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Weekend Sat — World Cup — USAvs Ghana, 11:30 a.m., ABC Sat — Wimbledon, third round, 9 a.m., NBC Sat — College World Series, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Sun — NASCAR — Lenox Industrial Tools 301, 10 a.m., TNT MLB —Pirates at Athletics, Sat, 7 p.m., Sun, 1 p.m., CSNC MLB — Red Sox at Giants, Sat, 4 p.m., FOX, Sun, 1 p.m., CSNB Sports 1B Weekend June 26-27, 2010 Renegades take 2nd at state The Red Bluff Renegades, an 18- and-under Senior AAA baseball team, took second place at the U.S.S.S.A. state championship wood bat tourna- ment in Woodland June 19-20. The tournament featured a no-hit- ter thrown by the Renegades Scott Avery during the semifinal. The Renegades went undefeated in pool play posting a 6-0 win over the Central Coastal Seals and a 7-5 win over the CV Eagles. Derek Jones opened up the tourna- ment with a walk and the Renegades kept rolling from there behind six strong innings of pitching from Storm Lewis. Avery drove in three runs, behind a two-run RBI triple in the sixth inning. Cody Gappa and Andrew Millner each scored two runs and Cliff Dais and Trevor Rau also scored. The Renegades started slowly against the Eagles, but in the third inning Trevor Gipson and Bryer Whetstone jump started the offense for four runs. David Ratcliffe drove in two runs in the victory and Austin Brownfield picked up two hits. Zane Medeiros pitched five innings and Millner picked up the save. In knock-out play the Renegades defeated GB Whiplash 6-0 behind Avery’s no-hit performance, in which he struck out eight batters. Millner drove in a pair of runs and Cliff Dais and Storm Lewis each drove in a run as well. Millner struck out 10 for the Rene- gades in the championship, but it was- n’t enough in a 5-3 loss to the CV Eagles. Rau scored two runs in the loss. Giants beat BoSox in wild game Brazil, Spain move on Brazil 0, Portugal 0 DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Portugal reached the second round of the World Cup on Friday after a 0-0 draw with group winner Brazil as two of soccer’s most powerful offenses couldn’t score. Brazil had already secured advancement and won Group G with seven points, two more than Portugal. Ivory Coast, which beat North Korea 3-0, was third with four points. The Koreans ended with zero. Portugal came into the match with a comfortable goal dif- ferential to just about guarantee its spot in the round of 16 even with a loss. Brazil plays Chile on Monday in Johan- nesburg. Portugal faces Spain on Tuesday in Cape Town. The match was one of the most-anticipated in the group stage, a meeting between two talented teams known for their attacking style. Brazil came into the tournament as the top- ranked team, while Portugal is No. 3. Both teams had dom- inating wins in the previous match, with Brazil beating Ivory Coast 3-1 and Portugal routing North Korea 7-0. The result kept alive a 19-match unbeaten streak for Por- tugal, which hasn’t lost since a 6-2 defeat at Brazil in a 2008 friendly. It halted Brazil’s seven-match winning streak. Spain 2, Chile 1 PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — David Villa and Andres Iniesta each scored as Spain beat Chile 2-1 on Friday at the World Cup, a result that sends both teams on to the round of 16. Villa got his goal on a shot from 45 yards out in the 24th minute, when goalkeeper Claudio Bravo came out of his area and cleared a ball straight to the Spain striker. Iniesta doubled the advantage by beating Bravo with a right-footed shot from the edge of the area in the 37th, with Marco Estrada ejected after collecting his second yellow card on the play. Chile didn’t back down, pressing and scor- ing on substitute Rodrigo Millar’s deflected shot in the 47th. Spain finished at the top of Group H with six points and will play Portugal in the next round. Chile was second and will play Brazil. Switzerland was third and Honduras was last. Villa’s goal at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld Stadium halted Chile’s early momentum. He ran on to the loose ball and curled a high, left-footed shot from just inside the Chile half into an open goal after Bravo had rushed out of the area to clear Alonso’s long ball as Fernando Torres chased it down. Later, Villa and Iniesta — returning from a right leg injury — worked the ball down the field together with Inies- ta side-footing it past Bravo into the far corner. Chile was the first South American team to lose a match at the 2010 World Cup. MCT photo The Giants’ Freddy Sanchez gets upended by Mike Cameron during Friday night’s game. