CCL - California Collegiate League (CCL)

July 11, 2017
(*Recaps over the next few days will be more abridged than usual as the CCL public information service prepares for and deals with the CCL all-star game. -PB)

Compton, CA
The Academy Barons collected five two-out hits, including a three-run home run by Hunter Allen (Alabama St), to score six runs in the fifth inning and take command of the game, going on to beat the Southern California Catch 11-9 today at the MLB Youth Academy. Denzl Chapman (San Diego St), Dailin Lee (UC Irvine) and Randy Rubio (Marymount-NAIA) all had two-out singles in front of Allen, and Joe Argumedo (Lynn) had one behind him to generate the six runs. Rubio, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning to open the scoring for the Barons, also doubled in the game to finish with a game-high three hits and scored three runs. Omar Ortiz (Pacific) also had three hits in the game for the Catch, including a bases-clearing three-run double in the seventh inning. The Catch, who scored once in the sixth on a solo home run by Mitchell Bumann (Hawaii-Pacific) and once in the eighth on an RBI-single by Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft Smith), got within striking distance and managed to load the bases in the ninth inning, but Joseph Mercado (Dominguez Hills) came into pitch for the Barons when the tying runs got aboard and recorded the final two outs to close out the win.
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Long Beach, CA
Reese Berberet (Long Beach CC) hit a walk-off home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Long Beach Legends a 4-3 win over the Conejo Oaks today at Long Beach City College. Berberet’s game winner, his first in league play this summer, came moments after the Oaks had tied the score in the top of the ninth inning on an RBI-single by Zayne Willems (Texas Tech) which scored Codi Santana (Hawaii-Pacific) who had singled to lead off the ninth. Theron Kay (Cal St Northridge) started on the mound for Conejo, recording six strikeouts in three and a third innings, but gave up three runs early to Long Beach on an RBI-single by Trevor Steinman (Chico St) in the first inning and two runs, both reaching base by way of walks, on RBI-singles by Robert Barham (Long Beach CC) and Michael Stefanic (Westmont). DJ Miller (Ole Miss) drove in one of the other two Oaks runs with an RBI-single in the fourth inning, the second Santana scored with an RBI-ground out also in the second.
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Oakland, CA
The Neptune Beach Pearl split a doubleheader against the Auburn Wildcats today at Laney College. Auburn won the first game 13-11 and Neptune Beach won the second 14-0. Game reports and stats for these two games were not reported at post time (11:30pm).

July 11, 2017
If you are not able to attend the CCL All-Star Game tomorrow night at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, there may be a couple of ways to view the broadcast.

Hopefully, your local cable provider has chosen to pick up the feed from Fox Sports West and will broadcast the game live on TV. Game time is 7pm PST.

The other way you may be able to view the broadcast is with the Fox Sports Go app. This is the first year our game will be live-streamed on this app and we are not exactly sure how or if it will work in your area. Our contacts at Fox Sports have shown us that the game is on the Fox Sports Go schedule on their app, but when we check the app on our devices here in Santa Barbara, the game is not on the schedule. This may be because our local cable provider has not added the game to the schedule or for some other reason that we are not aware of. Hopefully, if you download the app and sign into your account with your content provider the game will appear on the schedule and you can watch it on your device, cast it to your TV, etc.

If none of these options work we always have DVD copies of the broadcast available to send to you as soon as we get a master copy from Fox Sports. This usually takes a few days and we will certainly be posting info to let you know when they are available.

Tickets to attend the game in person can be purchased at the front gate (general admission). Online purchases of reserved seating is sold out and no longer active.

2017 CCL All-Star Game
MLB Youth Academy
901 E Artesia Blvd
Compton, CA 90221

Before the game, the 54 players will also participate in a pregame workout for scouts and college coaches. Start time for the scouting combine is 3PM.

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July 10, 2017
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Irvine, CA
Juan Cortina (St. Edwards) recorded six strikeouts over five and two-thirds innings, Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) extended his zero ERA pitching summer with an inning and two-thirds scoreless, and Will Tomlinson (Brown) notched four strikeouts over the last two innings, including escaping a bases-loaded situation in the eighth, to close out an Orange County Riptide 4-3 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues today at Concordia University. The San Luis Obispo trio of pitchers were almost exactly as good as their counterparts from the OC, as Jack Schneider (Grand Canyon), who had six strikeouts in five innings, Jake Swiech (San Jose St) and Josh Goldberg (San Jose St) combined to allow only five hits while striking out nine. The difference in the game turned out to be a two-out walk in the seventh inning to Will Proctor (Georgia) who scored from first base with what turned out to be the winning run on a double by Jaxon Williams (Howard JC). Price Visintainer (UAB) scored all three of the Blues’ runs, getting on bases in three consecutive plate appearances by two singles and a double.
