Special to the Breeze, breezesports@breezenewspapers.com

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Florida Gulf Coast lost its final baseball game of the season 9-3 at Atlantic Sun Conference rival USC Upstate Friday night after winning the first game of the doubleheader 9-0.

The twin bill split gives the Eagles a 38-15 record overall and a 25-8 mark in the conference. The Eagles captured the conference regular-season championship last weekend.

FGCU scored a pair of runs in the top of the second when Casey Coleman of Cape Coral led off with a single. Vinnie Scarduzio then singled and Graig Smith drove in the first run and Stephen Wickens plated another to make it 2-0.

The Spartans (25-29, 17-16) answered with a single run in their half of the second. The Spartans erupted for five runs in the sixth inning, racking up seven hits in the inning.

In the first game, the Eagles broke up a pitchers’ duel with eight runs in the eighth and ninth innings en route to the 9-0 win.

Cape Coral’s Josh Upchurch and Mikel Alvarez walked to open the game ahead of Ozzie Borrell, singled to drive in the first run. From that point, a pitchers’ duel broke out between Coleman and Upstate starter Scott Eckard until the eighth inning.