July 25, 2017

San Luis Obispo, CA
Jack Schneider (Grand Canyon) pitched a complete game shutout and the San Luis Obispo Blues scored two runs without the benefit of a hit and a third on an error to beat the Ventura Halos 3-0 tonight at Sinsheimer Park to keep their hopes of reaching the CCL playoffs alive. Schneider, who notched six strikeouts and scattered six hits, used 101 pitches to complete the game, right on the mark of the Pitch Smart limits established by USA baseball to govern summer competition, benefitting from two double-plays turned by his defense and runner a thrown out trying to steal second base. The Blues offense manufactured one run in the first inning when leadoff hitter Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) reached base after being hit by a pitch, stole second base, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands). They manufactured a run in the second inning when Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) drew a lead-off walk, stole second base, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on an RBI-ground out by Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly). Martinez then scored again in the sixth inning after hitting a lead-off double and, one out later, scoring on an two-base throwing error to post the final score. The win moves the Blues to within one half game of the Conejo Oaks in the race for the final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton. The Oaks travel to Sinsheimer Park tomorrow night for a final meeting between the two teams. If the Oaks win, they clinch a berth to the playoffs. If the Blues win, they will still have to win their game Thursday night against the Arroyo Seco Saints in Pasadena to clinch a playoff berth.
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Oakland, CA
The Healdsburg Prune Packers scored 15 runs in each game of their doubleheader with the Walnut Creek Crawdads, winning 15-1 and 15-7 today at Laney College. Alec Rennard (Michigan), Nolan Bond Houston), Chrit Rudkin and Alex Waldsmith (Santa Clara) combined to strikeout eleven in the first game, with Rennard starting the game by striking out five of the six batters he faced. The four pitchers allowed a combined five hits without issuing a walk and the only run they allowed came in the ninth inning when Max Gray hit a leadoff home run. Offensively, the Packers collected 17 hits as a team, with every member of the starting lineup notching at least one hit and six of them having multiple-hit games. Clay Koelzer (Texas Tech) hit a three-run home run and two RBI-singles to finish with a game-high five RBI, Nickolas Oar (Stanford) hit a solo home run and an RBI-double, Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) drove in three runs and Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) had three hits to lead Healdsburg.

In the second game, the pitching rotation of Dillon Brown (Cal St Fullerton), Jared Noonan, Edward O’Bannon III (Pacific) and Nick Vega (Sonoma St) did not dominate as much as their teammates in the first game, but the offense didn’t miss a beat. Recording another 16 hits as a team, this time Healdsburg had seven players collecting hits and five finishing with multiple-hit games. Oar hit another home run, this time a two-run shot, and added an RBI-single and a double, Jamey Smart (LMU) had a pair of two-run doubles and a run-scoring ground out to finish with a game-high five RBI, Esteban Martinez (Ottawa) had three hits and two RBI, Bret Bautista (San Jose St) hit two triples and a double, and Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) had three hits to lead the Packers. The Healdsburg pitching foursome collected eight strikeouts and walked only one batter, but allowed twelve hits, including a three-run home run by Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii), who totaled three hits in the game, and the pitchers allowed run-scoring singles by Joshua Nelson (Holy Names), Kevin Whitaker (Laney), Darrel Quiroz and Edwin Garcia.
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La Mirada, CA
Andreas Kim (So Carolina Upstate) hit a three-run home run and two singles, Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo) had a four-for-four game, and Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn) hit a two-out two-run double to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 11-10 win over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Omar Ortiz (Pacific) hit two home runs for the second consecutive game, Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) hit a home run and a two-run double, and Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) added a solo home run to lead the Catch. The Saints used five pitchers in the game, including Gabe Golob (NYU) and Gunnar Friend (Avila) who retired the side in order in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, to preserve the win. The Catch used six pitchers, including Joseph Hanley (North Central) who struck out three in two innings of work.
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Fairfield, CA
Jason Wutsch (College of Marin), Nathan Gutierrez (Solano CC) and Kenney Quilitan (Solano CC) combined for 15 strikeouts, Max Smith (UNLV) hit two doubles, two singles and drove in three runs and Dominic Foscalina (Utah) had four run-generating at bats, including a solo home run, two sacrifice flies and a two-run single to lead the Rockville Rock Hounds to an 11-6 win over the Auburn Wildcats today at Yarborough Stadium. Wutsch started on the mound for Rockville, recording six strikeouts in five innings, but allowed five runs, including four in the first on an RBI-double by Justin Glover (Eckerd) and a three-run double by Gaige Howard (Kenyon), and a solo home run by Glover in the third. Gutierrez entered the game to pitch in the sixth inning and struck out six over two and two-thirds innings to pick up the win, and Quilitan pitched the last inning and a third, striking out three, to close out the game.
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Compton, CA
Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) reached base on an error to lead off the ninth inning with the score tied, advanced to second on a passed ball and scored the game winning run on another error to lead the Academy Barons to a 6-5 walk-off win over the Long Beach Legends today at the MLB Youth Academy. Trailing 5-0 after Long Beach scored four in the first inning on an RBI-ground out, a bases loaded walk and a two-run double by Joe Caparis (Pepperdine), and once in the second on a run-scoring single by Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St), the Barons scored four times in the fourth inning on an RBI-single by Jason Wallace and three bases loaded walks and once in the fifth when Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) led off with a double and scored on an error to tie the score 5-5. Aaron Soto (Marymount), Sebastian Sanchez, Joseph Mercado (Dominguez Hills) and Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) shutout the Legends the last seven innings in relief of starter Tyler Witt (Wake Forest), allowing only three hits and no walks while striking out seven, with Tungate picking up the win. Evan May (Hawaii-Pacific) was saddled with the loss despite pitching the last three and one third innings hitless and striking out five.
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July 24, 2017

