July 24, 2015 San Luis Obispo, CA
Cannon Chadwick (Arkansas) had a dominating performance on the mound tonight, striking out 12 hitters in just six scoreless innings of work to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 13-5 win over the South Bay Saints. Facing a total of only 22 batters in recording the 18 outs, Chadwick twice struck out the side in an inning and allowed only two hits and one walk.
The strong pitching outing was more than enough for the Blues offense which pounded out 18 hits on the night, led by a 4-for-4 performance by Dustin Williams (Oklahoma State).
The CCL’s annual all-star game and prospect showcase is set for 7pm July 15, 2015 at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, CA and will be televised live to a national audience by Fox Sports. Game time is 7pm. The Prospect Showcase for MLB scouts will be held at 3pm.
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Compton, CA 90221
June 23, 2015 – Compton, CA
Jordan Rodgers (LA Brewers, Tennessee) set the offensive bar high for the CCL this season by hitting for the cycle in the LA Brewers 20-2 rout of the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton. Rodgers tallied a triple in his first at bat of the game, a single in his second, a home run in his third at bat and, after two more hitless plate appearances, completed the cycle with a double in his final at bat. His four-for-six hit parade generated nine runs for the Brewers. We will keep tabs to see if any other CCL hitter can come close to such a performance. It’s still early!
June 12, 2015
Seventy current and former players of the 10 CCL clubs were selected in this year’s MLB First-Year Player Draft held in Secaucus, NJ. The Santa Barbara Foresters led all CCL teams with 24 players drafted by MLB clubs, followed by the Los Angeles Brewers who had 13 players drafted and the San Luis Obispo Blues who had 11.
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Each season CCL teams try to recruit the best collegiate players from the best colleges in the country, and each season the CCL teams inevitably have to wait for some of those players to show up because the College World Series, the pinnacle of the college experience, goes on until late June. Such is the case this year with the San Luis Obispo Blues who are waiting, and excitedly watching the CWS like all of us, for 3B Bobby Wernes to report for summer duty.
A junior, Wernes was selected by the Houston Astros in the 30th round in the MLB draft earlier this week. He was named to the All- SEC Defensive team and has made two appearances on SportsCenter’s #SCTop10 this season, including the No. 1 play on March 18, and in this gem caught on a Razorback broadcast.
At the plate, Wernes is hitting .280 with seven doubles, six triples and five home runs. He ranks second on the team in runs scored during the NCAA Tournament, while his six triples on the year is the most by any Arkansas player since the 2002 season.
The Blues are also waiting for two more Razorbacks, C Tucker Pennel and RHP Cannon Chadwick, and Chad Spanberger, the first baseman in the embedded video, is set to play with the Conejo Oaks. And, by the way, the teammate pictured with Wernes above? That’s last years’ CCL all-star second baseman Rick Nomura who played for the Conejo Oaks.
June 9, 2015 Well, it happened: The first (and second) official rainout in CCL history. Today’s scheduled game in Santa Barbara between the host team Foresters and the Neptune Beach Pearl has been postponed due to rain and rescheduled for Thursday at 1PM. Shortly thereafter a second game between the visiting San Luis Obispo Blues and the home Conejo Oaks was also called. The rainouts mark the first time in the 22-year history of the CCL that a league game has had to be postponed due to rain. But, considering, what California is going through in terms of our severe drought, we are thankful to have the rain. Let it pour! Baseball will be waiting.
The Los Angeles Brewers come into the 2015 season with two consecutive CCL titles under their belt. Last year they beat the Neptune Beach Pearl twice on the final day of the CCL Playoffs to claim the championship, and in 2013 they beat the Santa Barbara Foresters in a two-out-of-three winner-take-all championship series. What will 2015 hold?
WICHITA, Kan. – The Santa Barbara (Calif.) Foresters had defeated the Seattle (Wash.) Studs twice in previous National Baseball Congress World Series (NBCWS) championship games in 2008 and 2012.
The Foresters would not be denied a third time Saturday (Aug. 9) in the 80th annual championship, overcoming deficits twice before prevailing 3-2 in 12 innings to win their fifth NBCWS title and the third in the past four years.
Santa Barbara (5-1 in tournament play) scored single runs in the sixth and eighth innings to tie the game, and went ahead for good in the 12th on Granger Studdard’s two-out double which scored Ford Stainback from first.
Jaylin Davis led the 15-hit attack with four hits, including two doubles, and scored twice.
Troy Cruz, the fourth of four pitchers for Santa Barbara, earned the win with three innings of shutout relief, allowing two hits and being helped out when Davis threw out a runner trying to score on a single in the 10th that prevented the Studs from scoring the winning run.
Seattle (5-2), which broke a three-game losing streak in championship games last year with a win over Wellington (Kan.), was stymied in its effort to win back-to-back championships.
