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Thursday Softball Playoffs — Corning at Paradise, 5 p.m. Softball Playoffs — Red Bluff at Pleasant Valley, 4 p.m. MLB— Twins at Athletics, 12:30 p.m., CSNC MLB— Giants at Dodgers, 7 p.m., CSNB NBAPlayoffs — Thunder at Mavs, Game 2, 6 p.m., ESPN NHLPlayoffs —Bruins at Lightning, Game 3, 5 p.m., VS Sports 1B On her mark GOLF Weed’s Jake West beat Chico’s Kurt Kitayama in a play- off, after both golfers shot a 70, Tuesday, at the NSCIF Mas- ters Golf Championship held at Whitehawk Ranch Golf Club. Pleasant Valley shot a 392 to win the Northern Section championship. They’ll be joined by Chico (409) at the Nor- Cal Regional Championships. Red Bluff’s Daniel Frantz and Peter Mitzel each fired 79s to finish in a tie for eighth place. Mercy’s Steven Rodriguez tied for 17th with an 82. Los Molinos qualified as a team for the Masters, but only sent three golfers. Zach Mathues shot a 94 to lead the Bulldogs. Redding Christian’s Brandon Stark (72), Oroville’s Chris Wilson (75) and Enterprise’s Taylor Greenhood (77) will also move on to the regionals. GOLF A free 10-minute golf lesson? You bet. Sevillano Links’ PGA Head Professional Ron Kuwata is taking part in the Golf Digest and PGA of America’s May promotion this Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested golfers can call the golf shot at 528-4600 to reserve a lesson time. Sevillano Links ask golfers arrive 15 minutes early to warm-up. Canucks rout Sharks Courtesy photo Paige Pearce celebrates a win at the Western Classic Money Shoot and the NFAA3-D Target Nationals. ARCHERY Special to the DN Straight Arrow Archery club in Redding recently hosted the $50,000 Western Classic Money Shoot and the NFAA 3-D Target Nationals. More than 1,200 archers from all over the country and a few from around the world competed for the top positions. Hoyt Pro Staff Shooter, Paige Pearce, was the top scoring female archer and won the Women’s Pro Division in both the Western Classic Money Shoot and the NFAA 3-D Target Nationals. Archers shot two arrows at each of the 70, 3-D targets, with a 1540 being a perfect score. Pearce was in second place, three points behind Camilla Soe- mod of Denmark, going into the final round. Pearce shot “lights out,” and ended up winning the Pro Divi- sion with a score of 1519. Two Matthews Pro Shooters, Camilla Soemod and Connie Cal- loway finished second and third, respectively, with a 1512 and a 1510. Pearce also traveled to Bloom- field, N.J. to compete in the sec- ond leg of the Senior World Tri- als, where she is currently ranked fifth. The top four finishers in this tournament will be traveling to Italy in July to compete in the Senior World Championships. Locally, the 3rd annual Invita- tional Youth Only Shoot will be held Sunday, May 22nd. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the shoot starts at 9 a.m. The cost is $5.00. Check the Ishi Archers website at www.ishiarcheryclub.org for more information. Get ready, set, go! Division Championships set for Friday TRACK By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor They’ll still take the quickest, strongest and most athletic, but like all sports this school year, how the Northern Sec- tion chooses the partici- pants for the May 27 track and field NSCIF Championships will see a bit of change. On Friday, schools will compete in their Division Championships. However, in a slight departure from years past it will be league affilia- tion that sets the divi- sions — not enrollment. For the most part teams will still be com- peting with other schools roughly their same size as the Eastern Athletic League’s North and South will compete in Division 1, the Northern Athletic and Butte View Leagues make up D-2, the Sacramento Valley and Mid-Valley Leagues are D-3 and all other schools are D-4. Both Divisions 1 and 2 will qualify their Top 2 competitors in each event for the Section Finals, while Divisions 3 and 4 will directly qualify only event winners. In addition there will be two at-large qualifiers in each event. Division 1 — Friday