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Tracker Thursday's results Tehama MLB Athletics Texas 10 innings Reddick: 2-5, HR Suzuki: 2-5, 2 RBI, 2B St. Louis Giants Belt: 2-3, 2B, RBI, walk Posey: 2-4, RBI, walk PLAYOFFS NBA Miami Indiana Indiana leads series 2-1 L.A. Clippers San Antonio Today's games TRACK & FIELD D-1 Finals at Enterprise D-2 Finals at Yreka D-4 Finals at West Valley 10 a.m. MLB Courtesy photo Athletics Giants OAK— Parker, 1-1 SF — Zito, 2-1 PLAYOFFS NBA Boston Philadelphia 5 p.m. ESPN Boston leads series 2-1 Oklahoma City L.A. Lakers 7:30 p.m. ESPN Oklahoma City leads series 2-0 On the tube AUTO RACING • 7:30 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for N.C. Education Lottery 200, at Concord, N.C. • 9 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Sprint Showdown, at Concord, N.C. • 10:30 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Sprint All-Star Race, at Concord, N.C. •1 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, pole qualifying for N.C. Educa- tion Lottery 200, at Concord, N.C. •2 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Sprint Show- down, at Concord, N.C. •3 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Sprint All-Star Race, at Concord, N.C. •5 p.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, N.C. Education Lottery 200, at Concord, N.C. BOXING •6 p.m., ESPN2 — Junior welter- weights, Raymond Serrano (18-0-0) vs. Karim Mayfield (15-0-1), at Albany, N.Y. COLLEGE SOFTBALL • 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 — NCAA Division I playoffs, regionals, game 1, Kentucky vs. Michigan at Louisville, Ky. •4 p.m., ESPN2 — NCAA Division I playoffs, regionals, game 2, Valparaiso at Louisville CYCLING •2 p.m., NBCSN — Tour of California, stage 6, Palmdale to Big Bear Lake FOOTBALL •5 p.m., NFL NETWORK — Arena League, Orlando at New Orleans GOLF •5 a.m., TGC — European PGA Tour, Volvo World Match Play, second round group stage, at Malaga, Spain • 9:30 a.m., TGC — Nationwide Tour, BMW Charity Pro-Am, second round, at Greer, S.C., Greenville, N.C., and Spar- tanburg, S.C. • Noon, TGC — PGA Tour, Byron Nel- son Championship, second round, at Irving, Texas • 3:30 p.m., TGC — LPGA, Sybase Match Play Championship, second round matches, at Gladstone, N.J. (same-day tape) HORSE RACING •1 p.m., NBCSN — NTRA, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, at Baltimore MLB • 11:10 a.m., WGN — Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at Philadelphia or Cincinnati at N.Y.Yankees •7 p.m., MYTV/CSNC — Oakland at San Francisco NBA •5 p.m., ESPN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 4, Boston at Philadel- phia • 7:30 p.m., ESPN — Playoffs, confer- ence semifinals, game 3, Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers WNBA •7 p.m., NBATV — Los Angeles at Seattle Rec League Red Bluff softball May 16 – American Gibbs Auto Bob's Tire Vineyard Tri R Gas Les Schwab Luigis 14 15 4 5 13 8 MYTV/CSNC 7:15 a.m. RODEO By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor Red Bluff's Casey Meroshnekoff and Chelsey Bushnell will lead a solid group of Tehama County cowboys and cowgirls to the State Finals June 13-18 in Bishop. Casey Meroshnekoff and Chelsey Bushnell won the District 1 All-Around championships. amazing this year. "I don't have to be nervous, cause I know what they can do and if I ride them right I can do it," Bushnell said. A look at the District 1 qualifiers: All-Around: Chase Alvernaz, ified along with Corning's Timothy Hoffman, Alvernaz, McArthur's Ster- ling Humphry and champion Colton Campbell, from Klamath Falls, Ore. Tie Down Roping: Little Valley's Williams and Caitlin Campbell, Kla- math Falls, Ore. were the rookie All- Around champions. Queen: This year's queen was Cot- Meroshnekoff and Bushnell won the All-Around titles in District 1 this year. Meroshnekoff said this title meant a little more to him as it came during his season year. Having already earned multiple buckles at numerous events, Merosh- nekoff said the pressure will be off at this year's state finals. "It's just a fun week around of rodeo 94 75 7 5 4 5 Sports All-around champions LATE San Antonio leads series 1-0 1B Friday May 18, 2012 Saturday's softball title game #3 Red Bluff Spartans #1 Shasta Wolves Red Bluff: 28-4-2 (beat PV 8-7 in semis) Shasta: 24-6-1 (had bye) 2 p.m. at Shasta D-II