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2B Daily News – Thursday, August 9, 2012 GOLD (Continued from page 1B) of 43 sets. even two beach volley- ball gold medals before the Americans won their second straight in Bei- jing. No one had ever won won three Olympic beach volleyball medals of any kind. ''Kudos. Hats off to No woman had ever them,'' Ross said. ''That's just ridiculous.'' Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor pulled away in the first set and were never threatened in the second, falling to their knees and hugging as Ross' final serve went long on match point. May-Treanor, who bring the beach party atmosphere to the sold- out crowds in central London. The winners then took the celebration to the stands, circling the tem- porary 15,000-seat stadi- um built on the house- hold cavalry's centuries- old parade grounds and high-fiving just about anyone holding an American flag. They hugged their family and friends in the stands — although not May-Tre- anor's husband, Matt, a Los Angeles Dodgers catcher who was watch- ing on a computer from the team's clubhouse. was knocked out of ''Dancing with the Stars'' when she tore her Achilles tendon, then began doing a funky jig to rival the scantily clad cheerleaders who help They hugged on the podium after the gold medals were draped around their neck then shared one with their fel- low Californians — first- time Olympians who helped give the United States its best women's finish since beach volley- ball was added to the Olympics in 1996. feel like it's real,'' Walsh Jennings said. ''I told Misty when we were get- ting our medals, 'If I wake up tomorrow and we have to replay this match, I'm going to be furious.' Because it feels like I'm in a dream. It truly feels surreal and it didn't feel like that the first two times for what- ever reason. But this, it's almost too good to be true.'' Brazil's Juliana and Larissa beat Xue Chen and Zhang Xi of China in the bronze medal match. Earlier Wednesday, ''It's insane. It doesn't OLYMPICS | MEN'S BASKETBALL Brazil's Emanuel and Alison were scheduled to play Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann of Germany in the men's gold medal match on Thursday night. Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins of Latvia were to play Reinder Num- merdor and Rich Schuil of the Netherlands for the men's bronze. MCT photo Carmelo Anthony (15) is greeted by teammates on the bench Wednesday. Kobe, LeBron lead U.S. to semis LONDON (AP) — Kobe Bryant felt the game getting close, then put it away from long range. Courtesy photo Members of the 2012 Red Bluff Tritons swim team. TRITONS (Continued from page 1B) Head Coach Samantha Robinson's main focus was 13- to 18-year-old swim- mers of all abilities and also coached 8 and under Tri- tons. build stamina. ual medley with a time of 1:38.04. Samantha was impressed with the amount of time standards being met at the NVALs by Tritons of all ages. Meeting the time stan- dards isn't as easy as it may appear as many Tritons have accomplished the time requirements for the recog- nition. "RBT had the most time standards that we've had since I can remember, including an astonishing first 'AAA' time by Curtis Twitchell in the 50 yard freestyle with 22.96 sec- onds," Robinson who has been coaching the team for seven years and is a Triton alumna herself. said Samantha Red Bluff took fourth place overall with 874 points. The Anderson Aquaga- tors placed first, the Orland Otters at second and the Weaverville Waves rounded out the top three. With such a large num- ber of participants, the championship meet awards high point trophies to the Top 5 swimmers of each gender's age group. In order to earn points, a swimmer must place in the Top 12 in an event. The better the fin- ish, the more points they earn. showed amazing improve- ments and more easily picked up swimming tech- niques than in past years. With hopes held high, This year's group Tritons' points were earned by five swimmers alone. Kristina Tobin, 6, Pre- ston Beeman, 5, Jasmine Atencio, 10, Samara Robin- son, 15, and Curtis