{"id":226074,"date":"2026-05-10T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:40:09","slug":"baseball-drops-tightly-contested-battle-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226074\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Drops Tightly Contested Battle At Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; North Florida Baseball fell in Game 2 of its road weekend series at Queens, 4-3, at The Stick at Williams Dream Fields on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Redshirt junior utility player <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/boone-hosey\/14905\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14905\" target=\"_blank\">Boone Hosey<\/a> led the way at the plate for North Florida. Hosey went 1-4 with three RBI and one home run. It marked Hosey&#8217;s ninth home run of the season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Redshirt junior utility player <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-toberman\/14917\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14917\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Toberman<\/a> and redshirt freshman outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sean-benjamin\/14881\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14881\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Benjamin<\/a> added a pair of multi-hit performances with 2-4 outings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hosey opened the scoring in the top of the third inning with a two-run opposite-field home run to give North Florida a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Queens took a 3-2 lead with one run in the bottom of the third frame and two in the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hosey tied the game, 3-3, in the top of the eighth inning with an RBI fielder&#8217;s choice to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Queens plated one run in the bottom of the ninth frame to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>NORTH FLORIDA 3, QUEENS 4<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers of Record<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWin: Joey Ruller (4-8)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLoss: <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/john-costa\/14884\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14884\" target=\"_blank\">John Costa<\/a> (1-2)<\/p>\n<p>Line Scores<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNORTH FLORIDA | 3 R, 8 H, 2 E<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nQUEENS | 4 R, 13 H, 0 E<\/p>\n<p>Statistical Leaders<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNORTH FLORIDA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/boone-hosey\/14905\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14905\" target=\"_blank\">Boone Hosey<\/a> | 1-4, 3 RBI, 1 HR, 1 R<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-toberman\/14917\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14917\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Toberman<\/a> | 2-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sean-benjamin\/14881\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14881\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Benjamin<\/a> | 2-4<\/p>\n<p>QUEENS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHunter Huneycutt | 3-5, 1 R<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNorth Florida remains in Charlotte, N.C., for Game 3 of its road series at Queens on Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; North Florida Baseball fell in Game 2 of its road weekend series at Queens, 4-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-226074","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\/226074","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=226074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}