GREAT WEST LEAGUE Gold Sox can’t finish sweep of Seals

Yuba-sutter musters only two hits in 16-3 loss

After stringing together two straight wins, the Yuba-sutter Gold Sox looked to complete their first three-game sweep of the season and move out of last place in the Great West League standings with another victory on Thursday night.

The visiting San Francisco Seals had other ideas. Taking advantage of eight walks, seven hit batsmen and four errors, the Seals jumped ahead early and continued to add on from there to come away with a convincing 16-3 victory over the Gold Sox at Colusa Casino Stadium in Marysville.

Yuba-sutter finished the game with a season-low two hits and missed a chance to leapfrog San Francisco in the GWL standings with the loss.

The Seals (9-20) wasted little time lighting up the scoreboard by scoring three runs in the top of the first before Mike Shoenberger drove in Steve Robinson with an RBI groundout in the bottom half of the inning to make it a 3-1 game.

That would be the closest Yuba-sutter would get.

San Francisco added to its lead with two runs in the second and two more in the fifth before sending 15 batters to the plate while erupting for nine runs in the sixth inning to up the lead to 16-1.

An error allowed the Gold Sox to score two unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth to complete the scoring.

Elijah Smith singled in the first inning and Brody Clifford added another single in the fifth to account for Yuba-sutter’s only two hits of the night. Robinson scored twice and fellow River Valley High graduate Austin Engelhardt scored the other run.

The Gold Sox (8-22) will look to bounce back when they head to Oregon to begin a threegame series against the third-place Medford Rogues (18-15) today.