2015 Baseball News
A pair or former Orange Empire Conference coaches were inducted into the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame on May 22, 2015, at a dinner banquet in Fresno on the night preceding the start of the baseball state championship tournament.
The state title is the sixth in the program's history (1956, 1960, 1980, 2009, 2014, 2015) and third in the last seven years. Over the course of their two-year state title run, the Pirates have posted an 18-2 record in the post-season.
SANTA BARBARA -- The Orange Coast College baseball team just refuses to go away and now, the Pirates will head to Fresno for the State Final Four after topping Santa Barbara City College, 10-2, on Sunday in the rubber game of their three-game series at Pershing Park.
Conference-champion Golden West and runner-up Cypress highlighted a star-studded group as the 2015 All-Orange Empire Conference Team was announced, as voted on by the conference’s head coaches.
For anyone who has ever been associated with Orange Empire Conference baseball, it’s not that big of a surprise that a whopping seven teams have advanced to this year’s California Community College Athletic Association’s state playoffs.
The Golden West Rustlers won the Orange Empire Conference title after defeating the Riverside Tigers 5-1 at home.
COSTA MESA -- Suddenly, sophomore lefty Art Vidrio is becoming quite the ball hog. After a year-and-a-half of no complete games, Vidrio went the distance for the second straight outing as the Pirates topped visiting Fullerton, 7-1, on Thursday at Wendell Pickens Field.
COSTA MESA -- Sophomore lefty Art Vidrio made his first collegiate complete game a memorable one as he tossed a one-hitter to lead the Orange Coast College baseball team to a 5-0 conference win over visiting Riverside City College on Thursday afternoon at Wendell Pickens Field.
As the Orange Empire Conference begins its 2015 matchups, one glance at the non-conference standings should tell the rest of the state what everyone in this conference already knows – it’s the best baseball conference in all of California.