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ByRichGreene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter COTTONWOOD Hinkston-Evanoff III is all set for Friday's Northern Section Track and Field Champi- onships at West Valley. It's not a championship boxing match, but the third meeting be- tween the past three girls 400-me- ter champions and a highlight of the Tehama County-related stor- ylines heading into the Northern Section's final local prep event of the school year. Red Bluff Adrienne Hinkston first sprinted on to the track scene in 2011 when as a freshman she captured the 400-meter title. A year later, it was another freshman, Winters' Sofia Evanoff, who knocked Hinkston off her po- dium. Evanoff edged Hinkston again last year, setting up this third and final prep battle. Evanoff earned the top seed in the event with a qualification time of 58.01 seconds. Hinkston qualified at 58.04. Times like that would produce a photo finish to be sure. Evanoff's best time this season is 57.33. Hinkston's seasonal best is 58.03. But while Evanoff has Hinkston in that aspect, the Red Bluff senior will be going in knowing it's her last opportunity to leave her mark. Also, look out for West Valley junior Alexa Flagg, the only other athlete to qualify for the event with a sub-one-minute time. The top finisher in each event qualifies for the state champion- ship. A look at some of the other events with Tehama County ath- letes: GIRLS 1,600 RELAY Hinkston will also compete on the Lady Spartans relay team. With Hinkston, Red Bluff has won the event the past two years. Kaylynn Gibson and Daisy Brose return from last year's section champion team. Along with Allison Winning they qualified with their season-best time of 4:07.80. The second seed is the host Lady Eagles, who qualified second, but have run a season-best 4:07.70. GIRLS400RELAY Brose,Hinkston, Winning and Gibson come in as the second seed, setting their season- best time of 50.45 to qualify. A year ago the Lady Spartans were the runner-up to Foothill. This year Foothill isn't in the meet and the main competition comes from Chico, which edged Red Bluff at the Division 1 cham- pionships at 50.27. GIRLS 200 Hinkston and Brose will go head-to-head in this one. And oh yeah, Evanoff will be in the field as well in what should be a highly competitive race. Evanoff won the event in 2013. Her season best is 25.22. Hinkston comes in as the sec- ond seed, posting her season best TRACK AND FIELD RBrelayteamsdefendtitles Thayerlookstobreakthroughinthirdtripto Northern Section championships this Friday PACERS93,HEAT90 Series:Miamileads3-2.Friday, Indiana at Miami, 5:30p.m., TV on ESPN. THESCORE By Michael Marot The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the sec- ond half Wednesday night and al- most single-handedly kept the In- diana Pacers alive in the Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 vic- tory over the Miami Heat. The Pacers still trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 will be played Friday night in Miami. It took a frantic effort just to extend the series, even with the foul-plagued LeBron James held to just seven points in 23 minutes. Chris Bosh led the Heat with 20 points missed a potential go-ahead 3-pointer in the closing seconds. Indiana turned a 50-41 deficit into a 64-57 lead after three, then led by as much as 11 in the fourth. But Miami's last-ditch rally made it 91-90 with 16 seconds to go be- fore Indiana held on. NBA PLAYOFFS Pacers stay alive with Game 5 triumph The Associated Press OAKLAND Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry has won the NBA's 2013-14 Kia Com- munity Assist Seasonlong Award. The league recognized Curry on Wednesday for "his numerous charitable contributions, fundrais- ing and remarkable generosity in the Bay Area and across the globe." Curry's charity of choice, ThanksUSA, will receive $25,000 from the NBA and Kia Motors. ThanksUSA provides college, tech- nical and vocational school schol- arships for children and spouses of active-duty military personnel. Curry has served as a spokesman for the charity since 2010. Curry's other charitable works included distributing 38,000 bed nets in Tanzania last summer with the "Nothing But Nets" campaign. Curry also helped raise money for the fight against malaria in Africa by donating three bed nets for ev- ery 3-pointer he made during the last two seasons. NBA Warriors' Curry wins assist award Michal Handzus scored at 2:04of the second overtime, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-4in Game 5on Wednes- day night to stay alive in the Western Conference final. NHL PLAYOFFS Blackhawkssurvive in double overtime FULL STORY ON PAGE B2 The free hospitality mixer at 6p.m. at Clark Park Rodeo grounds includes the Little Miss Pageant, a stick horse