Yuba closes day one with upset win over Cypress

SARATOGA, Calif –  Yuba's bats got the Niners up early and kept them ahead for the majority of their 8-6 victory over Cypress.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Yuba came out swinging, ripping three singles in the first five hitters of the game. Danni Farris brought home the Niners' first run with a successful squeeze attempt. A pitch later, Aaliyah Tinoco singled to pad the early Yuba lead.

Cypress answered in the bottom of the second with three runs, all unearned after a pair of Yuba errors. 

Janea Brannen flew out to center. The runners at first and second decided not to tag, but the center fielder's throw went over the third baseman's head and into the Cypress dugout. The Chargers scored on the play and sent the trailing runner to third. A single and double later in the inning gave the Chargers a 3-2 lead.

Yuba's bats kept sizzling through the middle innings. A pair of homers, one inside the park by Danni Farris and another out of it off the bat of Rylee Gillespie, accounted for a four-run Niner third inning. They added another homer in the fifth, a Sophia Chavez blast to left. All told, Yuba picked up six runs from the third to fifth and at least one in each frame.

The Niner lead was cut to two with the Chargers threatening in a bases loaded, no-out situation. Yuba turned a double play on a fly out to right when the runner on third left early and was foiled retreating to the bag. That momentum swing helped Yuba end the inning with the score at 8-6.

Farris closed it out in the circle with a clean seventh, clinching the victory for the Niners.

Yuba closes out the day with an upset as the N3 takes down S2 Cypress. Danni Farris with a homer and the win in the circle! Final 8-6 pic.twitter.com/h8Kt6kqzMo

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UP NEXT

Yuba moves on to the winner's bracket and will face West Valley at 2 p.m.

Cypress falls into the loser's bracket and will face El Camino in a win-or-go-home game at 2 p.m. at San Jose City College. The Chargers faced similar territory a year ago, but strung off four-straight wins to force a winner-take-all game 15.