Despite suffering a 3-game sweep at the hands/bats/gloves of South Coast Conference champion Mt. San Antonio April 15-19, the Pasadena City College baseball team will try to rebound in its final conference series next week against East Los Angeles.
The Lancers (19-15 overall) dropped to sixth place in the SCC standings at 10-11, but have an opportunity to climb to fourth if they can sweep the Huskies. ELAC is in fifth at 11-10 while Long Beach is fourth at 12-9, but the Vikings are about to face the state #2-ranked Mt. SAC juggenaut (32-5, 19-2 in SCC play) in next week's final conference week.
Shortstop Bryan Richman extended his hit streak to 25 games, going 2-for-4 and slugging a solo home run in the ninth in Saturday's 16-4 loss home loss v. the Mounties. While no school records were kept on Lancers hitting streaks, it is the longest such string under head coach Pat McGee.
Also in the team's finale loss, catcher Joaquin Salcedo hit a RBI triple in the first inning. That was the freshman's team-leading 25th extra-base hit. He paces the squad in both doubles (15) and triples (four) while trailing teammate Tyler Garcia in home runs with six. Salcedo's .386 batting average leads all Lancers.
Devon Eskridge batted 2-for-3 and Isaac Ton pitched well (six innings, seven hits, four earned runs) in an 11-1 defeat at Brookside Park on April 15. The Lancers honored the late Tony Barbone, former PCC athletic director who passed away on April 13, with a pre-game ceremony and moment of silence.
At Mt. SAC on April 17, Eskridge and Evan Nahra both slugged home runs in an 11-4 loss to the Mounties. Richman batted 2-for-5. The Lancers, who were averaging better than 10 runs a game coming into the series, were limited to just nine runs in the entire series v. the Mt. San Antonio pitching staff that featured outstanding starts from Brenden Menchaca, Hudson Castillo, and Izeah Muniz.
PCC opens its series v. ELAC on the road on Tuesday, April 22. Game time is 2 p.m.
RECENT PCC HITTING STREAKS
2024--Adrian Roman, 22 games
2022-Raider Tello, 21 games
2018-Jose Jimenez, 21 games
2019-Gabe Arellano, 19 games