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Tehama Tracker Friday's results GIRLS HOOPS Red Bluff Las Plumas Brose, Brown: 14 points Cori Schatz: 12 points Thursday's results BOYS SOCCER West Valley Corning Mercy Hamilton Jose Rosales: 2 goals Fernando Vives: goal Roberto Ayala: assist Juan Rosales: assist Alejandro Guerrero: 13 saves GIRLS SOCCER West Valley Corning Caitlin McCoy: goal Saturday's games WRESTLING Corning Invitational 9 a.m. at Sutter Classic Daily News photo by Rich Greene NBA Kings Utah 6 p.m. CSNC Sunday's games NFL NFC AFC NHL Team Chara Team Alfredsson 1 p.m. On the tube Saturday AUTO RACING • 11:30 a.m., SPEED — Rolex Sports Car Series, 24 Hours at Daytona, start of race, at Daytona Beach, Fla. EXTREME SPORTS • 11 a.m., ESPN2 — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. •1 p.m., ABC — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. •6 p.m., ESPN — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. • 11 p.m., ESPN2 — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. (delayed tape) FIGURE SKATING •1 p.m., NBC — U.S. Championships, part I, at San Jose •6 p.m., NBC — U.S. Championships, part II, at San Jose, Calif. GOLF • 10 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, third round, at San Diego • Noon, CBS — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, third round, at San Diego MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •9 a.m., ESPN — St.John's at Duke •9 a.m., ESPN2 — Marquette at Villano- va • 10 a.m., CBS — Texas at Baylor • 11 a.m., ESPN — Kansas at Iowa St. • Noon, FSN — Tulsa at SMU •1 p.m., ESPN — Georgetown at Pitts- burgh •1 p.m., ESPN2 — Purdue at North- western •1 p.m., NBCSP — San Diego St. at Colorado St. •1 p.m., CSNC—Kentucky at LSU •3 p.m., ESPN2 — Auburn at Ten- nessee •4 p.m., ESPN — Washington at Ari- zona •5 p.m., ESPN2 — Virginia at NC State •5 p.m., CSNC—UC SantaBarbara at Pacific •7 p.m., San Diego at San Francisco MIXED MARTIAL ARTS •5 p.m., FOX — Middleweights, Chael Sonnen (27-11-1) vs. Michael Bisping (23-3-0); middleweights, Demian Maia (15-3-0) vs. Chris Weidman (7-0-0); light heavyweights, Rashad Evans (21-1-1) vs. Phil Davis (9-0-0), at Chicago NBA •5 p.m., CSNC—Sacramento at Utah NHL •4 p.m., NBCSP — Exhibition, All-Star Super Skills Competition, at Ottawa SOCCER • 4:30 a.m., FOXSOCCER —FA Cup, 4th Round, Manchester United at Liver- pool •7 a.m.., FOXSOCCER —FA Cup, 4th Round, Stoke City at Derby County •9 a.m., FOXSOCCER —FA Cup, 4th Round, Newcastle United at Brighton & Hove Albion • 11:30 a.m., FOXSOCCER —Serie A, Udinese at Juventus • 10 p.m., FOXSOCCER—A-League, Perth Glory at Adelaide United WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL • 9:30 a.m., FSN — Kansas St. at Okla- homa St. • 12:30 p.m., CSNB — Oregon at Ore- gon St. •2 p.m., FSN — Rice at Houston AUTO RACING Sunday •6 a.m., SPEED — Rolex Sports Car Series, 24 Hours at Daytona, finish of race, at Daytona Beach, Fla. BOWLING • 9:30 a.m., ESPN — PBA, USBC Mas- ters, at Henderson, Nev. EXTREME SPORTS • 11 a.m., ESPN — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. •6 p.m., ESPN — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. • 11 p.m., ESPN2 — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. (delayed tape) NBCSP 4 p.m. NBC Red Bluff's tries to drive past Las Plumas' Jordan Collins, Friday night, during the Spartans victory. "Wednesday night was kind BOYS HOOPS Las Plumas 33 Red Bluf 58f By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor The Spartans held Las Plumas without a second half point until 3:14 remaining in the fourth quarter and in the process put together one of their best games of the season, Friday night, during a 58-33 win over Las Plumas. It was a 180 from earlier in the week when the Spartans fell flat on the road. of a low point of our season. We just really played poorly in Oroville." Red Bluff coach Stan Twitchell said. "This showed a lot tonight." Key to the Spartans success Friday night was an unselfish- ness with the basketball. It didn't hurt the Spartans were making their shots from long range either. Evan Sinclair and Curtis Twitchell drained back-to- back 3-pointers early