In the first ever county double-header, the Skyline Trojans (6-19, 2-7) lose at home 65-70 to our sister school rival the Cañada Colts, in front of the biggest crowd of the season.

The intensity was up all night as the women’s and men’s basketball team played a double feature on Feb 7. Reporters from various papers around the area came to witness the spectacle, and a video crew was there covering the game for local cable.

“[It was] just the way it worked out,” said Joe Morello, the interim Dean of Physical Education and Athletics. “It was our best draw all year.”

However, on this night, it didn’t work out for the men’s basketball team. The Trojans lost their fifth game in a row.

Jeremy Francis, who was averaging 11 points a game during their last two loses, was held to six points, scoring four of them in the last couple minutes of the game.

“Wouldn’t say it was one of his best nights,” Coach Justin Piergrossi said. “We didn’t give him a lot of help by creating anything for him either.”

Unfortunately, Francis did not get much help from his teammates. Sophomore guard Tony Patch scored only 2 points, he had averaged 15.5 points per game the previous two games, and freshman guard Devin Haught was held scoreless in the second-half, as he finished with three points. Over the same two games, Haught had been averaging 12 points per game.

“We didn’t get a whole lot of dribble penetration and kick tonight because we got to the rim a lot, so we were laying up or giving it off to our inside guys instead of kicking it out for the three,” says coach Piergrossi.

Freshman forward James Whitley played solid, scoring six big points in the second half that helped the Trojans inch the lead down to four with 1:36 left to play, but the Colts made enough free throws to win the game, as well as their ability to turn it over a few times less than the Trojans.

“We turned it over to much a lot of them were unforced, it was our fault, we just weren’t playing solid,” Coach Piergrossi states, a tinge of disappointment in his voice, as another win slips through his hands.