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NEWCOMB SHUTS DOWN STORM

IE 66ersLHP Sean Newcomb threw six shutout innings Tuesday night as the Inland Empire 66ers blanked the Lake Elsinore Storm 5-0.  Newcomb (6-1) is the Los Angeles Angels’ top organizational prospect per MLB.com and was the 15th overall pick in the 2014 First-Year Player Draft.

The 66ers got on the board in the third inning when Andrew Daniel doubled in a pair of runs, and that was all Newcomb and two relievers would need. The lefty allowed three hits and a walk while striking out eight over six innings. Harrison Cooney came on for two scoreless innings before Geoff Broussard closed it out with a perfect ninth inning.

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2015 #2 OVERALL PICK BREGMAN PROMOTED TO LANCASTER

lancasterjethawksnewSS Alex Bregman, the #2 overall pick in this year’s First-Year Player Draft was promoted to Lancaster today and entered the game against Rancho Cucamonga in the 7th inning. Bregman, from LSU, played 29 games at loA Quad Cities, batting .259/.368/.330.

Along with Bregman, the Astros promoted OF Sean McMullen, who belted his first hiA homer in the second inning tonight. McMullen was also drafted out of LSU in 2014.

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MODESTO BLANKS VISALIA, MOVES INTO FIRST-PLACE TIE

ModestoA stellar pitching duel in Visalia saw Modesto’s Anthony Senzatela throw eight shutout innings at the Rawhide as the Nuts won a 4-3 decision, forging a tie atop the North Division. Senzatela (7-5), the Rockies’ #11 prospect, struck out seven and allowed five hits without a walk to earn the victory, which gave the Nuts and Rawhide identical 18-7 records in the second-half standings.

Visalia’s Anthony Banda (L, 6-8) was nearly as good, going 6 1/3 and allowing just one run on six hits with a walk and nine strikeouts. But he gave up a seventh-inning run by allowing a pair of one-0ut singles to start a rally that reliever Bud Jeter couldn’t quell.

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WEEKEND MATCHUPS

A set of four-game series starts today, Thursday through Sunday, as the first half winds down. The  Visalia Rawhide hold a 10-game lead in the North and have a magic number of two to eliminate Modesto and Stockton and claim the first-half crown. Rancho Cucamonga is three games up on Lancaster and three and one-half games ahead of High Desert in the South.

The first half ends Sunday June 21 with the California-Carolina League All-Star Game being played in Rancho Cucamonga on June 23rd.

Here are the matchups for the weekend series:

LANCASTER (32-32) at LAKE ELSINORE (26-33)
SAN JOSE (25-34) at HIGH DESERT (31-27)
STOCKTON (28-31) at RANCHO CUCAMONGA (35-24)
VISALIA (38-21) at INLAND EMPIRE (29-29)
MODESTO (28-31) at BAKERSFIELD (22-37)

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