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Fairfield, CA
The Healdsburg Prune Packers again swapped places with the Neptune Beach Pearl for the top spot in the CCL North Division (fifth day in a row the two teams have swapped positions) by scoring eight runs after two outs and nobody on base in the seventh inning en route to a 15-7 win over the Rockville Rock Hounds today at Yarborough Stadium. The two-out seventh inning rally included two doubles, four singles, two walks and a hit batsman to generate the eight runs. Jamey Smart (LMU), who earlier hit an RBI-single to drive in Healdsburg’s first run of the game in a three-run first inning when the first four batters of the game reach base safely (three singles and a reached on error), redeemed the out he made to lead off the seventh with a bases-loaded two-run single to cap the rally. The Healdsburg hitters also put a consecutive-hit streak together in the fourth inning when the first four batters recorded two doubles and two singles to score four. Max Smith (UNLV) had a game-high four hits (two doubles, two singles) and Willy Homza (Brown) collected a double and two singles to lead Rockville. Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) drove in two runs on a pair of singles and a double to join Smart with three hits for the Packers.
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Ventura, CA
Ty Wiest (Columbia), Jake Eissler (TCU) and Garrett Gayle (Rice) combined for 13 strikeouts and the Santa Barbara Foresters offense put runners on base in every inning, including seven innings with multiple baserunners, to post a 10-3 win over the Ventura Halos today at Ventura College. The Foresters showed no weaknesses today as every slot in their lineup accounted for at least one hit, including hits by eight of the nine starting batters plus one pinch hitter. Santa Barbara’s Josh Jung (Texas Tech) had a three-for-three game to lead all hitters while Wiest’s seven strikeouts over a six-inning start topped all pitchers. Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills) had two hits, including a solo home run to lead Ventura.
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July 9, 2017
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Irvine, CA
Tate Shaw (Texas) collected three hits and three RBI and Mitch Andrews (Lamar) drove in three runs on a two-run single and an RBI-double as the Orange County Riptide scored 15 runs on 14 hits in a 15-2 win over the Academy Barons today at Concordia University, their fourth win in a row that has increased their lead in the CCL South Division to three games. Shaw and Andrews, as would most of the Riptide hitters, did all of their run production early in the game as Orange County scored 13 unanswered runs in the first four innings, including scoring six times in the third inning with Shaw leading the inning off with a single and closing the scoring nine batters later by driving in two with another single, to put the game away early. Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) and Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) each had two hits in the game and scored two and three runs respectively. Hayden Shenefield was the first of five Riptide pitchers used in the game, throwing four shutout innings to pick up the win. Michael-Champ Garner (Benedict) had singles in three consecutive at bats, and Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) collected two to highlight the Barons performance.
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Oakland, CA
James Free II (Pacific) hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning, Michael Woodworth (Sierra JC) hit a bases-loaded two-run single to highlight a three-run sixth and Lucas Halstead (Pacific) added an RBI-double to lead the Neptune Beach Pearl to a 6-2 win over the Walnut Creek Crawdads tonight at Laney College. Andrew Davis (Texas Tech) started on the mound and earned the win for Neptune Beach, recording five strikeouts in six and two-thirds innings of work and allowed two runs on four hits, the biggest being a David Langer (Chabot) two-run home run in the seventh inning after Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) led off the inning with a double.
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Santa Barbara, CA
Blair Henley (Texas) notched seven strikeouts in a five-inning start, allowing no runs earned, and Spencer Steer (Oregon) produced four runs with a triple and a double to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 14-3 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Pershing Park. Arroyo Seco posted a 1-0 lead in their first at bat, when Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo) reached on an error and scored on a two-out single by Blake Burton (Washington), but the lead was short-lived as Henley retired the last 12 batters he faced in order, one on the bases, and Austin Todd (Texas) and Ryan Cash (Oklahoma St), the numbers one and two batters in the Foresters lineup, led off their half of the first inning with a double-double to tie the score. The Santa Barbara hitters would then rattle off 13 more unanswered runs to take a 14-1 lead after six complete. Todd followed Speer’s RBI-triple in the second inning with one of his own, Speer hit a bases-load double in the third and David Hamilton (Texas) drove him home with a ground-rule version, Evan Lee (Arkansas) hit an RBI-triple in the fifth and Joey Fiske (St. Mary’s) hit a two-run homer in the sixth to highlight the Foresters’ 15-hit attack. Todd and Brody Weiss (Westmont) each had a game-high three hits for Santa Barbara, and Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) and Brandon Shearer (LMU) each had two hits to lead the Saints.
