Jeremy Balan, Sports Editor

Florence Wilson, the starting center for the women’s basketball team at the beginning of the season, will be transferring to Division I Arkansas-Pine Bluff on a full scholarship to play basketball.

The Golden Lions finished with a 12-19 record last season with a 9-9 record in Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) play and expect Wilson to contribute immediately.

“She is going to be in a position to start,” Pine Bluff Head Coach Danny Evans said. “She’s the tallest kid on our team and has great hands and footwork for a post player.” [Read more →]

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Professional Drifter Juggles School, Career

Stacey Wang, Editor-in-Chief

After his car plummeted from a cliff last year, the 21-year-old PCC student took only a quick moment to shake off the shock before he thought of continuing the race.

Illustrating the unexpected detour he took in his 2000 Subaru Impreza, Ken Gushi recalled how he plunged off of a turn called Engineer’s Corner with the car hitting a tree in mid-air. It snapped and broke the fall, dropping him and his navigator unscathed at the base of the mountain. [Read more →]

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Franco Sui Yuan, Staff Writer

The effective batting in the first two innings led the East L.A. College Huskies to a 10-3 victory over PCC’s softball team Tuesday at Pasadena’s Brookside Park.

With the loss, the Lancers finished their season with an overall 13-24 record, 4-11 in the South Coast Conference, while the Huskies picked up their first conference victory, improving their record to 14-24, 1-13-1 in the SCC.

The end of the season also marked the farewell of sophomore players Kimberly Aviles, Danielle McCullin, Veronica Peru, and Jessica Torres. [Read more →]

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Ryan Nunez, Staff Writer

PCC plummeted further down the South Coast Conference baseball standings Thursday, losing to the Cerritos Falcons 6-2, in a dramatic fashion. The loss dropped PCC’s record to 4-29 overall and 4-10 in conference play. It was the Lancers’ second loss to Cerritos in three days and gave Cerritos a 3-0 season series sweep.

The Lancers held Cerritos to three runs over eight innings, but were held scoreless themselves through six. They were down 3-0 in the seventh, when they finally broke loose for two runs on RBI’s by freshman Roderick Martinez and sophomore Brian Ladeira. But the bats were unable to break the inning open and the bullpen finally gave way, as the Falcons exploded for three runs in the ninth to seal the win. [Read more →]

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Jeremy Balan, Sports Editor

After leading the state in scoring this year, PCC men’s basketball star guard Harold Cleveland signed a letter of intent to play for Xavier University of Louisiana on a full scholarship.

Xavier is located in New Orleans and is a Division I National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school and has been invited to five out of the last eight National Championship Tournaments.

Cleveland chose Xavier over the likes of California Lutheran University (Thousand Oaks), Chaminade University (Hawaii) and Maine, an NCAA Division I school. [Read more →]

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Franco Sui Yuan, Staff Writer

In fast-paced games, the PCC women’s badminton team outplayed Los Angeles City College, 19-2, on Wednesday at the Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.

Prior to the game, the Lancers had already earned five points in advance, as the Cubs were short a number of players.
While PCC played with all six players, LACC started only with four.

Sophomore Angeline Kornelus won her two singles’ games with superiority, as she used her experience to beat her opponents. Kornelus defeated Cubs’ Madison Tarr, 21-4, 21-6 and Magdalena Rogosz, 21-4, 21-1. [Read more →]

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Szilvia Gogh, Staff Writer

Yoga student Lisa Jover first found the idea of Bikram yoga ridiculous. She could not fathom why would people do yoga in a 105 degree Fahrenheit room.

“When my girlfriends pressed on [me] trying and, I told them that my body does not need such a heavy [load],” Jover reflects to the days before her love evolved for this type of exercising. [Read more →]

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Ryan Nunez, Staff Writer

Returning state champion Keisuke Yagi continued to set the South Coast Conference on fire, leading the PCC men’s swim team to victory over El Camino College (0-3) on Friday, 70-57.

While the win was the first of the year for the Lancers, bringing their record to 1-2, winning is nothing new to Yagi. He remains undefeated in 2008 as he claimed victory in the 200 yard freestyle, the 200 butterfly and the 500 freestyle against El Camino and has established himself as a highly sought after national recruit. While Yagi continued his dominance, the men’s team had many other standout performances. [Read more →]

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Jeremy Balan, Sports Editor

After advancing through the Regional Playoffs, the PCC women’s basketball team was knocked out in the semi-final round of the State Championship Tournament against Foothill College on Saturday. [Read more →]

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Rodrigo Mejia, Staff Writer

PCC’s softball team managed four runs in the first two innings against host Glendale Community College before errors and silent bats allowed Glendale to rally and rout the Lancers 10-4 on Monday.

Thanks in part to freshman Monica Camacho’s two run single in the second inning, PCC ended its half of the inning with a 4-1 lead.

The Lancers would not add to that lead for the rest of the game as concentration problems plagued the defense, allowing Glendale to slip through their fingers and continue their offensive tear. [Read more →]

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