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Tehama Tracker Today's games BASEBALL Red Bluff West Valley NBA Warriors Indiana Utah Kings NHL Philadelphia Sharks 7:30 p.m. CSNB On the tube MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL •4 p.m., ESPN — Michigan St. at Indi- ana •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Kansas St. at Texas A&M •6 p.m., ESPN — Florida at Vanderbilt NBA •4 p.m., CSNB — Golden State at Indiana •5 p.m., NBATV —New Orleans at Chicago •7 p.m., CSNC—Utah at Sacramen- to NHL • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — Los Angeles at Minnesota • 7:30 p.m., CSNC — Philadelphia at San Jose Kings & NBAreach arena deal (AP) —Building a new arena for the Sacra- mento Kings has never been closer to reality. The city, the Sacramen- to Kings and the NBA announced a tentative deal Monday to finance a new arena that would keep the team in California's capital for the long haul. The City Council will vote on the plan March 6. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, NBA Commissioner David Stern and the Maloof fam- ily, which owns the Kings, emerged from three days of talks in Orlando, Fla., — where they had been negotiating all weekend during All-Star festivities — to announce that the framework of a deal had been reached, giving fans some 3,000 miles away in the Central Valley reason to cheer for a comeback story that fittingly came straight out of Fantasy- land. ''I think when we left Sacramento and came to Orlando, you guys asked me how close were we. I thought it was a free throw — and you need to make two free throws,'' Johnson told reporters at a news conference at the Waldorf Astoria at Walt Disney World. ''I think the city made the first free throw, and the Maloof family made the second free throw. ''It's game over.'' Well, almost. Under the proposed terms of the deal, the city will contribute $200-$250 million to the estimated $367 million arena, mostly by leasing out parking garages around the facility, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the full financing plan will not be made pub- lic until at least Thursday, said Sacramento also will create revenue through a ticket surcharge. The Maloofs have agreed to contribute $75 million in upfront cash, which includes the sale of land around the team's current suburban arena, along with paying off a current $67 million loan to the city and contributing more over the course of the deal. Arena operator AEG also agreed to pay almost $60 million. ''I think it's great for our community,'' a tearful Gavin Maloof said. ''I'm glad it's finally coming to an end after 13 years. It's been a long road.'' Daily News photo by Rich Greene Corning's Caitlin McCoy races ahead for the ball, Saturday, during the Division-I championship. LP beats Corning boys in PKs By CHIPTHOMPSON DN Editor CORNING — The Corning Cardinals fell just short of taking their third straight Northern Section Division-I boys' soccer championship Saturday, when Las Plumas senior Thao Vang knocked a deciding penalty kick into the net for the Thunderbirds win. Scoreless through regulation, the Cardinals and Thunder- birds played two 10-minute overtime periods, twice, before going to the first of two shoot outs. Just inside of the final minute of the second overtime, the Thunderbirds had a shot blocked, which resulted in a corner kick. They weren't able to capitalize on the opportunity. In the final seconds of the end of overtime, the Cardinals fired a shot on goal that just slammed off the crossbar, forc- ing a shoot out. An opportunity came early for Corning when the first shooter for Las Plumas, senior Colton Soudan, bounced his try off the crossbar. Diego Figueroa led off a string of three goals for the Car- dinals before Thunderbirds goalie Cody Pol made a diving grab to even the shootout at three. Las Plumas' Jim Carillo and Corning's Francisco Pano both made their shots to send the championship to a second shootout. The roles flipped after Las Plumas junior Lee Xiong made the first shot and Corning's Carlos Rubio shot just high and sailed over the crossbar. That would be all the Thunderbirds needed. Corning made its next four shots, leaving Vang the championship winning shot. "Our guys were tired, but we still battled," said Cardinals coach Asension Llamas. "We dominated most of the game, it just wasn't going in." While most of the action took place on the Thunderbirds' end of the field, both teams had several opportunities. High side winds foiled several corner kicks and made longer passes difficult. WV beats Lady Cards 5-0 By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor REDDING — The West Valley Lady Eagles completed a perfect 18-0 season, Saturday, knocking off Corning 5-0 to capture the school's first Division-I girls soccer title. Taylor Moebes had a hat trick and an assist and Kayla Vazquez scored twice including the opener in the 14th minute at the game played at University Prep High School in Redding. would strike again for a 2-0 West Valley lead. The Lady Cardinals stayed aggressive for the rest of the first half peppering chances on West Valley goalie Jolene Mueller, who finished with 16 saves. But the backbreaker came in the opening minutes of the second half when Vazquez found the net once again. Moebes would add two more against a deflated Lady Cardinals team, that was making their first appearance in a championship game. "West Valley's just played superior soccer all season long and they just carried it over into the playoffs," Corning coach Gavino Munoz said. Mayra Sanchez led Corning with eight shots. Caitlin McCoy had six shots and Corning's leading playmaker Mag- daelena Ramirez was held to four shots. Christine Chaney and