Orange Coast College

WHAT'S AFLOAT is published periodically. If you are planning a nautical event, submit the information to the Daily Pilot, 1375 Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627; by fax to (949) 646-4170; or by e-mail to lindsay.sandham@latimes.com. SAILING CLASSES A Basic Marine Weather class is being offered by Orange Coast college's School of Sailing and Seamanship. The six-week course focuses on the fundamentals of meteorology and explores the driving forces of weather, the characteristics and movement of high and low pressure systems, associated fronts and cloud formation.

An impressive trio of former Orange Coast College students were inducted last Thursday evening into the college's Alumni Hall of Fame. The inductees were Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Zambia; Brent Mayne, former major league baseball player; and Paul Frank, director and head designer of Paul Frank Industries. Ambassador MbikusitaLewanika arrived at Orange Coast College as a 17-year-old student in 1960, fresh from a mission school in rural Zambia.

The Corona del Mar High girls golf team won by the narrowest of margins, 211-212, in the Pacific Coast League opener at Newport Beach Country Club. CdM was led by Katie McKitterick at 1-over-par. Jonna Kim followed with a 42. The Sea Kings (3-0) play host to Beckman today. Pirates improve to 2-0 VOLLEYBALL: Kiwi Winkler showed her versatility with 19 blocks and 13 digs as Orange Coast College's women's volleyball team beat Cerritos, 30-16, 30-26, 30-15.

Newport Beach residents Jamie El-Erian and Steve Milligan have been elected to the board of directors for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County, a nonprofit organization that provides advocates for children who have been removed from their parents' care because of abuse, neglect or abandonment. El-Erian, an attorney, has has assisted the organization with reaching foster children on its waiting list. Milligan and his wife have provided leadership for the group's annual Pumpkins and Pancakes event at South Coast Plaza.

Huntington Beach Team Neighbor pressured the Diamond Bar Heat throughout their National Junior Basketball contest last weekend, and the locals came away with a 44-19 victory in a girls' All-Net division game at Orange Coast College. Team Neighbor, playing with just six players, didn't let up on its pressure until the final buzzer, coach Tim Brennan said. "We kept the Heat off balance with relentless defensive pressure throughout the contest," Brennan said.

Edison Chargers (0-1) 13...Kamehameha (HI)...21 Friday: at San Clemente, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16: Capistrano Valley (at Orange Coast College), 7 p.m. Sept. 23: Servite (at Huntington Beach High), 7 p.m. Sept. 30: vs. Mater Dei (at Cal State Fullerton), 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13: vs. Esperanza (at Valencia High), 7 p.m. Oct. 21: at Huntington Beach, 7 p.m. Oct. 28: Los Alamitos (at Orange Coast College), 7 p.m. Nov. 4: vs. Fountain Valley (at Orange Coast College)

MEN?S SOCCER ?Glendale Community College at Orange Coast College, 4 p.m. ? WOMEN?S SOCCER ?Santa Barbara City College at Glendale Community College, 7 p.m. ? GIRLS? TENNIS ?Flintridge Prep vs. Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy at Fremont Tennis Center, 3:15 p.m. ?Burbank at Hoover, 3:15 p.m. ?Glendale at Pasadena, 3:15 p.m. ? BOYS? WATER POLO ?South Pasadena at Flintridge Prep, 3:15 p.m. ? GIRLS?

Three players had two goals apiece to help the Orange Coast College men's soccer team trounce visiting San Diego Mesa, 10-0, in a nonconference game Monday. Freshmen midfielders Dave Barnett, Matt Brummett and Ian Cone all found the net twice to help the Pirates improve to 4-0-1. It was the first double-digit scoring performance for OCC since it defeated the Olympians, 12-2, in 2000. Joel Walker, a Newport Harbor High product, Eric Nutter, Scott Locken and Warren Junowich, also a former Newport Harbor standout, added single goals for the winners.

For the Glendale Community College women's cross-country team, the title chase at Saturday's California Community College State Cross-Country Championships will be twofold. Although the Vaqueros have a sizable gap to close between themselves and Orange Coast College for the team championship, they still remain players to capture the crown for the second year in a row when the meet kicks off at 10 a.m. at Woodward Park in Fresno. Perhaps a likelier bet, though, is Grace Zamudio's contention for the individual title, as the GCC sophomore hasn't lost a race in her last eight outings this season, including winning the Southern California crown on Nov. 3. “We've been training for this race since summer,” said Zamudio, who's undefeated against junior college competition.

