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2B Daily News – Friday, November 25, 2011 Scoreboard NFL At A Glance By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE East WL T Pct New England7 3 0 .700 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 Miami South 3 8 0 .273 WL T Pct Houston 7 3 0 .700 Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 Jacksonville 3 7 0 .300 Indianapolis 0 10 0 .000 North ORLAND Continued from page 1B drive in the first half. Llamas, meanwhile, ended Sut- ter's final scoring hopes in the fourth quarter with an interception in the end zone, his school-record sixth of the season. The victory gave Orland an 11-1 record, setting a school mark for most wins in a season. The Huskies finished 10-2. "This win really shows all the hard work the kids put in this sum- mer," said McDonald. "Hopefully it PARADISE Continued from page 1B said. "With such a young team (that's) working so hard to end up like this is just fantastic." Prinz had many stars on the night, but none bigger than perhaps feature back Albert Stevens, who in his final game as a Bobcat rushed for a game-high 272 yards on 39 carries and three touchdowns against Foothill (10-2). "Albert Stevens, what can I say about him?" Prinz said. "Tremendous heart, great kid and what an ath- lete." He had help, though, beginning with an offensive line that played with a pair of sophomores in Caleb Anderson and Keith McBride all year and consistent- ly opened holes for not only Stevens but quarterback Tom Hays as well. The junior first-year starting signal-caller for the Bobcats (11-1) chewed up 105 yards on 11 carries and two scores — the second of which came in the fourth quarter with Paradise already leading 34-7. Yet Hays scored to put Paradise in front 40-7 with 7:06 left in the game. With a lot of time left, Prinz realized that Foothill ROMO Continued from page 1B watching the first half. But things got plenty interesting after half- time. Moore led Miami on three straight scoring drives of at least 70 yards, the last putting the Dolphins up 19-17 with 7:14 left. Dallas punted on its ensuing drive, then Moore was finally stopped, too. Miami punted and Dez Bryant made a rare appearance as a returner, taking it 20 yards. Romo took over at the Cowboys 36-yard line with 2:59 left. Jason Witten went into the huddle and told team- mates, '''We need this W, whatever it takes. No penalties. We've got to get it there,''' left guard Montrae Holland said. Witten caught consec- utive passes to put Dal- las at the outer edge of Bailey's range. Then it was up to Murray to drive the ball closer. With blood streaked across the white num- bers on his blue jersey, Murray churned out 27 yards on the next five carries. His constant gains — between 3 and 9 yards, including one where he went down rather than stretch for more and risk going out of bounds — took the clock from 2:41 to :17. After a kneel-down to waste more time and center the ball between the hash marks, Bailey split the uprights. ''That's what they are paying me to do, I guess — to go out there and make kicks,'' said Bai- ley, who has made 26 in a row, one shy of the club record. Romo ended a streak of 128 straight passes without an interception, but he completed 22 of 34 for 226 yards. Many of those came while scrambling and some while also being hit or grabbed. He was patient waiting for a 5-yard touchdown pass to Lau- rent Robinson to devel- Dallas WL T Pct Baltimore 8 3 0 .727 Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 West WL T Pct Raiders 6 4 0 .600 Denver 5 5 0 .500 San Diego 4 6 0 .400 Kansas City 4 6 0 .400 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East WL T Pct 7 4 0 .636 N.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 Washington 3 7 0 .300 South WL T Pct New Orleans7 3 0 .700 Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 Tampa Bay 4 6 0 .400 Carolina 2 8 0 .200 North WL T Pct Green Bay 11 0 0 1.000 Chicago 7 3 0 .700 Detroit 7 4 0 .636 Minnesota 2 8 0 .200 West 49ers WL T Pct 9 2 0 .818 Seattle 4 6 0 .400 Arizona 3 7 0 .300 St. Louis 2 8 0 .200 ——— Thursday's Games sets the stage for the future. Hope- fully the young kids see this and want to work hard and be a part of it." A light rain persisted throughout the second half when the two teams fought to a 0-0 stalemate, but the Trojans got all the points they need- ed in the first half. Orland scored on its first play of the game after shutting down the Huskies on their first series. Trojan quarterback Austin Schmeltzer faked the handoff and went 65 yards for the touchdown. Mauricio Ziran- da added the first of his two extra points on the night to put Otland up 7-0 with just 2 minutes off the clock. Green Bay 27, Detroit 15 Dallas 20, Miami 19 Baltimore 16, San Francisco 6 Sunday's Games Arizona at St. Louis, 10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Tennessee, 10 a.