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Tehama Tracker Sunday's results MLB Houston Giants Huff 2-4, RBI Cain 8 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 6 K NFL PRESEASON New Orleans Raiders 20 40 Campbell 12-17, 150 yds, TD Brees 15-23, 189 yds Saturday's results FIELD HOCKEY League Jamboree Corning River Valley Shae Mesker: 3 goals Sarah Nunez: assist Corning Pleasant Valley PV: No shots on goal Corning Lassen Kaitlyn Huntley: save Corning Bella Vista BV: No shots on goal Corning Chico Kaitlyn Huntley: 4 saves Corning Davis Keara Terras: goal Today's games VOLLEYBALL Red Bluff MLB Athletics Cleveland OAK —(McCarthy 7-6) CLE — (D.Huff 1-2) Chicago Cubs Giants CHC — (R.Wells 5-4) SF — (Lincecum 12-10) On the tube MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — Philadelphia at Cincinnati TENNIS • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — U.S. Open, first round, at New York •4 p.m., ESPN2 — U.S. Open, first round, at New York Around town Booster Bonanza Th Red Bluff Spartan Booster Club will host its inaugural Fall Booster Bonan- za Oct. 15 in the Tyler Jelly Building at the Tehama Dis- trict Fairground. The 1987 Red Bluff Lady Spartans state champion girls basketball team will be the fea- tured guests. A social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by a tri-tip dinner at 6:30 p.m. and danc- ing in front of the live band Northern Heat will start at 8:30 p.m. There will also be a silent auction. Tickets are $30 if bought in advance or $40 at the door. Pre-sale tickets can be pur- chased from Red Bluff Spar- tans athletes. All Funds raised from this event will be used to support all of the athletic programs at Red Bluff High. For more information or to make a donation contact Ken Robison at 527-1111. 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. 7:15 p.m. 4:05 p.m. MCT photo Giants' Mark DeRosa (7) singles to right to bring Andres Torres home to make the score 3-3 against the Houston Astros in the 10th inning at AT&T Park Sunday. Shasta College Scrimmage at SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Fran- cisco Giants are losing to teams out of con- tention. They're losing at home. Great pitching efforts are being wasted. All those things are cause for concern as the reigning World Series champions approach the final month. Matt Downs delivered a go-ahead single with one out in the 11th inning and the Houston Astros beat the stumbling Giants 4-3 on Sunday to salvage a four-game split. ''We've got to win, that's all we've got to do,'' pitcher Matt Cain said. To win, they must score more runs. Jose Altuve got things going with a one-out double against Ramon Ramirez (2-3) and Downs followed with a single up the middle. Altuve was forced into action after slugger Car- los Lee left in the top of the ninth with a sprained right ankle, sustained sliding into second on a double. Lee was 3 for 4 with two doubles. Mark Melancon (7-4) pitched the 10th and got the win despite allowing Mark DeRosa's tying single. David Carpenter finished for his first career save. ''It was a big win, especially to get one late like that,'' Downs said. ''It's easy to get frustrat- ed when you blow a lead, but we didn't. We kept battling like it was just a part of the game.'' The reigning World Series champions fell four games behind the first-place Diamondbacks in the NL West race after Arizona beat the Padres 6-1. The D-backs come to town Friday for a key weekend series. On bring your dog day at AT&T Park, the Giants continued to experience the dog days. More missed chances. They also argued that one chance was taken from them. DeRosa singled with one out in the 10th off Melancon, but was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double. He slid past the bag and reached back with his left hand, and replays showed he appeared to be safe. DeRosa jumped up to yell at second-base umpire Dan Bellino and manager Bruce Bochy was ejected for the second time this year. ''I thought I was safe. I mean it's a tough call, bang bang,'' DeRosa said. ''You don't have a choice, you move on. You battle and you've got to put it behind us. We can't scoreboard watch because we've got our own bag of issues we've got to deal with and we've got to get the bats going.'' Houston went ahead 3-2 in the 10th on pinch- hitter Jason Michaels' double, then the Giants came back again. Jordan Schafer lined a tying RBI single to right with two outs in the eighth against Cain to help force extra innings. The reeling Giants failed to string together their first three-game winning streak since July 17-19 at San Diego. They haven't had a winning home series in five sets since taking two of three from Milwaukee from July 22-24. San Francisco has played eight straight games decided by two or fewer runs. ''This is a tough loss, no getting around it. We came back a couple times,'' Bochy said. ''As I've said, we have to score some runs for these guys.'' The Giants couldn't capitalize in the eighth after getting consecutive two-out singles by Jeff Keppinger and Carlos Beltran off Wilton Lopez. Wesley Wright relieved and retired Pablo San- doval on a grounder. Aubrey Huff hit a tying RBI single off Hous- ton starter Bud Norris in the seventh to end a 0- for-15 funk, and singled again in the ninth but the Giants didn't score. After Huff's initial hit in the seventh, Norris received a mound visit before giving up Orlando Cabrera's go-ahead sacrifice fly on the next pitch. That one-run lead didn't last long. Norris, pitching back home in the Bay Area, had only allowed one runner to reach second base before the Giants got to him for two runs in the seventh. Sandoval drew a one-out walk to start things off. Brandon Belt singled to bring up Huff, whose struggles have some fans and skep- tics calling for Bochy to sit him for an extended period. Cain, the Giants' hard-luck loser for years now, has only two wins in