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Thursday Baseball — Corning, 5 p.m. at Big League Dreams in Redding Baseball — Mercy, TBD, at Big League Dreams in Redding Golf — The Masters, First Round, 1 p.m., ESPN MLB— Mariners at A’s, 12:35 p.m., CSNCA NBA— Clippers at Kings, 7 p.m., CSNCA NBA — Lakers at Nuggets, 7:30 p.m. Sports 1B Wrangler District 1 All-Star team The Corning Cardinals advanced to the quarterfinals of the Shasta Lake Bass Easter Baseball Classic, Thursday and beat county rival Mercy 10-2 along the way. The two Tehama County schools were paired up in the first round of the 32-team tour- nament hosted by Central Valley High School at Big League Dreams in Redding. The Cardinals used an eight-strikeout performance from Austin Arbogast to top the Warriors 10-2. Devan Whitlock drove in two runs and had a double and Caleb Johnson doubled and drove in a run. Daniel Mahutga, Tyler Price and Tyler McIntyre also drove in runs for Corning. In the second round, Corning beat Maxwell 9-3. The game was tied 3-3 after four innings, but the Cardi- nal bats got to work. McIntyre doubled twice in the game and Mahutga picked up three hits, including a double. Marc Mason was the winning pitcher for Corning. Giants sweep Courtesy photo The Wrangler District 1 All-Star team (pictured from top left): Jesse Stratton, Kylee Carlon, Amy Brown, co-captain Chelsey Bushnell, Wyatt Brown, co-captain Cameron Jones, Wyatt Spencer and Brody Gill. Chelsey Bushnell and Cameron Jones were selected as the co-captains for the National High School Rodeo Association Wrangler Division’s Dis- trict 1 All-Star team. Other Division 1 all-star selections included: Amy Brown, Kylee Carlon, Jesse Stratton, Wyatt Brown, Brody Gill and Wyatt Spencer. The NHSRA-WD and Wrangler created the Wrangler All-Star Rodeo Team in 1998 to recognize over 1,200 high school student athletes across the United States and Canada for their leadership qualities, academic perfor- mance and athletic achievements. The WDWrangler All-Star Rodeo Team is fashioned after the prestigious Wrangler Champion Pro Rodeo Team, which has included rodeo superstars Trevor Brazile, Stran Smith, Kody Lohstroh, Guilherme Marchi, Kaycee Feild, Will Lowe and Rod Hay. Similar to their professional coun- terparts, members of the WD Wrangler All-Star Rodeo team wear official Wrangler competition apparel. The National High School Rodeo Association-Wrangler Division is the world’s largest rodeo organization with over 10,000 members in 41 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia. The NHSRAoriginated 60 years ago to promote education, North America’s great western heritage and the sport of rodeo. Nelson captures career victories record MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Don Nelson emerged from the Golden State Warriors locker room all disheveled from a wild cel- ebration after finally over- taking Lenny Wilkens as the NBA’s winningest coach. His gray hair was soaked to the scalp not with Dom Perignon, but a concoction of fizzy soft drinks after a 116-107 vic- tory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednes- day night gave Nelson win No. 1,333 for his career. ‘‘We didn’t have any champagne bottles, so we took some Sprite and some Mountain Dew and some water and sprayed it all over him,’’ said Anthony Tolliver, who scored a career-high 34 points. How appropriate, because the road to this record has been anything but smooth and easy for one of the league’s true mavericks. ‘‘It’s just such a neat feeling,’’ Nelson said. ‘‘This is probably why we end up coaching, for moments like this.’’ In 31 seasons on the bench, Nelson is 1,333- 1,061 in a career that has made stops in Milwaukee, Golden State (twice), New York and Dallas. He won five titles as a player, has been named coach of the year three times, but has never made an NBA Finals as a coach. Through it all, Nelson has always done it his way. He’s clashed with players, management and owner- ship at various stops along the way and is the only coach with at least 1,000 career victories who has yet to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Nelson has built a repu- tation as a ‘‘mad scientist,’’ experimenting with line- ups and offensive sets to cater to teams that were not always the biggest, strongest or most talented. In his first stint with Gold- HOUSTON (AP) — With their pitching, the San Francisco Giants fig- ure if they can get about three runs a game they should win on most days. On Wednesday, they blew right past that mark, beating the Houston Astros 10-4 to complete a season-opening three-game sweep. Edgar Renteria tied a career high with five hits to help the Giants to a 3-0 record for the first time since 2003, when they began with a sweep at San Diego and won seven straight. Houston last started 0-3 in 2007. ‘‘When you come to the ballpark every day and feel like you’ve got a really good opportunity to win some games because of the guy who’s on the hill, that’s a good feeling,’’ said Aaron Rowand, who had four of the Giants’ 19 hits. ‘‘That’s a confidence-builder in itself.’’ It was 4-all when Juan Uribe doubled in the eighth inning and scored the go-ahead run when Sammy Gervacio (0-1) threw away a bunt. The Giants added another run in the inning, then scored four times in the ninth. John Bowker had a two-run homer and Travis Ishikawa added his first career pinch-hit home run. Jeremy Affeldt (1-0) got the win in relief of Matt Cain, who allowed six hits and three earned runs in 6 2-3 innings. ‘‘With the way these guys were swinging in spring it gives us a bunch of confidence out there on the mound that if we give up a couple of runs like we did out there today ... those guys can come right back to pick us up,’’ Cain said. ‘‘That builds a lot of confidence for the starters and the relievers and I think it builds confidence for those guys as well.’’ Astros starter Brett Myers gave up a career-high 12 hits and four runs in six-plus innings in his Astros debut. ‘‘I felt like it was a battle from the first inning on,’’ he said. ‘‘I had to pitch certain ways that I’m not used to throwing. But you’ve got to make an adjustment when they’re getting that many hits off you.’’ Rowand, the Giants’ leadoff man, and Renteria, the No. 2 hitter, each drove in two runs. ‘‘He’s swung the bat well all series and what a day he had today,’’ Bochy said of Renteria. ‘‘It’s hard to play this game when you’re hurt and I said that last year. He’s healthy now and he has a good approach up there. It was a great game by him.’’ MCT photo Don Nelson celebrates his new record with his players,Wednesday. en State in the late 1980s, he employed the famous ‘‘Run T-M-C’’ lineup of guards Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin to make the Warriors one of the more entertaining teams in the league. And now ‘‘Nelly Ball’’ has its own special place in history. ‘‘This is a tremendous honor for a great coach and we are all thankful for the memories that he has pro- vided us over the years,’’ Warriors president Robert Rowell said in a statement. ‘‘Don’s creativity and innovative style have proven effective for over 30-plus years in the NBA, including this season, when the team has consis- tently played hard and has been extremely competi- tive despite a short-handed roster the entire year.’’ This has been a long season for the Warriors (24-54), who have been ravaged by injuries and are a lock to finish with their fewest wins since 2001-02. But in some ways, this was the perfect team to take Nelson to the top of the record books. The Warriors played their sixth straight game without Monta Ellis (flu) and also were again with- out Anthony Randolph (ankle) and Kelenna Azubuike (knee). Center Andris Biedrins (sports hernia) and forward Bran- dan Wright (shoulder) have missed big chunks of time this season too. The Warriors have called up five players from the Development League this season, which is tied with the 2007-08 Spurs for the most in one season. Tolliver and Chris Hunter — who both played big roles in the record-setting win — are former D-Lea- guers and C.J. Watson and Azubuike also have played there in past seasons. ‘‘I told the team that I loved them dearly, that they were very special to me,’’ Nelson said. ‘‘But sometimes they don’t play like I want them to.’’ Stephen Curry had 27 points, 14 assists, eight rebounds and a career-high seven steals, but the War- riors let a 27-point lead dwindle to four with 43.6 seconds left. Anthony Morrow closed the game out at the free throw line, and the players mobbed their 69-year-old coach when the final buzzer sounded. ‘‘For us to get the record is a big accomplish- ment for us,’’ Curry said. ‘‘We call it our champi- onship game.’’ It was extra special for Nelson to do it in Minneso- ta. He has a daughter who lives in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka and had 20 family and friends at the game, including his wife. He also said Wilkens has been in contact with him recently as Nelson has neared the mark. ‘‘Lenny’s been an idol of mine for a long time,’’ he said. Among active coaches, Utah’s Jerry Sloan (1,188) and the Lakers’ Phil Jack- son (1,095) are closest to Nelson on the list. ‘‘There’s plenty of guys close to that if they want to See NELSON, page 2B The 34-year-old said he’s feeling ‘‘great’’ this season after playing just 124 games last season because of shoulder and elbow problems. ‘‘When you feel better, you relax and play the game,’’ he said. ‘‘You don’t have to worry about pain or nothing.’’ Uribe made it 5-4 when he scooted home after Gervacio overthrew third base on a sacrifice by Eli Whiteside. Rowand had an RBI single later in the eighth. Uribe hit an RBI double to highlight the ninth. The Astros scored three runs in the seventh that made it 4-all. Pinch-hitter Cory Sullivan hit a two-out, two-run triple that Rowand bobbled before dropping near the hill in center field. That finished Cain, and the speedy Michael Bourn tied it when he barely beat the throw on a single off Affeldt. ‘‘We knew it was going to be tough going in anyway with the pitching we were going to be facing,’’ Astros manager Brad Mills said. ‘‘But it was good to see us battle back at least today.’’ Rowand tripled in the seventh inning when both Bourn and Hunter Pence had trouble scooping up the ball. Renteria drove him in with a single that made it 4-1 and chased Myers. Bourn is optimistic that the Astros will get on track in their next series which starts Friday against the Phillies. ‘‘We know not to panic and we know we have a good group of guys that can get clicking at any time,’’ he said. ‘‘We’ll just wait on that point and hopefully it will start Fri- day.’’ Bowker’s two-run homer that landed in the bullpen in right-center field in the second. It was his first career hit against Myers after striking out in his previous three at-bats against him. The Giants pushed the lead to 3-0 in the third when Renteria scored as Mark DeRosa grounded into a double play. Pedro Feliz doubled twice for the Astros, including an RBI hit in the fourth. NOTES: Wednesday was the 10th anniversary of the opening of Minute Maid Park, then known as Enron Field. ... Giants OF Fred Lewis, on the disabled list with a ribcage injury, will begin a rehabilitation assignment on Thursday with Triple-A Fresno. Thursday April 8, 2010 Corning beats Warriors 10-2