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Wednesday MLB — 5 p.m., Phillies at Cardinals, ESPN NHL — 4 p.m., Awards Show, Versus Tennis — 4 a.m., Wimbeldon second round, ESPN2 CWS — 4 p.m., College WS, NC vs. Vanderbilt, ESPN2 Sports 1B The Red Bluff Tritons swim team competed in the Weaverville Invita- tional meet Friday through Sunday and Samara Robinson took second place overall high point for 13-14 year-old- girls with 37 points. The team had 17 swimmers competing and took home 117 points. Robinson, 14, placed second in the 200yd IM, 50yd free, 100 back, 200 free, 100 fly and 100 free. She was third in 200 breast and fourth in 100 breast. Jace Shults, 6, took third place overall high point for 6 & under boys with 10 points. He placed third in 25 back and 50 free and fifth in 25 free. Gregory Wilson, 18, took third place overall high point for 17-18 old boys with 24 points. He placed third in 200 IM, 500 free, 100 breast, 50yd free, 100 back and Wednesday June 22, 2011 Tritons make a good showing in Weaverville Samantha Beeman 200 free. Other standout perfor- mances include: Dante Beeman shaved 9 seconds off 25 free and earned 15 points for the Jace Shults Tritons. Jasmine Atencio and Samantha Beeman had six top-10 finishes, earn- ing 10 points each. Jaden Humphrey, Chloe Casey and Kaylee Humphrey had four top- 10 finishes and Erica Downey took three top- 10 finishes. Other swimmers Weeks helps surging A’s to win included Rylie Vise, Mahlon Owens, Zoe Casey, Madison Yin- gling, Broc Jones, Blake Jones and Dax Wagner. In the relay races, the team was second place in the 9-10 girls 200 freestyle and third place in 11-12 girls 200 med- ley relay. Serena Williams wins in return to Grand Slam play WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The 352 days Sere- na Williams lived through between Grand Slam appear- ances were filled with health problems and hospitaliza- tions, doubts and depression. Cuts from glass on both feet. One subsequent opera- tion on her right foot, then a second. Clots in her lungs. Surgery to remove a pool of blood under her skin. On and on it went. Finally healthy, and finally back at a major tourna- ment, Williams was simply overwhelmed by it all at the conclusion of her match at Wimbledon on Tuesday. As soon as she snapped off her 13th ace of the afternoon to close an uneven performance in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Aravane Rezai of France in the first round, Williams placed her right palm on her chest. Her eyes welled with tears. By the time she walked to the net to shake hands with Rezai, Williams was crying. She sat in her sideline chair, covered her face with a tournament towel and sobbed. And she kept right on bawling through a postmatch TV interview with the BBC. ‘‘It definitely was so emotional for me because, you MCT photo Athletics second baseman Jemile Weeks (19) slides under the tag of Mets shortstop Jose Reyes (7) on a stolen base attempt in the top of the first inning at Citi Field in New York Tuesday. NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Outman threw another impressive game, Jemile Weeks scored three times and the streaking Oakland Athletics walked their way to a 7-3 vic- tory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night, handing rookie Dillon Gee his first loss of the season. Ryan Sweeney had four hits, including an RBI single, and the resurgent A’s won their sixth straight game after dropping 13 of 14. It’s their longest winning streak since a seven-game run in September 2009. Cliff Pennington reached base four times and scored twice, forming a pesky tandem with Weeks at the top of a Punch and Judy lineup. The speedy Weeks walked twice and stole two bases, the latest spark he’s provided since getting called up from the minors June 7. Outman (3-1) lived up to his pitcher-perfect name, allowing two runs — one earned — and four hits in six innings while wearing white spikes and old-school, dark green stirrups stretched high over his yellow socks. The 26-year-old left-hander, who missed last season following Tommy John surgery, tossed seven scoreless innings in his previous outing, a 2-1 victory Wednesday night over Kansas City that snapped a stretch of 15 win- less outings for Oakland starters and set the team off on its winning streak. Grant Balfour retired Josh Thole on a bases-loaded grounder to end the eighth, then finished for his second save as the last-place Athletics took the series opener, an interleague rematch of the 1973 World Series. Reggie Jackson and the A’s won that one in seven games for the second of their three straight titles. The lone bright spot for the Mets was Jason Bay, who finally showed his old pop at the plate. Bay hit a long homer in the sixth to make it 7-2, his first extra-base hit in 25 games and 89 at-bats — the longest drought of his See WEEKS, page 2B Cal’s Campbell delivers big hits in 7-3 CWS win OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — California coach David Esquer called on all hands to save his baseball pro- gram, and he’s doing the same to keep his team play- ing in the College World Series. Freshman utilityman Derek Campbell drove