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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results Home team listed second VOLLEYBALL Las Plumas Red Bluff 25 25 25 13 15 8 Wednesday's results FIELD HOCKEY Corning Bella Vista Sarah Nunez: Goal Nicole Mason: Goal Shae Mesker: Goal Mayra Diera: Assist, 4 shots Sheyanne Petty: 3 saves Kaitlyn Huntley: 3 saves Tommi Hammons: save Strong games: Raylee Sutfin and McKenzie Peterson CROSS COUNTRY NAL Boys at Central Valley Yreka Corning West Valley 1. Tim Williams YRE 17:44 2. Eric Neill YRE 17:44 3. Clayton Bunn YRE 17:55 4. Jesus Diera COR 18:16 5. David Neill YRE 18:34 9. Enrique Torres COR 19:00 10. Rogelio Silva COR19:04 NAL Girls at Central Valley West Valley Yreka Corning 29 35 58 1. Hannah Dorman WV 21:18 2. Jenna Storms WV 21:47 3. Michaela Justice YRE 24:00 4. Kendall Nielsen YRE 24:00 5. Cheyanne Earwood CV 24:48 8. Ana Carillo COR 26:06 9. Marisol Valencia COR 26:15 Today's games FOOTBALL Oroville Corning Red Bluff West Valley 7:30 p.m. 17 53 77 4 0 Sports VOLLEYBALL Las Plumas By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor The Lady Spartans made quick work of the Las Plumas Thunderbirds, Thursday night, earning a 25-13, 25-15, 25-8 victory over their visitors. "They did what they needed to do," Red Bluff coach Kim Wheeler said of her team. Red Bluff busted open a 17- 11 lead in Game 1 following a Bayli Johnson kill. Riley Kittle followed with an ace and the Lady Spartans were off and running. A few points later Johnson struck again to make it 22-13 and Red Bluff closed out the Thunderbirds two points later. Game 2 saw the Lady Spar- tans open up with a 15-9 lead before Kittle took command. She showed off her power and finesse on back-to-back points to push Red Bluff's lead to 18-9. Megan McColpin kept dump- ing in serves and Kittle kept suppling plenty off offense. A Jessica Macdonald block made it 20-11. Red Bluff received a fortu- nate bounce off the gymnasium ceiling to push the score to 23- 12 and force a Las Plumas time out, but the Spartans came out firing again. Kalynne Schoelen and April Allwardt registered the final two points and Red Bluff took Game 2 by the score of 25-15. Kaitlann Weber started Game 3 by calming placing serves into the Las Plumas box and a cou- ple of Shelby McKinstry points helped Red Bluff to a 5-0 start. McColpin then got into the serving act and Red Bluff pushed their lead to 12-6. Maggie Hansen subbed in and supplied a pair of aces and painted the line with a kill shot to expand Red Bluff's lead to 16-7. 0 Red Bluf 3f 1B Friday September 30, 2011 Red Bluff rips T-Birds Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff's Kalynne Schoelen receives a serve,Thursday night, against Las Plumas. digs. Finally Schoelen took over the service following a Kittle kill that made it 17-8 and the Spartans would never have to rotate again. Schoelen served out the final eight points, including back-to- back aces to cap a 25-8 Red Bluff win. The Red Bluff senior finished her night with five kills and 14 Kittle led Red Bluff with 11 kills, a pair of blocks and three aces. Allwardt added six kills. McColpin had 12 digs and Weber finished with 25 assists. The Lady Spartans improved to 14-12 overall and 2-0 in East- ern Athletic League-South play. Red Bluff continues their home stand when they host Lassen next Thursday at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8-MAN Mercy Butte Valley 7 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Beth Pilger Invitational SOCCER Red Bluff Pleasant Valley 4 p.m. SWIMMING Red Bluff Nor-Cal Invite in Anderson MLB PLAYOFFS Tampa Bay Texas Series tied 0-0 TB — (Pomeranz 1-1) TEX — (M.Cain 12-11) Detroit N.Y. Yankees Series tied 0-0 DET — (Verlander 24-5) TEX — (Sabathia 19-8) On the tube AUTO RACING • 9:30 a.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, practice for One- Main Financial 200, at Dover, Del. • 11:30 a.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for AAA 400, at Dover, Del. BOXING •8 p.m., SHO — Welterweights, Ajose Olusegun (29-0-0) vs. Ali Chebah (35-1-0); lightweights, Darley Perez (22-0-0) vs. Oscar Meza (22-4- 0), at Santa Ynez COLLEGE FOOTBALL •5 p.m., ESPN — Utah St. at BYU GOLF • 5:30 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Champi- onship, second round, at Carnoustie and St. Andrews, Scotland •1 p.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, second round, at Las Vegas PREP FOOTBALL •5 p.m., ESPN2 — Chaparral (Ariz.) at Notre Dame (Ariz.) 5:37 p.m. Courtesy photo by Jennifer Borchard. 2:07 p.m. Red Bluff's Eric Espinosa and Jordan McManus are followed by Oroville's Dillin Gelts and DJ Mueller with more Spartans Blake Villa and Jacobe Conrad coming up from behind. CROSS COUNTRY Red Bluff High School Cross Country had their first league meet Wednesday against Oroville. The varsity race combined both girls and boys creating a field of 29 racers across the 3- mile course. The Red Bluff boys beat Oroville allowing only two Oroville boys in the Top 8. Eric Espinosa placed first over- all with a time of 16:36, setting a record on the course's first run. Jacobe Conrad placed third, Jordan McManus placed fourth, Aza Bravo placed sixth and rounding out the scoring team for Red Bluff was Grey Grotke in seventh. Ian Borchard and Greg Espinosa filled the last two spots of the top ten. On the varsity girls side, Oroville swept Red Bluff. Oroville's Julie Finn placed sixth overall with a time of 18:50. Red Bluff's varsity girls were led by Gina Cosentino, with Sophia Oropeza close behind. The Spartans travel to Arcata this weekend for the Clam Beach Invitational. Defending champions going home instead of playoffs SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bruce Bochy made no plans for Octo- ber. He fully planned to be working. Instead, he will be busy in the coming days and weeks with player evalua- tions, sit-downs with his returning coaching staff, organizational meetings and a visit to the Arizona Fall League. The reigning World Series champions are headed home early this year after high hopes of another special postseason run. There were devastating injuries to Buster Posey and Freddy Sanchez, not to mention all the others, and an offense that could- n't produce the clutch hit that carried this club to walkoff wins and an improbable title last fall. Pitching performances were wasted because of quiet bats. Forget the victory parade through the city for thousands to celebrate. Not this year. Bochy and general manager Brian Sabean discussed what went wrong Thursday and what they plan to change mov- ing forward — those sparkly World Series rings shining from their right ring fingers as a reminder of what went oh so right only 11 months ago. ''To win 86 games is an accomplishment in itself. Because we were chal- lenged all year,'' Sabean said. ''So I give all due credit to the manager, the coaching staff and the players themselves for having the right attitude, playing it out until the end. And overall, I think we've set a bar pretty high as to what our expecta- tions are, which is how to conduct ourselves, our professionalism and more so this culture we've cre- ated — you come through the clubhouse door, you're ready to play. I can't say enough about our veterans or how our young players Spartans split with Oroville at responded to what the mantra is in there.'' The biggest questions facing Sabean and Bochy this winter are what com- mitments they will make to ace Tim Lincecum and fellow All-Star Matt Cain? Will slugger Carlos Beltran be back? Will catcher Posey and second baseman Sanchez return to their top form come 2012? ''Our pitching's going to get expensive, that's the See GIANTS, page 2B TBS TBS