Roundup: Yuba tennis loses match

The Yuba College men's tennis team nearly stole one from powerful Sacramento City College.

Trailing 3-2 when the rains came on Feb. 19, the 49ers and the Panthers finished Wednesday with some closely contested matches that left Yuba (3-8, 1-7) on the low side of a 5-4 Bay Valley Conference loss.

49ers coach Josh Prager shook up his doubles combinations in hopes of sweeping the three matches. The strategy nearly worked as Daniel Henke and Eduardo Rocha won their match, as did Shawn Aldrich and John Norberg.

Sacramento City, however, held on to win the third doubles match and secure the victory.

In singles, Henke and Aldrich had already won. Rocha was up 4-3 in the third set when the rains came. He dropped the match, 1-6, 6-4, 4-6. Steven Lay was down 0-6, 2-5 when his match was stopped. He rallied to force a tiebreaker in the second set, but also took the loss.

HIGH SCHOOL

Wrestling

Three Huskies advance

Sutter High's Ben Gucayan, Jon Garcia and Austin Morehead each advanced to the second day of the National High School Wrestling Championships at Virginia Beach, Va. All three Huskies were 1-1 after the first day. Gucayan wrestles at 112 pounds, Garcia is at 171 and Morehead competes at 215 pounds.

Softball

East Nicolaus 8, Champion Chr. 0

Lydia White tossed a two-hitter and drove in three runs with two hits to lead the Spartans (14-3-1) to a nonleague home victory. White struck out 12 batters.

Alex Ortiz was 2-for-3 with a double, triple and RBI, Nikki Bingaman and Brittany Lehman each had two hits and drove in a run.

Pioneer 11, Lindhurst 0

Freshman Morgan Thome got the lone hit off Bailey Micetich and Lucy Fernandez cracked a grand slam to lead the Patriots to a six-inning, nonleague win at Lindhurst (7-5-1).

Colusa 14, Chester 4

Colusa 9, Chester 5

Kiley Herrick blasted a two-run homer in the first inning, added a three-run shot in the fourth and Ashley Lambert finished off the rout for the Redskins (14-3-1) by clearing the 265-foot sign in the sixth to end the game.

Mimi Juarez was the beneficiary of all the offense, throwing a five-inning, five-hitter. Herrick finished with three hits and five RBIs. Lambert had two hits. Emiley Correa was 3-for-3 with a triple, while Kristy Nair and Tiffany Friel each had two hits.

Herrick, Correa and Nair each added two more hits in the second game, providing the punch for Hannah Ash, who scattered five hits over seven innings.

Baseball

Sutter 13, Fall River 0

Sutter 16, Maxwell 15

Dariusz Ratajczak threw a five-inning no-hitter and the Huskies pounded out 15 hits, including a perfect 3-for-3 for Jeremy Birmingham, who would finish the day 8-for-8 with two doubles, nine runs and four RBIs at the Central Valley tournament.

Derek Carothers connected on a three-run home run and finished 4-for-4 with 5 RBIs in the opener, while Shane Ahlers had two doubles and Josh Birmingham was 2-for-3 with an RBI.

In the second game, Maxwell scored seven runs in the sixth and had the tying run on third and the winning run on first, but Sam Kuykendall recorded the last out to complete the victory and the two-game sweep.

Sutter (12-2) pounded out 18 hits against Maxwell. Zach Prosser had three doubles and three RBIs, Carothers knocked in three more, while Steven Carmack was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Mitch Sanders was 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

John Davis belted a three-run homer for Maxwell, which also got two RBIs from Steven Perry and one from James Bowen.

Colusa 7, Corning 1

Colusa 3, Wheatland 0

Matt Vedo struck out 10 betters in the opener and Raul Mojica struck out 12 in the second game as the Redskins (8-5) swept both games at the Shasta Lake tournament.

Jeremy Hernandez was 2-for-3 with a double in the opener and added a double in the second game. Nico Valencia doubled in both games.

From Tuesday:

BASEBALL

Fort Bragg 8, Pierce 2

Ottie Harris went 2-for-3 with an RBI and Jake Driver drove in a run as the Bears (6-7) dropped a game in Fort Bragg.