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Staff Report Shasta Lake » The Red Bluff Spartans beat Shasta 8-4 in eight innings Saturday in the champi- onship game of the 13th annual Shasta Lake Bass Easter Base- ball Classic. Tied 3-3 after seven, the Spar- tans put up five runs in the eighth inning to claim the tournament title. Sam Hendricks doubled twice in the win and drove in a pair of runs. Will Macdonald went 3-for-4 and drove in a run. Walker Dodero, and Carson El - lis also had RBIs for the Spartans. Kyle Martin pitched 7-plus in- nings to earn the win. He struck out five. Red Bluff improved to 15-4 on the season. The Spartans head to the Hil - mar Tournament Wednesday. Track and field Woody Wilson ClassiC » Sev- eral Red Bluff Spartans athletes competed Saturday at the Uni- versity of California, Davis. The Spartans 4x400 boys re- lay team of Jordan Johnson, Mi- chael Stone, Austin Torres and KJ Hinkston placed second with a time of 3:32.28. The same for boys finished 11th in the 4x100 relay at 45.41 seconds. Hinkston was 11th in the boys 400 meters at 52.69 seconds. In the girls events Adrienne Hinkston was sixth in the 400 meters (59.59). Kayla Thayer placed third in the shot put (35'9.5") and fifth in th e d isc us ( 10 4' 5" ). Jenny Weightman was third in the long jump (16'8") and eighth in the high jump (4'9"). Jordan Vasquez, Kaylynn Gib - son, Daisy Brose and Hinkston were fifth in the 4x400 (4:09.84). In the 4x100 Brose, Gibson, Allison Winning and Hinkston placed sixth (51.65). PreP rounduP Spartans win Easter baseball tournament By Pat Graham The Associated Press denVer » Charlie Blackmon hit two of Colorado's five homers and Jorge De La Rosa threw five effi- cient innings, lifting the Rockies to an 8-2 victory over the San Fran- cisco Giants on Monday night. Nolan Arenado, Wilin Rosario and Corey Dickerson also homered for the Rockies, who've won four of the last five. It was Blackmon's first multihomer game of his career. De La Rosa (1-3) rediscovered his rhythm, allowing five hits and one run for his first victory of the season. The hard-throwing lefty tied a career high with 16 wins last season. Ryan Vogelsong (0-1) never got on track and was pulled after 1 1-3 innings, his shortest start with the Giants. He surrendered five runs and six hits, including three hom - ers. Blackmon lined solo homers in the second and eighth innings. He's now hitting .411 this season. Arenado, who was moved up to the No. 2 spot in the order, ex - tended his hitting streak to a ca- reer-high 12 games. De La Rosa was on the same page with Rosario all night, some- thing that wasn't the case during the season opener in Miami when the battery mates couldn't get their signals straight. Backup catcher Jordan Pacheco has been behind the plate for De La Rosa's last three starts. But manager Walt Weiss didn't want to create a situation where De La Rosa had a personal catcher, so he went with Rosario, who actu - ally had a calming influence on the sometimes excitable De La Rosa. In the third inning, Rosario sauntered out to the mound to briefly chat with De La Rosa after he loaded the bases with no outs. Whatever Rosario said worked as Buster Posey hit into a 6-4-3 double play — bringing in a run — and Mi - chael Morse flew out to left. The catcher nicknamed "Baby Bull" also helped his pitcher out at the plate, too, lining a three-run homer. It's his third homer of the season. MlB Rockies hit 5 homers in 8-2 win over Giants Clay Buchholz allowed six runs in the third inning, and the Baltimore Orioles held on to beat the Red Sox 7-6 on Monday. MlB rounduP Red Sox come up short, Baltimore holds on FULL STORY ON PAGE B2 Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest ava- lanche to hit Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community. nePal Sherpas consider boycott aer avalanche FULL STORY ON PAGE B8 Los Molinos (1-12) is sched- uled to play at 4 p.m. in Ches- ter (11-5) today for a Five Star League game. Chester has won the two previous meet- ings between the schools this season. softBall Lady Bulldogs soball travels to Chester today Staff reports red Bluff » The dust has set- tled on the 93rd annual Red Bluff Round-Up rodeo. The annual spectacle that at- tracts the world's top rodeo ath- letes, and thousands of fans, con- cluded Sunday at the Tehama District Fairground after a final performance that left a few with championships and most riding on to the next rodeo. In bareback riding, Kaycee Feild of Payson, Utah tallied an 88 and a Round-Up win. Feild has been the Pro Ro - deo Cowboys Association world champion for the past three years, according to a news re- lease from the Round-Up, and is ranked second in bareback rid- ing. "I just have to not necessarily forget about my past and my ac- complishments, but you have to put them to the side and go at it every year like it's your first year, like you're craving it and you want it," Feild said in the release. At age 27 with a wife and young daughter, competing in a far-off rodeo has taken on a dif - ferent meaning, Feild said in the release. "At 3:30 this morning, I go to say goodbye, and she's sleeping, and you leave the house to get to a rodeo with a whole differ - ent meaning than it used to have when I was a young punk," he said in the release. Feild added, however, that com - peting in Red Bluff provided a change in scenery compared to the rodeos he's competed in already. "We've been (competing) in - doors all winter long, and this is the first (big) rodeo outdoors, and we get on the best stock here," he said. "It changes your whole atti - tude. It's just an honor to be here and win this rodeo. It's a special rodeo to win." In bull riding, which pits man versus beast for eight seconds at a time, Dylan Vick of Escalon rode the bull named Buckmas - ter for a total of 87 points and a Round-Up championship. Vick met Buckmaster before. In fact, according to the release, Buckmaster bucked Vick off at the California Circuit Finals Ro - deo last year. "He started to the left, went back to the right, and when he went to the right last time (at the circuit finals), he bucked me off." Vick said in the release. "This time, I didn't get too comfort - able either way. I just kept riding like I didn't know what was going to happen, which is how you're supposed to ride." round-uP Rodeo championships A recent batch of government and business reports show a U.S. economy emerging from winter's deep freeze. eConoMy Warmer temps li economic growth FULL STORY ON PAGE B3 Top: Ryan MacKenzie of Jordan Valley, Ore., earns a score of 78 in saddle bronc riding during the final performance of the 93rd annual Red Bluff Round-Up at the Tehama District Fairground on Sunday. Le: Dane Kissack of Spearfish, S.D., fails to register a score in tie-down roping during the final performance of the 93rd annual Red Bluff Round-Up at the Tehama District Fairground on Sunday. PhOTOS By ANDRE ByIK — DAILy NEWS CoWBoys » PaGe 2 Game 1 San Jose 6, Los Angeles 3 Game 2 San Jose 7, Los Angeles 2 Tuesday: at Los Angeles, 7 p.m., CSN-CA, NBCSN Thursday: at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m., CSN-CA, NBCSN x-Saturday: vs. Los Angeles, TBD, NBCSN x-April 28: at Los Angeles, TBD, CBC, RDS x-April 30: vs. Los Angeles, TBD, CBC, RDS SharkS 2, kingS 0 By david Pollak dpollak@mercurynews.com san Jose » Joe Pavelski led the Sharks in scoring all season, so it should not be a shock that he's doing the same in San Jose's play - off series against the Los Angeles Kings. Only two players in the NHL had more goals this season than the 41 racked up by Pavelski, the 29-year- old forward who is having a career year that featured his first three hat tricks. The one Sharks team - mate who might be the least sur- prised by that accomplishment is his longtime friend, Adam Burish. 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