TAFT--Feather River's 11-1 win over Taft on Friday marked the first victory in a Golden Eagle uniform for every freshman on the FRC roster. For head coach Terry Baumgartner, it was the 500th time the Golden Eagles have won while he wore his signature No. 18 jersey.

It was a near perfect opening day for Baumgartner and the Golden Eagles. They topped the Cougars with dominant pitching, plenty of hits, and the longtime FRC coach earned win number 500 on his first try in 2025. The Golden Eagles are 1-0, and Baumgartner is now 500-189 at the start of his 18th season.

FRC had eight different players record hits and starting pitcher Tanner Hail pitched five innings without allowing a run and just one hit on a perfect 70-degree day. Hail, a 6-foot-5 freshman from Reno, walked two and struck out six to get the win in his collegiate debut.

Hail led a pitching staff that gave up just three hits on the day. Colton Siewell fanned three in two innings and Jack Hanna pitched two scoreless innings and struck out three.

Rightfielder Rocco Crow had three hits in three at-bats and scored three times. His lead off homer in the top of the fourth gave FRC a 3-0 lead, kicking off a three-run stanza that would push the visitors to a 5-0 margin. FRC scored twice in the second inning, three times in the fourth and sixth, once in the fifth and added two last runs in the top of the ninth.

In addition to Crow's multi-hit game, four Golden Eagles had two hits each--Zane Denton, Quinten Terrell, Anthony Cepeda and Kory Chu. Cepeda also had a pair of RBI, and for Chu, a freshman from Honolulu, it was his first two collegiate hits. 

Baumgartner, who had a 370-220 record in 11 seaons at Western Oregon University before coming to Quincy, now has a collegiate record of 870-409. 

Feather River and Taft will return to Cougar Field on Saturday for a doubleheader that starts at 10 a.m.