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1B Tuesday February 11, 2014 Sports Tehama Tracker Today's schedule BOYS BASKETBALL West Valley at Red Bluff, 7:30 p.m. Corning at Lassen, 7:30 p.m. University Prep at Los Molinos, 7:30 p.m. Mercy at Hayfork, 7:30 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Red Bluff at West Valley, 7:30 p.m. Lassen at Corning, 7:30 p.m. University Prep at Los Molinos, 6 p.m. Mercy at Hayfork, 6 p.m. BOYS SOCCER Central Valley at Corning, 3:15 p.m. Los Molinos at Hamilton, 3:15 p.m. Esparto at Mercy, 3:15 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER Central Valley at Corning, 3:15 p.m. NBA Sacramento at Cleveland, 4 p.m. Sports on TV MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL • 4 p.m., ESPN — Florida at Tennessee • 4 p.m., ESPN2 — Oklahoma St. at Texas • 4 p.m., ESPNU — Wake Forest at NC State • 4 p.m., FS1 — Marquette at Seton Hall • 6 p.m., ESPN — Michigan at Ohio St. • 6 p.m., ESPNU — Mississippi at Alaba- ma • 6 p.m., FS1 — Xavier at Butler • 8 p.m., ESPNU — San Diego St. at Wyoming NBA • 4 p.m., CSNC — Sacramento at Cleve- land SOCCER • 11:55 a.m., NBCSN — Premier League, Chelsea at West Bromwich WINTER OLYMPICS At Sochi, Russia All events taped unless noted as Live NBC • 3 p.m., Men's and Women's Cross- Country - Individual Sprint Gold Medal Finals; Women's Luge - Gold Medal Final Runs; Women's Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Competition • 8 p.m., Men's Snowboarding - Halfpipe Gold Medal Final; Figure Skating - Pairs' Short Program; Women's Freestyle Skiing - Slopestyle Gold Medal Final; Women's Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Gold Medal Final • 12:05 a.m., Women's Speedskating - 500 Gold Medal Final; Women's Biathlon - 10km Pursuit Gold Medal Final NBCSN • 3 a.m., Men's and Women's Cross- Country - Individual Sprint Gold Medal Finals (LIVE) • 7 a.m., Figure Skating - Pairs' Short Program (LIVE) • 10:30 a.m., Women's Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Women's Speedskating - 500 Gold Medal Final • 2 p.m., Game of the Day: Hockey • Midnight, Men's Curling - United States vs. Denmark; Men's Nordic Combined - Individual K-95, Ski Jumping (LIVE) MSNBC • 7 a.m., Women's Hockey - Russia vs. Japan (LIVE) • Midnight, Women's Hockey - Switzer- land vs. Finland (LIVE) CNBC • 2 p.m., Women's Curling - United States vs. Britain USA • 2 a.m., Women's Curling - United States vs. China (LIVE) Pink Out! Red Bluff hoops The Red Bluff Lady Spartans girls basketball team will host its annual Pink Out! night Thursday. School-aged girls from first through 12th grades wearing a pink shirt get into the games for the free. The freshmen play at 4:30 p.m., junior varsity at 6 p.m. and varsity is scheduled to top off at 7:30 p.m. All of the games are against Foothill. Pink merchandise will be sold and proceeds from the night will be donated to help women without insurance get mammograms at the St. Elizabeth Imaging Center. American Legion sign-ups Red Bluff Bulls baseball sign–ups will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Red Bluff Veter- ans Hall. To be eligible for the 17-and-under team a player can not turn 18 on or before Aug. 11, 2014. To be eligible for the 15-and-under team a player can not turn 16 on or before Aug. 11, 2014. For more information contact Dave Gamboa during the evenings at 529-2589. PREP ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL Corning 62, Yreka 27 Michael Shoemaker had 18 points, 11 rebounds and five steals to lead Corning past visiting Yreka 62-27 Fri- day night. Nick Hoag added 10 points. GIRLS BASKETBALL Corning 41, Yreka 33 The Lady Cardinals won at Yreka 41-33 Friday night. Corning trailed 20-13 at halftime, but outscored their hosts 15-4 in the third quarter. BOYS SOCCER Corning 5, Lassen 0 The Cardinals stayed unbeaten with a 5-0 win over visiting Lassen Thurs- day. Mario Campos and Cristian Loera each scored twice. Salvador Mora also scored for Corning. Jesus Serrano made four saves in net. Arturo Carrera and Osvaldo Ochoa each made one save. Los Molinos 6, Williams 0 Jose Gonzalez scored four goals and had an assist on a fifth goal as the Bulldogs beat visiting Williams 6-0 Thursday. Erick Hernandez added two more goals for Los Molinos. Francisco Gamboa and Felipe Mar- tinez each had