By
Tony Lee
On
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
OCC's 2009 State baseball championship team were one of the many teams honored at the Salute to Champions Night at Angels Stadium Friday (Aug. 28).
Prior to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. Oakland Athletics baseball game, any team that's won a state, national or world baseball championship was allowed to parade on the field at 6:30 p.m.
To read about the dramatic season the Pirates had in 2009, click here.
And when you win a state championship, you get a big, fat championship ring to celebrate and remember the moment forever.
This is head baseball coach John Altobelli's hand and ring. The bracelet with "J Wat #22" on it is for teammate Jourdan Watanabe, who died at the start of the season.
Click here to read the coverage of Watanabe's candlelight vigil.
The rings also has the engraving "Forever a Pirate, J Watt 22" on the side. Today (Sept. 2), I had the honor of holding Altobelli's ring myself.The picture doesn't do it justice - it is massive, fancy and perfect for the occasion. Once again, congratulations and hope we bring another state title to Coast in 2010.[Photo courtesty of Keri Altobelli]
By
Tony Lee
On
Thursday, April 02, 2009
First, I want to apologize to the OCC baseball team for showing up. I’m almost 100 percent convinced that I am bad luck.
And it's not March anymore so the March "Mustache Madness" doesn't apply. I want to desperately blame it on the change of the months but that would be as ridiculous as someone wearing blue shoes with orange shoelaces as good luck.
...Moving on.
I want to give a shout out to four members of the OCC softball team Kayse Potter, Maddie Page, Kiele Brown and Kalyn Lee for stopping by, saying hi and hanging out with me.
Also, Page would like the world to know that Cypress College always seems to hit two home runs against her. Maybe she doesn’t want the world to know but I’m sharing it nonetheless.
I know the softball girls personally and they are the coolest set of girls you’ll ever meet. I say more of us go to the softball games to support them.
I also want to give a shout out to OCC track and field rock stars Brianna Vanderwal and Liana Fuentes for stopping by. If you didn’t know, Vanderwal and Fuentes qualified for the upcoming California State Meet about a week ago at the Southern California Heptathlon Championships.
I want to give thanks to all the players and coach John Altobelli for the interviews. I also want to thank Tony Altobelli for helping me fill in the blanks when I was busy with interviews or updating the blog.
And I also want to clear something up.
Through my interview questions, I realized that I may have insinuated I blamed the loss on OCC pitcher Calvin Drummond. That’s 100 percent not the case.
If any of the players, coaches or fans thought I was being a jerk by asking those questions that way, I apologize and that wasn’t my intent.
Drummond actually pitched a great game and even had a no hitter going through the fifth inning.
And finally, thank you to the four people that picked up the Coast Report newspaper located next to my little station and tens of others that picked up the flyer on the OCC sports blog.
By
Tony Lee
On
Thursday, April 02, 2009
The 12-game winning streak snapped. Any comments?It was a good run. The guys did a good job. When you face a good pitcher, he’s going to (throw) good pitches and the guy pitched his butt off – did a good job. Talk about Christian Meza’s 13 strikeout performance today.You give out 13 freebies where they don’t have to make a play; it makes it a little bit easier for them but we still had our chances.What happened in the 9th inning exactly? Did Calvin Drummond throw bad pitches?No, he was trying to get ahead and the guy jumped on a fastball down and in, (the batter) did a great job. I mean Calvin pitched great. He had some 0-2 pitches that should’ve been located better that kind of came back and bit him in the butt but that’s baseball. What’s the one thing you guys did good today and one thing you did bad?We missed too many signs which kind of came back and bit us in the butt. The guys competed today, I mean we’re in the game, Calvin was good. [Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College]
OCC's 2009 State baseball championship team were one of the many teams honored at the Salute to Champions Night at Angels Stadium Friday (Aug. 28).
And when you win a state championship, you get a big, fat championship ring to celebrate and remember the moment forever.
