Women's Basketball Qualifies For SoCal Playoff 1st Round At #12 Palomar

SOCAL PLAYOFF BRACKET

The Pasadena City College women's basketball team is the #21 seed and will travel to face #12 Palomar in Round 1 of the Southern California Regional Playoffs on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Top-off is 5 p.m.

The Lancers (14-14) were adjusted from their original 20th seed as one of six teams that were moved up one or down one by the seeding committee to accommodate a CCCWBCA rule that no two teams from the same conference face each other in the opening round. 

PCC closed the 2025-26 regular season on Friday in a 52-42 loss at #18 Rio Hondo. That left the Lancers finishing in a tie for third place with the Roadrunners at 3-5 in South Coast Conference North Division play. 

Pasadena returns to the playoffs after missing last season as the program improved nine victories from the '24-25 season under interim head coach Alexa Mirzaian. 

Facing Palomar will be a challenge as the Comets shared the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference championship by upsetting previously undefeated #5 seed MiraCosta, 76-61, to end the Spartans' 27-game win streak on Feb. 20. The Comets are 20-7 overall and on a 6-game winning streak. Palomar advanced to last year's 3C2A State Championship quarterfinals. 

Palomar is led by sophomore guard Kylee Trujillo, an All-State Second Team selection and PCAC Player of the Year as a freshman, as she is averaging a team-best 16.4 points a game. Other top players are sophomore forwarsd Kailani Flournoy, averaging 10.7 points and 13.7 rebounds (sixth in the state), and freshman guard Ivorii Seals (16.3 points, 3.2 assists averages).

The Lancers are an impressive 6-1 in their history v. Palomar, but lost in their last meeting, 80-51, back in 2022. PCC is 2-0 in playoff games v. the Comets, winning 61-58 in a Round 2 game at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium in 2019 and a famous 82-81 victory also a Round 2 home contest in 2008 when Kieisha Phelps sank the winning free throw with one second left left.

The winner of the PCC-Palomar game will advance to Round 2 on Saturday, Feb. 28 at MiraCosta. 

Pasadena v. Palomar

Like Opponents
PCC v. San Diego City, 1-1/Palomar 2-0
PCC v. Cuyamaca 1-0/Palomar 2-0
PCC v. MiraCosta 0-1/Palomar 1-1
PCC v. Mt. San Antonio 0-2/Palomar 0-1
PCC v. Long Beach 0-1/Palomar 1-0
PCC v. East LA 1-1/Palomar 1-0
PCC v. LA Harbor 1-0/Palomar 1-0
Overall: PCC 4-6/Palomar 8-2

LANCERS PLACE 4 ON ALL-SOUTH COAST CONFERENCE NORTH DIVISION TEAM

Freshman forward Kamora Fletcher and sophomore center Celine Bolton-Ford were selected All-SCC North First Team while sophomore guard Monica Menzies and second-year forward Paris Ngeam were chosen to the Second Team. 

Fletcher, who had two rare feats in the regular season in being just the fifth Lancer to achieve a triple-double, then only the fourth player to ever score 40 points in a single game, is having a banner season. She is averaging 17.2 points (fourth in the entire 11-team SCC), 9.2 rebounds (10th in SCC), and 2.8 steals (sixth in conference). 

Bolton-Ford returned after an incredible journey through injuries after her freshman year of 2017-18 to post great numbers--12.1 points, 12.2 rebounds (second in the SCC, seventh in the state), and her 64 total blocked shots is third in the state. 

Menzies is a 2-time All-SCC selection and is averaging 11.6 points, 3.1 assists and 2.1 steals. She has climbed the PCC All-Time Scoring List, now at 756 points, putting her in some elite company. She just passed PCC Hall of Famer Tiana Sanders (her 744 points in just one season a PCC school record in 1998-1999) and is only nine points behind another Lancers Hall of Famer Biljana Bosanac (1991-1993, 765 points). She is currently 18th in school history. 

Ngeam has been an unsung hero on the squad for her defensive abiltiies. She is averaging 2.7 points and 7.3 rebounds.