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Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results 1B Sports Wednesday August 14, 2013 MLB Giants Washington LATE 49ers rookie Reid a hit in camp Houston LATE Athletics Today's games MLB Giants Washington CSNB 4:05 p.m. SF — Lincecum, 6-11 WAS — Zimmermann, 13-6 Houston Athletics CSNC 7:05 p.m. HOU — Cosart, 1-0 OAK — J.Parker, 8-6 On the tube GOLF • 1 p.m., TGC — USGA, U.S. Amateur Championship, first round matches, at Brookline, Mass. LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL • 8 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, championship, teams TBD, at Portland, Ore. MLB • 11:10 a.m., WGN — Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs • 12:30 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Baltimore at Arizona or San Diego at Colorado (Noon start) • 4 p.m., CSNB — San Francisco at Washington • 5 p.m., ESPN — Pittsburgh at St. Louis • 7 p.m., CSNC — Houston at Oakland SOCCER • 11:25 a.m., ESPN2 — Men's national teams, exhibition, Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. United States, at Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina • 6 p.m., ESPN2 — Men's national teams, exhibition, Mexico vs. Ivory Coast, at East Rutherford, N.J. Around town Fall baseball signups The Shasta-Tehama Crushers Fall Baseball Team will be holding signups/tryouts 5 p.m. Thursday at the West Valley High School baseball field. This is for high school aged students who are not playing a fall school sport. Registration is $50. Softball tryouts The All American Mizuno Organization will be holding tryouts for a 14-and-under softball team on Sunday Aug. 25 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Big League Dreams in Redding. If you have a date of birth in the 1999 year or younger you are eligible to play for the team. Contact Richard Walker at richsgirls4@yahoo.com with any questions. Fall kills Braves fan ATLANTA (AP) — Lifetime Atlanta Braves fan Ronald Lee Homer Jr. knew the stadium where he fell to his death well. He attended three or four games a month at Turner Field and watched as many televised games as he could, his father said. He always had on a Braves hat. On Monday night, Homer, 30, was waiting out a rain delay in a fourthlevel smoking area with a 42-inch railing that would have come up to the 6foot-6 fan's midsection. He'd told his mother during a phone conversation that the rain was letting up and he was about to head to his seat for the game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Shortly afterward, he fell about 85 feet into a parking lot. ''He said 'I love you mom, and I said 'I love you too' and that was it,'' his mother, Connie Homer, told The Associated Press on Tuesday morning. While it's not clear exactly why he fell, police say the death appears to have been an accident. SANTA CLARA (AP) — Hitting and tackling is not allowed during team drills for the San Francisco 49ers, so Eric Reid practices proper technique by driving his body through a makeshift punching bag with the other defensive backs. Apparently, Reid still needs to hit the bag some more. San Francisco's first-round pick made six tackles in an impressive preseason debut against the Denver Broncos last Thursday night, including a pair of highlight-reel hits. Whether Reid will be ready to start at free safety against Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers in the regular-season opener Sept. 8 is still unclear. ''He showed progress. He showed promise,'' defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said Tuesday. Fangio said he's not sure if Reid will make his first start in Friday's exhibition at Kansas City. For all the potent potential Reid has displayed so far, he's still a rookie — and prone to making rookie mistakes — so the 49ers are trying to ease his transition to the NFL before making him the last line of defense. Reid, the former LSU standout the 49ers traded up 13 spots in the draft to take at No. 18, said he felt positive about his performance — not giving up a big play and, for the most of part, not missing any tackles. He said starting has been his goal since coming to the 49ers, but ''I try not to look too far ahead.'' ''I try to look at myself to get better as a player,'' he said. ''When the coach decides on who's the starter, whether it's me or another guy, I'm going to try to help this team out any way I can.'' While Reid is the kind of big hitter San Francisco is looking for to replace All-Pro safety Dashon Goldson, he's still learning to strike a balance with his aggressiveness. Reid made a jarring hit on Broncos tight end Virgil Green in the second quarter, but he arrived too late, allowing Green to make the catch for 13 yards and a first down. The rookie's most memorable played came in the third quarter, when Reid raced in from his free safety spot to knock Kemonte Bateman off his feet. The hard hit whipped teammates into a frenzy on the sideline. But again, the play went for 16 yards and another first down. The concern from coaches is that such hits could come so late they could draw penalties. Those ball-hawking skills take time to hone in the NFL, where plays develop at lightning-quick See REID, page 2B Raiders counting on Jennings NAPA (AP) — Rashad Jennings takes every precaution he can to keep his body in top shape necessary for an NFL running back. He eats a gluten-free diet and sticks to organic foods. He stretches every night and has a regular routine of pilates, acupuncture, yoga and massage. And when Jennings' long days of training camp are over instead of settling into a soft bed, he climbs into a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to sleep. Jennings bought the oxygen chamber as a rookie instead of splurging for a car, thinking it would help keep him fresh and prolong his career. He admits it ''freaks'' some people out at first and the loud noise forced him into a single room in what he calls the ''dungeon'' of the team hotel in training camp. But Jennings is working on getting some converts, saying he has at least six teammates waiting to try out the chamber next week to see how they like it. ''It's not an end all be all,'' Jennings said. ''It's not like this is the biggest