Community college baseball: Pirates win two

SAN DIEGO - The Orange Coast College baseball teams picked up wins

over San Diego Mesa, 17-5, and host Southwestern, 10-6, at the Apache

Classic Sunday.

Against Mesa, starter Scott Beerer (2-0) struck out 11 and walked one in seven innings to lead the Pirates on the mound. He also pitched in

with a home run.

Jeremy Lahmann (four RBIs) and Ryan Marcos also homered for the

Pirates (7-1).

OCC put the game away with eight runs in the ninth inning.

Against Southwestern, the Pirates took a 3-1 lead, but pulled away for

good with seven runs in the sixth.

Nonconference

Orange Coast 17, San Diego Mesa 5

Orange Coast 103 001 318 - 17 18 1

San Diego Mesa 000 200 201 - 5 11 1

Beerer, Williams (8), Penney (9) and Hanson, Purcha (7). Lipatz,

Cortez (6), Oneil (6), Roberts (7), Cadly (9) and Sanchez. W - Beerer

(2-0); L - Lipatz. 2B - Meredith (OCC), Stiltz (OCC), Marcos (OCC),

Campbell (M), Chavez (M), Garcia (M) and Parks (M). HR - Lahmann (OCC) 1

(5), Marcos (OCC) 1 (4), Beerer (OCC) 1 (1).