FIRST PITCH
Score: QUEENS 6 | FGCU 5
Records: Queens (12-27, 8-10 ASUN) | FGCU (23-15, 8-9 ASUN)
Location: The Stick Williams Dream Fields (Charlotte, N.C.)

THE SHORT STORY
Queens University of Charlotte, for the second time in three days, walked it off against Florida Gulf Coast University this time in a 6-5 victory this afternoon at The Stick to win the series 2-1. Down by two going into the ninth, the Royals loaded the bases with Lenox Lively coming up; his bases-clearing double with one down sealed the come-from-behind victory for Queens.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- FGCU posted a pair of runs in the first, two more in the second, and one in the third to take a 5-0 lead after five and a half innings.
- In the bottom of the sixth, Dylan Schaefer walked and later moved to third when Lively doubled to right center to put runners on the corners. Schaefer then scored off a groundout too short to make it 5-1. Lively later scored on Anibal Rivera's RBI single to left to cut the lead to three before the inning ended.
- Queens added a run in the bottom of the eighth when Bradley Brown's sacrifice fly plated Schaefer to make it a 5-3 game headed to the ninth.
- With Queens down to its final three outs, Mitchell Basterrechea was hit by a pitch to start the inning off. Following a strikeout, he later moved to second when Matthew Suppa singled up the middle.  Suppa was later lifted for pinch runner Jacob Grimes. Schaefer's walk loaded the bases full of Royals, which forced FGCU to make a pitching change. Now with a new pitcher on the mound for FGCU, Lively connected on a bases-clearing double to left-center to give Queens the victory.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
- Today's series win is the first time Queens, since moving to Division I, has won back-to-back conference series and has won three of six ASUN series so far this season, a program best since joining the conference.
- Queens tallied seven hits, with four of them being doubles.
- Lively finished the day going 2-for-2 with two doubles, a run scored, and three RBIs.
- Rivera and Suppa each finished with two hits apiece. Suppa recorded a double among his two hits.
- Schaefer paced the team in runs scored as he registered three runs scored while going 1-for-2 with two walks and a double.
-Reliever Davin Pollard earned the win (1-0) as he allowed one walk in an inning of work.  Fellow reliever Jake Young went four innings and struck out a game-high four while not allowing a hit.
 
NEXT UP
Queens travels to Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Tuesday to face Wofford College at 5:30 p.m.
 
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