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Friday Football — Lassen at Red Bluff, 7:30 p.m. Football — Los Molinos at Biggs, 7:30 p.m. Football — West Valley at Corning, 7:30 p.m. Soccer — Chico at Red Bluff, 4 p.m. MLB Playoffs — Reds at Phillies, 3 p.m., TBS MLB Playoffs — Braves at Giants, 6:30 p.m., TBS Sports 1B Friday October 8, 2010 Lincecum leads Giants to Game 1 win Atlanta 0 Giants 1 Game 1 SF 1-0 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Freak really showed up for San Francisco on his biggest stage yet. Tim Lincecum pitched a two-hitter and struck out 14 in a dominating postseason debut, and the Giants scored their only run after a questionable umpiring call to beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in Game 1 of their NL division series Thursday night. MCT photo Tim Lincecum pitches Thursday in Game 1 of the NLDS. Lincecum pitched a gem, a day after Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay threw only the second no-hitter in postseason history in his debut. Lincecum outdueled playoff veteran Derek Lowe and caught a break, too. Cody Ross singled in the only run Lince- cum needed in the fourth after Buster Posey was called safe on a steal of second by umpire Paul Emmel. Posey appeared to be tagged out by Brooks Conrad on the play — retiring Braves manager Bobby Cox, the all- time leader in ejections, did not argue. Lady Spartans beat Lassen Lincecum struck out Derrek Lee for the third time to end the 119-pitch masterpiece in 2 hours, 26 minutes. He became just the 12th pitcher with 14 or more strikeouts in a postseason game. In a postseason already filled with plenty of stellar pitching, this was the first 1-0 game in the postseason since 2005, when the Chicago White Sox finished off a World Series sweep over Houston. Game 2 of this best-of-five series is Fri- day night, with 13-game winner Matt Cain going for the Giants against Tommy Han- son. Lincecum’s only other complete game this season came in a two-hit shutout of the New York Mets on July 15. The two-time NL Cy Young winner car- ried the momentum from a strong final month right into October. His strikeouts set a franchise record for a postseason game — his eighth time with 10 or more Ks this year and 27th of his career. Lowe, who won his last five regular-season starts with a 1.17 ERA over that stretch, allowed one run on See GIANTS, page 2B Los Molinos to join Tri-Cities By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor Just as players, coaches, fans and school officials were getting used to the 2010-2012 high school league realign- ments, plans have been put into place for the 2012-2014 prep seasons. At an American Conference meeting, Thursday, new league structures were put into place for all sports except football, track and cross country. The changes will find Los Molinos and Mercy in a league together in almost every sport. According to the meeting’s minutes, Los Molinos asked to be moved into the Tri-Cities League beginning in 2012. In volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball the Bull- dogs will join Mercy, Chester, Hayfork, Liberty Christian, Redding Christian and University Prep to make up a seven-team league. The co-ed winter soccer league Mercy and Los Moli- nos compete in will be folded into the Sacramento Valley League (SVL). The league will consists of the Warriors, Bulldogs, Colusa, Durham, Esparto, Hamilton, Live Oak, Pierce, Williams and Willows. The Bulldogs wrestling team will compete in the SVL along with Biggs, Durham, Live Oaks, University Prep and Willows. In golf Los Molinos will be compete with Biggs, Colusa, Durham, East Nicolaus, Esparto, Hamilton, Maxwell, Williams and Willows. Mercy’s golf team will stay in the Tri-Cities League and be joined by Champion Christian, Liberty Christian, Paradise Adventist, Redding Christian and University Prep. In tennis the Warriors will compete in the SVL with Colusa, Live Oak and Willows. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff’s April Allwardt and Riley Kittle go up to block Lassen captain Megan Schaake’s shot. After a closely fought first game VOLLEYBALL Lassen 21 20 18 Red Bluff 25 25 25 By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor Even a fire alarm couldn’t stop the Lady Spartans from getting some revenge on Lassen. Red Bluff swept the Grizzlies in three games, Thursday, a few weeks after Lassen knocked off the Lady Spartans at the Red Bluff Invitational. won by the Spartans 25-21, the fire alarm went off prompting the teams and those in attendance to leave the gymnasium. The alarm was part of a Red Bluff Fire Department training session at the school’s Performing Arts Center. Red Bluff dropped the first few points of the second game, but went on a strong run and cruised to a 25-20 win. Game 3 gave coach Angie Ayers a chance to work in some of the Red Bluff substitutes and the Lady Spartans won easily 25-18. Kaitlann