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Thursday's results SOFTBALL ALL-STARS 11-12 Division in Red Bluff TENNIS 10 Red Bluff 9-10 Division in Red Bluff L Central Tehama BASEBALL ALL-STARS 11-12 Division in Anderson S. Siskiyou 3 Anderson 2 E. Redding 6 Red Bluff 2 9-10 Division in Central Tehama 12 Central Tehama 5 E. Redding B Friday's results SOFTBALL ALL-STARS 11-12 Division in Red Bluff Central Tehama LATE Red Bluff 9-10 Division in Red Bluff Corning LATE Central Tehama BASEBALL ALL-STARS 9-10 Division in Central Tehama Red Bluff LATE Cottonwood Saturday's games SOFTBALL ALL-STARS 11-12 Championship Round Corning RB or C. Tehama 8:30 p.m. 9-10 Championship Round Red Bluff Cor. or C. Tehama 6 p.m. BASEBALL ALL-STARS 11-12 Division in Anderson Corning 11:30 a.m. Cottonwood or Foothill Central Tehama 2 p.m. W.Redding or Sh. Dam 4:30 p.m. 10-11 Division in Yreka S. Siskiyou Red Bluff 10 a.m. 9-10 Division in Central Tehama Corning Central Tehama 10 a.m. RB or Cottonwood Anderson 10 a.m. MLB Giants CSNB Colorado 1:10 p.m. SF — Cain, 5-4 COL — De La Rosa, 8-4 St. Louis Athletics CSNC 1:05 p.m. STL — Wainwright, 10-5 OAK — Parker, 6-6 Sunday's games MLB Giants CSNB Colorado 1:10 p.m. SF — Bumgarner, 7-5 COL — TBD St. Louis Athletics CSNC 1:05 p.m. STL — Westbrook, 4-2 OAK — Milone, 6-7 MLB Giants Cincinnati SF — Kickham, 0-2 CIN — TBD 4 American women left at Wimbledon W Red Bluff Red Bluff Weekend June 29-30, 2013 0 Foothill E. Redding 1B Sports Tehama Tracker CSNB 4:10 p.m. LONDON (AP) — Wild-card entry Alison Riske is one of four women keeping American hopes alive at Wimbledon. The 126th-ranked Riske reached the third round at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time Friday, beating 44th-ranked Urszula Radwanska of Poland 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. All four American women left in the draw — top-seeded Serena Williams, 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys and Riske — will be in action Saturday. While Williams is already a certified tennis star with 16 Grand Slam titles to her credit, Stephens, Riske and Keys are in the early stages of their careers. ''I think it's wonderful,'' said Riske, of the up-andcoming American women advancing together. ''I feel like now we have so many players. It's wonderful to see your friends doing well. We have a support system with each other.'' Riske's match against Radwanska was delayed by rain Thursday, which means she'll now play two days in a row. AP photo Alison Riske of the United States plays a return to Urszula Radwanska of Poland during their second round singles match at Wimbledon on Friday. She'll take on four-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist Kaia Kanepi, who eliminated No. 7 Angelique Kerber 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Williams, the reigning Wimbledon champion, will play 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan. Stephens will complete her third-round match against Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic. The match was halted by dark- ness Friday after the two split sets. The 52nd-ranked Keys takes on fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, a finalist last year, for a shot to reach a Grand Slam fourth round for the first time. The American men have not been as fortunate as the women at Wimbledon this year. For the first time since 1912, a year when no U.S. NBA DRAFT men entered Wimbledon, there are no American men still in action in the third round. The 126th-ranked Riske, who turns 23 Wednesday, was 0-5 at major tournaments until advancing at the All England Club when her first-round opponent retired in the third set. Riske was offered a wild card into the Wimbledon main draw after she reached the Birmingham semifinals as a qualifier two weeks ago. ''If I can play like that here, I feel like I should be able to play like that anywhere,'' Riske said. ''I just feel like the grass suits my game. I love moving forward, being aggressive. I hope to translate the results from grass on to other surfaces.'' On Friday, Riske broke in the final game, converting her third match point when Radwanska put a backhand into the net. ''I was really nervous, but I tried to keep telling myself that I wasn't really at Wimbledon,'' said Riske, of her strategy in the last game. ''I told myself if I was going to lose that last game (with) her serving I was going to do it aggressively.'' Riske won the point on 33 of 48 trips to the net, accumulating a 43-16 edge in winners. Every match Riske wins is a confidence builder, which she says helps her pursue the right match strategy. ''I just try to play my game, be aggressive, and stay in it until the end,'' she said. TOUR DE FRANCE Warriors go with Nedovic Armstrong uninvited, OAKLAND (AP) — The Golden State Warriors moved into the first-round of the NBA draft Thursday night and took Serbian guard Nemanja Nedovic with the 30th overall pick. The Warriors entered the draft without a pick before a flurry of deals gave them the final pick of the first round. Golden State first acquired the No. 26 pick from Minnesota for cash and a future