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66ERS WIN BEHIND EARLY HOMERS, GOFF’S 9 K’S

The Inland Empire 66ers went came out of the break swinging with two first-inning home runs on their way to a 6-2 win over the Lake Elsinore Storm at San Manuel Stadium Friday night. Alexander Ramirez and David Calabrese went back-to-back to get the scoring started and Julio Goff (W, 6 -7) whiffed nine LE hitters in five innings.

Ramirez hit a two-run shot to put IE up 2-0 with two outs in the first, his seventh home run of the season. Calabrese followed with his fourth of the year to make it 3-0.

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QUAKES KEEP FIRST HALF HOPES ALIVE WITH 11-4 WIN OVER 66ERS

The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes built an insurmountable lead with the help of a five-run fifth inning and went on to drop the Inland Empire 66ers by a score of 11-4 on Sunday at LoanMart Field. In earning a split of the six-game series with IE, the Quakes remained three games back of the Lake Elsinore Storm with three games left to play in the first half. Those three games will be against the Storm starting Tuesday.

Julio Carrion had a bases-loaded double that brought in all three runners in the third inning to give Rancho its first lead at 3-1. The 66ers tied it up in the fourth, but the Quakes came back with two more in the bottom of the fourth and five in the fifth to build a 10-3 lead. They traded single runs the rest of the way to complete the final score.

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