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August 07, 2012

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Tehama Tracker Today's games MLB Giants St. Louis SF — Zito, 8-8 STL — Lynn, 13-4 Los Angeles Athletics LAA — Wilson, 9-7 OAK — Colon, 8-8 On the tube LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL • 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Playoffs, South- west Regional semifinal, teams TBD, at Waco, Texas • 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Playoffs, South- west Regional semifinal, teams TBD, at Waco, Texas MLB • 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Detroit or Texas at Boston OLYMPICS • 6 a.m. MSNBC — LIVE: beach vol- leyball, semifinals; women's volley- ball, quarterfinals; women's water polo, semifinal; SAME-DAY TAPE: synchronized swimming, duet Gold Medal final; wrestling, Greco-Roman Gold Medal finals; women's table ten- nis, team Gold Medal final, at London NBC BASKETBALL — Women's, quarterfinals, at London TELEMUNDO — LIVE: men's soc- cer, semifinals; SAME-DAY TAPE: men's boxing, quarterfinals; track and field; women's volleyball, quarterfi- nals; synchronized swimming, duet Gold Medal final; beach volleyball, semifinals, at London • 7 a.m. NBC — SAME-DAY TAPE: track and field; men's diving, spring- board semifinal; LIVE: beach volley- ball, semifinal; women's volleyball, quarterfinal; women's water polo, semifinal; cycling, track Gold Medal finals, at London • 9 a.m. NBC SOCCER — Men's, semifinals, at various sites • 8 p.m. NBC — Gymnastics, individ- ual event Gold Medal finals: men's parallel bars, men's high bar, women's balance beam, women's floor exercise; track and field, Gold Medal finals: men's 1500m, men's high jump, women's 100m hurdles; beach volleyball, semifinal, at London (same-day tape) • 9 p.m. TELEMUNDO — Track and field, Gold Medal finals; gymnastics, individual event Gold Medal finals; men's diving, springboard Gold Medal final, at London (same-day tape) • 12:35 a.m. NBC — Men's diving, springboard Gold Medal final; track and field, Gold Medal final, at London (delayed tape) Prep sports Red Bluff Volleyball tryouts All participants must obtain paperwork from the RBHS Student Store, have it filled out and have a clearance slip before trying out. 7:05 p.m. CSNC 5:15 p.m. CSNB Sports NORTH VALLEY AQUATIC LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS Manta Rays cap record season Special to the DN Sixteen Corning Manta Rays spent the weekend burning it up at the North Valley Aquatic League Championship swim meet. "Our swimmers came to Championships ready to swim fast and strong," Coach Julene Stokes said. "Our swimmers have been training for the past nine weeks to prepare for our final meet of the season and they swam extremely fast. It was a great way to end a record setting season. Each and every swimmer improved so much this 2012 swim season." RESULTS Hannah Pritchard (girls 9-10): Pritchard placed sev- enth in the 100 individual medley, 16th in 100 freestyle, 10th in 50 butter- fly, 12th in 50 backstroke, 10th in 200 free, 8th in 50 breaststroke and 10th in 50 free. She had four "best ever" times. Tayler Snow (girls 9- 10): Snow placed 17th in the 100 IM, 27th in the 100 free, 15th in the 50 fly, 28th in the 50 back, 23rd in the 200 free, 13th in the 50 breaststroke and 33rd in the 50 free. Snow had five "best ever times." 10): Beckwith won three events, which were the 100 IM, 50 breaststroke and 50 free. She placed 3rd in the 100 free and 50 fly and fourth in the 200 free. She placed second overall in high point for the seasonal swimmers and was awarded a trophy. Beckwith swam all of her events to "best ever times." Kara Beckwith (girls 9- All athlete's must wear appropriate athlet- ic clothing and foot- ware. LONDON 2012 U.S. looks to avenge World Cup loss JV volleyball tryouts are 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug 13. Freshmen volleyball tryouts are from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug 15. Coaches: List your prep information in the Tehama Tracker by emailing sports@red- bluffdailynews.com. MEDAL TRACKER 179 of 302 total medal events Nation G S B Tot China U.S. 31 19 14 64 29 15 19 63 Russia 7 17 18 42 Britain 18 11 11 40 Japan 2 12 14 28 France 8 9 9 26 S. Korea 11 5 6 22 Germany 5 10 7 22 Australia 2 12 8 22 Italy OLYMPIC SOCCER | U.S.WOMEN 4, CANADA 3 7 6 4 17 Netherlands 3 3 