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Tehama Tracker Monday's results FIELD HOCKEY Corning Lassen Shae Mesker: 2 Goals Nicole Mason: Goal, Assist Karlie Jennings: Goal Kristin Cox: Goal Mayra Diera: Assist Keara Terras: Assist MLB PLAYOFFS Tampa Bay Texas Texas leads series 2-1 Detroit N.Y. Yankees Detroit leads series 2-1 Saturday's results CROSS COUNTRY Clam Beach Invitational Boys Results 1. Paul Holden, Ukiah, 15:77 2. Jo an Fernandez, Yuba C, 16:05 3. Jose Guzman, Yuba City, 16:23 6. Jesus Diera, Corning, 16:33 8. Eric Espinosa, Red Bluff, 16:36 10. Luis Pahua, Corning, 16:39 11. Dominic Azevedo, Corning 12. Enrique Torres, Corn, 17:00 15. Jordan McManus, RB, 17:11 16. Jacobe Conrad, RB, 17:12 Girls Results 1. Carmen Arguello, McKinlleyville, 16:10 2. Jazmine McGinnis, Arcata, 16:42 3. Kate Aldridge, Yuba, 17:01 6. Stacy Stone, Red Bluff, 17:18 10. Gina Cosentino, RB, 17:47 12. Ana Carillo, Corning, 17:58 18. Carolina Carillo, Cor, 18:28 19. Marisol Valencia, Cor, 18:58 20. Darlene Acevedo, Cor, 18:55 Friday's results SOCCER Pleasant Valley Red Bluff Austin Chase: 11 saves Connor Ross: solid game Today's games VOLLEYBALL Hamilton Los Molinos H Hayfork Mercy West Valley Corning 6:30 p.m. TENNIS Red Bluff Paradise Corning Yreka MLB PLAYOFFS Tampa Bay Texas 11:07 a.m. Texas leads series 2-1 TEX — (Harrison 14-9) TB — (Hellickson 13-10) Philadelphia St. Louis Series tied 1-1 PHI — (Hamels 14-9) STL — (Garcia 13-7) Detroit N.Y. Yankees 5:37 p.m. Detroit leads series 2-1 NY — (Burnett 11-11) DET — (Porcello 14-9) Milwaukee Arizona 6:37 p.m. Milwaukee leads series 2-0 MIL — (Marcum 13-7) ARI — (Collmenter 10-10) On the tube SOCCER • 5 p.m., ESPN2 — MLS, Los Angeles at New York D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 3:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 0 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Once again, the Texas Rangers look perfectly comfortable under the roof at Tropicana Field. Colby Lewis outpitched All-Star David Price, Mike Napoli hit a go-ahead homer and the defending AL champions survived a shaky effort from the bullpen to hold off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 Monday in Game 3 of their best-of-five play- off. The Rangers' fourth straight division series road win matched the third-longest streak in major league history and gave them a 2-1 lead heading into Game 4. Texas won three ALDS games at Tampa Bay a year ago, when it elimi- nated the Rays in five games. The Rangers will send left-hander Matt Harri- son to the mound Tuesday against rookie Jeremy Hellickson. ''We don't take these guys lightly because they've got momentum, they've got a lot of heart,'' Rangers CEO and president Nolan Ryan said. ''That concerns you a lot, and so we know we've got our hands full with them.'' Playing in front of the first sellout at home since opening day and hoping to recapture the magic of clinching the AL wild card in the regu- lar-season fianle, Tampa Bay got a pair of solo home runs from rookie Desmond Jennings. The Rays kept it interesting by scoring twice off Rangers relievers before Neftali Feliz got four outs for his second save of the series. Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre, playing deep and guarding the line to prevent a double in the ninth, started an around-the-horn double play on Kelly Shoppach's grounder to end it. ''It was three of the toughest innings that we 6:30 p.m. experienced all year. ... I am just so happy we were able to get the 27th out,'' Rangers manager Ron Washington said of the late-game drama. Lately, opponents have found that difficult to do against Tampa Bay. ''Believe me, this thing is not over,'' Rays manager Joe Maddon said. ''You have seen what we have done over the past month.'' The Rays made up a nine-game deficit on Boston in the wild-card standings after Sept. 3 and claimed their third postseason berth in four years by overcoming a seven-run deficit to beat the Yankees and edge the Red Sox for the playoff spot on Evan Longoria's dramatic homer last Wednesday in the 12th inning. And just as Tampa Bay rallied to stay in the game Monday night, Maddon expects his team to bounce back again in Game 4. ''We'll get back out there ... win that game, 6:30 p.m. take it back to Texas,'' Maddon added. ''I talked in the beginning of the season of doing it in anoth- er way. We're set up for it.'' Price was the losing pitcher in two of Tampa Bay's playoff losses in 2010 and welcomed the opportunity to try to redeem himself against the only AL opponent he's yet to beat in his career. The left-hander shrugged off a poor outing in 5 4 3 4 0 5 Sports TENNIS The Corning Lady Cardi- nals clinched another Northern Athletic League tennis cham- pionship, Thursday, with an 8- 1 win over University Prep. The Lady Cardinals are a perfect 10-0 in league play and 11-0 overall. Victoria Owens held off Milan Attoun 6-4, 4-6, 11-9 in knocked off Ida Dhanuka and Taryn Burke 8-0 in doubles. The unbeaten Cardinals have hardly lost a individual match this season, let alone a set. No. 1 singles to stay unbeaten. Owens and Cora Bryant Elle Davis beat Dhanuka 6- 2, 6-1 at No. 2 singles. Sarah Drum beat Burke 6-3, 6-3 at No. 2 singles. Monique Davis scored a 7- 6, 6-0 win over Frances Grif- fey and Bryant beat Seannah 1B Tuesday October 4, 2011 Lady Cards clinch league Lewis 6-1, 7-6. Davis and Davis teamed up for an 8-4 win over Attoun and Lewis in doubles play. Drum and Dorinda Walker beat Katie Bell and Brynn Mogensen 8-6 in No. 3 dou- bles. There's still three weeks left before the Northern