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Houston at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Carolina at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. Minnesota at Atlanta, 10 a.m. Chicago at Oakland, 1:05 p.m. Washington at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. Denver at San Diego, 1:15 p.m. New England at Philadelphia, 1:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m. Monday's Game N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 Schmeltzer added a touchdown pass on the third play of the second quarter when he found JaVone Brad- ford on a 10-yard pass in the front corner of the end zone. The Trojans had another opportu- nity to score just before the half but the Huskies stopped a quarterback sneak on fourth-and-goal from the 1. Schmeltzer finished with 15 car- ries for 94 yards and ended the sea- son with a school-record 1,518 yards rushing. Kevin Askeland is a correspondent for the Chico Enterprise-Record. might want to get out of Wraith Field early, so he went for a 2-point conversion to put his team up 35 points and start a running clock. That could have set off the Cougars' coaching staff because Paradise already had the game well in hand. However, Foothill coach Bryon Hamilton had no problem with the call. "I don't care, he can go for 2 as much as he wants, it had no bearing on anything," he said. "It (didn't) hurt my feelings. It's our job to stop them." And Hamilton said Foothill didn't stop the Bobcats all night. "They beat us in every aspect of the game today," he said. "They were more physical than we were and shut down everything that had worked all year for us." Paradise's championship this year could be the last one at Wraith Field, as the section's Board of Man- agers is scheduled to vote on playing the Division I, II and II section title games at a central venue begin- ning next season. "I've been a proponent for a central venue. Every other section does it. I think we need to do it," Hamil- ton said. "I think it would be great for the fans for the CIF as far as making money." Jeff Larson is the sports editor at the Paradise Post. op, and the pair were in sync on an 18-yarder made with Romo mov- ing to his left. ''He just kind of kept hanging in there,'' Gar- rett said. ''I thought he moved in the pocket really well. In critical situations, he ... allowed us to make plays.'' Murray ran 22 times for 87 yards, and caught four passes for 41 yards. Robinson caught seven passes for 79 yards. Wit- ten had four catches for 43 yards and Bryant caught three balls for 35 yards. Moore was 19 of 32 for 288 yards and a touchdown. He took four sacks and had trouble handling several snaps; one went through his hands and was recovered by Dallas only 5 yards from the end zone. That set up the first Romo-to- Robinson touchdown, with 55 seconds left in the half, ending Miami's streak of 13 quarters without allowing a touchdown. Reggie Bush ran 16 times for 61 yards and had 35 more on three receptions. Marshall had 103 yards on five catch- es, including the TD pass hauled in while Newman had him in a headlock for about 5 yards. ''We felt like we played a good game all day, but we didn't make enough plays and they did,'' Miami safety Yeremiah Bell said. ''That's the price you pay, so if we would have made more plays, we would have won the game.'' NOTES: The Cow- boys improved to 28-15- 1 on Thanksgiving. Romo is 5-0 on the holi- day; he missed last year's game — which Dallas lost — with a broken collarbone. ... The Dolphins are 3-4 on Thanksgiving. ... Miami's Shayne Gra- ham, who was among Bailey's competition for the Dallas job in the pre- season, made FGs of 23, 26, 27 and 28 yards. Philadelphia at Seattle, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4 Kansas City at Chicago, 10 a.m. Atlanta at Houston, 10 a.m. Denver at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Washington, 10 a.m. Oakland at Miami, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Indianapolis at New England, 10 a.m. Baltimore at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 1:15 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 1:15 p.m. Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 1:15 p.m. Detroit at New Orleans, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 San Diego at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m. Chicago Bears Sunday 1:05 p.m. Oakland Raiders CHICAGO (7-3) At OAKLAND (6-4) OPENING LINE — Bears by 1 1/2 6-3-1 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Chicago 6-4; Oakland SERIES RECORD — Tied 6-6 LAST MEETING — Bears beat Raiders 17-6, Nov. 11, 2007 LAST WEEK — Bears beat Chargers 31-20; Raiders beat Vikings 27-21 BEARS OFFENSE — OVERALL (17), RUSH (14), PASS (22) (10), PASS (30) (3), PASS (19) BEARS DEFENSE — OVERALL (25), RUSH RAIDERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (10), RUSH RAIDERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (24), RUSH (25), PASS (20) STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Bears are making fifth trip to Oakland, having split previous four meetings. ... QB Caleb Hanie is set to make first career start in place of injured Jay Cutler. Hanie has thrown just 14 regular-season passes since signing as undrafted free agent in 2008, but was 14 for 20 for 153 yards, one TD and two INTs in last season's NFC championship game. ... Chicago is looking for first six-game winning streak since opening 2006 season 7-0. ... Bears have scored on league-high 96.3 percent of red zone trips and are aver- aging 5.26 points per trip, third best in league. ... Chica- go RB Matt Forte is tied for league lead with 11 runs of at least 20 yards. Oakland has allowed an NFL-worst 15 such runs. ... Raiders are one of three teams to allow at least two punt returns for scores this season. Chicago's WR-KR Devin Hester has NFL-record 12 punt return TDs in career. ... Oakland LT Jared Veldheer became first player to hold Minnesota's Jared Allen without sack this season. He has equally tough test this week against DE Julius