PREP ROUNDUP: Marysville baseball crushes Mesa Verde

Sophomore Zac Dark belted a grand slam in the first inning and finished with five RBIs as the Marysville High baseball team tallied 17 hits to roll past Mesa Verde 19-0 for a mercy-rule, Golden Empire League victory in Citrus Heights on Friday.

Chad Perry went 3 for 5 with a double and three RBIs, Chase Collmer was 2 for 3 with a double and three RBIs, and Blake Giles finished 2 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs in the win.

Austin Winona and Hayden Page both went 2 for 3 with a double, David Wright had a 2-for-3 day and Cody DePalma doubled for Marysville (7-6, 4-3).

Page also allowed three hits and struck out five over four innings to record the win.

Lindhurst 14, West Campus 9

In Sacramento — Aric Cortes went 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs, and the Blazers pounded out 18 hits en route to a GEL win over the Warriors.

Nathan Furr finished 2 for 4 with a double and three RBIs, Chris Sisco was 3 for 3 with a double and drove in a run, and Zach Kitchen went 2 for 5 with two RBIs for Lindhurst (5-4, 4-3).

Keanu Cortes struck out five and allowed two earned runs over five innings to notch the win.

Willows 10, Pierce 1

In Willows — Jake Voorhees went 2 for 3 and Dalton Sachs singled, but the Bears (4-4, 2-3) mustered only three hits in a Sacramento Valley League loss to the Honkers.

SOFTBALL

Colusa 19, Biggs 0, 5 innings

In Colusa — Junior Sophia Garcia struck out 10 while tossing a two-hit shutout and the RedHawks opened their Mid-Valley League slate with a mercy-rule victory over the Wolverines.

Taylor Davies finished 2 for 2 with four RBIs and Coral Imhoff went 2 for 4 with two RBIs to lead the offense for Colusa (13-4, 1-0).

STEPHANIE LEDOUX TOURNAMENT

Sutter 19, Granite Bay 1, 5 innings

Oakmont 4, Sutter 3

In Roseville — The Huskies split their opening games at Woodcreek High's Stephanie LeDoux Tournament in Roseville's Maidu Park.

In their win over the Grizzlies, Taylor Pack struck out four from the circle and allowed just two hits. She also doubled and scored three runs.

Catie Gravel went 2 for 3 with a run and two RBIs, while Kyleigh Hick added a 2-for-3 showing, two runs and two RBIs.

Annie Enos doubled, scored three runs and drove in a run.

In Sutter's loss to Oakmont, pitcher Sara Stephenson tossed a complete game with 10 strikeouts.

Hick went 3 for 4 with a double. Jayden Garcia finished 3 for 3 with a run and an RBI and Madison Levine was 2 for 3 with an RBI.

Del Oro 3, Marysville 2, 8 innings

Pleasant Valley 9, Marysville 3

The Indians dropped both of their games in the opening day of tourney play.

Marysville led 2-0 for the majority of the game against Del Oro and was clinging to a 2-1 lead in the seventh before two errors cost the Indians the lead.

The Golden Eagles scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth.

Tressa Arostegui went 2 for 4 and also struck out five with just four hits allowed from the circle for the Indians.

Cassidy Clavelle went 2 for 3 and both Ashley Adamson and Taylor Ferrari knocked in a run.

Arostegui went 2 for 4 with a double in Marysville's (7-3) loss to PV.

SWIMMING

River Valley earns split with Woodland

In Yuba City — The Falcons' girls team earned an 89-77 win and the boys team fell 75-68 during a Tri-County Conference meet with Woodland at Gauche Acquatic Park.

On the girls side, Claudia Guillory won the 200-yard freestyle (2 minutes, 3.95 seconds) and 100 backstroke (1:05.68). Her 200 freestyle swim was another qualifying time for the Sac-Joaquin Section Meet in Lodi on May 9-11.

Erica Bellenfant touched first both in the 200 individual medley (2:27.98) and 500 freestyle (5:38.39). Bellenfant's 500 freestyle is a section qualifying time.  

Allison Sawyer took first in the 100 breaststroke (1:26.48) and was second in the 200 individual medley (2:45.38).  

The team of Guillory, Bellenfant, Sawyer and Jessica Ruiz placed first in the 200 medley relay with a time of 2:08.53, and the 200 freestyle relay team of Guillory, Ruiz, Emily Uttecht and Cynthia Rice took first in 1:57.02 to set a school record and qualify for sections.

Ruiz qualified for sections by taking first in the 100 freestyle (1:00.37) and was second in the 200 freestyle (2:18.21).  

Rice placed second in the 50 freestyle (29.29) and the team of Sawyer, Uttecht, Rice and Bellenfant placed second in the 400 freestyle relay (4:43.58).

On the boys side, the 200 freestyle relay team of Scott Reusser, Nicholas Mutunga, Nick Garcia and Raman Dhillon placed first in a time of 2:05.94.

Reusser also took second in the 200 freestyle (2:22.74) and 100 butterfly (1:21.59), while Andrew Hay was second in the 200 individual medley (2:45.73) and 100 backstroke (1:19.00).

Garcia was second in the 50 freestyle (30.28) and 100 freestyle (1:09.90), and Keith Nicholson was second in the 500 freestyle (7:24.74) and 100 breaststroke (1:29.69).

Hay, Nicholson, Brody Paulo and Michael Kennedy were second in the 200 medley relay (2:14.67) and the 400 freestyle relay team of Hay, Garcia, Kennedy and Reusser placed second with a time of 4:42.75.

JV BASEBALL

Marysville 22, Mesa Verde 1, 5 innings

In Citrus Heights — Timmy Timms went 4 for 5 with four RBIs and Parker Sanchez finished 3 for 4 with two runs driven in to help the Indians remain undefeated in GEL play.

Riley Terpelle was 2 for 3 and Kyle Marshall allowed one hit and struck out four over 3 1⁄3 innings to notch the win. James Anderson recorded five strikeouts to record the save for Marysville (9-5, 6-0).