June 29, 2019 San Luis Obispo, CA Blake Evans (Georgia Southern) went four-for-four with an RBI-double and a run scored, and Marrick Crouse thwarted a rally that featured three consecutive singles to leadoff the ninth inning to score one and put the tying run in scoring position with no outs to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 3-2 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues in the first game of a doubleheader tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Evans hit safely in each of his plate appearances in this seven-inning front end of the doubleheader, leading off the game with a single, driving in the Riptide’s first run in the third inning with a double that scored Chris Aubort (Hawaii-Hilo) who led off with a single, and scoring their second run in the same inning after an error to give Orange County a 2-1 lead. The Blues had scored first in the game, plating one run in their first at bat when Taison Corio (Delta JC), who had three hits in the game, drove in Ryan Cole (Notre Dame) who had singled to leadoff the first inning. Michael Defelippi (Pacific) stranded the bases loaded after Corio’s single, striking out the last batter of the inning to escape further damage and then threw two and third more innings scoreless before turning the pitching duties over to Andrew Davis who recorded the final out of the fourth inning, the first two of the fifth, but a single, a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases and Orange County turned to Crouse to hold what had become a two-run lead after Eric Bigani (UNLV) singled in the fourth inning, advanced to third on a two-base error and scored on a run-producing groundout. Crouse escaped the bases loaded situation in the fifth inning by retiring the first batter he faced and pitched a scoreless sixth before Hunter Swift (Oral Roberts), Corio and TJ Rumfield (Texas Tech) hit consecutive singles to lead off the seventh. Crouse struck out the next two batters after Rumfield got the Blues to within one and retired the final batter on a pop-out to close out the Riptide win. Braeden Gowdy started on the mound for San Luis and surrendered all three Orange County runs on five hits while striking out four in four innings of work to suffer the loss. Tyler Chivens relieved Gowdy to start the fifth inning and allowed three hits while striking out two over three scoreless innings. The second game of the doubleheader tonight was suspended in the tenth innings due to city restrictions with the score tied 3-3. The game will be resumed July 19 prior to the previously scheduled next meeting of the same two teams. The recaps and stats of that game will be posted upon the game’s completion. Click here for recaps of these games Elsewhere around the CCL tonight: Pasadena, CA Thomas Luevano (USD) had three hits and drove in four runs, Pete Derkay (Tennessee) hit a grand slam and added an RBI-single, and Anthony Forte (Richmond) hit a two-run home run and had three RBI to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to a 15-10 win over the Conejo Oaks tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The three top performers for the Saints highlighted an 18-hit attack that scored runs in bunches tonight. They scored two runs in their first at bat when Luevano hit an RBI-double and scored on an Andy Garriola (Old Dominion) single, three in the second inning when Forte hit a run-producing groundout and Luevano hit a two-run single, seven in the fourth when Derkay and Forte hit their home runs and Nolan Tressler (Georgia Southern) added an RBI-single all before an out was recorded, and three in the seventh when David Reyna (Ark-Monticello), Garriola and Derkay had consecutive RBI-hits. The Oaks also scored runs in bunches and totaled an impressive eleven hits, but their ten-run offensive production was skewed a bit by five errors committed by the Saints in innings in which Conejo scored. In fact, the Oaks only recorded three run-producing hits, two RBI-singles by Gabe Baldovino (Ventura JC) and an RBI-single by Tyler Odekirk (Cal St LA). All seven of the other Conejo runs were scored via errors or run-producing groundouts. Michael Garza (Incarnate Word) was the starting pitcher tonight for Arroyo Seco and allowed seven runs on seven hits while striking out four in a five-inning stint. Oaks starting pitcher Carson Carter (Texas Tech) had a similar outing, allowing five runs on six hits while striking out one over three innings. The pitching highlights tonight belonged to the relievers. Zach Griggs (UTSA) struck out three in his one inning of work and Michael Hendricks (Lee) struck out two