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Friday Football — Orland at Corning, 7:30 p.m. Football — Red Bluff at Shasta, 7:30 p.m. Football — Weed at Los Molinos, 7:30 p.m. Volleyball — Los Molinos at Fall River Tournament Volleyball — Red Bluff at Pleasant Valley Tournament Soccer — Red Bluff vs Yuba City at Redding Rotary, 4:30 p.m. Field hockey — Corning at Willow Glenn Jamboree Sports 1B Friday September 10, 2010 Fall Sports Preview Tehama Tracker Red Bluff Spartans volleyball VOLLEYBALL Los Molinos 18 26 26 17 15 Lassen 25 24 24 25 12 QUICK FACTS Division: II League: Eastern Athletic — South 2009 record: 32-10, Northern Section D-II runner-up, lost in first round of state playoffs Head coach: Angie Ayers Top returners: Stevie Boone, Riley Kittle, Aubrey Lair OUTLOOK Bottom line – the Wheel- ers are gone. The Lady Spartans will miss both the superstar Jak- lyn, the section’s best player as well as coach Kim, who made Red Bluff into one of the North State’s best pro- grams. They’re not the only ones gone either. The Wheelers had a strong, experienced and tal- ented senior class support- ing them last season. There are a lot of pieces gone, but for new coach Angie Ayers it’s a welcome challenge. “It’s great. I’m already coming into an established program,” she said. Ayers said she doesn’t have to deal with the dirty work of fixing a down-and- out program as the founda- tion has already been laid in Red Bluff. Instead she gets to focus on coaching up what is a new team com- pared to last season. Just three players return from the 2009 Spartans. The roster consists of three seniors and 10 juniors. The team may be new to the varsity level, but they are not new to each other. Ayers said the group has played together from the freshman and junior varsity levels and have a strong Red Bluff Spartans junior setter Kaitlann Weber team chemistry. It might take an entire team to replace Jaklyn’s pro- duction, but Ayers said that’s exactly why she’s viewing it as an advantage. Previously teams pre- pared to stop Jaklyn, now teams will have to focus on more than one player, Ayers said. Among those hitters opposing teams will have to stop will be Riley Kittle. Ayers said Kittle is as natural form-wise of a vol- leyball player as she’s coached. Morgan Weaver has also impressed Ayers, with her versatility and determina- tion. “She’s the type of kid who doesn’t like the ball to hit the ground,” Ayers said. Stepping into the setter’s role is Kaitlyn Weber. Ayers said she has taken on the role of leader that any setter has to become, in stride. Along with the fresh faces and new coach, Red Bluff will also join a new, or at least a revamped one this season. The Eastern Athletic League split will leave Red Bluff as the only D-II school in the five-team South. Ayers said it’s a year of change across the EAL with ROSTER 1 Riley Kittle 3 Kalynne Schoelen 4 Marissa Clawson 5 April Allwardt 6 Stevie Boone 7 Aubrey Lair 8 Lottie Jones 9 Brittney Mendonsa 10 Bayli Johnson 11 Kaitlann Weber 12 Megan McColpin 14 Brooke Clatty 15 Morgan Weaver a lot of great players having graduated. Red Bluff will hope to use a strong serve receive- passing game and it’s athlet- ic versatility this season to do what’s become so com- mon for them in the past — compete for a section title. If that happens, maybe not so much has changed after all. SCHEDULE Reno Tournament — 2-6 F Sept.10-11 — Pleasant Valley Tourney Tu Sept.21 — vs Foothill,7 p.m. Th Sept.23 — vs Enterprise,7 p.m. F,S Sept.24-25 — Red Bluff Invitational Tu Sept.28 — at Oroville,7 p.m. Th Sept.30 — at Las Plumas,7 p.m. Th Oct.7 — vs Lassen,7 p.m. Tu Oct.12 — at Paradise,7 p.m. Th Oct.14 — at Shasta,7 p.m. S Oct.16 — at Roseville Invitational Tu Oct.19 — vs Oroville,7 p.m. Th Oct.21 — vs Las Plumas,7 p.m. Tu Oct.26 — at Pleasant Valley,7 p.m. Th Oct.28 — at Lassen,7 p.m. Tu Nov.2 — vs Paradise,7 p.m. Th Nov.4 — at Chico,7 p.m. Saints top Vikings in opener Minnesota 9 New Orleans 14 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees and the Saints extended New Orleans’ post-Super Bowl euphoria for at least another week and handed Brett Favre a second straight loss in the Louisiana Superdome. Brees completed 27 of 36 passes for 237 yards and one touchdown, and the Saints survived a hard- fought season opener for a 14-9 victory Thursday night. It wasn’t the most spec- tacular way to open a title defense, considering it was a rematch of the rivet- ing 2009 NFC title game last January, in which the Saints took an overtime win to advance to their first Super Bowl. It was the lowest-scor- ing victory of the Sean Payton era, which began in 2006. Still, the Saints will take it, considering their defense limited Favre to 171 yards passing and one score. Unlike the NFC cham- pionship game, the Vikings didn’t fumble and turned the ball over only once on Jonathan Vilma’s interception of Favre, who made an ill-advised throw as Roman Harper hit him on a