The Skyline baseball team ended the season with a loss at De Anza 7-4 April 4 ending the year with a record of 18-22.
     The Trojans had an up and down season riddled with a lot of injuries and poor defense.
     “We lost our third baseman,” Baseball head coach Dino Nomicos said. “We lost key infielders and we didn’t have the kids to replace them.”
     They had a lot of upside to the year with a good pitching staff that had an ERA (earned run average) of 3.08 against their opponents.
     “We had some pitchers like (Jon) Kimball really stepped up as one of the starting pitchers,” said Skyline pitcher Dave Lind. “(Adam) Hartman had a great year and I did my thing. So this year we had a really good year as a pitching staff.”
     Offensively the Trojans were in the top ten in hitting with a .340, which will be the fourth year in a row that has happened under Coach Nomicos. Shortstop Jermy Acey was one of the reasons he is leading the state in hits with 65.
     “If he ends up leading the state in hitting then three of the last four years the state leader would have been from Skyline College.” Nomicos said.
     In 22 of their losses this season, Skyline lost 12 of them by one run or less.
     “We competed in the games we were in but just fell short.”
     During the year the Trojan freshman stepped up and played well during the year.
     “The freshman really came up strong during the end of the season and put themselves in pretty good position to be a better team next year.” Skyline first baseman Chris Watters said.
     The players start from August all the way to May to get a chance to play in the playoffs and this year Skyline fell short of their goal. Baseball is tough to get in the playoffs at the jr. college level. This year in a seven team division Coast Conference North two teams are headed to the playoffs.
     “Next year we are going to be pretty good and hopefully we won’t get bitten by the injury bug like we have been these past few years and see what happens.” Nomicos said.