{"id":181777,"date":"2026-04-01T04:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181777\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:33:40","slug":"elon-walks-off-queens-elon-university-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181777\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Walks Off Queens &#8211; Elon University Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/North-Carolina-AT.png\" alt=\"North Carolina A&amp;T\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at North Carolina A&amp;T<\/p>\n<p>4\/3\/2026 | 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 03 (Fri) \/ 6:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/North-Carolina-AT.png\" alt=\"North Carolina A&amp;T\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0North Carolina A&amp;T&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ELON \u2013 Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gar-hindle\/11098\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11098\" target=\"_blank\">Gar Hindle<\/a> delivered the second walk-off hit of his young, Elon career on Tuesday night as Elon baseball (11-17) took down Queens (7-21), 8-7 in ten innings.<\/p>\n<p>Hindle&#8217;s 10th inning single lifted the Phoenix to the win. The Rye, N.H. native was responsible for Elon&#8217;s first walk-off win in 2026, a 3-2 win over Fairfield earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-miller\/11107\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11107\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Miller<\/a> had his longest outing of his collegiate career on Tuesday. Miller went five innings, allowed two runs and struck out three in the no-decision.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAfter two clean innings, Elon got the scoring started in the third inning. A bases loaded walk to <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brent-smith\/10879\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10879\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Smith<\/a> and a steal of home from <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-alford\/10864\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10864\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Alford<\/a> gave Elon a 2-0 lead.&#13;<br \/>\n\tQueens responded with a run of their own in the fourth on a sacrifice fly.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Phoenix countered with two more runs in the fourth. A bases loaded walk from both DuRoff and Smith gave Elon a three-run advantage.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Royals chipped away in the middle innings with a pair of runs to make it a one-run game.&#13;<br \/>\n\tTwo 8th inning extra-base hits and three runs vaulted Queens to a two-run lead.&#13;<br \/>\n\tElon answered with three runs of their own in the 8th. A <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jose-mariano\/11110\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11110\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Mariano<\/a> walk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/henry-akopov\/11113\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11113\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Akopov<\/a> hit-by-pitch and a Hindle sacrifice fly each brought in a run to give the Phoenix a one-run lead.&#13;<br \/>\n\tA 9th inning single from Queens tied the score.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn extra innings, Hindle took center stage. A two-out single to right field scored <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/simon-hoffman\/10870\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10870\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Hoffman<\/a> to give Elon the 8-7 win.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nQUICK HITS<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe walk-off win was the second of the season for Elon. The first came against Fairfield in a 3-2 win.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gar-hindle\/11098\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11098\" target=\"_blank\">Gar Hindle<\/a> finished with the lone, multi-hit game for the Phoenix on Tuesday.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-hajdu\/10867\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10867\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Hajdu<\/a> extended his hitting streak to four games with a 4th inning single.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-alford\/10864\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10864\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Alford<\/a> stole three bases and extended his reached base streak to nine games. Alford has stolen 23 bases so far this season and stole multiple bases in a game for the sixth time in 2026.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-miller\/11107\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11107\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Miller<\/a> pitched a career high five innings on Tuesday. Miller tossed 60 pitches, struck out three batters and walked none.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kehler-hamilton\/10868\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10868\" target=\"_blank\">Kehler Hamilton<\/a> pitched two innings of relief, struck out three batters, and walked none.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/rj-latkowski\/11104\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11104\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Latkowski<\/a> picked up his second win of the season after he collected the final four outs for the Phoenix.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nUP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nElon returns to CAA play this weekend at North Carolina A&amp;T. First pitch from Greensboro on Friday will be at 6 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at North Carolina A&amp;T 4\/3\/2026 | 6:00 PM &#13; Apr. 03 (Fri) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-181777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}