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Wednesday MLB— Diamondbacks at Giants, 12:30 p.m., CSNB MLB—Yankees at White Sox, 5 p.m., ESPN MLS—Los Angeles at Portland, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 Soccer — Barcelona vs. Guadalajara, 5:30 p.m., ESPN2 Big League Baseball —Championship, 3 p.m., ESPN2 Sports 1B Season’s last splash Today: Corning Manta Rays • Thursday: Red Bluff Tritons • Friday: SOAR 3B/P Wednesday August 3, 2011 Meet your All-Stars... 13. kolby button Bats: Right Throws: Right Age: 12 Family: Donnie, Mary, Kenny, Kyle School: Vista (Bidwell) Favorite MLB Player: Tim Lincecum Ambition: MLBplayer Hobbies: video games Scouting Report: this easy- going gentle giant hates to eat green stuff All-Star games on KBLF Red Bluff’s run through the Little League Western Regional will be aired live on KBLF-1490 AM radio. KBLF will broadcast all of Red Bluff’s games starting with their opener Saturday at 7:30 p.m. against the Southern California state champions Ocean View Little League from Huntington Beach. Red Bluff continues pool play on Sunday at 2 p.m. against Nevada state champions Silverado Little League from Las Vegas. Courtesy photo The Corning Manta Rays sport their hardware (from back, left to right) James Stokes, Joseph Wilson, Ivelia Chavez, Rachael Snow, Brianna Wilson, Danielle Gallegos, Kellie Snow, Sarah Grine, Zachary Pritchard, Frankie Chavez,Tayler Snow and Hannah Pritchard. SWIMMING The Corning Manta Rays con- cluded a successful swim season this weekend at the NVAL Champi- onship Swim Meet held at Shasta College, highlighted by an individ- ual high point gold for Hannah Pritchard. The Manta Rays took 19 swim- mers to participate against a field of more than 600 swimmers from Northern California. “Championships is a very com- petitive swim meet. I am very proud of our swimmers,” Manta Rays coach Julene Stokes said. “These swimmers exceeded my expecta- tions. Day in day out, our swim- mers worked very hard with a ton of determination. I couldn't be more proud of them” Four Manta Rays placed in the Top 5 high point standings for their age divisions Pritchard took home the gold winning first place in high point for the girls 7-and 8-year-old girls divi- sion. It concluded a run of four con- secutive high point trophies. She won six of seven events at the NVALs to beat more than 40 swimmers in the age group. Her older brother, Zachary Pritchard also won a trophy, by placing fourth in the boys 13-and 14-year-old division. Pritchard was second in the 100 breaststroke and 100 fly. Tayler Snow was fifth in the 7- and 8-year-old girls division. Snow was second in the 25 breaststroke and third in the 25 fly and 100 individual medley. Corning’s other trophy was earned by Karta Beckwith, who placed fifth in the girls 9-and 10- year-old division. She was fourth in the 50 fly. Medals were handed out to Top 12 finishers and Corning swimmers grabbed their fair share of them. Frankie Chavez swam all eight of his events with his fastest times ever to secure six medals. Ivelia Chavez did the same, swimming her best times in eight events to win four medals. Danielle Gallegos and Sarah Grine each won five medals. Tyler Gine placed fourth in the 100 individual medley on his way to personal best times in all of his events as well as all Top 12 finishes. James Stokes grabbed a medal with an 11th place finish in the 100 breaststroke. Joseph Wilson was fifth in the 500 freestyle and swam all of his Courtesy photo Hannah Pritchard with her winning high point dive. events with personal best times. Rachael Snow was eighth place in the 100 breaststroke. Melissa Boles and Kellie Snow had a pair of personal best times. Haley Tomas had six personal best times, Mercedes Chavez had five best times and Brianna Wilson had three of her best times. The relay team of Frankie Chavez, Zach Pritchard, James Stokes and Joseph Wilson brought home fourth place in the 200 freestyle and fifth place in the 200 medley relay races in the boys 13- and 14-year-old division. “Words truly cannot express how proud I am of our swimmers. They made Corning proud,” Stokes said. SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A youth baseball team from Saudi Arabia received a berth to the Little League World Series after a squad from Uganda was denied visas because of discrepancies Saudi team gets Uganda’s