Baseball: Pirates end slide with win over Santa Ana

COSTA MESA - In a season which Orange Coast College baseball

standout Scott Beerer has posted some impressive numbers, the Newport

Harbor High grad may have saved his best for last against Santa Ana.

Beerer tossed a complete game and retired the final 18 batters as the

Pirates ended a six-game losing streak, beating the first-place Dons,

4-2, in Orange Empire Conference action.

Beerer struck out seven and walked none to improve his record to 4-2.

He also went 2 for 3 at the plate with a run scored and one RBI.

Chris Sinner went 2 for 4 with two runs scored and one RBI for the

Pirates (23-14, 11-10 in conference).

Santa Ana pitcher Joe Rodgers took the loss and dropped to 10-2. With

the loss, the Dons drop to 30-8, 17-4.

The win keeps the Pirates one game behind fourth place Cypress in the

race for the final playoff spot in the OEC. The two schools play each

other Saturday at noon at Cypress.

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Orange Coast 4, Santa Ana 2

Santa Ana 011 000 000 - 2 5 1

Orange Coast 000 002 20x - 4 9 2

Rodgers, Thayer (7) and Garlach; Beerer and Murphy. W - Beerer, 4-2. L

- Rodgers, 10-2. 2B - Fischer (SA), Olsen (SA), Murphy (OCC). 3B - Sinner

(OCC).