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SpecialtotheDN SUTTER TheRedBluffJr.Spar- tans Pee Wee Football team won the Division 1 Championship over the Chico Jaguars 25-8 on Saturday, Nov. 12 at Sutter High School. This is a championship title the Red Bluff Pee Wee team has not held since 2011. Coach Ja- son Sisk and his coaching staff led the boys, some of whom have beenplayingtogetherforsixyears now, to their first championship. Sisk's Father, Stewart Sisk, brought home the very same tro- phy to Red Bluff a total of nine times beginning in 1982, with seven of the championships in a row, and one with Jason Sisk as a player in 1986. The 2016 Pee Wee team has had an incredible season. They team went 10-1, with the only lost being to West Valley in week 6, and managed to out score oppo- nents 405-48. Saturday'schampionshipgame was a fierce battle with Chico, ending with a fourth quarter touchdown by Taylor Cook. Cook scored three touchdowns in the gameandDakotaCulliganscored one. As Division 1 Champions, the Jr. Spartans Pee Wee team will move on to battle Division 2 Champions, the Corning Lions, in the Superbowl at noon Sat- urday, Nov. 19 at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico. This is the first ever all-Tehama County Su- perbowl at this level. FOOTBALL JR. SPARTANS, CORNING LIONS TAKE DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS Teamstofaceoffinall-TehamaCountySuperbowlSaturdayinChico CONTRIBUTED The Red Bluff Jr. Spartans Pee Wee football team poses with its trophy. By Jerry McDonald Bay Area News Group SANTA CLARA The 49ers haven't fallen so far that a close loss is cause for celebration. Coach Chip Kelly acknowl- edged Monday there was some progress in the previous day's 23-20 road loss to the Arizona Cardinals, although the bottom line is the 49ers have now lost eight consecutive games. "You have to build off cer- tain things and correct cer- tain things, but I don't think anybody is patting themselves in the back about being close," Kelly said at his weekly news conference. "It's about winning and we didn't make enough plays. We made one less play than they did and they ended up winning the game. That's what it's all about." The Cardinals prevailed 23- 20 on the final play of the game when Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 35-yard field goal to cap a 65-yard, 12-play drive en- gineered by quarterback Carson Palmer. The 49ers, who trailed 14-0 in the second quarter, had rallied to tie the score at 20-20 with 1:55 left on a 4-yard scramble around right end by quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In the end, the 49ers didn't do nearly enough with a plus-3 ad- vantage in turnover margin and fell to 1-8. "Twenty points in a game isn't enough in this league," Kelly said. "We still need to score more than that." Reasons for encouragement included Kaepernick show- ing more signs of returning to a reasonable facsimile of the running/passing threat he was when leading the 49ers to the playoffs in 2012-13. Kaepernick was pretty much all the 49ers had in the running game with 55 yards in 10 car- ries, while running backs Carlos Hyde and DuJuan Harris com- bined for 28 yards in 18 carries. "A lot of times, if everybody is covered, one of the better op- tions is (Colin) running," Kelly said. Kaepernick's running, Kelly said, can help alleviate double coverage on receivers, which in turn can get the passing game going. Kaepernick was 17 of 30 for 210 yards with a 17-yard touch- down pass to Jeremy Kerley and no interceptions, and Kelly thought the quarterback and re- ceivers were beginning to get in synch with the passing system. "We kind of got the ball dis- tributed a little bit," Kelly said. "I think our guys are getting an understanding of how we're moving forward offensively, how things work . . . 'If they do this, then we need to be able to do that' . . . answering some of the questions that are presented to them and getting a feeling of where we are." On defense, the big plus was a run defense that was stout for the first time since shutting down the Los Angeles Rams in the first game of the season. The Cardinals had 80 yards in 23 carries and David John- son, the feature runner, had 55 yards in 19 attempts. It snapped an NFL-record streak of seven games with an opposing runner getting at least 100 yards. The difference, Kelly said, was more fundamental than sche- matic in nature. "First and foremost, I think we tackled better," Kelly said. "It was the least amount of missed tackles we had on the season . . . the interesting thing is we didn't do anything different from a front standpoint or a coverage standpoint. It was our guys go- ing out and executing what they had to do." 49ERS Kelly sees progress but not enough points Staff report MULVANE,KANSAS Roping steers is what Rocky Patterson does — and does well. In fact, no cowboy in the PRCA ropedthembetterin2016thanthe Pratt, Kansas, cowboy. Thanks to earning $56,432 at the 2016 Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping, Patterson rode away with his fourth gold buckle, according to a press release issued Saturday by the Professional Rodeo Cow- boys Association. "It's big," said Patterson, 50 "It isn't as easy for me to get out there and practice as it was 25 years ago. It probably has not sunk in yet, but this is big." Patterson has now won gold steer roping buckles in 2009-10, 2012 and 2016. For winning his latest world title, Patterson also received a Polaris RANGER. Patterson's NFSR