4 10 Canada 1 3 6 10 Ukraine 3 0 6 9 Hungary 4 1 3 8 Belarus 3 2 3 8 N. Zealand 3 1 4 8 Denmark 2 4 2 8 Romania 2 4 2 8 Brazil Kazakhstan 6 0 1 7 Cuba 2 1 5 8 3 3 1 7 Poland 2 1 3 6 Sweden 1 3 2 6 North Korea 4 0 1 5 Czech Rep. 1 3 1 5 Kenya 122 5 Mexico 0 3 2 5 S. Africa 3 1 0 4 Iran 211 4 Jamaica 2 1 1 4 Ethiopia 2 0 2 4 Slovenia 1 1 2 4 Colombia 0 3 1 4 Slovakia 0 1 3 4 Croatia 2 1 0 3 Spain 0 2 1 3 Azerbaijan 0 1 2 3 Belgium 0 1 2 3 India 0 1 2 3 Dom. Rep. 1 1 0 2 Georgia 1 1 0 2 Switzerland 1 1 0 2 Lithuania 1 0 1 2 Egypt 0 2 0 2 Armenia 0 1 1 2 Indonesia 0 1 1 2 Mongolia 0 1 1 2 Norway 0 1 1 2 Serbia 0 1 1 2 Tunisia 0 1 1 2 Greece 0 0 2 2 Moldova 0 0 2 2 Grenada 1 0 0 1 Venezuela 1 0 0 1 Cyprus 0 1 0 1 Estonia 0 1 0 1 Guatemala 0 1 0 1 Malaysia 0 1 0 1 Taiwan 0 1 0 1 Thailand 0 1 0 1 Argentina 0 0 1 1 MANCHESTER, Eng- land (AP) — The U.S. women's soccer team is back in the Olympic gold medal match after a wild come-from-behind 4-3 win over Canada with a goal in the final minute of extra time. U.S. its first lead of the night in the third minute of injury time Monday, completing the win over Canada in the Olympic semifinals at Old Trafford. Morgan's 6-yard header, on a long cross from Heather O'Reilly, looped high into the net over goal- keeper Erin McLeod for the winning goal. Megan Rapi- noe scored in the 54th and 70th minutes, and Abby Wambach in the 80th for the U.S. Alex Morgan gave the The Americans over- came a hat trick from Chris- tine Sinclair, who scored in the 22nd, 67th and 73rd minutes for Canada. Next comes the game the U.S. players have been eye- ing for more than a year, a rematch with Japan on Thursday at Wembley Stadi- um with gold on the line. The top-ranked Americans lost to Japan on penalty kicks in the World Cup final last summer, a stunning blow that became a source MCT file photo The U.S.heads to the gold medal match in a World Cup rematch against Japan. It was the first goal of motivation as the players prepared for this year's Olympics. advanced by continuing its dominance of the neighbor to the north, extending its unbeaten streak against Canada to 27 games (23-0- 4). The Americans lead the all-time series 44-3-5, the last loss coming at the Algarve Cup in 2001. But it wasn't easy. Sin- The Americans clair was an imposing force, scoring her 141st, 142nd and 143rd goals in interna- tional play. She's now even with Wambach for No. 2 on the all-time list, both chasing Mia Hamm's world record of 158. of goals resulting from moments rarely seen in soc- cer, including a corner kick that curled in for a goal and a goalkeeper whistled for holding the ball too long. The Americans dominat- ed possession in the early minutes, but then the U.S. defense did the unexplain- able — it lost track of one of the top goal-scorers of all time. allowed by the U.S. in more the 360 minutes, since a pair of early scores by France in the Olympic opener two weeks ago. The U.S. also trailed at halftime for the first time in this tournament. The Americans found an The game included a pair Marie-Eve Nault played a ball ahead to Melissa Tan- credi, who tapped a pass over to Sinclair. Sinclair then slalomed through the penalty area, maneuvering around defender Kelley O'Hara to beat goalkeeper Hope Solo with simple right-footer from 10 yards. unconventional way to pull even early in the second half, with Rapinoe scoring directly on a corner kick. She curled the ball just inside the near post, glanc- ing off the legs of defender Lauren Sesselmann and goalkeeper McLeod as it settled in the net. again, with Sinclair heading Tancredi's cross just inside the post from 10 yards to put Canada ahead 2-1. Three minutes later, Rapinoe got her second, launching a right-footer from the edge of the area and off the post. Then it was Tancredi again, leaping high to head in a corner kick, again just inside the post for goal No. 143, moving her temporari- ly ahead of Wambach. Wambach got even with Sinclair — and tied the game — with a penalty kick resulting from an unusual call: McLeod was whistled for holding the ball more than six seconds, giving the Americans an indirect free kick inside the area. Rapinoe took the kick, and it glanced off the arm of Nault. The referee awarded the spot kick, which Wambach con- verted off the left post in the 80th minute. Varsity volleyball tryouts are from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. Monday, Aug 13. 