June 21, 2016
San Luis Obispo, CA
Hunter Williams (Tulane) had three hits and drove in the three as the Santa Barbara Foresters beat the San Luis Obispo Blues 9-0 at Sinsheimer Park for their eighth win a row. Connor Mayes (Texas) picked up the win on the mound for the Foresters, pitching seven shutout innings and striking out seven. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also in the CCL today:
Compton, CA
The Academy Barons offense scored three times in the first inning today against the Conejo Oaks at the MLB Urban Youth Academy and then relied on pitching and defense the rest of the way in a 3-1 league win. For a team that has been making a habit of having games of double-digit runs and hits, the three-run first, capped by a Martin Teague (Hope Int) home run, made it look as offensive business as usual. But it turned out different for the Barons as they won their fifth game in a row, as pitchers Hunter Omana, Oscar Munoz (Bethesda) and Reece Buska combined on the mound to limit the Oaks to just the one run on six hits. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 18, 2016
The top four teams in the standings all won games on this busy Saturday in the CCL as the 2016 race for the league playoffs starts to take shape. Here is a recap of what happened where in the CCL today.
Healdsburg, CA
For the second time in as many days the Healdsburg Prune Packers shutout the visiting Orange County Riptide, winning today 3-0 behind the strong pitching performance of Steve Wilson (Santa Clara). Wilson started the game and threw six hitless innings with six strikeouts to earn the win. Relievers Cody Bennett (Sonoma State) and Jordan Scheftz pitched the last three innings likewise without allowing a run and, in total, the three Packers pitchers allowed only three hits and two walks. See the boxscore/recap here.
Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters won their sixth straight CCL game today beating the visiting Menlo Park Legends 4-3 at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. Santa Barbara was led from the mound today as Cody Crouse had six strikeouts over seven innings while allowing only one run. Lex Kaplan (Tulane), Dylan Paul (Texas State) and Hank LoForte (Cal St Fullerton) had multiple hit games for the Foresters, highlighted by Kaplan’s first home run of the season, a solo blast in the third inning. Menlo Park scored twice in the top of the ninth inning to get within one run of tying the game but Forester reliever Daniel Robert (Auburn) wrangled himself out of the jam to earn a save. See the boxscore/recap here.
Long Beach, CA
The offense of the Academy Barons just keeps racking up hits, totaling 14 hits today in a 6-3 win over the Long Beach Legends. The Barons have gotten 11 or more hits as a lineup in each of their last three games and today it was Martin Teague (Hope Int), three doubles and three RBI; and Adonis Morrison (UC Riverside), a triple and two singles; leading the way. Starting pitcher Ryan Hare (UNLV) had an adventurous night on the mound, allowing seven hits and three walks in five innings of work but also striking out seven. See the boxscore/recap here.
Thousand Oaks, CA
Gabriel Gunter (Cal Lutheran) had a five-RBI game to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 10-8 win over the Southern California Catch. Gunter had a two-RBI single in the first inning to get his day going and then hit a three-run home run in the third. Logan Gillaspie (Oxnard JC) drove in three more of the Oaks runs, highlighted by a run-scoring triple in the fifth inning. Sam Mrstik (Dallas Baptist) had three hits to lead the Catch and Jeff Murray (Santa Ana JC) had three RBI. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 16, 2016
Oakland, CA
The Orange County Riptide scored eleven runs on eleven hits today to beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads 11-1 at Laney College. Tyler Schimpf (Texas) picked up the win by throwing five shutout innings while striking out six. Jacob Portaro (Utah) had three hits in the game to lead the Riptide and five others in the lineup had muitiple RBI games. See the boxscore/recap here.
Ethan Lopez (Hawaii) had two HR tonight but
it wasn’t enough as the SoCal Catch
lost at the Academy Barons 10-11
Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters scored four times in the first inning and rode solid pitching the rest of the way to a 6-2 win over the visiting Ventura Halos. The Foresters totaled nine hits for the game with each of the nine starting lineup accounting for one hit each. Brendan Griffith (Clark JC) had three hits in three at bats to lead the Halos. See the boxscore/recap here.
