June 30, 2017 Santa Barbara, CA Tanner Lawson (St. Edwards) and Evan Kravetz (Rice) combined for nine scoreless innings pitched and Jimmy Galusky (West Virginia) hit a three-run home run to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to an 8-0 shutout win over the Neptune Beach Pearl tonight at Pershing Park. It was the first of three meetings this weekend between the top two teams in the league the last few years and, as would be expected, starting pitching will and did determine much of the results. Lawson retired the first seven batters he faced in order before allowing two singles and a walk with one out in the third inning. It would turn out to be the biggest threat Neptune Beach would mount in the game and Lawson pitched out of it unscathed, striking out one batter and inducing an inning-ending ground ball with the bases loaded for the last out of the inning. On the other side of the game, Pearl starting pitcher Caleb Freeman (Texas Tech) gave up single runs in the second and third innings on run-scoring singles by Steven Coe (UC San Diego) and Ryan Reynolds (Texas), and was charged with two more runs scored after Austin Todd (Texas) tripled to lead off the fifth inning and scored on an Evan Lee (Arkansas) single which finished Freeman’s outing. The change did not slow the Foresters bats, however, as relief pitcher Alex Trautner gave up a double to Joshua Jung (Texas Tech) that drove Lee home, a walk and then Galusky hit his three-run shot. Santa Barbara would go on to score once more in the seventh inning when John Jensen (Santa Barbara CC) tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly. Meanwhile, Lawson and Kravetz were throwing zero-run innings. Lawson finished with six strikeouts in six innings of work, and Kravetz recorded four strikeouts and faced the minimum nine batters in his three innings. Todd finsished with a game-high three hits (single, double and triple), and Harrison Smith finished with two to lead Neptune Beach. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Auburn, CA With the score tied in the seventh inning Dylan McPhillips (Sacramento St) hit a solo home run to spark a three-run two-out rally to lead the Auburn Wildcats to a 6-3 win over the Rockville Rock Hounds tonight at James Field. McPhillips' homer chased Rockville’s starting pitcher Rylan Haney, who struck out five in his six and two-thirds innings of work, from the game and was followed by a Nate Verlin (Pacific) double, a run-scoring single by Jacob Booker (Air Force) and three walks to set the final score. The Rock Hounds, who had scored two in the first inning on RBI-singles by Grant St. Martin (Sonoma St) and Kirby Broadbent (Campbellsville), had just tied the game in their half of the inning, scoring an unearned run before McPhillips changed the course of the game. Paul Gallegos (William Jessup) held the Rock Hounds scoreless the last two innings to earn the save in relief of Josh Hook (William Jessup) who picked up the win in relief of Hayden Piner (William Jessup), who recorded five strikeouts over five innings of work. Verlin had run-scoring singles for Auburn in the first and third innings to finish with a game-high three hits and two RBI. Dominic Foscalina (Utah) had three hits, including one double, to lead Rockville. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Mac Lardner (Gonzaga) struck out ten hitters in seven innings pitched and Justin Beck (San Jose St) hit a two-out bases loaded two-run single to put the San Luis Obispo Blues ahead for good in their 5-4 win over the Orange County Riptide tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Lardner, who has 26 strikeouts in three CCL starts this summer, had only one inning when the Riptide had a runner reach second base, the second, when Orange County scored four times on doubles by Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) and Will Proctor (Georgia) and a triple by Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC), to take a 4-2 lead. The Blues answered in the third inning, scoring three times, capped by Beck’s go-ahead hit, to retake the lead. Lardner and, for the last two innings, Jack Cosca (Cal) and Josh Goldberg (San Jose St) held the Riptide scoreless, allowing only three hits over the last seven innings. Orange County did load the bases in the top of the ninth inning on two walks and a single, but Goldberg came into the game to relieve Cosca for the final out, a flyball to centerfield, to pick up the save. Adam Fogel (Hawaii) had a game-high three hits, and Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) and Beck finshed with two hits each to lead the San Luis Obispo offense. David Miranda (Florida Atlantic) had a single and a double to lead Orange County. Click here for recaps of this game Pasadena, CA Corey Harrell (Graceland) hit a grand slam and Blake Burton added a two-run home run as the Arroyo Seco Saints offense erupted for seven runs in the sixth inning en route to beating the Southern California Catch 10-5 tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Catch had taken a 3-1 lead into the sixth inning, having scored three times on an RBI-double by Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) and run-scoring singles by Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) and Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft. Smith), and ran four pitchers to mound during the sixth to try, first, to preserve the lead and, second, to limit the damage, but Harrell and Burton thwarted those plans. In the big inning, Arroyo Seco collected five hits, two walks and a hit batsman to score the seven. Burton, who also had an RBI-single in the first inning and singled and scored in the eighth, finished with a game-high three hits, while four other Saints hitters had two hits each. Seminaris and Omar Ortiz (Pacific) each had two hits to lead the Catch. Gunnar Friend (Avila) picked up the win on the mound for Arroyo Seco, recording four strikeouts in four innings in relief of starter Shamon Moss (Georgetown, NAIA). Click here for recaps of this game Healdsburg, CA The Healdsburg Prune Packers beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads by one run for the second night in a row, holding off a late charge by the Crawdads to win 5-4 tonight at Recreation Park. Last night the Packers chased down the leading Crawdads for a dramatic come-from-behind win, tonight it was Walnut Creek doing the chasing. Down 5-2 after seven innings, the Crawdads scored once in the eighth on an RBI-double by Matt Poulin, and put the tying runs aboard with no outs in the ninth, but Healdsburg reliever Shamus Lyons (Santa Rosa JC) retired the next three batters, allowing only one of the runners to score on a sacrifice fly by Ben Skinner (Harvard) to close out the win. Clay Koelzer (Texas Tech) hit a solo home run in the second inning to start the scoring for Healdsburg and, in the third, Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) hit a two-run single and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) hit an RBI-single to score the third. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St), who had a game-high four hits, doubled and later scored the fifth Packers run in the eighth inning. Chase Gardner started on the mound for Healdsburg and recorded six strikeouts and allowed only one hit over five innings to earn the win. Click here for recaps of this game Long Beach, CA The Academy Barons scored four runs in the eighth inning, highlighted by a two-run double by Caleb Squire (Bellevue) and a run-scoring triple by Denzl Chapman (San Diego St) to take an 11-8 lead, and then held-off a last inning comeback by the Long Beach Legends to win 11-10 today at Long Beach City College. It was the fifth double and second triple of the 14-hit game for the Barons compared to the only one double among 12 hits by Long Beach. Wesley Albert (Lee University) pitched the last four innings for the Barons, recording six strikeouts, to pick up the win, but faced a bit of adversity in the ninth when Long Beach got back-to-back singles with one out from Tommy Anderson (Doane) and Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown), both of whom would advance and score on a passed ball, a balk and a wild pitch to get the Legends within one. But Albert recorded the last two outs on a strikeout and a flyout to close out the win. At one point in the game Long Beach had held 7-3 lead, having scored six runs on six singles and three walks in the third inning, and once in the second, but the Barons answered with four runs of their own in the sixth, the big hit being a Chapman two-run double, to tie the score 7-7. Long Beach added an unearned run in their half of the sixth inning to retake the lead, but that only lasted until the Barons took the lead for good in the eighth. Chapman finished with a game-high three RBI, and his first double in the fifth gave him a game-high three hits along with Dailin Lee (UC Irvine), who tripled and singled twice, driving in two for the Barons, and Michael Stefanic (Westmont), who had three singles to lead Long Beach. Click here for recaps of this game