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CHARLIERIEDEL—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Chicago Cubs' Addison Russell hits a grand slam against the Cleveland Indians during the third inning of Game 6of the World Series. ByTomWithers TheAssociatedPress CLEVELAND After 108 years, what's one more day? The Chicago Cubs are far from finished. They're frothing. Addison Russell hit a grand slam and tied a World Series re- cord with six RBIs, and Chicago took advantage of a huge early misplay in Cleveland's outfield as the Cubs throttled the Indians 9-3 on Tuesday night in Game 6 to push this tense tug-of-war be- tween baseball's two longest title drought holders to the limit. Game 7, it is. The biggest, most nerve-wracking day yet. For one city, hysteria. For the other, heartbreak. Kris Bryant homered to spark a three-run first inning, Russell hit the first slam in the Series in 11 years and Jake Arrieta worked into the sixth as the Cubs, who came to Progressive Field one win from elimination, are now one victory from their first champi- onship since 1908. Indians ace Corey Kluber, dom- inant while winning Games 1 and 4, starts again on short rest Wednesday night at home against big league ERA leader Kyle Hen- dricks. The NL champions, who also got a two-run homer from An- thony Rizzo, are trying to be- come the seventh team to rally from 3-1 deficit and first to do in on the road since Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates came back against Baltimore in 1979. Cubs manager Joe Maddon didn't take any chances despite a WORLD SERIES CubsroutIndians,forceGame7 WORLDSERIES,GAME6 CUBS 9, INDIANS 3 Series: Tied 3-3 Up Next: Game 7, Cubs at Indians When: Wednesday, 5p.m. TV/Radio: FOX/1050AM THESCORE By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter RED BLUFF The Red Bluff Lady Spartans volleyball team got off to a quick start to the post season Tuesday night with a four-set win over the Las Plumas Thun- derbirds on their home court. The Spartans had all the momentum early, going up 13-6 before taking the first set 25-17 thanks to a long service stretch from Ky- lee Kitchell and a kill from Emily Tatro for the set point. It was more of the same in the second set, after a ser- vice stretch by Tatro put the Spartans up 14-5. The Spar- tans were up 20-14 before Ashely Tignore strung to- gether five straight serves to close out the win, 25-14. The Thunderbirds turned the tide in the third set, starting off 3-0 with their first lead of the night. They would hold that lead through the set, going up 14-6. A pair of aces from Sarah Reine- man started to reverse the momentum but the Thun- derbirds bounced back to go up 18-10. The Spartans would close the gap to 19-15 and later 22- 19, but the Thunderbirds had too big a lead and took the third set 25-22. The Thunderbirds held onto their momentum in the fourth set, getting out to a 7-5 lead, but the Spartans kicked off a comeback with a kill from Carissa Twitch- ell. With the serve, Twitch- ell was backed up by a kill from Reineman and a terrific block from Aurora Carnes to go with an ace and the Spar- tans were up 15-9. The Thunderbirds weren't about to roll over, though, and fought back to trail by 3 at 19-16. But a net serve was answered with an ace from Tatro and kills from Twitch- ell and Kennedy Somavia. Twitchell would serve to close out the set and match with an ace. The win means the No. 4 seed Spartans will advance to face the No. 1 seed Shasta Wolves in Redding at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The winner of that match will face the winner of No. 3 Paradise at No. 2 Foot- hill, who play Wednesday, on Nov. 12. The No. 4 seed Corn- ing Cardinals are sched- uled to host the No. 5 seed Sutter Huskies at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The No. 3 seed Los Moli- nos Bulldogs are scheduled to host the No. 6 seed Mt. Shasta Bears at 7 p.m. Tues- day. VOLLEYBALL LADY SPARTANS OPEN PLAYOFFS WITH WIN By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press Texas A&M was ranked fourth behind Alabama, Clem- son and Michigan in the sea- son's first College Football Play- off rankings. The Aggies (7-1) surprisingly were a spot ahead of unbeaten Washington on Tuesday in the first of six selection committee rankings. The Crimson Tide (8- 0), Tigers (8-0), Wolverines (8-0) and Huskies (8-0) are the only remaining undefeated teams from Power Five conferences and hold the top four spots in the latest Associated Press poll . The 12-person committee, however, gave a nod to Texas A&M's strength of schedule. Ohio State was sixth and Lou- isville was seventh. In the first two seasons of the College Football Playoff, only one team each season made the committee's initial top four and the final four. The final rankings will be re- leased Dec. 4, with the top four teams moving on to the College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 31 at the Fiesta and Peach bowls. A look at what matters in the rankings and what they mean moving forward: DON'T PANIC HUSKIES Se- lection committee chairman Kirby Hocutt, Texas Tech's ath- letic director who is now in the role that Arkansas AD Jeff Long held the firsts two seasons of the CFP, made it very clear that Texas A&M's four victories against teams with winning re- cords (Auburn, Arkansas, Ten- nessee and South Carolina — though it should be noted the Gamecocks are 4-4) provided COLLEGE FOOTBALL CFP Rankings: Texas A&M 4th behind 'Bama, Clemson, Michigan By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press MIAMI DeMarcus Cousins went into the fourth quarter with no personal fouls. By the end of reg- ulation, he had fouled out. And with that, Miami's home dominance over Sacramento con- tinues. Goran Dragic scored 25 points, Tyler Johnson had seven of his 22 in overtime and the Heat beat the Kings 108-96 on Tuesday night — Miami's 15th consecutive home win over Sacramento, the longest such current streak in the NBA. "Remarkable, isn't it?" Sacra- mento coach Dave Joerger said of Cousins' six-foul final quarter, one that included three offensive fouls — the last of those waving off what would have been a go- ahead basket with 30.6 seconds left. With Cousins reduced to spec- tating, the Heat outscored the Kings 17-5 in overtime. "I think it was good for us to go through another emotional game," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, whose team stopped a two-game slide. "In the sec- ond half emotions were running high. A lot of frustration, a lot of elation, a lot of everything in be- tween." Rudy Gay scored 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Sacra- mento. Cousins also scored 30 for the Kings. Hassan Whiteside got his fourth double-double to start the season, 14 points and 11 re- bounds for the Heat — and drew the last foul against Cousins. Dragic added eight rebounds and eight assists, and Dion Waiters scored 20 points for Miami. Whiteside and Cousins were very careful with their words af- ter the game when asked about fouls. "Good, hard, competitive game," Cousins said. Said Whiteside, who was in foul trouble throughout the sec- ond half: "I don't want to speak on that, because the NBA is go- ing to take my money." The Heat wasted an 80-71 lead in the final six minutes of regu- lation. NBA Cousins' exit foils Kings in overtime RedBluffnotchesafour-setvictory over Las Plumas; Shasta is up next PHOTOS BY CHIP THOMPSON — DAILY NEWS Red Bluff's McKenzie Colgate lays out for a dig Tuesday night against Las Plumas. Las Plumas' Madison Hatley takes a shot Tuesday night against Red Bluff's Aurora Carnes. DAVID J. PHILLIP — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Texas A&M quarterback Trevor Knight celebrates with teammates a er rushing for a touchdown. 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