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ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) – Josh Bonifay hit a home run and drove in three more to lead the Altoona Curve to a 10-3 win over the Portland Sea Dogs on Friday night.

Altoona (2-0) overcame a 2-0 deficit with Bonifay’s solo homer in the second and Kevin Nicholson’s RBI double in the third. The Curve then scored four runs in the fifth inning and another four in the sixth.

Ray Navarrete’s bases-loaded single off Abe Alvarez in the fifth scored Chris Duffy to give the Curve a 3-2 lead. A sacrifice fly by Bonifay, RBI groundout by Ray Sadler and error on first baseman Mike O’Keefe led to three more Altoona runs.

Nicholson, Navarrete, Bonifay and Sadler collected consecutive RBI hits in the sixth to stretch the margin to 10-2.

Mike Connolly (1-0) gave up two runs on three hits in five innings for the win. Alvarez (0-1) surrendered five runs over four innings.

Portland (0-2) took a 2-0 lead in the second on Brett Roneberg’s RBI double and Eric Johnson’s run-scoring single.

The Sea Dogs also scored on an error in the seventh.

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