at Enterprise, 9 a.m. It’s not a question of whether the Spartan teams fare better than they did a year ago — it’s how high they can go. Red Bluff’s boys, girls and junior varsity squads went undefeated through EAL-South competition this season. While it might take a perfect day to win the team championship, the Spartan boys have the potential to do it. Colin Dahlberg has been outstanding in his senior season — going undefeated in the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump. He’ll be pushed by Eli Penick (Chico) and Cody Lunsord (Shasta) in the sprints. In the long jump his season best mark of 22’9.25” is almost 9 inches better than the next best leap in the sec- tion. Jeff Foster will look to take up one of the two at- large spots in the sprints, as he did a year ago. In the 400 meters, Zach Iverson has a strong chance to qualify at-large. The same goes for 300-meter hurdler Ty Smith. Red Bluff’s relay teams have been battling Foothill all season and another strong race should qualify both. Dominic Lightfoot and Zak Stroing have pushed each other in the shot put and discus for the Spartans. Lightfoot has the better chance to qualify at-large in the shot put and Stroing’s best chance will likely come in the discus. Jonah McInnis likely needs to hit 6’2” in the high jump to qualify at large, but he could also make the section finals by qualifying in the triple jump. Freshman Adrienne Hinkston has sparked the Lady Spartans this sea- son and last year’s 12th place finish will be a dis- tant memory when events wrap up Friday. The competition will be much tougher for Hinkston at the division level, but her season best times would still grab her at-large bids in the 100, 200 and 400 meters. Erin Eicholtz will look to qualify in the 800 meters. The Lady Spartans’ 4x100 team will need a strong showing to push into an at-large spot, while the 4x400 team could qualify directly with a second place fin- ish within their reach. Meaggan Rector is a favorite in the shot put and could earn another automatic qualification in the discus. Riley Kittle and Lau- rel Shoop need their best jumps of the season in the high jump. Division 2 — Friday at Central Valley, 3 p.m. Dropping down to Division 2 should help the Cardinals, who fin- ished last in boys and girls events a season ago when competing at the D-1 level. The best chance for a Cardinal to qualify for the NSCIF Champi- onships would be to grab one of the D-2 automatic spots by finishing in the Top 2 of an event. The best opportunity for that to happen is with J.D. Whited in the triple jump. Caitlin McCoy (400, 800 meters), Mayra Diera (1600 meters), Sil- via Diaz (3200 meters) and Nicole Mason (pole vault) will need to set new personal bests. Division 4 — Friday at West Valley, 10:30 a.m. The Bulldogs’ Kevin Garnica qualified a year ago by winning a divi- sion championship and he’s a heavy favorite to do it again this year in the discus. His best mark is 16 feet better than Big Valley’s Marco Escareno. There’s heavier com- petition in the shot put for Garnica in Modoc’s Bazelio Hernandez, Dun- smuir’s Jeff Rhoades and Mercy’s Jeremie Jones. Los Molinos’ Francis Ocampo and Mercy’s Anna Curry and Desiree Crane enter the division finals riding high after capturing league titles. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Daniel Sedin scored his second power-play goal of the game, and Chris Higgins and Mason Raymond added man-advantage goals in the third period for the Vancouver Canucks, who routed the San Jose Sharks 7-3 on Wednesday night and took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. Defenseman Aaron Rome also scored his first NHL play- off goal with 5:30 left as the Canucks poured it on late. The game turned when Kevin Bieksa scored the go-ahead goal on a breakaway with 7:55 left in the second period. Bieksa, who scored the tying goal in the Canucks’ 3-2 comeback win in Game 1, beat four Sharks up the ice to take a cross-ice, blue line-to-blue line pass from Chris Higgins. He then beat goalie Antti Niemi with a quick shot between the