in the second quarter to give Red Bluff a double-digit lead. A few minutes later Connor Ross kept the lead at 10 points with another 3-pointer. The third quarter opened with much the same as Taylor Blaser and Mitch Robison tripled on consecutive trips down the floor and the Spar- tans had a 41-25 lead. Sinclair then drove to the hoop and was fouled while making a layup. He put home the free throw and the Spartans kept building their lead into the 20s and 30s from there. Red Bluff's lone defensive problem in the first half was giving up easy uncontested layups, but that changed with the second half effort. The Spartans won the third quarter 16-0 and Las Plumas didn't get back on the board until Ronnie Wilson had a put- back basket with 3:14 remain- ing in the game. At that point Red Bluff had a 58-27 lead. Blaser finished with a game-high 19 points. Sinclair finished with 10 points and six rebounds. Jonah McInnis had seven points and eight rebounds and several nice assists to Lucas Burns, who finished with six points. Robison and Jake Avila each scored five points. Ross and Twitchell had three points each. Wilson led Las Plumas with 12 points and 13 rebounds. The win improved Red Bluff to 7-12 overall and 3-4 in the Eastern Athletic League-South. Despite the sub .500 record the Spartans are in the driver's seat in the EAL- South. Red Bluff hits the road for the next three games. Raiders announce hiring of coach Dennis Allen ALAMEDA (AP) — Hiring a new coach has become almost com- monplace for the Raiders, who will have their seventh coach in the past 10 seasons in 2012. As the first coach hired in the post-Al Davis era in Oakland, Dennis Allen will have a much different task than his prede- cessors. The Raiders officially announced Allen's hiring on Friday, three days after reports initially emerged that he was new general manager Reggie McKenzie's choice to lead the fran- chise. Allen will be officially intro- duced at a news conference Monday but has likely already started the process of putting together his first staff as a head coach at any level. Davis made almost all the key decisions for the Raiders in his near- ly half-century with the franchise before he died Oct. 8. He made most of the personnel moves, hired the coaches and hand-picked many of the assistants in a process that con- tributed to three Super Bowl titles and plenty of playoff trips when it worked, as well as a current nine- year playoff drought. There is now a new structure in place in 2012 with Davis' son, Mark, serving as managing general partner. Mark Davis hired McKen- zie as his general manager earlier this month and gave him the power to make all football decisions. McKenzie immediately fired Hue Jackson, who went 8-8 in his only season as head coach, and began a search for a replacement that led to the decision to hire Allen. FIGURE SKATING • Noon, NBC — U.S.Championships, at San Jose GOLF •1 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Abu Dhabi Championship, final round, at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates • 10 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Farmers Insur- ance Open, final round, at San Diego • Noon, CBS — PGA Tour, Farmers Insur- ance Open, final round, at San Diego ''Dennis is a strong motivator and teacher with an aggressive style of coaching. He will approach the job with tremendous energy and passion to get the most out of his team. His thorough understand- ing of defense, from the back to the front, and his ability to teach fundamentally and assignment-wise really helped us get better." —Denver Broncos head coach John Fox Allen got a longer deal than the two-year contracts with options that Raiders coaches had traditionally be given by Davis in the past. Allen's contract is for four years, a person familiar with the deal said on condi- tion of anonymity because the team did not announce the length. Allen will also be allowed to pick his coaching staff in a change from how things operated under Davis. He often picked many of the assis- tants, some whom stayed on from regime to regime, in a process that was criticized by the head coaches. McKenzie made clear at his