Baseball Holds Off Laney For 4-3 Win

The FLC baseball team found another way to win on Tuesday afternoon, this time scoring four runs early and then holding on for a 4-3 victory over Laney College at Falcon Field.  Although the Falcons were out-hit by the Eagles, 8-7, they managed to bunch together three hits and a couple of Laney fielding errors in the second inning to build the four-run lead.  The key hit was Austin Walies' 2-out, 2-run triple with Josh Criswell and F.P. Santangelo scoring on the play.  Those four runs looked secure with starting pitcher Will Felton shutting out the Eagles for 7+ innings on just four hits.  But in the eighth, the Eagles rallied against FLC reliever Matt Huddleston on a single and two doubles to make it 4-2.  Falcon reliever Kendall Menard then got a strike out before giving up an RBI single that closed it to 4-3.  That was all that Laney would get as Menard got the next batter on a groundout to end the threat.  Zach Reid took over in the ninth and put the Eagles down in order to earn his third save of the season.