Queens University of Charlotte Athletics

FIRST PITCH
Score: Queens 9 | West Georgia 14
Records: Queens (12-32, 8-14 ASUN) | West Georgia (12-34, 9-13 ASUN)
Location: Cole Field (Carrollton, Ga.)

THE SHORT STORY
Both teams combined for 23 runs and 26 hits. Still, it was the University of West Georgia pulling out a 14-9 win over Queens University of Charlotte tonight at Cole Field in Carrollton, Georgia. Both teams found themselves tied after the first, but the Wolves took a 13-1 lead into the seventh. The Royals cut into the lead when they pushed six runs across in the sixth, but it was too much to overcome.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Anibal Rivera put Queens up early in the first when he hit his fourth home run of the season to make it 1-0. The Wolves answered back in the bottom half when they hit a game-tying home run.
- West Georgia added four runs in the third, six in the fifth, and two in the sixth to take a 13-1 lead.
- Queens in the seventh pushed six runs across on four hits, and it started when Matthew Suppa singled up the middle and later moved to second when Dylan Schaefer walked. The Royals loaded the bases when Hunter Huneycutt singled to right field. Grayson Childers' RBI walk scored Suppa to make it 13-2. Rivera followed that up with a walk of his own that scored Schaefer and cut the lead to 13-3. Following an infield fly to second, Huneycutt scored off Karter Wong's sacrifice fly. Now with two outs, Mitchell Basterrechea singled to center to score Childers and second Rivera to second. Both runners were able to advance 90 feet off a wild pitch. Jacob Grimes' two-run single up the middle scored both runners to cut the lead to 13-7 before the inning ended.
- West Georgia added a run in its half of the seventh to push the lead to 14-7, but in the eighth, Queens plated a pair of runs when Rivera tripled to cut the lead to 14-9.
- The Wolves in the ninth allowed a one-out walk before getting back-to-back outs to end the game.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
- Queens tallied 11 hits while West Georgia registered 15.
- Rivera finished the game going 2-for-4 with a home run, a triple, two runs scored, and a team-high four RBIs.
- Huneycutt led the team at the plate with three hits, while tallying two runs scored.
- Childers also finished with two hits and a pair of run scores.
- Lenox Lively, Basterrechea, Grimes, and Suppa all finished with a hit each.
- Starting pitcher Jackson Gown allowed five runs on seven hits in three and a third innings. He falls to 1-6 on the season.
 
NEXT UP
Both teams are back in action tomorrow for game two of the series at 3 p.m.
 
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