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Tehama Tracker Wednesday’s results Little League Hawaii Red Bluff MLB Pittsburgh Giants Sandoval: 1-3, HR, RBI Whiteside: 2-3 Athletics Toronto DeJesus 1-5, HR, 2 RBI Willingham: 1-5, HR, 2 RBI Today’s games MLB Athletics Toronto OAK — (Moscoso 4-6) TOR— (Mills 1-1) NFL Preseason Arizona Raiders 7 p.m. On the tube GOLF • 10 a.m., TNT — PGA of America, PGA Championship, first round, at Johns Creek, Ga. • Noon, TGC — USGA, U.S.Women’s Amateur Championship, round of 32 matches, at Barrington, R.I. LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL • 11 a.m., ESPN — Playoffs, Midwest Regional Semifinal, teams TBD, at Indianapolis •1 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, North- west Regional Semifinal, teams TBD, at San Bernardino, Calif. •3 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, Midwest Regional Semifinal, teams TBD, at Indianapolis •5 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, South- west Regional Final, teams TBD, at Waco, Texas • 7 p.m., ESPN2 — Playoffs, North- west Regional Semifinal, teams TBD, at San Bernardino, Calif. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 9 a.m., MLB — Regional coverage, San Diego at N.Y. Mets or Kansas City at Tampa Bay •5 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Milwau- kee at St. Louis or Detroit at Cleve- land (4 p.m. start) NFL FOOTBALL •5 p.m., ESPN — Preseason, Seat- tle at San Diego TENNIS •9 a.m., ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Rogers Cup, round of 16, at Montreal Fish count Passed through RB Diversion Dam Aug. 9: 82 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 8: 62 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 7:7 salmon, 0 steelhead Season: 1,375 salmon, 0 steelhead Around Town High School rodeo orientation High School rodeo will have their sign-up meeting 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Jones Arena in Cottonwood. At this meeting cowboys and cowgirls will learn what is new for this year. We will have memberships available and a notary. Hope to see you there. 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. Softball tryouts The North Valley Rapids ASA 18Gold softball pro- gram is holding tryouts at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 21 and 28 at Frey softball field in Red Bluff. For more information contact X. Tito Cervantes at 529-7389. In the block Mercy Athletic Director Jim Weber What are you looking forward to this year with Mercy athletics? “It’s pretty much the same every year. You get to see kids who love sports have an opportunity to play. We’re all about the opportu- nity here and hopefully everybody that wants to play will get to play — just like every other year.” MCT photo Tiger Woods tees off during a practice round Thursday in preparation for the PGA Championship. JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — The question was asked in jest. For the U.S., this is no laughing matter. Here we are at another of golf’s major championships, the final one of the year, and the Americans are still mired in their longest drought of the modern era. No need to push the panic button just yet, but it’s not out of line to wonder just what’s wrong with the red, white and ohhh-sooo-blue. Or, as a reporter jokingly put it to the most recent non-U.S. winner, British Open champion Darren Clarke, do you think the Americans will win another major in our life- time? ‘‘I’m sure its cyclical at the moment and the Americans will start winning again very, very soon,’’ the Ulsterman said. ‘‘But at the moment, it’s a wonderful time for the European Tour.’’ The U.S. has been shut out at the last six majors, a slide that began after Phil Mickelson won the Mas- ters — the 2010 Masters, that is. In the 16 months since then, there’s been three champions from North- ern Ireland, two from South Africa, one from Germany — and zip from the U-S-of-A. Heading into the PGA Champi- onship, which begins Thursday at Atlanta Athletic Club, the Ameri- cans tends to shrug off the lengthy dry spell as largely a media creation, an attempt to divvy up players based on nationality when actually they have much in common. There are plenty of top interna- tional players competing regularly on the PGA Tour and living in this country at least part of the year. Take Graeme McDowell. The 2010 U.S. Open champion may be from Northern Ireland, but he played college golf in Birmingham, Ala., and has already competed in a dozen PGA Tour events this year. Germany’s Martin Kaymer (2010 PGA Championship) has a home in Scottsdale, Ariz. South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel (2011 Masters) joined the PGA Tour this year. Northern Ireland’s Rory McIl- roy (2011 U.S. Open) says he might follow Schwartzel to this side of the Atlantic. ‘‘If you look at the last 10 years, we’ve done pretty well,’’ Dustin Johnson told a group of reporters. ‘‘It just gives you guys something to talk about.’’ Still, it stings just a bit, especially when everyone keeps bringing it up. ‘‘We don’t sit around and talk about it over lunch or anything,’’ said Steve Stricker, the highest- ranked U.S. player at No. 5. ‘‘I’ve thought about it. I think all the American players have thought about it because it’s in the story, it’s in the media quite a bit. ‘‘What’s happened in the last six majors,’’ he added, ‘‘fuels the fire of the Americans to try to get better and to work at it and try to break that streak, no doubt.’’ There’s no disputing the top young international players have performed better in the major cham- pionships than their American coun- terparts. The U.S. has plenty of talent, players such as Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Anthony Kim, none of them older than 27. But that group has been shut out of the major titles. By contrast, McIlroy got his at age 22. Kaymer, Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen (2010 British Open) were all 27 or younger when they triumphed. See PGA, page 2B MediaNews photo by Will LEster/San Bernardino County Sun Another Hawaii run slides into home plate ahead of Wesley Clawson. LITTLE LEAGUE DN Staff Report Red Bluff fell 10-4 to Central East Maui Little League out of Wailuku, Hawaii, Wednesday. For once it didn’t mat- ter. There was no pressure to win this one. Red Bluff had already clinched their semifinal spot before a pitch was thrown and there was lit- tle chance their seed would change with the outcome. Their Hawaiian oppo- nents were also playing for pride, having already been eliminated from the tournament. While Red Bluff dropped to 2-2 in pool play, they’ll move back to a situation where every game matters when they play Friday in one of two semifinals. They’ll likely play at 2 p.m. on ESPN2 against the loser of Wednesday night’s late game between Southern California and Nevada. Utah was the fourth team to advance out of pool play. Friday’s second semifinal is scheduled for 8 p.m. Hawaii and Red Bluff both scored runs in the first inning, Wednesday, without the benefit of a hit. Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom half of the inning, Austin Young- blood got things started with a walk for Red Bluff. Kolby Button then put a ball in play, but the Hawaii defense was unable to get a force out and Lane Pritchard fol- lowed, drawing a walk to load the bases. A wild pitch would score Youngblood to tie the game at 1-1. Two batters later Nicholas Rodriguez walked to load the bags once more. Tanner Tweedt and Evan Tanner hit back-to- back ground balls to drive home two more Red Bluff runs. Red Bluff’s lead wouldn’t last long as Hawaii struck for four runs in the second inning to take a 5-3 lead of their own. Americans still looking for major breakthrough 9:37 a.m. 8 4 2 9 10 4 Sports 1B Thursday August 11, 2011 Red Bluff wraps up pool play Meet your All-Stars... 1. austin youngblood CF Bats: Right Throws: Right Age: 12 Family: Jenny, Frank, Colton and Cooper School: Vista from Bidwell Favorite MLB Player: Buster Posey Ambition: MLB Player Hobbies: football Scouting Report: the team’s leadoff hitter...gets things started In the fifth inning Rodriguez doubled to drive home Wesley Claw- son and push across a Red Bluff run to make the game interesting again at 5-4. But once again Red Bluff’s momentum was soon halted. Hawaii pushed across six runs in the sixth inning then shut down Red Bluff to grab their first and only win of the tournament. Youngblood had a pair of walks and a hit in the game. He’s batting .444 for the tournament. Blake Blocker also had a hit. Clawson, Rodriguez, Blocker and Taylor Chap- man all pitched for Red Bluff. Hawaii became the first team in West Region- al history to use an all-girl battery. Slumping Giants lose 3rd straight series at home SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bruce Bochy remembers all too well his club’s August struggles of a year ago. Ace Tim Lincecum lost a career- worst five straight starts. The Giants lacked timely hits. On Aug. 25, they were 6 1/2 games out of first place. One sensational September — aided by the downward spirals of Colorado and San Diego — and San Francisco wound up winning the NL West and going on to cap- ture an improbable World Series title. Bochy could use a little bit of that late-season magic right about now. The Giants dropped their third straight series at AT&T Park in a 9- 2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday, wrapping up a disap- pointing 3-7 homestand in which several of those reliable faces from 2010 downright flopped. Yet San Francisco still sat in first place to start the day. ‘‘We’re in a much better position (this year),’’ Bochy said. ‘‘They’re not complacent. They’re frustrated. It’s just not happening. Any time you get in this kind of rut, you’re doing everything to get out of it. Right now, their confidence is shak- en.’’ Andrew McCutchen hit a two- run homer, Jeff Karstens bounced back from his worst start of the sea- son and the Pirates won their first series in three weeks on the heels of a 10-game losing streak. Pablo Sandoval homered for the Giants, who fell a half-game behind Arizona in the NL West. San Fran- cisco had led the division since June 25. ‘‘We’ve got a lot of baseball left,’’ outfielder Cody Ross said. ‘‘We’ve got to go out and play like champions. We’re not doing it. We’re kind of all in a rut and it seems like we can’t dig ourselves out. We’ve got to do something.’’ Jonathan Sanchez (4-7), the Giants’ most reliable starter down the stretch last year, walked See GIANTS, page 2B “A.J.” From U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service