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Tehama Tracker Tuesday's result VOLLEYBALL Red Bluff Enterprise 3 0 Red Bluff falls 25-13, 25-18, 25-17 Wednesday's results MLB Giants St. Louis x leads series 2-1 SF — Sandoval 2-5, 1 RBI STL — Carpenter 1-3, 2 RBI MLB New York Detroit Rescheduled Game 4 at 1:07 p.m. today. Today's games VOLLEYBALL Red Bluff West Valley Durham Corning Chester Mercy 7 p.m. 3 1 Sports PREP FOOTBALL | RED BLUFF AT PLEASANT VALLEY, 7:30 p.m. Friday By ANDRE BYIK DN Sports Editor 7 p.m. 7 p.m. SWIMMING Red Bluff EAL championship at Enterprise On the tube COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5 p.m. FSN — Houston at SMU 6 p.m. ESPN — Oregon at Arizona St. EXTREME SPORTS 8 p.m. NBCSN — Dew Tour, Toyota City Championships, at San Francis- co GOLF 10 a.m.TGC — PGA Tour, The McGladrey Classic, first round, at St. Simons Island, Ga. 2 p.m.TGC — Web.com Tour, Jack- sonville Open, first round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (same-day tape) NBA 5 p.m. TNT — Preseason, Boston at Brooklyn. NFL 5 p.m. NFL — Seattle at San Fran- cisco PREP FOOTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Deland (Fla.) at Sandalwood (Fla.) Karts Winter Series returns to the Tehama District Fairground at 6 p.m. Saturday. Around town The Outlaw Spring This will be the first race of the 33rd annual Winter Red Bluff Out- law Kart season. Tickets are $8, $5 for children 6-12 and kids under 6 get in free. Game 4 of ALCS postponed DETROIT (AP) — One win from the World Series. Rainy or not, the Detroit Tigers will have to wait. Game 4 of the AL championship series between the Tigers and New York Yankees was postponed because of a stormy forecast Wednes- day night — although Comerica Park was still dry when the decision was made. ''They kept saying it By R.B. FALLSTROM Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Matt Carpenter hit a was going to come and it never came,'' Tigers pitch- er Max Scherzer said. ''So go figure.'' With the Tigers leading the best-of-seven series 3- 0 and seeking a sweep, Game 4 was rescheduled for today at 1:07 p.m. New York will send ace CC Sabathia to the mound against Scherzer. The Tigers will have lefty Phil Coke, who saved Games 2 and 3, available after a day of rest. Follow us on Twitter for live game cover- age, exclu- sive online articles and more. @TehamaSports two-run homer after subbing for an injured Carlos Beltran and the St. Louis Cardinals chased Matt Cain before a 3 1/2-hour rain delay in the seventh inning of a 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednes- day night for a 2-1 NL championship series lead. Kyle Lohse worked around a season- worst five walks in 5 2-3 innings. Mitchell Boggs struck out Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt with two on to end the seventh. Jason Motte earned the first two-inning save of his career to reward what remained of a sellout LANCE ARMSTRONG Out as Livestrong head; Nike cuts ties AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Already an outcast in cycling after a massive dop- ing report, Lance Arm- strong absorbed hits much closer to home Wednesday: to his wallet and his heart. Armstrong was dumped by Nike, Anheuser-Busch and other sponsors, and he gave up the top spot at Live- strong, his beloved cancer- fighting charity, a week after an anti-doping agency released evidence of drug use by the seven-time Tour de France winner. Armstrong stepped down as chairman of Live- strong in an attempt to min- imize the damage caused by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's report. USADA banned Armstrong from the sport for life and has ordered that his Tour titles be stripped, which could come before the end of the month. ''This organization, its mission and its supporters are incredibly dear to my heart,'' the cancer survivor said in a statement. ''Today therefore, to spare the foun- dation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling See LANCE, page 2B NLCS | CARDINALS 3, GIANTS 1 NBA Love breaks hand, will miss about a month — Kevin Love returned from the London Olympics determined to do what every one of his U.S. team- mates have already done — lead his team to the play- offs. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) wolves will likely have to begin the first month of that pursuit without him. The two-time All-Star The Minnesota Timber- MCT photo Giants starting pitcher Matt Cain leaves the game in the seventh Wednesday. St. Louis rains on Cain's parade crowd of 45,850 — perhaps a third — that stuck around for a game that lasted 3 hours, 2 minutes, about a half-hour shorter than the delay. had two hits and a clean game in the field, two days after Matt Holliday rammed him breaking up a double-play ball. Manager Bruce Bochy had said there would be no retaliation, and Game 3 was collision-free. The big winners in a delay that featured about a half-hour without rain while officials awaited a second, smaller front: Beer ven- dors, by a single out. Alcohol sales are cut off after the seventh inning in all stadiums. Cain lost for the second time this post- Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro See GIANTS, page 2B broke his right hand in a morning workout Wednes- day and will miss six to eight weeks. Love broke the third and fourth metacarpals on his shooting hand in a workout before practice. It's a crushing blow to the Timberwolves, who already will be without star point guard Ricky Rubio for what is expected to be at least the first six weeks of the regular season while he recovers from a torn ACL in his left knee. The Timberwolves open the regular season at home against Sacramento on Nov. 2. All the work President David Kahn and the rest of the Kevin Love "This is playoffs!" Hein shouted at his team. The Spartans still have three games on its season schedule, but at 4-3 and a league game at Pleasant Valley scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Hein said it was mathematically likely that a win would clinch a postseason berth. The game's importance stems from Red Bluff's remaining games. After Pleasant Valley, Red Bluff (0-3 Eastern Athletic League) is in for tough homestand — host- ing league-leading Par- adise, then Foothill. "This is our playoff," Hein said, adding, "It's the most important game these guys have played." Red Bluff head foot- ball coach Corey Hein saw something that irked him during practice Wednesday. ever The Spartans started the season on a three- game win streak, then lost three in a row before rout- ing Wheatland 44-14 last week. Hein said it's been part of the learning experi- ence. Red Bluff has tasted dominant victories, heart- breaking defeat and blow- out losses. "We're just ... going through those growing pains," he said. Those growing pains, Hein said, in part have to do with competition in league play. Bigger, faster linemen have been a factor in the team's winless league record, he said. blown out opener against Enterprise, lost a game, Hein said, they should have won against Shasta 32-31, and fell to Chico in Week 6. Pleasant Valley (2-5, 0- The Spartans were of its league 3 EAL), to its credit, also played Shasta close, los- ing 35-30 last week. But the matchup is likely the Spartans best chance to notch a league win, and the team knows it. 1B Thursday October 18, 2012 Spartans in playoff mindset Daily News photo by Andre Byik Spartans senior quarterback Garrett Sandow, right, readies for a snap during a practice Wednesday. Garrett Sandow said. "For this group — juniors, seniors — we win we're in the playoffs. We lose, our back's really against the wall." "This is the biggest game we've ever played in," senior quarterback Sandow has been strong this season, averaging See SPARTAN, page 2B The calm and collected front office did to add veteran depth this summer is about to be tested more than they ever could have imagined. Love averaged 26 points and 13.3 rebounds last season, leading the team in both categories and emerging as the best power forward in the game. He signed a four-year contract in January worth more than $60 million, then played a key role in the United States' march to the gold medal in London. As the only member of the team who had yet to appear in the playoffs, Love came back brimming with confi- dence that this was the year the Wolves would break through for the first time since 2004. That already was See LOVE, page 2B MCT file photo A doping scandal has cost Lance Armstrong.