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Friday Baseball — Mercy at Chester, 2 p.m., DH Baseball — Red Bluff at Chico, 4 p.m. Softball — Anderson at Corning, 2 p.m., DH Softball — Biggs at Los Molinos, 4:30 p.m. Softball — Mercy at Chester, 2 p.m., DH Soccer — Red Bluff at Enterprise, 6 p.m. Sports 1B Friday May 6, 2011 Chico slugs Spartans Tehama Tracker GOLF Sophomore Daniel Frantz defended his league title by concluding his Eastern Athletic League-South season, Thursday with a 75 scoring average. Oroville’s Chris Wilson was second at 76. Red Bluff’s Peter Mitzel finished third at 80.8. Mercy finished the Tri-Cities League season in second place and two Warriors qualified as individuals to move onto the divisional playoffs. Junior Steven Rodriguez qualified for divisions for the third consecutive year and senior Wyatt Froome also quali- fied. Redding Christian won the Tri-Cities league title by fir- ing a 399 on the final match day. Mercy shot a 484. The Warriors’ saw strong improvement from Teresa Yu, Michael Wang and Jordan Stasinowsky throughout the sea- son. SOFTBALL Shelbie Fryar homered, but the Lady Cardinals lost 7-3, Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff second baseman Haley Harris flashes the ball to the umpire to complete a double play. SOFTBALL By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor Visiting Chico ripped the Lady Spartans for 12 hits, Thursday, as they handed Red Bluff their first home loss of the season 7-2. Chico pitcher Jade Smith held the Spartans hitless through the first time through the order, but Red Bluff got to the sophomore in the fourth inning. Haley Harris singled, Emily McE- naney walked and Brittney Fletcher singled to load the bases for Morgan Weaver who grounded to third to drive home the game’s first run. Red Bluff’s 1-0 lead didn’t last long as Madi Pollak opened up the fifth inning with a double.. Three bat- ters later she scored on a Jo Koons RBI single. Then Marissa Weeber put Chico in front when she doubled to center field. Red Bluff tried to throw out Koons at home plate, but the ball got away and allowed Weeber to come all the way around as well to make it 3-1 Chico. Brooke Clatty responded for Red Bluff in the bottom of the fifth with a home run pulled down the right field line to make it 3-2. But once again the Chico bats struck back. Hannah Wagner doubled to open up the sixth inning. Nicole Weeber singled and Lauren Kaminski walked to load the bases. Following a force out at home plate, Chico broke through again when Deelya Hooker hit a single to score Weeber and Kaminski to make it 5-2. Chico added more insurance runs in the seventh inning after Koons and Marissa Weeber opened things up with back-to-back singles. Chico once again loaded the bases and Nicole Weeber drove home two more runs for a 7-2 lead. Smith allowed a walk to Danisha Slay and hit Harris with a pitch, but settled down to close out the game. Chico improved to 17-4 with the win and the Spartans dropped to 21-5. Red Bluff closes out their season at Foothill on Tuesday and at Enterprise on Friday. Sanchez wild once again, Giants lose NEW YORK (AP) — Heading home after nearly three rugged weeks on the road, the San Francisco Giants are hoping for a fresh start. They’d like to see sharper starts from Jonathan Sanchez, too. Sanchez was wild once again and the Giants never quite caught up Thursday in a 5-2 loss to the New York Mets. ‘‘Your No. 2 spot in the rotation, you’ve got to be better than this,’’ Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ‘‘It’s not a great day for Johnny.’’ ‘‘It just looks like a lack of concentration. He’s drift- ing mentally,’’ he said. ‘‘He’s got to get it back here. He’s better than this.’’ Known for his shaky control, Sanchez walked six while giving up five runs and five hits in five innings. ‘‘I’m not getting any- thing over the plate,’’ Sanchez said. ‘‘I try to do my best. Nothing’s working right now.’’ Bochy said he planned to talk with Sanchez on Friday about his troubles. Sanchez said he’s OK physically. Sanchez (2-2) had gone 13 straight starts dating to last season without allowing more than three earned runs. This time, he was all around the plate with his pitching and hitting, and that wasn’t a good thing for him. Along with his early walks, Sanchez stood in the batter’s box after trying to put down a sacrifice bunt, thinking it was foul — he looked at plate umpire Eric Cooper while the Giants turned an easy double play. ‘‘When you have our luck, it doesn’t go your way,’’ he said. Sanchez also missed a sign while hitting in the third inning. He had an RBI sin- gle the next time up. ‘‘He’s got to keep his Tuesday, to Central Valley. Fryar finished 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs. Kristin Cox went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Haley Winterson went 2-for- 3 for Corning. TRACK &FIELD Corning finished second in both the boys and girls com- petitions, Wednesday, at a tri-meet with Anderson at Yreka. Mayra Diera won both the 800 and 1600 meters. J.D. Whited won the 110-meter hurdles. Yreka won both the boys and girls competitions. Mercy’s Royce Crane won the 100 and 200 meters, Wednesday, at a Mountain Valley-Mid-Valley League meet in Red Bluff. The Warriors finished in fifth place with 28 points. Uni- versity Prep was first with 144 points. Mercy’s Jeremie Jones was second in the shot put. The Lady Warriors also finished in fifth with 38 points. Los Molinos was eighth with 14 points. Providence Christ- ian won with 101 points. Mercy’s Samantha Mondragon was second in the 300- meter hurdles and long jump and