COSTA MESA - Last year, in Pasadena City College football Coach Fred Fimbres' first year, his team had only three wins, but one of them was in his debut to start the season and another was a signature win in the conference opener against then-nationally ranked Fullerton. This year, five games into the season, coach Fimbres and his Lancers went into their matchup with Golden West College Saturday night still looking for a win of any kind. Finally, the wait is over, as Pasadena City College got into the win column with a 17-9 nonconference victory over the Rustlers at LeBard Stadium on the campus of Orange Coast College.

GLENDALE — Their goal was never anything less than the ultimate prize and many figured them as the favorites to win it all before the season even began. But the members of the Glendale Community College women’s cross-country team took nothing for granted and, on Saturday, made good on their vast potential, capturing the 2009 California Community College Cross Country Championship at Woodward Park in Fresno. “I feel awesome,” said Nina Moore, who won the race in 17 minutes 48 seconds to claim her own state title.

GLENDALE — Glendale Community College Coach Eddie Lopez set a realistic yet challenging goal for his men’s cross-country runners going into Saturday’s 2009 California Community College Cross Country Championship at Woodward Park in Fresno — prove themselves to be the third-best team in the state. With little to no chance of wresting the state crown away from three-time defending champion San Bernardino Valley College, and an uphill battle in catching powerful Orange Coast College, the Vaqueros set their sights on third and got the job done, finishing with 164 points to San Bernardino’s 67 and Orange Coast’s 163 and a team time of 1 hour 4 minutes 59 seconds.

GLENDALE — After falling three points shy of a second straight state championship in 2008, the reloaded Glendale Community College women’s cross-country team will be back on the same course at Woodward Park in Fresno at 10 a.m. on Saturday to take on reigning state champion Orange Coast College and all other comers at the 2009 California Community College Championships. Regaining the title is the clear goal, as it has been since the season began. The Vaqueros men’s team will run at 11 on Saturday and Vaqueros Coach Eddie Lopez outlined a third-place finish as the team’s objective.

GLENDALE — The pieces are in place for the Glendale Community College women’s cross-country team to lock up its fourth straight Southern California Championship today at 10 a.m. at Mount San Antonio College, according to Coach Eddie Lopez, who also anticipates an improvement on last year’s 10th-place finish for the men’s squad. “We’re ready to go,” Lopez said. “We’re rested, everyone’s healthy, we should run well. We have no excuses.

GLENDALE — After bouncing back from falls by two runners early in the race, the Glendale Community College women’s cross-country team went on to run what Coach Eddie Lopez deemed it’s best race yet in a season thus far marked by excellence all around. The result was a first-place finish in Friday’s Southern California Preview meet at Mount San Antonio College. On the flip side, the men couldn’t survive some figurative stumbles down the stretch of their race, losing what seemed to be a firm hold on second place and settling for third.

GLENDALE — After running up against the top-ranked rush defense in the state last week, it can only get easier for the Glendale Community College football team to unleash its ground game this week. But probably not by much. The Vaqueros (3-1), ranked 16th overall in Southern California according to the latest California Community College Athletics Assn. poll, will attempt to rebound from their first loss of the season — a 10-6 defeat at Orange Coast College on Saturday — when they travel to face 13th-ranked Ventura College in a 7 p.m. Northern Conference National Division opener today.

GLENDALE — There’s one imposing number regarding the Orange Coast College football team that should figure centrally in Glendale Community College’s 7 p.m. nonconference meeting with the Pirates today in Costa Mesa. Negative 14. That’s the average amount of rushing yards per contest allowed by Orange Coast’s defense over the first three games of the season, the top mark in the state. Saturday’s 24-21 win over Golden West, in fact, was the first time this year in which a Pirates opponent has finished a game with positive yardage on the ground.

GLENDALE — The men’s and women’s cross-country teams from Glendale Community College finished on equal footing Saturday at Woodward Park in Fresno at the Fresno Invitational, although neither could catch Orange Coast College in their respective races. Led by a first-place finish from Nina Moore in 18 minutes 24 seconds and a second-place finish by Brianna Jauregui in 18:37, the Vaqueros women were edged out by just three points, 41-44, in a race that came down to the final 400 meters.