I started off the day covering the Collins Cup for the men's and women's crew teams. Coast got the victory by one point over UC San Diego. [Click here to read a team/program feature about our crew program]
I then moved onto the baseball game between OCC and Fullerton College to cover the pregame ceremony of honoring the 1948-49 baseball team - the first team to win a state title for OCC - and found out the Pirates might have to finish the season without head coach John Altobelli.
The baseball team is ranked No. 1 in the state. It would be a huge blow not to have Altobelli in the dugout.
I also met with head men's tennis coach Chris Ketcham (far right, second row) on the OCC track. He said only eight teams made the regional playoffs and OCC was ranked as a solid nine. He pleaded to the playoff seating board, so to speak, why his team should be in the playoffs but it didn't work out.
He seemed bummed by the result but he said his top two singles player, Laurent Minguez (next to Ketcham) and Brad Fisher (first row, second from the left), and all three of his doubles teams moved onto the quarterfinals.
He seemed proud of his players and how making the postseason as individuals shows depth on his team.
Finally, I chatted with track and field player Danielle Morton.
She said she didn't do that well in the long jump on Friday's Orange Empire Conference Prelims (she just said long - i'm assuming it means long jump) but finished second in the javelin. By finishing second, she moves onto the state track meet.
Morton added Audrey Crouse, future Coast Report staff writer, won the women's pole vault. Congratulations to both. [Click here to read a Q & A session with Crouse]
[Tennis photo - courtesy of Orange Coast College]
[All others - photo by Tony Lee]
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