Thousand Oaks, CA
The Santa Barbara Foresters scored four runs by batters who reached base without the benefit of a hit to spoil the first opportunity the Conejo Oaks had to clinch the last spot in the CCL playoffs, beating the Oaks 4-2 today at Sparky Anderson Field. Two of the batters who scored reached base on a walk, one by being hit by a pitch and the fourth by reaching on an error. Zach Humphreys (TCU) drove in two of the runs with an RBI-single in the third inning and a run-producing ground out in the fifth. Chandler Bengston (Columbia) drove in what proved to be the game-winner with a two-out single in the sixth inning and the last Foresters run scored in the ninth inning when Spencer Steer (Oregon) walked with two outs, advanced to second on Josh Jung (Texas Tech) single, advanced to third on a Luke Ritter (Wichita St) single and scored on a balk. The Oaks, who never had the lead in the game, scored once in the third inning when Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) led off with a single and scored on a two-out RBI-single by DJ Miller (Ole Miss), and once in the eighth after Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss), Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) and Juan Gonzalez (Oklahoma Baptist) hit three consecutive singles to start the inning, loading the bases with no outs. Codi Santana (Hawaii-Pacific) then hit into a double-play that scored Cockrell but also cut short a potential big inning. Santa Barbara used five pitchers in the game, the Oaks six. Ty Weist (Columbia) picked up the win with a five-inning start, allowing one run on five hits and striking out five. Theron Kay (Northridge) started on the mound for Conejo, throwing five innings, allowing three runs on only two hits and striking out four to suffer the loss. Conejo, which has a half-game lead on the San Luis Obispo Blues for the fourth and final spot in the CCL playoffs set to start Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, have one game left in San Luis Obispo against the Blues on Wednesday. The Blues, have three games remaining and must win all three to advance to the playoffs.
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July 23, 2017

Compton, CA
Omar Ortiz (Pacific) hit a pair of two-run home runs to lead the Southern California Catch to a 5-1 win over the Academy Barons today at the MLB Youth Academy. The third and fourth home runs in league play this summer, Ortiz hit his first homer today in the second inning, driving in Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) who had hit a leadoff double, to post an early 2-0 lead. Then, in the eighth inning, after singling in both the fourth and sixth innings and the Catch leading 3-0 after Garrett hit a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning, Ortiz homered again, this time driving in Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) who had reached on a walk, to make the score 5-0. During this span, Catch starting pitcher Zac Whittaker (Fresno CC) had thrown seven shutout innings, allowing only a walk, two singles and two hit batsmen while striking out five, including three straight in the seventh inning. The Barons did score on Whittaker in the eighth inning, however, when Garrett Ouellete hit a two-out single to drive in Javier Garcia (Compton JC) who had reached on a fielder’s choice. Garrett came in to pitch the ninth inning for the Catch, striking out two to close out the win. Solomon Bates (USC) started on the mound for the Academy, striking out eight over seven innings, allowing three runs on seven hits to suffer the loss.
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Santa Barbara, CA
Blair Henley (Texas) allowed only one baserunner in seven innings pitched, retiring the first 16 batters he faced, 20 of 21 overall and struck out nine as he, Kyle Smith (Cal Poly) and Colton Follett combined to throw a two-hit shutout to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 7-0 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues today at Pershing Park. In other words, Henley was throwing a perfect game until one out in the sixth inning when Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) hit a triple. Henley then fielded a ground ball for the second out, left Martinez stranded at third with a strikeout, and retired the Blues in order in the seventh inning before turning the pitching duties over to Smith and Follett who completed the shutout with one inning each. The Foresters scored the only run they would need in the third inning when David Hamilton (Texas) hit a leadoff double and scored later on a wild pitch. John McMillon (Texas Tech) hit a two-out, three-run home run in the sixth inning after Spencer Steer (Oregon) drove in one with a sacrifice fly, Austin Todd (Texas) hit a run-scoring ground rule double in the seventh and Steer added a solo home run in the eighth to complete the scoring. Josh Goldberg (San Jose St) started on the mound for San Luis Obispo, allowing five runs on six hits while striking out three to suffer the loss. The loss moves the Blues one and a half game behind the Conejo Oaks, who were idle today, for the last berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. With the Blues having three games remaining, one versus the Oaks, and the Oaks having only two games remaining, the elimination number for the Blues is now one: One San Luis Obispo loss or one win by the Oaks and the Blues are eliminated from playoff contention.
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Long Beach, CA
Joey Parente hit a two-run single in the second inning, Chase Sebby hit an RBI-single in the third, and Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) drove in two in the fourth with a single to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 5-2 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Long Beach City College. Tanner Murphey started on the mound for the Riptide, allowing one run on four hits while striking out three over three innings before turning the ball over to Timothy Holdgrafer who also allowed a run on four hits but struck out five over four innings. Kaz Akamatsu (UC Irvine) and Josh Carpenter (Louisiana Tech) each pitched a scoreless inning to close out the win. Jason McLellan (Concordia) pitched four scoreless innings in relief of Long Beach starting pitcher Jacob Alcorn, who gave up all five Orange County runs to suffer the loss. Long Beach scored their first run in the fourth inning on an RBI-ground out by Joe Caparis (Pepperdine) and their second in the fifth on an RBI-single by Zack Chan (Hawaii). Parente and Sebby each finished with a game-high three hits.
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Ventura, CA
The Arroyo Seco Saints scored 12 runs on 17 hits to beat the Ventura Halos 12-4 today at Ventura College. Scottie Graham (LMU) had a game-high three RBI on a single and a two-run double, Blake Burton (Washington) hit a pair of doubles, Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) doubled and hit three singles to finish with a game-high four hits and three runs scored and Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) hit an RBI-double and two singles to highlight the Arroyo Seco offense. Tim Turner (George Mason) started on the mound for the Saints, striking out four in four innings of work and allowed two of the Halos’ runs on a two-run single by Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills) in the third inning. Lowell Schipper (Richmond) pitched three innings in relief of Turner, striking out four and allowed the other two Ventura runs in the sixth inning on a two-run home run by Daniel Edson (USC), which drove in Calvin Farris (Brown) who had tripled. Brennan McKenzie (Cal Poly Pomona), who had a pair of RBI-singles, Burton and Durna all finished with two RBI, one behind Graham, for the Saints.
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Oakland, CA
Andrew Davis (Texas Tech) and Caleb Freeman (Texas Tech) combined to throw a six-hit shutout and posted eleven strikeouts between them, Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley JC) hit a three-run home run and Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) had doubles in consecutive at bats to lead the Neptune Beach Pearl to a 9-0 win over the Walnut Creek Crawdads tonight at Laney College. Davis started the game for Neptune and threw six innings with seven strikeouts, at least one in each inning pitched, before turning the ball over to Freeman who struck out four over the last three innings, including the last two batters of the game. The Pearl scored single runs in the third, when Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) tripled and scored on a Williams ground out; the fourth, when Cooper Morrison (Reedly JC) drove in Kai Moody (Cabrillo JC) who led off the inning with a single; and in the fifth, when Williams and Chappell went double-double with two outs to put the score at 3-0. The flood gates opened in the sixth and the Pearl scored six runs that included doubles by Morrison, Travis Wacker (Oklahoma St) and Chappell and capped by Williams’ three-run homer.
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July 22, 2017

