College baseball: OCC lose big, 14-6

COSTA MESA - Santa Ana College’s baseball team came to Orange Coast

College Tuesday and handed the host a 14-6 loss the Pirates’ second

Orange Empire Conference setback.

Santa Ana (12-1-1, 1-1 in conference) scored 11 runs in the third, fourth

and fifth innings to break the game wide open, taking advantage of four

OCC errors.

Tony Alcantar went 3 for 5 and knocked in three runs with a home run and

double for the Dons.

Jason Reuss hit a two-run homer, his fifth of the season for the Pirates

and Chris Laws went 3 for 4 with one RBI and one run scored for OCC (5-8,

0-2).

Center fielder Brian Wahlbrink, instrumental to the Pirates’ success last

year, broke a bone in his arm after being hit by a pitch and is out

indefinitely.

The Pirates are on the road in their next five conference games. The

first is at Fullerton Thursday at 2 p.m.

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Santa Ana 14, OCC 6

Score by innings

Santa Ana 014 340 101 - 14 14 1

OCC 010 030 020 - 6 7 4

Mortimes, Aparicio (5) and Freund; Coleman, Canada (5), Harris (6), Carey

(7), Deven (8), Parkin (9) and Keller, Murphy and Caro. W - Mortimes; L -

Coleman. 2B - Laws (OCC), Alcantar (SA), Calderon (SA), Reding (SA). HR -

Reuss (OCC), Wilson (SA), Alcantar (SA).