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StaffReports CHESTER Los Molinos dropped the first set, but came back to beat Chester 21-25, 25-12, 25-18, 25-22 on the road Tuesday. Hannah Rogers had nine kills. Dani Garman and Vanesa Cota each had five kills. Cota also had 29 assists. Los Molinos (18-8-3, 3-1) visits county rival Mercy tonight. CHICO 3, RED BLUFF 1 On "Pink Out" night to raise awareness for the fight against breast cancer, the Lady Spartans showed a lot of fight themselves, but ultimately couldn't slip by their visiting East- ern Athletic League rivals. Chico pulled out a 25-23, 25-20, 14-25, 25-21 win. Red Bluff led nearly the entire first game, before Chico managed to pull it out. The Lady Spartans got back into the match during Game 3, when Katie Gallagher registered five of her nine service aces on the night. The decisive Game 4 was tied 20-20 until Chico finally broke away for the win. "I am so proud of this team," Red Bluff coach Josh Frantz said. "They worked tremendously hard all night and never gave up. They executed every in-game adjust- ment I asked them to and played smart in all four matches." Gallagher finished with 17 as- sists and nine digs to go along with her nine aces. Hailey Reineman had nine kills. Christina Zumalt had eight kills. Bailey Frantz had 15 assists and Alex Funk had 12 digs. Red Bluff (7-17, 1-7) plays at Foot- hill on Oct. 28. LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 3, MERCY 0 Liberty Christian swept visiting Mercy 25-23, 25-19, 25-17 Tuesday. Marissa Starman had 19 kills, 10 digs and three blocks for the Lady Warriors. Madeline Flynn had eight kills. Tasha Pimentel doled out 32 as- sists. Mercy dropped to 19-11 overall and 2-2 in league play. PREP VOLLEYBALL LosMo earns road victory in Chester Lady Spartans play tough, but fall short against Chico TheWild&ScenicFilmFes- tival in Red Bluff on Nov. 1will feature a showcase of local organizations, businesses and sports outfitters working on and around the Sacramento River. WILD & SCENIC Paddleracetobe featured at film festival FULLSTORYONPAGEB3 The California Interscholastic Federation, Northern Sec- tion is seeking an assistant commissioner to begin work in February 2015. For more in- formation about the available position visit cifns.org. NORTHERN SECTION NSCIF seeks assistant commissioner The Lady Bulldogs volleyball team is at Mercy tonight at 6:30p.m. Corning hosts West Valley at 7p.m. Red Bluff's swim team is at Enterprise for the Eastern Athletic League championships. TODAY'S SCHEDULE Los Molinos visits country rival Mercy One of the major attractions of the Tehama County Mu- seum Jubilee was an exclusive exhibit of the artwork of Anna Chrasta, a popular and highly respected Bay Area artist with roots in Tehama County. TEHAMA COUNTY MUSEUM Artist transitions from sycamores to seascape FULL STORY ON PAGE B4 It was Homecoming. Besides from the usual football game there were floats, five rightfully pop- ular girls in nice dresses, alumni, cheerleaders, a spirited student body, and a marching band. Every sense was ac- counted for by some com- bination of green, gold and the concession stand's tri-tip. It was what a Friday night foot- ball game is all about. Then the football had to get in the way, and I'm not talking about the 42-0 score. In the opening minutes the offi- cials told the marching band they weren't allowed to play while the game was going on. In fairness, I'm told the same thing was said to visiting Paradise's own band the week prior. Seems like it's some rule that is on the books, right there next to the one that doesn't allow mil- itary school transfers returning home to play football. If the rule is there for player safety, citing players can't hear the officials' whistles — then it makes some sort of sense. Of course in all my years of covering football, I've never en- countered a problem when the band finishes up a song after the ball is hiked or entertains those left in the audience as a running mercy-rule clock ticks off. No, I think the prob- lem is those of us who are there for the football, for- get there are a lot of people in attendance for things other than jet sweeps. Some are there to watch their daughters dance at halftime, others for community bonding, some just because it's a Friday night — what else are you going to do in Red Bluff? That's something football people