July 30, 2017

Compton, CA
The Orange County Riptide defeated the Healdsburg Prune Packers in the winner-take-all final game of the California Collegiate League Playoffs today at the MLB Youth Academy to claim their first CCL championship. The Riptide entered the final day of the double-elimination playoffs as the undefeated team and, thus, had the advantage of needing to win only one of two possible games against the Packers, whom they defeated yesterday 7-1, while Healdsburg would need to win both games today. And, after Healdsburg won the first game today 4-3, the second game became a true winner-take-all championship game that the Riptide won 5-3.

Jordan Dosey (Virginia) pitched five scoreless innings, Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) had three hits and scored the first two Orange County runs, and RBI-doubles by Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) and Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) led the Riptide to the championship. Given a one-run lead after Phillip singled and scored from first on Fletcher’s double in the top of the first inning, Dosey retired the first seven batters he faced, including erasing a walk with a double-play in the second, before facing his first real test in the third inning. With one out in the third, Clay Koelzer (Texas Tech) singled and advanced into scoring position when the next batter was hit by a pitch. A two-out walk loaded the bases for Healdsburg but Dosey got a flyball out to strand all three runners. Then, in the fourth inning when Healdsburg loaded the bases again with one out on a walk and two singles, Dosey escaped damage again even though Koelzer hit a pop fly into the sundrenched outfield that fell to the turf, because right fielder Joey Parente (Lewis & Clark) quickly picked up the ball he lost in the sun and threw home to beat the runner from third for the second out, and Dosey induced a ground out for the third. Orange County increased its lead whenPhillip doubled and scored on a passed ball in the fifth inning, Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Tate Shaw (Texas) in the sixth, Fletcher, who hit a single to lead off the eighth, scored from first on Pulcheon’s double and Pulcheon scored two outs later on a single by Shaw to make the score 5-0. Healdsburg got within striking distance in the bottom half of the eighth inning when Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC) led off with a single, Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) doubled and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) hit a three-run home run to make the score 5-3, but Braxton Smith (Louisiana Tech), who entered the game to pitch for the Riptide in the sixth inning, and Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), who pitched the ninth, closed out the game by retiring the last five batters in order, three via strikeouts, and Orange County claimed the 2017 CCL Championship.
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Alec Rennard (Michigan) struck out nine over seven innings, Grant Little (Texas Tech) and Jamey Smart (LMU) had run-scoring hits in a three-run seventh inning to overtake a 3-1 deficit, and Jared Noonan stranded a runner in each of the last two innings to lead Healdsburg to a 4-3 win in the first win-or-go home early game today. While Orange County jumped out to an early lead after a two-out RBI-single by Paul Gomez followed by a run-scoring double by Parente scored two in the second inning, Rennard retired the next ten batters in order, five via strikeouts, before giving up a solo home run by Fletcher and a double to Pulcheon to lead off the sixth inning, and then retired the next six batters, one on the bases as part of a double-play to keep the score close. The Healdsburg offense had the makings of rally in the fifth inning when Tofteland reached on a leadoff walk, advanced to third on a single by Brodnansky and scored on a single by Esteban Martinez (San Jose St), but Parker Joe Robinson (Texas), who had not allowed a run in 16-plus innings this summer, came into pitch in relief of starter Ricky Reynoso (Pacific) with runners on first and second and nobody out and, despite giving up a one-out single to Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) to load the bases, fielded a broken-bat grounder and threw to the plate to start a 1-2-3 double-play that squelched the rally and kept his summer scoreless summer intact. With one out in the seventh inning, however, the Healdsburg rally came to fruition. Martinez singled, Landon Etzel (Houston) drew a walk and, after a Nagata ground out advanced the runners to second and third, Little hit a two-out RBI-infield single that generated a second run when the attempted throw to try a beat him to first sailed past the first baseman and allowed Etzel to score the tying run and Little to get into scoring position. Smart then drove a double to the wall to score Little with the go-ahead and eventual game-winning run. Rennard got a 6-4-3 double-play to erase a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh inning before turning the ball over to Noonan, who got the final six outs, two on strikeouts to give Healdsburg the win and the winner-take-all matchup that followed.
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Fletcher, who had two hits in each of the four Orange County playoff games, including a home run, and drove in three runs, was named the most valuable player of the playoffs.

2017 California Collegiate League All-Tournament Team

MVP: Dominic Fletcher, CF (Arkansas) Orange County

Chase Gardner, LHP (UConn), Healdsburg
Juan Cortina, RHP (St. Edwards), Orange County
Alec Rennard, RHP (Michigan), Healdsburg
Brandon Lewis, OF (LA Pierce College), Conejo
Logan Pouelsen, 3B (Hawaii), Orange County
Beau Phillip, SS (San Joaquin JC), Orange County
Grant Little, SS (Texas Tech), Healdsburg
Jamey Smart, LF, (Loyola Marymount), Healdsburg
Tate Shaw, RF (Texas), Orange County

Go to the CCL Playoffs Info Center for the complete playoffs schedule and details about how to watch replays of all the playoff games online.

July 29, 2017

Compton, CA
The Orange County Riptide and the Healdsburg Prune Packers, the top two teams in the CCL standings this season, will meet in the championship game 10am tomorrow at the MLB Youth Academy as the 2017 CCL Playoffs reach their culmination. Orange County defeated Healdsburg 7-1 in the winners’ game today to advance directly to the championship game while Healdsburg had to win the second elimination game tonight, defeating the Conejo Oaks 8-7, to advance.

