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Thursday MLB— Giants at Cubs, 11 a.m., CSNB PGA — AT&T National, Noon, TGC Tennis — Wimbledon. 4 a.m., ESPN2, 9 a.m., NBC World Cup — Canada vs France, 8:45 a.m., ESPN World Cup — Germany vs Nigeria, 11:30 a.m., ESPN Sports 1B Tritons make a splash Little League Updates Red Bluff and Corning were both scheduled to play Wednesday night in the winner’s bracket at Caldwell Park in Redding. Regardless of outcome, both teams will have a week off until the tournament resumes July 6. Cottonwood eliminated Red Bluff 8-2. Corning is waiting in the championship game for the winner of Cottonwood and Foothill. The first game of the championship is set for Friday at 5:30 p.m. Corning and Red Bluff were playing Wednesday night in the winner’s bracket semifinal. No score was available at press time. Courtesy photos (Above) Sosanna O’Sullivan competes in the freestyle. (Below) The Tritons’ Curtis Twitchell. SWIMMING Four of the fourteen Triton swimmers earned high point medals at the Scott Valley Invitational June 25-26. More than 200 athletes entered the Meet in Etna. Mitchell Sauve and Jordan Johnson left the meet with first place medals. While Curtis Twitchell took second and Greg Wilson took third at the meet. Sauve earned his first place medal with noth- ing less than second place in each event he competed in. He had first place finishes in the 100-meter breast- stroke, 200-meter freestyle and his 50- meter breaststroke was a “B” time at 35.9 sec- onds. He earned 2nd place in the 100m INDI- VIDUAL MEDLEY, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 50m back- stroke, and 50m butter- fly. Johnson earned a whopping seven finish- es in first place — 200- meter individual med- ley, 100-meter breast- stroke, 200-meter freestyle, 100-meter backstroke, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter breaststroke and 100- meter freestyle. He placed second in the 50- meter freestyle. Every event was either a “B” or a “BB” time. Twitchell had eight finishes in the Top 4. Red Bluff defeated Cottonwood 6-0 to move onto a July 6 game against West Redding in the winner’s bracket simifinal. Corning was playing East Redding, Wednesday night, in the loser’s bracket. Cottonwood eliminated Red Bluff 14-7. Cottonwood moves on to play Central Tehama at 6 p.m., today. Corning was playing Anderson Wednesday night in the winner’s bracket semifinal. Coaches and Parents Send us your Little League All-Star results, stats, pictures and stories to sports@redbluffdailynews.com. To speak directly to Sports Editor Rich Greene call 527-2151, ext. 109. His first place in the 50- meter freestyle earned an “A” time at 27.79 seconds. He finished second in the 200-meter individual medley, 100- meter breaststroke, 200- meter freestyle and 100m freestyle. He had third place finishes in the 100-meter back- stroke and 200 breast- stroke. The 100-meter butterfly was completed with a 4th place finish. Wilson’s best finish was the 100-meter backstroke in second place with a “B” time. He was third in the 200- meter individual med- ley, 50-meter freestyle, 200-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle. All of his freestyle events were “B” times. Jasmine Atencio was also a top competitor with an overall fifth place at the meet. Her 50-meter butterfly event won her a second place finish. She paced her- self to win third in the 100-meter freestyle. She earned fourth place in the 50-meter freestyle and 200-meter freestyle. Other top fin- ishes included the 100- meter individual med- ley, 50-meter back- stroke and 100-meter breaststroke. Chloe Casey finished ninth overall. She won fifth in the 50-meter breaststroke, sixth in the 100-meter freestyle, seventh in the 50-meter backstroke, 50-meter butterfly and 100-meter breaststroke and ninth place in the 100-meter individual medley. Ted Sheppard com- peted well to earn him- self an eighth place fin- ish overall for the Tri- tons. His best event was the 50-meter butterfly in second place. He was sixth for the 100- meter individual med- ley, 50-meter breast- stroke and 100-medley breaststroke and ninth place in the 200-meter freestyle. Broc Jones finished in the Top 10 for each of the four events he swam. Nicole Sauve also earned Top 10 finishes for all eight of the events she competed in with “B” times in the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter freestyle. Also swimming for the Red Bluff Tritons were Zoe Casey, Blake Jones, Abigail O’Sulli- van, Sosanna O’Sulli- van, and Haley Scott. Dempster shuts down Giants, streak ended CHICAGO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Aramis Ramirez singled to drive in the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the Chicago Cubs beat San Francisco 2-1 on Wednesday night to end the Giants’ seven-game winning streak. Sergio Romo (3-1) gave up an infield single to leadoff batter Tony Campana, who moved to second on Reed John- son’s sacrifice. After a groundout moved him to third, Ramirez hit an 0-2 pitch to left to win it. San Francisco’s Emmanuel Burris hit an RBI single in the top of the ninth off Chicago closer Carlos Marmol (2-2) to tie the game after starter Ryan Dempster had shut out the Giants on two hits for eight innings and retired 20 straight at one point. Pinch-hitter Pat Bur- rell led off the ninth against Dempster with a double. Marmol relieved and struck out Andres Torres, but Bur- riss singled to center to score pinch-runner Bill Hall with Burriss taking second. Pablo