July 22, 2017 Pasadena, CA Juan Gonzalez (Oklahoma Baptist) produced runs with three different hits, including a home run, Milo Beam (Purdue) and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) hit RBI-triples, and Chase Cockrell (Ole Miss) and Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) hit run-scoring doubles to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 12-7 win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The win, coupled with San Luis Obispo Blues' loss to the Santa Barbara Foresters tonight, moved Conejo one game in front of the Blues for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. The Oaks scored in seven of the nine at bats they had in the game today, scoring three times in the first, two on Cockrell’s double and a third on a single by Gonzalez, to establish a lead they would not relinquish. The two teams each had four players with two or more hits, including a three-hit day for Scottie Graham (LMU) for the Saints, and Gonzalez, who also hit an RBI-double in the fifth inning and a solo home run in the ninth, finished with three for the Oaks. Conejo used five pitchers in the game, including Jacob Flores (USC) who started and went four and a third innings with four strikeouts to pick up the win. Grant Vogenthaler (SF State) notched six strikeouts in four innings for the Saints in relief of starter Josh Walker (Butler), but both pitchers allowed five runs and Walker was saddled with the loss. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Santa Barbara, CA Blake Brewster (Oklahoma) hit a three-run home run in the first inning, Hank LoForte (Cal St. Fullerton) hit a two-run home run in the second, and Chandler Bengston (Columbia) hit a two-run home run in the fifth to lead the Santa Barbara Foresters to a 11-5 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Pershing Park. The loss for the Blues, coupled with the Conejo Oaks' win in Pasadena today, moved the Blues one game behind the Oaks for the fourth and final berth to the CCL playoffs beginning Friday at the MLB Youth Academy. Brewster’s homer was the big hit in a six-run, six-hit first inning for the Foresters that also included a one-out triple by LoForte, and RBI-singles by Josh Jung (Texas Tech) and Walker Grisanti (Vanderbilt). Then, after the Blues scored two unearned runs in the second inning, LoForte’s homer moved the lead back to six, 8-2. Evan Lee (Arkansas), who started on the mound for Santa Barbara and recorded eight strikeouts over six innings, allowed the first earned runs of his summer in the third inning when Maaki Yamazaki (Hawaii) led off with a single, moved to third on a ground rule double by Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands), and both scored one out later when Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) doubled. Lee struck out the next two batters to avoid further damage and pitched the next three innings scoreless. Jung again drove in LoForte in the fourth inning with a single, and Bengston’s homer in the fifth put the Foresters up 11-4. Braden Pearson (Texas St) was the first reliever into the game for Santa Barbara, pitching one and a third scoreless before handing the ball to John McMillon (Texas Tech) who pitched the last inning and two thirds, striking out three and allowing one run on an RBI-single by Yamazaki, his third hit of the game, to close out the win. Austin Dondanville (Cal Poly) started on the mound for the Blues, allowing all eleven runs on eleven hits in five innings to suffer the loss. Jeremy Jess (Pomona-Pitzer) pitched the last three innings scoreless with five strikeouts. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA Trailing 3-0, the Neptune Beach Pearl scored five runs in their last two at bats, two on a home run by James Free II (Pacific) in the seventh inning, and one on an RBI-triple by David Kyriacou (Kansas) in the eighth to beat the Rockville Rock Hounds 5-4 tonight at Laney College. Rockville, who had posted an early 2-0 lead in the first inning when Willy Homza (Brown) hit a two-out, two-run home run, and a 3-0 lead when Grant St. Martin (Sonoma St) led off the top of the seventh inning with a solo home run, made a run at tying the game in the ninth inning when, with one out, St. Martin reached on a two-base error and, after the next batter was hit by a pitch and Kenney Quilatan (Solano CC) singled to load the bases to put the tying run in scoring position, St. Martin scored on a Daniel Page sacrifice fly. Jake Paredes, the third pitcher to come into the game in relief of starter Addison Moss (Rice), who struck out six in six innings and allowed only the first inning home run and one other hit before retiring 16 of the last 17 batters he faced, recorded the last out to save the win. A Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley) single to drive in Michael Woodworth (Sierra), who led off the seventh inning with a single, was the first Neptune Beach run before Free tied the score 3-3 with his home run. Kyriacou’s triple in the eighth inning drove in Tim Lichty (Texas A&M), who had led off the inning with a double, and an RBI-ground out by Woodworth drove Kyriacou home with the fifth run. Click here for recaps of this game Irvine, CA Juan Cortina (St. Edwards), Caleb Kilian (Texas Tech), Jeff Kross (Orange Coast JC) and Michael Gates (USC) combined for eleven strikeouts, Mitch Andrews (Lamar) and Connor Beck (Texas Tech) went double-double to generate two runs in the fifth inning, and Beck and Joey Parente each hit an RBI-single in the seventh to lead the Orange County Riptide to a 4-2 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Concordia University. A tune-up session for the playoffs starting Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in which the Riptide have already reserved a spot by clinching the CCL South Division two days ago, Cortina went four innings, striking out six, before turning the ball over to the three relievers, who threw five scoreless innings, allowing only three singles and two walks to close out the win. The only blip to the pitching line was in the third inning when Cortina issued a leadoff walk to Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific), Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown) doubled Gamble home and Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) drove O’Reilly home with a run-scoring single to give Long Beach a 2-0 lead. Scott Savage (Masters), who started on the mound for the Legends, made that lead stick until the fifth when Andrews doubled home Tate Shaw (Texas), who had reach on a walk, and Beck doubled Andrews home to tie the score. Savage was still on the mound when Beck drove in Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC), who had singled to lead off the seventh inning, with what would be the game winning run. Charles Carr (Grinnell) then came into pitch for Long Beach and, after recording the second out of the inning, gave up Parente’s RBI-single that made the final score. Click here for recaps of this game La Mirada, CA Matt Mogollon (Chapman), Blair Frederick (LSU) and Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) combined to throw a seven-hit shutout, Denzyl Chapman (San Diego St) hit a two-run double, Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) hit an RBI-triple and Randy Rubio (Marymount) continued his hot hitting with three hits today, including a run-scoring single, to lead the Academy Barons to a 5-0 win over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Mogollon started on the mound for the Barons and struck out six in six innings of work, allowing five hits, all singles, with no walks and was helped by two Barons’ double-plays to earn the win. Frederick pitched two innings, allowing only two walks, and was the beneficiary of a third double-play turned in by the defense, before turning the ball over to Tungate, who struck out two, stranding two runners who reached by a walk and single, to close out the win. Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) singled and scored the first run of the game in the first inning when, after stealing second base, he was driven in by Rubio’s first hit. Arugmedo then drove in Rubio with his triple to make the score 2-0. Hayden Jorgenson (Azusa Pacific) started on the mound for the Catch, striking out six in six innings, and, after Argumedo’s triple, retired ten straight before Joshua Stephens reached on an error with one out in the fifth inning. Bruce Martin (Stetson) doubled Stephens to third in front of Chapman’s two-run double to make the score 4-0. Martin’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning accounted for the final run of the game. Rubio’s three hits were a game-high, Dean-Hargroves, Argumedo and Stephens each had two hits for the Barons, and Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) each had two for the Catch. Click here for recaps of this game