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Tehama Tracker On the tube COLLEGE FOOTBALL •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Miami (Ohio) at Ohio MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL • 11 a.m., ESPN2 — Maui Invitation- al, consolation bracket, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii • 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 — Maui Invita- tional, consolation bracket, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii •4 p.m., ESPN — Maui Invitational, semifinal, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii • 6:30 p.m., ESPN — Maui Invitation- al, semifinal, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii •7 p.m., ESPN2 — CBE Classic, championship game, teams TBD, at Kansas City, Mo. NHL HOCKEY • 4:30 p.m., VERSUS — Los Angeles at St. Louis SOCCER • 11:30 a.m., CSNB — UEFA Cham- pions League, Dinamo Zagreb at Real Madrid • 11:30 a.m., FOX SOCCER — UEFA Champions League, Benfica at Manchester United Awards Spartans earn honors The Eastern Athletic League-South champion Red Bluff Lady Spar- tans team placed three players on the All- League team and a fourth received an hon- orable mention. Outside hitter Riley Kittle, libero Megan McColpin and setter Kaitlann Weber were named to the All EAL- South team. Middle hitter April Allwardt received an honorable mention All four players are seniors. Las Plumas, Lassen and Paradise each had two players named to the All-League team. The Thunderbirds were represented by senior libero Natalie Jagoda and senior mid- dle hitter Samantha Braga. Senior middle hitter Heather Ingram and junior setter Abrial Scheff were named from Lassen. Paradise's junior out- side hitter Carli Parisi and junior setter Jessica Jackson were also named. Joining Allwardt on the honorable mention list were Las Plumas senior setter Sarah Rowe, Lassen sopho- more outside hitter Myeisha Shepard, Oroville senior all- around player Kab Her and Paradise junior mid- dle hitter Micaela Mundt. Rec Leagues Red Bluff Basketball Vineyard won the first half basketball championship. Congratulations: David Bunch Keith Carlson Bean Daly Matt Hamm Joey Hwevand Zach McNeela Steve Novo Sean Rix Vincent Torres Jose Valenzuela Around town Softball tryouts North Valley Rapids ASA girls' softball club will be holding tryouts for their 2012 Summer 12 U, 14 U, and 16 U travel teams at Big League Dreams on Sunday, Dec. 4. The 14 U tryout is 10 a.m.; 16 U tryout is at noon; and the 12 U tryout is 12:30 p.m. Visit their web site at www.northvalleyrapids.com. For additional information contact Jason Newham (14U): 722-5817 or jnewham@cokecce.com; Anthony Bertain (16U): 921- 3117 or abertain@frontier- net.net ; Richard Walker (12U): 945-7379 or richs- girls4@yahoo.com. Courtesy photo The Red Bluff Jr Spartan Peewees are #4 Conner McKenzie; #5 Trenton Coates; #7 Tanner Tweedt; #8 Drew Stacy; #9 Dylan Moore; #12 Marshal Brose; #14 Joey Estrada; #17 Leslie Shank; #20 Tyler Parks; #21 Donaven Maxwell; #22 Dylan Holley; #26 Ian Hagen; #27 Cole Koeberer; #28 AJ Poni; #29 James Harris; #42 Kaden Cantrell; #44 Tanner Gantenbein; #45 Quentin Oliv- er; #48 Hunter Hartman; #50 Brinden Hethcoat; #51 Tristen Hobart; #53 Allen Garman; #54 Dylan Robinson; #56 Mario Martinez; #57 Derek Dodson; # 60 Jayce Danis; #61 Khodi Gibson; #63 Sean Morton; #64 Keaton Coley; #65 Devan Maumasi; #66 Hunter Benson; #67 Eric Davis; #69 Gabriel Hale; #73 Kolton King; #75 Jamie Chavez; #78 Fabian Chavez and #84 Cody Gillespie They are coached by head coach Boomer Hethcoat, assistant coaches Ernie Martinez, Marvin Benefield, J.B. Stacy, Mario Martinez, Tony Chavez and Eric Coates. Special to the DN The Red Bluff Jr. Spartans peewee football team won the first ever first ever NorCalFed Superbowl, Saturday, defeating Sutter 13-0. The NCF Superbowl pitted the Division-I Champion against the Division-II champion. The Sutter Jr. Huskies represented Division I and Red Bluff represented Division II. For the second week in a row the Spartans had a dog fight on their hands. It was evident early on in the game that they had their work cut out for them. The defenses for both teams were incredible. The game was tied at 0-0 for much of the first half until Red Bluff finally scored late in the sec- ond quarter on about a 10-yard quarterback keep- er by Tanner