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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results Wednesday May 1, 2013 BASEBALL Shasta 13 Red Bluff 14 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL | G1: Red Bluff 14, Shasta 13 | G2: Late LATE SOFTBALL Red Bluff 2 6 Shasta 1 3 Red Bluff captures Sac River League title with wins TENNIS West Valley 1 Red Bluff 8 Red Bluff's results Singles Thunder Shaffer (W) 6-0, 6-0 C.J. Varner (W) 6-0, 6-0 Arif Selvitopu (L) 6-7, 1-6 Curtis Twitchell (W) 6-0, 6-0 Cory Twitchell (W) 6-2, 6-0 Jay Boone (W) 6-2, 6-0 Doubles Shaffer/Varner (W) 10-1 Twitchell/Twitchell (W) 10-3 Boone/Garrett Ward (W) 10-0 NBA PLAYOFFS Western Conference — 1st Round Warriors 100 Denver 107 Daily News photo by Andre Byik Warriors lead series 3-2 Western Conference — 1st Round Red Bluff High's Mitch Fox, left, pitches in the bottom of the first inning against the visiting Shasta Wolves on Tuesday. Fox hit a walk-off RBI single to seal the Spartans' 14-13 win in the first game of a doubleheader. Memphis LATE L.A. Clippers MLB By ANDRE BYIK Giants 2 Arizona 1 L.A. Angels LATE Athletics Today's games TRACK & FIELD Red Bluff Enterprise 3:30 p.m. Corning Lassen 3 p.m. TENNIS Orland Corning Hits fly here, there, everywhere in RB win 3:30 p.m. NBA PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference — 1st Round Boston TNT New York 4 p.m. New York leads series 3-1 Eastern Conference — 1st Round Atlanta NBATV Indiana DN Sports Editor No lead is safe. At least that's what Red Bluff Spartans and Shasta Wolves baseball teams proved in a back-and-forth game at Red Bluff High School on Tuesday. The Spartans' Mitch Fox hit a walk-off RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the seventh inning and Red Bluff overcame a seven-run deficit to seal a 14-13 win over Shasta in the first game of a doubleheader. The Spartans built a 4-0 lead through two innings before the Wolves' bats came biting back in the third, when they scored six runs off six hits. Fox was on the mound at the time and was nailed on the hand and stomach by a liner off the bat of Wade Gulden. Fox picked up the ball that hit him and overthrew third base in an attempt to record an out, which led to a run scored by Bailey Odell. Shasta's first of six in the frame. Fox would stay in the game, but would be relieved by Kyle Martin in the inning after giving up the lead and a grand slam to Carson Parks (2 for 3, 6 RBIs) Fox said he was getting hit up in the zone, and wasn't throwing first-pitch strikes. The strong wind on the day also affected his location, he said. Fox's redemption would come later. The Wolves' Travis Dankson (2 for 4, 1 RBI) gave Shasta a 7-4 lead in Daily News photo by Andre Byik the fourth off an infield Red Bluff High's Colin Igarta slides into home during a baseball game RBI single and boys in purple would rally again in against the Shasta Wolves on Tuesday at Red Bluff High School. on the threat, recording get the two runs it needed in middle, bringing Sinclair (3 the top of the fifth. Xavier Martin (2 for 4, 1 consecutive two-RBI hits to the top of the seventh off for 4, 1 RBI) across the RBI) and Gulden hit con- cut Shasta's lead to 11-8. RBIs from KC Toombs and plate and into his teamsecutive RBI doubles to Wyatt Houghtby Tyler Joyce to make it 13- mates waiting for him nearright and Parks capped the knocked an RBI-single to all. by. inning with a two-RBI dou- center of his own and CJ In the bottom of the sev"The one thing about ble to center to give the Somavia would score on a enth, Sinclair hit a one-out Mitch is you can't faze Wolves an 11-4 lead going passed ball to cap a six-run infield single and Boone him," Spartans coach to the bottom of the inning. inning for the Spartans. reached base on a bobbled Ryland Sanders said. "NotThe Spartans could have Boone brought Sinclair grounder to give the Spar- ing rattles him. He's always been looking forward to the across the plate in the sixth tans a scoring opportunity. calm, he's always cool, he's nightcap, but Tyler Boone to tie the game at 11 and And after Dodero struck always collected. No matter loaded up the bases after then took advantage of a out, Fox stepped up to the what the situation is." getting hit by a pitch fol- wild pitch to score and take plate with two outs and runFox finished 3-for-3 batlowing back-to-back sin- a 12-11 lead. Houghtby hit ners on first and second. ting and knocked in four gles by Garrett Sandow and an RBI sacrifice fly to right Fox said he just wanted runs. Evan Sinclair. to cap the inning and give to make contact and not be The Spartans visit ShasWalker Dodero (1 for 4, the Spartans a 13-11 lead. the last out. ta at 4 p.m. Friday for their 2 RBIs) and Fox capitalized But the Wolves would His hit bounced up the series and season closer. 