2022 Pasadena City College Baseball News

  • D1 Transfers Tello, Blessinger Lead PCC Baseball Contingent At Next Level
    August 15, 2022
    All-American shortstop Raider Tello and All-Southern California Region centerfielder Max Blessinger both earned NCAA Division I scholarships to lead a group of nine players from the 2022 Pasadena City College baseball team to play and further their educations at the university level next season. Two other players from the 2020 team have found new homes as well.
  • PCC Baseball's Tello Makes All-American, Olguin, Blessinger All-SoCal
    June 06, 2022
    Shortstop Raider Tello picked up two more accolades for his record-breaking season on the Pasadena City College baseball team by being selected All-American Pacific Association Division Third Team as well as All-State.
  • Playoff Rally Win In Game 2 Last Highlight As Baseball Season Ends
    May 09, 2022
    The 12th-seeded Pasadena City College baseball team did all it could to rally and win game #2, 9-7, in its SoCal Regional Playoff series at #5 Palomar on Saturday. Unfortunately for the Lancers, they had to play the rubber game less than a half-hour later and without their top two All-South Coast Conference pitchers available.
  • Raider Tello Breaks PCC's Baseball Hits Record
    May 09, 2022
    Raider Tello broke the Pasadena City College baseball program's school record for hits in a season with 77 during the Lancers SoCal Regional playoff series v. Palomar on May 7. Tello will leave PCC with four school records in his name.
  • Baseball Earns #12 Playoff Seed; 5 Lancers Named All-South Coast Conference
    May 04, 2022
    The Pasadena City College baseball team was selected the #12 seed and will play a best-of-3-game series at #5 Palomar in Round 1 of the Southern California Regional Playoffs on Friday-Saturday, May 6-7.
  • Playoff Seed Assured, But Baseball's Offense Slumping As Regular Season Ends
    April 30, 2022
    The good news for the state #14-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team is that it has clinched a Southern California Regional Playoff seed due to its high RPI. The bad news for the Lancers is their offense slumped in the last two weeks, resulting in losing five of their last six games in South Coast Conference play.
  • Guardado's Pitching, Back-to-Back HRs Returns Baseball To Win Column
    April 26, 2022
    Jakob Guardado pitched eight innings of 4-hit ball while Raider Tello and Toshiki Kuriya hit back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning as the Pasadena City College baseball team returned to the win column on Tuesday, shutting out visiting Cerritos, 6-0, in a South Coast Conference game.
  • Baseball Stung By El Camino Epic Rally
    April 22, 2022
    Adversity truly hit the Pasadena City College baseball team on Thursday. The Lancers, ranked #7 in the state, let a seemingly insurmountable 9-run lead slip away as visiting El Camino rallied for an amazing 10 runs in the top of the ninth. The 14-13 loss spelled the team's first South Coast Conference series defeat of the season and dropped the Lancers to fourth place in the standings.
  • State #7-Ranked Baseball Blanks Taft
    April 14, 2022
    For the third time this season, the Pasadena City College baseball team's pitching staff shut out an opponent, defeating visiting Taft, 4-0, in a non-conference game on Wednesday. The state #7-ranked Lancers matched their highest win total (26) since head coach Pat McGee took over the program in 2015.
  • Baseball's Blessinger Named March's CCCSIA State Athlete of Month
    April 13, 2022
    Max Blessinger, the Pasadena City College baseball team's sophomore centerfielder, was chosen the California Community College Sports Information Association (CCCSIA) State Athlete of the Month for March. It is the first time that a PCC men's athlete has been honored with the state award in 15 years and just the fourth Lancers male student-athlete to ever be selected.
  • Tello, Blessinger Set 3 PCC Single-Season Records As Baseball's 10-Game Win Streak Ends
    April 11, 2022
    It was a bittersweet Monday afternoon for the Pasadena City College baseball team. While the Lancers saw their 10-game winning streak snapped by non-conference host Los Angeles Valley, 17-5, two significant single-season program records were broken and another tied by shortstop Raider Tello and centerfielder Max Blessinger.