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Long Beach, CA
Trailing 6-1 heading into the seventh inning, the Southern California Catch scored seven runs in their last three at bats, including home runs by Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) and Kyle Soria (Westmont) to beat the Long Beach Legends 8-6 today at Long Beach City College. Evan May (Hawaii-Pacific) started on the mound for Long Beach and held the Catch mostly in check during his five innings of work, allowing only one run in the first inning when Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) tripled to lead off the game and scored on a two-out double by Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific). May then pitched four scoreless innings, and when the Legends scored six times in the bottom of the fifth, left the game with a 6-1 lead. Whitcomb and Soria’s home runs shaved three runs off the lead in the seventh inning, the Catch scored three unearned runs in the eighth to take the lead and Sandmann hit a run-scoring double in the ninth to make the score 8-6. The Legends recorded six singles in their six-run fifth inning, Tommy Anderson (Doane) accounting for two, and singles by Anderson, Connor Montgomery, Daniel Zimmerman (Michigan) and Michael Stefanic (Westmont) all produced runs. Matthew Wade (SE Missouri St), who earned the win in relief, and Chad Boudreaux (East Texas Baptist), who picked up the save, each pitched two innings scoreless, combining for five strikeout, to close out the win for the Catch.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
The Conejo Oaks rapped out 23 hits and posted a ten-run at bat in the second inning, with back-to-back home runs by Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) and Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St), an RBI-triple by Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso), doubles by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) and four singles to beat the Ventura Halos 17-1 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Lewis finished with a game-high four hits and four RBI, Weinstein, who had two hits in the second inning, finished with three, and seven other Oaks players had two hits to lead the Conejo offense. The Oaks used six pitchers in the game who combined to hold the Halos to one run on five hits while striking out eleven. Dayton Provost (Ventura JC), the league’s leading hitter, was the only Halos hitter with two hits, raising his average slightly to .483.
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Healdsburg, CA
Ryder Kuhns drove in six runs with a three-run home run, a run-scoring triple and a two-RBI single to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to an 11-1 lead that lasted until the seventh inning when the Packers had to withstand a late-innings rally by the Rockville Rock Hounds that put the tying run on base in the ninth inning, to eventually win 11-8 tonight at Recreation Park. The Rock Hounds scored five runs in the seventh, the inning Cooper Casad (Pacific), who started on the mound for Healdsburg and threw six innings with five strikeouts, was replaced by a Alex Waldsmith (Santa Clara). Waldsmith retired two of the first three batters he faced but Rockville then recorded four consecutive two-out hits that included a two-run double by Kyle Krebs (Solano CC) and capped by a two-run home run by Kirby Broadbent (Campbellsville) that narrowed the deficit to 11-6. Rockville then got four more hits in the ninth inning to cut the score to 11-8, but Edward O’Bannon III (Pacific) who came into the game with two outs in the seventh inning in relief of Waldsmith, recorded the final out with the bases loaded to close out the win. Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) had a two-run home run in the sixth inning and Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) had a solo home run in the second for Healdsburg, while Kevin Sandri (Pacific) opened the scoring with a solo home run in the first inning for Rockville.
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July 8, 2017
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Healdsburg, CA
Kevin Sandri (Pacific) had three doubles, two singles and four runs scored, Willy Homza (Brown) homered and hit a two-run single, Nathan Guiterrez (Solano CC) hit a two-run triple and an RBI-single, but The Rockville Rock Hounds still had to withstand a ninth inning rally by the Healdsburg Prune Packers to win 9-8 tonight at Recreation Park. Leading comfortably 9-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, Rockville’s pitcher Kirby Broadbent (Campbellsville), who came into the game in the seventh in relief of starter Carson Haws and retired six straight, two via outs on the bases, still had the same lead with one out left to go and two Healdsburg runners aboard, one by a walk and the second reached by an error. Then Healdsburg started to rally. Grant Little (Texas Tech) tripled in drive in the two runners, Broadbent gave up another walk and Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) doubled in two more to make it a one-run game. Broadbent, who recorded the first two outs in the inning via the strikeout, got another for the third out to close out the win. The win by Rockville slides Healdsburg out of first place as Neptune Beach moved up to take the top spot with a win today over Walnut Creek.
