COLLEGE ROUNDUP

BASEBALL

Orange Coast 11, College of

the Desert 6

PALM DESERT — Sophomore Jason Van Louven hit a home run in the sixth inning to help lead the Pirates to the nonconference win that completed a sweep Sunday.

Freshman pitcher Chris Licon earned the win and improved to 4-0 for the Pirates (11-2-1).

Final statistics were not available.

OCC plays host to Palomar Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Vanguard 2, Fresno Pacific 1

Fresno Pacific 2, Vanguard 0

COSTA MESA — Pitchers ruled the day in the Golden State Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday at Vanguard.

Lions junior Shane Day pitched a five-hit, seven-inning complete game to win Game 2, allowing Vanguard to split.

Junior Kenneth Dobbs’ two-out, two-run single in the sixth inning erased a 1-0 deficit to help Day improve to 1-2.

Vanguard had just four hits in the victory.

The Lions were also held to four hits in Game 1, as Fresno Pacific’s Daniel Brodie tossed a complete-game shutout.

Vanguard is now 6-4, 2-3 in conference.

Golden State Athletic Conference

Game 1

Fresno Pacific 2, Vanguard 0

SCORE BY INNINGS

Schwinden and Jackson; Jones, Carls (9) and Vasquez. W – Schwinden, 2-0. L – Jones, 1-1. Rigby (FP), Lynn (FP), Harrison (FP).

Game 2

Vanguard 2, Fresno Pacific 1

SCORE BY INNINGS

Brodie and Coleman; Shane and Vasquez. W – Day, 1-2. L – Brodie, 0-1. Craddock (VU).

TRACK AND FIELD

Orange Empire Conference

tri-meet

MISSION VIEJO – The Orange Coast College men’s and women’s teams both finished second at the meet at Saddleback College on Thursday.

The OCC men scored 65 points to finish behind Cerritos (111 points) and ahead of Saddleback (20).

The OCC women had 57 points, finishing behind Cerritos (92 points) and in front of Saddleback (53).

There was a double winner for each of the Pirates’ teams. Scott Rudd won the shot put with a mark of 42 feet, 3 ¼ -inches and the hammer throw (130-7). Crystal Reed won the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes, 56.09 seconds and the 800 in 2:28.56.

The OCC men also had three first-place finishers, including Jason Quezada, 2:03.07 in the 800, Nick St. Andre 16:16.82 in the 5,000, and Andres Rossini, who had a mark of 165-7 in the discus.

For the OCC women, Rachel Ronquillo won the 400 in 1:06.38 and Cassie Mitchell took first in the 3,000 steeplechase in 11:48.0.