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Tehama Tracker Because of our print deadline, coverage of Red Bluff football at Enterprise on Friday can be found at redbluffdailynews.com Thursday's results TENNIS Red Bluff Foothill Red Bluff Ginger Shaffer 6-2, 6-2 Josie Clements 0-6, 0-6 Jennika Alexander 1-6, 2-6 Meredith Lord 1-6, 3-6 Aislynn Lair 3-6, 6-4, 1-6 Emmaline Iverson, 0-6, 1-6 Shaffer-Alexander, 10-6 Clements-Lair, 0-10 Lord-Iverson, 4-10 Mercy Gridley 7 2 Mercy Stefanie Cheek-Irlanda Hernan- dez, 8-0 Hailey Gau-Leah Li, 9 - 7 Today's games Mercy 7 2 Sports SOFTBALL CITY LEAGUE 1 OF 7 | GIBB'S AUTO BODY VOLLEYBALL Los Molinos 9:30 a.m. Sat. 8 a.m. Sat. Beth Pilger Invitational tourney at Los Molinos High School MLB Athletics New York OAK — Blackley, 5-3 NYY — Nova, 12-7 San Diego Giants SD — Werner, 2-1 SF — Bumgarner, 15-10 Sunday's games NFL 49ers Minnesota Pittsburgh Raiders 10 a.m. FOX 1:25 p.m. CBS MLB Athletics New York OAK — Griffin, 6-1 NYY — Kuroda, 14-10 San Diego Giants SD — TBD SF — Lincecum, 10-14 Monday's games FIELD HOCKEY Chico Corning 3:30 p.m. TENNIS Orland Corning 3:30 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Los Molinos Redding Adv. 7:30 p.m. MLB Athletics Texas OAK — TBD TEX — Holland, 11-6 NFL Green Bay Seattle 5:30 p.m. ESPN Follow @TehamaS- ports on Twit- ter for live game cover- age. Saturday AUTO RACING • 6 a.m.SPEED — Formula One, qualify- ing for Grand Prix of Singapore • 8 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, ''Happy Hour Series,'' final practice for Sylvania 300, at Loudon, N.H. • 9 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Whelen Modified Series, at Loudon, N.H. • 1 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Kentucky 300, at Sparta, Ky. COLLEGE FOOTBALL • 9 a.m. ESPN — Virginia at TCU ESPN2 — UTEP at Wisconsin FSN — Mississippi at Tulane FX — Maryland at West Virginia • 10 a.m. NBCSN — Yale at Cornell • 12:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, 5:05 p.m. CSNC 1:05 p.m. CSNB 10:05 a.m. CSNC 6:05 p.m. CSNB 10:05 a.m. CSNC Courtesy photo Members of the Gibb's Auto Body softball team pause behind their city league trophy. 49ERS SF tries to keep playoff pace MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are in the early stage of their plan to return to peren- nial playoff contention with a team supporting a power running game with smart, productive passes and backs that up with a stingy, turnover-forcing defense. The template is coming future goal. The Vikings, who beat to town this weekend. The blueprint is labeled ''San Francisco 49ers.'' ''That's something that we can relate to here, just seeing what they're doing on offense and defense and even their special teams,'' Vikings coach Leslie Fra- zier said. ''They play well. They're a very physical group.'' The 49ers, kept from reaching the last Super Bowl by a few fluke mis- takes in the NFC champi- onship game, have stayed on last year's 13-3 pace with commanding victories over Green Bay and Detroit to start this season. The eight-point winning mar- gins in each matchup against those 2011 playoff qualifiers were closer than the games really were. Now the 49ers continue their September tour around the NFC North with a trip to Minnesota, where the post- season is both a painful, distant memory and a BOXING Jacksonville in their opener to get within one-third of last year's victory total, are well aware of what the 49ers have to offer Sunday. This is a significant chal- lenge, for one, a chance to gauge just how far their off- season improvements have gone. Then there's the example and the hope the 49ers embody, a confident, homegrown team winning without the type of high- scoring, throw-it-40-times- per-game offense so much of the NFL has taken to. Of the 22 starters com- prising their standard line- ups on each side of the ball, the 49ers drafted 15 of them. That includes inside linebacker Patrick Willis, the heart of the hard-hitting group that has given up the fewest yards per carry in the league (3.52) since 2009. ''Anytime we're playing a top-rated defense or a stop-the-run defense, I'm even more stoked,'' said