College baseball: OCC lose, 12-5

MISSION VIEJO - Saddleback College’s baseball team scored early and

often as it beat visiting Orange Coast College, 12-5, in an Orange Empire

Conference game Tuesday.

For OCC (5-11, 0-4 in conference), Chris Laws and Eric Wiethorn each went

2 for 4. Laws also drove in one run. Pirates’ catcher Brian Murphy went 1

for 3 with two RBIs.

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Saddleback 12, OCC 5

Score by innings

OCC 101 002 100 - 5 8 2

Saddleback 131 103 21x - 12 19 0

Carey, Parkin (6), Surdoch (8) and Murphy; Ogren, Cummings (6), Kemp (8)

and Arhart. W - Ogren; L - Carey, 1-4. 2B - Laws (OCC), Wiethorn (OCC),

Valiente (S), Richards (S), Pearson (S). HR - LaRue (S), Iugstad (S).