Santiago Canyon

MEN'S SOCCER Orange Coast 5, Santiago Canyon 0 ORANGE - Jorge Sanchez and Brandon Brennan each had two goals and an assist for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Friday. Baji Chela added a goal and three assists and goaie Connor Nelson made three saves in his shutout for OCC (8-3-3, 4-2-2 in conference). The Pirates return to action on Tuesday at home against Norco College at 3 p.m. * WOMEN'S SOCCER Orange Coast 4, Norco 0 COSTA MESA - Sara Gomez had two goals and an assist for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Friday.

COSTA MESA - With a dominating performance, the Orange Coast College men's soccer team outshot Santiago Canyon, 31-9, and cruised to a 4-0 Orange Empire Conference victory Tuesday. Billy Pena started the scoring for the Pirates (11-3-4, 7-2-1 in the OEC), taking one step and then firing a shot past Hawk goalie Nick Adams after receiving a pass from Josh Miller on the left side about 20 yards out in the 20th minute. OCC extended its lead in the second half when Jesus Cervantes scored.

COSTA MESA — Krystal Redman raced out of her home Monday night last week, hopped into the trailer she had bought four days earlier and sped off to smoke-filled Santiago Canyon on a rescue mission. The Texas native had no friends or relatives trapped in the wildfire areas, but she didn’t venture out to rescue human evacuees. As Redman maneuvered her trailer through neighborhoods tinted with flame, she and a friend roped horses, deer and other animals that wandered on the grounds their owners had fled.

ORANGE - To reach the Santiago Canyon College soccer field, one must weave through a meandering campus, ascend five stories of stairs and follow a path lined with marshy bushes to a fenced-in plateau that seems to sit atop the horizon like a sod-covered cloud. For visitors, the ascent is apropos. It is thus, because the host Hawks women's team has hovered atop the Orange Empire Conference since the first of their eight straight titles in 2004. This season, all Santiago Canyon has done is refuse to lose.

Sophomore Nikki Saenz scored twice and Jaycee Mahler, Sarah Ronquillo, Vanessa Rocha, Marissa McGregor and Fernanda Velasco scored single tallies as Orange Coast College's women's soccer team routed visiting Santiago Canyon, 6-1, in Orange Empire Conference play Tuesday on the OCC campus. Eyeing a showdown with perennial rival Cypress on Friday, OCC Coach Barbara Bond was determined not to let her Pirates have a letdown against the Hawks, who entered with a 6-0 record.

TODAY Basketball College men -- UC Irvine hosting Midnight Madness practice exhibition, midnight. Football High school -- Foothill at Newport Harbor, 7 p.m.; Santiago at Costa Mesa at Orange Coast College, 7 p.m. Soccer Community college men -- Santiago Canyon at Orange Coast, 3 p.m. Community college women -- Orange Coast at Santiago Canyon, 3 p.m. College women -- Idaho at UC Irvine, 7...

CHINO HILLS - Kyle Wicks and Ryan Winston each a five-over-par, 77 for the Orange Coast College men's golf team in Thursday's four-school match against Golden West, Palomar and Santiago Canyon at Western Hills Golf Course, par 72. The Rustlers won the event with a team total of 391. Palomar was second at 395, while the Pirates (6-3, 2-2 in conference) took third at 398. Golden West's Jeff Greenfield shot a two-over 74 for the low score of the day. Erik Herbert (79)

Orange Coast College men's soccer continues on the rise following Tuesday's 3-1 victory over visiting Santiago Canyon in Orange Empire Conference play. The Pirates, now 5-4-1 overall, improved to 2-0 in the OEC as they stretched their unbeaten streak to five games. Coast took an early 1-0 lead on a goal from Weston Langdon, who scored in the seventh minute off an assist from Stanton Duke. Duke, near the goal, headed a free kick from Mike Spahr and Langdon beat Santiago Canyon keeper Robert Adams in a race to the ball to easily score from just a few feet out. In the 18th minute, Coast stretched the lead to 2-0 as Ryan Lancaster slid to kick the ball in for a goal off a long throw-in from Chance Daniel.