Thousand Oaks, CA
The San Luis Obispo Blues won their third straight CCL game tonight edging the Conejo Oaks 5-4 at Sparky Anderson Field. Garrett Dodd (Louisiana Tech) had two hits, including an RBI double to lead the Blues offense, and Brendan Nail (Western Carolina) had five striekouts in four innings to pick up the win. The four pitchers on the mound in today’s game for the Blues had a combined total of 11 strikeouts. See the boxscore/recap here.
Healdsburg, CA
Depsite being outhit 13 to 6, the Neptune Beach Pearl made the most of their scoring opportunities tonight at Recreation Park and beat the Healdsburg Prune Packers 5-4. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 14, 2016
Compton, CA
Five Long Beach hitters had multiple-hit games tonight as the Legends beat the Academy Barons 11-6. Chris Williams (Clemson) had three hits and three RBI, John Montgomery (Eastern Michigan) added three RBI of his own on two hits, and Trevor Casanova (Lane JC) hit two doubles and scored three times to pace the Legends. Starting the season 0-3, the Legends have now won back-to-back CCL games. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today:
Connor Mayes
Santa Barbara Foresters
(Texas)
Redwood City, CA
The Neptune Beach Pearl and Menlo Park Legends needed extra innings to decide today’s CCL matchup between the two teams at Canada College, but it was over quick once the game got to extras as the Pearl scored three runs on four hits in the top of the 10th inning to win 8-5. See the boxscore/recap here.
Thousand Oaks, CA
The San Luis Obispo Blues shutout the Conejo Oaks 6-0 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Stats for this game were not available at post time.
June 11, 2016
Redwood City, CA
Each time Menlo Park’s Turner Bishop (Old Dominion) came to bat in today’s game against the Walnut Creek Crawdads there were runners in scoring position, and each time Bishop found a way to drive the runs in. Finishing the game with seven RBI, Bishop had a run-scoring double in the second, a sacrifice fly in the third and fourth innings, and then a bases loaded triple in the fifth to plate three more. It was a standout performance that may have gone unnoticed today because just about every Menlo Park hitter was driving in runs as the Legends pounded the Crawdads 21-1 at Canada College. The Legends also got great offensive performances from Sean Watkins (4-for-5, 3 RBI), Justin Jacobs (Gonzaga) (2-for-4, 3 RBI) and Patrick McColl (Harvard) (2-for-4, 3 RBI), and starting pitcher Tanner Disibio (Faulkner) pitched five innings of one-hit ball to pick up the win. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today:
Thousand Oaks, CA
The Conejo Oaks handed the Santa Barbara Foresters their third straight league defeat today at Sparky Anderson Field, scoring twice on Foresters’ errors to win 2-1. Four Oaks pitchers combined to hold the Foresters in check, scattering seven hits and striking out seven. Isaiah Campbell (Arkansas) started the game with five shutout innings to pick up the win. See the boxscore/recap here.
Long Beach, CA
The game between the Long Beach Legends and the Orange County Riptide was suspended after 11 innings due to darkness. The game will be resumed prior to the next regularly scheduled game between the two teams at the same location. See the boxscore/recap here.
Ventura, CA
The Southern California Catch and the Ventura Halos split a doubleheader today at Ventura College with identical scores. The Catch took the first game 7-3 and the Halos turned the tables and beat the Catch 7-3 in the second game. Stats for these games were not available at post time.
June 10, 2016
La Mirada, CA
Nick Cumpston (Eastern Kentucky) pitched six innings of one-hit ball today at Biola University, striking out seven to lead the Southern California Catch to a 7-1 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters. The Catch managed to score runs in each of the first six innings and got multiple-hit games from Jeff Murray (Santa Ana JC), Zach Malis (Grand Canyon) and Caleb Potter (West Virginia). One of Murray’s hits was a solo home run in the second inning. Today’s result marks the third loss in four league games for the Foresters. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today:
Redwood City, CA
The Menlo Park Legends beat the Alameda Merchants for the second night in a row, 5-0, in nonleague action. See the boxscore/recap here.
