QUINCY--It was a festive Friday with scoring galore as Feather River swept a pair of home games against College of the Redwoods at the Eagles Nest.
The Golden Eagles won 17-4 and 16-1 conquests, moving them to 13-6 overall and to 3-2 in the Golden Valley Conference. The Corsairs are now 4-10 on the season and 1-4 in the GVC.
Feather River scored 33 runs on the day and lashed out 30 hits. 27 of those runs came during a span of four innings.
In the opener, FRC overcame a 2-0 deficit with an eight-run fourth and a six-run sixth. They sent 12 batters to the plate in the fourth and used just about every means possible to score--a hit batter, balk, stolen bases, walks and seven hits. Zane Denton had two run scoring hits in the inning with an RBI-single and later an RBI-double.
The very next inning the Golden Eagles paraded 10 batters to the plate. They began the fifth with four consecutive hits and eventually would score six runs. The big blow was Rocco Crow's three-run double.
Denton had three hits in the contest and had four RBI. Two hits each belonged to Grant McGuire, Shane Danley and Kolt Kurzman. Dylan Marx, Anthony Cepeda and Kurzman had a pair of RBI each. Three pitchers toed the rubber in the seven inning game, with Michael Hoefgen doing the bulk of the work with 3.2 innings pitched, three hits, one run, four walks and three strikeouts.
In the second game, the Corsairs struck first again with a run in the top of the first, but FRC tied it in the third. Then once again, the Golden Eagles bombarded Redwoods in the fourth and fifth innings.
FRC scored seven times in the fourth, batting around in the order. Marx hit a two-run double and Cepeda stole home to highlight the inning. In the fifth, six runners crossed home plate with Christian Obos' two-run single the big blow.
Feather River had 16 hits in this 9-inning contest. Cepeda was 3-for-3, while Obos and Nick Anderson had two hits apiece. Marx drove in three runs, giving him five RBI on the day.
Jack Hanna was excellent on the hill, pitching 5.2 innings without giving up an earned run. He scattered four hits, didn't walk a batter and struck out six.
The two squads will continue the three-game series tomorrow in Quincy, with the start time for the single game set for noon.
