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Monday NBA— Nuggets at Nets, 4 p.m., NBATV Men’s NCAA — Louisville at Georgetown, 4 p.m., ESPN Men’s NCAA—Texas at Texas A&M, 6 p.m., ESPN Women’s NCAA— Duke at Connecticut, 4 p.m., ESPN2 Sports 1B Monday January 31, 2011 Home away from home Tehama Tracker BOYS HOOPS Red Bluff 50 Las Plumas 51 The Spartans lost a hard fought Eastern Athletic League — South game at Las Plumas, 51-50, Friday night. The loss drops Red Bluff to 6-13. The Spartans host Foothill on Wednesday night. Winters 40 Corning 53 Corning got back to their winning ways with a 53-40 win over Winters, Friday, in a non-league contest. The Cardinals are 15-7 and host Yreka, Tuesday. Williams 56 Los Molinos 69 The Bulldogs continued their win streak, Friday, with a 69-56 win over Williams to improve to 11-5 on the season. Four Bulldogs reached double-digits, led by Ryan Mekech with 16 points. Sean Conrad added 14 and Kevin Garnica and Dom Ceja had 11 each. Mercy 46 Redding Christian 55 WRESTLING Tehama County Shootout By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor Technically, it wasn’t their annual tournament. But that didn’t stop the Corning Cardinals, Saturday, from treating the Tehama County Shootout as if it was their own. With the Corning Invitational sus- pended for one year, late-January wrestling action shifted to Red Bluff High School for a one-time only tour- nament. Corning took advantage of the home-enough advantage finishing a respectable third behind powerhouses Orland and Henley, who had combined for 16 of the 28 championship finalists. Red Bluff’s Dillon Reid returned to his winning ways by taking first place at 163-pounds. The Spartans probably deserved something for their friendly gesture. Red Bluff Union High School offered to host the tournament on the same weekend the Corning Invitation- al usually takes place to help their county-rivals hold their date on the cal- endar. Corning had lost their tourna- ment for one year due to violations of weigh-in procedures in 2010. “ I would like to thank Red Bluff High and specifically Brett Southwick and Dave and Nancy Rottenberg for taking on the responsibility of hosting this tournament since we were unable to,” Corning coach Cort Mitchell said. “It's an unbelievable amount of work not only on the day of the tournament, but in the days and weeks leading up to it — and they handled it with class and style as they do with everything which they are involved.” Although the circumstances were a bit unusual, the action on the mats was of the high-level of competition North- ern Section wrestling typically pro- duces. Corning’s Daniel Welborn contin- ued his strong run of late — reaching the 192-pound final to finish second. “My junior year — I’ve been get- ting better and better,” Welborn said, who added his next goal is to place at the Northern Athletic League champi- onships. A week after suffering his first loss of the season at the Tim Brown Memo- RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sorry Team Staal, Team Lidstrom felt right at home in Carolina. Captain Eric Staal of the hometown Hurricanes seemed to have everything going his way on All-Star weekend. He owned the first pick in the inaugural NHL fantasy draft, had the crowd and two Carolina teammates on his side and overwhelming sentiment behind him. win. What he didn’t get was a Danny Briere, Jonathan Toews, and Martin St. Louis scored during a four-minute span of the third period to lift Team Lidstrom over Team Staal 11-10 on Sun- day in the NHL All-Star game. Maybe Staal’s pick of Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward with the No. 1 selec- tion in the fantasy draft was- n’t such a good idea, after all. Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos, the league leader with 38 goals, went with the second pick to Team Lid- strom and scored the goal that made it 6-6 in the sec- ond period. Ward could hardly be blamed for the four goals he gave up in the first. Pitts- burgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury also allowed four in the opening 20 minutes. One consolation for the Staals was that Chicago’s Patrick Sharp claimed MVP honors in a losing cause after he posted a goal and A mentally-fatigued Mercy Warriors team fell 55-46 at Redding Christian, Friday night. Royce Crane led the way with 16 points. Michael Wang had 11 points and nine rebounds. “We aren’t playing well right now,” coach Steve Shellabarger said, adding he needs to adjusts practices and the mental attitude of his team so his players can play better. GIRLS HOOPS Corning 27 Winters 18 Brittney Garrett had seven points and Corning won a defensive struggle 27-18 over Winters, Friday night. Williams 37 Los Molinos 52 The Lady Bulldogs returned to the win column, Fri- day night, with a 52-37 win over Williams. Los Molinos improved to 5-11. Mercy 30 Redding Christian 51 Mercy couldn’t get Morgan Hampton-Glines going and fell 51-30 at Redding Christian, Friday. “They just out quicked us and they’re a very, very solid team,” Mercy coach Jim Wilson said. Maggie Keller and Diana Van Ert both had 10 points and