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Friday Boys Hoops — Corning at Marysville, 7 p.m. Boys Hoops — Mercy at Chester, 7 p.m. Boys Hoops — Red Bluff at Enterprise, 7:30 p.m. Girls Hoops — Mercy at Chester, 5:30 p.m. NBA — Kings at Knicks, 4:30 p.m., CSNC NBA — Clippers at Warriors, 7:30 p.m., CSNB Sports 1B Friday January 14, 2011 Spartans lose struggle Tehama Tracker BOYS HOOPS Red Bluff 44 Shasta 70 The Spartans managed just two points in the first period, Wednesday, dooming themselves on the road at Shasta in a 70-44 loss. The Wolves outscored Red Bluff 23-2 in the first eight minutes. The Spartans dropped to 4-9 on the season and head back to Redding tonight, to take on Enterprise. WRESTLING Corning 38 West Valley 32 The Cardinals showed how wrestling can be a team sport, Wednesday, during a 38-32 dual meet win over West Valley. Daniel Welborn got the clinching victory for the Cardi- nals at 189 pounds with a 14-4 major decision win over Cody Reed. Jose Solano returned from injury to earn an important 3- 2 win over Mikey Maul at 145 pounds. Despite losing a 13-4 major decision at 152 pounds, coach Cort Mitchell gave a lot of credit to freshman Arnul- fo Garcia in his effort against Jon Bennett. A freshmen, Garcia stepped up in weight to go against the West Valley junior when Corning’s scheduled wrestler missed weight. He avoided a pin, which was key for Corn- ing. GIRLS HOOPS Enterprise 38 Red Bluff 28 By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor On a night where both teams went through periods of offensive frustration, the visiting Hornets got over their scoring woes a bit better than the Lady Spartans did in a 38- 28 Enterprise win. For the second straight game the Lady Spartans got off to a hot start, leading Enterprise 9-1 at the end of the first period, only to see their momentum slowly evaporate over the final 24 minutes. The Lady Hornets simply could- n’t make a bucket in the first quar- ter— and there were plenty of opportunities to do so as Enterprise controlled the offensive glass. The tables turned in the second period as Enterprise outscored Red Bluff 12-3 to take a 13-12 lead into halftime after Veronica Diaz buried a pair of 3-pointers and then hit a layup with 1:03 to give the Hornets their first lead of the night. Part of Red Bluff’s offensive problem was losing Cori Schatz for the second period due to foul trou- ble. Schatz, who has emerged the past couple weeks as a strong scor- ing threat for the Spartans, would wind up as the only player in the game to reach double-digits. She finished with 10 points. Enterprise extended their lead to 23-18 after the third period as their leading scorer Jordan Kimbrough finally got on the scoreboard. “Sometimes you win, even when you lose and Arnulfo did that tonight,” Mitchell said. Calvin Meister gave the Cardinals a pin at 171 pounds by defeating Willie Wilcox in 3:03. Martin Solano (112) pinned John Tomasello in 1:47 for six more Corning points. Corning’s JC Jensen won a 17-9 major decision over Sammy Morales at 160 pounds. Matt Boles picked up a Corning win at 135 pounds by defeating Sammye Jones 10-4. Elias Vallejo (119) and Nate Fultz (125) won by forfeit for Corning. In a matchup of two of the section’s best 215 pounders, No. 1 ranked Austin Lobsinger pinned Corning’s Erik Miranda in 1:52. Two more ranked Eagles wrestlers, Jeremy Coats (103) and Scott Nelson (285) also had pin victories. Coats defeated Tristan Sims in 44 seconds and Nelson beat Ryan Henderson in 1:52. West Valley’s Gage Johnson defeated Ramon Lopez by pin in 1:50 at 140 pounds. At 130 pounds West Valley’s Cody Veatch defeated Sean Lowe 9-1. Vista duo honored Daily News photos by Rich Greene (Top) Morgan Weaver fights for Red Bluff possession of the basketball, Thursday night. (Bottom) Red Bluff’s Alana Hinkston takes a peak up at the basket. Kimbrough would finish with seven points and the Hornets’ other two primary scorers, Diaz and Jaclyn Vanschooten both ended with nine points. Enterprise extended out to a