July 1, 2017 Long Beach, CA Evan May (Hawaii-Pacific) allowed only three singles and one unearned run over seven innings, and Harrison Smith (Oral Roberts) doubled home Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) from first base with the go-ahead run to lead the Long Beach Legends to a 2-1 win over the Acadmey Barons today at Long Beach City College. May, who retired the first nine hitters he faced in order, faced adversity in three of the last four innings he pitched by giving up a single to the leadoff batter of the inning three times. Although Javier Garcia (Compton JC), who led off the fourth inning with one of the singles, eventually would score on a two-out error, May was good enough to escape unscathed in all of the innings. Jason McLellan (Concordia) relieved May in the eighth and picked up where the starter left off, retiring six batters in order, three via strikeouts, to pick up the save. Long Beach opened the scoring when Jake Scott (Houston Baptist) led off the third inning with a single, advanced to third on a sacrifice and a single by Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Michael Stefanic (Westmont). After the Barons tied the score in the fourth inning, Long Beach went ahead for good in their half of the inning when Sahagian led off with a single and scored on Smith’s double. Sebastian Sanchez started on the mound for the Barons, allowing both Legends runs in his five innings to suffer the loss, and Solomon Bates (USC) faced the minimum nine batters, striking out five, over the last three innings of relief. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: San Luis Obispo, CA Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) hit a two-run home run to tie the score and Chase Sebby scored from first on a double by Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) with the go-ahead run to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 5-3 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues today at Sinsheimer Park. Fletcher’s home run, his league-best fifth of the season, wiped the bases clean for the inning by scoring Will Proctor (Georgia), who had doubled with one out in the fourth inning. A trend of ending innings with no runners aboard is usually a bad sign for an offense, today it proved the opposite for the Riptide. Orange County stranded only three runners in the game to the Blues eight despite both teams collecting seven hits and, although the Riptide hit into three double plays and made another out on the bases to erase four of their twelve baserunners, they stranded only three runners because they were scoring when they had the chance. The eighth inning was a prime example as Sebby walked to lead off, scored from first when Phillip doubled and Phillip was driven in on a single by Proctor. Proctor was then thrown out on the bases to end the inning, but the go-ahead runs were across even with the bases-cleared of runners. Phil Steering picked up the win for Orange County in relief of Hayden Shenefield, who had seven strikeouts in six and one-third innings of work, allowing two runs in the first inning on an RBI-triple by Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) and a run-scoring single by Adam Fogel (Hawaii). Justin Goossen-Brown (San Diego St) started on the mound for the Blues, going seven innings, collecting six strikeouts and did not figure in the decision. Proctor and Fletcher each finished the game with two hits to lead the Orange County offense. Murillo and Price Visintainer (Ala-Birmingham) each had two hits to lead San Luis Obispo. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Austin Dondanville (Cal Poly) pitched eight innings of one-run ball and Jeremy Jess (Pomona-Pitzer) gave him all the run support he would need by hitting a two-run home run in the fourth inning to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 4-1 victory over the Southern California Catch tonight at Sinsheimer Park, the second of two games the Blues played today against different opponents. Dondanville, who scattered eight hits during his outing, escaped significant damage by not allowing a single walk. He allowed a triple to Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) with two outs in the first but got the next hitter, gave up a leadoff single to Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) in the second but erased his presence on the bases on a double-play, allowed a pair of two out singles in the fourth but got out of it, and retired the last nine hitters he faced in order, another double-play helping his cause. The only trouble Donadanville got into was the in the fifth inning when Omar Ortiz (Pacific) led off with a double. Ortiz was thrown out trying to advance on a sacrifice, however, so the next two singles the Catch recorded by Grant Robbins (UNLV) and Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft. Smith) generated only one run, preserving the eventual victory for Dondanville. Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) relieved Dondanville in the ninth and struck out three to earn the save. Besides Jess’ big hit, San Luis Obispo added two runs in the sixth inning on a run-scoring single by Ricky Martinez (Sonoma St) and an run-producing error. Martinez finished with a game-high three hits, and Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) and Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly) each had two to lead the Blues. Sandmann had two hits to lead the Catch. Click here for recaps of this game Fairfield, CA The Rockville Rock Hounds scored four times in the seventh inning to take the lead and then scored three more in the eighth to put the game away, beating the Auburn Wildcats 11-7 today at Yarborough Stadium. Trailing 5-4 going into the bottom of the seventh inning, Kevin Sandri (Pacific) drove in Jack Pridy with a single to tie the score and, two batters later, Brandt Frazier (Rice) hit a two-run single to give Rockville a lead they would not give back. The Rock Hounds scored three more in the eighth inning, including one on a solo home run by Nathan Gutierrez (Solano CC), and weathered a mini ninth inning rally by Auburn, when the Wildcats scored two runs on three walks and two singles, to close out the win. Carson Haws started on the mound for Rockville, recording eight strikeouts in five innings of work, but did not figure in the decision as Kirby Broadbent (Campbellsville) was the pitcher of record when the Rock Hounds took over the lead. Hayden Houts (Northern St) had a game-high three RBI, two on a double, one on a groundout, to lead the Auburn offense. Gutierrez and Kenney Quilatan (Solano CC) each had two hits to lead Rockville. Click here for recaps of this game Santa Barbara, CA The Santa Barbara Foresters scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning on an RBI-triple by Austin Todd (Texas) and a run-scoring double by Evan Lee (Arkansas), and then thwarted a last inning comeback to beat the Neptune Beach Pearl 7-6 today at Pershing Park. The eighth inning takeover by the Foresters followed a three-run seventh inning in which Todd and Lee both scored on a Josh Jung (Texas Tech) triple, Jung later scoring on an RBI-single by Luke Ritter (Wichita St), to give the Foresters a 5-4 lead. Neptune Beach tied the score in the top of the eighth on an RBI-triple by Michael Woodworth (Sierra JC), setting up Todd and Lee’s heroics in the bottom half of the inning. The Pearl then staged a mini rally in the ninth, Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) leading off the inning with a single and scoring on a single by Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley JC) who, representing the tying run, eventually made his way to third base with a runner behind him at second with the go-ahead run, but Santa Barbara reliever Garrett Gayle (Rice), brought into the game in the eighth inning, got a flyout to end the threat and pick up the win. It was the second win for the Central Division leading Foresters in two days over the North Division leading Pearl, who posted an early 4-1 lead by scoring three times on four two-out hits, including an RBI-double by James Free II (Pacific), and run-scoring singles by Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) and Cooper Morrison (Reedley JC). Both teams had scored one run in the third inning, Neptune Beach scoring first on a sacrifice fly, the Foresters answering with an RBI-single by Ritter, the first of his game-high three hits. Ritter, Todd and Ryan Reynolds (Texas) each had multiple-hit games for Santa Barbara. Free and Lucas Halstead (Pacific) had the only multiple-hit games for the Pearl, each finishing with two. Click here for recaps of this game