Bailey Marchand tallied assists for the Eagles. record. The Lady Cardinals finished the season with a 15-5 "I told the girls at the beginning of the season it was going to be an extraordinary season," Munoz said. Even with a defeat in the championship his premonition turned out to be true as the Lady Cardinals had their most successful season in the program's history. "I feel that we worked our way up and the best team won," Ramirez said. "But I feel we've worked hard to this point and we deserve what we got. Being second place was good for us and we're satisfied." Eggert, runner-up at 170, qualifies for state By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor REDDING — Red Bluff's Bryce Eggert fell a match short of captur- ing a section title, but he left the Redding Con- vention Center with a rather nice consolation prize — a trip to the state championships. Eggert reached the 170-pound champi- onship by pinning each of his first three oppo- nents, before being pinned himself in 5:52 by Orland's Tyler Gil, the bracket's No. 1 seed. The Red Bluff senior turned out to be the only Tehama County wrestler to earn a trip to state this year after a pair of Corn- ing wrestlers lost heart- breaking third place matches. Daniel Welborn lost the 170-pound third place match 5-3 to Chico's Ted Staiger, in the closing seconds. A few minutes later in the 195-pound third place match, Noah Hall was pinned while hold- ing a lead against Wheatland's Tyler Lar- com. Red Bluff's Kyle Case took the fifth place medal at 145 pounds. Orland once again edged out Chico for the team championship. The Trojans notched 254 points and qualified nine wrestlers for state. Chico also qualified nine, but had 240.5 points. Paradise was third with 130.5 points. Corn- ing placed 14th with 53.5 points and the Spartans were 16th with 42 points. A couple brackets were shaken up with some semifinal upsets and a couple freshmen made names for them- selves by capturing title. Paradise's Wyatt Wyckoff (113) and Chester's John Leal (132) won their weights as ninth graders. Top seeds Matt Smull (Shasta, 106), Hermilo Esquivel (Orland, 120), Mason Sauseda (Chico, 126), Dallas Poston (Foothill, 152), Trevor Wright (Winters, 160), Alex Campos (Chico, 195) and Austin Lob- singer (West Valley, 220) won their weights. Chester's Roclin Lor- anger pulled off a couple upsets to win at 138 pounds. Orland's Christ- ian Wathen won at 145 and Chico's Mark Jor- genson won at 182. Orland's Victor Raigoza won the 285- pound title. 4 p.m. CSNB 7 p.m. CSNC 3 p.m. Sports Double bummer 1B Tuesday February 28, 2012 Wednesday's hoops playoff #3 Central Valley Falcons #2 Corning Cardinals 7 p.m. at Corning D-IV Boys Semifinal Central Valley: 18-8 (beat Trinity in quarters) Corning: 23-3 (beat West Valley in quarters) The Cardinals lost just three times this season and could avenge two of those losses this week..first up is league rival Central Valley, who won one of three meet- ings with Corning this sea- son...The Cards won 49-32 at the Corning Shootout, CV won 38-36 in Shasta Lake and the Cardinals won the third game 42-37 back in Corning...Corning's other losses came to Orland and Anderson...Orland the top seed in D-IV could be wait- ing for the winner in Satur- day's championship at Chico State...CVwon the D- IV title a year ago and are led by one of the section's best shooters in Carlos Man- casola as well as Christian Spaschak...Corning held to Mancasola to single digits during the Cards' two wins over CVand just 11 points in their loss...CV has rolled up 82 and 87-point perfor- mances during their past two games with Mancasola top- ping 20 points in both. A minute later after Vazquez opened the scoring, Moebes The longest race DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First came the rain. Then came the fire. Everything that could go wrong with this Daytona 500 did go wrong, and the first NASCAR race in primetime television could be remembered for every- thing but the winner. That's because there still was no winner more than four hours after the green flag, which already had been delayed a day. Journeyman driver Dave Blaney was leading when a problem with Juan Pablo Montoya's car sent him spinning under caution into a safety truck. The truck, which holds 200 gallons of jet kerosene, burst into flames. Montoya's car slid into the grass, and he gingerly climbed from it as fire trucks rushed to the scene. The inferno raged on, and NASCAR red-flagged the race with 40 laps remain- ing. The race was delayed 2 hours, 5 minutes and 29 sec- onds while track workers scrambled to fix the track. ''About the time you think you've seen about everything, you see some- thing like this,'' NASCAR president Mike Helton said. NASCAR officials examined the track surface and determined the race could continue. Blaney's lead was short-lived, howev- er, as he had to pit for gas. Jet fuel poured down the Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff's Bryce Eggert wrestles Orland's Tyler Gil in the 170-pound Northern Section champi- onship, Saturday, in Redding. surface of Turn 3 at Daytona International Speedway after the accident, creating a fiery lasting image of NASCAR's biggest race of the year. The clean-up crews were using boxes of Tide laundry deter- gent to clean up the fuel. It was par for the course for this Daytona 500, which was postponed for the first time in NASCAR's 54-year history because of steady rain all day Sunday at the track. NASCAR initially planned to restart the race at noon Monday, but persistent rain forced series officials to make an early decision to hold off until 7 p.m, local time. Because of delays the final results of the race can be found at www.redbluffdailynews.com.