COACHES

Shawn Gilbert- Head Coach
sgilbert@servitehs.org

The 2023 baseball season marks Coach Gilbert's 9th season at the helm for the Friars after coming to Servite from Long Beach State University where he served as an assistant coach and was the hitting, outfield coach, and 3B coach from 2010 to 2014.

Coach Gilbert has led the Friars to the playoffs every year since 2017 (excluding 2020 due to COVID-19) while notching his 125^th career win earlier this season. He has also helped send 60+ players to compete collegiately since 2014 with eight members from the Class of 2022 signed to play at four-year programs and three from the Class of 2023 committed.

Before his time at Long Beach State, Coach Gilbert spent five years at Fresno Pacific University as an assistant coach and helped start a brand-new program there. During that time, the Fresno Pacific Sunbirds appeared in three regionals and made one trip to the NAIA College World Series. While at FPU Gilbert served as the teams hitting, infield, and 3B coach.

Coach Gilbert received his bachelor’s degree from Fresno State University where he played two seasons under legendary coach Bob Bennett. Before attending Fresno State, Gilbert started his college career at Arizona State University, then transferred to Golden West College. After Fresno State he went on to play professional baseball and upon his retirement as a player he went back and finished his bachelor’s degree and then went on to earn his Master’s degree from Fresno Pacific University.

Gilbert came into coaching with an extensive baseball background having played 17 seasons professionally. Gilbert played for seven different major league organizations with a one-year stint in the Japanese Major Leagues. He played parts of three seasons in the Major Leagues with the New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Gilbert also had the opportunity to represent Team USA in international play once as an 18 year old in the World Friendship Series, again in 1999 in the Pan Am Games where the US won Silver medal and qualified for the 2000 Olympics, and was an alternate on the Gold Medal winning 2000 Olympic team that competed in Sydney, Australia.

Dave Lappin- Varsity Assistant Coach

Coach Lappin joined Servite's coaching staff in 2017 after a successful career at Loara High School where he was the Head Coach for 24 years. An alumnus of the Saxons’ program, he also helped lead the team to a CIF Division 3A Championship title as a player in 1983. He went on to play collegiately at Cal Berkeley under Hall of Fame Coach Bob Milano. Coach Lappin’s son Jake is a Servite graduate, Class of 2020, having played 1^st base for the Friars before going on to compete at OCC.

Logan Lombana – Pitching Coach

Coach Lombana has coached club baseball in both Northern California (Hardtke Baseball Academy) and Southern California (TB SoCal) while serving as the head pitching instructor at A2D Sports.

Coach Lombana attended Long Beach State on a baseball scholarship from 2012 -2015, participating in the College World Series Regional in 2014. He was drafted in the 25th round of the MLB Draft by the Minnesota Twins in 2015 and went on to play professional baseball for 7 seasons, 5 of which he was with the Minnesota Twins organization.  Following his time with the Twins, he went on to play two years of independent baseball in the American Association.

After retiring from pro baseball, Coach Lombana returned to Long Beach State and received his Bachelor's degree in Communications. Before college and pro ball, he attended Newark Memorial High School where he was a two-sport athlete playing baseball & soccer. He also earned 1st team All-League in both sports three years in a row. 

Zack Stack – JV Head Coach

Coach Stack joined the Servite coaching staff in 2021 and will return for his third year as the JV head coach helping to develop the younger players in preparation succeed at the varsity level. Stack graduated from La Habra High School in 2016 before going on to play at Irvine Valley College from 2017-2018 then Georgetown College (KY) in 2019-2020. 

Dominic Masciel ’15 – Freshman Head Coach

Eldest of 3 boys, all graduating from Servite, the Masciels have a long history with Servite High School. Dominic and his brothers all played football at Servite, as well as he and his youngest brother, CJ ’19, playing baseball for the Friars. Coach Masciel went on to play baseball at Compton College for a year, where he won the gold glove at catcher in the South Coast Conference. After a season with Compton, Dominic went north to Oakland where he played two seasons for Holy Names University, of the Pac West Conference. While at HNU, he received a Bachelor’s Degree in business with concentrations in Business Management, Sports Management, and Pre-Law. In his final year at HNU he also received an MBA in Management and Leadership. 

SPONSORS

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The individuals and companies below have made it possible for us to invest in our program and build toward a successful future.
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