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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results Sports 1B Friday June 14, 2013 NBA FINALS 109 Miami LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL | Tournament of Champions 93 San Antonio Series tied 2-2 MLB 10 Giants 0 Pittsburgh SF — Cain 6.2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER PIT — Snider, 1-4 N.Y. Yankees 2 18 innings Athletics 3 NYY — Cano 3-6, 2 RBI OAK — Smith 3-8, 1 RBI Today's games MLB Giants Atlanta CSNB 4:30 p.m. SF — Bumgarner ATL — Medlen Seattle Athletics CSNC 7:05 p.m. SEA — Saunders OAK — Milone On the tube AUTO RACING 8:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Quicken Loans 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. 10 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, practice for Alliance Truck Parts 250, at Brooklyn, Mich. 12:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Quicken Loans 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. 2 p.m. SPEED — ARCA, Michigan ARCA 200, at Brooklyn, Mich. 4 p.m. NBCSN — IndyCar Series, qualifying for Milwaukee IndyFest, at West Allis, Wis. (same-day tape) BOXING 5 p.m. NBCSN — Heavyweights, Bryant Jennings (16-0-0) vs. Andrey Fedosov (24-2-0), at Bethlehem, Pa. 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Jundy Maraon (150-1) vs. Juan Carlos Payano (13-0-0) for vacant WBA Interim title, at West Orange, N.J. GOLF 5:30 a.m. ESPN — USGA, U.S. Open Championship, second round, part I, at Ardmore, Pa. Noon NBC — USGA, U.S. Open Championship, second round, at Ardmore, Pa. 2 p.m. ESPN — USGA, U.S. Open Championship, second round, part II, at Ardmore, Pa. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4:30 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, San Francisco at Atlanta or Milwaukee at Cincinnati Around town 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 530-526-2191. 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. Daily News photo by Andre Byik The Red Bluff Giants major girls softball team's Bailey Diggs throws in the bottom of the first inning against the Central Tehama Wildcats on Thursday at Mill Creek park during the Tournament of Champions championship game. Giants down 'Cats for TOC title By ANDRE BYIK DN Sports Editor The Red Bluff Giants major girls softball team took the bite out of the Central Tehama Wildcats and ran away with a 20-2 win on Thursday at Mill Creek Park to capture a Tournament of Champions title. Red Bluff jumped to an 11-0 lead in the first inning, which was highlighted by RBI hits from Bailey Diggs, Karli Rainwater, Lilly Peterson, Sarah Reineman and Amaya Reed. The Central Tehama Wildcats got one back in the bottom of the frame as Katilynn Ables plated Hayden Ellenberger. The Giants added four more runs in the second inning, two in the third and two more in the fourth to take a 20-1 lead. In the bottom of the fourth the 'Cats Rachel Rogers showed off her baserunning speed by scoring an inside the park home run with a knock that shot into right field. The game was called after after four innings. ——— Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 5272151, ext. 111 or at spor ts@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports Daily News photo by Andre Byik The Wildcats' Katilynn Ables takes a lead at third base against the Giants on Thursday at Mill Creek Park. Athletics 3, Yankees 2 - 18 innings NBA FINALS | Heat 109, Spurs 93 LeBron, Heat even series Giants fan returns home after beating SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Giants fan who suffered brain damage after a beating at Dodger Stadium has returned home after two years in hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Bryan Stow's family said on its website Wednesday that Stow will now live with them in the Santa Cruz area after spending about a year at the Centre for Neuroskills in Bakersfield, a live-in rehab facility. The family said Stow could have used more time at the center, but their insurance will no longer pay for it, so Stow's parents and home nurses will give him the around-the-clock care he needs. Stow, a paramedic, was beaten in a parking lot after the 2011 opening day game between the Giants and Dodgers in Los Angeles. AP photo Oakland Athletics' John Jaso slides into home plate to score the A's second run as New York Yankees catcher Chris Stewart on Thursday. A's take long way to sweep OAKLAND (AP) — Maybe a game-winning, broken-bat hit against baseball's career saves leader in the 18th inning will get Nate Freiman in a nice groove again. Freiman singled home the winning run against Mariano Rivera, lifting the Oakland Athletics to a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday for a three-game sweep. ''It was his deal,'' Freiman said of the cut fastball he saw. ''That one he always throws.'' As a day game after a night game turned into a night game after a day game, John Jaso singled off Preston Claiborne (0-1) to start the decisive rally and went to third on Seth Smith's soft single to shallow left field against Rivera. Rivera issued only the 39th intentional walk of his 19-year career to Jed Lowrie before Freiman ended the 5hour, 35-minute game on New York's getaway day to Anaheim for a weekend series with the Angels. ''A little broken-bat blooper over the third baseman, and the other one the same place,'' Rivera said. ''You can't do anything about it.'' Freiman knew he had it, raising his right arm in triumph. ''I knew that was not getting to the left fielder. I knew it was falling,'' he said. Moments later, Freiman received a celebratory whipped cream pie in the face following his first career game-ending hit — and Oakland's fifth of 2013 after compiling a major league-best 14 walk-off wins last year. He had entered the game in the top of the 16th. The AL West-leading A's (41-27) won their 11th in a row at home, 21st in 26 overall, and moved a season-best 14 games above .500 to extend their best start since 1990. They became the first American League team to play two 18-inning games in one season since Oakland and the Washington Senators did so in 1971. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The biggest adjustment for Dwyane Wade came hours before Game 4 of the NBA Finals. It was when Miami coach Erik Spoelstra made the decision to start Mike Miller over Udonis Haslem, with the thinking that it would help thwart San Antonio's defensive schemes against LeBron James. Instead, it served as a time machine of sorts for Wade — who found his form again, on a night when the Heat absolutely needed it most. The Finals are now a best-of-three series that will be decided next week in Miami, thanks largely to Wade, who came up with his best game in months to carry the Heat in Game 4 on Thursday night. He had 32 points, six rebounds, six steals and four assists, and the Heat shook off an early 10point deficit to beat the Spurs 109-93 on Thursday night. The series is knotted at two games apiece, with Game 5 in San Antonio on Sunday. ''Right now it's a three-game series,'' Wade said. ''Two great ballclubs, we just want to come out again and play well.'' Wade's postseason has been highly un-Wade-like, with him averaging only 14.2 points in the playoffs entering Thursday. His right knee has been an issue for more than three months — not coincidentally, that's also when his last 30-point outing before Game 4 was. And by the time fourth quarters roll around, he's typically been finished, getting an average of 2.3 points in the final 12 minutes of games in these playoffs. He is not the 2006 version anymore, without question. But what the Spurs did against him defensively Thursday had to strike a nerve. Because the Heat started Miller, the Spurs had no choice but to open the game with Tiago Splitter — their center — guarding Wade. That experiment ended after 47 seconds. And in the second half, the Spurs went to Boris Diaw — another person who it's difficult to envision guarding a former Finals MVP who's quicker and smaller — to open against Wade. Nonetheless, it got Wade going. He made 14 of 25 shots, significant in both terms of success ratio and amount, since it's the second-highest shot total he's taken this season. He wanted the ball, and the Heat wanted him to have the ball. ''How are you going to respond?'' Wade asked his teammates before the game.