June 20, 2017
San Luis Obispo, CA
Landon Etzel (Houston) hit a grand slam and Esteban Martinez added three RBI as the Healdsburg Prune Packers routed the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight 12-1 at Sinsheimer Park. Etzel’s homer, the first grand slam of the CCL season, was the big blow in Healdsburg’s five run fifth inning which, after scoring three runs in the third and two more in the fourth, all but iced the game for the Prune Packers. Healdsburg starter Nolan Bond (Houston) was the beneficiary of the offensive outburst, picking up the win with five innings of work, striking out three and allowing only one run despite giving up seven hits. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) had a three hit game, and five other Healdsburg hitters had two in their 14-hit attack. Price Visintainer (Ala-Birmingham) remained hot at the plate for the Blues, picking up two hits in four at bats to maintain his second-best league average at .500.
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Oakland, CA
For the second time in ten days the Walnut Creek Crawdads, way down in the early season standings, showed their potential by beating the team atop league competition. The Crawdads beat the Neptune Beach Pearl, winners of seven straight and ten of eleven games this summer, 10-7 today at Laney College. Walnut Creek, whose record now stands at 3-10, last week beat the as-yet-undefeated Healdsburg Prune Packers. Today the Crawdads were outhit by Neptune Beach 16 to 14, but used a five-run sixth inning, highlighted by a three-run home run by David Langer (Chabot) and the third of four hits in the game by John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) to pull ahead for good. Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley JC) had three hits, including a pair of doubles, Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) had a three-run double and seven Pearl hitters had multiple-hit games to highlight the Neptune Beach offense.
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Compton, CA
Ty Wiest (Columbia), Corey Herndon (Auburn), Colton Follett and Garrett Gayle (Rice) recorded a combined 12 strikeouts and allowed only two hits as the Santa Barbara Foresters shut out the Academy Barons 4-0 today at the MLB Urban Youth Academy. The four Foresters pitchers recorded at least one strikeout in eight of the nine innings and six times had one-two-three innings. Wiest, who started and allowed only one hit, a leadoff single in the first to Denzl Chapman (San Diego St), retired the next 15 batters he faced en route to earning the win. David Clawson (BYU) had the big hit offensively for Santa Barbara, clearing the bases with a double in the third inning.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
Theron Kay (Northridge), Jackson Simonsgaard (Oxnard JC), Evan McMillin (UC Irvine) and Robby Medel (Arizona) combined to throw a three-hit shutout to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 7-0 victory over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Sparky Anderson Field. The Oaks’ pitching rotation faced the minimum three batters in five of the nine innings and combined to record nine strikeouts. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) had two doubles and a single and Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) hit a solo home run in the first inning to lead Conejo.
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Irvine, CA
Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) had three hits, two RBI and scored twice, and the Orange County Riptide had four hits, three for extra bases, in a three-run seventh inning that provided the margin of victory in their 8-5 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Concordia University. Tate Shaw (Texas) tripled to lead of the seventh inning for the Riptide and scored on a double by Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) who himself scored on a Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) double to give Orange County their eighth run. Pulcehon, Pouelsen, Joey Parente and Mitch Andrews (Lamar) all had multiple-hit games for the Riptide. Tommy Anderson (Doane) had three hits to lead Long Beach.
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June 18, 2017
Santa Barbara, CA
Blair Henley (Texas) threw six scoreless innings with five strikeouts, John McMillon (Texas Tech) recorded all six outs of his two innings of pitching via the strikeout, and Evan Lee (Arkansas) faced the minimum three batters in a scoreless ninth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 3-1 victory over the Academy Barons today at Pershing Park. The only scoring blemish to the Foresters pitching line came when McMillon walked the first batter he faced, Randy Rubio (Marymount), who advanced around the bases on a hit batsmen and a pair of passed balls. But then McMillon dialed in and struck out the next six batters he faced. Henley was just as unhittable today, allowing only four baserunners in his six innings, one each on a walk and a reached-on-error, and the other two by isolated doubles by Hunter Allen (Alabama St) in the second inning, and by Javier Garcia (Compton JC) in the sixth. Kyle Marinconz (Cal Poly) doubled and scored on a single by Joshua Jung (Texas Tech) in the first, David Hamilton (Texas) tripled home a run in the second, and Austin Todd (Texas) tripled and scored on a Marinconz single in the fifth to account for the Foresters runs.
