CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs got off to a fast start against Mike Leake and Paul Maholm took over from there, using the early run support to stop a couple of losing streaks. cheap jerseys . Maholm pitched six solid innings for his first win in nine months and the Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-1 on Saturday to stop a six-game slide. Maholm (1-2) also snapped a personal six-game losing streak. The left-hander allowed one run and four hits, struck out five and walked three in his first victory since July 10 for Pittsburgh against the Cubs. After giving up a combined 12 runs in the first four innings of his first two starts, Maholm quickly settled down after yielding Brandon Phillips run-scoring single in the first. "Obviously, the first two starts I had two innings where Ive given up big innings," Maholm said. "I think as a starter if you want to go deeper in the game, if you get into trouble you have to limit it to one run and get us back in there. You cant have the wind knocked out of the team of putting us behind big time early. "Obviously, with the offence tying it right back up you got a shutdown inning coming up." Darwin Barney and Steve Clevenger each had three hits for the Cubs, who grabbed control with a four-run second inning. Starlin Castro had a double and a triple. Joey Votto and Phillips went a combined 1 for 7 for the Reds, who have lost six of nine. Leake (0-2) allowed 10 hits and five runs in 5 2-3 innings. "We had some chances to come back in that game," Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. "We could have pecked away and got a little closer." One day after he learned he will not face charges over an alleged sexual assault, Castro tripled home a run in the second and doubled in the fifth. States attorney spokeswoman Sally Daly said Friday police and prosecutors reviewing the case found insufficient evidence to charge Castro. His attorneys have said the allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman last fall are baseless. Bryan LaHair hit a tying sacrifice fly in the first, and the Cubs added four more runs in the second. Clevenger led off with a single to right and moved to second on a groundout. Joe Mather followed with an RBI double to left. "That was a big hit with the pitcher coming up next," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "It kind of started the snowball effect." Mather advanced on Leakes errant pickoff attempt and scored on David DeJesus single. Barney added a run-scoring double and came home on Castros first triple of the season to make it 5-1. Clevenger added an RBI single in the seventh as the Cubs finished with a season-high 14 hits. Clevenger, the backup catcher, is 10 for 17 on the season. Sveum said he will go with Geovany Soto at catcher on Sunday and Clevenger isnt about to lobby for more playing time. "I really try not to focus on that too much," he said. "I just come to the ballpark and get my work in and when Dale needs to me to be ready, Ill be ready. Whether its to taking ground balls somewhere, I will be ready." The Reds had runners on third and second with no outs in the seventh, but James Russell retired Stubbs, Votto and Phillips to get out of the inning. NOTES: The Cubs traded CF Marlon Byrd and cash to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night for RHP Michael Bowden and a player to be named. The 25-year-old Bowden made Bostons opening-day roster and had a 3.00 ERA in two relief appearances before he was designated for assignment last Sunday. ... SS Castro committed two errors to run his major league-worst total to seven. "Im not going to sit there and talk to everybody every time somebody makes an error," Sveum said. ... Cubs RHP Ryan Dempster was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right quadriceps. OF Tony Campana was recalled from Triple-A Iowa, and Randy Wells will start in place of Dempster on Sunday. http://www.cheapjerseys2014.us.com/ . Paul Goldschmidt hit his NL-best 36th homer for the Diamondbacks, extending his hitting streak to 14 games and increasing his league-leading RBI total to 124. Cheap Green Bay Packers Jerseys . Amanda Rodrigues says she helped check her husband into a rehabilitation facility in Florida in December 2007. She says the boxer was abusing alcohol and painkillers.DALLAS -- Nick Russell had 15 points to go with several big steals, and coach Larry Browns SMU Mustangs stayed undefeated at home with a 76-55 victory Saturday night over No. 7 Cincinnati, ending the Bearcats 15-game winning streak. SMU (19-5, 8-3 American Athletic Conference) has already beaten three Top 25 opponents in seven games since moving into the renovated Moody Coliseum on campus five weeks ago. Before that, the Mustangs hadnt defeated a ranked opponent anywhere since December 2003. They hadnt had multiple wins against Top 25 teams in the same season since 1984-85, the last time SMU appeared in the poll. When this one was over, fired-up fans rushed the floor. Russell had two steals in less than a minute that led to breakaway baskets, with a 3-pointer from Nic Moore in between, to cap an 11-0 run by the Mustangs after Cincinnati (22-3, 11-1) cut the gap to 48-41 midway through the second half. Cincinnati hadnt lost since dropping consecutive games against New Mexico and Xavier in the first half of December. The Bearcats beat SMU 65-57 at home in the AAC opener on New Years Day. Ben Moore also had 15 points for SMU, while Nic Moore scored 14 and Cannen Cunningham 11. AAC scoring leader Sean Kilpatrick led Cincinnati with 22 points on 5-of-18 shooting, including 3 for 12 on 3-pointers. The Bearcats scored six ppoints in a row to make it 48-41, the closest they had been since there were 3 minutes left in the first half, when Titus Rubles hit two free throws after being fouled on a breakaway drive after stealing a pass. http://www.cheapjerseys2014.us.com/NIKE-NFL-JERSEYS_BALTIMORE-RAVENS-JERSEY.html. . They didnt get any closer after Russell made a layup after Markus Kennedy broke through two defenders and passed him the ball. SMU was back up 59-41 with 8:13 left when Russell had a steal and broke free for a thunderous, one-handed dunk. Nic Moore hit a 3-pointer right before that, after Ben Moores breakaway layup that came after another steal by Russell. The sellout crowd in the 7,000-seat building broke into chants of "Larry! Larry! Larry!" several times -- from before tipoff until late in the game. While students at one end serenaded Cincinnati players with "Over-rated," students sitting at the end near Brown and the SMU bench yelled out "Under-rated!" Maybe that wont be the case any more for the Mustangs after another convincing victory over a ranked team. One of the last chants summed it up best: "Moody Madness!" The Mustangs won all five of their home games played off campus before re-opening Moody Coliseum with a 74-65 win Jan. 4 over then-No. 17 UConn. On the Saturday before Cincinnati came to town, SMU beat then-No. 22 Memphis 87-72. ' ' '