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1B Tuesday February 4, 2014 Sports Tehama Tracker Today's schedule BOYS BASKETBALL Red Bluff at Shasta, 7:30 p.m. Los Molinos at Chester, 7:30 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Shasta at Red Bluff, 7:30 p.m. Los Molinos at Chester, 6 p.m. BOYS SOCCER Paradise at Red Bluff, 4:30 p.m. Corning at Yreka, 5:15 p.m. Mercy at Williams, 3:15 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER Paradise at Red Bluff, 3 p.m. Corning at Yreka, 3:15 p.m. NBA Charlotte at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Sports on TV MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL • 4 p.m., ESPN — Ohio St. at Iowa • 4 p.m., ESPN2 — Kansas at Baylor • 4 p.m., ESPNU — Mississippi at Ken- tucky • 4 p.m., FS1 — St. John's at Providence • 6 p.m., ESPN — Missouri at Florida • 6 p.m., ESPNU — Wake Forest at Duke • 6 p.m., FS1 — Butler at Marquette NBA • 7:30 p.m., CSNB — Charlotte at Gold- en State NHL • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — N.Y. Islanders at Washington PREP ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL Enterprise 70, Red Bluff 29 The Hornets jumped all over visit- ing Red Bluff (12-8, 0-3) Friday night and cruised to a 70-29 win. Enterprise outscored the Spartans 28-3 in the first quarter and led 51-12 at halftime. Foothill 60, Corning 47 Foothill beat the Cardinals (16-4, 4- 0) Friday night 60-47 in a non-league game that doubled as Corning's Home- coming. Foothill outscored Corning 13-3 in the fourth quarter to secure the win. Michael Shoemaker led Corning with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Chayce Maday had 11 points. Nick Hoag had seven points and seven rebounds. Chance Nelson had four assists. Los Molinos 60, Hayfork 50 The Bulldogs (11-9, 3-4) picked up a 60-50 road win Friday night at Hay- fork. University Prep 60, Mercy 48 Visiting U-Prep beat Mercy 60-48 Friday night. Adil Syed and Reid Gardner each had 12 points for the Warriors (7-14, 1- 6). Tommy Garcia had six points and 12 rebounds. GIRLS BASKETBALL Corning 41, Foothill 31 The Lady Cardinals (15-6, 3-1) beat Foothill 41-31 Friday night in a non- league game. BOYS SOCCER Shasta 3, Red Bluff 0 Visiting Shasta shut out Red Bluff 3-0 Friday. The Wolves got goals from Riley Davis, Alex Demattio and Matt Pierce. Red Bluff (4-9-1, 2-6-1) recorded three shots on net. Corning 4, University Prep 1 Corning (15-0-2, 6-0-1) stayed unbeaten Thursday with a 4-1 win over visiting U-Prep. Eric Figueroa scored twice for Corning and also recorded an assist. Arturo Carrera and Cristian Loera also scored for Corning. Jayve Uriostegui had an assist. Jesus Serrano made eight saves in net for Corning. Los Molinos 0, Colusa 0 Los Molinos played Colusa to a scoreless tie Thursday. The Bulldogs (8-2-1, 7-1-1) record- ed 11 shots on net. GIRLS SOCCER Shasta 1, Red Bluff 0 Shasta held off visiting Red Bluff 1- 0 Friday. The Lady Spartans dropped to 1-5- 3 in league play and 4-7-4 overall. University Prep 7, Corning 0 Elaina Astin and Kylie Diaz each had hat tricks as U-Prep beat Corning 7-0 Thursday. The Lady Cardinals dropped to 3-4 in league play and 7-9-1 overall. Orland wins Corning Invite The Orland Trojans wrestling team captured the 2014 Corning Invitational Saturday. Orland finished with 191 points ahead of Henley, Ore. with 170. Archbishop Mitty was third with 142 points. Chico (136), Sutter (118), Wheatland (108), Pleasant Val- ley (95), Modoc (90.5), Corning (88.5) and Reed (86.5) rounded out the Top 10. Red Bluff finished with 26 points. Modoc was crowned the Small Schools Champion. Most Valuable Wrestler awards went to Wheatland's Kalen Hastey (heavyweight), Gridley's Jonathon Villapania (middleweight) and Orland's Hugo Punzo (lightweight). Corning had a pair of third place finishers in Alonzo Munoz (135 pounds) and Josh Shults (141). Red Bluff's Alex Trevino was fifth place at 123 pounds. Corning's Calvin Abel was fifth place at 198 pounds and Alex De Jesus was seventh place at 116 pounds. Syracuse is new No. 1 in AP poll SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse's reward for win- ning one of the best college basketball games of the season was a spot on top of The Associated Press Top 25 poll. Combined with No. 1 Arizona's first loss of the season last weekend, the Orange's 91-89 overtime win over Duke on Saturday moved them up one spot to the