Section tennis postseason. The NSCIF team playoffs begin Oct. 25. Rangers beat Rays to take series lead MCT photo The Texas Rangers' Mike Napoli celebrates his home run, Monday. his last regular-season start to take a 1-0 lead into the seventh, thanks to Jennings' fourth-inning homer off Lewis. Beltre singled leading off the seventh against Price and took second a wild pitch. The crowd of 32,828 fell silent when Napoli lifted a 2-2 pitch into the seats in left-center for a 2-1 advantage. Josh Hamilton extended the lead with a two-run single off reliever J.P. Howell. ''Napoli has just been — this is the year of the Napoli, man,'' Maddon said. ''He is just hot. And he got a pitch.'' Napoli also had a second-inning single, stole a base and threw out Tampa Bay's B.J. Upton try- ing to steal second base in the eighth inning. ''I like hitting here. I feel comfortable hitting here,'' said Napoli, who hit .320 with 30 homers and 75 RBI's in 113 games for the Rangers after being acquired from Toronto in an offseason trade. He was 9 for 20 with three homers and seven RBIs on the road against the Rays. As good as Price was early, Lewis was better in limiting the Rays to one hit over six innings. Jennings' first homer was the only hit off the right-hander, who had worked 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Rays up to that point — a stretch that began with a five-inning stint in last year's ALDS. He followed that with an eight- inning performance to beat Price and the Rays on June 1. See TEXAS, page 2B Verlander, Young lead Tigers over Yankeees 2:07 p.m. DETROIT (AP) — Justin Ver- lander struck out 11 in eight gritty innings and Jose Valverde stopped a New York Yankees rally for the sec- ond straight night, whiffing Derek Jeter with two on to close out the Detroit Tigers' 5-4 victory Monday. Delmon Young hit a tiebreaking homer in seventh off Rafael Soriano and the Tigers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five American League play- off, pushing the Yankees to the brink of elimination. Their hopes ride Tuesday night on A.J. Burnett, the $82.5 million pitcher who was so unreliable this season that he wasn't supposed to get a start in this series. A rainstorm changed all that when Game 1 was suspended Friday night, forcing both teams to alter their pitching plans. Verlander and New York ace CC Sabathia were back on the mound after their series-opening matchup at Yankee Stadium was halted after only 1 1/2 innings. While Sabathia didn't make it through the sixth Monday, Verlander was still hitting 100 mph on the sta- dium radar gun in the eighth. Valverde took over in the ninth — and another dramatic ending fol- lowed. The All-Star closer, who was perfect in 49 save chances this sea- son, walked two and got a warning- track flyout before striking out Jeter to end it. Trailing by four in the ninth on Sunday, the Yankees scored twice against Valverde before he got Robinson Cano to ground out with two on to close out a 5-3 victory in Game 2. After two games in New York that took three rainy days to finish, Comerica Park was dry on Monday, with the exception of the fountains beyond center field. The Yankees managed two quick runs off Verlan- der in the first, but the 24-game win- ner settled down. He appeared to be laboring at times, allowing four runs, six hits and three walks, but he stayed in for 120 pitches and Detroit produced just enough offense. Brett Gardner tied it for the Yan- kees with a two-run double in the seventh, but Young answered with a line drive that barely cleared the wall in right field to give the Tigers a 5-4 lead. It was reminiscent of Young's homer in Game 1 at Yankee Stadi- um — which came before a down- pour Friday night that forced that game to be suspended and knocked both Verlander and Sabathia out for a couple of days. Valverde, who threw 34 pitches in a non-save situation Sunday, was back for the ninth a day later. He had playfully declared the series was ''over'' after Game 2, and the Yan- kees nearly made him eat his words, but Jeter struck out swinging with runners at first and second. Sabathia allowed four runs and seven hits with six walks in 5 1-3 innings. Verlander, who led the American League in wins, ERA and strikeouts, was a bit erratic in his lone inning of work Friday, walking two and allowing a run before the rain ended his outing. The first inning went even worse for him Monday. Jeter hit Verlander's first pitch right back up the middle for a single, then Cur- tis Granderson's drive sailed over the head of Austin Jackson in left- center for an RBI triple. Alex Rodriguez made it 2-0 with an RBI groundout. Sabathia had even more prob- lems, walking four of the first six hit- ters he faced, but Detroit grounded into double plays in each of the first two innings and didn't score. Brandon Inge doubled to left- center in the third for Detroit's first hit, and Jackson walked. Ramon Santiago failed to get a bunt down but made up for it by lining an RBI single to left. After Young's single, Miguel Cabrera — who homered in drove in three runs in Game 2 — came to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out. With the crowd on its feet waving white towels, Cabrera grounded into Detroit's third double play in three innings — but this one tied the game at 2. Verlander found his groove dur- ing the middle innings. He struck out Nick Swisher for the third out of the fourth, then struck out the side on 10 pitches in the fifth, leaving the New York hitters looking helpless as his sweeping breaking ball dropped See DET, page 2B TBS TBS TBS TNT