July 8, 2017 (*Recaps over the next few days will be more abridged than usual as the CCL public information service prepares for the all-star game. -PB Healdsburg, CA Kevin Sandri (Pacific) had three doubles, two singles and four runs scored, Willy Homza (Brown) homered and hit a two-run single, Nathan Guiterrez (Solano CC) hit a two-run triple and an RBI-single, but The Rockville Rock Hounds still had to withstand a ninth inning rally by the Healdsburg Prune Packers to win 9-8 tonight at Recreation Park. Leading comfortably 9-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, Rockville’s pitcher Kirby Broadbent (Campbellsville), who came into the game in the seventh in relief of starter Carson Haws and retired six straight, two via outs on the bases, still had the same lead with one out left to go and two Healdsburg runners aboard, one by a walk and the second reached by an error. Then Healdsburg started to rally. Grant Little (Texas Tech) tripled in drive in the two runners, Broadbent gave up another walk and Cameron Warren (Texas Tech) doubled in two more to make it a one-run game. Broadbent, who recorded the first two outs in the inning via the strikeout, got another for the third out to close out the win. The win by Rockville slides Healdsburg out of first place as Neptune Beach moved up to take the top spot with a win today over Walnut Creek. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Compton, CA Dominic Fletcher (Arkansas) hit two doubles and two singles on a four-for-four day, and six pitchers combined to throw a six-hit shutout as the Orange County Riptide beat the Academy Barons 5-0 today at the MLB Youth Academy. One of Fletcher’s doubles plated two runs in a four-run, six-hit fourth inning for the Riptide and was the third consecutive hit to lead off the inning after Joey Parente and Aaron Greenfield (UNC) singled. Jaxon Williams (Howard JC) also doubled in the fourth, and scored on a two-out RBI-single by Tate Shaw (Texas). Dailin Lee (UC Irvine) tripled and Hunter Allen (Alabama St) had a pair of singles to lead the Barons. Click here for recaps of this game Santa Barbara, CA The Santa Barbara Foresters swept a doubleheader over the Ventura Halos today at Pershing Park, winning the first game 4-1 behind seven innings of shutout pitching by Daniel Vasquez (Tennessee), and the second 11-5, highlighted by a four-RBI performance by Steven Coe (UC San Diego). Vasquez struck out five, scattered seven hits while holding the Halos scoreless before turning the ball over to Colton Follett, who struck out three in two innings of relief to earn the save. Josh Jung (Texas Tech) opened the scoring with a solo home run with two outs in the third inning, and the Foresters added three more in the seventh on two Ventura errors and an RBI-single by Evan Lee (Arkansas). Lee, who doubled and singled earlier in the game, and Luke Ritter (Wichita St) who singled in three of four plate appearances, led the Foresters offense. Christopher May hit a double and two singles to lead Ventura. Leading wire-to-wire in the second game win, Santa Barbara’s slugging performance was the difference in the game as both the Foresters and Halos totaled 12 hits, but Santa Barbara hitters produced five runs on extra-base hits, including a solo home run by Jimmy Galusky (West Virginia), RBI-triples by Coe and Brady Weiss (Westmont) and doubles by Austin Todd (Texas) and Chandler Bengston (Columbia), while Ventura only produce one, on a solo home run by Christian Jones (Washington). Galusky also hit two singles to finish with a game-high three hits for Santa Barbara. May and Dayton Provost (Ventura JC) each had three singles to lead the Halos. Click here for recaps of these games Pasadena, CA Dustin Krob (Dayton) and Gabriel Chavez (Rio Hondo JC), the first two batters in the lineup, each hit four singles in five at bats, and their last two was the difference in the game as the Arroyo Seco Saints held off a late charge by the Conejo Oaks to win 7-6 today at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Off to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning after Krob, Chavez and Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) all singled and scored, and a 5-1 lead at the end of six, Conejo scored twice in the seventh on back-to-back home runs by Milo Beam (Purdue) and Jassen Oliver (Cal St Bakersfield), and three times in the eighth when Max Weinstein (Cal Lutheran) drove in one and Brandon Lewis (LA Pierce JC) drove in two on run-producing singles to take a 6-5 lead. But in the bottom of the eight the Oaks lead vanished when Krob and Chavez came up to score and drive in the tying and winning runs. Brett Weisberg, the third Saints relief pitcher to appear in the game after Gordon Ingebritson left the game after six innings, having struck out five and leading 5-1, came in in the ninth inning and closed out the win, but not with drama, as DJ Miller (Ole Miss), who had walked and represented the tying run, was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on a Jacob Castro (UC Irvine) base-hit to centerfielder Bryan Smith (Occidental) whose throw beat Miller to the plate to end the game. Click here for recaps of this game Oakland, CA Tim Lichty (Texas A&M) hit a two-run home run in the first inning and a three-run home run in the second, Lucas Halstead (Pacific) hit a solo homer in the fifth and the Neptune Beach Pearl withstood a seven-run inning by the Walnut Creek Crawdads, highlighted by a two-run double by Brennan Mauchline (Academy of Art) and a two-run home run by Sean Watkins (Cal St LA) to win 8-7 today at Laney College. Caleb Freeman (Texas Tech) pitched six shutout innings for the Pearl to earn the victory. The win moves Neptune Beach back into first place by percentage points over the Healdsburg Prune Packers who lost to Rockville today. Click here for recaps of this game La Mirada, CA Trevor Steinman (Chico St) hit a solo home run in the first inning to open the scoring and then hit a grand slam in the ninth inning to close it, and Scott Savage (Masters) pitched seven innings of one-run ball with six strikeouts and only three hits allowed to lead the Long Beach Legends to a 13-3 victory over the Southern California Catch today at Biola University. Click here for recaps of this game