June 29, 2016
Healdsburg, CA
Turner Bishop (Old Dominion) had seven RBI today to lead the Menlo Park Legends to a 16-5 win over the Healdsburg Prune Packers at Recreation Park. Turner’s run-producing performance, which included a two-run double in the fourth inning, a grand slam in the fifth and an RBI-single in the sixth, is the CCL-best single game RBI total this season. Of course, with 16 runs on 20 hits, there were other Legends with big games today, including Chandler Bengston (Columbia) who had a three-for-five day, including a home run; and Nick Brooks (Gonzaga) who doubled and scored four times. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in the CCL:
Oakland, CA
The Neptune Beach Pearl swept a doubleheader today at Laney College, beating the Walnut Creek Crawdads 7-3 and 4-1. The wins, coupled with a loss today for the Healdsburg Prune Packers, vaulted the Pearl into the top position in the CCL’s North Division with a 7-4 record and third overall in the league-wide standings. In the first game, Walker Pennington (Texas A&M) and Baylor Rowlett (Oklahoma State) each had home runs and Brady Bate (USF) had a double and a single to lead the Pearl. Bate starred in the second game of the doubleheader as well, belting his second home run of the summer in the fourth inning and, when he hit a triple in the fifth inning, he ended up hitting for the cycle on the day. Noah Gotsis (Regis) started the second game and had six strikeouts in five innings to pick up the win. See the Game 1 boxscore/recap here. See the Game 2 boxscore/recap here.
Ventura, CA
The Academy Barons maintained the top spot in the CCL today by beating the Ventura Halos at Ventura College 5-0. Sitting atop the league with an 11-4 record, percentage points ahead of the 12-5 Santa Barbara Foresters who played a nonleague exhibition against the US Collegiate National Team today, the Barons were led by the performances of hitters who have become familiar in the league this summer for their consistency. Ernie De la Trinidad who has been hitting over .400 all summer, had three hits today, including a two-run home run, and Aaron Cisneros (UC Riverside), who was last summer’s home run leader in the CCL and has been a top run-producer again this summer, had a double and two RBI. Five Barons pitchers combined for the shutout, allowing six hits as a group with as many strikeouts. Wesley Albert (Lee University) pitched three innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. See the boxscore/recap here.
It will be the Barons turn to play an exhibition against the US Collegiate National Team tomorrow at Angels Stadium. Game time is 6:30pm.
Long Beach, CA
The Long Beach Legends and the Orange County Riptide each won a game today at Long Beach City College, the Legends winning the resumption of their June 11 game that was suspended due to darkness and the Riptide winning the regularly scheduled game 5-3. The resumed game finished quickly, in one at bat for each team, as Long Beach held the Riptide scoreless for one-half inning and then scored in the next half on a two-out bases loaded walk in what was the 13th inning of the June 11 game. See the Game 1 boxscore/recap here.
In the regularly scheduled game, the Riptide scored three runs in the seventh inning on four singles, a hit batsman and a fielder’s choice to erase a 3-2 deficit. Tanner Murphey had nine strikeouts in five-plus innings to lead Orange County. See the Game 2 boxscore/recap here.
