https://www.occac.org en-us https://www.occac.org/Spring_Postseason_2018 Seven OCCAC teams are set to compete in the postseason to conclude the Spring semester. Cuyahoga and Sinclair have advanced to their respective District Softball Championships and begin playing Wednesday (May 9). Sinclair Baseball’s OCCAC title earned it a slot in the North District Championship tournament while Cuyahoga, Edison State, Lakeland and Mercyhurst North East are all two wins away from also reaching the NJCAA D-II District level. Wed, 09 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/Spring_Postseason_2018 https://www.occac.org/All_OCCAC_Softball_2018 Fourteen softball student-athletes have been voted to the 2018 All-OCCAC Team, announced by the conference office on Tuesday (May 8). In addition, Sinclair’s Alexis Strother swept both the league’s Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year accolades while Bryan Komlos of Cuyahoga was tabbed the OCCAC Coach of the Year following his Challengers’ conference crown at 10-2 in league play. Tue, 08 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/All_OCCAC_Softball_2018 https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-30-18 Sinclair Softball swept the OCCAC Athlete of the Week awards for Apr. 23-29 with ‘Alexis Squared,’ Alexis Gordon and Alexis Strother, earning Position Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. For baseball, Edison State’s Jake Clements (position player) and Brock Begue (pitcher) of Cuyahoga received the weekly recognition. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-30-18 https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-23-18 Three of four OCCAC Spring Athlete of the Week honorees for April 16-22 are repeat customers while Cuyahoga’s Santiago Ramirez earns his first career Pitcher of the Week accolade. Softball selections Kallista Hribar (Lakeland; position player) and Alexis Strother (Sinclair; pitcher) both pick up their third award this season and Colin Shepherd (position player) from Sinclair snags his second. Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-23-18 https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-16-18 There is a smorgasbord of institutions represented in this week’s OCCAC Spring Athletes of the Week. Each of the four honors went to a different school. Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-16-18 https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-9-18 The weekly honorees for April 2-8 consists of three Cuyahoga Challengers and a member of the Sinclair Tartan Pride. Cuyahoga’s Chase Carney and Kaitlyn Boykin have been named the Position Players of the Week while fellow Challenger, Brock Begue, represents baseball’s Pitcher of the Week and Alexis Strother of Sinclair earns her second Pitcher of the Week accolade from the softball circle. Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-9-18 https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-2-18 It was a good week for Lakeland Athletics, taking home three of four OCCAC Athlete of the Week honors for March 26-April 1. While Lakers Luis Padron, Kallista Hribar and Hudson Widrig earned conference recognition, so too did Allison Stark from Cuyahoga C.C. as this week’s Softball Pitcher of the Week. Mon, 02 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/AOTW_4-2-18 https://www.occac.org/Spring_AOTW_3-26-18 Four different OCCAC institutions are represented in this week’s Spring Sport Athlete of the Week (March 19-26) recognitions. Alex Jacobs (Sinclair) and Kaila Sense (Cuyahoga) are the Position Player of the Week honorees while Marcus Johnson (Edison State) and Sydney Aey (Lakeland) received Pitcher of the Week laurels. Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/Spring_AOTW_3-26-18 https://www.occac.org/releases/Spring_POTW_3-19-18 Cuyahoga Community College nearly swept the latest OCCAC’s Spring Sport Athletes of the Week, bringing home three of the four accolades. Sinclair Baseball’s Josh Wilson spoiled the sweep by earning Pitcher of the Week recognition. For Tri-C, Lucas DiLuca is the Position Player of the Week while softballers Lexi Rehm and Daniele Revera are the Position Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/releases/Spring_POTW_3-19-18 https://www.occac.org/releases/Spring_AOTW_March_12 Edison State Baseball and Sinclair Softball swept the OCCAC Spring Sport Athletes of the Week for March 5-11. Cameron Davis (position player) and Marcus Johnson (player) are the baseball honorees while Brianna West (position player) and Alexis Strother (pitcher) bring the softball awards back to Sinclair. Mon, 12 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/releases/Spring_AOTW_March_12 https://www.occac.org/releases/BB-SB_AOTW Believe it or not, Spring sports have begun in the OCCAC and the conference’s first Baseball/Softball Athletes of the Week (Feb. 26-March 4) have been awarded. Lakeland’s Kallista Hribar (position player) and Abby Takacs (pitcher) swept the softball accolades while Colin Shepherd of Sinclair picked up baseball player of the week recognition and Cuyahoga’s Doug Smith is the pitcher of the week. Mon, 05 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/releases/BB-SB_AOTW https://www.occac.org/releases/Academic_Fall_2017 All final grades are in from the Fall semester and a ton of STUDENT-athletes from across the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference have earned Academic All-Conference honors. To qualify, a student-athlete must achieve a 3.30 GPA or higher while completing at least 12 credit hours. Tue, 23 Jan 2018 05:00:00 GMT https://www.occac.org/releases/Academic_Fall_2017 https://www.occac.org/Spring_18_Academic A large contingent of student-athletes have earned Ohio Community College Athletic Conference (OCCAC) Academic All-Conference honors for the Spring semester. To qualify, a student-athlete must achieve a 3.30 GPA or higher while completing at least 12 credit hours. https://www.occac.org/Spring_18_Academic