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StaffReports REDDING Eleven Red Bluff Spartans swimmers qualified for next week's Division 1 finals Thursday with strong perfor- mances at the rainy Sacramento River League Championships held at Enterprise High School. Julia Brandt won the league championship in the 200 indi- vidual medley (2:19.27) and the 100 breaststroke (1:14.41). Ellie Fletcher had Red Bluff High School's eighth-fastest time in school history and an eighth-place finish in the 200 individual medley. She also cracked the school's top 10 with a seventh-place finish in the 100 breaststroke. Coley Sauve finished fifth in the 100 freestyle and 100 back- stroke. Haley Rosser was sixth in the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Jillian Strom was eighth in the 100 breaststroke. Noah Caylor led the Spartan boys with a personal-best and third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke. Mitchell Sauve was fourth in the 100 backstroke. Jacob Patterson finished eighth in the 100 breaststroke. In the junior varsity competi- tion Nathan Fregoso and Jordan Munoz each won two events. Fregoso won the 50 freestyle and the 100 backstroke. Munoz won the 500 freestyle and 100 breaststroke. Volleyball MERCY 3, LOS MOLINOS 0 Mercy swept its visiting county rival 25-10, 25-18, 25-16 Thursday night. Madeline Flynn had 17 kills and five blocks for Mercy. Marissa Starman had 20 digs and C.J. Johnson had 10. Tasha Pimentel recorded 32 assists. Mercy (20-11, 3-2) is at Red- ding Christian on Tuesday. Los Molinos (18-9-3, 3-2) is at Liberty Christian on Tuesday. WEST VALLEY 3, CORNING 0 West Valley swept Corning 25- 11, 25-16, 25-13 Thursday. Corning also lost Tuesday, when Anderson dealt the Cardi- nals a 25-20, 28-26, 25-18 defeat. Brenna Johnson led Corning with eight kills against Ander- son. Maddy Caputo had 23 digs. PREP ROUNDUP 11Spartansmakeit toDivisionfinalsmeet Mercy beats Los Molinos in rival volleyball match as Flynn racks up 17 kills, five blocks SUBMITTEDPHOTO Ellie Fletcher swam the eighth-fastest time in Red Bluff High School history in the 200individual medley at the league championships Thursday. Online: For more stories on the San Francisco Giants and the World Series visit REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM/GIANTS. By Janie McCauley The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Sparkling defense, a stingy bullpen and just enough timely hitting. That winning formula of fun- damental baseball has put the Kansas City Royals ahead in the World Series. They even looked comfort- able in the tricky territory at unfamiliar AT&T Park. Jeremy Guthrie outpitched fellow World Series newcomer Tim Hudson, four Royals re- lievers combined on four hit- less innings and Kansas City beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 Friday night for a 2-1 lead in the Fall Classic. Alex Gordon hit a run-scor- ing double for his first hit of the Series in 10 at-bats and Lo- renzo Cain added an RBI and some slick defense in right field as the Royals backed Guthrie with nifty glove work. Eric Hosmer had a sixth-in- ning RBI single in an 11-pitch at-bat for his first World Series hit — on his 25th birthday. Game 4 is tonight, with right-hander Ryan Vogelsong trying to get the Giants even against Kansas City lefty Ja- son Vargas. Royals manager Ned Yost moved Cain from center field to right in place of Nori Aoki for a defensive boost in the trickiest position at AT&T Park. It paid off, too. Cain chased down Buster Posey's slicing line drive in the first for a pretty catch from his knees, then snagged Travis Ishikawa's WORLD SERIES Royals beat Giants, take critical Game 3 Kansas City has little trouble playing in tricky territory at unfamiliar AT&T Park CHARLIE RIEDEL — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The San Francisco Giants' Michael Morse hits an RBI double during the sixth inning of Game 3of baseball's World Series against the Kansas City Royals on Friday in San Francisco. ROYALS 3, GIANTS 2 Series: Kansas City leads 2-1. Today: Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants, 5:07 p.m., TV on FOX. THESCORE By Jon Krawczynski The Associated Press Calling it the Wild West just doesn't do it justice anymore. The NBA's Western Conference is brutal. It's loaded with talent. And the eight teams that make it through a gruelingly competitive regular season to reach the play- offs will only find slugging their way to the NBA Finals even more daunting. Even after Minnesota traded All-Star Kevin Love to LeBron James and Cleveland and Pau Gasol left the Los Angeles Lak- ers for the Chicago Bulls, the bal- ance of power still resides firmly out West. Last season 10 teams in the West had better records than the East's eighth-place Atlanta Hawks. Seven teams won at least 50 games as opposed to just two in the East. The Dallas Maver- icks won 49 and the Phoenix Suns missed the playoffs despite sur- prising the basketball world with 48 victories. It doesn't figure to drop off this season, either. The Spurs return everybody from a team that won 62 games in the regular season and dethroned the Miami Heat in the finals. Dal- las lured Chandler Parsons away from rival Houston to give Dirk Nowitzki another scoring threat and Anthony Davis appears poised to become the league's next superstar as he tries to help the New Orleans Pelicans break into the crowded playoff field. A look at the West: Playoff Bound 1. SAN ANTONIO SPURS: The band is back together, just as it's always been. The one thing Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich have yet to accomplish is win back-to- back titles. With Kawhi Leonard blossoming and preparing to take over as the face of the franchise, the Spurs are ready to roll again. 2. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS: New owner Steve Ballmer has buried the embarrassing Donald Sterling reign under an avalanche of enthusiasm. And Blake Griffin is shooting 3s. Look out. 3. GOLDEN STATE WAR- RIORS: They swapped coach Mark Jackson for Steve Kerr and fortified their depth with Shaun Livingston. But the biggest deal might be the one they didn't make, turning down a chance to land Kevin Love from the Tim- berwolves because they wanted to keep Klay Thompson. 4. DALLAS MAVERICKS: The team that gave the Spurs the most trouble in the playoffs last sea- son got a whole lot better over the summer, adding Parsons, big man Tyson Chandler and steady point guard Jameer Nelson to the arsenal of coach Rick Carlisle, one of the few who can match coach- ing wits with Popovich. 5. OKLAHOMA CITY THUN- DER: Would be much higher on this list, but Kevin Durant's foot injury looms large. They'll be fine once he returns, but an extended absence will make it hard for the Thunder to crack the top half in NBA West with defending champions still tough Spurs ready to roll again with Duncan, Leonard SUE OGROCKI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook goes for a dunk in a preseason game Tuesday. The governors of New Jersey and New York said Friday they are ordering a mandatory, 21-day quarantine for all doc- tors and other travelers who have had contact with Ebola victims in West Africa. DISEASE New York, Jersey to have Ebola quarantines FULL STORY ON PAGE B4 The Eastern Athletic League girls tennis championships continue Saturday and Mon- day at Foothill High School. The EAL's field hockey post- season tournament continues in Davis on Saturday. TODAY'S SCHEDULE EAL tennis finals continue Saturday Due to our print deadline coverage of the Central Valley Falcons at Corning Cardinals football game can be found on our website redbluffdailynews.com. WEEK 8 FOOTBALL CV-Corning game story redbluffdailynews.com A day a er the attack, au- thorities and ordinary Canadi- ans si ed through confound- ing shards of a gunman's life seeking to understand what motivated the man to storm the nation's seat of power. OTTAWA Canadians try to figure out Parliament shooting FULL STORY ON PAGE B6 WESTERN PAGE 2 SERIES PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Saturday, October 25, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1