2022 Pasadena City College Baseball News
All-American shortstop Raider Tello and All-Southern California Region centerfielder Max Blessinger both earned NCAA Division I scholarships to lead a group of nine players from the 2022 Pasadena City College baseball team to play and further their educations at the university level next season. Two other players from the 2020 team have found new homes as well.
Shortstop Raider Tello picked up two more accolades for his record-breaking season on the Pasadena City College baseball team by being selected All-American Pacific Association Division Third Team as well as All-State.
The 12th-seeded Pasadena City College baseball team did all it could to rally and win game #2, 9-7, in its SoCal Regional Playoff series at #5 Palomar on Saturday. Unfortunately for the Lancers, they had to play the rubber game less than a half-hour later and without their top two All-South Coast Conference pitchers available.
Raider Tello broke the Pasadena City College baseball program's school record for hits in a season with 77 during the Lancers SoCal Regional playoff series v. Palomar on May 7. Tello will leave PCC with four school records in his name.
The Pasadena City College baseball team was selected the #12 seed and will play a best-of-3-game series at #5 Palomar in Round 1 of the Southern California Regional Playoffs on Friday-Saturday, May 6-7.
The good news for the state #14-ranked Pasadena City College baseball team is that it has clinched a Southern California Regional Playoff seed due to its high RPI. The bad news for the Lancers is their offense slumped in the last two weeks, resulting in losing five of their last six games in South Coast Conference play.
Jakob Guardado pitched eight innings of 4-hit ball while Raider Tello and Toshiki Kuriya hit back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning as the Pasadena City College baseball team returned to the win column on Tuesday, shutting out visiting Cerritos, 6-0, in a South Coast Conference game.
Adversity truly hit the Pasadena City College baseball team on Thursday. The Lancers, ranked #7 in the state, let a seemingly insurmountable 9-run lead slip away as visiting El Camino rallied for an amazing 10 runs in the top of the ninth. The 14-13 loss spelled the team's first South Coast Conference series defeat of the season and dropped the Lancers to fourth place in the standings.
For the third time this season, the Pasadena City College baseball team's pitching staff shut out an opponent, defeating visiting Taft, 4-0, in a non-conference game on Wednesday. The state #7-ranked Lancers matched their highest win total (26) since head coach Pat McGee took over the program in 2015.
Max Blessinger, the Pasadena City College baseball team's sophomore centerfielder, was chosen the California Community College Sports Information Association (CCCSIA) State Athlete of the Month for March. It is the first time that a PCC men's athlete has been honored with the state award in 15 years and just the fourth Lancers male student-athlete to ever be selected.
It was a bittersweet Monday afternoon for the Pasadena City College baseball team. While the Lancers saw their 10-game winning streak snapped by non-conference host Los Angeles Valley, 17-5, two significant single-season program records were broken and another tied by shortstop Raider Tello and centerfielder Max Blessinger.
At 5-feet-5 and 150 pounds, leftfielder Aryonis Harrison plays the game with an edge where he utilizes his speed as a weapon and creates runs a variety of ways while patrolling the outfield like a Gold Glover. On Thursday, his big plays were instrumental as well as outstanding pitching by starter Ryan Graves and long reliever Benny Olguin in the Pasadena City College baseball team's 2-1 victory over Rio Hondo at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.
After scoring only 21 runs, seven in each of its three wins over Compton last week, the Pasadena City College baseball team unleashed the type of relentless offense it's been known to produce on Tuesday. The Lancers erased an early 3-0 deficit by scoring nine runs in the second inning en route to a 17-9 triumph at Rio Hondo College.
For the fourth time since March 7, the Pasadena City College baseball team vaulted itself into a first-place tie in the wildly close 2022 South Coast Conference standings. The state #8-ranked Lancers performed their first sweep in five SCC series, completing a 3-game winning set at Compton College, 7-1, on Saturday.
Pasadena City College's baseball team started this week by moving into the top 10 in the CCCSIA State Baseball Top 25 Rankings from #11 to #8. The Lancers then reached No. 6 in the most recent RPI regional ratings, and more importantly won two games v. Compton in a 24-period to clinch their fourth straight, South Coast Conference series on Thursday.
Ranked #11 in the state sports information directors poll, the Pasadena City College baseball team may be moving on up after knocking off #8 Palomar on the road, 11-6, on Saturday in a non-conference game. At 19-7 overall, the Lancers are off to their best start to a season since head coach Pat McGee took over the program in 2015.
