COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROUNDUP : OCC’s Rolish Loses No-Hitter in Ninth, but Gains Shutout

Sophomore Chad Rolish took a no-hitter into the ninth inning and finished with a one-hitter as Orange Coast defeated East Los Angeles, 2-0, in a nonconference baseball game Tuesday in Costa Mesa.

Rolish, a left-hander, was in command from the outset, getting three groundouts in the first inning. He finished with 18 groundouts.

Rolish walked four, the last coming with one out in the fourth. He then retired the next 14 batters. Ricky Parra led off the ninth inning with a single up the middle, but Rolish (1-0) got the next three batters to complete the shutout.

“I worked on staying down in the zone all day,” Rolish said. “That’s what I’ve been trying to do the last two weeks that we have been throwing on the blacktop (because of the rain).”

Before the ninth-inning single, the closest East Los Angeles came to a hit was a bunt by Rolando Ramirez with two outs in the eighth. But third baseman Ben Munoz charged hard, made a clean pickup and threw out Ramirez by a half-step.

“He struggles sometimes with himself,” OCC Coach Mike Mayne said about Rolish. “He has a tendency to want to be too perfect. He just needs to be good. When’s he’s good, he can beat anybody.”

Paul McDaniels’ single drove in Daniel Hernandez in the first, and Dan Redington hit a home run in the third.