top. Syracuse (21-0) received all 65 first-place votes from the national media panel Monday, making the Orange the first unanimous No. 1 since Duke was for six weeks in 2010-11. ''We're happy to be No. 1,'' coach Jim Boeheim said Monday, hours before the Orange met Notre Dame. ''Obvi- ously, it's taken a lot of hard work. It's an honor. We'll try to keep playing well.'' Syracuse, off to the best start in school history, is on top of the poll for the first time since a six-week run in 2011-12. This is the 15th week all-time Syracuse has been No. 1. Syracuse is the fourth team to hold the No. 1 ranking this season. Kentucky was on top for the preseason poll and one in the regular season while Michigan State was No. 1 for three weeks and Arizona, which lost to California hours after Syracuse beat Duke, for the last eight. Arizona (21-1) and Syracuse, which were 1-2 for the last eight weeks, switched spots this week. Florida, Wichita State, the only other unbeaten in Divi- sion I, and San Diego State remained third through fifth and were followed by Villanova, Cincinnati, Kansas, Michigan State and Michigan. Duke, which also won at Pittsburgh last week, was 11th, a jump of six spots from last week's poll. No. 20 Virginia, No. 22 Connecticut and No. 23 Gonza- ga returned to the rankings. They replaced Ohio State and Wisconsin, which both reached as high as No. 3 this season, and Massachusetts. The Duke-Syracuse game drew a Carrier Dome-record crowd of 35,446 and it was a record for wins between com- peting coaches with Boeheim at 941 with the victory and Mike Krzyzewski, the all-time leader with 973. Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon beat the buzzer in regulation with an off-balance 3-pointer that tied it at 78 and Jerami Grant scored eight points in overtime to lead the Orange in the first meeting between the schools as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The teams meet again in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Feb. 22 which means a crowd of about 26,000 fewer people, but it could be just as good a game. ''We don't want to just settle on that one,'' Syracuse guard Trevor Cooney said after the Duke game. ''We want to keep moving and keep winning and keep playing well.'' Ratings: another record for Super Bowl NEW YORK (AP) — For the fourth time in five years, the Super Bowl has set a record for the most-watched televi- sion event in U.S. history, drawing 111.5 million viewers even though the Seattle Seahawks' 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos wasn't really competitive. The game also set standards for the most-streamed sports event online and, with 24.9 million tweets, the biggest U.S. live TV event on Twitter. The Seattle victory eclipsed the 111.3 million viewers who watched the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, according to the Nielsen company. Until last year's game dipped slightly to 108.7 million, the Super Bowl had set rat- ings records for the previous three years in a row. ''We were a little surprised, absolutely,'' said Bill Wanger, executive vice president for programming and research at Fox Sports. The blowout had some at Fox worried that enough people would tune out in the fourth quarter to ruin any chance at a ratings record. So when Percy Harvin ran the opening kickoff of the sec- ond half back for a touchdown to give the Seahawks a 29-0 lead, ''let's just say we weren't popping Champagne bot- tles,'' Wanger said. Healthy Bogut showing up big OAKLAND (AP) — At the beginning of train- ing camp, Andrew Bogut set a goal to play all 82 regular-season games and regain his place among the NBA's best centers. He's on pace to come awfully close. With his health no longer holding him back, Bogut has been a force in the middle for the Golden State Warriors (29-19) entering Tuesday night's home game against the Charlotte Bobcats. He ranks near the top of the league in blocks, rebounds and defensive ratings, and he has begun to silence the chatter that he's a player who is always hurt. ''I haven't felt this great in while,'' Bogut said after Monday's prac- tice, then quickly asking not to jinx his good for- tune. ''Touch wood,'' he said. The 7-footer from Australia, who has a well-documented history of injuries, has played in 47 of 48 games — with his lone absence stem- ming from a suspension handed down by the NBA for his role in a scrum against