2014 SBCC Baseball News
Five members of the SBCC baseball program helped the Santa Barbara Foresters claim their fifth National Baseball Congress title last Saturday in Wichita, Kan. The Foresters edged the defending champion Seattle Studs 3-2 in 12 innings at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.
Cody Van Aken, a sidearm relief pitcher for SBCC, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball for the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Ala.
Sophomore relief pitcher Lucas Benenati has accepted a scholarship to continue his baseball career at Kansas State.
Zack Zehner, a former star outfielder at SBCC in 2013, was selected in the seventh round of this week’s Major League Baseball draft (204th overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays. Joey Epperson, the top hitter for UCSB, was picked in the 13th round by the San Diego Padres.
Kit Larson completed a rare trifecta on Thursday when he was named to the All-Southern California and All-American baseball teams by the California Commuity College Baseball Coaches Association.
Three players from last year’s SBCC baseball team are participating in the 64-team NCAA Regionals, which start on Friday.
Saturday’s second game of the Southern Cal Sectional baseball series looked a lot like the first one. No. 3 seed SBCC jumped out to a 2-0 lead at No. 2 Oxnard, only to see the Condors rally for three runs in the sixth on the way to a 3-2 victory.
Daniel Barnett delivered a two-run, opposite-field single down the right-field line in the seventh inning on Friday and Oxnard went on to edge SBCC 2-1 in Game 1 of its Southern Cal Sectional baseball series.
SBCC catcher Patrick O’Brien will continue his baseball career at UCSB after accepting a scholarship from the Gauchos earlier this month.
SBCC will face a familiar opponent in the Southern Cal Sectional baseball playoffs.
The SBCC baseball team is going where no Vaqueros have gone before. Tyler Gilbert tossed a five-hitter for seven innings and Brandon Evans and James Hill drove in two runs apiece on Saturday as the Vaqueros downed L.A. Mission 8-1 to sweep the best-of-3 Super Regional 2-0.
Justin Bruce pitched eight innings of shutout ball on Friday and Noeh Martinez came up big at the plate and in the field as SBCC opened its Super Regional baseball series with a 3-0 shutout of L.A. Mission.
SBCC will host a Super Regional for the first time in its baseball history this weekend when L.A. Mission comes to Pershing Park for a best 2-of-3 series. The Vaqueros (25-13) are making their fourth straight playoff appearance and competing in a Super Regional.
SBCC scored seven runs in a two-inning stretch on Saturday and went on to beat San Bernardino Valley 8-2 and claim the Southern Cal Regional baseball series 2-0. The sixth-seeded Vaqueros (25-13) improved to 17-3 at home and moved into the Super Regional for just the second time in school history.
The pitcher and catcher got it done for Santa Barbara City College on Friday in a Southern Cal Regional baseball opener at Pershing Park. Justin Bruce, a first team All-WSC hurler, tossed seven solid innings and catcher Patrick O’Brien went 3-3 with two RBIs as No. 6 seed SBCC downed No. 11 San Bernardino Valley 9-3.
Pitchers Justin Bruce and Kit Larson were first-team All-WSC North baseball selections and eight SBCC players made the elite team.
