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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results Wednesday May 15, 2013 BASEBALL Division 1 Semifinal Red Bluff 6 Pleasant Valley HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL & BASEBALL PLAYOFFS 5 SOFTBALL Division III Semifinal Shasta 6 Red Bluff 7 Division IV Quarterfinal Willows 0 Corning 4 NBA PLAYOFFS Western Conference Semis 91 Warriors 109 San Antonio San Antonio leads series 3-2 Eastern Conference Semis New York 82 Indiana 93 Indiana leads series 3-1 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Daily News photo by Andre Byik Western Conference Semis Red Bluff High's Bryce Etzler swings at a pitch against the Shasta Wolves on Tuesday at Red Bluff High School. Sharks Los Angeles LATE Eastern Conference Semis Ottawa 1 Pittsburgh 4 Pittsburgh leads series 1-0 2 semis, 2 comebacks, 2 finals bids Red Bluff High's softball team squeezes by Shasta Wolves, 7-6 By ANDRE BYIK MLB DN Sports Editor Giants 6 Toronto 10 SF — Sandoval 1-5, 3 RBI TOR — Cabrera 4-5, 2 RBI Texas LATE Athletics Today's games NBA PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference Semis Chicago TNT Miami 4 p.m. Miami leads series 3-1 Western Conference Semis Memphis TNT Oklahoma City 6:30 p.m. Memphis leads series 3-1 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Western Conference Semis Detroit NBCS Chicago 5 p.m. Red Bluff High's softball coach J Howell talks about battling to the 21st out. The Spartans needed about 20 of those in a thrilling comeback victory Tuesday against the Shasta Wolves in the Northern Section Division III semifinals. Emily Larzabal smashed a tworun homer to tie the game at six in the bottom of the seventh inning. Samantha Jones put down a twoout, game-winning bunt that scored Haley Harris and No. 2 Red Bluff squeezed by the visiting and third- Red Bluff High's baseball team stuns Pleasant Valley in extra innings, 6-5 seeded Wolves 7-6 to reach its sixth straight Northern Section title game. "This is maybe one of the better games I've ever been associated with in our 22 years here," Howell said. The game was a rematch of last year's section final and started and ended with bangs, not not a whimper. The Wolves jumped on the Spartans early and notched a 1-0 lead off a two-out single to right field by Nicole Batman that scored Dani Chabolla in the first inning. Red Bluff, however, would retalSee SOFTBALL, page 2B By TRAVIS SOUDERS Chico Enterprise-Record CHICO — These Northern Section CIF playoffs are apparently Walker Dodero's world. Chico baseball teams are just living in it — or at least, they were. Dodero's two-out RBI double tied the game for Red Bluff in the seventh inning against No. 3 Pleasant Valley, just four days after the sophomore tossed a gem against Chico High, and the No. 7 Spartans again upset a Chico team, this time rallying back to beat PV 6-5 in eight innings on Tuesday evening at Doryland Field to advance to the Division I section title game on Saturday. The Vikings had erased a 4-0 deficit crafted by the Spartans in the first two innings, with two-run frames in the fourth and fifth courtesy of a throwing error, an Ian Melton RBI single, sacrifice flies by Ryan Vlasic and Ryan Steindorf and, finally, the go-ahead fifth run on another Melton base hit. PV carried that 5-4 lead into the seventh, when Garrett Sandow greeted PV reliever Matt Price with a leadoff single. Courtesy runner Sam Hendricks was unable to advance after Price got a flyout See BASEBALL, page 2B D-IV SOFTBALL QUARTERFINAL | No. 4 Corning 4, No. 5 Willows 0 Cards shut out Honkers, advance to semis By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer CORNING — The fourth-seeded Lady Cardinals shut out visiting Willows 4-0 Tuesday in a Northern Section Division-IV softball quarterfinal giving Corning its first playoff win since 2007. Cheyenne Boles scattered three hits and four walks and got solid defensive play behind her to hold the visiting Lady Honkers off the scoreboard. Kimmy White doubled and eventually scored on a Willows' error in the second for the only run Corning would need. The Lady Cardinals tacked on three more in the sixth behind some small ball and nifty baserunning. Willows' best chance to score came to start the game when Natalie Massa singled up the middle. Massa stole second on a Corning throw that got past second base, but she took off for third and was eventually thrown out trying to extend the play too far. Rylee Smith followed with an infield single and Morgan Hughes laid down a sacrifice fly that she beat out when the Corning throw pulled the first baseman off the bag. That gave the Lady Honkers two on with one out, but Boles settled down from there with a pair of fielder's choice groundouts to end the threat. White opened up the scoring in See CARDS, page 2B Series tied 0-0 MLB Giants DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF CSNB Toronto 4:07 p.m. SF — Vogelsong TOR — Ortiz Texas CSNC TEHAMA COUNTY ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Corning Cardinals 12:35 p.m. TEX — Ogando OAK — Straily Red Bluff Spartans Softball Athletics Baseball On the tube CYCLING 2 p.m. NBCSN — Tour of California, stage 4, Santa Clarita to Santa Barbara, Calif. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10 a.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Houston at Detroit or Cleveland at Philadelphia WGN — Chicago White Sox at Minnesota 4 p.m. ESPN — Boston at Tampa Bay NBA BASKETBALL 4 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 5, Chicago at Miami 6:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 5, Memphis at Oklahoma City NHL HOCKEY 5 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1, Detroit at Chicago WRESTLING 12:30 p.m. NBCSN — Men's national teams, exhibition, United States vs. Iran, at New York Follow us on Twitter for live game coverage, exclusive online articles and more. @TehamaSports via MaxPreps Kimmy White Corning High softball player Kimmy White on Tuesday ultimately scored the game-winning run against Willows in a Northern Section Division IV playoff game to advance to the semifinals. The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. — Vince Lombardi Red Bluff High baseball player Garrett Sandow drove in the game-winning run against Pleasant Valley on Tuesday to help the Spartans reach the Northern Section Division I title game on Saturday. Garrett Sandow