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Juan Uribe homered, Jonathan Sanchez won his second straight decision, and the San Francisco Giants rallied from an early three-run deficit before holding on through closer Brian Wilson’s struggles to beat the Boston Red Sox 5- 4 on Friday night. Sanchez (6-5) appeared in for a long night after he allowed Kevin Youkilis’ three-run homer in the first inning, but he contributed an RBI infield single as San Francisco got three runs back in the second. Buster Posey had an RBI single that inning among his three hits. The Red Sox lost Dustin Pedroia in the third after he fouled a ball off his left foot. Tim Wakefield (2-6) was solid but didn’t get enough support from his weary teammates. The Red Sox arrived in the Bay Area at 4 a.m. Boston had the bases loaded in the seventh but came up empty-handed. Santiago Casilla struck out Victor Mar- tinez to escape the jam, then recorded two outs in the eighth before Wilson came in to finish it for his 21st save in 23 chances — but he made things interesting as usual. After allowing a two-out single to Darnell McDonald, David Ortiz stepped in to pinch-hit — with Big Papi drawing a mixture of boos and cheers. He drew a five-pitch walk then Wilson got Marco Scutaro on a called third strike. In the ninth, Wilson gave up a two- out triple to Youkilis and an RBI single to Martinez. Adrian Beltre singled before Bill Hall walked to load the bases. McDonald grounded out to end it on Wilson’s 42nd pitch. Uribe hit a solo shot in the third and the Giants scored what wound up a key insurance run on Freddy Sanchez’s sacrifice fly in the eighth. The teams met for the first time since Boston swept a three-game series at Fenway Park in 2007, and this is the Red Sox second trip to the Giants’ 11- year-old ballpark. Winning the opener this time pro- vides a boost for the Giants on the heels of their 2-4 road trip to Toronto and Houston. They are four games into a stretch of 20 straight without a day off leading up to the All-Star break. Jonathan Sanchez labored through 5 1-3 innings with six strikeouts and five walks, but the lefty bounced back from his shortest outing of the year, 2 2-3 innings last Sunday at Toronto. Sanchez is 5-2 in eight starts at AT&T Park, allowing three or fewer runs in each of those games. Wakefield allowed an RBI bunt single to Sanchez that drove in a run. Wakefield cost him- self another run on the play when he fielded the bunt and wildly flicked it past Youkilis at first for an error that brought Aaron Rowand home for a 3- 3 game. Switzerland 0, Honduras 0 BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Honduras held Switzerland to a 0-0 draw in Group H of the World Cup on Friday, a result that knocked both teams out of the tour- nament. The Swiss could have locked up a spot in the sec- ond round with a two-goal win over Honduras. But Switzer- land played with little urgency or creative flair until late in the match, and it couldn’t turn its domination of possession into quality scoring opportunities. Honduras almost stole a win in the 71st minute, but goal- keeper Diego Benaglio denied a wide-open Edgar Alvarez with a brilliant one-handed save. The draw ended a Swiss run in South Africa that started with a 1-0 upset win over European champion Spain. But Switzerland then lost 1-0 to Chile, and couldn’t muster a goal against winless Honduras. Ivory Coast 3, North Korea 0 NELSPRUIT, South Africa (AP) — Yaya Toure, Koffi Romaric N’Dri and Salomon Kalou all scored for Ivory Coast in a 3-0 win over North Korea at the World Cup, but the Elephants didn’t advance to the round of 16. Ivory Coast started the match needing a big win and a Portugal loss to Brazil to have any chance of moving on. But Brazil and Por- tugal tied 0-0, putting the Portuguese into the next round. Ghana is the only one of six African teams to advance to the second round. North Korea lost all three matches, giving up 12 goals and scoring just one. Crisp just misses cycle in A’s win Roddick advances OAKLAND (AP) — Coco Crisp had three hits and Ben Sheets won for the first time in more than a month when the Oakland Athletics beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 14-4 on Friday night. Crisp singled, doubled and tripled in his third game since coming off the dis- abled list earlier this week. He just missed becoming only the seventh player in Oakland history to hit for the cycle after flying out, walk- ing and grounding out in his final three plate appear- ances. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Edwin Jack- son was so wild early there was no reason to think he would even finish the game, forget throw the fourth no- hitter of the season. This being the Year of the Pitcher, though, any- thing was possible. Jackson made it happen, all right, throwing a whop- Neil Walker homered and had a career-high three hits for the Pirates. Walker, who needed a triple for the cycle, appeared to get hit in the back of the head by team- mate Ryan Church’s knee as they chased a foul ball. Walker remained face down on the turf for several min- utes. He was eventually helped to his feet and left the field under his own power. Coming off a three-game sweep by Cincinnati, the A’s had 17 hits and a season- high for runs. Every starter except Rajai Davis had at least one hit while eight players drove in at least one ping 149 pitches — the most in the majors in five years — leading the Ari- zona Diamondbacks to a 1- 0 victory Friday night over his former team, the Tampa Bay Rays. ‘‘It’s one of those moments where you’re just caught up in the moment. It’s one of the craziest games I’ve had, especially run. That was big for Sheets (3-7), who hasn’t received much run support in his first season in Oakland. Sheets, who signed a one-year, $10 million contract with the A’s in the offseason, scattered eight hits over six innings and had a season-high nine strikeouts to end his person- al eight-game losing streak. The Oakland right-han- der labored through a 13- minute first inning when he gave up three straight hits and two runs, then allowed single runs in the third and fifth. Sheets, who hadn’t won since beating Tampa Bay 4-2 on May 8, retired the game starting off how it did. Not being able to find the strike zone with the fast- ball,’’ Jackson said. ‘‘Good thing I could throw the slid- er for strikes in any count. It just resurrected my game.’’ Jackson (5-6) walked eight, all but one in the first three innings, but the Rays still were no-hit for the third time since last July, includ- eight of the final 10 batters he faced before giving way to the bullpen. Crisp, who singled in the first and doubled in the sec- ond, hit a leadoff triple in the fourth and scored on Daric Barton’s sacrifice fly to break a 4-4 tie. He also walked and scored as part of Oakland’s seven-run sev- enth inning when the A’s sent 11 men to the plate. Cliff Pennington singled three times and had three RBIs while Ryan Sweeney added three hits and scored three times for Oakland, which improved to 7-0 against Pittsburgh in inter- league play. Arizona’s Edwin Jackson no-hits Rays ing Dallas Braden’s perfect game at Oakland on May 9. Colorado’s Ubaldo Jimenez no-hit Atlanta on April 17 and Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay tossed a per- fect game at Florida on May 29. Armando Galarra- ga lost his perfect game with two outs in the ninth on a blown call by umpire Jim Joyce. WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — There were moments during Andy Roddick’s third-round match at Wimbledon when he could have allowed himself to get distracted by frustration. Indeed, there was a time, not all that long ago, when he probably would have. Not anymore. The No. 5-seeded American let the second set slip away against No. 29 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Ger- many, then quickly regrouped Friday, finishing with 28 aces in a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3 victory to reach the second week at the All England Club. ‘‘I’ve done a good job of not saying a word out there this whole tournament, just going about my business the right way,’’ Roddick said, ‘‘so I just tried to play the next point.’’ Roger Federer was back to his best Friday, beating 2001 Australian Open runner-up Arnaud Clement 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. John Isner, meanwhile, was feeling anything but good Friday, when he trudged on court at noon to play in the sec- ond round a day after finishing the longest match in tennis history. Understandably wiped out after his victory over Nicolas Mahut went to 70-68 in the fifth set Isner, of Tampa, Fla., bowed out 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 to Thiemo de Bakker in 74 min- utes — the shortest men’s match at Wimbledon so far this year. Friday’s winners included No. 3 Novak Djokovic, the 2008 Australian Open champion; No. 12 Tomas Berdych, a French Open semifinalist; and No. 15 Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 Wimbledon champion, who eliminated No. 21 Gael Monfils. Daniel Brands, a German ranked 98th, moved on when No. 31 Victor Hanescu of Romania stopped playing in the fifth set because of what was officially listed as a leg injury. Hanescu was cited by the chair umpire in that set for swearing and spitting toward the crowd; police arrested four people at that court, but the tournament could not verify if the episodes were related. No. 8 Kim Clijsters defeated No. 27 Maria Kirilenko 6- 3, 6-3, and No. 17 Justine Henin eliminated No. 12 Nadia Petrova 6-1, 6-4. Venus Williams got off to a slow start Fri- day, before overpowering No. 26 Alisa Kleybanova.