Tweedt. Red Bluff failed to make the point after , leav- ing the score at 6-0 going into halftime. The start of the second half showed much of the same with a great defensive battle by both teams. About half way through the fourth quarter Red Bluff running back Dylan Moore broke away from the Sutter defense and scored on about a 65- Harbaugh says 49ers drew short straw SANTA CLARA (AP) — Jim Harbaugh is too busy preparing for a short week and cross-country trip to Baltimore to reflect much on his histo- ry-making Thanksgiving night matchup with big brother and Ravens coach, John. ''There's not a lot of time to really think about the warm and fuzzy reunions, the nostalgia,'' Harbaugh said Monday. Harbaugh thanked the NFL for the ideal, feel- good pairing, a much- hyped date on the sched- ule since way back when Harbaugh was hired away from Stanford in January to turn around the 49ers' fallen fran- chise. He appreciates being part of a special first featuring siblings on opposite sidelines as head coaches, but adds, ''no doubt we got the short end of the straw.'' Harbaugh plans to use 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 every possible minute to get ready for the daunting task of facing his broth- er's AFC North-leading Baltimore team (7-3), which he considers to be the toughest opponent yet and perhaps all year for San Francisco. The 49ers' lone loss came in a 27-24 overtime setback to Dallas in Week 2. And Harbaugh is com- mitted to keeping his team rolling, not allow- ing this week to seem any different even with the country watching so intently for this sibling rivalry on the national stage. ''No mention of his brother in regards to this game,'' quarterback Alex Smith said Monday. ''It's business as usual, staying with our routine. ... It's a short week, we're travel- ing East, there will be obstacles for us that we have to overcome. It will be a crammed week.'' Harbaugh believes this will be the first time ''There's not a lot of time to really think about the warm and fuzzy reunions, the nostalgia." —49ers coach Jim Harbaugh since the schedule became 16 games that a West Coast team has had to fly three time zones after a Sunday game to play on Thursday. This marks the first time a team has gone three time zones for a Thanksgiving game since the Los Angeles Rams won 20-0 at Detroit on Nov. 27, 1975. ''I definitely think it was very considerate of the NFL to reunite the brothers on Thanksgiv- ing. I think that's going to be very difficult for our team,'' Harbaugh said. ''There's no ques- tion that we drew the short end of the straw on this one.'' Still, San Francisco (9-1) has plenty of moti- vation beyond giving its coach some bragging rights in the NFL's debut edition of Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh. The Niners can clinch the NFC West and their first playoff berth since 2002 by beat- ing the Ravens and with a Seattle loss. Not that anybody thinks it will come easily. In fact, Harbaugh joked about sectioning off the plane and using the six-hour charter flight on Wednesday for some film session and position meetings. Any last- minute advantage he can get to face his big broth- er, just 15 months his elder. ''You probably want to peel back the onion some more and get into my soul, but this week my brother is just somebody we're trying to beat,'' Harbaugh said. ''Doing my job as it relates to our team preparing for the game is first and fore- most. I think it'll proba- bly be a big deal for my parents. If it is or isn't, that's not relevant to what we're trying to accom- plish this week, either.'' Even though Har- baugh has watched the Ravens this season and regularly cheered for them. That's what makes this game so unique. ''Yes, I've rooted for them. Every time they play one of our division teams, even more than normal,'' Harbaugh said. Harbaugh has made it clear to his players that this game will be perhaps the biggest challenge yet for a team that's 4-0 on the road — all played on the East Coast and three of those being comeback wins. If there are any meet- ings on the plane, tight end Vernon Davis plans to sleep through them to make sure he is fresh for Thursday's game. ''He said it's not going to be easy. We'll really have to focus in,'' Davis said. ''Discipline. And really take care of our- selves because it's going to be a short turnaround. But