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ByAndrewSeligman TheAssociatedPress CHICAGO JimmyButlerscored 22 points and the Chicago Bulls beat Golden State 94-87 on Thursday night in the Warriors' first game since Kevin Durant injured his left leg. Golden State was breathing a little easier after learning Du- rant probably will play again this season. He was hurt two nights earlier in a loss at Wash- ington. The NBA-leading Warriors' league-record regular-season streak without consecutive losses ended at 146 games. Stephen Curry scored 23 points, and Klay Thompson fin- ished with 13. The star guards combined to hit just 3 of 22 3-pointers, and the Warriors made it back-to-back losses for the first time since April 2015. Bobby Portis added 17 points and a season-high 13 rebounds for Chicago. The Bulls outscored Golden State 10-2 over the fi- nal three minutes to wipe out a one-point deficit and come away with their fifth win in six games. Butler made all 10 free throws and had five rebounds and six assists. And Portis had his best game of the season. Durant is scheduled to be ex- amined again in about a month. If the eight-time All-Star is ready to return at that time, there would be about two weeks left in the regular season. Of course, the Warriors have NBA Bulls beat Warriors, 1st game without Durant BULLS94,WARRIORS87 Up next:GoldenStateWarriors at New York Knicks, 12:30p.m. Sunday, TV on ABC. THESCORE By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter CORNING There's a reason the Corning Cardinals were 27-0 go- ing into Wednesday night's semi- final game against the West Val- ley Eagles — they come through in the clutch. After a come-from-behind overtime win in Paradise to clinch a perfect 26-0 regular sea- son, coach Kurt Wilkins said the Cards needed three more wins to validate the season. They got the first Friday over the Sutter Hus- kies, 64-50 and the second came Wednesday over the Eagles, 43-37. They will play for the champion- ship Friday against Pierce. "One more step Friday night," said Wilkins. "Thank God we got there." The Cardinals led early thanks to a pair of 3-pointers from Noah Zoppi to start the game, but fin- ished the first period of a defen- sive battle down 13-10 to a fired- up Eagles squad. Eagles fans filled a good portion of the Corn- ing gym and made plenty of noise. After the Cardinals went ahead early in the second quarter, the Eagles rallied and held the lead, going into the half up 24-21. BASKETBALL CARDS COME BACK, BEAT WEST VALLEY CorningtofacePierceBearsinchampionshipFridayatButteCollegegym PHOTOS BY CHIP THOMPSON — DAILY NEWS Corning's Brendan Hoag goes up for a shot Wednesday night against West Valley. Corning's Corey Busta puts up a shot Wednesday night against West Valley. CORNING 43, WEST VALLEY 37 Up next: Corning vs. Pierce, 4:15 p.m. Friday, at Butte College. THESCORE DN FILE PHOTO Red Bluff's Connor Sousa is ranked No. 1in the North 1 Division heading into the California-Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard Federation State Championships starting Monday at Northstar. Special to the DN MOUNTSHASTA Nearly 300 athletes from 26 schools from across Cali- fornia and Nevada will descend on Northstar at Tahoe ski resort Sun- day to kick off the California-Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard Federation State Championships. From Red Bluff High School, Con- nor Sousa will compete in the ski gi- ant slalom as the No. 1 racer from the North 1 Division. Devon Treat, No. 4, and Ryan Mueller, No. 12, will join Sousa. Mariah Damante is ranked No. 8 and Trinity Tumidanski is the No. 10 for girls ski giant slalom. Ellie Miller is the No. 5 seed for girls snowboard giant slalom and Les Shank and Terrin Garcia are No. 20 and No. 21, respectively, for boys snowboard giant slalom. For ski slalom events, Sousa is No. 1, Treat No. 3 and Mueller No. 8 among the boys; Damante is No. 8 and Tumidanski No. 10 for the girls. Miller is No. 6 for snowboard sla- lom and Garcia and Shank are No. 19 and No. 20, respectively. The competition will begin Mon- day with snowboard giant slalom events, followed by snowboard sla- lom on Tuesday. The ski events begin on Wednesday with giant slalom, fol- lowed by slalom on Thursday. Awards ceremonies for snow- board will occur Tuesday night and on Thursday night for the ski events and combined awards. Participants are selected based on their point scoring during the regu- lar season, and compete both as in- dividuals and as school teams for top honors in slalom, giant slalom and combined giant slalom/slalom scor- ing. Each school can take a minimum of three racers to compete, and can qualify additional racers based on their total points scored during the regular season competitions. Selections are approved by the CNISSF board, and the official lists were released Wednesday night by Gregg Gunkel, division coordinator for North 1 Division, which includes ALPINE Spartansheadedtostatemeet CNISSF championships kick off week Monday at Northstar at Tahoe RED BLUFF 7, WEST VALLEY 2 Up next: Orland at Red Bluff, 3:30 p.m. Friday. THESCORE Staff Report COTTONWOOD The Red Bluff High School boys tennis team started its season with a 7-2 win Wednesday over the West Valley Eagles in Cottonwood. Red Bluff got singles wins from Adam Swarthout, Dillon Garcia, Riley Gleason and Jake Penner. The Spartans swept doubles with wins at No. 1, Swarthout and Kai Cardillo, No. 2, Garcia and David Martinez, and No. 3 by Kaden Barriga and Michael Sartori. The Spartans are scheduled to host the Orland Trojans at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Red Bluff will host the Pleasant Valley Vikings on Tuesday and the Shasta Wolves on Thursday. All matches start at 3:30 p.m. TENNIS Spartans boys start season with win By Cam Inman Bay Area News Group INDIANAPOLIS Whatever team Colin Kaepernick plays for next season, a new look is expected from him on the sideline. Kaepernick will stand for the national anthem rather than kneel as he controversially did last season to spark equal-rights awareness, ESPN reported Thurs- day. Poised to opt out of his San Francisco 49ers contract and en- ter free agency next week, Kaepe- rnick reportedly feels his protest has created positive change and he no longer wants his message to get overshadowed by his kneel- ing, which he did alongside team- mates Eric Reid and Eli Harold. Whether this makes Kaeper- nick more attractive to potential suitors will be learned next week, and while no obvious destination is known, the 49ers aren't ruling out a return. Kaepernick's protest was not broached during a discussion last week with new 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch. "I didn't think that was impor- tant to the meeting we were hav- ing," Lynch said Thursday at the NFL scouting combine. "We were having a meeting about just get- ting to know each other." So why didn't that serve as an exit interview to essentially close his six-year tenure? "In the general sense, there are things Kyle likes about his game," Lynch said. "It'd be foolish to say, 'We're done with this.'" 49ERS Kap to stand for anthem next season ALPINE PAGE 2 BASKETBALL PAGE 2 WARRIORS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, March 3, 2017 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1