12): Tomas placed 11th in the 100 IM, 3rd in the 200 IM, 15th in 100 free, 6th in the 50 fly, 14th in the 50 backstroke, 19th in the 200 free, 40th in the 50 breast- stroke and 15th in the 50 free. Tomas had four "best ever times." Haley Tomas (girls 11- Danielle Gallegos ( girls 13-14): Gallegos placed 15th in the 100 free, 21st in the 100 fly, 14th in the 100 breaststroke and 9th in the 50 free. Danielle had three "best ever times," and achieved a "BB" standard Courtesy photo Members of the Corning Manta Rays from back left, Tyler Grine, Joseph Wilson, Logan Tou- vell, Zachary Pritchard, James Stokes, Kara Beckwith, Kellie Snow, Sarah Grine, Danielle Gal- legos, Brianna Wilson, Haley Tomas, Tayler Snow and Hannah Pritchard. time in the 50 free. Sarah Grine (girls 13- 14): Kellie placed 22nd in the 200 IM, 36th in the 100 free, 13th in the 100 breast- stroke, and 35th in the 50 free. Kellie had one "best ever time." 14): Grine placed eighth in the 500 free, ninth in the 200 IM, 10th in the 100 free, 12th in the 100 fly, 20th in the 100 back, eighth in the 200 free, third in the 100 breaststroke and fifth in the 50 free. Grine achieved a "BB" standard in the 100 breaststroke and achieved her very first "A" time stan- dard in the 50 free. Kellie Snow (girls 13- 13-14): Wilson placed 41st in the 100 free, 28th in the 100 back, 25th in the 100 breaststroke and 38th in the 50 free. Brianna had "best ever times" in all four events that she swam. Tyler Grine (boys 13- Brianna Wilson (girls 14): Tyler placed eighth in the 500 free, ninth in the 200 IM, 14th in the 100 free, eighth in the 100 fly, 11th in the 100 back, 11th in the 200 free, 16th in the 100 breast- stroke and 16th in the 50 free. Tyler had four "best ever times." 14): Stokes placed 16th in the 200 IM, ninth in the 100 free, 16th in the 100 fly, 16th in the 100 backstroke, 19th in the 200 free, 15th in the 100 breast, seventh in the 50 free. Stokes swam six of his events swam with "best ever times." James Stokes (boys 13- 14): Wilson had a great weekend. morning he swam in San Jose at Far Westerns since he had qualified in the 50- meter freestyle. Once his race was over he made the trip up to Redding to com- pete Friday evening and the remainder of weekend at Championships. Joseph Wilson (boys 13- Late Friday took first place in three Joseph events: the 100 free, 200 free and 50 free. He earned sec- ond in three events: the 200 IM, 100 back and 100 breaststroke. fourth in the 100 fly. Wilson achieved an "AA" time stan- dard in the 100 free and a "A" time standard in the 200 free. He also received a tro- phy as he took second place overall in the boys 13- to 14- year-old age division. True to form, he also had seven "best ever times." Isaac Funderburk (boys 11-12): Funderburk placed 29th in the 50 backstroke and 19th in the 50 breast- stroke. He placed ever time." He had one "best 15-16): Pritchard placed 10th in 500 free, 10th in 200 IM, 11th in 100 free, eighth in 100 fly, 10th in 100 back, 10th in 200 free, 5th in 100 breaststroke and 13th in 50 free. Zachary swam all seven of his events with "best ever times." He also Zachary Pritchard (boys achieved two "BB" times in both the 100 free and 100 breaststroke. 16): Ritter placed 18th in the 100 free, sixth in the 100 breaststroke and 18th in the 50 free. He swam all three of his events with "best ever times." Owen Ritter (boys 15- 1B Tuesday August 7, 2012 16): Touvell placed seventh in the 500 free, ninth in the 200 IM, 12th in the 100 free, 10th in the 100 fly, ninth in the 100 back, ninth in the 200 free, 11th in the 100 breast and 16th in the 50 free. Logan had seven "best ever times." boys): Chavez placed 13th in the 500 free, 12th in the 200 IM, ninth in the 100 free, 11th in the 100 fly, 14th in the 100 back, 13th in the 200 free, 16th in the 100 breaststroke and 12th in the 50 free. He had eight "best ever times." Frankie Chavez (15-16 Logan Touvell (boys 15- Then came a wild sequence of three goals in six minutes. The Tancredi- Sinclair combo worked The game became a bat- tle of attrition in extra time, with the Americans having the better of the chances. Wambach put a header off the crossbar in the 119th minute. The officials then declared there would be three minutes of injury time, just enough for Morgan to put one in and avoid the penalty kick shootout.

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