-Mike Dean, NBC Statistician
June 25, 2019
Irvine, CA
Connor Aoki (Binghamton) homered and hit an RBI-single in consecutive at bats and Andre Antone (UC Irvine) hit a solo home run, singled and scored the winning run in consecutive at bats as the Orange County Riptide scored five runs in their last two at bats to erase a four-run deficit and beat the Santa Barbara Foresters 5-4 tonight at Great Park Stadium. Stymied for the first six innings by the dominant outing of Foresters starting pitcher Isaac Coffey (Oral Roberts), the Riptide rallied for four runs as soon as Coffey left the game. Antone started the comeback right away, leading off the seventh inning with a solo home to get Orange County on the board. The second batter of the inning, Daniel Jung (Notre Dame), singled and then Aoki hit a two-run home run to get the Riptide within one. Joshua Solomon (Columbia) then walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on a productive groundout and scored the tying run when Blake Evans (Georgia Southern) singled him in. Marrick Crouse, who entered the game in relief of Sean Higgins (Columbia) to start the seventh inning, retired the side in order in the eighth and, after Antone and Jung again got things stated for the Riptide with one out in their half of the inning by hitting one out singles, Aoki singled to drive Antone in with what proved to be the winning run. Crouse then pitched around Ross Cadena’s (Wichita State) third single of the game to lead off the ninth inning, stranding Cadena at second base after he advanced on a wild pitch by getting two fly outs and striking out the last batter to close out the win. The Orange County comeback spoiled a masterful pitching performance by Coffey. The righthander struck out nine in his six-inning outing and allowed only three singles, two of who were erased on the bases in the third inning via a caught-stealing and a line drive double play. Coffey faced the minimum three batters in four of his six innings, struck out the side in the second inning and had two or more strikeouts in four innings. Tyler Booth started on the mound for Orange County and surrendered all four of the Foresters runs in three and two-thirds innings while striking out five and allowing five hits. Cadena got Santa Barbara on the board with an RBI-single in the third inning and, after two walks, a single and two errors pushed another run across, Cadena hit a two-out two-run single to give the Foresters a 4-0 lead. Higgins, who surrendered Cadena’s second hit after relieving Booth, retired the next batter he faced to end the fourth and went on to strand runners in scoring position for two scoreless innings before turning the pitching duties over to Crouse who pitched a scoreless seventh and retired nine of the next ten batters he faced.
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Elsewhere around the CCL today:
Compton, CA
Drew Cowley (Cal Poly Pomona) hit a three-run home run, Andy Garriola (Old Dominion) hit a solo home run and Thomas Luevano (USD) hit a ninth inning, two-out, two-run single to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-6 win over the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Youth Academy. Cowley’s home run came in the sixth inning with the Saints trailing 5-1 after the Barons scored three times on three singles in the first inning, once in the second on a Christian Poche (New Orleans) two-out double and once in the third after Logan Pollack (Michigan) hit a leadoff double and eventually scored on a run-producing groundout, and the Saints scored once in the fifth on a Matt Thomas (Harvard) RBI-single. Cowley’s home run all but erased the outstanding pitching performance of Barons’ starting pitcher Brandon Mitchell (New Orleans). Mitchell retired the first eight batters in order, four by strikeouts, and eleven of the first twelve, allowing only one baserunner in his first four innings via a two-out walk in the third. The only blemish to Mitchell’s outing came after allowing his second walk to leadoff the fifth inning. That runner scored after stealing second base and Mitchell struck out his sixth batter when Thomas got his RBI-hit. Drew Atherton (Cal Poly Pomona) was the starting pitcher for the Saints and surrendered all five of the Barons’ run over two and two-thirds innings, giving up eight hits while striking out five. Race Gardner (Hawaii-Hilo) entered the game to pitch in relief of Atherton with the bases loaded and two outs in the third inning, retiring the next batter to limit the damage, and went on to retire the side in order in three of the next four innings to finish his performance with four and a third innings scoreless with five strikeouts. Gardner did not figure in the final decision because the Saints only tied the score while he was the pitcher of record when Garriola hit his home run in the seventh to make the score 5-5. It wasn’t until the ninth inning that the Saints took the lead and, again it was Garriola getting things going. Garriola singled to lead off the inning, stole second base, advanced to third on an error and, with two outs, scored the go-ahead run when Cowley walked with the bases loaded. Luevano then hit his two-run single to put the Saints up by three. Chris Burnette (Cal Poly Pomona) who relieved Gardner with one out and one on in the eighth inning, stranded the bases loaded in that inning without allowing a run, but could not close out the win in the ninth, surrendering a single and hitting two batters before handing the ball to Michael Hendricks (Lee) with the bases loaded and two outs to get. Hendricks walked the first batter he faced to allow the Barons sixth run but struck out the next two to save the win for the Saints.
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Thousand Oaks, CA
Today’s game between the San Luis Obispo Blues and the Conejo Oaks was suspended after nine innings with the score tied 5-5 due to darkness. The game will be resumed tomorrow at 4:30pm prior to the previously scheduled game between the same two teams at Sparky Anderson Field. Recaps of both games will be reported tomorrow night.