June 30, 2019 San Luis Obispo, CA Ryne Yamashiro (Cal Lutheran) hit a two-run, go-ahead home run with one out in the eighth inning to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 6-5 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues today at Sinsheimer Park. Yamashiro’s home run erased the Blues one-run lead and was setup when the second batter of the inning walked. It was not the first time in the game the Oaks had taken advantage of free bases. In fact, all four of their previous runs were scored in such circumstances. Conejo scored twice in the second inning when Jacob Castro (UC Irvine) walked to leadoff the inning, advanced to second on a Yamashiro single, advanced to third on another walk and scored on a wild pitch that also advanced Yamashiro, who scored shortly thereafter on a passed ball. They also scored two runs in the third inning when a Justin Ammons (Tennessee) bunt single and a hit batter put two runners on base with one out and, after Castro hit another single, an error on the play allowed both runners to score to give Conejo a 4-0 lead. Travis Weston, who started on the mound for the Oaks and opened with three scoreless innings, surrendered the only run of his five-inning outing when he walked the leadoff hitter to start the fourth inning and, after a single and another walk loaded the bases, a sacrifice fly made the score 4-1. Weston retired the side in order in the fifth inning and then turned the pitching duties over to Kyle Nicol (Cal Poly) to start the sixth. Nicol hit the first batter he faced, got two outs on a fielder’s choice and a line out but a two-run error and an RBI-double by Nick Hansen (Grand Canyon) tied the score 4-4. San Luis took the lead in their next at bat when a one-out walk put the go-ahead runner on base and a Taison Corio (Delta JC) RBI-single drove him in. Noah Huerta (Texas Tech), who relieved Blues starting pitcher Andrew Alvarez (Cal Poly) to start the fourth inning, and Evan Ingram (Hendrix) held the Oaks in check for four innings as the San Luis offense made their comeback. Huerta retired nine of the eleven batters he faced over three innings, allowing only one hit, and Ingram did similar in his one inning of relief of Huerta, allowing one two-out single in the seventh while retiring the three other batters he faced. Derek True (Cal Poly) pitched the last two innings for the Blues, striking out two and surrendering Yamashiro’s home run to suffer the loss. Aaron Suval (Glendale JC) pitched the seventh and eighth inning for Conejo and, after allowing the go-ahead run to score in the seventh and being spotted a one-run lead to start the eighth, Suval narrowly escaped allowing the Blues to tie the score when Tanner Lindsly (Oral Roberts) hit a leadoff single, advanced to second on a passed ball and, after Suval struck out the next two batters, Hunter Swift (Oral Roberts) singled to left field. Nico Lima (Oxnard CC), who fielded Swift’s single in left field, threw Lindsly out at home plate, however, to preserve the Oaks’ one-run lead and then Clay Rickerman (Cal Lutheran) pitched around two two-out singles in a scoreless ninth inning to close out the win for Conejo. Click here for recaps of these games Elsewhere around the CCL today: Fairfield, CA The Healdsburg Prune Packers swept a doubleheader today, beating the Solano Mudcats 11-6 and 8-3 today at Vanden High to extend their winning streak in league play to ten. The Packers scored nine unanswered runs in their last two at bats to erase a 6-2 deficit to win 11-6 in the first game of the doubleheader. Seven Healdsburg batters in a row reached base safely with one out in the eighth inning, six of them scoring. Included in the rally was a two-run double Cal Conley (Texas Tech), an RBI-single by Jason Dicochea (Santa Clara) and three Solano errors. The Packers added three in the ninth on another Dicochea RBI-single and another Solano error to post the final score. Conley had plated the first run of the game with a fielder’s choice RBI in the second inning, but the Mudcats answered in their half of the inning, taking the lead 3-1 when Wesley Galloway (Sterling College) hit a two-run double and Wellington Balsley (Solano JC) hit a two-out RBI-single. Healdsburg got a leadoff home run from Cam Blake (Texas A&M) in the third inning to make the score 3-2, but Solano starting pitcher Caleb Hill (Savannah St) settled in to strand two runners on base in the third without incurring further damage and retired the last eleven batters he faced in his six-inning outing. By the time Hill left the game Solano was leading 6-2, having scored three two-out runs in the fifth inning on three singles, including an RBI-hit by Josh Medina (Sonoma St) and three walks. Healdsburg relief pitchers Chris Joaquim (UNLV), Devin Kirby and Jack Hinrichsen (Cal) held the Mudcats scoreless over the last four innings while waiting for the offense to mount a comeback, with Kirby picking up the win by pitching a scoreless eighth inning. Elijah Birdsong (Pacific) started on the mound for the Packers and struck out six over four innings and allowed three runs on three hits before Jackson Cunningham (Northridge) relieved him in the fifth. The result was the same for Healdsburg in the second game of the doubleheader today, but the method was different, as the Packers led throughout the game in their 8-3 victory. Blake got things started for the Packers with a leadoff double to start the second inning and Joe Lampe (UC Davis) hit a two-run double two batters later to post a 2-0 lead. A Travis Turney (Portland) RBI-single in the third, a bases loaded hit batter and a wild pitch in the sixth, and a RBI-double by Dicochea, a sacrifice fly and Turney’s second RBI-single in the eighth accounted for the rest of Healdsburg’s runs. Trey Garlett (Texas Tech) started on the mound for the Packers and struck out four in five innings of