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Wednesday 2-10-10
1. Jim Hedges 2. Bob Lozano 3. Russ Bates 4. Cameron Dill 5. Ed Merrill 6. Ross Stevenson 7. Don Bair 8. B.J. Barnes 9. Pete Dolan 
Saturday 2-13-10
1. Jim Barnett 2. Jack Olsson 3. David Nease 4. Paul Dunlap 5. Rex Parker 6. Rob Robles 7. Unknown 8. Doyle Lowry 9. Byron Sundberg 10. Cameron Dill 
Wednesday 2-17-10
1. Ross Stevenson 2. Judy Barnett 3. Daniel Ramirez 4. Robert Dellacort 5. Calvin Pham 6. Jim Barnett 7. David Dennis 8. George Fellos 9. Roger Parnell 10. Cort Cortez 
Saturday 2-20-10
1. Doyle Lowry 2. Norm Cottrell 3. Lisa Bouyear 4. Bob Lozano 5. Mac McDonald 6. Bob Coyle 7. Bob Beck 8. Leonard Morris 9. Ron Hevener 10. Jerry Morris

Diamond Mountain Casino is now offering poker tournaments on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. Tournaments are held in the Diamond Willow Room, located in the Casino.
The final table both days earn players points towards entry into the “Tournament of Champions” to be held in June, 2010.
Diamond Mountain Casino also offers Sit ‘n Go tournaments every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These tournaments take place on the Lightning Poker Table. Sign ups begin at 5:30 p.m. with play beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Come on in to the Diamond Mountain Casino, enjoy the hospitality of Sierra and brush up on your Texas Hold’em skills.
As Always, Thanks Claire…

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Submitted by BB

Let’s jump forward in time a bit, shall we?

I can tell what you are thinking.  What is BB ranting about now?

Cue theme song to Star Wars:  The Empire Strikes Back and journey with me into the future world of college football. The landscape, according to outspoken Athletic Directors, journalists and bloggers, will look vastly different. This is the result of our overwhelming, unending dependence on the almighty dollar. The big boys still won’t share the wealth, which makes one wonder if we ever learn our lessons.  What if we’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again?

We’ll be asked to ignore the lack of tenured professors in state universities while we applaud the prowess and character of ten million dollar a year head football coaches.  Football, by this time, will far outweigh the importance of Bachelor and Masters’ Degrees. One “student” out of every 10,000 will go on to make a profitable living in the NFL…and they’re the only ones that will matter.

Reasonable odds, don’t you think, for the future of our youth?

We’ll witness the advent of the Super Conferences, which will relegate conferences now known as non-BCS, or non-AQ to the level of third world countries.

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The Lassen High School basketball team saw it’s season come to an end, Wednesday (2/24), with a first round playoff loss to Wheatland High School.
Final Score
Wheatland – 71
Lassen – 43
Lassen finishes the season with a record of 10-16.

Click here  for complete playoff brackets for all North Section divisions. Brackets will automatically update following games.

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The Lassen High School boys and girls soccer teams, each played North Section semi-final playoff matches, Tuesday, (2/23).

Girl’s Final (at Riverside Park)
Lassen – 3
Wheatland – 0
Amanda Keeton scored two goals, with Molly West adding Lassen’s third score. Autumn Norton assisted on two of Lassen’s three goals.
Lassen, (10-1-1) will host West Valley, (10-1-1) for the North Section championship, Saturday, February 27th. The title match is scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. at Riverside Park.
This will be the third meeting of the year between the two teams. West Valley won 2-0 at home, with Lassen winning in a shoot-out at Riverside Park, Feb. 4th. (Even though it went in the books as a tie).
That shoot-out earned Lassen the #1 seed and home field advantage in the championship match.

Boy’s Final (at West Valley)
West Valley – 7
Lassen – 1
Lassen was without two starters, including leading goal-scorer, Jordan Guess, due to inuries. The Grizzlies end the season at 6-6-1.
Lassen head coach Dennis Michael’s entire roster is eligible to return for the 2010-11 season.

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The 2010 North Section CIF High School basketball playoff brackets have been set. Here’s a quick run-down of teams from Northeast California. See below for complete brackets for each division.

Girls Playoffs
Division IV 
Despite losing their last two games of the regular season, the Lassen Lady Grizzlies were able to secure the number two seed and a first round bye in the Division IV playoffs.
Lassen, (14-11, #2) will open the post season, Thursday, February 25th, against the winner of Tuesday’s, (Feb.23rd), Mt. Shasta (15-9, #10) at West Valley (9-16, #7) game.
Thursday’s tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in “the Cave”

Division V
Portola (18-8, #6) will host Los Molinos (9-11, #11), Chester (13-7, #9) travels to Colusa (14-11, #8) and Quincy (12-12, #12) is at Fall River (15-6, #5). All three games are scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 23rd.

