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Monday's results LITTLE LEAGUE 11-and 12-year-old Baseball Red Bluff LATE Cottonwood 1B Sports Tehama Tracker Tuesday July 2, 2013 Red Bluff softball wins 2 titles By ANDRE BYIK Corning DN Sports Editor LATE Anderson MLB Giants 1 6 innings 8 Cincinnati Game called due to rain Belt: 1-1, HR, walk Today's games LITTLE LEAGUE 11-and 12-year-old Baseball at Anderson Foothill Red Bluff or Cottonwood 5:30 p.m. Corning or Anderson South Siskiyou 8 p.m. 10-and 11-year-old Baseball at Yreka West Redding Red Bluff 6 p.m. 9-and 10-year-old Baseball at Central Tehama Central Tehama Red Bluff 6 p.m. MLB Giants Cincinnati CSNB 4:10 p.m. SF — Lincecum, 4-8 CIN — H.Bailey, 4-6 Chi. Cubs CSNC Athletics Red Bluff Little League softball captured its second All-Stars District title Sunday night as the major girls completed a 2-game sweep of Corning with a 13-8 win. The 9-and 10-year-old softball All-Stars also won their district tournament. Throughout the weekend Little League AllStars softball and baseball district tournaments from Anderson to Red Bluff, provided thrilling comebacks, wrenching turns of fortune and reestablished dominance. The Red Bluff major girls had to play well into the night Saturday at Hobart Field to earn its shot at the title. The girls rallied from an early 5-1 deficit to beat Corning 11-10 in the first game of the championship series. Red Bluff earlier in the week had fallen to Corning, losing its opening round game by a score of 10-9. The loss relegated the team to the elimination bracket, where it dispatched Foothill and Central Tehama to once again challenge the yet unbeaten Corning squad in the final round of the double-elimination tournament. Red Bluff needed to beat Corning twice in a row and it did just that. Corning on Thursday defeated Central Tehama by a score of 14-4. It was the same Central Tehama squad that left its mark on the tournament with a stunning sixth-inning comeback against Foothill by scoring five runs in the bottom of the final frame to win 10-9. Major boys baseball All-Stars Foothill 14, Central Tehama 7 The Central Tehama major boys baseball squad came a strike away from beating Foothill in the second round of D-1 play in Anderson, where Central Tehama's Caleb Duncan put on a show from the mound and at the plate. Duncan pitched four innings, giving up just one hit, and Foothill began its trek back into the game in the fifth inning, capitalizing on miscues that resulted in Jack Piercy, Tyler Muszanowski and Daily News photo by Andre Byik Sydney Sinclair, who plays for the Red Bluff major girls All-Stars team, connects with a pitch against Corning on Saturday at Hobart Field in Red Bluff. Jaden Arnold all notching runs scored. Up 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth, Central Tehama's Tito Chavez Jr. plated Duncan with a double to right field. Foothill's Adam Stevens made it a one-run game with an RBI-double that scored Jayden Gordon, but was caught trying to take an extra base and was put out. Foothill, down 5-4 with two outs recorded against it saw Dylan Wiegand step up to the plate. Wiegand was down to his last strike with a runner on third when he gave Foothill what it needed: an RBI single to right field to tie the game at 5. Foothill rode its momentum to an extra seventh inning, where it scored nine runs. Central Tehama's Ayden Vance notched a 2RBI double in the second inning, and Ty Isak- 7:05 p.m. CHC — Feldman, 7-6 OAK — Griffin, 6-6 On the tube CYCLING • 6 a.m., NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 4, at Nice, France MLB • 4 p.m., CSNB — San Francisco at Cincinnati • 7 p.m., CSNC — Chi. Cubs at Oakland TENNIS • 4 a.m., ESPN2 — The Wimbledon Championships, women's quarterfinals, at London • 5 a.m., ESPN — The Wimbledon Championships, women's quarterfinals, at London WNBA BASKETBALL • 5 p.m., ESPN2 — Seattle at Chicago Rain cuts game short; Giants lose 8-1 CINCINNATI (AP) — Todd Frazier homered and drove in four runs Monday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds out of their offensive slump to an 8-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants in a game shortened to six innings because of rain. Frazier had an RBI single and a three-run homer off left-hander Mike Kickham (0-3), who has been hit hard in each of his three major league starts. Zack Cozart added a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring double as the Reds piled up their most runs since a 12-2 win at Wrigley Field on June 11. Bronson Arroyo (7-6) gave up a pair of hits in six innings, including Brandon Belt's homer. Rain halted the game after the sixth. The umpires waited 1 hour, 28 minutes before calling it. It was the first game shortened by rain at Great American Ball Park since Cincinnati's 4-2 win over the Cubs in five innings on Sept. 22, 2006. The Reds had a game suspended overnight because of rain earlier this season. The Giants returned to the place where they pulled off one of baseball's biggest playoff comebacks. After falling behind Cincinnati 0-2 in their NL division series last season, they won three straight at Great American to See GIANTS, page 2B Daily News photo by Andre Byik Central Tehama major boys baseball pitched Caleb