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Compton, CA
Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) hit two doubles and two singles on a four-for-four day, and six pitchers combined to throw a six-hit shutout as the Orange County Riptide beat the Academy Barons 5-0 today at the MLB Youth Academy. One of Fletcher’s doubles plated two runs in a four-run, six-hit fourth inning for the Riptide and was the third consecutive hit to lead off the inning after Joey Parente and Aaron Greenfield (UNC) singled. Jaxon Williams (Howard JC) also doubled in the fourth, and scored on a two-out RBI-single by Tate Shaw (Texas). Dailin Lee (UC Irvine) tripled and Hunter Allen (Alabama St) had a pair of singles to lead the Barons.
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Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters swept a doubleheader over the Ventura Halos today at Pershing Park, winning the first game 4-1 behind seven innings of shutout pitching by Daniel Vasquez (Tennessee), and the second 11-5, highlighted by a four-RBI performance by Steven Coe (UC San Diego).
Vasquez struck out five, scattered seven hits while holding the Halos scoreless before turning the ball over to Colton Follett, who struck out three in two innings of relief to earn the save. Josh Jung (Texas Tech) opened the scoring with a solo home run with two outs in the third inning, and the Foresters added three more in the seventh on two Ventura errors and an RBI-single by Evan Lee (Arkansas). Lee, who doubled and singled earlier in the game, and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) who singled in three of four plate appearances, led the Foresters offense. Christopher May hit a double and two singles to lead Ventura.
Leading wire-to-wire in the second game win, Santa Barbara’s slugging performance was the difference in the game as both the Foresters and Halos totaled 12 hits, but Santa Barbara hitters produced five runs on extra-base hits, including a solo home run by Jimmy Galusky (West Virginia), RBI-triples by Coe and Brady Weiss (Westmont) and doubles by Austin Todd (Texas) and Chandler Bengston (Columbia), while Ventura only produce one, on a solo home run by Christian Jones (Washington). Galusky also hit two singles to finish with a game-high three hits for Santa Barbara. May and Dayton Provost (Ventura JC) each had three singles to lead the Halos.
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Pasadena, CA
Dustin Krob (Dayton) and Gabriel Chavez (Rio Hondo JC), the first two batters in the lineup, each hit four singles in five at bats, and their last two was the difference in the game as the Arroyo Seco Saints held off a late charge by the Conejo Oaks to win 7-6 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Off to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning after Krob, Chavez and Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) all singled and scored, and a 5-1 lead at the end of six, Conejo scored twice in the seventh on back-to-back home runs by Milo Beam (Purdue) and Jassen Oliver (Cal St Bakersfield), and three times in the eighth when Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) drove in one and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) drove in two on run-producing singles to take a 6-5 lead. But in the bottom of the eight the Oaks lead vanished when Krob and Chavez came up to score and drive in the tying and winning runs. Brett Weisberg, the third Saints relief pitcher to appear in the game after Gordon Ingebritson left the game after six innings, having struck out five and leading 5-1, came in in the ninth inning and closed out the win, but not with drama, as DJ Miller (Ole Miss), who had walked and represented the tying run, was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on a Jacob Castro (UC Irvine) base-hit to centerfielder Bryan Smith (Occidental) whose throw beat Miller to the plate to end the game.
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Oakland, CA
Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) hit a two-run home run in the first inning and a three-run home run in the second, Lucas Halstead (Pacific) hit a solo homer in the fifth and the Neptune Beach Pearl withstood a seven-run inning by the Walnut Creek Crawdads, highlighted by a two-run double by Brennan Mauchline (Academy of Art) and a two-run home run by Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) to win 8-7 today at Laney College. Caleb Freeman (Texas Tech) pitched six shutout innings for the Pearl to earn the victory. The win moves Neptune Beach back into first place by percentage points over the Healdsburg Prune Packers who lost to Rockville today.
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La Mirada, CA
Trevor Steinman (Chico St) hit a solo home run in the first inning to open the scoring and then hit a grand slam in the ninth inning to close it, and Scott Savage (Masters) pitched seven innings of one-run ball with six strikeouts and only three hits allowed to lead the Long Beach Legends to a 13-3 victory over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University.
