BEAVERS CAN’T HOLD LATE LEAD, FALL TO FEATHER RIVER

American River College finally got a quality start on the mound but it wasn’t enough as some defensive miscues turned a 3-2 lead in the 6^th inning to a 10-3 defeat on Friday.  Quintanilla (Summit Shasta) easily had the best start of the season for the team, going 6 innings allowing just 2 runs to the Golden Eagles.  With the Beavers down a run in the first, sophomore RF Josiah Taylor (Alpha Charter) tripled to lead off the bottom of the first and sophomore 3B Blake Yuyama (Kennedy) hit a sac fly to dead center that almost cleared the fence.  The Beavers tacked on a pair of runs in the 4^th after sophomore C Kristoff Swanson (Del Oro) led off with a double and freshman CF Wyatt Winalski (San Juan) reached on an error.  Swanson would score on a fielders choice by freshman LF Trevor Crockett (Del Campo) and Winalski on a double steal. 

Feather River tied the game in the 7^th, then scored 4 runs on just two hits in the 8^th, as A.R.C. committed three errors in the inning.  Feather River tacked on another three runs in the 9^th to put the game out of reach.