Eight-run inning highlights 12-1 win for Pirates over Chargers
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Orange Coast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 1 |
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Cypress | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
CYPRESS -- The Orange Coast College baseball team used an eight-run sixth inning to blow past Cypress College en route to a 12-1 Orange Empire Conference road win on Tuesday.
The 14-hit performance by the OCC offense was edged out by the outstanding performance of Pirate starter Jacob Hill, who improved to 6-0 after throwing seven shutout innings, allowing four hits, one walk and nine strikeouts, lowering his overall ERA to 0.50. He has thrown 21 innings in OEC play and has yet to allow an earned run over that span.
The Pirates (17-5, 5-3 in OEC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead when Tommy Bell walked and Daniel Delaney followed with a two-run home run -- his first of the season and the 10th overall by the Coast offense.
In the top of the fourth, back-to-back singles by Jake Thumm and Justin Broussard got things going for Coast once again. After a sacrifice bunt by Robert Longtree moved both runners up one base, an RBI-fielder's choice by Cody Bruder and an RBI grounder by L. Grant Davis made it 4-0, Pirates.
Coast sent 12 men to the plate in the top of the sixth, scoring eight times. RBI-singles by Davis, Longtree and Bruder as well as a two-run single by Chris Iriart highlighted the eight-run, seven-hit frame.
The Pirates have finished their road-heavy start to their OEC schedule at 5-3 and will have six of their next seven games at OCC's Wendell Pickens Field, beginning on Thursday against the Chargers at 2 p.m.
Thursday's matchup should feature a rematch between Chargers' starter Steven Kane (3-1, 2.25 ERA) and OCC standout David Hill (5-0, 0.74 ERA). In their first matchup, won by Cypress in 13 innings (2-1), Kane and Hill went deep into the game and controlled both teams' offenses. Hill allowed just one run on six hits with one walk and nine strikeouts over 10 innings of work, while Kane -- the 2013 State Pitcher of the Year -- held the Pirates to just one unearned run on two hits over nine innings.
