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Tehama Tracker Because of our print deadline, coverage of Tehama County football can be found at red- bluffdailynews.com Thursday's results Corning Yreka Corning Elle Davis (W) — 8-6, 6-2 Monique Davis (W) — 6-3, 6-0 Monica Curiel (L) 6-3, 3-6, 7-10 Patricia Diaz (L) 3-6, 6-4, 12-14 Viviana Morales (L) 6-3 7-5 Erica Hoffer (L) 2-6, 2-6 Doubles E. Davis/M. Davis (W) 8-5 Morales/Curiel (L) 5-8 P. Diaz/E. Hoffer (L) 6-8 Willows Mercy Mercy Stefanie Cheek/Hailey Gao (L) 3-8 Leah Li/Ying He (L) 2-8 GOLF Pleasant Valley Shasta Chico Red Bluff Enterprise Foothill Paradise Red Bluff Summer Frantz — 48 Mickenzie Perdue — 49 Sofia Frantz — 50 Michelle Mitchell — 55 Autumn Poole — 62 Friday's results WILD CARD St. Louis Atlanta STL — Holiday 2-3, 1 RBI ATL — Ross 3-4, 2 RBI Baltimore Texas LATE Today's games ALDS/NLDS Athletics Detroit OAK — Parker, 13-8 DET — Verlander, 17-8 Cincinnati Giants CIN — Cueto, 19-9 SF — Cain, 16-5 Sunday's games ALDS/NLDS Oakland Detroit OAK — Milone, 13-10 DET — TBD Cincinnati Giants CIN — Arroyo, 12-10 SF — Bumgarner, 16-11 Monday's games FIELD HOCKEY Davis Corning 3:30 p.m. Bowlers Association is returning to Lariat Bowl Oct. 12-14 for the 2012 Red Bluff Open. The event will fea- ture pros such as Lum- ber Liquidators national tour champions Chris Warren and Wayne Gar- ber. Around town The Professional Spectators will enjoy free admission for the three-day event. Saturday AUTO RACING • 9 a.m.SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500, at Talladega, Ala. • 1 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, Coca-Cola 250, at Talladega, Ala. COLLEGE FOOTBALL • 8:30 a.m. CBS — National coverage, Navy at Air Force • 9 a.m. ESPN — Northwestern at Penn St. ESPN2 — Arkansas at Auburn FSN — Boise St. at Southern Miss. FX — Kansas at Kansas St. • 10 a.m. NBCSN — Towson at James Madison • Noon FOX — Arizona at Stanford • 12:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Illinois at Wisconsin or Oklahoma at Texas Tech CBS — National coverage, LSU at Flori- da ESPN — Georgia Tech at Clemson ESPN2 — Regional coverage, Okla- homa at Texas Tech or Illinois at Wiscon- 6:37 p.m. TBS 9:07 a.m. TBS 6:37 p.m. TBS 3:07 p.m. TBS 3 6 261 235 264 262 268 291 291 0 9 6 3 ALDS Sports DETROIT (AP) — One team has the reigning MVP and another player who just won the Triple Crown. The Oakland Athletics will try to counter all that by sending — who else? — a rookie to the mound. ''We've been the 'David' all year,'' A's right- hander Jarrod Parker said. ''I think obviously it's a role and an image that we've kind of taken on and been able to embrace and it's fun.'' Parker will start against Detroit ace Justin Verlander in Game 1 of the division series Saturday night. The AL Central-champion Tigers are making their sec- ond straight playoff appear- ance, but Oakland emerged as one of the game's biggest surprises by winning the AL West. Now the A's have to contend with Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera — the Detroit third baseman who might win the Ameri- can League MVP after Ver- lander took the award last year. ''We know we've got a great ballclub. We know what we have in the club- house,'' Cabrera said. ''We know we're going to face a very hot team like Oakland. They play unbelievable baseball right now.'' Cabrera hit .330 with 44 home runs and 139 RBIs to become the first Triple 49ERS Crown winner since 1967. But he wasn't the only big story in the closing days of the regular season. The A's rallied to win the AL West, edging Texas by one game when they beat the Rangers on the final day. had the lowest opening day payroll in the majors. Oak- land got 56 homers and 54 wins from a cast of rookies that included Parker (13-8) and outfielder Yoenis Ces- Not bad for a team that pedes. Rookie left-hander Tommy Milone, who matched Parker with 13 wins, is slated to start Game 2. ed hitters, hit 32 home runs this year. ''Obviously with Ver- lander going Game 1, you've got to be on your game,'' Parker said. ''We have a lot of left-handed bats that are hot right now, and I think that's one thing we've got going for us.'' Outfielder Josh Reddick, one of Oakland's left-hand- SF looks to avoid letdown Bowman and Patrick Willis will harass the quarterback. The defense will probably force a turnover. Frank Gore will run for around 100 yards and Alex Smith will pro- tect the ball. Everybody pretty much knows what to SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — NaVorro expect from the San Francisco 49ers by now. That's hardly the case with the Buffalo Bills. Piling up points one minute, handing them out the next, what Bills (2-2) team trav- els to the West Coast to face the 49ers (3-1) on Sunday is anybody's guess. After allow- ing 45 second-half points in an embarrassing 52-28 home loss to New England last week, the only certainty