Box Score

BOCA RATON, Fla. - The Coastal Carolina softball team bounced back from the morning's loss to Florida State with a solid 3-1 win over tournament host Florida Atlantic Friday evening.

Morgan Noad and Kelsey Dominik accounted for all three runs with back-to-back homers and Kiana Quolas went the distance for the victory as the Chanticleers moved to 12-9 while handing Florida Atlantic just its fourth loss in 20 games this season. Quolas scattered seven hits and did not allow an earned run. Noad added a double for two of the Chants' five hits.

Quolas stranded five FAU runners over the first four innings to keep it scoreless before Noad and Dominik struck in the bottom of the fourth. Amanda Daneker, who had singled earlier in the game, drew a one-out walk before Noad drove her sixth homer of the season over the fence in right. It was the 36th of her career, moving one away from tying Sarah Lockett for fourth in Coastal history. She also now ranks 10th in program history for career RBIs with 105. Dominik then wasted no time adding to the lead, hammering the next pitch to left for her fifth of the year. It marked the fourth time Chants have gone back-to-back in the last seven games.

Florida Atlantic, which received votes in both national polls this week, got on the board in the top of the fifth, but Coastal was able to limit the damage after the Owls loaded the bases with no outs on two bunt singles around an error. Quolas induced consecutive forceouts at home before a hit batter brought in a run. Devon Steiner, who replaced Bri Chiusano in center field after she was shaken up while beating out a grounder in the third inning, then made a juggling catch to end the inning.

The Owls singled twice in the sixth, but a double play in between them helped Coastal get out of the inning before Quolas worked a perfect seventh to seal it.

In the 9-0 five inning loss to No. 11/12 Florida State (15-5), free bases were costly as the Seminoles took advantage of nine walks and a hit batter with extra-base, multiple-run scoring hits in the second, third and fourth innings, two of them with two outs.

Quolas got off to a good start in the first inning, getting three routine groundouts around a walk to All-American Maddie O'Brien.

However, two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases and led to four runs in the second. A two-out walk to the No. 9 batter gave leading hitter Jessica Warren a chance and she capitalized with a three-run double to the gap in right-center, before coming home herself on a throwing error on the play.

Florida State then made it 6-0 in the third as Victoria East followed a walk and a single with a two-run double down the left-field line. Following another walk, Mackenzie Conrad came on in relief with two on and got an inning-ending groundout.

Three more walks again set the table for the Seminoles in the fourth and, after a sacrifice fly plated one run, East added a two-run double to left for the final scoring. Florida State finished with just five hits.

Noad drew a walk for Coastal with one out in the fifth to spoil Lacey Waldrop's perfect-game attempt, but the 2014 USA Softball Player of the Year got the final two outs to record her second no-hitter of the season. The Chants' best chance for a hit came in the first inning as Kory Hayden drove a ball to the warning track, but Florida State's right-fielder tracked it down near the foul line.

Coastal continues play in the tournament on Saturday, facing Bethune-Cookman at 9 a.m., followed by a matchup against Hofstra at 11:15 a.m.