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1B Sports Tuesday October 8, 2013 Corning win on Cardinals boys win at Clam Beach road at Lassen Corning 33, Lassen 22 The Cardinals offense had a classic Corning performance on the road Friday night racking up 449 rushing yards in a 33-22 win over Lassen. In winning their Northern Athletic League opener Corning improved to 4-1 on the season. Sophomore Alex Davila continued to shine for Corning rushing for 243 yards on 19 carries, including a pair of touchdowns. Chance Nelson had a great game on both sides of the ball. On offense he carried 18 times for 168 yards and two touchdowns. On defense he intercepted two passes. Thomas Lowe recorded 17 tackles on defense and Calvin Abel recovered a fumble and scored a touchdown. Chayce Maday carried four times for 23 yards and completed his only pass attempt of the game to Alex Wunsch for nine yards. David Edson had 10 yards rushing and Tyelar Nelson had five rushing yards. Jayve Uriostegui kicked three extra points. Next up for Corning is a home game against Orland. Shasta 35, Red Bluff 14 The Spartans dropped their second consecutive game 3514 at Shasta Friday night. Red Bluff falls to 3-2 on the season. The Spartans are home for the next three weeks against Chico, Wheatland and then Pleasant Valley. Etna 41, Los Molinos 6 The Bulldogs fell 41-6 at Etna Friday to drop to 0-3 on the season. It was the first time the Bulldogs had scored a point since Oct. 29, 2010. Their last two seasons both ended prematurely due to a lack of players. Princeton 52, Mercy 28 Princeton beat Mercy 52-28 in Red Bluff Saturday in 8man football. Alejandro Guerrero carried 13 times for 113 yards and a touchdown before getting injured in the first half. Tommy Garcia picked up two rushing touchdowns and also threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Gorden. William Gentry had 87 yards rushing on 10 carries. Brenten James had a 14-yard reception. Garcia led the defense with 18 tackles. James, Gorden, Teddy Ramberg and Bryce Baer all recorded double digit tackles. Mercy hosts Loyalton Oct. 12. SWIMMING — NorCal Invitational A number of Spartans had strong meets Friday at the NorCal Varsity Invitational at Anderson High School. Julia Brandt won the Girls 100-yard Breaststroke (1:14.27) and was third in the 50-yard Freestyle (26.35) and 100-yard Butterfly (1:05.01) and fourth in the 100-yard Freestyle (58.62). In the Girls 100-yard Backstroke Nicole Sauve was seventh (1:11.15) and Halley Rosser eighth (1:12.03). Curtis Twitchell was third in the Boys 50-yard Freestyle (23.15), sixth in the 100-yard Freestyle (58.62), seventh in the 100-yard Butterfly (59.19) and 10th in the 100-Yard Backstroke (1:04.41) Jordan Johnson was sixth in the Boys 200-yard Individual Medley (2:17.85) and 12th in the 100yard Backstroke (1:06.27) and 100-yard Breaststroke (1:12.32). Josh Jackson was 11th in the Boys 200-yard Freestyle (2:04.77). Red Bluff's girls relay team was third in the 400-yard Freestyle, fourth in the 200-yard Freestyle and eighth in the 200-Yard Medley. The boys were fifth in the 200-yard Medley and 200-yard Freestyle and 12th in the 400-yard Freestyle. NFL at a glance AFC NFC West West Denver Kansas City RAIDERS San Diego East N. England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo South Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville North Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh W 5 5 2 2 L 0 0 3 3 T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .400 0 .400 W 4 3 2 2 L 1 2 2 3 T 0 0 0 0 Pct .800 .600 .500 .400 W 4 3 2 0 L 1 2 3 5 T 0 0 0 0 Pct .800 .600 .400 .000 W 3 3 3 0 L 2 2 2 4 T 0 0 0 0 Pct .600 .600 .600 .000 Week 5 results Oakland 27, San Diego 17 San Francisco 34, Houston 3 Arizona 22, Carolina 6 Baltimore 26, Miami 23 Cincinnati 13, New England 6 Cleveland 37, Buffalo 24 Denver 51, Dallas 48 Green Bay 22, Detroit 9 Indianapolis 34, Seattle 28 Kansas City 26, Tennessee 17 New Orleans 26, Chicago 18 Philadelphia 36, N.Y. Giants 21 St. Louis 34, Jacksonville 20 N.Y. Jets at Atlanta, late Monday Open: Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Washington W 4 3 3 2 L 1 2 2 3 T 0 0 0 0 Pct .800 .600 .600 .400 W Philadelphia 2 Dallas 2 Washington 1 N.Y. Giants 0 South W N. Orleans 5 Carolina 1 Atlanta 1 Tampa Bay 0 North W Detroit 3 Chicago 3 Green Bay 2 Minnesota 1 L 3 3 3 5 T 0 0 0 0 Pct .400 .400 .250 .000 L 0 3 3 4 T Pct 0 1.000 0 .250 0 .250 0 .000 L 2 2 2 3 T 0 0 0 0 Seattle 49ERS Arizona St. Louis East Pct .600 .600 .500 .250 Week 6 schedule Thursday's game N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 5:25 p.m. Sunday's games Oakland at Kansas City, 10 a.