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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Monday's results Tuesday June 4, 2013 MLB 10 Athletics 2 Milwaukee Crisp: 4-5, 2B, HR Jaso: 3-6, 2 RBI NBA PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference Finals Indiana 76 Miami 99 Miami wins series 4-3 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Eastern Conference Finals Boston 6 Pittsburgh 1 Boston leads series 2-0 Today's games MLB Athletics Milwaukee CSNC 5:10 p.m. OAK — Griffin, 5-4 MIL — Lohse, 1-6 Toronto Giants CSNB 7:15 p.m. TOR — Jo.Johnson, 0-1 SF — Lincecum, 3-5 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Western Conference Finals Chicago Los Angeles NBCSN 6 p.m. Chicago leads series 2-0 On the tube COLLEGE SOFTBALL • 5 p.m., ESPN — World Series, finals, game 2, Oklahoma vs. Tennessee, at Oklahoma City CYCLING • 9 p.m., NBCSN — Criterium du Dauphine, stage 3, Amberieu-en-Bugey to Tarare, France (same-day tape) MLB • 4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Texas at Boston or Cleveland at N.Y. Yankees • 5 p.m., CSNC — Oakland at Milwaukee • 7 p.m., CSNB — Toronto at San Francisco • 7 p.m., WGN — Chicago Cubs at L.A. Angels NHL • 6 p.m., NBCSN — Playoffs, conference finals, game 3, Los Angeles vs. Chicago TENNIS • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — French Open, quarterfinals, at Paris (same-day tape) North beats South in softball All-Star game champions this year. The limited North roster, that included Etna's Jessie Eiler catching the whole game, needed an assist from the South's arsenal of arms. That led to Gridley's Cox taking care of the fourth inning and Salsbury hanSee NORTH, page 2B See SOUTH, page 2B MediaNews Group photo by Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record Corning High's Kristin Cox (bottom) of the South team slides at home after scoring in the first inning Saturday during the Lions All-Star softball game at Hooker Oak Field in Chico. smash to deep left field was caught by a diving Maddy Levin of Sutter, just short of the Hooker Oak Field fence. The win or the loss didn't matter to Salsbury, who went 15-0 for Paradise, the Northern Section Division III champion. "Technically, I played for the winning team, I guess," said Salsbury, who added she will play for Butte College next year. "It didn't matter which side I was on. I just came here to have fun." That was the common theme with the area's best getting together to play one more game as high school standouts, including eight of them who were section Kings' new regime takes long-term approach Spartans track compete at state The high school sports season wrapped up Friday and Saturday at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis. Several Red Bluff Spartans competed in the event, however none qualified out of Friday's preliminary rounds. The Lady Spartans 4x400 relay team finished 15th with a time of 3:55.42. Lily Brose finished 27th in the 100-meter dash in 12.45 seconds. The Red Bluff boys relay teams finished 22nd in the 4x400 in 3:25.02 and 24th in the 4x100 with a time of 45.94 seconds. Heat off to Finals, beat Pacers 99-76 MIAMI (AP) — Their season, their legacy, their reign atop the NBA was all at stake, and the Miami Heat responded in a manner befitting defending champions — with a blowout. LeBron James scored 32 points and grabbed eight rebounds, ailing Dwyane Wade matched his postseason high with 21 points, and the Heat ran away from the Indiana Pacers 99-76 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night. The Heat will play the San Antonio Spurs for the NBA title in a series that starts Thursday in Miami. Miami led by as many as 28 points, a shocking amount for a series that had an aggregate score of Heat 569, Pacers 564 entering Monday night. The Heat actually trailed by six in the early going, were still down 21-19 after the first quarter and it was starting to look like it was going to be one of those down-tothe-wire nights. Not even close. James exited with 5:08 left, shaking retired soccer star David Beckham's hand as he made his way to the Heat bench for a relatively subdued celebration. Ray Allen added 10 points for Miami, which earned its 78th victory of the season, matching the 11th-best, single-season total in NBA history. Roy Hibbert scored 18 points for the Pacers, who got 14 from David West, 13 from George Hill and 10 from Lance Stephenson. By TRAVIS SOUDERS MediaNews Group CHICO — There was pomp. There was circumstance. And for two teams, there was a celebration for the final prep-level game of their players' lives. In the case of the South, the celebration was a slightly bigger one. Pleasant Valley's Matt Henderson earned MVP honors of the Bob Busch Classic, the annual Chico Breakfast Lions baseball senior all-star game, and six pitchers combined on a dominant four-hitter as the South defeated the North 14-1 on Saturday night at Doryland Field. Divisions I through VI all had a say in the clubbing for the South, though the two players who call Doryland home sure looked the most comfortable. Henderson, starting at shortstop alongside third baseman and PV teammate Michael Sanderson, had two hits, scored two runs, stole two bases and shone defensively and Sanderson was 2 for 3 with a two-run double. "I hadn't seen lot of these guys, but in the practices we've had, I was really confident in what we had coming in," Henderson said. "There's a lot of D-I players (on the