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July 7, 2017
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Healdsburg, CA
Jamey Smart (LMU) hit a two-out, bases loaded three-run double and Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) drove Smart in with an RBI-double of his own to cap a six-run fourth inning the Healdsburg Prune Packers rode to an 8-4 victory over the Neptune Beach Pearl tonight at Recreation Park. The win over their North Division foe moved the Packers into first place in the CCL standings as these two teams continue to swap places in that spot almost on a daily basis. Chase Gardner started on the mound for Healdsburg and picked up the win with five strikeouts over five and two-thirds innings despite allowing a pair of runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, the latter coming on a two-out, two-run home run by Lucas Halstead (Pacific), his fifth in league play this summer. Smart (two doubles and a single) finished with a game-high three hits and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) doubled and singled to lead the Healdsburg attack. Halstead, who also doubled and scored in the fifth inning, was the only Neptune Beach player to finish with more than one hit.
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Compton, CA
Chase Sebby hit a one-out solo home run to break a 4-4 tie in the top of the ninth inning to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 5-4 win over the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Youth Academy. Sebby, who also hit an RBI-single in the seventh inning, finished with a game-high two RBI and two hits, while Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), Blair Lewis, Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) and Will Tomlinson (Brown) combined for 10 strikeouts, Lewis leading the way with six over three and a third innings of work, on the mound to lead the Riptide. Denzl Chapman (San Diego St), Javier Garcia (Compton JC) and Dailan Lee (UC Irvine) each had two hits to lead the Barons.
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Santa Barbara, CA
The Arroyo Seco Saints’ Corey Harrel (Graceland) hit a lead-off home run in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game but the drama was short-lived as David Hamilton (Texas), pinch-running for Zach Humphreys (Texas Tech), who led off the bottom of the ninth with a walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice and then scored the game-winning run on two wild pitches to give the Santa Barbara Foresters a 2-1 walk-off win. Scoreless through seven innings, the story of the game was the pitching of Tanner Lawson (St. Edwards). Greeted early with a pair of singles to the first two hitters he faced, Lawson proceeded to strikeout the next six, and finished with nine over five innings of work. Santa Barbara’s relievers would continue the strikeout trend as Kyle Smith (Cal Poly) recorded three in an inning and two thirds, Jake Eissler (TCU), had three in one and a third innings, and John McMillon (Texas Tech) added two in the ninth to compile 17 in the game as a staff. Ryan Cash (Oklahoma St) drove in the only other run of the game with a two-out single in the seventh inning to give Santa Barbara a 1-0 lead. Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) had three singles for Arroyo Seco to finish with a game-high three hits and Gunnar Friend (Avila) threw six and a third innings of one-run ball to lead the Saints.
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Oakland, CA
The Walnut Creek Crawdads pounded out 19 hits en route to a 14-3 win over the Auburn Wildcats today at Laney College. Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii) had a four-for-four day at the plate (a double, three singles, two walks and three runs scored), David Langer (Chabot) went three-for-four (a double, two singles, a walk and two runs scored), John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) had three singles and Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley JC) singled and hit a solo home run to lead the Crawdads’ offense. Kevin Whitaker (Laney) started on the mound and struck out five over five and two-thirds innings to earn the win but did allow the three Auburn runs, including a solo home run by Justin Glover (Eckerd) to lead off the fourth inning.
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Long Beach, CA
Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) hit a double in the seventh inning to drive in what would prove to be the game-winning run as the Long Beach Legends beat the Southern California Catch 4-3 today at Long Beach City College. Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St), Giovanni Garbella (Valparaiso) and Zack Chan (Hawaii) each hit an RBI-single to account for the other three Long Beach runs. Steven Garret (Azusa Pacific) hit a two-run single in the first inning, and Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft Smith) added a two-out, run-scoring single in the sixth to produce the Catch’s three runs. Seminaris and Grant Robbins (UNLV) each had two hits to lead the Catch nine-hit game. Garbella, who doubled and scored in the fourth inning, was the only Long Beach hitter with multiple hits.
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July 6, 2017
La Mirada, CA
Omar Ortiz (Pacific) hit a home run with one out in the ninth inning to give the Southern California Catch a 5-4 come-from-behind walk-off win today over the Conejo Oaks at Biola Univeristy. Ortiz’ home run, his second in as many days, completed a late-inning comeback for the Catch after the Oaks scored three runs in fifth inning on a two-run triple by Milo Beam (Purdue) and a run-producing out by Zayne Willems (Texas Tech) to take a 4-2 lead. The Catch had cut one run off the Oaks’ lead in the bottom of the fifth inning when Jonathan Ducoff (UC Irvine) scored Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) from first with a double, tied the score in the seventh when Grant Robbins (UNLV) singled and scored on a Sandmann single, before Ortiz did his walk-off trot. All the while, the Catch relief pitchers Conner Davis (Creighton), who came into the game in the sixth inning in relief of starter Bailey Martin (Miami), Tyler Hazlett (Hawaii-Pacific) and Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) were holding the Oaks hitters at bay. The three relievers pitched four scoreless innings to close out the game and allowed Conejo’s hitters only two singles, both of which were erased on the bases as the front end of double plays. The Catch had posted an early 2-0 lead when Robbins hit a two-out two-run home run to score Tobias Johnson (Arkansas St) who had singled with two outs. Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) singled to lead of the fourth inning and scored the Oaks first run on an RBI-groundball by DJ Miller (Ole Miss). Joey Deceglie (Northridge) started on the mound for Conejo and struck out nine over five innings.