Los Angeles, CA
The Long Beach Legends beat the Ventura Pirates 4-1 in nonleague action at Pote Field in Griffth Park, highlighted by the three-hit games of Nick Olvera (La Salle) and Francisco Padulo (Cornell). See the boxscore/recap here.
June 8, 2016
Santa Barbara, CA
Colby Barrick (Hancock JC/UCSB) and Bret Boswell (Texas) hit back-to-back home runs in the 1st inning, and Barrick added a two-run single in the second, as the Santa Barbara Foresters handed the Healdsburg Prune Packers a 5-3 loss today at Westmont College. Kyle Johnston (Texas) had six strikeouts over five-plus innings to pick up the win. Billy Wilson (LMU) had two hits for Healdsburg, including a lead-off home run to start the game. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today:
Long Beach, CA
Zach Clinton (Liberty) pitched six innings of shutout ball today for the Southern California Catch, and the three relievers that followed him into the game did the same as the Catch blanked the Long Beach Legends 3-0 in a CCL matchup at Long Beach City College. Jaiden France continued his two-way excellence this summer by collecting two hits while playing third base and earning the save by closing out the final inning from the mound. See the boxscore/recap here.
Irvine, CA
Ernie de la Trinidad had three hits and three RBI to lead the Academy Barons to a 10-3 win over the Orange County Riptide tonight at Concordia University. Jonah Dean Hargroves (Jackson St) added two hits and scored three times for the Barons, while Chris Prescott (Michigan) had three hits for the Riptide. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 4, 2016
San Luis Obispo, CA
Trailing 9-1 going into the bottom half of the seventh inning the San Luis Obispo Blues erupted for 6 runs in the seventh and then added five more in the eighth to take the second contest of a three-game series against the visiting Walnut Creek Crawdads 12-9. After the first two batters in the seventh inning failed to get on, the Blues strung together four consecutive hits, followed by three straight walks, then one more hit to score six runs and get within striking distance. Then, in the bottom of the eight, the Blues offense batted-around again, scoring five runs and securing the win. Not to be lost in the offensive outburst was the relief pitching of Justin Goosen-Brown, who pitched the final 4 2/3 innings for the Blues to pick up the win, allowing only 1 hit while striking out eight. The same two teams meet in the series finale tomorrow at 1pm. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today:
Palm Springs, CA
Jaiden France (Grambling St) was the man tonight for the SoCal Catch, hitting a two-run home run in the top of the 10th inning to break an 8-8 tie against the Palm Springs Power and, when the Power threatened to erase that extra-inning lead, France came into the game to pitch mid-inning with two runners on and no outs and retired three of the four batters he faced to pick up the save in an 10-9 win. Josh Rojas (Hawaii) hit his second home run of the season, a 3-run blast in the 5th. See the boxscore/recap here.
Redwood City, CA
The Menlo Park Legends opened their 2016 season with their bats red hot, posting 12 hits, including home runs by Chandler Bengston (Columbia), Cristopher Castillo (De Anza JC), Turner Bishop (Old Dominion), and Philip Caulfield (LMU), in a 10-4 win over the visiting San Mateo Rounders at Canada College. See the boxscore/recap here.
Long Beach, CA
The Long Beach Legends won their fifth straight, beating the Signal Hill Oilers 8-4 in nonleague action. See the boxscore/recap here.
Ventura, CA
The Ventura Halos opened their 2016 season with a walk-off win against the SoCal Halos 4-3. Stats were not available at post time.
June 1, 2016 – Healdsburg, CA
Dan James (University of San Francisco) hit a two-run double in the first inning and a three-run home run in the fourth to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to an 11-0 win over the Solano Mudcats in the home opener for the Packers. View the boxcore here.
Also tonight: The Academy Barons won their season opener 9-4 over the Signal Hill Oilers. Box and the SoCal Catch beat the Orange County Surf 2-1 Box
Southern California Catch outfielder Chance Gusbeth (Cal St Bakersfield) had a great game versus UCLA in the opening game of the Regionals, including hitting a homerun and throwing out a runner at the plate. See complete story Bakersfield vs. UCLA Coverage Courtesy: CSU Bakersfield Athletic Communications – Release: 05/30/2015