Juan Cortina (St. Edwards) pitched six innings, allowing one run on four hits while striking out four, Timothy Holdgrafer pitched three scoreless innings in relief, and Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) hit a solo home and a pair of RBI-singles to lead the Riptide in their winners’ game victory. Cortina, who did not issue a walk during his six-inning start, pitched with runners on base in all but one inning, yet never allowed Healdsburg, the top offensive team in the CCL this season, to get a rally going. Stranding one runner in the first, Cortina got all the run support he would need in the top of the second inning when Pouelsen led off with a solo home run, Connor Beck (Texas Tech) singled, Tate Shaw (Texas) doubled and, after Healdsburg’s starting pitcher Cooper Casad (Pacific) retired the next two batters, Joey Parente (Lewis & Clark) hit a two-run single to give Orange County a 3-0 lead. Cortina then stranded two runners in the bottom half of the second inning, and a double-play erased another baserunner in the third before Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) hit a solo home run to lead off the fourth inning to get Healdsburg on the board. Cortina then retired the next eight batters in order before stranding one final runner in the sixth inning. Four consecutive two-singles by the Riptide in the fifth inning increased the Orange County lead by two, and a leadoff double by Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC), a two-out single by Pouelsen and a two-base error in the seventh increased it to 7-1. Holdgrafer gave up a single to Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) to lead off the seventh inning, but that was the only hit he allowed, striking out two over the final three innings to close out the win.
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A little more than an hour after their loss to Orange County, the Healdsburg offense showed their strength in the second elimination game today. The Packers scored three runs in the first inning on an RBI-double by Jamey Smart (LMU) and a sacrifice fly by Brett Bautista (San Jose St), three runs on three RBI-doubles by Smart, Warren and Tofteland in the third inning and one in the fourth on a run-scoring single by Warren in the fourth to jump out to a 7-1 lead over the Oaks. Justin Giovannoni (Pacific), who started on the mound for Healdsburg, benefitted from the early run support and, despite giving up a solo home run to Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) in the second inning and a two-run home run to Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) that cut the Healdsburg lead to 7-3, was in control of the game until the sixth inning when he issued three walks, the only walks of his stint, that all came in to score, two on a double by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and one on a ground out by Jordan McFarland (Arkansas) that got the Oaks back in the game 7-6. Alex Waldsmith (Santa Clara) relieved Giovannoni after Miller’s double and retired the two batters he faced to limit the damage and, after Healdsburg scored one more run on a passed ball in the seventh inning, Chrit Rudkin took over the pitching duties. Rudkin faced a tough situation right away after walking the first batter he faced in the bottom of the seventh and then giving up a double to Milo Beam (Purdue) that put two runners in scoring position with no outs, but Rudkin struck out the next three batters, allowing one runner to score on a wild pitch, to maintain the Packers’ lead 8-7. He then pitched a perfect eighth inning and Jared Noonan pitched a perfect ninth to give Healdsburg the win and another shot at the Riptide and the CCL championship tomorrow. Kenneth Johnson Jr. (Cal St Bakersfield) started on the mound for Conejo, lasting only two innings to suffer the loss before turning the pitching duties over to Jacob Flores (USC), who allowed one run on three hits while striking out three in three innings, and Robby Medel (Arizona), who notched five strikeouts over the last four innings, allowing one run on two hits.
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In the first elimination game today, played just prior to the Orange County-Healdsburg matchup, Theron Kay (Northridge), Angus Denton (Arkansas) and Eric Ma (Whitman College) stranded 13 runners on base, allowing only two runs despite giving up a combined 14 hits, Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce College) drove in three runs on a two-run home run and an RBI-double and Miller and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) each hit two-run home runs to lead the Oaks to an 8-2 win over Neptune Beach that eliminated the Pearl from the playoffs. Lewis’s double was the third consecutive hit the Oaks strung together to lead off the game, following singles by Beam and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) and, together with a Cockrell RBI-ground out, put the Oaks up 2-0. Miller’s home run in the third inning upped the score to 4-0 before James Free (Pacific) drove in a run for Neptune on a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Lewis’ home run in the seventh and Shaikin’s homer in the eighth then put the game away for the Oaks.
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Healdsburg and Orange County will meet in the CCL Championship Game tomorrow at 10am, with a second “if necessary” game to follow at 2pm should Healdsburg win the first game.

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July 28, 2017

Compton, CA
The Orange County Riptide and the Healdsburg Prune Packers won their first-round games at the CCL Playoffs today at the MLB Youth Academy and will meet tomorrow at 2pm with the winner going directly to the championship game Sunday and the loser having to face an elimination game at 6pm Saturday before being able to advance.

