Baseball: OCC sweeps tournament

VISALIA - The Orange Coast College baseball team made it four wins

in a row in the College of the Sequoias Baseball Tournament, knocking off

the host team, 7-3, in the tournament finale on Friday.

Pirates’ starting pitcher Robert Deven (2-1) kept the Giants off track

with a good mixture of fastballs and off-speed stuff, throwing six strong

innings to earn the win.

“He did a great job of keeping them off-balance,” Coach John Altobelli

said.

John Coleman pitched two shutout innings before Drew Parkin, fresh off a

complete-game win two days ago, pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his

eighth save.

Ryan France hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning to give OCC

(16-20) the lead for good. Jason Reuss’ three-run home run in the ninth

inning, his 11th of the season, gave OCC some extra breathing room.

The Pirates went 4-0 for the tournament for the second year in a row.

They will resume Orange Empire Conference play at Santa Ana Tuesday at

2:15 p.m.

COLLEGE OF SEQUOIAS TOURNAMENT

Orange Coast 7, College of Sequoias 3

Orange Coast 000 022 003 - 7 8 0

Sequoias 000 111 000 - 3 9 3 Deven, Coleman (7), Parkin (8) and Murphy, Keller (8); Wiebe, Hockworth

(8) and Lee. W - Deven, 2-1. L - Wiebe. S - Parkin (8). HR - France

(OCC), Reuss (OCC).