Cañada College experienced a 14-1 victory over Skyline College Tuesday afternoon.The Skyline Trojans and the Cañada Colts faced off in the March 25 conference game at Skyline.

Skyline switched pitchers three times during the game.There were quite a few dropped balls and strike outs.Skyline infielder #44 Lance Montano played a good game, aggressively going after the balls and focused on the plays.

“We just need to bring intensity to the game,” Montano said.“We went out Saturday to Hartnell and we won 10-1 with fifteen hits and we had intensity the whole game.We were a little flat this game. We just need to bring back the intensity that we had before.”

What worked for him personally with this game was “staying with the game plan, sticking to it, and knowing what I had to do, keep my rule and just producing it.”

When looking towards the future and the next game “what didn’t work, we need to stop trying doing too much and not try to hit a home run and stick to the game plan.Just know how good we really are and not play below our skill level.”

According to Montano, the Trojans have to make sure to keep reflecting and learning.

“We come to the locker room after a tough loss or a good win and discuss and see what we did wrong, what we could do better.It can come from us.We need to follow what the coach gives us and play as a team.” Montano said.

It just was not enough to beat Cañada ’s team, with pitcher Joe Marcucci, remaining in the game for all nine innings.

Marcucci said, “the fact that we really tried to exploit the weakness in the hitters the second top to the lineup, I had a little bit of hump going into the fourth, fifth inning so taking a little serious look at the scoreboard in between innings really helped me today.”

“Evaluate the charts in between innings kinda have an idea who is coming up next inning and what type of hitter they are and what type of ball they hit well.”

During the third inning, #10 Tyler Rios slipped and fell at third base.Rios was assisted off the field.

“Next in the conference we play Gavilan or Ohlone College, whichever team wins today.They are playing at the same time we are here at Skyline.”The Colts head coach, Tony Lucca said.

According to the California Community College Baseball Coaches website, Cabrillo took Ohlone with a score of 7-1 while Gavilan beat Hartnell 12-7.Currently, Cañada’s record is 15-6 overall, and 9-3 in the conference.