July 14, 2017 San Luis Obispo, CA Joshua Stephens, Wesley Albert (Lee), Tyler Tungate (Faulkner) and Joseph Mercado (Dominguez Hills) combined to pitch a shutout and Jonah Dean-Hargroves (Jackson St) doubled and scored the only run of the game to lead the Academy Barons to a 1-0 win over the San Luis Obispo Blues tonight at Sinsheimer Stadium. Stephens started on the mound for the Barons and scattered five hits over six innings with four strikeouts, before handing the ball to the three Barons relievers who allowed just one hit, a two-out single by Andrew Ramos (Cumberlands) in the eighth inning, to close out the shutout with one inning scoreless each. San Luis Obispo’s starting pitcher Austin Dondanville (Cal Poly) had the top individual performance in the game, recording ten strikeouts with zero walks in eight innings pitched, but suffered the loss when Dean-Hargroves scored and the Blues hitters could not answer. Both teams were held to only six hits apiece with Dean-Hargroves, who also singled in the fifth inning, and Donovyn Curiel (Citrus JC), who singled twice, being the only players with more than one hit. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Fairfield, CA The Neptune Beach Pearl took a big step toward the CCL playoffs today, adding two games to their win column in the CCL standings by finishing a suspended game from June 16 with one win and then winning their regularly scheduled game against the Rockville Rock Hounds 5-2 today at Yarborough Stadium for a second that gives them some breathing room atop the CCL North Division and an automatic berth to the playoffs. The two wins moved Neptune Beach a game and a half ahead of the second place Healdsburg Prune Packers who played a non-league opponent tonight. In effect, the Pearl won both games today with two consecutive three-run innings. First the suspended game from June 16 that was resumed from the top of the ninth inning with Neptune Beach leading 19-18 was all but clinched when the first four batters reached base, two of them scoring, and, with one out, Harrison Moore drove in a third run with a double to post what would be the final score of 22-18. Then, in the first inning of the regularly scheduled game, Moore led off the game with a single, Jordan Williams (Diablo Valley) singled and James Free II (Pacific) tripled and then scored on a ground out to put Neptune Beach up 3-0. That was all the run support the Pearl’s pitchers would need. Kevin Stone (Harvard) posted seven strikeouts over five innings, allowing two runs, Jackson Rutledge (Arkansas) pitched three scoreless with four strikeouts and Justin Smith (Yuba JC) struck out the side in the ninth to close out the win. Rockville did get within one early when Willy Homza (Brown) hit a two-run home run in the second inning to make the score 3-2 but that was as close as they would get as Matthew Miller (Georgia College) doubled and scored in the fifth and Andrew Rosa (Oklahoma St) drove in a run in the ninth to give Neptune Beach a 5-2 win. Click here for recaps of this game Irvine, CA Tate Shaw (Texas) and Logan Pouelsen (Hawaii) hit two-out, RBI-doubles to headline a six-run third inning that propelled the Orange County Riptide to a 9-8 win over the Southern California Catch today at Concordia University. The two doubles were part of the eleven extra-base hits the two teams recorded today, including a two-run triple by Jake Pulcheon (Houston Baptist) that opened the scoring for Orange County in the first and a two-run home run by Tobias Johnson (Arkansas State) that put the Catch ahead briefly 3-2 in the second inning. Omar Ortiz (Pacific) and Evan Sandmann (Dallas Baptist) each had two doubles for the Catch, as did Shaw for the Riptide, hitting his second double of the game in the seventh inning. Johnson, who added a single in the fifth inning and a two-run single in the seventh, finished with a game-high four RBI and a game-high three hits that was matched by Orange County’s Joey Parente (Lewis & Clark) who posted three singles. Braxton Smith (Louisiana Tech) picked up the win on the mound for Orange County, recording five strikeouts in three innings of relief. Click here for recaps of this game Long Beach, CA Gordon Ingebritson recorded 15 straight outs, two on the bases, to open his start at Long Beach City College today, and then finished the game by retiring twelve of the last 13 batters he faced to post a rare complete game win in the Arroyo Seco Saints 3-1 victory over the Long Beach Legends. Facing only four batters over the minimum for a complete game, Ingebritson needed only 85 pitches to finish the game, well below the league mandated Pitch Smart guidelines limiting pitchers to one hundred per outing. The only trouble Ingebritson faced was in the sixth inning when Daniel Zimmerman (Michigan) hit a lead-off single, advanced to second on a hit batsman and scored on a single by Zack Chan (Hawaii). Ingebritson retired the next three batters to avoid any further damage and the Arroyo Seco hitters responded right away. Spencer Mossburg (Lee) led off the seventh inning with a triple and scored to tie the game on a single by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego). Durna then scored two batters later on a sacrifice fly with the go ahead run and Mossburg tripled again in the ninth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Durna to close out the scoring. Before this game, the same two teams completed their June 22 matchup that was suspended due to darkness after eleven innings and the score tied 3-3. Harrison Smith (Oral Roberts) hit a two-run home run with one out in third inning of the resumed game (the 14th inning in the scorebook) to give Long Beach a 5-3 win. Click here for recaps of this game