2025 Hornet Baseball News
Freshman pitcher Christian Valent is taking his talents to the next level after committing to the Millersville University Marauders.
Two-year starting outfielder Noah Rodriguez will continue his academic and baseball career at Savannah State University, capping off a strong run with the Hornets.
Julian Castro, Manny Lopez, Ethan Harris, Jake Larson, and Ashton McNaughton will be moving on to the next level after signing deals with four-year colleges.
Dillon Anderson, an exceptional outfielder and Trevor Schmidt an astonishing infielder have both decided to take their talents to Grand Canyon University and together remain teammates. Both players overcame obstacles coming out of their freshman year from injuries to transfer portal uncertainty. Learning from Coach Chad Baum, Trevor and Dillon will take those lessons and apply them on and off the field continuing their baseball careers playing on the next level.
It was a great year for Fullerton College Athletics with many individual accomplishments achieved as well as team success as the department invited parents, faculty, coaches, students, and campus administration to the North Gym on Tuesday afternoon to celebrate distinguished student-athletes for the 26th Academic Athletic Awards.
The Baseball Hornets did what they had to do against Grossmont at Cypress College on Friday beating the Griffins 15-7 in game one of the Super Regionals.
Voted on by the coaches last week, four Hornets earned All-Orange Empire Conference honors in Dillon Anderson, Luke Viola, Julian Castro, and Manny Lopez.
The Hornet baseball team took care of business in the first round of the SoCal Regional Playoffs at Santa Barbara City College over the weekend winning two out of three games.
The 3C2A Southern California Regionals are set and ready to go with No. 14 Fullerton gearing up for a road trip to No. 11 Santa Barbara City College this weekend.
After beating Saddleback 11-6 on the road Tuesday, the Hornets kept it going at home Thursday knocking off the Bobcats 8-7 in the bottom of the ninth.
A late push handed Fullerton a 7-6 win over Golden West at home Friday, while Hornet head coach Chad Baum collected his 100th career victory.
The Fullerton College baseball team continued its strong run of form Tuesday afternoon with a big 8-1 victory over visiting Golden West, fueled by timely hitting, lockdown pitching, and a deep bullpen performance.
Joshua Porter pitched six shutout innings, and the Hornets exploded for a five-run ninth inning to dominate Irvine Valley 11-1 in a needed road-win on Thursday.
The Hornet baseball squad welcomed Santa Ana College to the FC campus on Saturday afternoon and blew past the 13-8 Dons thanks to a late offensive explosion.
Santa Ana and Fullerton met at Hornet Field on Tuesday to kick off a three-game Orange Empire Conference series and it was the Dons that took game one 9-6.
At home on Saturday, it was the 1st Annual Don Hudson Scholarship Game for the Hornets, and the team did not let Don down defeating Orange Coast College 2-1 in walk-off fashion.
