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OROVILLE The Red Bluff Spar- tans baseball team went ahead early Saturday against the Sutter Huskies but a late rally sent the game to extra innings in an Oro- ville Tournament make-up game. With 2 runs in the first and an- other in the second it looked like it would be all Spartans early on. The Huskies answered with 2 in the third, but Red Bluff responded with 3 in the bottom half of the inning. A Huskies run in the fifth was erased by a Spartans run in the sixth and the seventh inning started with Red Bluff up 7-3. The Huskies rallied to tie it, but the Spartans scored in the bottom of the eighth for the 8-7 win. Bryce Sinclair led the Spar- tans, going 2-4 with 2 RBI, a walk and a run. He also stole a bag. Kolby Button was 1-3 with 2 runs, a walk, a sacrifice fly and an RBI; Payton Edwards was 1-4 with a sacrifice and an RBI; Eric Spencer had 3 walks and an RBI; Austin Youngblood was 2-3 with a run and a sacrifice and Tan- ner Tweedt was 0-1 with 2 walks, a run and a stolen bag. Lane Pritchard stole a base. Sinclair started the game for the Spartans and gave up 3 runs, none earned, on 5 hits and a base on balls over 5 innings, striking out 2. Evan Tanner gave up 2 earned runs on 2 walks and struck out 2 over 1.1 innings. Pritchard gave up 2 unearned runs on 2 hits with a walk and a strikeout over 1.2 in- nings and got the win. The Spartans (16-6 overall, 5-2 league) are scheduled to host the Pleasant Valley Vikings (15-5 over- all, 7-3 league) at 7 p.m. today. A Friday night game against the Enterprise Hornets (12-12 overall, 0-8 league) was called due to rain. It is scheduled to be made up at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Red Bluff. CARDINALS 0, CENTRAL VALLEY 2 After trouncing the Central Valley Falcons in Corning Tuesday, the Cardinals fell 2-0 at Shasta Lake Thursday. In a pitchers duel, Corning's Isaiah Jones gave up a run each in the fifth and sixth innings and that would be all the Falcons needed. Wyatt Haydon, Brady Meeds, Devin Wunsch, Drew Fissori and Chad McFall each had hits for the Cardinals and Jones got a base on balls, but nobody was able to come home in the shutout loss. Meeds was hit by a pitch twice and stole 2 bags. Michael Wold and Trent Conoly would also get nailed and Haydon stole a base. Jones pitched a complete game and gave up 2 earned runs on 7 hits, walked 3 and struck out 6. The Cardinals (5-8 overall, 3-3 league) are scheduled to face the West Valley Eagles (17-10 overall, 6-0 league) at 4 p.m. today in Cot- tonwood. OTHER ACTION The Los Molinos Bulldogs (6-5 overall, 2-2 league) were scheduled to host the Red- ding Christian Lions (5-7 overall, 1-2 league) Monday. They'll travel to Hayfork for a 4 p.m. game to- day against the Timberjacks (0-7 overall, 0-4 league). The Mercy Warriors (5-7 over- all, 4-1 league) are scheduled to face the Chester Volcanoes (8-6 overall, 2-0 league) at 4 p.m. Wednesday. BASEBALL SpartansedgeoutSutter Cardinals shut out at Central Valley By Josh Dubow TheAssociatedPress OAKLAND Stephen Curry will miss at least two weeks for Golden State with a sprained ligament in his right knee, dealing a blow to the Warriors' hopes of following a record-breaking season with a second straight championship. The Warriors said an MRI on Curry's knee Monday determined he had a Grade 1 sprain of the MCL and will be re-evaluated in two weeks. That timetable would lead to Curry missing the rest of the first round of the playoffs and likely at least the first four games in round two if the Warriors are able to ad- vance. Golden State leads Houston 3-1 in its first-round series. Game 5 is Wednesday night in Oakland. Curry was injured on the final play of the first half of Sunday's 121-94 win in Houston when he slid awkwardly on a wet spot on the court and fell. He immediately grabbed his knee and jogged with a limp to the locker room. He came out with the team af- ter halftime, but sat on the bench for most of the warmup time. Af- ter talking with coaches, he re- turned to the locker room with his second injury of the series. Curry had missed the previous two games with a sprained right ankle. The Warriors thrived without Curry on Sunday, hitting eight 3-pointers in the third quarter alone to turn a tie game into a 21-point lead on the way to the easy win. But doing that without the reigning MVP for a longer period of time figures to be more prob- lematic. The Warriors have gone 3-2 this season without Curry playing, including wins against the Rockets on New Year's Eve and at home in Game 2. Golden State also lost Game 3 in Hous- ton by one point while Curry sat with the ankle injury. Replacing everything Curry does is almost impossible be- cause no one has ever had the collection of skills he has with the ability to spread