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TonyGuTierrez—TheAssociATedPress oakland Athletics catcher derek norris chases down and tags out the Texas rangers' Alex rios, who was trying to score on a fielder's choice Tuesday in Arlington, Texas. ByStephenHawkins TheAssociatedPress ARLINGTON, TexAS Derek Norris drove in three runs with a pair of dou- bles, Scott Kazmir outpitched Mar- tin Perez and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 9-3 on Tues- day night. The A's went ahead to stay on Nor- ris' two-run double in the first off Perez (4-1), who had pitched 26 consec- utive scoreless innings over his previ- ous three starts. The left-hander had thrown three- hit shutouts his last two games, includ- ing at Oakland six days earlier. Kazmir (4-0) tied for the AL lead in wins. He needed 95 pitches to get through five innings, but left with a 9-3 lead. The lefty struck out four and walked one. When Norris added an RBI dou - ble to make it 4-0 in the third, the A's already had six hits off Perez, who started the night with an AL-best 1.42 ERA. The eight runs allowed by Perez were two more than his combined to - tal his first five starts, and his ERA more than doubled to 2.95. He struck out three and walked three in 4 2/3 in- nings. Oakland, swept in three games at home by the Rangers last week, has won the first two games in this series that started with the teams tied atop the AL West. At 17-10, the A's have the best record in the American League. Texas (15-12) has its first three-game losing streak this season. A's right-hander Sonny Gray, who lost in the matchup against Perez last week, reached four wins by throwing a three-hit shutout in the series opener. Gray beat Rangers ace Yu Darvish, who with 3 1/3 innings had the short - est start in three seasons since com- ing from Japan. BASeBALL A'shammerRangers,Perez Norrisdrivesinthree runs with two doubles, Kazmir earns victory athletics9,rangers3 Up next: Today, oakland at Texas rangers, 5:05p.m., televised on csn. THESCORE Staff Reports CORNING The Corning High base- ball team was held to just three hits Monday in a 4-0 home loss to Las- sen. Wyatt Haydon, Tristan Mc- Intyre and Chance Nelson had the lone hits for Corning, which dropped to 3-3 in Northern Ath- letic League play and 7-9 overall. The loss completed a season sweep by Lassen over the Cardi- nals. Nelson pitched five innings for Corning, allowing two earned runs. Haydon pitched a perfect in - ning of relief. Alex Wunsch pitched the other inning, allowing one hit. Corning was scheduled to travel to Anderson for the first two games of a three-game series today at 4 p.m. BoysTennis SuTTeR9,MeRCy0 The Warriors couldn't get a match off of the vis- iting Huskies on Monday. Connor Rooney won the first set of his No. 1 singles match 6-1, but lost the next two 6-4, 6-0. PReP ROuNduP Lassen shuts out Corning in baseball Staff Report Red BLuff The Sun Oaks Aquat- ics Racing Swim Team will hold sign-ups Saturday at the Red Bluff Starbucks on Adobe Road from 9 to 11 a.m. The cost per swimmer is $130 for the summer. That does not in - clude a USA Swimming registra- tion. Swimmers ages 6-18 are wel- come. For more information contact Kathy Brandt at 354-4775 or kan- djbrandt@gmail.com. yOuTH SwIMMING SOAR holding team sign-ups on Saturday The Associated Press SAN JOSe It should come as no shock that the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks are preparing for a Game 7 of their first-round se - NHL PLAyOffS Sharks look to avoid collapse commissioner Adam silver banned Los Angeles clip- pers owner donald sterling for life Tuesday for making racist comments in a recorded conversation, the first step to- ward forcing a sale of the club. NBA Clippers owner gets lifetime ban from league FUll stOrY On Page b2 The red Bluff derby Girls host the nor cal roller Girls at 6:30 p.m. saturday at the Tehama district Fairgrounds. Tickets are $10in advance, $12at the door. For more information visti rbdg.org. Red BLuff deRBy GIRLS Red Bluff vs. Nor Cal Saturday at fairgrounds red Bluff visits West Valley for a dual at 3:30p.m., corn- ing is at central Valley at 3 p.m., Los Molinos and the rest of the Mountain Valley League will be at red Bluff high school at 3:30p.m. TRACk & fIeLd Tehama teams take to track today By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter Red BLuff The Foothill High Cougars ended the Spartans' 10-game winning streak Tuesday, handing Red Bluff its first Sac River League loss in the process. In a matchup of league leaders, Foothill's bats prevailed 11-7 in the first game of a dou - bleheader, in which both coaches seemed re- luctant to go to their bullpen with another game looming. The Cougars broke open a tied 5-5 game in the top of the sixth inning when they loaded the bases on a single, a walk and a hit bats - man with nobody out. With the wind blowing out all game, Luke Kelly ripped a double to deep center field that cleared the bases. Chase Larsen followed with a double that didn't need the wind's power to score Kelly and Foothill in the blink of an eye had a 9-5 lead. That was finally it for Red Bluff starter Walker Dodero. Foothill would add another run off of an Aziel Topete sacrifice fly before the inning was done. Red Bluff got two back in the bottom of the inning off of a Sam Hendricks double to make it 11-7. The Spartans loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to bring the tying run to the plate, but couldn't get the ball out of the infield off of Larsen, who had come on in relief. Red Bluff opened up the scoring in the sec - ond inning when Will Macdonald doubled home Ryan Gamboa. Foothill grabbed the lead in the fourth in- ning with two runs centered around a Jor- dan Taylor triple. The Spartans came right back with two of their own in the bottom half of the in- ning. Dodero and Gamboa had back-to-back-sin- gles and moved over on an Eric Schreter sac- rifice bunt. Carson Ellis singled in one run and a Foot- hill outfield error led to a second. Chase Root knocked in a run on an RBI double for a 4-2 Red Bluff lead. Foothill took advantage of some poor Red Bluff defense in the fifth inning to score three runs. A walk, sacrifice bunt, infield error and a passed ball led to the first run. A walk and a throwing error led to a sec - ond run and Derrick Tadlock singled in a third for a 5-4 Foothill lead. Schreter hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Dodero to tie the game in the bottom half of the fifth inning. But the Cougars grabbed momentum for good in the sixth as well as the first game of the series. Foothill improved to 5-1 in the Sac River League and 13-8 overall. Red Bluff dropped to 6-1 in league play and 19-5 overall. PReP BASeBALL FOOTHILL SNAPS RB'S WIN STREAK Cougars take first game of doubleheader 11-7 over Spartans in matchup of league leaders, pouring on six runs in sixth inning to break open tie game; Red Bluff's record now 19-5 rich Greene — red BLuFF dAiLy neWs red Bluff spartan nick schluep walks off the field as the Foothill cougars celebrate their Game 1victory Tuesday evening. FOOthill 11-3, red blUFF 7-4 Up next for the spartans: red Bluff plays a single game against Foothill at 7p.m. on Friday in Palo cedro. THESCORE Online: For a more complete version of this story visit redblUFFdailYnews.cOm. 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