CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Queens University of Charlotte baseball team collected its second straight midweek win and even its nonconference record on the year with a 5-3 win over Belmont Abbey College on Wednesday afternoon at the Tuckaseegee Dream Fields.
 
Belmont Abbey kicked off the scoring with a solo home run in the second before adding another run in the top of fourth to build an early 2-0 lead.
 
However, the Royals responded with a five-run bottom of the fourth, rallying with one out to claim a three-run lead. Nick Melton reached via a Crusader fielding error and later scored on a Chris Brady RBI single. Following a pitching change by Belmont Abbey, Broadus Roberson and Mason Pickard tallied back-to-back RBI singles to give Queens the lead before Riley Cheek and Carter Foster also drove in one run apiece.
 
The Crusaders added one more run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly before Zach Kelly and Tanner Jacobson came out of the bullpen to shut down the Belmont Abbey offense.
 
After Jeffery Maidhof gave the Royals a scoreless inning in his second start of the year, ace Nick Charleson (3-4) tossed five innings of relief, allowing three runs on five hits with six strikeouts to tally the win. Kelly went two scoreless innings with two strikeouts before Jacobson registered his second save of the year with a scoreless ninth inning.
 
Foster was 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI and Roberson was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI of his own. Cheek produced a 1-for-2 day with a double and an RBI as Brady and Pickard also collected one RBI each.
 
Queens is back in action this weekend with a four-game South Atlantic Conference series against Coker College in the team's final regular season action on its home field.