Pirates advance to state championships with win over Irvine Valley

COSTA MESA - Orange Coast College’s women’s volleyball team put

Irvine Valley away in four games Saturday night in the second round of

the Southern California Regional Playoffs to advance to the state

championships, which will be played at Pasadena City College Thursday

through Saturday.

The Bucs capped the 24-30, 30-23, 30-25, 33-31 victory with an amazing

Game 4 comeback, pulling from a near-imposible 15-5 deficit.

“With rally scoring, when you’re up like that, all you have to do is

side out and you’ll win,” said OCC Coach Chuck Cutenese. “I shouldn’t say

this, but I was already talking about what my lineup was going to be for

Game 5.”

Katja Muller led the Pirates with 27 kills and Krystle Davis tallied

18. Davis also had four service aces, giving her 61 this season to set a

school single-season record.