in one inning for the Saints, while Guillermo Pinedo threw three scoreless innings of relief for the Oaks. Click here for recaps of these games Healdsburg, CA Jason Dicochea (Santa Clara) hit a pair of home runs and drove in seven runs, Kenny Haus (UConn) pitched five innings of one-hit baseball and he, Hunter Mayo (Houston) and Griffin Hattingh allowed a combined three hits over nine innings while they received 19 runs on 18 hits in support, including a five-for-five performance by Cal Conley (Texas Tech) and three-hit games from four others, to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 19-3 thrashing of the Solano Mudcats tonight at Recreation Park. Dicochea hit an RBI-double in his first at bat, a two-run home run in his second, a run-producing groundout in his third and a three-run home run in his fourth to amass the seven-run production. Haus started on the mound for Healdsburg and held the Mudcats hitless until two outs in his last inning of work when Eric Robles (Sterling College) doubled in the fifth. Haus allowed a total of six baserunners in five innings, four by walks, one by a hit batter and one on Robles’ hit, but escaped damage each time until the leadoff walk he issued in the fifth scored on Robles’ double. Mayo also only allowed one Solano hit in his two innings of relief of Haus, but surrendered two runs, one in the sixth when Isaiah Verret (UC Davis) doubled and later scored on an infield groundout, and one in the seventh when Mayo hit two batters and walked two batters to force in a run. Hattingh finished the dominant Healdsburg pitching by tossing two scoreless innings while allowing only the Mudcats third hit, a two-out single by Justin Banks (Coppin St) in the eighth. While this was going on the Packers offense was scoring runs in bunches. They scored five runs in their first at bat on RBI-doubles by Dicochea, Cam Blake (Texas A&M) and John Lagattuta (Cal), two in the second inning, two in the third, four in the fifth and seventh and one each in the sixth and eighth. Conley, who also walked once, reached base safely in all six of his plate appearances and scored five runs. He, Dicochea, Blake, Lagattuta and Joe Lampe (UC Davis) each finished the game with three or more hits. Click here for recaps of these games Santa Barbara, CA Eric Kennedy (Texas) hit two home runs and a double to drive in five runs, Christian Franklin (Arkansas) homered, tripled and hit an RBI-single to drive in four, and Luke Taggert (Incarnate Word) struck out eight in a five-inning start to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 12-6 win over the Academy Barons tonight at Pershing Park. Kennedy hit his first home run with two outs and nobody on in the third inning. It was the first hit Barons’ starting pitcher Elijah Pleasants allowed, having been spotted a two-run lead when Basiel Williams Jr. (Jones JC) hit a two-run home run in the first inning and a 3-1 lead after Williams hit a two-out RBI-double in the fifth. Pleasants had retired eight of the first nine batters he faced before Kennedy’s first homer and retired four of the next five before a one-out single by Tevin Tucker (West Virginia) started a four-run rally in the fifth inning for Santa Barbara. Kennedy’s second home run drove in Tucker with two outs to tie the score and, after an error extended the inning, Franklin hit his home run to give the Foresters a 5-3 lead. Taggert retired 14 of the 17 batters he faced between Williams’ first two hits, striking out seven and allowing two other hits, a two-out double by Christian Lucio (Eastern Kentucky) whom he stranded in the fourth, and a two-out single by Trent Anderson in the fifth, who scored when Williams hit his double. Taggert struck out the last batter he faced to end the fifth inning then turned the pitching duties over to Nico O’Donnell (Texas), who pitched a one-two-three sixth inning but issued a pair of walks to start the seventh and was relieved by Elijah Trest (Arkansas). Trest struck out two in the inning but a fielder’s choice and a Williams two-run single plated three and gave the Barons a 6-5 lead. The Foresters answered in their next at bat, however, tying the score when Franklin hit an RBI-triple, and taking the lead when two runs scored after an error and two wild pitches. Hunter Breault (Oregon) pitched the last two innings for Santa Barbara scoreless, striking out two in each inning to close out the win. The Foresters blew the game open with four runs in the eighth inning when Kennedy hit a two-run double, Franklin hit a run-scoring single and Conor McKenna (Oklahoma) hit an RBI-double. Click here for recaps of these games