Seven Baseball Lancers Headed To Play At 4-Year Universities

The 2025 Pasadena City College baseball team were excited to announce that seven Lancers are continuing their playing/academic careers at 4-year universities.

Heading to NCAA Division II Cal Poly Pomona are 2-time, All-South Coast Conference First Team choice and PCC 2024-25 Men's Athlete of the Year in second baseman Bryan Richman, centerfielder Tyler Garcia, and catcher Evan Nahra. 

Richman set three PCC school records including longest hit streak (29 games), most runs scored in a season (54), and highest on-base percentage (.497 as a freshman in 2024). He had a .369 career average with an even 60 hits in both years (120), a mark never achieved by a Lancers player in back-to-back seasons. Known for his high baseball skills acumen, Richman played both outfield and infield for the Lancers, including both middle infield spots as a sophomore. 

Garcia earned All-SCC Second Team as he hit .344 with seven home runs and 33 RBI. From Feb. 22-Mar. 1, Garcia hit home runs in four consecutive games (five overall).

Nahra was an All-SCC First Team designated hitter as a freshman when he led the team in three batting categories including doubles (12) and slugging percentage (.551). This past season, Nahra came on strong late in the year finishing with five homers and 25 RBI, including an impressive postseason in which he slugged two round-trippers and knocked in six RBI in the team's Regional Playoff series v. #3 seed Palomar. 

Hugo Tafoya, who transferred to PCC for his sophomore season in 2025, is moving on to play at D2 Lenoir-Rhyne University (Hickory, North Carolina). Tafoya led the Lancers pitching staff with a 6-3 record, 14 starts, 66 strikeouts and 78.2 innings. He hurled a heroic seven innings and the mound win, 6-4, over Palomar in the opener of that series. 

Another trio of Lancers are moving to the same spot--D3 University of La Verne--in first baseman Adrian Roman, relief pitcher Aiden Nunez and leftfielder Thomas Villanueva. 

A slick fielding lefty-throwing fielder and hitter, Roman collected 114 hits, a .335 average and 57 RBI in his two seasons and was recently named PCC's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for all men's sports. Nunez made a team-high 23 pitching appearances with a 4-2 record and three saves and led the staff with a 3.89 earned run average. 

A solid fielder, Villanueva was an All-SCC First Team outfielder as a freshman and hit .290 with 37 RBI over his two Lancers seasons. 

PCC head coach Pat McGee now has sent 73 of his players to the next level in his 10 seasons directing the program. His current '25 transfer class stretched the program's streak of advancing to the SoCal Regionals to seven straight seasons. 

23' LANCERS ALUM DELGADO TRANSFERS TO D1 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

After being selected All-Atlantic Sun Conference Second Team this past season at the University of North Alabama, PCC 2022-23 alumnus catcher Matthew Delgado has parlayed a final scholarship to play for another D1 school at the University of Iowa.

Delgado, who batted .296 with seven home runs and 33 RBI while throwing out 19 runners trying to steal, goes to the same college that current Philadelphia Phillie prospect Raider Tello ('22 Lancers) attended and played.