Baseball: OCC wins Apache Classic opener

SAN DIEGO - The Orange Coast College baseball team breezed past El

Camino, 13-3, in the first game of the Apache Classic, played at

Southwestern College.

Freshman Scott Beerer (Newport Harbor High) pitched six scoreless

innings to improve to 2-0 for the Pirates (4-0), while sophomore catcher

Brian Murphy had a triple and four RBIs.

Freshmen John Smith and Greg Trimble came through with key doubles for

the Pirates, who play today against Grossmont at 10 a.m., followed by San

Diego Mesa at 2 p.m.

APACHE CLASSIC

Round robin

Orange Coast 13, El Camino 3

El Camino 000 000 3 - 3 5 0

Orange Coast 025 600 x - 13 11 0

Forrest, Rodriguez (4), Fiero (5) and Abelkhein, Peterson (5); Beerer,

Flagel (7) and Murphy, Cotton (7). W - Beerer, 2-0. L - Forrest. 2B -

Smith (OCC), Trimble (OCC). 3B - Murphy (OCC).