CHARLOTTE, N.C. –\u00a0North Florida won both games of its doubleheader to earn its first series win against Queens at The Stick Williams Dream Fields in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Ospreys also set a new Division I program record with 87 stolen bases this season. For the second-consecutive game, North Florida scored in the first inning, taking a 1-0 lead after a bases-loaded RBI single from sophomore outfielder Kennedy McQuillan<\/a>. Line Scores Statistical Leaders QUC Line Scores Statistical Leaders QUC UP NEXT
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\nAfter a leadoff triple for graduate student Hallie Langford<\/a> in game one of the doubleheader, her fourth of the season, junior utility player Addie Keef<\/a> gave the Ospreys an early lead with an RBI single to left field.
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\nAfter a leadoff double and a sacrifice bunt for Queens in the bottom half of the second inning, sophomore right-handed pitcher Taylor Cook<\/a> recorded a strikeout and a groundout to leave the runner stranded at third base and keep Queens off the scoreboard.\u00a0
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\nCook would pitch 5.1 innings to earn the win and improve to 5-3 this season. Junior right-handed pitcher Cameron Ponich<\/a> would earn her first save of the season spinning 1.2 scoreless innings.
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\nUNF plated two runs in the third inning, capitalizing on three singles and a pair of throwing errors.
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\nA walk to junior infielder Hannah Davila<\/a> and double to left field from senior infielder Ayden Allen<\/a> would put two Ospreys in scoring position with one out. Langford would bring in both runners with a single to left field to extend UNF’s lead to 5-0.
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\nQueens would cut into the North Florida lead with three runs in the sixth inning, but the Ospreys responded with a four-run frame in the seventh inning.\u00a0\u00a0Sophomore catcher Caiden Oliva<\/a> got the scoring started with a solo home run.\u00a0
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\nJunior infielder Hannah Davila<\/a> belted the Ospreys’ second home run of the inning to left field. For Davila, it was her sixth homer of the season. Langford would pick up her fourth RBI of the game with a single to extend North Florida’s lead to 9-3.<\/p>\n
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\nLangford would belt her first home run of the year into deep right field to extend the Osprey lead in the second inning. Queens would tack on a run of their own in the bottom half of the frame to narrow the UNF lead back to one.
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\nThe Royals would grab their first lead of the series with three runs in the third inning to take a 4-2 advantage.
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\nThe Ospreys answered right back with a pair of runs in the fourth to tie the game off a two-out two RBI triple for junior infielder Bella Cimino<\/a>. For Cimino, it marked her first triple of the season.
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\nMcQuillan would begin the fifth inning by sending her second double of the game into right center field. Davila’s RBI single would bring her around to score and give UNF their first lead of the game. An Allen double would bring in the Ospreys’ second run of the frame. A wild pitch would plate another run and give the Ospreys a three-run advantage.\u00a0
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\nQueens would narrow the lead with a run in the sixth, but a two-out RBI double to left center from Langford in the seventh inning, her eighth of the season, would push the UNF lead back out to three runs.
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\nPonich would record her second save of the day with 1.1 scoreless innings.\u00a0
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\nGAME ONE NORTH FLORIDA 9, QUEENS 3
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\nPitchers of Record
\nWin:\u00a0Taylor Cook<\/a> (5-3)
\nLoss:\u00a0Addison Kluck (7-9)
\nSave:\u00a0Cameron Ponich<\/a> (1)<\/p>\n
\nUNF | 9 R, 12 H, 0 E, 8 LOB
\nQUC | 3 R, 5 H, 3 E, 6 LOB<\/p>\n
\nUNF
\nHallie Langford<\/a> | 4-5, 3B, 3 RBI, 2 R
\nHannah Davila<\/a> | 1-3, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R, BB
\nCaiden Oliva<\/a> | 1-1, HR, RBI, 2 BB
\nAyden Allen<\/a> | 3-4, 2B, R
\nTaylor Cook<\/a> | 5.1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO, 91 pitches
\nCameron Ponich<\/a> | 1.2 IP, H, BB, SO, 25 pitches\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nLauren Byrd | 1-4, HR, RBI
\nSage Farmer | 2-4, SB
\nShayna Suttles | 1-2, 2B
\nAddison Kluck | 7.0 IP, 12 H, 6 ER, 3 B, 5 SO, 4 HBP 152 pitches
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\nGAME TWO NORTH FLORIDA 8, QUEENS 5
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\nPitchers of Record
\nWin:\u00a0Macie Hunolt<\/a> (5-3)
\nLoss:\u00a0Lindsay Henson (2-5)
\nSave:\u00a0Cameron Ponich<\/a> (2)<\/p>\n
\nUNF | 8 R, 12 H, 0 E, 10 LOB
\nQUC | 5 R, 10 H, 1 E, 8 LOB<\/p>\n
\nUNF
\nHallie Langford<\/a> | 3-5, HR, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R, SB
\nBella Cimino<\/a> | 1-2, 3B, 2 RBI, 3 BB
\nKennedy McQuillan<\/a> | 3-4, 2 2B, RBI, R
\nGrace Shaw<\/a> | 2-3, 2 R, BB
\nMacie Hunolt<\/a> | 5.2 IP, 9 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 98 pitches
\nCameron Ponich<\/a> | 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 25 pitches<\/p>\n
\nLindsay Henson | 1-4, 3B, 2 RBI
\nSage Farmer | 2-3, 3B, RBI, BB
\nShayna Suttles | 2-4, 2B, RBI
\nLindsay Henson | 4.1 IP, 10 H, 7 ER, 2 BB, 93 pitches
\nKooper Barnes | 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, K, 3 WP, 47 pitches<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida will look to sweep the weekend series at Queens on Saturday, April 4 at 12 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. –\u00a0North Florida won both games of its doubleheader to earn its first series win against Queens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-184996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184996","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=184996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}