Your Orange Coast College baseball team wins the first playoff game against Ventura College 15-1.
Winning pitcher for Coast is Brett Wallach (8-1) and the losing pitcher for Ventura is Blair Walters (5-4).
The men will play again tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. If Coast loses the 11 a.m. game, a tie-breaker game will follow immediately afterward.
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Showing posts with label Ventura College. Show all posts
OCC head baseball coach John and Keri Altobelli's daughters made signs for their dad's birthday. [Click here to read a Q&A I had with Keri Altobelli and her daughters Alexis and Alyssa]
March Mustache Madness is back at Coast. OCC catcher Kyle Myers shows off his new 'stache [Click here to read about the original blog post on the Mustache Madness]
A cool picture of Brett Wallach pitching during the game.[Photos by Tony Lee]
The Orange Empire Conference Player of the Year Brett Wallach (right) proves again why he deserves that title.After a bloop-single by Mykal Stokes and a hit-and-run single by Drew Hillman to start off the bottom of the seventh, Wallach stepped up to the plate hoping to increase his lead.
Wallach hit a bases-clearing triple over Ventura's center fielder to increase the Pirates lead to 7.
Ventura made a pitching change afterward that brought in Anthony Martinez. Pitcher Brian Walters moved to first base.
Coast's Beck Wheeler hit a hard grounder to Ventura's third baseman Trevor Duffy but a great defensive play kept Wallach at third.
Then Ricky Stokes came through for the Pirates again by singling through Duffy and Ricky later scored on a single by Scott Hong.
Hong also sored on a two-out single by D.J. Arellano.
The score is now 1-10, OCC's favor.
UPDATE
Sheeks came up to for the second time and singled again. He and Arellano was brought in by a bases-clearing double by Mykal Stokes.
Ventura made another pitching change after that. Max Javante came in for Martinez.
Hillman (left) took advantage of the pitching change immediately and homered on the second pitch over the 380 mark on the left field wall.After two more batters advanced, Ricky Stokes ended the inning on a lineout to the second base.
All in all, it was a nine-run seventh inning on ten hits for OCC.
The score is now 1-14.
[Wallach photo by Hank Schellingerhout]
[Hillman photo by Tony Lee]
Sorry for the lack of scoring updates - I took some time to take pictures and interview people.Coast's Brett Wallach has settled down and gave up no more runs up to the fifth inning. Wallach was in a jam in the top of the fourth having runners on first and third base with two outs but got out of the jam.
Ventura's Blair Walters (right) however gave up two more runs since the first inning.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Pirates threatened wih runners on first and second. D.J. Arellano, who was on second, missed the double-steal signal and was called out.
Then Coast's Mykal Stokes hit a ball in the infield but it was misjudged by Ventura. Sheeks hustled from second base and scored on a close play at home.
In the bottom of the fifth, Ricky Stokes hit a solo home run over the left field wall with two outs to add another tally on the board.
The score is 1-5 in favor of Coast.
UPDATE
Walters pitched a very good sixth inning - two strikeouts in around 10 pitches.
Coast's Ryan Dunn popped out shortstop and D.J. Arellano and Ryan Sheeks struck out in four pitches each.
[Photo by Tony Lee]
The Orange Coast College Pirates have taken the lead in the bottom of the third thanks to third baseman Drew Hillman and first baseman Ricky Stokes (right).Ryan Sheeks started off the inning with a infield single and later advanced to second of a steal.
After a popout to left field by Mykal Stokes, All second-OEC player Drew Hillman drove in Sheeks with a deep single to center field.
Coast's Brett Wallach then walked which set up the stage for Stokes - who drove both runners in with a bases-clearing double.
Both pitchers calmed down in the second inning and didn't give up another run.
The score is now 1-3 in favor of OCC.
[Photo by Tony Lee]
Ventura College got off to a fast start against the Orange Empire Conference player of the year Brett Wallach.
Ventura's leadoff hitter Garrett Rau laced a double over center fielder Mykal Stokes on the first pitch to start off the game.
After a sacrifice bunt by Collin LaVoie, right fielder AJ Gallardo singled up the middle for the first RBI and run of the game. Another single up the midde followed Gallardo.
Then, Ventura decided to try a double steal but a good throw by OCC catcher DJ Arellano got the runner out on third.
Wallach needed only two more pitches after that to strik out Reynaldo Garcia to end the inning.
The score is 1-0 in favor of Ventura.
Ventura's leadoff hitter Garrett Rau laced a double over center fielder Mykal Stokes on the first pitch to start off the game.
After a sacrifice bunt by Collin LaVoie, right fielder AJ Gallardo singled up the middle for the first RBI and run of the game. Another single up the midde followed Gallardo.
Then, Ventura decided to try a double steal but a good throw by OCC catcher DJ Arellano got the runner out on third.
Wallach needed only two more pitches after that to strik out Reynaldo Garcia to end the inning.
The score is 1-0 in favor of Ventura.
