Community college baseball: Pirates end three-game skid

COSTA MESA - Donny Murphy slammed two home runs and Glenn Hedgpeth

belted another to lead the Orange Coast College baseball team to a 9-3

Orange Empire Conference victory over visiting Golden West Tuesday.

Murphy went 4 for 5 with five RBIs and scored two runs. He hammered a

solo shot in the first inning and a three-run blast in the sixth to help

the Pirates (14-6, 3-4 in the OEC) snap their three-game losing skid to

end the first round of conference play. Hedgpeth went 2 for 4 with three

RBIs.

Coast will return to OEC action Saturday at noon, hosting Saddleback.

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Orange Coast 9, Golden West 3

Golden West 000 100 110 - 3 10 1

Orange Coast 111 303 00x - 9 15 1

Tucker, Sargent (4), Kaley (6) and Brown; Clanton, Williams (8),

Hedgpeth (9) and Hanson.

W - Clanton, 4-2. L - Tucker. 2B - Goote (GW), Stanley (OCC), Lahmann

(OCC). 3B - Donahoe (GW). HR - Murphy (OCC) 2, Hedgpeth 1.