Duncan tosses against Foothill during the District 1 tournament Saturday at Volonte Park in Anderson. sen added an RBI of his own in the seventh. Central Tehama was knocked out of the tournament Sunday when they lost to Anderson 138 in the loser's bracket. Red Bluff 23, Shasta Dam 13 The Red Bluff major boys All-Stars team and Shasta Dam went toe-to-toe for four innings before Red Bluff put the game away in the fifth. Red Bluff fell to East Redding by a score of 6-2 on Thursday, but came back in a big way Saturday, distancing itself from Shasta Dam in the fifth inning by scoring eight runs to take a 21-10 lead that would be too much to overcome. Red Bluff jumped on Shasta Dam early, scoring four runs in the top of the first off an RBI by Will Nelson and heads up baserunning from Mario Martinez, Fabian Chavez and Matteo Zepeda. Shasta Dam countered with two runs of its own in the first, and it seemed as if Red Bluff would pull away early after scoring four more runs in the top of second to take an 8-2 lead that was punctuated by consecutive RBI-doubles from Sevee Johnson, Nelson and Martinez. But a four-run answer in the bottom of the second by Shasta Dam had Red Bluff up just 86 after two. The two teams would ride their bats to the fourth inning, which had Red Bluff up 13-10 going to the fifth. Red Bluff's Chavez smashed a two-run home run over the center-field wall, and Martinez joined in the fun with a three-run homer of his own in an eight-run inning for the team. Red Bluff was playing Cottonwood Monday night in another elimination game. East Redding 4, Corning 2 East Redding continued its unbeaten ways Saturday with a 4-2 win over Corning. Corning was playing Monday night in an elimination game against Anderson. --------Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111 or at sports@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports Kings introduce draft picks McLemore, McCallum SACRAMENTO (AP) — One grew up in such poverty he had days when he wondered where he would find his next meal. The other is a coach's son who attended the same high school as a player whose jersey is retired in the rafters. Ben McLemore and Ray McCallum, while opposites in many ways, are now tied together in the same backcourt. The Sacramento Kings hope that will be the case for several years to come. On the day NBA free agency began, Sacramento formally introduced its draft picks Monday. The team touted both as players with high character and tremendous potential who will help build the foundation of the franchise's ''new era,'' which could become even more pressing if restricted free agent guard Tyreke Evans doesn't return. New owner Vivek Ranadive treated both to dinner along with their friends and family Sunday night. The wealthy Silicon Valley businessman said each impressed him as much or more as a person than as a player. McLemore's well-chron- AP photo Sacramento Kings first round draft pick Ben McLemore, left and second round pick Ray McCallum, display their jerseys with their numbers. icled rise from a depressed St. Louis neighborhood to a star at Kansas has finally reached the NBA, a place he could only imagine when he was growing up in the smallest house on Wellston Avenue. He chose the No. 16 with the Kings because he is one of Sonya Reid's six children — and also because the two numbers equal his draft slot, No. 7. ''Ben's story is the stuff of legends,'' said Ranadive, who can relate to the perseverance after starting from humble beginnings in India, then graduating from MIT and Harvard and founding TIBCO Software. ''This is the story of the triumph of hard work over adversity, success against all odds. This is the stuff that movies are made of.'' McLemore recalled how he and his youngest brother, Kevin, would do whatever they could — mow lawns, clean cars, even dispose of trash — to find a few dollars to eat. His mother worked various low-level jobs — when she was fortunate enough to find work — and as many as 10 relatives would sleep in their 600square foot home. Kansas coach Bill Self gave him a shot, but McLemore had to redshirt during the 2011-12 season when he was declared a partial academic qualifier by the NCAA. He worked that year to become eligible and made the most of his only season in Lawrence, earning second-team All-American honors and breaking Danny Manning's freshman scoring record. See KINGS, page 2B Nedovic ready for transition OAKLAND (AP) — Golden State Warriors firstround pick Nemanja Nedovic has had a dozen different coaches in the last six years. He went through three coaches last season alone playing for Lietuvos rytas of the Euroleague, and he has never had much stability in his life or career moving around with his family. ''It's crazy,'' Nedovic said on a teleconference from Serbia on Monday. ''I don't know if it's good for a young player to change coaches so much. At least I'm used to adapting to new situations.'' Nedovic's next transition could be his toughest: making an NBA roster. The Serbian point guard said he has never been to the San Francisco Bay Area. He had never even been to the United States until last month when he had predraft workouts in Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Atlanta and New York See READY, page 2B