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Sports 1B Weekend February 20-21, 2010 Weekend Sat — Division I Wrestling Championships at Foothill, 10 a.m. Sat — Division III/IV Wrestling Championships at Tulelake Olympic coverage continues on NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC Sat — NBA — Kings at Clippers, 7:30 p.m. CSNCA Sun — NASCAR — Auto Club 500, 11 a.m., FOX Sun — NBA — Kings at Suns, 5 p.m., CSNCA Mercy soccer co-champs In a Friday, Feb. 12 Daily News article it was report- ed Los Molinos edged Mercy for the Mid-Valley soccer title by a half-game, because of an extra win against Lib- erty Christian. At a Northern Section soccer seeding meeting on Saturday, it was determined Mercy's fourth game against Liberty Christian was a forfeit win. Therefore both Los Molinos and Mercy tied for the league championship with identical 10-2 records in league play, counting all forfeited games. The schools split their own series, 2-2. The Bulldogs and Warriors each earned first-round byes in the Division III soccer championship tourna- ment and host games on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Travel baseball tryouts The Nor Call Royals baseball club will be holding tryouts for their 14-and-under travel baseball team on Sunday, Feb. 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Big League Dreams in Redding. For more information contact Nash Crisosto at 356- 7220 or Scott Igarta at 527-6748. Scoreboard Scoreboard OLYMPICS Medals Table 38 of 90 total medal events Nation G S B Tot USA 6 6 8 20 Norway 5 3 2 10 Germany 4 5 4 13 Canada 4 3 1 8 South Korea 3 2 0 5 Switzerland 3 0 1 4 France 2 1 4 7 China 2 1 1 4 Sweden 2 1 1 4 Austria 1 2 2 5 Russia 1 2 2 5 Netherlands 1 1 1 3 Australia 1 1 0 2 Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Czech Republic 1 0 1 2 Britain 1 0 0 1 Poland 0 2 1 3 Latvia 0 2 0 2 Italy 0 1 3 4 Japan 0 1 2 3 Belarus 0 1 1 2 Estonia 0 1 0 1 Finland 0 1 0 1 Kazakhstan 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 1 1 Slovenia 0 0 1 1 NBA Friday's results Utah 100, Golden State 89 Boston 96, Portland 76 Charlotte 110, Cleveland 93 Chicago 100, Minnesota 94 Dallas 95, Orlando 85 Miami 100, Memphis 87,2OT Milwaukee 91, Detroit 85 New Orleans 107, Indiana 101 Philadelphia 106, San Antonio 94 Phoenix 88, Atlanta 80 Toronto 106, New Jersey 89 Washington 107, Denver 97 Saturday's games Sacramento at Clippers, 7:30 p.m., CSNCA Washington at Toronto, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at New York, 4:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago, 5 p.m., WGN Charlotte at Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m. Indiana at Houston, 5:30 p.m. Miami at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Sunday's games Atlanta at Golden State, 5 p.m., ESPN Sacramento at Phoenix, 5 p.m., CSNCA Cleveland at Orlando, 10 a.m., ABC Boston at Denver, 12:30 p.m., ABC Memphis at New Jersey, 3 p.m. San Antonio at Detroit, 3 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Utah at Portland, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Thursday's late result Boston 87, L.A. Lakers 86 NCAA Friday's Top 25 results No games scheduled Saturday's Top 25 games No. 1 Kansas vs. Colorado, 1 p.m. No. 2 Kentucky at No. 17 Vandy 3 p.m., ESPN No. 4 Purdue vs. Illinois, 1 p.m., ESPN No. 7 Kansas State at Oklahoma, 3 p.m. No. 8 West Virginia vs. Seton Hall, 9 a.m. No. 12 New Mexico vs. Air Force, 12:30 p.m. No. 13 Gonzaga at Pepperdine, 6 p.m. No. 15 Texas at Texas Tech, 11 a.m., ESPN No. 16 BYU at Wyoming, 3 p.m. No. 18 Butler vs. Siena, 8 a.m., ESPN2 No. 20 Tennessee at South Carolina, 10:30 a.m. No. 21 Temple at Saint Joseph's, 9 a.m. No. 22 Baylor at Oklahoma State, 10:30 a.m. No. 23 Wake Forest at N.C. State, 11 a.m. No. 24 Texas A&M at Iowa State, 1 p.m. No. 25 Richmond vs. George Washington, 4 p.m. Saturday's other televised games North Carolina at Boston College, 9 a.m., CBS Seton Hall at West Virginia, 9 a.m., ESPN Louisiana Tech at Northeastern, 10 a.m., ESPN2 Nevada at Missouri State, Noon, ESPN2 Stanford at Oregon State, Noon, CSNBA C of Charleston at George Mason, 5 p.m., ESPN2 UCLA at Washington, 6 p.m., ESPN Wichita State at Utah State, 9 p.m., ESPN2 Sunday's Top 25 games No. 3 Villanova at No. 19 Pittsburgh, 9 a.m., CBS No. 6 Duke vs. Virginia Tech, 4:45 p.m., FSN No. 9 Ohio State at No. 11 Michigan State, 9 a.m. No. 14 Wisconsin vs. Northwestern, 11 a.m. Sunday's other televised games Dayton at Duquesne, 10 a.m., ESPN2 Arizona State at Arizona, 2:30 p.m., CSNBA Jazz roll past Warriors OAKLAND (AP) — Carlos Boozer had 30 points and 16 rebounds, Andrei Kirilenko scored 22 points and the Utah Jazz extend- ed their longest road winning streak in eight years with a 100-89 win over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night. C.J. Miles added 16 points and Deron Williams had nine points and 11 assists for the Jazz, who won for the 16th time in 18 games and moved within a half-game of first-place Denver in the Northwest Division. Utah's six-game winning streak on the road is its longest since winning six straight from Feb. 12-20, 2002. The Jazz, who own the NBA's best record at home the past four sea- sons, were only 12-12 on the road this season before their blowout win over the