Nationals hold off Astros’ late rally, take Game 1

Houston leaves 11 men on base in opening loss

Gerrit Cole trudged toward the first-base dugout. His head hung. Slowly, his feet shuffled across the dirt. The sport’s most dominant pitcher descended the steps, met the manager and shook his hand after seven innings.

Cole traversed through a crowd of teammates and found a spot on the bench. For the first time in forever, the co-ace asked his team to compensate for an average outing. Houston trailed by three runs. Cole appeared fallible, an adjective no sane person could slap on Cole throughout this season.

Game after game, Cole authored an awe-inspiring display of dominance dwarfing any this sport has ever seen from a starting pitcher. He had not lost a game he pitched since May 22. His last 16 regular-season starts had a 1.64 ERA. He struck out a

In doubles, Manroop Thindal and Mehmeet Kullar won 6-4, 6-0.

River Valley finishes the season with a 9-7 record overall.

Volleyball Colusa 3, Willows 2 In one of the most entertaining volleyball matches of the year to this point, the Redhawks avenged a loss from earlier in the season to outlast the Honkers 25-20, 33-31,17-25, 20-25,15-13 and force a three-way tie in the Sacramento Valley League.

Hannah Taylor in one of her best games yet hammered 13 kills including the game winner to lead the Redhawks at the net while Carly Lay added 11 kills in the five set thriller.

Annie Lay turned in another stellar performance directing the offense handing out 22 assists while on defense Cynthia Velazquez made a team high 17 digs.

Also contributing in the back row was Reese Roper and Amber Morales who finished with 16 and 14 digs respectively.

Colusa (25-14, 5-2) next plays on Thursday in Winters. East Nicolaus 3, Williams 0 The Spartand made quick work of Williams on Tuesday defeating the Yellowjackets in three sets: 255, 25-3 and 25-11.

Leading the Spartans was Savy Price with seven kills and one block. Dishing out all the help was Shaye Wininger who finished with 19 assists.

East Nicolaus (13-7, 7-1) will play at Hamilton on Thursday.

COLLEGE Women’s Soccer Los Medanos 4, Yuba 0 The Yuba College women’s soccer team suffered a tough loss on Tuesday as it fell by a four goal margin on the road.

The 49ers (4-3-1) will hope to bounce back when they host Napa on Friday.

The Houston Chronicle/tns Washington Nationals right fielder Adam Eaton misses an RBI double by Houston Astros center fielder George Springer that drove in Houston Astros right fielder Kyle Tucker during the eighth inning of Game 1 of the World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston on Tuesday.