2026 COD Baseball News
College of the Desert center fielder Brandon Leon (La Quinta H.S.) has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his academic and athletic career at UCLA.
The College of the Desert Athletics Department is proud to announce that former Roadrunner left-handed pitcher Michael-Alan Stanford has signed a professional baseball contract with the Utica Unicorns of the United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL).
After falling flat in Game 1, the College of the Desert Baseball team had its postseason back against the wall, and delivered in dramatic fashion.
Under the tutelage of sixth-year head coach Sam DiMatteo, the No. 8-seeded Roadrunners baseball team concluded the 2026 season by earning its fifth consecutive playoff berth.
College of the Desert Baseball has earned the No. 8 seed and will host No. 9 Saddleback and No. 17 Cerritos in the opening round of the Southern California Regional Playoffs after capturing their 8th conference title.
The College of the Desert baseball team (28-5; 18-2 IEAC) secured its eighth Inland Empire Athletic Conference championship, and first since 2022, by completing a four-game season sweep of Mt. San Jacinto (18-17; 12-9 IEAC) with a 9-3 victory.
College of the Desert Baseball continued its dominant run through conference play, extending its winning streak to 15 games with a 9-1 victory over Barstow.
The Roadrunners (23-4, 13-1) extended their winning streak to 13 games on Saturday, completing a dominant three-game sweep of Chaffey College with a 14-4 victory. The series sweep marks COD’s first over the Panthers since 1999.
The College of the Desert baseball team had to grind through the early innings, but once the bats came alive, there was no slowing the Roadrunners.
The College of the Desert baseball team continued its strong start to the season Tuesday, rallying for three runs in the seventh inning to defeat former Foothill Conference rival Rio Hondo College, 5–3, in a back-and-forth contest reminiscent of the programs’ long conference rivalry.
The College of the Desert baseball team continues to make history.
The College of the Desert baseball team continued its dramatic run through conference play on Friday afternoon, rallying for its third walk-off victory of the season to defeat Mt. San Jacinto, 6–5.
The Roadrunners overcame a last-minute venue change due to weather in San Bernardino and turned it into a perfect opportunity to showcase their resilience.
The College of the Desert baseball team opened Inland Empire Athletic Conference (IEAC) play in emphatic fashion Tuesday afternoon, powering past the San Bernardino Valley College Wolverines, 14–7, at home.
The College of the Desert baseball team showed both resilience and firepower on the way to a 15–8 win over Compton on Tuesday, using a massive fifth inning to pull away.
The College of the Desert baseball team opened the 2026 season in style, sweeping a weekend twin bill from Los Angeles Harbor, 7–3 and 4–3 (10 innings), under picture-perfect skies in Palm Desert.
