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Weekend MLB— Athletics at Rangers, Sat, 5 p.m.; Sun, Noon, CSNC MLB— Dbacks at Giants, Sat, 6 p.m., MNT-21; Sun, 1 p.m., CSNB Sat — NFLPreseason — 49ers at Raiders, 6 p.m., FOX-30 Sat —NFLPreseason —Cowboys at Texans, 5 p.m., CBS Sun — Little League World Series – Championship Game, Noon, ABC Sun — NFLPreseason — Steelers at Broncos, 5 p.m., FOX-30 Sports 1B Weekend Aug. 28-29, 2010 Los Molinos opens with loss FOOTBALL Los Molinos 0 Williams 28 DN Staff Report It wasn’t the start to the season Los Molinos was hoping for. Williams shutout out the visiting Bulldogs 28- 0, Friday night in the season opener for both schools. “It was a nightmare, absolute nightmare,” coach Irvin Maxwell said of his first game as head coach of the Bull- dogs. Maxwell said his team only picked up a couple of first downs behind the running of fullback Luis Camacho and other then that was punting. “Emotions ran really high and it got the best of them and that’s the bottom line,” Maxwell said. On defense the Bull- dogs had trouble wrap- ping up the Yellowjack- ets’ ball carriers. “They ran all over us — ran and ran and ran and all we did was arm tackles,” Maxwell said. have to get better in a hurry. Next week they face The Bulldogs will Cards opener the Division IV champi- ons Portola, who beat Los Molinos 49-0 last year. The game is at Porto- la. The Bulldogs home opener is Sept. 10 at Weed. Lincecum drops fifth straight Arizona 6 Giants 0 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tim Lincecum lost his fifth straight start, and Barry Enright and two relievers combined on a seven-hit shutout for the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 6-0 win over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night. Lincecum has never lost five starts in a row before. His ERA in August is 7.82. The winner of the last two NL Cy Young awards, Lincecum gave up four runs on five hits in six innings. Adam LaRoche homered, and Stephen Drew doubled, tripled and scored three times for Arizona, which snapped a seven-game los- ing streak to San Francisco. The loss dropped San Francisco one-half game behind Philadelphia in the NL wild card race. The Diamondbacks entered the night with the third-worst record in baseball and had lost nine of their previous 13 games before jumping on Lincecum and the Giants early. LaRoche provided the big blow with a three-run homer off Lince- cum in the first inning, his 22nd of the year. LaRoche is batting .326 with eight home runs in August and needs six RBIs to break the franchise record for first basemen. Lincecum (11-9) has tried just about everything to break his slump but hasn’t had much luck. The right-hander wore striped stirrups for the first time this sea- son but opened the game with a four-pitch walk to Drew. He struck out the next two batters then walked Chris Young before LaRoche homered on a 1-2 pitch into McCovey Cove. The Diamondbacks tacked on another run off Lincecum in the third when Drew tripled and scored on Justin Upton’s sacrifice fly. Since opening the season 5-0 with a 1.76 ERA, Lincecum has struggled more than at any other time in his career. He hasn’t won since July 30 and is 6-9 with a 4.80 ERA over his last 19 starts. While Lincecum was strug- gling, Enright was stellar in his MCT photo Tim Lincecum sits in the dugout during the Giants’ loss. second start against the Giants this season. The rookie right-hander pitched out of a two-on, one-out jam in the third and got plenty of backing from Arizona’s defense. The Dia- mondbacks turned a 3-6-1 double play in the second and left fielder Gerardo Parra made a diving catch on Pat Burrell’s sinking line drive in the fourth. San Francisco put two runners on base again in the fifth but Enright (5-2) struck out Buster Posey. Enright scattered six hits over seven innings with four strikeouts and two walks for Arizona, which had lost six straight at AT&T Park. Blaine Boyer pitched the eighth and D.J. Carrasco recorded the final three outs for the Diamond- backs. Arizona scored twice in the ninth on Kelly Johnson’s second double of the night. Johnson fin- ished 3 for 5. Jose Guillen and Freddy Sanchez had two hits apiece for the Giants. A scheduling conflict has both Corning and Las Plumas claiming they are the home team for the Sept. 3 opener for both schools. On Friday the Daily News was told the school was in negotiations with Las Plumas and no decision had been made yet where the game would be played. FOOTBALL Week 0 Schedule Today’s games Los Molinos 28,Williams 0 Etna 40, Weed 26 Fall River 22, Burney 12 Foothill 33, Dixon 6 Lassen 24, Shasta 3 Modoc 39, Mt. Shasta 24 Orland 38, Hamilton 14 Paradise 14, Merced 13 Yreka 24, Trinity 17 Biggs at Durham, late Colusa at Willows, late Pierce at Esparto, late Stone Ridge Christian vs.East Nicolaus, late Today’s 8-man games Greenville at Big Valley, late Saturday’s games Portola at South Tahoe, 1:30 p.m. Sutter vs. Bethel, 7:30 p.m. Woods struggles, Day takes the lead PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Jason Day can’t get a straight answer from doctors on the mysterious health issues sapping away at his energy. He at least knows exactly where he stands after two rounds of The Barclays. A tournament that once looked as though it might belong to Tiger Woods shifted late Friday to the hands of the 22- year-old Australian, who showed some of his great promise with three late birdies for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead. Nine players had at least a share of the lead at some point during the second round until Day’s late surge. He was at 8- under 134, one shot clear of Kevin Streelman (63) and Vaughn Taylor (70) going into the weekend of the FedEx Cup’s first playoff event. ‘‘I just tried to stay as patient as possible, and it just kind of fell in my lap, which was really good,’’ he said. Woods didn’t so much lose his patience as much as his putting stroke. Part of that was playing in the afternoon on greens that became bumpy under foot traffic and a day of blazing sun, as Woods expected. He wasn’t planning on missing a 20-inch par putt on the fifth hole, or failing to make a single birdie on the easier front nine. ‘‘I didn’t hit it bad at all,’’ Woods said. ‘‘I hit it really good. As I said, I didn’t putt really well. I hit it as good as I did yesterday. If I don’t make putts, I don’t score.’’ He wound up with a 73, eight shots worse than his open- ing round. The good news for the world’s No. 1 player — he will stay atop the world ranking for at least another week after Phil Mickelson missed the cut, and he’s still very much in contention. Most times this year, a bad day for Woods meant an early tee time on the weekend. He still was only four shots behind, and at least takes this with him into the weekend: He has missed only two fairways in two rounds, although he never hit driver one time in the second round. ‘‘You play around here and post good numbers, you’ll move up the board,’’ he said. ‘‘The guys aren’t going to be tearing this place apart.’’ Streelman sure did. Two years after narrowly missing a playoff at Ridgewood Country Club, Streelman ran off six birdies in a seven-hole stretch for a 63 that will put him in the final group Saturday. Clearly, this is no ordinary place for him. Streelman’s grand- parents are buried in a cemetery beyond the seventh hole. His parents live in the area. These are his roots. ‘‘It’s like a special home for me, a special place,’’ he said. Stewart Cink raised his Ryder Cup hopes with a 69 that put him in a group at 6-under 136 with Ryder Cup hopeful Stewart Cink (69), Martin Laird (67) and John Senden, who reached 9 under until he stumbled badly down the stretch, taking a double bogey from the shrubs on the 16th. Senden shot 69. It was a great start for Laird and Senden — and yes, even Woods — as it relates to the FedEx Cup. Laird and Senden were just inside the top 100 in the standings, know- ing that only the top 100 advance to the second round next week outside Boston. Woods, at No. 112, is virtually assured of making it through to next week. Also at stake this week is the Ryder Cup, at least in auditioning for the European and U.S. teams. Padraig Harrington of Ireland has to rely on a captain’s pick, and he shot 68 to join the group at 5-under 137 that includes Adam Scott and Ben Crane. Hunter, Hamilton lead Rangers past Athletics Athletics 3 Texas 7 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tommy Hunter pitched into the eighth inning, Josh Hamilton had his 24th three-hit game of the season, and the AL West-leading Texas Rangers pulled farther away from the Athletics with a 7-3 victory over Oakland on Friday night. Hunter (11-2) improved to 7-0 in nine starts at Rangers Ballpark this sea- son, allowing three runs and seven hits with four strike- outs and two walks before leaving with two outs in the seventh. The Rangers increased their division advantage over the second-place A’s to 9 1/2 games. Hamilton raised his major league-high average to .358 and demonstrated his speed in the first when he scored from second on an infield single. Hamilton’s dash home highlighted a three-run first off Brett Anderson (3-5). Hamilton doubled with two outs, then rounded third on Vladimir Guerrero’s single off the glove of first base- man Barton. Second base- man Ellis retrieved the ball in short right field and fired to the plate, where Hamilton slid head-first ahead of catcher Kurt Suzuki’s tag. Hamilton also made a tough, running catch on the warning track in left field of a drive by Mark Ellis in the ninth. Andres Blanco and Julio Borbon, the Nos. 8 and 9 batters in the Rangers order, added three hits each as Texas won for the fifth time in six games to maintain the largest lead in the majors. Kevin Kouzmanoff had a two-run homer in the sixth and Daric Barton connected with the bases empty in the eighth for the A’s, who’ve lost four of six. Speed was a weapon for the Rangers again in the sec- ond with three straight infield singles, the last by Elvis Andrus to produce their fourth run. Anderson was removed after two innings with a hyperextended right knee after allowing four runs and six hits. His right foot land- ed in a hole on the mound during his follow-through MCT photo on a pitch to Borbon in the second. Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton slides by Oakland catcher Kurt Suzuki for a run, Friday. Francisco was making Anderson fell awkward- ly, and a trainer and manag- er Bob Geren ran into the field to check on Anderson. After throwing a couple of practice pitches, Ander- son remained in the game, but was replaced by Boof Bonser to begin the third. Texas made it 7-0 in the fourth on Michael Young’s two-run double and Hamil- ton’s RBI single. Rangers right-hander Frank Francisco left the game in the ninth with an arm problem after walking the leadoff man. his first appearance since a cortisone shot in his right armpit on Monday. NOTES: RHP Ben Sheets joined his A’s teammates for the first time since extensive surgery on his right elbow on Aug. 9, unsure of his future in baseball. He knows he probably won’t be able to take the mound in 2011 as he faces a rehab of from 12 to 18 months. As for 2012, Sheets said he’s open to resuming his career depending on his level of recovery.