June 28, 2016
Ventura, CA
Austin Russ (USC) hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning today to give the Ventura Halos a walk-off victory over the Orange County Riptide at Ventura College. Russ drove in Derek Rodigo (Westmont), who had three hits in the game including a lead-off double to open the ninth inning. The Riptide had rallied back from a 6-1 deficit, scoring four times in the eighth inning, the big hit being a three-run home run by Chris Prescott (Michigan), and scoring once in the top of the ninth to even the score at 6-6, but the Halos answered with a rally of their own. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in the CCL:
Long Beach, CA
Like the earlier CCL game in Ventura, the Long Beach Legends had a walk-off victory at their home park today, beating the Conejo Oaks 6-5 at Long Beach City College. Aaron Case had the game-winning hit, driving in Nico Olivera (La Salle), who had drawn a one-out walk and advanced into scoring position on a wild pitch before Case’s game-winner. Brandon Brintz (Houston Baptist) had a pair of doubles in the game, and Trevor Casanova (Lane JC) had a double and three RBI to lead the Legends. Biagio Schutt (Marymount) started on the mound for Long Beach and had seven strikeouts in five-plus innings, but allowed three runs on eight hits and did not figure in the decision. Eric Ramirez (Hawaii) had three hits to lead the Oaks and improved his in-conference best batting average to .481. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 26, 2016
La Mirada, CA
The Academy Barons acted as if they took it personal that the Southern California Catch snapped their six game winning streak last night by pounding out eight extra base hits in a rematch between the two teams today at Biola Univesity, winning 17-2 and staying atop the CCL standings with a half-game lead and a record of 10-4. James Stea (Valparaiso) had two of the extra base hits, a home run and a double, to pace the Barons who totaled 14 hits on the day, and Martin Teague (Hope Int) added a double of his own and added two more RBI, upping his league-leading total to 30. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in the CCL:
Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters scored eight runs in the first inning in their series finale against the Walnut Creek Crawdads today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, but only had one hit, a big one, a grand slam by Kyle Isbel (UNLV) , as the Foresters went on to win the game 14-7, sweep the series and remain a half-game behind the Academy Barons for the top spot in the CCL standings with a 12-5 record. Santa Barbara batted around in the first inning by way of seven walks, two hit batsmen and a fielding error by the Crawdads, all but one of which eventually scored. Isbel ended up with six RBI on three hits, and Matt Henderson (Florida State) also tallied three hits. Tanner Lawson (Houston) had five strikeouts in five innings on the mound to pick up the win. See the boxscore/recap here.
Ventura, CA
With the score tied, the Ventura Halos scored three unearned runs in their last at bat to take a 5-2 lead against the Conejo Oaks today at Ventura College, and then handed the ball to Josh Kubiske (Cal State East Bay) who got the last three outs, two on strikeouts, to secure the win. The Halos, who improved to 8-7 in league play, got multiple-hit games from Patrick Britt (Binghampton), Blake Chiaramonte (Ventura JC) and Mike Volaski. The loss gives the Oaks an 11-6 league record, a half-game out of first place. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 24, 2016
Redwood City, CA
Tyler Ivey (Grayson CC) and Alexander Hernandez (Fordham) combined for a three-hit shutout on the mound today for the Menlo Park Legends in their 9-0 win over the Long Beach Legends. Ivey started the game, his first outing of the summer, and allowed only one hit in six innings while striking out seven. Hernandez pitched the last three innings with similar success, allowing two hits while striking out four. Clayton Casey (Houston) had four hits in five at bats, and Patrick McColl (Harvard) had three hits and three RBI to lead the Menlo Park offense. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in the CCL:
Santa Barbara, CA
Reagan Todd (ASU) had nine strikeouts in six scoreless innings as the Santa Barbara Foresters beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium 4-2. Todd left the game with the Foresters holding a slight 1-0 lead but before a new pitcher would take the mound for Santa Barbara Hunter Williams (Tulane) would hit his fourth home run of the summer and Hank LoForte (Cal St Fullerton) would follow that with a run-scoring single and the Foresters would be up 4-0. A two-run triple by Wade Gulden (Utah) would cut the lead in half for the Crawdads in the eighth but that was as close as they got. See the boxscore/recap here.
Ventura, CA
Gabe Gunter (Cal Lutheran) and Chad Bible (San Diego St) each had home runs today in the Conejo Oaks 6-4 win over the Ventura Halos at Ventura College. Bible’s home run got the scoring going for the Oaks and came with two out and one on in the first inning that put the Oaks up 2-0. Gunter’s blast came in the fourth inning with two runners on and made the score 6-1 Oaks. The Halos cut the score in the eighth inning, scoring three times on three bases-loaded walks, but 6-4 was as close as they would get. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 23, 2016
Irvine, CA
Jackson Simonsgaard (Oxnard JC) had nine strikeouts in six innings on the mound today for the Conejo Oaks as the Oaks won the first game of a doubleheader matchup with the Orange County Riptide 2-1 at Concordia University. Simonsgaard, who allowed only two hits and one walk on the day, got all the run support he would need in the 3rd inning when Logan Gillaspie (Oxnard JC) doubled home the first run of the game and then scored the second run on a fielder’s choice. See the Game 1 boxscore/recap here.
The second game of the doubleheader was a different story from the first as the Oaks pounded out ten runs on 13 hits en route to a 10-0 shutout. The Oaks did all their scoring in two innings, putting up five runs each in the fourth and seventh innings. Kyle Sanchez (Cal) and Terrell Tate (Hawaii) each had a double among three hits in the second game to lead the Oaks. See the Game 2 boxscore/recap here.
