Golden Eagles Win Two Very Different Games

EUREKA--Feather River won a squeaker then broke out all the bats during a baseball sweep of the College of the Redwoods on Friday afternoon in Eureka.

The Golden Eagles remained in first place in the Golden Valley Conference with the 5-4 and 16-4 victories. FRC improved to 24-8 overall and to 14-4 in the GVC. Redwood is now 5-19 on the year and 2-13 in conference play.

Feather River pieced together five runs on eight hits in the first game, and got excellent pitching over the last four innings for the one-run win. In the second game, the Golden Eagles pounded out 18 hits in the seven inning contest, scoring in all but one of the innings. 

In the opener, Dylan Marx had three hits and Toby Parry had two as the Golden Eagles used eight singles to chase across the five runs. Parry had an RBI single to get the visitors on the board in the second inning, Shane Danley drove home a run in the third, and FRC then used some Cosair miscues to score again in the fourth and sixth. 

Redwoods made it very interesting in the fifth, scoring four times and chasing FRC starter Tanner Hail, who had been effective to that point. That tied the game at 4-4, before the Golden Eagles took the lead back in the sixth on one hit, two wallks, a wild pitch and a passed ball.

FRC pitching took over from there. Jayden Andrade pitched 2.1 innings and gave up just one hit (no runs), fanning four. Will Page-Allen closed out the game with a two inning save, allowing no hits and he struck out four. Hail, Andrade and Page-Allen combined to fan 12 Corsairs.

In the nightcap, Feather River got hits from nine different players in the scorebook, paced by Danley's 4-for-4 game. Zane Denton was 3-for-3, Anthony Cepeda 3-for-4, while Marx had two more hits. 

Christian Obos had a two-run double in the first inning to get the Golden Eagles on the board and added a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Cy Peterson added an RBI single in the seventh. 

Danley scored four times and drove in three runs.

Jack Hanna got the win in relief with 3.2 inning of work and six strkeouts. 

Feather River will return home next Friday and Saturday (April 11-12) for a four-game slate with College of the Siskiyous.