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Thursday Softball — Los Molinos Tournament Baseball — Mercy vs. Chester at Big League Dreams Tennis — Corning at West Valley, 3:30 p.m. Tennis — Pleasant Valley at Red Bluff, 3 p.m. Golf — NAL at Central Valley at Tierra Oaks, Noon Sports 1B Kings 97 Milwaukee 90 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marcus Thornton scored 27 points, Beno Udrih added 25 and the Sacramento Kings beat Milwaukee 97-90 Wednesday night to damage the Bucks’ fading playoff hopes. Sacramento has won two of three on this five-game road trip and rebounded from an ugly 40-point loss to Chicago on Monday night, the Kings’ worst in more than two years. Milwaukee’s Carlos Delfino scored 30 points for the second consecutive game to again match his career high, but had 22 of them in the first half. The Kings, who are expected to get Tyreke Evans back for Friday’s game at Indiana, got contributions from all over, including 13 points from DeMarcus Cousins and 11 points and 12 rebounds for Samuel Dalembert to snap Milwau- kee’s two-game winning streak. Andrew Bogut scored 15 points, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute had 11 and rookie Larry Sanders added 10 despite back spasms for Milwaukee. The Bucks, the worst-shooting, lowest- scoring team in the NBA, went cold at the wrong time, missing six of their final seven shots and committing three turnovers in the final 3:20. Delfino hit a 3 that cut the Kings’ lead to 92-90 with 1:11 left, but after a miss by Udrih, Bogut was called for an offensive foul when Milwaukee had a chance to tie. Sacramento hit five of their last six free throws to end it. Red Bluff 9 Las Plumas 0 The Spartans swept all nine matches against Las Plumas, Tuesday. In singles action Thunder Shaffer beat Kendall Ebersole 6-2, 6-3; C.J Varner knocked off Jeff McKechan 6-4, 6-1, Cody Yarbrough beat Light- ning Hawj 6-1, 6-0, Paul Hendricks bested Allen Saetern 6-1, 6-0, Arthur Germano defeated Kevin McLarren 6-0, 6-0 and Aaron Vasey handled TJ Mculley 6-1, 6-0. In doubles play Shaffer and Varner won 10-7, Yarbrough and Hendricks combined for a 10-3 win and Germano and Vasey won with a 10-0 sweep. The wins even carried over to exhibition play where Curtis Twitchell defeated Bill Yang 10-5 and Davis Palubeski beat Mitchell Saephan 10-3. Coring 3 Yreka 6 In a dual meet that could have went either way with numerous matches going to tiebreakers, Yreka prevailed 6-3 to knock off Corning, Tues- day. Ryan Howell came from behind to gave Corning a win in No. 1 singles 4-6, 6-1, 10-6. Robert Garcia knocked off Jared Larsen 6-4, 6- 1. WRESTLING Corning Cardinals MCT photo DeMarcus Cousins crashes into Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. Scoreboard NCAA Regional Semifinals Today’s games SOUTHEAST REGIONAL Florida vs. BYU, 4:27 p.m., TBS Butler vs. Wisconsin, 6:57 p.m., TBS WEST REGIONAL San Diego St.vs.Connecticut, 4:15 p.m., CBS Duke vs. Arizona, 6:45 p.m., CBS Friday’s games EAST REGIONAL North Carolina vs. Marquette, 4:15 p.m. Ohio State vs. Kentucky, 6:45 p.m. SOUTHWEST REGIONAL Kansas vs. Richmond, 4:27 p.m. Florida St.vs.Vir.Commonwealth, 6:57 p.m. NBA Wednesday’s results Houston 131, Golden State 112 Sacramento 97, Milwaukee 90 Indiana 111, Charlotte 88 Memphis 90, Boston 87 Miami 100, Detroit 94 New Jersey 98, Cleveland 94, OT Philadelphia 105, Atlanta 100 Oklahoma City 106, Utah 94 Orlando 111, New York 99 San Antonio at Denver, late Toronto at Phoenix, late Washington at L.A. Clippers,late Today’s games Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. New Orleans at Utah, 6 p.m. NHL Wednesday’s results Calgary at San Jose, late Anaheim 4, Dallas 3, OT Chicago 4, Florida 0 Vancouver 2, Detroit 1 Today’s games San Jose at Los Angeles,7:30 p.m.,CSNC Atlanta at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. Montreal at Boston, 4 p.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 4 p.m., NHLN Anaheim at Nashville, 5 p.m. Edmonton at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Toronto at Colorado, 6 p.m. Columbus at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Corning’s other win came from the doubles team of Erik Espinoza and Javier Curiel, who defeated Noah Lawson and James Aiheart 7-5. The Corning Cardinals handed out their annual awards for the 2010-11 wrestling season. Noah Hall received the team’s Fighting Cardinal award, Oscar Torres was named Most Improved and Ryan Henderson was named Most Valuable. For varsity, the Fighting Cardinal was given to Matt Boles. Daniel Welborn received Most Improved and Calvin Meister was named Most Valuable. The Most Inspirational Award was given to Erik Miranda. The Cardinals are also trying to raise money for Calvin Meister, who has been selected to compete in the 22nd annual National High School Coaches Association’s Senior Wrestling Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. Those interested in contributing or learning more about the upcoming fundraising event can call Coach Mitchell at 514-2272. D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY ATHLETES OF THE WEEK An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — William Dean Howells Ryan Howell — Corning Howell is off to a tremendous start as Corning’s No. 1 singles player — a perfect 5-0 in his first five matches. Howell also has a 3-2 record in No. 1 doubles. V Proud providers of Sports Medicine to Tehama County since 1986 alor PHYSICAL THERAPY & WELLNESS CENTER 2490 S. Main St., Red Bluff • 530-529-3636 Lonnie Scott MA ATC Ed Stroman PT ATC CSCS V ictory V alues Erin Eicholtz — Red Bluff Eicholtz helped lead the Lady Spartans relay teams to wins in the 4x400 and sprint medley relays at the North State Relays in Chico. Tehama Family Fitness Center 2498 South Main St • Red Bluff • 528-8656 Improve your golf by improving your fitness with a Certified Titleist Fitness Instructor at Tehama Family Fitness Center. For more details call Kyle at 528-8656 Kyle Tingley CSCS TPI Thursday March 24, 2011 Thornton lifts Kings over Bucks Tehama Tracker TENNIS