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StaffReports The Red Bluff Little League 11-12 Major Baseball All-Stars captured the Section 2 title, go- ing undefeated in the tourna- ment hosted by Chico Eastside Little League. The team now moves to the Northern California Divisional Tournament, held in Stockton beginning on Saturday. Red Bluff faced Yuba City's Peach Bowl Little League in game one. Going into the fourth inning, Red Bluff trailed Peach Bowl, however, that didn't stop Red Bluff. In the sixth inning, Red Bluff came back to score three runs with Garrett Free- man smacking a double to bring home Christopher Huhn and Luke Arvig followed by a mis- play from Peach Bowl's catcher, bringing home Freeman for the win. Arvig picked up the win on the mound for Red Bluff, strik- ing out five. Bryce Tweedt and Kurtis Rodriguez had two sin- gles, Freeman had a double and Arvig a single. Red Bluff defeated Chico Cen- tral Little League 15-3, clinching its second win with a combined pitching effort from Tweedt and Arvig, Rodriguez and Blake Tweedt. Chico Central came out strong in the first inning, scor- ing three runs, but Red Bluff didn't allow them to score again. Bryce Tweedt led off the game with a home run, and not long after, Chamberlin Turnbow hit a home run of his own. Jakob Fregoso reached on a single and was eventually brought home on Logan Carver's sacrifice fly to right field. After one complete inning the score was tied 3-3. Red Bluff continued its hitting streak, scoring in every inning of the game. In the second in- ning, Blake Tweedt hit his first home run of the game and Turn- bow hit his second home run of his own. Blake Tweedt then hit another home run in the third inning and Freeman added to the home run list, slamming one in the top of the sixth. Red Bluff defeated Redwood Empire Little League from Eu- reka in game three, 11-1. Bryan Acree pitched a complete four- inning game, striking out four batters and allowing only one run. Blake Tweedt hit two sin- gles and scored twice, Turnbow hit a single and a two-run home run, Fregoso scored three times, walked once and hit a double in the fourth inning. Rodriguez scored twice, hitting one sin- gle and one double, while Huhn was perfect at the plate, going 3 for 3, smacking three solid line drives and scoring once. Carver hit a single in the bottom of the sixth to bring up Acree, whose hit brought in two runs, ending the game on a 10-run rule. The championship game brought Red Bluff face to face with Redwood Empire again, as Redwood Empire defeated Chico Central to make it back to the winner's bracket. Once again, Red Bluff came back from a six-run deficit to beat Red- wood Empire 12-11 and win the section title. "We had one tough inning where Redwood Empire scored nine runs, but the boys never gave up or lost focus," said man- ager Vince Rodriguez. "They were confident throughout the whole game." Redwood Empire's Zach An- LITTLELEAGUE RedBluff'sAll-Stars pickupSection2title Team goes undefeated in Chico tournament, winning championship on comeback victory COURTESYPHOTO The Red Bluff Little League 11-12All-Stars team includes players Blake Tweedt, Bryce Tweedt, Chamberlin Turnbow, Jakob Fregoso, Kurtis Rodriguez, Luke Arvig, Christopher Huhn, Garrett Freeman, Bryan Acree, Jordan Shank, Logan Carver and Justin Hinkston. The team is managed by Vince Rodriguez, and coached by Wes Arvig and Rob Huhn. By John Hickey Bay Area News Group OAKLAND The Oakland A's will be looking for ways to recon- figure their starting rotation now that Scott Kazmir has been traded. Drew Pomeranz, who began the season in the rotation before helping to settle a turbulent bull- pen, got the first shot Thursday in a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Pitching on 2½ hours' no- tice, the left-hander didn't make it out of the second inning. Manager Bob Melvin said Pomeranz couldn't be expected to go much more than 45 pitches after having thrown no more than 29 in a game since his first eight games in April and May as a starter. He threw 44 Thurs- day but is hoping for more next week in Los Angeles against the Dodgers. "In five days I hope I'll polish