Tate Shaw (Texas) hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh inning that proved to be the winning margin, Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) kept his scoreless pitching summer going, stranding two runners in scoring position in the sixth and Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech) struck out four over the final three innings to close out a 5-4 win for the Riptide over the Neptune Beach Pearl in the early game today. The Riptide scored two runs in their first at bat to take the early lead when Joey Parente led off by reaching on a two-base error, advanced to third on a Beau Phllip (Lewis & Clark) single and scored on a Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) single for the first run, and Phillip, after stealing second base and advancing to third on Fletcher’s single, scored on an RBI-groundout by Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) for the second run. Orange County starting pitcher Hayden Shenefield retired the first six batters he faced in order, two on the bases via a fielder’s choice and a caught stealing, before Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) hit a solo home run to lead off the third inning and make the score 2-1. Rosa led off the fifth inning with a single and scored when David Kyriacou (Kansas) hit a ball over the right-field wall to give the Pearl a 3-2 lead, but the lead was brief as the Riptide scored two of their own in the bottom half of the inning when Cooper Uhl (LMU) walked, Paul Gomez singled, both runners advanced on an infield ground out, Uhl scored on an RBI-ground out by Phillip and Gomez scored on a passed ball. A one-out single by Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) prompted Riptide manager Tyger Pederson to bring Robinson into the game to relieve Shenefield and, after recording the second out, Robinson gave up a double to Rosa, his third hit of the game, to put two runners in scoring position. Robinson struck out the next batter to increase his scoreless inning streak this summer to 16. Kilian then entered the game to pitch in the top of the seventh and, after retiring the side in order, got an important insurance run to work with when Shaw hit his home run. Kilian then retired the side in order in the eighth inning and struck out the first two batters of the ninth before Kyriacou, Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and Harrison Moore, who also had three hits in the game, hit three consecutive two-out singles to get score one and get within one, but Kilian got a fly-ball for the final out of the game. Kevin Stone (Harvard) started on the mound for Neptune Beach, striking out four in seven innings of work and suffered the loss.
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Chase Gardner (UConn) struck out nine over six innings, Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St), Jamey Smart (LMU) and Brett Bautista (San Jose St) each had three hits and the Healdsburg offense scored six runs in the first two innings en route to beating the Conejo Oaks 9-5 in the second game of the playoffs today. Gardner, who was the league’s showcase starter in the CCL All-Star game earlier this month, set the tempo of how the game would go for Conejo in the first inning, fielding a bunt for a one-pitch out and then striking out the next two batters. Then the Healdsburg offense set its own tempo in the bottom half of the inning when Nagata led off with a triple, Smart, the league’s RBI-leader, drove Nagata home with a single, and Bautista hit an RBI-triple to give Healdsburg a 2-0 lead. Gardner struck out two more in a scoreless top of the second inning and then Healdsburg pounced on the opportunity of two leadoff walks in the bottom half, scoring four runs on RBI-singles by Nagata and Smart and sacrifice flies by Grant Little (Texas Tech) and Bautista. Gardner held the Oaks scoreless until one out in the fourth inning, when a walk and a reached-on-error put two runners on in front of a DJ Miller (Ole Miss) double and, after an RBI-ground out plated a second run for the Oaks, Gardner finished through the sixth without any further trouble. The Oaks did make a run late, scoring three runs in the seventh inning on a sacrifice fly by Milo Beam (Purdue) and RBI-doubles by Max Winstein (Cal Lutheran) and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce College), but that was all they would get off Nolan Bond (Houston), who came in to pitch in relief of Gardner in the seventh and went on to retire the side in order in the final two innings.
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Healdsburg and Orange County will meet in the Winners Game tomorrow at 2pm. Conejo and Neptune Beach will meet in the first elimination game at 10am. The winner of the 10am game and the loser of the 2pm will meet in the second elimination game Saturday at 6pm.

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July 27, 2017

Pasadena, CA
Justin Beck (San Jose St) had three hits, including a home run in his final at bat this summer, Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly) had three hits and two RBI, Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) had three hits and two RBI, Myles Emerson (Cal Poly) hit a two-run double and a sacrifice-fly and Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) had three hits to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to an 11-9 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Jackie Robinson Stadium in the final regular season contest in the CCL this summer. Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) started on the mound for the Blues, collecting six strikeouts over five innings to pick up the win. Arroyo Seco had a “staff day” on the mound, sending nine different pitchers in to pitch one final inning. Brennan Mckenzie (Cal Poly Pomona) had three hits, Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) hit a pair of run-scoring singles and Brock Bell (Northridge) hit a two-run double to lead the Saints.
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CCL Playoffs
Friday Jul 28-30
MLB Youth Academy
901 E Artesia Blvd.
Compton, CA 90221

Four-team double-elimination tournament

Friday matchups
12pm Game 1: Neptune Beach Pearl at Orange County Riptide
4pm Game 2: Conejo Oaks at Healdsburg Prune Packers

Saturday matchups
10am Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2 (elimination game)
2pm Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2
6pm Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs Loser Game 4 (elimination game)

Sunday Championship
10am Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5
2pm Game 7 (if necessary): Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5

July 26, 2017

San Luis Obispo, CA
Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce College) doubled to lead off the seventh inning and scored the go ahead run on a Chase Cokrell (Ole Miss) RBI-single, Lewis doubled again to lead off the ninth inning and scored when Cockrell hit a home run and Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) hit a solo home run in the ninth to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 5-1 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The result clinched the fourth and final spot in the CCL playoffs set to begin Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton for the Oaks and eliminated the Blues from contention. The two teams entered the game one-half game apart in the standings and the winner tonight was in the driver’s seat for the playoffs, the Oaks clinching the spot outright, the Blues having to win again tomorrow night to clinch. The Oaks win settled things and, as the number four seed, they will meet the number one seed Healdsburg Prune Packers in the 4pm game on Friday. Jackson Simonsgaard (Oxnard College), Ty Harpenau (Texas Tech) and Robert Medel (Arizona) pitched for the Oaks tonight, striking out a combined eight batters, walking only one and allowing one run on five hits. Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) started on the mound for the Blues and struck out six over seven innings, allowing two runs on seven hits to suffer the loss. Mayeaux doubled in the second inning and scored on a Jordan McFarland (Arkansas) single to give the Oaks the early 1-0 lead that lasted until the seventh when Lewis doubled and scored to make the lead two. The Blues scored their only run in the bottom of the seventh when Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) singled and scored on a two-out RBI-single by Robbie Silva. Medel pitched the last two innings scoreless with three strikeouts to close out the win for Conejo.
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Ventura, CA
Chris McKee (Ventura College) singled with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, stole second base and scored on a Blake Mann (UCSB) walk-off double to give the Ventura Halos an 8-7 win over the Orange County Riptide today at Ventura College. The final regular season game for both teams, the win by Ventura snapped their 13-game losing streak, knocked Orange County from the number one seed in the CCL playoffs and cemented the CCL hitting crown for Ventura’s Dayton Provost (Ventura College). Provost, who led the CCL in batting average for most of the season, had two singles in five at bats in today’s game to finish the summer with a league-best .431 average, almost 20 percentage points higher than Healdsburg’s Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) who finished second in the league at .402. The loss moved Orange County one-half game behind the Healdsburg Prune Packers for the top regular season record in the CCL and means the Riptide will be the number two seed in the CCL playoffs Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, when they will meet the Neptune Beach Pearl, the number three seeded team, in the first game of the playoffs at noon.

