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Spartans Start Six-Game Homestand On Wednesday Night

April 15, 2009

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - After the seventh rainout of the season on Tuesday afternoon at UNC Asheville, the USC Upstate baseball team returns home to Harley Park for the longest homestand in the school's Division I era, as it hosts the next six games in the friendly confines. Making the confines even more friendly, temperatures look to be in the 60s for Wednesday's 6 p.m. contest with North Carolina A&T and the forecasts are reporting low chances of precipitation.

Upstate will enter the game looking for its 10th win of the season against a N.C. A&T team that Upstate beat 8-3 on March 10. The Spartans have won both their meetings against the Aggies, using an 11-run eighth-inning to overcome the Aggies, 16-6, in the first meeting in 2008. Senior Kyle Simpson leads the Spartans against the Aggies, going 3-for-5 with four runs, a double and a triple in two games.

Quick Hits
• Junior Jimmy Tanner became the 14th in school history to reach 150 career hits with a single to right field, the first of his three hits on Sunday at Kennesaw State.
• Through 34 games, senior Phillip Morgan has tied his career highs of four homers and 10 doubles set in his first year with the Spartans in 2007.
• Senior Phillip Morgan has posted a career-high four hits twice in the last five games, including on Sunday at Kennesaw State. He is hitting .512 with a homer and 12 RBI in the last five games.
• Sophomore Blake Green posted four hits and two RBI, hitting .571, in his first two games back from a concussion that kept him out of the lineup for 15 games.
• Junior Teddy Fallon threw a career-high four innings in Sunday's 7-5 win over Kennesaw State, allowing four hits, an unearned run and striking out four.
• Senior Eric Guillen has driven in a career-high four runs three times this season, doing so against SIU Edwardsville, Mercer and Presbyterian.
• Freshman Austin Moyer leads the Spartans at Harley Park, hitting .438 with 10 RBI and eight runs.
• Senior Eric Guillen is hitting a team-high .400 (16-for-40) with runners in scoring position.

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