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Tehama MLB Giants Atlanta SF—Posey 3-5, 5 RBI ATL—Prado 1-4 Texas Athletics LATE Today's games AMERICAN LEGION Bulls N. Humboldt 3 p.m. First day of area play in Auburn. The Bulls won district Saturday. MLB Giants Atlanta SF—Vogelsong, 7-4 ATL—Minor, 5-6 Texas Athletics TEX—Holland, 6-4 OAK—Blackley, 2-2 12:35 p.m. CSNC Daily News photo by Andre Byik Bulls third baseman Gerald Baker takes a swing on Saturday against the Rattlers. 4:10 p.m. CSNB 0 9 Tracker Tuesday's results Sports AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL Bulls win district, start area play By DNSports Staff The Red Bluff Bulls won its second straight district title after beating the Red- ding Rattlers in a best of three series Friday and Sat- urday. wins in the series. The Bulls face the North Humboldt Giants at 3 p.m., today at James Field in Auburn. The win- ner of area play will go on to the state playoffs. The Bulls, which took game one on Friday 6-5, split a doubleheader at Shasta High School in Red- ding on Saturday to move on to area play. After falling 16-3, the Bulls beat the Rattlers 11- 10 in a comeback win to clinch the district title. Red Bluff pitchers Stephen Jensen and Robby Lasby both got Sunday. Area play concludes on The post-season progres- sion, which includes dis- trict, area, state and regional playoffs, leads up to The American Legion World Series in North Carolina, which will be broadcast online at ESPN3.com. The Junior Bulls open up district play at 4 p.m., today at Red Bluff High School. On the tube 2012 Red Bluff Little League 10-11 Boys All-Stars CYCLING • 3:30 a.m.NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 16, Pau to Bagneres-de- Luchon, France MLB • Noon MLB — Regional coverage, Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers or Pitts- burgh at Colorado • 4 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Mets at Wash- ington • 5 p.m. WGN — Miami at Chicago Cubs SOCCER • 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS/English Premier League, exhibition, Chelsea at Seattle • 8 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Dallas at San Jose 2nd doping scandal hits Tour; Schleck pulled PAU, France (AP) — The RadioShack Nissan Trek team pulled Frank Schleck, one of the biggest names in pro cycling, out the Tour de France on Tuesday after he failed a doping test, threatening to overshadow Bradley Wiggins' bid to win the three-week race in Paris this weekend. The 32-year-old rider from Luxembourg, who was third in last year's Tour, left a police station in Pau where he had dis- cussed the case with authorities after cycling's governing body announced the positive test. The International Cycling Union, or UCI, said Schleck had tested positive for banned diuret- ic Xipamide in an anti- doping test conducted by a French anti-doping lab on a sample taken from him on July 14. It marked the second doping scandal to hit this Tour, and was another reminder of the doping cloud that has damaged the image of cycling and its biggest event for years. Schleck, the RadioShack leader, had been in 12th place overall — 9 minutes, 45 seconds behind leader Wiggins — going into the second and latter rest day on Tuesday. The revelation was 1B Wednesday July 18, 2012 Courtesy photo The Red Bluff All-Stars reached the District 1 championship against East Redding Thursday and Friday. Red Bluff beat East Redding 8-6 on Thursday, but needed to beat them again on Friday to win the district title. East Redding beat Red Bluff 9-8 in extra innings to win the title. From back left, manager Dennis Morrison, coach Donnie Clement, coach Eric Coates, Tristen Hobart, Sevee Johnson, Tye Clement, Fabian Chavez, Trenton Coates, AJ Poni, Brayden Hutchens, Mario Martinez, Mateo Zepeda, Tyler Parks, Cole Morrison and Kaden Cantrell. Coach Steve Ross is not pictured. GIANTS 9, BRAVES 0 Posey rocks home state with 5 RBIs likely to add stress on the crash-and sickness-deplet- ed pack, just as they were gearing up for two gruel- ing days in the Pyrenees starting Wednesday. Wiggins, who is aim- ing to become Britain's first Tour champion, leads fellow Briton and Sky teammate Christopher Froome by 2:05 and Vin- cenzo Nibali of Italy by 2:23. Defending champi- on Cadel Evans of Aus- tralia is fourth, 3:19 behind. Follow us on Twitter for live game cover- age, exclu- sive online articles and more. @TehamaSports Georgia native Buster Posey finally had a homecoming to remember. Posey drove in five runs with three hits, Barry Zito combined with two relievers on a five-hitter and the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 9-0 on Tues- day night. Posey, from Leesburg in southwestern Georgia, had been only 1 for 11 at Turner Field before his big night. He said his parents and grandparents were in the crowd. ''I think I was a little more relaxed, for sure,'' Posey said, comparing the game to his earlier visits to Atlanta. ''I don't get the chance to play before people I grew up with very often.'' Posey had run-scoring singles in the first and third innings. His third hit was a three-run double off Luis Avilan after Jair Jurrjens (3- 3) departed in the fourth. ''Growing up here in ATLANTA (AP) — 4.85 — third-worst in the majors. Zito (8-6), who came in with a 5.19 road ERA, answered Bochy's call by allowing only three hits and one walk with four strikeouts in seven innings. Zito improved to 4-0 in five career starts at Turner Field. ''I don't think there's a whole lot to it,'' Zito said when asked about his suc- cess in Atlanta. ''It's a fun place to pitch.'' The first-place Giants, Georgia, I'm sure he had a lot of family and friends here, and he had a good game for them,'' said man- ager Bruce Bochy. ''I noticed his numbers here haven't been too good.'' Bochy made a pregame request for better pitching away from home with his staff's road ERA sitting at who have won four straight, began the night two games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. The Braves' only hits off Zito were a single by Martin Prado to lead off the fourth, an infield hit by Brian McCann to open the fifth and Freddie Freeman's dou- ble with two outs in the sev- enth. Zito ended the seventh on McCann's groundout to second base. George Kontos took over for Zito to start the eighth and gave up a one-out dou- ble to Paul Janish. Clay Hensley allowed a single to Tyler Pastornicky in the ninth for Atlanta's fifth hit. Hensley hit Freeman with a pitch before ending the game on McCann's flyball to centerfield. Jurrjens gave up eight runs on eight hits and three walks in 3 1-3 innings as the Braves' seven-game win- ning streak ended with a thud. Jurrjens had been 3-0 in four starts since his recall from Triple-A Gwinnett on June 22. ''It was a tough one,'' Jurrjens said, adding he did- n't have good command of his pitches. The Braves were not charged with an error but also were hurt by some slop- py fielding, including when Jurrjens missed the bag after taking a throw from Free- man on Angel Pagan's infield hit to start the fourth inning. ''We just didn't get it done like a team,'' Jurrjens said. ''I didn't make pitches, we didn't hit, we didn't field. That's a team loss.'' Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez called it ''proba- bly one of the ugliest games we've played in a while.'' The Giants sent 10 bat- ters to the plate in the fourth. Zito slapped a run-scoring single under third baseman Chipper Jones' glove. Ryan Theriot and Melky Cabrera also drove in runs with sin- gles in the big inning. San Francisco catcher Hector Sanchez left the game in the fourth with a sprained left knee. Sanchez singled and then took off for second base as Zito attempt- ed a bunt. MCT photo Barry Zito pitches in the top of the first on Tuesday.