College Baseball:
Pasadena City College won its second consecutive game to start the 2022 season.
The Lancers’ bats got started early, pounding out 12 hits, and used a nine-run fifth inning to cruise past Cypress College, 15-5, on Friday.
Casey Popham picked up the win after four innings of work, and allowing just one run on two hits.
Popham issued one walk and struck out one Chargers’ batter.
Cypress got four runs and six hits off Nathan Mertens in his 2 1/3 innings of work.
Chase Pedersen finished off the Chargers with 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Pedersen allowed two hits, walked one and struck out five.
Mario Tostado went 2-for-4, including a double and four RBIs.
Eddie Hacopian, Cade Liefer and Nathan Jackle all singled and scored one run apiece.
Andrew Kotin, the first of eight Cypress pitchers, was saddled with the loss.
Kotin allowed three runs in two innings.
He surrendered four hits, walked one and struck out a pair of PCC batters.
The first five batters in the Lancers’ lineup combined for 10 of their 12 hits.
Kenny Kim, who opened the season in a big way on Thursday, walked twice, singled, scored four runs and had an RBI.
Raider Tello went 3-for-6 with a double, scored once and drove in a pair of runs.
Max Blessinger singled twice, scored and drove in a run, and his fellow Maranatha High brother, Marco Martinez, went 2-for-6, with a run scored and two RBIs.
Jake Trabbie singled twice, scored pair of runs and drove in three for the Lancers.
Andrew Scannell walked twice, scored and had an RBI.
Matthew Delgado walked twice, singled and scored twice.
Yuto Mimura also drew two walks, scored two runs and had a single for PCC.
Up next: PCC will host LA Pierce Tuesday in the first game of a three-day SCC Tournament game.
Quotable:
PCC starting pitcher, Casey Popham: “It was great getting back on the mound today, as it has been about two years since I have started a game. On the bus ride to field, I was thinking about all of the hardships that I have overcome the last couple of years. I’m grateful for my family, friends and coaches for pushing me throughout Covid and all the down time. I’m coming into my freshman season as a completely new pitcher than I was in high school and I’m grateful that PCC has given me the opportunity to compete. Today was a great team victory for us against a very good team and everyone contributed well. If we hit the way we do and pitch the way our staff can, it will be a very exciting year for us.”
Box Score:
PCC: 2-1-0-0-9-1-0-0-2-(15)
C: 0-1-0-0-1-0-3-0-0-(5)
Win: Casey Popham
Loss: Andrew Kotin
2B: Raider Tello (PCC); Mario Tostado (C)
Records: PCC (2-0); Cypress (0-1)
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