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Tehama Tracker 1B Wednesday February 12, 2014 Sports Today's schedule BOYS SOCCER Red Bluff at Foothill, 4:30 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER Foothill at Red Bluff, 6 p.m. WRESTLING Red Bluff at West Valley, 6 p.m. NBA Sacramento at New York, 4:30 p.m. Miami at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Sports on TV GOLF 8 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Women's Australian Open, first round, at Cheltenham, Aus- tralia MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Pittsburgh ESPN2 — South Florida at UConn ESPNU — Baylor at TCU FS1 — Villanova at DePaul NBCSN — George Washington at VCU 6 p.m. ESPN — Duke at North Carolina ESPN2 — Stanford at Washington ESPNU — UCF at Memphis 8 p.m. ESPNU — California at Washing- ton St. SOCCER 11:40 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Arsenal vs. Manchester United, at London WINTER OLYMPICS At Sochi, Russia All events taped unless noted as Live NBC 3 p.m. Men's Nordic Combined - Individ- ual K-95 Gold Medal Final 8 p.m. Women's Alpine Skiing - Downhill Gold Medal Final; Figure Skating - Pairs' Gold Medal Final; Women's Snowboard- ing - Halfpipe Gold Medal Final; Men's Speedskating - 1000 Gold Medal Final 12:05 a.m. Luge - Doubles Gold Medal Final Runs NBCSN 4 a.m. Women's Hockey - Canada vs. United States (LIVE) 7 a.m. Figure Skating - Pairs' Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men's Nordic Combined - Individual K-95, Cross-Country 1:45 p.m. Luge - Doubles Gold Medal Final Runs 5:30 p.m. Game of the Day: Hockey 12 Mid. Men's Hockey - Finland vs. Aus- tria (LIVE) 2:30 a.m. Women's Cross-Country - 10km Classical Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Women's Skeleton - Competition MSNBC 9 a.m. Men's Hockey - Latvia vs. Switzer- land (LIVE) CNBC 5 p.m. Men's Curling - Switzerland vs. Britain USA 9 a.m. Men's Hockey - Czech Republic vs. Sweden (LIVE) 2 a.m. Men's Curling - United States vs. Britain (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 sales 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. Courtesy photo by Bill Treat Red Bluff High's Madeleine Walton competes last week in Oregon for the Spartans' alpine team. Spartans find snow in Ore. Special to the DN Because of a lack of snow in California, the Red Bluff High School alpine team traveled Mount Bachelor in cen- tral Oregon last week to complete six ski and six snow- board races in order for racers to qualify for the high school championships held at Northstar at Tahoe Resort in early March. Red Bluff, in Division II, competed against Foothill, Enterprise, and Shasta. The Red Bluff Lady Spartan snowboarders came out very strong and swept league by earning top points. Senior Madeleine Walton led the pack, scoring a team-high 276 points. She was followed by seniors Zoe Treat (266), Emily Smalley (233), and junior Abby Micke (265). The snowboard boys were led by senior Riley Garcia with 254 points, followed by Isaac Molderhauer (179), and Karl Parks (114). The Red Bluff ski girls are new to the sport and did very well for their first time on course. Judy Killam scored 208 points and Haley Isaacson scored 201. The boy skiers are a group of enthusiastic freshmen and sophomores who came in second to Shasta. Leader of the pack was freshman Connor Sousa with 274 points, followed by freshman Devon Treat with 262. Sophomores Joe Mills and Noah Fleharty earned 230 and 224 points, respectively. They were followed by freshmen Michael Avila (218) and Brant Johnson (175). Junior Vic- tor Ibarra participated in only two of the slalom events and scored 67 points for the team. These Red Bluff athletes had only two days of on-snow practice prior to the Mount Bachelor races, and withstood the minus-11 degree weather and snow on the first day, and blizzards the next two days. A summary of the six snowboard race finishes follows: Women's Snowboard Slalom Places Giant Slalom Places Madeleine Walton 2nd, 2nd, 1st 4th, 6th, 3rd Zoe Treat 4th, 3rd, 3rd 3rd, 7th, 8th Emily Smalley DSQ, 1st, 2nd 6th, 2nd, 1st Abby Micke 5th, 4th, 6th 5th, 4th, 5th Men's Snowboard Slalom Places Giant Slalom Places Riley Garcia 3rd, 23rd, 3rd 5th, 4th, 2nd Isaac Moldenhauer 7th, 13th, 31st 6th, 33rd, 25th Karl Parks 32nd, 30th, 27th 30th, 30th, 34th A summary of the six ski race finishes follows: Women's Skiing Slalom Places Giant Slalom Places Judy Killam 7th, 7th, 5th 7th, 7th DNF Haley Isaacson 8th, 8th, 7th 9th, 8th, DNS Men's Skiing Slalom Places Giant Slalom Places Connor Sousa 3rd, 7th, 5th 1st, 2nd, 1st Devon Treat 2nd, 3rd, 6th 8th, 6th, 6th Joe Mills 7th, 9th, 8th 11th, 11th, 9th Connor Fleharty 10th, 10th, 10th 12th, 12th, 11th Michael Avila 11th, 13th, 12th 13th, 13th, 12th Brant Johnson 14th, 13th, DNF 14th, 14th, 13th, Victor Ibarra 15th, 15th, DNF DNS Costas sitting out with eye infection (AP) — With both eyes reddened by an infection, NBC's Bob Costas said Tuesday he will sit out the network's prime-time Olympics coverage for at least one night. ''Today'' show anchor Matt Lauer will take his place in Sochi. Costas has been wear- ing glasses since the start of the Sochi Olympics because of an infection in his left eye. On Monday's broadcast, it was apparent the infection had spread to his other eye. It quickly became the topic of con- versation on social media and sports talk radio. Costas said he simply couldn't do the job because his eyes had become blur- ry, watery and