The Los Medanos College Mustangs defeated the Feather River Golden Eagles in an extra inning thriller on Feb. 17. The Mustangs fell into a hole early but scored three runs in the final three innings to steal a victory against Feather River. 

Starting pitcher A.J. Gamboa got into some trouble in the top of the second inning. He allowed a leadoff walk followed by a single to put Feather River in a prime position to score with runners on first and third, with no outs. Reed Alexander scored Jordan Davis with a sacrifice fly and two batters, later Mack Higuchi lined a double down the left field line to give the Golden Eagles a 2-0 lead. 

In the bottom of the third, the Mustangs looked to cut into the Golden Eagles’ lead with Colton Trudeau leading off the inning with a single. Seth Gwynn walked and Trudeau stole third to put runners on the corners with two outs in the inning. However, Golden Eagles starting pitcher Eric Valdez picked Gwynn off at first to get out of the jam. 

Bubba Rocha and Michael Weber started the bottom of the fourth with back-to-back singles. After a throwing error, Rocha scored to get the Mustangs on the board with Weber advancing to second base. However, base running blunders struck the Mustangs again as Ryan Pierce grounded out to third and Weber was thrown out while trying to advance to third base, now trailing by one. 

The Golden Eagles responded in the top of the fifth with the first three runners to lead off the inning reaching base. Gamboa managed to get a double play but the Golden Eagles managed to score on the play, growing their lead to 3-1.

Gamboa was relieved in the seventh inning for right-hander Rocco Borrelli after giving up three runs and striking out six batters in six innings of work. Borrelli came in looking to keep the deficit at two runs to give the Mustangs a chance to come back. 

In the eighth inning, Rocha singled home Kris Leffle to make the score 3-2 going into the ninth inning. Borrelli struck out the side in the top of the ninth and the Mustangs needed one run to tie and play in extra innings or score two runs to walk it off and win. 

The Mustangs were down to their last out after Nico Torrez grounded into a double play. It looked like the Mustangs were finished but Khimani Blakney hit a double to right field to give his team life. Trudeau doubled down the left field line to score Blakney and the Mustangs had tied the game despite being down to their last out. Anthony Manuel struck out to end the ninth and the game went into extra innings. 

Borrelli balked which moved the ghost runner to third base with no outs in the 10th inning. However, Borrelli induced three straight ground balls to strand the Golden Eagles runner at third and give the Mustangs a chance to walk it off. Gwynn intentionally walked, bringing Rocha to the plate. He lined a double into the right-center gap and that won the game for the Mustangs with a final score of 4-3 after 10 innings of play.