July 13, 2017 Healdsburg, CA Grant Stone (Harvard) pitched seven shutout innings, striking out seven, and Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) drove in Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley) with a two-out RBI-single in the first inning for the only run the Neptune Beach Pearl would need to beat the Healdsburg Prune Packers 6-0 tonight at Recreation Park. Stone retired the order in six of the seven innings he worked, pitching with runners on base only twice, once in the second inning when a lead-off walk was erased by a double-play, and once in the fourth when Healdsburg got two of their three hits in the game, but Stone induced two ground ball outs and a strikeout to escape the inning unscathed. Cameron Keup (San Jose St), who relieved Stone in the eighth, likewise faced little resistance, retiring six of seven batters to close out the win. Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) doubled in two runs in the second inning, Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) had a two-out RBI-double in the fifth and an RBI-single in the ninth to lead Neptune Beach offensively. Tonight’s win moves Neptune Beach a half game in front of Healdsburg into first place in the CCL, the seventh consecutive day the two teams have traded the top spot in the standings. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Irvine, CA Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) hit a two-out, two-run double to give the Orange County Riptide a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning and Will Tomlinson (Brown) stranded the tying run a second base to earn the win as the Riptide beat the Arroyo Seco Saints 4-3 today at Concordia University. The win, Orange County’s sixth straight, increased the team’s lead in the CCL South Division to four and a half games over the Saints, the division’s second place team. Both teams traded single runs until the eighth inning today. The Riptide scored first, in the third inning, when Jaxon Williams (Howard JC) hit a lead-off single and scored on a Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) RBI-ground out, then Arroyo Seco scored once in the top of the fourth inning when Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) reached on a fielder’s choice, stole two bases and scored on an error. Orange County scored in the bottom half of the fourth on an RBI-double by Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) and then Chavez drove in the Saints second run with a single in the fifth. The Saints finally got the lead in the seventh inning when, with two outs and nobody on, four Saints hitters in a row reached base on walks, but in the eighth Fletcher got the big hit. Tomlinson, who came into the game for the Riptide in relief of Hunter Bigge (Harvard) and starter Ricky Reynoso (Pacific) in the seventh inning with the bases loaded and issued the fourth walk to give the Saints their 3-2 lead, recorded the final seven outs of the game scoreless to pick up the win. Jumpei Akanuma (Lee) started on the mound for Arroyo Seco and threw seven plus innings with four strikeouts to suffer the loss. Click here for recaps of this game Thousand Oaks, CA The Conejo Oaks pounded the Long Beach Legends 18-1 today at Sparky Anderson Field, collecting 22 hits, and eight of the nine batters in the starting lineup had multiple-hit games and seven batters had multiple-RBI games. Long Beach actually had the lead in this game, having scored once in the first inning on two singles and a run-scoring double-play ground ball, but it didn’t last long. The Oaks scored once in the second inning and twice in the fourth, including one on a RBI-triple by Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St), before the flood gates opened and they scored eight times in the fifth inning, highlighted by back-to-back triples to lead off the inning by Milo Beam (Purdue) and Jassen Oliver (Cal St Bakersfield), two-out, RBI-doubles by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and Jordan McFarland (Arkansas), and Beam capping the scoring with a two-run home run. McFarland, who also hit a run-scoring double in the sixth inning, finished with a game-high three RBI. Kenny Johnson Jr. (Cal St. Bakersfield) started on the mound for Conejo and picked up the win with five innings of work with five strikeouts, before turning the ball over to three Oaks relievers who held the Legends scoreless for the final four innings, allowing only two hits combined while striking out four. Click here for recaps of this game Ventura, CA Jeremy Jess (Pomona-Pitzer), Austin Isenhart (New Miexico) and Josh Goldberg (San Jose St) recorded a combined 11 strikeouts and the San Luis Obispo Blues hitters scored five times in the eighth inning to overcome a 4-3 deficit to beat the Ventura Halos 8-4 today at Ventura College. Jess, who started on the mound for the Blues and went five innings with four strikeouts, picked up the win, Isenhart struck out the side in the sixth inning and finished with six strikeouts over three innings of work and Goldberg, despite giving up a two-out double to Daniel Edson (USC) and a run-scoring single by Charles Steele (Colorado St), recorded the final three outs to close out the win. The Blues collected 12 hits as a team, with Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) finishing with a game-high three hits each. Jake Peters (Southwest Baptist) hit a solo home run in the second inning and Edson, who also had a RBI-double in the seventh and a single in the third, also had a game-high three hits to lead the Halos. Click here for recaps of this game