Community college men’s basketball: OCC men bury Rustlers

COSTA MESA - Orange Coast College men’s basketball coach Steve

Spencer recorded his first Orange Empire Conference victory when his

Pirates defeated visiting rival Golden West, 83-76, Wednesday.

OCC (4-11, 1-0 in the OEC) opened conference play with a 39-31 lead at

halftime and intensified its defense in the second half. Sophomore Ryan

Webster led the Pirates with 22 points, while freshman Wyshawn Wade came

off the bench and contributed 15 points. OCC sophomore center Mark Meyers

and freshman point guard Stephon Seales added 11 points each.

“I’m not happy with the way we played, but we won,” Spencer said. “We

were able to make some plays at the end of the game and we made our free

throws down the stretch. We tightened up our defense. We were able to

stop dribble penetration and now that’s three wins in a row.”

MEN

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Orange Coast 83, Golden West 76

Golden West - Dow 12, Wallace 6, Ivory 34, Templeton 12, Nix 6, Borg

6.

3-pt. goals - Ivory 3, Dow 1, Nix 1, Templeton 1.

Fouled out - Borg, Templeton.

Technicals - Ivory.

Orange Coast - Oliver 4, Briggs 0, Meyers 11, Webster 22, Seales 11,

Wade 15, Taylor 7, Buchanan 5, Retzlaff 4, Williams 2, Tran 2, Brown 0.

3-pt. goals - Webster 4, Wade 3, Seales 2, Taylor 1.

Fouled out - Buchanan, Wade, Meyers.

Technicals - none.

Halftime - OCC, 39-31.