  • Harrison's Small Ball, Pitching Lifts Baseball to 9th Consecutive Win
    April 07, 2022
    At 5-feet-5 and 150 pounds, leftfielder Aryonis Harrison plays the game with an edge where he utilizes his speed as a weapon and creates runs a variety of ways while patrolling the outfield like a Gold Glover. On Thursday, his big plays were instrumental as well as outstanding pitching by starter Ryan Graves and long reliever Benny Olguin in the Pasadena City College baseball team's 2-1 victory over Rio Hondo at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.
  • Offense Revs Up In Baseball's 8th Straight Victory
    April 06, 2022
    After scoring only 21 runs, seven in each of its three wins over Compton last week, the Pasadena City College baseball team unleashed the type of relentless offense it's been known to produce on Tuesday. The Lancers erased an early 3-0 deficit by scoring nine runs in the second inning en route to a 17-9 triumph at Rio Hondo College.
  • Compton Sweep Lands Baseball Back In 1st Place Tie With Mt. SAC
    April 03, 2022
    For the fourth time since March 7, the Pasadena City College baseball team vaulted itself into a first-place tie in the wildly close 2022 South Coast Conference standings. The state #8-ranked Lancers performed their first sweep in five SCC series, completing a 3-game winning set at Compton College, 7-1, on Saturday.
  • Higher State Ranking, Higher RPI As Baseball Clinches Another SCC Series
    April 01, 2022
    Pasadena City College's baseball team started this week by moving into the top 10 in the CCCSIA State Baseball Top 25 Rankings from #11 to #8. The Lancers then reached No. 6 in the most recent RPI regional ratings, and more importantly won two games v. Compton in a 24-period to clinch their fourth straight, South Coast Conference series on Thursday.
  • Win Over #8 Palomar Keeps Baseball With the State Elite
    March 28, 2022
    Ranked #11 in the state sports information directors poll, the Pasadena City College baseball team may be moving on up after knocking off #8 Palomar on the road, 11-6, on Saturday in a non-conference game. At 19-7 overall, the Lancers are off to their best start to a season since head coach Pat McGee took over the program in 2015.
  • Blessinger, Tello Continue to Pace State #11 PCC's Bats In 2 Wins Over VVC
    March 25, 2022
    Teams would be happy to have one state batting leader, but the Pasadena City College baseball team has two in the hot-hitting duo of leadoff batter Max Blessinger and No. 2 hitter Raider Tello. The pair just finished a bash brothers show in PCC's two non-conference wins over Victor Valley this week.
  • Rice's Walk-Off Homer Again Places Baseball In SCC 1st Place Tie
    March 20, 2022
    With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, catcher Matt Rice seized the moment and lined a walk-off home run over the right-center field fence to give the Pasadena City College baseball team a 2-1 victory over East Los Angeles on Saturday. Once again, the Lancers have pulled themselves back into a tie with the Huskies for first place in the South Coast Conference.
  • Baseball Moves Back Into Tie For 1st In SCC With ELAC
    March 15, 2022
    Ranked #11 on this week's CCCSIA State Baseball Top 25 poll, Pasadena City College opened a 3-game series on Tuesday with the team that was ahead of them in the South Coast Conference standings--#24-ranked East Los Angeles. PCC seized the opportunity, rallyiing from down 3-0 to defeat the Huskies, 8-3, and in the process tie them for first place in the 9-team, conference race.
  • Baseball Now In 2nd Place By Itself In SCC
    March 12, 2022
    The Pasadena City College baseball team is going by the adage it's not how you start, but how you finish. That's been the case for the Lancers, who won their third straight South Coast Conference 3-game series where they lost the opener only to win the next two games in each of their series v. Mt. San Antonio, Los Angeles Harbor and now Long Beach City College.
