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Tracker Wednesday's results Tehama MLB Chi. White Sox Athletics 14 innings Cespedes: 3-5, HR, 3 RBI Suzuki: 3-6 Giants Cincinnati Pagan: 1-5, HR Zito: 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 Ks Tuesday's results BASEBALL Pleasant Valley Red Bluff Corning West Valley Trace Garrett: 1-2 E Esparto Los Molinos SOFTBALL Red Bluff Pleasant Valley 1 5 10 0 6 5 4 2 5 4 Sports BASEBALL Pleasant Valley Red Bluff By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor Behind sophomore pitcher Ryan Dufort the Pleasant Valley Vikings ripped Red Bluff 5-1, Tuesday. It was the second time in a week the Spartans had been hum- bled by an EAL-North team after 5 1 losing to Foothill 11-1 on Thurs- day. Red Bluff, which had won 17 straight games before the Foothill contest, has now dropped two of their past three. The Spartans were hosting Oroville, Wednesday night. Dufort held the Spartans to just three hits, a pair by Cole Robinson and a seventh inning single by Tyler Reed, who started the game on the mound for Red Bluff. The Vikings pestered Reed early, loading the bases in the first inning and chasing in a run when Ryan Souza singled to drive in Matt Henderson. Somehow Reed was able to limit the damage in the inning to just a single run as he got a pair of Vikings swinging for strike outs. Reed and the Spartans wouldn't be so lucky in the second inning. With two out and two on, Michael Sanderson ripped a dou- ble to drive in Colton Thomas and Henderson. Zeke Colby followed with an RBI single to bring home Sanderson and the Vikings led 4-0. Red Bluff finally got on the scoreboard in the fourth inning when Robinson led off with an infield single. Chuy Ramirez then ripped a hot shot to third that was misplayed to give the Spartans a Chico shuts down Lady Spartans 4 2 Bryce Etzler: 2-3, 2B, RBI, run Tayler Zazueta: RBI single Megan McColpin: double, run Krista Rodriguez: 1-3 Corning Yreka E Esparto Los Molinos SOCCER Chico Red Bluff TENNIS Shasta Red Bluff Central Valley Corning Today's games TENNIS Red Bluff Paradise Corning Anderson 3 p.m. 5 4 8 1 Daily NEws photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff's Chelsey Jauregui battles for the ball during Red Bluff's 6-0 loss to Chico,Tuesday. 3:30 p.m. GOLF EAL-South at Tuscan Ridge MLB Giants Cincinnati SF — Vogelsong, 0-1 CIN — Bailey, 1-2 NBA San Antonio Warriors L.A. Lakers Kings 7:30 p.m. TNT 7:30 p.m. CSNC On the tube AUTO RACING •4 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, K&N Pro Series, at Richmond, Va. COLLEGE SOFTBALL •4 p.m., ESPN2 — Texas at Texas A&M CYCLING •2 p.m., NBCSN — Tour de Romandie, stage 2, Montbeliard, France to Moutier, Switzerland (same- day tape) GOLF •6 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Ballantine's Championship, first round, at Seoul, South Korea (same-day tape) • 9:30 a.m., TGC — LPGA, Mobile Bay Classic, first round, at Prattville, Ala. • Noon, TGC — PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, first round, at New Orleans MLB • 9:30 a.m., CSNB—San Francisco at Cincinnati •5 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at Chicago White Sox or Toron- to at Baltimore (4 p.m. start) •5 p.m., WGN — Boston at Chicago White Sox NBA •5 p.m., TNT — New York at Charlotte • 7:30 p.m., TNT — San Antonio at Golden State • 7:30 p.m., CSNC—L.A. Lakers at Sacramento NFL FOOTBALL •5 p.m., ESPN — Draft, first round, at New York NHL HOCKEY •4 p.m., NBCSN — Playoffs, confer- ence quarterfinals, game 7, Ottawa at NY Rangers • 5:30 p.m., NHL NETWORK — Play- offs, conference quarterfinals, game 7, New Jersey at Florida (joined in progress after the completion of the Ottawa-Rangers game) 9:35 a.m. CSNB 1:30 p.m. Yoenis Cespedes' timely hitting decided countless games at every level of base- ball back home in Cuba. Doing it at as a first-year major leaguer means so much to the young Oakland Athletics. With two of the Ameri- can League's top pitching teams dueling it out for a third straight day, Kila Ka'aihue blooped a winning single in the 14th inning soon after Cespedes' tying two-run homer, and the A's rallied past the Chicago White Sox 5-4 on Wednes- day. ''Yoenis is coming up in that situation and he's grind- ing hard every pitch, every out,'' A's manager Bob Melvin said. ''(It was) more perseverance than anything else, because it seemed like in the middle of the game nobody was going to score for a while.'' He was right. Both clubs missed chances and the game kept going. Josh Reddick hit a one- out single in the 14th, then Cespedes delivered his fifth A's score 3 in 14th, rally past White Sox 5-4 OAKLAND (AP) — 0 6 5 4 12 1 real. 1B Thursday April 26, 2012 Vikings top Spartans pair of base runners. A Robby Lasby fielder's choice moved Robinson to third and the Spartans speedster eventually scored after tagging on a Reed fly out to first base. But the Vikings got their run back when Souza doubled to start the fifth inning and two batters later Ian Melton drove him home off Spartans reliever Tyler Boone. Pleasant Valley once again loaded the bases in the sixth