The Valencia Viking football team (2-0) was dominant over Silverado High School Hawks (0-3) Friday night as they piled on the points to take home the win by a score of 69-19. 

After a three and out from the Viking defense to open the game, the Valencia offense did its part in turn, driving 50 yards for the score on a 29 yard run from senior running back Nick Pham with 9:31 to go in the first quarter.

On the ensuing Silverado drive the Hawks’ quarterback Jessie Murillo took a shot deep on 3rd and 22 only to be picked off by Valencia’s Jake Santos who took it in for the score with 8:42 remaining in the first quarter.

After that, Santos also got involved on the offensive side of the ball.

On Valencia’s next possession, Ryan Morrison connected with Santos running to the left out of the backfield and managed to turn the edge and take the ball 16 yards for the score to make it 21-0 with 4:23 in the first quarter.

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Beginning to feel the pressure, Silverado went for it on fourth and one late in the first quarter, but the Vikings forced the turnover on downs to set themselves up with excellent field position at the Silverado 24 yard line.

Three plays later with 1:49 to go in the first quarter, Ryan Morrison connected with wide receiver Mitchell Torres for a 26 yard touchdown to make it 28-0.

The Viking defense then gave the ball right back to their offense when Silverado completed a pass on second down only to fumble the ball which was recovered by Valencia’s Owen Hand.

Santos then found the endzone for the third time that night, taking a screen pass 21 yard for the score increasing the gap to 35-0 in the closing minute of the first quarter.

Nick Pham picked up where he left off on Valencia’s following drive, carrying the ball six times for 51 yards and a touchdown punched in from the one yard line with 7:28 remaining in the second quarter making it 41-0.

Silverado managed to put their first score of the game on the board when Silverado running back Jawan Howard ripped off a 63 yard carry, fumbled it on the goalline, but was recovered by offensive lineman Nathaniel Mosier in the endzone for the score to make it 41-6 with 2:23 in the first half.

However Valencia special teams answered right back with a 95 yard kickoff return for a touchdown from senior Diego Garcia to expand their lead to 48-6 at halftime.

Jake Santos took back over to open the second half, as he tore off a 56 yard carry to take the Vikings down to the 11 yard line. Two carries later and Santos had punched it into the endzone to make it 55-6 with.

The next play for Silverado resulted in a fumble recovered by Santos who took the ball more than 30 yards to the end zone for his fifth and final score of the game to make it 62-6 with 10:43 to go in the third quarter.

At this point, the Vikings seemed to try and burn the clock as much as possible, as junior running back Christian Alcantar picked up a number of carries, and found the endzone for the Vikings final score of the night to make it 69-6 with 3:26 to go in the third.

Silverado managed to tack on two scores late in the game on a deep pass to Devin Gandy for a 55 yard touchdown and on a pass to running back Jaishawn Wright running out of the backfield and taking it 44 yards to the score to make it a final score of 69-19.

“We always say, we gotta go 1-0 every week, so what’s important is what’s right in front of you,” said Valencia Head Coach Larry Muir. “So next week we have Sierra Canyon, and obviously they’re a great football team, a great program, so we have our challenges ahead of us but then it’s off to the next challenge.”

Next week, Valencia faces what could be their biggest challenge of the season, as they travel to face the seventh ranked team in the state according to MaxPreps, Sierra Canyon in Chatsworth at 7 p.m.

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