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Tracker Thursday's results Tehama PLAYOFFS NHL Western Conference — 1st Round Sharks St. Louis Sharks lead series 1-0 MLB Giants Colorado 2 4 Cabrera 2-4, 2RBI, 2B Baumgarner W 1-1, 4H, ER, 2K Today's games BASEBALL Quincy Los Molinos 4 p.m. SOFTBALL Quincy Los Molinos 4 p.m. MLB Pittsburgh Giants PIT — TBD SF — TBD Athletics Seattle OAK—Colon, 1-1 SEA—TBD NBA Kings Oklahoma City 5 p.m. CSNC On the tube AUTO RACING • Noon, SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, "Happy Hour Series," final prac- tice for Samsung Mobile 500, at Fort Worth, Texas •2 p.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nation- wide Series, pole qualifying for O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, at Fort Worth, Texas • 3:30 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Sam- sung Mobile 500, at Fort Worth, Texas • 5:30 p.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, at Fort Worth, Texas •11 p.m., SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Grand Prix of China, at Shanghai BOXING •8 p.m., ESPN2 — Junior welter- weights, Michael Katsidis (28-5-0) vs. Albert Mensah (19-3-1), at Las Vegas FOOTBALL •5 p.m., NFL NETWORK — Arena League, New Orleans at San Antonio GOLF •6 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Malaysian Open, second round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (same-day tape) • 9:30 a.m., TGC — Champions Tour, Pro-Am of Tampa Bay, first round, at Lutz, Fla. • Noon, TGC — PGA Tour, The Her- itage, second round, at Hilton Head Island, S.C. MLB • Noon, MLB NETWORK — Regional coverage, Chicago Cubs at St. Louis or Tampa Bay at Boston (11 a.m. start) • 12:05 p.m., WGN — Chicago Cubs at St. Louis • 1:30 p.m., CSNB — Pittsburgh at San Francisco • 4:30 p.m., MLB — Regional cover- age, Milwaukee at Atlanta or Houston at Miami (4 p.m. start) NBA •5 p.m., CSNC — Sacramento at Oklahoma City •5 p.m., ESPN — Phoenix at Houston • 7:30 p.m., ESPN — Dallas at Port- land NHL •4 p.m., NHL NETWORK — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 1, New Jersey at Florida • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — Playoffs, con- ference quarterfinals, game 2, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh • 4:30 p.m., CNBC — Playoffs, confer- ence quarterfinals, game 2, Detroit at Nashville •7 p.m., NBCSN — Playoffs, confer- ence quarterfinals, game 2, Los Ange- les at Vancouver Around town Volleyball fundraiser The Corning Volley- ball Booster Club is holding a co-ed 4-on-4 volleyball tournament fundraiser Saturday, May 12 at the high school. team. Teams can either be two girls and two boys, three girls and one boy, or four girls. Team registration The cost is $45 per MCT photo The San Jose Sharks' Martin Havlat (9) scores in the first period against the St. Louis Blues and T.J. Oshie, right, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, on Thursday. San Jose won in double overtime, 3-2. tin Havlat scored his second goal of the game 3:34 into the second overtime, giving the San Jose Sharks a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of their playoff series Thursday night. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mar- dropped the last two, howev- er, to Phoenix and Columbus after clinching the Central Division. Andrew Desjardins tied it for San Jose with 5:16 in reg- ulation, banging in a one- timer from the slot from Tommy Wingels, and Dan Boyle had two assists. Antti Niemmi, who won a Stanley Cup with Chicago in 2010, made 40 saves. Patrik Berglund scored his Game 2 is Saturday night in St. Louis, and the Blues will be seeking their first postseason victory since 2004. first two career playoff goals in the third period for the Blues, the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. St. Louis swept the regu- lar season series 4-0 for the first time since 1994-95 and lost only six games in regula- tion at home during the regu- lar season. The Blues at the finish of the regular season, going 4-4-3, the Sharks won four in a row and seven of nine. Havlat has scored 30 points in his last 29 playoff games, and put the Sharks up in the series. The Blues were in control most of the first overtime, reeling off nine shots in a row at one point. Desjardins forced over- time with his second goal in four career playoff games at 14:44, banging in a one- timer from the slot off a feed from Tommy Wingels. Berglund's first goal came on a deflection that fluttered While the Blues struggled just under Niemi's armpit on the stick side in the opening minute, and the second came on a power play at 7:28 after Havlat was whistled for trip- ping Halak behind the net. Andy McDonald's speed created space on the second goal for Berglund, who was waiting in the slot. Berglund had one two-goal game dur- ing the regular season, Jan. 23 against Pittsburgh, and had one goal and no assists the last six games. The Sharks, who were shut out in both trips to St. Louis during the season, cap- italized on David Perron's retaliation slashing penalty to take the lead. After getting driven into the boards by Brent Burns, Perron respond- ed with a two-handed base- ball swing to the torso. Mar- tin Havlat's deflection put San Jose in front with 22 sec- See SHARKS, page 2B 7:10 p.m. 1:35 p.m. 2 3 Sports DENVER (AP) — No win for the ages. Or, for that matter, the aged. At 49, Jamie Moyer failed in his second attempt to become the oldest pitcher to win a major league game when Madison Bumgarner took a no-hit bid into the sixth and scattered four hits over 7 1-3 innings in the San Francisco Giants' 4-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thurs- day. thwarted not only by Bumgarner, another crafty left-hander who in Moyer's shot at history was many ways is a younger version of Moyer, but also by teammate Dexter Fowler, whose sixth- inning error on a