Also in the CCL today:
San Luis Obispo, CA
Trailing 2-0 early in their matchup with the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight, the San Luis Obispo Blues pounced on the opportunity a fielding error by the Foresters provided, scored three times in the inning and cruised the rest of the way to a 4-2 league home win at Sinsheimer Park. Korey Anderson (Western Carolina) picked up the win for the Blues, pitching six innings with five strikeouts and two runs allowed, while Blake Johnson (UAB) and Garrett Dodd (Louisiana Teach)each had a pair of hits to lead the Blues offense. See the boxscore/recap here.
Redwood City, CA
In the battle of the Legends, Menlo Park came out on top against Long Beach 6-5 today at Canada College in the first-ever meeting between the two CCL clubs known as the Legends. Sean Watkins had two hits and two RBI, and Phillip Caufield (LMU) had two hits and two runs scored to lead Menlo Park. Jacob Westin (Cornell) had three hits, including a home run and a double, to lead Long Beach. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 22, 2016
Oakland, CA
Brady Bate (USF) had five hits for the Neptune Beach Pearl and Nick Brooks (Gonzaga) had three hits, including his fourth home run of the summer, as the Pearl and Legends played 11 innings before their game tonight at Laney College had to be suspended due to a facility time limit with the score 8-8. Clayton Andrews (Cabrillo JC) had three hits for the Pearl and RJ Williams (UT Arlington) had two hits and three RBI for the Legends. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also in CCL action today
Irvine, CA
Aaron Cisneros (UC Riverside) hit a two-out three-run home run in the fourth inning today at Concordia University and, two batters later, Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson State) hit a two-run home run as the Academy Barons beat the Orange County Riptide 7-5 in CCL action. It was the Barons sixth win in a row, a stretch that has vaulted them to the top of the CCL standings with a 9-3 record. Tommy Bell and Jake Ortega (Cal St Bakersfield) each homered for the Riptide who hold a 3-8 record and have lost three straight. See the boxscore/recap here.
Santa Barbara, CA
The San Luis Obispo Blues and the Santa Barbara Foresters each scored twice in the eighth inning and no time else as their game today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium had to be suspended because of darkness after 11 innings were completed. Kyle Johnston (Texas) started on the mound for Santa Barbara and allowed only one hit in six innings of work while striking out seven. Matt Walker (UCLA) started for the Blues and pitched seven-plus innings, striking out five, but after the Blues had manufactured a pair of runs in the top of the eighth, Walker allowed a run-scoring triple by Keston Hiura (UC Irvine) and a RBI-single by Hunter Williams (Tulane) before being lifted from the game. The game is scheduled to be resumed prior to the next time the same two teams meet at the same location, that being July 23 at Uyesaka Stadium. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 19, 2016
Ventura, CA
The Ventura Halos swept a doubleheader over the San Luis Obispo Blues today at Ventura College, winning the early game 2-0 and the second game 9-6. A complete game, seven inning shutout by Adisson Pelupessy was the story of the first game. Pitching in the first game of a doubleheader which, by league rule, is limited to seven innings, Pelupessy scattered five hits and struckout seven, and got all the offense he and the Halos needed when Matthew Waldren (Tennessee) hit a two-out, two-run single in the fifth inning to drive in the only runs of the game. See the boxscore/recap of Game 1 here. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Halos got RBI from seven different hitters and, with a five-run sixth inning that erased a 6-4 Blues lead, Halo relievers Brandon Ward, who picked up the win, and Taylor Campos (Ventura JC) , who earned the save, held the Blues scoreless over the last three innings to secure the sweep. See the boxscore/recap of Game 2 here.
Also in the CCL today:
Santa Barbara, CA
The Menlo Park Legends and the Santa Barbara Foresters combined for a total of eight home runs in a wild series finale between the two teams today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium in which the Legends overcame an early 8-3 third inning deficit with seven unanswered runs to take a 10-8 lead by the end of six and a half innings and then only to have that lead overrun by the Foresters eight unanswered runs in the seventh and eighth innings for a final score of Santa Barbara 16, Menlo Park 10. Without question the long ball figured prominently in today’s game. Not only did the Legends hit three home runs and the Foresters five, but both teams had back-to-back home run combinations and, then, as the final topper of the game, the Foresters’ Lex Kaplan (Tulane), Bret Boswell (Texas) and Hunter Williams (Tulane) had back-to-back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning. See the boxscore/recap here.
