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2B Daily News– Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2012-13 SPARTANS ROSTER John Abdulla Celedonio Bautista Lucas Burns Kyle Case Aaron Clark Andrew Clawson Cody Clinger Levi Culp Cody Demerath Zach Dittner Keith Drury Greg DuFour Carlos Duron Jose Favela Mitch Fox Sean Freeny Erick Fulk Lester Gonzales Jaime Gonzales David Gomez Denver Gulliford Tucker Gulliford Dalton Gutierrez Zack Haas Alex Hagen Hayden Hinkle Wyatt Houghtby Christian Jordan Logan LeVier Daily News photo by Andre Byik Returning seniors, from left to right,Tucker Gulliford, Garrett Sandow, Kyle Case and Brandon Ragone. SPARTANS (Continued from page 1B) that's No. 1. We talk a lot about becoming a family and it's an inter- esting thing because we talked with them on the first day of practice this year that you can't fake it. We can't fabricate and say we're a family. I mean that's something that either happens or it doesn't. It doesn't hap- pen for everyone." But players say it is happening. that in a long time," senior running back Tucker Gulliford said. On the field the Spar- tans will attempt to manage the game and cut down on mistakes. football," Hein said, adding that Red Bluff's motto, which can be read on the players' practice shirts, is to compete. "We want to run the And it started early in the summer, before practices, when team held conditioning ses- sions, senior running back Brandon Ragone said. "Red Bluff hasn't had GIANTS (Continued from page 1B) Samson Satele. But that ended when he left the exhibition opener against Dallas on Aug. 13 following the first drive with the injured calf. He hasn't practiced since and with less than three weeks until the season opener against San Diego on 49ERS (Continued from page 1B) mother, Betty, who gave him the nickname Rock when he was 9 and a budding baseball player. He stopped growing in high school — he stands 5-foot-8 — and switched from line- backer to running back. ''My grandmother everything you do," Ragone said. "We take that to heart on the foot- ball field," adding, "This team is one unit, one driving force." "You're competing in take discipline on offense and defense to cut down on mistakes. Sandow is having a great preseason, Hein said. And the chemistry he has with wide receivers Mitch Fox and Wyatt Houghty, both returning varsity play- ers, is something to behold. The trio make adjust- ments on the fly because they've played together for so long, Hein said, adding that they can take what looks like a dead play and turn it into yards. "It's pretty fun to Red Bluff will look to grind games out and manage the clock to have a chance in the third and fourth quar- ters, Hein said. That will Sept. 10, time is of the essence to get Wis- niewski ready. ''We talk after every series, every play,'' backup center Alex Par- sons said. ''When we're out here on the field he'll come up to me and ask me what happened and what I saw and what he saw and we'll discuss what happened.'' Parsons has gotten plenty of time to work gave me the nickname Rock Baby when I was younger because I was kind of clumsy,'' Cartwright recalled. ''Then all my buddies, they just started calling me Rock. It kind of fits because I didn't grow any. I'm 5-8 and it fits me well. I'm fine with it, I enjoy it. It kind of stuck. There you have it. It doesn't bother me. It's cool with me. I wasn't going to shed that. My grandma started it. She was really special to me. It's a great thing to have.'' With the Niners, Cartwright doesn't have to adjust to a big cross- country move this time as he did following his first eight seasons with the Washington Red- skins. He played the past two years with the Oak- land Raiders. just get more carries on offense in the final two exhibition games than he figured to before Brandon Jacobs injured his left knee in Saturday night's preseason loss at Houston. ''I know I'm able to run the football at this level. I know I'm able to play special teams at this level, at a high level,'' Cartwright said. ''Any time I'm able to carry the ball, I'm always trying to show I can still play at a high level.'' Cartwright has a fan in three-time Pro Bowl running back Frank Gore, that's for sure. ''He's a hard worker. watch," he said. Sandow added that what he's been seeing from those on the offen- sive line has been huge. Dusty McMahon, with the first-team line at center. Parsons origi- nally signed with the Raiders as an undrafted free agent out of South- ern California in 2010. He was part of the final cuts after each of his first two training camps, spending two years on the practice squad. He hopes this is the year he finally sticks. ''It's tough to see your team out there and Yet Cartwright isn't counting on a roster spot just yet. He is living in a hotel less than a mile from team headquarters, his belongings in a stor- age unit in Oakland until he knows whether he'll be sticking around for the season. ''I've never gone into a year saying, 'I'm going to make the team,''' he said. Cartwright has devel- oped that humble, cau- tious approach along the way — in part because of what he went through losing his mom. who earned a