Florida Gulf Coast University baseball suffered a 6-5 walk-off defeat on Saturday at the hands of Queens University of Charlotte, tying the weekend series at one game apiece.

Queens jumped on the Eagles early with a two-run first but was ultimately held in check for the majority of the afternoon by the John Orelud Two-Way Player of the Week Evan Dempsey, earning his third ASUN pitching start of the year.

Dempsey found his groove in the second inning en route to eight strikeouts on the day. In seven innings of work, Dempsey threw five hitless frames and retired 12 batters straight. After a two-out single in the second, Queens did not register its next hit until the eighth as Dempsey's day was finally done.

The FGCU bullpen was tasked to close the door and clinch the series. With Dempsey out, Queens scored three runs on four hits in the eighth, taking a 5-4 lead. FGCU did respond with a run in the top of the ninth to tie, but would leave the bases loaded while looking for the go-ahead advantage.

in the bottom of the ninth, Queens took advantage of the gift and produced a two-out single through the left side to score the winning run.

FGCU tied the game in the fifth on an RBI single from Robert Moya. In the seventh, Moya broke the 2-2 tie with a home run off the party deck in right field.

Jake McKee helped to add an insurance run in the eighth with an RBI of his own, but the Eagles would need a larger gap to hold on. FGCU stranded 13 runners on Saturday. Dempsey, Moya and McKee each had three hits, while Nathan Gagnon produced two.

Queens earned its first home win of the season and just its fifth overall win of the year. FGCU falls to 13-21 and 5-9 in league play. Saturday's loss marked the fourth walk-off defeat in which the Eagles have heartbreakingly witnessed this season.

The rubber-match game three of the series is set for Sunday at noon.