Six Pasadena City College baseball players have signed scholarships to attend 4-year universities, including NCAA Division I transfers in South Coast Conference MVP Jakob Guardado and All-SCC First Team first baseman Jake Trabbie.
For 40 games in the regular season, the Pasadena City College baseball team relied on its ability to manufacture runs whether it was small or long ball. On Friday and Saturday, the Lancers ran into a Glendale pitching staff that silenced their offense and eliminated them in the SoCal Regional Playoffs with 4-2 and 4-0 victories.
Pasadena City College sophomore pitcher-rightfielder Jakob Guardado garnered the South Coast Conference Most Valuable Player Award to highight seven Lancers selected to the 2023 All-SCC Baseball Team.
With still a chance at a conference title on the final day of the regular season, the Pasadena City College baseball team settled for a strong second place in the South Coast Conference in completing a 3-game series sweep over Compton, 6-5, on Friday.
The Pasadena City College baseball team rallied to beat Compton, 9-7, on Tuesday and pulled to within one game of El Camino for first place in the South Coast Conference. The Lancers have two more games v. Compton and if they win both and El Camino loses one of two v. Mt. San Antonio, PCC would share the SCC crown and earn the highest conference seed based on beating ECC in their season series.
Sophomores Jake Trabbie and Aryonis Harrison each etched their names into the PCC baseball record books while the Lancers series sweep of Los Angeles Harbor has lifted them into a second place tie with Rio Hondo in the South Coast Conference going into the final week of the regular season.
In the bottom of the third inning in the Pasadena City College baseball team's game at Los Angeles Harbor on Tuesday, centerfielder Tommy Castillo faced a 3-2 count and looked to complete an unlikely team statistical accomplishment. All eight of the Lancers starters had already drawn walks, and Castillo would have been the ninth except an errant pitch by Harbor reliever Gabriel Olguin plunked the sophomore in the shoulder resulting in a hit-by-pitch and RBI.
Tommy Castillo picked up where he left off v. Cerritos College on Monday. The transfer sophomore centerfielder crushed two home runs as the Pasadena City College baseball team completed a series sweep over the Falcons, 10-4. The South Coast Conference game was a make-up from a rain postponement back on Mar. 11 at Cerritos.
With the Pasadena City College baseball team trailing Golden West, 8-4, in the bottom of the eighth inning, a Canadian goose decided to stroll on to the field, settling in a spot in short left-center field. The Angels had the "Rally Monkey," but on Tuesday the Lancers had the "Rally Goose."
The Pasadena City College baseball team has prided itself on fundamental play on defense, but uncharacteristically the team's infield turned bunt defense into an adventure on Saturday at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field. Rio Hondo reached base on sacrifice bunts on back-to-back Lancers errors that led to three second-inning runs and went on to defeat PCC, 7-1. The Roadrunners won 2-of-3 games to take the South Coast Conference series v. the Lancers.
After an amazing week in which he pitched two, complete-game victories, Pasadena City College sophomore Jakob Guardado was selected SoCal Player of the Week #8 by the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association.
Jakob Guardado likes to finish what he starts. The sophomore hurler pitched his second, 9-inning complete game victory in six days as the Pasadena City College baseball team shut out Mt. San Antonio, 9-0, on Saturday afternoon at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
The South Coast Conference baseball race got a little more difficult for Pasadena City College after losing its series v. Long Beach City, 2-1. But after two straight close defeats, the Lancers walked away from the Vikings series with pride in hand behind a 6-4 victory at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field on Monday.
A third of a league season in, the SoCal #12-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team moved into first place in the South Coast Conference after a 15-5 rout over Cerritos on Thursday at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field. It also marked the third straight best-of-3 game series win by PCC, now 6-2 in conference.
Rider Gardner has a simple approach in his role on this year's Pasadena City College baseball team. When the Lancers get the lead late in a game, he wants the ball. PCC head coach Pat McGee has obliged the sophomore reliever with premium results. The closer picked up his state-leading sixth save on Tuesday as PCC led mid-game, fell behind, then rallied to beat host Cerritos, 5-3.
