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JaxonBalken, 13, shakes hands with Liam Davis a er beating him for the first time in the 100-meter butterfly. Balken earned a gold medal in the 100fly and placed third overall in the 13-14boys at the NVAL Champion- ships. COURTESY PHOTO StaffReports This past weekend 16 SOAR swimmers swam to their best times at the NVAL Championships in Red- ding. Because it is the championship meet, medals are awarded to 12th place and SOAR brought home much hardware. Jaxon Balken, Jayne Brandt and Emery Plemons brought home sec- ond-place overall trophies while Jor- dan Brandt captured a third-place overall trophy. SOAR as a team finished in third place. Balken, Jayne Brandt and Ple- mons were individual event win- ners, meaning they are the best in Northern California. Balken, 13, won the 100-meter butterfly in 1 minute, 0.95 seconds; Jayne Brandt, 13, captured first place in the 100 breaststroke with a new AAA time of 1:10.08; and Plemons, 5, earned gold in the 50 freestyle, 100 free and 25 fly. All three of these swimmers earned medals in each event they swam in. Noah Caylor was just a couple points shy of bringing home an overall trophy, ending up sixth for the 15-16 boys. Caylor took fourth in the 100 fly and fifth in the 100 back- stroke and 100 free. Jordan Brandt, 9, finished the meet with five third places and two fourth-place finishes. Julia Brandt, 15, earned the bronze in the 50 free and the 100 free and earned a sixth- place medal in the 200 individual medley. Zinnia Balken, 17, swam to a sev- enth place in the 100 breast and an eighth place in the 500 free. Nick Keane placed eighth in the 50 free, ninth in the 200 free and ninth in the 200 IM. Stevie Mackenzie, 13, brought home four medals with an eighth place in the 100 fly, ninth place in the 200 free and 50 free, and 11th place in the 100 breast. Reese Plemons, 7, placed sixth in the 25 breast. Juniper Mickela- Johnson, 5, was third in the 50 free. Riley Mackenzie was a member of SOAR Swimmersendsolidseason Out of 16 competitors, 3 bring home 2nd-place overall trophies in NVAL By Rob Harris The Associated Press After a summer of a sleaze at FIFA, it's time for an even richer force in world soccer to take cen- ter stage: The English Premier League. For all the turmoil at FIFA since Chelsea lifted the Premier League trophy in May, it's been a relatively sedate off-season in England with little of the up- heaval of recent years at the big clubs. All but three clubs will go into another Premier League with the same managers. Brendan Rodgers' job security seemed precarious but the Liv- erpool manager survived a post- season inquest into the team's decline, and had to oversee the summer transfer window's most fraught move. Raheem Sterling's switch from Liverpool to Manchester City left an unpleasant taste at Anfield but was resolved with relative haste. The $76 million forked out by City was the most ever paid for EPL SOCCER Chelsea's defense of title to get underway CUBS5,GIANTS4 Up next: San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs, 1:05p.m. today, TV on CSNBA, MLBN. THESCORE By Andrew Seligman The Associated Press CHICAGO Rookie bopper Kyle Schwarber homered in his sec- ond consecutive game and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Fran- cisco Giants 5-4 Thursday night. The Cubs, playing meaningful baseball in August for the first time in years, won for the sev- enth time in eight games. They also moved a half-game ahead of the Giants in the race for the sec- ond NL wild card. Jorge Soler drove in the game's first two runs with a bases-loaded single in the first inning, and Schwarber made it 5-0 with a three-run drive off Chris Heston (11-6) in the second. But instead of an easy win, the Cubs had to hang on. BASEBALL Cubs rookie pops, Giants drop key game Anna Oxereok grew up eating walrus in the western Alaska village of Wales. Today it's such a rare treat she can't bring herself to part with the plastic gallon bag of meat in her freezer. CLIMATE CHANGE WarminggivesAlaskans fewer walrus to hunt FULL STORY ON PAGE B5 By Josh Dubow The Associated Press NAPA Trent Richardson looked at his opportunity in Oakland as a fresh start after the once-her- alded running back prospect struggled for two years in Indi- anapolis. So missing the first week of training camp because of a bout with pneumonia wasn't exactly the best way to impress his new team. Richardson practiced with the Raiders for the first time this summer after being taken off the non-football illness list Thurs- day. The coaching staff threw him right into the mix, giving him sec- ond-team snaps in a padded prac- tice that featured Richardson de- livering a few hard hits of his own to defenders. "It feels good," Richardson said. "It's probably been the most ea- ger I've been to go to practice for a long time. It's been a long time coming for me. I haven't been out there practicing." Richardson said he first started feeling sick a few weeks ago and then was diagnosed with pneu- monia shortly before arriving in Napa for training camp. The coaches and training staff told him to recover fully before return- ing to the practice field. Richardson was able to run on the side the past few days and get plenty of time in his playbook while waiting to recover. "I just wanted to be out there with my guys," he said. "Every- body is out there and we're grow- ing together. I felt like I was miss- ing time on that. I was going hard in the classroom. I was go- ing hard sitting here on the iPad. That's one thing I was doing. ... I came out here today and didn't have any missed assignments. I felt good." Richardson entered the NFL as one of the most promising run- RAIDERS TRAINING CAMP RICHARDSON GETS BACK TO PRACTICE Running back missed first week with bout of pneumonia in fresh start with Oakland team Oakland Raiders running back Trent Richardson was able to run on the side the past few days and get plenty of time in his playbook while waiting to recover from pneumonia. He returned to training camp Thursday. PHOTO BY ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oakland Raiders running back Trent Richardson returned to training camp Thursday a er missing the first week with pneumonia. The Malaysian government was certain: The airplane part found on an Indian Ocean island came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Investiga- tors in France weren't so sure quite yet. MALAYSIA FLIGHT 370 Differing messages on part frustrate families FULL STORY ON PAGE B8 Junior Seau was many things to many people. Seau will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, three years a er he took his life in his oceanfront home at age 43. FOOTBALL Seau fondly recalled as he enters Hall of Fame The Moonlight Madness run is set Aug. 22at Shasta Lake. 2-mile night run on Shasta Dam, fun for the family. $20, add $5a er Aug. 8. FUN RUN Moonlight Madness run set in Shasta Lake City VISIT RUNSIGNUP.COM/RACE/ REGISTER/?RACEID=16213. SWIMMERS PAGE 2 RAIDERS PAGE 2 PREMIER PAGE 2 GIANTS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, August 7, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1