Valencia scored four runs in the first inning at Highland in Palmdale on Saturday, and six pitchers combined for 13 strikeouts in an 11-1 win, the varsity's second of the fall.

Cole DeYoung opened the game with a double, and three straight batters were hit by pitches, JT Gurne, Evan Conrad, and Tyler Lord, the last forcing in the first run. Santino Cascione singled home two more and Brady Ruffner added a sacrifice fly. Valencia scored three more in the second on Jaedyn Morales's single, two Highland errors, DeYoung's RBI single, and Gurne's sacrifice bunt, and Casey Nickson singled, stole second, and scored on Conrad's triple in the third.

Steven Genovese struck out four over two hitless innings to start, and Jordan Ramos struck out three. In the fifth, Lord threw out a runner trying to steal home, and Braden Cianci struck out the side in the sixth. Caden Cabunoc struck out two in the seventh, and Highland's only run came on a solo home run in the eighth.

Nickson tripled home DeYoung in the sixth and scored on a wild pitch, and Cascione singled home courtesy runner Alex Bramson in the seventh. DeYoung finished 3-for-3, Cascione drove in three, and the defense played errorless baseball.