Of all the South Coast Conference opponents, El Camino College has been the biggest thorn in the side of the Pasadena City College baseball program since Pat McGee took over as head coach back in 2015. It took eight seasons, but the Lancers finally got the best of the Warriors this season in winning their 3-game series this week, 2-games-to-1.
For eight innings, the Pasadena City College and host East Los Angeles baseball teams battled it out in a tense series finale that had the Lancers hanging on to a slim, 5-4 lead. By the time the top of the ninth finished, PCC turned a nailbiter into a blowout, scoring nine runs and routing the Huskies, 14-4. The Lancers won the South Coast Conference-opening series, 2-games-1.
Kyle Noell continues to be a brightspot as the Lancers weekly first starter with 6.1 innings of 3-hit ball and his battery mate Matthew Delgado batted 3-for-3 with two RBI to lift the Pasadena City College baseball team over host East Los Angeles, 4-1, in the South Coast Conference opener for both squads on Tuesday.
Balls continue to fly out of Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field, and that's just fine with Pasadena City College baseball head coach Pat McGee--as long as it's his squad doing the slugging. The Lancers reached 10 team home runs in 10 games on Thursday as Patrick Garcia launched his fifth and Tommy Castillo slugged his first as part of his 4-for-4 day in PCC's 12-1 rout over West Los Angeles.
It's something you expect from the Gashouse Gorillas of Bugs Bunny cartoon fame or the '27 Yankees. What you may never see at spacious Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field are the back-to-back-to-back home runs delivered by the Pasadena City College baseball team on Tuesday. The power show highlighted a 16-5 victory over Citrus.
Designated hitter Patrick Garcia bombed his third home run in the last four games while backup shortstop Jack Esguerra followed making the defensive play of the game by hitting a walk-off, single in the 11th inning to give the Pasadena City College baseball team a 6-5 win over Victor Valley on Thursday. The Lancers (5-2 record) capped a home-and-home series against the Rams, winning at Victor Valley, 12-5, on Tuesday.
Letterman infielder Toshiki Kuriya slugged seven RBI in a 20-5 rout over LA Pierce on Friday and sophomore pitcher Jakob Guardado fired 5.1 innings of 2-hit ball to lift the Pasadena City College baseball team over LA Mission, 8-6, on Saturday in a pair of victories during the SoCal Challenge Tournament. The two contests were played at PCC's off-campus diamond--Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
Brandon Cuervo proved to be a thorn in the side of the Pasadena City College baseball team as the LA Valley leftfielder homered in the sixth inning, then drove in the game-winning run on a sacrifice fly in the ninth to send the Lancers to a 5-4 defeat Thursday in the Lancers' Brookside Park Jackie Robinson Field home opener.
Lucky to have two All-South Coast Conference pitchers returning to the staff, the Pasadena City College baseball team rode the arms of Coleman Mitchell and Jakob Guardado in a 12-3 rout at Citrus College on Saturday. The Lancers evened their record at 1-1.
One of the benefits of a good recruiting class is to entice student-athletes to stay for the 2-season tour called community college sports. Pasadena City College baseball head coach Pat McGee will rely on his lettermen more than ever in 2023 after the advancement to NCAA Division I scholarships for All-American shortstop Raider Tello and All-Southern California centerfielder Max Blessinger.
Jeremy Camacho, a 2-time, All-South Coast Conference honorable mention infielder on the Pasadena CIty College baseball team in 2007 and 2009, passed away at age 34 on Dec. 10. Cause of death was not released as he is the second player from the '09 Lancers to have passed after outfielder Tyler Craig died in an auto accident 15 months ago.
Andres Kim's name in a lot of ways says it all. No wonder that the one-time Pasadena City College baseball All-American was born in South America, raised as a proud Korean-American in Los Angeles, earned a scholarship to a NCAA Division I university in South Carolina out of PCC, and ended up playing for Team Argentina at this month's World Baseball Classic.