Ex-OCC Coach Mayne may become assistant

Mike Mayne, who guided the Orange Coast College baseball program to six conference titles, one state championship and 400 victories in 15 seasons as coach, is a candidate for the vacant pitching coach job at Fresno State, a source has confirmed.

A Fresno State athletic department official said Bulldogs Coach Mike Batesole, who played for Mayne at OCC and also coached on Mayne’s staff with the Pirates, is scheduled to make a decision next week on who will replace Ted Silva. Silva left last month to become pitching coach at UC Irvine.

Mayne guided the OCC program from 1977 to 1992, sending 16 players on to the Major Leagues, including his son Brent, a Costa Mesa High product and catcher who played 15 seasons for several big league teams.

After stepping down as baseball coach, Mayne spent 11 seasons as an assistant football coach at OCC.

He coached the OCC men’s tennis team in 2004, before retiring and moving to Montana with his wife, Patricia.

Mayne was 400-188-6 at the helm of the OCC baseball program. The Pirates won the state title in 1980, the third and last time the program claimed the state crown.

The American Assn. of Collegiate Baseball Coaches named him National Junior College Coach of the Year once during his tenure at OCC.

— Barry Faulkner