OCC Sweeps Into the Regional Baseball Playoffs

Orange Coast, helped by an error in the first game, swept two from San Bernardino Valley Sunday and advanced in the Southern California baseball playoffs.

OCC rallied for four runs in the ninth inning to win the first game, 8-7, then pounded out 17 hits, including home runs by Darren Brink and Jason Parsons, to take the second game, 18-8.

OCC will play San Diego Mesa on Friday in a four-team regional at Los Angeles Harbor. Long Beach plays Harbor in the other game.

OCC, the designated visitor in the first game, trailed going into the ninth, 6-4. But with the bases loaded and no one out, Greg Folsom sliced a fly ball to left field that went off the glove of Miguel McQueen for a three-base error. Folsom later scored on a sacrifice fly by Rich Ernst.

The Pirates scored five runs in the first and third innings to take a 10-3 lead in the second game. Folsom had three hits and four runs batted in and Parsons and Paul McDaniels had three RBIs each in the second game.

Carlos Cevallos pitched the final four innings of the first game for the victory.