Peppers. ... Raiders QB Carson Palmer is averaging 9.2 yards per attempt, trailing only Aaron Rodgers among players with more than 10 passes. ... Oakland is tied for league lead with 58 plays of at least 20 yards. ... Raiders are on a record-setting penalty pace with 103 for 892 yards. ... Raiders RB Michael Bush has posted two straight 100-yard rushing games. PACKERS Continued from page 1B Green Bay late in the third. ''You have to keep your composure,'' Green Bay cor- nerback Charles Woodson said. ''In big games, you need your best players there. ''They broke and we took advantage of it.'' Rodgers doesn't need any help, but he did get an assist when Detroit lost three defensive backs to injuries, leaving the Lions with receiver Rashied Davis in the secondary. Rodgers was 22 of 32 for 307 yards. He threw a 3-yard TD pass to Greg Jennings with 4:51 left in the first half for the first score of the game and a 65-yard pass to James Jones in the third for a 21-0 lead. Stafford was 32 of 45 for 276 yards. He was picked off by Woodson, Clay Matthews and Robert Francois. Despite the humbling loss, Stafford remained confident about how his team stacks up with the Packers. ''I still do feel like we match up really well against those guys,'' he said. ''We didn't play our best. We didn't get a bunch of breaks.'' Green Bay's winning streak, including its run in the 2010 playoffs, equals the streak the Oakland Raiders had during the 1976-77 seasons. New England won 18 straight during the 2007 season only to lose to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. The Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints were the last teams to start a season 11-0, pulling off the feat two years ago. ''We know we have something special, 12-0 is our goal,'' Pickett said. ''And if 16-0 is there when we get there we'll embrace that.'' AP Sources: Talks resume toward ending NBA lockout NEW YORK (AP) — Talks aimed at ending the NBA lockout have resumed, two people with knowledge of the situa- tion said, with a quick settlement necessary to start the season by Christ- mas. The discussions began quietly Tuesday and are expected to continue through the Thanksgiving holiday, the people told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymi- ty Wednesday because the talks were supposed to remain confidential. The talks between rep- resentatives of the owners and players are now cen- tered on settling their law- suits: The players filed an antitrust lawsuit against the league in Minnesota and the league filed a pre- emptive suit in New York, seeking to prove the lock- out was legal. Neither side comment- ed on the talks, first reported by Yahoo Sports, though the league said in a statement it ''remains in favor of a negotiated resolution'' to the lockout. The news revived the hopes of saving the Christmas slate, when the league schedules some marquee matchups to kick off its national TV package. The NBA finals rematch between Dallas and Miami was to head- line three games this sea- son The league had wanted to open a 72-game sched- ule on Dec. 15, pushing the start of the playoffs and finals back a week, if players had agreed to the last offer. But players rejected the owners' most recent proposal on Nov. 14, announcing instead they were disbanding the union to pave the way to sue the league. The plan now would be for 66 games if a reso- lution comes soon. The league played a 50-game schedule in 1998-99 dur- ing its last lockout, when a deal didn't come until January, so there's still hope of some games this season even if it doesn't include Christmas. Commissioner David Stern has said it would take about 30 days from an agreement to the start of the regular season. David Boies, one of the attorneys representing the players, has repeated- ly said he hoped the league would be com- pelled to settle rather than risk a potentially lengthy trial that could end with players being awarded about $6 billion in dam- ages. Because the union dis- banded, it cannot negoti- ate a new collective bar- gaining agreement, but the settlement talks could lead to that. The CBA can only be completed once the union has reformed. When talks broke down, the sides were still divided over the division of revenues and certain changes sought by own- ers to curb spending by big-market teams that players felt would limit or restrict their options in free agency. Owners are insistent on a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. Union officials indicated they could be open to that, even though they were guaranteed 57 percent in the old CBA, but only if the league con- ceded on some of the ''system'' issues. With the union no longer representing the players, it was unclear who was involved in the new round of talks. NBPA executive director Billy Hunter is officially part of the players' legal team so he's able to take part in the talks, though his participation in nego- tiations could strengthen the league's contention that the disclaimer strate- gy was a ''sham'' and the union hadn't really gone anywhere. Moves Thursday's Sports Transactions By The Associated Press FOOTBALL National Football League SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Placed OT James Carpenter on injured reserve. Signed OT Allen Barbre. HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS—Reassigned F Fabian Brunnstrom to Grand Rapids (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Assigned RW Nick Palmieri to Albany (AHL). F O X