sensitive to light. ''I'm walking around, I might as well be playing 'Marco Polo,''' he said in a telephone call to the ''Today'' show Tues- day. ''I have no idea where I am.'' He said it's a viral infec- tion that has to run its course, and he hopes things improve enough in the next few days so he can return to the broadcast. ''If it was just discom- fort, I'd be there,'' he said. No one else has anchored a prime-time summer or winter Olympic broadcast in the U.S. since 1998, when CBS had the rights to broadcast the games. Not only does he want to get better, but Costas joked in a statement from NBC that ''the last thing I want is to go through the rest of my life owing Matt Lauer a bunch of favors.'' Lauer said he was happy to keep Costas' seat warm. ''Although I might Purell it before I sit in it,'' he said. Courtesy photo by Bill Treat Red Bluff High's Connor Sousa competes last week for the Spartans' alpine team. Ishi Archery Club The Ishi Archery Club is holding an indoor archery shoot in the Ron Knight building at the Tehama District Fair- ground every Friday night in February. Youths from 9-18 years of age can shoot from 5-7 p.m.. 4-H members are welcome as we provide instructors. The cost for youths is $5 per night and a limited amount of equipment is provided for those starting out. Adults can shoot from 3:30-5 p.m. and then 7-9 p.m. The cost is $5 for members and $10 for non- members. For more information, call 527-4472. Courtesy photo White misses medal stand in halfpipe SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The most decorated country in Winter Olympic history earned four more medals Tuesday, and the most famous snowboarder in the world had his hopes for a third straight gold in the halfpipe dashed. Norway won double gold in the cross-country freestyle sprints while pick- ing up silver medals in the women's sprint and in the women's 10-kilometer biathlon pursuit. That gave the Norwegians the medal lead as the games concluded their fifth day, and it pushed their overall total to 317 since the Winter Olympics began in 1924. The United States saw several of its best hopes evaporate, including Shaun White, the flamboyant snowboarder who was dethroned by Iouri Pod- ladtchikov. Known as ''I-Pod,'' the Russian-born Swiss snow- boarder was flawless while White failed to master his rival's best trick. Another U.S. gold medal prospect, cross-country skier Kikkan Randall, was eliminated in the qualifying rounds of the women's freestyle sprint. Maiken Caspersen Falla of Norway took the gold in that race, with teammate Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg earning silver. Ola Vigen Hattestad cap- tured the men's sprint title in a race marred by a three- skier collision. Emil Joens- son of Sweden, who had all but given up earlier in the race, grabbed the bronze after Sergey Ustiugov of Russia, Marcus Hellner of Sweden and Anders Gloeersen of Norway were involved in a crash that left them sprawled across the course. Soft snow caused a number of spills throughout the day. ——— SNOWBOARDING: The trick that White could- n't master is called ''YOLO'' — You Only Live Once. Podladtchikov creat- ed it and landed it success- fully. White tried it twice, but couldn't match I-Pod, settling for fourth and no medal. ——— CROSS-COUNTRY: Hattestad took the early lead, avoided the crash behind him and then held off Teodor Peterson of Sweden for the gold. Peterson fin- ished 1.2 seconds behind for silver. Vesna Fabjan of Slovenia won the bronze in the women's sprint. Besides Randall, Marit Bjoergen of Norway was also eliminated early. ——— BIATHLON: Darya Domracheva of Belarus led for most of the women's 10- kilometer pursuit race, miss- ing only the last target before finishing in 29 min- utes, 30.7 seconds. Tora Berger of Norway took sil- ver, and Teja Gregorin of Slovenia claimed the bronze. ——— SLOPESTYLE SKI- ING: Dara Howell won gold with a score of 94.20, trouncing the rest of the field, and Kim Lamarre earned bronze to give the Canadians seven medals in four days of snowboarding and freestyle skiing, includ- ing three events in which they took two of the top three spots. ''We're over the moon right now,'' said Peter Judge, CEO of the Canadian Freestyle Skiing Associa- tion. Devin Logan of the United States took silver. Canada's big day was tem- pered by teammate Yuki Tsubota's crash on the slushy snow. She was car- ried off the mountain on a stretcher with a possible fractured jaw. ——— SPEEDSKATING: Lee Sang-hwa won the women's 500 meters and set an Olympic record of 37.28 seconds in her second race, beating the mark of 37.30 set by Catriona Le May Doan at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Her com- bined time of 1 minute, 14.70 seconds also was an Olympic record, beating Le May Doan's mark of 1:14.75. Olga Fatkulina of Russia won the silver, and Margot Boer of the Nether- lands got the bronze. ——— LUGE: Natalie Geisen- berger's victory was Ger- many's fifth straight in women's luge. Teammate Tatjana Huefner won the sil- ver and Erin Hamlin picked up the bronze, the first sin- gles luge medal ever for the United States. ——— SKI JUMPING: Carina Vogt won the first gold medal in women's ski jump- ing. The 22-year-old Ger- man overcame heavy favorite Sara Takanashi, the World Cup leader in the sport who ended up a disap- pointing fourth. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz of Austria took silver and Colin Mattell of France earned bronze. HIGH SCHOOL ALPINE