is that Buffalo better bring its better half. Park following a 34-0 dismantling of the New York Jets that finished off a two-week stay on the East Coast in style. ''You can't let things affect you that you San Francisco returns to Candlestick don't have control over. We have no control over what's happened up to this point. It hap- pened. It's there,'' Bills coach Chan Gailey said. ''Now what are we going to do from here? How strong can you be from here on?'' wins fizzled in about 22 minutes against New England last week, when the Bills gave up six touchdowns, a field goal and 580 yards. They became the second team in NFL history to allow two players with 100 yards receiving — Wes Welker (129) and Rob Gronkowski (106) — and two with 100 yards rushing — Brandon Bolden (137) and Stevan Ridley (106). Suddenly, problems are popping up all Buffalo has yet to find the answers. All the good feelings from two straight over the place for a team that entered train- ing camp believing it had the pieces in place to end a 12-season playoff drought. Mario Williams has a sprained left wrist and just 1 1/2 sacks, 11 tackles and a fum- ble recovery after leaving Houston to sign a six-year, $100 million contract that made him the NFL's most expensive defensive player. Ryan Fitzpatrick leads the NFL with sin FSN — Iowa St. at TCU • 4 p.m. ESPN — Georgia at South Car- olina FOX — West Virginia at Texas • 4:30 p.m. NBC — Miami vs. Notre Dame, at Chicago • 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Florida St. at NC State • 5:07 p.m. ABC — National coverage, Nebraska at Ohio St. • 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Washington at Ore- gon GOLF • 5:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, third round, at Kingsbarns, Angus, and St. Andrews, Scotland • 10:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, SAS Championship, second round, at Cary, N.C. • 1 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Shriners Hos- pitals for Children Open, third round, at Las Vegas • 4:30 p.m.TGC — Web.com Tour, Need- iest Kids Championship, third round, at Potomac, Md. (same-day tape) MLB 12 touchdown passes but is also tied for sec- ond-worst with seven interceptions. And running backs C.J. Spiller (shoulder) and Fred Jackson (knee) are still slowed by injuries. Buffalo, which snapped an eight-game road losing streak with a Week 3 win at Cleveland, starts a string of four of its next five on the road. The Bills will practice in Arizona next week to get ready for the Car- dinals instead of traveling back East, similar to what the 49ers just did staying in Ohio between games at Minnesota and New York. ''This is a stretch of games here,'' Fitz- patrick said, ''that we are really going to fig- ure out what kind of team this is.'' San Francisco seemed to rediscover its identity in the Big Apple. A dominating defense kept the Jets out of the red zone all day and a ball-controlling offense ran for 245 yards. The romp reaf- firmed the 49ers as one of the NFL's elite, erasing memories of that 24-13 loss at Min- nesota in Week 3 that is suddenly looking like an aberration. About the only thing the Niners need to guard against is another letdown. San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh even talked for the first time this season about the fictional character he invented last October named Freddie P. Soft, a novel nemesis who tries to sneak into team headquarters and dis- rupt preparation by filling his players' ears with motivation-sapping praise. Harbaugh joked that players noticed Soft ''might be lurking'' at a practice a few weeks ago and it's no longer something he needs to address. Instead, the only outside presence in the 49ers locker room this week was Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays of the Giants to give a pep talk. ''The message is, 'We've attained humil- ity,''' Harbaugh said. ''I couldn't really say when that is for each person. Personally, it was a long time ago. But that carries with it no loss of true pride. Nobody's walking around here like we're the greatest thing since sliced bread.'' • 3 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, game 1, Oakland at Detroit • 6:30 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, game 1, Cincin- nati at San Francisco SOCCER • 4:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Sunderland at Manchester City • 12:30 p.m. NBC — MLS, Chicago at New York • 6 p.m.NBCSN — MLS, Salt Lake at Los Angeles Sunday AUTO RACING • 11 a.