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ByChipThompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter REDDING There wasn't much to celebrate Saturday evening at Shasta College when the South team, including eight players from Mercy and Los Molinos, bat- tled the North squad in the Lions All Star 8-man football game. The South was shut out 56-0 in the lopsided affair, despite strong performances from Mer- cy's Al House, Bryce Baer and Richie Borges and Los Molinos' Tyler Winter. Other standouts for the South squad were Greenville's Ray Bus- tamante, Elk Creek's Jared Bur- row and Loyalton's Luke Camp- bell. House got loose for several longer runs, but for the most part was contained by a talented North team. Winter ground out some runs later in the game and Borges pinned the North back more than once with booming punts. The players from Mercy, which went undefeated in league play last season, were used to get- ting House free for runs that of- ten went to the end zone once he got into the open field. But the North team shut down House and Campbell, who both pounded the ball in the opening quarter with FOOTBALL SOUTH HAS ROUGH OUTING IN 8-MAN ALL STAR GAME LosMo's Winter named player of the week CHIPTHOMPSON-DAILYNEWS Los Molinos' Tyler Winter grinds out a few yards Saturday evening in the Lions All Star 8-man football game at Shasta College. CHIP THOMPSON - DAILY NEWS Mercy's Al House breaks free for a run Saturday evening in the Lions All Star 8-man football game at Shasta College. ELK GROVE The Red Bluff American Legion Post 167 16U team won the All World Father's Day Classic in Elk Grove, beat- ing Drain Athletics of Stockton 8 to 4 in eight innings. After taking a 2-1 lead in the first inning the Bulls found themselves struggling to plate any more runs until the top of the seventh. Down 4-2, leadoff hitter Kurtis Gipson was hit by a pitch. Fabian Chavez reached base when the Athletic's short- stop mishandled a sharp ground ball. With Gipson at second and Chavez at first, the starting pitcher for the favored Athletics began to show signs of fatigue. AJ Poni loaded the bases when he too was hit by a pitch. Consecutive singles by Tris- ten Hobart and Sevee Johnson plated Gipson and Chavez to tie the game. Gipson, who took the mound in the sixth in relief of Tren- ton Coates, shut down the op- ponents in order in the bottom of the seventh. In the top of the eighth, the Bulls started with Drew Stacy on second base with the extra inning rule in effect. Matteo Zepeda laid down a perfect bunt to move Stacy to third but an er- rant throw by the relief pitcher bounced by the first basemen and went into right field, al- lowing Stacy to score and get- ting Zepeda to third. Coates followed with a single to center to score Zepeda. A double by Chavez and singles by Poni and Austin Keffer scored two more for the Bulls. The four runs in the top of the eighth were all Gipson needed as he shutdown the Athletics in five batters to seal the victory and bring home the trophy. The Bulls reached the cham- pionship game by beating Hard 90 of Sacramento 17-3 in a five inning mercy rule game. They came from behind and topped Salinas Valley 4-2, while scor- ing 3 runs in the bottom of the fourth after trailing 2-0. In the third game, the Bulls faced the Northstate Wolfpack of Redding. Once again the Bulls had to come from behind to win the semifinal game be- fore moving on to the cham- pionship. Down 2-0 in the top of the seventh, Will Nelson led off the inning with a single and scored when Poni singled to AMERICAN LEGION Bulls bring home 16U trophy By Curtis Pashelka Bay Area News Group SANJOSE Sharksgeneralmanager Doug Wilson said Monday he'll probably know in the next seven to 10 days whether any of his players will need offseason surgery. Wilson said there was an exten- sivelistofinjuredplayersattheend of the season and added that there area"coupleplayersthatareseeing somedoctors,gettingsomeevalua- tions this week." "We're doing an extensive eval- uation now and we'll have a deter- minationwithinthenextweekona few players on whether or not they need surgery or if any treatment is needed," Wilson said on a confer- encecallwithreporters."Hopefully that isn't the case and everybody will be ready come September. But I'll get a better read on that in the next week to 10 days." SharksforwardTomasHertlsuf- fered a right knee injury in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final after he absorbed a hit from Patric Horn- qvist