Warriors. C.J. Watson had 22 points and Corey Maggette added 14 for Golden State, which scored a season-low 10 points in the second quarter. The Warriors struggled most of the night offensively in Monta Ellis' return to the lineup following a three-game absence. This one was over before halftime. The Jazz scored the first 17 points in the second quarter and led 45-31 before Watson's 19-foot baseline jumper final- ly ended the Warriors' scoring drought. Utah made eight of its first nine shots in the period, while Golden State missed 11 of its first 12. Following Watson's basket, the Jazz went on an 11-0 run to extend the lead to 56-33 and silence the Oracle Arena crowd. Utah pushed its lead to 27 midway through the third quarter then coasted the rest of the way, though not before a late scare. Watson scored eight points as part of an 18-2 run late in the fourth and Golden State trimmed a 26-point deficit to 95- 85 on Anthony Tolliver's free throw with 2:44 left to play. But Kirilenko sank a pair of free throws and Paul Millsap added a basket to stop the comeback attempt. Ellis returned to the Warriors' lineup after sitting out three games with a mild left knee sprain. The NBA's fifth-leading scorer at 26.2 points a game, Ellis had not played since injuring himself late in the fourth quarter against Dallas on Feb. 8. He was examined Tuesday in Alabama by Dr. James Andrews, who confirmed the orig- inal diagnosis of a mild left knee sprain. The layoff clearly hurt Ellis, second in the league in min- utes played. He made just two of 14 shots from the floor and finished with six points and six assists. No one did much for Golden State, which was coming off a 32-point win over Sacramento on Wednesday. The Warriors shot 37.2 percent as a team and were held to their fewest points since being held to 89 by Portland on Jan. 2. Lady Cards win NAL By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor CORNING – Somethings the script plays out perfect. Such was the case Friday in Corn- ing, where the Lady Cardinals on senior night, secured their second con- secutive Northern Athletic League title with a 61-43 win over West Valley. They were, of course, led by their senior class. Backcourt running mates Regan Albee and Chante Dale combined for 39 points, but more importantly creat- ed the defensive pressure on the Lady Eagles that jet started the Corning offense. Albee opened up the game, by dri- ving straight to the hoop for her first of 14 points on the nights. By the second quarter, she gave way to Dale, who went on a tear of her own. Dale scored 14 of her game-high 25 points during the second quarter and the Lady Cardinals opened up a dou- ble-digit lead, not once, but twice. Corning was up 21-11 midway through the second quarter, when Brit- tney Garrett drew a foul and was then whistled for a technical foul. With Garrett on the bench with three fouls, West Valley closed the gap to three points behind the free throw shooting of Taylor Trabold and the post play of Ashley Vitellaro. But Dale wasn't done. With the Eagles looking to tie the game, Dale stepped in front of a pass and tipped the ball to Albee then streaked toward the basket to find the ball waiting for her and the Lady Car- dinals were back in business. From there Corning built it's lead back up again and led 35-24 at half- time. Albee opened up the second half, the same way she opened up the game, by driving straight to the hoop and the Lady Cardinals never looked back. Dale had six steals and three assists to go along with her superb shooting night and Albee added nine assists and four steals. Senior Michelle Silva picked up two points and seven rebounds during a solid effort in the post. Corning's other three seniors con- tributed as well with Amy Cruise adding seven points and three rebounds and Shayna Fissori and Nicole Ray each picking up baskets. Corning coach Kurt Eller, didn't need much time or many words to explain what he would remember about this senior class — hard work. "They worked hard all four years," Eller said, adding he was glad to see it paying off. It did Friday night and now the defending section champions hope a season of hard work pays off today at the basketball seeding meeting. LOS MOLINOS Both the boys and girls Bulldogs teams closed their out seasons Friday with wins over Esparto. The boys used a 23-7 fourth quarter to knock off Esparto 62-43 and finish .500 at 13-13 on the sea- son and at 5-5 in the Mid-Valley League. The Lady Bulldogs beat Esparto 46-28 to earn a 6-4 record in the MVL and finished 9-11 overall. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Corning's Chante Dale takes off on a fast break, Friday night. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Two races, two medals. Bode Miller is putting together one heck of a Vancouver Olympics. Miller picked up a silver in the super-G Friday to go with the bronze he won in the downhill. Andrew Weibrecht sur- prisingly finished right behind Miller, plopping another medal onto the United States' growing pile. The U.S. Alpine team already has won six medals, their most ever, and we're not even halfway done in the mountains. ''Our kids love to com- pete in the big show,'' said Bill Marolt, head of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Overall, the U.S. dele- gation has won 20 medals, nearly matching its total from Turin (25). With 52 events and nine days left, the Americans are charging toward their record of 34 medals won at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. ''Part of it might be that we are on North American soil,'' said Weibrecht, who'd never finished high- er than 10th in a World Cup race. ''(We) get better results when we're at home, or close to home, better food and lodgings.'' With six gold, six silver and eight bronze, the Americans have practically lapped the field. Germany is second in overall medals with 13. Norway has the second- most golds with five, boosted by victories in the first two events decided Friday. Aksel Lund Svindal won the super-G and Marit Bjoergen won the women's 15-kilometer pursuit. Bjo- ergen also became the first winner of multiple gold medals in Vancouver and the first with three medals. Amy Williams won the women's skeleton to give Britain an individual gold medalist at the Winter Games for the first time since figure skater Robin Cousins at Lake Placid in 1980. That is, if it holds up. Canada filed a protest over Williams' aerodynamic helmet. It's the second such complaint in as many days, with another filed by the Americans rejected Thurs- day. The day's final event was the men's skeleton, won by Canada's Jon Montgomery. It's the fourth gold for the hosts. In nonmedal action, the winless U.S. men's and women's curling teams responded to the arrival of their honorary captain — San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis — by winning for the first time, and a halfpipe medalist headed home sooner than he'd planned. Scotty Lago volun- teered to leave the Olympics after risque pic- tures of him wearing a Team USA T-shirt and his bronze medal showed up on the Internet. The U.S. Olympics Committee puts athletes through a program to avoid such situations. Lago apologized to the USOC and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Associa- tion. Saturday could be another big day for the Americans with Apolo Anton Ohno, Shani Davis and Lindsey Vonn all in action. Vonn stayed off her skis Friday to give her bruised right shin more time to heal and it ''definitely helped,'' according to her husband, Thomas. SUPER-G When Miller took bronze in the downhill, he was all smiles at the end of the race. He looked worn out this time. Miller let out a big breath of air and quickly shook his head. Then he leaned forward, resting his helmet on forearms still locked atop his poles. Once his lungs stopped burning, he took out his mouthpiece and gave a little fist pump. ''I was lucky today,'' he said. ''I could just as easily been fifth or sixth.'' With his fourth career medal, Miller regained the title of most decorated American Alpine skier, a day after Julia Mancuso tied him for that honor. (The title could keep changing hands with the men's super combined and slalom still to come; Man- cuso has two events left and Lindsey Vonn has three.) Also, this is the first time two American men got medals in the same Alpine event since brothers Phil and Steve Mahre went 1-2 in slalom at the 1984 Sarajevo Games. Weibrecht found him- self in first place after his run, something that had never happened before. He said he ''refused to believe until the race was over that I was in with a medal.'' ''I've been knocking on the door all year,'' Weibrecht said. ''To come out here and do it just feels unbelievable.'' Svindal made it four golds for Norwegians in the seven times this race has been part of the Olympic program. The race was marred by more horrific wipeouts. The most serious left 40- year-old Patrik Jaerbyn with a concussion and bloody face. The Swedish team physician said Jaer- byn was spending the night in the hospital. SKELETON Americans were oh-so- close to a pair of medals. Noelle Pikus-Pace, the 2007 world champion, fin- ished third in the women's event, just 0.10 seconds from bronze. Zach Lund, who was kicked out of the last Olympics because a banned substance was in a hair-restoration product he took, was fifth, 0.52 from a medal. ICE DANCING World champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the compulsory por- tion of ice dance, the first of three legs of the event. The original dance will be Sunday and free dance Monday night. Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are second and two-time American champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White are third, just ahead of fellow Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, the 2006 silver medalists. BOBSLED Two Swiss competitors have withdrawn from events following scary crashes, including a strong medal contender. Swiss driver Daniel Schmid, who was not a medal favorite, pulled out of the two-man and four- man bob for ''safety rea- sons'' after two practice crashes. On Friday, his sled overturned during training and his brakeman was taken from the track in an ambulance, then flown to Vancouver for observation. A team doctor said there were no serious injuries. Beat Hefti, a World Cup champion, withdrew from two-man because of a con- cussion in a crash Wednes- day. He hasn't decided whether to race in the four- man, which starts next Fri- day. Bode Miller leads US to silver, bronze in super-G