in two runs out of the No. 9 spot, closer Matt Flemer pitched three scoreless innings in his longest outing of the year and the Golden Bears kept up their improb- able postseason run with a 7-3 victory over Texas A&M. ‘‘I’m happy our guys kind of grinded it out, because that’s kind of how we do it. We don’t do it easy,’’ Esquer said. The Bears (38-22) won their first CWS game in three appearances since 1980 and will play either Virginia or South Carolina on Thursday in another elimination game. The Big 12 regular-sea- son and postseason champi- on Aggies (47-22) went two games and out and are 2-10 in five all-time CWS appearances. Aggies coach Rob Chil- dress said he told his players that they should expect to come back next year. ‘‘We didn’t play like we’re capable of playing the two games that we were here,’’ Childress said. ‘‘It’s nobody’s fault.’’ The Bears led 6-1 after scoring three runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth. Campbell, a .255 hit- ter who came in with five RBIs in 22 games, delivered RBI singles each inning. Freshman left-hander Kyle Porter (6-0) allowed three runs in six innings. Flemer finished for his sixth save, giving up three singles and striking out five. They combined to stop an A&M club that had recorded 17 comeback victories this sea- son. Esquer wrote Campbell into the lineup at second base for the fourth straight game so Tony Renda, the Pac-10 player of the year, could rest an injured quadri- ceps. Renda, who had lob- bied Esquer for the start at second, had two hits and drove in a run as the desig- nated hitter. ‘‘Well, sometimes your best moves, you stumble into them,’’ Esquer said. ‘‘We were completely com- fortable with Derek out at second base, the defense he can play, and he can chip in and help our offense. So we felt like let’s go with that lineup and let’s make it work.’’ California would need three more wins to reach the best-of-three championship round next week. Then again, the Bears coaches and players believe any- thing is possible after the way their season has evolved. The Cal administration last fall announced plans to cut the program in 2012 for budgetary reasons, but boosters and alumni raised $9 million to save the Bears. know, throughout the last 12 months, I’ve been through a lot of things that’s not normal; things you guys don’t even know about,’’ the 29-year-old American said at her news conference. ‘‘So it’s just been a long, arduous road. To stand up, still, is pretty awesome.’’ A first-round win at a Grand Slam tournament is not exactly the sort of achievement Williams normally would celebrate: Her career mark in such matches is now 44-0, after all. But she’d never before been away from her sport for such an extended time — and, more to the point, she’d never before been through such a series of scares. Williams got the ‘‘all clear’’ from her doctor about 2 1/2 months ago, only began practicing at full speed about one month ago, and played her first match anywhere since July at a grass-court tournament in Eastbourne last week. Rezai, once ranked as high as 15th but now 61st, was struck by the high level of Williams’ play, particularly down the stretch — and by her reaction at match’s end. ‘‘It shows she’s not a machine; she’s a human being,’’ Rezai said. ‘‘We all have a heart. We all have emotions. ... If she wins the next two or three matches, I think she can win the tournament.’’ Williams wasn’t quite ready to pronounce herself the player to beat at Wimbledon, where she has won four of her 13 Grand Slam singles championships, including each of the past two years. It was only a handful of days after that latest title that Williams was sliced on both feet by glass at a restaurant in Germany. She played an exhibition match in Belgium later that week, but eventually realized she needed surgery. Williams now has a jagged scar that runs several inches from the top of her right foot up her leg. ‘‘She really appreciated this chance to return to tennis, and she couldn’t wait to get back,’’ her mother, Oracene Price, said after watching the match on Center Court, where singer Diana Ross had a front-row seat in the Royal Box. ‘‘Now she has something to get that zeal back. The hunger and the fire that you lose comes back. I know she had been depressed at times.’’ There was none of that sort of drama on the day’s later matches on Centre Court, which included straight-set vic- tories for Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova. Not really bothered by swirling wind he called ‘‘tricky,’’ six-time Wimbledon champion Federer won 68 of 80 points on his serve — including 29 of 31 in the first set — while beating Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7- 6 (2), 6-4, 6-2. Djokovic, playing for the first time since his 43-match winning streak was ended by Federer in the French Open semifinals, dropped only 11 points on serve and eliminated Jeremy Chardy of France 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Andy Roddick, a three-time runner-up at the All England Club, served quite well, too, pounding 30 aces to defeat qualifier Andreas Beck of Germany 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-3.