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La Habra, CA
Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) doubled home the tying run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning and then scored the go-ahead run on an outfield error as the Southern California Catch prevailed 3-2 today in what turned out to be a staff pitching duel with the Long Beach Legends at Biola University. Catch starting pitcher Tayton Smith (Azusa Pacific) threw five scoreless innings, and his counterpart, Legends starter Josh Aguilar, who had six strikeouts over six innings of one-run ball, kept the game tight before turning it over to the bullpens. Four Catch relievers combined to limit Long Beach to two runs, both of which got on base via walks, one scoring on an RBI-double by Tommy Anderson (Doane) in the sixth inning, the other on a RBI-single by Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) in the eighth. The two relievers for Long Beach were just as stingy, allowing only two earned runs, one run scored by Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas Ft. Smith), who doubled to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning and scored on another double by Shay Whitcomb (UCSD), and the other when Sandmann got his hit in the seventh, but the game was inevitably decided by a defensive error.
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Ventura, CA
Blake Chiramonte hit a bases-loaded, bases-clearing two out double as the Ventura Halos batted around and scored six times to take command of their game today against the San Luis Obispo Blues at Ventura College and win 8-5. Chiramonte was the ninth hitter to come to bat in the sixth inning for Ventura and his three RBI double came on the heels of an RBI-single by Dayton Provost (Canyons JC), an RBI-double by Armet Johnson (Cal St. LA) and an RBI-ground out. Up until that point the Halos had been dominated by the pitching of San Luis Obispo starter Austin Dondaville (Cal Poly), who struck out nine and allowed only three baserunners in five innings of work. But as soon as Dondaville was replaced by a reliever, Ventura pounced. Provost finished the game with two hits, Christian Jones (Washington) had two RBI and Chiramonte’s three RBI led the Halos attack. Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) had a pair of triples, driving in three, to lead the San Luis Obispo offense.
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Healdsburg, CA
The Healdsburg Prune Packers sent ten hitters to the plate in their last at bat, scoring six runs on five singles and three walks in the bottom of the eighth inning to turn a 4-3 deficit into a 9-4 win over the Rockville Rock Hounds tonight at Recreation Park. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) and Esteban Martinez, each of whom had three hits in the game, singled and scored in the six-run eighth, and Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC) and Cameron Warren (Texas) each drove in two with their singles. Grant St. Martin (Sonoma St) and Max Smith (UNLV) hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning, St. Martin’s a two-run version, his third RBI of the game, to lead Rockville.
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Auburn, CA
Details of the Walnut Creek-Auburn Wildcat game tonight were not available at post time. Walnut Creek beat Auburn 18-9.
June 16, 2017
The San Luis Obispo Blues score five times in the top of the ninth and the Healdsburg Prune Packers score once in the bottom to send tonight’s game between the perennial CCL powers from the Central and North Divisions, respectively, into extra innings before Price Visintainer (Ala-Birmingham) drove in Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) in the top of the 13th with the game-winner and a 7-6 victory for the Blues tonight at Recreation Park. The five-run outburst by the Blues erased Healdsburg’s 5-1 lead going into the ninth inning, and featured a double, five singles and a run-scoring groundout as San Luis batted around in the frame. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) doubled with one out in Healdsburg’s half of the ninth and scored on an single by Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC), who also had a two-run double in the seventh. Mac Lardner (Gonzaga) started on the mound for San Luis, finishing with seven strikeouts in six and two-thirds innings, and Visintainer’s five hits in seven at bats were the lead performances for the Blues. Nagata and Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) each had three hits to lead the Prune Packers.
