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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results BASEBALL Biggs Invitational Los Molinos Colusa MLB Seattle Athletics 4 1 Colon: W, 8 IP, 6 Ks, 3 hits, ER HR: Cespedes, Gomes, Reddick Today's games BASEBALL Lassen Red Bluff West Valley Corning 4 p.m. TOKYO (AP) — With his first major league home run, Yoenis Cespedes helped the Oakland Athletics gain a split of their season-opening series against the Seattle Mariners. The Cuban defector's go- ahead, two-run drive in the sev- enth inning off reliever Shawn Kelly sent the A's on to a 4-1 victory Thursday night at the Tokyo Dome. ''I wake up early every day 4 p.m. at Biggs Tournament SOFTBALL Lassen Red Bluff 4 p.m. NALPreseason Tournament Corning Central Valley 5 p.m. at Anderson River Park SOCCER Foothill Red Bluff NBA Kings Utah New Jersey Warriors 6 p.m. CSNC 7:30 p.m. CSNB On the tube AUTO RACING • 9:30 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Goody's Fast Relief 500, at Martinsville, Va. • 11 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for Kroger 250, at Martinsville, Va. • 12:30 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for Goody's Fast Relief 500, at Martinsville, Va. BOXING •6 p.m., ESPN2 — Lightweights, Hank Lundy (21-1-1) vs. Dannie Williams (21-1-0), at Mashantucket, Conn. FOOTBALL •5 p.m., NFL NETWORK — Arena League, San Jose vs. Spokane GOLF • 5:30 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Sicilian Open, second round, at Sciacca, Italy •9 a.m., TGC — LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, second round, part I, at Rancho Mirage • Noon, TGC — PGA Tour, Houston Open, second round, at Humble, Texas •3 p.m., TGC — LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, second round, part II, at Rancho Mirage HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL • 8:30 a.m., ESPN2 — National Invita- tional, boys' semifinal, at Bethesda, Md. • 10:30 a.m., ESPN2 — National Invi- tational, boys' semifinal, at Bethesda, Md. MLB •10 a.m., MLB NETWORK—Spring Training, Boston vs. Tampa Bay •1 p.m., MLB NETWORK—Spring Training, L.A. Angels vs. Chicago Cubs NBA •5 p.m., ESPN — Dallas at Orlando •6 p.m., CSNC — Sacramento at Utah • 7:30 p.m., CSNB—New Jersey at Golden State • 7:30 p.m., ESPN — Portland at L.A. Clippers NHL • 4:30 p.m., NHL NETWORK—Mon- treal at N.Y. Rangers •7 p.m., NBCSN — Dallas at Vancou- ver SOCCER • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — MLS, Dallas at DC United TENNIS • Noon, ESPN2 — ATP World Tour/WTA, Sony Ericsson Open, men's semifinal, at Key Biscayne, Fla. •4 p.m., ESPN2 — ATP World Tour/WTA, Sony Ericsson Open, men's semifinal, at Key Biscayne, Fla. Ski report Mt Shasta — Thu 8:46 am 12 new powder machine groomed 75-96 base 32 of 32 trails 100% open, 4 of 4 lifts, Mon-Wed: 9a-4p; Thu- Fri: 9a-9p; Sat: 9a-9p Sun: 9a-4p Bulls Dinner The 4th Annual Red Bluff Bulls Baseball Club Hall of Fame Dinner/Auc- tion will be held 6 p.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Parish Hall. Dinner tickets are on sale now for $20. Tickets can be deliv- ered to your door by phon- ing Denise at 529-2589. 6 p.m. 6 1 Sports and get to the field early and work hard because the baseball is different than in Cuba,'' Ces- pedes said through a translator. Bartolo Colon (1-0) won his Oakland debut after spending last season with the Yankees, pitching three-hit ball over eight innings and allowing his only run on Justin Smoak's sev- enth-inning homer. ''We couldn't get guys on base,'' Smoak said. ''He threw the ball well tonight,'' Josh Reddick followed Ces- pedes and homered off George Sherrill to give Oakland back- to-back homers. Jonny Gomes hit his first Oakland home run in the eighth off Steve Delabar, and Grant Balfour pitched a 1- 2-3 ninth for the save, his first since becoming the A's closer. A day after getting four hits in Seattle's 3-1 win, Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki went 0 for 4 for the Mariners. He excited the crowd of 43,279 in the fifth with a leaping catch up against the wall in right to take away a base hit from Kurt Suzuki. Kelley (0-1) lost in relief of Jason Vargas, who given a lead walked Coco Crisp leading off The Red Bluff Spartans made quick work of Las Plumas, Thursday, with a 9- 0 sweep of their league foe. Spartans ace Igor Minarik breezed past Light- ning Hawj 6-0, 6-0 and Thunder Shaffer shut out Jeff McKetchen 