safety blitz. Also unlike their previ- ous meeting, the Saints had most of the statistical advantages, outgaining Minnesota 308 yards to 253 and controlling the ball for 33:43, compared to 26:17 for Minnesota. New Orleans might have won the game more easily if not for two missed field goals by Gar- rett Hartley, who kicked the dramatic winning field goal last year. Still, New Orleans was able to kneel on the ball to run out most of the last Foothill. Red Bluff outshot the Cougars 6-5. The Spartans play Yuba City today and Pleasant Valley on Saturday at Redding Rotary. TENNIS Anderson 0 Corning 9 The Lady Cardinals swept all nine matches against Anderson, Tuesday, as they improved to 4-0 on the season and 3-0 in the Northern Athletic League. After dropping the first set, Victoria Owens outlasted Yui Gabriele with a pair of tiebreakers in the No. 1 singles match. Elle Davis used a second set tiebreaker to defeat Melissa Chipley at No. 2 singles. The rest of the singles matches were blowouts. Sarah Drum defeated Tiffany Bernul 6-2, 6-0. Cora Bryant handled Sarah Pendergraph 6-0, 6-2. Nikki Davis had a 6-1, 6-2 win over Shelby Roady and Dorinda Walker beat Rebeca Havier 6-1, 6-0. The doubles matches were a bit closer. Owens and Elle Davis defeated Gabriele and Pender- graph 8-3. Drum and Bryant defeated Chipley and Bernul 8-6 and Nikke Davis and Walker also won 8-6, beating Roady and Haviner. SWIMMING Paradise Girls 62 Boys 55 Red Bluff Girls 58 Boys 65 Greg Wilson, Larsen Dahl, Paul Hendricks and Bryce Eggert gave Red Bluff a win in the 200 medley relay, Wednesday, at a dual meet against Paradise. The Spartans relay team finished with a time of 1:57.31. Curtis Twitchell gave Red Bluff another win in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.82 seconds as the Spartans beat Paradise 65-55. The Lady Bobcats just barely clipped the Lady Spartans 62-58. Laura Schreter, Mayson Trujillo, Samara Robinson and Alynda Ellis won the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 2:02.74. Trujillo picked up a win in the 100 butterfly (1:17.38) and Robinson won the 50 freestyle in 30 seconds flat. Angler champs The Lady Bulldogs had an impressive five-game road victory, Tuesday night, at Lassen. Callie Carruth dished out 35 assists and had four aces. Kiersten Seaman racked up 14 kills and 20 digs. Jessey Quirke had 10 kills and Nikki Quirke had 17 digs. Francis Ocamp had 12 digs and Briselda Castillo 10 digs. The 2-0 Lady Bulldogs travel to the Fall River tourna- ment Friday, where they are scheduled to meet Redding Christian, Hayfork and Chester. Mercy 12 26 25 13 Quincy 25 24 27 25 The Lady Warriors fell to Quincy in four games Tuesday night. Mercy dropped to 4-5 on the season and are off until they play at the Los Molinos tournament on Sept. 16. SOCCER Red Bluff 0 Foothill 0 The Spartans opened up their season with a 0-0 tie at MCT photo two minutes after Pierre Thomas capped a 71-yard, one-touchdown perfor- mance with 10-yard, first- down run right after the 2- minute warning. New Orleans’ Devery Henderson runs with the ball,Thursday night. half. Adrian Peterson, who rushed for 122 yards and three TDs in the last meet- ing, rushed for 87 yards on 219 carries against New Orleans’ stingy defense. Although the game was competitive until the final minutes, it hardly lived up to its hype. Favre’s comeback from ankle surgery, marking the start of his 20th season, was largely unspectacular. Despite being sacked only once and hit not nearly as often, or as hard, as in the NFC title game, he looked out of synch or inaccurate at times. The fact that Minnesota was without star receiver Sidney Rice may have had something to do with that. Favre’s best sequence came on Minnesota’s only touchdown drive late in the first half, when he found Vinsanthe Shiancoe on precision down-the- middle completions of 33 and 20 yards, the second for the Vikings’ only TD. That gave Minnesota a 9-7 halftime lead, which the Saints erased on their first drive of the second The Saints’ triumph ended a long day of festiv- ities which for some might have been more exciting than the game itself. In a city that will use any excuse for a parade or party, the opening of the NFL season and the Saints’ defense of their title made for a major city- wide bash, and it was obvious that many had taken the day off. Tailgaters were setting up around the Superdome at dawn, and one pregame cookout even doubled as a wedding. Some govern- ment offices, business and schools shut down. Courtesy photos A night tournament was held at Clear Lake Aug. 28-29.The wind blew excessively and there was discussion of canceling the tournament because of safety problems fishing in the dark and on rough water. At 5 p.m. the wind settled and the fishermen took to the water.The “most” winner was Doug Stewart (top) who weighed in 27.07 pounds of bass. The “biggest” bass was caught by Huey Burnett (bottom) and it tipped the scales at 7.8 pounds.