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m. Carolina at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 10 a.m. Green Bay at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. St. Louis at Houston, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at Denver, 1:05 p.m. Tennessee at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. New Orleans at New England, 1:25 p.m. Washington at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Monday's game Indianapolis at San Diego, 5:40 p.m. Open: Atlanta, Miami Tehama Tracker Today's schedule VOLLEYBALL Red Bluff at West Valley, 7 p.m. Corning at Yreka, 7 p.m. Los Molinos at Redding Christian, 7 p.m. Mercy at Liberty Christian, 7 p.m. MLB PLAYOFFS AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISIONAL Oakland at Detroit, 2:07 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 5:37 p.m. (if needed) NHL N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. NBA PRESEASON Golden State at Utah, 6 p.m. Sports on TV MLB PLAYOFFS • 2 p.m., TBS — ALDS, Game 4, Oakland at Detroit • 5:30 p.m., TBS — ALDS, Game 4, Boston at Tampa Bay (if necessary) NHL • 7:30 p.m., NBCSN — Tampa Bay at Buffalo WNBA • 5 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, finals, game 2, Atlanta at Minnesota The Corning boys cross country team won Saturday's Clam Beach Invitational in Arcata. Rogelio Silva led all runners with a time of 16:31 he was followed by Corning teammate Durante Rodriguez at 16:39. Corning and McKinleyville each had 45 points. Central Valley was third with 101. Red Bluff finished in fourth with 110 points, the Spartans were led by Aza Bravo, who finished fifth at 16:42. Corning's Erik Rios was 10th at 17:09. Noe Zavala was 22nd and Joel Aguilar 24th to round out the Cardinals scoring. Red Bluff's Sean White finished in 15th place and Martin Hernandez was 21st. Arcata won the girls event with 19 points. McKinleyville's Morgan Coonfield finished first at 17:36. Ukiah was second with 54 points. Red Bluff was third with 82 points and Corning fourth with 84 points. Ana Carrillo finished in 10th place for Corning with a time of 21:22. Red Bluff was led by Adrienne Hinkston who finished in 22:14 for 13th place. Ali Milroy was 15th for the Spartans, while Tiffany Rodriguez finished in 20th for Corning. A's top Tigers 6-3 to take series lead AP photo Home plate umpire Gary Darling gets between Victor Martinez and Grant Balfour Monday afternoon. DETROIT (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have beaten Detroit with both pitching and power. And that's left the Tigers on the brink of elimination — and simmering with frustration. Brandon Moss, Josh Reddick and Seth Smith homered for the Athletics, who chased Anibal Sanchez in the fifth inning Monday and defeated the Tigers 6-3 for a 2-1 AL division series lead. Moss broke a 3-all tie in the fifth with a solo shot, and Smith's two-run drive later in the inning ended Sanchez's day. It was an impressive offensive show after the teams split two taut, low-scoring games in Oakland. This one got a little tense in the ninth, too, when A's closer Grant Balfour and Detroit hitter Victor Martinez started shouting at each other after a foul ball, causing benches and bullpens to empty. ''I don't know what happened. Honestly, I know that Balfour is fiery on the mound — he's yelling a lot and spitting everywhere,'' Moss said. ''It's who he is. You know, sometimes it can ruffle the feathers of other teams.'' The A's aren't worried about making friends, especially after losing to the Tigers in a five-game division series last year. Oakland can close out this series Tuesday and reach the AL championship series for the first time since 2006 — when the Athletics were swept by the Tigers. Oakland will send rookie Dan Straily to the mound against Detroit's Doug Fister. ''There's no tricks. We've got to win the game tomorrow to try to extend it to Game 5. It's that simple,'' Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. ''We ran into another situation where we didn't put enough runs on the board and an excellent starting pitcher didn't have a very good day.'' Sanchez, the American League's ERA leader, allowed six runs — five earned — and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings. Smith has homered off Sanchez more than any other player, having now done it twice in the regular season and twice in the playoffs. Jarrod Parker gave up three runs in five innings for Oakland, and the Tigers couldn't rally against the bullpen. Balfour pitched a hitless ninth for the save. Martinez had just hit a foul ball when he started looking back at Balfour, who yelled something at the designated hitter. Martinez started slowly toward the mound, and players from both