The two teams traded runs throughout today’s game as Orange County used seven pitchers to keep every arm tuned and rested for the playoffs and the Halos used four. The Riptide scored first on three consecutive two-singles in the first inning and the Halos tied in the second when Rudy Aguilar (Ventura College) doubled in a run. Connor Beck (Texas Tech) and Joey Parente hit run-scoring singles in the third for Orange County, and Nic Lacayo (Michigan St) hit a two-run single in the bottom of the inning to tie the score again. Mitch Andrews (Lamar) hit a two-out RBI-double for Orange County in the fourth and Aaron Greenfield (UNC) added an RBI-ground out in the sixth to give the Riptide a three-run lead, but Aguilar tripled to lead off the sixth, scored on a McKee ground out and Christian Jones (Washington) hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh to get the Halos within one. Tate Shaw (Texas) hit a leadoff double for Orange County in the eighth and scored on a Beck groundout, and again in the bottom of the inning, the Halos tied the score when Provost scored on a two-out double by Daniel Edson (USC) and Edson scored on a single by Calvin Farris (Brown). That all setup Mann’s walk-off double to win it in the ninth.
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Long Beach, CA
Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) hit a bases-loaded, two-out, three-run double in the eighth inning, and Aaron Soto (Marymount) stranded two runners in scoring position in the last two innings to lead the Academy Barons to a 6-5 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Long Beach City College. Trailing 4-3 heading into the eighth, Argumedo’s double was one of only four Barons hits in the game and the three runners he drove in were available because an error extended the inning, making five of their six runs in the game unearned. Soto, the fourth pitcher used by the Academy, entered the game once the Barons got the lead and stranded Luke DeVenney (Eastern Michigan), who had tripled, in the eighth inning, and left two runners stranded in the ninth, after Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) reached on an error, advanced to third on a single by Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Scott Savage (Masters) in the ninth to pick up the win. Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown) hit a two-run home run and Gamble had an RBI-single in third inning, and Griffin Keller (Santa Clara) drove in Connor Montgomery, who had a triple, double and single in the game, in the fourth inning to give Long Beach the early lead. Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) score two unearned runs for the Barons early after reaching base on an error and scoring on an error in the first inning, and after singling, advancing to third on an error and scoring on an RBI-ground out by Eric Whitfield in the fourth. Argumedo reached on an error in the seventh inning and scored the Barons third run on an RBI-ground out by Donovyn Curiel (Citrus JC). DeVenney started on the mound for Long Beach and recorded seven strikeouts over seven innings, allowing five runs, four unearned, on only two hits.
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Pasadena, CA
The Southern California Catch scored nine unearned runs and beat the Arroyo Seco Saints 11-8 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Tyler Fisher (Olivet Nazarene) and Nate Pecota (William Jewell) each had a double and two singles and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) doubled twice and scored twice to lead the Catch. Mitch Kerner (Emory) hit three singles and scored three times, Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) hit a double, two singles and scored two runs and Blake Burton (Washington) hit three singles to lead the Saints.
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Auburn, CA
Shane Betts drove in four runs on three singles, Aaron Fritts (Spokane Falls CC) had three hits, including a two-run home run, and Brock Ragatz (Northern St) notched six strikeouts to lead the Auburn Wildcats to an 8-6 win over the Rockville Rock Hounds tonight at James Field. With the scored tied 5-5 in the eighth inning, Gaige Howard (Kenyon College) hit an RBI-ground out, and Betts and Sam Curtis (William Jessup) each had RBI-singles to give Auburn the lead. Dominic Foscalina (Utah) hit a two-run double, Kyle Krebs (Solano CC) singled twice and scored twice and Zachary Bartelme (Holy Nars) singled twice to lead the Rock Hounds.
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July 24, 2017

Thousand Oaks, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters scored four runs by batters who reached base without the benefit of a hit to spoil the first opportunity the Conejo Oaks had to clinch the last spot in the CCL playoffs, beating the Oaks 4-2 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Two of the batters who scored reached base on a walk, one by being hit by a pitch and the fourth by reaching on an error. Zach Humphreys (TCU) drove in two of the runs with an RBI-single in the third inning and a run-producing ground out in the fifth. Chandler Bengston (Columbia) drove in what proved to be the game-winner with a two-out single in the sixth inning and the last Foresters run scored in the ninth inning when Spencer Steer (Oregon) walked with two outs, advanced to second on Josh Jung (Texas Tech) single, advanced to third on a Luke Ritter (Wichita St) single and scored on a balk. The Oaks, who never had the lead in the game, scored once in the third inning when Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) led off with a single and scored on a two-out RBI-single by DJ Miller (Ole Miss), and once in the eighth after Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss), Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) and Juan Gonzalez (Oklahoma Baptist) hit three consecutive singles to start the inning, loading the bases with no outs. Codi Santana (Hawaii-Pacific) then hit into a double-play that scored Cockrell but also cut short a potential big inning. Santa Barbara used five pitchers in the game, the Oaks six. Ty Weist (Columbia) picked up the win with a five-inning start, allowing one run on five hits and striking out five. Theron Kay (Northridge) started on the mound for Conejo, throwing five innings, allowing three runs on only two hits and striking out four to suffer the loss. Conejo, which has a half-game lead on the San Luis Obispo Blues for the fourth and final spot in the CCL playoffs set to start Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, have one game left in San Luis Obispo against the Blues on Wednesday. The Blues, have three games remaining and must win all three to advance to the playoffs.
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July 22, 2017

