Pirates pick up third straight win

The Orange Coast College baseball team earned its third straight

victory Friday, closing out the College of the Sequoias Tournament

with a 9-4 triumph over Reedley at COS.

The Pirates (18-17), the designated home team, broke open a 2-2

tie with four runs in the seventh, then answered two eighth-inning

Reedley runs with three more of their own to give sophomore

right-hander Jimmy Treece the victory. The triumph evened Treece’s

record this spring and it was well-deserved, Coach John Altobelli

said.

“He did a nice job of keeping them contained, until we could jump

on them with our four-run seventh,” Altobelli said.

Reedley took a one-run lead with two in the fourth, but OCC

rallied to tie it in the fifth, when sophomore John Grant clouted a

solo home run.

Sophomore Ryan Mathes connected for a two-run triple to record the

big blow in the seventh. Mathes then scored on a single by sophomore

Greg Benoit. All this occurred with two outs.

Benoit went 5 for 5, while freshman Ben Hanna was 3 for 5 with two

RBIs and Grant finished 3 for 5 with two RBIs.

Orange Coast went 3-1 in the four-game tournament and can still

contend for a postseason berth with victories over Orange Empire

Conference foe Fullerton next week.

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College of the Sequoias Tournament

Orange Coast 9, Reedley 4

Score by Innings

Reedley 000 200 020 -- 4 12 2

OCC 010 010 43x -- 9 15 2

Barry, Garcia (6), Jones (7) and

Osborne; Treece, Crissman (8) and Grant.

W -- Treece, 5-5. L -- Jones. 2B --

Rolen (R). 3B -- Mathes (OCC). HR --

Grant (OCC)

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