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Tehama Tracker Monday's results PLAYOFFS San Antonio NBA Utah 81 87 San Antonio wins series 4-0 Memphis L.A. Clippers Today's games PLAYOFFS 1ST ROUND Shasta Red Bluff 3:30 p.m. BASEBALL Red Bluff Enterprise Los Molinos Quincy 4 p.m. Schmul wins Pro-Am Sports LATE L.A. Clippers lead series 2-1 By RICH GREENE DNSports Editor course won. Wilcox Oaks frustrated golfers for This year one could argue the two days at the 2012 Les Schwab Tires Red Bluff Pro-Am as only three rounds broke par all tournament. All three of those rounds were 1- unders shot on Monday and all three produced the top three finishers. Jason Schmul wound up with top honors. He paired his 71 on Monday with a 2-over 74 from Sunday to fin- ish at 145. 4 p.m. SOFTBALL Foothill Red Bluff Los Molinos Quincy 4 p.m. The score tied for the highest win- ning total in the tournament's 21 year history. For the second consecutive year Isaac Sanchez finished one shot behind the club house lead with a 146. Red Bluff Pro-Am Jason Schmul 74-71—145 Isaac Sanchez 75-71—146 Dave Carr Kris Isackson 74-75—149 J.J. Abraham 75-75—150 Steve Richelieu 72-78—150 Josh Westmoreland 74-76—150 Garett Dagg 77-74—151 Steve Deveraux 73-78—151 Jarrod Warner 76-75—151 Mike Paul 76-71—147 Dave Carr finished at 147 for third. The 2010 champion lost in a playoff a year ago to Joe Carlton. While Carlton moved to Colorado since then, it was still a bit of a title defense in Schmul winning. Both Schmul and Carlton come 4 p.m. SOCCER Pleasant Valley Red Bluff 3:30 p.m. GOLF EAL Playoffs at Tierra Oaks MLB Toronto Athletics TOR—R. Romero, 4-0 OAK—Parker, 1-0 Giants L.A. Dodgers SF—Vogelson, 0-2 LAD—Kershaw, 2-0 PLAYOFFS Orlando NBA Daily News photo by Rich Greene Indiana 4 p.m. NBATV Indiana leads series 3-1 Boston Atlanta Boston leads series 3-1 Philadelphia Chicago The winning Pro-Am team of Sara Nygard, Russ Nygard, Seth Riddell, Isaac Sanchez and Kai Zheng. 5 p.m. TNT Mota gets 100-game drug suspension 6:30 p.m. NBATV Philadelphia leads series 3-1 Denver L.A. Lakers San Antonio leads series 3-0 On the tube MLB •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Tampa Bay at N.Y.Yankees or Texas at Baltimore •5 p.m., WGN — Atlanta at Chicago Cubs •7 p.m., CSNB—San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers •7 p.m., CSNC—Toronto at Oakland NBA •4 p.m., NBATV — Playoffs, first round, game 5, Orlando at Indiana •5 p.m., TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 5, Boston at Atlanta • 6:30 p.m., NBATV—Playoffs, first round, game 5, Philadelphia at Chicago • 7:30 p.m., TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 5, Denver at L.A. Lakers NHL • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — Playoffs, con- ference semifinals, game 5, New Jer- sey at Philadelphia SOCCER • Noon, FOX SOCCER — Premier League, Chelsea at Liverpool Rec League DRT Red Bluff softball May 1 – National Like a Good Neighbor 16 13 Get a Load of These Guys 3 Elite Bob's Tire Luigi's Vineyard May 2 – American 17 18 2 Les Schwab Tri R Gas 7 Gibbs AutoBody 9 13 12 7:30 p.m. TNT LOS ANGELES (AP) — San Francisco Giants reliever Guillermo Mota was suspended for 100 games on Monday, becom- ing just the third major league player penalized twice for positive drug tests. The commissioner's office said the 38-year-old right-hander tested positive for Clenbuterol. In Novem- ber 2006, while with the New York Mets, Mota was suspended for the first 50 games of the next season. ''We won't have Mota for a while. It is what it is, and you move on,'' manager Bruce Bochy said before the Giants began a three-game series against the Dodgers. ''If we get into a situation where we need a pitcher, we're going to have to make a change. Right now we're going with 11 pitchers, and if we have to adjust, we will. We've got some pretty good options, we think, and Brian (Sabean) and I will continue to talk about them.'' Mota's agent Adam Katz said in a statement that the Clenbuterol was in chil- dren's cough syrup. ''Players are responsible for what they put in their bodies. Guillermo under- stands that,'' Katz said. ''A 100-game suspension for taking a children's cough medicine that contains trace amounts of a prohibited sub- stance, which is what hap- pened here, is severe and unfair and does not reflect the intention of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treat- ment Program. We will appeal it.'' Alfonzo was suspended for 50 games in 2008 while with San Francisco and for 100 games last September while with Colorado. By the time Mota's suspension is over, the Giants will have 34 games left on the schedule. Mota was 0-1 with a 5.06 ERA in nine games for the Giants this year. This is his 14th season in the majors. He has been a setup man and middle reliever through- out his career. He is 39-45 with 10 saves in 726 games while playing with Montre- al, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida, Cleve- land, the New York Mets, Milwaukee and San Francis- co. The Major League Base- ball Players