Pasadena, CA
Juan Gonzalez (Oklahoma Baptist) produced runs with three different hits, including a home run, Milo Beam (Purdue) and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) hit RBI-triples, and Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) hit run-scoring doubles to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 12-7 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The win, coupled with San Luis Obispo Blues’ loss to the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight, moved Conejo one game in front of the Blues for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. The Oaks scored in seven of the nine at bats they had in the game today, scoring three times in the first, two on Cockrell’s double and a third on a single by Gonzalez, to establish a lead they would not relinquish. The two teams each had four players with two or more hits, including a three-hit day for Scottie Graham (LMU) for the Saints, and Gonzalez, who also hit an RBI-double in the fifth inning and a solo home run in the ninth, finished with three for the Oaks. Conejo used five pitchers in the game, including Jacob Flores (USC) who started and went four and a third innings with four strikeouts to pick up the win. Grant Vogenthaler (SF State) notched six strikeouts in four innings for the Saints in relief of starter Josh Walker (Butler), but both pitchers allowed five runs and Walker was saddled with the loss.
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Santa Barbara, CA
Blake Brewster (Oklahoma) hit a three-run home run in the first inning, Hank LoForte (Cal St. Fullerton) hit a two-run home run in the second, and Chandler Bengston (Columbia) hit a two-run home run in the fifth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 11-5 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Pershing Park. The loss for the Blues, coupled with the Conejo Oaks’ win in Pasadena today, moved the Blues one game behind the Oaks for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. Brewster’s homer was the big hit in a six-run, six-hit first inning for the Foresters that also included a one-out triple by LoForte, and RBI-singles by Josh Jung (Texas Tech) and Walker Grisanti (Vanderbilt). Then, after the Blues scored two unearned runs in the second inning, LoForte’s homer moved the lead back to six, 8-2. Evan Lee (Arkansas), who started on the mound for Santa Barbara and recorded eight strikeouts over six innings, allowed the first earned runs of his summer in the third inning when Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) led off with a single, moved to third on a ground rule double by Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands), and both scored one out later when Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) doubled. Lee struck out the next two batters to avoid further damage and pitched the next three innings scoreless. Jung again drove in LoForte in the fourth inning with a single, and Bengston’s homer in the fifth put the Foresters up 11-4. Braden Pearson (Texas St) was the first reliever into the game for Santa Barbara, pitching one and a third scoreless before handing the ball to John McMillon (Texas Tech) who pitched the last inning and two thirds, striking out three and allowing one run on an RBI-single by Yamazaki, his third hit of the game, to close out the win. Austin Dondanville (Cal Poly) started on the mound for the Blues, allowing all eleven runs on eleven hits in five innings to suffer the loss. Jeremy Jess (Pomona-Pitzer) pitched the last three innings scoreless with five strikeouts.
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Oakland, CA
Trailing 3-0, the Neptune Beach Pearl scored five runs in their last two at bats, two on a home run by James Free II (Pacific) in the seventh inning, and one on an RBI-triple by David Kyriacou (Kansas) in the eighth to beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 5-4 tonight at Laney College. Rockville, who had posted an early 2-0 lead in the first inning when Willy Homza (Brown) hit a two-out, two-run home run, and a 3-0 lead when Grant St. Martin (Sonoma St) led off the top of the seventh inning with a solo home run, made a run at tying the game in the ninth inning when, with one out, St. Martin reached on a two-base error and, after the next batter was hit by a pitch and Kenney Quilatan (Solano CC) singled to load the bases to put the tying run in scoring position, St. Martin scored on a Daniel Page sacrifice fly. Jake Paredes, the third pitcher to come into the game in relief of starter Addison Moss (Rice), who struck out six in six innings and allowed only the first inning home run and one other hit before retiring 16 of the last 17 batters he faced, recorded the last out to save the win. A Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley) single to drive in Michael Woodworth (Sierra), who led off the seventh inning with a single, was the first Neptune Beach run before Free tied the score 3-3 with his home run. Kyriacou’s triple in the eighth inning drove in Tim Lichty (Texas A&M), who had led off the inning with a double, and an RBI-ground out by Woodworth drove Kyriacou home with the fifth run.
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Irvine, CA
Juan Cortina (St. Edwards), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), Jeff Kross (Orange Coast JC) and Michael Gates (USC) combined for eleven strikeouts, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) and Connor Beck (Texas Tech) went double-double to generate two runs in the fifth inning, and Beck and Joey Parente each hit an RBI-single in the seventh to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-2 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Concordia University. A tune-up session for the playoffs starting Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in which the Riptide have already reserved a spot by clinching the CCL South Division two days ago, Cortina went four innings, striking out six, before turning the ball over to the three relievers, who threw five scoreless innings, allowing only three singles and two walks to close out the win. The only blip to the pitching line was in the third inning when Cortina issued a leadoff walk to Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific), Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown) doubled Gamble home and Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) drove O’Reilly home with a run-scoring single to give Long Beach a 2-0 lead. Scott Savage (Masters), who started on the mound for the Legends, made that lead stick until the fifth when Andrews doubled home Tate Shaw (Texas), who had reach on a walk, and Beck doubled Andrews home to tie the score. Savage was still on the mound when Beck drove in Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC), who had singled to lead off the seventh inning, with what would be the game winning run. Charles Carr (Grinnell) then came into pitch for Long Beach and, after recording the second out of the inning, gave up Parente’s RBI-single that made the final score.
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La Mirada, CA
Matt Mogollon (Chapman), Blair Frederick (LSU) and Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) combined to throw a seven-hit shutout, Denzyl Chapman (San Diego St) hit a two-run double, Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) hit an RBI-triple and Randy Rubio (Marymount) continued his hot hitting with three hits today, including a run-scoring single, to lead the Academy Barons to a 5-0 win over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Mogollon started on the mound for the Barons and struck out six in six innings of work, allowing five hits, all singles, with no walks and was helped by two Barons’ double-plays to earn the win. Frederick pitched two innings, allowing only two walks, and was the beneficiary of a third double-play turned in by the defense, before turning the ball over to Tungate, who struck out two, stranding two runners who reached by a walk and single, to close out the win. Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) singled and scored the first run of the game in the first inning when, after stealing second base, he was driven in by Rubio’s first hit. Arugmedo then drove in Rubio with his triple to make the score 2-0. Hayden Jorgenson (Azusa Pacific) started on the mound for the Catch, striking out six in six innings, and, after Argumedo’s triple, retired ten straight before Joshua Stephens reached on an error with one out in the fifth inning. Bruce Martin (Stetson) doubled Stephens to third in front of Chapman’s two-run double to make the score 4-0. Martin’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning accounted for the final run of the game. Rubio’s three hits were a game-high, Dean-Hargroves, Argumedo and Stephens each had two hits for the Barons, and Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) each had two for the Catch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