North team), and it was surprising to me By JOSEPH SHUFELBERGER MediaNews Group CHICO — If you can't beat them, might as well join them. That's what Paradise High's Jessie Salsbury and Gridley's Fraine Cox did Saturday in the George Hibdon Classic, the high school all-star softball game organized by the Chico Breakfast Lions Club. The North beat the South 6-2 at Hooker Oak Field with an assist from the two South standouts in the nineinning game featuring nominated seniors from around the Northern Section. The North team was so short on pitching that Shasta's Alex Silva, the game's most valuable player, pitched seven innings, the game's first three and the final four, with Salsbury and Cox filing in between her two stints, tossing an inning apiece for the other team. Silva, Shasta's ace this season, earned the MVP award. Not only did she pitch the seven innings under the warm afternoon sun, but she also delivered a pair of doubles and was robbed of another extra-base hit when her first-inning South grabs baseball win 49ers sign Ventrone AP PHOTO Michael Malone, left, and Vivek Ranadive, the new owner of the Sacramento Kings basketball team, laugh during a news conference where Malone was named the Kings new head coach. SACRAMENTO (AP) — Of all the lessons Mike Malone has learned from his head coaches in over a decade as an NBA assistant, the problem of unrealistic expectations was obviously one of them. Malone was introduced Monday by new Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive as the first head coach in the new era in California's capital city and he made sure to avoid a mistake that plagued his former boss in Golden State. Malone said: ''We're not going to guarantee the playoffs in the first year like we did in Golden State that's for sure.'' Mark Jackson took the Warriors to the playoffs in his second year instead. Malone's immediate goals for rebuilding the struggling Kings are less tangible than wins and losses. He said the three things he's going to judge himself on in his first year as coach are his ability to change the culture in the locker room, to establish a defensive identity and to develop players. That meshes with the thought process of Ranadive, a former minority owner of the Golden State Warriors who got to know Malone well during his time as assistant there the past two years. ''It's a process,'' Ranadive said. ''It's going to take a couple of years. Our success criteria aren't going to be wins and losses right off the bat.'' Ranadive, the chairman of TIBCO Software, likened an NBA team to a jazz band filled with individuals rather than a regimented marching band. ''Everybody can do their own thing but they come together and the coach provides the sheet music and it's all music at the end,'' he said. ''That's what we see for the future.'' Ranadive takes over a franchise that fell on hard times in the final years of See KINGS, page 2B SANTA CLARA(AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have signed safety Raymond Ventrone to a two-year contract. The 49ers waived fullback Jason Schepler on Monday to make room in the roster. Ventrone has played in 73 career games with the New England Patriots and Cleveland Browns since entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of Villanova. He has 50 career tackles and 39 special teams stops. Crisp, Milone send A's to 10-2 win over Brewers MILWAUKEE (AP) — Coco Crisp had a leadoff homer among his four hits and Tommy Milone pitched in at the plate to help the Oakland Athletics beat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-2 on Monday night. The surging A's have won four consecutive games and 15 of 17 to move a season-high 11 over .500 at 35-24. Milone (6-5) allowed five hits, struck out four and didn't issue a walk in seven strong innings. He retired his first eight batters before pitcher Marco Estrada blooped a two-out single in the third. Milone also took advantage of a rare chance to bat in an interleague road game, going 2 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored. The long ball sparked the A's to a quick 2-0 lead. Crisp, who reached base five times in six plate appearances, got them started with his 10th career leadoff homer. Brandon Moss belted a solo shot with one out in the second. Oakland broke it open in the fifth when it sent 11 batters to the plate. A double by Jed Lowrie drove in a run. Josh Donaldson knocked in another with a single off reliever Burke Badenhop, who entered after Estrada left with an injury. Josh Reddick followed with an RBI single. Milone helped his own cause with a base hit that scored a run for a 6-0 mar- gin. John Jaso added a single, his second of the inning, to drive in two more and push the A's lead to eight runs. The Brewers put an end to the shutout bid in the fifth when Rickie Weeks hit a two-run homer. Estrada (4-3) lasted four innings, giving up five runs and nine hits. He struck out three and walked one. He departed with a left hamstring strain after giving up the runscoring double to Lowrie in the fifth. The Brewers said Estrada is day to day. The A's tacked on two more runs in the seventh to close out the scoring. Weeks appeared to hit a solo homer off the top of the left-field wall with two outs in the seventh. Umpires initially signaled home run but after a review awarded Weeks a triple. He ended up stranded at third. Hideki Okajima and Jesse Chavez combined to pitch two innings of scoreless relief for Oakland.