FRC Holds Serve with Siskiyous Sweep
QUINCY--Shane Danley had five hits and drove in four runs while Jared Stevenson clubbed two homers to power Feather River to a doubleheader sweep of College of the Siskiyous on Monday afternoon at the Eagles Nest.
The Golden Eagles bashed 30 hits on the day on their way to 10-0 and 8-4 victories. That moved their record to 25-7 on the season and to 14-4 in the Golden Valley Conference. They now sit a half-game behind Butte College (15-4) in the GVC standings and they are a half-game ahead of Lassen (13-4).
Siskiyous drops to 12-18 overall and to 5-13 in conference play.
FRC completed a Friday-Monday four-game sweep of the Eagles with the twinbill win.
In the 8-4 victory, Feather River exploded for five runs in the fourth inning in what ended up being the difference maker. They scored all five of those runs with two outs on five consecutive hits. After an error kept the inning alive. the hit parade began highlighted by Anthony Cepeda's RBI-triple and Stevenson's two-run homer.
That erased a 2-0 Eagles lead. After Siskiyous scored twice in the seventh to close the gap to 5-4, the Golden Eagles answered in the bottom half of the inning with two runs of their own, thanks to Danley's two-run single.
Will Page-Allen closed out the game on the mound with a 2.1 inning save. He gave up just two hits, walked one and fanned three. Danley had three hits in the game, as did Zane Denton.
In the 10-0 mercy rule contest (seven innings), FRC jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first two innings and then rode the pitching of Gage Hoyle, who came into the contest in the second stanza. Hoyle went six excellent innings and gave up only four hits, one walk and he struck out nine. He fanned two of the final three batters he faced.
The Golden Eagles laced 16 hits in the shortened game, three by Cepeda. Danley had a two-run double in the first inning to jump start the offense and Stevenson added a home run in the fifth. Dylan Marx's RBI-double in the seventh ended the contest with FRC's tenth run. Andrew Lehmann had two hits and scored three times, while Reed Alexander and Grant McGuire each had a pair of base knocks.
Feather River stays home this weekend for a Thursday-Friday single games with Shasta College, followed by a Monday revisit with Siskiyous.