FLUSHING, N.Y. (Apr. 16, 2019) - In a game that was anything but a midweek matinee, the Queens College baseball team rallied back from a 10-6 deficit to walk off with an 11-10 win over Dominican (N.Y.) on Tuesday (Apr. 16) at Hennekens Stadium.

The Knights (20-13-1) were hosting a Chargers (20-17) team that was ranked tenth in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association (NCBWA) poll, a ledger that saw Queens receive three votes to be on the outside looking in at the rest of the ranked teams.

The visitors brought a run across in the first inning against Knights starter Kevin Kochen as Anthony Bartolomei singled to center to bring home Kennee Torres with the game's first run. Queens responded against Brandon Mology in the opening inning on the strength of two walks and two wild pitches with Louis Antos scoring on one of the latter to even up the score. The Chargers re-took the lead in the top of the fourth inning on a two-run single by Brian Sanders but Queens did not stay down for long.

After two outs were recorded in the bottom of the fourth, Ronmel Ocampo drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch. Nick Font then sent a 1-0 offering from Mology booming into right-center field. The ball seemed to carry and hit beyond the fence and come back into play, but Font never stopped running and reached third base with Ocampo coming home on the triple. One pitch later, Jon Strauss singled through the left side of the infield to bring Font home and tie the game at 3. Antos reached on an error in the next at-bat and Anthony Scotti scorched a base hit off the third-base bag to put QC ahead by a 4-3 margin.

Dominican scored two runs in the top of the sixth on back-to-back singles by Bartolomei and Elijah Tavarez, but Strauss connected on an RBI double in the bottom of the frame to keep the game tied at 5-all. The Chargers took the lead back on a first-pitch home run by Billy Rotella in the seventh against reliever Brandon Hoskins and Josh Colon's three-run shot in the eighth gave the visitors a 10-6 lead. Queens, however, scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth on the strength of a two-run single by Scotti and Eric Roubal scoring on a balk. In the bottom of the ninth, the Knights rallied to walk off with the victory. A one-out single by Ron Linsalato began the rally as Jayson Rodopoulos singled to advance the tying run to second base. Ocampo then drove a base hit to right-center field to bring Linsalato home with the tying run and Font brought home the winner two pitches later with a hit of his own.

Scotti and Strauss each had three base hits in the win while the six through nine hitters---Linsalato, Rodopoulos, Ocampo and Font---had two hits apiece with three runs batted in between the group. Bryan Krolikowski pitched the final inning-and-a-third and picked up the win for Queens in relief.

Queens will begin a four-game series with Bridgeport on Thursday (Apr. 18) at 3 p.m. in Connecticut.