Los Molinos Today's games TENNIS Red Bluff Foothill 3:30 p.m. Anderson Corning 3:30 p.m. Willows Mercy 3:30 p.m. GOLF At Gold Hills Red Bluff Noon At Sevillano Links Corning Noon BASEBALL West Valley Corning 3 p.m. NBA PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference — 1st Round Miami TNT Milwaukee Vista sweeps through Sequoia tourney 4 p.m. Miami leads series 2-0 Giants again fall in extra innings SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch hitter Will Nieves delivered a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Gerardo Parra and A.J. Pollock also drove in a run for the Diamondbacks, who beat the Giants in 11 innings on Tuesday night. Didi Gregorius had two hits. Arizona led 2-1 before Brandon Crawford hit a tying homer off David Hernandez (1-0) with one out in the ninth. Crawford also doubled home a run in the seventh and finished with three hits. Matt Reynolds got three outs for his second save in as many days. Reynolds has yet to allow a run in 11 1-3 innings. Chad Gaudin (0-1) got the loss as San Francisco dropped consecutive home games after winning seven in a row at its waterfront ballpark. Diamondbacks ace Ian Kennedy and Giants lefthander Madison Bumgarner were locked up in a score- less pitchers' duel before Gregor Blanco singled and scored on Crawford's hit in the seventh. Blanco also had a leadoff single in the fifth for San Francisco's first hit of the game. Kennedy was charged with a run and four hits in six-plus innings. He struck out four and walked two. The Diamondbacks responded in the eighth. Pinch hitter Eric Hinske was awarded a ground-rule double when Giants reliever Santiago Casilla, warming up in the bullpen, gloved his sharp liner down the thirdbase line. Parra then ran for Hinske and scored on Pollock's single to center. Parra added an RBI single in the ninth, but Crawford went deep in the bottom half. Bumgarner struck out seven in 7 1-3 innings, yielding one run and five hits. He retired 18 of 19 batters before Hinske's double. Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt singled in the first and has reached in all but one game. As reported to the DN The Red Bluff Spartan junior varsity baseball team swept a doubleheader from Central Valley Tuesday evening to extend its undefeated season record to 25-0 (9-0 League). The JVs won the first game 10-0 behind Bryce Sinclair's complete game one-hitter. Big hits were registered by catcher Ryan Gamboa, shortstop Lane Pritchard and outfielder Loen Langley. In the second game the JVs won 12-2 behind a combined one-hitter from pitchers Richie Borges and Owen Swarthout. Offensively the JVs were again led by Gamboa and Pritchard. The Spartans travel to Central Valley for a doubleheader Friday. They end their season with three games against Shasta next week. Drew, Ortiz carry Red Sox past A's 6-5 AP photo San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford, right, celebrates after hitting a solo home run with teammate Nick Noonan (21) Wednesday. BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Drew hit a two-run triple, David Ortiz had two hits and drove in a run and the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 6-5 on Wednesday afternoon to take a three-game series. It was Boston's ninth win in 12 games and came after a 13-0 loss to Oakland a night earlier. Chris Young had a threerun homer and a solo shot for the Athletics, who finished a six-game road trip 15. They were swept at the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend. Ortiz is 8 for 16 since returning to the lineup on Saturday for the first time since last August. He missed 71 of the final 72 games last season and all of spring training with an Achilles tendon injury. NFL Eastern Conference — 1st Round Brooklyn NBATV Chicago Series tied 1-1 Western Conference — 1st Round L.A. Clippers Memphis TNT 6:30 p.m. MLB Baltimore Athletics CSNC 7:05 p.m. BAL — Hammel OAK — Parker On the tube COLLEGE SOFTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Alabama at LSU GOLF 9:30 A.m. TGC — LPGA, North Texas Shootout, first round, at Irving, Texas Noon TGC — PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, first round, at New Orleans MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Toronto at N.Y. Yankees or Cincinnati at Washington NBA 4 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 3, Miami at Milwaukee 6:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 3, L.A. Clippers at Memphis NFL 5 p.m. ESPN — Draft, round 1, at New York NHL 4:30 p.m. NBCSN — Pittsburgh at New Jersey Raiders look to reverse bad draft fortunes 5:30 p.m. ALAMEDA (AP) — For seven straight years starting in 2004, the Oakland Raiders had a top 10 pick in the NFL draft only to end