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Tehama Tracker Monday's results MLB St. Louis Giants Giants win series 4-3 Today's games VOLLEYBALL Foothill Red Bluff Lassen Corning Los Molinos University Prep 7 p.m. 9 0 Sports Comeback complete 7 p.m. 7 p.m. On the tube COLLEGE FOOTBALL •5 p.m., ESPN2 — Arkansas St. at La.-Lafayette GOLF •1 p.m., TNT — PGA of America, Grand Slam of Golf, first day, at Southampton, Bermuda NBA •5 p.m., NBATV — Preseason, Okla- homa City at Chicago • 7:30 p.m., CSNB — Preseason, Phoenix at Golden State SOCCER •9 a.m., FOX SOCCER — UEFA Champions League, Benfica at Spar- tak Moscow • 11:30 a.m., FOX SOCCER — UEFA Champions League, Braga at Man- chester United •2 p.m., FOX SOCCER — UEFA Champions League, Celtic at Barcelona (same-day tape) • 4:30 p.m., NBCSN — Women's national teams, exhibition, United States vs. Germany, at West Hartford, Conn. •5 p.m., FOX SOCCER—CONCA- CAF Champions League, CD Olimpia at Houston Dynamo •7 p.m., FOX SOCCER—CONCA- CAF Champions League, CS Heredi- ano at Real Salt Lake Lions 13-7 CHICAGO (AP) — Jay Cutler shook off an apparent rib injury, Brian Urlacher made a key fum- ble recovery and the Chicago Bears won their fourth straight, beating the Detroit Lions 13-7 on Monday night. It was certainly not an easy night for the NFC North leaders, particularly their quarterback, but they came away with the win after a week off and possi- bly buried Detroit (2-4) in the process despite getting a major scare along the way. Cutler shakes off injury, Bears beat SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a postseason full of twists and turns, the San Francisco Giants are headed back to the World Series after a big comeback against the defending champs. Hunter Pence got the Giants going with a weird double, Matt Cain pitched his second clincher of Octo- ber and San Francisco closed out Game 7 of the NL championship series in a driving rainstorm, routing the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 Monday night. San Francisco won its record-tying sixth elimina- tion game of the postseason, completing a lopsided rally from a 3-1 deficit. The Giants, who won it all in 2010, will host Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 on Wednesday night. Verlander is set to pitch MCT photo Angel Pagan celebrates with Hunter Pence during the Giants Game 7 win. Wednesday's opener. Giants manager Bruce Bochy insisted before Monday's game he had not planned any further in advance. Series MVP Marco Scu- taro produced his sixth mul- tihit game of the series and matched an LCS record with 14 hits and Pablo San- doval drove in a run for his fifth straight game. After falling behind 3-1 in the series at Busch Stadi- um, the Giants outscored the wild-card Cardinals 20-1 over the final three games behind stellar starting pitch- ing from Barry Zito, Ryan Vogelsong and Cain. They also benefited from some strange bounces. On Pence's double that highlighted a five-run third, his bat broke at the label on impact, then the broken bar- rel hit the ball twice more. That put a rolling, slicing spin on the ball and caused it That happened in the second quarter when Cut- ler was sacked by Ndamukong Suh and ulti- mately wound up going to the locker room to have his ribs examined. to change directions — leav- ing shortstop Pete Kozma little chance to make the play. Kozma broke to his right, figuring that's where the ball would go, but it instead curved to left-center. Injured closer Brian Wil- son, with that out-of-control bushy black beard, danced in the dugout and fans in the sellout crowd of 43,056 kept twirling their orange rally towels even through rain in the late innings — a down- right downpour when Sergio Romo retired Matt Holliday on a popup to Scutaro to end it. Romo embraced catcher Buster Posey as fireworks went off over McCovey Cove beyond right field. The NL West champion Giants won their first post- season clincher at home since the 2002 NLCS, also against the Cardinals. These 2012 Giants have a couple of pretty talented castoffs of their own not so different from that winning combination of 2010 ''castoffs and misfits'' as Bochy referred to his bunch — with Scutaro right there at the top of the list this time around. the division rival Colorado Rockies, Scutaro hit .500 (14 for 28) with four RBIs in the NLCS. The 36-year-old journeyman infielder, play- ing in his second postseason and first since 2006 with Oakland, became the first player in major league histo- ry with six multihit games in an LCS. Now, he's headed to his Acquired July 27 from After rain fell on the Car- dinals during batting prac- tice, the skies turned blue and the weather cooperated. Anxious players on both sides hung over the dugout rails as the game began. Cain joined St. Louis' Chris Carpenter as the only pitchers with victories in two winner-take-all games in the same postseason. Car- penter, who lost Games 2 and 6 in this series, did it last year. first World Series. The Giants have All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera to thank for helping his teammates secure home- field advantage in the post- season — while Cain was the winning pitcher the National League's 8-0 victo- ry in July. Cabrera was sus- pended 50 games Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone test, then wasn't added to the roster by the Giants after his suspension ended. Cain also pitched the Giants' Game 5 division series clincher at Cincinnati, when San Francisco became the first team in major league history to come back from an 0-2 deficit in a five- game series by winning three consecutive road games. He delivered on an even bigger stage Monday as San Francisco saved its season once again. The Giants won their 20th NL pennant and reached their 19th World See GIANTS, page 2B 1B Tuesday October 23, 2012 recovering after 2 games in 5 days 49ers SANTA CLARA (AP) — After a pair