Conway, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will return to the road for a four-game road trip on Tuesday night, April 23, at No. 15 North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. ET.
Tuesday – Coastal Carolina at No. 15 North Carolina (6 p.m. ET)
Video 📹: ACC Network Extra (
http://www.espn.com/watch/_/id/3500077/coastal-carolina-vs-north-carolina)
Radio 📻: WRNN 99.5 FM
Online Audio 🔊:
http://portal.stretchinternet.com/coastal/
Live Stats 📈:
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Charting the Chants
- Coastal Carolina is 24-16-1 overall this season but has gone just 4-6 over its last 10 games and 4-8 overall for the month of April.
- The Chants limp into play this week having gone 1-5 over their last six games, which includes a four-game losing streak, their longest since the 2014 season.
- Coastal is just 7-8 in true road games this season but is 2-1 in the state of North Carolina with a 10-5 win at UNCW (Feb. 19) and a 7-6 road victory at NC State (April 10).
- Versus the ACC this season, the Chants are 3-2 with two wins over Wake Forest (March 5 & 6) and a road victory at NC State (April 10).
Tracking the Tar Heels
- North Carolina enters Tuesday night's game at 30-11 overall and 24-2 at home.
- The Tar Heels' lone two losses at home this season have come to VCU (Feb. 27) and Miami (March 15).
- UNC is also 17-3 in non-conference games this season with losses to VCU (Feb. 27), at Liberty (March 19) and versus South Carolina (April 16).
- The Tar Heels have won seven of their last 10 games and 14 out of their last 18 contests.
Chants Chatter
- Coastal Carolina and North Carolina are meeting for the only time this season on Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C. The two teams have met once in each of the last three seasons with the Chanticleers winning two of those three matchups.
- The Chants are 2-2-1 versus top-25 teams this season with wins over then-No. 25 Illinois (March 1) and then-No. 2 NC State (April 10). CCU's game on Tuesday night at No. 15 nationally-ranked North Carolina will be the fifth top-25 game of the season for the Chants.
- Coastal has three different players that lead the Sun Belt in one offensive statistical category heading into play this week. Kieton Rivers leads the league in RBIs with 46 on the season, while Jake Wright is first in the Sun Belt with a .493 on-base percentage for the year. Cory Wood leads the Sun Belt in walks with 38.
- The Chanticleers had only four games at home for the entire month of April, with all four games coming last week over a four-game home-stand. Coastal hosted the College of Charleston (April 16) in midweek play and then welcomed Georgia Southern to Springs Brooks Stadium for a three-game series over the weekend with the two teams playing one game on Thursday (April 18) and a doubleheader on Saturday (April 20).
- The Chants hit a total of five home runs last weekend over the three-game conference series versus Georgia Southern (April 18 & 20). Coastal has five players with five home runs or more on the season in Parker Chavers (10), Zach Biermann (8), Kieton Rivers (8), Kyle Skeels (8) and Jake Wright (5).
- The magic number for CCU this season is six - as in six runs. Coastal is 22-4 overall on the year when scoring six runs or more in a game and just 2-12-1 when scoring less than six runs. When holding its opponents to six runs or less, the Chants are 16-4-1, yet are only 8-12 when allowing six runs or more.
- Coastal leads the Sun Belt in seven key offensive categories this season. The Chants are first in the league in average (.297), slugging percentage (.480), on-base percentage (.405), hits (426), runs scored (310), RBIs (289) and home runs (52).
- The Chanticleers are almost unbeatable when leading after eight innings of play. This season, Coastal is 20-0-1 when leading after eight innings of play and 2-1 when entering the ninth inning tied. However, CCU is just 2-14 overall on the year when trailing after eight innings.
- This season, the Chants are averaging 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings this season. A total of 10 different pitchers have fanned more batters than then innings pitched on the year, while the Chants also lead the Sun Belt in batters struck out with 373 overall on the season.
- In their 24 wins this season, the Chanticleers are averaging just shy of 10 runs per game at 9.8 per contest. However, in their 16 losses, Coastal is scoring on average just 4.4 runs per game.
On Deck
- Coastal will jump back into Sun Belt East Divisional play at Georgia State on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 26-28, in Atlanta, Ga.
