Box Score

CHARLESTON - Kiana Quolas pitched a one-hitter and the Coastal Carolina softball team scored five first-inning runs and cruised to its ninth straight victory Wednesday afternoon, shutting out College of Charleston 8-0 in a five-inning non-conference game.

Morgan Noad hit her 17th home run of the season to highlight the opening onslaught for the Chanticleers, who improved to 27-17 and won for the 14th time in their last 16 games.

Kailey Mellen and Maicie Hahn each went 2 for 3, with Mellen adding three RBIs and Hahn hitting her first home run of the season. The two homers gave Coastal 70 for the season, tying the school-record set in 2013. Quolas added her first career triple, a double and one RBI at the plate as Coastal totaled 10 hits as a team.

The one-hit performance for Quolas (15-10) was the fourth of her career. She struck out just one, but did not walk a batter and was backed by error-free defense to face just 16 batters in the run-rule shortened game. She was perfect through the first four innings before the Cougars' Carly Hansis led off the fifth with a double. Quolas then got three of her 10 groundball outs of the game to finish it off.

Coastal sent all nine batters to the plate and totaled five hits in the opening frame. Bri Chiusano led off with a bunt single and advanced to second on a wild pitch before an RBI double by Quolas got the Chants on the board. Two batters later, Noad hit a two-run homer to right-center, bringing her to within three of the individual single-season school record. Amanda Daneker followed with a double to left-center, Sara Rasley drew a two-out walk and Mellen hit a two-run double to left to make it 5-0.

The Chanticleers then tacked on their final three runs in the top of the fifth. Rasley hit a one-out double and scored on an RBI single to center by Mellen. Hahn then hit a two-run homer over the fence in left-center, the third longball of her career.

College of Charleston, which was coming off a 9-1 five-inning victory over Charleston Southern on Tuesday, dropped to 21-23 on the season.

Coastal will stay on the road for its next six games, and return to conference play with series' at Liberty and Charleston Southern. The Liberty series this weekend has been moved to Friday and Saturday games instead of Saturday and Sunday. The teams are now scheduled to play a single game Friday at 6 p.m. and then a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday.