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Heartbreak loss in Regional finals
Freshman left-hander Travis Goset (right), who had pitched only 11 2/3 innings all year, started and turned in a gutty, near-route going showing May 11 vs. Santa Ana in the championship game of the Southern California Community College Regionals' Site D tournament at Myers Field. Goset's performance took the Comets into the ninth inning with a 4-2 lead. Goset left the game with one out and a 4-3 lead after a walk, single and two-base error, and the Dons rallied to win 6-4 and eliminate the Comets.
Goset, trying to become the first Palomar pitcher to beat the Dons since Mark Ringkamp in the 1988 Regionals, retired the first 11 Santa Ana batters and gave up only 6 hits in 8 1/3 innings. Scott Robinson went 2-for-4 for the Comets and drove in 2 runs. Carlos Medina slugged a 2-run homer. Palomar ends the season 27-15.
Robinson signs; Ramos honored
Palomar College outfielder/first baseman Scott Robinson signed a bonus contract with the Houston Astros on Sunday, May 25. Robinson was selected by the Astros in the seventh round of the June 2002 draft and the Astros had until one week prior to this year's draft to sign him before his name went back in the draft pool. Sources said Robinson received a $250,000 signing bonus, virtually doubling the amount he was offered a year earlier by playing one season for the Comets. Robinson has reported to extended spring training at Kissamee, Fla., and then will be assigned to the Astros' Tri-City farm club in the Class A short-season New York-Penn League which begins play the third week of June. In addition, Palomar second baseman Joe Ramos has been selected to the Community College All-America first team and to the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association All-State first team. Ramos has recruiting trips scheduled to Armstrong State, which already has offered him a full scholarship, and Chico State. Both Robinson and pitcher Jon Fleming, who has signed with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, made the All-State second team and the All-Southern California first team.
Giants draft Schmidt in 10th round
Former Palomar outfielder Jesse Schmidt, who set a Sacramento State record this past season by hitting in 24 consecutive games, was drafted by the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday, June 3, in the 10th round. Schmidt, who just completed his junior season, was the second outfielder selected by the Giants. He's expected to sign. The La Costa High School graduate hit .389 for Sac State during the recent season with 81 hits, 53 runs scored, nine doubles, 16 home runs, 55 RBIs and 16 steals. He set a Sac State record with 12 outfield assists, had a .993 fielding percentage with only one error as the Hornets' right fielder and was selected as Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week April 21 by the Collegiate Baseball News. Schmidt helped lead Sacramento State to a 33-24 record. Pitcher Matt Chico, who red-shirted at Palomar this past season, was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the third round.
Pads name ex-Comet to MLB staff
The San Diego Padres named former Palomar College pitcher Darren Balsley as their new pitching coach. General manager Kevin Towers announced the Padres had fired pitching coach Greg Booker and replaced him with Balsley, the pitching coach at Class Double A Mobile, on Saturday, May 17. Balsley pitched for coach Bob Vetter's Comets during the 1983 and 1984 seasons before spending six seasons as a minor league pitcher in the Oakland A's and Toronto Blue Jays organizations. Upon the conclusion of his pitching career in 1990, he both coached in the Toronto Blue Jays organization and then managed the Blue Jays' Rookie Advanced Classification Medicine Hat team. Balsley moved to the Padres' organization in 2000 as pitching coach at Class A Ft. Wayne. In 2001, he was named pitching coach at Lake Elsinore, the Padres' top Class A club. The Padres promoted Balsley to the Class Double A level at Mobile in 2002.

2003 Baseball Schedule and Results

DAY	DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME / RESULT	SUMMARY	ALL	CONF.
PALOMAR INVITATIONAL
Thu	Jan 30	Los Angeles Pierce	Home	W 4-2	Summary	1-0
Fri	Jan 31	Los Angeles Pierce	Home	L 5-6	Summary	1-1
Sat	Feb 1	Cochise (Ariz.)	Home	W 16-14	Summary	2-1
Sun.	Feb 2	Cochise (Ariz.)	Home	L 6-9	Summary	2-2
CYPRESS GUARANTY CHEVROLET CLASSIC
Thu	Feb 6	Saddleback	Away	L 5-6 (10)	Summary	2-3
Fri	Feb 7	Golden West	Away	L 6-16	Summary	2-4
Sat	Feb 7	Long Beach City College	Away	L 2-4	Summary	2-5
		Cypress	Away	L 2-14	Summary	2-6
NONCONFERENCE
Wed	Feb 19	Orange Coast	Home	L 7-8	Summary	2-7
Thu	Feb 20	Golden West	Away	L 13-18	Summary	2-8
PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE
Sat	Feb 22	Southwestern	Away	L 4-5	Summary	2-9	0-1
Thu	Feb 27	Imperial Valley	Away	W 15-5	Summary	3-9	1-1
Tue	Feb 25	Grossmont	Home	W 8-0	Summary	4-9	2-1
Thu	March 6	Southwestern	Away	W 6-3 (10)	Summary	5-9	3-1
Sat	March 8	Southwestern	Home	W 8-2	Summary	6-9	4-1
Tue	March 11	Grossmont	Away	W 9-0	Summary	7-9	5-1
Thu	March 13	Grossmont	Home	W 11-10 (10)	Summary	8-9	6-1
Tue	March 18	Imperial Valley	Home	W 15-1	Summary	9-9	7-1
Thu	March 20	Imperial Valley	Away	W 18-0	Summary	10-9	8-1
Fri	March 21	San Diego City College	Home	W 6-3	Summary	11-9	9-1
Sat	March 22	San Diego Mesa	Home	W 5-2	Summary	12-9	10-1
Tue	March 25	San Diego Mesa	Away	L 0-7	Summary	12-10	10-2
Wed	March 26	San Diego Mesa	Away	W 7-3	Summary	13-10	11-2
Thu	March 27	San Diego City College	Home	W 5-1	Summary	14-10	12-2
Sat	March 29	San Diego City College	Away	L 8-11	Summary	14-11	12-3
Tue	April 1	Southwestern	Away	W 6-3	Summary	15-11	13-3
Thu	April 3	Southwestern	Home	W 12-9	Summary	16-11	14-3
Tue	April 8	Grossmont	Away	W 14-10	Summary	17-11	15-3
Thu	April 10	Grossmont	Home	W 12-9	Summary	18-11	16-3
Sat	April 12	Imperial Valley	Home	W 7-0	Summary	19-11	17-3
NONCONFERENCE
Wed	April 16	Glendale	Home	W 8-3	Summary	20-11
		Glendale	Home	W 10-3	Summary	21-11
Thu	April 17	Glendale	Home	L 5-6	Summary	21-12
PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE
Thu	April 24	San Diego Mesa	Away	W 18-5	Summary	22-12	18-3
Sat	April 26	San Diego Mesa	Home	W 12-4	Summary	23-12	19-3
Tue	April 29	San Diego City College	Away	L 4-10	Summary	23-13	19-4
Wed	April 30	Imperial Valley	Away	W 20-0	Summary	24-13	20-4
Thu	May 1	San Diego City College	Home	W 12-0	Summary	25-13	21-4
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Southern California Regionals Round One
Fri	May 9	East Los Angeles	Home	W 14-8	Summary	26-13
Sat	May 10	Santa Ana	Home	L 4-10	Summary	26-14
		College of the Desert	Home	W 11-7	Summary	27-14
Sun	May 11	Santa Ana	Home	L 4-6	Summary	27-15

2003 Roster

No	Name	Pos	B/T	Ht	Wt	Yr	Exp	Previous School(s)
1	Aaron Garcia	SS	R/R	6-1	175	Fr	HS	Grossmont HS
2	Nick Pursell	2B/SS	R/R	5-5	160	Fr	HS	Poway HS
3	Joe Ramos	2B/SS	R/R	5-10	170	So	JC	Mt. Carmel HS
6	Nobuyuki Hishinuma	2B	R/R	5-11	160	Fr	HS	Jhotho HS (Tokyo, Japan)
7	Scott Robinson	OF/1B/C	L/B	6-1	185	Fr	HS	Rancho Bernardo HS
8	Brendan McNamara	P	R/R	6-2	187	Fr	HS	Oceanside HS
9	Jeff Cummings	1B/DH	L/L	6-1	205	So	JC	Carlsbad HS / San Jose St.
11	Matt Guiliano	2B/3B	L/R	5-8	155	Fr	HS	Valley Center HS
12	Robert Anaya	P	L/L	5-10	170	So	JC	San Marcos HS
13	Bobby Meyers	O/P	L/L	6-0	175	Fr	HS	San Marcos HS
14	Joey Sintetos	P	R/R	6-0	190	So	HS	Vista HS
15	Carlos Medina	OF	R/R	6-0	175	So	JC	Oceanside HS
16	Sean Richardson	C/OF	R/R	6-1	180	So	JC	Vista HS
17	Michael Cerda	C	R/R	6-0	205	So	JC	Oceanside HS
18	Brian Robinson	1B/P	L/L	6-3	200	So	HS	Oceanside HS
19	Charlie Watson	P	R/R	6-2	167	Fr	HS	Rancho Buena Vista HS
21	Darren Bell	OF	R/R	6-0	190	Fr	HS	Mission Bay HS
22	Justin Lehr	P	R/R	6-2	195	Fr	HS	Hemet HS
24	Darren Muren	P	R/R	6-0	180	Fr	HS	Douglas HS (Minden, Nevada)
26	Shawn Balteff	P	R/R	6-3	180	Fr	HS	San Marcos HS
27	Mike Kearney	P	R/R	6-4	208	Fr	HS	San Marcos HS
28	Brad Clipp	P	R/R	6-2	180	Fr	HS	Scripps Ranch HS
29	Travis Goset	P	L/L	6-2	155	Fr	HS	Temecula Valley HS
30	Luke Holbrook	1B/OF	R/R	6-2	215	Fr	HS	San Marcos HS
31	Kyle Thompson	P/OF/1B	R/R	6-5	225	So	JC	Valley Center HS
32	Matt Murphy	P	R/R	6-1	210	So	JC	Carlsbad HS / SD Mesa JC
35	Jon Fleming	P/1B	R/R	6-6	225	So	JC	Valley Center HS
REDSHIRTS
—	Matt Chico	P/OF	L/L	5-10	190	So	D-I	Fallbrook HS / USC
—	Mike Chipp	OF/P	R/R	6-2	175	Fr	HS	Rancho Bernardo HS
—	Chris Sweeney	1B/P	R/R	6-6	205	Fr	HS	Orange Glen HS
—	Ryan Sweetnam	OF/C	R/R	6-3	200	Fr	HS	Poway HS

MORE HEADLINES . . .

Guiliano, Brian Robinson sign

Two more Palomar College baseball players have signed letters of intent with four-year colleges. Third baseman Matt Guliano has accepted a scholarship to Division I Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, while first baseman Brian Robinson signed with Division II UC San Diego.

Guiliano, a sophomore out of Valley Center High School, had a banner year both offensively and defensively in helping lead the Comets to their fourth Pacific Coast Conference championship in six years. Guiliano batted .388 as the team's leadoff hitter with 73 hits, nine doubles, a triple, two home runs, 53 runs scored, 19 RBIs and 21 steals on 23 attempts. His stolen-base total ranks him fourth on the all-time Palomar single-season list, trailing only Tim Mulligan, Ron Howard, his old high school coach Billy Dunckel and Kyle Floquet.

Guiliano went 9-for-16 in the Southern California Regionals and hit safely in his first plate appearances in the postseason.

Guiliano is rated as the best third baseman in Palomar history by current assistant coach and ex-Palomar star Brian Kooiman. Kooiman, who went on to San Diego State, where he was among the nation's RBI leaders, and into pro baseball, generally has been considered as Palomar's best-ever third baseman.

"But Matt can do so many more things than I could do," Kooiman said.

Robinson, a sophomore from Oceanside High School and son of all-time Palomar first base great Randy Robinson, started at first for the Comets the last two seasons. He batted .297 during the regular season. For the overall season, Robinson hit .269 with six doubles, a triple, four home runs and 35 RBIs.

Richardson signs with U. of Kansas

Palomar College catcher-center fielder Sean Richardson signed an NCAA letter of intent Wednesday, November 13, to play baseball in 2004 for Kansas in the Big 12 Conference.

Richardson previously starred at Vista High School, where he played baseball for former Palomar pitching coach Rick Lepire and was the starting quarterback in football under coach Chris Hauser, a former Palomar defensive back.

Fleming signs with Cal Poly

Palomar College baseball pitcher Jon Fleming, who is 15-3 for his career as a Comet, signed with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Wednesday, April 16.

Fleming, a 6-foot-6 sophomore right-hander from Valley Center High School also was contacted by Kansas.

Ex-Comets in 4-year College Baseball 2003

JESSE SCHMIDT, Sacramento St. — Was drafted in the 10th round by the San Francisco Giants after hitting .389 as the Hornets' starting right fielder as a junior with 81 hits, 53 runs scored, nine doubles, 16 home runs, 55 RBIs and 16 steals. Sent a Sac State record by hitting safely in 24 straight games. Fielded .993 with one error all season, and set another Sac State record with 12 outfield assits. Was named Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week on April 21. Sac State Bios (then scroll to Schmidt's name)
KYLE FLOQUET, San Diego St. — Broke into SDSU's starting lineup in left field Feb. 23 by going 2-for-3 with a double, sacrifice fly and RBI against Miami on the road. Also spent stints as the Aztecs' starting shortstop and third baseman and ended the season as their starting second baseman in the Mountain West Conference Tournament in Albuquerque. In the MWC tourney, he hit safely in four of his first nine at-bats with three doubles, one on a one-handed swing when the ball hit the top of the leftfield fence and bounced back onto the field. Went 8-for-13 vs. New Mexico, USD and and in a pair of games against Utah during a four-game stretch as SDSU's starting shortstop April 13-19. Finished his junior season batting .333 for the Aztecs with a .467 slugging percentage. Floquet's SDSU bio
CLIFF HINKLE, Sacramento St. — A part-time starter at second base as a junior for the Hornets who hit .299 with 15 RBIs. Sac State Bios (then scroll to Hinkle's name)
SKIP ADAMS, Florida International — Started at third base and batted .305 for the Golden Panthers with six doubles, two triple, seven home runs and 36 RBIs for a team that went 36-22. Drove in the tying and winning runs with a double to left-center March 25 in a 5-4 win over Harvard, and was 2-for-5 April 16 in a narrow 6-4 loss to Miami. Adams' Florida International bio
STEVE GUTHRIE, UC Irvine — Started part-time at third. Guthrie's UCI bio
ERIC HUMAN, San Diego St. — Pitched in relief. Human's SDSU bio
KEVIN CLAUSEN, University of Portland — Both started and relieved for the Pilots during the 2003 season. Clausen's Portland bio
KEEGAN MOORE, San Francisco St. — Started at catcher as a junior and hit .285.
KEITH ALBRIGHT, San Francisco St. — Was 3-1 with a pair of saves for the Gators as a junior.
VICTOR YOSHIDA, Cal Poly Pomona — Played left field, led off and batted .282 with 24 RBIs for the Broncos.
RALPHIE MARIN, Point Loma Nazarene — Started at third as a junior and hit .339 with 12 doubles, a home run, 25 RBIs and a .418 slugging percentage. Was an All-Golden State Athletic Conference selection and was an NAIA All-America honorable mention pick. Marin's PLNU bio
MATT WOYCHAK, Point Loma Nazarene — Was the Crusaders' No. 2 starter and compiled a 2-2 record, a 3.96 ERA and recorded 60 strikeouts and 33 walks in 77 1/3 innings. Woychak's PLNU bio
DUSTIN DAVIS, Point Loma Nazarene — Appeared in 13 games as a utility player. Davis' PLNU bio
PAUL SWEENEY, Pittsburg St. — Struck out 39 batters and walked 13 in 47 innings for the Gorillas. Appeared in 10 games and started seven. signed with the Ozark Ducks Independent minor league pro team after the season.
JASON WONDERLICH, Northwest Nazarene — Started in right field, batted cleanup and hitting .31 with 1 doubles, a triple, four homers and 21 RBIs. Also appeared in 12 games as a pitcher. Wonderlich's NW Nazarene profile
BRIAN GIRGENTI, Bloomfield College — Pitched in relief. Bloomfield Bios (then scroll to Girgenti's name)

Ex-Comets in Pro Baseball 2003

PLAYER, POSITION	ORGANIZATION	LEVEL
Keith Anderson, catcher/pitcher	San Francisco Giants	AAA
Gera Alvarez, shortstop	Baltimore Orioles	A
Jake Guzman, catcher	Kansas City Royals	A
Scott Robinson, outfielder	Houston Astros	A
Jesse Schmidt, outfielder	San Francisco Giants	A
Greg Bochy, third base	San Diego Padres	A
Skip Adams, third base	Kansas City (Frontier League)	Ind.
Jeff Nettles, third base	Somerset (Atlantic League)	Ind.
Garry Templeton, outfield	Gary Southshore (Northern League)	Ind.
Bobby Koba, second base	Springfield/Ozark (Central League)	Ind.
Ryan Larson, third base	Cook County (Frontier League)	Ind.
Will Flynt, pitcher/manager	Cananea (Arizona-Mexican League)	Ind.
Paul Sweeney, pitcher	Springfield/Ozark (Central League)	Ind.
Matt Woychak, pitcher	Richmond (Frontier Lesgue)	Ind.
Chad Stewart, outfield	Alexandria (Central League)	Ind.
Nathan Meza, pitcher	Tecate (Arizona-Mexican League)	Ind.
Phil Thompson, outfield	Gary Southshore (Northern League)	Ind.
Adam Thompson, outfield	Cananea (Arizona-Mexican League)	Ind.
Coaching, Scouting
Randy Johnson, Asst. VP	Oakland A's (Played Major League Baseball with Atlanta Braves)
Jason McLeod, Scout	San Diego Padres
Darren Balsley, Major League Pitching Coach	San Diego Padres

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