OCC squads pick up wins

Steve Jennings scored a pair of goals to lead Orange Coast College

men’s soccer team to a 3-1 Orange Empire Conference win over the

Fullerton Hornets Tuesday at Orange Coast.

Coast fell behind, 1-0, but scored the game’s final three goals to

pull out the win and improve to 10-3-2, 3-1-2 in the OEC.

Jennings scored his two goals in the 69th and 72nd minutes after

Muluwa Manda started the Coast scoring with a goal assisted by Robby

Rossy and Juan Cervantes.

Manda fed Jennings through the Fullerton defense on Jennings’

first goal and Jarred Zitt made a throw-in to Jennings, who beat the

Hornet goalkeeper low inside the right post for his second goal.

The game was rough, with 19 total fouls called.

Coast hosts Riverside Friday at 3 p.m.

* In the women’s game:

Five different players scored goals for the Orange Coast College

women’s soccer team and the Pirates cruised to a 5-1 win over

visiting Riverside in an Orange Empire Conference game Tuesday at

OCC.

Coast scored three goals in the first eight minutes with Jaycee

Mahler starting the scoring in the fifth minute. Vanessa Rocha and

Fernanda Velasco followed with goals in the seventh and eighth

minutes, respectively, for the Pirates (12-1-1, 8-1-0 in the OEC).

Nikki Saenz then took a pass from Velasco and struck a left-footed

blast into the right corner of the net from 20 yards out in the 63rd

minute. Laurie Moore scored the Pirates’ final goal in the 88th

minute when Lauren Cassity made a throw-in to Moore and she promptly

booted the ball in the net from 6 yards out.

Heather Greenan scored a consolation goal for the Tigers off a

rebound of her own shot just before the final whistle.

Coast visits Santiago Canyon Friday at 3 p.m.