June 2, 2016
Healdsburg, CA
The Healdsburg Prune Packers steamrolled the Solano Mudcats for the second night in a row and Jake Sheiner (Santa Rosa JC on his way to Houston) highlighted the Packers’ 15-0 win with a 4th inning grand slam. Healdsburg blanked Solano last night as well 11-0. See tonight’s play-by-play here.
Also today:
Compton, CA
The Academy Barons beat the Garden Grove 22’s 15-5 for their second win in as many games this season. Click here for play-by-play
Long Beach, CA
The Long Beach Legends beat the Signal Hill Oilers 4-2 in non-league action. Click here for boxscore
Pasadena, CA
The Orange County Riptide defeated the Arroyo Seco Sentinels 7-2 in nonleague action. No stats available at this time.
June 1, 2016 – Healdsburg, CA
Dan James (University of San Francisco) hit a two-run double in the first inning and a three-run home run in the fourth to lead the Healdsburg Prune Packers to an 11-0 win over the Solano Mudcats in the home opener for the Packers. View the boxcore here.
Also tonight: The Academy Barons won their season opener 9-4 over the Signal Hill Oilers. Box and the SoCal Catch beat the Orange County Surf 2-1 Box
May 31, 2016
The 2016 summer collegiate baseball season opened in Southern California today as the SoCal Catch and Orange County Riptide opened their season with nonleague wins. The Catch held off the Orange County Surf 11-10 for their opening win, and the Riptide posted a 13-4 win over the South Bay Sliders.
Aug 2, 2015 – San Luis Obispo, CA
Any player on any team at any level on opening day of any season will tell you the one hope he has is to have an opportunity to win the last game of the season, the championship game, in the bottom of the ninth by coming through in the clutch. For Logan Marston, the catcher for the Neptune Beach Pearl, everything he hoped for on the first day of the season came true today in the CCL Championship Game in San Luis Obispo.
Marston (SF State) came up to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning with his team tied 2-2 with the Los Angeles Brewers, and, with Eric Sapp on first, he came through, launching a 3-2 pitch from the Brewers’ Scott Serigstad off the left-field wall. Sapp, who had reached first on third strike wild pitch, raced around the bases and slid safely into home just ahead of the relay throw and the Pearl were champions. It was an epic moment in a intense game filled with dramatics and, after the ensuing dogpile and celebration Marston was still buzzing with adrenaline.
“I’ve never been a part of something like that,” Marston said. “The feeling is incredible. But being on the bottom of a dogpile like that is…I couldn’t breathe.”
Marston’s heroic moment was the capstone to a playoff run by the Pearl filled with dramatic moments: On Saturday, in the second of the four Neptune Beach wins, Lucas Erceg (Cal) hit a ninth inning grad slam to send their game with the Conejo Oaks into extra innings and to an eventual victory; Earlier that day, JB Moss (Texas A&M) scored the winning run in another intense extra-inning victory over the San Luis Obispo Blues; And today, in the first of the two wins the Pearl needed to claim the CCL title, Stephen Smith’s (Texas Tech) two-out three-run home run in the sixth inning cemented the third win of the playoffs for the Pearl.
There was even more big moments for the Pearl, and the Brewers for that matter, in the final game of the playoffs. Scoreless through six innings, the finality of the game became ever more palatable for the players when Vahn Bozoian (Concordia), the playoffs’ Most Valuable Player in spite of his team’s runner-up finish, hit a two-run home run down the left field line to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead. It was Bozoian’s second home run of the playoffs and his third and fourth RBI of the tournament. The Brewers immediately answered back in the their half of the sixth when Myles Babitt (Cal State Eastbay) walked and eventually scored on a wild pitch.
In the eighth inning with two out and a runner on second, Dane Myers, who had fouled off four two-strike pitches from Serigstad, singled up the middle to plate Patrick Massoni (Austin Peay) with the tying run. Then, in the top of the ninth, Bozoian did his part again for the Brewers, leading off the inning with a double to the right field wall off of Evan Rutter (Corpus Christi) who came into the game for the ninth. But, after a sacrifice advanced Bozoian to third with one out, Rutter added yet another episode to the Pearl’s drama, battling out of the jam by inducing two weak ground balls that couldn’t advance Bozoian. The escape electrified the Pearl’s dugout and that set up Marston’s game winner three batters later.
“It’s incredible,” Pearl Manager Brant Cummings said after the win had sunk in. “And I’m not just talking about the win. The way our guys came back one time and then the next. One of our players who played in a regional at Texas A&M said the volume during those last couple of innings (today) reminded him of that. It was the best experience I have ever had on a baseball field.”
The two wins on the final day had added sweetness for Neptune Beach because the same two teams met in last season’s championship, only it was the Brewers who won twice over the Pearl to claim that trophy.
Pearl Manager Brant Cummings with the 2015 CCL Trophy.
The Neptune Beach Pearl
2015 CCL Champions
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July 24, 2015 San Luis Obispo, CA
Cannon Chadwick (Arkansas) had a dominating performance on the mound tonight, striking out 12 hitters in just six scoreless innings of work to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 13-5 win over the South Bay Saints. Facing a total of only 22 batters in recording the 18 outs, Chadwick twice struck out the side in an inning and allowed only two hits and one walk.
The strong pitching outing was more than enough for the Blues offense which pounded out 18 hits on the night, led by a 4-for-4 performance by Dustin Williams (Oklahoma State).
The CCL’s annual all-star game and prospect showcase is set for 7pm July 15, 2015 at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, CA and will be televised live to a national audience by Fox Sports. Game time is 7pm. The Prospect Showcase for MLB scouts will be held at 3pm.
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Location:
MLB Urban Youth Academy
901 E Artesia Blvd
Compton, CA 90221
June 23, 2015 – Compton, CA
Jordan Rodgers (LA Brewers, Tennessee) set the offensive bar high for the CCL this season by hitting for the cycle in the LA Brewers 20-2 rout of the Academy Barons tonight at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton. Rodgers tallied a triple in his first at bat of the game, a single in his second, a home run in his third at bat and, after two more hitless plate appearances, completed the cycle with a double in his final at bat. His four-for-six hit parade generated nine runs for the Brewers. We will keep tabs to see if any other CCL hitter can come close to such a performance. It’s still early!
June 12, 2015
Seventy current and former players of the 10 CCL clubs were selected in this year’s MLB First-Year Player Draft held in Secaucus, NJ. The Santa Barbara Foresters led all CCL teams with 24 players drafted by MLB clubs, followed by the Los Angeles Brewers who had 13 players drafted and the San Luis Obispo Blues who had 11.
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