performance vaulted him to the world cham- pionship with a single-season steer roping record of $141,350, surpassing the previous record of $121,112 by Trevor Brazile last year. Although Patterson came into his latest NFSR — the 22nd of his decorated career — with a $15,481 lead, he couldn't celebrate until the completion of Round 10. Entering Round 10, Patterson held a $21,905 lead over Cody Lee. The key was Lee was first in the average, while Patterson was third in the average after nine rounds. The average was critically im- portant for Patterson and Lee, be- cause it paid out $27,347 to the winner, $22,632 for second place and $17,917 for third. Mix in the average with the round money that paid $9,155 and $7,577 for first and second place, respec- tively, and a gold buckle was still up for grabs between Patterson and Lee. Lee roped before Patterson in Round 10 and tried to apply the pressure with a 13.5-second run. That gave Lee a 125.9-second to- tal time, which secured first place in the 10-head average. Patterson responded with an 11.1-second run to grab the cov- eted gold buckle. "I have my own statisticians I bring with me and they told me Cody had to win the round and win the average, and I had to fall off," Patterson said. "I thought it would be good to get a check in that last round and maybe that would clinch it for me. That steer was really good (Friday night), and he was trying to kick me pretty good down there, but it felt pretty good when I got that time." Patterson's Round 10 time was good for fourth in the round and a $4,420 paycheck, and Lee didn't place in the round. Lee was gracious in defeat, es- pecially since he couldn't have done much more. He won an NFSR record $69,651, breaking the previous record of $62,390 won by Brazile at the 2015 NFSR. Lee was followed by Chet Her- ren in the average. Herren had a 143.2-second time on 10 head. Patterson was third in the aver- age with a 105.2-second time on nine steers. "You can't give Rocky a lead of over $15,000 coming into the NFSR and expect to catch him," Lee said. "I knew it was a longshot and I came up a little short. Still, winning this average is a great feeling and definitely my career highlight." NationalFinalsSteer Roping Round 1: 1. JoJo LeMond, 10.2 seconds, $9,155; 2. Rocky Patter- son, 11.0 seconds, $7,577; 3. Cody Lee, 12.7 seconds, $5,998; 4. Chet Herren, 14.6, $4,420; 5. Jess Tier- ney, 17.9 seconds, $2,841; 6. Jason Evans, 21.2 seconds, $1,579 Round 2: 1. JoJo LeMond, 10.1, $9,155; 2. Marty Jones, 10.6 sec- onds, $7,577; 3. Jason Evans, 10.9, $5,998; 4. Cody Lee, 11.1, $4,420; 5. Rocky Patterson, 11.7, $2,841; 6. Scott Snedecor, 12.1, $1,579 Round 3: 1. Cody Lee, 10.2, $9,155; 2. Troy Tillard, 11.4 sec- onds, $7,577; 3. Chet Herren, 11.9 PRCA Pattersoncapturessteerropinggoldbuckle PATTERSON PAGE 2 By Noah Trister The Associated Press Corey Seager won the NL Rookie of the Year award unan- imously. Michael Fulmer took the AL honor — and that vote wasn't all that close, either. Seager and Fulmer were an- nounced as the winners Mon- day night, when votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America were made public. Sea- ger's victory was almost a fore- gone conclusion after he hit .308 with 26 home runs and 72 RBIs this year for the Los An- geles Dodgers. Fulmer, on the other hand, had to hold off a late challenge from New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, who hit 20 home runs in only 53 games. Fulmer's season-long contri- butions for Detroit won out. The right-hander went 11-7 with a 3.06 ERA in 26 starts for the Ti- gers. He ended up receiving 26 of 30 first-place votes from the BBWAA, outdistancing Sanchez by a total of 142 points to 91. Cleveland outfielder Tyler Na- quin finished third in the AL race. Seager received the maximum 150 points in the NL vote, fol- lowed by Washington outfielder Trea Turner (42) and Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda (37). Seager is the 17th Dodgers player to earn Rookie of the Year honors — easily the most of any team — but the franchise hadn't had a winner since Todd Holland- sworth in 1996. The Dodgers, of course, had the first Rookie of the Year when Jackie Robinson won in 1947. They also had four winners in a row from 1979-82 and five in a row from 1992-96. Seager, a first-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2012, was the second player in a row to win NL Rookie of the Year unanimously. Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs did it last year. Seager joins a list of Dodgers Rookie of the Year winners that includes luminaries like Robin- son, Fernando Valenzuela (1981) and Mike Piazza (1993). Fulmer is the fifth Tigers player to win the award, joining Justin Verlander (2006), Lou Whitaker (1978), Mark Fidrych (1976) and Harvey Kuenn (1953). Detroit acquired Fulmer in 2015 from the Mets in the trade BASEBALL Seager, Fulmer take ROY MARK J. TERRILL — AP FILE PHOTO Los Angeles Dodgers' Corey Seager hits an RBI single during the third inning of Game 3of the National League baseball championship series against the Chicago Cubs, in Los Angeles. Corey Seager and Michael Fulmer won Rookie of the Year awards in their respective league on Monday. AWARDS PAGE 2 PH OTO B Y C HR IS C OD UT O — G ET TY I MA GE S Arizona running back David Johnson runs past 49ers cornerback Tramaine Brock for a touchdown on Sunday. 49ERS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, November 15, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1