RENO - The Reno Knights scored six runs in the fourth inning to wipe out a 2-0 deficit en routeto a 9-4 win over the Carson Blue Jays at the High Sierra Classic at Bishop Manogue Saturday afternoon.
The Blue Jays are 2-2 in the tourney and will complete play at 9 a.m. against the Sacramento Vipers, according to coach Cody Farnworth.
"We played pretty well," Farnworth said. "Colby (Blueberg) had a no-hitter entering the fourth inning, We had a bad inning in the fourth and things snowballed from there."
The Blue Jays had a chance to get out of the inning with far less damage, but didn't get a call on a double play groundball. Farnworth felt that the runner sliding into second should have been called for interference because of a high slide,
"I think it got to Colby a little bit," Farnworth said.
The six-run outburst gave Reno a 6-2 lead. The Knights tacked on one in the fifth and two in the sixth. Carson scored one in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Carson led 2-0 after three on the strength of run-scoring hits by Blueberg and Shane Quilling.
Blueberg went 2-for-3 with a double, homer and two RBIs. Quilling and Brock Pradere each went 2-for-4.
BIGHORNS SWEPT
The Nevada Bighorns were swept 11-4 and 8-0 by the San Francisco Seagulls Saturday at Western Nevada College.
After a day off today, the Bighorns play a doubleheader at Folsom Monday at noon.
In the opener on Saturday, the Seagulls ssnappd a 4-all tie with seven runs to pull away.
Starting pitcher Max De Lallo had allowed three earned runs through seven innings before the Seagulls broke it open.
With one out, De Lallo forced hom a run with a walk and then gave up a two-run single. Joe Weaver came in and walked both batters he faced, the second forcing home another run.
Workhorse Joey Webb came on and received a bad break when a groundball down the first base line that Eric Maupin was ready to field nounced off the base for a two-run single.
Jordan Hadlock's RBI sacrifice fly gave the Bighorns a 1-0 lead in the first. Phil Sacks doubled and scored on Maupin's RBI single to tie the game at 2 in the third. After the Seagulls went ahead 4-2, a sacrifice fly by Maupin and a wild pitch tied the game at 4.
Trosko and Chris Houle collected two hits each for the Bighorns.
In the second game, Bighorn starting pitcher Jordan Morgan trailed 5-0 when he was removed from the game in the sixth. Maupin gave up a bloop single to make it 6-0, but he escaped any more damage.
University of Nevada's Branden Petrangelo started for the Seagulls and pitched five scorless innings. He allowed just three hits.
Note: The proceeds from donations and snack bar sales at Saturday's games went to the Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Cancer Center. A total of $403 was raised.