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Tuesday World Cup — Uruguay vs. Netherlands, 11 a.m., ESPN MLB — Red Sox at Rays, 4 p.m., MLBN MLB — Giants at Brewers, 5 p.m., CSNB MLB — Yankees at Athletics, 7 p.m., CSNC Tour de France — Stage 3, 5:30 a.m., VERSUS WNBA — Sun vs. Silver Stars, 5 p.m., ESPN2 Sports 1B Tuesday July 6, 2010 Proud to be a... Girls rip Anderson 10-0 The Daily News recently held a contest asking readers to write an essay addressing why they’re proud to be an American. Since sports fans are also a prideful bunch, especially high school sports fans, the essay contest got me to thinking about what would reader sub- missions look like if they were asked to describe why they back our local schools. I’d imagine to hear the fol- lowing sentiments... Rich Greene We’re proud to be Red Bluff Spartans fans because we graduate spec- tacular student-athletes. We have wonderful facilities and host some of the area’s finest tour- naments. We have coaches who care about kids and parents who love their kids. Even if sometimes those two groups butt heads about what is right, it shouldn’t be forgotten the arguments are because there’s such passion at heart. We have built up some of the best programs around in volleyball, wrestling and softball. Above all else, we’re proud to be fans of kids who represent our school and our city in the right way. Through the travel of our athletes, wearing Red Bluff across their chest, other communities catch a glimpse of what makes our town so great. We’re a town of small-town values, but large aspirations. We like when our athletes show that hard work creates winners and even when they don’t finish on top, we like how their determination instills pride in us anyway. We’re proud to be Corning Cardinals fans because pride is synonymous with our school. Our athletics are rich in tradition. We’re winners. We’re proud to get so many students involved to give them a well-rounded high school experi- ence. It leads to our alumni doing great things. We’re coming off a wonderful year with suc- cess in football, boys and girls basketball, girls tennis, cross country, baseball, wrestling and a section title in soccer. New players, new coaches, it doesn’t matter — that sense of Cardinal pride seems to be hand- ed down just by donning the red and black. We win with grit and virtuosity, skill and for- titude and with the whole community behind our teams. Friday nights in autumn are special here. We’re proud of the Wing-T. We’re proud of lining up and daring other teams to stop our blend of power and speed. We’re proud when they can’t. But we’re proud of what our kids can do. We’re proud to be Los Molinos Bulldogs fans because our athletes make the most of their opportunities. Our kids are Bulldogs. Longer bus rides, smaller rosters, fewer resources — small school sports can be extreme- ly difficult at times, but you’d never know it by the way our student-athletes respond. They find ways to be successful. They find ways to have fun. They find ways to impress us. Our kids mature with their commitment. We’re a tight-knit community and our high school sits at the center of that. There’s less pressure on our kids and our ath- letes are able to enjoy playing the game and tak- ing the lessons away from sports. That’s not to say wins don’t fill us with pride as well. Last year showed our teams are back on the upswing. If other schools have forgotten, it won’t be too long before they once again notice Bulldog pride again. We’re proud to be Mercy Warriors fans because having pride in your family is what you do and our school is just one large extended fam- ily. No student gets left behind in our school. Administration, teachers, parents and even the kids themselves look out and support each other. When you’re a Warrior, someone’s always there rooting for you. Our sports programs are different than what you’d find at a larger school. We have kids com- ing out for sports they’ve never played before and exchange students blending alongside our top athletes. It’s a special mix. We’re proud to be Northern Section basketball champions, that’s for sure, but we’re also proud of our other programs. Our teams always seem to get better through- out the course of the season and our school seems to get better every year. We have to throw in how we’re proud to be bringing back our football program this season. We’re proud sports gives us a way to extend our family. Daily News Sports Editor Rich Greene is proud to be Daily News Sports Editor, because he is able to spend his days and nights covering four fantastic schools. You can reach him at 527-2151, ext. 109 or by