healer in the world type of thing, but it does heal you on a certain level. It speeds up the process. I love to practice and I love to stay on the field. It keeps you healthy. Playing this game is important to me. The way I eat and take care of my body is pretty important.'' The Oakland Raiders are counting on a healthy Jennings this season as the backup to Darren McFadden, who has never made it through an NFL season without an injury. Playing the role of a backup to a big-play back is something Jennings has plenty experience doing, having served in that role behind Maurice Jones-Drew in Jacksonville to start his career. ''I tell people all the time there aren't any backups in this league,'' Jennings said. ''The backups are at home. AP photo Oakland Raiders running back Rashad Jennings runs against the Dallas Cowboys during an NFL preseason football game. You got to prepare as the starter, you are the starter. ''It's too late to prepare when the opportunity presents itself. I'm a piece of a puzzle. When I'm called upon I have to make sure I'm making my statement.'' Jennings did a good job of that in the preseason opener when he ran nine times for 39 yards. He got loose for a 16- yard run on a read-option play with quarterback Terrelle Pryor and showed the ability to grind for tough yards in short yardage the Raiders are looking for in McFadden's backup. Jennings is working his way back from two disappointing seasons in Jacksonville. After averaging more than 5 yards a carry in each of his first two seasons, Jennings missed all of 2011 with a knee injury. He then struggled mightily last season, averaging 2.8 yards per carry — becoming the 10th back to average under 3 yards a run with at least 100 carries since 2000. ''It was a lot of things, looking at film, I could've See OAK, page 2B NFL Union tells players HGH testing close (AP) — The NFL Players Association ''tentatively agreed'' to let the league take 40 blood samples for HGH tests each week during the season, with a positive result drawing a four-game suspension, according to a memo the union sent players. A copy of the NFLPA's email, written in a question-andanswer format, was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. The memo says ''a computer program will randomly select'' five players apiece from eight teams each week to take the blood tests. First, though, every player participating in NFL training camps this year will provide a blood sample and information about ''height, weight, age, and race/ethnicity'' for a ''population study'' to determine what level of HGH will result in penalties, the union wrote. The NFLPA's letter says that if more than 5 percent of all training camp samples are above that threshold, players who fail will have ''reasonable cause'' testing during the next two seasons — meaning they'll be subject to additional testing. A player testing positive again during the 2013-14 or 2014-15 seasons will get an eight-game suspension. A player without another positive result in that time will be removed from the extra testing program. Tuesday's email to players indicates the union has signed off on various aspects of the See NFL, page 2B Montoya won't be back at Ganassi in 2014 (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya, one of the most decorated drivers in the world with an Indianapolis 500 victory and wins in Formula One, NASCAR and the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, will not have a chance to find success in NASCAR with longtime team owner Chip Ganassi. The team owner informed Montoya he will not bring the Colombian back for an eighth NASCAR season. Ganassi president Steve Lauletta announced the decision to the team Tuesday, multiple people present for the announcement told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Ganassi does not comment on driver contracts. Montoya has been with Ganassi since 2006 when he abruptly left Formula One — where he had seven wins and 30 podiums — for NASCAR. It's his second stint with the car owner — the two teamed together to win the 1999 CART championship and 2000 Indianapolis 500 before Montoya moved to F1. But results in NASCAR have been sporadic. Montoya has just two wins in 239 career starts and his best season finish was eighth in 2009. The poor showings led Montoya to rededicate himself this season and turn up his fitness, ''I want to (expletive) succeed in this. I'm tired of sucking,'' he said before the Brickyard 400, in an effort to see if he's been the problem with the No. 42 Chevrolet. Only there's no clear answer what has been the problem with Montoya, the No. 42 team or the Ganassi organization. The program has been through several rebuilds since Montoya came aboard, and it was a middleof-the-road organization when he signed on in 2006. It was Ganassi that was the draw for Montoya: The two had won 11 races together in 1999 and 2000 in CART, including the Indy 500. Their first NASCAR season was decent and gave the organization a boost with a win on the road course at Sonoma, six top-10s and rookie of the year in 2007. But 2008 was the first sign of trouble as Montoya had two crew chief changes in the first 16 races. Montoya made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship in 2009 with crew chief Brian Pattie behind a career-best 18 top10s, and he was third in points with six races to go in the season before fading to eighth in the final standings. He won on the road course at Watkins Glen in 2010, but Pattie was let go before Indianapolis in 2011 for Montoya's fourth crew chief change. The Ganassi team began another overhaul that winter and Chris Heroy was hired as Montoya's fifth crew chief before 2012. That entire season was spent trying to get the Ganassi cars up to speed. The pressure has been on Montoya all this year as he's been obviously racing for his job with hotshot Ganassi developmental driver Kyle Larson waiting in the wings. But Larson turned 21 just last month and has a whopping 21 Nationwide Series starts under his belt. While today's NASCAR stars rave that Larson is the real deal, many believe it's far too soon to push him into the Sprint Cup Series and Ganassi himself has said repeatedly talk about his future is just speculation. See NASCAR, page 2B