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Auburn, CA
Greg Vaughn, Jr. (LIU) had a four RBI game, including a two-run home run in the first inning, and Daniel Costello (Oklahoma City) hit a solo home run in fourth, to lead the Auburn Wildcats to a 12-5 victory over the Walnut Creek Crawdads tonight at James Field. Auburn’s 14-hit team attack, which featured at least one hit from nine of the eleven Wildcats to make a plate appearance, overshadowed the individual performance of Walnut Creek’s Alex Baeza (Hawaii) who hit a home run in consecutive at bats, a two-run version in the third inning and a solo shot in the fifth. Baeza’s fifth inning homer was also the second half of back-to-back home runs shared with Kevin Whitaker (Laney), who had hits in his first three consecutive at bats. Connor Caspersen also hit a solo home run for the Crawdads, and Hayden Houts (Northern St) had a three-for-three game for Auburn.
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La Habra, CA
Four run-scoring hits, including a two-run home run by Tobias Johnson (Arkansas St) , drove in all eight runs in the Southern California Catch’s 8-0 victory over the Long Beach Legends today at Biola University. Three Catch pitchers, Chris Vargas (UC Irvine), Tucker Thomason (Fresno CC) and Conner Davis (Creighton) combined for the shutout, limiting Long Beach to five hits while striking out six. Grant Robbins (UNLV) had a game-high three hits, scored twice and drove in two to lead the Catch, and Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) had two hits to lead the Legends.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
Dayton Provost (Canyons JC) singled and scored on a Michael Tillman single with the game-winning run in the top of the ninth inning as the Ventura Halos overcame a 6-4 deficit in their last two at bats en route to a 7-6 victory over the Conejo Oaks today at Sparky Anderson Field. Rudy Aguilar (Ventura JC) had the big hit in the eighth inning, driving in two with a single, his second and third of the game, to tie the score at 6-6. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) had a four hit game, including a double, and DJ Miller (Ole Miss) had a two-run triple and two singles in his last three at bats to lead Conejo.
Irvine, CA
Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning and a two-run single in the fourth to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 13-2 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Concordia University. Fletcher, Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) and Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) each had three hits in the game, and Phillip and Will Proctor (Georgia) each drove in three runs to join Fletcher in highlighting the Riptide 15-hit attack.
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Fairfield, CA
Tonight’s game between the Neptune Beach Pearl and the Rockville Rock Hounds at Yarbrough Stadium was suspended due to darkness with the score 19-18 in the Pearl’s favor. The game will be resumed tomorrow before the regularly scheduled game between the same two teams at Yarbrough beginning at 1pm.
June 15, 2017 – Pasadena, CA
Dustin Krob (Dayton) drove in Mitch Kerner (Emory) with the winning run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Arroyo Seco Saints a 8-7 victory over the Long Beach Legends tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Kerner, who had two hits in the game, including a two-run single in the Saints four-run first inning, reached base to open the ninth on a walk and advanced to third on a throwing error before Krob’s fly ball drove him in with the game winner. Despite falling behind early, Long Beach battled back to take a 7-5 lead in the seventh inning on a two-out, two-run double by Ryan Davis (Georgetown). The Saints tied the game in the eighth, however, on a pair of RBI-singles by Spencer Mossburg (Lee) and Derek Gibree (Saint Leo). Josh Little (NC Central) then struck out the side in the top of the ninth to set up the walk-off. Gibree finished with a game-high three RBI to lead the Saints. Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) and Michael Stefanic (Westmont) each had three hits, one of Gamble’s being a two-out, two-run triple in the second inning, to lead Long Beach.
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Compton, CA
Beau Philip (San Joaquin JC) hit a two-run triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Aaron Greenfield (UNC) in a three-run second inning that gave the Orange County Riptide the lead for good in their 7-3 win over the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Urban Youth Academy. Phil Steering (Hawaii-Hilo) had three hits, including a double and two RBI, and Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) had three hits, one a double, to lead the Riptide’s 13-hit attack. Bruce Martin (Stetson) singled and hit a solo home run in the eighth, and R.J. Bates (USC) had two hits to lead the Barons.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
Five Conejo Oaks pitchers combined to record 13 strikeouts, and three consecutive Conejo extra base hits with two outs in the first inning posted a lead they would never give up as the Oaks beat the Santa Barbara Foresters 6-4 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Erikson Lanning (Texas Tech), Ray Lambert (SanDiego St), Jackson Simonsgaard (Oxnard JC), Evan McMillin (UC Irvine) and Robert Medel (Arizona) kept the Foresters offense in check, despite giving up solo home runs to Ryan Cash (Oklahoma St) and Joshua Jung (Texas Tech), and every hitter in the Oaks’ lineup had at least one hit in today’s 13-hit performance, highlighted by a double and two singles in three consecutive at bats by DJ Miller (Ole Miss), and a double and a single each by Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC).
