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Tehama Tracker Wednesday's result FIELD HOCKEY Corning Davis Kaitlyn Huntley — 10 saves Tommi Hammons — 3 saves Thursday's results GOLF Red Bluff 3 points MLB Athletics L.A. Angels OAK— Anderson, 4-0 LAA — Weaver, 16-4 Today's games FOOTBALL Corning Red Bluff Mercy Westwood 7 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Los Molinos Corning Mercy Red Bluff Host The Red Bluff Tournament runs today and Saturday. MLB Baltimore Athletics BAL — Saunders, 2-1 OAK — Milone, 12-10 Giants Arizona SF — Cain, 13-5 ARZ — Skaggs, 1-1 On the tube AUTO RACING • 10 a.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for GEICO 400, at Joli- et, Ill. • 11:30 a.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, practice for Dollar General 300, at Joliet, Ill. • 1 p.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final prac- tice for GEICO 400, at Joliet, Ill. • 2:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, final practice for Dollar General 300, at Joliet, Ill. • 4:30 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, qualifying for MAVTV 500, at Fontana, Calif. COLLEGE FOOTBALL • 6 p.m. ESPN — Washington St. at UNLV GOLF • 5:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Italian Open, second round, at Turin, Italy • 6 a.m. ESPN2 — Women's British Open, second round, at Hoylake, England • 2 p.m.TGC — Web.com Tour, Boise Open, second round, at Boise, Idaho • 4:30 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Hawaii Championship, first round, at Kapolei, Hawaii MLB • 11:10 a.m. WGN — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs • 4:30 p.m. MLB — Regional cover- age, Washington at Atlanta or Tampa Bay at N.Y.Yankees (7 p.m. start) PREP FOOTBALL • 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Don Bosco Prep (N.J.) at St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) • 7 p.m. FSN — Bergen Catholic (N.J.) at Bishop Gorman (Nev.) SOCCER • 5:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Houston at Kansas City Around town The Tehama County Library Red Bluff branch is hosting "Orange Friday" from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today as part of an initiative to get children to read with a San Francisco Giants theme. The "Be a Giant reader" program is cooperation with the Jr. Giants program. San Francisco Giants school supplies and water bottles will be handed out while they last. County Librarian Sally Ainsworth has pulled a number of baseball themed books aside for children to check out. 6:40 p.m. CSNB 7:05 p.m. CSNC Daily News photo by Andre Byik Turn to page 2B for results from the Red Bluff Junior Round-Up, which took place on Saturday. ANGELS 6, A'S 0 A's road streak ends at 12 in Anaheim ANAHEIM (AP) — One troublesome inning interrupted what had been a sensational start to Brett Anderson's season follow- ing Tommy John surgery. The Athletics' left-han- der did all he could to match zeros with Jered Weaver through six innings before it fell apart. Torii Hunter triggered a six-run seventh with a lead- off homer against Anderson and capped the rally with an RBI single, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-0 vic- tory Thursday and ending the Athletics' 12-game road winning streak. ''Obviously, you knew it was going to be a tough day, going up against one of the best pitchers in baseball. But you want to go out there and prove yourself and try to match him pitch for pitch,'' Anderson said after his ERA rose from 0.69 to 1.93. ''I was able to do that through six, but I got a little tired in the seventh and fell behind,'' he added. ''But for the most part, I was happy with the way I battled and got out of some jams.'' Anderson (4-1) was charged with five runs and nine hits over 6 2-3 innings in his fifth start since rejoin- ing the rotation. The left- hander is 2-20 in 33 career starts when getting fewer than three runs of support while he is in the game, as opposed to a 23-4 record when his teammates score three or more before he departs. Hunter led off the sev- enth with his 15th homer, driving a 2-0 pitch to right- center for the first home run allowed by Anderson in 27 innings this season. ''Weave pitched a Weaver needed as he held the A's to just two hits over seven innings and struck out nine to help the Angels avoid a four-game sweep by the A's and hand them their first road loss since Aug. 23 against Tampa Bay. ''It was a good road trip for us, and you want to get as greedy as you can, but Weaver was really good today. So was our guy,'' manager Bob Melvin said. ''Hunter's home run at the time felt like a three-run homer, based on the fact that it seemed like nobody was going to score. Two good pitchers putting up zeros, and they got on the board first and finished it off.'' Erick Aybar doubled one out after Hunter's homer and scored on a single by Mark Trumbo. A single by Vernon Wells and a two-out walk to Mike Trout loaded the bases for Alberto Callaspo, who greeted Jesse Chavez with a two-run sin- gle. Trout scored his major league-leading 115th run on a passed ball by George Kot- taras and Hunter added his RBI single. ''It was pretty hot out there. And when you hit that wall, it comes pretty quick- ly,'' said Melvin, a former big league catcher. ''Once Brett walked Trout, I felt that was enough, based on a lot of things. But I thought his stuff was as good as it was any of the other times he was out there. He's con- tremendous game, and he was just waiting for us to do something,'' Hunter said. ''I wasn't thinking about hit- ting a home run at all. I just wanted to hit it hard, get on base for the guys behind be and get something started.'' That run basically was all 7:30 p.m. 6 0 3 0 Sports RED BLUFF JR. ROUND-UP 1B Friday September 14, 2012 MCT file photo The A's Tommy Milone (12-10) is scheduled to pitch against Baltimore tonight. tinuing to pitch at a very high level and giving us a chance to win every single time.'' Weaver (17-4) made his first start since skipping a turn in the rotation because of biceps tendinitis, which showed up in an MRI after he was struck on his pitch- ing arm by a line drive off the bat of Seattle's Dustin 49ERS SF tops league in protecting ball SANTA CLARA (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have improved in just about every facet of the offense this season. But there is one area where they didn't really need to get much better. The 49ers are protect- ing the football better than anybody else in the NFL, and their turnover-free play is reaching historic proportions. tory. The 49ers can match the league record set by the 2010 New England Patriots on Sunday night when they face the Detroit Lions. MCT photo 49ers quarterback Alex Smith holds on to the ball. San Francisco hasn't committed a turnover in six consecutive regular- season games dating back to last season, the second- longest streak in NFL his- Leading the way is quarterback Alex Smith, who hasn't thrown an interception in a fran- chise-record 185 consecu- tive regular-season pass- es. Smith threw just five picks last season — the fewest in the league for a regular starter — as San Francisco committed a NFL-low 10 turnovers. The 49ers have not committed a regular-sea- son turnover since Smith's second-quarter interception against the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving night last year. They have not lost a fumble since tight end Vernon Davis fumbled after catching a pass from Smith in the fourth quar- ter of a Nov. 6 victory at Washington. The 49ers have a streak of 36 con- secutive quarters without losing a fumble. Smith doesn't down- play the significance of See 49ERS, page 2B Ackley on Sept. 2. Oakland's only hits were a first-inning single by Josh Reddick and a third-inning double by Jemile Weeks after center fielder Trout stumbled while chasing the ball in right-center. ''Obviously we didn't want to get swept,'' Weaver said. ''Things didn't go the way we wanted them to the first three games, but those guys are playing good base- ball and you can't take them lightly. ''We have a pretty heavy payroll compared to those guys, but they always seem to grind it out and put things together,'' Weaver added. ''They've got a great starting rotation, their bullpen is See A's, page 2B