Championship Lady Spartans roster: #1 Samantha Jones, #2 Cheyenne Secreto, #3 Savanah Carrillo, #4 Sarah Jorrick, #6 Krista Rodriguez, #7 Brittney Fletcher, #8 Katie Hall, #9 Megan McColpion, #10 Bryce Etzler, #11 Haley Harris, #12 Tayler Zazueta, #13 Kasarah Bosetti, #14 Brooke Clatty, #16 Emily Larzabal, #18 Morgan Weaver there," he said. Meroshnekoff might have made a name for himself in bareback riding, but he's increased his talents to bull rid- ing and team roping. He said winning all-around is a big- ger accomplishment than just a single event. Bushnell won the rookie all-around a year ago and in her sophomore year claimed the top prize. She said she's excited to see all the friends she met through rodeo at the state finals. She said her nerves shouldn't both- er her, because her horses have been tonwood's Taylor Renihan. Barrel Racing: Cottonwood's Kayla Nichol and Anna Doyle will be joined by Campbell, Bushnell and Chico's Courtney Wood. McArthur's Amy Brown is the alternate. Breakaway Roping: Los Moli- nos' Lily Bertelsen qualified. Linda Johnson from Fort Jones was the champion. They'll also be joined by Wood, Bushnell and Arbuckle's Macey Cox. Cottonwood's Emily Clendenen is the alternate. Pole Bending: Champion Bush- nell will be joined by Los Molinos' Grace Bertelsen, Wood, Palo Cedro's Jesse Stratton and Clendenen. Lily Bertelsen is the alternate. Goat Tying: Wood won the title. Also qualifying were Cox, Lily and Grace Bertelsen and Johnson. Merrill's Keeley Vaughan is the alternate. Girls Cutting: Both Bertelsens, Clendenen and McArthur's Emily Vigil join Stratton, who was the cham- pion. Campbell is the alternate along with Redding's Alex Shongood. Boys Cutting: Meroshnekoff qual- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Matt Cain has had more than his share of stel- lar performances that ended up without a win because of a lack of support. That's why the San Francisco Giants felt so good about picking up their star pitcher on a day he wasn't at his best. two-run single for his first RBIs since April and the Giants capitalized on shod- dy fielding by St. Louis to overcome Cain's slow start and beat the Cardinals 7-5 on Thursday. ''Matt was out of sorts there early. He was just out of synch, just trying to find himself,'' manager Bruce Bochy said. ''He got better. That shows you how tough this guy is. He ended up pitching a pretty good game. It was nice to get him a win like that with all the tough games he's worked where we couldn't get him runs.'' Brandon Crawford hit a St. Louis made three errors in a game for the sec- ond time this week with the most important coming in the sixth inning: Third base- man David Freese's errant throw on pinch-hitter Aubrey Huff's two-out grounder allowed Belt to score the go-ahead run. First baseman Lance Berkman also made an error in the second inning to help lead to Crawford's two-run single. Three of the five runs scored off Adam Wainwright (2-5) were unearned. ''That's not the kind of defense we've been accus- tomed to seeing this year and not the kind of defense we're going to see the rest of the way,'' manager Mike Matheny said. ''It's just one of those games.'' Quincy Crum and Humphry tied for the title. Also qualifying were Camp- bell, Grenada's CJ Cash and McArthur's Kyle Brown. Merosh- nekoff is the alternate. Steer Wrestling: Red Bluff's Cole Robinson was champion and Logan Robinson qualified along with Brown. Barrel Racing: Meroshnekoff will be joined by Logan Robinson. Saddle Bronc: Red Bluff's Pierce McClelland qualified along with Cash. Little Valley's Quincy Crum was champion. Barrel Racing: Another Merosh- nekoff event. He'll be joined by Los Molinos' Ty Troberg, Dorris' Bobby Vaughan and Nathan Crushman and Cash. The alternates are Cody Ellis, Cottonwood and Kasey Baker, Red- ding. Team Roping —Header: Bush- nell is joined by Humphry, Johnson, Millville's Brody Gill and Crum. Chico's Colby Chambers and Lake- view, Ore.'s Addie Engelhart are alter- nates. Team Roping — Heeler: Merosh- Oh, this should be a good one. The teams split their season series 2-2. Shasta won the season opener 2-1 way back on March 9. Red Bluff beat the Wolves twice at Shasta's own tournament, 4-1 on April 20 then 6-0 the following day. Shasta evened things up last week when the beat Red Bluff 12- 9 after the Lady Spartans lost a huge lead