CCL Playoffs Friday Jul 28-30 MLB Youth Academy 901 E Artesia Blvd. Compton, CA 90221 Four-team double-elimination tournament Friday matchups 12pm Game 1: Neptune Beach Pearl at Orange County Riptide 4pm Game 2: Conejo Oaks at Healdsburg Prune Packers Saturday matchups 10am Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2 (elimination game) 2pm Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2 6pm Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs Loser Game 4 (elimination game) Sunday Championship 10am Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5 2pm Game 7 (if necessary): Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5 July 26, 2017 San Luis Obispo, CA Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce College) doubled to lead off the seventh inning and scored the go ahead run on a Chase Cokrell (Ole Miss) RBI-single, Lewis doubled again to lead off the ninth inning and scored when Cockrell hit a home run and Grant Mayeaux (San Diego St) hit a solo home run in the ninth to lead the Conejo Oaks to a 5-1 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Sinsheimer Park. The result clinched the fourth and final spot in the CCL playoffs set to begin Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton for the Oaks and eliminated the Blues from contention. The two teams entered the game one-half game apart in the standings and the winner tonight was in the driver’s seat for the playoffs, the Oaks clinching the spot outright, the Blues having to win again tomorrow night to clinch. The Oaks win settled things and, as the number four seed, they will meet the number one seed Healdsburg Prune Packers in the 4pm game on Friday. Jackson Simonsgaard (Oxnard College), Ty Harpenau (Texas Tech) and Robert Medel (Arizona) pitched for the Oaks tonight, striking out a combined eight batters, walking only one and allowing one run on five hits. Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) started on the mound for the Blues and struck out six over seven innings, allowing two runs on seven hits to suffer the loss. Mayeaux doubled in the second inning and scored on a Jordan McFarland (Arkansas) single to give the Oaks the early 1-0 lead that lasted until the seventh when Lewis doubled and scored to make the lead two. The Blues scored their only run in the bottom of the seventh when Tyson Quolas (Monterey Bay) singled and scored on a two-out RBI-single by Robbie Silva. Medel pitched the last two innings scoreless with three strikeouts to close out the win for Conejo. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Ventura, CA Chris McKee (Ventura College) singled with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, stole second base and scored on a Blake Mann (UCSB) walk-off double to give the Ventura Halos an 8-7 win over the Orange County Riptide today at Ventura College. The final regular season game for both teams, the win by Ventura snapped their 13-game losing streak, knocked Orange County from the number one seed in the CCL playoffs and cemented the CCL hitting crown for Ventura’s Dayton Provost (Ventura College). Provost, who led the CCL in batting average for most of the season, had two singles in five at bats in today’s game to finish the summer with a league-best .431 average, almost 20 percentage points higher than Healdsburg’s Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) who finished second in the league at .402. The loss moved Orange County one-half game behind the Healdsburg Prune Packers for the top regular season record in the CCL and means the Riptide will be the number two seed in the CCL playoffs Friday at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, when they will meet the Neptune Beach Pearl, the number three seeded team, in the first game of the playoffs at noon. The two teams traded runs throughout today’s game as Orange County used seven pitchers to keep every arm tuned and rested for the playoffs and the Halos used four. The Riptide scored first on three consecutive two-singles in the first inning and the Halos tied in the second when Rudy Aguilar (Ventura College) doubled in a run. Connor Beck (Texas Tech) and Joey Parente hit run-scoring singles in the third for Orange County, and Nic Lacayo (Michigan St) hit a two-run single in the bottom of the inning to tie the score again. Mitch Andrews (Lamar) hit a two-out RBI-double for Orange County in the fourth and Aaron Greenfield (UNC) added an RBI-ground out in the sixth to give the Riptide a three-run lead, but Aguilar tripled to lead off the sixth, scored on a McKee ground out and Christian Jones (Washington) hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh to get the Halos within one. Tate Shaw (Texas) hit a leadoff double for Orange County in the eighth and scored on a Beck groundout, and again in the bottom of the inning, the Halos tied the score when Provost scored on a two-out double by Daniel Edson (USC) and Edson scored on a single by Calvin Farris (Brown). That all setup Mann’s walk-off double to win it in the ninth. Click here for recaps of this game Long Beach, CA Joseph Argumedo (Lynn) hit a bases-loaded, two-out, three-run double in the eighth inning, and Aaron Soto (Marymount) stranded two runners in scoring position in the last two innings to lead the Academy Barons to a 6-5 win over the Long Beach Legends today at Long Beach City College. Trailing 4-3 heading into the eighth, Argumedo’s double was one of only four Barons hits in the game and the three runners he drove in were available because an error extended the inning, making five of their six runs in the game unearned. Soto, the fourth pitcher used by the Academy, entered the game once the Barons got the lead and stranded Luke DeVenney (Eastern Michigan), who had tripled, in the eighth inning, and left two runners stranded in the ninth, after Grant Gamble (Azusa Pacific) reached on an error, advanced to third on a single by Jake Sahagian (Sonoma St) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Scott Savage (Masters) in the ninth to pick up the win. Richie O’Reilly (Georgetown) hit a two-run home run and Gamble had an RBI-single in third inning, and Griffin Keller (Santa Clara) drove in Connor Montgomery, who had a triple, double and single in the game, in the fourth inning to give Long Beach the early lead. Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) score two unearned runs for the Barons early after reaching base on an error and scoring on an error in the first inning, and after singling, advancing to third on an error and scoring on an RBI-ground out by Eric Whitfield in the fourth. Argumedo reached on an error in the seventh inning and scored the Barons third run on an RBI-ground out by Donovyn Curiel (Citrus JC). DeVenney started on the mound for Long Beach and recorded seven strikeouts over seven innings, allowing five runs, four unearned, on only two hits. Click here for recaps of this game Pasadena, CA The Southern California Catch scored nine unearned runs and beat the Arroyo Seco Saints 11-8 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Tyler Fisher (Olivet Nazarene) and Nate Pecota (William Jewell) each had a double and two singles and Jonathan Ducoff (Houston Baptist) doubled twice and scored twice to lead the Catch. Mitch Kerner (Emory) hit three singles and scored three times, Gabe Chavez (Rio Hondo JC) hit a double, two singles and scored two runs and Blake Burton (Washington) hit three singles to lead the Saints. Click here for recaps of this game Auburn, CA Shane Betts drove in four runs on three singles, Aaron Fritts (Spokane Falls CC) had three hits, including a two-run home run, and Brock Ragatz (Northern St) notched six strikeouts to lead the Auburn Wildcats to an 8-6 win over the Rockville Rock Hounds tonight at James Field. With the scored tied 5-5 in the eighth inning, Gaige Howard (Kenyon College) hit an RBI-ground out, and Betts and Sam Curtis (William Jessup) each had RBI-singles to give Auburn the lead. Dominic Foscalina (Utah) hit a two-run double, Kyle Krebs (Solano CC) singled twice and scored twice and Zachary Bartelme (Holy Nars) singled twice to lead the Rock Hounds. Click here for recaps of this game