Pasadena, CA
Juan Gonzalez (Oklahoma Baptist) produced runs with three different hits, including a home run, Milo Beam (Purdue) and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) hit RBI-triples, and Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) hit run-scoring doubles to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 12-7 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The win, coupled with San Luis Obispo Blues’ loss to the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight, moved Conejo one game in front of the Blues for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. The Oaks scored in seven of the nine at bats they had in the game today, scoring three times in the first, two on Cockrell’s double and a third on a single by Gonzalez, to establish a lead they would not relinquish. The two teams each had four players with two or more hits, including a three-hit day for Scottie Graham (LMU) for the Saints, and Gonzalez, who also hit an RBI-double in the fifth inning and a solo home run in the ninth, finished with three for the Oaks. Conejo used five pitchers in the game, including Jacob Flores (USC) who started and went four and a third innings with four strikeouts to pick up the win. Grant Vogenthaler (SF State) notched six strikeouts in four innings for the Saints in relief of starter Josh Walker (Butler), but both pitchers allowed five runs and Walker was saddled with the loss.
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Santa Barbara, CA
Blake Brewster (Oklahoma) hit a three-run home run in the first inning, Hank LoForte (Cal St. Fullerton) hit a two-run home run in the second, and Chandler Bengston (Columbia) hit a two-run home run in the fifth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 11-5 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Pershing Park. The loss for the Blues, coupled with the Conejo Oaks’ win in Pasadena today, moved the Blues one game behind the Oaks for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. Brewster’s homer was the big hit in a six-run, six-hit first inning for the Foresters that also included a one-out triple by LoForte, and RBI-singles by Josh Jung (Texas Tech) and Walker Grisanti (Vanderbilt). Then, after the Blues scored two unearned runs in the second inning, LoForte’s homer moved the lead back to six, 8-2. Evan Lee (Arkansas), who started on the mound for Santa Barbara and recorded eight strikeouts over six innings, allowed the first earned runs of his summer in the third inning when Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) led off with a single, moved to third on a ground rule double by Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands), and both scored one out later when Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) doubled. Lee struck out the next two batters to avoid further damage and pitched the next three innings scoreless. Jung again drove in LoForte in the fourth inning with a single, and Bengston’s homer in the fifth put the Foresters up 11-4. Braden Pearson (Texas St) was the first reliever into the game for Santa Barbara, pitching one and a third scoreless before handing the ball to John McMillon (Texas Tech) who pitched the last inning and two thirds, striking out three and allowing one run on an RBI-single by Yamazaki, his third hit of the game, to close out the win. Austin Dondanville (Cal Poly) started on the mound for the Blues, allowing all eleven runs on eleven hits in five innings to suffer the loss. Jeremy Jess (Pomona-Pitzer) pitched the last three innings scoreless with five strikeouts.
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Oakland, CA
Trailing 3-0, the Neptune Beach Pearl scored five runs in their last two at bats, two on a home run by James Free II (Pacific) in the seventh inning, and one on an RBI-triple by David Kyriacou (Kansas) in the eighth to beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 5-4 tonight at Laney College. Rockville, who had posted an early 2-0 lead in the first inning when Willy Homza (Brown) hit a two-out, two-run home run, and a 3-0 lead when Grant St. Martin (Sonoma St) led off the top of the seventh inning with a solo home run, made a run at tying the game in the ninth inning when, with one out, St. Martin reached on a two-base error and, after the next batter was hit by a pitch and Kenney Quilatan (Solano CC) singled to load the bases to put the tying run in scoring position, St. Martin scored on a Daniel Page sacrifice fly. Jake Paredes, the third pitcher to come into the game in relief of starter Addison Moss (Rice), who struck out six in six innings and allowed only the first inning home run and one other hit before retiring 16 of the last 17 batters he faced, recorded the last out to save the win. A Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley) single to drive in Michael Woodworth (Sierra), who led off the seventh inning with a single, was the first Neptune Beach run before Free tied the score 3-3 with his home run. Kyriacou’s triple in the eighth inning drove in Tim Lichty (Texas A&M), who had led off the inning with a double, and an RBI-ground out by Woodworth drove Kyriacou home with the fifth run.
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Irvine, CA
Juan Cortina (St. Edwards), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), Jeff Kross (Orange Coast JC) and Michael Gates (USC) combined for eleven strikeouts, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) and Connor Beck (Texas Tech) went double-double to generate two runs in the fifth inning, and Beck and Joey Parente each hit an RBI-single in the seventh to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-2 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Concordia University. A tune-up session for the playoffs starting Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in which the Riptide have already reserved a spot by clinching the CCL South Division two days ago, Cortina went four innings, striking out six, before turning the ball over to the three relievers, who threw five scoreless innings, allowing only three singles and two walks to close out the win. The only blip to the pitching line was in the third inning when Cortina issued a leadoff walk to Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific), Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown) doubled Gamble home and Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) drove O’Reilly home with a run-scoring single to give Long Beach a 2-0 lead. Scott Savage (Masters), who started on the mound for the Legends, made that lead stick until the fifth when Andrews doubled home Tate Shaw (Texas), who had reach on a walk, and Beck doubled Andrews home to tie the score. Savage was still on the mound when Beck drove in Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC), who had singled to lead off the seventh inning, with what would be the game winning run. Charles Carr (Grinnell) then came into pitch for Long Beach and, after recording the second out of the inning, gave up Parente’s RBI-single that made the final score.
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La Mirada, CA
Matt Mogollon (Chapman), Blair Frederick (LSU) and Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) combined to throw a seven-hit shutout, Denzyl Chapman (San Diego St) hit a two-run double, Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) hit an RBI-triple and Randy Rubio (Marymount) continued his hot hitting with three hits today, including a run-scoring single, to lead the Academy Barons to a 5-0 win over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Mogollon started on the mound for the Barons and struck out six in six innings of work, allowing five hits, all singles, with no walks and was helped by two Barons’ double-plays to earn the win. Frederick pitched two innings, allowing only two walks, and was the beneficiary of a third double-play turned in by the defense, before turning the ball over to Tungate, who struck out two, stranding two runners who reached by a walk and single, to close out the win. Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) singled and scored the first run of the game in the first inning when, after stealing second base, he was driven in by Rubio’s first hit. Arugmedo then drove in Rubio with his triple to make the score 2-0. Hayden Jorgenson (Azusa Pacific) started on the mound for the Catch, striking out six in six innings, and, after Argumedo’s triple, retired ten straight before Joshua Stephens reached on an error with one out in the fifth inning. Bruce Martin (Stetson) doubled Stephens to third in front of Chapman’s two-run double to make the score 4-0. Martin’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning accounted for the final run of the game. Rubio’s three hits were a game-high, Dean-Hargroves, Argumedo and Stephens each had two hits for the Barons, and Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) each had two for the Catch.
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July 20, 2017