work, allowing two runs when the first two batters of the third inning reached via a single and a walk, and both scored on an run-producing groundout and an RBI-single by Medina. Other than that two-run blemish, Garlett was stellar, striking out three of the four batters he faced in the first inning, retiring the side in order in the second and fifth innings, and pitching around the only other hit he allowed by retiring three of four batters in the fourth. Randy Polonia (UConn) relieved Garlett to start the sixth inning and went on to strikeout five over two scoreless innings, Spencer Hynes (Houston) pitched a scoreless eighth with one strikeout and Kevin Sandri (Pacific) pitched the ninth, allowing Solano’s third run on three hits, including Medina’s second RBI-single of the game. Nate Freeman (UC Davis) started on the mound for Solano and suffered the loss, allowing five runs on nine hits while striking out three in six innings. Ben Aguigui (Holy Names) pitched the last three innings and surrendered three runs on four hits. Click here for recaps of these games Compton, CA Brooks Fuller (Auburn) retired the first ten batters he faced in order and threw four innings of one-hit baseball, Jake Burton (Arkansas) struck out the first three batters he faced and threw two hitless innings, Caden Monke (Arkansas) pitched a scoreless seventh inning and Brad Demco struck out the three batters he faced in the eighth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 6-3 win over the Academy Barons today at the MLB Youth Academy. The four Foresters pitchers held the Barons in check while the Santa Barbara offense scored six unanswered runs. Nick Bellafronto (Stanford) gave Santa Barbara the early lead with an RBI-double in the first inning, Connor Pavlony (Tennessee) singled and eventually scored on a wild pitch in the second, and two walks, a single and a hit batter in the third forced in another run to make the score 3-0. All three runs were surrendered by Barons starting pitcher Brandon Mitchell (New Orleans) who went three innings and allowed four hits to suffer the loss. Noah Owen relieved Mitchell to start the fourth inning and struck out three of the four batters he faced in that inning, struck out one more in a scoreless fifth and pitched around a pair of two-out singles to pitch a scoreless seventh. Trevor Sutt (Long Beach CC) struck out two in each of the last three innings, but surrender three Foresters runs, one in the seventh inning when Christian Franklin (Arkansas) led off with a triple and scored on an error, and two in the ninth when a two-out error and three singles gave Santa Barbara a 6-0 lead. The Academy scored all three of their runs in the ninth inning when two walks, an RBI-single by Allante Hall, a sacrifice fly and an error made the final score 6-3 Click here for recaps of these games Pasadena, CA The Orange County Riptide scored six runs on six hits in the tenth inning to beat the Arroyo Seco Saints 10-5 tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Dylan Rock (UTSA), Andre Antone (UC Irvine) and Connor Aoki (Binghamton) led of the tenth inning with consecutive singles and Daniel Jung (Notre Dame) broke the 4-4 tie by hitting a bases loaded double that plated two runs. One out later, Trey Lipscomb (Tennessee) hit a two-run single and Carson Matthews (BYU) drove in one more with a single to give the Riptide a 10-4 lead. Desperate for pitching after playing a doubleheader yesterday in San Luis Obispo, Orange County turned to Antone and Lipscomb, who are primarily position players, to finish the game. Antone, appearing as a pitcher for the third time in CCL play, started the ninth inning and, after striking out the first batter he faced and retiring the second on a groundout, walked the next three batters and allowed one run on a passed ball before Lipscomb, appearing as a pitcher for the first time in CCL play, relieved Antone and struck out the only batter he faced to close out the win. The Riptide had gotten out to an early lead in this game, scoring two runs in their first at bat when an Antone RBI-single and an error gave them a 2-0 lead. Those two were the only runs allowed by Saints starting pitcher Hayden Harris (Georgia Southern) who threw three scoreless innings after the first and struck out four. Wesley Scott (Vanderbilt) was the starting pitcher for Orange County and threw three scoreless, hitless innings while striking out two before Devin Sutorius (Biola) relieved him to start the fourth inning. Thomas Luevano (USD) greeted Sutorius by hitting a home run to lead off the fourth, but Sutorius retired the next three batters, with the help of a double-play, to keep the Riptide in front 2-1. Matthews, who along with Luevano had a game-high three hits and three runs scored, walked and scored in the fifth inning to up the lead to 3-1, but an RBI-single by the Saints’ Andy Garriola (Old Dominion) and a sacrifice fly in the sixth knotted the game at 3-3. Both teams scored single runs in the seventh inning, Antonio Cruz (Rice) driving in Matthews from first base with a double for the Riptide, and Christian Scott (Tennessee) and Anthony Forte (Richmond) hitting consecutive singles, Scott stealing third base and scoring on a double-play groundball for the Saints. And both teams went hitless in the eighth and ninth innings to setup the extra-inning showdown. Taylor Pendley (Howard) and Noah Walker (Texas St) pitched two and three innings, respectively, for Orange County in relief of Sutorius, with Walker picking up the win as the pitcher of record when the six-run tenth inning rally happened. Alex Cornwell (USC), Grant Young (USF) and Luis Ramirez (Long Beach St) each pitched two innings for the Saints in relief of Harris, with Ramirez suffering the loss despite striking out the side in the ninth inning and notching two more in the tenth. Click here for recaps of these games