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Thursday Action Sports — X Games, 11 a.m., 5 p.m., ESPN MLB — Marlins at Giants, 12:30 p.m., CSNBA Golf — Ricoh Women’s Open, 6 a.m., ESPN Golf — US Senior Open, Championship noon, ESPN2 Sports 1B High finishes in Yreka Local swimmers had an outstanding showing at the Yreka Swim Team Invitational. The Red Bluff Tri- tons produced 10 over- all Top 3 swimmers on their way to a third team place finish and Sun Oaks Aquatics added two more Tehama County Top 3 perfor- mances. Gregory Wilson, 17, won five events — the 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyles as well as the 100 backstroke on his way to capturing an overall first place high point total in the 17-18 boys division. He was also second in the 100 breaststroke, 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke events. Sarah Reineman also took first place in her age group, the 7-8 girls division. She won the 100 freestyle, 25 breast- stroke, 50 freestyle, 50 breaststroke, 25 back- stroke and 25 freestyle. Reineman added a third place finish in the 25 butterfly. Larsen Dahl, 17, fin- ished second overall in the 13-17 boys division behind three wins in the 100 and 200 breast- stroke and 100 butterfly. Dahl was second in three more events — the 100 freestyle, 50 freestyle and 100 back- stroke. Another second place overall finish was had by Curtis Twitchell in the 13-14 boys division. Twitchell won the 200 individual medley and 50 and 100 freestyles. He also placed sec- ond in four events — the 400 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 butter- fly and 100 backstroke and was third in the 200 breaststroke. Laura Schreter was second in the 13-14 girls division with wins in the 200 and 400 freestyles. She placed second in the 100 back- stroke and 50 freestyle. In the 9-10 girls divi- sion, Zoe Casey cap- tured second overall and won the 50 freestyle. She was second in the 50 breaststroke and 50 backstroke and third in five more events. Jaden Humphrey was second overall in the 6- and-under boys divi- sion. He placed second in the 25, 50 and 100 freestyles. Jasmine Atencio added yet another sec- ond place overall finish after winning the 25 butterfly and 100 indi- vidual medley in the girls 7-8 division. Courtesy photo Red Bluff Tritons swimmer Kaylee Humphrey, 8, competes in a backstroke event at the Yreka Swim Invitational. She was second in the 100 freestyle and third in two more events. Joshua Jackson won the 200 freestyle in the boys 13-14 division to place third overall. He picked up two more third place finish- es. Hannah Huhn had four second place fin- ishes to finish third in the 9-10 girls division and one third place fin- ish. Meanwhile Christo- pher Huhn was third overall in the 7-8 boys division. He finished second in the 50 breast- stroke and picked up a pair of third place fin- ishes. Jayden McCammon Courtesy photo Red Bluff Tritons swimmer Jaden Humphreys and Sun Oaks Aquatics swimmer Jayden McCammon are buddies outside of the pool. was third overall in the 6-and-under boys divi- sion behind a second place showing in the 25 backstroke and a third place finish. Erin Fennel won the 100 backstroke in the 15-16 girls division and placed second in the 400 freestyle. Melissa Smith, 18, had three Top 5 finishes. Eric Schreter was third in the 13-14 boys 100 backstroke. Nicole Sauve, 13, had her best showings in the 100 backstroke and 400 freestyle events, placing fifth in both. Mitchell Sauve, 11, took home third in the 400 freestyle. Isaac Jackson, 10, was third in his div- sion’s 100 individual medley. Connor Fennel was second in the 11-12 boys 50 backstroke. Samantha McCam- mon was third in the 8- and-under girls 100 freestyle. Chloe Casey, 8, was second in both the 25 breaststroke and 25 freestyle. Kaylee Humphrey, 8, finished third in the 100 individual medley. Samantha Beeman, 7, had a fifth place show- ing in the 100 freestyle. Dante Beeman, 6, was third in both the 50 and 100 freestyles. Also in the 6-and- under boys division, Leyton Henderson took a third in the 25 back- stroke. In relay events the Tritons earned four wins. The Tritons 8-and- under girls teams won the 100 medley and 100 freestyle races. The 13-18 boys team won the 200 medley and 200 freestyle. The 11-12 boys team placed third in the 200 freestyle and the 13-18 girls were fifth in the 200 medley. Courtesy photos Red Bluff T ritons swimmers Cur tis Twitchel, top, and Gregor y Wilson compete in the butterfl y stroke race during Yreka Swim Invitational e vent. Wilson was second in the event, but took the overall top points honor for 17- and 18- year-olds. Twitc hel placed second overall in the boys’ 13-14 category. Thursday July 29, 2010 Giants edge Marlins in 10th SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are surging into play- off contention and Aubrey Huff says there’s one reason why: leadoff hitter Andres Torres. ‘‘Since he’s been at the top of our lineup, to me, he’s been our MVP,’’ said Huff after Torres’ ground-rule single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted the Giants to a 10-9 victory over the Flori- da Marlins on Wednesday night. ‘‘If he gets on base two times, more times than not we’re going to win. He’s really carrying us, especial- ly lately.’’ San Francisco needed all it could get out of Torres after blowing leads of 7-1 and 9-2. He had four hits, includ- ing a two-run home run into McCovey Cove in the sixth. He delivered the game-win- ner after the Giants hit three straight one-out singles off Florida reliever Clay Hens- ley (1-4) in the 10th. The ball hit on the warning track then bounced over the fence in left-center. It’s the second walkoff hit for Torres this season and gave San Francisco a 34-23 record with him atop their lineup. ‘‘This kid’s done every- thing,’’ Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ‘‘He’s waited for this opportunity and he’s taking full advan- tage of it. I can’t think where we would be without Andres.’’ Juan Uribe matched his season-high for the Giants with three hits and four RBIs while Buster Posey extended his hitting streak to 21 games, longest in the majors. Ronny Paulino, Donnie Murphy and Dan Uggla homered for the Marlins, who scored five times in the seventh and twice in the ninth to force extra innings. The two-run ninth came against San Francisco closer Brian Wilson, who leads the See GIANTS, page 2B Manchester City tops America in MLS shootout ATLANTA (AP) — Brian Kidd called his Atlanta homecoming a success. It helped that his Manchester City team made him a winner. Given blocked two penalty shootout kicks and Manchester City beat Club America 4-1 in the tiebreaker after the teams played to a 1-1 draw in the exhibition game Wednesday night. Kidd, the assistant coach for Manchester City, played as a professional for the old Atlanta Chiefs in 1981. ‘‘This was sentimental for me,’’ Kidd said. ‘‘I always have fond memories of the city and the people. Atlanta is always close to my heart.’’ Emmanuel Adebayor, Silva Jo, Vladimir Weiss and Patrick Vieira made Manchester City a perfect 4 for 4 on the penalty kicks. Pardo Pavel had Club America’s only successful penalty kick. Manchester City improved to 2-2 on its exhibi- tion tour of the United States. Adebayor scored the only goal of the first half and Club America’s Enrique Esqueda tied it early in the second half. Midfielder Yaya Toure made his debut after signing this summer with Manchester City, joining his brother, Kolo Toure. The brothers played for Ivory Coast in the World Cup. Manchester City also was bolstered by the first appearances for Gareth Barry and Shaun Wright- Phillips since England was eliminated from the World Cup. ‘‘The team got a lot out of the game in terms of See MLS, page 2B