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Four Homers Lead To Bandits 11-5 Win Over Beloit Wednesday Night

The Quad Cities River Bandits

After being shutout and held to just one hit last night, the Quad Cities River Bandits responded with a four-homer effort to top the Beloit Snappers 11-5 on Wednesday night at Modern Woodmen Park.

The visitors manufactured a run in the first with the combo of Thomas Jonesโ€™ leadoff hit-by-pitch and stolen base that set up for Will Banfieldโ€™s run-scoring single off of Quad Citiesโ€™ starter, Anthony Veneziano.

Quad Cities was quick to respond however, as Tyler Gentry launched his first home run of the night, a three-run blast, that stole the lead from Kyle Nicolas in the bottom of the first and made it 3-1 Bandits.

Homers continued to fly in the second, as Nick Loftin lofted his third bomb of the year to left center that scored Tucker Bradley and expanded his teamโ€™s lead to 5-1.

Now working with the lead, Veneziano settled down over his next three innings and faced the minimum from the second onward while striking out a career-high seven Snappers before passing the torch to Will Klein for the fifth.

After the right-hander set down Beloit three-up three-down in the top half, Quad Cities extended its lead to 7-1 in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single from Vinnie Pasquantino and a sac-fly from Gentry who recorded his fourth RBI of the day.

Klein surrendered a run on a wild pitch in the sixth, but saw it earned back in the seventh on Gentryโ€™s second homer of the game; a two-run fly over the wall in left that scored Pasquantino and not only pushed the Banditsโ€™ lead to eight, but plated his teamโ€™s single-game best fifth and sixth RBI of the night.

Beloit hit its first and only homer of the night off of Garrett Davila in the eighth who surrendered Kameron Misnerโ€™s second homer of the season, but in line with the nightโ€™s theme, Eric Cole put an end to an 0-18 slump and answered with a two-run dinger in the bottom half that plated Bradley and the River Banditsโ€™ 11th run of the game.

While closing out the ninth, Jonah Dipoto allowed a run on a balk, but stranded two men on with a groundball from Thomas Jones to close the door on Quad Citiesโ€™ 16th win of the season.

The win went to Klein (2-0) who allowed one run over his two innings of relief work, while Nicolas (2-1) took his first loss of the season after allowing a season-high five runs over three innings.

With the series tied at 1-1, the River Bandits will look to Grant Gambrell (2-0, 4.67) for the start tomorrow and will face Beloitsโ€™ Zach King (0-4, 6.64) at 6:30 p.m. CDT at Modern Woodmen Park.


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