SPARKS - For five innings, Head-Royce's Spenser Linney had Carson hitters eating out of his hands.
The Senators' bats finally woke up, scoring nine sixth-inning runs to wipe out a 5-1 deficit en route to a 10-5 come-from-behind win over the Jayhawks in the opening day of the Northern Nevada Classic at Spanish Springs High School.
Carson will play Novato today at 12:30 and then face Spanish Springs at 3 p.m. Because of the deaths of classmates Stephen Johnson and Keegan Aiazzi in a scuba diving incident, the Senators won't play on Saturday.
"He (Linney) was good no doubt," Carson coach Cody Farnworth said of the left-hander who is haded to Stanford next year. "Their third baseman made a couple of errors that helped us get going. Once we got to the bullpen we had a few more hits. The kids kept grinding and grinding."
The big hits in the sixth were a run-scoring triple by Austin Pacheco, a two-run single by Zak Harjes, a run-scoring double by Rory Petersen and a two-run inside-the-park homer by Colby Blueberg. Errors accounted for two runs.
Brock Pradere, Blueberg, Petersen and Pacheco all had two hits for the Senators. Harjes and Nick Domitrovich added a hit apiece.
Drew Moreland picked up the win in relief, allowing a run and two hits in 1.2 innings.
SOFTBALL
FALLON SWEEPS DAYTON
FALLON - After a pitchers dual on Wednesday, the Fallon softball team drilled Dayton in a 3A Lahontan League doubleheader on Thursday.
The Lady Wave beat Dayton, 11-1 and 14-4, with both games lasting five innings. Fallon pitcher Jill Pinder earned the wins, while Makayla Shadle and MacKenzie Cole were the losing hurlers for the Dust Devils.
Fallon belted 29 hits in the two games, while Dayton committed nine errors.
In the first game, Fallon's Chelesa Smitten and Cady Cordes homered and Smitten added an RBI double to lead the way. Trailing 5-0 in the fourth, Dayton plated its lone run after Cole singled and scored on an error after a Shadle single.
"Errors killed us," Dayton head coach Daven Passalacqua said. "We stopped making the plays we needed to make. The bats weren't moving like they should."
The second game started much better for Dayton as the Devils scored two runs in the first inning. Gemma Ramirez led off with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Cheyenna Burrows. Ramirez scored on a single by Kelly Combs.
Devlynn Lahair, running for Combs, scored on an RBI single from Cole. Fallon took a 5-2 lead in the fourth, scoring four runs. Smitten belted a two-run single to score Kaysee Archer and Jenny Rechel. Smitten scored on a single from Danielle Rothery, and Rothery scored on a Dayton error.
JV BASEBALL
SPANISH SPRINGS 13, CARSON 0
RENO - The Senators were held to six hits by Spanish Springs, as Spanish Springs cruised to an easy win in the third-place game at the Bishop Manogue Easter JV Tournament.
Gehrig Tucker led Carson with two hits, while Tyler Valley, Jace Zampirro, Chase Blueberg and Jay Milligan all had a hit apiece.