Women’s soccer: Pirates fall to Santa Ana

SANTA ANA - The Orange Coast College women’s soccer team must now

wait for an invitation to the Southern California Regional Playoffs

following Tuesday’s 3-0 Orange Empire Conference loss to host Santa Ana.

The loss drops the Pirates (14-8-1, 9-5 in conference) to fourth place

in the OEC standings. A win would have given OCC second place in

conference and an almost certain trip to the playoffs.

Following a scoreless first half, the Dons (14-4-5, 10-2-2) scored two

goals by Ana Medina (66th minute) and Ana Velazquez (68th minute).

Twelve minutes later Medina added an insurance goal to complete the

scoring.

Goalkeeper Amanda Bell had seven saves for the Pirates.