of games in the span of five days, a Mon- day night matchup was a welcome sight on the sched- ule for the San Francisco 49ers. With 10 days between the 49ers' 13-6 win against Seattle and a trip to Arizona, coach Jim Harbaugh has the opportunity to give his team some much-needed rest. The 49ers had the weekend off and, after a light practice Monday, won't practice again until Thursday as preparation for the Cardinals ramps up. ''I spent every waking and asleep moment with my wife and kids,'' Harbaugh said. ''Wonderful weekend, every minute of it was with them.'' Despite the arduous task of playing a Thursday night game following a Sunday game, San Francisco can still be considered a general- ly healthy team. ''I believe it will be, espe- cially as the week goes on,'' Harbaugh said. ''A lot of our guys came in and lifted and got treatment (over the weekend).'' Running back Frank Gore, who left Thursday's game with bruised ribs, was on the field Monday as the team practiced in shells and helmets. move around a little bit and doesn't expect the injury to hinder his play moving for- ward. ''(Running backs coach He said it was good to Tom) Rathman just wanted to be smart (against Seat- tle),'' said Gore, who lamented he could have See 49ERS, page 2B Raiders getting production out of no-huddle Cutler started the sec- ond half and was 16 of 31 for 150 yards and a touch- down in the game, but with the defense locking down the Lions, the Bears (5-1) prevailed. It was a huge blow for last-place Detroit, a team many expected to contend for the division championship after making the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade. NBAGMs NBA general managers are predicting the Miami Heat to repeat as NBA champions and LeBron James to win another MVP award. pick Heat NEW YORK (AP) — The GMs gave high marks to the Los Angeles Lakers' moves and picked them to win the Western Conference, but the Heat got 70 percent of the votes to win the 2013 champi- onship. ALAMEDA (AP) — Oakland Raiders coach Dennis Allen likes the production his team is get- ting out of the no-huddle offense. The Raiders scored two touchdowns and a field goal running the no-huddle against Jack- sonville on Sunday, when they overcame a 14- point deficit in the third quarter and went on to beat the Jaguars in overtime 26-23. It was the second game this season in which quarterback Carson Palmer has engineered a fourth-quarter comeback. Both times he did it while running the no-huddle. The question for Allen is: How much is too much? Offensive coordinator Greg Knapp continues to be criticized for his play-calling. The running game is barely showing signs of life. Pass protec- tion for Palmer has been shaky at best. ''It worked for us against Pittsburgh and it worked for us yesterday but it's one of those things where you don't want to hang your hat on a no-huddle offense,'' running back Darren McFadden said Monday. ''We know we're going to have to use it when we can. When we go out there and use it, we're running it pretty good.'' Yet Allen isn't ready to commit to the no-hud- dle full-time. While Palmer has looked comfortable calling Those were among the results of the annual NBA.com GM Survey, released Monday. All 30 executives were polled and could not vote for their own teams or players. Responders voted the Hornets' Anthony Davis as the likely Rookie of the Year and the Spurs' Gregg Popovich as the league's best coach. Full results of the more than 50 questions are available on NBA.com. his own plays at the line of scrimmage — some- thing he did earlier in his career in Cincinnati — the Raiders plan to use the no-huddle only as a part of their offensive package and not a regular thing. ''It's something that, on a week-to-week basis, we try to determine how much we'll use it,'' Allen said. ''Obviously, we were not executing in the first half on offense. It was the worst half of foot- ball we've played offensively. But we knew we needed to do something to try to change some things up and the no-huddle worked good for us.'' Oakland's offense sputtered throughout the first half against Jacksonville and managed only two Sebastian Janikowski field goals before half- time. After a three-and out on the Raiders' opening possession in the third quarter, the decision was made to go to the no-huddle and Oakland scored on three of its next five drives to force overtime. Palmer completed only 56.5 percent of his passes against the Jaguars but was 9 of 13 for 118 yards while running the no-huddle. Afterward, Palmer talked about the value of the no-huddle for Oakland's sluggish offense. MCT photo Carson Palmer pushes himself into the endzone for a game-tying touchdown Sunday. ''We tired (the Jaguars) out a little bit, espe- cially in their secondary,'' Palmer said. ''It got them tired, kept things off balance and it was a great halftime adjustment by coach Knapp.'' Palmer also used the no-huddle during a come- back win against Pittsburgh on Sept. 23. One of the biggest plays in that game came when the Raiders quarterback checked out of the original call and made a small tweak that resulted in McFadden's 64-yard touchdown run. ''It's worked well in some situations and in others it hasn't worked well,'' Allen said. ''It's kind of a feel on how the game is going. In the game (Sunday) ... it seemed to increase our focus offensively and we executed better offensively. So it will remain part of our offense and some games it will be more part of what we're going to do than others.'' Notes: The Raiders are still uncertain what they'll do with LB Aaron Curry.Curry came off the physically unable to perform list last week but the team is still evaluating his progress and conditioning. ... WR Rod Streater (knee), DE Dave Tollefson (shoulder), LB Miles Burris (elbow), DL Desmond Bryant (elbow), LB Keenan Clayton (shoulder) and RB Mike Goodson (hip) are all nursing minor injuries.