July 20, 2017

Santa Barbara, CA
Ricky Reynoso (Pacific), Parker Joe Robinson (Texas) and Will Tomlinson (Brown) combined to throw a two-hitter, Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) and Paul Gomez each got a two-out RBI and the only triple-play in the league this summer helped the Orange County Riptide beat the Santa Barbara Foresters 3-2 today at Pershing Park. The Orange County trio of pitchers, who struck out ten while walking three, allowed two runs in innings in which they did not allow a hit. Reynoso, who started and struck out five in six innings, allowed one run in the first inning by giving up a walk to leadoff hitter Austin Todd (Texas) who then stole two bases and scored on an RBI-ground out, and Tomlinson, who pitched the final inning to pick up the save, hit the leadoff batter he faced, balked him to second, wild pitched him to third and gave up a sacrifice fly for the second Santa Barbara run. Of the two hits the Foresters did get, Reynoso stranded the first in the fourth inning and Santa Barbara ran one off the bases in the sixth when Todd led off with a single, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt with no out recorded and, when Josh Jung (Texas Tech), who had both RBI in the game for the Foresters, grounded into a double-play, Todd tried to score from second but was thrown out at the plate for a triple play. Joey Parente led off the game with a single and scored to give the Riptide a 1-0 lead when Pulcheon drove him in with a two-out single. The Riptide took the lead in the second when Gomez, again with two outs, doubled home Tate Shaw (Texas) from first and added an unearned run in the seventh when Shaw, who finished with a game-high three hits, singled, stole a base and scored on an error. Robinson, who came into the game for two innings in relief of Reynoso, extended his scoreless summer to 15 1/3 innings pitched, retiring six of seven today with four strikeouts.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
The Conejo Oaks scored five runs in their first at bat on only two hits, a two-run single by DJ Miller (Ole Miss) and a two-run home run by Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss), then scored seven runs in the third, capped by a two-out grand slam by Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC), on their way to beating the San Luis Obispo Blues 16-6 tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The win moves the Oaks one game in front of the Blues for the CCL Central Division berth in the CCL playoffs a week from tomorrow in Compton, likely the only path into the playoffs for either team although, mathematically, they are both still in contention for the wild card berth. Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) each had two RBI for the Oaks, while Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) and Justin Beck (San Jose St), who hit a solo home run in the eighth inning, drove in two each for the Blues. Cockrell, who added a single and a double later in the game, finished with a game-high three hits.
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Compton, CA
Wesley Albert (Lee) struck out seven in five innings, Joe Mercado (Dominguez Hills) struck out six over four innings, allowing only one hit each, and Randy Rubio (Marymount) drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single to give the Academy Barons a lead in the third inning they would not give back as the Barons beat the Ventura Halos 6-1 today at the MLB Youth Academy. Hunter Allen (Alabama State) had an RBI-single, Donovyn Curiel (Citrus JC) drove in two with a single and an RBI-ground out, and Bruce Martin (Stetson) hit a double, a single and scored twice to lead the Barons. Devan Peterson (Harvard) hit a solo home run in the third inning and Dayton Provost (Ventura JC) doubled to lead off the ninth to account for the only Ventura hits. Aside from the home run by Peterson, only one other batter reached base on Albert, via a fielding error, and, in total, he retired 15 of 17 batters faced. Mercado, who gave up two walks as well as Provost’s double, retired 12 of 15.
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La Mirada, CA
Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) hit a two-run home run and an RBI-double, Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist), Anthony Seminaris (Arkansas-Ft Smith) and Mitchell Bumann (Hawaii-Pacific) each hit RBI-doubles, and Grant Robbins (UNLV) and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) had four hits each to lead the Southern California Catch to a 17-hit, 13-6 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Biola University. The win came on the heels of the completion of a suspended game from June 14 between the same two teams that ended with an almost identical score but with the teams reversed, Arroyo Seco winning 13-5. The split result of the two games today reduced the elimination number for the Saints to just one. One win by the Orange County Riptide or the Neptune Beach Pearl, or one loss by the Saints eliminates Arroyo Seco from playoff contention.
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Fairfield, CA
Max Smith (UNLV) had four hits, including a two-run home run, and Willy Homza (Brown), Kyle Krebs (Solano CC) and Mickey Nunes each had three to lead the Rockville Rock Hounds to a 15-13 win over the Walnut Creek Crawdads today at Yarborough Stadium. The game was a blowout win for Rockville up until the ninth inning when the Crawdads scored nine runs on six hits, including on two-run doubles by Brennan Mauchline (Academy of Art) and Grant Chapman (Los Medanos). Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii), who had two singles in the ninth inning for Walnut Creek, earlier hit a solo home run and another single to finish with a game-high four hits along with Smith. Krebs, who had a bases-clearing three-run double in the fifth inning, Smith and the Crawdads’ Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley) led all run producers with three RBI.
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July 19, 2017

