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1B Weekend Feb. 22-23, 2014 Sports Tehama Tracker Saturday's schedule WRESTLING Division 1 Championships Division 2 Championships NBA Boston at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Brooklyn at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Sunday's schedule NBA Sacramento at Denver, 5 p.m. Monday's schedule NBA Golden State at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. Sports on TV Saturday ATHLETICS 1:30 p.m. NBCSN — USA Indoor Track & Field Championships, at Albuquerque, N.M. AUTO RACING 7 a.m. FS1 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for Daytona 500, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 10:15 a.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, DRIVE4COPD 300, at Daytona Beach, Fla. GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, quarterfinal matches, at Marana, Ariz. 11 a.m. CBS — PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, quarterfinal matches, at Marana, Ariz. TGC — LPGA Thailand, third round, at Chonburi, Thailand (same-day tape) MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8:30 a.m. FS1 — Xavier at Georgetown 9 a.m. CBS — Regional coverage, Florida at Mississippi or Louisville at Cincinnati ESPN2 — Wisconsin at Iowa 10 a.m. ESPNU — Indiana St. at Missouri St. 10:30 a.m. FS1 — St. John's at Villanova 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Notre Dame at Virginia Noon ESPNU — Tennessee at Texas A&M 12:30 p.m. FS1 — UAB at Charlotte 1 p.m. ESPN — LSU at Kentucky ESPN2 — Iowa St. at TCU 3 p.m. ESPN2 — UCLA at Stanford 4 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Duke 4:30 p.m. ESPNU — Texas at Kansas 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Missouri at Alabama NBCSN — Brown at Cornell 6 p.m. ESPN — Arizona at Colorado 6:30 p.m. ESPNU — Temple at Memphis 7 p.m. ESPN2 — San Diego St. at New Mex- ico 8:30 p.m. ESPNU — Harvard at Princeton (same-day tape) 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Gonzaga at San Diego SOCCER 9:30 a.m. NBC — Premier League, Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United, at London WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1 p.m. FSN — Charlotte at Middle Tenn. 5 p.m. FSN — Kansas at Oklahoma WINTER OLYMPICS At Sochi, Russia All events taped unless noted as Live NBC 2:30 p.m. Women's Snowboarding - Parallel Slalom Gold Medal Final; Women's Cross- Country - 30km Freestyle Gold Medal Final; Men's Biathlon - 4x7.5km Relay Gold Medal Final; Men's Snowboarding - Parallel Slalom Competition 8 p.m. Men's Alpine Skiing - Slalom Gold Medal Final; Four-Man Bobsled - Competi- tion; Men's Snowboarding - Parallel Slalom Gold Medal Final; Men's and Women's Speedskating - Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals NBCSN 7 a.m. Men's Hockey - Bronze Medal Game, Sweden-Finland loser vs. Canada-United States loser (LIVE) 3 p.m. Game of the Day: Hockey 1 a.m. Four-Man Bobsled - Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE) Sunday ATHLETICS 12:30 p.m. NBCSN — USA Indoor Track & Field Championships, at Albuquerque, N.M. AUTO RACING 9 a.m. FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Day- tona 500, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 5 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Carquest Auto Parts Nationals, at Chandler, Ariz. (same-day tape) BOWLING Noon ESPN — USBC Masters, at North Brunswick, N.J. GOLF 6 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, semifinal match- es, at Marana, Ariz. 10:30 a.m. TGC — LPGA Thailand, final round, at Chonburi, Thailand (same-day tape) 11 a.m. CBS — PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, championship match, at Marana, Ariz. MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 9 a.m. CBS — Michigan St. at Michigan 10:30 a.m. NBCSN — Yale at Columbia 3 p.m. ESPNU — Florida St. at Pittsburgh FS1 — Providence at Butler 5 p.m. ESPNU — Arizona St. at Utah FS1 — Southern Cal at California NBA BASKETBALL 10 a.m. ABC — L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City 12:30 p.m. ABC — Chicago at Miami 6 p.m. ESPN — Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers SOCCER 5:25 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Swansea City at Liverpool 7:55 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Tot- tenham at Norwich WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 a.m. ESPN — Duke at Notre Dame FS1 — Georgetown at Villanova 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Kentucky at Texas A&M Noon FSN — Oklahoma St. at Texas Tech 1 p.m. ESPN2 — Maryland at Georgia Tech WINTER OLYMPICS At Sochi, Russia All events taped unless noted as Live NBC 4 a.m. Men's Hockey - Gold Medal Final, Sweden-Finland winner vs. Canada-United States winner (LIVE IN ALL TIME