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Sports 1B Monday March 1, 2010 Monday NCAA — Georgetown at West Virginia, 4 p.m., ESPN NCAA — Oklahoma at Texas, 6 p.m., ESPN Women's — Connecticut at Notre Dame, 4 p.m., ESPN NHL — Red Wings at Avalanche, 6 p.m., VERSUS Tennis — BNP Paribas Showdown, 6 p.m., ESPN Beardsley, Reid, Marshall place 2nd; qualify for state #5 Mercy at #1 Hayfork Boys Division VI basket- ball Semifinal #5 Mercy Warriors: 15- 12; 1-5, tied for third in Tri- Cities League; beat Loyal- ton 52-51 in the quarterfi- nals #1 Hayfork Timber- jacks: 15-8; 10-0, North Valley League champions; beat Westwood 66-34 in the quarterfinals Directions: Take 36 West and stay on it until you get to CA-3 North and turn right toward signs for State Route JCT 3/Hayfork. Take that for a little over 12 miles into Hay- fork and then turn right on Oak Avenue. The school is at 231 Oak Ave. Last meeting: Donald Ferguson had 26 points to lead Hayfork to a 62-50 victory on Dec. 11. Players to watch: Mercy — #21 Jeremie Jones, #24 Mitchell Lopez, #23 Cameron Vietti Hayfork — #14 Scott Harrison, #32 Ricardo Her- nandez, #23 Donald Ferguson Notes: Mercy overcame an early 14-point deficit to advance in the quarterfinals...Lopez made a game-win- ing 3-pointer with four seconds left and #3 Aaron Gash had a quality game all-around...Hayfork has four players who average double-digit points...the Timberjacks lost in last season's semifinals. Tuesday's playoff By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor REDDING — Spartan grapplers Sultan Beardsley and Dillon Reid and Corning's Thomas Marshall are head- ed to the state wrestling champi- onships, but you wouldn't have known it if you saw them Saturday night. Beardsley sat rejected, Reid walked away bloodied and Marshall grabbed a chair and sat down next to a door with nobody around following their respec- tive championship match losses at Sat- urday's NSCIF Masters wrestling championships. Such is life as a Spartan or Cardinal wrestler when despite a berth to the state championship, a second-place finish still rates second-best — at least in their own mind. Only a handful of schools would have characterized the Spartans results at the Masters as a disappointment, but unfortunately Dave Rottenberg's suc- cessful tenure with the program makes Red Bluff one of them. The Spartans had six medal win- ners, Saturday and the Cardinals five. Only a handful of schools did better. "That was what we trained for," Beardsley said following his loss to the top-ranked 132-pounder Paradise's Nick Morelli. A first period takedown had given Beardsley a 2-0 lead, but 23 seconds into the second period Morelli caught him for the decisive pin. Like Beardsley, Reid was gauging his Masters success by a first place fin- ish — even if the third ranked wrestler in the state at 154 pounds stood in his way. "State's nice, but I'd rather win this," he said. The junior will have to wait another year, before etching his name in the record books as a two-time section champion, but he left a lasting impres- sion in his finals match with Foothill's Travis Gallegos. The Reid-Gallegos match might have been match of the night, thanks to the aggressive game plan Reid brought to the table following a loss to Gallegos a week earlier at the Division I Cham- pionships. "I said screw being cautious and just go for it," Reid said. He did just that, taking the action to one of the section's top wrestlers and putting the crowd at the Redding Con- vention Center on the edge of their seats for six full minutes. Reid got an early takedown then late Gallegos go, only to set another takedown . A flurry of a first period appeared to be ending with Gallegos drawing even at 4-4, but Reid had one final reversal at the buzzer to take a 6-4 lead into the second. Reid chose to start the second neu- tral and his aggressive nature backfired in the opening seconds, with Gallegos gaining a nearfall to finally gain the lead himself 9-6. Reid struck back again however and pulled within a point. Then the second ended in the same way as the first with Reid coming ever so close to pinning Gallegos at the buzzer, but trailing 13-10. Gallegos chose to start the final period down, but Reid conceded a point again to let him up, only to set up yet another takedown to pull the score to 14-12. then spent the remainder of the period going for a pin before a hol- lering crowd. Gallegos held on for a 15-12 win, but Reid had still made a statement. Marshall also had an early lead dur- ing his 217-pound final with the top seeded Darren Lee from Lassen. But after choosing to start in the down position in the second period, Marshall couldn't score any points and his lead stayed at just a point, 2-1 enter- ing the third. Lee chose down, then got the rever- sal for the final points of a 3-2 win. Corning's Calvin Meister just missed qualifying for the state champi- onships when he finished fourth at 147 pounds with a loss to Foothill's Dallas Poston. The Top 3 wrestlers in each weight class qualified to move onto the state tournament beginning Friday in Bak- ersfield. Red Bluff's Dan. St. John beat Wheatland's Angelo Santos 8-2 to earn fifth place at 114 