Damien Ureta

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• July 10, 2023

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.

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• May 07, 2023

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.

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• April 29, 2023

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.

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• April 18, 2023

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. 

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• April 04, 2023

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."

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• April 02, 2023

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.

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• March 25, 2023

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.

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• March 21, 2023

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.

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• March 08, 2023

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.

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• February 28, 2023

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.

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• February 15, 2023

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.

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• February 10, 2023

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.

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• January 27, 2023

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.