up a few things," Pomeranz said. "There is just different prepara- tion when you are starting and when you are pitching out of the pen." BASEBALL A's fall to Blue Jays, Pomeranz struggles Oakland will have to reconfigure starting rotation now that Kazmir has been traded BEN MARGOT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oakland A's pitcher Drew Pomeranz works against the Toronto Blue Jays in the first inning on Thursday in Oakland. BLUEJAYS5,ATHLETICS2 Up next: Oakland Athletics at San Francisco Giants, 7:15p.m. Friday, TV on CSNCA. THESCORE By John Hickey Bay Area News Group OAKLAND The dismantling of the 2015 Oakland A's began Thursday morning when the club traded left-handed pitcher Scott Kazmir to the Houston Astros. The move wasn't inevitable, not even after a 2-14 stretch in May that left the A's digging out of the deepest hole in the major leagues. To avoid a sell-off, however, Oak- land had to come out of the All- Star break showing they were go- ing to push for the postseason. They won three of their first five. But with the first-place An- gels winning five straight, Oak- land fell two games in the stand- ings. And at 11 games out, Oak- land general manager Billy Beane accepted the reality of his club's position and pulled the trigger on the first of what are expected to be multiple moves heading to- ward the July 31 trade deadline. "It goes back to having to be re- alistic about where we are," Beane said before Oakland lost a series finale to Toronto 5-2. "The math doesn't necessarily work in our fa- vor given the level of play we need just to get back in it. The Angels have played great. Unfortunately, we've played pretty well since the middle of May, but the hole that BASEBALL A's trade Kazmir to Astros for prospects Oakland may make more moves by trade deadline BEN MARGOT — ASSOCIATED PRESS Oakland A's pitcher Scott Kazmir works against the Minnesota Twins on Saturday in Oakland. By John Leicester The Associated Press S A I N T-J E A N - D E - M AU R I E N N E , FRANCE The road snaked back and forth like spaghetti stuck to a wall, 18 hairpin bends, climbed for the first time in the 112-year history of the Tour de France. Curiously, there were no crowds on this spectacular vista just per- fect for the television age. Police decided that the two-mile stretch of bends piled one on top of each other up an Alpine cliff, was sim- ply too narrow to let in spectators who line pretty much every other inch of cycling's toughest race. Not that Chris Froome noticed on Thursday. The race leader isn't here for the picture-postcard scenery. Just two more days in the Alps, and a second Tour victory will be his. The British rider isn't about to get distracted and take his eyes off the road now. "I didn't actually even realize there weren't any spectators up there," Froome said. "I was just in a tunnel mode at that point, just following the wheels." After Stage 18, Team Sky's leader really has only two wheels to follow: Nairo Quintana's and Alejandro Valverde's, the Movis- tar teammates closest to him in TOUR DE FRANCE Two stages down, two to go in Alps for leader Froome Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to have it his way with New York's fast-food industry — and restaurant owners aren't loving it. Franchise owners say they're considering a lawsuit against Cuomo's plan. NEW YORK Fast-foodfranchisees pan Cuomo's wage hike FULL STORY ON PAGE B5 Scientists have identified a "close cousin" to Earth that's orbiting a sun-like star and might harbor life. The re- searchers announced the dis- covery based on observations from NASA's Kepler telescope. SPACE 'Close cousin' of Earth orbits sun-like star FULL STORY ON PAGE B8 Camp will be Aug. 3-6at Sacred Heart Parish Hall. Students entering 6-7grades play 8:30-11:30a.m. and entering 8-9grades play noon to 3. For more, write to ckeller@mercy-high.org. VOLLEYBALL Sixth annual Mercy Volleyball Camp 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 School Trinity Golf Classic ALL-STARS PAGE 2 CYCLING PAGE 2 TRADE PAGE 2 A'S PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, July 24, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1