his last nine starts. See GIANTS, page 2B FIELD HOCKEY backup Tommi Ham- mons. League Jamboree is any indication, teams are going to have an awful- ly hard time scoring upon the Lady Cardi- nals this season. Corning pitched shutouts in five of its six games played Satur- day at the Jamboree as they went 1-1-4. Jordin Wazny, Savan- nah Miller and Silvia Diaz led the defense in Silvia Diaz front of their star goalie Kaitlyn Huntley and Shae Mesker provid- ed a hat trick in a 3-0 win over River Valley, scoring all three goals form the corner. Sarah Nunez picked up an assist during the game and Hammons never even had to touch the ball. That was the case for most of the day as Corning controlled pos- session with Shaynne Petty actively working up front and Nicole Mason using her speed to transition the Lady Cardinals to offense. Huntley never had to handle to ball during a scoreless tie with Pleas- ant Valley as Corning spent most of the game attacking in the Lady Vikings' circle. Corning also had scoreless ties with Lassen, Bella Vista and Chico. During the Chico game, Huntley stood on her head, including one play where she lost her helmet, but still made a pair of saves to keep the shutout in order. Davis handed Corn- See BREES, page 2B Power wins in Sonoma SONOMA (AP) — Will Power inched closer to IndyCar points leader Dario Fran- chitti with his second straight win at Infi- neon Raceway, then appropriately shared the podium with his two teammates. Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe completed a 1-2-3 sweep for Team Penske at the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma on Sunday — the first for owner Roger Penske in near- ly 20 years — but it was the job the two did on Franchitti that made the biggest differ- ence. Franchitti started fourth but couldn't get around Castroneves or Briscoe, who formed the perfect blockade and allowed Power to post his fifth victory of the season. That pulled the Australian within 26 points of Franchitti with four races to go. ''I said before the race that if we could finish how we started, it would be a perfect weekend,'' said Power, who became the first two-time winner of this event. ''Now we have a legitimate shot at the championship. Two more road courses, two more ovals and we can get this.'' Power led 71 of the 75 laps while winning his second consecutive race from the pole here at Infineon Raceway, the same track where his career almost ended in 2009 fol- lowing a horrific crash. Power has a career-high five victories, one shy of the IndyCar single-season record. More critically, it sets up a wild run for the championship after Franchitti appeared to be comfortably ahead in the points race six weeks ago. ''There's going to be days like this,'' said Franchitti, who finished fourth ahead of Tar- get Chip Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon. ''I was pushing as hard as I could just to keep See POWER, page 2B Lady Cardinals' defense strong at League Jamboree If the Preseason 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 Sports SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — An American flag draped around his shoulders, Braydon Salzman couldn't con- tain his glee when he found Cali- fornia teammate Nick Pratto to give him a postgame hug. The boys from Huntington Beach are headed home with a Little League World Series championship. Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of sixth inning, and Salzman pitched a complete-game three-hitter in a 2-1 victory Sunday over Hama- matsu City, Japan, and the tour- nament title. ''USA! USA,'' yelled fans before Pratto's single. ''I was just thinking. 'Oh God, Oh God,' Before I was getting in the box,'' the 12-year-old Pratto said. ''But once I got into the box, I calmed myself by telling myself to just look for a good pitch.'' Pratto's clutch hit returned the World Series title to the United States with the type of victory even the big leaguers dream about. A U.S. team has now won Astros beat Giants in 11 1B Monday August 29, 2011 California beats Japan 2-1 to take LLWS six out of the last seven World Series, with Japan's win last year the exception. Pratto tossed his helmet into the air after rounding first before his teammates mobbed him in the infield. The teams exchanged handshakes at the plate before California's giddy players posed at the mound with their new See LLWS, page 2B Brees leads Saints to win over Raiders OAKLAND (AP) — There's nothing like a trip to Oakland to get Drew Brees ready for the regular season. Brees threw for 189 yards and led New Orleans to scores on all three drives he played in the Saints' 40-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday night. Brees completed 15 of 23 passes and looked almost as sharp as he did in his last trip to Oak- land when he led three touchdown drives in his only series of a 45-7 victory two years ago in the third exhibition game. The Saints used that regu- lar-season dress rehearsal to go on and win their first 13 games and win the first Super Bowl title in franchise history. The big difference in this year's meeting was the Raiders' first-team offense looked much bet- ter than it did two years with JaMarcus Russell at quarterback. Jason Campbell completed 12 of 17 passes for 150 yards and a touchdown, capping his first drive with a 35-yard scoring strike to Derek Hagan. Hagan, signed during training camp, has become one of Oakland's most reliable receivers this summer, catching six passes for 121 yards ing their only loss of the Jamboree, 2-1. The Lady Blue Dev- ils picked up the first two goals of the game, before Keara Terras answered for Corning. "The seniors are role modeling for the juniors and the juniors are step- ping up and filling the holes," coach Teresa Lamb said. Corning travels to Lassen Sept. 7. The Lady Cardinals' first home game is Sept. 12 when they will host the Davis Blue Devils. CSNC CSNB