Hampton-Glines was double-teamed all night. Keller added nine rebounds. Watson rallies to win at Torrey Pines Daily News photos by Rich Greene (Top) Corning’s Daniel Welborn locks up in his 192-pound championship match at Saturday’s Tehama County Shootout in Red Bluff. (Below) Red Bluff’s Dillon Reid gets a takedown in his 163-pound championship match. rial in Sacramento, Red Bluff’s Dillon Reid breezed through the 163-pound bracket. How did Reid take losing a week earlier? “I don’t ever plan on doing it again this year,” he said. Corning’s Calvin Meister once again had the misfortune of meeting Reid in the bracket — and once again fell short in a highly entertaining match. Meister wrestled his way back to take third place. Nate Fultz (122) and Erik Miranda (218) also took third places for Corn- ing. Matt Boles (138) and Parker John- son (174) had seventh place finishes. The Spartans produced a trio of third place finishers with Josh O’Coy at 192, Bryce Eggert at 174 pounds and Kyle Case at 147. Jeff Skaggs placed fifth at 217. While the Spartans played host, the Cardinals tried their best to make the tournament feel like home. “I’m proud of our team for coming in third,” Mitchell said. “Orland and Henley were in a class by themselves, but we were able to come out on top of everybody else in what we thought of as our own tournament, so Iwas happy with that.” Briere’s 2 goals lift Lidstrom NHLAll-Stars two assists. With the team in white named after Staal, the Car- olina fans decked out in red hardly seemed to care that Sidney Crosby and his Pitts- burgh Penguins teammate Evgeni Malkin were miss- ing because of injuries. Staal’s club had a 4-0 lead in the first that was gone before the intermis- sion and an 8-7 edge early in the third before Nicklas Lidstrom’s club staged its second big comeback. After Rick Nash brought Team Staal within a goal with 4:49 remaining, Loui Eriksson sealed it by scor- ing into an empty net at 18:49. That insurance was nec- essary because Staal gave the RBC Center one more reason to yell when he made it 11-10 with his fourth career All-Star goal with 34 seconds remaining. Philadelphia’s Briere got one of the replacement spots and made the most of it. Briere gave Team Lid- strom a 7-6 lead with 4:29 left in the second period and then tied it 8-8 at 9:57 into the final period with his third career All-Star goal. That brought a smile to the face of Peter Laviolette, a co-coach of Team Lid- strom who now runs the Philadelphia Flyers’ bench. It was just the latest celebra- tion moment in Carolina for Laviolette, who coached the Hurricanes to the 2006 Stanley Cup title. SAN DIEGO (AP) — The best Lefty at Torrey Pines on Sunday turned out to be Bubba Watson. Watson made clutch putts on the final two holes, includ- ing a 12-foot birdie on the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 to win the Farmer Insurance Open in a finish filled with the kind of drama that few could have predicted. Phil Mickelson — the other Lefty and the San Diego favorite — was one shot behind and was only 228 yards away in the rough when he decided to lay up before Wat- son even attempted his birdie putt. Then came a loud cheer as Watson sank his putt for a two-shot lead, meaning Mickelson would have to hole out a wedge from 72 yards for eagle to force a playoff. He has his caddie, Jim ‘‘Bones’’ Mackay tend the flag — rare for a full shot from the fairway — and gallery gasped when the ball landed just behind the hole and started to spin back toward the cup. But it never had a chance. Mickelson had said the secret to him playing the revamped South Course was to play it safe, and he fol- lowed that strategy all the way to a runner-up finish. Mick- elson closed with a 69 to finish one shot behind. Watson finished at 16-under 272 for his second victory, although this one came against a much stronger field than his playoff win at the Travelers Championship last sum- mer. He held off Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Jhonattan Vegas, the Venezuela rookie coming off a win at the Bob Hope Classic last week. Vegas tied Watson for the lead on the 10th hole and stayed in range throughout the back nine until his 5-iron from the first cut of rough on the 18th came up well short and into the water. He made bogey for a 68 and tied for third with Johnson, who shot 66. Tiger Woods also was in the field, although no one noticed during the final two hours. Woods, who started the final round eight shots behind, closed with a 75 to end his five-tournament winning streak at Torrey Pines. He had never finished out of the top 10 at Torrey Pines, but wound up 15 shots back in a tie for 44th. It was his worst season debut since his first full season on the PGA Tour in 1997. ‘‘I have some work to do,’’ Woods said. ‘‘There’s no doubt about that.’’ Watson had a one-shot lead over Vegas when he flew the 17th green from a fairway bunker, leaving him a down- hill chip that went some 10 feet past the hole. Watson, who couldn’t hold back tears when he won for the first time last summer as his father was dying, cried again. His father passed away from cancer late last year.