Division VI
Westwood (10-9, #7) hosts Herlong (11-8, #10), Thursday, Feb. 25th. 

Boys Playoffs
Division IV
The slumping Lassen Grizzlies (10-15, #9) open the playoffs at Wheatland (10-15, #8), Wednesday, Feb. 24th. Lassen dropped six of it’s last seven regular season games.

Division V
Chester (15-7, #8) hosts East Nicolaus (17-7, #9) and Portola (13-4, #12) travels to Fall River (18-6, #5). Both games are set for Wednesday, Feb. 24th.

Division VI
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Information submitted by Rodney Hartrum

Here are the result for the Division II finals held this past weekend at West Valley High School.

> 127 lbs. – Byron Treece – 2nd
> 137 lbs. – Alex McConnell – 5th
> 154 lbs. – Ben Thomas – 4th
> 173 lbs. – Brad Memmott – 3rd
> 217 lbs. – Darren Lee – 2nd (held out of finals due to sickness)
> Hwt. – Shane Rutledge – 7th

Next up for the LHS wrestlers will be the North Section Masters Tournament held at the Redding Convention Center, Friday and Saturday, February 26th and 27th.
The top three wrestlers in each weight class will qualify for the CIF State Wrestling Tournament in Bakersfield, March 5th and 6th.

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 Submitted by BB

I’m not a golf fan. I only know who is on the PGA tour circuit because I watch and listen to sports–related broadcasts year round. It’s the white noise of my household. Given this environment, you cannot avoid learning a certain amount of sports trivia, whether you want to or not.

Media-crafted scandals are not the usual fodder for our reports here at Lassen Sports Network. However, I’m going to make an exception and hope Da Boss doesn’t fire me. The litany of praise, criticism, cynicism and hostility following Friday’s Tiger Woods Production had me itching to type.

Celebrity and logos have no place in my life. I am baffled by all of the attention paid to Tiger Woods and his “transgressions”. Why does everyone care so much? Is his infidelity affecting Jim Rome’s life, much less any of the other critics who have chosen to comment? Does this, in fact, involve anyone besides Tiger’s family? I don’t understand why so many people feel that Tiger owes them something.

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The Lassen Grizzly boys basketball team ended the regular season, Friday, (2/19) on the road against Central Valley. 

Final Score
Central Valley – 57
Lassen – 32
Stats unavailable
Lassen finishes the season with a 10-15 overall record, (2-8 in the Northern Athletic League).
The latest playoff point standings, released at 1:20 Saturday (2/20) morning, have the Grizzlies in the #9 spot.
We will have the complete playoff brackets for all of the North Section divisions as they become available.
Junior Varsity and Freshman scores were not available at time of print.

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The Lassen High Lady Grizzly basketball team scored ten points in the first four minutes of Friday’s (2/19)  regular season finale against Central Valley. (For reference purposes, that’s an 80 point pace). Lassen scored just 27 points over the final 28 minutes of the game.

Final Score
Central Valley – 50
Lassen – 37
A Lassen win would have ensured the team the #1 seed heading into the playoffs. Now the Lady Grizzlies must wait for the playoff seeding committee’s decision. The committee meets this morning, (2/20). 
Lassen finishes the season with a 14-11 overall record and will likely battle Gridley for the #2 seed. Central Valley will be the top seed. 
Sierra Hicks led Lassen with 14 points.
We will have the complete playoff brackets for all of the North Section divisions as they become available.

Junior Varsity Final
Lassen – 59
Central Valley – 41
Freshman Final
Lassen – 52
Central Valley – 40

Contributions to this story provided by Terry Wood.

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February 18th-Riverside Park
The Lassen High School boys soccer team rallied late to down the Anderson Cubs in first round action of the NSCIF Division I playoffs.
Hear Lassen head coach Dennis Michaels below.

Final Score
Lassen – 2
Anderson -1
Lassen head coach Dennis Michaels talks about his teams come from behind victory. Very interesting.

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Lassen (6-5-1, #3 seed) next faces West Valley (7-4, #2), at West Valley, Tuesday, February 23rd.
The teams split their two regular season matches, each team winning 5-1 on it’s home pitch.

Lady Grizzlies
The Lassen Lady Grizzlies (9-1-1, #1) earned a first round bye as the playoff’s top seed and will host the winner of Thursday’s (2/18), Corning (#5) – Wheatland (#4) match. That match is also scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 23rd.

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