2019 Pasadena City College Baseball News
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Baseball Freshmen Arellano, Martinez Named ABCA All-Americans
June 07, 2019Capping off tremendous school-record breaking freshmen seasons for both players, Pasadena City College baseball's Gabriel Arellano and Marco Martinez were seleced ABCA Pacific Association Division All-Americans. -
2019 Baseball Transfers To Universities Reaches 9
June 06, 2019Nine sophomores from the South Coast Conference Co-North Division champion Pasadena City College baseball team are now committed to 4-year universities, the most in any one year under head coach Pat McGee.
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Trio Of All-State Players For PCC Baseball
June 03, 2019In a tremendous show of respect from the state baseball coaches, Pasadena City College placed the most SoCal selections--three--on the 2019 All-State Baseball Team. Lancers sophomore pitcher Gordon Ingebritson, freshman centerfielder Gabriel Arellano and first-year third baseman Marco Martinez made the elite 21-man squad.
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Baseball Bats Silenced By El Camino Arms, Season Ends
May 04, 2019All year, the Pasadena City College baseball team relied on its ability to reach base and create runs to reach 25 victories and a South Coast Conference North Divison Co-Championship. In the team's SoCal Regional Round 1 series, #2 seed El Camino's pitching shut down the visiting #15 Lancers offense and swept PCC in the best-of-3 sereis on May 3-4.
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Pena Pitches Baseball Past Citrus, Lancers Advance To Round 1 Regional v. El Camino
April 30, 2019Patrick Pena hurled seven strong innings for his school-record ninth mound win and reliever Frank Gonzalez closed for the save with two perfect frames as the #15 seed Pasadena City College baseball downed #18 Citrus, 3-1, Tuesday in a SoCal Regional Play-In Round game at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
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Baseball Scores Top SCC North Awards, Hosts Citrus In Play-In Playoff Tuesday
April 29, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team finished the regular season as Co-South Coast Conference North Division champions and earned the #15 seed in the Southern California Regional Playoffs. The Lancers now host a Play-in Round game v. #18 Citrus College on Tuesday, April 30 at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field. Game time is 2:30 p.m.
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Ogata Oh-Got-It: Baseball Captures 2nd SCC North Title In 3 Years
April 25, 2019Two years ago, Lancers rightfielder Shane Ogata caught the pennant fever on his way to helping the Pasadena City College baseball team end a 45-year drought in winning the South Coast Conference title. On Thursday, Ogata, a medical redshirt who missed the entire 2018 season, reached base five times and helped PCC capture the 2019 SCC North Division championship with a 9-3, regular-season ending victory at Cerritos.
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Pena Sets Single-Season Pitching Wins Record, Arellano Breaks Hits Record
April 23, 2019Sophomore righthander Patrick Pena and freshman centerfielder Gabriel Arellano each etched their names into the Pasadena City College baseball record books on Tuesday when Pena earned his eighth win of the season, the most in the modern era by a Lancers pitcher, while Arellano shattered the program's single-season hits record now at 68.
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Baseball Picks Up 12th Win By Double Digits
April 20, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team recorded its 12th win by double figures this season in a 16-5 blowout win at Victor Valley on Friday. It was also the sixth time in 2019 that the Lancers reached at least 16 runs in a game. PCC upped its record to 22-13.
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Defense A Difference In Baseball's Win Over VVC
April 18, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team used a number of sparkling defensive gems to end a 3-game losing streak Wednesday, rallying to beat Victor Valley, 8-7, at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
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Adversity Now For Baseball After Dropping Series To Mt. SAC
April 13, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team had two chances to grab complete control over its own destiny and all but clinch the 2019 South Coast Conference North Division title. But sure things on paper often never are sure things at all as the Lancers discovered with back-to-back, low-scoring losses to Mt. San Antonio on Thursday and Saturday.
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Yokas Hits For The Cycle, Baseball Pounds Mt. SAC, 17-4
April 09, 2019Frank Yokas had been itching to get back on the field. After an injury kept the sophomore on the shelf for much of this season, the sophomore returned to the Lancers lineup on Tuesday. The letterman then put on a hitting clinic that places him among the best in Pasadena City College baseball history.
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Baseball Heads Into Big Series v. Mt. SAC
April 08, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team will try to hang on to first place in the South Coast Conference North Division as it enters a 3-game series against rival Mt. San Antonio. The Lancers (11-6) hold a one-half game lead over the Mounties (10-6) and a one game lead ahead of third place Chaffey (10-7).
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Another Shutout As Baseball Brings Out Brooms Again v. Rio Hondo
April 01, 2019For the second straight game, the Pasadena City College baseball team pitching staff recorded a shutout and for the second consecutive South Coast Conference North Division 3-game series, the Lancers swept their opponent as Rio Hondo was this week's victim in a 12-0 PCC win on Saturday.
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Brookside Bombers Move Into 1st Place Tie In SCC North Baseball Race
March 28, 2019The state #16-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team climbed into a tie for first place in the South Coast Conference North Division Thursday behind a combined 3-hitter by Austin Ruiz, Benny Torres and Benny Olguin in a 5-0 blanking of visiting Rio Hondo College.
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Catcher Is Pilar Of Strength For State #16 Baseball
March 26, 2019Fresh off a 3-game sweep over Chaffey College, the Pasadena City College baseball team learned this morning it is at #16 on this week's CCCSIA State Top 20 Rankings. On Monday, the Lancers brought out the brooms and rallied to beat the host Panthers, 8-5, thanks to clutch hitting by catcher Cole Pilar.
