Another Milestone for the Picklers

It has been a week of milestones for the Pickler family.

Cypress College softball Coach Brad Pickler won his 600th game Wednesday, one day after his brother Scott recorded his 500th victory as the Chargers’ baseball coach.

The baseball team won with a five-run, ninth-inning rally, but the Cypress softball team required no such heroics in its 11-0 Orange Empire Conference victory over host Golden West.

Sara Louwsma (8-1) pitched a one-hitter, Erica Harding had four hits, and Sasha Campbell and Erica Duncan drove in three runs each in a game called after five innings.

Second-place Cypress (19-5-1, 11-3) trails Fullerton by 1 1/2 games in the conference race. Tina Tuskewicz (10-11) took the loss for Golden West (12-14, 5-7).

In other Orange Empire Conference games:

Fullerton 10, Saddleback 2--Pitcher Erin Kelly (21-2) was the benefactor of an 18-hit attack by the Hornets at Fullerton.

Tied, 2-2, the Hornets (30-4, 12-1), went ahead in the fourth, then blew the game open with a six-run, fifth-inning outburst. Lisa Schiro had three hits, and Angie Veronesi, Crystal Aguirre and Annie Dedic had two hits each. Tracy Alcaraz (8-4) took the loss for Saddleback (14-11, 7-6).

Orange Coast 10, Irvine Valley 0 (5, mercy)--Monica Ortega pitched a shutout and drove in a pair of runs for host Orange Coast (15-18, 4-9).