should never take for granted. No other sport draws the crowds football does, because no other sport has partnered with so many other traditions. It's all of these traditions to- gether that creates the great at- mosphere. Football isn't the only thing in life. And although I wouldn't want you to tell my wife I just said that — football is just one piece of the puzzle. Hours earlier at Red Bluff High School the entire student body gathered in the gymnasium for the Homecoming Pep Rally. Sure there were football jer- seys and chants about beating Paradise, but the rally was more about pride in the school than it was their gridiron peers. Just be careful football, you're already the center of attention, there's no reason to tell others how to act while you're being tossed around the field. You might find a day where the marching band leaves you for a cross country meet, the cheerlead- ers prefer to rally the crowd at a swim meet and the Homecoming Court is announced on a tennis court. Then you'll wonder where ev- erybody went and only have mem- ories of how much better it was to play in front of a packed grand- stands. On to the previews: CENTRAL VALLEY (0-7, 0-2) AT CORNING (4-3, 1-1), 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY After a brutal stretch of games that ended by losing the league lead to Lassen last week, Corn- ing gets the perfect gift in win- less Central Valley. But before the Cardinals make a crack that Red Bluff isn't the only team with a bye this week, they'll need to get the job done on the field. There's got to be some worry Corning doesn't get up for this one, but that should be somewhat alleviated by the fact it's Senior Night and if the Cardinals don't want this to be the last home game of the year, they'll need to win out. The Falcons have scored in double-digits just once this sea- son as the program rebuilds un- der a first-year head coach. Corning may look to continue working on its newfound passing game, a tool the Cardinals could use the next few weeks against Anderson and Yreka and a po- tential playoff run. Other than grabbing the win, Corning's other priority should be staying healthy through this one. MERCY (3-5, 2-2) AT ELK CREEK (0- 6, 0-4), 6 P.M. FRIDAY After a bru- tal stretch of games that ended by losing their shot at a home play- off game to Loyalton last week, Mercy gets the perfect gift in win- less Elk Creek. But before the Warriors make a crack that Red Bluff isn't the only team with a bye this week, they'll need to get the job done on the field. Whoa, deja vu. Don't tell me Elk Creek has only scored in double-digits once this year too? They have, creepy, must be Hal- loween season. The home playoff game may be off the table, but a win here puts the Warriors into the play- offs and a win the following week against 1-7 Westwood gives the Warriors the South's No. 3 seed, which means they'll avoid top- ranked Redding Christian in the first round. These two teams already met once this year. Mercy won 54-6 in a game that didn't count toward the league standings. The Warriors should expect a happy bus ride home, just as long as they don't fall into the trap of assuming a win is ever a given in football. REDBLUFF(2-6,1-3)BYEWEEK The Spartans certainly need this off week coming off of last week's loss and with top-ranked Enterprise coming to town next week for the last home game of the season. Besides losing to Paradise, Red Bluff was dealt another blow when Oroville beat Wheatland. That pretty much ended any possibility of a 2-8 Spartans team making the playoffs based off of their strength of schedule. If the Spartans are to make the playoffs they'll need to either pull an upset for the ages against Enterprise or find a way to beat Pleasant Valley on the road in the final week of the season. Contact Rich Greene at rgreene@redbluffdailynews. com, or @richgreenenews on Twitter. WEEK 8 PREVIEWS Let the band play on — not all present just for football Rich Greene By Dave Skretta The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, MO. Salvador Perez and the pesky Kansas City Royals fought back from a Game 1 flop to beat the San Francisco Giants' brilliant bull- pen and even the World Series. Perez broke Game 2 open with a two-run double in a five- run sixth inning, and the Roy- als' own cast of clutch reliev- ers kept the Giants in check for a 7-2 victory Wednesday night