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Ventura, CA
David Clawson (BYU) hit a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the first inning, his second two-run home run in as many days, and Jake McDonald (Texas Tech) allowed just two hits and struck out eight in six innings to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 10-5 win over the Ventura Halos today at Ventura College. Clawson’s homer gave Santa Barbara a lead they would never relinquish as the Foresters offense racked up five runs on five hits while McDonald, who posted four one-two-three innings out of his six pitched, faced only two batters over the minimum, those being Dayton Provost (Ventura JC), who hit a solo home run by in the fourth inning, and Joey Mendez (Fresno St), who singled in the fifth. Jake Pavletich (Cal St Fullerton) had three hits, including an RBI-double, Spencer Steer (Oregon) hit a two-run triple and Joey Fiske (St. Mary’s) drove in two to lead the Santa Barbara attack. Ventura put their first four batters aboard once McDonald was replaced to start the seventh inning and three of them scored, two on an RBI-single by Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills). Duarte also hit a double in the ninth inning and scored on a run-scoring single by Daniel Edson (USC) to cap their scoring. Jackson Cunningham started on the mound for the Halos, picking up five strikeouts in three innings of work, and Jacob Lopez (Canyons JC) recorded six strikeouts over four innings to highlight Ventura’s pitching.
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Fairfield, CA
Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) came off the bench and hit a two-out, two-run double in the sixth inning to give the Healdsburg Prune Packers a 4-3 lead, and Jamey Smart (LMU) hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning to put the game out of reach as Healdsburg beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 8-3 today at Yarborough Stadium. Pittman, who added an RBI-single in the eighth, and Smart, who had an RBI-ground ball in the first inning, produced seven of the eight Healdsburg runs between them, with Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) accounting for the eighth with an RBI-single also in the first. Alexander Pham (USC) started on the mound for Rockville, pitching five innings with seven strikeouts and left the game with the Rock Hounds leading 3-2. Rockville’s lead was brief, having scored twice in the fifth inning on run-scoring singles by William Homza (Brown) and Garlind Webster (ENMU). Homza and Zach Bartleme (Holy Nars) each had two hits to lead the Wildcats. Justin Giovannoni (Pacific) picked up the win on the mound for the Packers, throwing two and two-thirds innings of shutout ball in relief of starter Lyons Shamus (Santa Rosa JC) who went four and a third. Edward O’Bannon III (Pacific) finished the game for Healdsburg with two scoreless innings and three strikeouts to close out the win.
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Oakland, CA
Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) hit a two-run home run, David Langer (Chabot) hit an RBI-triple, Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley) hit an RBI-double and John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) doubled and singled all in the same inning as the Walnut Creek Crawdads scored seven times in their last at bat to overtake a two-run deficit and beat the Auburn Wildcats 15-10 today at Laney College. The eighth-inning extra-base hit fest for the Crawdads was, by no means, unique for this game. The two teams combined for 25 hits, eleven of them for extra bases, including a pair of home runs for Auburn’s Greg Vaughn Jr (LIU), a two-out, two-run blast in the first inning and a solo shot in the third. All nine batters in the Walnut Creek lineup got at least one hit and five finished with two, and three Auburn hitters finished with multiple-hit games, including Adam Moreau (Dayton) who had three. Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii) hit a bases-clearing three-run triple as part of the Crawdads six-run second inning to join Watkins and Vaughn with a game-high three RBI.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Mac Lardner(Gonzaga) notched eight strikeouts in a seven-inning start and Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit a two-run single with the bases loaded in a four-run seventh inning to propel the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 5-4 win over the Long Beach Legends tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The four-run inning gave the Blues a 4-2 lead and, after Long Beach staged a mini-rally to score two runs in the eighth inning and had the tying run in scoring position, Blues relief pitcher Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) came into the game to record the final four outs without further damage and closed out the win. Drew Judson (Hendrix) had a game-high three hits for the Blues, Emmerson finished with a game-high three RBI, while Trevor Steinman (Chico St) drove in two to lead Long Beach. John Szczesny (Azusa Pacific) started on the mound for Long Beach, allowed only one run in six innings with four strikeouts and left the game leading 2-1 and did not figure in the decision.
