CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Florida Baseball cruised to a win in Game 1 of its road weekend series at Queens, 10-6, at The Stick at Williams Dream Fields on Friday.<\/p>\n
Redshirt junior left-handed pitcher Dakota Stone<\/a> posted a career-high 11 strikeouts in 7.0 innings pitched while allowing just two runs and one walk. It marked Stone’s second time this season recording 10 strikeouts or more.<\/p>\n Four Ospreys notched mutli-hit performances to help bring North Florida’s hit total to 14.<\/p>\n Redshirt freshman outfielder Sean Benjamin<\/a> and redshirt junior utility player Jackson Toberman<\/a> each turned in three-hit outings with three RBI.<\/p>\n North Florida opened the scoring with a four-run top of the second inning. Toberman drove in North Florida’s first run of the game with an RBI single up the middle.<\/p>\n Benjamin tallied his first RBI of the game in the very next at bat with a base hit to left field to give North Florida a 2-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n Toberman crossed home on a wild pitch in the top of the second frame to put North Florida ahead, 3-0.<\/p>\n Junior infielder Mitchell Collins<\/a> capped off UNF’s four-run second inning with an RBI single through the right side.\u00a0<\/p>\n Queens plated its first run in the bottom of the third frame and scored another in the\u00a0<\/p>\n Freshman infielder Drew Buchanan<\/a> belted his third home run of the season in the top of the fourth inning to give North Florida a 5-1 advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stone’s sixth strikeout of the game sent the Ospreys to the top of the fifth frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n Benjamin’s second RBI single of the game came in the top of the fifth inning and allowed North Florida to command a 6-1 edge.<\/p>\n Queens responded with one run in the bottom of the sixth frame.<\/p>\n Benjamin registered his third RBI of the game with a single to left field in the top of the seventh to give North Florida a 7-2 lead.<\/p>\n Queens answered with two runs in the bottom of the eighth to cut its deficit to just three runs.<\/p>\n Toberman plated a pair of insurance runs with a two-RBI single up the middle in the top of the ninth to put North Florida ahead, 9-4. Ordonez drove in UNF’s final run of the game with a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth, allowing the Ospreys to command a 10-4 advantage.<\/p>\n Queens plated two runs in the bottom of the ninth, though it wasn’t enough to overcome the eventual final margin.<\/p>\n NORTH FLORIDA 10, QUEENS 6<\/p>\n Pitchers of Record Line Scores Statistical Leaders QUEENS UP NEXT
\nWin: Dakota Stone<\/a> (6-2)
\nLoss: Jackson Gowan (1-7)
\nSave: Brandon Adams<\/a> (3)<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA | 10 R, 14 H, 0 E
\nQUEENS | 6 R, 12, 0 E<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA
\nJackson Toberman<\/a> | 3-5, 3 RBI, 1 R
\nSean Benjamin<\/a> | 3-4, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
\nDakota Stone<\/a> | 7.0 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 11 K, 1 BB<\/p>\n
\nGrayson Childers | 3-4, 2 RBI, 2 R, 1 HR<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida remains in Charlotte, N.C., for Game 2 of its road series at Queens on Saturday, May 9 at 6 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Florida Baseball cruised to a win in Game 1 of its road weekend series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-225422","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\/225422","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=225422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}