Community college baseball: OCC

VISALIA - The Orange Coast College baseball team suffered its first

loss in two years in the Sequoias Tournament, but the Pirates still

finished Thursday with one win.

OCC (22-9) defeated Reedley, 10-1, early in the day as freshman Scott

Beerer, a Newport Harbor High product, played all nine positions. Pirates

Chris Sinner and Glenn Hedgepth ripped a double each as freshman

left-handed pitcher Eric Estrada earned his first win of the season.

In the second tourney game, Coast built a 4-0 lead, but later had to

rally and failed when the Pirates lost, 10-9, to Long Beach City. Pirates

freshman Greg Trimble smacked two doubles, while Jake Garcia and Brian

Murphy blasted one each.

OCC will continue tourney play today at 2 p.m. against host College of

the Sequoias.

SEQUOIAS TOURNAMENT

Orange Coast 10, Reedley 1

Reedley 100 000 000 - 1 3 1

Orange Coast 100 002 070 - 10 15 2

Vela, Cruz (9) and Andrews; Estrada, Foxman (7), Beerer (9) and

Beerer, Cotton (9). 2B - Sinner (OCC), Hedgepeth (OCC). W - Estrada, 1-0.

L - Vela

Long Beach City 10, Orange Coast 9

Orange Coast 400 400 001 - 9 10 2

Long Beach City 024 100 30x - 10 13 2

Williams, Erickson (3), Azze (6), Courvoisier (8) and Murphy; Desena,

Harden (2), Havelin (5), Santiago (6), Jiminez (8) and Kennison. W -

Santiago. L - Azze. 2B - Garcia (OCC), Trimble (OCC) 2, Murphy (OCC),

Marshall (LB), Cortez (LB), Kennison (LB), Cort (LB). HR - Cort (LB),

Kennison (LB).