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Monday LL(11-12 b) — Red Bluff vs Central Tehama in Anderson, 8 p.m. LL (11-12 s) — Red Bluff vs Anderson in Cottonwood, 5:30 p.m. LL (9-10 s) — Red Bluff vs Cottonwood in Corning, 7:30 p.m. MLB— Giants at Brewers, 1 p.m., CSNB MLB— Braves at Phillies, 4 p.m., ESPN MLB — Yankees at Athletics, 7 p.m., CSNC Sports 1B Monday July 5, 2010 Red Bluff opens with win Nadal, Serena win Wimbledon WIMBLEDON, Eng- land (AP) — Rafael Nadal swept Tomas Berdych in straight sets Sunday to win his second Wimbledon title and eighth Grand Slam championship. The top-ranked Spaniard beat the 12th-seeded Czech 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 in 2 hours, 13 minutes to reinforce his cur- rent status as the No. 1 play- er in the game Nadal broke Berdych four times and never lost serve in 15 service games. It’s the second time Nadal has won the French Open and Wimbledon back- to-back. He is now 5-0 in his last Grand Slam finals. With eight Grand Slam titles, Nadal joins a list of greats that includes Andre Agassi, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Fred Perry and Ken Rosewall. He also has five French Open champi- onships and one Australian Open title. On Saturday Serena Courtesy photo The Red Bluff 11-and 12-year-old Little League All-Star Baseball team opened up play with a 21-3 win against Shasta Dam in Anderson,Saturday.The game was called in the fourth inning due to the 10-run mercy run.Ryan Gamboa and Jay Boone pitched for Red Bluff and Boone and Lane Pritchard hit out-of-the-park homers. Red Bluff faces Central Tehama, today at 8 p.m. in Anderson. The Red Bluff 11-and 12-year-old Little League All-Star Baseball team is (from top left): Kolby Button, Zane Kittle, Bryce Baer, Ryan Gamboa, Richie Nunez, Jay Boone, Owen Swarthout, Hobie Abel, Jack Murphy, Will Macdonald, Lane Pritchard,Wesley Clawson, Daniel Foster. The team is managed by Dave Gamboa and coached by Rob Macdonald, Curt Murphy and Donnie Button. Mazzaro pitches A’s to 3-1 win over Indians CLEVELAND (AP) — Vin Mazzaro pitched like an All-Star in order to beat one. The Oakland Athletics’ young right-hander worked into the eighth inning and upstaged Cleveland All- Star Fausto Carmona on Sunday in a 3-1 victory over the Indians. ‘‘He was pretty unhittable for a period there,’’ Oakland manager Bob Geren said. ‘‘Today was a lot better than any of his starts.’’ Mazarro (4-2) won his second straight outing, allow- ing just the one run on seven hits in 7 1-3 innings. He tied the longest start of his career set in June 2009 against Baltimore. ‘‘I felt strong,’’ Mazzaro said. ‘‘I could’ve went more, but the bullpen came in and did the job.’’ Andrew Bailey worked the ninth for his 17th save. He yielded a one- out single to Jhonny Peralta, then got Matt LaPorta to hit into a game- ending double play on the next pitch. Mazzaro avoided giving up a home run for the third consecutive start, covering 20 1-3 innings. He had allowed seven homers in his first 29 1-3 innings this season. ‘‘I’ve been working on keeping the ball down,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s defi- nitely an encouraging sign. I’m throwing in the zone and cutting down on my walks. Guys are mak- ing plays behind me. Good stuff is happening out there.’’ Adam Rosales hit his sixth homer to give Oak- land a 3-1 lead in the sev- enth off Carmona (7-7). It was the first home run allowed by Cleveland in 62 innings overall and the first given up at home in 83 innings since June 15. ‘‘Fausto had another quality start,’’ Indians manager Manny Acta said. ‘‘He deserves credit for turning things around after the past couple of seasons.’’ Carmona went 19-8 in 2007, then struggled to a combined 13-19 record the next two seasons. A year ago, he was back in the minors, seeking to smooth out his delivery. ‘‘I feel so much better this year,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m comfortable, but I still have work to do.’’ Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp left with tightness in his upper left hamstring in the second inning after giving the Athletics a 1-0 lead in the first. Crisp walked, then took second base on a passed ball by Carlos San- tana. He went to third on a ground- out and scored on another ground- out by Ryan Sweeney. Geren doesn’t think the injury will send Crisp back to the disabled list. Crisp has played in only 12 games and been on the DL twice this season, with a broken finger on his left hand in April and a pulled muscle in his right side in May and June. He was activated June 22 and is hitless in 12 at-bats with six strikeouts. Cleveland lost for only the sec- ond time in eight games and was without outfielder Shin-Soo Choo. The Indians’ top slugger, batting .286 with 13 homers and 43 RBIs, went on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a strained right thumb that may require surgery. ‘‘When we left Arizona in spring training, we didn’t anticipate what is going now,’’ Acta said. ‘‘The offense is missing its three best players.’’ Choo may need surgery that could sideline him for at least two months. Outfielder Grady Sizemore is out for the season after knee surgery and shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera may come back in late July after missing two months with a broken left forearm. Oakland lowered its team ERA in day games to a major-league best 2.85, improving to 19-10. The Ath- letics’ 22-32 night record is second- worst in the AL,. Cleveland tied it 1-1 in the third with three straight two-out singles, capped by Austin Kearns driving home Santana from second base. Mark Ellis singled home Jack Cust, who had doubled, to put Oak- land ahead 2-1 in the fourth. Carmona allowed three runs and seven hits over seven innings. ‘‘I pitched good, but not good enough,’’ he said. ‘‘I want to win, need to win.’’ Mazzaro walked one and struck out seven as he faced the Indians on July 4 for the second season in a row. A year ago, Cleveland handed him his first major-league loss, 5-2. The right-hander had started his career with 13 2-3 scoreless innings over two wins. Rockies beat Giants 4-3 in 15 innings DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies kept loading the bases, first in the 10th inning, then in the 13th and again the next inning. And not once did they push a run across. Todd Helton finally came through, on the fourth try, when his sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the 15th inning Sunday night gave Col- orado a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants. Helton’s first-pitch fly off Guillermo Mota (0- 3) ended a 5-hour, 24-minute marathon — the longest game by time in Coors Field history and second longest in franchise history. Dexter Fowler led off with a triple and scored the win- ning run after reaching base for the seventh time in eight plate appearances. Mota issued two intentional walks to load the bases for Helton, who has been mired in a sea- son-long slump and entered the game in the ninth. He grounded into an inning-ending double play in the 11th and struck out with the bases loaded to end the 13th. ‘‘It was good to get it over with,’’ Helton said. ‘‘Get put in that situation enough, bound to come through sooner or later. That was just a result of Dexter hitting a triple. Dexter got on base seven times — that’s pretty amazing.’’ Fowler went 10 for 16 with four triples, seven runs and seven walks in the four- game series that ended with three Rockies victories. Colorado stranded a franchise-record 20 baserunners, including 12 from the eighth through 14th, before winning their longest game this sea- son. Randy Flores (2-0), the seventh Rockies pitcher, worked the 15th after Esmil Rogers gave the Rockies four scoreless innings, allowing two hits with five strikeouts. ‘‘What a job he did,’’ Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. ‘‘He was throwing unhittable stuff in there, which is why we weren’t going to take him out of the game.’’ Rogers escaped trouble in the 13th when right fielder Seth Smith attempted to backhand Aubrey Huff’s sinking liner and the ball went past him for a triple. Rogers struck out pinch hit- ter Pat Burrell and Eli Whiteside, then intention- ally walked Juan Uribe before Edgar Rente- ria grounded out to end the threat. The Rockies took a 3-0 lead into the eighth behind Jason Hammel, who held the Giants to five singles through seven scoreless innings. He gave up a leadoff homer to pinch hitter Nate Schierholtz followed by a Andres Torres’ inside-the-park homer, the ball rattling around the right-field corner and eluding Ryan Spilborghs. ‘‘That’s just an incredible game to win,’’ Tracy said. ‘‘It would have been very, very diffi- cult to take to be on the short end of it. I thank God we have a day off tomorrow, I really do, because that is going to be very, very benefical to a lot of people.’’ Lincecum, Wilson make NL All-Star team DENVER (AP) — Tim Lince- cum and Brian Wilson will repre- sent the San Francisco Giants at the July 13 All-Star game in Ana- heim. The two were notified Sunday before the team’s game with the Colorado Rockies. ‘‘I’m excited for them,’’ San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. ‘‘Timmy, when you look at the hiccups that he had, you have to realize he’s had a good first half. ‘‘And what a year Brian has had,’’ Bochy added. ‘‘We aren’t happy where we’re at, but I can’t think where we would be without him because he’s bailed us out so much.’’ Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young award winner, was selected for the third straight year. It’s the first time that’s happened to a Giant pitcher since Juan Marichal was picked three times in a row in the 1960s. ‘‘I was kind of surprised to hear it,’’ said Lincecum, 8-4, a 3.28 ERA in 17 starts and an National League-leading 121 strikeouts. ‘‘I won’t say I had anything set up to go back to Seattle during the break, but I had an idea that I would want to do that.’’ He was named NL team in 2008 and 2009. He did not appear in the 2008 game but started a year later in 2009, working two innings, allowing two hits and two runs. Wilson has one All-Star game on his resume. He worked 2-3 of an inning and struck out one batter in the 2008 game. Going into Sunday, Wilson had 2-0 with a 2.10 ERA and convert- ed 22 of 24 save opportunities. He ranks second behind San Diego’s Heath Bell (23) in the NL in saves. Williams has won her fourth Wimbledon title and 13th Grand Slam championship by sweeping Vera Zvonare- va in straight sets in the women’s final. The top-ranked and defending champion Ameri- can beat the 12th-seeded Russian 6-3, 6-2 in 67 min- utes Saturday to extend the Williams family dominance at the All England Club. Williams served nine aces, broke three times and never faced a break point. She finished the tournament without dropping a set. Williams added to the Wimbledon titles she won in 2002, 2003 and 2009. This was the first time she defeat- ed someone other than her sister Venus in the final. The Williams sisters have now won nine of the last 11 Wimbledon titles. Lesnar rallies to beat Carwin LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brock Lesnar rallied from a horrific first-round beating to stop Shane Carwin with a choke in the second round, defending his heavyweight title at UFC 116 on Saturday night. Lesnar, the intimidating former professional wrestler and the UFC’s biggest pay- per-view star, took down Carwin in the second round. He got Carwin in an arm tri- angle choke, forcing Carwin to tap out at the MGM Grand Garden. In the co-main event in the UFC’s hometown, Chris Leben stopped Yoshihiro Akiyama with 40 seconds left in the final round to earn a dramatic victory in Leben’s second fight in two weeks. Welterweight Chris Lytle also beat Matt Brown, and veteran Stephan Bonnar stopped Krzysztof Soszyns- ki with a second-round flur- ry. Rose holds on to win at Aronimink NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Justin Rose had to sweat out the final five holes at steamy Aron- imink to win the AT&T National by one shot for his second PGA Tour title in his last three starts. One week after Rose lost a three-shot lead in the final round, he had a five- shot advantage when he made the turn Sunday. Then came consecutive three-putt bogeys, and the 29-year-old Englishman had to battle for pars to the secure the victory. He closed with an even- par 70 for a one-shot victo- ry over Ryan Moore, who finished with eight straight one-putt greens for a 65.