Carson Turnquist flirted with perfection in his six innings on the mound and the Santa Barbara Foresters captured a 9-4 victory over the OC Riptide in the final matchup of the summer between the top two teams in the California Collegiate League South on Sunday at Pershing Park.
The Foresters are 5-2 against the Riptide this summer with three of those victories coming by one run. Santa Barbara now holds a 3.5-game lead over the Riptide with five CCL games remaining, so, barring a catastrophic collapse, the Foresters will once again finish in first place.
“It was kind of the rubber match of this weekend series and the rubber match of the summer series,” said Foresters head coach Bill Pintard. “They’re a really good team. They’ve been chasing us, and it’s great to win a series against them.”