{"id":229596,"date":"2026-05-13T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:51:09","slug":"strong-pitching-free-bases-lifts-elon-over-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229596\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Pitching, Free Bases Lifts Elon Over Queens"},"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\/05\/nku_logo.png\" alt=\"Northern Kentucky\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Northern Kentucky<\/p>\n<p>5\/14\/2026 | 1:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    May. 14 (Thu) \/ 1:00 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\/05\/nku_logo.png\" alt=\"Northern Kentucky\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Northern Kentucky&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ELON \u2013 Behind a quality <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-hansen\/11196\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11196\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Hansen<\/a> performance and 14 free bases, the Elon baseball team (20-31) finished off a season series sweep over\u00a0Queens (15-36) Tuesday night. Elon led wire-to-wire and pulled out a 10-3 victory over the Royals in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-hansen\/11196\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11196\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Hansen<\/a> was handed the ball for a midweek start and did not disappoint. The graduate carried a no-hitter in the fifth inning and earned his fourth win of the season. The bullpen trio of <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cade-mustard\/10876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10876\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Mustard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sam-nomura\/10877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10877\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Nomura<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/rj-latkowski\/11104\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11104\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Latkowski<\/a> held down the Royals over the final 3.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kevin-denty\/11109\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11109\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Denty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gar-hindle\/11098\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11098\" target=\"_blank\">Gar Hindle<\/a> both put together multi-hit, multi-RBI performances. Hindle drove in a game high three runs while Denty&#8217;s two-RBI double proved to be the game-winner in the fifth inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jared-hall\/11105\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11105\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Hall<\/a> finished with a season-high three stolen bases and <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/vince-fattore\/10866\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10866\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Fattore<\/a> hit his team leading 7th home run.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>\tElon struck first in the top of the second with a pair of runs.<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kevin-denty\/11109\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11109\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Denty<\/a> provided Elon&#8217;s next three runs in the fifth. A two-RBI double from Denty doubled Elon&#8217;s lead before he came around to score on a wild pitch to put Elon in front 5-0.<br \/>\n\tQueens began to put pressure on the Phoenix with a run in the fifth and two runs in the sixth.<br \/>\n\tThe Phoenix got two runs back in the seventh when an infield fly was lost in the sky and allowed two runs to score.<br \/>\n\tElon padded their lead with a two-run home run in the eighth from <a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/vince-fattore\/10866\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10866\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Fattore<\/a>. The Phoenix added one more run in the ninth to finish the ballgame 10-3 winners.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nQUICK HITS<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-hansen\/11196\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11196\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Hansen<\/a> put together his top strikeout performance of the season on Tuesday. Hansen struck out six batters in 5.1 innings of work and carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning.<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> struck out the side in the ninth inning to bump his season total to 23.<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sam-nomura\/10877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10877\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Nomura<\/a> made his 74th career appearance on the mound. Nomura is one appearance away from making it into Elon&#8217;s career appearances top-10 list.<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/vince-fattore\/10866\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10866\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Fattore<\/a> hit his seventh home run of the season. Fattore leads the club in home runs and moves his career total to 15.<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> drove in three runs and finished with a multi-hit game.<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jared-hall\/11105\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11105\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Hall<\/a> stole a career high three bases on Tuesday night. Hall is 17-for-18 on stolen base attempts this season.<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/elonphoenix.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kevin-denty\/11109\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11109\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Denty<\/a> put together his second multi-hit game in his last three on Tuesday. Denty drove in both runs on a fifth inning double.<br \/>\n\tElon reached base on a free pass (walk or hit by pitch) 14 times on Tuesday. Elon was hit by a pitch, eight times on Tuesday which is a Queens single game record.<br \/>\n\tWith a win over Queens, Elon sweeps a home and home non-conference series over an in-state opponent for the second straight season. Elon won both games against UNCG in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nElon closes out the regular season this Thursday with a doubleheader in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Elon will play Northern Kentucky at 1 p.m. followed by a game with USC Upstate at 5 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: vs. Northern Kentucky 5\/14\/2026 | 1:00 PM &#13; May. 14 (Thu) \/ 1:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-229596","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\/229596","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=229596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}