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Tehama Tracker Wednesday's results 1B Sports Thursday May 30, 2013 MLB Athletics LATE Giants STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Western Conference Semifinals 1 Detroit OT 2 Chicago Chicago wins series 4-3 Today's games MLB Athletics Giants CSN 12:45 p.m. OAK — Griffin, 5-3 SF — Zito, 3-3 NBA PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference Finals Indiana Miami 5:30 p.m. Series tied 2-2 On the tube COLLEGE SOFTBALL • 9 a.m., ESPN2 — World Series, game 1, Nebraska vs. Washington, at Oklahoma City • 11 a.m.. ESPN — World Series, game 2, Tennessee vs. Florida, at Oklahoma City • 4 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, game 3, Arizona St. vs. Texas, at Oklahoma City • 6 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, game 4, Michigan vs. Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City GOLF • 6 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Nordea Masters, first round, at Stockholm • 11:30 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour, the Memorial Tournament, first round, at Dublin, Ohio MLB • 11:10 a.m., WGN — Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs • 12:30 p.m., CSNB, CSNC — Oakland at San Francisco • 4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees or Boston at Philadelphia NBA • 5:30 p.m., TNT — Playoffs, conference finals, game 5, Indiana at Miami TENNIS • 2 a.m., ESPN2 — French Open, second round, at Paris Around town The Red Bluff Bulls American Legion baseball team fundraising dinner scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled out of respect for the Garcia family. The team's thoughts and prayers are with the family at this time. The Red Bluff Vineyard Christian Fellowship is holding a Disc Golf Scramble at Dog Island Park at 1 p.m. Sunday. The event is open to the public. The Spartan Summer Basketball camp is set for June 10-14 at Red Bluff High School. The camp is open to boys and girls in 4th through 12th grade. Current girls and boys coaches will be featured. Camps will be split between elementary, junior high and high school. Registration forms can be found at most schools, the Red Bluff High School office and student store or online a t www2.rbuhsd.k12.ca.u s/rbhs/webclass/school /athletics. The registration deadline is June 10 and the cost is $50. For more information call 529-8710. The Daily News' annual high school Athletes of the Week sports banquet will be held June 12 at the Red Bluff VFW Hall. Athletes of the week eat for free, Dinner is $10 for everyone else. Family, friends, coaches and fans should RSVP for the dinner by calling 5272151, ext. 120. Serena advances at French Open PARIS (AP) — Now things could get a little more interesting for Roger Federer. After a pair of straightforward and straight-set victories at the French Open against qualifiers ranked outside the top 150, the 17time major champion will face a seeded player, France's Julien Benneteau, who not only already beat Federer once this year but also came within two points of upsetting him at Wimbledon, of all places, in 2012. ''I think I'm playing OK,'' Federer said in something of an understatement, considering he's dropped 11 games through six sets so far. ''Definitely think the next match is going to be sort of the big test for me, to see exactly where I stand.'' There wasn't much trouble for Federer in the second round Wednesday, when he beat two-time NCAA singles champion Somdev Devvarman 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 in less than 1 1/2 hours. It really was something of a laugher, especially with Federer serving at 4-0 in the final set. He hit a first serve well out, and both players waited for the linesman to make a call — which he finally did, albeit after a long delay. Federer and Devvarman chuckled, looked at each other, and chuckled some more. As Federer prepared to hit his second serve, he needed to pause because he couldn't regain his composure. Otherwise, little bothered Federer. ''You obviously know he's capable of doing certain things, and you try and make life as tough for him as possible,'' said Devvarman, who played college tennis at Virginia. ''In my case today, I didn't execute. And sometimes even when I did, I feel like he came up with the better shot.'' Federer accumulated a 54-12 edge in winners, in AP photo Serena Williams celebrates scoring a point against Caroline Garcia in their second round match Wednesday at the French Open. part by moving forward to the net on 30 points. ''I'm happy that I was playing offensive and aggressive tennis in the first two matches, because I had the opportunity, but I didn't back off and start to play passive tennis and wait for mistakes. So I took it to my opponent,'' said Federer, the 2009 French Open champi- on. ''But really, I think I'll only know more after the Benneteau match, to be quite honest.'' See OPEN, page 2B Sharks once again fall short of Stanley Cup SAN JOSE (AP) — For all the talk about how this version of the San Jose Sharks was different, the disappointing end to the season was all too familiar for an organization still waiting for its first trip to the Stanley Cup. The Sharks were eliminated from the playoffs Tuesday night with a 2-1 loss to the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings, failing to convert on a few agonizingly close chances that will likely haunt the team until next season starts. San Jose has the second-longest playoff streak in the NHL, having made it to the postseason nine straight times. But every one of those trips has ended short of the Stanley Cup. ''It's heartbreaking,'' center Logan Couture said. ''It's tough. It's been a long year. We battled hard to get where we were. We made some changes and played a good first round then forced, I think the best team in the league, to seven games and almost beat them in their building. It's tough to take.'' While the disappointment is similar, the feeling is very different than a year ago when the Sharks lost in five games in the opening round to the St. Louis Blues. ''I can say it was better than last year but it's still not acceptable to us,'' defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said. ''We