race for those age 5and younger and the crowning of the Corning Jr. Rodeo Queen. CORNING JUNIOR RODEO Rodeo events begin with hospitality mixer Orland High School Trojan Booster Club will host a sporting clays shoot June 14 at Clear Creek Sports Club at Rolling Hills Casino. For more information call Marc at 228- 2294. FUNDRAISER Orland HS Booster Club hosting clay shoot By Antonio Gonzalez The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Bruce Bochy remembered stressing out while watching Tim Lincecum labor through the final innings of his 148-pitch no-hitter at San Di- ego last July. The Giants man- ager said there was "no chance" of stretching out his starter again Wednesday, even after Lincecum logged five hitless innings. Not with a blister forming on the tip of Lincecum's middle fin- ger. Not with the Giants owning baseball's best record. And cer- tainly, not with more than half of the season to play. Instead, Lincecum and five re- lievers combined on a weird two- hitter to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 5-0 win over the Chi- cago Cubs on Wednesday. "He worked so hard out there. It was time," Bochy said. The unconventional perfor- mance included 10 baserunners — five walks, two hits, two errors and a hit batter — before an an- nounced sellout crowd of 41,186 at AT&T Park that wanted to cheer history. Lincecum struck out five, walked four and hit a batter in another wild but effective start. George Kontos (1-0) retired four straight before John Baker sin- gled through the right side of the infield with one out in the seventh against lefty Jeremy Affeldt for Chicago's first hit. The Cubs hold the longest streak in the majors without be- ing no-hit. The last time it hap- pened to them was 1965, when Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game for the Dodgers. "What's the cliche? It's a game of inches," Baker said. "I think the Chicago Cubs are proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that baseball's a game of inches." Hector Sanchez hit a two-run double, and three others drove in a run to help the Giants (34-19) extend the best record in the ma- jors. San Francisco has won six of seven after holding the Cubs scoreless in consecutive games. Edwin Jackson (3-5) gave up two runs on four hits in 5 1/3 in- nings for the Cubs, who have not won a road series since last Sep- tember. He struck out nine and walked two. But for most of a sunny after- noon along the bay, the focus re- mained on whether San Francis- co's staff would complete an im- probable no-hitter. Lincecum had a 32-pitch first inning that ended on Nate Schier- holtz's sharp lineout to first base- man Buster Posey with runners on second and third. He tossed another 20 in the second and pitched a perfect third. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner hit Schierholtz and overcame an error by short- stop Brandon Crawford on a grounder in the fourth. And af- ter walking Emilio Bonifacio in the fifth, Lincecum got Junior Lake to ground into a double play. It was the second straight er- ratic outing for Lincecum. He walked six in six innings in San Francisco's 6-2 win over Minne- sota last Friday. Lincecum said a tiny blister be- gan forming on the tip of his mid- dle finger in the third. He said it's not serious, but he didn't want to risk further injury. And with a no-hitter on his re- sume already, he felt no need to lobby Bochy for another inning. "I think it's just because I know what our bullpen is capable of," Lincecumsaid."Ijustwantedtoget thewintodayandputupsomegood numbers today, so it was good." Jean Machi got two outs on three pitches, Juan Gutierrez al- lowed a single to Anthony Rizzo in 1 1/3 scoreless innings and Ja- vier Lopez recorded the final two outs in the ninth. San Francisco supplied sup- port for the pitchers in the late innings. BASEBALL GIANTS TOP CUBS WITH TWO-HITTER Lincecum lasts for five innings but does not allow a hit against Chicago, relievers do rest GEORGE NIKITIN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum throws to the Chicago Cubs during the first inning Wednesday in San Francisco. GIANTS 5, CUBS 0 Up next: Today, Giants at St. Louis Cardinals, 5:15p.m., TV on CSNBA. THESCORE Get your puzzles fix with the NEA Crossword, 7Little Words and Celebrity Cipher, start your day off right with your horoscope, and read the latest advice dolled out by Carolyn Hax. YOUR DAILY BREAK Fun and games inside today FULL STORY ON PAGE B3 IFYOUGO... What: 2014NSCIF Track and Field Championships When: Friday, field events 4p.m., running events 6p.m. Where: West Valley High School, 3805Happy Valley Rd., Cotton- wood How much: $6adults, $4stu- dents and seniors TRACK PAGE 2 PACERS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, May 29, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1