In the first game of the conference season, the Skyline Trojan pitchers served up three homeruns as Cañada College walked away with a win, 6-3 on Mar 1.

Skyline pitcher Dan Orlick was charged with the loss, pitching a 5.2 inning, giving up three runs on eight hits.

“We made some mistakes pitching,” Skyline head coach Dino Nomicos summarized. “We didn’t hit our spots and they hit three home runs.”

In the third inning, Cañada got on the scoreboard first, as outfielder Ryan Peterson crushed a solo homerun.

Skyline answered back in the fourth, as outfielder Jimmy Parque led off the inning with a triple, and the next batter, Rashad Taylor, was walked. Then, Danny McCarthy grounded out to second base and Parque scored on the throw.

But that was the closest the Trojans got the rest of the game, as Peterson hit his second homerun of the game, a two-run blast in the fifth.

Skyline was unable to come back for Cañada Pitcher Eric Fregosi was able to keep the Trojan batters flailing at his off-speed pitches, forcing Skyline batters into 14 ground-outs. Fregosi threw a complete game, giving up only three runs on six hits, with five strikeouts and two walks.

“The guy [Fregosi] did a nice job pitching but we could have done a better job offensively,” Coach Nomicos said.

Outfielder Jimmy Parque led the Trojans with two hits and succeeded in scored two runs, and outfielder Danny McCarthy had two RBIs.

“They didn’t beat us. We beat ourselves,” Nomicos said.

Skyline’s batters 4-9 went with a combined 3-21 scoring one run, compared to Cañada’s 4-9 batters going a combined 7-26 with two RBIs, scoring three runs.

“We didn’t swing the bat well at all, the guys were a little tight today,” Nomicos said.

The Trojans record is now 10-6, and 0-1 in conference. Cañada moves to 10-7, and 1-0 in conference.

“The difference was an inability to do what we were taught, that’s it,” Nomicos said.