Alameda, CA
Chase Gardner (UCONN) and Nolan Bond (Houston) combined to throw either a no-hitter or a one-hit shutout, depends on who you ask, as the Healdsburg Prune Packers beat the Neptune Beach Pearl 5-0 in the second game of a doubleheader the two teams split today at the College of Alameda. Officially, Gardner and Bond will be credited for a one-hitter, as the home team report of the game awarded an infield hit to pinch-hitter Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) in the bottom of the seventh inning when the groundball he hit was just out of the reach of first baseman Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) who got his glove on the ball but couldn’t reel it in to make a play. The visiting team report of the game ruled the play an error on Warren but the home team report has the final say. Either way, it was a remarkable performance by Gardner and Bond. Gardner struck out twelve batters in five innings, walking four, before handing the ball to Bond, who besides allowing the one hit, walked one batter, hit one batter and retired everyone else, including five on strikeouts, over the last four innings. Jamey Smart (LMU) hit two home runs in the nightcap, a solo shot in the sixth inning and a two-run homer in the ninth to lead Healdsburg offensively.

Neptune overcame an early 4-0 deficit in the first game of the doubleheader, scoring four times in the fourth inning, three on a home run by James Free II (Pacific), to tie the score, and five times in the fifth to take the lead and go on to win 11-7. Free, who followed his home run with an RBI-single in his next at bat, finished with a game-high four RBI, and Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St), who had three RBI on two singles, were the leaders offensively for the Pearl. Grant Little (Texas Tech) doubled and singled twice, driving in two, and Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC) hit three singles to lead Healdsburg.

With the doubleheader split, each team inches closer to clinching a spot in the CCL playoffs a week from Friday in Los Angeles and each continues to battle with the other for the top spot in the CCL standings. The magic number for Healdsburg, who now has a one game lead on Neptune in the CCL standings, is one: One more win and they are assured at least a wildcard spot in the playoffs. Neptune’s magic number is two.
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Pasadena, CA
Brennan McKenzie (Cal Poly Pomona) hit a two-run home run to highlight a four-run first inning, and Corey Harrell (Graceland) hit a two-run home run in the seventh to cap the scoring as the Arroyo Seco Saints beat the Academy Barons 14-1 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn) had a game-high three hits, all singles, and joined McKenzie and Harrell with two RBI for the game, as did Blake Burton (Washington) who had a pair of run-scoring singles. Jumpei Akanuma (Lee), who started on the mound for the Saints and threw six innings to earn the win, Grant Vogenthaler (San Francisco St), Corbin Lamb (Lee) and Gabe Golob (NYU) combined to hold the Barons’ hitters to four hits and did not issue a single walk. Eric Whitfield, who singled and doubled in his first two plate appearances, had two of the Barons four hits.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
The San Luis Obispo Blues scored four runs on six singles in the ninth inning to post a 5-4 come-from-behind walk-off win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Sinsheimer Park. With one out in the inning, Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) drove in Price Visintainer (UAB), Justin Beck (San Jose St) drove in Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) and, after Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) singled to load the bases, Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly) drove in two for the walk-off win. It had been eight innings since the Blues had scored in the game, that was when Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) hit a solo home run with two outs in the first inning before the Blues hitters went silent for seven innings. Daniel Vasquez (Tennessee) started on the mound for Santa Barbara recording eight strikeouts in six innings and retiring the last eight batters he faced in order. Jack Schneider (Grand Canyon) started and also went six innings for San Luis Obispo, allowing four runs on six hits. Josh Jung (Texas Tech) and David Clawson (BYU) had RBI-singles for the Foresters, Steven Coe (UC San Diego) drove Clawson in with a sacrifice fly in the second inning, and then doubled and scored in the fifth to account for the Santa Barbara runs.
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Ventura, CA
Daniel Zimmerman (Michigan) had a four-for-four game, including a solo home run, Giovanni Garbella (Valparaiso) had a triple and two singles, and Evan May (Hawaii Pacific) notched six strikeouts in a five-inning start to lead the Long Beach Legends to a 9-4 win over the Ventura Halos today at Ventura College. Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills) hit a solo home run and Adisson Pelupessy drove in two runs with a pair of singles to lead Ventura.
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Oakland, CA
David Rajeski pitched seven innings scoreless, striking out four, Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) hit a solo home run and Kevin Whitaker (Laney College) drove in three runs on a sacrifice fly and a two-run double to lead the Walnut Creek Crawdads to a 6-2 win over the Auburn Wildcats today at Laney College. Connor Caspersen, David Langer (Chabot) and Jake Allen (Harvard) each had a game-high two hits for Walnut Creek and Taylor Field (Winona St) singled twice to lead Auburn.
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La Mirada, CA
The Conejo Oaks beat the Southern California Catch 7-3 in the regularly scheduled game between the two teams today at Biola Univesity. Earlier the Catch finalized a win over the Oaks in the resumption of yesterday’s game between the same two teams in Thousand Oaks which was suspended because of darkness with the Catch leading 6-5 in the eleventh inning. The suspended game was completed with no change to the score. Details of today’s game were not reported as of post time.

