July 6, 2017 La Mirada, CA Omar Ortiz (Pacific) hit a home run with one out in the ninth inning to give the Southern California Catch a 5-4 come-from-behind walk-off win today over the Conejo Oaks at Biola Univeristy. Ortiz’ home run, his second in as many days, completed a late-inning comeback for the Catch after the Oaks scored three runs in fifth inning on a two-run triple by Milo Beam (Purdue) and a run-producing out by Zayne Willems (Texas Tech) to take a 4-2 lead. The Catch had cut one run off the Oaks’ lead in the bottom of the fifth inning when Jonathan Ducoff (UC Irvine) scored Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) from first with a double, tied the score in the seventh when Grant Robbins (UNLV) singled and scored on a Sandmann single, before Ortiz did his walk-off trot. All the while, the Catch relief pitchers Conner Davis (Creighton), who came into the game in the sixth inning in relief of starter Bailey Martin (Miami), Tyler Hazlett (Hawaii-Pacific) and Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) were holding the Oaks hitters at bay. The three relievers pitched four scoreless innings to close out the game and allowed Conejo’s hitters only two singles, both of which were erased on the bases as the front end of double plays. The Catch had posted an early 2-0 lead when Robbins hit a two-out two-run home run to score Tobias Johnson (Arkansas St) who had singled with two outs. Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) singled to lead of the fourth inning and scored the Oaks first run on an RBI-groundball by DJ Miller (Ole Miss). Joey Deceglie (Northridge) started on the mound for Conejo and struck out nine over five innings. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Ventura, CA David Clawson (BYU) hit a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the first inning, his second two-run home run in as many days, and Jake McDonald (Texas Tech) allowed just two hits and struck out eight in six innings to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 10-5 win over the Ventura Halos today at Ventura College. Clawson’s homer gave Santa Barbara a lead they would never relinquish as the Foresters offense racked up five runs on five hits while McDonald, who posted four one-two-three innings out of his six pitched, faced only two batters over the minimum, those being Dayton Provost (Ventura JC), who hit a solo home run by in the fourth inning, and Joey Mendez (Fresno St), who singled in the fifth. Jake Pavletich (Cal St Fullerton) had three hits, including an RBI-double, Spencer Steer (Oregon) hit a two-run triple and Joey Fiske (St. Mary’s) drove in two to lead the Santa Barbara attack. Ventura put their first four batters aboard once McDonald was replaced to start the seventh inning and three of them scored, two on an RBI-single by Dalton Duarte (Dominguez Hills). Duarte also hit a double in the ninth inning and scored on a run-scoring single by Daniel Edson (USC) to cap their scoring. Jackson Cunningham started on the mound for the Halos, picking up five strikeouts in three innings of work, and Jacob Lopez (Canyons JC) recorded six strikeouts over four innings to highlight Ventura’s pitching. Click here for recaps of this game Fairfield, CA Sawyer Pittman (San Jose St) came off the bench and hit a two-out, two-run double in the sixth inning to give the Healdsburg Prune Packers a 4-3 lead, and Jamey Smart (LMU) hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning to put the game out of reach as Healdsburg beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 8-3 today at Yarborough Stadium. Pittman, who added an RBI-single in the eighth, and Smart, who had an RBI-ground ball in the first inning, produced seven of the eight Healdsburg runs between them, with Dane Tofteland (Indiana St) accounting for the eighth with an RBI-single also in the first. Alexander Pham (USC) started on the mound for Rockville, pitching five innings with seven strikeouts and left the game with the Rock Hounds leading 3-2. Rockville's lead was brief, having scored twice in the fifth inning on run-scoring singles by William Homza (Brown) and Garlind Webster (ENMU). Homza and Zach Bartleme (Holy Nars) each had two hits to lead the Wildcats. Justin Giovannoni (Pacific) picked up the win on the mound for the Packers, throwing two and two-thirds innings of shutout ball in relief of starter Lyons Shamus (Santa Rosa JC) who went four and a third. Edward O'Bannon III (Pacific) finished the game for Healdsburg with two scoreless innings and three strikeouts to close out the win. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) hit a two-run home run, David Langer (Chabot) hit an RBI-triple, Nick Simmons (Diablo Valley) hit an RBI-double and John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) doubled and singled all in the same inning as the Walnut Creek Crawdads scored seven times in their last at bat to overtake a two-run deficit and beat the Auburn Wildcats 15-10 today at Laney College. The eighth-inning extra-base hit fest for the Crawdads was, by no means, unique for this game. The two teams combined for 25 hits, eleven of them for extra bases, including a pair of home runs for Auburn’s Greg Vaughn Jr (LIU), a two-out, two-run blast in the first inning and a solo shot in the third. All nine batters in the Walnut Creek lineup got at least one hit and five finished with two, and three Auburn hitters finished with multiple-hit games, including Adam Moreau (Dayton) who had three. Daylen Calicdan (Hawaii) hit a bases-clearing three-run triple as part of the Crawdads six-run second inning to join Watkins and Vaughn with a game-high three RBI. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Mac Lardner(Gonzaga) notched eight strikeouts in a seven-inning start and Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit a two-run single with the bases loaded in a four-run seventh inning to propel the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 5-4 win over the Long Beach Legends tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The four-run inning gave the Blues a 4-2 lead and, after Long Beach staged a mini-rally to score two runs in the eighth inning and had the tying run in scoring position, Blues relief pitcher Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) came into the game to record the final four outs without further damage and closed out the win. Drew Judson (Hendrix) had a game-high three hits for the Blues, Emmerson finished with a game-high three RBI, while Trevor Steinman (Chico St) drove in two to lead Long Beach. John Szczesny (Azusa Pacific) started on the mound for Long Beach, allowed only one run in six innings with four strikeouts and left the game leading 2-1 and did not figure in the decision. Click here for recaps of this game