the de- fense with long-range shoot- ing, the ballhandling to create his own shot and the playmak- ing that leads to easy baskets for his teammates. NBA PLAYOFFS CURRY OUT AT LEAST 2 WEEKS WITH SPRAINED RIGHT KNEE GoldenStateWarriorsguardStephenCurry(30)ishelpedup a er being injured on the final play during the first half of Game 4in the first round of the NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets, in Houston. PHOTOS BY KAREN WARREN — HOUSTON CHRONICLE Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry carries popcorn as he limps out of the Toyota Center a er Game 4in the first round of the NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets, in Houston. By John Hickey Bay Area News Group DETROIT Three consecutive games in the first month of the baseball season aren't enough to create a trend, but they are enough to create some concern. For the third straight game Monday an A's starter gave up six earned runs in five or fewer innings, this time in what turned out to be a 7-3 loss to Detroit. Monday's man on the mound was Kendall Graveman, doing in 4.2 innings doing what Chris Bassitt did in five innings Saturday in Toronto and what Eric Surkamp did in 4.2 innings Sunday against the Blue Jays. Surkamp's reward was to be optioned to Triple-A Monday. It's not likely that either Bas- sitt or Graveman will face sim- ilar treatment after what was, for each man, a one-time thing. But it's clear the A's aren't good enough to survive starting pitching that consistently puts them in early-game craters, ei- ther. "Kendall had good stuff for a while," manager Bob Melvin said. "And then all of a sudden they scored in a hurry. But it was too much of a deficit." In the last three games Oak- land has been down 5-1 after two innings, 6-1 after four in- nings and Mondaynight 6-0 af- ter five innings. It's not a sustain- able plan for success, although the A's consistently tried to rally. "We hit a lot of balls hard, right at people," the manager said. "We could have put a little more pressure on. A couple of times we were in that position where one more hit and we've probably got them on the run a little more." AMERICAN LEAGUE Graveman, A's hit hard in Detroit CORNING The Corning Lady Cardinals softball team blew out the visiting Anderson Cubs Friday afternoon 9-1. The Cardinals' bats were noisy early with 4 runs in the first, 2 in the second and an- other in the third. The Cubs managed a run in the top of the fifth, but the Cardinals an- swered with a pair and went on for the easy win. Bethany Bott went 2-3 with a double, a triple, a run and 4 RBI; sophomore Isabella Blanchard was 2-4 with a triple and 3 RBI; Baylie Fryar was 2-2 with 2 runs and an RBI; Mar- rissa Hopkins was 2-3 with a run and an RBI and Kate Picha- Arndt was reached on an error and had an RBI. Hopkins got the win for the Cardinals, walking 2 and strik- ing out 4 over 5 innings of work. The Cardinals (5-9 overall, 3-2 league) are scheduled to host the West Valley Eagles (9-7 overall, 4-2 league) in a double- header today starting at 3 p.m. CHICO The Lady Spartans had makeup games Saturday at the Pleasant Valley Tournament and came away with a tie and two losses. The Spartans started the day with a 2-2 tie against the Shasta Wolves then went on to lose 7-3 against the Paradise Bobcats and 9-0 against the Woodcreek Timberwolves from Roseville. Against Shasta, the Spar- tans went up early with 2 runs in the first, but let the Wolves back in with runs in the fourth and sixth innings. Allyson Drury was 1-3 with a double and a run and Em- ily Tatro was 1-3. Liz Baccala reached on an error and would score the other Spartan run. Stefanie Brunello and sopho- more Aubree Akins each had an RBI. Akins gave up 2 runs, 1 earned, walked 2 and stuck out 4 over 7 innings for no decision. Next up were the Bobcats, who jumped out to a 5-0 lead by the third inning, but Red Bluff trimmed that lead to 3 with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third. The Bobcats tacked on insurance runs in the fifth and sixth and a Red Bluff run in the sixth wouldn't be enough. Akins was 2-3 with a dou- ble and an RBI; Ellie Fletcher was 2-3; Braydi Johnson was 1-2 with a run and a base on balls; Brunello was 1-3 with run; Baccala was 1-3 with a run and Rena Fox was 1-3. Kenzie Col- gate walked. Akins gave up 7 runs, 4 earned, on 11 hits, walked 2 and struck out 4 over 6 innings for the loss. The Spartans finished the day getting shutout by the Tim- berwolves, who scored 3 in the first, 1 in the third, 3 in the fourth and 2 in the fifth. SOFTBALL Ca rd in al s take big win over Anderson Red Bluff gets tie, 2 losses in tourney action CURRY PAGE 2 CARDINALS PAGE 2 AS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, April 26, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1