routine fly ball to center led to two unearned runs. The Rockies made two errors behind Moyer, who relies on his defense and on fooling hitters, not blowing fastballs past them. ''Yeah, that's what he does,'' teammate Jason Giambi said. ''He gets guys to put the ball in play and you've got to make outs. And you can't make those little mistakes, because he's not a strikeout pitcher. You can't keep asking him to throw more and more pitches.'' Moyer (0-2) surrendered four runs, two earned, and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings. He walked one, struck out three and hit a batter before leaving to a standing ova- Havlat's goal lifts Sharks past Blues 1B Friday April 13, 2012 Bumgarner, Giants beat Moyer, Rockies 4-2 tion in the sixth. ''He's done an outstanding job,'' Giambi said. ''You can't ask more from the two starts he's made for us. It's just unfortunate- ly we've made a mistake here or there or not come up with the big hit to get him over the top and come up with that first W.'' The 22-year-old Bumgarner (1-1), who wasn't even born when Moyer made his major league debut in 1986, stifled a Rockies lineup that had produced See GIANTS, page 2B Busch brothers become owner-driver combination FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Busch Brothers are adding a new dynamic to their relationship. When Kurt Busch gets in the car for Fri- day night's NASCAR Nationwide race in Texas, where he ran in that series for the first time and won six years ago, it will be his debut driving for younger brother Kyle's new stock car team. ''It is owner-driver, but it is brother- brother, and it's unique with me having the upper hand on age,'' 33-year-old Kurt Busch said Thursday. ''But I respect him for the guts that he has to jump into this endeavor, to be the owner.'' After the first of about 17 Nationwide races driving for his brother, they will be competitors again Saturday night in the Sprint Cup race. It was at Texas last November when NASCAR barred 26-year-old Kyle Busch from driving for Joe Gibbs in the Cup and Nationwide races. That came after Busch, driving the truck he owned, deliberately wrecked championship contender Ron Hor- naday Jr. during a caution in the race that started a tripleheader weekend. Since NASCAR's last trip to the 1 1/2- mile high-banked track, Kurt Busch has changed Cup teams. He split with Penske Racing after six seasons in what was called a mutual parting of the ways and is with the new much smaller and less-funded Phoenix Racing team. ''Both teams that I'm with this year are very unique circumstances,'' he said. ''We'll have chances at winning in the Nationwide car, we're going to have to claw and scrap and fight real hard with the Cup car. But we're going to have our opportuni- ties to have fun every week.'' After the Easter break, NASCAR resumes this weekend with the first sched- uled night Cup race of the season, though not the first one. (Don't forget that rain- See BUSCH, page 2B Campbell, Taylor, Knost share RBC Heritage lead HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Chad Campbell used a fast start, and Vaughn Taylor and Colt Knost had strong finishes to share the first-round lead at 4-under 67 in the RBC Heritage on Thursday. Campbell birdied four of his first seven holes, Knost birdied three of his last five, and Taylor holed out from the fairway for a closing eagle on the par-4 ninth hole at Harbour Town Golf Links. packets with rules are available at the Corning High School main office, by calling Mike Albee at 824-8046 or at corninghs.org/vballfundraiser. Registration packets need to be turned in by April 30. The first 16 teams to pay and turn in their forms will receive spots in the tournament. Money is non- refundable. winner, was a stroke back along with Harris Eng- lish, Charlie Wi and Matt Every. Forty-two players, including John Daly in just his second PGA Tour event this year, were at even par or better. Jim Furyk, the 2010 Watson took the week off as did most players ranked in the world's top 20. No. 1 Luke Donald, who has been second, third and second here the past three years, opened with a 75. He has to finish in the top eight or surren- der to the top spot to No. 2 Rory McIlroy next week. Masters winner Bubba MCT photo William McGirt reacts at the 10th fairway during the first round of tourna- ment play of the 44th Annual RBC Heritage presented by Boeing PGA Tour golf tournament, Thursday, at Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, SC. Matt Kuchar was tied for the lead at Augusta National with three holes left before finishing two shots out of the playoff between Watson and Louis Oosthuizen, Kuchar hoped to continue his strong play at Harbour Town, but ended in a large group at 1-over 72. Campbell held a first- round lead for the first time since the 2009 Mas- ters. His game has faded some since then — he recorded just one top 10 at the British Open last year, his fewest since coming out on tour in 2002 — and has missed five cuts in nine tourna- ments this year. ''I haven't felt like I've been that far off,'' Camp- bell said. ''But the results haven't been good at all.'' Campbell got it going quickly at Harbour Town with an 8-foot birdie putt on No. 2 and then consec- utive birdies on the fourth and fifth holes. He moved to 4 under two holes later, rolling in a 20-footer for birdie. Campbell added a final birdie on the 15th. Campbell said the wind reminded him of his days playing golf in West Texas. ''Other than the trees and the ocean,'' he joked. Taylor caught Camp- bell with his stunning shot from 103 yards out on his final hole, the ninth. Taylor, a native of Augusta, Ga., also has struggled and teed off at the RBC Heritage on a sponsor's exemption. He fell back to even par with a double bogey on the 16th hole before heating up on his last nine. He made birdies on the sec- See RBC, page 2B