CalL1 Inland Empire 66ers

Mavericks Drop 66ers for Ninth Time in Row

Published on June 11, 2016 under California League (CalL1)
Inland Empire 66ers News Release


San Bernardino, CA- The High Desert Mavericks used a four-run fourth inning to break a 3-3 tie and went on to down the Inland Empire 66ers 8-4 at San Manuel Stadium on Friday. The loss dropped the Sixers to 0-9 on the season against the first-place Mavs.

High Desert (38-23) led 3-0 heading into the bottom of the second but the Sixers tied the game versus Mavs' starter and San Bernardino native Adam Quintana when he walked Sixers Taylor Ward and Zach Houchins to open the inning. Ayendy Perez then doubled with one out to score Ward. Houchins came home when the ball was bobbled by the rightfielder Jairo Beras. Perez moved to third on the play and then scored the tying run on Ryan Sebra's RBI single.

High Desert wasted no time recapturing the lead in the top of the third when Maverick Luke Tendler drilled a solo shot to open the frame and take a 4-3 lead against Inland Empire (20-41) starter Alex Klonowski (4-7). It was Tendler's ninth of the year. The Mavs tacked on three more highlighted by RBI singles from Jeremi Profar (who had already tagged his fourth homer of the season in the second) and Michael De Leon. Klonowski went three innings allowing seven runs on eight hits with a walk, hit batter and four Ks.

The 66ers got a run back in the fourth when Wade Wass connected on a Quintana offering and drilled his fourth homer of the year to make it 7-4. The Mavs answered back in the top of the fifth when De Leon delivered his second RBI single of the game to give High Desert the 8-4 advantage. Quintana, the San Gorgonio and San Bernardino Valley College product earned the win and improve to 2-3 with five innings allowing three earned runs on five hits with four walks and four Ks. Each club's bullpen was strong as the teams combined to cover ten innings in the game with only one further run scoring. Wass and Perez had multi-hit games for the Sixers while Travis Demeritte, Jose Trevino, Profar and De Leon all tallied two-hit nights for the Mavericks.

The series continues Saturday at 7:05 pm. The contest can be heard live at 66ers.com and 1570 AM KPRO.

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