teams came running out. The situation eventually calmed and no players were ejected. Plate umpire Gary Darling said warnings were sufficient. ''I said, 'Why you staring me down like that?''' Balfour said. ''He was staring me down. He knew what he was doing.'' Martinez said Balfour threw in a profanity when he yelled toward the plate. ''I'm not a rookie. I'm a veteran, and I'm a leader on my teams. I don't take that,'' Martinez said while including a few profane words of his own during his explanation. ''He can't intimidate me.'' It looked like the A's might need another brilliant performance on the mound from Parker as they had in Game 2 But they had Sanchez in trouble almost immediately, scoring a run in the third and two more in the fourth. Although the Tigers finally snapped out of their offensive funk with a threerun fourth, Sanchez couldn't keep the ball in the park. Moss hit a line drive over the wall in right to make it 4-3, and Smith's high fly carried over the fence in left-center. Coco Crisp had two doubles and a single for the A's. Oakland threatened in each of the first three innings but needed a break to score the game's first run. After Crisp's single to start the third, Josh Donaldson walked. Jed Lowrie and Moss both struck out, and it looked like Sanchez might get out of the inning when Yoenis Cespedes hit a sharp grounder to Miguel Cabrera. The slugging third baseman couldn't come up with the ball and couldn't keep it in front of him, and the error allowed the A's to take the lead. Oakland made it 3-0 in the fourth. Reddick led off with his first homer since Sept. 15, and Stephen Vogt followed with a triple and scored on Crisp's one-out sacrifice fly. Vogt was safe when Jhonny Peralta — who moved from shortstop to left field after returning last month from his drug suspension — couldn't make a strong enough throw home. Peralta was in the lineup for his bat, and he did give the Tigers a boost shortly after his weak throw. After going scoreless for the previous 20 innings, Detroit pushed across three runs in the fourth to tie it. With men on first and third, Martinez hit an RBI double down the line in right field. Then Peralta added a two-run single to left. But the A's went right back to work against Sanchez, and through three games, they've been the better team — at the plate, in the field and on the mound. Raiders release quarterback Matt Flynn ALAMEDA (AP) — The Oakland Raiders released quarterback Matt Flynn on Monday, just six months after bringing him in to be the starter. Oakland acquired Flynn in April from Seattle for a 2014 fifth-round draft pick and a conditional pick in 2015. The Raiders also reworked Flynn's contract to give him $6.5 million in guaranteed money this season. But Flynn was beaten out for the starting job in the preseason by Terrelle Pryor and then fell to third string behind undrafted free agent Matt McGloin last week, leading to his eventual release. ''It just didn't work,'' coach Dennis Allen said. ''Terrelle came in and he took over the job. He's earned the position that he's in. So, we just felt like it's probably best to move on from that.'' Sports Illustrated first reported the move. Flynn made two appearances for Oakland (2-3) for all that money. He came in late in a loss at Denver on Sept. 23, after Pryor was knocked out with a concussion, and then started against Washington the following week. He was booed by the home crowd from the start of that game and struggled mightily as the Raiders lost 24-14. He threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown, lost a fumble in the second half and was sacked seven times as he lacked pocket presence. Pryor came back to regain the starting job and led the Raiders to a 27-17 victory Sunday night over the Chargers as Flynn sat watching. ''This kid's going to continue to improve,'' Allen said. ''He's probably leaps and bounds ahead of where we thought he would be at this point in time. The key for him is he continues to work and continues to strive to get better on the little things.'' After spending four years as Aaron Rodgers' backup in Green Bay, Flynn was one of the most sought after quarterbacks on the free-agent market in 2012 based largely on one dynamic start. Flynn threw for 480 yards and six touchdowns in the 2011 season finale for the Packers against Detroit. Flynn had also played well in one start the previous season against New England, throwing for 251 yards and three touchdowns in a loss. Seattle signed Flynn and paid him $8 million last season even though he was beaten out for the starting job by rookie Russell Wilson. That made him expendable and the Raiders acquired him April 1 to be the heir apparent to Carson Palmer.