want to win and we didn't do that. But we gave it everything we had.'' The strong finish to the regular season, a first-round sweep against Vancouver and a tight series against the defending champions might be enough to persuade general manager Doug Wilson to give this core one more shot at the Stanley Cup. Stars Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski and Dan Boyle all have one year remaining on their contracts before they can become unrestricted free agents. Wilson appeared to start the rebuilding process when he dealt veterans Douglas Murray, Michal Handzus and Ryane Clowe before the trade deadline. But that sparked the team and made it more balanced than star dependent. Now it looks like the Sharks might just need a little bit of tinkering. ''The group that we ended up with after the trade deadline could have went one way or the other,'' AP photo San Jose Sharks defenseman Brad Stuar is checked by Los Angeles Kings left wing Kyle Clifford during the third period in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals Tuesday. coach Todd McLellan said. ''We're in transition a little bit as an organization, obviously, with some of the moves we made. I thought the way they banded together and the way they played for each other and with each other was exceptional. It was a really positive sign for our organization, not only in the playoffs but moving forward. It's not about one or two guys, it's about the group as a whole. They accepted that and I think we have something to build on moving forward.'' This season marked a bit of a changing of the guard in San Jose with the 24-year-old Couture taking over some the leadership role from stalwarts Thornton, Marleau and Boyle. Couture led the team with 21 goals in the regular season, drew the toughest defensive assignments in the playoffs and overcame a sprained ankle to score the overtime winner in Game 3 for the Sharks. Couture had his chances in Game 7 but had one deflection trickle just wide and was too often turned aside by Jonathan Quick. The Sharks nearly got that elusive equalizer in the third period when Pavelski was robbed by a sprawling Quick on a rebound attempt with a mostly open net in the closing minutes. ''It's frustrating,'' Pavelski said. ''We never felt overwhelmed against this team. We knew we could beat them right away so it's disappointing.'' San Jose lost all four games in Los Angeles in the series. The Sharks' best chance to win came in Game 2 when they had a 3-2 lead in the closing minutes before allowing a 5-on-3 goal and a power-play goal in the final 2 minutes to lose. San Jose managed to win all three home games but failed to break through at Staples Center. ''We'd love to go back and play Game 2 over again, the last four or five minutes,'' McLellan said. ''That's probably one that we needed and didn't get.'' The Sharks clearly missed forward Raffi Torres against the Kings after he was suspended for the rest of the series for an illegal hit on Los Angeles' Jarret Stoll. Torres' absence forced Pavelski to move from third line center to a wing on the second line and took away from the scoring depth that was so key down the stretch and against the Canucks. Torres provided a big spark with his speed and physical play after being acquired at the trade deadline from Phoenix. Now San Jose has to decide whether to try to bring him back next season as Torres is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent in July. The other big offseason decision will be what to do with forward Marty Havlat, who has two years and $10 million left on his contract. Havlat got hurt in Game 1 of the first round and tried to come back in Game 3 against the Kings but only managed to play 4 minutes, leaving the team in a lurch. Havlat has missed 51 games in his two seasons with the Sharks and could be a candidate for a buyout if the Sharks decide that money could be better used elsewhere with the salary cap going down next season. Wrestling, baseball-softball, squash on IOC list ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — And now for the gold-medal match. Three months after wrestling got kicked out of the 2020 Olympics, the ancient sport is back in the frame and will compete against baseball-softball and squash for a spot in the games. ''We had the opportunity to have a second chance to compete,'' international wrestling federation head Nenad Lalovic said Wednesday after the three sports made the IOC short list. ''We took the opportunity. We won the first match but there is another one to fight.'' Of eight sports competing for a place on the 2020 program, five were eliminated — karate, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and the Chinese martial art of wushu. The IOC executive board decided to recommend wrestling, squash and baseball-softball to the full IOC assembly for a final decision on Sept. 8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Only one will get through. ''We are competitors. We had seven and now we have two,'' said Lalovic, a Serb who has revamped FILA and led the campaign for reinstatement. ''Be careful, we are good fighters.'' Despite a tradition dating to the Olympics of ancient Greece, wrestling was cut from the list of core sports by the IOC board in February. The decision caused an international uproar and prompted the United States, Russia, Iran and other countries to join forces in an unlikely political alliance to save the sport. Wrestling has gone through a major upheaval since the rejection. Raphael Martinetti resigned as FILA president within days of the decision and was replaced by Lalovic, who won election as full-time leader 10 days ago. FILA has brought women and athletes into decision-making roles and enacted rule changes to make the competition more compelling. Matches will now consist of two three- minute sessions instead of three two-minute periods, and scoring will be cumulative instead of the previous best-of-three system. ''Everybody understood what we have done,'' said Lalovic, wiping away sweat from his forehand after the decision was announced in a packed conference room. ''They probably trust us that we can do more and this is the result. ''But we have to do much more, and to prepare See IOC, page 2B