2017 Pasadena City College Baseball News
Pasadena City College baseball team head coach Pat McGee announced that four of his returning sophomores from the 2017 South Coast Conference North Division Champion Lancers are scheduled to play in the 27th Fall Showcase SoCal All-Star Game on Sunday, Oct. 1 at Mt. San Antonio College.
South Coast Conference Most Valuable Player and All-American first baseman Jeremy Conant leads a group of Pasadena City College baseball team players who signed scholarship letters to 4-year universities. The lefty-slugging Conant signed with NCAA Division I University of New Mexico.
The 2017 postseason for the Pasadena City College baseball team ended from a playing standpoint, but the awards keep pouring in for Lancers sophomores Andres Kim and Jeremy Conant. Kim, a second baseman, was selected American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings Pacific Association All-American Third Team, CCCBCA All-State First Team, and All-Region First Team. Conant, the Lancers' record-setting first baseman, also was AA Third Team, All-State First Team and was All-Region Second Team.
The year 2017 will be remembered as one that the Pasadena City College baseball program rose to success. The Lancers ended years of suffering through losing seasons and finished as a final eight Southern California playoff participant. The South Coast Conference North Division champion Lancers were eliminated from the Super Regionals Saturday in a 9-2 loss by host El Camino College. The Warriors swept the best-of-3 series, 2-0.
The visiting Pasadena City College baseball team was limited to seven hits by El Camino ace Taylor Rashi as the Lancers dropped their SoCal Super Regionals Playoff opener, 8-1, Friday afternoon. PCC (26-14) faces elimination Saturday, May 13 in game 2 of the series at 1 p.m.
The No. 7-seeded Pasadena City College baseball team plays in the Super Regionals this Friday-Saturday (and Sunday if necessary) May 12-14 at No. 5 El Camino College. In their first appearance in the postseason in 45 years, the Lancers swept Riverside City College in the opening round while El Camino needed three games to eliminate Glendale last weekend.
An All-South Coast Conference First Team selection, Race Gardner proved his worth Saturday morning in the most significant starting pitching performance of the season for the Pasadena City College baseball team. Gardner hurled the first complete game of the year by Lancers pitchers and his 7-hitter allowed No. 7 seed PCC to sweep 10th seed Riverside City College out of the Southern California Regionals, 3-2. The Lancers won the first round series, 2-games-to-0 and advance to the SoCal Second Round at SCC nemesis El Camino College next Friday-Saturday, May 12-13.
Riverside City College earned a lower No. 10 seed in the SoCal region, but it has the respect of many with a No. 10 ranking in the CCCSIA State Top 20 and a high RPI that had the Tigers at No. 4. On Friday, the Tigers threw everything at postseason newcomer and the No. 7 region-seeded Pasadena City College baseball team in their opener of a best-of-3, SoCal first round series.
There have been many firsts this season for the Pasadena City College baseball program under third-year head coach Pat McGee. In the Lancers' 31-year history in the South Coast Conference, they picked up some more first-time accolades over the weekend.
In 1967, the Pasadena City College baseball team captured its third straight Western State Conference title on its way to a state championship under Coach Ron Robinson. On the 50th anniversary year of that Lancers team, PCC clinched its first solo conference crown since that season with a 14-12 win at Mt. San Antonio College Tuesday afternoon.
For the past 30 years, the Pasadena City College baseball program had often been the doormat of the South Coast Conference since the college joined the league in 1987. The Lancers finished in last place 13 times and nine other times were second to last. The program struggled under a host of different coaches never finishing higher than fourth place in the 2001 season.
The newly ranked state No. 20 Pasadena City College baseball team moved one step closer to the South Coast Conference North Division title with a 4-2 win at East Los Angeles College Thursday night. PCC can clinch a share of its first conference baseball title since President Richard Nixon was in office (1972) if it can sweep ELAC on Saturday in the squads' series finale. Game time is 12 noon at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.
The 2017 Pasadena City College baseball team keeps reaching new heights and on Tuesday, it was win No. 20 for Coach Pat McGee's Lancers, the first time a PCC squad totaled as many victories since 2001. PCC routed visiting East Los Angeles, 16-1, at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.
The Pasadena City College baseball team, ranked No. 14 in Southern California by the coach's association, reached the 19-win mark on Tuesday in a 5-4 win at No. 17 Ventura before Citrus snapped the Lancers' 3-game win streak, 11-9, on Wednesday at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field. Both games were non-conference.
For the sixth time in the last seven games, the Pasadena City College baseball team reached double figures in hits as the Lancers beat host Rio Hondo, 8-2, in the finale of their 3-game, South Coast Conference North Division series against the Roadrunners on Saturday.
The SoCal No. 14-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team recovered from Tuesday's walk-off, last out loss by knotting its series with Rio Hondo, defeating the Roadrunners, 10-4, on Thursday. The Lancers continued their outstanding home play this year at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field at 11-5 overall and extended their first place lead in the South Coast Conference North Division to 1-1/2 games over both Rio Hondo and Chaffey.