late. Red Bluff comes into the game ranked 173rd in the nation. Shasta is 303rd. Shasta has a pair of .400 hitters in Noelle Blake and Ally Bryant. Blake has 42 RBIs and nine homers. As a team Shasta has hit 21 home runs. They've relied on a pair of stud arms this season in Molly Rubidoux and Alex Silva. They posted a 0.75 ERAfor the year, striking out 263 batters in 216 innings. their fifth straight section title game. Shasta last won a section title in 1991. Red Bluff has won eight since then. The Lady Spartans are in nekoff is joined by Red Bluff's Wyatt Brown, Campbell, Cash, Lakeview Ore.'s Rial Engelhart and Cotton- wood's Cameron Jones. Crawford's 2 RBIs help Giants beat Cardinals butt off like he did today and he's not getting the run support. Fortunately today we helped him out and got him the W.'' Santiago Casilla pitched the ninth for his ninth save in 10 chances. hit his two-run single in the second for the Giants, end- ing a string of 16 straight games without driving in a run. Cain (3-2) has been plagued by poor run sup- port for his entire career with the Giants scoring a major league-low 3.89 runs per game for him since his first big league season in 2006. But with help from the Cardinals they managed to score five runs with Cain in the game on Thursday to make up for his rough start that included Matt Holli- day's two-run homer in the third inning. Cain won for just the fifth time in 54 career starts when he allowed four earned runs. ''It's usually the other way around,'' Belt said. ''He's usually battling his Cain came into the game with the second best ERA at home in the majors this sea- son, having allowed four runs in 33 innings for a 1.09 mark. He allowed as many runs in the first three innings against the Cardi- nals as he had in his previ- ous four starts here. He allowed sacrifice flies by Holliday and Freese in the first inning and Holli- day's two-run homer in the third to fall behind 4-3. Cain retired 10 of the final 11 batters he faced. He allowed eight hits in six innings. ''I started out a little rough,'' Cain said. ''I was kind of all over the place a little bit. A lot of pitches seemed like they were cut- ting back toward the mid- dle. I wasn't making good quality pitches and they were taking advantage of it. The guys hung in there with me and got some runs and got the runs we needed and got the win. Crawford doubled and scored on Buster Posey's single in the first and then Cain ended up on the winning side when the Giants scored twice in the sixth. Emmanuel Burriss tied it with a sacrifice fly and Freese's errant throw allowed the go-ahead run to score. Wainwright allowed eight hits in 5 2-3 innings. After winning 20 games in 2010, Wainwright is still working his way back after missing last season with an elbow injury. ''Everybody keeps telling me, 'Just be patient. It's coming. You're looking better and better,''' he said. ''But it's tough when you're coming from where I'm coming from, the seasons I've had in the past, it's tough to hear that and not get frustrated because I expect to be great. I haven't been great but I feel like the ball's coming out better.'' San Francisco added two runs in the seventh off Kyle McClellan on Belt's RBI double and Charlie Culber- son's groundout. McClellan left the game with a sore right elbow and was sched- uled to go back to St. Louis to get checked out. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Brandon McCarthy thought he had a double play. Instead, the Texas Rangers had a suc- cessful squeeze bunt and the lead, and the Oakland A's had a mess on their hands. Athletics overcome disputed call to win The A's bounced back from the disputed sequence that ended with manager Bob Melvin ejected and McCarthy in the dugout, and Kila Ka'aihue had a tiebreak- ing single in the 10th inning to give Oakland a 5-4 victory against Texas on Thursday. After Mitch Moreland's second home run off McCarthy tied the score in the sixth inning, the Rangers took the lead when speedster Craig Gentry broke from third as Elvis Andrus popped up a bunt between the mound and home plate. McCarthy thought he caught the ball on the fly and threw to third for what he figured would be a double play, but home plate umpire Laz Diaz ruled he trapped it. Gentry was ruled safe for a 4-3 Texas lead, and Oak- land didn't get anybody out. See A's, page 2B