July 18, 2017

Auburn, CA
The Auburn Wildcats scored three runs in their last at bat on two singles and four walks to overcome a 3-2 deficit and beat the Neptune Beach Pearl 5-3 tonight at James Field. Taylor Field (Winona St) tied the score with a single after the first two batters of the eighth inning reached on walks and, after another single by Gaige Howard (Kenyon College) loaded the bases, two consecutive two-walks to Sam Curtis (William Jessup) and Dylan McPhillips (Sacramento St) gave Auburn its winning margin. Brock Ragatz (Northern St), who gave up one run in the eighth inning when Harrison Moore, who reached after being hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a single by Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Cooper Morrison (Reedley JC), pitched a scoreless ninth inning to pick up the win in relief of Hayden Josephson (American River), who went seven innings, striking out four. Field’s RBI-ground out in the fourth inning and McPhillip’s RBI-double in the seventh accounted for Auburn’s first two runs, while Lucas Halstead (Pacific) scored one with a double in the third to give Neptune an early 1-0 lead, and an unearned run in the fourth accounted for the Pearl’s first two. Neptune’s Zach Miller (West Virginia) finished with a game-high three hits.
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Pasadena, CA
Five consecutive batters reached base, three on singles and two on walks, to score four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie, and Tim Turner (George Mason) retired six of the last seven batters of the game to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-4 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. After Josh Jung (Texas Tech) doubled and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) tied the score for Santa Barbara with a two-run home run with no outs in the top of the eighth inning, Turner came into the game and retired three straight batters. Then, in the bottom of the eighth and ninety feet at a time, the Saints took the lead back. Brandon Shearer (LMU) singled to lead off the inning, advanced to second on a single by Josh Magee (Faulkner), advanced to third on a walk to Corey Harrell (Graceland) and scored what proved to be the winning run on a single by Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn). Sticking to the station-to-station offense, Arroyo Seco scored three times more on a single by Mitch Kerner (Emory), a walk to Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) and a sacrifice fly by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego). Before Ritter’s home run had tied the game, Blake Burton (Washington) had driven in three runs with a pair of singles in the fourth and sixth innings, and Harrell drove in Burton with the Saints third run in the sixth. Jung, who had three hits in the game (a double and two singles), drove in the other two Santa Barbara runs with a two-run single in the third inning to give the Foresters an early 2-0. The win snapped the Foresters seven-game winning streak and extended Arroyo Seco’s chances of reach the CCL playoffs for another game.
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Oakland, CA
Trailing 1-0 since leadoff hitter John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) walked and scored in the bottom of the first inning, the Rockville Rock Hounds scored ten runs in three at bats, nearly batting around three times in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, to beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads 10-1 today at Laney College. The beneficiaries of nine walks, an error and a catcher’s interference in those three innings, the Rock Hounds also produced runs on a two-run double by Hunter Snyder (Solano CC), a two-run single by Kenny LeBeau (Nevada-Reno), two RBI-singles by Nathan Guiterrez (Solano CC) and an RBI-single by Jack Pridy. Guiterrez, who also singled in the fourth inning, finished with a game-high three hits. LeBeau led all run producers with three RBI.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Justin Goossen-Brown (San Diego St) pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out five and allowing only one walk and four singles, three of which were retired on the bases, Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) and Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit back-to-back home runs to generate three runs in the fourth inning and Andy Garretson (Cal St San Marcos) hit a two-run triple in the sixth to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 13-0 win over the Ventura Halos tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ramos, Emmerson, Garretson and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) each had a game-high three hits as the Blues collected 21 as a team. Ramos, whose home run plated two, also added an RBI-ground out in the eighth inning to finish with a game-high three RBI. Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning, allowing only one baserunner, a single by Rudy Aguilar (Ventura JC), to close out the shutout.
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Irvine, CA
Jordan Dosey (Virginia), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech) and Braxton Smith (Louisiana Tech) each pitched three innings scoreless, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) drove in the first run of the game with a bases-loaded single in the sixth inning and, one out later, Paul Gomez cleared the bases with a three-run double to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-0 win over the Academy Barons today at Concordia University. Aside from the four-run sixth, the game was a pitching duel as a trio of Barons’ pitchers, Tyler Witt (Wake Forest), Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) and Aaron Soto (Marymount) combined for eleven strikeouts to the Riptide trio’s total of eight, allowed seven hits to their counterparts six with each trio walking five. Witt led all pitchers with six strikeouts in five innings, but allowed the Riptide’s first two runs and suffered the loss. Kilian, who led Orange County with five strikeouts in his three innings of relief of starter Dosey, picked up the win. Andrews and the Barons’ Randy Rubio (Marymount), with two singles each, were the only batters in the game with multiple hits. The win reduced the Riptide’s magic number for clinching the CCL South Division and an automatic bid to the CCL playoffs to three.
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July 16, 2017