starting spot on the offensive line in the summer, has high expectations for the team. "Section champs," McMahon said, adding, "It's gonna be us this year." The Spartans will open at home against Oroville High School at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31. Red Bluff beat Oroville 56- 13 last season. Kyle Case, a senior running back and defen- sive back who is a returning, said, "Red Bluff is back." ——— Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111 or sports@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports you practice with them,'' ''Last year we didn't travel to road games. It's one of those things where you look at your team on TV and you wish you were out there. You just have to make the best of your experi- ence now.'' Parsons said. Parsons came back again this season to Oakland hoping to make the squad on his third brought out her favorite soda. ''The day before we were doing things that were saying goodbye, but I didn't know it at the time,'' he said. He's very smart,'' Gore said. ''He's a great guy in the locker room, in the running back room. He's been around a lot of great backs and I ask him a lot of questions about the other great backs, what they do and what they didn't do, pick his head. I'm happy he's over here. Whatever role coach wants him to do he goes 100 per- cent.'' WNBA WESTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB Harbaugh and the 49ers (No. 4 in the AP Pro32) are counting on Cartwright filling a key spot for an opportunistic unit that developed its own quirky identity last season — not to mention its own theme song in Future's ''Tony Mon- tana.'' ''I think it gets the opposing team kind of frightened a little bit,'' Cartwright said with a smile. And Cartwright might x-Minnesota17 4 .810 — San Antonio15 5 .750 1.5 Los Angeles16 6 .727 1.5 Seattle 10 11 .476 7 Phoenix 4 17 .190 13 Tulsa 3 18 .143 14 EASTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB Connecticut 17 5 .773 — Indiana 12 7 .632 3.5 Atlanta 10 11 .476 6.5 Chicago 8 12 .400 8 New York 8 13 .381 8.5 Washington 5 16 .238 11.5 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's results Tuesday's Games Connecticut 82, Tulsa 80, OT New York 77, Chicago 67 San Antonio 75, Washington 72 Minnesota at Seattle, late Indiana at Los Angeles, late Today's game Chicago at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Thursday's games New York at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Indiana at Seattle, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. He had just spent time with her the previ- ous days as he prepared to return to Washington, D.C., for a minicamp that day in 2004. They had just gone out to eat at her favorite chicken restaurant, and the day before she passed Cartwright sat on her lap on the porch and MLS WESTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA San Jose 14 6 5 47 48 32 R. Salt Lake13 10 3 42 37 32 Seattle 11 6 7 40 34 24 Los Angeles11 11 4 37 44 40 Vancouver 10 9 7 37 28 33 FC Dallas 8 11 8 32 33 35 Chivas USA 7 9 6 27 15 26 Colorado 8 15 2 26 32 36 Portland 5 13 6 21 24 42 EASTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Sport. K.C. 14 7 4 46 31 22 New York 13 7 5 44 43 36 Houston 11 6 8 41 37 29 Chicago 12 7 5 41 30 26 D.C. 11 8 4 37 37 30 Montreal 11 13 3 36 39 44 Columbus 8 8 6 30 23 24 Philadelphia 7 12 3 24 24 28 N. England 6 13 5 23 27 31 Toronto FC 5 14 5 20 27 43 ------------------------------------------------------- Today's games Toronto FC at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Chicago at D.C. United, 4:30 p.m. His mom needed to stop smoking and start eating better, but she ''didn't really abide by the rules. That kind of scared me.'' Cartwright has taken charge of his health and is clear of heart disease symptoms at this stage — and he's deter- mined to be a positive example for his daugh- ters, 12-year-old Brianna and 3-year-old Jaida. Bri- anna remembers her NFL (preseason) American Conference East WL T Pct PF PA Patriots 1 1 0 .500 24 33 Buffalo 0 2 0 .000 20 43 Miami 0 2 0 .000 24 43 N.Y. Jets 0 2 0 .000 9 43 South WL T Pct PF PA Houston 2 0 0 1.000 46 22 Jacksonville 2 0 0 1.000 59 55 Indianapolis 1 1 0 .500 62 29 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 47 34 North WL T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 2 0 0 1.000 41 25 Cleveland 2 0 0 1.000 54 27 Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 43 44 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 49 48 West WL T Pct PF PA San Diego 2 0 0 1.000 49 33 Denver 1 1 0 .500 41 33 Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 44 48 Oakland 0 2 0 .000 27 34 East National Conference WL T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 2 0 0 1.000 51 40 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 23 28 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 57 35 Washington 1 1 0 .500 38 39 South WL T Pct PF PA Carolina 1 1 0 .500 36 43 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 27 37 New Orleans1 2 0 .333 47 44 Atlanta 0 2 0 .000 36 55 North Chicago 1 1 0 .500 36 62 Detroit WL T Pct PF PA 1 1 0 .500 44 31 Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 