pounds and Taylor Wilson needed just 41 seconds to pin Mount Shasta's Kenny Ingraham for fifth place at 217. Tyler Demerath (127) and Dylan Gorbet (191) had sixth place finishes for the Spartans. Corning's Nick Johnson held on for a 5-4 victory over Anderson's Nick Ortiz in the 142-pound fifth place match. Tanner Johnson (121) and Billy Crawford (154) finished sixth for the Cardinals. Once again it was no surprise as Chico dominated the tournament. Their No. 1 in the state 105-pounder Nashon Garrett cruised to victory with a fall in 3:12 after he had already built up a 13-0 lead over Chester's Clayton Buchanan. Alex Morero of Modoc took third. Orland's Hermilio Esquivel had a major decision 18-1 victory over Chico's Mason Sauseda at 114 pounds and Pleasant Valley's Thomas Ocegue- da finished third. Orland's Nathan Monck came from behind to defeat Trinity's Levi Thoma- son 5-4 in a match that went from bor- ing to exciting in the final period. Blaine Shaw of Paradise took third place. Efren Rodriguez needed overtime to earn Chico the win at 127 pounds and beat Trinity's Chris Harris 8-6. Lassen's Bryon Treece was third. Marcus Buchanan of Mount Shasta was third at 132 pounds. Quincy's Cody Pack defeated Shas- ta's Terry Mathews 8-2 at 137 pounds and Christian Wathen of Orland placed third. Kevin Maelfeyt, Trinity, pinned Foothill's Chase Boontjer in 1:49 at 142 pounds. Chris Calderon of Winters was third. At 147 pounds, Pleasant Valley's Desi Rios had a 19-3 technical fall vic- tory over Central Valley's Josh Dye. Cody Linton of Winters was third at 154 pounds. Anderson's Marcus Zachary beat Chico's CJ Berry 2-0 at 162 with Jered Stine of Willows third. Chico's Ross Longnecker pulled another upset at 173 pounds and defeated Modoc's Tyler Wood 6-4. Oroville's Peter Phelan was third. Austin Morehead gave Sutter a win at 191 with an 8-2 victory over Chico's Jessen Cole. Las Plumas wrestler Robert Sasek was third. Lance Gordon, Durham, finished third at 217. One last upset came in the heavy- weight division when Miguel Torres of Modoc got a pin victory over Pleasant Valley's Kenny Young in 5:15. Fall River's Gary Wilson was third. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff's Dillon Reid controls Foothills' Travis Gallegos' head, Saturday, at the Masters. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Corning's Thomas Marshall tries to slip away, Saturday. By The Associated Press At Vancouver, Canada Final — 86 medal events Nation G S B Tot United States9 15 13 37 Germany 10 13 7 30 Canada 14 7 5 26 Norway 9 8 6 23 Austria 4 6 6 16 Russia 3 5 7 15 South Korea 6 6 2 14 China 5 2 4 11 Sweden 5 2 4 11 France 2 3 6 11 Switzerland 6 0 3 9 Netherlands 4 1 3 8 Czech Rep. 2 0 4 6 Poland 1 3 2 6 Italy 1 1 3 5 Japan 0 3 2 5 Finland 0 1 4 5 Australia 2 1 0 3 Belarus 1 1 1 3 Slovakia 1 1 1 3 Croatia 0 2 1 3 Slovenia 0 2 1 3 Latvia 0 2 0 2 Britain 1 0 0 1 Estonia 0 1 0 1 Kazakhstan 0 1 0 1 Final Medals tally Crosby's goal wins it, Canada beats US 3-2 VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — This was best possible way to end the Olympics for Canada. Sidney Crosby, shut down most of the tournament, wrist- ed a shot past Ryan Miller 7:40 into overtime after the Unit- ed States tied it with 24.4 seconds left in regulation, and Canada survived a tense, taut game to beat the Americans 3-2 in the men's hockey final Sunday. It capped Canada's record gold rush in the Vancouver Games and set off a national celebration. In one of the greatest games in Olympic history, Cana- da's collection of all-stars held off a young, desperate U.S. team that had beaten it the previous Sunday and, after stag- ing a furious comeback after falling behind 2-0, almost beat them again. With Canada less than a minute away from celebrating the gold medal that its hockey-crazed nation expected, Zach Parise — the son of a player who figured in Canada's finest hockey moment — tied it with Miller off the ice for an extra attacker. The moment he scored, the sighs of disappointed fans probably could be heard from Vancouver to the Maritimes. Crosby, scoreless the previous two games, brought back the cheers with his second post-regulation game-winner of the tournament by scoring from the left circle. He also beat Switzerland in a shootout during the round robin. Johnson reels in Gordon to win at Las Vegas LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jimmie Johnson has won his second straight race by passing teammate Jeff Gordon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Gordon dominated Sunday's race by leading 218 of the 267 laps, but he took just two tires on the final pit stop and it cost him the victory. Johnson took four tires and restarted in fourth, but rocketed onto Gor- don's bumper as soon as the race resumed. He chased Gordon for 17 laps, finally scooting past him with 17 to go. Johnson then pulled away for his 49th career victory and fourth at Las Vegas. The four-time defending series champi- on also won last week in California. Kevin Harvick finished second, while Gordon faded to third. MCT photo Canada's Sidney Crosby, right, celebrates after he beat USA goalie Ryan Miller for the game-winning goal in overtime Sunday.