Santa Barbara, CA
Ricky Reynoso (Pacific), Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) and Will Tomlinson (Brown) combined to throw a two-hitter, Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) and Paul Gomez each got a two-out RBI and the only triple-play in the league this summer helped the Orange County Riptide beat the Santa Barbara Foresters 3-2 today at Pershing Park. The Orange County trio of pitchers, who struck out ten while walking three, allowed two runs in innings in which they did not allow a hit. Reynoso, who started and struck out five in six innings, allowed one run in the first inning by giving up a walk to leadoff hitter Austin Todd (Texas) who then stole two bases and scored on an RBI-ground out, and Tomlinson, who pitched the final inning to pick up the save, hit the leadoff batter he faced, balked him to second, wild pitched him to third and gave up a sacrifice fly for the second Santa Barbara run. Of the two hits the Foresters did get, Reynoso stranded the first in the fourth inning and Santa Barbara ran one off the bases in the sixth when Todd led off with a single, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt with no out recorded and, when Josh Jung (Texas Tech), who had both RBI in the game for the Foresters, grounded into a double-play, Todd tried to score from second but was thrown out at the plate for a triple play. Joey Parente led off the game with a single and scored to give the Riptide a 1-0 lead when Pulcheon drove him in with a two-out single. The Riptide took the lead in the second when Gomez, again with two outs, doubled home Tate Shaw (Texas) from first and added an unearned run in the seventh when Shaw, who finished with a game-high three hits, singled, stole a base and scored on an error. Robinson, who came into the game for two innings in relief of Reynoso, extended his scoreless summer to 15 1/3 innings pitched, retiring six of seven today with four strikeouts.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
The Conejo Oaks scored five runs in their first at bat on only two hits, a two-run single by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and a two-run home run by Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss), then scored seven runs in the third, capped by a two-out grand slam by Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC), on their way to beating the San Luis Obispo Blues 16-6 tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The win moves the Oaks one game in front of the Blues for the CCL Central Division berth in the CCL playoffs a week from tomorrow in Compton, likely the only path into the playoffs for either team although, mathematically, they are both still in contention for the wild card berth. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) each had two RBI for the Oaks, while Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) and Justin Beck (San Jose St), who hit a solo home run in the eighth inning, drove in two each for the Blues. Cockrell, who added a single and a double later in the game, finished with a game-high three hits.
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Compton, CA
Wesley Albert (Lee) struck out seven in five innings, Joe Mercado (Dominguez Hills) struck out six over four innings, allowing only one hit each, and Randy Rubio (Marymount) drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single to give the Academy Barons a lead in the third inning they would not give back as the Barons beat the Ventura Halos 6-1 today at the MLB Youth Academy. Hunter Allen (Alabama State) had an RBI-single, Donovyn Curiel (Citrus JC) drove in two with a single and an RBI-ground out, and Bruce Martin (Stetson) hit a double, a single and scored twice to lead the Barons. Devan Peterson (Harvard) hit a solo home run in the third inning and Dayton Provost (Ventura JC) doubled to lead off the ninth to account for the only Ventura hits. Aside from the home run by Peterson, only one other batter reached base on Albert, via a fielding error, and, in total, he retired 15 of 17 batters faced. Mercado, who gave up two walks as well as Provost’s double, retired 12 of 15.
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La Mirada, CA
Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) hit a two-run home run and an RBI-double, Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist), Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft Smith) and Mitchell Bumann (Hawaii-Pacific) each hit RBI-doubles, and Grant Robbins (UNLV) and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) had four hits each to lead the Southern California Catch to a 17-hit, 13-6 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Biola University. The win came on the heels of the completion of a suspended game from June 14 between the same two teams that ended with an almost identical score but with the teams reversed, Arroyo Seco winning 13-5. The split result of the two games today reduced the elimination number for the Saints to just one. One win by the Orange County Riptide or the Neptune Beach Pearl, or one loss by the Saints eliminates Arroyo Seco from playoff contention.
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Fairfield, CA
Max Smith (UNLV) had four hits, including a two-run home run, and Willy Homza (Brown), Kyle Krebs (Solano CC) and Mickey Nunes each had three to lead the Rockville Rock Hounds to a 15-13 win over the Walnut Creek Crawdads today at Yarborough Stadium. The game was a blowout win for Rockville up until the ninth inning when the Crawdads scored nine runs on six hits, including on two-run doubles by Brennan Mauchline (Academy of Art) and Grant Chapman (Los Medanos). Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii), who had two singles in the ninth inning for Walnut Creek, earlier hit a solo home run and another single to finish with a game-high four hits along with Smith. Krebs, who had a bases-clearing three-run double in the fifth inning, Smith and the Crawdads’ Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley) led all run producers with three RBI.
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July 18, 2017

