By
Tony Lee
On
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Right next to the Adams Avenue, a brand-new softball field is being built for the start of the 2010 spring season for Orange Coast College's softball team.Head softball coach Ruby Rojas said she will have open tryouts for OCC students who are interested in suiting up for the lady Pirates next season."I will be holding tryouts January 5th at 1 p.m. and I am looking for eligible student athletes to come out for the 2010 season," Rojas said. "Especially since we just got a $3 million stadium."Rojas is a 2008 Beijing Olympian athlete and batted cleanup for the Venezuelan national team. She also competed in the Canada Cup over the summer and led Venezuela to a third place finish.
To read a feature story about Rojas, click here. To read a feature story on some of the 2010 recruits, click here.
[Artist rendering courtesy of Orange Coast College]
By
Tony Lee
On
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
As promised, yours truly will upload some of his favorite sports photos from the spring season. The first installment is of the Orange Coast College softball team in practice and in a game against Saddleback College. Next photos will be from the baseball season and the next blog entry will be about incoming recruits for the softball team. Once again, the OCC Sports Blog now has a photo album on Picasa and I will update it frequently. The softball photos are at http://picasaweb.google.com/coastreportsports/2009SpringSoftball#
By
Tony Lee
On
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Some take the summer to relax and some are busy as ever.
OCC's head softball coach Ruby Rojas is the latter and is sharing her summer activities via Twitter.
So far from Rojas' tweets on twitter.com/rrojas8, she went back to Venezuela to practice with the international team, is actively involved in the BACKSOFTBALL campaign and played in the Canada Cup with multiple injuries (her team finished third in the tournament).
According to canadacup.com, Rojas batted cleanup and played left field for the majority of the tournament. Her best offensive game was on July 6 against Austraila, where she went 2-for-3 with a walk, two doubles and two RBIs.
I also found out from her tweets that she likes to watch BET, been playing with a dirty uniform, loves to cook and saw Transformers 2 and loved it.
And she still has a busy summer left. From her Twitter, Rojas said "3rd place @ Canada Cup. Not bad & way to not give up teammates! Next destination....Chicago to play against Chicago Bandits!"
Yes, I now have a stalker-esk knowledge of our softball coach from reading a couple of her tweets, but I think it's cool to get to know a coach this way.
It's always cool to know that our coaches, teachers, star athletes and students are just like everyone else. I hope more coaches will be active Twitters like Rojas in the future.
Anyways, I hope your summer just keeps on getting better Ruby and keep giving us Twitter updates.
After all, I am a nosy journalist who wants to know everything.
[Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College]
By
Tony Lee
On
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Orange Coast College softball team played a game earlier today against Santa Ana College. The lady Pirates lost 5-1 - the lone run scored by Kayse Potter. Coast players Kursten Evanski (left) and Sarah Munson (right) are here after the game to support the men’s volleyball team. Do you guys come to a lot of the volleyball games?Sarah: Yes we do.Kursten: Yeah.Do you guys wish you had this many people for your softball games.Sarah: Yeah, maybe we’d win then. Yesterday we had a class come watch us for extra credit. It’s so sad. Talk about the game a little bit.Kursten: They met with the ball so that was all we could do. They hit a few shots up the middle and we had some errors.Did you guys have chances to rally or anything like that?Kursten: We had a few of them but when we hit the ball sometimes, they were hard hits, but we hit it straight to them. But I don’t think we could be mad because we put the balls in play. When’s your next game?Both: Friday (at 3 p.m.).Against?Sarah: Santiago (Canyon College).Kursten: Our last two games are at home.What do you want to say to the fans so they’ll come to the game?Sarah: We’re good looking.Kursten: That’s all you need.[Photo by Tony Lee]
By
Tony Lee
On
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Lady Pirates softball players Kiele Brown (left) and Kalyn Lee (right) are here next to yours truly watching and supporting the baseball team.
Kiele took this picture herself. A+ on the picture quality.
Also, come support your softball team. The lady Pirates are still winless in conference.
Sad face.
Their next home game is on April 13 against Saddleback College at 3 p.m.
[Photo by Kiele Brown]
Right next to the Adams Avenue, a brand-new softball field is being built for the start of the 2010 spring season for Orange Coast College's softball team.
