Community college baseball: Pirates open tourney with win

EL CAJON - The Orange Coast College baseball team scored its fourth

win out of five games after a 4-0 victory over Grossmont Friday to open

the Apache Classic played at colleges in the San Diego area.

OCC sophomore Jeremy Lahman smacked a two-run home run in the eighth

inning that brought in sophomore Scott Beerer, who singled.

Freshman first baseman Kyle Stanley and sophomore catcher Ryan Hanson

both went 2 for 4 for the Pirates (4-1). Grossmont dropped to 2-4.

Sophomore Justin Azze recorded his second win of the young season,

pitching eight scoreless innings.

The Pirates return to Apache Classic action today at 10 a.m., facing

East Los Angeles at Southwestern College.

APACHE CLASSIC

Orange Coast 4, Grossmont 0

Grossmont 000 000 000 - 0 6 2

Orange Coast 000 100 12x - 4 13 0

Karstens, Smith (8), Jack (8) and Reed; Azze, Hedgpeth (9) and Hanson.

W - Azze, 2-0. L - Karstens. 2B - Baron (G), Hanson (OCC) 2, Marcos

(OCC), Stanley (OCC). HR - Lahman (OCC).