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Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results Sports 1B Wednesday June 12, 2013 NBA FINALS 77 Miami 113 San Antonio San Antonio leads series 2-1 MLB Giants 2 Pittsburgh 8 SF — Abreu 1-2, 1 RBI PIT — Alvarez 3-3, 3 RBI N.Y. Yankees LATE Athletics Today's games Stanley Cup Finals Boston NBC Chicago 5 p.m. Series tied 0-0 MLB Giants Pittsburgh CSNB 4:05 p.m. SF — Zito, 4-4 PIT — Liriano, 4-2 N.Y. Yankees Athletics CSNC 7:05 p.m. NYY — Hughes, 3-4 OAK — Straily, 3-2 On the tube MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 11 a.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs or Detroit at Kansas City 5 p.m. ESPN — Cleveland at Texas NHL HOCKEY 5 p.m. NBC — Playoffs Stanley Cup Finals, game 1, Boston at Chicago WNBA BASKETBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Connecticut at Indiana Around town The Daily News V's Awards Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. today at the Red Bluff VFW Hall. Red Bluff High Spartan Summer Football Program Incoming athletes: Freshman and sophomore weight training and conditioning begins 7:30 a.m.Monday at Spartan Stadium. Come prepared to work out and get ready for the 2013 season. Contact Coach Sanders for more information at 530-5262191. Returning varsity athletes: Weight training and conditioning begins at 7 a.m.Monday in the Spartan Weight Room. Come prepared to work out and get ready for the 2013 season. Contact Coach Hein for more information at 530-941-3579. Mechanic killed at site of new 49ers stadium SANTA CLARA (AP) — An elevator mechanic was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a counterweight while working in a shaft at the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium, state officials said. Donald White, 63, was found dead shortly before 7 a.m. at the bottom of the shaft, said officials with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. White had worked as an elevator mechanic for more than 40 years and was employed by Schindler Elevator Corp., a subcontractor for the stadium's general contractor, Turner-Devcon. NBA FINALS | Game 3 - Spurs 113, Heat 77 Spurs set NBA record for 3-pointers SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Danny Green scored 27 points, Gary Neal added 24 and the San Antonio Spurs set an NBA Finals record with 16 3-pointers in a 113-77 victory over the Miami Heat on Tuesday night that gave them a 2-1 series lead. Green hit seven of nine 3s, Neal was six for 10 from deep and Tim Duncan chipped in 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Spurs, who responded to a 19-point drubbing in Game 2 with a blowout of their own. The Spurs flummoxed four-time MVP LeBron James for a third straight game, holding him to 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting. James also had 11 rebounds and five assists, but he missed 11 of his first 14 shots and never looked comfortable against San Antonio's swarming defense. Game 4 in the best-ofseven series is on Thursday night in San Antonio. Kawhi Leonard had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Spurs, who are two wins away from the franchise's fifth championship with two more games at home in the raucous AT&T Center this week. Mike Miller made all five of his 3-pointers for 15 points and Chris Bosh had 12 points and 10 AP photo The Miami Heat's Chris Bosh (1) and San Antonio Spurs' Kawhi Leonard (2) battle for a rebound during the first half of Game 3 in the NBA Finals basketball series Tuesday in San Antonio. rebounds for the defending champion Heat, who never led in the game. The Spurs came home to their devoted fans encouraged by the split, but reeling a little after James, Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers thumped them 103-84 in Game 2. When the series started, it was billed as the battle of the Big 3s — James, Wade and Bosh for Miami against Tony Parker, Duncan and Manu Ginobili for the Spurs. But it's really been about the little guys for the most part, outside of Parker's sensational performance in Game 1. Green, who was cut twice by the Spurs and also played in Slovenia, Austin and Reno in a roundabout journey to the NBA, was the lone bright spot in Game 2, hitting all six of his shots for 17 points. Chalmers scored 19 points in Game 2 and GOLF | U.S. Open ignited the game-deciding 30-5 run that blew the Spurs out of South Beach and swung the momentum back in favor of Miami, and Miller has been hitting everything he puts up. Neal, a backup guard from Towson University, became the latest noname to make an impact when he three 3s in the second quarter to put San Antonio in control. His 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer gave the Spurs a 50-44 lead at the break, allowing the Spurs to weather a quiet start from Parker, who had just six points. Parker briefly left the game going back to the locker room in the third quarter before returning at the start of the fourth quarter. It was Miller's shooting, not James' overall brilliance or Wade's tenacity, that kept it from See SPURS, page 2B Pirates 8, Giants 2 Giants fall to Cole, Pirates AP photo Rory McIlroy signs autographs for fans during practice for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Golf Club Tuesday in Ardmore, Pa. For McIlroy, it's step by step ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — From No. 1 to just one of many, Rory McIlroy's game has clearly hit a rocky patch. No wonder he's considered making Philly's most famous run. ''I was half thinking of going to the steps in the city, the Rocky steps,'' he said. ''Wherever they are, going to run up those. Just because we are where we are.'' McIlroy has more in mind that landing triumphantly at the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's steps. He'd like to leave an imprint on Philadelphia as the U.S. Open champion. First, he needs to find the eye of the tiger, even at the risk of catching Tiger's eye. McIlroy will be part of the feature group the opening two rounds, playing alongside Tiger Woods and Adam Scott — Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in the world ranking. Woods, Scott, Graeme McDowell have been rattled off at the top of the list of contenders who can win this week at Merion Golf Club. In just six months, McIlroy has gone from golf's next great player to a mere afterthought at Merion. Most weeks, he hasn't come close to winning. The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland believes, though, his game is rounding into form, and it might help that conditions at Merion are soft because of days of rain, just as it was at Congressional for his record U.S. Open win. ''I much prefer this sort of golf,'' he said Tuesday. ''I expect the scores to be a little lower than what they would be if the course was a little firmer and dryer.'' McIlroy won the 2012 PGA championship on Kiawah Island to go along with his U.S. Open title in 2011. But he finished 25th at the Masters this year and is coming of a brutal 78 at the Memorial Tournament. He barely made the cut and finished 57th. He has a 33rd and a 45th on his resume and, most notably, quit in the middle of a round at the Honda Classic. He played well to get in contention at the Texas Open in early April, finishing second with a final-round 66 for his best finish of the year. ''This year, I feel like my game's actually in good shape,'' he said, referring to his Open chances. ''I feel coming in this year I've got a way better chance than I did last year.'' McIlroy attributed the strain to wanting to improve on his breakthrough season, when he won the PGA, five tournaments around the world, money titles on the two biggest tours and established himself as the best player in golf. McIlroy, who started the year in a slump and still hasn't won, struggled to See OPEN, page 2B PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gerrit Cole took a shutout into the seventh inning of his major league debut and hit a tworun single in his first at-bat Tuesday night, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-2 victory in front of a festive crowd. The top pick in the 2011 draft, Cole allowed two runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings after being called up from TripleA Indianapolis earlier in the day. He began his highly touted career with a three-pitch strikeout — all 96-mph fastballs — of Gregor Blanco and struck out two overall. He did not walk a batter. Pedro Alvarez went 3 for 3 with a home run to back Cole. Starling Marte also homered and Andrew McCutchen and Russell Martin had two hits each. San Francisco put two runners on in the first and loaded the bases in the second against Cole (1-0) but failed to score in either inning. Cole then set down 13 in a row, starting with Marco Scutaro's flyout to end the second. The Giants finally broke through in the seventh inning but the Pirates had built a 5-0 lead by then. Many of the 30,614 in attendance cheered every move made by the pitcher who is expected to be the Pirates ace of the future. The sizable crowd for a weekday game, though, caused problems for the organization, which instituted a new security measure for fans entering the stadium. The use of electronic wands slowed down the entrance procedure and Pirates President Frank Coonelly issued an apology during the game. ''We made the decision several weeks ago to enhance the security at the gates beginning with tonight's game, but unfortunately we failed in our preparation and execution. We stopped the wanding procedure at the start of the game and were able to clear the lines at the gates by the end of first inning,'' Coonelly said in a statement. ''The experience was simply unacceptable and we will ensure this does not happen again.'' Tim Lincecum (4-6) gave up four runs — two earned — on seven hits in 4 2-3 innings while striking out four and walking two. It was the two-time Cy Young Award winner's fourth loss in his last five starts. San Francisco reliever George Kontos, who gave up a two-run home run to Alvarez in the seventh inning, was ejected for hitting McCutchen with a pitch in rear end in the eighth. There were a total of four hit batters in the game. Cole snapped a scoreless tie when he lined a two-run single into right field in the second inning with one out and the bases loaded. Cole did not have hit during his two seasons in the minor leagues, going 0 for 6 with three strikeouts. Martin, Alvarez and Neil Walker singled to load the bases with no out. After first baseman Brandon Belt reached two rows into the stands to catch Clint Barmes' foul pop, Cole delivered in his first plate appearance. Lincecum was knocked out during a two-run fifth that pushed Pittsburgh to a 4-0 lead.