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500, at Talladega, Ala. • 4 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Auto-Plus Nationals, at Reading, Pa. (same-day tape) • 8 a.m. SPEED — FIA World Rally, at Ajaccio, Corsica (same-day tape) CRICKET • 10 a.m.ESPN2 — ICC World Twenty20, final, teams TBD, at Colombo, Sri Lanka (same-day tape) CYCLING • 2 p.m. NBCSN — Paris-Tours, Chateauneuf-en-Thymerais to Tours, France (same-day tape) GOLF • 4:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, final round, at St. Andrews, Scotland • 10:30 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, SAS Championship, final round, at Cary, N.C. • 1 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Shriners Hos- pitals for Children Open, final round, at Las Vegas • 4:30 p.m.TGC — Web.com Tour, Need- iest Kids Championship, final round, at Potomac, Md. (same-day tape) MLB • 9 a.m. MLB — Playoffs, American League Division Series, game 2, Oakland at Detroit • Noon TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, game 1, Washington at St. Louis-Atlanta winner • 3 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, game 1, New two games in Detroit, where the weather can be a factor this time of year. In 2006, the Tigers swept the A's in the AL championship series, and there were snow flurries at Comerica on a workout day between games. It rained a bit Fri- day, but the forecast for Sat- urday looked clear. That was good news for The series will start with WILD CARD 1B Weekend October 6-7, 2012 A's embrace underdog status MCT photo Oakland warms up for practice Friday in Detroit to prepare for its ALDS opener against the Tigers. Verlander (17-8), the pow- erful right-hander who had two playoff starts cut short by rain last year. ''I saw a little bit of rain today, but I saw actually on my Twitter of all places that it's not — no rain in the forecast for tomorrow,'' Verlander said. Verlander led the majors in strikeouts this year, and Max Scherzer — Detroit's Game 4 starter — finished second. Cardinals beat Braves 6-3 in disputed playoff ATLANTA (AP) — David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals rediscovered their postseason touch. Chipper Jones and the Braves kept throwing the ball away. And the Atlanta fans turned Turner Field into a trash heap. They said anything could happen in baseball's first wild-card playoff. Boy, did it ever. five division round, beginning Sunday at Busch Stadi- um. In a game protested by the Braves, Matt Holliday homered and the defending World Series champion Car- dinals took advantage of three Atlanta throwing errors — the most crucial of them by the retiring Jones — to take the winner-take-all playoff 6-3 on Friday. St. Louis advanced to face Washington in the best-of- The Braves are done for this season, the recipients of another heartbreaking loss in the playoffs. The 40-year-old Jones is all done, period. He man- aged an infield hit in his final at-bat but threw away a double play ball in the fourth, which led to a three-run inning that wiped out Atlanta's early 2-0 lead behind Kris Medlen. But this one-and-done game will be remembered for the eighth, when a disputed call on a fly ball that dropped in short left field cost the Braves a chance at extending Jones' career. The Braves thought they had the bases loaded with one out after the ball dropped between two fielders, who appeared to get mixed up over who had called for it. But left-field umpire Sam Holbrook called Andrelton Sim- mons out under the infield fly rule — even though the ball landed at least 50 feet beyond the dirt. When the fans realized what had happened, they lit- tered the field with beers cups, popcorn holders and other trash, leading to a 19-minute delay. That only delayed the inevitable. When play finally resumed, Brian McCann walked but Michael Bourn struck out to end the threat. Dan Uggla grounded out with two aboard in the ninth to end it, leading to one more wave of trash throwing as the umps scurried off the field — probably feeling a lot like those replacement NFL refs who caught so much grief. York at Baltimore-Texas winner • 6:30 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, game 2, Cincin- nati at San Francisco MOTORSPORTS • 1 p.m. SPEED — FIM World Superbike, race 1, at Magny-Cours, France (same- day tape) • 3 p.m. SPEED — FIM World Superbike, race 2, at Magny-Cours, France (same- day tape) • 12 Mid. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at New Orleans (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 — San Diego at New Orleans SAILING • 1:30 p.m. NBC — America's Cup World Series, at San Francisco SOCCER • 11 a.m. FOX — Premier League, Man- chester United at Newcastle (same-day tape) Note: airs at 1:30 p.m. in early NFL mar- kets •6 p.m. ESPN — MLS, Portland at Seat- tle WNBA • 12:30 p.m. ABC — Playoffs, Western Conference finals, game 2, Minnesota at Los Angeles Monday MLB • 1:30 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, game 2, Wash- ington at St. Louis-Atlanta winner •5 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, game 2, New York at Baltimore-Texas winner NFL • 5:30 p.m. ESPN — Houston at N.Y. Jets WNBA BASKETBALL •5 p.m.ESPN2 — Playoffs, Eastern Con- ference finals, game 2, Connecticut at Indiana