42 31 Green Bay 0 2 0 .000 23 56 West Seattle 2 0 0 1.000 57 27 49ers WL T Pct PF PA 1 1 0 .500 26 26 St. Louis 1 1 0 .500 34 55 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 58 71 ------------------------------------------------------- Thursday's games Green Bay at Cincinnati, 4 p.m. Jacksonville at Baltimore, 4:30 p.m. Arizona at Tennessee, 5 p.m. Dusty McMahon Dillon Milton RJ Nunez Jared Poore Brandon Ragone Corbin Pasillas Nick Reinhardt Logan Robinson Connor Ross Garrett Sandow Dylan Schaible Richard Stango Mike Stone Peyton Sulzer Ryland Stratton Frankie Van Meter Blake Villa Cody Walden Joseph Zapata Ben Ziegler Colby Zubia 2012-13 SCHEDULE Aug. 31: Oroville Sept. 7: @Anderson Sept. 14: Corning Sept. 21: @Enterprise* Sept. 28: Shasta* Oct. 5: @Chico* Oct. 12: @Wheatland Oct. 19: @Pleasant Valley* Oct. 26: Paradise* Nov. 2: Foothill* —— (*) Denotes conference game. All games start at 7:30 p.m. try. He lost about 20 pounds, which has made him quicker for the new system. Now he's getting a chance to show how that helps him on the field and has impressed his teammates so far. ''We didn't skip a beat with protection calls, we didn't skip a beat in the run game,'' quarterback Carson Palmer said. ''Every- grandma, and even Jaida asks questions when Cartwright takes them along to visit her gravesite whenever he is home. thing was just kind of flowing and easy and there weren't any mental mistakes as far as that's concerned. When you're in the huddle with a guy and you notice that he's a rookie, that he's a guy that hasn't been in the huddle a bunch, that's concerning, and it's not that way at all with Alex. He's been on top of everything.'' Cartwright is now playing at a fit 209 pounds, down from his high of 265 in junior col- lege and the 237 he weighed at the NFL com- bine before being selected by the Redskins in the seventh round of the 2002 draft out of Kansas State. ''Self-discipline plays a part in everything. I MLB American League West Division Texas A's WL Pct GB 71 50 .587 — 65 56 .537 6 Angels 63 60 .512 9 Seattle 59 64 .480 13 East Division WL Pct GB New York 72 51 .585 — Tampa Bay 68 55 .553 4 Baltimore 66 56 .541 5.5 Boston 59 64 .480 13 Toronto 56 66 .459 15.5 Central Division WL Pct GB Chicago 67 55 .549 — Detroit 65 57 .533 2 Kansas City55 67 .451 12 Cleveland 54 68 .443 13 Minnesota 51 70 .421 15.5 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's results Detroit 5, Toronto 3 Kansas City 1, Tampa Bay 0, 10 innings L.A. Angels 5, Boston 3 Chicago White Sox 7, N.Y.Yankees 3 Baltimore at Texas, late Minnesota at Oakland, late Cleveland at Seattle, late Today's games Kansas City (Mendoza 7-8) at Tampa Bay (Shields 11-7), 1:10 p.m. Minnesota (Hendriks 0-5) at Oakland (Milone 9-9), 3:35 p.m. Cleveland (McAllister 5-4) at Seattle (Iwakuma 4-3), 3:40 p.m. Toronto (Laffey 3-4) at Detroit (A.Sanchez 1-3), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Weaver 15-3) at Boston (Buchholz 11-3), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 4-7) at Texas (D.Holland 7-6), 8:05 p.m. N.Y.Yankees (P.Hughes 12-10) at Chica- go White Sox (Sale 14-4), 8:10 p.m. Thursday's games Toronto at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Oakland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m. don't take anything for granted,'' Cartwright said. ''I don't take the next day for granted. That's why I go out and try to play so hard, because you never know when that opportu- nity isn't going to be there anymore. You have to seize the moment.'' MLB National League West Division WL Pct GB GIANTS 67 55 .549 — Dodgers 67 56 .545 .5 Arizona 62 60 .508 5 San Diego 54 70 .435 14 Colorado 48 73 .397 18.5 East Division WL Pct GB Washington 77 46 .626 — Atlanta 70 53 .569 7 New York 57 66 .463 20 Phillies 57 66 .463 20 Miami 56 67 .455 21 Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 75 49 .605 — Pittsburgh 67 55 .549 7 St. Louis 65 56 .537 8.5 Milwaukee 55 66 .455 18.5 Chicago 47 74.388 26.5 Houston 39 83 .320 35 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's results Washington 4, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati 5, Philadelphia 4 Colorado 6, N.Y.Mets 2 Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, late Houston at St. Louis, late Miami at Arizona, late Pittsburgh at San Diego, late San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, late Today's games Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 4-9) at Milwau- kee (Gallardo 12-8), 2:10 p.m. Miami (Ja.Turner 0-0) at Arizona (Miley 13-8), 3:40 p.m., 1st game Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 11-5) at San Diego (Undecided), 6:35 p.m. Atlanta (Medlen 4-1) at Washington (Detwiler 7-5), 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Arroyo 9-7) at Philadelphia (Worley 6-8), 7:05 p.m. Colorado (Francis 4-4) at N.Y. Mets (Har- vey 2-3), 7:10 p.m. Houston (B.Norris 5-10) at St. Louis (Lohse 12-2), 8:15 p.m. Miami (LeBlanc 2-2) at Arizona (Skaggs 0-0), 9:40 p.m., 2nd game San Francisco (M.Cain 12-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 11-8), 10:10 p.m. Thursday's games Colorado at N.Y. 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