July 5, 2018 La Mirada, CA Ryan Hare (UNLV) threw five innings of one-hit, one-run baseball, Trevor Mattson (Arcadia) doubled twice and scored twice and Hunter Lewis (Indiana State) hit a two-run home run and added a third RBI to lead the Academy Barons to an 11-5 win over the Southern California Catch today at Biola Univeristy. Hare retired the side in the first three innings today before a leadoff walk in the fourth inning and a single by Jake Boone (Princeton) put a runner in scoring position. That runner would score an unearned run as, after another out was recorded, the following batter reached on a run-scoring error. Hare picked up where he had left off, however, retiring the next four batters, finishing his day with five strikeouts, before turning the pitching duties over the Barons bullpen. The Academy led the game from start to finish, scoring one in the first when leadoff hitter Desmond Gates (West LA JC) singled, advanced to third on a pair of walks and scored on a Lewis sacrifice fly. Daniel Harris (Eastern Kentucky) led off the second inning with a bunt single, moved to third on Mattson's first double, and the Barons upped their lead to 3-0 as both runners scored on run-producing groundouts. After the Catch scored their first run in the fourth inning, the Barons scored twice in the sixth on a RBI-single by Adam Cendejas and a run-producing fielder's choice and, in the bottom half of the inning, the Catch got back within striking distance, scoring three runs on a sacrifice fly and an RBI-single by Omar Ortiz (Cochise College) to make the score 5-4. But the Barons put the game out of reach, scoring in each of their last three at bats, including four runs in the ninth inning when Andrew Wilson (Marymount-NAIA) hit a two-run single and Lewis hit his home run, while the Catch could only muster one more run when Deylen Miley (Tiffin) hit an RBI-double in the seventh. Taed Heydinger started on the mound for the Catch, recording five strikeouts in five innings of work, before being relieved by Tayt Smith (Azusa Pacific), who suffered the loss in his two innings of work. Kris Keach (Cal State LA) and Spencer Hereford (Dominguez Hills) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning, respectively, to secure the Barons win. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere in the CCL today: Santa Barbara, CA Christian Moya (USC) and Nic Lacayo (Michigan St) hit consecutive one-out pinch-hit singles in the top of the tenth inning, Moya scoring the go-ahead run on an error, and Joey Steele (USF) pitched two perfect innings in the ninth and tenth innings, recording four strikeouts, to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-7 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Pershing Park. The hits in the tenth inning were the last two of the fourteen collected by the Saints hitters tonight. In contrast, the Foresters only recorded three hits in the game, taking advantage of three errors, six walks and a hit batsmen, almost all of which directly resulted in Santa Barbara runs. Two of the three Foresters hits were collected by Conor Davis (Auburn), the more dramatic of which was his solo home run with one-out in the eighth inning which tied the score 7-7. Still tied after Chase Wallace (Tennessee) retired the Saints in order in the top of the ninth inning, Steele entered the game and struck out the first and third batters he faced to send the game into extra innings and, then, with the lead in the tenth inning, Steele struck out the first two batters he faced before getting a pop out to earn the win for Arroyo Seco. The Saints had two big innings before the game went into extras, scoring three times in the third on a Bennett McCaskill (Dartmouth) RBI-ground rule double, a run-scoring groundout and an error, and four times in the sixth when Brennan McKenzie (Cal Poly Pomona) and John Thomas (USC) had back-to-back RBI doubles and Cameron Briggs (UC Davis) hit a run-scoring single. Logan Allen (Arkansas-Ft. Smith) hit a pair of run-producing outs, Davis added an RBI-single and Michael Neustifter (Oklahoma State), the only other Forester with a hit in the game, plated two with a two-out double in the fifth inning to account for the Santa Barbara scoring. Drew Cowley (Cal Poly Pomona) led all hitters with three hits, including a double, while McKenzie, Thomas and McCaskill each had two. Charles Peacock (Galveston JC) started on the mound for Arroyo Seco, pitching three hitless innings and allowing one run while walking two and striking out two. Michael Hobbs (St. Mary's) started for Santa Barbara, striking out seven over five innings, but surrender seven hits and three runs before turning the pitching duties over to the bullpen. Click here for recaps of this game