inning, but Jared Poore came in from the bullpen to end the threat. It didn't matter much as Red Bluff had no answer for Dufort. Spartans get big win TENNIS This Spartans team is for Red Bluff knocked off Shasta 5-4, Tuesday, hand- ing the Wolves their first loss in recent memory. It was a dramatic victory for Red Bluff as C.J. Varner won a grueling 7-5 0-6, 7-6 match over Jake Zlotowski to split the singles matches three a piece. Red Bluff and Shasta each took a doubles match and it came down to Vaner and Thunder Shaffer prevail- ing 10-8 over T.J. Aukland and Mitch Linandos. "It was awesome baby," coach Stan Twitchell said in an e-mail. Spartans sensation Igor Minarik defeated Chad Mal- lamo-Jancki 6-0, 6-3. Shaffer beat Quinton Langfield 6-1, 6-0. Minarik and Paul Hen- dricks won in doubles 10-3. On Wednesday Red Bluff made up a rainout with Oroville and beat them 8-1. Igor Minarik defeated Sar Vang 6-1, 6-0. Thunder Shaffer defeated Humberto Hernandez 6-0, 6-0 C.J. Varner beat Yeng Lo 6-2, 6-0. Paul Hendricks shut down Yee Thao 6-0 6-0 and Eddie Samay downed Dee Lo 6-4, 6-4. The Cardinals put an 8-1 whipping on Central Valley, Tuesday, to improve to 8-4 on the season. Corning swept all six sin- gles matches. MCT photo The Athletics celebrate their 14th inning victory,Wednesday afternoon. ninth. homer of the season against Hector Santiago (0-1) after Chicago took the lead in the top half of the 14th. Ka'ai- hue came through with the big hit in a game that lasted 3 hours, 56 minutes. ''You relish that, you look forward to it when you're taking your BP and your work,'' Ka'aihue said. ''You prepare to get that big hit. You don't work on grounding out and flying out. It wasn't the hardest ball I've hit in my life. It won the game for the team, that's all that counts.'' Jim Miller (1-0) struck out Brent Lillibridge for his first major league win after being called up earlier in the day. ahead two-run double with two outs in the top of the 14th. Paul Konerko hit his 400th career home run to tie the game at 2 in the Chicago Alexei Ramirez hit a go- everybody likes the round numbers. When it comes to that kind of stuff, I think when I'm done playing and look back, that's when it might hit home more. The game featured The round numbers, ''Take Me Out to the Ball Game'' twice, along with a 14th-inning stretch. Cincinnati rallies in 7th, beat Giants 4-2 After a pair of gems from See A's, page 2B CINCINNATI (AP) — Scott Rolen's homer started a four-run rally in the sev- enth inning that swept the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-2 vic- tory Wednesday night, extending the San Francisco Giants' misery at Great American Ball Park. Rolen's first homer since July 6 ended Barry Zito's shutout and got into the Giants' bullpen, which let the game get away on a rain- slicked field. Clay Hensley (1-2) threw wildly for an error after slipping as he fielded a bunt. Jeremy Affeldt's wild pitch allowed the go-ahead run to score. It was another miserable game for the Giants at Great American, where they've dropped seven straight and 12 of 16. Zito remains win- less there in six starts. Jose Arredondo (2-0) had one perfect inning. Sean Mar- shall pitched the ninth and remained perfect in four save chances. Before the game, the Giants put Aubrey Huff on the 15-day disabled list while he gets treatment for an anxiety attack. Huff left the team after having a tough time in a game on Sat- urday. He could rejoin the team in San Francisco next weekend. Pablo Sandoval singled in the third inning, giving him a hit in each of the first 18 games. That matches Johnny Rucker's mark with the 1945 New York Giants for best season- opening streak in franchise history. Neither team did much through the first six innings, when a steady rain forced the grounds crew to spread bags of drying mate- rial around the infield at each changeover. Angel Pagan hit a solo homer in the third off Bronson Arroyo, giving him a 10-game hit- ting streak that matches his career high. Arroyo lasted five innings, giving up at least one hit in each of them. Until Wednesday night, Zito has struggled at Great American, going 0-2 in five starts with 7.20 ERA. The left-hander allowed only four singles through six shutout innings, then left after giving up Rolen's lead- off homer in the seventh. Hensley, who hadn't allowed an earned run this season, gave up a single by Ryan Ludwick and set up the Reds' go-ahead runs with a slip. He nearly lost his footing while fielding Ryan Hanigan's bunt, then threw wildly to first. Drew Stubbs' walk loaded the bases, and Wilson Valdez's sacrifice fly tied it. Affeldt threw a wild pitch that let in another run, and Joey Votto doubled for a 4-2 lead. "The players played some really good tennis, improving and gaining con- fidence," coach Mike Albee said. Durante Rodriguez beat Kao Saelee 6-3, 6-0. Erik Espinoza knocked off Jake Bergstrom 6-1, 6-3. Robert Garcia rallied to beat Kano Hausophan- Thong 4-6, 6-1, 10-4. Javier Curiel outlasted Chiem Saechao 6-1, 7-6, 7- 4. Omar Diaz beat Pollo Marin 6-0, 6-1 and Dan Gaskell beat Stephen Land 6-0, 6-3.