June 15, 2018 Thousand Oaks, CA Cade Smith (Hawaii) pitched five scoreless innings and Daniel Jung (Notre Dame) hit a two-run home run and an RBI-single to lead the Southern California Catch to 7-2 victory over the Conejo Oaks today at Sparky Anderson Field. Smith allowed only three baserunners, two on singles by Michael Tillman (Cal St LA) and Sam Shaikin (Valparaiso), and one runner reach on an error. Other than that, Smith was perfect, retiring the Oaks hitters in order three of his five innings, and striking out three. Jung opened the scoring for the Catch in the first inning, getting on base via a walk, advancing to third on a single and a walk, before scoring on a sacrifice fly. After the Catch scored twice more in the second inning, taking advantage of two Conejo errors, Jung hit a two-out two-run home run to make the score 5-0. Then, after the Oaks scored an unearned run of their own in the seventh inning, Jung came through again in the eighth inning, driving in the seventh run for the Catch with a single. Bart West (USC) hit a two-out RBI-single in the bottom of the eighth inning to post the final 7-2 score. Anthony Mayorga, Zac Filos and Tayt Smith (Azusa Pacific) struck out four batters over the last four innings in relief of Smith to secure the Catch win. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: Fullerton, CA Chase Sebby (Ball State) singled with one out in the ninth inning and scored the tying run on a Aaron Simpson (Ball State) two-out single and, when the throw from the outfield caromed off the second base bag, Paul Gomez (Missouri), who had reached on a walk and had gone first-to-third on Simpson's hit, scored the winning run and the Orange County Riptide posted a 5-4 walk-off win over the Arroyo Seco Saints today at Fullerton College. The Saints had a 4-3 lead heading into the final inning, having taken advantage of two Riptide errors, two walks, a hit batsmen and an RBI-single by Jacob Jenkins (MidAm Nazarene) to score three times in the second inning, and added their fourth run when Drew Cowley (Cal Poly Pomona) doubled to lead off the fifth inning, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch. Orange County scored their three earlier runs in the fourth inning when Steve Curry (Georgia Southern) singled and Matthew Cooper (Clemson) walked to lead off the inning and, when Austin Sojka (Ok Wesylan) followed with a single, an error allowed both Curry and Cooper to score and Sojka to end up at third base from where he would score on an RBI-groundout. Bryce Verplank (Texas) started on the mound for Orange County striking out eight batters in four innings before turning the pitching over to the Riptide bullpen. Corey Dawson (Westmont College), after allowing Cowley's leadoff double and run, retired the next six batters in order, two on strikeouts. Daniel Zimmerman followed Dawson with two scoreless innings and Jacob Parker (Georgia Southern) pitched a scoreless ninth to pick up the win, escaping a one-out bases load situation by striking out the final two batters he faced. Cameron Brown (Notre Dame) started on the mound for Arroyo Seco, allowing three runs on seven hits while striking out three, Reed Osborn (Howard JC) notched five strikeouts in three-plus innings in relief of Brown, and Joey Steele (USF) recorded four of his five outs via the strikeout before falling victim to the ball that hit second base and was credited with the loss. Click here for recaps of this game