Twitchell, 16, earned them- selves NVAL high point awards. Tobin added a second- place NVAL trophy to her collection from this season by racking up 64 points in her age group. Tobin raced an average of 25 swimmers and finished in the Top 3 in five of her races and sixth in the 25-yard freestyle. Tobin finished the season with a "B" time in every event. She also broke a NVAL record during the 100-yard individ- Just over one-third of the Beeman finished every race with nothing less than third-place finish to come out on top of the boys in his age group and take a first- place trophy with 54 points. Beeman's best finish was the 25-yard breaststroke. He finished second in the 25- yard freestyle and 3rd in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 25-yard back- stroke. Beeman finished the season with a "B" time in almost every event and hopes to turn the finishes into "BB" times next year.Atencio swam against the largest age group (an average of 50 swimmers per event) attending the NVALs. Atencio met Per- sonal Records in six out of seven events, shaved 12 seconds off her 200-yard freestyle time and beat out every swimmer for the 50- yard butterfly with a lead of nearly two seconds. She added a third-place NVAL trophy to her display at home by contributing 64 points for the Tritons. Samara Robinson fin- ished in the Top 5 for six out of eight events she swam at the championship meet against an average of 40 swimmers. Her best event was the 100-yard but- terfly where she earned second place. Samara's "B" and "BB" times, along with top finishes, earned her 68 points and a fifth-place NVAL trophy. Twitchell finished the season with impressive fin- ishes in his events at the NVAL championship. Twitchell had "A," "AA" and "AAA" times for five of his events, with "BB times" in the other three events. He attributes his success to the Triton coach- es. Twitchell was 11 years old has made the most differ- ence for him in becoming a top Triton swimmer. His 83 points we enough for a sec- ond-place finish in the 15- to 16-year-old group. The coaches' input since Typically, swimmers set personal goals to improve their own swim times. The result often leads to finish- ing a race in a position high enough to earn the team some points, which deter- mines the winner of each meet. The following 24 swimmers also added points toward the Red Bluff Triton's fourth-place over- all finish. Haley Rosser (51), Josh Jackson (46), Dante Bee- man (38), Ethan Williams (37), Niko Munoz (36), Nicole Sauve (22), Joslyn Shults (20), Jaden Humphrey (19), Megan Snodgrass (17), Megan Murray (15), Blake Jones (13), Mitchell Sauve (13), Kaylee Humphrey (12), Jace Shults (9), Sosie O'Sullivan (8), Samantha Beeman (5), Chloe Casey (4), Jordan Munoz (4), Macaele Niles (3), Julia Bellon (2), Zoe Casey (1), Broc Jones (1), Addison Snodgrass (1), and Micaela Weber (1). Triton's strength in num- bers was Bailey Akins, Natalie Brown, Olivia Fry, Haley Hafey, Brindin Heth- coat, Ryland Hethcoat, Trey Hughes, Micah Jack- son, Isabella Krammer, Mahlon Owens, Quinn Rosser, Maggie Sheppard, Ted Sheppard, Brent Shults, Jessica Shults, Bethany Strom, Jillian Strom, Claire Tobin, Kate- lyn Tobin, Carissa Twitchell, Desiree Valen- zuela, Hunter Wilhite, Tan- ner Wilhite. Also attributing to the have finished the 2012 swimming season, but you can keep track of its off-sea- son information by "liking" its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RBTri- tons and by visiting its web- site at www.redblufftri- tons.com. The Red Bluff Tritons NASCAR Nationwide Series Standings 1. Elliott Sadler, 751 2. Austin Dillon, 733 3. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 730 4. Sam Hornish Jr., 717 5. Justin Allgaier, 673 6. Michael Annett, 647 7. Cole Whitt, 602 8. Mike Bliss, 548 9. Brian Scott, 486 10. Danica Patrick, 485 11. Joe Nemechek, 475 12. Tayler Malsam, 449 13. Jeremy Clements, 441 14. Jason Bowles, 434 15. Mike Wallace, 429 16. Erik Darnell, 331 17. Johanna Long, 315 18. Timmy Hill, 307 19. Eric McClure, 284 20. T.J. Bell, 254 ------------------------------------------------------ Aug. 11 — Zippo 200 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 18 — NAPA Auto Parts 200, Mon- treal Aug.24 — Food City 250, Bristol, Tenn. Sept. 1 — NRA American Warrior 300, Hampton, Ga. Sept.7 — Virginia 529 College Savings 250, Richmond, Va. Sept. 15 — Dollar General 300 powered by Coca-Cola, Joliet, Ill. Sept.22 — Kentucky 300, Sparta, Ky. Sept. 29 — OneMain Financial 200, Dover, Del. Oct. 12 — Dollar General 300, Concord, N.C. Oct. 20 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas City, Kan. Nov. 3 — O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 10 — Great Clips 200, Avondale, Ariz. Nov.17 — Ford EcoBoost 300, Home- stead, Fla. Bryant made six straight 3-pointers in the second half, LeBron James finished with a triple-double, and the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team advanced to the semifinals with a 119-86 victory over Australia on Wednesday night. fingers in the air after his third consecutive 3- pointer in the fourth quarter had pushed the game well out of reach and proved that yes, he would deliver the kind of game that's expected of him in London. James finished with 11 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists for the Americans, who advanced to their third straight Olympic semifinal meeting with Argentina, which beat Brazil earlier Wednesday. Carmelo Anthony added 17 points and Kevin Durant had 14. Bryant scored 20 points, flashing three The Americans beat the Argentines 126- 97 on Monday in the final game of pool play, yet another night they didn't need much from Bryant, who came in averaging just 9.4 A's (Continued from page 1B) of it after falling behind 5-4. Coco Crisp started the comeback with a game-tying RBI double in the sixth before Cespedes lined a sin- gle to right to drive in Crisp and Josh Reddick. Carter fol- lowed with his two-run home run to give the A's a 9- 5 lead. points as both he and his teammates kept assuring people there was nothing wrong with the five-time NBA champion. This time was different, and he delivered. Australia scored the first 11 points of the second half, cutting the Americans' lead to three after back-to-back 3-pointers by Joe Ingles. The U.S. lead was only six before Bryant, who has never gotten in an offensive rhythm in London and just minutes earlier had committed another puzzling offensive foul, finally broke out. He made a 3-pointer, then batted away a pass, chased it down along the left sideline, and pulled up for another 3-pointer that made it 70-58. James followed with a basket that pushed it to 14, and the Americans never let the Australians get much closer. Not the way Bryant shot, anyway. He was 0 for 3 in the first half, then made six in a row. He hit three straight in the fourth quarter to blow it open, the crowd chanting ''Kobe! Kobe!'' before he finally missed on a ridiculously long attempt before calling it a night. The rookie right-hander, who led all of baseball in strikeouts when he was called up from the minors Aug. 3, labored throughout and pitched with runners on base in every inning after striking out the side in the first. He was knocked out of the game after giving up Morales' two-run homer in the fifth. All the damage in the sixth came off Los Angeles reliever LaTroy Hawkins (2- 3). outburst prevented Greinke from getting his first win since being acquired July 27. Greinke's season-high five walks all came in the second inning when the A's batted around and scored four runs. Straily wasn't much better. Oakland's sixth-inning MLB West Division Texas A's American League WL Pct GB 65 45 .591 — 60 51 .541 5.5 Angels 59 53 .527 7 Seattle 51 62 .451 15.5 East Division WL Pct GB New York 64 46 .582 — Baltimore 60 51 .541 4.5 Tampa Bay 58 52 .527 6 Boston 55 57 .491 10 Toronto 53 57 .482 11 Central Division WL Pct GB Chicago 60 50 .545 — Detroit 60 51 .541 .5 Cleveland 51 60 .459 9.5 Minnesota 49 62 .441 11.5 Kansas City47 63 .427 13 ------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday's results Cleveland 6, Minnesota 2 Texas 10, Boston 9 Oakland 9, L.A. Angels 8 N.Y.Yankees 12, Detroit 8 