Harbor Is Bounced From Playoffs, 10-7 : Community colleges: Orange Coast pounds Seahawk pitching for 11 hits. Harbor finishes 32-11.

There will be no trip to Sacramento for the state community college baseball tournament for Harbor, which was eliminated Saturday from the Southern California Regional by Orange Coast.

In a losers’ bracket game at El Camino College, the Pirates beat the Seahawks, 10-7.

Harbor fell into the losers’ bracket after losing to Long Beach City College, 8-7 in 11 innings, at Harbor on Friday. The Seahawks had defeated Long Beach three times during the season.

“Our pitching broke down the last two days,” Harbor Coach Tony Bloomfield said. “Maybe I made some bad decisions bringing in so many guys today.”

Harbor (32-11) used five pitchers against Orange Coast (27-20) and they combined to give up 11 hits. Freshman left-hander Mike Miller started and took the loss after giving up nine hits and six runs in 6 2/3 innings.

Harbor also committed five errors and Orange Coast had three.

“I think that’s what beat us,” Bloomfield said. “But there’s no excuses. . . . We just got beat.”

Since winning the state title in 1990, Harbor has not made it past the regional playoffs. In 1991--Bloomfield’s first year as coach--the Seahawks lost in the first round of the playoffs. Last season they were defeated in the regional final.

“Nobody really thought it would come down to this,” Harbor freshman Josh Bendik said. “We had a couple of lapses and we went downhill from there.”

Orange Coast took a 4-0 lead in the second inning and the Seahawks tied the score, 4-4, in the bottom of the fifth when David Rosato scored on a sacrifice fly by Jeff Poor.

The Pirates took a 7-4 lead in the sixth on solo home runs by Paul McDaniels and Greg Folsom and a run-scoring single by Curtis Bruce.

Harbor scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth, but Justin Halper’s run-scoring single in the top of the seventh gave Orange Coast an 8-6 lead.

Rosato scored on a sacrifice fly by Poor in the seventh, but the Pirates padded their lead with two runs in the eighth.

Pirate sophomore right-hander Phil Jensen went six innings and gave up seven hits to earn the victory.

“I think Phil did a good job of keeping them off balance,” Orange Coast Coach John Altobelli said. “They scraped and clawed back, but our guys did a good job of adjusting.”