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Staffreport DUNSMUIR The Los Molinos Bulldogs beat the Dunsmuir Ti- gers 22-20 in Friday night's non- conference, 8-man football game. Players of the game honors go to Tyler Winter overall, Kevin Dean for offense and Kyle Wood for defense. At quarterback, Winter was 5 for 8 for 39 yards and a pick, but he put up 48 yards on 7 carries on the ground. Alex Russell was the leading rusher with 133 yards on 8 car- ries, including one for 52 yards, and 2 touchdowns. Dean ran for 62 yards and a touchdown and Jarred Costa put up 44 yards on 9 carries. Dean was the top receiver, with 3 catches for 31 yards. Russell led the team in tackles with 8, followed by Winter and Wood with 7 each and Costa and Dean with 6 each. Wood recorded 2 sacks and Winter and Dawson Spencer each had 1. The Bulldogs are scheduled to take on the 2-0 Redding Chris- tian Lions at 7 p.m. Friday in Los Molinos. FOOTBALL LosMolinos edges out Dunsmuir for first win By Janie Mccauley The Associated Press SANTA CLARA Jim Tomsula has been tested so many times al- ready as a first-year NFL coach. From surprising retirements by team stars to yet more legal run-ins for a franchise defined by them in recent years, Tomsula so far has plugged away admirably, gaining the trust and respect of his players in the process. Whether he can win is the question everybody is eager to find out, and the 49ers will try to do so without Patrick Willis and Anthony Davis, Aldon Smith, Jus- tin Smith and Chris Borland. And without Jim Harbaugh, who led the team to three straight NFC championship games before last season's dud. "The way that you prepare gives you an opportunity. The guys that we have in the locker room, I know what kind of guys we have in here," wideout Anquan SEASON PREVIEW 49ers move on under Tomsula By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter REDDING What started out looking like it would be a back- and-forth shootout in the first quarter ended up being almost all West Valley for the remainder of the night Friday as the Spar- tans suffered their first loss of the season 64-20. "We came out here and things were going back and forth...," Coach Corey Hein told the team after the game. "We gassed out. Not physically, but mentally." Lane Pritchard caught a Wes Clawson pass to get the scor- ing started and West Valley an- swered with two scores to finish the first quarter up 14-7. West Valley opened the sec- ond with another score and held Red Bluff before a roughing the kicker call on the Red Bluff punt gave the Spartans a first down around mid field. Pritchard and Clawson hooked up for a long pass to move the ball to the West Valley 2, where Clawson took it in on a keeper to put Red Bluff back within a touchdown. West Valley found success with the ground game against the Spartans and drove the ball for three more scores to finish the half up 42-14. Red Bluff had trouble defend- ing against the inside trap run and West Valley exploited the weakness. Hein said after a big win in the season opener — 69-40 over Central Valley at home last week — the sideline became emo- tional when the tide turned to- ward West Valley. The second half opened with another West Valley drive and score. Facing fourth and 1 around the West Valley 40 yard line, Clawson kept the ball and broke through the line to make a run for the touchdown. Red Bluff got the score to 49-20 after a failed 2-point conversion. West Valley continued to grind the ball down the field and its defense was able to shut down the Spartans' running game. With Red Bluff left to rely on the pass, they were easy to defend. The Eagles scored once more with 5:05 left in the third and again in the fourth, when a high snap on the extra point try led to a to 2-point conver- sion. The Spartans almost ended the game on a positive note, af- ter a muffed punt reception for West Valley gave Red Bluff the ball on the West Valley 25. The FOOTBALL SPARTANS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE RUN West Valley grinds out 64-20 win Friday OutsidelinebackerKeganRichardsmakesatouchdown-saving tackle late in the first half Friday against West Valley. PHOTOS BY CHIP THOMPSON – DAILY NEWS Wes Clawson surges across the line in the second quarter Friday to put Red Bluff within a touchdown of West Valley. Patrick Corbin threw six scoreless, Phil Gosselin and A.J. Pollock homered and the Arizona Diamondbacks snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the fading Giants 6-1on Monday. BASEBALL Diamondbacksbeat fading Giants 6-1 PAGEB2 The Warriors will face Mt. Shasta at Mercy High School starting at 5:30tonight and the Bulldogs will take on Williams at Los Molinos High School at 6:30tonight in volleyball action. VOLLEYBALL Mercy, Los Molinos to take to court tonight SPARTANS PAGE 2 By Sharon Martin smartin@chicoer.com @SharonBMartin on Twitter CORNING The Corning High football team wanted to set the tone early Friday night against Las Plumas. Alex Davila made that hap- pen. On the opening kickoff, Da- vila returned the ball for a 90- yard touchdown to open the Cardinals' season, defeating the Thunderbirds 49-6. "It was big for us. We let him get it and run right up the mid- dle," said Corning head coach John Studer. "We know that he has that big play capability. We were hoping that was they way we could start off." On his first run on the game, Davila split the defenders up the middle for a 54-yard touch- down. Seth Danielson was able to recover a Las Plumas fum- ble on the ensuing possession to return the ball for a 34- yard touchdown to put Corn- ing up 21-0 by the end of the first quarter. Davila, on his third run of the game, pushed through for a 70-yard rushing touchdown. Just as the first half expired, Davila's 29-yard run set up a 26-yard pass from quarterback Devin Wunsch who found Drew Fissori in the back corner of the end zone for a Cardinals 35-point advantage. The Thunderbirds opened the second half with a three-and- out, giving Corning the ball once more. On third down, Da- vila had the ball again quickly dodging through several LP de- fenders for a touchdown. LP continued to struggle. Af- ter quarterback Tanner Allen was sacked for a loss, the fol- lowing play resulted in a Corn- ing interception as Allen tried to pitch the ball to the running back. Oscar Garcia was there to snag the ball and return it for a touchdown. LP made its mark on the scoreboard after senior run- ning back Gabe Hindman started the fourth quarter with a 55-yard touchdown run. But with the running clock already in order, it was too late for Las Plumas to dig out of the defi- cit, falling for its second loss. "We had a pretty lackadaisi- cal week of practice," said Las Plumas coach Dave Morris. "Our tackling drills on Tues- day, there wasn't a lot of ef- fort. You're going to play how you practice and it came out on the field tonight." Hindman finished the night for LP with 14 carries for 170 yards, two catches for 11 yards and one touchdown. "He's always a hard worker and he runs hard all the time and has become one of our lead- ers on the team," Morris said. Studer liked how quick his team could strike in order to score. "In some of the earlier scrim- mages, we tended to start off just a little bit slow," Studer said. "When somebody else steps up and makes a big play, it gets everyone else excited." Davila finished the night with 178 rushing yards, seven receiving yards, a 90-yard kickoff return and four touch- downs. The Cardinals will face Pleas- ant Valley next, while Las Plu- mas will take on Willows. "We're going to have to be re- ally physical, PV is really big," Studer said. "It's going to be a big change and a much bigger challenge than it was tonight." PREP FOOTBALL CorningroutsLPtoopenseason 49ERS PAGE 2 Get your puzzles fix with the NEA Crossword, Sudoku and Celebrity Cipher, start your day off right with your horoscope, and read the lat- est advice doled out by Amy Dickinson. YOUR DAILY BREAK Fun and games inside today PAGE B3 Bay Area News Group's Marcus Thompson believes the youth movement that came out of the ashes of this offseason could serve the team well. NFL 49ers might be better than people think REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM/SPORTS SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, September 8, 2015 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1