Auburn, CA
The Auburn Wildcats scored three runs in their last at bat on two singles and four walks to overcome a 3-2 deficit and beat the Neptune Beach Pearl 5-3 tonight at James Field. Taylor Field (Winona St) tied the score with a single after the first two batters of the eighth inning reached on walks and, after another single by Gaige Howard (Kenyon College) loaded the bases, two consecutive two-walks to Sam Curtis (William Jessup) and Dylan McPhillips (Sacramento St) gave Auburn its winning margin. Brock Ragatz (Northern St), who gave up one run in the eighth inning when Harrison Moore, who reached after being hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a single by Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Cooper Morrison (Reedley JC), pitched a scoreless ninth inning to pick up the win in relief of Hayden Josephson (American River), who went seven innings, striking out four. Field’s RBI-ground out in the fourth inning and McPhillip’s RBI-double in the seventh accounted for Auburn’s first two runs, while Lucas Halstead (Pacific) scored one with a double in the third to give Neptune an early 1-0 lead, and an unearned run in the fourth accounted for the Pearl’s first two. Neptune’s Zach Miller (West Virginia) finished with a game-high three hits.
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Pasadena, CA
Five consecutive batters reached base, three on singles and two on walks, to score four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie, and Tim Turner (George Mason) retired six of the last seven batters of the game to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-4 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. After Josh Jung (Texas Tech) doubled and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) tied the score for Santa Barbara with a two-run home run with no outs in the top of the eighth inning, Turner came into the game and retired three straight batters. Then, in the bottom of the eighth and ninety feet at a time, the Saints took the lead back. Brandon Shearer (LMU) singled to lead off the inning, advanced to second on a single by Josh Magee (Faulkner), advanced to third on a walk to Corey Harrell (Graceland) and scored what proved to be the winning run on a single by Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn). Sticking to the station-to-station offense, Arroyo Seco scored three times more on a single by Mitch Kerner (Emory), a walk to Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) and a sacrifice fly by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego). Before Ritter’s home run had tied the game, Blake Burton (Washington) had driven in three runs with a pair of singles in the fourth and sixth innings, and Harrell drove in Burton with the Saints third run in the sixth. Jung, who had three hits in the game (a double and two singles), drove in the other two Santa Barbara runs with a two-run single in the third inning to give the Foresters an early 2-0. The win snapped the Foresters seven-game winning streak and extended Arroyo Seco’s chances of reach the CCL playoffs for another game.
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Oakland, CA
Trailing 1-0 since leadoff hitter John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) walked and scored in the bottom of the first inning, the Rockville Rock Hounds scored ten runs in three at bats, nearly batting around three times in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, to beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads 10-1 today at Laney College. The beneficiaries of nine walks, an error and a catcher’s interference in those three innings, the Rock Hounds also produced runs on a two-run double by Hunter Snyder (Solano CC), a two-run single by Kenny LeBeau (Nevada-Reno), two RBI-singles by Nathan Guiterrez (Solano CC) and an RBI-single by Jack Pridy. Guiterrez, who also singled in the fourth inning, finished with a game-high three hits. LeBeau led all run producers with three RBI.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Justin Goossen-Brown (San Diego St) pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out five and allowing only one walk and four singles, three of which were retired on the bases, Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) and Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit back-to-back home runs to generate three runs in the fourth inning and Andy Garretson (Cal St San Marcos) hit a two-run triple in the sixth to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 13-0 win over the Ventura Halos tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ramos, Emmerson, Garretson and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) each had a game-high three hits as the Blues collected 21 as a team. Ramos, whose home run plated two, also added an RBI-ground out in the eighth inning to finish with a game-high three RBI. Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning, allowing only one baserunner, a single by Rudy Aguilar (Ventura JC), to close out the shutout.
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Irvine, CA
Jordan Dosey (Virginia), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech) and Braxton Smith (Louisiana Tech) each pitched three innings scoreless, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) drove in the first run of the game with a bases-loaded single in the sixth inning and, one out later, Paul Gomez cleared the bases with a three-run double to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-0 win over the Academy Barons today at Concordia University. Aside from the four-run sixth, the game was a pitching duel as a trio of Barons’ pitchers, Tyler Witt (Wake Forest), Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) and Aaron Soto (Marymount) combined for eleven strikeouts to the Riptide trio’s total of eight, allowed seven hits to their counterparts six with each trio walking five. Witt led all pitchers with six strikeouts in five innings, but allowed the Riptide’s first two runs and suffered the loss. Kilian, who led Orange County with five strikeouts in his three innings of relief of starter Dosey, picked up the win. Andrews and the Barons’ Randy Rubio (Marymount), with two singles each, were the only batters in the game with multiple hits. The win reduced the Riptide’s magic number for clinching the CCL South Division and an automatic bid to the CCL playoffs to three.
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July 15, 2017

Healdsburg, CA
Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) hit a pair of two-run home runs, and Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) hit one of his own to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 10-1 win over the Auburn Wildcats in the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams today at Recreation Park. Warren’s two homers, his sixth and seventh of the summer in league play, tying him for the league lead in that category, were both two-out hits that give him 31 RBI for the summer, one behind teammate Jamey Smart (LMU), who drove in two with a single in the second inning and leads the CCL with 32 RBI, pending the results of the second half of the doubleheader today. Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC) hit a double and three singles to finish with a game-high four hits while Pittman had two singles before his two-run blast to finish with three. Justin Glover (Eckerd) was the only Auburn player with more than one hit and drove in the Wildcats’ only run with an RBI-single in the sixth inning. Matthew Blais (UC Davis) started on the mound for Healdsburg and pitched six innings, striking out four and scattering five hits to pick up the win.