second-round pick and then traded down three spots to No. 29 with Oklahoma City. The Warriors followed that by flipping spots with Phoenix and taking Nedovic 30th overall. The 22-year-old Nedovic played in Lithuania last season, averaging 9.8 points and 2.1 assists for Lietuvos rytas in 10 Euro League games. Nedovic, listed at 6-foot-3, 192 pounds, played the previous three years in Serbia. The Warriors also acquired guard Malcolm Lee from the Timberwolves in the initial deal. Lee averaged 4.9 points in 16 games for Minnesota last season. General manager Bob Myers wanted to acquire a pick after the team had lost both picks in previous deals. Golden State's first-round pick (21st overall) ended up with Minnesota, finally paying off a debt from a series of complicated moves that started when the team sent a protected first-round pick to New Jersey for Marcus Williams in 2008. Williams played just nine games for the Warriors. The Timberwolves got Louisville center Gorgui On the tube Saturday AUTO RACING • 5 a.m. NBCSN — Formula One, qualifying for British Grand Prix, at Towcester, England (same-day tape) • 3:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, qualifying for Route 66 Nationals, at Joliet, Ill. (same-day tape) • 4:30 p.m. TNT — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Quaker State 400, at Sparta, Ky. • 6 p.m. SPEED — TORC, at Crandon, Wis. • 8 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, qualifying for Route 66 Nationals, at Joliet, Ill. (sameday tape) BOXING • 6:45 p.m. HBO — Junior middleweights, Willie Nelson (20-1-1) vs. Luciano Cuello (32-2-0); super middleweights, Thomas Oosthuizen (21-0-1) vs. Brandon Gonzales (17-0-0); champion Gennady Golovkin (26-0-0) vs. Matthew Macklin (29-4-0), for IBO/WBA middleweight titles, at Mashantucket, Conn. CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE • 12:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Saskatchewan at Edmonton unwanted at 100th tour AP photo With the 30th pick, the Warriors chose Nemanja Nedovic, who will join rising star Stephen Curry. Dieng with the pick. Golden State's secondround pick (51st overall) was shipped away in the trade to get David Lee from the New York Knicks in 2010 and ended up in Orlando's hands. This is not the first time the Warriors have bought a draft pick under owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber. The Warriors paid Charlotte $2 million to move up in the second round and select Jeremy Tyler 39th overall in 2011. Tyler did not work out in Golden State but Myers did well in his first draft a year ago when he took three players — Harrison Barnes (seventh), Festus Ezeli (30th) and Draymond Green (35th) — who became immediate contributors to a team that made it to the second round of the playoffs for the second time since 1991. The Warriors also stashed Ognjen Kuzmic (52nd) of Bosnia and Herzegovina back in Europe. The Warriors went from a 23-43 record during the lockout-shortened season to a 47-35 team in the second season under coach Mark Jackson. Golden State earned the sixth seed in the Western Conference for its second playoff berth since 1994 and knocked out Denver in the first round. The Warriors eventually lost to San Antonio in six games in the second round. The team's young nucleus — Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Barnes, Lee and Andrew Bogut — will all be back. But there will still be needs to fill, either through the draft or free agency. Ezeli will be sidelined a minimum of six to nine months after right knee surgery two weeks ago, so finding another backup center has become a pressing need. CYCLING • 4:30 a.m. NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 1, Porto-Vecchio to Bastia, Corsica EXTREME SPORTS • 10 a.m. ABC — X Games, at Munich • 1 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Munich • 4 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Munich (same-day tape) GOLF • 5 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, The Irish Open, third round, at Maynooth, Ireland • 10 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour, AT&T National, third round, at Bethesda, Md. • 11:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Senior Players Championship, third round, at Pittsburgh • Noon CBS — PGA Tour, AT&T National, third round, at Bethesda, Md. NBC — USGA, U.S. Women's Open, third round, at Southampton, N.Y. • 3:30 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, United Leasing Championship, third round, at Newburgh, Ind. (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 10 a.m. MLB — Washington at N.Y. Mets • 1 p.m. WGN — Cleveland at Chicago White Sox • 4 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, Cincinnati at Texas, Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, Detroit at Tampa Bay, or Chicago Cubs at Seattle • 7 p.m. MLB — Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers MOTORSPORTS • 5:30 a.m. SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, Dutch Grand Prix, at Assen, Netherlands • 11 a.m. SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, Dutch Grand Prix, at Assen, Netherlands (same-day