The Skyline baseball team’s goal every year is to win 20 games, and it’s hard to come closer than it did last year.

The Eagles opened districts with a 19-15 record, and drew Pioneer in a quarterfinal game. The game went to extra innings after both pitchers threw complete games, but ended for Skyline on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning.

The result was short of the team’s goals, but still marked progress for the third-year varsity program.

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Top Players: Senior Jack Clark is the team’s No. 1 pitcher and starting shortstop, and is coming off hitting .423 last year. Center fielder Joel Frison a junior, hits second in the lineup and scored 31 runs last year. Sophomores Brody Stevens and Matt Blunk have alsoAppeal to be filed Aug. 14 for Whitey Bulger

Notorious Boston mobster serving life sentence

Lawyers for former crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger say they'll file their appeal of his 2013 convictions with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 14.

Bulger, 84, is serving life in prison. He was convicted in a broad racketeering case, including 11 killings and other gangland crimes in the 1970s and 80s.

The notice Thursday didn't give details. Bulger's lawyers have said he believes he should have been allowed to argue that a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity.

Bulger headed Boston's Irish mob and was an FBI informant against the rival New England Mafia. His case became a major embarrassment for the FBI when it was learned corrupt Boston agents took bribes from him