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ByAnthonySlater BayAreaNewsGroup In the past few weeks, Steve Kerr sat down with some of his players for an open conversa- tion. He wanted their thoughts on the Colin Kaepernick situ- ation, on the tragedies contin- ually befalling the nation, on the latest death of an unarmed black man in Tulsa, on the topic of non-violent protesting from big-name athletes. "What do you think?" Kerr said he asked them. "What do you feel?" "That's kinda the way we do things around here," he said of the conversations. "We like to talk about stuff, basketball or not." In the coming months, Kerr will be thrust into an interest- ing spot. As an NBA coach, he's blessed with a talented tool- box unlike any other: two in- their-prime, MVP caliber, first ballot Hall of Fame stars, plus two more fringe All-Stars. His coaching counterparts can only dream of a situation like that. But that doesn't mean there aren't some unique challenges attached. One of the biggest is derived from the expected attention around this team. The Warriors are loaded with big names. And big names means influential voices. If desired, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant and whoever else attached to both their's and the franchise's global brand can make noise if they speak out, whether that's through na- tional anthem protests or oth- erwise. Kaepernick got the ball rolling. Guys like Curry and Du- rant and the other Warriors can kick it into overdrive. WARRIORS Kerr OK with social activism from his players Staff Reports LOS MOLINOS The Los Molinos Lady Bulldogs volleyball team continued its winning ways Tues- day evening with a 3-0 win over the Oroville Tigers at home, 25- 21, 25-13, 25-20. Liset Castillo was named player of the match for the Bulldogs, with 13 kills, seven aces, 16 digs and an assist. Other leading players included Rachel Rogers with 11 kills, two aces, a block and five digs; Henna Acevedo with two kills, two aces and eight digs; Heather Rodri- guez with seven aces, a dig and eight assists; and Kendall Wil- liams with seven digs and nine assists. Lizzy Belcher had two aces and three digs, and sophomore Vale- ria Garnica and Sugey Cota each had five digs. The Bulldogs (17-8) begin league play at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the road in Redding against the Liberty Christian Patriots (1-7). Warriors3,Dunsmuir0 DUNSMUIR The Mercy Lady War- riors took a three-set win over the Dunsmuir Tigers on the road Tuesday evening, 25-14, 25-5, 25- 12. Allie Adams had five kills, six aces, a block and two digs; Hai- ley Coelho had five kills, two aces and three digs; Sophia Rubright had four kills, nine aces and three digs; Annie Feser had two kills and seven digs; and Crystal Pi- mentel had two kills, four aces, a dig and 15 assists. The Warriors (5-9) start league play Sept. 29 with a 7 p.m. match at home against the Los Molinos Bulldogs (17-8). West Valley 3, Cardinals 1 CORNING With a competitive opening set the Corning Lady Cardinals fell in four sets Tues- day night to the West Valley Ea- gles 28-30, 25-16, 25-15, 25-14. As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday no individual stats had been posted for the match. The Cardinals (9-8) are sched- uled to open league play Tues- day with a 6:30 p.m. road match against the Las Plumas Thunder- birds (3-6). The Red Bluff Lady Spartans are scheduled to play Saturday in the Sutter Buttes Tournament. VOLLEYBALL BULLDOGS WIN IN 3 SETS VS. OROVILLE Warriors get road win at Dunsmuir; Cardinals fall against West Valley LARRYLONG—CONTRIBUTED Los Molinos' Heather Rodriquez sets up hitter Henna Acevedo for a shot. The District 1 California High School Rodeo No. 1 was held Sept. 17-18 in Cottonwood. The results are as follows: ALL AROUND COWBOY — Cody Stewart, Janesville 50 pts Reserve All Around — Levi Gray, Dairy, OR 49.5 pts 2nd runnerup — Tanner Darst, Gerber 45 pts ALL AROUND COWGIRL — Kaycie Tidwell, Montague 109 pts Reserve All Around — Faith Ann Cassol, Greenville 72 pts 2nd runnerup — Jessica Alsosi, Palo Cedro 53.5 pts TIE DOWN ROPING — 11 en- tered 1 Tanner Darst, Gerber 23.50 2 Trent Watkins, Potter Valley 35.25 3 Cody Stewart, Janesville 35.56 4 Casey Moore, Red Bluff 37.70 