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TheWarriors(1-22over- all, 0-9 league) are sched- uled to host the Redding Christian Lions at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. LadyWarriors24, Chester 65 The Lady Warriors fell behind early and had trou- ble scoring, with single dig- its in every period, to take a 65-24 loss Friday night to the Chester Volcanoes. Annie Feser put up 12 for the Warriors, Julia O'Neal had 5, Lianne Schaeffer had 3 and Mary DiMaggio and Kay Chen each scored a pair. The Warriors (2-20 over- all, 0-7 league) are sched- uled to host the Liberty Christian Patriots at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Basketball FROMPAGE1 Both teams clamped down on defense and Foot- hill scored twice, Clement once. In the closing seconds the Spartans got the ball down the court but couldn't get it through and Foothill held on for the win. Clement was named player of the game for the Spartans. "Tye Clement looked like '91 Rodman tonight," said coach Pablo Vazquez. "Cleaning up the glass, grabbing every loose ball and adding 16 points to the books." Clement led the Spar- tans with 16, Evan Tanner had 15 on 5 three-pointers, Gordon had 11, Eric Spen- cer had 6 and Hutchins and Edwards each had 5. The Spartans slip to 8-14 overall and 1-7 league. They are scheduled to head for Redding Tuesday to take on the Shasta Wolves (12-5 overall, 4-3 league) at 7:30 p.m. and Chico Friday for a 7:30 p.m. start against the Pleasant Valley Vikings (19-5 overall, 8-0 league) to closeouttheregularseason. Cardinals62,Las Plumas55 CORNING The Corning Cardinals kept their per- fect season in tact Fri- day night with a 62-55 win over the Las Plumas Thun- derbirds at home. Noah Zoppi led the Car- dinals with 17 points, 3 re- bounds and 5 assists; Bren- dan Hoag had 13 points, including a trio of threes, 5 rebounds and a pair of as- sists; Austin Mishoe had 13 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists; Marco Tapia had 12 points, 5 rebounds and a pair of assists and Co- rey Busta had 7 points and 8 rebounds. With the win the Car- dinals go to 24-0 overall, 8-0 league as they pre- pare to host the Oroville Tigers (9-14 overall, 2-4 league) at 7:30 p.m. Tues- day for their last home game of the regular sea- son. The status of Tuesday's game was not known as of 5 p.m. Monday, said coach Kurt Wilkins, due to the evacuation of Oro- ville and the closure of all schools. Corning will close out the regular season in Par- adise at 7:30 p.m. Friday against the Bobcats (11-11 overall, 5-2 league). Spartans FROM PAGE 1 It was midway through the first quarter, Warriors down by seven and Durant having missed his last three jumpers. Curry dribbled acrossmidcourtwith hisleft hand, and pointed at Durant with his right. Pass. Catch. Shoot. Score. Curry let the whole arena know what was coming, and it still worked. The Warriors had the lead not long after- ward, and won going away. "All these guys are great guys," Durant said. "They're easy to get along with. A lot of guys know how to just play the game. I knew if I came here, not think about myself and just play within the offense, I'd figure out how to be aggressive and score." Curry and Durant also said there are times when theycanreadtheotherwith- out needing words — a look here or a nod there is some- times enough to tell the one exactly what the other is thinking. The numbers are show- ing that Curry is finding his rhythm now, too: A month ago,hewasbelow40percent for the season from 3-point range. In his last 10 games going into Monday, he's shot 50 percent from beyond the arc. If all that wasn't enough, there's also this: Curry and Durant both say they're only going to get better. "At the end of the day we are about winning," Curry said. "The spotlight will come and I'll be able to do whatIneedtodoonthefloor and push my game to the next level regardless. That's the mentality we both had going into this. And we're getting better at it." Warriors FROM PAGE 1 By Anthony Slater BayAreaNewsGroup DENVER To get through the physicality of Memphis and the emotion in Okla- homa City, the Warriors looked like a team that had caffeine flowing through its veins for 30 hours and two impressive wins. But caffeine highs lead to even- tual lows. The Warriors