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Tehama Tracker Wednesday's results NBA Kings Washington Evans: 22 points Cousins: 16 points, 16 rebounds Warriors Phoenix Ellis: 26 points Wright: 23 points Tuesday's results GIRLS HOOPS PLAYOFFS Division-IV — 1st Round Corning Sutter Division-V — 1st Round Los Molinos Colusa Today's games GIRLS HOOPS PLAYOFFS Division-II — Semifinal Red Bluff Pleasant Valley 7 p.m. Division-IV — Quarterfinal Corning Orland NHL Sharks Toronto 4 p.m. CSNC On the tube AUTO RACING •7 a.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nation- wide Series, practice for Drive4COPD 300, at Daytona Beach, Fla. •9 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, practice for NextEra Energy Resources 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla. • 11 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Duel at Daytona, at Daytona Beach, Fla. • 3:30 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for NextEra Energy Resources 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla. GOLF • 7:30 a.m., TGC — LPGA, Women's Champions, first round, at Singapore (same-day tape) • 11 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour-WGC, Accenture Match Play Championship, second round matches, at Marana, Ariz. • 3:30 p.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Mayakoba Classic, first round, at Playa del Carmen, Mexico (same-day tape) MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — Duke at Florida St. •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Alabama at Arkansas •6 p.m., ESPN — Louisville at Cincin- nati •6 p.m., ESPN2 — Wisconsin at Iowa •7 p.m., CSNC — Pepperdine at Santa Clara • 7:30 p.m., CSNB — Stanford at Col- orado •8 p.m., ESPN2 — BYU at Gonzaga NBA •4 p.m., TNT — New York at Miami • 6:30 p.m., TNT — L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City NHL •4 p.m., CSNC — San Jose at Toron- to • 4:30 p.m., NHL NETWORK—Van- couver at Detroit Ellis' jumper lifts Warriors PHOENIX (AP) — Monta Ellis hit an 20- foot fadeaway jump shot with 1 second remaining and the Gold- en State Warriors beat the Phoenix Suns 106- 104 on Wednesday night. Channing Frye's 3- point attempt rolled off the back of the rim at the buzzer, giving the Warriors their first win in Phoenix since March 18, 2005. Ellis finished with a game-high 26 points, Dorell Wright had 23 and David Lee added 22 for the Warriors, who squandered a 21-point lead before rallying in the final 2:16. Golden State played all but 1 minute of the final three quarters and the entire second half without Stephen Curry, who strained a tendon in his right foot with 2:19 to play in the first quar- ter. Frye had 22 points, Marcin Gortat scored 21 and Jared Dudley fin- ished with 17 for the Suns, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. 7 p.m. 35 51 53 38 104 106 WASHINGTON (AP) — With the pace off the charts and players driving to the basket at will, the first half of Wednesday night's game between the Sacramento Kings and Washington Wizards looked like an All-Star game preview — minus the All-Stars. Then a few things happened that weren't All-Star-like at all: The Kings started playing some defense, DeMar- cus Cousins made the unselfish deci- sion to keep himself on the bench, and the coach of the losing team angrily ripped his players for pursuing ''style over substance.'' Cousins and Tyreke Evans sat the entire fourth quarter while Marcus Thornton, rookie Isaiah Thomas and Chuck Hayes took over, leading Sacra- mento to a 115-107 win that snapped a six-game losing streak. ''I was getting ready to put Cousins back in,'' Kings coach Keith Smart said. ''And he said 'Let Chuck Hayes stay in the game.' That's gigantic for him. Tyreke Evans had a fabulous first half, came out of the game, didn't play in the fourth quarter and simply cheered his teammates on. ''That's the growth I'm trying for our team to have if we're ever going to have a chance to be good and turn our franchise around.'' It made for an interesting set of numbers as the game progressed. Evans scored 20 of his 22 points in the first half, and Cousins had 14 of his 16 before halftime as well as 10 of his 16 rebounds. Meanwhile, Thornton scored 18 of his 22 in the second half, and Thomas had 16 of his 18 in the final two quarters. Hayes finished with six points — all in the final 6 1/2 min- utes. ''Chuck was doing an incredible job out there on the floor,'' Cousins said. ''The group that was out there was going well, so there was no need for me to go in and change it.'' Right now, it's hard to imagine such examples of team play coming from the Wizards, who made 6-of-16 shots in the fourth quarter. Washington has lost four straight and enters the All-Star break 19 games under .500. ''Until our team is committed to playing winning basketball — until they're committed to doing that — we're going to be like this team was tonight,'' coach Randy Wittman said. ''There wasn't anything done in that second half to win that game. ''I know the term has been used — style over substance. We got a guy going in for a layup and does a reverse 360 and misses the whole thing. Crowd oohed and aahed. We didn't get any points out of it. Until we're committed to making winning basketball plays the whole game, it's going to look like that.'' He kept going, referencing the Wiz- ards' 14 second-half turnovers. ''Why did we have those turnovers? When I'm double-teamed, I continue to try to do something against the