July 21, 2017 Irvine, CA Hayden Shenefield, Hunter Bigge (Harvard) and Josh Carpenter (Louisiana Tech) allowed only one run on six hits, combining to strike out eight, and Paul Gomez hit a two-run triple in a three-run fourth inning to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 6-1 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Concordia University. The win clinched the CCL South Division title for the Riptide and an automatic berth in the CCL playoffs set to start a week from today at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton. Shenenfield started on the mound for Orange County and threw five shutout innings with five strikeouts to pick up the win. Bigge pitched the sixth and seventh innings, allowing the one run on an RBI-single by Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) with one out in the sixth, but then retired the next five in order. Carpenter picked up where Bigge left off and retired all six batters he faced in order to close out the win. Gomez, Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) and Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) each had two hits for the Riptide. Joe Caparis (Pepperdine) was the only Long Beach player with two. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Santa Barbara, CA Tanner Lawson (St. Edwards) notched seven strikeouts in six and a third innings scoreless, Nathan Wiles (Oklahoma) retired all five batters he faced and Garret Gayle (Rice) withstood a ninth-inning rally similar to the one he faced two nights ago in San Luis Obispo by striking out three in the ninth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 2-1 win over the Conejo Oaks tonight at Pershing Park. Leading 2-0 heading into the ninth inning, Gayle, who allowed four ninth inning runs Wednesday night in a loss to the Blues, struck out the first two batters before things got interesting again. Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce) reached on a walk, DJ Miller (Ole Miss) singled, Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) singled to load the bases, and Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) reached on an error to force one run in and the tying run to third base. Gayle struck out the next batter, however, to close out the win. Luke Ritter (Wichita St) drove in the first run of the game with an RBI-single in the first and Steven Coe (UC San Diego) executed a squeeze bunt in the seventh to produced what would turn out to be the game winner. Click here for recaps of this game Healdsburg, CA Jamey Smart (LMU) and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) each hit a two-out, two-run home run in the fourth inning and Grant Little (Texas Tech), who hit a two-out double to start the fourth inning rally, added a second double and an RBI in the seventh inning to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 10-5 win over the Walnut Creek Crawdads tonight at Recreation Park. Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii) and Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley) each had a game-high three hits for Walnut Creek. Little and Tofteland, who singled in the third inning before his home run in the fourth, were the only Packers with double-digit hits. Click here for recaps of this game Compton, CA Randy Rubio (Marymount) hit a grand slam, an RBI-single and a sacrifice fly to generate six runs, Garrett Ouellete hit a three-run home run and Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) had a pair of run-producing outs to lead the Academy Barons to a 14-6 win over the Southern California Catch tonight at the MLB Youth Academy. Rubio’s slam came with two outs in the third inning and the Catch, who had scored in the first inning on a triple by Grant Robbins (UNLV), a sacrifice fly by Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) and a solo home run by Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego), leading 2-0. Oullete’s blast also came with two outs and capped a five-run fifth inning that put the Barons up 9-3 and, after the Catch trimmed the lead by scoring three times in the eighth inning on run-scoring singles by Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific), Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) and Omar Ortiz (Pacific), the Barons plated four more in the eighth to post the final score. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) recorded nine strikeouts in six and a third innings, Jake Swiech (San Jose St) had four in an inning and two thirds, Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit a single and a two-run double, and Justin Beck (San Jose St) doubled and hit a two-run single to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 7-4 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The win, coupled with the Conejo Oaks loss to the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight, moved the Blues back into a tie for the last playoff spot reserved for the top finisher of the CCL Central Division. Marco Murillo (Campbellsville), who drove Beck in with a single in the second inning, forced home another run after Emmerson’s double in the seventh with a bases-loaded walk to also finish with a game-high two RBI. Blake Burton (Washington) drove in two runs for the Saints with a game-high three hits, including driving in the tying run in the seventh after Josh Magee (Faulkner) led off with a triple and scored on an RBI-ground out and Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo) doubled and scored on Burton's single to make the score 4-4. Emerson then drove in the game winners in the bottom of the seventh. Dan Beavers (Chico St) retired three of four batters in the ninth to close out the win for the Blues. Gunnar Friend (Avila) recorded four strikeouts in an inning and two thirds for the Saints in relief of Gordon Ingebritson who suffered the loss. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA The Neptune Beach Pearl scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the ninth inning to beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 10-9 tonight at Laney College. Details of this game were not available at post time.