Little League WS berth The Little League over players’ ages and birth dates. World Series made the announcement on Tues- day. The Arabian-Ameri- can team from Dhahran had lost last month to the Rev. John Foundation team from Kampala, which won the Little League’s Middle East and Africa region and advanced to the World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. But the State Depart- On Aug. 9 Red Bluff faces Utah state champion Wash- ington Little League at 4:30 p.m. Red Bluff wraps up pool play on Aug. 10 against Hawaii state champion Central East Maui Little League from Wailuku. The Top 4 teams after pool play move on to the semifi- nals. New concussion program aims to test 1 million kids (AP) — Jerome Bettis finds the numbers astounding. Nearly 3.8 million youngsters had concussions last year while taking part in sports and recreation. Bettis, a former star running back, is plenty famil- iar with concussions during a 13-year NFL career. He says he had ‘‘three or four that I could say were a problem.’’ Now the player known as ‘‘The Bus’’ wants those young athletes to have the same sort of care that professional leagues provide. He is a spokesman for PACE (Protecting Athletes Through Concussion Education), a program that provides tests for more than 3,300 middle and high schools. The hope is that 1 millions kids will have the exams and learn about concussions. The program will be funded by Dick’s Sporting Goods, which will sponsor appearances by pro ath- letes who have experienced concussions. ‘‘When I heard the number, that really did sur- prise me,’’ said Bettis, a finalist this year for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ‘‘You don’t really expect it to be that many. ‘‘And you recognize it is a high number and how important it is for kids and parents to understand the educational aspect of dealing with concussions. That’s not to say these could have been prevented, but the more you know about concussions, the more treatable they are and the more you can pre- vent it from becoming a major problem in a child’s life.’’ PACE is designed to be the largest baseline test- ing initiative. It uses a computerized system known as ImPACT — Immediate Post-Concussion Assess- ment and Cognitive Testing — that was developed in the 1990s. It begins with a 20-minute baseline test administered in preseason and again after an injury to track the possible effects of a concussion. Dick’s will cover the cost for up to 300 athletes per school. To date, more than 2 million people from sol- diers to athletes in high schools, colleges and pro- fessional sports have passed through the ImPACT program, making it the most widely used concus- sion evaluation system in the country. USA Football, which oversees the sport on the youth level in America, has partnered with several college conferences and the NFL to promote a national campaign titled ‘‘Put Pride Aside for Player Safety, also designed to emphasize concus- sion awareness in youth sports. ‘‘This program parallels the emphasis that USA Football, in partnership with the CDC, has placed on concussion awareness and education since 2007,’’ said USA Football executive director Scott Hallenbeck. ‘‘USA Football supports the proper medical management of concussion.’’ Dr. Stanley Herring, a member of USA Foot- ball’s Football and Wellness Committee, also serves on the NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Com- mittee. ‘‘Concussion isn’t a ’boy’ issue or a ’girl’ issue. It’s a youth sports issue,’’ Herring said. ‘‘Baseline testing can be a helpful tool to assist a health care provider diagnose concussion and determine a safe return to play. It is best used as part of a compre- hensive concussion management program.’’ Bettis agrees and wishes such programs were ment last week said some visa applications for Ugandan players includ- ed birth records altered to make players appear younger. Youth ages 11 or 12 as of April 30 can play in the World Series, which begins Aug. 18. available to him when he was growing up. ‘‘The problems I have had is there were a lot of dings and hits to the head that I thought were just me being cracked pretty good and something I needed to shake off and walk it off,’’ Bettis said. ‘‘Had I taken the baseline test it probably would have shown little irregularities.’’ ———— On the web: www.dickssportinggoods.com/pace