The JV opened its fall season with a 16-4 home win over Taft on Saturday afternoon, scoring in four of six innings on 18 hits.

Derek Marshall started the first with a bunt single, and Bodie Johnson's two-run double and Jaedyn Morales's RBI double made it 3-0. In the second, Brody Kersting and Gavin Tergo singled, Marshall walked, and Casey Nickson's two-run single started a four-run inning.

Taft scored twice on bases-loaded walks in the second and once each in the third and fifth. Valencia added two in the fifth on a wild pitch and Jordan Ramos's RBI single, then put it away with seven runs in the sixth: Caden Cabunoc doubled and scored on Steven Genovese's single, Tyler Lord doubled home two, Genovese doubled home another, and Ramos singled home two more.

Ben Winger closed it with two perfect innings, striking out three of the six batters he faced, and Cabunoc struck out two over two innings before him.

Genovese reached base all four times with two hits and two walks, Cabunoc reached all three times and scored three runs, and Tergo and Johnson each went 2-for-2 with a double.