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Healdsburg, CA
Details of the Neptune Beach-Healdsburg game tonight were not available by post time, but Neptune Beach beat Healdsburg 3-2.
June 13, 2017 – Thousand Oaks, CA
The Orange County Riptide scored 11 times in the last two innings to beat the Conejo Oaks 15-7 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Will Proctor (Georgia), David Miranda (Florida Atlantic) and Eric Wagaman (Houston), the numbers two, three and four in the Orange County lineup, combined for 11-RBI on seven hits, each of them doubling and Wagaman adding a two-run home run to cap the scoring in the ninth. Cooper Uhl (LMU), hitting seventh in the lineup, added three hits and scored four times, and Beau Philip (San Joaquin JC), hitting eighth, scored three times on two hits to add to the Riptide 15-hit onslaught. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) doubled and singled, and Frankie Tostado (Oxnard JC) tripled and singled to lead the Oaks offense.
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Compton, CA
Tommy Anderson (Doan) drove in Michael Stefanic (Westmont) with the game winning run in the top of the 11th inning as the Long Beach Legends beat the Academy Barons 6-5 today at the MLB Urban Youth Academy. It was the second hit in as many plate appearances for Anderson, who was inserted into the lineup late in the game, and he, Stefanic, Reese Berberet (Long Beach CC) and Stephen Corona each finished with multiple-hit games, one of Corona’s being a solo home run to lead off the third inning, to lead the Legends attack. Long Beach’s starting pitcher Jacob Alcorn recorded six strikeouts with no walks in five-plus innings of work, but the win went to Corey Treyes (Coppin St) who pitched a scoreless bottom of the 11th. Randy Rubio (Marymount), Eric Whitfield and Evan Mason (Chico St), the bottom third of the Barons’ lineup, each had three hits to lead the Academy.
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Pasadena, CA
Three Arroyo Seco Saints pitchers combined for 15 strikeouts, and a six-run fourth inning provided more than enough offense, as the Saints beat the Ventura Halos 10-5 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Arroyo Seco starting pitcher Dellan Raish (ASU) had five strikeouts but lasted only two innings, giving up four runs, before turing the ball over to Gunnar Friend (Avila), who posted four strikeouts in three innings to earn the win, and Zackarie Phillips (Grayson JC), who had six strikeouts over the last four innings to pick up the save. Brett Adams had the biggest hit for the Saints, a bases-clearing triple in the fourth inning, and Blake Burton (Washington) hit a solo home run in the fifth. Dayton Provost (Canyons JC) doubled in the first inning and doubled again in the second with the bases loaded to plate three runs, and Christian Jones (Washington) hit a solo home run in the fifth to lead the Halos.
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La Habra, CA
Ty Wiest (Columbia) recorded nine strikeouts in five innings of one-hit, one-run ball to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 9-5 victory over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Catch starting pitcher Zac Whittaker (Fresno CC) recorded six strikeouts of his own in five innings, but was done in by a two-out RBI double by Evan Lee (Arkansas) followed by a two-run home run by Brody Weiss (Westmont) in the second inning. Lee finished the game with three hits (two doubles and a single), Weiss with 3 RBI, and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning to lead the Foresters offense. Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft. Smith) had two hits, one a solo home run in the sixth inning, and Mitchell Bumann (Hawaii Pacific) had two hits to lead the Catch.
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Results of the Walnut Creek-Neptune Beach and Auburn-Rockville games were not available at post time.
June 11, 2017 – Irvine, CA
Frankie Tostado (Oxnard JC) hit a three-run home run with two outs in the sixth inning to break what was a 2-2 tie and propel the Conejo Oaks to a 5-3 win over the Orange County Riptide today at Concordia University. Tostado’s homer, his second of the summer, followed singles by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and Jassen Oliver (Cal St Bakersfield) as the Oaks improved to 4-1 in the league play. Cody Farhat stepping in to relieve starter Nate Wehner (Cal Lutheran) with one out in the fifth, was the beneficiary of the three-run sixth, picking up the win while recording three strikeouts in an inning and two-thirds work. Oliver and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) had two hits a piece to also post good games for the Oaks. For Orange County, Joey Parente and David Miranda (Florida Atlantic) each had two hits, and Eric Wagaman (Houston) had a pair of run-scoring fly balls to highlight the offense.