we will be rewarded in the end. If we can take of those things and do everything we can to help this team, everybody doing it together, we'll be just fine.'' By the end of his national conference call Monday, which took place after his regular weekly news conference, Harbaugh was more than ready to get back to work. ''I think we've pretty much exhausted all this. I've got to get to work here,'' he quipped. ''And I'm sure this is part of the plan here to see how long you can distract him on a short week. And you guys have done a mar- velous job. I appreciate the time.'' yard run. Tweedt scored the point after with another quarterback keeper putting the score at 13-0. Sutter got the ball back but couldn't get much going against Red Bluff's defense. With about 1:30 left in the game Red Bluff got the ball back and chose to take a knee to run out the clock. With the win Red Bluff closed out their unde- feated season at 12-0. The Red Bluff Jr. Spartans would like to thank the players, coaches, cheerleaders and especially all of the parents for an unbelievable year. Jackson talks to NFL about penalties ALAMEDA (AP) — For a franchise known for its propensity to commit penalties, the Oakland Raiders are reaching new highs — or maybe it is lows — this season. And that has coach Hue Jackson fuming — not just at the guilty players but also at the referees. Jackson talked to league officials on Monday, a day after he said calls against his team in a 27-21 win at Min- nesota were unfair, complained that he could not get explanations of calls from referee Jerome Boger's crew and said he didn't ''even know what football is right now'' with the way some personal fouls were called. ''Obviously after yesterday I've probably reached my boiling point,'' Jackson said Monday. After spending most of his first season as Raiders coach refusing to criticize officials publicly, Jackson snapped after the latest game that included four personal fouls, including three on one touchdown drive by Min- nesota in the first quarter. ''All I ask is that when people deal with our football team, that it's done fairly,'' Jackson said. ''Now across the league everyone says everything is fair, and I'm not saying that it's not. But yesterday it was one game that I felt very uncomfortable with what had happened. I was able to address it today. I said what I said yesterday and felt very strongly about and still feel strongly about it today. But I'm going to move on from that because that does me no good, our football team no good.'' Jackson said he did not expect to get fined for his comments and the league would address the complaints publicly. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said coaches can call head of officiating Carl Johnson for explanations of any calls and that the league looked forward to answer- ing Jackson's questions. The latest penalty spree started on a first quarter drive when defensive tackle Tommy Kelly was called for a blow to quarterback Christian Ponder's head on a sack that would have forced a punt. Linebacker Aaron Curry then received 15 yards for what the officials called roughing a defenseless receiver on a completion to Kyle Rudolph and safety Tyvon Branch was whistled for a facemask on Percy Harvin. Defensive lineman Desmond Bryant was later called for unnecessary roughness in the fourth quarter. The Raiders have already committed 17 defensive personal fouls this season — more than double the total of 29 teams and the most in the league since the Chiefs had 19 in 1998. ''The thing about it is football is a game full of per- sonal fouls,'' said Curry, who has three in just five games with Oakland. ''They're all personal. It all depends on whether a referee decides to throw his flag or not. Every hit we make, they're all borderline.'' Oakland finished the game with 12 penalties for 117 yards. That keeps the Raiders on a record-setting pace. At this rate, Oakland would finish the season with 164 penalties for 1,427 yards — surpassing the totals of 158 for 1,304 yards by Kansas City in 1998. Jackson vowed at the beginning of the season to solve the penalty woes. He has had officials at most practices to try to curtail the infractions and the players have insti- tuted fines for some penalties. They're still happening, so See NFL, page 2B Sports 1B Tuesday November 22, 2011 We are the champions