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Posted: Apr 30, 2022

SCC Baseball Race Goes To Wire With Mt. SAC, Long Beach Sharing 2022 Title

Mt. San Antonio College baseball shared the SCC title but will get the #1 seed from the conference.
Mt. San Antonio College baseball shared the SCC title but will get the #1 seed from the conference.


Long Beach picks up a share of the SCC baseball title. 

It took the entire 24-game, conference schedule to decide things, but Mt. San Antonio College and Long Beach City College came out on top as they shared the 2022 South Coast Conference baseball title.

Mt. SAC, the state's current #4-ranked team with a 32-8 overall record, will get the top playoff seed from the conference due to taking its conference series against #16 LBCC (2-games-to-one).

On Friday, the Mounties clinched at 19-5 in conference games with an 11-4 win over state #11 El Camino (29-11), who finished third in the SCC. Long Beach (28-12 overall) needed a 10-4 victory over Compton to also finish 19-5 in SCC play. 

Not surprisingly, the four teams that were both co-champs back in 2019, Long Beach and El Camino in the then South Division, and Mt. SAC and #14 Pasadena City in the North, will all make the postseason as all four finished in the top four spots in a strong SCC in 2022, and each with top 10 ratings in RPI. El Camino finished in third place at 17-7 and Pasadena (27-13), at one time flirting at the top of the standings, slumped a bit late and finished in fourth place at 15-9.

Mt. SAC wins its seventh SCC title in its baseball history while Long Beach collected its 10th, but its sixth in the last seven completed seasons going back to 2014. 

Mt. SAC leftfielder Brent Cota was the SCC batting champ with a .430 overall batting average and a .457 average in conference play. Mounties lefty pitcher Michael Flores led the conference in overall victories with 11 and Pasadena shortstop Raider Tello, who leads the state in hits with 74, led SCC in regular season RBI with 51, a PCC school record. Long Beach centerfielder Moises Guzman hit 10 home runs to lead the conference. PCC reliever Benny Olguin (7-2 record) was tops in the SCC in ERA at 1.91 in 66 innings. 

Long Beach closer Matthew Pinal and El Camino closer Julian Diaz tied for saves in the regular season with nine each. ECC starter Thomas Bainton was tops in strikeouts with 90.

East Los Angeles, at one time an early leader in the SCC race, finished in fifth place at 11-13 while Rio Hondo was sixth at 9-15. Cerritos placed seventh at 8-16, LA Harbor eighth at 6-18, and Compton was ninth at 4-20.

Release by Robert Lewis, SCC SID