tape) • 12:30 p.m. NBCSN — AMA Motocross, Moto-X 338, at Southwick, Mass. SOCCER • 1:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Dallas at Philadelphia SOFTBALL • 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Women's, National Pro Fastpitch, doubleheader, game 1, Chicago at Akron • 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Women's, National Pro Fastpitch, doubleheader, game 2, Chicago at Akron SWIMMING • 8 a.m. NBCSN — National Championships, at Indianapolis TENNIS • 5 a.m. ESPN — The Wimbledon Championships, early round, at London Sunday AUTO RACING PORTO VECCHIO, Corsica (AP) — Lance Armstrong made himself the uninvited guest at the Tour de France on Friday, coming back to haunt the 100th edition of the race and infuriating riders both past and present by talking at length in a newspaper interview about doping in the sport. Armstrong told Le Monde that he still considers himself the record-holder for Tour victories, even though all seven of his titles from 1999-2005 were stripped from him last year for doping. He said his life has been ruined by the U.S. AntiDoping Agency investigation that exposed as lies his years of denials that he and his teammates doped. He also took another swipe at cycling's top administrators, darkly suggesting they could be brought down by other skeletons in the sport's closet. None of those comments broke new ground, but in answering questions from Le Monde — a newspaper he scorned when he was still competing — Armstrong ensured that his views on doping at the Tour would have maximum impact in France and couldn't easily be written off as sour grapes being hurled at the race from afar. The respected daily is very much France's newspaper of record. Its interview with the rider and his assertion that doping won't be eradicated from cycling dominated French airwaves ahead of the race start on Saturday, causing dismay and anger in the sport desperate to prove that it has turned the page on his era of serial cheating. The Tour's director, Christian Prudhomme, suggested Armstrong was milking the race's notoriety to further his own agenda. ''This is a very big tournament, just look around: There are 2,300 accredited journalists here, there are cameras everywhere. So if someone wanted to transmit a message, this is the time obviously, especially since everyone likes this kind of controversial statements,'' he said. Armstrong's comments and the consternation they caused highlighted cycling's dilemma: It is a sport fighting to give itself a cleaner, brighter future by combating drug cheats but much of that good work is being overshadowed by the dirty secrets of dopers from the past. Pre-Tour, a drip-drip-drip of doping confessions and revelations about the Armstrong era have rained on the sport. Armstrong's former rival on French roads, 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich, admitted to blood-doping for the first time. French media also reported that a Senate investigation into the effectiveness of anti-doping controls pieced together evidence of drug use at the 1998 Tour by Laurent Jalabert, a former star of the race now turned broadcaster. • 8 a.m. SPEED — Rolex Sports Car Series, 6 Hours of the Glen, at Watkins Glen, N.Y. • 8:30 a.m. NBCSN — Formula One, British Grand Prix, at Towcester, England (same-day tape) • 6 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Route 66 Nationals, at Joliet, Ill. (same-day tape) CYCLING • 4:30 a.m. NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 2, Bastia to Ajaccio, Corsica • 9:30 a.m. NBC — Tour de France, stage 2, Bastia to Ajaccio, Corsica (same-day tape) EXTREME SPORTS • 8 a.m. ESPN — X Games, at Munich (same-day tape) GOLF • 5:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, The Irish Open, final round, at Maynooth, Ireland • 10 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour, AT&T National, final round, at Bethesda, Md. • 11:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Senior Players Championship, final round, at Pittsburgh • Noon CBS — PGA Tour, AT&T National, final round, at Bethesda, Md. NBC — USGA, U.S. Women's Open, final round, at Southampton, N.Y. • 4 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, United Leasing Championship, final round, at Newburgh, Ind. (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 10:30 a.m. TBS — Arizona at Atlanta • 11 a.m. WGN — Cleveland at Chicago White Sox • 5 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore NHL HOCKEY • Noon NBCSN — Draft, at Newark, N.J. SOCCER • 8:45 a.m. ESPN2 — FIFA, Confederations Cup, third place game, teams TBD, at Salvador, Brazil • 11 a.m. ESPN2 — MLS, Houston at New York • 2:30 p.m. ESPN — FIFA, Confederations Cup, championship, teams TBD, at Rio de Janeiro Monday CYCLING • 3:30 a.m. NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 3, Ajaccio to Calvi, Corsica MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 10 a.m. MLB — Detroit at Toronto • 4 p.m. ESPN — San Francisco at Cincinnati TENNIS • 4 a.m. ESPN2 — The Wimbledon Championships, round of 16, at London • 5 a.m. ESPN — The Wimbledon Championships, round of 16, at London