e-mail at sports@redbluffdailynews.com. By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor So far so good. Red Bluff’s 11-and 12-year-old Lit- tle League Softball All-Star team took care of business, Monday, with a 10-0 mercy-shortened win against Ander- son in the opening round of the District 1 tournament. Hailey Reineman put the 10-run mercy rule into play in the fifth inning when she doubled with the bases loaded to bring home Danielle Mueller and Stephanie Brunello to cap a four- run inning. Caitlyn Igarta and Bailey Akins combined for five innings of shutout pitching for Red Bluff. Igarta pitched the first three innings of the game and struck out three. Her defense put her in a jam in the third inning — then got her out of it. Anderson’s first two batters of the inning reached on infield errors, before Red Bluff turned a 4-3-2 double play and Igarta struck out the next batter to hold the shutout. Red Bluff was already up 6-0 by that point. Madison Waelty worked a full- count walk in the first inning and was followed by an Akins single and an Ashleigh Fox hit-by-pitch to load the bases. Jenny McCluskey then blooped an RBI single into right field to score Waelty and Akins. The bases were loaded again a bat- ter later when Cheyanne Johnson was hit by a pitch and Natalie Duggins drove in a run with a fielder’s choice groundout to third base. Red Bluff scored a fourth run in the opening inning on a dropped third strike. Two more runs were added in the second inning when again Waelty start- ed a scoring rally — this time with an infield single. Akins drew a walk and Fox drove them both in with a double to make it 6-0. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aubrey Huff said he’d never been so tired playing in a game when he came to bat in the seventh inning. The Milwaukee Brewers are tired, too, of playing the same mediocre baseball that’s hampered them all season. Huff hit a two-run single after another costly error by shortstop Alcides Escobar and the slumping San Fran- cisco Giants beat Milwau- kee 6-1 on Monday. ‘‘That whole game I was running on fumes. If I don’t get tomorrow off, I’ll be run- Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff’s Hailey Reineman makes a catch in the first inning. Akins took over for Igarta on the mound in the fourth inning and went on to strike out the side. She ran into trouble in the fifth inning as Anderson loaded the bases, but got out of the jam with two more strikeouts to finish with five. Red Bluff finished off Anderson with their four-run fifth inning, which started with a McCluskey walk. Kristen Lasby then singled when her ball dropped in front of the right fielder’s feet. That was followed by walks from Mueller, Brunello and Kaitlyn Miranda setting up Reineman’s game-clinching blast to the centerfield fence. Red Bluff continues play in the Dis- trict 1 winner’s bracket at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Cottonwood. Huff helps Giants rally past Brewers ning on fumes until the All-Star break,’’ said Huff, who shortened his swing on his big hit. ‘‘I got lucky enough to just flip one out to the left.’’ With the game tied at 1 in seventh, the Giants loaded the bases with one out against reliever Kameron Loe. Freddy Sanchez then hit a grounder to Escobar, who dropped the ball and failed to get a forceout. Escobar said he took this eye off the ball. ‘‘I think I would’ve had a double play,’’ he said. ‘‘Every day there’s a lot of balls to the shortstop. I don’t want to drop any balls. That sometimes happens. Yester- day I dropped two. I don’t want to drop any.’’ Huff then singled against Zach Braddock to make it 4- 1. Huff had been stuck in a 3-for-17 rut with runners in scoring position before his clutch hit, which helped hand Loe (0-1) his first loss in the majors since Sept. 28, 2007. Braddock also threw a wild pitch that allowed Sanchez to score. Brewers manager Ken Macha said Escobar would take at least two days off before the All-Star break. ‘‘I’m more frustrated than the fans are,’’ Macha said. ‘‘Today it comes down to one play. You think we were getting a double play and then couldn’t get it done.’’ Corey Hart extended his hitting streak to 20 games in the fifth, but Milwaukee fin- ished 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position. ‘‘They put the ball in play with the bases loaded. We didn’t. We struck out or popped up. They put it in play and made us make the See GIANTS, page 2B Daily News photo by Rich Greene Ashleigh Fox congratulates her pitcher Bailey Akins, Monday, during the 11-and 12-year-old Red Bluff Little League Softball All-Stars District 1 game in Cottonwood.