5 Kolton King, Red Bluff 38.97 6 Cole Bunting, Red Bluff 45.06 7 Zach Engelhart, Linden 45.56 8 Corte Smith, Crescent Mills 47.99 9 Bailey Small, Burney 17.66/1 10 Drew Tilton, Taylorsville 17.90/1 STEER WRESTLING — 1 en- tered No scores BAREBACK RIDING -1 entered 1 Cauy Pool, Long Creek, OR 48/1 SADDLE BRONC — 2 entered 1 Levi Gray, Dairy, OR 62/1 BULL RIDING — 6 entered 1 Levi Gray, Dairy, OR 145 2 Cauy Pool, Long Creek, OR 73/1 BOYS CUTTING — 1 entered 1 Tanner Meigs, Taylorsville 136 GIRLS CUTTING — 3 entered 1 — 2 Jessica Alosi, Palo Cedro 137 1 — 2 Haley Mae Dancer, Al- turas 137 3 Mattea Wilson, Alturas 136 BREAKAWAY ROPING — 16 entered 1 Faith Ann Cassol, Greenville 6.84 2 Kaycie Tidwell, Montague 8.34 3 Chaney Tidwell, Montague 9.27 4 Gwen Johnson, Etna 11.17 5 Jaylee Johnson, Etna 11.18 6 Hailey Myers, Fall River Mills 24.91 7 Reghan Shannon, Los Moli- nos 41.37 8 Mackenzie Moore, Red Bluff 3.48/1 9 Emily Kramer, Bieber 3.61/1 10 Haley Mae Dancer, Alturas 7.24/1 GOAT TYING — 18 entered 1 Masey Minton, Witter Springs 17.08 2 Kodi Myers, Central Point, OR 18.84 3 Emily Kramer, Bieber 20.49 4 Fallon Myers, Central Point, OR 22.24 5 Faith Ann Cassol, Greenville 22.48 6 Kaycie Tidwell, Montague 22.82 7 Chaney Tidwell, Montague 25.52 8 Haley Mae Dancer, Alturas 28.17 9 Hailey Myers, Fall River Mills 30.83 10 Ashtin Lopeman, Red Bluff 32.35 POLE BENDING — 27 entered 1 Kaycie Tidwell, Montague 44.439 2 Mikayla Moore, Red Bluff 45.671 3 Mackenzie Moore, Red Bluff 46.238 4 Faith Ann Cassol, Greenville 46.859 5 Joey Doolittle, Redding 49.303 6 Emily Kramer, Bieber 49.687 7 Masey Minton, Witter Springs HIGH SCHOOL RODEO District1competitionresults ASTROS6,ATHLETICS5 Up next: Texas Rangers at Oak- land Athletics, 6:35p.m. Friday, TV on CSN-CA. THESCORE By John Hickey Bay Area News Group OAKLAND The good news for Oakland coming out of being swept by the Astros this week is that they won't have to face Evan Gattis again until 2017. Maybe by then he'll have given up his Babe Ruth impersonation. The Houston DH was in full Bambino mode this week, though, hitting three homers, including two Wednesday to help the As- tros complete the sweep with a 6-5 win. Some of that bombast the A's couldn't do anything about. Dan- iel Mengden threw a pitch almost in the dirt and Gattis hit it out to right for a two-run homer in the sixth. "The pitch to Gattis is a good pitch," manager Bob Melvin said. "It's almost on the ground and he golfs it out of the ballpark." On the other hand, he had the capacity to surprise the A's. In the eighth inning, Zach Neal started him off with a first-pitch fastball. "I figured he'd lay off at least one pitch," Neal said. Gattis didn't. Instead he hit one of the longest homers this year in the Coliseum. He has eight homers off Oakland this year, four more than any other player, and four more than he has against any other club. It was the Astros' final run of the day and they'd need it, be- cause the A's kept trying to come back until pinch-runner Aris- mendy Alcantara was thrown out trying to steal a base to end the game. Even then the A's pressed the issue, but an umpires' crew chief review of the play at second base didn't overturn the call and the A's were back at 20 games under .500 at 66-86. Still, the final month of 2016 is more about 2017 than anything else, and the A's are liking what they are seeing from their young starting pitchers. Melvin and catcher Bruce Maxwell were will- ing to give Mengden a pass on the Gattis homer as just being a hot hitter hitting a good pitch. The right-hander, just 23, allowed just two other runs, and in the first two games of the series, Jharel Cotton and Sean Manaea allowed one run between them. "It's awesome. It's fun to see," Mengden said. "We had a lot of fun down in Nashville together. To see the success of all the guys, especially the young guys, is awe- some. "I'm feeling more comfortable every time out there. (On Gattis) I thought I made a good pitch, and he went down and got it. Other BASEBALL Houston completes sweep of Oakland Astros DH Gattis hits 2 homers in win over A's RODEO PAGE 2 WARRIORS PAGE 2 A'S PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, September 22, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1