The American River College broke a 5 game losing streak to Feather River College by defeating the Golden Eagles 9-2 at Beaver Field on Thursday.  The Beavers last win over Feather River came on February 2^nd, 2018 in a 5-1 victory.  On Thursday the Beavers got down 2-0 in the 2^nd inning as the Golden Eagles got a pair of runs off of Beaver starter Ayden Dringenberg (Oakmont).  The righty had a smooth first inning, but gave up the two runs in the 2^nd on a pair of walks, a leadoff hit batter and a couple of singles.  But that was all he would allow in going 6 innings with 6 strikeouts in his first college start.  After the rocky 2^nd inning Dringenberg recorded three straight 3 up, 3 down innings.  While he was keeping Feather River at bay the offense came alive, scoring a run in the bottom of the 2^nd on a sacrifice fly by sophomore 1B Jose Vega (Highlands) who had a big day with a pair of hits and 4 RBI.  The Beavers took the lead that they would hold on to in the 3^rd inning, scoring 5 times, with freshman RF Brandon Pelechowicz (Yuba City) picking up an RBI on the 2^nd of his 3 hits on the day.  Vega then followed up with a 2 run single to put the Beavers ahead.  Sophomore LF Rylan Pope (McClatchy) added an RBI single and sophomore C Eli Campbell (Cordova) picked up an RBI on a bases loaded walk.  ARC extended the lead in the 4^th when sophomore DH Jackson Nichols (Valley Christian) laced an RBI single to left to drive in sophomore 2B Lance Sabatke (River City).  Jose Vega picked up his 4^th RBI of the day a couple of batters later, driving in Pelechowicz to put ARC up 8-4.  The Beavers got an insurance run in the 7^th inning on an RBI single by Lance Sabatke. 

Sophmore RHP Kaden Clive (Delta) threw a scoreless 7^th and 8^th inning for ARC and sophomore RHP Ethan Palumbo (Antelope) finished it off with a scoreless 9^th inning, striking out a pair to give the Beavers their first win of the season.  They will be looking for win #2 tomorrow against Feather River with the game starting at 1:00 p.m.