June 21, 2017 Ventura, CA For the second day in a row the Santa Barbara Foresters flexed their pitching strength and shutout their opponent, sending three pitchers to the mound for a 1-0 victory over the Ventura Halos at Ventura Junior College. One day after four Santa Barbara pitchers combined for 12 strikeouts of two-hit ball in a 4-0 win over the Academy Barons, three pitchers today combined for 14 strikeouts of four-hit ball. Nathan Wiles (Oklahoma) started on the mound for the Foresters and pitched five innings, allowing only two hits and one walk while striking out four. John McMillon (Texas Tech) then came in and struck out five in two innings, and Evan Lee (Arkansas) did the same in his two innings. Ventura’s pitching staff was nearly as effective as Santa Barbara’s, however, if not nearly as dominant. While not recording as many outs via the strikeout, three Ventura pitchers held the Foresters in check. Drew Van Winkle was in total command for the first five of his six innings, facing one batter over the minimum, 16, before escaping a one-out, bases-loaded situation unscathed by punching out the last two batters of his outing. The only blemish on either team’s pitching line, in fact, the one that would determine the outcome of the game, was the unearned run allowed by Ventura in the eighth inning when Austin Todd (Texas) reached on an error, was balked to second, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on an error with two outs. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere in the CCL today: San Luis Opispo, CA Nick Pagan (Cuesta) hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the first inning and reliever Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) held off the hard-charging Healdsburg Prune Packers for the final five innings to give the San Luis Obispo Blues a 7-6 win tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Pagan’s homer, the big hit in a four-run opening at bat for the Blues, followed three consecutive singles by Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St), Price Visintainer (Ala-Birmingham) and Nkosi Djehuti-Mes (Corpus Christi), who plated one run with his single and put two runners aboard for Pagan. Healdsburg, having held a 2-0 lead briefly when Bryce Nagata (Sonoma St) tripled to lead off the game and scored on a sacrifice fly, and Dane Tofteland’s (Indiana St) RBI-single scored Cameron Warren (Texas Tech), started what would be a game-long chase to even the score. The Packers scored twice more in the top half of the second inning to tie the score at 4-4, but the Blues immediately added one of their own in the bottom half. San Luis Obispo then scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, and Healdsburg scored one each in the seventh and ninth to come up one run short. Visintainer had three hits in four at bats to improve his league leading average to .529, and Martinez, Pagan, Djehuti-Mes and Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly) each had two hits to lead the Blues. Warren finished with a double, three singles and three RBI to lead Healdsburg. Click here for recaps of this game Thousand Oaks, CA Matt Mogollon (Chapman) and Solomon Bates (USC) combined for eleven strikeouts and Javier Garcia (Compton JC) hit a two-out, two-run single in the top of the ninth inning to break a 2-2 tie and give the Academy Barons a 4-2 win over the Conejo Oaks today at Sparky Anderson Field. Mogollon and Bates managed to hold down an Oaks offense that had ten or more hits in each of its twelve previous games this summer. Mogollon allowed one run while scattering five hits over his six innings of work, recording all of his six strikeouts in the last three of his outing, two per inning. Bates worked the last three innings in similar fashion, striking out five, including all three outs in the eighth inning, while allowing only one run. Garcia’s game-winning hit was setup when Joseph Argumedo (Lynn University) doubled with one out and Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) reached-on-error with two outs. Click here for recaps of this game Long Beach, CA Today's game between the Long Beach Legends and the Orange County Riptide was suspended due to darkness in the ninth inning with the score tied 8-8. The game will be resumed prior to the next regularly scheduled game between the same two teams at the same location, July 23 at Long Beach City College.