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Tehama Tracker Tuesday's results MLB Giants Atlanta Ross 1-5, HR Lopez 1 2/3, 3H, ER Today's games MLB Baltimore Athletics BAL — Simon 3-5 OAK — McCarthy 5-6 Giants Atlanta SF — Cain 9-9 ATL — Jurjens 12-4 On the tube LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL •4 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, championship game, teams TBD, at Portland, Ore. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 11 a.m., WGN — Chicago Cubs at Houston •4 p.m., ESPN — Arizona at Philadelphia SOCCER 11:30 a.m., CSNB — UEFA Champi- ons League, Villarreal at Odense Fish count Passed through RB Diversion Dam Aug. 14: 118 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 13: 23 salmon, 0 steelhead Aug. 12: 180 salmon, 0 steelhead Season: 1,843 salmon, 0 steelhead Around town Softball tryouts The North Valley Rapids ASA 18Gold softball program is holding tryouts on Sunday, Aug. 21 at Frey softball field in Red Bluff. All players including pitch- ers and catchers will report at 9:30 a.m. Final tryouts will be Sunday, Aug. 28 at 9:30 a.m. Both tryouts are mandatory for all players. The team's purpose is to prepare young ladies for the next level of play, where per- formance and academics will play a big role for college admission. North Valley Rapids 2011 fall ball is designed to showcase talent to college coaches. For more information con- tact X. Tito Cervantes at 529- 7389. Golf tournament Entries are currently being accepted for the 84th Northern California Open Champi- onship slated for Sept. 12-14 at Sevillano Links. The Northern California Open Championship is a 3- day, 54-hole stroke play tour- nament, which attracts sea- soned PGA and non-PGA pro- fessional players and amateurs with an index of 3.4 or lower. Entry deadline for this presti- gious tournament is Sept. 7 at 9 p.m. The Northern California Open Championship is spon- sored by Rolling Hills Casino & Resort. To register visit rollinghillscasino.com. Ques- tions regarding tournament eli- gibility should be directed to tournament headquarters at the Nor Cal PGA Section Office at (707) 449-4742. Charity Golf Tournament The first ever Alternatives to Violence, fundraising golf tournament is set for Oct. 15 at Sevillano Links in Corning. Proceeds will benefit sur- vivors of domestic violence and their children in Tehama County. For more information call 528-0226. Boy makes $50K hockey shot FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — An 11-year-old Minnesota boy has made an astounding hockey shot — sending a puck into a tiny hole 89 feet away. The shot at a charity game should be worth $50,000, but there's one problem: Nate Smith was standing in for his identical twin, Nick. Nick Smith says he was outside when his ticket was drawn to make the shot Thurs- day at the charity game in Faribault. So, his brother stepped in. Their father told organizers Nate, not Nick, made the shot. Pat Smith says honesty is the best policy. 4 p.m. 9:35 a.m. 2 1 Sports ARCHERY Special to the DN The JOAD Nationals and Junior World Team trials were held at Discovery Park in Sacramento, July 7-11. This tournament was one of three required ranking tournaments for determin- ing the 2012 Junior and Cadet United States Archery Team (USAT), but more importantly, it was also the only tournament for deciding the Top 3 archers in both the Junior and Cadet divisions that would travel to Legnica, Poland August 19-29 to compete in the 2012 Youth World Champi- onships. After a frustrating begin- ning when the rest on her primary bow broke, Ishi Archery member and Red Bluff High School junior Paige Pearce managed to claw her way back to the top securing the No. 1 position on the 2012 Cadet World Team and will be making the Journey to Poland in August. "This was really two tournaments rolled into one," Pearce said. "JOAD Nationals consisted of a 144 arrow ranking round that took place on Friday and Saturday with archers shooting 72 arrows at 50 meters each day. This rank- ing round seeded archers for the elimination rounds on Sunday for JOAD Nation- als, but it also determined the Top 8 archers in each category that would com- pete in the round robin matches on Monday for the U.S. World Team. Those Top 8 would receive rank- ing points for the World Tri- als based on their finish in the ranking round. The No. 1 archer would receive five points, No. 2 four points, No. 3 three points, No. 4 2.5 points and so on." The ranking round began on July 8 and continued on the next day with Pearce leading the pack. Towards the end of Saturday, frustra- tion set in as Pearce felt as if she was making good shots, but the arrows were just not cooperating. Pearce ended the qualifi- cation round in second place earning four points going into the World Team Trials. On Sunday, the elimina- tion rounds for JOAD Nationals began and Pearce MCT photo Despite equipment trouble,Paige Pearce (center) once away proved she's on top of the archery world. quickly learned what was happening with her arrows when her rest broke during the first elimination round. During the elimination rounds there are no equip- ment failures and archers have only two minutes to shoot three arrows. "I was watching Paige's arrows through the binocu- lars," Paige's mother Stacy said. "When I saw her shoot an arrow scoring eight points low, and then another. She turned to me and said, 'Grab my back-up bow!' I ran back to the tent and grabbed her back-up bow as her next arrow scored a seven low. When she stepped off the line and examined her equipment, the metal blade that her arrow rests on, had broken in half and the inside half had dropped down. Luckily, Pearce won that match and moved on. But the remainder of the day did not go as well as she