Wildcats excel at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic
On Saturday, the Chico State women’s track & field team won the meet’s distance medley in action at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic.
Jaclyn Denham, Natalie Dinin, Katie Hawley, and Marissa D’Atri won the distance medley (with legs of 1,200-, 400-, 800-, and 1,600-meters) with a time of 12:07.58, breaking the Mike Fanelli Track Classic’s six-year-old record in the event by 1.3 seconds. Stanislaus State had held the previous best mark since 2016.
Chico State also won the 4×100-meter relay, as Mckenzie Blair, Chloe Taylor, Savannah Bailey, and Nadia Torkman posted a season’s best time of 48.46.
The Wildcats will be competing in two meets next week. The heptathlon will be featured Thursday and Friday in Turlock at the Stanislaus State Multis. The entire Chico State women’s track & field team will be in the state capital Saturday to take part in the Sacramento State Invitational.
Men’s track and field
The Chico State men’s track and field team set a new team and meet record Saturday at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic.
Conor Wells, Walker Doucette, Brian Hastings, and Rory Abberton team won the 1,200-400-800-1,600-meter distance medley relay in 9:58.69, setting a new Chico State record and meet record in the process. The Wildcats’ winning sprint medley team earned some bragging rights as well. The supposed “B” team of Demetre Coffey, Rory Hatcher, Bryan Payne, and Kevin Telford ran 200, 200, 400, and 800 meters, respectively, with Telford crossing the line with the winning time of 3:32.54.
College baseball
Wildcats split pair at Los Angeles: the Chico State baseball team settled for a doubleheader split at cal state L A on Saturday.
The Wildcats won the first game 8-7, sparked by Jack Murphy’s three-run homer, Grady Morgan’s four-hit game, and Eric Hill’s clutch relief pitching. Then dropped the nightcap 2-1 in eight innings despite starting pitcher Austin McFarlane’s best outing yet as a Wildcat.
McFarlane surrendered just one unearned run in seven innings, and Morgan doubled home the tying run in the seventh with the aid of an error. Chico tied the game when pinch-runner Ernie Arambula fell rounding third base, but an errant throw allowed him to score from first, knotting
the score. The Golden Eagles slapped three seeingeye singles in the bottom of the eighth to walk it off.
No. 14 Chico State’s lead atop the CCAA standings is back to a half-game, where it began the weekend after Cal State Monterey Swept a doubleheader at Cal State San Marcos Saturday.
Cody Gentry earned the win, allowing four earned runs in five innings of work. He struck out four, walked
two, and allowed seven hits in improving to 6-1. Morgan went 4-for-5, Lindsay 3-for5. Crane and Murphy had two hits apiece. McFarlane (2-1) was magnificent in the nightcap, allowing only an unearned run on four singles in the first seven innings. He did not walk or hit a batter.
College softball
Wildcats split weekend action :
The Chico State softball team split the weekend’s action against Azusa Pacific, losing 3-2 and 13-0. with the Saturday split, Chico State is now 25-11.
The Wildcats collected 21 hits on the day, 15 of which came in game two against Dominican. Reilani Peleti led the way with four hits and five runs batted in; Grace Stover collected three hits and scored four runs, while Nina Revoir also had three hits, including her eighth home run of the year. Drew Rodriguez, Anastacia Alba, and Kyra Gooler contributed a pair of hits to the’ Cats’ offensive attack.
Katelyn Oldwin scattered four hits and struck out six to earn the victory, improving to 9-4. The Wildcats wrap up the Tournament of
Champions Sunday with a single game against Chaminade at 12:30 p.m.
Boys Tennis
the Pleasant Valley boys tennis team split its action this weekend, losing to Piedmont 6-1, but defeating Bishop O’Dowd 4-3.
Eugene Lee was the only Viking to win against Piedmont, while Kont Armbruster, Robbie Foster, and Matt Kuperman and Lee all won their singles matches against Bishop O’Dowd.
The Vikings are now 9-2 with the next match Tuesday at Red Bluff