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. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: 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. Click here for recaps of this game 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. Click here for recaps of this game 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. Click here for recaps of this game 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. Click here for recaps of this game