third in the 100-meter hur- dles. Francis Ocampo gave Los Molinos a second place in the triple jump and a third in the long jump. AMERICAN LEGION Greg Cadaret will now be the featured speaker at the Red Bluff American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame Dinner and Auction on May 15. Cadaret pitched 10 seasons in the major leagues, includ- ing in the 1988 World Series for the Oakland Athletics. He has managed the Redding Colt .45s and at Simpson University and was hired by Comcast Sports Net California as a studio analyst. The Hall of Fame dinner will take place at the Veterans Memorial Building at the corner of Oak and Jackson Streets. Tickets can be purchased in advance from a current Red Bluff Bulls player or at the Avant Garde or Memorial Build- ing. In addition the Bulls program is also putting together an alumni list for its 2011 baseball program. All players who have played for the program since 1977 are asked to email Coach Bono at bonoball@hotmail.com or call him at 529-3320 with their name, years played and if and where they went on to play college ball . MCT photo Jose Reyes waits for the call as Mike Fontenot slides into second. focus,’’ Bochy said. Mike Pelfrey pitched into the eighth inning against San Francisco’s limited line- up, Carlos Beltran homered and the Mets averted a Giants sweep. San Francis- co loaded the bases with one out in the ninth against Fran- cisco Rodriguez, but Miguel Tejada struck out and pinch- hitter Buster Posey ground- ed out. The Giants were try- ing to sweep the Mets for the first time since 2002. But they also were finishing up a stretch where they played 16 of 19 games on the road, and hardly looked like the defending World Series champions. Posey and Pat Burrell did not start and Freddy Sanchez sat with a sore right thumb. Minus several other injured players, the Giants slipped back under .500 at 15-16 — so far, they’ve played 22 road games. The Giants open a series at home Friday night against NL West-leading Colorado. Mike Fontenot homered with two outs in the fourth for San Francisco’s first hit. The Giants’ fill-in No. 3 hit- ter sent a drive into the sec- ond deck in right field — a fan up there made a hefty heave, tossing the souvenir nearly all the way back to first baseman Ike Davis. An inning earlier, Mets second baseman Chin-lung Hu missed Davis by nearly 10 feet with a wild throw on a routine play. Jose Reyes lined a two- run triple, sending the Mets toward their second win in seven games. Pelfrey (2-3), expected to be the Mets’ ace while injured Johan Santana recovers this year, began the day with a 7.39 ERA. He gave up one earned run and four hits in 7 2-3 innings. Rodriguez got four outs and hung on for his seventh save. The Mets scored three times in the second, taking advantage when Sanchez couldn’t find the strike zone and San Francisco outfield- ers couldn’t corral the ball. Jason Bay, fresh off the paternity leave list, opened with a double that bounced from the glove of diving left fielder Cody Ross. Davis followed with a looper that fell a step in front of Ross for a single. Ronny Paulino’s double- play grounder scored a run and Sanchez walked Scott Hairston — batting .176 this season — and Pelfrey, a career .090 hitter. ‘‘He’s walking guys he shouldn’t be walking,’’ Bochy said. Reyes followed with a liner that skipped just beyond center fielder Aaron Rowand for a two-run triple and a 3-0 lead. A day after his name sur- faced in a Mets-to-Giants trade rumor, Reyes had a mixed afternoon. The All- Star shortstop streaked around the bases on his triple, but argued after being called out on strikes to end the fourth, then made a throwing error on the first play in the fifth. Beltran hit a two-run homer in the fifth for a 5-2 lead. Indians rally past A’s OAKLAND (AP) — Jack Hannahan and Lou Marson had RBI singles in the 12th inning, lifting the Cleveland Indi- ans to a 4-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. Hannahan’s bloop single to left field off reliever Craig Breslow (0-2) provided the go-ahead run, and Marson fol- lowed with another single to propel Cleveland to another late-inning rally. A night after their seven-game winning streak was snapped, the Indians won in their final at-bat for the seventh time this season. Chad Durbin (2-1) pitched two innings for the win and Chris Perez earned his ninth save in 10 chances. Ryan Sweeney had a career-high five hits and added two RBIs for the Athletics, who wasted another strong perfor- mance by starter Brett Anderson. He pitched nine innings and got a no-decision. The Indians again showed why they have been one of baseball’s best and most surprising teams this season. They overcame Sweeney’s tying RBI double in the eighth against reliever Vinnie Pestano and left 12 A’s on base over the game. Sweeney’s run-scoring single in the 12th brought Oakland within a run before Perez regrouped to get Hideki Matsui to pop out to short left and end the game. The Indians found a way to outlast another pitcher at his peak for their first series win in Oakland since 2002. Anderson retired the first 13 batters with relative ease, with only two outs even making it beyond the infield. Not until one out in the fifth inning did a Cleveland hitter finally reach base, and even that took some help. Travis Hafner hit a hard ground ball to first baseman Daric Barton, who made a diving stop but bobbled the ball See A's, page 2B EAL-South Match 5 Tri-Cities League Central Valley 7 Corning 3 Anderson and Corning at Yreka Mountain Valley Mid-Valley Chico 7 12 0 Red Bluff 2 4 2 Athletics 3, 12 inn Cleveland 4 Giants 2 N.Y. Mets 5