Portland. Bogut had played in only 44 games the past two sea- sons combined. Bogut's presence has been especially big con- sidering his primary backups, Jermaine O'Neal and Festus Ezeli, have been out most of the season. ''He's been spectacu- lar, protecting the paint, setting screens, rebound- ing the basketball, being a leader, being durable,'' Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. ''If he's not here, you're asking basi- cally a power forward to be a (center), and to do it for a lengthy period of time is a recipe for disas- ter. But he's been awe- some, and certainly should be in the discus- sion for Defensive Player of the Year.'' The Warriors took a big risk by signing Bogut to a three-year, $36 mil- lion extension in October that could be worth up to about $42 million with incentives. They also took a gamble when they acquired Bogut in a trade-deadline deal in March 2012 that sent guard Monta Ellis to Mil- waukee. Bogut did not play for Golden State that season while recovering from a fractured left ankle. Bogut battled back and knee injuries while aver- aging a career-low 5.8 points to go with 7.7 rebounds last season, but he was at his best in the playoffs, making a major difference on defense to help the Warriors advance to the second round. Bogut missed the end of the 2009-10 season with the Bucks when he dislocated his right elbow, sprained his right wrist and broke his right hand in a hard fall to the floor. He also missed sig- nificant time with an injured lower back in the 2008-09 season. Bogut has repeatedly called both injuries ''freak accidents.'' ''People that label me injury-prone, it's fair enough, I understand it,'' Bogut said. ''But to say that they're chronic injuries, those people are idiots. Two injuries that have hurt my career and probably shortened the length of my career and probably a little bit of my playing ability are com- pletely out of my con- trol.'' Even still, the setbacks have taken a toll — phys- ically and mentally. At one point while rehab- bing his ankle last sea- son, Bogut said he was in a ''dark place'' and even considered retirement. Instead, Golden State's surprising playoff run — and his big role in it — left him rejuvenated. He lost about 15 pounds this offseason, and the only real injury scare cost him some practice time in January after he strained his right knee. Bogut is averaging 10.6 rebounds and two blocks per game, and he has the NBA's third-best defensive rating — which is calculated by how many points are given up per 100 possessions while a player is on the floor. Offense is still some- thing that has eluded Bogut since his elbow injury, though on a Gold- en State team stacked with shooters, he's not asked to score much. Bogut is averaging 8.2 points, which is sixth on the team, but he leads the Warriors with 64 percent shooting — with most of his points coming on pick-and-roll dunks or put-back rebounds. He's also rediscovering his passing ability — once considered among the best for NBA's centers — lately, including tying his season high with five assists in Friday's win at Utah. ''He's talented, man,'' point guard Stephen Curry said. ''It's not often you see a big man get the rebound, push in transition, change direc- tions a couple times, read the defense and make behind-the-back passes and one-handed passes for a backdoor cut. That creativity he has, I've rarely seen it for a guy his size.'' Bogut, now 29, has concentrated on becom- ing a more versatile defender. He's not just guarding centers near the rim, but often going out against power forwards, including holding down All-Star starter Blake Griffin in a win over the Clippers last week. Bogut believes he's ''close'' to playing the best defense of his career, and he's making a strong case to be on the first or second All-NBA Defen- sive teams. The only time Bogut could remember playing this well was before his injury in the 2009-10 season, when he finished second behind Orlando's Dwight Howard in blocks per game but didn't even get a vote for the defensive teams that season. ''Hopefully, I can make up for that this sea- son,'' Bogut said. ''But awards are predicated on how the team is, how the success of the team is, so if we go to the playoffs and make some noise, I think all that stuff will take care of itself.'' AP file photo Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut is healthy and playing great.