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StaffReports CORNING TheCorningCardinals baseball team kicked off league play at home Tuesday afternoon with a 4-2 win over the Yreka Miners. Both teams put up two runs in the first inning and the Cardinals would tack on runs in the second and third innings for the win. Michael Wold was 1 for 3 for a two-RBI double; Trent Conoly was 1 for 2 with an RBI; Wyatt Haydon had a base on balls and an RBI; Isaiah Jones was 1 for 3 with a run; and Brady Meeds and Devin Wunsch each scored. Haydon got the win, giving up two earned runs over seven in- nings with four hits, a walk and five strikeouts. The Cardinals (3-5 overall, 1-0 league) are scheduled for a re- match with the Miners (5-7-1 over- all, 0-1 league) at 4 p.m. Friday in Yreka. FOOTHILL6,SPARTANS3 The Red Bluff Spartans lost a rematch to the Foothill Cougars on Tuesday in Palo Cedro after beating the Cougars on Saturday in the cham- pionship game of the Central Val- ley Tournament in Shasta Lake. The Cougars took the lead with two runs in the fifth and piled on three more in the sixth. A sev- enth-inning surge for the Spar- tans came up short. Lane Pritchard was 1 for 2 with a home run, two runs and two RBIs and he was hit twice; Aus- tin Youngblood was 1 for 2 with a double and an RBI; Payton Ed- wards was 1 for 4 with a double and a run and Wesley Clawson was 1 for 4 with a double. Kolby Button pitched 4 1/3 in- nings and gave up three runs, two earned, and five walks and struck out four. Pritchard closed out the game, giving up three runs, none earned, a walk and striking out three. The Spartans (8-5 overall, 2-2 league) are scheduled to play the Paradise Bobcats (5-8 overall, 0-3 league) at 4 p.m. today and will be home Friday for a 7 p.m. rematch with the Cougars (12-4 overall, 2-0 league). WARRIORS 15, LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 0 The Mercy Warriors shut out the Liberty Christian Patriots on Tuesday in Redding. The Warriors put up four runs in the third inning and then opened the floodgates for 11 in the fourth to end the game. Jonathan Ross was untouched in the complete-game shutout and named player of the game for the Warriors. He threw five no-hit innings with no walks and struck out 11. Richie Borges was 2 for 3 with a home run and a double, three runs and four RBIs; Bryce Baer was 2 for 3 with a home run and a double, a run and three RBIs; Dartagnan Kingwell was 2 for 4 with a run and two RBIs; Kavin McClellan was 2 for 4 with a triple and two runs; Travis Gorden was 3 for 4 with three runs and two RBIs and Alvaro De La Fuente, Tasman McClellan and Nick Or- nelas each had an RBI. The Warriors (2-6 overall, 1-0 league) are scheduled to host the Chester Volcanoes (4-6 overall) at 6:30 p.m. Friday. BULLDOGS 10, REDDING CHRISTIAN 6 The Los Molinos Bulldogs started league play Tuesday with a win over Redding Christian. As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, no in- dividual stats had been posted for the game. The Bulldogs (5-2 overall, 1-0 league) are scheduled to host the Liberty Christian Patriots (0-1 overall, 0-1 league)at 4p.m. Friday. BASEBALL Cards,'Dogs,Warriorsallwin CougarsbeatSpartans By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter RED BLUFF The Lady Spartans softball team struggled Wednes- day afternoon against the visit- ing Foothill Cougars, who took a 10-0 win in six innings. Allyson Drury got the Spar- tans off to a good start, reach- ing first to open the first and Liz Baccala advanced Drury to sec- ond with a sacrifice bunt. But a pop out to right and out at first after a passed ball ended the Spartans' opening frame with Drury stranded at third. The only other offense for the Spartans would come in the second when Braydi Johnson reached on an error and in the fifth with a Kylee Kitchell single to right. Kitchell moved to sec- ond on a Johnson bunt, but Em- ily Tatro and Kitchell would be thrown out at first and third to end the threat. Aubrey Akins pitched all six innings, giving up three walks and striking out three. The Cougars opened with a run in the first and then Baccala kept them quiet until the fifth, when the hit parade started and Foothill plated five more runs to take a 6-0 lead. In the top of the sixth inning the Cougars put up four more runs and the Spartans needed to score to keep the game going. But a rally wasn't in the cards and a pair of strikeouts and a ground out to first ended the Spartans' chances. Foothill's Jessica Seely pitched the six-inning, one-hit shutout. The