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StaffReports CHICO Daisy Brose and Al- lison Winning powered the Lady Spartans to a 56-48 road win over Chico on Tues- day night. Brose finished with 18 points, six assists, five re- bounds and three steals. Winning had 12 points, three assists, five rebounds and eight steals. Ashley Excum got into the act with eight points and four steals. Katie Gallagher had six points and five rebounds. Allyson Drury and Stefanie Brunello each had five points and three steals. Julia Brandt got into the score book with two points. Red Bluff (10-9, 3-3) visits Shasta at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The teams have already met three times. Shasta won the first two, with the Lady Spar- tans winning the most recent Jan. 10 meeting. CENTRAL VALLEY 56, CORNING 47 Central Valley stormed ahead in the fourth quarter to beat the visiting Lady Cardi- nals in a back-and-forth game Tuesday night. It was Corning's first North- ern Athletic League loss of the season. CV also beat Corning at the Red Bluff Holiday Clas- sic. Central Valley led after the first quarter 19-9. Corning came back to out- score the Lady Falcons 21-10 in the second quarter. Corning held a 45-42 lead entering the fourth quarter, but CV outscored the Lady Cards 14-2 down the stretch. Grace Mora led Corning with 10 points and six rebounds. Kaylee Shoemaker and Gates Fears each had eight points. Emerie Eller and Whitney Armstrong had six points each. Avree Mulliner had four points and Sophia Oliverez and Baylie Fryar each had two points. Mulliner and Armstrong both had four assists. Shoemaker grabbed six re- bounds and made three steals. Corning (14-4, 3-1) hosts An- derson at 7:30 p.m. Friday. CHESTER 52, LOS MOLINOS 48 Visiting Chester squeaked by the Lady Bulldogs 52-48 Tues- day evening. Los Molinos (5-9, 0-3) visits Mercy at 6 p.m. Friday. WEED 43, MERCY 30 Weed cruised by visiting Mercy on Tuesday. Weed led 24-10 at halftime. Marissa Starman had 14 points and six rebounds. Madeline Flynn, Cheyanne Johnson and Tasha Pimentel each had four points. Laura Keane and Mary Dimagio had two points each. Johnson had four assists and Flynn and Keane each had three steals. Mercy (8-9, 0-2) hosts Los Molinos at 6 p.m. Friday. BoysBasketball CHICO 79, RED BLUFF 69 Clay- ton Welch had 28 points and Nathan Heyl 26 as Chico won in Red Bluff 79-69 Tuesday. Joseph Bosetti led Red Bluff with 26 points of his own. Chico pulled away in the third quarter. Red Bluff (12-7, 1-5) hosts Shasta at 7:30 p.m. Friday. CENTRAL VALLEY 71, CORNING 48 Visiting Central Valley handed Corning a league loss Tuesday night. Manuel Garcia had 22 points for Corning and Chance Nelson added 10. Corning (11-8, 1-3) travels to Anderson at 7:30 p.m. Friday. WEED 61, MERCY 33 Weed busted the game open in the second quarter to beat visit- ing Mercy. Weed led 7-6 after the first quarter, but expanded that lead to 24-12 by halftime. Mercy (7-10, 0-2) hosts Los Molinos at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Boys Soccer CORNING 7, LASSEN 0 Corning hammered Lassen on the road in Susanville on Tuesday after- noon. Cristiano Loera scored four goals for the Cardinals. Eric Figueroa picked up two goals and Fidel Angeles also got on the scoreline. Corning (12-2-1, 4-0-1) visits Central Valley at 6 p.m. today. LOS MOLINOS 5, WINTERS 4 The Bulldogs beat visiting Winters on Tuesday. Los Molinos (3-5, 1-5) trav- els to Pierce at 3:15 p.m. today. WILLOWS 20, MERCY 0 It was a rough day on the road for Mercy on Tuesday. Mercy (0-7, 0-6) visits Dur- ham at 3:15 p.m. today. Girls Soccer CORNING 7, LASSEN 0 Lassen scored twice in the second half to beat visiting Corning on Tuesday. The Lady Cardinals (8-6-3, 3-2) visit Central Valley today. PREP ROUNDUP LadySpartansclaim roadvictoryinChico Corning boys soccer team blasts Lassen 7-0 as Cristiano Loera scores 4 COURTESYPHOTOBYLARRYLONG Red Bluff's Katie Gallagher fights for an offensive rebound Tuesday at Chico. By Ian Harrison The Associated Press TORONTO Lou Williams scored 27 points and the Toronto Rap- tors made a season-high 17 3-pointers in a 119-102 victory over the slumping Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night. Greivis Vasquez scored 18 and Jonas Valanciunas had 15 for the Raptors, who won their fourth straight. It's Toronto's longest streak since a six-game run in December. Rudy Gay scored 22 points, Ben McLemore had 17 and De- Marcus Cousins 13 for the Kings, whose season-long losing streak reached seven games. Vasquez and Williams each made four 