Conway, S.C. – Coastal Carolina baseball will wrap up its 2019 road season this weekend at UT Arlington in a key Sun Belt Conference series for both teams on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 10-12, in Arlington, Texas.
Weekend Schedule
Friday, 7:30 p.m. ET – Coastal Carolina at UT Arlington
Saturday, 3 p.m. ET – Coastal Carolina at UT Arlington
Sunday, 12 p.m. ET – Coastal Carolina at UT Arlington
Follow the Action Live
- All three games will be video streamed live online here:
- All three of the Chanticleers games this weekend will have live stats links for each game that can be found on the baseball schedule page at GoCCUsports.com or here:
- Audio for all three Coastal Carolina games can be found on the radio at WRNN 99.5 FM as well as online at:
Charting the Chants
- The Chanticleers are 27-20-1 overall this season and 12-11 in Sun Belt Conference play entering the three-game series this weekend on the road at UTA.
- CCU has gone just 4-6 over its last 10 games and has dropped three of its last four Sun Belt Conference three-game series at Little Rock (April 12-13), versus Georgia Southern (April 18 & 20), at Georgia State (April 26-28) and at home against Louisiana (May 3-5).
- The Chanticleers are 9-10 at home this season but have gone 7-4 on the road in Sun Belt play with three wins at ULM (March 15-17) and two wins each at South Alabama (April 5-6) and Georgia State (April 26-28).
Tracking UTA
- The UT Arlington Mavericks enter the weekend at 29-20 overall and 15-9 in league play.
- UTA has struggled as of late, as the Mavericks have lost seven of their last 10 games, including each of their last two contests at ULM last weekend.
- Prior to their slide, the Mavericks had strung together a season-high nine-straight wins from April 7 to April 20, which included wins over No. 17 Baylor (April 9) and No. 19 TCU (April 16), as well as three-game conference series sweeps at Arkansas State (April 13-14) and versus Louisiana (April 18-20).
- The Mavericks are 13-8 overall at home this season and have won six of their last seven games at Clay Gould Ballpark.
All-Time Series History
- Coastal Carolina leads the all-time series 4-0 with all four games coming either on the road at UTA or at a neutral site.
- Coastal swept the Mavericks in a three-game conference weekend series back in 2017 at UTA by scores of 5-4, 4-1 and 5-0.
- Last season, while the two teams did not meet in the regular season, Coastal and UTA did match up in the 2018 Sun Belt Championship tournament as the Chanticleers defeated the Mavericks 12-2 in eight innings at Russo Park in Lafayette, La.
Chants Chatter
- The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers lead the Sun Belt Conference in a number of statistical categories this season including batting average (.300), hits (508), home runs (61), on-base percentage (.408), runs scored (373), scoring (7.8 runs per game), RBIs (349), slugging percentage (.484), triples (16), total bases (821), batters struck out (432) and strikeouts per nine innings (9.1).
- Coastal Carolina's regular season is winding down as just two weeks remain before the 2019 Sun Belt Baseball Championship on May 21-26. The Chanticleers have two Sun Belt series left in this weekend's road matchup at UT Arlington (May 10-12) and next week's series versus Appalachian State (May 16-18).
- This weekend's Sun Belt road series at UTA marks the third conference series in the state of Texas for the Chanticleers since joining the Sun Belt in 2017. Coastal went 1-2 at Texas State (March 17-19, 2017) in its first conference series in the Lone Star State before sweeping UTA in three games (May 12-14, 2017) in its second conference series in the state of Texas.
- Coastal is a perfect 4-0 all-time versus UTA on the baseball diamond with all four meetings coming in the last two years. Coastal swept the Mavericks in a three-game conference weekend series back in 2017 at UTA by scores of 5-4, 4-1 and 5-0. Last season, while the two teams did not meet in the regular season, Coastal and UTA did match up in the 2018 Sun Belt Championship tournament as the Chanticleers defeated the Mavericks 12-2 in eight innings at Russo Park in Lafayette, La.
- Coastal Carolina designated hitter Jake Wright has been phenomenal in Sun Belt Conference play this season as the redshirt sophomore ranks in the top three in five different offensive categories. In league play, Wright is first in average (.430), on-base percentage (.550) and runs scored (28), and also ranks second in slugging percentage (.779) and RBIs (34) entering conference play UTA this weekend.
- The magic number for CCU this season is six - as in six runs. Coastal is 25-6 overall on the year when scoring six runs or more in a game and just 2-14-1 when scoring less than six runs. When holding its opponents to six runs or less, the Chants are 18-4-1, yet are only 9-16 when allowing six runs or more.
- A total of seven of the Chanticleers' nine road wins this season have come in Sun Belt play. Coastal is 7-4 on the road in Sun Belt play with three wins at ULM (March 15-17) and two wins each at South Alabama (April 5-6) and Georgia State (April 26-28).
- Coastal has had eight different pitchers make a start on the mound for them this season in Austin Kitchen (10), Zach McCambley (9), Anthony Veneziano (9), Garrett McDaniels (7), Nick Parker (6), Scott Kobos (3), Matt Eardensohn (3) and Bobby Holmes (1).
- The Chants are averaging 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings this season which leads the Sun Belt and ranks 52nd nationally. A total of 10 different pitchers have fanned more batters then innings pitched on the year, while the Chants are also tied for the lead in the Sun Belt with 432 strikeouts overall on the season.
- The Chants are a perfect 10-0 this season when they hold their opponents to two runs or less for the game.
On Deck
- Coastal will wrap up the regular season with a four-game home-stand versus Clemson on May 14 and Appalachian State on May 16-18.