dou- ble-digit lead halfway through the fourth quarter at 33-20. Red Bluff tried to climb back into the game via the free throw line and got as close as 33-28 with just over a minute to play, but offensive woes eventually carried over to the charity stripe as well. Lottie Jones had eight points for Red Bluff. Mandi McCue pulled down 11 boards for Enterprise on a night where rebounds were plentiful for both teams as six players grabbed at least seven rebounds. Enterprise survived to get their sixth consecutive win and improve to 11-4 on the season. Red Bluff fell to 4-10 and con- tinue their homestand when they host EAL — South rival Paradise on Tuesday. Courtesy photo Ritchie Nunez and Blake Blocker were awarded MVPs of Red Bluff's Vista Middle School three- day tournament. Chosen by coaches of the opposing teams, they proved themselves to be very talented and hard working players. Vista finished in third place. Raiders have only coaching vacancy left in NFL Oakland Raiders ALAMEDA (AP) — The Oakland Raiders have the only head coaching vacancy left in the NFL. With Denver’s hiring of John Fox on Thurs- day, six of the seven head coaching vacan- cies have been filled this offseason. Earlier Thursday, the Cleveland Browns hired Pat Shur- mur as coach. The Raiders announced last week they were not picking up a $5 million, two- year option to retain coach Tom Cable. Cable went 17-27 in two-plus seasons. He led the Raiders to an 8-8 mark in 2010, Oakland’s best record since 2002. ‘‘The interview process is ongoing,’’ senior executive John Herrera said. ‘‘We have been doing our due dili- gence with our current assistant coaches. That process has been ongo- ing all week.’’ Offensive coordina- tor Hue Jackson is con- sidered a favorite to get the head coaching job. He is under contract as an assistant already for next season. The contracts of many of the other assis- tants, including defen- sive coordinator John Marshall, expire next Tuesday. Marshall could be in jeopardy after the Raiders allowed at least 30 points in six of their eight losses. Jackson came over after last season and assumed the play-call- ing duties from Cable. The improvement on ‘‘The interview process is ongoing. We have been doing our due diligence with our current assistant coaches. That process has been ongoing all week.” Raiders’ senior executive John Herrera offense was the biggest reason why the Raiders won three more games than they had in any of the previous seven sea- sons. Led by quarterback Jason Campbell, a breakout season from running back Darren McFadden and big plays from rookie receiver Jacoby Ford, the Raiders finished sixth in the league in scoring with 410 points. That was the sixth-most points scored in a sea- son in franchise history and more than doubled the 2009 scoring output. If Jackson does get the job he would be the sixth first-time NFL coach out of the seven hired this offseason, with Fox being the only experienced candidate. The Vikings and Cowboys kept their interim coaches with Leslie Frazier staying on in Minnesota after replacing Brad Chil- dress during the year and Jason Garrett keep- ing the Dallas job he took over from Wade Phillips. Two teams went the NFL coordinator route, with Shurmur replacing Eric Mangini in Cleve- land and Ron Rivera taking Fox’s place in Carolina. San Francisco went to the college ranks to hire Jim Har- baugh from Stanford to replace Mike Single- tary. The other big devel- opment for the Raiders so far this offseason was the news that the final year of Pro Bowl cor- nerback Nnamdi Aso- mugha’s contract had voided because he did not meet certain incen- tives. The Raiders previ- ously had an option for 2011, which would be worth either $16.8 mil- lion or the amount of the quarterback fran- chise tag, whichever is greater. Now Asomugha will be an unrestricted free agent. The Raiders can either sign him or likely receive a compensatory draft pick in 2012 if he signs with another team. Asomugha was paid $28.5 million in the first two years of the con- tract.