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Healdsburg and Neptune Swap Top Spot … Again

| July 7, 2017

July 7, 2017 (*Recaps over the next few days will be more abridged than usual as the CCL public information service prepares for the all-star game. -PB) Healdsburg, CA Jamey Smart (LMU) hit a two-out, bases loaded three-run double and Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) drove Smart in with an RBI-double of his own to cap a six-run fourth inning the Healdsburg Prune Packers rode to an 8-4 victory over the Neptune Beach Pearl tonight at Recreation Park. The win over their North Division foe moved the Packers into first place in the CCL standings as these two teams continue to swap places in that spot almost on a daily basis. Chase Gardner started on the mound for Healdsburg and picked up the win with five strikeouts over five and two-thirds innings despite allowing a pair of runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, the latter coming on a two-out, two-run home run by Lucas Halstead (Pacific), his fifth in league play this summer. Smart (two doubles and a single) finished with a game-high three hits and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) doubled and singled to lead the Healdsburg attack. Halstead, who also doubled and scored in the fifth inning, was the only Neptune Beach player to finish with more than one hit. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Compton, CA Chase Sebby hit a one-out solo home run to break a 4-4 tie in the top of the ninth inning to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 5-4 win over the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Youth Academy. Sebby, who also hit an RBI-single in the seventh inning, finished with a game-high two RBI and two hits, while Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), Blair Lewis, Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) and Will Tomlinson (Brown) combined for 10 strikeouts, Lewis leading the way with six over three and a third innings of work, on the mound to lead the Riptide. Denzl Chapman (San Diego St), Javier Garcia (Compton JC) and Dailan Lee (UC Irvine) each had two hits to lead the Barons. Click here for recaps of this game Santa Barbara, CA The Arroyo Seco Saints’ Corey Harrel (Graceland) hit a lead-off home run in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game but the drama was short-lived as David Hamilton (Texas), pinch-running for Zach Humphreys (Texas Tech), who led off the bottom of the ninth with a walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice and then scored the game-winning run on two wild pitches to give the Santa Barbara Foresters a 2-1 walk-off win. Scoreless through seven innings, the story of the game was the pitching of Tanner Lawson (St. Edwards). Greeted early with a pair of singles to the first two hitters he faced, Lawson proceeded to strikeout the next six, and finished with nine over five innings of work. Santa Barbara’s relievers would continue the strikeout trend as Kyle Smith (Cal Poly) recorded three in an inning and two thirds, Jake Eissler (TCU), had three in one and a third innings, and John McMillon (Texas Tech) added two in the ninth to compile 17 in the game as a staff. Ryan Cash (Oklahoma St) drove in the only other run of the game with a two-out single in the seventh inning to give Santa Barbara a 1-0 lead. Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) had three singles for Arroyo Seco to finish with a game-high three hits and Gunnar Friend (Avila) threw six and a third innings of one-run ball to lead the Saints. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA The Walnut Creek Crawdads pounded out 19 hits en route to a 14-3 win over the Auburn Wildcats today at Laney College. Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii) had a four-for-four day at the plate (a double, three singles, two walks and three runs scored), David Langer (Chabot) went three-for-four (a double, two singles, a walk and two runs scored), John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) had three singles and Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley JC) singled and hit a solo home run to lead the Crawdads’ offense. Kevin Whitaker (Laney) started on the mound and struck out five over five and two-thirds innings to earn the win but did allow the three Auburn runs, including a solo home run by Justin Glover (Eckerd) to lead off the fourth inning. Click here for recaps of this game Long Beach, CA Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) hit a double in the seventh inning to drive in what would prove to be the game-winning run as the Long Beach Legends beat the Southern California Catch 4-3 today at Long Beach City College. Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St), Giovanni Garbella (Valparaiso) and Zack Chan (Hawaii) each hit an RBI-single to account for the other three Long Beach runs. Steven Garret (Azusa Pacific) hit a two-run single in the first inning, and Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft Smith) added a two-out, run-scoring single in the sixth to produce the Catch’s three runs. Seminaris and Grant Robbins (UNLV) each had two hits to lead the Catch nine-hit game. Garbella, who doubled and scored in the fourth inning, was the only Long Beach hitter with multiple hits. Click here for recaps of this game
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