DeYoung goes 3-for-3 and six pitchers strike out 13 at Highland

Cole DeYoung had three hits and a stolen base, Santino Cascione drove in three, and Casey Nickson tripled home a run. Tyler Lord threw out a runner trying to steal home, and Valencia played an errorless game in an 11-1 win at Highland.

Cole DeYoung, in a Valencia Vikings shirt and purple batting helmet, running the bases at Highland. — Cole DeYoung went 3-for-3 with a double, stole a base, and scored twice at Highland.

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.

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JVW 5-4 at Simi Valley

Marshall's first career RBI is the go-ahead single in the 10th

Ten Valencia pitchers threw an inning each and gave up four runs between them. Elijah Patlian worked a scoreless ninth and took the win, and Jackson Lord closed the tenth with a strikeout for the first save of his career. Elijah Garcia needed six pitches for a perfect eighth, and Matthew Webb's fifth was perfect as well.

Simi Valley scored first. Valencia tied it in the second when Elijah Avlas walked, stole second, and scored on Lord's single, and Mikey Cintra drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth to go ahead. Kasen Caranto doubled and came home on Patlian's single in the sixth, and Patlian stole second and third and scored on Cooper Rzewuski's single for a 4-1 lead.

Simi Valley answered with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh to tie it, and neither side scored again until the 10th, when Patlian singled, took second on an error, and Derek Marshall singled him home. Rzewuski handled five chances at first base, Miles Shelofsky had four assists, and the two of them combined with Lord on a double play behind Brody Kersting in the third.

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