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Tracker Wednesday's results Tehama NBA Warriors Minnesota Lee: 31 points, 8 rebounds Jenkins: 19 points, 7 assists Tuesday's results TENNIS Yreka Corning Today's games BASEBALL Raley Field High School Baseball Series Red Bluff Rio Linda 6:30 p.m. TENNIS Corning University Prep 3:30 p.m. GOLF Mercy Kelseyville at Adams Springs 1 p.m. Courtesy photo by We Shoot Ya Photography NBA L.A. Clippers Kings NHL Sharks Los Angeles 7:30 p.m. CSNC On the tube GOLF • Noon, ESPN — Masters Tournament, first round, at Augusta, Ga. MLB • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — Boston at Detroit • 11:10 a.m., WGN — Washington at Chicago Cubs •1 p.m., ESPN2 — Miami at Cincinnati •4 p.m., MLB — L.A. Dodgers at San Diego MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY •5 p.m., ESPN2 — NCAA, Division I tournament, semifinal, Boston College vs. Minnesota, at Tampa, Fla. NBA •4 p.m., TNT — New York at Orlando • 6:30 p.m., TNT — Boston at Chicago •7 p.m., CSNC—L.A. Clippers at Sacramento NHL •4 p.m., NBCSN — N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh •4 p.m., NHL NETWORK—Florida at Washington • 7:30 p.m., CSNC—San Jose at Los Angeles TENNIS • 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 — WTA, Family Circle Cup, round of 16, at Charleston, S.C. (same-day tape) Around town Basketball camps Dates have been set for the Angie Weir Miller Fundamental Basketball Camps in June at Lassen View School. The cost us $50 for first and second graders and $75 for higher grades. For a brochure or more information contact Angie at 514-2712. • 1st-2nd Grade By RICHGREENE DN Sports Editor Pleasant Valley scored five runs in the seventh inning, Wednesday, to come from behind and hand the Lady Spartans their first loss since their season opener against Shasta. Red Bluff loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom half of the second, but could only push across one run and fell 7-6. Red Bluff had overcome a pair of early 1-run 7 p.m. CSNC Meaggan Rector signs her Letter of Intent to join the Sacramento State Hornets track and field team after she graduates from Red Bluff Union High School with high school coaches Corey Hein and Laird Richards looking on. Rector was the Northern Section shot put champion as a junior. 1 8 J. Guttierrez & D. Gaskell, W 8-5 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rookie Hector Sanchez spent the winter back home in Venezuela fine-tuning his swing while turning most of his attention to becoming a better defen- sive catcher. Day after day, he fueled his improvement with thoughts of making the Giants' opening day roster. His power bat did a lot to earn him San Francisco's backup catcher job behind 2010 NL Rookie of the Year Buster Posey after an impressive spring, leaving Eli Whiteside as odd man out. ''It's a great opportunity for me,'' Sanchez said. ''I was dreaming of this for a long time — to stay with the team and enjoy this moment. I want to help the team as much as I can.'' PV rallies in 7th to beat Lady Spartans, Wednesday SOFTBALL Pleasant Valley Red Bluff 7 6 94 97 Rector signs with Sac State Sports 1B Thursday April 5, 2012 Giants finalize roster Sanchez, the Rookie of See GIANTS, page 2B deficits to take what seemed like a commanding 5-2 lead in the fourth inning following a Morgan Weaver 2-run homer. Megan McColpin set the next six Lady Bob- cats down in order and the Lady Spartans were just three outs away from another win. But a pair of walks to start the seventh inning for Paradise set a different story in progress. Mat- tea Belmonte followed with a single to load the bases with no outs. McColpin got True Park to pop up to Bryce Etzler at shortstop, but Courtney Richter and Sammi Minter followed with RBI singles that somehow found their way through to the outfield to put Paradise on top. Jessica Gallaway blooped in one final RBI- single before the inning ended and the Lady Spar- tans were down 7-5, with just three outs left of their own to work with. With one down, Weaver rifled a singled over Girls/Boys, June 11-15, 9 a.m. to noon. • 3rd-4th Grade Girls/Boys, June 11-15, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • 5th-6th Grade Girls/Boys, June 18-22, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • 9th-12th Grade Booster fundraiser The Red Bluff Spar- tan Athletic Booster 4- man scramble golf tour- nament is scheduled for April 28 at Wilcox Oaks. non-Wilcox members and $75 for members. Entry includes tee prize, 18 holes of golf with cart and lunch. A Hole in One during the scramble wins a 2012 GMC pickup. Sponsorships are also The cost is $100 for available. Call Stephanie or Ken at 527-1111. MediaNews Group photo by Jeff Larson/Paradise Post Bryce Etzler digs into the batter's box,Tuesday, at Paradise. Girls/Boys, June 18-22, 9 a.m. to noon. • 7th-8th Grade Girls/Boys, June 25-29, 9 a.m. to noon. Daily News photo by Rich Greene the third base bag off of Park. Brooke Clatty fol- lowed, reaching base safely for the fourth time in the game. Following a Samantha Jones sacrifice bunt, the Bobcats pitched around Haley Harris to load the bases. was hit hard enough that only pinch runner Katie Hall could score and Clatty had to hold at third. McColpin came through with a single, but it Red Bluff pitcher Megan McColpin flips the ball to Krista Rodriguez for an out,Wednesday. Park then got Brittney Fletcher to fly out to left field to end the game. Red Bluff dropped to 10-2-1 on the season in the non-league game. Red Bluff runs as Harris doubled home Clatty and Tayler Zazueta doubled home Bryce Etzler. Kaylie Hull homered in the fourth inning for Pleasant Valley. On Tuesday, Lady Spartans use 13 unanswered runs to beat Paradise SOFTBALL Paradise Red Bluff 13 2 veteran team does, the Red Bluff Lady Spartans bided its time until it saw a kink in the armor of an oppo- nent, then exploded whole-hearted- ly, Tuesday. The result for Red Bluff was a 13-2 Eastern Athletic League- South win on the road over Par- adise. "We didn't want to lose, we were saying that from the beginning," Red Bluff junior shortstop Bryce Etzler said. For Etzler and Red Bluff, the game turned its way in the top of the fifth after Paradise junior starter Danielle Kelm loaded the bases courtesy of a pair of walks with one out. At that point, Bobcats first-year coach Jay Peters elected to pull Kelm, who'd pitched four scoreless innings and allowed just two hits and one walk before that, for the soft-tossing Jessie Salsbury. Etzler, the team's cleanup hitter, By JEFFLARSON MediaNews Group PARADISE — Like any good Combinations of doubles scored the first two jumped all over the junior relief pitcher, belting a line drive to right- center field for a three-run triple to put the Spartans in front, 3-2. "We've seen the second pitcher quite often so we were a little more used to her," Etzler said. It turns out Red Bluff was just getting started, as sophomore Tayler Zazueta chased home Etzler with a double to left-center that extended the lead to 4-2. An inning later, senior Brittney Fletcher, Red Bluff's No. 3 hitter, joined the hit parade with a two-RBI base hit, scoring leadoff hitter Haley Harris and Samantha Jones and putting the EAL South's first-place team in front, 6-2. Red Bluff scored seven more runs in the final inning to bust the game wide open, but as Peters said, the fifth-inning was the difference. At the same time, he said Salsbury did all she could to try and stop the bleeding. "Jessie came in a tough spot, she had the bases loaded and I knew they were going to score a run or two off it," Peters said. "I'll tell ya their three-four-five in the lineup can hit." prowess at the top of the order, Peters didn't second guess himself. He said he wanted to bring Salsbury in to face Etzler. Knowing Red Bluff's hitting