5 p.m. Series tied 2-2 Western Conference — 1st Round Houston Oklahoma City TNT 6:30 p.m. Series tied 2-2 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Western Conference — 1st Round Sharks NBCS Vancouver 7:30 p.m. Series tied 0-0 MLB Giants Arizona CSNB 6:40 p.m. L.A. Angels Athletics CSNC 12:35 p.m. JV Spotlight Special to the DN The Red Bluff Spartan JV baseball team dropped both ends of their doubleheader with Shasta Tuesday 8-5 and 10-9. The losses were the first of the season for the JVs after a 27-0 start. The team is now 92 in league while Shasta has one loss (10-1). The two teams will meet in the season finale on Friday in Red Bluff. If the Spartans win they will share the JV league title with Shasta. In the 8-5 loss in Game 1 starting pitcher Will MacDonald was let down by a porous defense that allowed 7 unearned runs. In Game 2 the JVs battled back from a 10-5 deficit to eventually lose 10-9. NBA PLAYOFFS | Nuggets 107, Warriors 100 Denver staves off elimination in tough win DENVER (AP) — Kenneth Faried brought the energy and the Denver Nuggets rediscovered their toughness in time to stave off elimination Tuesday night with a 107-100 win over the Golden State Warriors. The Nuggets slowed down Golden State's guards, jumpstarted their transition game and got under Andrew Bogut's skin in Game 5, jumping out to a 22-point lead before weathering the Warriors' frenetic fourth quarter rally. Game 6 is Thursday night in Oakland. Golden State leads the series 3-2. Andre Iguodala had 25 points and 12 rebounds, Ty Lawson had 19 points and 10 assists and Faried had 13 points and 10 boards. Stephen Curry, whose 18 3-pointers were the most by any player in NBA history in the first four playoff games of his career, went ice cold, missing his first five 3pointers before finally hitting with 5:09 left to pull Golden State to 96-91. He finished 1 of 7 from long range and scored 15. Harrison Barnes led Golden State with 23 points and nine rebounds. AP photo Denver Nuggets guard Ty Lawson, right, scoops up a loose ball as Golden State Warriors guards Stephen Curry (30) and Klay Thompson defend on Tuesday. Faried responded to Curry's sole 3-pointer with an alley-oop dunk, helping to settle down the Nuggets, who had much of their lead wither away during Golden State's 11-0 run bookended by Klay Thompson's jumpers early in the fourth quarter. Curry and Thompson missed back-to-back 3s that would have made it a two- point game with less than two minutes left, and Wilson Chandler's 3 seconds later at the other end made it 10395. Chandler finished with 19 points. Faried capped his night with an alley-oop dunk from Andre Miller before fouling out. The Warriors never got closer than five points after Denver's first-half blitz led by Faried. Faried had seven points, eight boards and a big block in the first half as the Nuggets raced out to a 66-46 halftime lead by finally playing their brand of basketball to avoid, at least for now, another early exit from the playoffs. The third-seeded Nuggets finally played in the postseason like they did in the regular season, when they were the league's best transition team and piled up points in the paint on their way to an NBA franchisemost 57 wins. And it was Faried to put his foot down 48 hours after his size-16 sneaker left a hole in the wall just inside the visiting locker room at Oracle Arena following the Nuggets' third straight loss to the sixth-seeded Warriors. After Denver lost three straight games, coach George Karl had pinned his hopes on a return to the Pepsi Center, where the Nuggets haven't lost backto-back games since Feb. 89, 2012. The crowd had plenty to cheer about, but it was Faried who really brought the buzz back. With the Faried setting the tone and hounding Bogut, the Nuggets raced out to a 36-22 lead with their best quarter of the series. It was 44-31 when Bogut gave a two-handed shove to Faried's neck, sending him falling out of bounds underneath the basket. Bogut was whistled for a flagrant-1 foul and Faried made one of two free throws before Miller's subsequent layup.