crashed hard in Denver, slogging their way through a 132- 110 blowout loss to a short- handed but far more ener- gized Nuggets team, who tied an NBA regular-sea- son record with 24 made 3s. Golden State was with- out Klay Thompson, who has a sore right heel, Shaun Livingston, who was back in the Bay Area attending the birth of his child, and the injured David West and Zaza Pachulia. But the Nuggets were also with- out a batch of key rotation pieces like Danilo Galinari, Kenneth Faried and Em- manual Mudiay. So the Warriors were still favored. But they were quickly overwhelmed. Led by rising star Nikola Jokic — who finished with a 17-point, 21-rebound, 12-assist triple-double — Denver came out and phys- ically battered the War- riors' frontline, while drop- ping 3s over the top of their perimeter defenders. Denver had five offensive rebounds in the first four minutes and outrebounded the Warriors 31-12 in the first half. Jokic slugged Ja- Vale McGee and Draymond Green out of the way for a pair and then took one away from an unaware Kevin Durant. Will Barton skied in for two. The Nug- gets jolted up 14-9. Then Juancho Hernan- gomez, a 21-year-old gun- ner from Spain, got hot from deep and the rest of his teammates followed. Hernangomez nailed three 3s in the opening minutes, stepping into wide open looks as the Warriors failed to identify hot shooters or crisply rotate back out of their help assignments. It would remain a theme. The Nuggets hit seven 3s in the first quarter and an unbelievable 16 3s in the first half (two shy of the NBA record), planting 79 first half points on a typ- ically sturdy Warriors de- fense that was springing leaks on the regular. The Golden State of- fense wasn't that much better. Steph Curry went 4-of-18 shooting and made only one of his 11 3s. On the first possession out of half- time, Curry tried to spark the Warrior offense with a quick corner 3. But he shot it four feet past the rim, a massive airball. Durant made 10 of his 16 shots, one of the few of- fensive bright spots. Pat- rick McCaw had a career- high 17 points, leading a mildly intriguing run by the Warriors' mop-up crew to start the fourth quarter. But most of the night, the Warriors looked tired and disengaged. NBA Nuggets mash sluggish Warriors in letdown loss DAVIDZALUBOWSKI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Denver Nuggets guard Jameer Nelson takes a three-point shot over Warriors guard Stephen Curry in the second half Monday in Denver. later, he was the youngest Masters champion since Woods and tied his 72-hole record at Augusta National. His runner-up finish in the 2015 PGA Championship el- evated him to the top of the world ranking, making him the youngest player since Woods to be No. 1. By the end of 2015, his ag- gregate 54-under-par in the majors was one shot better than what Woods did in 2000. That, too, requires context. Woods won two of those majors by a combined 23 shots. The comparisons, whether they involved Spi- eth,RoryMcIlroyor anyone else, seem like a stretch be- cause of the consistent and relentless dominance of Woods. Spieth enters the con- versation again because he is hitting the ball great and his putting is starting to come around. Spieth's bad weeks with the putter are still better than most players' good weeks. And still fresh are the mem- ories of what he did two years ago — the Masters, the U.S. Open, the FedEx Cup, all the awards. But it's only February. The Masters is nearly two months away. The majors are the measure. And remember, Spieth is still No. 6 in the world. For Spieth, repeating the kind of season he had in 2015 is a tall order. Keeping pace with Woodswillbeeventougher. Spieth FROM PAGE 1 Denver ties record with 24 3-pointers ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jordan Spieth reacts on the 18th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links a er winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Sunday in Pebble Beach. 6,312fans+49 this week Facebook Page YOU'LL LIKE WHAT YOU SEE ..andgrowing,everyweek! Daily News Facebook fans receive special posts of breaking news, sports, weather and road closures, clicking right to full stories and photos published on redbluffdailynews.com ... 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