The Vikings baseball team ends their season on a high note with a 12-6 victory against L.A. Harbor on Friday, ending up with a record of 18-21 for the 2025-2026 season.
The game started with right fielder Dylan Mayorga, who hit an RBI single to score outfielder Myles Fendrick to open up the scoring 1-0 in the top of the first inning.
Young and promising starting pitcher Zach Papscoe got to work as he went six innings, giving up four hits, one run, and four strikeouts to end his freshman campaign.
The offense would back up Papscoe’s stellar performance by scoring 12 runs, with a couple of errors committed by L.A. Harbor, to give them their eighteenth win to end the season.
Coach Visico talked about how special this team was to him, as it was his first year taking the role of head coach, replacing legendary LBCC head coach Casey Crook.
“This is always going to be a special group, just because it’s my first team. So I’m definitely going to cherish this and the team and the guys who are leaving. So this is definitely going to be a special one, it’s a good chapter in my book,” said Visico.
Visico has a lot of optimism for his second year as head coach, as their program has a very bright future.
“We do have some returners coming back that are going to be key parts, it’s just trying to find guys who are going to surround them, just to make them an overall better player, better team. We’ll be ready for next year,” said Visico.
Sophomore outfielder Myles Fendrick, who went 3-4 at the plate, talked about his approach as this was his last game as a Viking.
“I was just trying to think, have fun, you know it’s the last day I’ll be in this uniform, so just trying to have a good time, put up a good time, put up a good game, a good win. I think I played pretty good, went through four, two walks, we played a good game,” said Fendrick.
Zach Papscoe, the rising starting pitcher for LBCC men’s baseball, talked about his performance today and how it meant for him to play with the sophomores who are leaving the baseball program.
“Overall, I felt like I did pretty good. I was recently just really sick, so this game I just decided to lock it in and just give it my all as it was the last game with the sophomores.”
“Will DeBlanc and Dylan Proost played a role for me when I came in here. I didn’t know anybody. I’m from Torrance so they really took me under their wing and just really worked with me,” said Papscoe.
LBCC Vikings baseball team ended the overall season 18-21, 13-11 in conference, 9-11 at home, and 8-10 in away games.
