June 13, 2019 Pasadena, CA Colin King (Regis) and Cade Bullinger (Texas St) struck out a combined 14 hitters, Thomas Luevano (USD) hit a clutch two-out, two-run single and Christian Scott (Tennessee) doubled and scored what proved to be the winning run to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to a 4-3 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. King and Bullinger were tough to score upon tonight. Each scattered four hits over four plus innings and pitched with runners in scoring position in seven of their nine innings. King started the game for the Saints and stranded two baserunners in scoring position with one out in the first inning after allowing a walk and a double to Blake Hall (Oral Roberts) but struck out two batters in the inning to escape unscathed. He stranded another runner in scoring position in the second inning, again striking out a batter to avoid damage, but the Foresters did get to King in the third inning when Hall got his second hit of the game with two outs, advanced to second base when the next batter was hit by a pitch and scored on an RBI-single by Ross Cadena (Wichita State), but King struck out the next hitter to hold Santa Barbara to a 1-0 lead. In the bottom half of the third inning Arroyo Seco answered the Foresters run with two of their own as a hit batter, a double by Justin Watari (New Mexico) and a walk loaded the bases with no outs and, after Foresters' starting pitcher Larson Kindreich (Biola) struck out the next two batters, Luevano got his clutch single to put the Saints up 2-1. King and Kindreich, who notched five strikeouts in his four and a third inning start, retired the side in order in the fourth inning but neither would finish the fifth. The Foresters scored once in the fifth when the leadoff batter walked and eventually scored on a wild pitch and, after two more batters reached via an error and a hit batsman, Bullinger replaced King, and like King, stranded runners in scoring position without incurring further damage. The Saints again answered the Foresters run with one of their own, chasing Kindreich after Watari was hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning and a batter walked and, after Kindreich was replaced by Ryan Bergert (West Virginia), Watari scored on a groundout to again give the Saints a one-run lead 3-2. Bullinger pitched around a leadoff single in the sixth inning, stranding a runner in scoring position by striking out a batter, then struck out two in the seventh before Scott doubled to leadoff the Arroyo Seco half of the inning and scored on a Morgan Allen (St. Edward's) two out single. Now leading 4-2, Bullinger maintained the same approach that had worked all game. After allowing a one out single in the eighth inning, Bullinger struck out two batters to strand a runner in scoring position. And then again in the ninth inning, after allowing a single and Hall's second double of the game to get the Foresters within one, Bullinger then retired the next two batters, this time by fly balls, stranding Hall, the potential tying run, on base to close out the Saints win. Bergert struck out four in two and two thirds innings of relief and Conner Woods (UNLV) struck out two in his one inning appearance for Santa Barbara. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL tonight: Irvine, CA JP Massey (Minnesota), Travis Lavendier (Chico St), Trevor Sutt (Long Beach JC) and Elijah Pleasants compiled a combined 15 strikeouts to lead the Academy Barons to a 4-3 win over the Orange County Riptide tonight at Great Park Stadium. The strikeouts by the Barons' pitchers were key to their win tonight because nine of them occurred with runners in scoring position, eliminating any chance a ball put in play would produce a run. Massey, who started on the mound for the Academy, set the pattern for using the strikeout in each of his two innings. He struck out the final two outs in the first inning after a batter reached base on a fielder's choice and stole second base and he recorded two of the three outs in the second inning via strikeout after Andre Antone (UC Irvine) doubled to lead off the inning for the Riptide. Lavendier relieved Massey to start the third inning and, after giving up one run on a two-out triple by Connor Aube (UT Arlington) and an RBI-single by Dylan Rock (UTSA), picked up where Massey left off and struck out the last batter he faced to limit the damage in the third and stranded the leadoff batter at second base in the fourth inning by striking out two of the next three batters. At this point the Barons had a 4-1 lead, having scored all of their runs in the game in a flurry of four hits and a walk to start the third inning, including RBI-singles by Trent Anderson and Channy Ortiz (Grand Canyon) and a two-run double by Jaylen Heard (Heartland). Sutt, the third Barons pitcher, struck out five batters in three scoreless innings, allowing only one runner to reach base via an error, and Pleasants retired the side in order in the eighth inning before closing out the win by striking out the last two batters he faced in the ninth. For their part, the Orange County pitchers were, except for the third inning Barons rally, every bit as dominant on the mound as the Academy, retiring the side in order in six of the nine innings and allowing only three singles and one walk outside of the four-run third. Click here for recaps of this game Healdsburg, CA Connor Mack (Cal) hit a three-run home run, a two-run triple and a single, Blake MacDonald (Santa Rosa JC) hit a three-run home run, and Cole Brodnansky (UConn) hit a solo home run to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 21-3 blowout win over the San Francisco Seals tonight at Recreation Park. The three players with home runs were only a slice of the 17-hit attack that was boosted by 11 walks issued by the Seals. In all, ten of the twelve Healdsburg batters who made an appearance tonight collected hits, six of whom had multiple hit games and all twelve of them scored runs. The Packers pitching was equally dominant over the Seals, who split their squad for two losing efforts tonight, here and in Lincoln, as Morgan White (Portland) struck out seven in his four-inning start, Spencer Hynes (Houston) struck out four in two innings of relief, including all three in a perfect sixth inning, Jackson Cunningham (CSUN) notched two strikeouts in two innings, and Noah Rennard (Santa Rosa JC) retired the side in order in the ninth to secure the win. *Recaps of this game were not available at post time. Lincoln, CA Lorenzo Debrecht (Sierra) hit a bases-clearing three-run double and Alex Schroeder hit a two-run single before an out was recorded in the ninth inning as the Lincoln Potters rallied from five runs down to a win in walk-off fashion 8-7 over the San Francisco Seals tonight at Vanden High. Trailing 7-2 after the Seals had broken open a 3-2 game with two runs in the eighth inning on a two-run home run by Drew Lowe (Oral Roberts) and two runs in the top of the ninth on a sacrifice fly and an RBI-groundout, the Potters started getting runners on base in their half of the ninth until their win was secured. Jordan Berry (Chochise JC) led off the ninth inning with a single, three batters walked, the Seals changed pitchers, Debrecht hit his double, two more batters walked and then Schroeder won it with his single. It was the only time Lincoln had led in the game. The Seals scored first when Hayden Craig (Southwestern) singled to leadoff the second inning, advanced to third on a Gianni Bloom double and scored on an RBI-groundout. After the Potters tied the score in the fourth on a two-out RBI-double by Berry, the Seals scored twice in the fifth on two singles, a walk, an error and a fielder's choice to make the score 3-1. Lincoln added a run in the sixth on a pair of singles and a sacrifice fly, then the late inning mayhem ensued. Aaron Clark (Southwestern) started on the mound for San Francisco, recording five strikeouts in his five inning outing and allowed one run on three hits, and Drew Stahl had four strikeouts in three innings of relief of Clark but allowed five runs on three hits and five walks. Six pitchers appeared in the game for Lincoln, none performing better than Nolan Murphy (William Jessup) who entered the game with the bases loaded and no outs in the top of the ninth inning and limited the damage by retiring the next three batters he faced to allow the walk-off victory to have a chance. Click here for recaps of this game