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ByAndreByik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter CORNING The Corning High School varsity girls basketball team, which played in the second round of the Northern Section CIF Division IV playoffs Thurs- day evening, can't be accused of not having good timing. With just 5.3 seconds left in overtime, the Lady Cardinals' Whitney Armstrong split a cou- ple of free throws and gave her team its first lead of the game, 60-59, against the visiting Las- sen Grizzlies. No. 3 Corning (18- 7) held on to defeat No. 6 Lassen (15-12) 62-59 to advance to the semifinal round. Corning's thrilling win was punctuated with a game-ty- ing layup from Baylie Fryar with just .01 seconds left in the fourth quarter, a big night from Gates Fears, who finished with 17 points, and a comeback from an early 18-point deficit. Indeed, early on, the Griz- zlies appeared ready to upset the Cards on the road. Lassen, led by Makenna Busse and Miranda Langen- horst, jumped on Corning from the start, taking advantage of turnovers and finishing the first quarter with a 19-4 lead. Busse and Langenhorst each scored six points in the period. Gracie McCoy added on to the lead in the second quar- ter, knocking down a couple of sharp 3-pointers. But the Cards regrouped and went on to outscore the Griz- zlies 11-8 in the quarter. Corn- ing trailed 27-15 at the half. A tightly matched third quar- ter, which at times had Corn- ing fans on their feet, roaring, ended with the Cards down by 10 going to the fourth. Armstrong then set the stage for the comeback, scoring eight of her 15 points in the period. So- fia Oliverez added five points in the quarter, Fears notched four and Fryar kept Corning's playoff run alive with a last second la- yup to tie the game at 55. In the overtime period, Arm- strong scored three points, in- cluding the game-winning free throw, and Fryar added four from the free-throw line. Oliverez finished the game with 10 points, Fryar had nine points, Kaylie Shoemaker scored eight points, Mariah Castle added two points and Emerie Eller score one point. The Cards will next visit No. 2 Anderson at 7 p.m. Tuesday. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS LadyCardinalsedge GrizzliesinOT,62-59 No. 3 seed Corning to face No. 2 Anderson in semifinal round with finals berth at stake ANDREBYIK—REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS Corning High School's Whitney Armstrong (center) drives to the basket against the Lassen Grizzlies during the second round of the Northern Section CIF Division IV playoffs Thursday at Corning High School. CORNING 62, LASSEN 59 (OT) Up next: Corning at Anderson, 7 p.m. Tuesday. THESCORE By Ian Harrison The Associated Press TORONTO The Golden State War- riors bounced back from a loss in Cleveland to pound the Toronto Raptors. Klay Thompson scored 25 points, Stephen Curry had 22 and the Warriors never trailed in an emphatic 113-89 victory Fri- day night. "It was very satisfying to come out and play the way we did on a back-to-back, coming off a na- tional TV game against LeBron and all that stuff," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "It was an impor- tant effort." Draymond Green had 17 points and nine rebounds to help the Warriors wipe away the bad taste left by the 110-99 loss in Cleve- land on Thursday night. They im- proved to 10-2 in the second game of back-to-backs, the best mark in the NBA. "Tonight was a great way to re- spond," Thompson said. "The resil- iency of this team is pretty special." NBA Thompson scores 25, Warriors win rout Golden State bounces back from Cleveland loss FRANK GUN — THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto's Jonas Valanciunas (right) rebounds as Golden State's Harrison Barnes defends Friday. WARRIORS 113, RAPTORS 89 Up next: Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 3p.m. Sunday, TV on CSN-BA. THESCORE Ronda Rousey spent a year as a bartender a er she turned 21, partying every night and wondering what to do with her Olympic bronze medal in judo. She first saw mixed martial arts on television. UFC 184 Rouseyleadssurgein women's MMA interest FULL STORY ON PAGE B2 Leonard Nimoy, the actor known and loved by genera- tions of "Star Trek" fans as the pointy-eared, purely logi- cal science officer Mr. Spock, has died of chronic obstruc- tive pulmonary disease. OBITUARY Nimoy, 'Mr. Spock' on 'Star Trek,' dies at 83 FULL STORY ON PAGE B6 The top-seeded Corning Car- dinals boys soccer team hosts the Division 2section final at noon Saturday against No. 2 Gridley. Corning is seeking their first section title since 2011. SOCCER Corning hosts section final at noon Saturday The Northern Section Masters wrestling championships continue with Day 2Saturday at the Redding Convention Center. Red Bluff and Corn- ing athletes will compete for spots in the state finals. WRESTLING Masters Championships continue Saturday By Andrew Baggarly Bay Area News Group SCOTTSDALE,ARIZ. The wonders of modern technology inform us that Matt Duffy reached a top speed of 20.3 mph while scoring the most important run of his life last October. His thoughts were racing at a somewhat faster rate. "It was right about ... THERE," said Duffy, jabbing an index fin- ger at the screen as he watched his sprint home from second base on a wild pitch in Game 2 of the NLCS at St. Louis. "That's when I thought, 'Man, if I get thrown out here, I'll never see the field again. I mean, we would've had Buster Posey up with the bases loaded." Thanks to a rookie's moxie, the Giants scored the tying run with two outs in the ninth and stunned the sellout crowd at Busch Sta- dium. The Cardinals came back to win that night — Duffy was back in the clubhouse changing into turf shoes and hadn't slipped on the second one when Kolten Wong hit his walk-off home run — but the 24-year-old's daring dash wasn't forgotten. Sitting in the dugout at Scott- sdale Stadium on Friday, Duffy SPRING TRAINING Duffy gives Giants speed on bases, has worked hard The Red Bluff High School alpine team will be competing in the California-Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard Championships at Mammoth Mountain for five days beginning Sunday. To qualify for the championships, they had to get a number of races completed. With the lack of snow at Mt. Shasta, the team skied and snowboarded at Diamond Peak, with Lake Tahoe in the background. They completed 10races in two days. Pictured (from back le ) are head coach Bill Treat, snowboard coach Mary Treat, Ryan Mueller, Isaac Moldenhauer, Karl Parks, Devon Treat, Connor Sousa, assistant snowboard coach John Miller, ski coach Blake Villa, Joseph Mills, Ellie Miller, Judy Killam, Jenny McCluskey, Mariah Damante, Abby Micke and Shelby Carver. COURTESY PHOTO SKI AND SNOWBOARD GOING TO STATE GIANTS PAGE 2 WARRIORS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Saturday, February 28, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1