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July 5, 2017
Oakland, CA
James Free II (Pacific) and Lucas Halstead (Pacific) hit a pair of solo home runs each, going back-to-back with the tying and winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Neptune Beach Pearl a dramatic walk-off win over their North Division rival Healdsburg Prune Packers 6-5 today at Laney College. The back-to-back game changers were all the more dramatic because Healdsburg had scored four runs in their half of the ninth inning on only one hit, an RBI-double by Landon Etzel (Houston), to take a 5-4 lead. Trailing 4-1 going into the ninth, Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) was hit by a pitch to put the leadoff hitter aboard. Etzel’s double then advanced Pittman to third, a sacrifice fly drove in Pittman, Esteban Martinez walked and he and Etzel scored when Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) got aboard on a three-base error, and then Nagata scored on another sacrifice fly by Grant Little (Texas Tech) with what looked like would be the game-winning run for Healdsburg and a heart-breaking loss for Neptune Beach. Both teams have been trading places atop the CCL Standings as of late and so, when the first two batters in the bottom of the ninth inning were put out, it looked like Healdsburg would leapfrog the Pearl back into first place. But then Free hit a home run to tie the game, Halstead hit another and the game and the first place standing went to Neptune Beach in walk-off fashion. Halstead’s first home run to lead off the second inning opened the scoring for the Pearl and, after the Packers tied the score at 1-1 in the fifth when Reyes Fuentes (Houston) singled and scored on a Little two-out RBI, Neptune Beach again took the lead when Free hit his first home run to lead off the sixth. Zachary Miller (West Virginia) added an RBI-single in the sixth inning and Halstead singled home another run in the seventh to give Neptune Beach a 4-1 lead that would last until the ninth inning drama unfolded. Kevin Stone (Harvard) started on the mound for the Pearl, throwing seven innings of one-run ball with four strikeouts, and Alec Rennard (Michigan) started for Healdsburg, recording eight strikeouts in five innings, but neither figured in the decision.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
Evan Lee (Arkansas) threw six innings of shutout ball and the Santa Barbara Foresters scored eleven unanswered runs on their way to an 11-1 win over the Conejo Oaks today at Sparky Anderson Field. Lee, a true two-way baseball player who is in the top ten of the CCL leading hitters and was selected last night to represent the Foresters in the CCL All-Star game next week as an outfielder, struck out eight in his six-inning start today and allowed only five baserunners (three hits and two walks). And while Lee, who is also now the league leader in pitching with a 0.00 ERA in 15 total innings, was posting zeros on the scoreboard, the Foresters offense was posting crooked numbers. Santa Barbara scored four in one inning, three in another and two twice, collecting 15 hits as a team, to lead throughout. Zach Humphreys (TCU) started the scoring for the Foresters with an RBI-single in the second, followed by a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Galusky (West Virgina). David Clawson (BYU) hit a two-run home run in the third inning to make the score 4-0, Chandler Bengston (Columbia) hit a two-run single and Humphreys drove in another run with a single in the fifth to make it 7-0, Joey Fiske (St. Mary’s) hit a bases-loaded, two-out triple in the seventh and was driven in by the next batter, Hank LoForte (Cal St Fullerton), to make the score 11-0. The only blemish to the Foresters’ pitching line came in the ninth inning when the Oaks’ Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) got on base on a two-out error and scored on a Jordan McFarland (Arkansas) single. Fiske led all hitters with his three RBI and Humphreys and LoForte each finished with a game-high three hits. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) doubled and singled, and Zayne Willems (Texas Tech) singled twice to highlight the Oaks. Conejo used seven pitchers in today’s game and the performance that stood out was Ty Harpenau (Texas Tech) who struck out the side in his only inning of work in the eighth.