introductory news conference that that practice would change. ''What I'm going to do is empower the head coach to hire his staff, the best possible staff that he can hire,'' McKenzie said. ''We're not going to tie the guy's hands and tell him he has to hire this guy or this guy. It wouldn't be fair to the new head coach. The head coach will have the right to hire any coach that he wants.'' Offensive coordinator Al Saun- ders is the only assistant under con- tract for next season and it is uncer- tain whether he will return for a sec- ond season in Oakland. Receivers coach Sanjay Lal has joined the HOCKEY •4 p.m., CSNC—AHL Hockey, All-Star Classic MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL • 10 a.m., CBS — Michigan at Ohio St. •1 p.m., CSNC—Montana at Portland State • 3:30 p.m., CSNB — Oregon St.at Oregon • 5:30 p.m., CSNB — Stanford at California NBA • 12:30 p.m., ABC — Chicago at Miami • 3:30 p.m., ESPN — San Antonio at Dallas NFL •4 p.m., NBC — Pro Bowl, at Honolulu NHL •1 p.m., NBCSP — All-Star game, at Ottawa SOCCER •6 a.m., FOXSOCCER—Serie A, Inter Milan at Leece •8 a.m., FOX SOCCER—FA Cup, 4th Round, Aston Villa at Arsenal • 11:30 a.m., FOX SOCCER—Serie A, Cagliari at ACMilan •5 p.m., NBCSP — Women's, Olympic New York Jets and defensive line coach Mike Waufle has reportedly been hired by St. Louis. The status of the other assistants is up in the air as they have been told they are free to look for other jobs but could be asked to stay by the new coach. Allen, 39, will be the first new Raiders coach to come from the defensive side of the ball since Davis hired linebackers coach John Mad- den in 1969. In his first season as coordinator in Denver, Allen helped the Broncos improve from allowing a league- worst 29.4 points and 390.8 yards per game to ranking 20th in yards (357.8) and 24th in points (24.4) this season on the way to an AFC West title. Before serving as Denver's defensive coordinator last season, Allen spent five years as a defensive assistant in New Orleans and also coached for Atlanta. Denver head coach John Fox said he was happy for Allen and was not surprised he got a promotion after just one year as a coordinator. ''He's a sharp guy who knows football, has a way of relating to his players and carries himself very well,'' Fox said in a statement. ''Dennis is a strong motivator and teacher with an aggressive style of coaching. He will approach the job with tremendous energy and passion to get the most out of his team. His thorough understanding of defense, from the back to the front, and his ability to teach fundamentally and assignment-wise really helped us get better. He's been around a lot of good people during his NFL career and has a very bright future ahead of him.'' The Raiders are coming off one of their worst defensive seasons ever. Oakland had franchise worsts in touchdown passes allowed (31), yards per carry (5.1), yards passing (4,262) and total yards (6,201), while giving up the third-most points (433) in team history. The Raiders joined this year's Tampa Bay team as one of the four teams to allow at least 30 TD passes and 5.0 yards per carry in a season, a distinction last reached by the 1952 Dallas Texans. The Raiders also became the sixth team since the 1970 merger to allow at least 2,000 yards rushing and 4,000 yards pass- ing in a season. The Raiders also set an NFL record last season with 163 penalties for 1,358 yards. Qualifying Tournament, championship match, teams TBD, at Vancouver, British Columbia TENNIS • Midnight, ESPN2 — Australian Open, men's championship match, at Melbourne, Australia WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •9 a.m., CSNB — Marshall at Tulane • 11 a.m., CSNB — Iowa St. at Texas A&M • Noon, ESPN2 — Penn St. at Michigan St. •1 p.m., CSNB — UCLA at Colorado •2 p.m., ESPN2 — Tennessee at Georgia Monday MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — Pittsburgh at West Virginia •6 p.m., ESPN — Missouri at Texas NBA •4 p.m., NBATV—Chicago at Washington •7:30 p.m., NBATV —Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN2 — UConn at Duke 2 1 4 2 6 3 37 62 Sports 1B Weekend January 28-29, 2012 Spartans thump T-Birds