Baltimore 9, Seattle 2 Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Kansas City 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Today's games N.Y.Yankees (Kuroda 10-8) at Detroit (Fister 6-7), 10:05 a.m. Toronto (H.Alvarez 7-8) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 8-7), 10:10 a.m. Boston (Doubront 10-5) at Cleveland (Jimenez 8-11), 4:05 p.m. Kansas City (W.Smith 2-4) at Baltimore (W.Chen 10-6), 4:05 p.m. Friday's games Boston at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. Kansas City at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. N.Y.Yankees at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Detroit at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m. Morales also homered in the second. It's the third multi-homer game this season for Morales and the ninth of his career. Chris Iannetta, Torii Hunter and Mark Trumbo MLB National League West Division WL Pct GB GIANTS 60 50 .545 — Dodgers 59 52 .532 1.5 Arizona 56 55 .505 4.5 San Diego 49 64 .434 12.5 Colorado 40 68 .370 19 East Division WL Pct GB Washington 67 43 .609 — Atlanta 64 47 .577 3.5 New York 53 58 .477 14.5 Miami Phillies Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 66 45 .595 — Pittsburgh 63 47 .573 2.5 St. Louis 60 50 .545 5.5 Milwaukee 51 59 .464 14.5 Chicago 43 66 .394 22 Houston 36 75 .324 30 ------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday's results Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2 San Diego 2, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 7, Arizona 6 Atlanta 12, Philadelphia 6 Miami 13, N.Y. Mets 0 Washington at Houston, late San Francisco at St. Louis, late Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late Today's games Miami (Jo.Johnson 7-7) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 14-3), 9:10 a.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 12-6) at St. Louis (Wainwright 9-10), 10:45 a.m. Arizona (J.Saunders 5-8) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 7-10), 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Leake 4-7) at Chicago Cubs (Volstad 0-8), 5:05 p.m. Washington (Zimmermann 8-6) at Hous- ton (Harrell 9-7), 5:05 p.m. Friday's games Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Houston, 5:05 p.m. Washington at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Colorado at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. all homered for the Angels. Trumbo's home run, a solo shot in the sev- enth, is his 29th this sea- son. Los Angeles nearly ral- lied in the ninth. Howie Kendrick hit a two-run single off Cook and stole second with two outs before Erick Aybar grounded out to end it. LONDON 2012 Medal Tracker 216 of 302 total medal events Nation G S B Tot China U.S. 36 22 19 77 34 22 25 81 Britain 22 13 13 48 S. Korea 12 7 6 25 Russia 11 19 22 52 France 8 9 11 28 Germany 7 15 10 32 Italy 7 6 4 17 Hungary 6 2 3 11 Kazakhstan 6 0 2 8 Australia 5 12 9 26 Netherlands 5 4 6 15 Japan Iran 4 13 14 31 4 3 1 8 North Korea 4 0 1 5 Cuba 3 3 1 7 N. Zealand 3 2 5 10 Belarus 3 2 4 9 South Africa 3 1 0 4 Ukraine 3 0 6 9 Spain 2 6 1 9 Romania 2 5 2 9 Denmark 2 4 3 9 Jamaica 2 2 2 6 Brazil 51 60 .459 16.5 50 61 .450 17.5 2 1 7 10 Poland 2 1 5 8 Croatia 2 1 1 4 Switzerland 2 1 0 3 Ethiopia 2 0 2 4 Canada 1 4 9 14 Sweden 1 3 3 7 Czech Rep. 1 3 2 6 Kenya 1 2 2 5 Slovenia 1 1 2 4 Georgia 1 1 1 3 Norway 1 1 1 3 Dom. Rep. 1 1 0 2 Lithuania 1 0 1 2 Algeria 1 0 0 1 Grenada 1 0 0 1 Venezuela 1 0 0 1 Colombia 0 3 2 5 Mexico 0 3 2 5 Azerbaijan 0 2 2 4 Egypt India 0 2 0 2 0 1 3 4 Slovakia 0 1 3 4 Armenia 0 1 2 3 Belgium 0 1 2 3 Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Estonia 0 1 1 2 Indonesia 0 1 1 2 Serbia 0 1 1 2 Thailand 0 1 1 2 Tunisia 0 1 1 2 Cyprus 0 1 0 1 Finland 0 1 0 1 Guatemala 0 1 0 1 Malaysia 0 1 0 1 Portugal 0 1 0 1 Taiwan 0 1 0 1 Greece 0 0 2 2 Moldova 0 0 2 2 Qatar 0 0 2 2 Singapore 0 0 2 2 Argentina 0 0 1 1 Hong Kong 0 0 1 1 Ireland 0 0 1 1 Kuwait 0 0 1 1 Morocco 0 0 1 1 Puerto Rico 0 0 1 1 Saudi Arabia0 0 1 1 Tajikistan 0 0 1 1 Trin. & Tob. 0 0 1 1 Turkey 0 0 1 1 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1