Sandoval was walked intentionally before Aubrey Huff blooped a ball to center that Campana couldn’t catch and fell for a sin- gle. Waiting to see if the ball would be caught, Burriss held and had to stop at third, loading the bases. Cody Ross then grounded into an inning-ending double play. Marmol got the win despite his fifth blown save in 21 chances. After Carlos Pena doubled, Blake DeWitt hit an RBI single to put the Cubs ahead in the seventh against San Francisco starter Tim Lincecum, who gave up five hits in seven innings. Dempster gave up a double to Sandoval in the first and another to Nate Schierholtz in the second. He then kept the Giants off base until Burrell doubled. Lincecum, the two- time Cy Young Award winner, walked two and struck out nine. Demp- ster threw only 83 pitch- es and had no walks with six strikeouts. Notes: GM Jim Hendry says the Cubs won’t be holding a fire sale at the trading deadline despite the team’s dismal performance. Some of the team’s younger talent, he said, isn’t going anywhere. ‘‘Everybody thinks there is this automatic you have to be a buyer or a seller. ... We’re certainly going to hold on to the people that we feel will be major contributors down the road.’’ Acknowledging how disappointed everyone in the organization is by the Cubs’ poor performance, Hendry vowed the team would not cash it in over the final three months. ‘‘We’re not going to roll over and we’re not going to pretend like it’s, ‘Oh poor us and wait until next year.’ We’re going to get after it and play good baseball the last 90 games.’’ ... Game-time temperature was 65 and with a wind blowing in from right at 10 mph the ball didn’t carry. ... The Giants were still undecided on their starting pitchers for Saturday and Sunday in interleague games at Detroit. Madison Bumgarner will start Friday. ... The division- leading Giants finished the halfway point of the season 46-35. A year ago, when they went on to win the World Series, they were 41-40 and in fourth place in the NL West, 7 1/2 games out of first. VOLLEYBALL The Mercy High Volleyball Clinic will be held July 18- 21. Those players entering sixth or seventh grade will meet from 8:30-11:30 a.m.. Incoming eighth and ninth graders will play from noon to 3 p.m. The cost is $40 at the door or $35 if pre-registered by June 27. A shirt will be included. Campers should bring shoes and water. The camp will be coached by Zane Zelei, Candi Keller as well as present and past Mercy Warriors players. For more information contact Candi at 547-2900. Federer loses despite 2-set lead WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — For two superb sets Wednesday, everything looked so routine for Roger Federer, precisely the way it did for so many years at Wimbledon — and nearly everywhere else, too. Little comes easily for Fed- erer anymore, even at the All England Club, where he’s won six of his record 16 major championships. Before Wednesday, Federer was 178-0 when taking the first two sets of a Grand Slam match. Now he’s 178-1. Facing a younger, quicker and better-serving opponent, Federer failed to make his big lead stand up and lost 3-6, 6- 7 (3), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to 12th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the quarterfinals. Federer leaves Wimbledon in that round for the second consecutive year, after reaching seven finals in a row from 2003-09. Nevertheless, Federer sound- ed defiant in defeat, saying he played well against Tsonga and is sure he ‘‘definitely can’’ add to his Grand Slam col- lection, even though he’ll turn 30 in August. ‘‘When I was 20, I would have been crushed: ’I can’t go on; I’ll never get another chance to be in a quarterfinal of a Grand Slam.’ But today, I know that I should probably have lots more,’’ said Federer, who lost in the French Open final earlier this month. ‘‘I don’t have that mental stress. I know what I’ve accomplished already. It’s different when you’re older and you’ve accomplished as much as I have.’’ The third-seeded Federer’s loss prevented the 125th edi- tion of Wimbledon from being the first since 1995 with the four top men in the semifinals. The other favorites all won Wednesday, though not without some difficulty: No. 1 Rafael Nadal numbed his injured left foot with a painkilling injection then beat No. 10 Mardy Fish of the United States 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; No. 2 Novak Djokovic was a break down in the third set but reeled off seven games in a row to get past 18-year-old qualifier Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-2, 3-6, 6- 3, 7-5; and No. 4 Andy Murray pulled up awkwardly after tweaking his hip changing directions on one third-set point but otherwise breezed past unseeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. ‘‘There are other players that are able to play great tennis, and Tsonga has proved it today,’’ said Djokovic, who would replace Nadal at No. 1 in the ATP rankings by reaching the final. ‘‘It’s all very close at this level, especially in the second week of a Grand Slam.’’ In Friday’s semifinals, Tsonga will face Djokovic, who is 46-1 in 2011, the only loss coming to Federer at the French See TENNIS, page 2B Thursday June 30, 2011 Baseball Division (11-12) Little League Softball Division (11-12) Little League 9-and 10-year-old Softball Division Baseball Division 11-year-old 9-and 10-year-old Baseball Division The Championships, Wimbledon Giants 1 Chi. 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