ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. – The Queens University of Charlotte baseball team found its offensive firepower on Saturday afternoon, scoring 28 total runs in a doubleheader split with Flagler College at Drysdale Field. The Saints won the first game of the game, 12-10, before the Royals rebounded with an 18-3 in the final game of the weekend series.
 
Game One: Flagler 12, Queens 10
 
Queens registered three runs in the opening inning of game one, as freshman Tanner Jacobson and redshirt-freshman Wes Boling drew back-to-back walks with the bases loaded. An RBI single from freshman Nick Melton put the Royals ahead 3-0 in the contest.
 
However, the Saints score eight runs across the third, fourth, and fifth innings to overtake the Royals by an 8-3 score. The Royals quickly tied the score at 8-all in the top half of the sixth inning, scoring five runs, including a two-run home run from the bat of redshirt-freshman Noah Jones.
 
A four-run seventh put Flagler back on top by a 12-8 score before Queens looked to put together a rally in the ninth inning. Boling tripled and Melton cut the deficit in half with a two-run home run with two outs, but a strikeout ended the comeback effort.
 
Jones finished the game 2-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and two RBI, while Melton was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI of his own. Redshirt-junior Chase Hager and redshirt-freshman Austin Campbell each ad two hits in the contest.
 
Freshman Landen Wright (0-1) was hit with the loss after allowing seven runs (four earned) on four hits with three walks and two strikeouts in 3.2 innings of relief.
 
Redshirt-freshman Drew Meschede got the start for Queens and allowed four runs on five hits with four strikeouts in 3.1 inning of work. Redshirt-junior Lee Harrison tossed the final inning of the game, allowing just one hit and striking out one batter.
 
Game Two: Queens 18, Flagler 3
 
Jones kept his hot streak alive, hitting a two-run home run in the first inning of game two to give Queens a lead it never relinquished.
 
Flagler homered in the home half of the first to get on the board, but redshirt-junior CJ Hammonds had an RBI double in the second and three-run home run in the third to put the Royals ahead 6-1.
 
Another Queens home run in the sixth from redshirt-junior Ryan Dudney put the team ahead 7-2 before the Royals tallied eight combined runs in the sixth, seventh, and eight innings, including a five-run outburst in the eighth. Queens scored once more in the ninth to seal the 15-run margin of victory.
 
Redshirt-junior left-hander Jack Bergren (1-1) picked up the win after allowing three runs on just four hits with five walks and three strikeouts in five innings on the mound. Freshmen Jake Michna and Zach Kelly combined for four scoreless innings of relief, as Michna collected three strikeouts.
 
Ford was 3-for-6 with a double, two RBI, two runs, and four stolen bases. Jones was 1-for-2 with a home run, four RBI, and two walks.
 
Dudney, Hammonds, and Melton each had two hits in the contest and Hammonds totaled four RBI and four runs scored.
 
Queens returns home for their next game on Tuesday, Feb. 12, when they host St. Andrews University in Kannapolis, N.C. at 3 p.m.