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Ingebritson 1-Hitter Lifts Baseball To 2nd Win Over Chaffey
March 23, 2019If ever a pitcher owned an opponent, it's Pasadena City College baseball team ace Gordon Ingebritson and his spell on Chaffey College. A year after hurling a complete-game, 2-hitter v. the Panthers, the sidewheeling righty came within four outs of throwing a no-hitter, settling for a complete-game, 1-hitter as the state #19-ranked Lancers won their second straight game over #9 Chaffey, 5-1, at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
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Relievers, Then The Ace As #19 PCC Baseball Edges #9 Chaffey
March 19, 2019The state No. 19-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team took a page out of the MLB World Champion Boston Red Sox playbook in the Lancers' 6-5 victory over #9 Chaffey on Tuesday.
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Road Demolitions Continue For Baseball
March 13, 2019Ask Citrus, San Diego Mesa, West Los Angeles, LA Harbor and Compton Colleges if they are glad they don't have to see the Pasadena City College baseball team visit their home diamonds anymore this season. After watching the Lancers resemble the Conga line around the base paths from the old Bugs Bunny cartoon, those opponents probably would answer yes, and don't come back anytime soon..
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Offense Heats Up In Baseball's Back-to-Back Wins
March 09, 2019After leading the state in batting during the month of February, the Pasadena City College baseball team's bats cooled off in a couple of recent defeats. But in the last two days, the Lancers offense has heated back up with winning results.
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Harbor Stops Baseball's Home Win Streak
March 06, 2019The week that started with the Pasadena City College baseball team earning a SoCal No. 11 ranking by the coaches association has veered in the wrong direction. The Lancers had both their 6-game win streak and 6-game home winning streaks snapped in consecutive days, losing at Long Beach City, 5-3, on Monday and falling to Los Angeles Harbor, 5-4, at Brookside Park on Tuesday.
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Baseball's Perfect 6-0 Homestand Ends In SCC-Opening Walk-Off Win
February 28, 2019Trailing 5-0 going into the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday, the Pasadena City College baseball team had the Long Beach City Vikings right where they wanted them in their 2019 South Coast Conference opener. That's because the Lancers have dug themselves out of similar holes in the past two seasons. Sure enough, the Lancers scored two in the seventh, four in the eighth to tie it 6-6 and capped the rally on Shane Ogata's walk-off RBI double in the 10th to pull out a 7-6 victory.
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Pitching Shines Again In PCC's 5th Straight Home Win
February 26, 2019As good as the team's state No. 2 batting average, the Pasadena City College baseball team is relying on some of the state's best pitching as well. The Lancers lowered their team ERA to 2.41, eighth in the state, behind a 7-inning, 4-hit effort by Matt Orozco in an 8-2 win over Fullerton Tuesday afternoon.
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Arellano Hitting, Pena Pitching Prominent In Baseball's Hot Streak
February 23, 2019It's hard to find two players off to better starts in any season in Pasadena City College baseball history than freshman centerfielder Gabriel Arellano and sophomore pitcher Patrick Pena. Arellano is hitting the cover off the ball in batting .490 while Pena is a winning machine on the hill, remarkably earning wins in all four of his starting assignments.
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Ingebritson Dominates Glendale Bats, Baseball Wins 3rd Straight
February 20, 2019For the Pasadena City College baseball team's lettermen, the last time they faced Glendale was the worst kind of defeat. In the deciding third game in last year's SoCal Regional Playoffs series, The Vaqueros rallied from a 5-1 deficit after six innings and ended PCC's 2018 season. One Lancer itching to face Glendale again was pitching ace Gordon Ingebritson.
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Wild 3-Hitter For PCC Pitchers In Oxnard Win
February 19, 2019Matt Orozco, Benny Olguin, Michael Santana, and Lorenzo Llorens combined for a 3-hitter, and despite 12 walks allowed, the Pasadena City College pitching staff persevered in the Lancers baseball team's 8-5 win over Oxnard Tuesday at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.
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Baseball Beats Merced And Weather In Home Opener
February 17, 2019It took four rainouts until the Pasadena City College baseball team finally was able to play its home opener at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field in a rare Sunday contest against Northern California visitor Merced. Despite falling behind 2-0 after three innings, the Lancers batted around their order in both the fourth and fifth frames. PCC picked up a 9-4 victory as the rain this time only shortened the length of the game, called with Merced batting in the top of the seventh inning.
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Baseball Suffers Pair of 1-Run Losses, Now 3-3
February 13, 2019For the second straight game, the Pasadena City College baseball team lost a tough 1-run affair against a pre-season SoCal top 5-ranked team. On Tuesday, No. 3-rated Palomar edged the visiting Lancers, 5-4. That came after a 3-2 loss at No. 5-ranked Cypress on Feb. 7. The unranked Lancers are 3-3 thus far in 2019.
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Big Innings Again In Baseball's 2nd Double-Digit Win
January 29, 2019The Pasadena City College baseball team has batted in 18 innings thus far this season and have already thrown down a full house in high-scoring frames, plating four runs three times and five runs twice. The Lancers once again broke open a game late and waltzed over host San Diego Mesa, 13-3, on Tuesday.
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Offense Explodes In Baseball's Opening Win
January 26, 2019Pasadena City College baseball head coach Pat McGee knows he has a roster of talented hitters. He just didn't know how fast the offense would dial in. Try game No. 1. The Lancers erupted for 14 hits, scored four runs in the third inning, four in the sixth and five in the seventh to rout host Citrus, 14-2, Saturday afternoon to open the 2019 season.