ZONES) 2 p.m. Men's Cross-Country - 50km Freestyle Gold Medal Final; Four-Man Bobsled - Gold Medal Final Runs 8:30 p.m. Closing Ceremony NBCSN 2 p.m. Game of the Day: Hockey Monday MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Maryland ESPNU — Oklahoma St. at TCU 6 p.m. ESPN — Oklahoma at Kansas WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Penn St. at Nebraska FS1 — Oklahoma at Baylor AP photo Denny Hamlin gets ready for a practice session for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Friday. Denny Hamlin drives for Daytona sweep Canada slips by the Americans, 1-0 SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Jamie Benn scored in the second period, Carey Price made 31 saves, and Canada beat the United States 1-0 Friday night in the semifinals of the Olympic men's hockey tournament. Canada advanced to the gold-medal match Sunday against Sweden, which beat Finland 2-1 in the earlier semi- final at Bolshoy Ice Dome. The Canadians are on the brink of their third gold medal in four Olympics, and they're guar- anteed their first medals outside North America in 20 years. After its first loss in Sochi, the U.S. will face Finland for bronze on Saturday. The defending Olympic champions left no doubt about their North American hockey supremacy in a semifinal rematch of the final game of the Vancouver Games, won on Sidney Crosby's golden goal. The Canadians haven't even trailed in the Sochi Olympics, and they didn't need overtime to maintain border supremacy on the U.S. Their stifling defense has allowed just three goals in five games, and they clamped down on the high-scoring American offense for every minute of a slight- ly anti-climactic evening. Canada beat the Americans for the fourth time in five Olympic meetings since the NHL players joined the party in 1998. Both teams rolled unbeaten through the Sochi tourna- ment to this showdown, but the expected offensive theatrics in this meeting never occurred, buried along with the friend- ships and NHL bonds that must be discarded when these teams meet. Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester created the only goal with a clever pass to Benn, the Dallas Stars captain in the midst of an outstanding tournament. That was all the offense needed by Price, the Montreal goalie who easily handled the Amer- icans' few good chances, including their clunky power plays. Jonathan Quick stopped 36 shots for the Americans, who had trailed for just 7:19 in Sochi before Benn's goal put them in a hole they never escaped. The Americans entered the rematch hoping for redemp- tion from their gut-wrenching defeat four years ago. The U.S. rallied from a late two-goal deficit on Zach Parise's tying goal with 24 seconds left in regulation, only to lose on Crosby's score. Instead, the Americans got another reminder of Canada's clout. Crosby still has no goals through five games in Sochi, but the Canadian captain had his best overall game of the tour- nament, even if linemate Chris Kunitz failed to convert a handful of stellar chances created by his center. For all the talent and high stakes on the ice, the Bolshoy wasn't exactly rocking for the game, with the predominant- ly Russian crowd apparently struggling to decide whom to root against. The teams didn't need a crackling atmosphere to play a world-class brand of hockey. The scoreless first period was fast and exciting, with Quick stopping 16 Canadian shots. Crosby shook off his early-tournament struggles and played at a breakneck pace, while the American forwards generated numerous chances on pure speed. Canada went ahead early in the second period during a shift by Benn and Anaheim Ducks teammates Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf. Bouwmeester threaded a pass into the slot, and Benn deflected it past Quick, whose aggression sometimes makes him vulnerable to such shots. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Denny Hamlin almost couldn't help himself at the start of his Daytona 500 qualifying race, when his anxiously tried to charge to the front and shake out all the cobwebs and frustration from his injury-plagued season a year ago. The move backfired, he found himself mired in traffic and after a deep breath to regroup, used a different game- plan to get to the front. It was a valuable lesson in patience, one he'll need Sunday when he tries to become the first driver at Day- tona International Speedway to sweep Speedweeks. He opened Daytona with a win in the exhibition Sprint Unlimited and in the second of two 150-mile qualifying races, but those races are only confidence-boosters. The big daddy is the season-opening Daytona 500, and no driver has ever completed the trifecta. Oh, what a prize that would be for Hamlin, who sat out five races last season with a fractured vertebra then