Spartans (5-3 overall, 0-1 league) are scheduled to host the Enterprise Hornets (4-4 overall, 0-1 league) at 4 p.m. Friday. REDDING CHRISTIAN 10, LADY BULLDOGS 0 The Los Molinos Lady Bulldogs fell to the Red- ding Christian Lions 10-0 Tues- day in Redding. No individual stats were posted, but the Bulldogs put up just three hits and committed eight errors in the six-inning game. The Bulldogs (2-6 overall, 0-1 league) are scheduled to host the Liberty Christian Patriots (0-0) at 4 p.m. Friday. SOFTBALL SPARTANSSHUTOUT BY VISITING COUGARS Red Bluff gets a few rallies going but can't put runs on board DAILYNEWS—CHIPTHOMPSON The Lady Spartans' Stephanie Brunello (12), at second, turns the second half of a double play Wednesday a ernoon against the Foothill Cougars. Shortstop Allyson Drury (11) got the play started and Kylee Kitchell (6) completed it. By Paul Newberry The Associated Press AUGUSTA, GA. Jason Day was lurking just outside Augusta Na- tional Golf Club, wondering if he wanted to go in. The game just wasn't fun any- more. Even though he was set to play in his first Masters in 2011, Day thought it might be time to do something else. "Golf is a very, very frustrat- ing game," Day recalled. Whether he was really serious about quitting, no one will ever really know. Certainly, it's not a consideration these days. As the 28-year-old Aussie pre- pares to tee off in the Masters for the sixth time Thursday, he's ranked No. 1 in the world and coming off his first major cham- pionship, one of the favorites along with defending champion Jordan Spieth and four-time ma- jor winner Rory McIlroy. "I feel comfortable around this course," Day said. "I know it sets up well for me. It's a golf course where I can compete and play well and win." Working against Day: the last top-ranked player to win at Au- gusta was Tiger Woods in 2002. Indeed, this might be the most wide-open Masters since the pre-Tiger days. Spieth captured the first two majors of 2015 and nearly won the other two. McIlroy is missing only the Masters from a career Grand Slam. Day and 2013 Mas- ters champion Adam Scott are both two-time winners on the PGA Tour this year. Two other Masters champs, Bubba Wat- son and Charl Schwartzel, also have victories in 2016. So does rising Japanese star Hideki Mat- THE MASTERS Day a favorite, where he thought of quitting Thursday: San Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors, 7:30p.m., TV on CSN-BA, TNT. TUNEIN BREWERS 4, GIANTS 3 Up next: Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants, 1:35p.m. Thursday, TV on CSN-BA. THESCORE By Josh Dubow The Associated Press OAKLAND The margin of error is gone. If the Golden State Warriors want to break Chicago's single- season wins record of 72, they must win their final four games starting with Thursday night's showdown at home against San Antonio. The bigger priority down the stretch is securing the top seed in the Western Conference, which can be done with a combination of two Warriors wins or Spurs losses, and getting their game back in top form for the start of the postseason next week. With two losses in their past three home games, a recent uptick in turnovers and a loss of defen- sive intensity, the grinding NBA season is finally showing signs of taking its toll on the Warriors (69-9). "It's a miracle that we've gone this far without hitting a bump in the road," coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday. "This is to be ex- pected. Every team goes through it. It's just probably surprising for people out there and maybe even our own guys because this season NBA Warriors need 4-0 finish to set record By Andrew Baggarly Bay Area News Group MILWAUKEE Giants pitch- ing coach Dave Righetti wore a pained smile as he sat in a front- office meeting this past winter. Their visitor that day was Jeff Samardzija, and the fast-talk- ing free-agent pitcher gushed so much about coming to San Fran- cisco that Righetti found himself pondering something odd. "Might want to shut up," Righetti recalled thinking. "You're going to cost yourself money." Well, that didn't happen. The Giants were so enamored by how Samardzija's stuff might play at AT&T Park that they gave him $90 million. But the right-hand- er's first start Wednesday hap- pened to come in a lively road ballpark where he's never won in seven tries. And the debut was a BASEBALL Samardzija hit around, Giants lose WARRIORS PAGE 2 MASTERS PAGE 2 GIANTS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, April 7, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1