Healdsburg, CA
Landon Etzel (Houston) had a pinch-hit three-run home run, and Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) and Clay Koelzer (Texas Tech) each had RBI-doubles to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 9-3 win over the Neptune Beach Pearl today at Recreation Park. The win flip-flopped the position of the two teams atop the CCL standings, a common occurrence this past week, with Healdsburg now holding a half-game lead. Etzel’s home run, which came in the eighth inning with two outs, while notable, was only an exclamation to the Packers win. It was Koelzer’s double in the fifth inning, which came with the bases loaded, two outs and the score 3-2, was the big hit in the game. Keolzer’s double, especially notable because Neptune’s pitcher Andrew Davis (Texas Tech) had struck out the previous two batters when Healdsburg loaded the bases with no outs, plated two runs and was followed by an RBI-single by Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) to make the score 6-2. Previous to that turning point, the two teams had been trading single runs with Neptune scoring one in the first inning when Harrison Moore doubled and scored on a two-out single by Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St); Healdsburg scoring in the bottom half of the inning when Nagata led off with a single, stole second base and scored on a single by Jamey Smart (LMU). Healdsburg evened the score again in the third inning after Neptune scored an unearned run in the second when Cameron Warren (Texas Tech), who had four hits in the game and took over the league’s top spot in average for the first time this season with a .458 mark, drove in Nagata who had walked, and then took the lead in the fourth when Nagata drove in Bret Bautista (San Jose St) with a two-out double. Cooper Casad (Pacific) started on the mound for the Packers, scattering eight hits with four strikeouts and no walks to only allow two runs over five innings to earn the win. Davis, who struck out six in six innings, suffered the loss.
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Irvine, CA
Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) hit a two-out three-run home run, Mitchel Bumann (Hawaii-Pacific) and Tyler Fisher (Olivet Nazarene) each had doubles to score a crucial run in the eleventh inning, and Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) drove in Grant Robbins (UNLV) with what would be the game-winning run in the twelfth to lead the Southern California Catch to a 7-6 win over the Orange County Riptide today at Concordia University. The win snapped the Riptide’s eight-game winning streak and also snapped the Catch’s losing streak to the Riptide. It was the first win for the Catch in the six meetings the two teams will have this summer. Whitcomb’s homer in the fifth inning, which followed a run-scoring single by Tobias Johnson (Arkansas St), gave the Catch a 4-1 lead that would not last. Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist), who scored the opening run of the game after leading off the second inning with a single, and Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) went double-double to lead off the sixth to make the score 4-2, and Pouelsen produced another run in seventh by drawing a bases-loaded walk followed by an RBI-ground out Chase Sebby to tie it 4-4. The Catch took the lead again in the seventh inning when Robbins drove in Nate Pecota (William Jewell) who had singled, only to have Orange County tie the score again in their half of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas). That pattern repeated in the eleventh inning when Bumann and Fisher gave the Catch a one-run lead, only to have Pouelsen tie it with a solo home run, but it didn’t repeat in the twelfth after Sandmann’s RBI. Conner Davis (Creighton), who entered the game to pitch for the Catch after Pouelsen’s home run, retired the last five batters in order to pick up the win.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
The Academy Barons scored three times in the fifth inning, twice on a two-run single by Garrett Ouellete, to take the lead and added insurance runs by way of a two-out RBI-double by Bruce Martin (Stetson) followed by an two-run triple by Caleb Squire (Bellevue) in the seventh and a solo home run by Solomon Bates (USC) in the ninth to beat the San Luis Obispo Blues 9-5 today at Sinsheimer Park. After both teams had scored twice in their half of the first inning, Justin Beck (San Jose St) gave the Blues a brief 4-2 lead in the fourth by driving in two with a one-out single. Wesley Albert (Lee), who came in to pitch in fifth inning in relief of starter Matt Mogollon (Chapman), held San Luis Obispo scoreless for three innings, striking out four to pick up the win. The Barons’ Randy Rubio (Marymount) and the Blues’ Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly) each doubled and singled twice to finish with a game-high three hits. Marco Murillo (Campbellsville), who started and suffered the loss, and Josh Goldberg (San Jose St), who pitched in relief, each had five strikeouts in four innings pitched for San Luis Obispo.
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Ventura, CA
The pitching foursome of Ray Lambert (San Diego St), Angus Denton (Arkansas), Miguel Salud (Cal Lutheran) and Robbie Medel (Arizona) combined to record 17 strikeouts, including two in every inning but one, and DJ Miller (Ole Miss) tripled and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso) hit a run-scoring double in a three-run second inning that was all the run support needed as the Conejo Oaks beat the Ventura Halos 4-1 today at Ventura College. Lambert, who started and went four innings scoreless, posted the most strikeouts with seven, followed by Salud and Medel who had four each in two-inning stints, and Denton who struck out two in his one inning of work. For the other side, Dyaln Francis (Cal Poly Pomona) also posted seven strikeouts, but allowed the four Oaks runs on five hits over eight innings to suffer the loss. Shaikin, who singled later in the game, and Ventura’s Dayton Provost (Ventura JC), who tripled and singled, were the only players with multiple hits in the game. Blake Mann (UCSB) doubled and scored the Halos only run in the seventh inning on a run-scoring single by Rudy Aguilar (Ventura JC). Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) doubled home Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) in the eighth inning with the Oaks’ final run. Provost, whose two hits today raised his average in league play to .455, fell out of the top spot in that category for the first time in weeks, and now trails Healdsburg’s Cameron Warren (Texas Tech), whose four hits today raised his average to .458.
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July 15, 2017

Healdsburg, CA
Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) hit a pair of two-run home runs, and Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) hit one of his own to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to a 10-1 win over the Auburn Wildcats in the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams today at Recreation Park. Warren’s two homers, his sixth and seventh of the summer in league play, tying him for the league lead in that category, were both two-out hits that give him 31 RBI for the summer, one behind teammate Jamey Smart (LMU), who drove in two with a single in the second inning and leads the CCL with 32 RBI, pending the results of the second half of the doubleheader today. Cole Brodnansky (Santa Rosa JC) hit a double and three singles to finish with a game-high four hits while Pittman had two singles before his two-run blast to finish with three. Justin Glover (Eckerd) was the only Auburn player with more than one hit and drove in the Wildcats’ only run with an RBI-single in the sixth inning. Matthew Blais (UC Davis) started on the mound for Healdsburg and pitched six innings, striking out four and scattering five hits to pick up the win.

