July 21, 2018 Fullerton, CA Cassius Hamm (Northridge) and Corey Dawson (Westmont College) combined to pitch a shutout, striking out nine, Mason McWhorter (Georgia Southern) hit a three-run home run and an RBI-single, and Luke Bandy (Dallas Baptist) had three hits and drove in three to lead the Orange County Riptide to an 11-0 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Fullerton College. Hamm started on the mound for Orange County and scattered five hits while striking out six over six innings and Dawson pitched the last three innings, allowing two hits while striking out three. Wyatt Kelley (New Mexico St) started on the mound for Arroyo Seco, allowing five runs on five hits while striking out five, and started off well, throwing three scoreless innings, allowing only one baserunner, a single by Bandy in the second inning, before McWhorter hit his home run with one out in the fourth to give the Riptide their first lead. Orange County added two runs in the fifth inning when Aaron Simpson (Ball State) doubled and scored on a Paul Gomez (Missouri) triple, and Gomez scored on a sacrifice fly; two in the sixth when Auston Sojka (OK Wesleyan) and Bandy hit back-to-back one-out doubles and another sacrifice fly drove a run in; and four in the seventh when McWhorter and Bandy hit RBI-singles and an error plated another to post the final 11-0 score. Colin Shepherd (Miami-Ohio) had three hits for the Saints, matching Bandy for game-high honors. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Healdsburg, CA Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) hit a pinch-hit, walk-off two-run home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Chase Gardner (UConn), Nick Candelari (Texas Tech) and Kurt Wilson (Texas Tech) combined to strike out 14 to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 4-3 win over the Southern California Catch tonight at Recreation Park. Tofteland's home run erased a lead the Catch had held since the third inning when Daniel Jung (Notre Dame) hit a two-run single to put the Catch up 2-1, Tofteland drove in Clay Koelzer (Texas Tech) who had singled after Anthony Mayorga, who came in to pitch the ninth inning for the Catch, struck out the first batter he faced. Gardner started on the mound for Healdsburg and cruised through the first two innings, striking out five of the first six batters he faced before running into trouble in the third when Miguel Abascal (USD) led off with a ground-rule double and two walks loaded the bases in front of Jung's RBI-single. Candelari, who entered the game with two outs in the third inning in relief of Garnder, then struck out seven over the next four innings, allowing one run on three hits, one of which was a solo home run by Jacob Nemeth (Azusa Pacific) in the seventh inning that put the Catch up 3-1. Healdsburg had taken the first lead of the game when Jake MacNichols (Santa Clara) doubled to lead off the second inning and scored when Cole Brodnansky hit a two-out double, and got within one in the seventh inning when Brodnansky walked, advanced on an error and scored on a run-producing groundout. Wilson pitched the last two innings for the Packers, retiring the side in order in the eighth and the first two batters in the ninth before Nemeth hit a double to put the tying run in scoring position. Wilson struck out the next batter to end the threat, keep the Packers within one and setup the dramatic win. Click here for recaps of this game Santa Barbara, CA Justin Friedman retired the first 14 batters he faced and struck out six over seven innings, and the Conejo Oaks offense opened up a 9-0 lead in route to beating the Santa Barbara Foresters 9-3 tonight at Pershing Park. Friedman was perfect until John Jensen (UC Irvine) hit a two-out single in the fifth inning and Michael Neustifter (Oklahoma St) followed with an RBI-double. Friedman escaped the fifth without further damage, returned to retiring the side in order for the sixth inning, and would've pitched a scoreless seventh except for an error that allowed the Foresters to score their second run. At that point, however, game was all but decided as the Oaks had rallied for six runs in the fifth inning to take a 9-0 lead. In the fifth, the Oaks collected five singles, including RBI-hits by Jordan McFarland (Arkansas), Elijah Alexander (Rio Grande Valley), who had a game-high three hits, and Tanner Wright (Cal Lu), and took advantage of two Foresters errors to generate the six runs. Conejo had scored once in the third inning when Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) hit a two-out RBI-double, and twice in the fourth when Bailey Holbrook hit a bases-loaded single to drive in a pair. Angus Denton (Arkansas) pitched the final two innings for the Oaks in relief of Friedman, allowing one unearned run in the eighth inning when Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) singled in a runner who had reached on an error with two outs, and then Denton retired the side in order in the ninth to close out the win. Jordan Wolf (West Virginia) was the starting pitcher for Santa Barbara tonight, allowing five runs on six hits while striking out six in four innings to suffer the loss. Bailey Reid (Westmont College) struck out five in two innings of relief to highlight the Foresters pitching. Click here for recaps of this game