Vikings running back Adri- an Peterson, whose longest gain over two games in his return from reconstructive left knee surgery is 19 yards. ''We're looking for- ward to the challenge, man. I don't think they've faced a run-type offense like we have, so I think that can 1B Weekend Sept. 22-23, 2012 RAIDERS MCT photo The 49ers'Frank Gore after a touchdown last week. switch things up.'' The 49ers play next at the New York Jets, so to avoid two long pregame flights they'll spend the upcoming week in Youngstown, Ohio, rather than returning to Northern California. So coach Jim Harbaugh, whose team is 7- 2 on the road since he took over last year, is obviously wary of taking the rebuild- ing Vikings lightly. ''Can't have a letdown or let up,'' Harbaugh said. ''Got a good team. If you aspire to be a good team in this league then you've got to come back every single week and prove it again. You're not better than any- body else unless you prove it.'' OAKLAND (AP) — The Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers spent the offseason implementing new offenses designed to rely heavily on running games that could take a little pressure off their passers. Two weeks into the sea- son, neither running game has gotten off the ground. Despite having a healthy Darren McFadden for a change, the Raiders (0-2) go into Sunday's game against the Steelers (1-1) with the league's second worst rush- ing attack. ''You don't let it frustrate you. The saving grace is, you know McFadden is back there,'' Raiders quarterback Carson Palmer said. ''He's one arm tackle away from breaking off a 40-, 50- yarder. He's got that poten- tial, he's got that ability, he's done it before. We're going to stick with it. We're not frustrated. We're disappoint- ed in ourselves for not exe- cuting it better but we're not going to let it frustrate us, we're not going to let it deter it from our goal.'' The Steelers haven't had much better luck running the ball so far this season in new coordinator Todd Haley's offense. Pittsburgh has rushed for just 141 yards the first two weeks and averaged a paltry 2.6 yards per carry, putting more pressure on Ben Roethlisberger and the pass- ing game to get things going. ''It's obviously been a lit- tle frustrating because that was the emphasis of the off- season, getting a new coor- dinator, is running the ball and being able to pound it,'' Roethlisberger said. ''But it's not working quite this minute and things aren't going well.'' Offense looks to finally wake up much worse with just 68 yards rushing per game in losses to San Diego and Miami. For a team that has stressed being a run-first offense under coordinator Greg Knapp, it's not hard to figure why the offense has sputtered so much with a running game that can't get going. The Raiders have been Chico's Ava Knight gets shot at WBC title belt By TRAVIS SOUDERS MediaNews Group Reigning world IBF flyweight champion Ava Knight, of Chico, will make a bid for another belt on Oct. 13 when she challenges famed WBC flyweight champion Mariana Juarez, the third fight this year for the Pleasant Valley grad who has twice in 2012 defended her own championship. "It's going to be the biggest fight of my career," Knight said. "The WBC is the biggest belt you want, and she's had it for a couple years now. This is my chance to step it up." City. The 10-round bout has been in the works for the Knight camp, as her manager, Ben Bautista, pointed out. "We constantly pushed for this fight, but we weren't sure she wanted to fight us," Bautista said. "We approached her to try to set up the fight, and called her out." Believed to be wanting to stake for this fight. Yet again, Knight will travel to Knight's IBF title is not at Mexico for this fight, taking on Juarez in her home country at the Palacio de Deporte in Mexico Oregon St. at UCLA or Temple at Penn St. CBS — National coverage, Missouri at South Carolina ESPN2 — Regional coverage, Oregon St. at UCLA or Temple at Penn St. • 1 p.m.FX — Colorado at Washington St. • 1:30 p.m. NBCSN — Harvard at Brown • 4 p.m. ESPN — LSU at Auburn • 4:30 p.m. FOX — Kansas St. at Okla- homa NBC — Michigan at Notre