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Weekend Cross — Corning, Red Bluff at Clam Beach Invitational MLB— SD at SF, Sat, 1 p.m. FOX; Sun, 1 p.m., CSNB Ryder Cup —Sat., 5 a.m., NBC; Sun, 4 a.m., NBC Sun —NASCAR —Price Chopper 400, 10 a.m., ESPN Sun —NFL—49ers at Falcons, 10 a.m., FOX Sun —NFL—Texans at Raiders, 1 p.m., CBS Sports 1B Saturday Oct. 2, 2010 Turnovers doom Spartans FOOTBALL Week 5 Scoreboard Friday’s results Corning 39, Oroville 21 Maxwell 51, Los Molinos 0 West Valley 28, Red Bluff 6 Central Valley 27, Enterprise 24 Durham 49, University Prep 6 Gridley 43, Las Plumas 19 Lassen 20, Pleasant Valley 17 Live Oak 23, Mt.Shasta 6 Modoc 38, Fall River 14 Paradise 42, Chico 21 Quincy 26, East Nicolaus 24 Trinity 28, Willows 26 Wheatland 33, Colfax 22 Winters 17, Anderson 7 Biggs at Chester, late Bonanza at Etna, late Colusa at Pierce, late Esparto at Williams. late Hamilton at Portola, late Sutter at Yuba City, late Friday’s 8-man results Dunsmuir 69, Mercy 34 Champion Christian at Princeton, late Elk Creek at Happy Camp, late Hayfork at Butte Valley, late Saturday’s games Burney at St. Bernard’s , 2 p.m. Saturday’s 8-man games Big Valley at Liberty Christian, 7:30 p.m. Greenville at Loyalton, 1 p.m. Westwood at Herlong, 1 p.m. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff quarterback Cody Case scrambles for yardage, Friday, during the second quarter. FOOTBALL West Valley 28 Red Bluff 6 By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor In between mistakes and miscues the Spartans more than held their own with the visiting Eagles, Friday night, but five turnovers proved to be too much to overcome in a 28-6 West Valley win. “You can’t do that and win football games,” Red Bluff coach John Miller said. Numerous penalties at the wrong time also hurt the Spartans, including four ille- gal substitutions off of game restarts. The mistakes overshad- owed what was otherwise a strong performance from a Spartans team looking for their first win of the season. On offense, Red Bluff found success through the air as for the second consec- utive game Ty Smith proved to be a valuable weapon. Smith caught seven balls for 50 yards and quarterback Cody Case completed nine passes for 128 yards. But what the passing game gave, it also took away in the form of three intercep- tions. The last came on a tipped ball thrown into triple cover- age with two minutes remaining. The Eagles, as they did all night, took little time in converting the turnover into points. Three plays into their drive, Joshua Bocker broke off a 55-yard touchdown run to seal the game. It was the Eagles’ second plus 50-yard touchdown run in the game. Fullback Jesse Robbins had extended the Eagles lead to 21-6 midway through the third quarter on a 52-yard run as the Eagles faced third-and-five at mid- field. At one point the Spartans appeared to be headed to the wrong side of a blow out once again. Down 14-0 following a Luke Wright to Marcus Howard touchdown pass and an Austin Lobsinger interception return for a score, Red Bluff fumbled a kickoff to give the Eagles the ball at the Spartans’ 25- yard line. Red Bluff’s defense stepped up, stuffing the West Valley run game as they did all night — outside of the two big gainers. Smith ended West Val- ley’s drive when he sacked Wright on a corner blitz. With the ball back, Red Bluff turned away from an ineffective run game and to their air attack. Case found Smith three times on the drive and hooked up with Brad Raines twice, the second giving Red Bluff first-and-goal at the 1-yard line. Two plays later, Case punched it in on a keeper and Red Bluff was down 14- 6. With 48 seconds remain- ing in the half, Red Bluff kicked off a roller that clanged off an Eagles play- er’ foot, hit his helmet and jetted backwards 20 yards to the rushing Spartans, who recovered it. However an illegal sub- station, backed the Spartans up to first-and-15 before the drive even began and Case couldn’t find enough time in the pocket to duplicate the previous’ drives success. Red Bluff got the ball to start the second half and again their drive started with an illegal substation flag. Case hooked up with Smith on two short passes and then found Gage Grabfelder on a 51-yard catch and run. The drive stalled howev- er on a fourth-and-5 play when a diving Jeff Foster, appeared to get enough for a first down, but was marked short. Robbins would score his his 52-yarder on the Eagles ensuing possession and the Spartans never managed to move the ball as well as they had been. Next up for Red Bluff (0- 5) is Lassen. Back on track, Corning grounds out win FOOTBALL Corning 39 Oroville 21 By NICK WILSON MediaNews Group OROVILLE — The Corning Cardinals got back in the win column with a 39-21 win during Oroville’s homecoming at Harrison Stadium. “Corning’s a good football team,” said Oroville coach Steve