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Long Beach, CA
David Miranda (Florida Atlantic) hit a two-out, two-run triple in the first inning in what would prove to be the winning run as the Orange County Riptide beat the Long Beach Legends 4-1 today at Long Beach City College. The runs Miranda generated upped his league-leading total to 23 and gave Jordan Dosey, (UVA), Hunter Bigge (Harvard), Will Tomlinson (Brown) and Seth Jordan (Texas St), the four pitchers to see action on the mound today for the Riptide, all the run support they would need. In relief of Dosey, who started and went three innings, Bigge, Tomlinson and Jordan were close to perfect. Bigge, who relieved Dosey with no outs in the fourth after a run scored on the second double of the game for Daniel Zimmerman (Michigan), and a walk loaded the bases, struck out the first batter he faced and then induced an inning-ending double play to avoid further damage. He then retired six of the next eight batters, earning the win before turning pitching duties over to Tomlinson, who retired three in a row, and Jordan, who retired six in a row to close out the win and earn the save.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Blake Burton (Washington) hit a two-run double as part of the Arroyo Seco Saints four-runs scored before an out was recorded in the first inning, and Burton would go on to have a five-for-five night at the plate, but Justin Beck (San Jose St) would hit a couple of run-scoring doubles of his own as the San Luis Obispo Blues came back from the early deficit to beat the Saints 6-5.
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Oakland, CA
Sam Curtis (William Jessup) had four RBI and four singles, Dave Campbell (San Lose St) drove in five on a two-run double and three run-producing outs, and Nate Verlin drove in three more runs to lead the Auburn Wildcats to a 16-hit, 17-9 victory over the Walnut Creek Crawdads early today at Laney College.
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Ventura, CA
Omar Ortiz (Pacific) hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to give the Southern California Catch a 2-1 lead, Michael Tillman tied it 2-2 in the bottom half of the inning for the Venutra Halos with a run-scoring double, and then the Catch scored seven times during their eighth and ninth at bats on four doubles and two singles to win going away 9-2 today at Ventura College. Chris Vargas (UC Irvine), Chad Boudreaux (East Texas Baptist), Tallon Thomason (Fresno CC) and Matt Wade (SE Missouri St) combined for nine strikeouts and only one earned run in leading the Catch from the mound. Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills) opened the scoring with a solo home run in the fourth inning for Ventura.
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July 3, 2017
Pasadena, CA
The Orange County Riptide outhit the Arroyo Seco Saints 9-6 today, but a solo home run by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) and a second run scored without the benefit of hit proved enough for the Saints to post a 2-1 victory at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Durna’s home run, which came with two outs in the bottom of the first inning, was the only extra-base hit recorded by the Saints as two Orange County pitchers, Tanner Murphey and Phil Steering, who combined for nine strikeouts, outpitched the trio of pitchers from Arroyo Seco in terms of all the numbers except in the win column. The inning that cost the Riptide was the fourth and it was a self-inflicted run that determined the game. With Murphey on the mound, Blake Burton (Washington) led off the inning with walk, advanced to second when the next batter, Brendan Krob (Evansville), was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a groundball out and scored what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch. Tommy Costello (Washington), Josh Little (NC Central) and Tim Turner (George Mason), the three pitchers to take the mound for the Saints, stranded ten Riptide baserunners in the game, erased another four on the base paths, and combined for seven strikeouts. The only blemish to their outing happened in the fifth inning when Paul Gomez hit a one-out double and, after stealing third base, scored on a Joey Parente RBI-single. After Parente’s hit, Little came into the game in relief of Costello and struck out the next two batters to escape further damage. The Riptide would put runners on base in each of the last four innings, but Little and Turner stranded them all to hold the lead and pick up the save, respectively. Durna added a single in the fifth inning to finish as the only Saints player with a multiple-hit game. Gomez, Connor Beck (Texas Tech) and Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) each had two hits to lead Orange County.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
The San Luis Obispo Blues scored four times by runners who reached base on a walk, and Nathaniel Javine (Oregon Tech) had a game-high three RBI to lead the Blues to an 8-2 win over the Southern California Catch tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Outhit by the Catch 10-8, the Blues took advantage of the free passes issued by the Catch pitchers, scoring two runs in four different innings, each time including a walk that extended their at bats. On the other side of the pitching line, Jack Schneider (Grand Canyon), Jake Swiech (San Jose St) and Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) stranded eleven Catch baserunners, seven of them in scoring position, by striking out eight, half of which ended innings, and three times with at least one runner in scoring position. The Blues, who did not record an extra-base hit in the game, scored twice in the second, fourth, seventh and eighth innings on run-scoring singles by Javine and Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly), a sacrifice fly, an RBI-groundout, an error and a passed ball. Samuelson and Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) each had two hits and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) scored three runs to lead the San Luis Obispo offense. Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) had a game-high three hits, Tyler Fisher (Olivet Nazarene) doubled and singled, and Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) had two hits to lead the Catch.
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