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SpecialtotheDN YUBACITY The Red Bluff Bass Anglers held a bass tournament Sunday at Bul- lards Bar Reservoir. It was a tough bite for ev- eryone except Frank John- ston, whose winning five fish limit included 9.94, 9.53 and 8.51 lb. spotted bass for a total weight of 33.13 lbs. Johnston used a spinnerbait to catch the winning fish. Ken Davis finished a distant second with 8 lbs. and Kevin McLachlan took third with 7.22 lbs. The Red Bluff Bass An- glers will be starting a new tournament season on April 30 at Clear Lake. This is a good opportunity to learn how to fish different Northern California lakes and use different fishing techniques. If you are interested in becoming a member, visit Paul at Red Bluff Sporting Goods or call Jesse at 527- 4472. BASS ANGLERS JohnstonwinsbigatBullardsBarReservoir By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter RED BLUFF In her fourth year of softball at Red Bluff High School McKenzie Colgate hit her first walk off home run Tuesday leading off in the seventh inning against Shasta. The Spartans fell behind the visiting Shasta Wolves 4-1 Tues- day before rallying in the sixth to tie it at 4 going into the sev- enth. Colgate led off the bottom of the seventh, after the Spartans held Shasta scoreless, and hit the second pitch she saw over the left field fence for the win. "Even as she was rounding the bases she was in shock," said coach Aubrie Thomas. "She's so deserving of a walk-off moment." The win takes the Spartans to 11-6 on the year and gets them off to a 1-0 start to league play. They travel to Chico Friday for the Pan- ther Challenge tournament. The Wolves struck first with a run in the first and another in the third with an Erica Parent RBI double. Elizabeth Baccala got the Spar- tans on the board with a solo shot off the left field foul pole in the bottom of the third. The next two times she would come to the plate the bases were full of Spartans. The Spartans rallied in the fourth to load the bases but Bac- cala popped out to left to end the inning. The Wolves tacked on 2 more runs with a Nikole Baker sacrifice in the fifth and an RBI blooper to right off the bat of Savannah Feagin. The Spartans' rally came in the sixth when Alexis Zamora led off with a hit to left, Kylee Kitch- ell got on with a liner to left and Emily Tatro drove the ball deep between left and center to load the bases for Baccala, who drove in Kitchell on a fielder's choice. Aubrey Zamora drove in 2 with a bases-loaded shot to right field SOFTBALL COLGATE HITS WALK- OFF TO BEAT SHASTA PHOTOSBYCHIPTHOMPSON—DAILYNEWS Red Bluff's McKenzie Colgate gets a high five from a coach as she rounds third a er hitting a walk-off home run to beat Shasta Tuesday. Red Bluff's Allyson Drury tosses to Kylee Kitchell Tuesday to get a Shasta runner out at first. By Jack Thompson BANG Correspondent TEMPE, ARIZ. Tuesday's result notwithstanding, Bob Melvin re- ally likes what he's seen in spring training — and not just the A's winning record. "It takes all of us to succeed and they've been very supportive of each other," Melvin said Tues- day before the A's played the An- gels at Tempe Diablo Stadium. "It's been one of the better camps that I've been a part of." Despite camp being a week longer than usual because of the World Baseball Classic, Mel- vin said, "I've really been happy with the way spring's gone. The effort level, the team coming to- gether, the dynamic in the club- house, pulling for each other. The guys understand the way we do things here." Tuesday didn't go nearly as well on the scoreboard for the A's, who lost 14-3 to the Angels. But they did get a glimpse of the future in 2016 second-round pick Logan Shore, who turned in strong work in his first spring training start, holding a lineup of mostly Angels regulars to one run and two hits in four innings. Now 16-14 in the Cactus League, the A's have one game left in Arizona on Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs before return- ing home for the Bay Bridge Se- ries that begins Thursday night at AT&T Park. OutfielderJaffDecker,stillcom- peting for a roster spot, played in his second straight game after re- turning from an oblique injury. He led off with a double off the wall in right-center against Bud Norris, who was one of eight An- gels pitchers to no-hit the Seattle Mariners last Friday. His second time up, he saw nine pitches from Kam Bedro- sian and eventually drew a walk. He lined to second against Mike Morin in the fifth. GRAY UPDATE Sonny Gray is anxious to return from his back injury that will sideline him through April. He's still not close, Melvin said. "He feels great, we're not there yet but he is at max effort, he's asking for more," Melvin said. "For obvious reasons we're going to be conservative." Khris Davis and Trevor Plouffe, both out for a few days with quad strains, are expected to be ready for the Bay Bridge Series. "We'll just bubble-wrap them right now and send them up there," Melvin said. Davis said Tuesday, "I'll be on time," and Plouffe also said he'd be ready for the Bay Bridge games. SHORE AND THE NEXT WAVE Lo- gan Shore got the start for the A's against the Angels. Shore, 22, a second-round pick last June out of Florida, pitched in short-sea- son Class A ball at Vermont Lakes last season and has been work- ing with the Stockton group thus A'S SPRING TRAINING Melvin happy with effort at camp ProspectShoreplays well; Gray still waiting MICHAEL WYKE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Warriors' Stephen Curry dishes the ball between Houston's Clint Capela, Trevor Ariza (1) and James Harden (13) in the first half on Tuesday. By Anthony Slater Bay Area News Group HOUSTON To many, the Rockets are a threat to the Warriors in the playoffs for a simple reason: they take and make a historic amount of 3s. But against Golden State this season, they've taken a ton, but made very few. On Tuesday night in Houston — in a physical foul-fest where the Rockets did plenty else right — their 3-point inaccuracy was the separator in a huge Warriors win, 113-106, sending them into San Antonio on Wednesday night with a 2.5-game cushion on the Spurs. The Warriors bolted out to a 22-point lead in the first 15 min- utes. Klay Thompson was ultra- hot (20 points in his first 11 min- utes) and Golden State's defense swarmed the perimeter with a physical, mostly hands-off ap- proach. The Rockets went 2-of- 13 from three in the first quarter, while the Warriors only fouled four times, leading to only two Houston free throws. But the Warriors got sloppy on offense and handsy on defense in the second quarter, flipping the game. Golden State turned the ball over 17 times, leading to 20 Rockets points, and they fouled Houston 29 times, leading to 39 free throws, which kept the Rock- ets in it. There was a huge swing play at the end of the first half. Steph Curry seemed to have a clean steal and breakaway to put the Warriors up 12. But as he scram- bled to scoop up the loose ball, he lightly shoved Patrick Bever- ley, who sold the call and got the whistle. It gave Houston two free throws to cut the lead to eight at halftime (60-52) and was Curry's third foul, leading to second half foul trouble. Curry finished the night with five fouls, needing to sub out at important times, while Matt NBA Warriorsstopshootersinwin Extend winning streak to eight games as Houston struggles from 3-point line CONTRIBUTED Frank Johnston holds 9.53lbs. and 9.94lbs. spotted bass from Bullard's Bar Reservoir. 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