Community college women’s soccer: Coast cruises to win over

Fullerton

COSTA MESA - Orange Coast College’s Jaycee Mahler, Andrea Corkhill

and Fernanda Velasco scored two goals each to lead the OCC women’s soccer

team to a 6-1 Orange Empire Conference win over visiting Fullerton

Friday.

Mahler, a Corona del Mar High product, has now scored in four

consecutive games, and in six of Coast’s nine contests this season. She

has four multiple-goal games, a team-high 11 goals, and in games she

scores in, the Pirates have gone 6-0.

Mahler put OCC on the board in the first minute, then Corkhill added a

goal two minutes later.

Corkhill scored again in the 21st minute and Mahler gave the Pirates a

4-0 first lead with a goal in the 24th minute.

Kristen Hamman and Alicia Santiago each had two first-half assists for

the Pirates.

Velasco, a Costa Mesa High product, scored twice down the stretch to

close out the scoring. Lauren Cassity, an Estancia High product, assisted

on each of Velasco’s goals.

Coast outshot Fullerton 22-6 overall, 13-2 in the first half, while

OCC goalie Laurie Perkins played all 90 minutes and turned back five

shots.

The Pirates (7-2, 3-0 in the OEC) have outscored their opponents 27-6

this season. The Hornets fell to 1-6, 0-3.

OCC returns to action Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Cypress.