of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He finished that game but did not play the final four games of the se- ries, which the Penguins won four games to two. In speaking with reporters last week, Hertl did not think he would need surgery. He was fifth on the team with 46 points during the 2015-16seasonandhad11pointsin 20 playoff games before his injury. "No, just keep in brace and now resting and just make sure every- thinghealsupbecauseIwanttobe ready for next season," Hertl said. Notes • Wilson said he's touched base with his team's restricted free agents and will explore what he can do with the Sharks' pending unrestricted free agents once the NHL sets its salary cap figure for the 2016-17 season this week. TheSharks'listofrestrictedfree agents includes Hertl, Matt Nieto, Dylan DeMelo and Ryan Carpen- ter, who led the Barracuda this season with 55 points in 66 games. Unrestricted free agents include forwardsNickSpaling,DainiusZu- brus and Micheal Haley, defense- menRomanPolakandMattTenny- son and goalies James Reimer and Aaron Dell. The Sharks, according to fig- ures on generalfanager.com, have 16 players on their main roster signed for next season at a cap hit of roughly $60.9 million. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said before the start of the Stanley Cup Final that he thought the cap for the 2016-17 season would climb about $2 million from the $71.4 million it was this season. Wilson also said conversations about a new deal with defense- man Brent Burns, who is entering the final year of his five-year, $28.8 million contract, will take place shortly. "You know how we feel about Brent. Phenomenal year," Wilson said. "There's no doubt he's impor- tanttous.WewanthimandIthink he loves being here." • The Sharks acquired prospect Maxim Letunov and a sixth round pick in the 2017 entry draft from the Arizona Coyotes for San Jose's fourthroundpickthisyear,No.120 overall,andathirdrounderin2017. Letunov, a center listed at 6-foot-4 and 170 pounds, completed his freshman season at the University of Connecticut with 16 goals and a team-high 40 points in 36 games. SHARKS Team uncertain if players will need surgery Paradise High grad Jet Hampton (4) takes one of his three carries around the edge during the South's 48-6loss to the North in the 39th Lions all-star football exhibition Saturday night at Shasta College (Redding). Hampton also caught four passes for 19 yards. GREG BARNETTE — RECORD SEARCHLIGHT By Joseph Shufelberger jshufelberger@chicoer.com @JShufelberger on Twitter REDDING The 39th annual Lions All-Star Football Game ended up much like the past seven. The North scored the game's final 38 points to win its eighth straight in the se- ries, this one 48-6 over the South late Saturday night at Shasta College Memorial Sta- dium. Riley Meridith, Tyler Du- clos and Junior Maldonado picked off passes in the sec- ond half with the latter two returning their interceptions for touchdowns in a span of 3 minutes, 20 seconds of the fourth quarter. Duclos needed 30 yards and a stiff-arm for his score while Maldonado went 55 yards through congested traf- fic for his TD that capped an- other dominating effort for the North. "I just saw it coming," said Maldonado, the Orland High standout who only got the call to join the team Monday af- ter another player ended up not participating. "I picked it off, put a little shake and bake in there and out of nowhere I scored. I was just weaving." Kyle Catanese connected with Ryan Terras for two more scores, the first a 20- yard fade pattern with 5:03 left in the second quarter that led to a 10-0 halftime advan- tage for the North. Meridith, a Hamilton kicker with all-section honors to his credit, added a pair of 28-yard field goals, including the first points of the game with 41 seconds remaining in the opening quarter. As the contest wore on, so did the North on the South. Early in the fourth quar- LIONS ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME Hampton,Southbeaten,48-6 Interceptions in third quarter lead to first South victory since 2008 RED BLUFF PAGE 2 COURTESY PHOTO Picture, front row sitting, Kurtis Gipson and Matteo Zepeda, middle row, Sevee Johnson, Nolan Stacy, Trenton Coates, Ian Skjegstad, Fabian Chavez and top row, Trevor Kinsworthy, AJ Poni, Tas McClellan, Will Nelson, Daltyn Eischen, Austin Keffer, Tristen Hobart, Drew Stacy and coach JB Stacy. LEGION PAGE 2 FOOTBALL PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, June 21, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1