The El Camino College baseball team will be returning to the diamond with much of the same roster that reached the 3C2A SoCal Super Regionals last season.<\/p>\n
The Warriors, who posted a 32-14 record, finished third in the South Coast Conference, recording the most wins in a season since 2019, when ECC won 40 games.<\/p>\n
Under third-year coach Grant Palmer, this year\u2019s team will be entering the 2026 season, with a deeper roster, carrying 39 players.<\/p>\n
One key area of strength is on the mound.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Cameron O\u2019Neil (West Torrance High), an All-South Coast Conference First Team selection leads the returning group. As a freshman, O\u2019Neil posted a 10-3 record, a 3.08 ERA with 77 strikeouts in 84 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast season, we were a young team, didn\u2019t have a lot of experience \u2013 this year, that\u2019s an advantage for us, because we have a lot of guys coming back from that freshman class,\u201d O\u2019Neil said. \u201cI think we have a good foundation that we started from and a lot of good freshmen that came in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophomores Adrian Pineda (Serra) and Tyler Tellenbach (Palos Verdes) also bring back valuable experience. Pineda went 7-2 last season, with a 3.02 ERA in 83 1\/3 innings. Tellenbach went 3-1 in 32 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Newcomers Anthony Camarena, freshman left-hander from Banning and Matthew Krause (Mira Costa), who spent last season at UC Irvine are also expected to contribute.<\/p>\n
Slater Nunez (Torrance) earned SCC first team honors last season. Nunez was an all-first team selection in the South Coast Conference. He hit .337 and drove in 42 runs. He was also the team\u2019s closer and recorded nine saves and struck out 19.<\/p>\n
Dylan Mares (Carson) supplied the power last season, hitting eight home runs. Mares, who also earned all region honors, drove in 32 runs.<\/p>\n
Palmer\u2019s coaching staff has remained largely intact, with the exception of Grant Mayeaux, who is now the head coach at Chaffey College. Beyond personnel, Palmer said physical development has been a key factor in progression from the fall into the spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey got out after it in the weight room, starting after the season in the summer and as well in the fall,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n
He added that cohesion and team chemistry has been another strength of the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re friends on the field and off the field, which bleeds on the field,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n
The Warriors will open the season Friday at home in the Memorial Cup series against Orange Coast College. The series shifts to OCC Saturday and concludes Tuesday back at ECC.<\/p>\n
Conference play will begin Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the road against Compton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The El Camino College baseball team will be returning to the diamond with much of the same roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1703,3329,1694,2341,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-531257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college-baseball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-high-school-baseball","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-baseball","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115934401959231896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}