Compton, CA
Ernie de la Trinidad homered and Adonis Morrison (UC Riverside) and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) had two RBI each as the Academy Barons won their fourth game in a row 10-2 over the Long Beach Legends. Kyle Murray started the game and picked up the win by allowing only one earned run on four hits while striking out six in five innings of work. See the boxscore/recap here.
La Mirada, CA
The Conejo Oaks beat the Southern California Catch for the second day in a row, winning 7-6 today on the backs of two Arkansas Razorbacks. Chad Spanberger and Jake Arledge between them drove in every one of the seven Oaks runs today, Arledge driving in four and Spanberger three. Trailing 6-2 after seven innings, the Arkansas connection came through big for the Oaks. In the top of the eighth Spanberger hit a two-run home run to cut the Catch’s lead to 6-4 and, then, in the ninth inning, Arledge hit a home run of his own, a three-run shot that proved to be the game winner. It was also Arledge’s second home run of the game. Batting in the leadoff position, he led the game off with a solo blast. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 17, 2016
Healdsburg, CA
Four Healdsburg pitchers combined for a five-hit shutout today at Recreation Park as the Prune Packers topped the visiting Orange County Riptide 4-0. Justin Mullins (UC Davis) picked up the win, pitching five scoreless innings while striking out four. Jake MacNichols (Santa Clara) had an RBI-single in the second inning and a two-run home run in the fourth to pace the Packers offense. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in CCL action:
La Mirada, CA
Twenty-four hours after totaling 11 runs and 17 hits the Academy Barons offense kept on rolling today in a 10-2 win over the Southern California Catch at Biola University. The Barons had 11 hits in the win, highlighted by home runs by 2015 CCL home run leader Aaron Cisneros (UC Riveride), his second this summer, and Trent Hammond (Illinois) who hit his first. Cisneros, who also had a double in the game, tallied three RBI with his homer in the eighth, and Martin Teague (Hope Int) also had three RBI. Sebastian Sanchez pitched five innings and had five strikeouts to pick up the win, and Travis Bonner had another five strikeouts in three innings of relief. See the boxscore/recap here.
Santa Barbara, CA
After a rocky first week of the CCL season the Santa Barbara Foresters have seemingly righted the ship, winning their fifth straight league contest today 5-2 over the Menlo Park Legends and vaulting to the top of the CCL standings with a 6-4 record. (*The Foresters and Conejo Oaks are tied atop the CCL standings with 6-4 records. The Oaks stats have not caught up to their official results as of yet so the standings do not reflect this 6-4 tie). Hunter Williams (Tulane) led the Foresters offense today with three hits and two RBI. See the boxscore/recap here.
San Luis Obispo, CA
The last CCL game of the night turned out to be the most dramatic as the Ventura Halos won a seesaw battle with the San Luis Obispo Blues 5-4 in eleven innings. Kaleb Murphy (USC) had the go-ahead hit, an RBI double, in the top of the 11th, and Danny Thomas (Cal St Monterey Bay) came into the game and retired the last three Blues hitters, two via the strikeout, to pick up the save. Nic Bereaud hit a two-run home run in the second inning, and he and three other Halo batters had multiple-hit games as Ventura outhit the Blues 14 to three. See the boxscore/recap here.
June 15, 2016
Thousand Oaks, CA
Chad Spanberger (Arkansas) homered and doubled today to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 6-3 win over the visiting Long Beach Legends at Sparky Anderson Field. Spanberger had three RBI on the day, two on his first home run of the season in the third inning. Jake Arledge a teammate of Spanberger’s at Arkansas, had three hits, and Chad Bible (San Diego State) added a two-run double in the fourth. See the boxscore/recap here.
Also today in CCL action:
Ventura, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters beat the Ventura Halos for the second day in a row, winning today 8-3 at Ventura College. Dylan Paul (Texas State) had three RBI, including a two-run triple in the sixth, and Connor McManigal (FIU) added three RBI of his own on two hits. Colby Barrick (Hancock JC/UCSB) continued his hot hitting, adding two hits in four at bats today and scoring twice. Kyle Johnson (Texas) had six strikeouts in six innings but left the game with the Foresters leading only 4-3. Relievers Max Gibbs (Cal St Fullerton) and Nick Kennedy (Texas) held the Halos in check as the Foresters offense sored two in the seventh and two in the ninth to secure the win. See the boxscore/recap here.