MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. -- Senior right-hander Kenny Montieth (Denville, NJ) pitched 7 2/3 shutout innings and classmate Jimmy Simpson (Biscayne Park, FL) drove in all three runs as Felician College earned a 3-0 Game 2 victory over Southern Connecticut State University and a split of the teams' non-conference baseball doubleheader on Saturday at Big Rock Stadium. Southern Connecticut, the No. 7-ranked team in the latest national Division II writers poll, earned a 2-1, 10-inning win in the day's opening game.

In Game 2, Felician (1-2) jumped out in front with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning off of Owl starter Rocco Cundari (0-1). Simpson looped a two-out, two-run double down the right-field line, scoring Mickey Zudonyi (Holmdel, NJ) and Korey McGuiness (Jackson, NJ). In his next at-bat, Simpson plated Mike Farrell (Lincroft, NJ) with another two-out hit in the third.

Montieth, meanwhile sailed through the majority of his start. He yielded six hits, struck out nine batters, and walked one. On only two occasions did he have mutiple runners on base, and the second time, in the eighth, he was lifted in favor of Brett Hauber (Deposit, NY). Hauber escaped damage and pitched a one-hit ninth for his first save.

Simpson went 3 for 3 and Farrell had a pair of hits for the Golden Falcons. SCSU's T.J. Shea went 3 for 4 with a double.

In the opener, Southern Connecticut's Bryan Dorsey scored Ryan Geffert with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Owls the victory. Geffert and Kyle Cummings had drawn back-to-back walks off of Hauber (0-1) to start the inning and had advanced on a wild pitch.

SCSU's returning all-American Chris Zbin matched up on the mound with Felician transfer D.J. Stinsman (Egg Harbor Township, NJ) for six innings. Stinsman gave up no runs on three hits with four strikeouts and two walks, while Zbin fanned eight batters and allowed only an unearned run in the first when Simpson scored on a fielding error.

The Golden Falcons carried the 1-0 edge into the seventh when the Owls' Michael Cleary tripled to deep center on the first pitch from reliever Stephen Paladino (Brooklyn, NY). After a walk and a stolen base, Paladino recorded a strikeout before Cleary scored the tying run on a fielding error. Felician had earlier wasted two occasions to tack onto its lead with a runner on third base and none out.

Kevin Whitehead (Tonawanda, NY) had two of Felician's four hits in Game 1.