game- ly drove through the pain for the final six months in a failed attempt to salvage his year. ''I think the biggest challenge for myself is keeping the reins back for 400 miles, 450 miles,'' he said. ''Obvious- ly, when you go out here and you perform the way we have over these last few races, it's hard not to just want to go out there, charge out there, show that you're still on top and still the best right on lap one. It's going to be battling those inner demons of wanting to go out there, lead laps, putting yourself in a safe position, but also being conser- vative and making sure you're there at the end of the day.'' This is a familiar act at Daytona, where surprise win- ners often steal the win and heartbreak is the norm. The late Dale Earnhardt won 34 races at Daytona but didn't win his only Daytona 500 until his 20th try. Trevor Bayne? He won his Daytona 500 debut at the expense of three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart, who is 0- for-15 and has lost the race in spectacular fashion. He was passed by Ryan Newman on the last lap in 2008, didn't get the push he needed on the final restart when Bayne won in 2011 and played second-fiddle to Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2004. Like Hamlin, or Kevin Harvick last year, Stewart is among the many drivers who had dominant Speedweeks only to come up empty bidding for the biggest prize. Most notably was 2002 when he was the driver to beat and his engine failed on the second lap, leading to a dev- astating last-place finish for Stewart and Joe Gibbs Rac- ing. So Gibbs expects nothing on Sunday even though both Hamlin and Matt Kenseth, winner of the first qualifying race, have established themselves as two of the favorites. ''I don't think I ever go into something where I feel like, 'Hey, we got this thing,'' Gibbs said. ''So many things have got to go your way. I think drivers and crew chiefs, they're more optimistic than I am because I'm always nervous about it.'' Gibbs has every reason to be anxious: A year ago, Kenseth dominated the race only to suffer an engine fail- ure while leading. Moments later, teammate Kyle Busch's engine also expired. It's a nightmare nobody at Toyota wants to relive as the manufacturer embarks on its 10th year in NASCAR. Toy- ota didn't move to the Cup Series until 2007, and it was JGR that gave it legitimacy the next season — the year Stewart and Busch nearly won the 500. But it's been a series of near-misses in both the Day- tona 500 and the race for the Sprint Cup title for Toyota, which finally might have the Harley J. Earl Trophy in its reach. ''This trophy, it's hard to characterize just how impor- tant it would be for our organization,'' said David Wilson, president of Toyota Racing Development. ''Clearly, we've got some really strong cars. We've got speed, we've got capabilities of running up front. We haven't been able to put it altogether in the past. Certainly, win- ning, now four races in a row, gives us confidence.'' And confidence, patience and being in the right place at the end is all it takes to win NASCAR's biggest race. It's how Bayne got to Victory Lane in 2011, and how any one of the seven rookies in Sunday's race could repeat the feat. That includes pole-sitter Austin Dillon, who will lead the field to green in the No. 3 made famous by the late Earnhardt. The number has not been used at Daytona in a Cup race since The Intimidator's fatal accident on the final lap of the 2001 race, but car owner Richard Chil- dress was finally ready to use it again as his 23-year-old grandson moved to NASCAR's top level. Childress has no hesitation in seeing the 3 on the track, and believes strongly that Dillon has given Richard Chil- dress Racing a much-needed boost. ''I know in my heart, today, as I sit here, Dale Earn- hardt is smiling down,'' Childress said. ''He would want to see this 3. He didn't want it to ever go away. But I felt it was the thing to do right after Daytona, and I know today that he's accepting this highly. I knew him that well.'' Red Bluff freshmen roll through league HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL Courtesy photo by Larry Long Red Bluff High's freshmen girls basketball team finished league play unde- feated, tallying an 8-0 record in the process. DN Staff Report Red Bluff High's fresh- men girls basketball team finished league play with an undefeated 8-0 record The team, which is coached by Elbie Doege and Melissa Doege, is pic- tured at right after defeat- ing Shasta High on Thurs- day. Red Bluff Lady Spartans Roster: 11 Sarah Herrera 12 Ashley Tignor 13 Kayla Exum 14 Naomi Renfroe 15 Jennifer Weight- man 21 Lexi Pritchard 22 Elizabeth Baccala 23 Maria Heredia 24 Dufrain Rylee 32 Megan Boone 33 Kylee Clatty 34 Marissa Mills 42 Rena Fox OLYMPIC MEN'S HOCKEY