that spiced things up as the Se- ries shifts to San Francisco for the next three games. Jeremy Guthrie will be on the mound Friday night for the Roy- als, who had won eight straight playoff games before a 7-1 loss in the opener. Tim Hudson will start for San Francisco. The Royals had already pulled ahead 3-2 on Billy But- ler's RBI single in the sixth when Perez doubled into the left-field gap. Omar Infante fol- lowed with a two-run shot off Hunter Strickland, the fifth home run the feisty Giants re- liever had allowed to 23 post- season batters. Strickland appeared to mut- ter to himself as he stalked back to the mound, and Perez over- heard him. The two exchanged words and players from both dugouts spilled onto the field. More streamed in from the out- field bullpens before order was finally restored. Suddenly, a series that be- gan with a sleepy blowout had some life. Young flamethrower Yordano Ventura, with his 100 mph fast- ball singeing the brims of the Giants' batting helmets, allowed just two runs while pitching into the sixth inning. The 23-year- old hardly looked like the first rookie to make a World Series start in Royals history, calmly working through a lineup that ravaged staff ace James Shields just 24 hours earlier. The dynamic trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland did the rest. Herrera got the final two outs of the sixth to escape a jam, two of his first three pitches clock- ing 101 mph on the radar gun. He also survived a shaky sev- enth that included a pair of walks before Davis locked down the eighth, striking out two in a perfect inning. Greg Holland, who saved each game in the Royals' sweep of Baltimore in the AL Champi- onship Series, allowed a two-out single to Brandon Crawford be- fore fanning Gregor Blanco to end the game. The Giants' only runs came on a homer by Blanco and a double by Brandon Belt, their streak of seven straight World Series wins ending on a crisp, breezy night. Early on, though, it looked as if they could be heading back to the Bay Area with a big lead. The fleet-footed Blanco si- lenced a rollicking sea of blue, be- coming the 10th player to open a World Series game with a home run. He deposited Ventura's 98 mph fastball in the bullpen in right field, just his 17th home run in more than 2,300 at-bats. The crowd, energized from the moment that Hall of Famer George Brett delivered the cer- emonial first pitch, was left waiting for something good to happen for the second straight night. This time, the scrappy Royals gave it to them. ALCS MVP Lorenzo Cain stretched a liner to left field into a two-out double later in the first, and Eric Hosmer walked on four pitches. Butler, Peavy's long-time nemesis, then bounced a single past the out- stretched glove of Crawford at shortstop to knot the game 1-all. The Royals kept the pressure on in second. Infante doubled over the head of Travis Ishikawa in left field, and Escobar sliced a two-out double down the right- field line to give Kansas City a 2-1 lead, its first in the World Se- ries since Game 7 in 1985. The Giants, so accustomed to October baseball, still didn't look rattled — even as Ventura kept pounding the strike zone with a steady dose of 100 mph fastballs. Eventually, Pablo Sandoval sent a high fly to the warning track leading off the fourth, and a stiff wind blowing out to left turned Cain around. The ball caromed away for a double, and Belt drove in Sandoval with a double that bounced off Nori Aoki's glove in right field. The game was still knotted at 2 when the Royals got their first two batters aboard in the sixth. Giants manager Bruce Bochy finally pulled the fiery Peavy, hoping to play for match- ups with his bullpen. WORLD SERIES Royalsexactrevenge Kansas City clobbers Giants to even series at one game apiece going back to San Francisco JOSE LUIS VILLEGA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez points with his fingers as he yells at San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Hunter Strickland, who gave up a two-run home run to Omar Infante in the sixth inning of Game 2of baseball's World Series on Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. ROYALS 7, GIANTS 2 Series: Tied 1-1. Friday: Kansas City at San Francisco, 5:07p.m., TV on FOX. THESCORE SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, October 23, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1