OCC, UC Irvine Advance in Crew

Orange Coast College placed four teams in the today’s finals of the Pacific Coast rowing championships at Lake Natoma near Sacramento.

Competing in Saturday’s preliminaries, the Pirates’ frosh eights, novice eights, junior varsity eights and varsity fours, qualified. Orange Coast’s frosh eight was second in its heat, behind the University of California. UC Irvine also advanced to the final with Stanford, UCLA and Washington.

In novice eights, OCC won its heat with a class best time of 6:24.3. They will face UC Irvine, Western Washington, Oregon State, San Diego State and Cal in the final.

The Pirates were less than two seconds behind heat winner Washington in junior varsity eights. Along with OCC and Washington, Cal State Long Beach, UCLA, Cal and Stanford advanced.

The Pirates finished first in their varsity four heat. OCC will meet Pacific Lutheran, University of the Pacific, Stanford, Santa Clara and USF in the final.