July 18, 2017 Auburn, CA The Auburn Wildcats scored three runs in their last at bat on two singles and four walks to overcome a 3-2 deficit and beat the Neptune Beach Pearl 5-3 tonight at James Field. Taylor Field (Winona St) tied the score with a single after the first two batters of the eighth inning reached on walks and, after another single by Gaige Howard (Kenyon College) loaded the bases, two consecutive two-walks to Sam Curtis (William Jessup) and Dylan McPhillips (Sacramento St) gave Auburn its winning margin. Brock Ragatz (Northern St), who gave up one run in the eighth inning when Harrison Moore, who reached after being hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a single by Jacob Chappell (Oklahoma St) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Cooper Morrison (Reedley JC), pitched a scoreless ninth inning to pick up the win in relief of Hayden Josephson (American River), who went seven innings, striking out four. Field’s RBI-ground out in the fourth inning and McPhillip’s RBI-double in the seventh accounted for Auburn’s first two runs, while Lucas Halstead (Pacific) scored one with a double in the third to give Neptune an early 1-0 lead, and an unearned run in the fourth accounted for the Pearl’s first two. Neptune’s Zach Miller (West Virginia) finished with a game-high three hits. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Pasadena, CA Five consecutive batters reached base, three on singles and two on walks, to score four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie, and Tim Turner (George Mason) retired six of the last seven batters of the game to lead the Arroyo Seco Saints to an 8-4 win over the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight at Jackie Robinson Stadium. After Josh Jung (Texas Tech) doubled and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) tied the score for Santa Barbara with a two-run home run with no outs in the top of the eighth inning, Turner came into the game and retired three straight batters. Then, in the bottom of the eighth and ninety feet at a time, the Saints took the lead back. Brandon Shearer (LMU) singled to lead off the inning, advanced to second on a single by Josh Magee (Faulkner), advanced to third on a walk to Corey Harrell (Graceland) and scored what proved to be the winning run on a single by Alex Briggs (LIU Brooklyn). Sticking to the station-to-station offense, Arroyo Seco scored three times more on a single by Mitch Kerner (Emory), a walk to Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) and a sacrifice fly by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego). Before Ritter’s home run had tied the game, Blake Burton (Washington) had driven in three runs with a pair of singles in the fourth and sixth innings, and Harrell drove in Burton with the Saints third run in the sixth. Jung, who had three hits in the game (a double and two singles), drove in the other two Santa Barbara runs with a two-run single in the third inning to give the Foresters an early 2-0. The win snapped the Foresters seven-game winning streak and extended Arroyo Seco’s chances of reach the CCL playoffs for another game. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA Trailing 1-0 since leadoff hitter John Ballard (Colorado Mesa) walked and scored in the bottom of the first inning, the Rockville Rock Hounds scored ten runs in three at bats, nearly batting around three times in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, to beat the Walnut Creek Crawdads 10-1 today at Laney College. The beneficiaries of nine walks, an error and a catcher’s interference in those three innings, the Rock Hounds also produced runs on a two-run double by Hunter Snyder (Solano CC), a two-run single by Kenny LeBeau (Nevada-Reno), two RBI-singles by Nathan Guiterrez (Solano CC) and an RBI-single by Jack Pridy. Guiterrez, who also singled in the fourth inning, finished with a game-high three hits. LeBeau led all run producers with three RBI. Click here for recaps of this game San Luis Obispo, CA Justin Goossen-Brown (San Diego St) pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out five and allowing only one walk and four singles, three of which were retired on the bases, Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) and Myles Emmerson (Cal Poly) hit back-to-back home runs to generate three runs in the fourth inning and Andy Garretson (Cal St San Marcos) hit a two-run triple in the sixth to lead the San Luis Obispo Blues to a 13-0 win over the Ventura Halos tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Ramos, Emmerson, Garretson and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) each had a game-high three hits as the Blues collected 21 as a team. Ramos, whose home run plated two, also added an RBI-ground out in the eighth inning to finish with a game-high three RBI. Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning, allowing only one baserunner, a single by Rudy Aguilar (Ventura JC), to close out the shutout. Click here for recaps of this game Irvine, CA Jordan Dosey (Virginia), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech) and Braxton Smith (Louisiana Tech) each pitched three innings scoreless, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) drove in the first run of the game with a bases-loaded single in the sixth inning and, one out later, Paul Gomez cleared the bases with a three-run double to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-0 win over the Academy Barons today at Concordia University. Aside from the four-run sixth, the game was a pitching duel as a trio of Barons’ pitchers, Tyler Witt (Wake Forest), Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) and Aaron Soto (Marymount) combined for eleven strikeouts to the Riptide trio's total of eight, allowed seven hits to their counterparts six with each trio walking five. Witt led all pitchers with six strikeouts in five innings, but allowed the Riptide’s first two runs and suffered the loss. Kilian, who led Orange County with five strikeouts in his three innings of relief of starter Dosey, picked up the win. Andrews and the Barons’ Randy Rubio (Marymount), with two singles each, were the only batters in the game with multiple hits. The win reduced the Riptide’s magic number for clinching the CCL South Division and an automatic bid to the CCL playoffs to three. Click here for recaps of this game