TODAY Cross country High school boys and girls -- Whitney at Sage Hill, 3 p.m. Field hockey High school -- Fountain Valley vs. Newport Harbor, at Harper Community Center, 3:15 p.m. Golf High school girls -- Sage Hill at Estancia, at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club, 3 p.m.; Corona del Mar at University, at Strawberry Farms Golf Club, 3 p.m. Soccer College men -- Christian Heritage at Vanguard,...

RIVERSIDE - The Orange Coast College golf team reclaimed first place in the Orange Empire Conference standings following a 6-1 record in Monday's conference matchup at Riverside Country Club. Palomar won Monday's event by shooting a 379. Orange Coast and Saddleback each shot a 383, but the Pirates earned the second spot in a cardoff (81-82). Cypress, Santiago Canyon, Riverside, Irvine Valley and Cuyamaca rounded out the standings of the day. With the Pirates finishing second and the Hawks taking fifth, OCC (27-8)

ORANGE — In a sport that can defy dominance, Santiago Canyon College consistently dribbles out of the fray of misfortune that can doom even the most superior of women's soccer squads. The Hawks have won the last nine Orange Empire Conference titles and, during that stretch, have added two state crowns and a pair of state runner-up finishes. All the while, they have compiled a 194-11-15 record for a pristine winning percentage of .916. Yet, as the scoreless moments stretched on in the second-round game of the California Community College Athletic Assn.

MEN'S SOCCER Orange Coast 5, Santiago Canyon 0 ORANGE - Jorge Sanchez and Brandon Brennan each had two goals and an assist for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Friday. Baji Chela added a goal and three assists and goaie Connor Nelson made three saves in his shutout for OCC (8-3-3, 4-2-2 in conference). The Pirates return to action on Tuesday at home against Norco College at 3 p.m. * WOMEN'S SOCCER Orange Coast 4, Norco 0 COSTA MESA - Sara Gomez had two goals and an assist for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Friday.

WOMEN'S SOCCER Vanguard 2, Westmont 0 SANTA BARBARA - Junior forward Jordan Davidson scored both goals to pace the No. 17-ranked Lions in the Golden State Athletic Conference opener on Tuesday. Senior Amanda Couch and junior Megan Hill had assists for Vanguard (5-2), which halted a two-match losing streak. Sophomore Lauren Terry made five saves to preserve the Lions' fourth shutout of the season. Davidson, a transfer from a community college in Arizona, has eight goals and two assists this season.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Orange Coast 56, Saddleback 47 COSTA MESA - Ashley Engeln scored 14 points to help the Pirates upset the Gauchos in the Orange Empire Conference game Friday. Megan Hanson had 10 points, while Jenna Arnett (eight rebounds) and Tessie Pikula had eight points each for OCC (11-16, 3-7 in conference). OCC led, 32-27, at the half. The OCC defense held the Gauchos to just 30.8% shooting from the floor (16-of-52) and forced 22 turnovers, including 13 steals.

Russell Turner turned 41 Monday and, at least by late morning, the second-year UC Irvine men's basketball coach's office displayed no signs of a party. Coming off a 13-19 debut campaign, embarking on the 2011-12 season with the least-experienced roster in NCAA Division I (including eight freshmen), and being pegged for last place in the nine-team Big West Conference preseason poll, there appears to be little to celebrate. Yet the energy and enthusiasm that created a buzz long after the former NBA, Stanford and Wake Forest assistant was hired, clearly continues to burn more brightly than the appropriate assemblage of birthday candles.

"It isn't whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game" is an old sports adage, maybe outdated in today's "win-at-all-costs" era. But at Irvine Valley College, women's soccer Coach Simon Davies is old school. He has to be. The Lasers play in the extremely tough Orange Empire Conference in the competitive Southern California area. So after a year in which his team went 5-16, including 3-13 in the conference, Davies keeps it all in perspective. Ask Davies how he will turn around the fortunes of his club and he jokes: "Pray harder to the soccer gods.

Orange Coast College men’s golf coach Sean Collins thought his team had enough talent to reach the state championships. The Pirates aren’t there yet, but they are peaking as the season heads toward the Orange Empire Conference tournament, Collins said. And the people doling out rankings notice. The Pirates are third in Southern California, which include 23 teams from the OEC, Western States and Foothill conferences, in rankings posted on calccgolf.com, a web site for Southern California community college golf.