Conway, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will open up play at the 2019 NCAA Atlanta Regional versus the Auburn Tigers on Friday, May 31, at noon E.T. at Russ Chandler Stadium.
 
NCAA Atlanta Regional Schedule:
Friday
Game 1: Noon E.T. – No. 3 Coastal Carolina vs. No. 2 Auburn (ESPNU)
Game 2: 7 p.m. E.T. – No. 4 Florida A&M vs. No. 1 Georgia Tech (ESPN3)

Saturday
Game 3: 1 p.m. E.T. – Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2
Game 4: 7 p.m. E.T. – Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2

Sunday
Game 5: Noon E.T. – Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4
Game 6: 6 p.m. E.T. – Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5

Monday
Game 7: Noon E.T. – If Necessary
 
Ways to Follow
TV 📺: ESPNU (Friday) / Select games will be on ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 throughout the weekend
Radio 📻: 105.5 FM Hank/1450 AM (Friday) / WRNN 99.5 FM (Saturday)
Online Audio 🔊: http://portal.stretchinternet.com/coastal/
Live Stats 📈: www.coastal.statbroadcast.com
 
No Stranger to NCAA Regional Play

• Coastal will be playing in the program's 17th NCAA Regional and 16th under head coach Gary Gilmore.
• This weekend's regional marks the second time that the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers have played in an NCAA Regional in Atlanta, Ga., as the Chants were the No. 4 seed in the 2002 Atlanta Regional.
• Coastal lost to the No. 1-seeded Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 6-0 in the first game, bounced back to defeat the No. 3 Louisville Cardinals 9-1 in game two but then fell to No. 2 Georgia 9-7 at the 2002 regional.

Versus the Atlanta Regional Field

• Coastal has never played either Auburn or Florida A&M on the baseball diamond.
• The Chants are 7-18 all-time versus Georgia Tech and are 1-2 in NCAA Regional play versus the Yellow Jackets. CCU lost to the Jackets 11-7 in 1978 at the NCAA Atlantic Regional hosted by Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. The Chants then defeated No. 15 Georgia Tech 5-3 in the first game of the 2001 NCAA Georgia Regional hosted by Georgia in Athens, Ga. GT defeated Coastal 6-0 one year later in the 2002 NCAA Atlanta Regional hosted by Georgia Tech. 

Last Time the Chants Played at Russ Chandler Stadium

• The last time Coastal Carolina played at Russ Chandler Stadium was in 2016, as the No. 25-nationally ranked Jackets swept Coastal 9-1, 9-8 and 4-2 (7) in the three-game non-conference series.
• However, after the series current redshirt senior Bobby Holmes picked up Rafiki, a stuffed monkey, and as they say "the rest is history". CCU went on to finish the season at 24-4, including winning 12-straight games, win the NCAA Raleigh Regional, sweep LSU in the NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional and then defeat Florida, Texas Tech, TCU and Arizona en route to winning the 2016 College World Series and becoming National Champions.

Chants Chatter

• The Chants will play Auburn for the first time in the two programs history in the first game of the NCAA Atlanta Regional on Friday, May 31. CCU has not played the FAMU Rattlers either and is 7-18 all-time versus Georgia Tech, including going 1-2 in NCAA Regional play versus the Yellow Jackets.
• This weekend's NCAA Atlanta Regional marks the second time that Coastal Carolina has played in Atlanta and Russ Chandler Stadium for a regional. CCU played in the 2002 NCAA Atlanta Regional with Georgia Tech, Georgia and Louisville.
• Over the last five games, which were five-straight wins en route to the title at the 2019 Sun Belt Championship Tournament, Coastal hit a total of 18 home runs, an average of 3.6 home runs per game in those victories. That set a new Sun Belt Tournament team record for the most home runs by a team in the postseason conference tournament.
• For different Chants have driven in over 50 RBIs this season led by the Sun Belt RBIs leader in Zach Biermann with 76. Kieton Rivers (64), Parker Chavers (52) and Kyle Skeels (52) all have 50 or more RBIs on the year.
• Coastal won five-straight games to win the 2019 Sun Belt Baseball Championship last weekend to earn the automatic bid from the Sun Belt Conference. Coastal outscored its foes 72-40 over those five victories, which is the longest winning streak for the Chants since the middle of March.
• The magic number for CCU this season is six - as in six runs. Coastal is 33-8 overall on the year when scoring six runs or more in a game and just 2-16-1 when scoring less than six runs. When holding its opponents to six runs or less, the Chants are 20-4-1, yet are only 15-20 when allowing six runs or more.
• The seventh inning has been huge for the Chants this season, as Coastal has scored a total of 68 runs in the seventh inning this season, the most of any inning on the year. CCU has posted a "big inning" in the seventh inning a season-best six times this year.
• Coastal has had eight different pitchers make a start on the mound for them this season in Austin Kitchen (13), Anthony Veneziano (13), Zach McCambley (11), Garrett McDaniels (8), Nick Parker (7), Scott Kobos (4), Matt Eardensohn (3) and Bobby Holmes (1).
• Coastal Carolina's pitching staff is averaging 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings this season, which ranks first in the Sun Belt and 36th nationally. Coastal also leads the Sun Belt with 552 strikeouts overall on the year and has nine pitchers that have more strikeouts then innings pitched this season.
• The Chants have scored 10 runs or more in 22 different games this season, including five times in their last nine games. CCU is 20-2 this season when scoring double-digit runs for the contest.

 On Deck

• With a win over Auburn on Friday afternoon, the Chants will play the winner of FAMU and Georgia Tech on Saturday, June 1, at 7 p.m. ET. A loss to the Tigers puts Coastal in the 1 p.m. ET game on Saturday versus the loser between the Rattlers and the Yellow Jackets.

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