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Saturday Los Molinos Softball Tournament, Bulldogs play at 11:30 a.m. Baseball — Los Molinos at Biggs Tournament Baseball — Mercy at Liberty Christian Tournament Softball — Corning at Yreka Tournament Softball — Mercy at Liberty Christian Tournament Softball — Red Bluff at Lassen Tournament Bulldogs bounce back Sports 1B Tehama Tracker Weekend March 20, 2010 Archery Tournament Sunday The Ishi Archery Club is hosting a 28 target 3-D tour- nament Sunday at the range on Highway 36 East in Red Bluff. The public is invited. Registration begins at 7 a.m. with shooting starting at 9 a.m. Food and drink con- cessions will be available. Visit www.ishiarcheryclub.org for more information or call 527-4200. Spartans baseball Red Bluff opened up East- ern Athletic League play, Friday, with an 11-1 road win at Oroville. The Spartans got seven innings of strong pitching, — five from starter Scott Avery and one each from Zane Medieros and Storm Lewis. “Our guys played hard —they’re hungry,” coach Joe Gallaty said. Daily News photo by Rich Greene Jessica Williams slides into second base, Friday, at the Los Molinos Softball Tournament. By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor LOS MOLINOS — After falling in their tournament opener 14-4, Fri- day morning, to Redding Christian, the Lady Bulldogs battled back in the afternoon to knock off Big Valley 6-4 in the consolation bracket. The win earned the Bulldogs a matchup with Biggs today at 11:30 a.m. in the fifth place game of the 12th Annual Los Molinos Softball Tourna- ment. “Our team had a lot more confi- dence together,” Los Molinos pitcher Dannie Wabs said of the difference between the morning loss and after- noon victory. Wabs said the Lady Bulldogs start- ed believing in themselves after hav- ing early success against Big Valley. Despite giving up two runs to Big Valley in the top half of the first inning, Los Molinos struck back for four runs of their own in the bottom of the first. It started with leadoff hitter Callie Carruth earning a well-deserved walk after fouling off several pitches in a quality at-bat. Wabs then doubled Carruth in and the next three Los Molinos batters each put the ball in play and reached on errors. Wabs, Haley Ables and Ashley Points came around to score in the inning. Big Valley then tacked on runs in the third and fourth innings to tie the game at 4-4. In the bottom of the fifth however, the Bulldogs struck again when Mon- ica Maxwell led off the inning with a single. Christina Cash then reached base on an infield error. Two batters later Ashley Havel was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Carruth and Wabs then delivered back-to-back RBI singles to put Los Molinos out ahead 6-4. Wabs then held Big Valley off the board the final three innings despite finding herself in trouble during the fifth and sixth innings. With the bases loaded in the fifth inning and two out, Wabs got the Big Valley hitter to line the ball straight back at her. Then in the sixth with run- ners on second and third with two outs, Wabs recorded one of her five strikeouts in the game to shut the door. Breanna Gratreaks made some fine plays on defense to help Wabs out. Maxwell turned a nice double play from first base and Ables made a spectacular diving catch on a foul ball from behind the plate. The afternoon game was a 180 from the morning contest in which the Bulldogs were also in a 4-4 tie in the fourth inning, but fell apart with pitch- ing in the latter innings. The Lady Bulldogs walked 10 bat- ters in the game and hit six more with pitches and eventually fell in a mercy shortened six-innings 14-4. Wabs had a pair of triples in the game and Ables, Maxwell and Points each batted in a run. Cornell pulls upset, Cal advances No. 12 Cornell 78, No. 5 Temple 65 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Cornell lived up to its billing, showing why it’s the best team to come out of the Ivy League in more than a decade. Down to their last chance to experience success on college basketball’s biggest stage, seniors Ryan Wittman, Louis Dale and Jeff Foote led 12th-seeded Cornell to its first win in five NCAA tournament appear- ances Friday, a 78-65 victo- ry over No. 5 seed Temple in the East Regional. Dale scored 21 points, Wittman had 20 and Foote added 16 points and seven rebounds. This win came in domi- nant fashion. The Big Red (28-4) took the lead early and never looked back, earn- ing the Ivy League’s first NCAA tournament victory since fifth-seeded Princeton beat No. 12 seed UNLV in 1998. Temple (29-6) lost in the first round for the third straight year under coach Fran Dunphy, whose former assistant, Steve Donahue, has led Cornell to three con- secutive Ivy League titles and the winningest season in school history. Juan Fernandez and Ryan Brooks each had 14 points for the Owls. Dun- phy, who’s been at Temple since 2006, fell to 1-12 in the NCAA tournament and has lost 11 straight. No. 8 California 77, No. 9 Louisville 62 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — California’s distrac- tions now seem about as dis- tant as the Pacific Ocean. That disappointing loss in the Pac-10 tournament? Getting sent across the country to open the NCAA tournament? The suspen- MCT photo Temple’s Juan Fernandez loses his balance while guarding Cornell’s Louis Dale, Friday, during the NCAA Tournament. sion of a starter? The Golden Bears over- came them all — and showed even more resilien- cy in the first round against Louisville. Seniors Jerome Randle, Patrick Christopher and Theo Robertson stole the show, carrying the eighth- seeded Bears to a 77-62 vic- tory over the No. 9 seed Car- dinals on Friday night and advancing to the second round for the first time since 2003. ‘‘It’s a new season for us,’’ Christopher said. ‘‘Regardless of what’s hap- pened, we’ve put it in the past. ... The time to play well is now.’’ Randle and Robertson scored 21 points apiece, Christopher added 17 points and eight rebounds, and the Bears (24-10) responded to everything Louisville (20- 13) could muster in the South Regional game. Their reward? No. 1 seed Duke on Sunday. The Bears don’t want to think about that one just yet. They’d rather savor this vic- tory. There was plenty to enjoy, too. They jumped out to an 18-point lead, watched Louisville whittle it down to six, then pulled back out front by 14. They watched that cushion get cut to 62-58 with 6:55 remaining, then stepped on the gas for good. Cal close it out with a 15-4 run. ‘‘We didn’t panic, and we got it done,’’ Christopher said. No. 2 Ohio State 68, No. 15 UC Santa Barbara 51 MILWAUKEE (AP) — After making a late layup, Evan Turner turned to run back down the court, shak- ing his head. It was supposed to be another chance for the Ohio State star to stand out on a big stage. Instead, it was one of the worst shooting nights See NCAA, page 2B Derek Jones continued his excellent start to the season from the leadoff position, scoring four runs on a 2-for-3, two-walk day. He also made a nice backhanded stab on a sharply hit ball to second base. Cody Gappa drove in three runs for a 2-for-5 day with a double and a single. Avery drove in a pair of runs to go along with a single and double. Trevor Miller went 2-for-3 with a couple of a sin- gles. “We’re proud of how they represented Red Bluff High School today,” Gallaty said. The 9-2 Spartans travel to Foothill on Tuesday. Spartans softball The Spartans are off to a 2-1 start at the Lassen softball tournament after sandwiching a pair of mercy wins around a tough 4-1 loss to Del Oro, Fri- day. Red Bluff opened with an 11-0 victory in five innings over Orland behind freshman Bryce Etzler’s one-hit, one-walk effort on the mound and a grand slam from Brittany Fletcher. Fletcher finished the game 2-for-2 with five RBIs. Haley Harris also had a couple of hits and batted in a run and Etzler knocked in two RBIs. Stevie Boone had a double and two RBIs and Haley Matheson doubled. Red Bluff then took on Del Oro and only managed a pair of hits from Harris and Danisha Slay in the third inning and lost 3-1. Krista Rodriguez started the game and pitched four innings and only allowed one run and Megan McColpin pitched the final three innings, allowing three runs, only one of which was earned. McColpin then took the mound against Fernley, Nev. and pitched five perfect innings in a mercy shortened 11-0 win. The sophomore struck out eight batters. Fletcher and Harris each hit 3-run homers in the victory and McColpin went 2-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored. Jerilynn Purcell also knocked in a run. Today, the Spartans open with a game against Sparks, Nev. to finish pool play and then enter the single-elimination aspect of the tournament. The Spartans arrived in Susanville a day early and played Lassen on Thursday — an 8-0 win. “The ball started rolling on Thursday night and that carried over to today,” coach J Howell said. Red Bluff is 4-1 on the season. “For this early in the season, I can’t be more pleased at where we’re at,” Howell said. Cardinals softball Behind an outstanding performance from Anna Curry, Thursday, the Cardi- nals raced out to an early lead and then hung on for a 9-7 win over Gridley. Curry homered twice, knocked in four runs and on the mound went the distance and struck out seven. Corning watched as Grid- ley began taking huge chunks out of an early 6-0 lead and had to hang on as the visitors scored four runs in the top of the seventh before the Cardinals closed the door. Vada Bree Sutfin and Erica White each went 2-for- 4 and drove in a run. Bulldogs baseball Los Molinos split its first set of games at the Biggs Tournament. The Bulldogs beat Prince- ton 10-6, but lost 11-3 to Gridley. Warriors baseball Mercy was perfect, Thursday, at the Liberty Chris- tian tournament with a 14-4 win over University Prep and a come-from-behind 5-3 victory over Hayfork. Cameron Vietti struck out 11 in six innings and Dylan Thomas came in to strike out two batters in the seventh to record the save. The Warriors trailed by three runs, but came back on a homer from Mitchell Lopez and RBIs from Thomas, Scott Farmer and Pat Farmer. Vietti also doubled. Warriors softball Mercy got its first win of the season Friday at the Liberty Christian Tournament when they defeated Tulelake 14-13. The Lady Warriors used a nine-run third inning to even their record at the tournament after falling to Hayfork 11-0.