2015 Dons Baseball News
The all-time winningest coach in California community college baseball history was inducted into the Hall of Fame just two years after stepping down as the Dons head coach.
Tom Nilles joins the Santa Ana College coaching staff after spending the past six seasons with Fullerton College.
The Dons allowed seven runs in the eighth inning, including four unearned, to surrender a 6-0 lead.
The Dons avoided the season sweep with 18 runs on 24 hits as they rolled to the one-sided victory over first-place Cypress College.
The teams were tied 5-5 going into the seventh inning but the Rustlers posted seven runs over the final three innings.
After splitting a pair of non-conference games last week, the Dons lost their 12-straight Orange Empire Conference games with the 4-1 loss.
Along with being held to just seven hits, the Dons committed three errors while allowing a pair of home runs in the loss.
The Dons matched a season high with 18 runs, 10 in one inning, as they cruised to the non-conference win.
The Dons managed just five hits and only got three baserunners past first base in the loss.
Nestor Linares had hit a two-run home run to put the Dons on top 2-1, but OCC scored runs in five of the final six innings.
The loss sets up a rubber match with Saddleback on Thursday at 2:00 pm at Saddleback College.
With the loss, the Dons extended their losing streak to five games to close out the first round of Orange Empire Conference action.
Unearned runs in the sixth inning proved to be the difference maker as the Dons fall to 2-4 in the Orange Empire Conference.
The Dons were never able to recover from an early deficit as they lost their third straight game in a row.
The Dons had staked themselves to an early 7-0 lead before El Camino slowly chipped away at the late. The Dons used late insurance runs to get the victory.
The Dons led 8-2 after seven innings before giving up four runs in the eighth and three runs in the ninth of the non-conference loss.
