Hi SUG Members,
It has been a long standing niggle of mine that TableSorter & TableSorterRace ‘Effects’ have forced their own colour on the table header rows.
No more so for me 
I have discovered the trick to maintaining colour from the chosen style for the table header row. It requires editing in a text editor one row of each style file.
Change default Sailwave style line in each style you use from
th {background-color: #cc0000; color: #ffffff;}
by adding !important before each ; maintaining the colours for the style
th {background-color: #cc0000 !important; color: #ffffff !important;}
The example above is from style Red Head V2
Kind regards,
Huw