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. Click for recaps of this game Elsewhere in the CCL today: 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. Click for recaps of this game 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. Click for recaps of this game 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. Click for recaps of this game 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. Click for recaps of this game