dou- ble team,'' Wittman said. ''You're going to turn it over, plain and simple.'' The player guilty of the failed 360 107 115 Sports Kings halt skid 1B Thursday February 23, 2012 Today's basketball playoffs #4 Red Bluff Spartans #1 Pleasant Valley Vikings 7 p.m. at Pleasant Valley D-II Girls Semfinal Red Bluff: 15-10 Pleasant Valley: 23-3 The seeding committee made an odd choice and one not in the Spartans' favor when they skipped an under .500 Shasta team ahead of Red Bluff for the third seed, despite the two schools hav- ing split their season series...that gives Red Bluff a tough task in their return to the playoffs against No. 1 PV...the Vikings had won 14 consecutive games until los- ing at the buzzer to Enter- prise, Tuesday, an outcome that should at least give the Spartans some hope...PV has won the last 11 in this series...PV and Chico have been in the past six D-II sec- tion title games, with PV winning three, including last year...PV won both meetings this year against Red Bluff, 58-24 in the season opening PVtournament and 63-38 in Chico on Valentine's Day...Lily Brose returned in January to lead the Spartans with a 13.5 scoring aver- age...Cori Schatz and Lottie Jones provide Red Bluff's post scoring and Ashley Brown has emerged as a legitimate option. #12 Corning Cardinals #4 Orland Trojans 7 p.m. at Orland D-IV Girls Quarterfinal Corning: 12-14 (beat #5 Sutter in 1st Round) Orland: 14-12 MCT photo Tyreke Evans puts in a layup,Wednesday night, in Washington. move was Nick Young, who was 6 of 23 and scored 17 points. ''I was the only one who did it. I did that in the past. If I make it, every- body's on my side,'' Young said. ''If I miss it, then it's a bad shot. ... I didn't know I had that many shots. I was just trying to get things going for my team- mates. They brought me here for that and that's one of the parts of my game.'' Jordan Crawford scored a season- high 32 points, and John Wall had 21 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds for the Wizards. ''In that second half, we became selfish and didn't play team defense,'' Wall said, ''and they picked us apart.'' The Kings said pretty much the same thing about themselves in the first half as the Wizards piled up 68 points at halftime, the most Washington has scored in any half this season. Neither of these losing teams will have a play- er in the All-Star game in Orlando on Sunday — the only representatives will be former Kentucky teammates Cousins and Wall in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday — but that didn't keep both sides from getting in the spir- it of fast-paced runs that met little resis- tance. ''There was no defense out there,'' Cousins said. ''It was terrible.'' The game included 58 fast break points and 102 points in the paint. The Kings led 104-103 with 3:44 to play, but Thomas scored the next basket to start a game-ending 11-4 run as Sacra- mento matched its highest point total of the season. Thomas made 8 of his last 12 shots. Sandoval unconcerned about weight questions SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Pablo Sandoval's portion sizes and weigh-in statistics always seem to be a hot topic this time of year. He understands it — and he doesn't much care any- more. He doesn't take any of the comments directed at his girth personally, either. ''It's part of my work, everybody wants to know what I weigh,'' said San- doval, who is set for a for- mal date with the scale Thursday. ''I'm fine with that. I just keep working hard to maintain my weight and play hard. That's what I'm focused on right now — playing hard baseball and that's it. I block that out. I don't pay too much atten- tion. I just play my game and that's it.'' This is a guy who's never going to be called slim. And that hardly matters to the San Francisco slugger com- ing off an All-Star, come- back season. He hopes his The Lady Cardinals pulled off their first upset Tuesday, knocking off the fifth-seed Lady Huskies on the road...there is some precedent for another upset as Orland was last year's No. 2 seed before falling to the 10th seeded Yreka, also from the Northern Athletic League, in last year's quar- terfinals...the teams met on Jan 3 in Orland with the Tro- jans squeaking out a 34-30 win...Orland is led by the section's fourth leading scor- er Laeyla Ealy (18.1 ppg) and Lissette Gomez (13.3). Weekend's wrestling championships Red Bluff Spartans Corning Cardinals Los Molinos Bulldogs NSCIF Masters at Redding Convention Center Friday — Noon Saturday — 10 a.m. This is it. This is what Northern Section wrestlers work for. The Top 3 wrestlers in each weight division over this two-day tournament earn a spot in the state finals. The action starts Fri- day with the first and sec- ond rounds and continues all-day Saturday in Red- ding. MCT file photo Pablo Sandoval is once again having to answer questions about his weight. vate him as well. rebound year in 2011 gives him momentum moving into this season. He has a hefty new $17.15 million, three-year contract to moti- The Giants seem confi- dent their happy-go-lucky third baseman's weight will no longer be an issue. The 25-year-old Sandoval lost about 40 pounds through a rigorous regimen during the winter before last season to See PANDA, page 2B A year ago three local wrestlers earned trips to state. Red Bluff's Calvin Meister knocked off Corning's Calvin Meister in the 162-pound final and Matt Boles gave the Cardinals another state See MASTERS, page 2B