Pirates

Orange Coast College men's volleyball standouts Cody Martin and Johannes Brink earned first-team honors to lead four Pirates named All-Pacific Coast Conference by coaches. Brink, a 6-foot-8 sophomore opposite, led the Pirates with 288 kills to go along with 76 digs and 43 total blocks. He helped OCC advance to the Southern California Regional playoffs for the eighth straight year. Brink has committed to continue his career at Cal Baptist. Martin, a 6-1 freshman outside hitter, posted 215 kills and a .310 hitting percentage to help the Pirates forge a 12-7 record.

WOMEN'S SOCCER Orange Coast 7, Golden West 2 HUNTINGTON BEACH - Sarah Gomez had two goals and two assists for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Wednesday. Cindy Rubio added two goals, while Jessica Amaral, Emma Pridmore and Sarah MacArthur scored one goal each. MacArthur also had two assist to help OCC improve to 16-3, 12-3 in conference. The Pirates will finish off the regular season on Friday at home against Irvine Valley at 3 p.m. * WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL Orange Coast def. Santa Ana COSTA MESA - Hayley Martin had five goals to help the Pirates score a 25-11, 25-11, 25-10 Orange Empire Conference win Wednesday.

Orange Coast College sophomores Sara Gomez, Sarah MacArthur and Caitlin Padian have been named first-team All-Orange Empire Conference in women's soccer. Sophomores Jessica Amaral and Kiley Leshin, as well as freshman Courtney Garrity represent the Pirates on the second team. Gomez, a forward, produced 20 goals and 10 assists to help the Pirates finish 18-4 and reach the second round of the Southern California Regional playoffs. MacArthur, a midfielder, had 16 goals and 11 assists as OCC achieved the most wins during Coach Kevin Smith's seven-year tenure.

COSTA MESA — Orange Coast College advanced to Saturday’s state title match, after seeing what may have been the biggest road block to its first men’s volleyball crown since 1994 paved over in the other semifinal Thursday at OCC. The Pirates (18-2) defeated Long Beach City, 30-26, 30-25, 28-30, 30-27, to reach their 12th California Community College Athletic Assn. final, their second in the last three seasons. Coach Travis Turner’s squad will meet Moorpark (15-4)

For a photo gallery of the match, click here. COSTA MESA — Once Brittany Bass and Brittnie Furuvald heard a loud scream at Orange Coast College, they knew the Pirates’ undefeated season was over. It wasn’t a cry for help, just the Grossmont College women’s tennis team celebrating on the court right next to Bass and Furuvald. The No. 3-seeded Griffins clinched the Southern California Regional Dual Team Championship, beating No. 1 OCC, 5-2, Tuesday.

dpt-occbaseball19TextLS26S9STOCC baseball gamerDaily Pilot COSTA MESABASEBALL: Eight-run eighth breaks game open, wreaks Pirates pitching plans. Cuesta...12 Orange Coast...4COSTA MESA — In the logistically challenging world of community college postseason baseball, it doesn't take long to turn a well-structured pitching plan into making it up as you go. So it was that a disastrous eighth inning Friday just may have transformed an already thinned Orange Coast College pitching staff from having its ducks in a row, to sitting ducks.

The 1975 football season brings back many fond memories for longtime Orange Coast College fans. Thirty-five years ago Coach Dick Tucker assembled perhaps the finest team in community college football annals. The Pirates went 11-0, hammered Rio Hondo College in the Avocado Bowl, 38-14, and won the national title. No OCC team since has come close to duplicating that feat. I was privileged to attend every game that year. The '75 team will be honored during special halftime ceremonies at the OCC-San Diego Mesa game Oct. 2 at LeBard Stadium.

Orange Coast College is dragging Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance," kicking and screaming, into the 21st century with a robust, rollicking production that deserves much more stage time, but closes Sunday. Directed with punch and power by Peter Uribe, the 1879 operetta has never been funnier nor more melodic in a local production. The show spills out into the audience and in your face — if you happen to be seated in the third row center. Uribe, bolstered by Angela Lopez's stellar choreography, has mounted as stirring a revival of this celebrated comic opera as you're likely to witness.

CHULA VISTA - Jackson Dionne kicked a 51-yard field goal in overtime to propel visiting Orange Coast College to a 34-31 East Division victory over Southwestern on Saturday night. OCC freshman running back Domenic Betts carried 37 times for 272 yards and three touchdowns to pace the Pirates (3-4, 1-1 in the division). Betts' 59-yard touchdown run with 13:17 left in the fourth quarter gave OCC a 24-10 lead. But Southwestern (4-3, 0-2), ranked No. 18 in Southern California, answered with touchdown runs by Aaron Harris of 67 and 7 yards, the latter with 5:38 left in regulation, to force overtime.