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Salt Lake City • The seasonlong plans for Skyline coach Erik Hansen, at this point of the campaign, was to have solidified who he'll use on the mound.

Surely, he'll sleep better knowing that one of his key hurlers is back on track.

After one off game, Eagles senior Dimitri Sakellariou shut out West through five innings of work and Skyline (4-4) cruised by the Panthers 11-0 on Wednesday.

Sakellariou, who was roughed up in an 8-0 loss to Mountain Crest last weekend at the Snow Canyon tournament, was in charge most of the time against West (4-4).

And when the visitors got runners on third base, in the third and fifth innings, the Eagles pitcher got the outs needed to retire the Panthers.

"I pitched really bad [against Mountain Crest]; I went only 12⁄3 innings last time," Sakellariou said. "So pitching five innings today — everything was good."

"We had a little bit of a slow start. We've dropped three one-run games, and two of the three we were ahead," Hansen said. "We've just got to find a way to win those close games."

Though it wasn't close against West, Hansen brought in his projected closer for such situations. And Brock Kennick set down the Panthers batters in order in the sixth — his only inning of work.

The game ended due to the 10-run mercy rule when Skyline plated four runs in the bottom of the sixth.

"I think right now we've got our pitching worked out where we want and our closer where we want," Hansen said. "And I think we're swinging the bat better."

The Eagles got a dozen hits in the contest, starting with a double in the first from Abe Yagi and an RBI single from Riley Hennings for the game's first run.

Skyline also got a run-scoring double in the second from Nick Scott and another two-bagger from Sakellariou to kick off the sixth-inning rally.

The rest of the damage, with some help from four West errors, were done via singles. But the Eagles coach didn't have any problem with that.

"We really focused yesterday on line drives and ground balls. I felt like, down in St. George, we had too many pop-ups at key points," Hansen said.

West coach Cory Norton said his team is trying to develop for region play. One unforseen complication came when pitcher Mitch Imamura went down with an injury.

"We're hoping that, by region, our sophomores [Wednesday starter Wingate Seeger-Kauffman and fellow pitcher Carlos Medina] will kind of catch up to the varsity speed," Norton said. "Then hopefully we'll get our senior [Imamura] back and then we'll be in pretty good shape with our pitching." —

Skyline 11, West 0

R Skyline pitcher Dimitri Sakellariou works five scoreless innings, and reliever Brock Kennick retires West 1-2-3 in the sixth.

• Sakellariou, Abe Yagi and Nick Scott each double in the Eagles' 12-hit attack.

• Skyline beat West, 12-7, Saturday in St. George.