6-0, 6-0. Paul Hendricks and Eddie Samay also won their singles matches without dropping a game. C.J. Varner beat Josh Waters 6-1, 6-0 and Curtis Twitchell defeated Tavish Thao 6-0, 6-0. The Spartans won all three of their doubles match- es to complete the sweep. SOFTBALL The Lady Spartans improved to 9-1-1 on the season with a 9-0 win at Oroville in a rainout make- up, Thursday. Megan McColpin allowed just four hits and two walks across seven innings and struck out 10. Haley Harris led off the game with a single and scored on a double steal play with Bryce Etzler. In the middle innings, Harris had a pair of 2-out RBI doubles to drive in three more runs for Red Bluff. Etzler capped the day with a 2-run homer in the seventh inning. Samantha Jones and Cheyenne Secreto each went 1-1. Jones scored twice and Secreto scored a run. Daily News photos by Rich Greene Red Bluff's Thunder Shaffer returns a shot,Thursday, against Las Plumas. Is Jimmermania over? Fredette no King in NBA yet SACRAMENTO (AP) — Far away from the NBA's brightest lights, Jimmer Fre- dette can walk into a restau- rant or grocery store in Cali- fornia's Central Valley and barely turn a head. There are still some signs and shouts of ''We Want Jim- mer!'' at Sacramento Kings games, and photo and auto- graph seekers sprout up spo- radically. But that's here, on the fringe of the league land- scape. Around the nation, there's no Jimmermania this March. ''It's definitely not as crazy as last year,'' said Fredette, nearing the end of a quiet rookie season. ''It's just a dif- ferent phase of your life, and I've gone through that before.'' Maybe not like this. A year ago, Fredette swept up the country with big perfor- mances in big games that had NBA stars tweeting his name, President Barack Obama men- tioning him while filling out his bracket and BYU faithful in a frenzy that reached beyond the quiet Provo cam- pus. He won almost every national award, including The Associated Press' player of the year honor. As the former BYU sensa- tion returns to Utah on Friday night to face the Jazz, his pop- ularity outside the Beehive State has dwindled and so has his role on one of the NBA's worst teams. ''There are not a lot of peo- ple who would handle what he has gone through as gracefully as Jimmer,'' said his uncle, Lee Taft, who has trained Fre- dette since he was 5 years old. ''Jimmer is just so patient, and he understands his time will come.'' Fredette is still coping with his reshaped reality. The surprising emergence of 5-foot-9 point guard Isaiah Thomas, the 60th and final pick of last year's draft out of Washington whom the Kings are touting for Rookie of the Year honors, is one of the biggest reasons Fredette has been buried on the bench. The other is his struggle to adapt to new coach Keith Smart, who took over for the fired Paul Westphal after a 2-5 start, and his demands that Fredette become more than a ball-dom- inating guard. The coaching change not only complicated Fredette's transition — which already included lost offseason work- outs, summer league and a full training camp due to the pro- longed NBA lockout — it has become the source of ridicule from impatient fans. That passion peaked Feb. 21, when Fredette's brother, T.J., became so frustrated that his sibling sat for all 48 min- MCT file photo Jimmer Fredette is still trying to develop into an NBA star. utes at Miami he tweeted, ''Can we please get rid of this interim coach who should be an assistant at best and bring in a real head coach.'' He later apologized for the remarks. ''Sometimes I have to text Jimmer after games so I feel good,'' joked his father, Al Fredette, who will be in Salt Lake City along with scores of family members and friends Friday night. ''He handles it a lot better than the rest of us.'' Fredette's minutes have steadily evaporated. See KINGS, page 2B 1B Friday March 30, 2012 Cespedes homer leads A's to split the seventh. ''With the matchups we had we felt that was the right time to get him out of there,'' Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. ''He had been through the lineup a couple of times, so we felt it was the right move. Kelley just hung a slider to Cespedes.'' Both teams now head back to U.S., with the Mariners resum- ing spring training games in Arizona on Saturday and Oak- land playing exhibition games in California. They go back to See A's, page 2B Spartans sweep LP; softball wins TENNIS