Weber finished with 32 assists. Riley Kittle had 14 kills. Marissa Clawson had seven kills and 12 digs and Megan McColpin added three aces. Ayers said the Lady Spartans didn’t play their best game, but made fewer errors than the Grizzlies. “We didn’t do anything too special, but we just kept the ball in more,” she said. Red Bluff travels to Paradise on Tuesday. Pettitte puts Twins in their place N.Y. Yankees 5 Game 2 Minnesota 2 NYY 2-0 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sure, the New York Yan- kees stumbled through Sep- tember as Andy Pettitte tried to work his way back from a groin injury. After landing in the AL wild-card spot, the defend- ing World Series champs look as though they had the Minnesota Twins right where they wanted ’em. Pettitte turned in a vin- tage performance with seven smooth innings and Lance Berkman had two big hits in a 5-2 victory by the Yankees over their favorite postseason punching bag on Thursday evening for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five divi- sion series. So much for Minnesota’s home-field advantage. The Yankees are hardly an underdog when it comes to October. ‘‘Andy, when he gets in big situations, he knows how to handle it,’’ New York manager Joe Girardi said. ‘‘He’s not going to try to make the perfect pitch. He’s going to stay aggres- sive and just try to do what he does. And I think a lot of that is just from experi- ence.’’ Berkman hit a go-ahead home run in the fifth and a tiebreaking double in the seventh against Carl Pavano, sending the Twins to their 11th straight post- season loss. Eight of those have come against the Yan- kees, who trailed in each of those games. From the point of the Twins’ biggest lead in those games, the Yankees have outscored them 42-8. Mariano Rivera got three outs for his second save of the series, extending his postseason record to 41 and running his career total to 600, including 559 in the regular season. The road team has won all four games in the two AL play- off series. The Twins? They haven’t won a postseason game since 2004, matching the Philadelphia Phillies (1915-1976) for the second- longest streak in history behind the Boston Red Sox (1986-1995) and their 13 in a row. Berkman, yet another big-name veteran finding a place on a Yankees postsea- son roster, even on the downside of his career, made it 2-1 with his drive into the left-center bullpen in the fifth. His double in the seventh — one pitch after it appeared Pavano sneaked strike three past him — drove in Jorge Posada and gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead. ‘‘That’s why I wanted to come over here, just to get a chance to play in these games,’’ Berkman said. The disputed call by plate umpire Hunter Wen- delstedt led to the ejection of Twins manager Ron Gar- denhire following Berk- man’s double, and Pavano soon exited before getting another out. He allowed 10 hits and four runs. Many fans proudly wore their pregame giveaways — fuzzy black stick-on replica mustaches in honor of Pavano’s appearance. He started strong, but the Yan- See YANKS, page 2B Decisions on track, cross country and football were tabled. According to the minutes the football discussion stalled over several issues. Mt. Shasta wanted to join the Sacramento Cascade League with Burney, Etna, Fall River, Modoc and Weed, but the rest of the SCL felt they weren’t a fit competitive- ly. There was also an issue over how many teams should be in the Mountain Valley League. The proposed realign- ment would have Portola and University Prep join Los Molinos, Biggs, Chester, Maxwell. The Mountain Valley League however expressed a desire to remain as a 4-team league and continue a home- and-home schedule structure. Spartan runners edge out Bobcats BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Paradise 29 Red Bluff 27 The Spartans edged Paradise by two points, Thursday, thanks to a gutsy performance by Jordan McManus. The Red Bluff sophomore passed two Bobcat runners at the finish line to save the Spartans three points and the vic- tory. Eric Espinosa was Red Bluff’s top finisher, coming in third place in a time of 18:02. The Spartans took the next three spots as well with Ben Watland in fourth (18:10), Garritt Sanders in fifth (18:56) and then McManus in sixth (19:03). Kyle Rodriguez rounded out the scoring for Red Bluff with a ninth place finish (19:23). GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY Paradise 28 Red Bluff 25 The Lady Spartans also won a close contest with the vis- iting Bobcats. Erin Eicholtz finished in third place for Red Bluff at 22:11, but the Top 2 Paradise runners had their times dis- qualified for cutting part of the course. Katie Parks (23:57), Jessica Taylor (25:24), Gina Cosentino (25:30) and Adrienne Hinkson (25:31) rounded out the scoring for Red Bluff. “We are evenly matched,” coach Wes Hendricks said. “Every runner is important to the outcome of the score.”