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MEN'S GOLF Orange Empire Conference match CORONA — Orange Coast College freshman Michael Chen shot seven-over-par 79 to earn medalist honors to help the Pirates top the eight-team field at Green River Golf Club on Wednesday. OCC's team score was 363, two shots better than runner-up Palomar. The win clinches the regular-season Orange Empire Conference crown for OCC. MEN'S TENNIS UC Irvine 6, UC Riverside 1 RIVERSIDE — Five Anteaters won in singles and doubles in the Big West Conference match Wednesday at Andulka Park.

Huntington Beach resident Shane Allen owns his own swimming pool maintenance business, but he's also enrolled in the welding program at Orange Coast College. "I'm looking for a better opportunity to support my family," said Shane Allen, 40, a father of three. Allen was among more than 2,000 applicants who attended Wednesday's Orange Coast College job fair. Organizers said applicants looking for internships, apprenticeships and blue-collar, managerial and part-time work may have a better shot at finding those opportunities in an improving economy than they did in 2012.

IRVINE - A pair of errors led to two unearned runs in the 12th inning to help visiting UCLA earn a 6-4 nonconference baseball victory at UC Irvine on Tuesday. The loss was the first in six Tuesday games this season for UCI (23-10), ranked No. 21 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assn. It was also the first defeat in four extra-inning games this year for the Anteaters. It was the 16th victory in the last 17 midweek contests for the Bruins (23-10), ranked No. 13 by Baseball America.

WOMEN'S TENNIS UC Irvine 4, Cal State Fullerton 0 IRVINE - The host Anteaters earned at least a share of the Big West Conference regular-season title by improving to 19-3, 8-0 in conference on Tuesday. Marivick Mamit (No. 2), Sarah Gong (No. 4) and Sarah Standfelt (No. 6) finished off straight-set singles wins for UCI. Cal State Fullerton is 10-13, 3-5. UCI plays host to Hawaii on Sunday at noon. * MEN'S VOLLEYBALL Long Beach def. Orange Coast LONG BEACH - Cody Martin led the Pirates with 11 kills in a quarterfinal match of the 2013 California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA)

The Coast Community College District this week will consider laying off dozens of full-time employees as it pulls back from running a career center in Irvine. Some of those termination notices will probably be rescinded by May while others remain in force. Thirty-two full-time "classified" staffers from the clerical and related ranks could receive pink slips if the Board of Trustees approves the move Wednesday night. Those targeted for reductions include clerks, administrative assistants and information technology professionals.

MEN'S TENNIS Vanguard 5, Westmont 2 INDIAN WELLS - Freshman Stefan Kilchhofer won in No. 1 singles and in No. 1 doubles with Roger Muri, helping the top-seeded Lions win the Golden State Athletic Conference tournament championship at Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday. Kilchhofer defeated Westmont's Tim Goranson, 6-4, 6-0. He and Muri beat Westmont's Tim Goranson and John Bertram, 8-3, in doubles action. Muri won in No. 2 singles as well for Vanguard (21-0), ranked No. 3 in the NAIA.

IRVINE - Taylor Sparks has been more explosion than ignition lately for the UC Irvine baseball team's offense. But it was perhaps his least impressive hit of late that proved to be the difference in the Anteaters' 4-3 triumph in 11 innings over visiting Cal State Northridge in the opener of a three-game Big West Conference series at Anteater Ballpark. Sparks, who now has 12 runs batted in in his last five games, lifted a soft single just over the glove of retreating first baseman William Colantono to drive in Connor Spencer with the game-winner.

IRVINE — There is a difference between missed opportunities and blown opportunities. And, based on the decibel level of UC Irvine baseball coach Mike Gillespie's postgame address to his players, the latter had more to do with the Anteaters' 2-1 Big West Conference loss to visiting Cal State Northridge on Saturday. It was the Matadors' first win at Anteater Ballpark since 2005, as they had lost 10 straight at UCI. UCI (22-9, 4-4 in conference), which is now 11-7 in games decided by two or fewer runs, failed to get a hit in six at-bats with runners in scoring position.

FULLERTON - Though he had left a laid-back locale by transferring from the University of Hawaii to Orange Coast College, sophomore pitcher Kyle Dowdy retained his propensity to hang loose. That, combined with a minor sense of overconfidence fed by having logged some NCAA Division I baseball experience, combined to create some midseason struggles for the hard-throwing right-hander. But in his second start after a two-week demotion to the bullpen, Dowdy displayed the kind of dominance that was expected of the former four-time all-league performer at San Diego's Francis Parker High.