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Long Beach, CA
Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) hit a bases-loaded triple in the fourth inning to break the game open as the Long Beach Legends beat the Ventura Halos 6-1 in the first game of a doubleheader today at Long Beach City College. Ryan Davis (Georgetown) added three hits and pitcher Jason McLellan (Concordia) recorded five strikeouts in two innings of relief to highlight the Legends performance. Chris May had two hits and Dalton Duarte (Cal St Dominguez Hills) had a double and a single to lead the Halos.
In the second game, starting pitcher Josh Aguilar notched seven strikeouts in four innings of work, and Lucas Martinez (Cal St San Bernardino) hit a two-run single (the last of four singles in a row by Legends hitters) in a four-run second inning to lead Long Beach to a 6-4 win and a sweep of the doubleheader. Martinez, Corey Treyes (Coppin St) and Connor Montgomery all had two-hit games for Long Beach, while Michael Tillman hit a single, a run-scoring double and a run-scoring fly ball to lead Ventura’s offense.
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Healdsburg, CA
Brennan Mauchline (Academy of Art) drove in three runs on a pair of singles, Spencer Lininger (Feather River) had three hits, and Ben Skinner (Harvard) singled twice and scored three times to lead the Walnut Creek Crawdads to their first CCL win of the season, beating the previously undefeated Healdsburg Prune Packers 9-4 at Recreation Park. Jake Scheiner (Houston) had an RBI-single, a double and a run-scoring fly ball to lead Healdsburg.
June 9, 2017
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June 8, 2017 – Oakland, CA
Casey Douglas (Kansas) and Justin Smith (Yuba College) used the strikeout to keep the opposing hitters at bay, and Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley JC) and Matthew Miller (Georgia College) led the offense as the Neptune Beach Pearl beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads 5-4 today at Laney College. While not completely dominating from the mound by allowing 10 Crawdad hits, Douglas and Smith combined for ten strikeouts in the game when they needed them, including Douglas striking out the side in the second inning and Smith fanning two in each of his three innings of relief. On the offensive side, Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) and Miller each doubled and singled, with William’s one out double in the seventh to drive in Miller, who had doubled earlier in the inning, being the game winner. John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) led all hitters with three hits, including one of the Crawdads four doubles in the game, to lead Walnut Creek.
June 1, 2017 – Auburn, CA
The Auburn Wildcats debut in the California Collegiate League was a bit of a hit parade as the Wildcats beat the visiting Walnut Creek Crawdads 15-7 in the season opener. Every Auburn hitter in the lineup recorded at least one hit tonight, led by Sam Curtis (William Jessup), two doubles and five RBI, and Kale Leach’s (Folsom Lake College), two-run home run. On the mound, Dominick Golubiewski (Dayton) recorded eight strikeouts over five and a third innings to pick up the win. Walnut Creek hitters scored seven times on only five hits, all singles, and were helped by receiving nine walks by Wildcat pitchers. Thomas Caufield (USF) started on the mound for the Crawdads and recorded the loss.
October 11, 2016
The CCL added a new team from Pasadena today. The Arroyo Seco Saints, who play at historic Jackie Robinson Memorial Stadium in Brookside Park just south of the world-famous Rose Bowl in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley’s picturesque Arroyo Seco neighborhood, will begin play in the CCL when the 2017 summer collegiate season kicks off in June and will compete in the South Division of the three-division league.
“What a great day for our program,” Saints GM Aaron Milam said. “We started in 2004 with a simple idea to help graduating high school seniors prepare for the next steps in their baseball careers. To be invited to play at this level, with these quality teams, and this many years later, is a testament to the quality of players and coaches who have been part of our program over the years.”
To learn more about Arroyo Seco Baseball, visit the Arroyo Seco Saints website