During an already very eventful season, when Feather River baseball fans thought they had seen everything, the Golden Eagles opened up a new level of marvel.
The Dirty Birds, who saw their 18-game streak halted on Tuesday, started a new one today with a 20-3 win over rival Butte College. Not only that, the home team equaled a season-high 20 runs on a 2026-best 26 hits to improve to 23-7 overall and to 15-0 in the Golden Valley Conference.
The Golden Eagles and Roadrunners will take tomorrow (Friday) off before resuming the series with a Saturday doubleheader that starts at noon.
FRC scored a mind-boggling 12 runs in the fourth inning, one frame after scoring four times to take a 6-0 lead. The Golden Eagles sent 16 batters to the plate, crossed the dish 12 times on 12 hits with four different players rapping multiple hits in the inning. Kory Chu had two doubles in the fourth, Luke Henderson and Noah Carrington both contributed a single and a double and Jake Dahl had two singles.
That gave FRC a 18-0 lead, and they would add two more before the long day was over.
Chu and Dahl both went 4-for-4 and Chu had three doubles. Henderson had three hits and five RBI, and joining him with a trio of hits each was Carrington, Bryce Sargent and Walker DesRosier.
Carter Reilly had two hits, both doubles. Tomoharu Hidaka had two hits and two RBI.
As a team, the Golden Eagles had nine doubles in the contest.
On the mound, Marcus Maeder improved to 5-0 with five innings of work, allowing three hits and two runs. He gave up one walk and struck out four. Steven Cherry got the save with four innings on the hill, three hits, one run a walk and five K’s.