Steinmann. “You know, they did a good job tonight. I was proud of our kids. They could have eas- ily folded and we fought back in the third quarter and made it respectable.” Corning coach John Studer, meanwhile, inter- preted the second half a bit differently. “I felt we had some let downs in the second half and we weren’t entirely happy with how we fin- ished,” Studer said. “But after getting stomped last week (against Shasta), it’s good to get the win. ...It was a win, and I’m happy that they’re not too excited about it because they have higher expectations.” The Cardinals (4-1) established leverage early on, and on the opening series, found the end zone after quarterback Ryan Holland led his team on a seven-play scoring drive which he finished himself on a 25-yard touchdown run. Slip-ups and miscues plagued Oroville (0-5) as the first half unfolded, and Not yet, Pads win San Diego 6 Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez hit a three-run homer, Ryan Ludwick and Matt Stairs also connected and the San Diego Padres put San Fran- cisco’s potential clinching party on hold for at least a day with a dramatic 6-4 vic- tory Friday night. The NL West-leading Giants need one more victo- ry to capture their first divi- sion crown and playoff berth since 2003. San Diego pulled within one game of wild card-leading Atlanta, which lost 11-5 to Philadel- phia. Clayton Richard (14-9) won for only the second time in seven starts and held down a Giants team that has hit 17 homers in its last eight games. Pinch-hitter Aaron Rowand connected for a two-run shot in the sixth to chase Richard. Ludwick hit a towering drive over the center-field wall leading off the second against Matt Cain (13-11), who surrendered a season- high three homers. San Diego’s offense came to life after managing just five runs and 17 hits in losing three of four at home to the Chicago Cubs before coming to the Bay Area. But the Padres, who led 6-0 early, had to hold off threats in the eighth and ninth. ‘‘Yes We Cain!’’ posters were handed out on a night the pitcher celebrated his 26th birthday. But he didn’t have it. Cain, the longest- tenured member of the Giants, had his start pushed up to go on regular rest for the potential clincher. Next up for the Giants is Barry Zito on Saturday afternoon. The lefty is 1-7 with a 6.50 ERA over his last 10 games, nine starts, and is 3-7 in his career See GIANTS, page 2B Bulldogs crushed FOOTBALL Maxwell 51 Los Molinos 0 Maxwell showed who the team to beat is in the Mountain Valley League, with a convincing 51-0 win at Los Molinos, Friday night. The game was the league opener for both teams. The teams will meet again in Maxwell on Oct. 22. Maxwell is 4-1 overall and Los Molinos fell to 2-3. The Bulldogs travel to Biggs next week. Warriors fall on road 8-MAN Mercy 34 Dunsmuir 69 Media News photo by Jason O'Hanlon Corning's Ezekiel Rodriguez sweeps around the side for a first down as Tyler McIntyre blocks Oroville's Cameron Bradford during the first quarter of Friday's game at Harrison Stadium in Oroville. by the break, the team had turned the ball over four times — three of which resulted in Corning scores. Late in the first quar- ter, Corning’s Dennis Womack jumped on an Oroville fumble to give the Cardinals the ball on the Tigers’ 20-yard line. Four plays later, Corning running back J.D. Whited went over the left side for an 8-yard touchdown — one of his three on the night. Just before half time, Oroville’s offense finally caught a break when quar- terback Alex Klein hit Keith Johnson on a slant pattern, which Johnson carried all the way to the Corning 1-yard line. On the next snap, Klein put Oroville on the score- board with a 1-yard plunge with 31 seconds left in the half. Heading into the break, Corning was up 25-7. Oroville looked sur- prisingly explosive in the opening minutes of the second half and at the 10:19 mark of the third quarter, Klein found a wide-open Ben Archuleta, whom he connected with for a 68-yard touchdown pass. Proving the score was not a fluke, two minutes later, Klein threw another bomb to Johnson for an 89-yard touchdown that brought the Tigers within striking distance with the score 25-21 Corning. By then, the Cardinals had seen enough. Giving the ball to their most productive back, Whited took the handoff a See CARDS, page 2B The Warriors hung with one of the top 8-man teams for a half, but eventually fell 69-34 to Dunsmuir. Mercy overcame two first half turnovers to be on the verge of pulling within one possession just before half- time, but couldn’t punch home a score. “It was a tight game until the third quarter and we fell behind and it was over with,” coach Paul Vietti said. Royce Crane scored twice for Mercy, Jordan Stasinowsky returned a kickoff for a touchdown and Mitchell Lopez also scored. Mercy (2-1) hosts Butte Valley Saturday, Oct. 9 at Sacred Heart.