Smart got the upperhand on Warren in the RBI-title chase in the second game of the doubleheader by driving in three runs on two RBI-doubles and a run-scoring ground out to Warren’s one RBI-double as the Packers pounded the Wildcats in the nightcap 14-2. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) had two singles and a two-run double, Grant Little (Texas Tech) had a double and two singles, and Bret Bautista (San Jose St) hit a three-run home run and two singles to each finish with a game-high three hits. Shamus Lyons (Santa Rosa JC), Edward O’Bannon III (Pacific) and Dillon Brown (Cal St Fullerton) each took three-inning turns on the mound for Heladsburg, combining for eight strikeouts.
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Pasadena, CA
The Long Beach Legends chased from the game the starting pitcher of the Arroyo Seco Saints before their first at bat was over, scoring five runs on RBI-doubles by Trevor Steinman (Chico St), Zack Chan (Hawaii) and Jake Scott (Houston Baptist), but the Saints doubled that and chased the Legends starting pitcher in two innings, scoring ten times on nine hits as Arroyo Seco overcame the early deficit to beat Long Beach 14-8 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Saints pounded the ball in those first two innings today. Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) tripled in one run in the first, Brennan McKenzie (Cal Poly Pomona) drove in four with a pair of doubles, Brandon Shearer (LMU) and Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn) tripled two batters apart in the second and right between them Corey Harrell (Graceland) hit a two-run home run. The ten-run outburst benefitted Dellan Raish (ASU) who entered the game to pitch with two outs in the first inning. After giving up a double to Scott, the first batter he faced, Raish retired 13 of the next 15 batters, allowing only one single and one walk while striking out three to earn the win. Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) hit four singles, driving in three, to finish with a game-high four hits and McKenzie had the game-high four RBI. Tommy Anderson (Doane) hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning to lead Long Beach.
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Fairfield, CA
Addison Moss (Rice) notched eight strikeouts over six innings and his offense scored twelve unanswered runs as the Neptune Beach Pearl beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 12-4 in the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams today at Yarborough Stadium. Moss, who allowed hits in all but one of his six innings pitched, struck out three batters in the first inning after Rockville put their first two hitters aboard with singles, struck out two in the second on either side of another single and went on stranding runners like this throughout his outing, allowing nine hits but only one run. Of the 18 total outs he recorded, nine were by strikeout, eight were fly ball outs and only one was a ground out. Meanwhile, the Neptune Beach offense was cranking out runs. After James Free II (Pacific) doubled and scored in the first inning, the Pearl scored seven times in the second, including one on a solo home run by Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and three on a Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) home run three batters later. Tim Lichty (Texas A&M), who would finish the nine innings with a game-high four hits and match Rosa with a game-high three RBI, and Travis Wacker (Oklahoma St) added back-to-back RBI-doubles to the second inning mix. In total, the Neptune Beach offense racked up 19 hits with six batters recording multiple-hit games, including Lucas Halstead (Pacific) who had three. Rockville, who totaled 14 hits, featured four players with more than one hit, including Hunter Snyder (Solano CC) who had two hits after entering the game in the sixth inning to drive in two runs.

In the second game today, the Rockville offense scored seven runs in their first four at bats and Carson Haws compiled nine strikeouts over seven innings pitched to hold off Neptune Beach as the Rock Hounds split the doubleheader against the Pearl with a 7-5 win in the nightcap. Mickey Nunes and Max Smith (UNLV) each had three hits and an RBI in their first three plate appearances, and Willy Homza (Brown) had an RBI-single in the first inning and an RBI-groundout in the second to lead Rockville, while Free hit a triple, two doubles and a single to finish with a game-high four hits and Matthew Miller (Georgia College) had a pair of RBI-singles to lead Neptune Beach.
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La Mirada, CA
Tanner Murphey picked up eight strikeouts in seven innings and the Orange County Riptide offense scored four times in the sixth inning, three on a bases-clearing double by Connor Beck (Texas Tech) to beat the Southern California Catch 6-3 today at Biola University. Murphey, who was saddled with an unearned run in the first inning, walked just one and allowed only two hits, one, a double by Grant Robbins (UNLV), eventually scored to account for the one earned run he allowed. The Riptide scored twice, assisted by Catch fielding errors, in the fourth inning off of Catch starting pitcher Chris Vargas (UC Irvine), who went five innings with six strikeouts, to tie the score 2-2. Then Beck’s sixth inning hit, which followed a lead-off single by Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) and two walks, drove in the go ahead runs. Beck then stole third base and scored on a groundout with the final run of the game.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Bobby Ay (Cal Poly) pitched six shutout innings, striking out five with only one walk, and his offense scored four runs in an inning they got just one single and a base-hit bunt as the San Luis Obispo Blues beat the Academy Barons 4-2 tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ay pitched faced the minimum three batters in four of the six innings he pitched and, in the other two, faced just one extra hitter before turning the pitching duties over to Jake Swiech (San Jose St) who struck out three in his one inning of work, but was scored upon twice as two Blues errors, a double by Hunter Allen (Alabama State) and single by Jason Wallace plated the two Barons runs. Dan Beavers (Chico St) pitched the final two innings, allowing one hit, to close out the win. The Blues scored their four runs when Price Visintainer (UAB) led off with a single, Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) reached on an error, Justin Beck (San Jose St) drove in Visintainer and reached base on a fielder’s choice, Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) drove in Yamazaki with a bunt base hit and two batters were hit by pitch with the bases loaded. The Barons’ Allen and Randy Rubio (Marymount) were the only two players with two hits in the game.
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