Jack Esguerra

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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 26, 2023

The Pasadena City College baseball team rallied to beat Compton, 9-7, on Tuesday and pulled to within one game of El Camino for first place in the South Coast Conference. The Lancers have two more games v. Compton and if they win both and El Camino loses one of two v. Mt. San Antonio, PCC would share the SCC crown and earn the highest conference seed based on beating ECC in their season series.

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• April 23, 2023

Sophomores Jake Trabbie and Aryonis Harrison each etched their names into the PCC baseball record books while the Lancers series sweep of Los Angeles Harbor has lifted them into a second place tie with Rio Hondo in the South Coast Conference going into the final week of the regular season.

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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

Tommy Castillo picked up where he left off v. Cerritos College on Monday. The transfer sophomore centerfielder crushed two home runs as the Pasadena City College baseball team completed a series sweep over the Falcons, 10-4. The South Coast Conference game was a make-up from a rain postponement back on Mar. 11 at Cerritos.

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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 21, 2023

Kyle Noell continues to be a brightspot as the Lancers weekly first starter with 6.1 innings of 3-hit ball and his battery mate Matthew Delgado batted 3-for-3 with two RBI to lift the Pasadena City College baseball team over host East Los Angeles, 4-1, in the South Coast Conference opener for both squads on Tuesday.

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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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• February 03, 2023

Brandon Cuervo proved to be a thorn in the side of the Pasadena City College baseball team as the LA Valley leftfielder homered in the sixth inning, then drove in the game-winning run on a sacrifice fly in the ninth to send the Lancers to a 5-4 defeat Thursday in the Lancers' Brookside Park Jackie Robinson Field home opener.

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• January 30, 2023

Lucky to have two All-South Coast Conference pitchers returning to the staff, the Pasadena City College baseball team rode the arms of Coleman Mitchell and Jakob Guardado in a 12-3 rout at Citrus College on Saturday. The Lancers evened their record at 1-1.

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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.