Smart got the upperhand on Warren in the RBI-title chase in the second game of the doubleheader by driving in three runs on two RBI-doubles and a run-scoring ground out to Warren’s one RBI-double as the Packers pounded the Wildcats in the nightcap 14-2. Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) had two singles and a two-run double, Grant Little (Texas Tech) had a double and two singles, and Bret Bautista (San Jose St) hit a three-run home run and two singles to each finish with a game-high three hits. Shamus Lyons (Santa Rosa JC), Edward O’Bannon III (Pacific) and Dillon Brown (Cal St Fullerton) each took three-inning turns on the mound for Heladsburg, combining for eight strikeouts.
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Pasadena, CA
The Long Beach Legends chased from the game the starting pitcher of the Arroyo Seco Saints before their first at bat was over, scoring five runs on RBI-doubles by Trevor Steinman (Chico St), Zack Chan (Hawaii) and Jake Scott (Houston Baptist), but the Saints doubled that and chased the Legends starting pitcher in two innings, scoring ten times on nine hits as Arroyo Seco overcame the early deficit to beat Long Beach 14-8 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Saints pounded the ball in those first two innings today. Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) tripled in one run in the first, Brennan McKenzie (Cal Poly Pomona) drove in four with a pair of doubles, Brandon Shearer (LMU) and Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn) tripled two batters apart in the second and right between them Corey Harrell (Graceland) hit a two-run home run. The ten-run outburst benefitted Dellan Raish (ASU) who entered the game to pitch with two outs in the first inning. After giving up a double to Scott, the first batter he faced, Raish retired 13 of the next 15 batters, allowing only one single and one walk while striking out three to earn the win. Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) hit four singles, driving in three, to finish with a game-high four hits and McKenzie had the game-high four RBI. Tommy Anderson (Doane) hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning to lead Long Beach.
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Fairfield, CA
Addison Moss (Rice) notched eight strikeouts over six innings and his offense scored twelve unanswered runs as the Neptune Beach Pearl beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 12-4 in the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams today at Yarborough Stadium. Moss, who allowed hits in all but one of his six innings pitched, struck out three batters in the first inning after Rockville put their first two hitters aboard with singles, struck out two in the second on either side of another single and went on stranding runners like this throughout his outing, allowing nine hits but only one run. Of the 18 total outs he recorded, nine were by strikeout, eight were fly ball outs and only one was a ground out. Meanwhile, the Neptune Beach offense was cranking out runs. After James Free II (Pacific) doubled and scored in the first inning, the Pearl scored seven times in the second, including one on a solo home run by Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and three on a Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) home run three batters later. Tim Lichty (Texas A&M), who would finish the nine innings with a game-high four hits and match Rosa with a game-high three RBI, and Travis Wacker (Oklahoma St) added back-to-back RBI-doubles to the second inning mix. In total, the Neptune Beach offense racked up 19 hits with six batters recording multiple-hit games, including Lucas Halstead (Pacific) who had three. Rockville, who totaled 14 hits, featured four players with more than one hit, including Hunter Snyder (Solano CC) who had two hits after entering the game in the sixth inning to drive in two runs.

In the second game today, the Rockville offense scored seven runs in their first four at bats and Carson Haws compiled nine strikeouts over seven innings pitched to hold off Neptune Beach as the Rock Hounds split the doubleheader against the Pearl with a 7-5 win in the nightcap. Mickey Nunes and Max Smith (UNLV) each had three hits and an RBI in their first three plate appearances, and Willy Homza (Brown) had an RBI-single in the first inning and an RBI-groundout in the second to lead Rockville, while Free hit a triple, two doubles and a single to finish with a game-high four hits and Matthew Miller (Georgia College) had a pair of RBI-singles to lead Neptune Beach.
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La Mirada, CA
Tanner Murphey picked up eight strikeouts in seven innings and the Orange County Riptide offense scored four times in the sixth inning, three on a bases-clearing double by Connor Beck (Texas Tech) to beat the Southern California Catch 6-3 today at Biola University. Murphey, who was saddled with an unearned run in the first inning, walked just one and allowed only two hits, one, a double by Grant Robbins (UNLV), eventually scored to account for the one earned run he allowed. The Riptide scored twice, assisted by Catch fielding errors, in the fourth inning off of Catch starting pitcher Chris Vargas (UC Irvine), who went five innings with six strikeouts, to tie the score 2-2. Then Beck’s sixth inning hit, which followed a lead-off single by Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) and two walks, drove in the go ahead runs. Beck then stole third base and scored on a groundout with the final run of the game.
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San Luis Obispo, CA
Bobby Ay (Cal Poly) pitched six shutout innings, striking out five with only one walk, and his offense scored four runs in an inning they got just one single and a base-hit bunt as the San Luis Obispo Blues beat the Academy Barons 4-2 tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ay pitched faced the minimum three batters in four of the six innings he pitched and, in the other two, faced just one extra hitter before turning the pitching duties over to Jake Swiech (San Jose St) who struck out three in his one inning of work, but was scored upon twice as two Blues errors, a double by Hunter Allen (Alabama State) and single by Jason Wallace plated the two Barons runs. Dan Beavers (Chico St) pitched the final two innings, allowing one hit, to close out the win. The Blues scored their four runs when Price Visintainer (UAB) led off with a single, Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) reached on an error, Justin Beck (San Jose St) drove in Visintainer and reached base on a fielder’s choice, Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) drove in Yamazaki with a bunt base hit and two batters were hit by pitch with the bases loaded. The Barons’ Allen and Randy Rubio (Marymount) were the only two players with two hits in the game.
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