assists. Zach Doyle made eight saves. GIRLS SOCCER Red Bluff 2, Enterprise 1 The Lady Spartans won at Enter- prise 2-1 Friday. Jordan Vazquez and Lilly Taylor each scored in the first half for Red Bluff. Mikenna Corry and Christina Zumalt had assists. Cheyenne Houghtby made six saves. Lassen 6, Corning 1 Visiting Lassen beat the Lady Car- dinals 6-1 Thursday. Patricia Ibarra scored for Corning. Ana Carrillo had five shots. Eva Islas made 23 saves. Section hoops, soccer playoff points released Girls basketball Three Tehama County schools are holding on to No. 2 seeds in their respective divisions, according to playoff points released Sunday by the Northern Section. Schools are ranked by their overall and division records and strength of schedule. The Red Bluff Lady Spartans (16-6) are ranked second in the 7-team Division 3 pool. Enterprise (21-2) is the top team. Las Plumas (14-8) and Shasta (15-7) are tied for third fol- lowed by Foothill (8-10) and Paradise (12-10 tied for fifth. Oroville (5-7) is seventh. The Corning Lady Cardinals (16-6) are second in the 15- school Division 4 pool. Anderson (17-5) is ranked first. Willows (17-4) is third followed by West Valley (11-10) and Wheatland (13-7) tied for fourth. Mercy (17-5) is second in the 22-team Division 6 pool. Paradise Adventist Academy (18-5) is the top seed. Westwood (17-1) is third and Redding Christian (13-4) is fourth. Los Molinos (9-8) is ranked ninth in the 17-team Division 5 pool and in positions to make the playoffs. Durham (17-3), Weed (18-5), Mount Shasta (13-8) and Etna (14-7) are the top four schools. Boys basketball The Corning Cardinals (17-4) are second in Division 4. Orland (15-8) is ranked first due to a better strength of schedule. Lassen (14-8) is third and West Valley (9-12) is fourth. In Division 3, Red Bluff (12-9) is ranked fifth. Foothill (17-4) has the top ranking followed by Oroville (17-4), Shasta (13-8) and Enterprise (11-8). Las Plumas (5-17) is sixth and Paradise (2-18) is seventh. Los Molinos (11-10) is tied with Quincy (11-11) for sev- enth in the 18-team Division 5. Mount Shasta (19-1) is the top team in the division, fol- lowed by Weed (17-5), Liberty Christian (18-3) and Biggs (12-10). Mercy (7-15) is ranked ninth and in playoff position in Division 6. There are 20 teams led by Chester (17-5), Maxwell (17- 3), Paradise Adventist Academy (20-4) and Redding Chris- tian (16-6). Boys soccer Six teams qualify in each of three divisions. Corning (17-0-2) leads Division 2. Orland (13-2-1) is sec- ond. Red Bluff (5-9-1) is clinging on to the sixth and final playoff spot ahead of Foothill (6-7-2). Pleasant Valley (18-1- 1) and Shasta (11-3-1) would receive byes. Los Molinos (9-2-1) is third in Division 3. Mercy (0-8) is 10th and would miss the playoffs. Girls soccer Red Bluff (4-8-4) is eighth and would miss the playoffs in Division 1. Corning (6-11-1) is seventh and would also miss the play- offs as they trail Yreka (5-8-2). Hoefl-Riesch wins 2nd gold in super-combined SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Different American, same result for Maria Hoefl- Riesch — another Olympic gold in the super-combined. Just as she did four years ago at the Vancouver Games, Hoefl-Riesch found herself trailing an American after the downhill leg before using her slalom skills to vault into first place and suc- cessfully defend her Olympic title in the dual-run event. The German finished less than a second ahead of both silver medalist Nicole Hosp of Austria and Julia Mancu- so of the United States, who won the bronze. Mancuso won silver in the event in Vancouver. Lindsey Vonn had the fastest downhill time in Van- couver, but when Vonn skied out on the slalom, Hoefl-Riesch roared back to claim gold. This time, Vonn is out with an injury, and Mancuso replaced her at the top the standings after the downhill. Also on Day 4 of the Sochi Olympics, Charles Hamelin of Canada raced to the 1,500-meter short track speedskating gold, and Vik- tor Ahn earned the bronze to give Russia its first-ever short track medal; Michel Mulder of the Netherlands earned the 500-meter speed- skating gold; Martin Four- cade won the 12.5-kilometer biathlon pursuit; and Alex Bilodeau won his second consecutive gold medal in men's moguls. ——— ALPINE SKIING: For years, Julia Mancuso's ski- ing accomplishments — and there were many — were overshadowed by Lindsey Vonn's. When it comes to Olympic Alpine events, though, no American woman comes close. Turning in a terrific run to lead after the downhill, then recovering from a rat- tling start in the slalom, Mancuso earned the bronze in the super-combined at the Sochi Games on Monday for her fourth medal at an Olympics. She already was the only U.S. female Alpine racer with more than two, which is Vonn's total. ''Skiing and growing up with someone like Lindsey, who's just amazing on the World Cup and breaking records left and right there — to have something that I can break records in at the same time is also fun and exciting for me,'' said Man- cuso, whose two-run time of 2 minutes, 35.15 seconds was 0.53 slower than cham- pion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany. ''If I can keep the Olympics as my thing, that's fine,'' Mancuso said, ''and I'm really proud of it.'' It sure showed Monday, the way she punched the air and screamed for joy after the slalom, did a jig on her step of the podium during the flower ceremony, then ran around with a U.S. flag, hugging family members. She won the gold in the giant slalom at the 2006 Turin Games, then silvers in the super-combined and downhill at Vancouver in 2010. Only two other Win- ter Olympians from the U.S., speedskater Bonnie Blair and short track star Apolo Anton Ohno, have won individual medals at three editions of the games. ''She is everything you want your athletes to be,'' said Bill Marolt, CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. ''She brings herself to her best possible level of preparation and puts it all out there.'' Only four women from anywhere own more Alpine medals than Mancuso, who can increase her total over the next two weeks, starting with Wednesday's downhill. The record of six is shared by Croatia's Janica Kostelic and Sweden's Anja Paerson. The 29-year-old Mancu- so, who grew up in Squaw Valley, Calif., was asked what's different about her when she's in an Olympic start hut. ''I feel more nervous. It's not nerves of failure, it's just nerves,'' she explained. ''There's just a lot of emo- tion and knowing that, 'This is my chance. This is my shot.''' ——— SHORT TRACK SPEEDSKATING: At 29, Hamelin was the oldest skater in the first final of the short track competition. The wily veteran maintained a top-three position through- out most of the 14-lap race, leaving enough at the end to defeat a loaded field, includ- ing Ahn and silver medalist Han Tianyu of China. Ahn was a three-time gold medalist for his native South Korea, but after missing the Vancouver Games he changed his name and became a Russian citizen. When he stepped on the medals podium, the mostly Russian crowd erupted in wild cheers. ——— SPEEDSKATING: Mul- der's 500-meter speedskat- ing victory earned him the title of fastest man on skates. Teammate Jan Smeekens was 0.01 seconds behind for silver, and twin Ronald Mul- der took bronze in a Dutch sweep. ——— BIATHLON: Fourcade's win earned France its first medal. Ondrej Moravec of Czech Republic took the sil- ver, and Jean Guillaume Beatrix of France earned bronze. Ole Einar Bjoern- dalen of Norway finished fourth, missing out on a record 13th Winter Olympic medal. ——— MEN'S MOGULS: Bilodeau became the Olympics' first repeat win- ner in men's moguls. Cana- dian teammate Mikael Kingsbury won the silver, giving the Canadians a 1-2 finish in both men's and women's moguls. ——— CURLING: The Norwe- gian men, curling's fashion kings of cool, made their Sochi debut with another snazzy pattern on their pants -- a mixture of red, white, blue and gray squares and rectangles. Norway dazzled the U.S. 7-4, but the surprise of opening day was Switzer- land's upset of defending champion Canada. On the women's side, Sweden defeated Britain 6-4 in a matchup of two favorites for the women's curling gold. ——— ICE HOCKEY: The United States romped to a 9- 0 victory over Switzerland to all-but clinch a spot in the Olympic women's hockey semifinals. Canada topped Finland 3-0 to ensure its spot in the semifinals. AP photo Women's super-combined bronze medalist United States' Julia Mancuso, right, celebrates while Germany's gold medalist Maria Hoefl-Riesch, left, waits to take the podium during a ceremony Monday at the Winter Olympics.