Mesquite baseball coach Jeff Holland has one of his youngest and most inexperienced varsity squads since he's been at the school. That covers more than a decade.

"What's in front of us is we have to learn to win," Holland said shortly before the Wildcats took the field for their first power-ranking game of the year against Mesa Mountain View.

Mesquite learned Wednesday afternoon at least for a day to take advantage of mistakes and received  two-hit shutout pitching from left-hander Matt Heibult in beating Mountain View, 10-0, at Mesquite in a game shortened to five innings by the 10-run rule.

Mesquite (2-2 overall, 1-0  power-ranking game) scored three runs in the first inning and six more in the second. The Wilcats batted around in both frames. Both innings were helped along by Mountain View errors. But to Mesquite's credit it showed an ability that serves any team well by producing two-out hits and the runs to go with those hits. Mountain View is 2-2, 0-1 prg.

"We'll take 'em any way we can get them," Holland said. "They gave us some chances. I think all our runs the first two innings came with two outs. With all the new guys we have, we're kind of a homecoming game for everybody. It's up to us to change that."

Mesquite's three-run first was helped by a botched double-play bouncer that likely would have ended the inning quickly and without much effort from Mountain View starter Landon Russo. Heibult came to the plate with two outs and the sacks jammed in the first and drew a walk to force in the first run. Freshman Parker Holland, the coach's son, followed grounding a two-run single to center for the 3-0 start. Russo ended up throwing close to 30 extra pitches in the inning.

The second inning was more of the same. Mesquite loaded the bases with no outs. Russo rebounded with a strikeout and  force-play at the plate. Heibult, a junior, came to bat again, legging out an infield hit to make it 4-0. Russo hit the next two batters with pitches, forcing in two more runs. Two more Toro errors helped bumped the margin to 9-0. Mountain View allowed eight hits (seven singles), committed four errors, walked four and hit two batters.

Heibult, the only pitching holdover from last year's 26-9 Division I semifinalist, was outstanding in keeping Mountain View off the board. Heibult pitched only in invitational tournament games last year, posting a 1-1 record. He enters the season as Mesquite's ace by default. On Wednesday he had the look of an ace taking his record to 1-1.

"He's got three pitches and they all worked well today," Holland said. "He pitched well in his first game last week (a 3-1 loss). "He's been good both times out."

Heibult allowed a bunt single in the third by Ronnie Adair and an infield hit -- a scorcher off the bat of Chase Anderson that Mesquite shortstop Brad Holland managed to knock down. Heibult struck out six and walked one.

Mountain View also has an inexperienced lineup, usually the case for the senior-dominated lineups the Toros run out. Only Adair (an everyday player last year) and Russo (a regular member of the rotation) have logged a full varsity season.