legs. The game got ugly after Bieksa pounded Sharks forward Patrick Marleau in a one-sided fight six minutes later. That angered San Jose tough guy Ben Eager, who was yelling at the Canucks bench after the fight. He then ran Daniel Sedin face first into the boards late in the period. Eager took anoth- er penalty in the third, and Higgins made it 4-2 on the power play eight minutes in. Raymond added another power-play goal — on a too many men penalty that negated Joe Thornton’s breakaway — with 3:18 left. The Canucks went 4 for 6 on the power play. Daniel Sedin and Raffi Torres scored 39 seconds apart in the first period, and Roberto Luongo finished with 28 saves. Eager also scored with 2:33 left, but took a penalty then when he pushed Luongo into the net after the puck. Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau scored power-play goals in the first period, and Niemi made 31 saves. After San Jose coach Todd McLellan singled out that line after Game 1, Dany Heatley sent Couture in with a nice chip pass at the blue line, and Couture lifted his team-leading sev- enth goal past the outstretched blocker of Luongo 2:28 in. Sedin tied it on a power play back-and-forth with brother Henrik midway through the period. Torres put Vancouver ahead 39 seconds later by getting position on Joe Pavelski atop the crease to tap in Christian Ehrhoff’s goal-line pass. San Jose tied it again with its third power-play goal of the series — on just three chances — three minutes later. Dan Boyle’s shot went wide but came off the end boards to Thornton on the other side for a quick shot. Luongo stopped it, but as he dived to cover the puck Marleau knocked it under him. A short video review confirmed it went it, giving Marleau his third goal in three games. San Jose never got another power play, however. The Sharks are 3 for 3 in the series against the Canucks, who had killed 28 of 29 chances in the second round against Nashville. NBA PLAYOFFS Conference Finals Wednesday’s result Miami 85, Chicago 75 Series tied 1-1 Today’s game Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m., ESPN Dallas leads series 1-0 NHL PLAYOFFS Conference Finals Wednesday’s result Vancouver 7, San Jose 3 Vancouver leads series 2-0 Today’s game Boston at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m., VS Series tied 1-1 MLB American League Wednesday’s results Minnesota at Oakland, late Boston 1, Detroit 0 Chicago 1, Cleveland 0 N.Y.Yankees 4, Baltimore 1, 15 innings Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 5 Los Angeles at Seattle, late Texas at Kansas City, late Today’s games Minnesota (Blackburn 2-4) at Oakland (T.Ross 3-2), 12:35 p.m. Los Angeles (Haren 4-2) at Seattle (Fister 2-4), 12:40 p.m. New York (Sabathia 3-3) at Baltimore (Guthrie 1-6), 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (W.Davis 4-3) at Toronto (R.Romero 3-4), 4:07 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 4-3) at Boston (Beckett 3-1), 4:10 p.m. Cleveland (Carmona 3-3) at Chicago (Floyd 4-3), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Holland 3-1) at Kansas City (Hochevar 3-4), 5:10 p.m. National League Wednesday’s results San Francisco at Los Angeles, late Chicago 7, Florida 5 New York 3, Washington 0 Philadelphia 2, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 0 St. Louis 5, Houston 1 Atlanta at Arizona, late Milwaukee at San Diego, late Today’s games San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-6) at Los Angeles (Billingsley 2-3),7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 2-0), 9:35 a.m. Washington (L.Hernandez 3-5) at New York (Gee 2-0), 10:10 a.m. Houston (Happ 3-4) at St. Louis (McClellan 5-1), 10:45 a.m. Colorado (Chacin 4-2) at Philadelphia (Blanton 1-2), 4:05 p.m. Chicago (C.Coleman 1-3) at Florida (Volstad 2-2), 4:10 p.m. Atlanta (Jurrjens 5-0) at Arizona (Collmenter 2-0), 6:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Narveson 2-3) at San Diego (Harang 5-2), 7:05 p.m. Thursday May 19, 2011 PV, Weed’s West win golf titles 2011 NSCIF Masters Golf Championship VAN Sharks 3 Vancouver 7 2-0