had hoped when she finished fourth in the eliminations and second for the overall Grand Championships. "It's frustrating when something like that happens. Had it happened during the ranking round, I could have called equipment failure and had 15 minutes to fix it, but there is no equipment failure in the elimination rounds, so that feeling of panic sets in. My back-up bow worked fine, but I am so used to the feel my primary bow, it just wasn't the same. Thank goodness this part of the tournament had no bearing on placements for the World Trials." After the completion of the elimination rounds on Sunday, Pearce replaced the rest blade on her primary bow and re-sighted it in. "After already shooting all day in the hot sun, she stood over on the practice range for hours working on her primary bow," Stacy Pearce said. "Even thought she was exhausted, I could see the determination in her face. She was not going to let this get her down and she was not going to give up without a fight." And fight she did. The Top 8 archers com- peted in round robin match- es. Each archer shot a head- to-head match against the other seven archers, earning one point for a win and zero points for a loss. At the completion of the round robins, the overall end average earned points, with the highest end average earning a 5, second a 4, third a 3, fourth a 2.5 and so on. Those points were then added to the points earned in the ranking round with the Top 3 making the team to go to Poland. A perfect score is 150. Pearce won her first match 142-139, her second match 142-140, her third match 142-137, her fourth match 143-137, her fifth match 143-135, her sixth match 141-139 and her sev- enth match 145-139. Her overall end average was the highest at 28.514 with second at a 28.057. When all the points were added together, Pearce fin- ished the World Trials in the first position with 16 points, Emily Fisher from Texas finished second with 14 points and Kansas Michaels from Pennsylvania finished third with 8.5 points. "I was so proud of her," Stacy said. "She did not let her equipment failure get her down. She came back fighting with that determi- nation that so often leads to her success." Pearce won the World Giants reeling from injuries, losses ATLANTA (AP) — Nothing is going right for the defending World Series champs. The injuries are piling up. So are the losses. Martin Prado drove in the winning run for Atlanta with a two-out single in the 11th, giv- ing the Braves their second straight win in the last at-bat over the San Francisco Giants, 2-1 on Tuesday night. The Giants put outfielder Carlos Beltran and pitcher Ser- gio Romo on the disabled list before the game, then lost start- ing pitcher Jonathan Sanchez to a sprained ankle in the third inning. At least three other play- ers were hurting, too. San Francisco lost for the 13th time in its last 18 games, a slide that has knocked the team out of first in the NL West. Ari- zona increased its lead to 3 1/2 games by beating Philadephia, and Atlanta is now up six on the Giants in the wild-card race. ''We'll get there,'' said Sanchez, who was on crutches after the game. ''We've got a month to live. We just have to be close.'' Randall Delgado had already dressed by the time the Braves won, but he sure did his part. The 21-year-old rookie allowed no hits through six innings in his second big-league start. He was lifted after giving up his lone hit Championships in 2009 and is looking forward to defending her title in Legni- ca, Poland August 19-29. She will be traveling to San Diego August 10-14 for the final USAT qualifier of the year. Pearce has just recently partnered with Red Bluff based business, Girls with Guns, owned by Norissa Harman and Jen Adams, to promote women in the shooting sports. Updates, pictures and sponsor links can be found on Paige's website at www.paigepearce.com In other archery news, the CBH State Outdoor took place in several locations throughout the state in June. The results for that tourna- ment are now in and several Ishi Archery Members placed well in their division. Kaden Pearce placed second in the Male Freestyle Youth Division, Kevin Pearce placed third in the Male Freestyle Pro Divi- sion, Phil Raglin placed first in the Male Senior Freestyle Division and Randy Raglin placed first in the Male Freestyle Division breaking two state records in the process. Gore gears up for start of the season with 49ers SANTA CLARA (AP) — Run- ning back Frank Gore is hoping to get a new long-term deal from the San Francis- co 49ers before the season open- er. MCT photo The Braves' Michael Bourn is run down by Giants' Orlando Cabrera, right, in the third inning in Atlanta, Tuesday. — Cody Ross' leadoff homer in the seventh that tied the game at 1. Delgado insisted that he never thought about a no-hitter, but he knew how well he pitched. That's going to make it even more difficult to return to the minor leagues; he was called up to fill in for injured Tommy Hanson, and will head right back to Triple-A with Jair Jur- rjens coming off the disabled list on Wednesday. ''I'm so proud of myself,'' Delgado said. Pinch-hitter Brooks Conrad sparked the winning rally with a See GIANTS, page 2B Such a commitment would not be unprecedent- ed from a franchise that reward- ed All-Pro linebacker P atrick Willis last year and then tight end Vernon Davis on the eve of the 2010 opener at Seattle. ''Hopefully it will get done soon. Hopefully it will get done before the season,'' Gore said before Tues- day's practice. ''If it don't, I've just got to go play. If I have to be a free agent, I'll be a free agent.'' Davis signed a five-year exten- Gore See GORE, page 2B 1B Wednesday August 17, 2011 Pearce leads Team USA CSNB From U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service