June 27, 2018 Fullerton, CA Luke Bandy (Dallas Baptist) hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning, Austin Sojka (Ok Wesylan), Mason McWhorter (Georgia Southern) and Bandy drove in runs in consecutive at bats in the seventh to break open a seesaw game and lead the Orange County Riptide to a 6-3 win over the Southern California Catch today at Fullerton College. Bandy's homer, coming with two outs and following a two-out single by McWhorter, put the Riptide on the board for the first time in the game and tied the score 2-2 after the Catch scored twice in third inning on three consecutive singles and a sacrifice fly. Orange County took its first lead in the sixth when Bandy, who had a game-high three hits, singled, advanced station-to-station on a single and a groundout, and scored on a wild pitch. In the seventh inning it was the Catch's turn to tie the game when Skyler De Los Reyes (UC Riverside) singled to lead off the inning and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly. The tie game was short lived, however, as the Riptide put two runners on base in their next at bat with a one out walk and hit batsmen and Sojka drove in the go-ahead run with a single, McWhorter hit a sacrifice fly and Bandy collected his third RBI of the game with a run-scoring single to make the score 6-3. Doug Magee and Jacob Parker (Georgia Southern) retired the Catch in order in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, to secure the Orange County win. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere in the CCL today: Headsburg, CA The Santa Barbara Foresters swept a doubleheader against the Healdsburg Prune Packers, winning 2-0 and 7-5 today at Recreation Park. Gavin Velasquez (Cal St Fullerton), Hunter Breault (Oregon), Elliott Anderson (Auburn) and Bryce Elder (Texas) combined to throw a four-hit shutout in the first game, recording a total of 13 strikeouts while allowing only two walks and no extra base hits. Breault had a game-high five strikeouts in three innings of work in relief of Velasquez, who started and pitched two innings. Anderson pitched the sixth and seventh innings, notching three strikeouts and retired the last four batters he faced before turning the pitching duties over to Elder who retired all six batters of the eighth and ninth innings in order with four strikeouts. The Foresters scored single runs twice when Logan Allen (Arkansas-Ft. Smith), who had a game-high three hits, doubled home Ryan Cash (Oklahoma St), who had singled to lead off the third inning, and when Conor Davis (Auburn) singled to lead off the fifth inning and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly. Chase Illig (West Virgina), who tripled and singled, Cash, who added a second single, and Allen were the only Santa Barbara hitters to record a multiple-hit game. Quentin Selma (Cal) had two of the four singles to lead the Healdsburg offense. Sam Reinertsen (Pacific) started on the mound for the Packers, recording three strikeouts over four-plus innings, but allowed both Santa Barbara runs on eight hits to suffer the loss. In the nightcap, Davis hit a solo home run, Cash hit a two-run triple and the Foresters withstood a last-inning rally that saw the Packers score three times and put the tying run on base before James Notary (TCU), who was brought into pitch mid-inning to get the last out with the bases loaded and surrendered a Jacob MacNichols (Santa Clara) two-run double, struck out the final batter to close out the win. Notary was brought into the game in relief of Chase Wallace (Tennessee), the fifth Santa Barbara pitcher used in the game, who started the ninth with the Foresters comfortably leading 7-2. But when two hit batsmen and, after a strikeout, two walks forced in a run and loaded the bases, Notary was brought in. The Foresters had a 6-0 lead earlier in the game, scoring twice in the second inning on RBI-singles by Davis and Turner Gauntt (Texas), once in the third when Davis earned an RBI for drawing a bases-loaded walk, and three times in the fifth when one run scored on an error and Cash drove two in with a two-out double. Eric Pamow, the third Healdsburg pitcher of the game, struck out eight over the next four innings and, for the most part, shutdown the Foresters offense. The only hit he allowed was Davis' solo home run in the seventh inning. Other than that and one walk, Parnow retired every batter he faced. Luke Fegen (Indiana State) doubled to lead off the fifth, eventually scoring on a sacrifice fly to get the Packers on the board, and Sam Wezniak (Cal) hit a solo home run in the sixth to account for the other Healdsburg run. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Brandon Ponticelli (Kansas) and Nick Rincover (Pierce College) struck out seven and six batters, respectively, Elijah Alexander (Rio Grande Valley) had three hits, including an RBI-triple, Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) hit an RBI-triple and Andrew Lucas (Northridge) hit a solo home run to lead the Coenjo Oaks to a 6-1 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ponticelli started on the mound for Conejo and, despite allowing a lead off home run by Jay Charleston (Tennessee), a single and a hit batsmen to the first three batters he faced, settled in for a strong outing, retiring the next nine batters in order and, with the help of a fourth inning double play, 15 of the next 17. He did face some adversity in the sixth inning, however, when an error let the lead off man aboard and two walks loaded the bases, but he was relieved by Rincover, who proceeded to strikeout the last two batters of the inning and the Oaks escaped unscathed. Rincover then faced his own adversity in the seventh, escaping another two out situation with runners in scoring position by striking out the last batter, before striking out two more in the eighth and retiring the side in order in the ninth to close out the win. The Oaks never trialed in the game. Charleston's home run in the first only tied the game 1-1 because Michael Spears (Ole Miss), who had singled and moved to third on a Brandon Lewis (UC Irvine) double, scored on a Cockrell RBI-ground out. Conejo took the lead for good in the second inning when Alexander tripled in Drew Sims (Utah Valley), and added to it when Spears, who with Alexander had a game-high three hits, singled and scored on a Cockrell RBI-single in the third, and Alexander doubled and scored on a Tanner Wright (Cal Lu) RBI-single in the fourth. Lucas' home run in the eighth inning and Cockrell scoring on a wild pitch after tripling in the ninth accounted for the last two Oaks runs. Chase Walter (Western Carolina), who came into the game in relief of Blues' starting pitcher Dane Morrow (Pepperdine) in the fourth inning, and Josh Andrews (Grand Canyon), who pitched after Walter, each recorded four strikeouts in two innings of work to highlight the San Luis Obispo pitching. Click here for recaps of this game