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SLO, Healdsburg and Santa Barbara Notch Home Wins

| June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018 San Luis Obispo, CA Noah Cracknell (Portland) hit a two-out, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the seventh inning to drive in two runs, break a tie ballgame and lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 3-2 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints tonight at Sinsheimer Park. With the score tied 1-1 after Jay Charleston (Tennessee) led off the bottom of the first inning with a single, stole second base and scored on a Justin Lutes (Pepperdine) single for San Luis, and John Thomas (USC) hit an RBI-single in the third for the Saints, the Blues mounted a rally with two outs and nobody on base in the seventh. Matt Anderson (Georgia Southern) started things with a single, advanced to third on a pair of walks and scored on Cracknell's two-RBI single to give the Blues the lead 3-1. The Saints answered with a run in their next at bat when Jacob Jenkins (MidAm Nazarene) led off the eighth inning with a single, advanced to third on a pair of wild pitches and scored when the next batter, Cameron Briggs (UC Davis), singled him in. And although Briggs was thrown out trying to steal second base and the next batter struck out, Arroyo Seco still had a good chance to tie the game after Nic Lacayo (Michigan St) and Mitch Kerner hit consecutive two-out singles but Cole Tucker, the fourth Blues pitcher of the game, came in to strike out the final out of the inning and the final two outs of the ninth to close out the win despite surrendering two one-out singles. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere in the CCL today: Healdsburg, CA Quentin Selma (Cal) hit a two-run home run, Sam Wezniak (Cal) hit a bases-clearing three-run triple and Bryan Arias (San Antonio) hit a two-run single to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 9-4 win over the Academy Barons tonight at Recreation Park. Although the score would indicate a game full off offense, almost all of the scoring took place in the last three and a half innings as the Packers broke open a 1-1 game in the bottom of the sixth inning with eight runs in their last three at bats. Selma's home run, which followed a Cade Peters (UC Riverside) double, made the score 3-1 in the sixth and the Packers took advantage of three walks to score four times in the seventh when Selma drove one in with a single and Wezniak drove in three with his double. Four singles in the eighth inning, including Arias' two-run hit, plated two more. Both teams struggled to get anything going offensively early as Jeff Kersten (UConn), who started on the mound for the Packers andpitched five hitless, scoreless innings with three strikeouts and allowed only two baserunners via walk and a hit batter, the first of which was erased on the bases in a double-play. Barons starting pitcher Ryan Hare (UNLV) was not as dominant as Kersten through five, but was nearly as effective, allowing only one run in the third inning when Luke Fegen (Indiana State) singled and scored on a Wendell Champion II (Houston) RBI-double. Hare was on the mound when Selma hit his home run, however, and so suffered the loss. With Kersten out of the game in the sixth inning, the Barons scored immediately when a lead off walk and a Logan Pollack (Michigan) double put two runners in scoring position and a ground ball out got their first run across. A bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning, a Trent Anderson (CSU Bakersfield) RBI-double and a run-scoring groundout in the ninth accounted for the three other Academy runs. Click here for recaps of this game Santa Barbara, CA Michael Hobbs (St. Mary's) struck out the first six batters he faced, seven of the first eight and nine overall in five innings, Matt Hartman struck out the first five of the six batters he faced in relief of Hobbs, and Logan Allen (Arkansas-Ft. Smith) hit a three-run home run to cap a seven-run outburst that propelled the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 9-1 win over the Southern California Catch tonight at Pershing Park. Despite the dominance of Hobbs and Hartman, the Catch were still in the game late, having scratched out a run in the third inning when David Martinez (Senior) hit a two-out RBI-single to drive in Ryan Smoot (VMI) who had doubled to lead off the inning, and briefly held a 1-0 lead until Allen doubled in Santa Barbara's half of the third and scored on a run-scoring ground ball. The score remained 1-1 until the sixth inning when a pair of walks, an error and a wild pitched allowed the Foresters to take the lead but, in the seventh, the Foresters took over the game. Taking advantage of three walks and a hit batsmen, Santa Barbara got run-scoring singles from Luke Ritter (Wichita St), Michael Neustifter (Oklahoma State) and Ryan Cash (Oklahoma State), and then Allen hit his three-run homer to make the score 9-1. Jacob Rogers (UNLV) hit a two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning to post the final 9-3 score. Click here for recaps of this game
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