Baseball’s Season Comes to End to Fullerton
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Fullerton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
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El Camino | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
TORRANCE, Calif. --- El Camino College saw its 2026 baseball season come to an abrupt end on Saturday in a 7-5 loss to Fullerton in the 3C2A SoCal Regionals at Warrior Field.
The Warriors suffered their second straight loss at the regional round, eliminating them from the 2026 postseason. Fullerton stayed unbeaten in the regional and advanced to take on Southwestern later in the day.
Slater Nunez, Dylan Mares and Dylan A. Garcia all had multi-hit games for the Warriors and Adrian Pineda went 6.2 innings of one-run baseball on the mound en route to a no-decision.
The Warriors held an early 2-0 lead after three innings and it stood up until the Hornets got one back in the sixth inning. In the eighth, the Hornets made their charge as they scored four runs in the frame to take a 5-2 lead.
But the Warriors mounted a stand in their half of the inning, plating two runs and loading the bases with one out. But Kai Nagashima struck out and Nolan Fox lined out to center to end the threat to keep the Warriors down 5-4.
The Hornets added two runs in the ninth to reclaim a three-run lead and the Warriors made one final stand as pinch-hitter Daniel Craig led off with a walk. Nathan Rivera followed with a single to center to bring the potential tying run to the plate. Nunez flied out to center to move Craig over to third with one out.
Garcia, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter one inning prior, stepped up and came within a few feet of tying the game as his towering drive to left hit off the center of the left-field fence, just a few feet from a game-tying home run.
Instead, Craig scored easily to make it 7-5 on a long single with one out in the inning. Pinch-hitter Isaac Liberman struck out and then Gil Solis flied out to left against Hornets reliever Nico Rodriguez, bringing the Warriors' season to an end.
The Warriors conclude the 2026 season with a 33-9 overall record, the team's second straight 30-win season under head coach Grant Palmer. It's also the fewest losses for a Warriors team since 2019 when the team went 40-9.