Association filed a grievance challenging the suspension that will be heard by an arbitrator. Under baseball's drug agreement, grievances for initial positive tests are heard before a sus- pension is announced but cases involving second or third positives are argued after the penalty is made public. Outfielder Manny Ramirez and catcher Eliezer Alfonzo are the only previ- ous players to twice test pos- itive. No player has tested positive a third time, which would result in a lifetime ban. 7:10 p.m. CSNB 7:05 p.m. CSNC from Windsor Golf Club. "We got a good playing club," Schmul said. Red Bluff, he was able to overcome the torturous Back 9 by firing a 73 over the two rounds on the Front 9. "The Back 9 I was falling apart both days," Schmul said. In just his second year playing in Jason Schmul Sanchez had a bit of a consolation prize this year as he was a part of the low team with amateurs Russ Nygard, Sara Nygard, Kai Zheng and Seth Riddell. The fivesome ran away with the title with a 194 on Monday for a two-day score of 398. Gary Gans won the putting con- test. Bobby Hudack 78-80—158 Charlie Gibson 83-76—159 Jim Hosley 86-73—159 Kevin Williams 82-77—159 Mack Tucker 82-78—160 Travis Grisham 79-82—161 Geno Ivaldi 81-82—163 Dale Southwick 81-82—163 Peter Mason 85-81—166 Jeff Phelps 84-83—167 Sean McGaughey 81-87—168 Mike Mattingly 84-86—170 Bryan Sterling 84-86—170 George Fahey 87-84—171 Bill DeWildt 90-84—174 Greg Senestraro 79-73—152 Dane Judson 75-79—154 Kyle Hansen 76-80—156 Dan Scott 77-75—152 81-76—157 "Mac" McDonald, Glenn Galle- gos and Chris Chapin won Saturday's horse race, while Carr and Dwain Barfuss won Sunday's horse race. field team kept turning in fast times and big scores, Friday, at the Kays/Ostrom Nevada Union Invitational in Grass Valley. Zach Iverson won the 400 meters against a full, competitive field with a time of 50.71 seconds. Iverson then went on to capture the 4x400 relay title with Daniel Gonzalez, Jonah McInnis and Cody Lehman with a time of 3:30.26. The Red Bluff track & Lehman placed second in the 110-meter hurdles at 15.68. McInnis was second in the high jump with a mark of 5'10". Dominic Lightfoot placed second in discus (146'9") and third in the shot put (47'4"). Lily Brose, Allison Win- ning, Joanna Smith-Conrad and Adrienne Hinkston were second in the girls' 4x400 relay with a time of 4:09.89. Brose placed second in the 100 meters (12.68) and was third in the 200 meters (25.84). 2012 Les Schwab Tires 1B Tuesday May 8, 2012 Grass Valley TRACK Spartans excel at Meaggan Rector was second in the shot put (38'9") and third in the dis- cus (107'10"). While Kayla Thayer took second in the discus with a mark of 115'4". in the first inning and went on to blast Red Bluff 14-3, Friday. Taylor Figgs, Jaime Gon- zalez and Tyler Boone drove in runs for Red Bluff, who fell to 20-7 on the season. In the latest batch of play- BASEBALL Chico scored seven runs off points released Red Bluff is third in Division-I. Foothill (25-2) is first and Pleasant Valley (22-7) is sec- ond. Corning (9-12) was hold- ing on to the last playoff position, the eighth seed in Division-II. Los Molinos (3-10) was 10th out of 10 teams in Divi- sion-IV. SOFTBALL The Lady Spartans (25-3- 2) are still in the No. 2 posi- tion in the latest released playoff point rankings. Red Bluff still has a game left against No. 1 Shasta (20- 5-1). In Division-IV, Corning (8-9) sits in the No. 8 posi- tion. sitting far outside the playoff range in Division-V. Los Molinos (0-9) was Branch signs franchise tender MCT file photo Guillermo Mota was suspended 100 games. ''I don't much about what happened. But we lost a guy and he's done for a while, so losing him is a big blow,'' pitching coach Dave Righetti said. ''He's always been ready to pitch, and he's been effective whether he's a long guy or a short guy. Sometimes we've used him in the seventh, sometimes to finish a game. So we have a lot of confidence in him. He brings a veteran presence that comes to work every day ready to go, and he shows these guys how to work. That's the reason we keep bringing him back.'' This is Mota's third sea- son with the Giants. He was with the Mets when he pre- viously suspended and missed the first 50 games of the 2007 season. At the time of that suspension, the iden- tity of a substance causing a positive test is being made public under the new collec- tive bargaining agreement. Clenbuterol acts as a stimulant, increasing heart rate. In medicine, it is used to treat asthma. Like some steroids, the drug also has anabolic effects. Athletes See MOTA, page 2B ALAMEDA (AP) — Oakland Raiders safety Tyvon Branch signed his $6.2 million franchise tag tender on Monday and reported to offseason work- outs with the team. The Raiders placed the tag on Branch on March 1 and he was unable to join the team until signing the tender or reaching a long-term con- tract. The two sides are still hoping to reach a long-term deal before a July 15 dead- line to give the Raiders more salary cap room and Branch more stability. See BRANCH, page 2B