FLUSHING, N.Y. (Mar. 9, 2019) - The Queens College baseball team collected a 5-4 win over Stonehill College on Friday (Mar. 8) to earn a split in games for the day in Lake Worth, Fla. after the Knights dropped a 10-6 decision to Concordia (N.Y.) earlier in the afternoon.
Game One: Concordia (NY) 10, Queens (NY) 6
The Knights put up a four-run second inning on the Clippers as Matt Gutleber doubled home
Joe O'Rourke with the game's first run. A two-run triple by
Jayson Rodopoulos gave QC a three-run lead and the freshman raced home on an RBI groundout off the bat of
Jesse Spellman. Concordia, however, scored the next ten runs in the contest---three in the third, two in the sixth, one in the seventh and three in the ninth---to earn a 10-4 lead as Queens could not answer the call until the bottom of the ninth inning. An RBI single by
Jon Strauss and a run-scoring fielder's choice from O'Rourke provided the final run counts for the Knights in the first game.
Eric Roubal had three hits while
Ron Linsalato added two for the Knights in the effort. Rodopoulos went 2-for-4 in his first career start for Queens.
Dimitri Papazoglou was charged with the loss, going five innings and yielding three runs on four hits with three strikeouts.
Game Two: Queens (NY) 5, Stonehill 4
Gutleber opened the scoring in the second game on an RBI grounder in the first inning against the Skyhawks; Queens would go further ahead in the third inning on an RBI triple by Strauss and another run-scoring groundout by Gutleber. QC's 3-0 lead was short-lived as Stonehill tied the score in the bottom of the third off of starter
Jack Palma. The Knights tacked on a run in the fifth on an RBI single by Roubal, but a home run by Rob Duarte tied the score after six innings of play. In the seventh inning,
Louis Antos doubled home Gutleber with the go-ahead and what would prove to be winning run as the Knights' bullpen locked the door on any additional comeback attempts.
Palma went 6.1 innings to pick up the win, striking out six batters as
Dennis Buckstein and
James McGee scatted just two combined hits in relief to keep the Knights ahead. Antos had a team-best three hits while Strauss tacked on another multiple-hit performance in the triumph for Queens.
QC will take on Wilmington (Del.) on Saturday (Mar. 10) at 10 a.m.