up disappointed in the outcome. Six botched selections and one misguided trade later, the results from those years add up to no playoff berths, no winning records, no Pro Bowl invitations and only oft-injured Darren McFadden left on the roster. There were perceived safe picks like Robert Gallery in 2004 that never developed. There were reaches like Darrius Heyward-Bey in 2009 who failed to prove the critics wrong. Then there was JaMarcus Russell, perhaps the biggest draft bust ever with seven wins as a starter for his more than $39 million in salary. The simplest explanation for a decade during which the Raiders lost the second-most games in the NFL is that late owner Al Davis lost his touch when it came to the draft. "Al was an outstanding football man," former Cowboys player personnel director and NFL draft consultant Gil Brandt said. "I think he knew as much as anyone in the National Football League. But in the last four or five years of his life, he slowed down. There wasn't somebody there to take over or someone there to fight him when he wanted to take someone like Heyward-Bey." Now second-year general manager Reggie McKenzie gets his first crack at a premium pick in what will be one of the most important steps in a rebuilding process that has mostly featured the cutting of many of Davis' previous draft picks and other prominent players in order to get a bloated salary cap in order for next season. The Raiders hold the third pick in the draft Thursday night with glaring needs on both sides of the ball, most notably at pass rusher, offensive line, receiver and cornerback. With so many holes, the philosophy for McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen will be finding the best player and avoiding the busts and disappointments that have done the Raiders in so often of late. "It's obvious that you like certain players more than others," McKenzie said Tuesday. "You can go and ask every scout in the room and you'd probably get a favorite player that differs from the other. But that's the fun part of this job is trying to get all those opinions and come to a common goal to choose one." From taking Gallery over Larry Fitzgerald in 2004 to the decision to draft Russell over Calvin Johnson in 2007 to the injuries that have limited 2008 first-rounder McFadden throughout his career to the ill-fated decision to value HeywardBey's speed so much to take him ahead of Michael Crabtree and Jeremy Maclin in 2009 to the disappointment of Rolando McClain in 2010, high picks have hurt more than helped the Raiders. "You anticipate you're going to get an immediate starter, and hopefully a Pro Bowl player," NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said. "When that guy doesn't pan out, A, you've got big money attributed to him at his position and, B, at some point you've got to backfill. So you're paying double for one position and you get all out of whack and obviously the more you do that the more it affects your salary cap." McKenzie has released 2006 first-rounder Michael Huff, Heyward-Bey and McClain already this offseason and cut ties with two other players acquired for first-round picks in Richard Seymour and Carson Palmer. Those moves have added substantially to the "dead money" on the Raiders' salary cap with more than one-third of available money this year being allocated to players no longer on the team. McFadden and kicker Sebastian Janikowski are the only players among the team's first-round picks still on the roster, tied with Chicago for the fewest in the NFL and far below the league average of 5.5 first-round picks sticking with teams. Oakland also is without a second-round pick that went to Cincinnati in 2011 in the Palmer deal and a fifth-rounder dealt to Seattle in 2011 for departed linebacker Aaron Curry, making the rebuilding process even more difficult. "It's bad when you have salary cap problems," Brandt said. "It's really bad when you have salary cap problems and few draft picks." McKenzie's first draft as general manager in Oakland was greatly hindered by a lack of high picks because of previous moves and the fact he didn't have his own scouting department in place until after the draft. He didn't make his first pick until 95th overall when he drafted offensive lineman Tony Bergstrom. Bergstrom played only 10 percent of the offensive snaps as a rookie as he was unable to beat out struggling veterans Mike Brisiel and Cooper Carlisle. Fourth-round pick Miles Burris made the biggest impact as the team's starting linebacker but will have to compete to keep that job this season. Defensive linemen Christo Bilukidi and Jack Crawford played sparingly, receiver Juron Criner caught 16 passes and linebacker Nate Stupar was cut before the season.