  • Home Run Rally At LBCC Keeps State #12 Baseball Motoring
    March 11, 2022
    Add two more clutch moments for the dynamic hitting duo of centerfielder Max Blessinger and shortstop Raider Tello and throw in yet another brilliant pitching performance from reliever Benny Olguin. The three have stood out all season for the state #12-ranked Lancers and never more have their talents been relied on then on Thursday at Long Beach City College.
  • Red-Hot Raider: Tello 5 Hits, 7 RBI As Baseball In 4-Way Tie For 1st In SCC
    March 07, 2022
    Raider Tello's start to his collegiate hitting career is right up there with the most productive in Pasadena City College baseball history. The freshman shortstop continues to destroy opposing pitching including his performance over two days to complete a 17-1 victory over Los Angeles Harbor that was halted on Saturday due to rain in the fifth inning and finished on Monday.
  • Today's Halted Baseball Game To Resume Monday, March 7, 2 p.m.
    March 05, 2022
    Today's Pasadena City College baseball game v. Los Angeles Harbor was halted due to rain with the Lancers leading 8-1 in the top of the fifth inning. The game will resume on Monday, March 7, 2 p.m. at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
  • Guardado Save, A Family Gift For PCC Baseball
    February 28, 2022
    His father was a 2-time, MLB All-Star closer for the Minnesota Twins, but on Saturday it was son Jakob Guardado's turn to be closer for the Pasadena City College baseball team. Guardado completed a performance that certainly would make Eddie Guardado proud as his freshman son stranded the tying run on second base by striking out the last two batters in a 4-3 Lancers win at Mt. San Antonio College.
  • Olguin Provides Relief As Baseball Evens Series v. Mt. SAC
    February 24, 2022
    The Pasadena City College baseball team quickly wanted to turn the page from Tuesday's 15-run loss to Mt. San Antonio in its South Coast Conference opener. On Thursday, the Lancers did just that behind a superb relief performance by sophomore Benny Olguin, outstanding outfield defense, and a patient offense in defeating the Mounties, 10-5, at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.
  • Opportunity Knocks For Baseball In 2 Wins
    February 20, 2022
    The Pasadena City College baseball team took advantage offensively of what its last two opponents handed it and the end result were back-to-back, home victories over West Los Angeles, 16-2, on Friday and an 8-4 triumph over Merced on Saturday.
  • Baseball Back on Track
    February 16, 2022
    The Pasadena City College baseball team has left a 3-game losing streak in the rearview mirror with victories over West Los Angeles, 11-6, on Saturday and against Mt. San Jacinto, 8-3, on Tuesday in an inclement weather-shortened game. A winter-like hail storm quickly blanketed Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field, ending the contest after 6-1/2 innings.
  • Baseball Rally Falls Just Short, Delta Ends PCC's 4-Game Win Streak
    February 06, 2022
    At first, the championship game of the Rawlings SoCal Challenge Tournament looked like it was NorCal's San Joaquin Delta College showcase. The Mustangs, state champions as recently as 2018, jumped out to an 11-1 lead by the sixth inning. The Pasadena City College baseball team roared back with six runs in the seventh and nearly pulled off the rally of all rallies before Delta held on for a 14-12 victory Saturday afternoon in a morning game played at tourney host Los Angeles Harbor College.
  • Staff It Under Win For Lancers Baseball
    February 03, 2022
    Ask Pasadena City College baseball head coach Pat McGee who will be on the mound early in the 2022 season and the response will likely be a one word answer--"staff." Staff meaning if you have pitcher listed as your position on the roster, there's a good chance you could be throwing next. On Thursday, the staff did its job admirably as four Lancers hurlers combined for a 2-hit shutout in a 6-0 win over Pierce.
  • Nine-Run 5th Inning Helps Baseball Rout Cypress
    January 29, 2022
    So far so good for the 2022 Pasadena City College baseball team. The Lancers moved to 2-0 on the young season thanks to a 9-run fifth inning in their second straight road victory, 15-5 at Cypress College Friday afternoon.
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