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Pictured,from le , are the Wilcox Oaks Golf Club's Susie Daly, Loretha Harrah, Loretta Rahn, Julie Smith, Cathy Gumm, Codie Powers, Beth Pilger and Jennie Owens. Team members not pictured are Tina Hill, Kelly Froome, Dianne Angelich, Peggy McDannold, Cindy Simons, Team Play Captain Beverly Gillaspy and Co- Captain Karen Fleury. COURTESY PHOTO StaffReports Fortheeighthconsecutiveyear,theWilcoxla- dies brought home the team play trophy July 7. The final round was played at Lake Shastina Golf Resort against Riverview Golf and Country Club from Redding. The Wilcox Oaks Golf Club teams won all four matches. Wilcox scored 41.5 points and Riverview 30.5 points. Five matches have been played beginning April 8, one hosted by each club. The final overall scores were Wilcox Oaks Golf Club 155, Gold Hills Country Club 146.5, Riverview Golf and Country Club 142.5, Shast- ina Golf Resort 140.5 and The Golf Club Tierra Oaks 135.5. GOLF Wilcoxladiestakehometitle Winisclub's8thyearinarow on top in women's competition By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press LONDON Turn back the calen- dar more than a year, to June 28, 2014, when Serena Williams lost to Alize Cornet in the third round at Wimbledon. It was Williams' earliest exit from the All England Club in nearly a decade. It also marked the fourth time in five Grand Slam tournaments she was beaten before the quarterfinals. Now examine what Cornet, who was seeded 25th and only once previously had been as far as the fourth round at a major, said afterward: "It might be a bit premature to talk about her de- cline, but when she plays some- one who finds the right tactics, she looks a bit lost on the court. In my opinion, there are more and more players understanding how to play her." Oh, really? Where are they hid- ing? Since that day, Williams has not lost a Grand Slam match, win- ning 27 in a row — on the hard courts of the U.S. Open and Aus- WIMBLEDON Williams seeks 21st major title, true Slam By Gary B. Graves The Associated Press SPARTA, KY. Kentucky Speed- way gave Jeff Gordon a parting gift that would make a native of the commonwealth jealous — 24 bottles of its trademark bourbon from each of four master distill- eries. That's fine, but he'd settle for drinking champagne in victory lane. Though NASCAR's four-time Sprint Cup Series champ hasn't raced enough times on the 1.5- mile oval to develop a love/hate relationship for it, he enters Sat- urday night's 400-mile race with some unfinished business. In a stellar career featuring 92 wins, it's the lone track that the 43-year- old hasn't conquered, a void he looks to fill in his final start at the track before retiring at the end of the season. "It's the only one left on the list, so it would mean a lot to ac- complish that," Gordon said Fri- day in a packed media center. "It NASCAR SPRINT CUP Gordon seeks his 1st victory at Kentucky Staying in front has meant staying out of trouble so far for Chris Froome at the Tour de France. A er a crash- marred first week of the race, the 2013champion is in the position he wants to be. TOUR DE FRANCE Britain'sFroomeavoids trouble, holds lead FULLSTORYONPAGEB2 By Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK Fresh off its World Cup championship, the U.S. wom- en's soccer team got a hero's wel- come on Friday with a ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan mobbed by young girls and other flag-wav- ing fans, followed by a City Hall cer- emony where each player was given a key to the city. "All of this for us started when we were little and we had a dream," star forward Abby Wambach told a crowd of 3,500 at City Hall Plaza. "In my opinion, all the women up on this stage believed in that dream, kept believing in that dream. " Head coach Jill Ellis called the celebration "mind-blowing." And midfielder Carli Lloyd, named the World Cup's most valuable player af- ter scoring three goals in the final, told the crowd, "Well I'm a Jersey girl ... but New York City, you guys are awesome." Parade-goers — many wearing red, white and blue — started gath- ering at 3:30 a.m. along the Can- yon of Heroes, a stretch of Broad- way where the nation's largest city has honored its legends. When the parade got underway at 11 a.m., the crowd was as much as 10 deep along the route. Chants of "USA! USA!" were distinctly high-pitched. It was the first-ever ticker-tape parade in New York for a women's sports team — a fact not lost on the crowd. A fourth-floor window on a building near the route was deco- rated with a homemade sign that reads "Girl Power" with four Amer- ican flags. "I'm glad to see girls getting a parade," said 9-year-old Christi- nah Delesine, who wore a blue soc- cer shirt. "There should be more." Robert Sanfiz, who brought his three children — Julia, 8, Chris, 7 and Tommy, 2 — had a similar take. "It's great for her to see women finally be represented," Sanfiz said. "It's great for her self-esteem." WOMEN'S WORLD CUP CITY CELEBRATES SOCCER CHAMPIONS U.S. women's national team gets hero's welcome with ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan ADAM HUNGER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. Women's World Cup team stands on floats as they move through thousands of fans along Broadway on Friday in New York in a view from 150Broadway. MARY ALTAFFER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. women's soccer team midfielder Megan Rapinoe, center, holds up the World Cup trophy Friday as she rides a float with midfielder Carli Lloyd, le , New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, le background, and head coach Jill Ellis, right, as their float makes it way up Broadway's Canyon of Heroes during the ticker tape parade to celebrate the team's World Cup victory in New York. Danny Salazar scattered five hits while allowing an un- earned run in 82/3 innings and the Cleveland Indians used a four-run sixth inning to beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1on Friday night. BASEBALL Salazar shuts down A's as Indians win 5-1 FULL STORY ON PAGE B2 Chico native Noah Norton won the Bishops Gate Golf Academy Junior Open, a 54-hole stroke-play event run by the American Junior Golf Association at Butte Creek Country Club, with a 209. GOLF Chico youth wins junior open on home course The Mercy High School Trinity Golf Classic Tournament is scheduled for 4:30p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1at Oak Creek Golf Course. Four-person scramble. Call Sabrina Rhodes at 529-4439for registration. FUNDRAISER Mercy High Trinity Golf Classic Tourney Aug. 1 GORDON PAGE 2 TENNIS PAGE 2 PARADE PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Saturday, July 11, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1