*Note from webmaster: Our website has been experiencing intermittent service. The problem is emanating from our internet service provider who have assured us they have engineers working on the problem. Sorry for the delay in reporting the game recaps, stats and standings. No one is more aggravated than us. We try to stay on top of the league news every night. -CCL June 25, 2019 Irvine, CA Connor Aoki (Binghamton) homered and hit an RBI-single in consecutive at bats and Andre Antone (UC Irvine) hit a solo home run, singled and scored the winning run in consecutive at bats as the Orange County Riptide scored five runs in their last two at bats to erase a four-run deficit and beat the Santa Barbara Foresters 5-4 tonight at Great Park Stadium. Stymied for the first six innings by the dominant outing of Foresters starting pitcher Isaac Coffey (Oral Roberts), the Riptide rallied for four runs as soon as Coffey left the game. Antone started the comeback right away, leading off the seventh inning with a solo home to get Orange County on the board. The second batter of the inning, Daniel Jung (Notre Dame), singled and then Aoki hit a two-run home run to get the Riptide within one. Joshua Solomon (Columbia) then walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on a productive groundout and scored the tying run when Blake Evans (Georgia Southern) singled him in. Marrick Crouse, who entered the game in relief of Sean Higgins (Columbia) to start the seventh inning, retired the side in order in the eighth and, after Antone and Jung again got things stated for the Riptide with one out in their half of the inning by hitting one-out singles, Aoki singled to drive Antone in with what proved to be the winning run. Crouse then pitched around Ross Cadena’s (Wichita State) third single of the game to lead off the ninth inning, stranding Cadena at second base after he advanced on a wild pitch by getting two fly outs and striking out the last batter to close out the win. The Orange County comeback spoiled a masterful pitching performance by Coffey. The righthander struck out nine in his six-inning outing and allowed only three singles, two of whom were erased on the bases in the third inning via a caught-stealing and a line drive double play. Coffey faced the minimum three batters in four of his six innings, struck out the side in the second inning and had two or more strikeouts in four innings. Tyler Booth started on the mound for Orange County and surrendered all four of the Foresters runs in three and two-thirds innings while striking out five and allowing five hits. Cadena got Santa Barbara on the board with an RBI-single in the third inning and, after two walks, a single and two errors pushed another run across in the fourth, Cadena hit a two-out two-run single to give the Foresters a 4-0 lead. Higgins, who surrendered Cadena’s second hit after relieving Booth, retired the next batter he faced to end the fourth inning and went on to strand runners in scoring position for two scoreless innings before turning the pitching duties over to Crouse, who pitched a scoreless seventh and retired nine of the next ten batters he faced. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Compton, CA Drew Cowley (Cal Poly Pomona) hit a three-run home run, Andy Garriola (Old Dominion) hit a solo home run and Thomas Luevano (USD) hit a ninth inning, two-out, two-run single to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-6 win over the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Youth Academy. Cowley’s home run came in the sixth inning with the Saints trailing 5-1 after the Barons scored three times on three singles in the first inning, once in the second on a Christian Poche (New Orleans) two-out double and once in the third after Logan Pollack (Michigan) hit a leadoff double and eventually scored on a run-producing groundout, and the Saints scored once in the fifth on a Matt Thomas (Harvard) RBI-single. Cowley’s home run all but erased the outstanding pitching performance of Barons’ starting pitcher Brandon Mitchell (New Orleans). Mitchell retired the first eight batters in order, four by strikeouts, and eleven of the first twelve, allowing only one baserunner in his first four innings via a two-out walk in the third. The only blemish to Mitchell’s outing came after allowing his second walk to leadoff the fifth inning. That runner scored after stealing second base and Mitchell struck out his sixth batter when Thomas got his RBI-hit. Drew Atherton (Cal Poly Pomona) was the starting pitcher for the Saints and surrendered all five of the Barons’ runs over two and two-thirds innings, giving up eight hits while striking out five. Race Gardner (Hawaii-Hilo) entered the game to pitch in relief of Atherton with the bases loaded and two outs in the third inning, retiring the next batter to limit the damage, and went on to retire the side in order in three of the next four innings to finish his performance with four and a third scoreless innings with five strikeouts. Gardner did not figure in the final decision because the Saints only tied the score while he was the pitcher of record when Garriola hit his home run in the seventh to make the score 5-5. It wasn’t until the ninth inning that the Saints took the lead and, again it was Garriola getting things going. Garriola singled to lead off the inning, stole second base, advanced to third on an error and, with two outs, scored the go-ahead run when Cowley walked with the bases loaded. Luevano then hit his two-run single to put the Saints up by three. Chris Burnette (Cal Poly Pomona), who relieved Gardner with one out and one on in the eighth inning, stranded the bases loaded in that inning without allowing a run, but could not close out the win in the ninth, surrendering a single and hitting two batters before handing the ball to Michael Hendricks (Lee) with the bases loaded and two outs to get. Hendricks walked the first batter he faced to allow the Barons sixth run but struck out the next two to save the win for the Saints. Click here for recaps of this game Thousand Oaks, CA Today’s game between the San Luis Obispo Blues and the Conejo Oaks was suspended after nine innings with the score tied 5-5 due to darkness. The game will be resumed tomorrow at 4:30pm prior to the previously scheduled game between the same two teams at Sparky Anderson Field. Recaps of both games will be reported tomorrow night.