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Tehama Tracker Tuesday’s results Little League Utah Red Bluff MLB Athletics Toronto Willingham: 1-3, HR, 2 RBI Suzuki: 1-2, HR, RBI Today’s games Little League Red Bluff Hawaii MLB Pittsburgh Giants PIT — (Karstens 8-6) SF — (J.Sanchez 4-6) Athletics Toronto 12:45 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 1 4 1 2 Sports DN Staff Report Set your DVRs. The Red Bluff Little Leaguers gritted out a 2- 1 victory over Utah, Tuesday, to punch a ticket into the Western Regional semifinals as well as guarantee they’ll have a game showcased on national television. Red Bluff improved to 2-1 with the win and still has Hawaii to play today at 4:30 p.m., but they can finish no worse than the No. 3 seed. They’ll likely end up playing in the No. 2 vs No. 3 game at 2 p.m., Friday, on ESPN2. The top seed plays No. 4 at 8 p.m. also on ESPN2. The winners of those semifinal games meet Saturday with a trip to the Little League World Series on the line. Once again Red Bluff’s pitching staff and defense bent, but wouldn’t break. The Utah state champions, Washington Little League stranded six base runners, while Red Bluff manufactured its runs. 4:07 p.m. OAK — (G.Gonzalez 9-9) TOR — (Alvarez 0-0) On the tube GOLF • Noon, TGC — USGA, U.S.Women’s Amateur Championship, round of 64 matches, at Barrington, R.I. LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL • 8 a.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, Great Lakes Regional semifinal, Grosse Point Park, Mich. vs. La Grange, Ky., at Indianapolis • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, South- east Regional semifinal, Warner Robins, Ga. vs. Fairmont, W.Va., at Warner Robins, Ga. • Noon, ESPN2 — Playoffs, Great Lakes Regional semifinal, Evansville, Ind. vs. Hamilton, Ohio, at Indianapo- lis •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, South- east Regional semifinal, Tampa, Fla. vs. Mobile, Ala., at Warner Robins, Ga. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees •5 p.m., WGN — Washington at Chicago Cubs SOCCER •6 p.m., ESPN2 — Men’s national teams, exhibition, U.S. vs. Mexico, at Philadelphia SOFTBALL •2 p.m., ESPN2 — Big League, World Series, championship, teams TBD, at Kalamazoo, Mich. Fish count Passed through RB Diversion Dam Aug. 8: 62 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 7:7 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 6: 18 salmon, 0 steelhead Season: 1,293 salmon, 0 steelhead Around Town Charity Golf Tournament The first ever Alterna- tives to Violence, fundrais- ing golf tournament is set for Oct. 15 at Sevillano Links in Corning. Proceeds will benefit survivors of domestic vio- lence and their children in Tehama County. For more information call 528-0226. MLB Scoreboard Tuesday’s results Pittsburgh at San Francisco, late Atlanta 4, Florida 3, 11 innings Boston 4, Minnesota 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Baltimore 3 Colorado 3, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Angels 6, N.Y.Yankees 4 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, San Diego 4 Tampa Bay 4, Kansas City 0 Texas 7, Seattle 6 Washington 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Detroit at Cleveland, late Houston at Arizona, late Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, late In the block Former Red Bluff Spartan and current Pacific University football and track star Taylor Hickson What was your freshman year in college like? What did you do right? “It was a big change. It was a big step up from high school and high school ath- letics. I mean everybody’s faster, everybody’s bigger, everybody’s stronger at everything.” “Last year I came in shape. I came ready to learn and I kept an open mind about everything. The col- lege coaches just know what they’re talking about so you just have to listen to what they say.” TORONTO (AP) — Backed by another Oakland power surge, Rich Harden finally got the best of a longtime nemesis. Josh Willingham and Kurt Suzuki homered, Harden pitched seven strong innings for his first career win over Toronto, and the Athletics beat the Blue Jays 4-1 on Tuesday night. The A’s have won three straight games and have home- red in a season-high seven straight, connecting 11 times in that span. ‘‘Stuff-wise, that was maybe the best he’s pitched,’’ Oakland manager Bob Melvin said of Harden. ‘‘Really good changeup, changed speeds on his fastball.’’ Harden (3-2) came in 0-3 with a 5.74 ERA in eight starts against the Blue Jays, includ- ing 0-2 with a 13.50 ERA in three starts north of the border. But he was in command for much of this one, allowing five hits over seven innings. He walked two and struck out eight to win his second straight decision. ‘‘I was aware of my past performances here,’’ Harden, who is from British Columbia on Canada’s West Coast. ‘‘It felt good to get this one out of the way.’’ The right-hander has now beaten every AL team except Baltimore, going 0-0 in three career starts against the Ori- oles. Harden ended his outing with a flourish, escaping a Red Bluff broke a scoreless draw in the bottom of the fourth inning when Wesley Clawson dou- bled then took third on a passed ball. Tanner Tweedt put a ball into play and Claw- son scored on the RBI groundout to the shortstop. Utah came back to tie it in the fifth inning, but it was all their offense would get as Kolby Button and Lane Pritchard combined to strike out 10 bat- ters. Pritchard would single in the bottom of the sixth and then take second and third on passed balls before much like their first run, Nicholas Rodriguez just found a way to put a ball into play. Pritchard raced home and beat the throw to the plate to guarantee Red Bluff an additional game in San Bernardino. 1B Wednesday August 10, 2011 Red Bluff slides into semis LITTLE LEAGUE MediaNews photo by Will Lester/San Bernardino County Sun Lane Pritchard slides into home plate to score the game winning run,Tuesday. Meet your All-Stars... 3. tanner tweedt C Bats: Right Throws: Right Age: 11 Family: Lacey, Ryan, Bryce, Blake and Jaxxon School: Metteer Favorite MLB Player: Joe Mauer Ambition: MLB Player Hobbies: playing sports Scouting Report: a youth football quarterback...tnt, tough Courtesy photo Two ladies’ teams from Wilcox Oaks went to Medford to play in the Rogue Valley Ladies' Invitational. The team of Carole Fogelman, Susie Daly, Cathy Gumm and Kathy Ferguson won the overall honeypot on Saturday with a net two bestball score of 121. They also won the overall low gross in the second flight with a gross score of 235. The team of Jennifer Owens, Daina Cowan, Dianne Angelich, and Kellie Froome won second place in the horse race and second place low gross overall in the first flight with a gross score of 222. Willingham, Suzuki homer as As beat Blue Jays ‘‘It’s the most excited I’ve seen him coming into a dugout after an inning. He was pumped up after that and he wanted that bad. He wanted to finish that inning and get us in the dugout without them scoring.’’ — Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin on Rich Harden first-and-third, no-outs jam in the seventh by getting Aaron Hill to pop up and fanning J.P. Arencibia and rookie Brett Lawrie on changeups. ‘‘It’s the most excited I’ve seen him coming into a dugout after an inning,’’ Melvin said. ‘‘He was pumped up after that and he wanted that bad. He wanted to finish that inning and get us in the dugout with- out them scoring.’’ Suzuki said Harden’s fast- ball set up the swings and misses on the changeup. ‘‘When he’s throwing that fastball down in the zone, you see more swings at the change- up because they know he’s throwing (the fastball) in the strike zone,’’ Suzuki said. ‘‘He’s tough once he does that.’’ said Grant Balfour worked the eighth and Andrew Bailey pitched around a leadoff walk in the ninth to earn his 14th save in 16 opportunities. Willingham erased a 1-0 deficit with a two-run drive to left in the sixth, his 18th of the season and fifth in the past 10 games. Suzuki added some insur- ance with a leadoff shot in the seventh that landed in the sec- ond deck in left, his 10th. Both homers came off left- hander Brett Cecil, who lost for the first time since July 5 at Boston, snapping a five-start unbeaten streak. Cecil (4-5) allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings. He walked two and struck out five. ‘‘He did well, we just hap- pened to hit a couple of balls out of the yard on him,’’ Will- ingham said. Oakland tacked on one more in the ninth. Luis Perez hit David DeJesus with a pitch and was replaced by Shawn Camp. Suzuki reached on a bunt single and Ryan Sweeney followed with a base hit up the middle, scoring DeJesus. Edwin Encarnacion provid- ed Toronto’s only run with a leadoff homer in the second, his 10th. The crowd of 20,521 gave Lawrie, Toronto’s Canadian- born third baseman, a standing ovation before his first home at-bat. Lawrie, who went 5 for 11 in Baltimore over the week- end after being promoted to the majors on Friday, struck out on three pitches. ‘‘It was pretty cool,’’ Lawrie said. ‘‘As soon as I stood up there and they gave me a standing ovation, it kind of pumped me up and kind of got my heart going a little bit.’’ Lawrie finished 0 for 3 with two strikeouts. Blue Jays outfielder Eric Thames hit a one-out double off Balfour in the eighth, just his second hit in 34 at-bats, and moved to third on Jose Bautista’s grounder. Adam Lind lined out to left for the final out. Athletics DH Hideki Matsui went 0 for 4, ending his hitting streak at 15 games. Matsui had reached base safely in 21 straight games since the All- Star break. NOTES: Oakland OF Coco Crisp, who strained a calf last Saturday, was expected to miss the entire series at Toronto but felt better after receiving treatment and could return Thursday, Melvin said. ... Conor Jackson returned to Oakland’s lineup after missing the past two games because of back spasms. He started at first base. ... The Blue Jays purchased the contract of RHP Henderson Alvarez from Double-A New Hampshire and outrighted LHP Ledezma to Wilfredo Triple-A Las Vegas. Alvarez will make his major league debut against Oakland on Wednesday, facing LHP Gio Gonzalez (9- 9). 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