ATLANTA, Ga. - Senior Tim Querns (Cherry Hill, N.J.) went 3-for-5, driving in five runs, including the winning score as the Rutgers baseball team upended No. 14 Georgia Tech, 9-5, to take the series finale Sunday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium. The victory improves the Scarlet Knights to 5-4 on the season, while ending a five-game losing streak to the Yellow Jackets. Tech falls to 8-6 with the loss.  

The victory gave Rutgers head coach Fred Hill win No. 750 with the Scarlet Knights. Hill, who is just two wins shy of 900 in his 31st season of collegiate coaching, now owns a 750-455-6 record in his 24th season at the helm of the Rutgers program.   

The see-saw battle started in the second inning when senior Dave Williams (Franklin, N.J.) delivered a towering shot that hit off the wall in right field for a leadoff double and a pair of infield groundouts brought him home for the opening run of the game.

After Georgia Tech tied it up with a run in the bottom half of the second, the Scarlet Knights responded right back in the third. Junior Todd Frazier (Toms River, N.J.) beat out a grounder to third base for an infield hit and senior Mike Bionde (Pompton Plains, N.J.) lined a ball to center field, moving Frazier over to third. An intentional walk to Williams loaded the bases for Querns, who delivered his first RBI of the game with a single to left field, scoring Frazier to make it 2-1. Bionde rounded third and headed for home on the play but was tagged out at the plate, ending the inning.

The Yellow Jackets countered again, this time surging out to a 4-2 lead with three runs in the bottom half of the third inning.

Rutgers drew within a run with a two-out rally and a costly Georgia Tech error in the fifth. Junior Ryan Hill (Hillsdale, N.J.) started things off with a single to left field and Williams hit a chopper through the right side putting runners on the corners. Georgia Tech starter Ryan Turner tried to pick off Williams at first and his throw sailed high, allowing Hill to score.   

Similar to the fifth, the Scarlet Knights rallied with two outs, this time RU plated three runs to take their first lead since the top-half of the third inning. It started again with Hill, who, with Bionde on first, singled to center field to move Bionde to third. That chased Turner out of the game and Williams greeted new pitcher Eddie Burns with a single to center field to score Bionde. After another pitching change and a passed ball, which moved both runners in scoring position, an opportunistic Querns lined a ball back up the middle to score both Hill and Williams for the 6-4 advantage and what was eventually the game-winning RBI.

Back-to-back doubles for Tech to leadoff the bottom half of the seventh made it 6-5, ending RU starter Steve Healing's (Brick, N.J.) day. Senior Sean Spicer (Pearl River, N.Y.) came in and, following a walk to the first batter, retired the next three hitters to get out the inning and hold a one-run lead for Rutgers.

With Georgia Tech All-American catcher/pitcher Matt Wieters on the mound to start the ninth, Querns gave Rutgers some breathing room, lifting a two-out, two-run home run over the right-field fence to build an 8-5 lead for the Scarlet Knights. The home run was the second of his career and the first since his freshman season in 2004. RU continued its two-out rally as Wieters put the next two runners on base and Tom Edwards (Caldwell, N.J.) drove in another run with a single to right field to build RU's lead to 9-5.

Healing had a productive105-outing spanning six innings with five runs on nine hits and five strikeouts to earn the win, evening his record to 1-1 on the season. Spicer made the win hold up, working three innings of scoreless, hitless relief to earn his first save of the season.

Williams and Edwards also had three hits on the day for the Scarlet Knights, who finished the game with 14 hits. Hill reached base 12 times in 16 plate appearances on the weekend, hitting three home runs in the weekend series.

Turner (1-2) took the loss, letting up five runs (four earned) on eight hits in 6.2 innings with two strikeouts.

Rutgers returns home before heading back down south next weekend for its annual spring break trip to Florida. The Scarlet Knights will open the trip with a three-game series against Florida International in Miami, Fla., beginning next Friday at 7:00 p.m.