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Tracker Wednesday's results Tehama MLB Athletics Toronto OAK—Crisp 3-6, 3 RBIs TOR — Lawrie, 1-4 San Diego Giants SD— Venable 1-5, 2 RBIs SF — Cabrera, 1 RBI Today's games MLB Athletics Toronto OAK — Milone, 9-6 TOR — Laffey, 2-1 On the tube GOLF • 6:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Lyoness Open, second round, at Atzenbrugg, Austria (same-day tape) • 9 a.m. ESPN2 — The Senior British Open Championship, first round, at Ayrshire, Scotland • 9:30 a.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, Children's Hospital Invitational, first round, at Columbus, Ohio • Noon TGC — PGA Tour, Canadi- an Open, first round, at Ancaster, Ontario • 3:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Evian Masters, first round, at Evian-les- Bains, France (same-day tape) MLB • 10:30 a.m. MLB — Regional cov- erage, L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis or Tampa Bay at Baltimore (12:30 p.m. start) • 5 p.m. MLB — Regional cover- age, Washington at Milwaukee or Pittsburgh at Houston OLYMPICS • 6:30 a.m. MSNBC — Men's soc- cer, Spain vs. Japan, at Glasgow, Scotland; Gabon vs. Switzerland, at Newcastle, England; Brazil vs. Egypt, at Cardiff, Wales Penn State says 4-year ban was floated Associated Press Penn State faced the threat of a four-year ban on playing football before the NCAA imposed sanc- tions this week over the school's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, a uni- versity spokesman said Wednesday. David La Torre said the potential for the multiyear ''death penalty'' was float- ed during discussions between Penn State Presi- dent Rodney Erickson and NCAA officials before Penn State was hit Mon- day with a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl game ban, reduced foot- ball scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins. The school trustees met with Erickson on the sub- ject at a State College hotel Wednesday and afterward issued a state- ment calling the NCAA punishment ''unfortu- nate'' but better than the alternative — the so-called ''death penalty.'' The penalty hasn't been used since the NCAA suspended South- ern Methodist University for the 1987 season. SMU then sat out the '88 season on its own and has never fully recovered its status in college football. Reporters on Wednes- day were barred from the conference room where the Penn State trustees met, and trustees avoided them after the meeting broke up. 9:37 a.m. CSNC 6 3 16 0 Sports YOUTH BASEBALL Courtesy photo The Redding Vipers, from back left, Coach Scott Edwards, Coach John Waterman, Easton Waterman, Evan Tanner,Eric Spencer,Jordan Akins,Will Asnicar,Coach Mike Cochran,Coach Paul Asnicar,Patrick Blake,Nick Rodriguez, Sawyer Seth,Wesley Clawson,Kolby Button,Tyler Cochran and Payton Edwards. Vipers win World Series team won the inaugural World Series Tournament hosted by All World Base- ball held in Carson City, Nev. last weekend. Special to the DN The Redding Vipers 13U baseball Thursday's pool play began with a 10-1 win over Brets Muckdogs from Reno. win over the NC Titans of Brentwood by a score of 13-9 and a 10-1 loss to the Stockton Delta Dawgs. Pool play Friday's pool play consisted of a PADRES 6, GIANTS 3 concluded Saturday with a 12-5 loss to the Sacramento Best Speed Hornets. The single-elimination games began Saturday evening with the Vipers receiving a No. 4 seed and defeating the No. 5 seed NC Titans 11- 3. brought the Vipers back to face the No. 1 seed Delta Dawgs where they were able to avenge their earlier loss with a 9-3 victory to earn a spot in the cham- pionship game. The final day of the tournament In the championship game the Vipers were once again able to handle the Brets Muckdogs, beating them 11- 5. The Vipers comprises players from Red Bluff, Redding, Anderson and Gerber. The players are Jordan Akins, Will Asnicar, Patrick Blake, Kolby Button, Wesley Clawson, Tyler Cochran, Payton Edwards, Rusty Lan- zaro, Nick Rodriquez, Sawyer Seth, Eric Spencer, Evan Tanner and Easton Waterman. 1B Thursday July 26, 2012 A's pound Toronto 16-0 TORONTO (AP) — Coco Crisp hit two home runs and Yoenis Cespedes had a pair of RBI doubles, leading A.J. Griffin and the Oakland Athletics over the Toronto Blue Jays 16- 0 Wednesday night for their season-high seventh straight win. It was the most-lop- sided shutout loss ever for Toronto. Things got so out of hand that the Blue Jays used catcher Jeff Mathis to pitch the ninth inning, and he gave up two runs on an RBI double by Brandon Hicks and an RBI single by Brandon Moss. and drove in three runs. He drew a bases-loaded walk from Ricky Romero during an eight-run second inning as Oakland improved to 16-2 in July. Griffin (3-0) gave up three hits in six innings. The rookie struck out nine in winning his third straight start and leaving with a 2.25 ERA. Chris Carter homered Romero (8-7) lasted only 1 1-3 innings in the shortest start of his career. He lost his sixth decision in a row. Crisp hit a leadoff drive to right in the third and See A's, page 2B MCT photo Tim Lincecum throws in the first inning against the Padres at AT&T Park on Wednesday. Lincecum dropped to 4-11 on the season. Lincecum's season woes resurface By ANTONIO GONZALEZ AP Sports Writer four-year ban, first report- ed by ESPN, showed how high the stakes were as college sports' governing body considered how to respond to an internal school investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that found former coach Joe Paterno and three other top college officials helped conceal reports that Sandusky, a former assistant coach, was abusing children. The potential for a Follow us on Twitter for live game cover- age, exclu- sive online articles and more. @TehamaSports SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jesus Guzman hit two home runs and Chase Headley had one to hand Tim Lincecum another setback, powering the San Diego Padres past the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three- game sweep. Will Venable also hit a two- run double to help the Padres chase Lincecum (4-11) after he allowed five runs in 4 2-3 innings. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner had shown signs of progress in his previous two outings. Instead, he's still trying to put three straight solid starts together and turnaround the worst sea- son of his career. OLYMPICS | WOMEN'S SOCCER U.S. defeats France 4-2 GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — An early start to the Olympics turned into an early deficit for the U.S. women's football team, which gave up two quick goals before unleashing an attack the rest of the world will find hard to stop. Abby Wambach used her size and strength to put in a header, Alex Mor- gan scored twice and Carli Lloyd added another with a 25-yard rocket to help the two-time defending goal medalists rally for a 4-2 victory over France on Wednesday. The Americans opened their Lon- don Games far from London and two days before the opening ceremony. Football starts its Olympics early so it has time to play a full tournament of games. See WIN, page 2B The Americans allowed more goals in the first 15 minutes than they had allowed in any game since the Jason Marquis (4-5) gave up three hits and one earned run in 7 1-3 innings. He struck out eight and walked one to send the NL West-leading Giants to only their third loss in 12 games. Huston Street extended his scoreless streak to 15 straight innings with a four-out save, including striking out All-Star MVP Melky Cabrera with two on to end the eighth. Street has converted all 16 save opportu- nities this season. After allowing two runs in 15 innings over his previous two starts, Lincecum and the Giants were optimistic The Freak had finally snapped out of his funk. So much for that. See GIANTS, page 2B MCT photo Alex Morgan, right, battles for the ball Wednesday.