4/11/2018 12:00:00 AM | Softball
CONWAY - In the upcoming week six of the Sun Belt Conference schedule, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (22-20, 5-10 SBC) will travel to the Troy Trojans (24-17, 8-7 SBC) in a matchup that is important to Sun Belt Conference standings. The originally scheduled series schedule was to be for Saturday and Sunday but with inclement weather bearing down on the Troy region, it was decided that the series will begin a day earlier with a doubleheader set to begin on Friday at 4:30 p.m. est and then wrap up the series on Saturday at 1 p.m. est.
Coastal Carolina
The Chanticleers come into this weekend's series ninth in the conference standings winning their last three conference games as they swept Georgia Southern last weekend.
On Tuesday night, the Chants visited the Colonial Athletic Conference's UNC Wilmington Seahawks and were victorious by the score of 2-1. Ashley Guillette improved to 11-9 as she pitched five innings allowing three hits and just the one run. The offense was led by sophomore Kassidy Smith who had a double and run batted in, freshman Taylor Sweigart who had a single and run batted in and freshman Stavi Augur who picked up a single and double.
During the five-game winning streak for Coastal, the team has batted, .298 (36-for-121), eight home runs, eight doubles, one triple, and 33 runs batted in.
In the last five games, Freshman Courtney Dean has led all players on the Chanticleers with a .438 (7-for-16) batting average with a home run, triple, double, and eight runs batted in.
In Sweigart's 32 previous games, the Coastal infielder's season batting average was .179 but in the five games since, she has jumped 30 points as she has batted .417 (5-for-12) with a double and six runs batted in.
Other notables in the last five games for the Chants are senior sophomore Kassidy Smith (.385), senior Timi Tooley (.357), and junior Alexis Alvino (.300) all of which have batted over .300.
Troy
Currently, the Trojans sit in the fourth position in the Sun Belt standings, behind UT-Arlington as they have won four consecutive games overall and three consecutive in the conference.
Troy catcher Kaylee Hussey was named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week with a .714 batting average (5-for-7), seven runs batted in, and four runs scored in Troy's series sweep of Appalachian State. In game one of the series, Hussey went 2-for-2 with a home run, two runs batted in and three runs scored. Game two, Hussey hit her second home run of the day and followed that in game three with two more runs batted in.
On Tuesday, Hussey and her team defeated the UAB Blazers, 6-4 as Hussey knocked in a run with two runs scored. Also in the game, Katie Webb and Stephanie Snyder led the Trojans at the plate with two hits each.
Starter Annie Willis picked up her 12th victory of the season, which is now tied for third best in the conference, as she pitched 5.1 innings, allowing four runs on hits. Peyton Glover entered in the bottom of the sixth to shut down the Blazers for two innings and picked up her conference-leading fourth save of the season.
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