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Tehama Tracker Monday's results BCS National Championship LSU Alabama 21 0 Saturday's results BOYS HOOPS 11th Annual Corning Shootout Championship Orland Corning GIRLS HOOPS West Valley New Year Classic Consolation Championship Red Bluff Orland 36 50 Lily Brose: 15 points, 7 rebounds Lottie Jones: 12 points, 14 rebs WRESTLING 1 2 3 14 24 NorCal Championships 52 teams entered Orland Chico Del Oro Corning Red Bluff 40 56 Sports Corning's undefeated streak ends 285.5 236.5 200 114 Erik Miranda, COR: 195 1st place Bryce Eggert, RB: 182 4th place Noah Hall, COR: 220, 6th place Friday's results BOYS HOOPS 11th Annual Corning Shootout Semifinal Central Valley Corning G Greenville Los Molinos 49 32 63 28 Sean Conrad: 16 points, 3 assists Dom Ceja: 13 points, 15 rebounds GIRLS HOOPS West Valley New Year Classic Consolation Semifinal Red Bluff Gridley 36 50 Lottie Jones: 14 points, 5 rebs Rachel Ward: 11 points, 3 steals Ashley Brown: 11 points, 3 steals Today's games BOYS HOOPS Corning Winters Mercy Dunsmuir 7:30 p.m. GIRLS HOOPS Red Bluff Shasta Corning Yuba City Mercy Dunsmuir SOCCER Los Molinos Pierce Williams Mercy Yreka Corning NBA Kings Philadelphia Miami Warriors NHL Sharks Minnesota 4:30 p.m. NBCSP 4 p.m. CSNC 7:30 p.m. CSNB 3:15 p.m. 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Corning's Ryan Holland fires a shot over Orland's Jud Sailsbery, Saturday night. 85 BOYS HOOPS Orland 56 Corning 40 By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor CORNING — The Cardinals suffered a doubly painful loss, Sat- urday, when Orland knocked off Corning 56-40 in the 11th Annual Corning Shootout championship. Not only did the Cards not repeat as winners of their host tournament, but their 14-0 start to the season came to an abrupt halt. Orland brought a large, vocal crowd and hot shooting to the Corning gym and grabbed a dou- ble-digit lead by the second peri- od. Trojans' guard Jud Sailsbery seemed nearly unstoppable with a phenomenal shooting performance to lead Orland with 26 points, including six 3-pointers. Orland built their lead up to as much as 32 points by the third period. Corning turned to Nick Hoag to keep them in the game and the sophomore forward put in 11 points in the third quarter as part of a 21-point performance. Trailing 49-33 to start the fourth period the Cardinals got buckets by Hoag and Cody Long and a 3-pointer from Ryan Hol- land to pull the game to 49-40. But while Orland turnovers gave the Cardinals ample opportu- nities to pull closer, the Corning offense couldn't muster up any more points. Sailsbery then put the game out of reach with another 3-pointer and two more field goals to give the Trojans the Shootout champi- onship. Jesus Llamas added 11 points for Orland and Javone Bradford pulled down 10 boards. Chayce Maday finished with six points for Corning. Holland had five and Long ended up with four. Michael Shoemaker had four points and nine rebounds. The Cardinals had previously beaten Orland 50-44 in Corning on Jan. 3. 1B Tuesday January 10, 2012 Niners have shown growth over season SANTA CLARA (AP) — The offense was stag- nant, Alex Smith was inef- fective and the offensive line was completely over- matched. Few would have thought that the San Francisco 49ers team that opened the Jim Harbaugh era with an exhi- bition dud at New Orleans would be playing the Saints five months later with a spot in the NFC championship on the line. ''It's not even the same team,'' left tackle Joe Staley said. ''There's so much more confidence. We're so much more sure of our- selves and the schemes and what we're doing.'' There were few signs of the remarkable turnaround Harbaugh has engineered in San Francisco in that 24-3 loss at the Superdome as the 49ers were completely over- whelmed by New Orleans' heavy blitz package. With no offseason because of the lockout and just two weeks of practice to implement a new system, San Francisco failed to get a first down on its first four drives as the first-team offense never got started. In the first half, the Niners allowed six sacks and com- pleted four passes while col- lecting as many penalties (five) as first downs. Smith went 2-for-7 for 10 yards and Harbaugh even said after the game that rookie Colin Kaepernick would get See 49ERS, page 2B Alabama beats LSU for BCS title NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jere- my Shelley kicked five field goals and Trent Richardson broke a 34- yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter as No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 LSU 21-0 on Monday night — the first shutout in BCS title game history. Richardson swept around left end and raced down the sideline to the end zone with 4:36 left for the first touchdown between the Southeast- ern Conference rivals in more than 115 minutes of play and one over- time period. Alabama (12-1) had put it away before that as Shelley kicked field goals of 23, 34, 41, 35 and 44 yards in the first three quarters to make it 15-0, matching an all-bowl record. He also missed two field goals and an extra-point attempt. But this time, the missed kicks didn't matter to the Tide. The Tigers (13-1) and Tide met 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 in what was dubbed the Game of the Century, and the Tigers won a touchdown-less, defensive standoff, 9-6 in overtime. Alabama went 2 for 6 on field goals in Tuscaloosa. Richardson, the Heisman Trophy finalist, ran for 96 yards on 20 car- ries and offensive player of the game A.J. McCarron passed for 234 yards as the Tide had no problem moving against LSU's second-ranked defense in the nation — just not into the end zone. 3:15 p.m. Alabama's top-ranked defense didn't need much help. With All- American linebacker Dont'a High- tower leading the way, the Tide held LSU to 92 total yards and five first downs. For the Tide, it's the second BCS championship in the last three years under coach Nick Saban, who also won a title at LSU in 2003. In a bowl season filled with high- scoring games, the top two defenses in the nation set the tone at the BCS title