3-pointers for To- ronto, which finished 17 for 34 from long range. Seven differ- ent Raptors made at least one 3. Toronto made 15 3-pointers in a 124-82 home win over Milwau- kee on Nov. 21. They had that many through three quarters against the Kings before Wil- liams drained a 3 from the cor- ner to start the fourth quarter. NBA Williams scores 27, Raptors hit 17 3s to beat Kings Members of the Tehama County Photo Club have been invited to showcase their fine art photography in the Orland Art Center's state-of-the-art gallery Feb. 6-28. TEHAMA COUNTY CLUB Orland gallery features local art photographers FULLSTORYONPAGEB5 Eighteen volunteers recently spent three hours picking mandarins at Corning's White- ley Orchard for distribution during Tehama County Food Bank's January food give- away. FOOD BANK Volunteers pick fruit for January food give-away FULL STORY ON PAGE B4 By Antonio Gonzalez The Associated Press SACRAMENTO DeMarcus Cous- ins has the statistics. He has the stature. And he has the support of several high-profile peers call- ing for him to get his first All-Star nod. What he doesn't have is a win- ning team. Just about everybody around the NBA agrees that the Sacra- mento Kings' franchise center has blossomed into one of the league's best big men. Based on ballot re- turns the past few years, though, many still don't believe he's done enough with the Kings to earn All-Star status in the deep West- ern Conference. Fans left Cousins out of the mix again when the starters were an- nounced last week. The reserves, voted on by the coaches, will be revealed Thursday night, and NBA Commissioner Adam Sil- ver will select any injury replace- ments before the marquee game at New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 15. Count Cousins among those wondering if he finally has the right resume — and reputation — in his fifth season to trump Sac- ramento's shortcomings. "To be totally honest, it is what it is," Cousins said. "If I make it, I make it. If I don't, I don't." Coaches must vote for three frontcourt players, two guards and two wild cards. Cousins' main competition in the front- court is Portland's LaMarcus Al- dridge, Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, San Antonio's Tim Dun- can, Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Houston's Dwight Howard. The biggest thing hurting Cousins' campaign — besides the competition — is his team's wors- ening record. After starting 9-5 this season, the Kings (16-27) have collapsed since Cousins came down with vi- ral meningitis in late November. They went 2-8 during his sick leave — which coincided with Mi- chael Malone's stunning firing as coach — and have failed to pick up the pieces under short-term re- placement Tyrone Corbin. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players, but Corbin believes Cousins shouldn't be pe- nalized because of all the chaos around him. "It's the All-Star game. It's about individual performances," Corbin said. "You look at (team records) sometimes, but I think most cases on the All-Star perfor- mance they look at the guy and his numbers and what he's doing for this year. He's certainly hav- ing a great year where we haven't won the number of games that we would like to win." Cousins began to repair his vol- atile image when he helped Team USA win gold at the FIBA World Cup in Spain over the summer, and his game has continued to rise during another disappointing season in California's capital city. He entered Wednesday averag- ing career highs of 24.2 points, 12.6 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.6 blocks per game, staggering sta- tistics by most traditional metrics. SACRAMENTO Cousins hoping to be named an All-Star Franchise center hurt by Kings' losing record RICH PEDRONCELLI—ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins has the statistics. He has the stature. The San Francisco Giants' three World Series trophies will be on display from 4-6 p.m. Friday at the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center. There is no cost to attend, but a donation is suggested. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS World Series trophies in Red Bluff on Friday Corning boys and girls soccer teams play Central Valley at 6p.m. today at Redding Soc- cer Park in Northern Athletic League matches. Los Molinos is at Pierce and Mercy is at Durham for 3:15p.m. matches. SOCCER Corning soccer plays Central Valley today SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, January 29, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1