CofC, Jesse Simpson Blank UNCG, 8-0

Friday, March 6

Patriots Point

6 p.m.

College of Charleston

UNCG

3/6/2009 5:00:00 AM | Baseball

By: CofCSports.com

Brandon Sizemore (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Matt Mansilla (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) homered, and Jesse Simpson (Baton Rouge, La.) and two relief pitchers combined on a three-hitter leading the College of Charleston to an 8-0 win over UNC Greensboro in the Southern Conference baseball opener for both schools before 105 at Patriots Point Stadium on Friday.

Charleston improved to 7-2 overall and 1-0 in league play with its fourth straight win. The Spartans fell to 1-6 and 0-1. Game two of the series is Saturday at 1:00.

Sizemore belted his fourth homer of the season, a solo shot to left leading off the fifth, that stretched Charleston's lead to 5-0.

Mansilla hit a two-run homer to right center in the fifth inning, his third of the season, that scored Ryan Daniels (Victoria, Tex.) and staked the Cougars to a 7-0 lead.

Austin Morgan's (Katy, Tex.) sacrifice fly and Joey Bergman's (Jacksonville, S.C.) run-producing triple in the second inning gave Charleston a 3-0 lead. Joash Brodin (Olympia, Wash.) tripled with one out in the fourth inning and scored on a grounder by Mike Hentz (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) that extended Charleston's lead to 4-0.

Sizemore added an RBI single in the eighth that scored Clay McCord (Atlanta, Ga.) for the final margin. Daniels, McCord and Sizemore finished with two hits each. Ray Quinones had two hits for the Spartans.

Simpson (2-1) picked up the win blanking the Spartans on just three hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts and no walks. Curtis Dowling (Columbia, S.C.) worked the eighth, while Evan Goldberg (Simpsonville, S.C.) pitched the ninth for Charleston. Greg Martin (0-2) suffered the loss surrendering seven runs, four earned, on eights hits with five strikeouts over the first five innings.