game. And much like the first meeting, special teams were pivotal. The Tide's defense was dominant and linebacker C.J. Mosley had the first takeway of the game in the third quarter, his last play of the game as it turned out. LSU's Jordan Jefferson started to scramble toward the line, but at the last second flipped the ball toward Spencer Ware. Problem was, Ware had turned to block and Mosley snagged the ball and set up Alabama at the Tigers 27. Mosley was twisted down to the turf by Jefferson and his left leg bent awkwardly. The sophomore stayed down for several minutes and as the medical staff worked on him Alaba- ma fans chanted his first name. As he was carted off, sitting up on the back of a golf cart, he got a huge ovation and pumped his fist. Alabama couldn't convert the field position into points as Shelley dropped to 4 for 6 on the day, miss- 3:15 p.m. — Alabama delivered what everyone expected from the first play of the BCS title game, when a host of red jerseys stuffed LSU running back Michael Ford at the line of scrimmage: a rock 'em, sock 'em affair domi- nated by defense. The Crimson Tide's was simply better. Led by bruis- ing linebacker Courtney Upshaw and the opportunis- tic C.J. Mosley, the second- ranked Crimson Tide shut down the Southeastern Con- ference's top scoring offense in a 21-0 victory Monday night that earned Alabama its second BCS champi- onship in three years. ''I think it was a great team win. The defense did a great job,'' coach Nick Saban said. ''The offense controlled the momentum of the game from the start to finish. It's a great team win. Every fan and supporter in our program — it's great for them.'' It was the first shutout in the history of the BCS title game, and the first blanking of the Tigers since 2002, when Alabama beat them 31-0 in Baton Rouge. That was back when Nick Saban was roaming the Tigers' sideline. The defensive- minded coach was on the ing wide right on a 41-yarder with 5:38 left in the third. The next time down, he booted a 44-yarder, giving him more field goals than any kicker has ever had in a college bowl game. His seven attempts were also a record. The Tide faked a 49-yard attempt early in the second quarter and went with a shovel pass to backup tight end Chris Underwood that gained 4 yards. He reached the first-down marker by the nose of the football. The drive didn't last much longer and Shelley's 42-yard attempt was blocked by LSU defensive tackle Michael Brockers. Shelley came back to make one from 34 yards with 4:24 left in the half, and from 41 yards as time expired in the first half. Alabama opened the second half with another solid drive that stalled, but Shelley tacked on another 3- pointer from 35 yards. LSU's offense was shut down completely. The Tigers managed two first downs and 66 yards through three quarters. The Tide, led by linebackers Courtney Upshaw and Mosley, gave Jefferson no space to run the option and only short gains when he passes. It was Alabama's special teams that struck first in the first BCS title game to match teams from the same conference. Punt returner Marquis Maze found a lane and broke into the open other side this time, drawing up a game plan for Alabama that downright flummoxed LSU coach Les Miles, quar- terback Jordan Jefferson and everyone else in the Super- dome wearing purple and yellow. The Crimson Tide didn't allow the Tigers to convert a third down until the fourth quarter, and didn't allow a snap in its own terri- tory until there was 7:30 left in the game. Of course, Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower promptly sacked Jefferson to force a fumble that was recovered by his good buddy Nick Gentry. The way things were going for the Tigers, it was a fitting around midfield, though he pulled up instead of trying to get around punter Brad Wing and grabbed his left leg while running out of bounds at the LSU 26 after a 49-yard run- back. Maze, the Tide's leading receiver, had to be helped over to the Alaba- ma sideline, but he had put his team in scoring position. Maze didn't play again. McCarron completed a 15-yard pass to Darius Hanks to set up first- and-goal, but LSU's defense, ranked second in the nation behind only Alabama, stiffened. Shelley, who made one field goal and had another blocked in the first meeting between the SEC rivals, was perfect on a 23-yarder with 5:00 left in the first quarter. It didn't sound like an LSU home game at the Superdome, about 80 miles from its Baton Rouge campus. The dome was deafening on almost every play with a crowd that was much closer to 50-50 than partisan. The racket coming from the crimson-clad Alabama fans might have even contributed to a mishan- dled snap by Jefferson on the first LSU series. More than a few people ques- tioned whether Oklahoma State should have been given Alabama's spot in the BCS championship game, but the Tide won over the vot- ers and earned a rematch with the Tigers. 'Bama defense shuts down Tigers in BCS title game NEW ORLEANS (AP) way for their best offensive series of the night to end. ''This defense wanted to pitch a shutout,'' Upshaw said. ''That's what we did, baby, a shutout.'' Trent Richardson added a touchdown run moments later to seal the victory, the first — and only — touch- down scored by either team in two meetings this season. But the way the Alabama defense was playing, it might as well have been over at 3-0. Upshaw made a pair of stellar tackles at the line of scrimmage to force 3-and-out on LSU's second possession, and Mosley and cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick did so again on its next pos- session. ''Nobody gave us a chance,'' Kirkpatrick said. Miles, stubbornly stick- ing with Jefferson at quarter- back, tried all night to get to the edge against the Crim- son Tide's brutish defense. But each time, an Alabama cornerback or safety would fly to the ball, throwing his body at the running back or receiver with total abandon. Even after halftime, when the Tigers generally get things going — they outscored opponents 264-61 after the break coming into the game — the Alabama defense kept momentum.