Dame • 4:45 p.m. ESPN2 — Vanderbilt at Geor- gia • 5:07 p.m.ABC — Clemson at Florida St. • 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Arizona at Oregon NBCSN — Nevada at Hawaii GOLF move up in weight class, Juarez must first prove she is the undis- puted flyweight champion — and to this point, only Knight has provided discussion otherwise. Even with that motivation pre- sent, the fight likely wouldn't have happened had Knight not agreed to fight Juarez on her own turf. "She wouldn't do this any- where else,"Knight said. "I was pretty strongly against fighting her in Mexico City, to be honest, • 9 a.m.TGC — PGA Tour, TOUR Cham- pionship, third round, at Atlanta • 11 a.m. NBC — PGA Tour, TOUR Championship, third round, at Atlanta TGC — Navistar LPGA Classic, third round, at Prattville, Ala. MLB • 10 p.m. WGN — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs • 12:30 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, L.A Dodgers at Cincinnati, Atlanta at Philadelphia, or Minnesota at Detroit • 6 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels or San Diego at San Francisco MOTORSPORTS • 9 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at Homestead, Fla. (same-day tape) but this is the chance I've been given and I'm taking it." Juarez may prove to be Knight's toughest bout yet. The Mexican star known as "La Bar- bie" has, besides enormous national popularity and even an appearance in Playboy, a reputa- tion for being technically sound and will of course have her home supporters behind her. That, how- ever, hasn't fazed Knight to this point as she's climbed the world ranks the past two years while consistently fighting abroad. "She is going to bring me a great fight. I know she is training hard and studying my tapes, but everyone has a game plan before they get into the ring," Knight said. "Once you get hit, every- thing changes. I may be consid- ered an underdog in this fight, and that doesn't bother me. She is SOCCER • 4:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Everton at Swansea City • 5 p.m.NBCSN — MLS, Portland at Real Salt Lake Sunday AUTO RACING • 4:30 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, Grand Prix of Singapore • 11 a.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Sylvania 300, at Loudon, N.H. • 7 p.m. SPEED — FIA, World Touring Car Championship, at Sonoma, Calif. (same-day tape) GOLF • 8:30 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour, TOUR Championship, final round, at Atlanta • 10:30 a.m. NBC — PGA Tour, TOUR a true Mexican boxing icon, and beating her is the only way to prove to everyone that I am the best. "I'm going in there like she stole that belt from me." Knight has less than a month to train for not only Juarez, but the 7,000-foot Mexico City alti- tude. The IBF champ said she feels Juarez probably has the advantage of fighting in her home surroundings, and thus would love to keep the outcome from going to the judges. but I don't want to go 10," Knight said. "You go into a champ's own country, with the crowd on her side and everything else, you don't want to try to pull a deci- sion out. I am trying my best to make sure it's undoubtedly a win." Championship, final round, at Atlanta • 11 a.m.TGC — Navistar LPGA Classic, final round, at Prattville, Ala. MLB • 10 a.m.TBS — Oakland at N.Y.Yankees • 11:10 a.m. WGN — St. Louis at Chica- go Cubs • 5 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Dodgers at Cincin- nati MOTORSPORTS • 9 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at Homestead, Fla. (same-day tape) NFL • 10 a.m. CBS — Regional coverage, doubleheader FOX — Regional coverage •1 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage • 1:25 p.m. CBS — Regional coverage, doubleheader game • 5:20 p.m.NBC — New England at Balti- more SOCCER • 11 a.m. FOX — Premier League, Man- chester United at Liverpool (same-day tape) Eds: airs at 4:30 p.m. in early NFL mar- kets WNBA • Noon ESPN2 — Seattle at Phoenix Monday MLB • 5 p.m. MLB Network, (regional cover- age) Oakland at Texas or NY Yankees at Minnesota NFL • 5:30 p.m.ESPN — Green Bay at Seattle "I'm training for 10 (rounds),