Conway, S.C. – Coastal Carolina baseball will play not one, but two midweek contests this week against teams from the Tar Heel state. The Chanticleers are scheduled to host the Charlotte 49ers on Tuesday, March 3, and then turnaround to take on No. 7 NC State in Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday, March 4.
 
Tuesday's home game versus Charlotte at Springs Brooks Stadium will begin at 4 p.m. ET.
 
Wednesday's road contest at nationally-ranked NC State is set for a 3 p.m. ET start.
 
ABOUT THE CHANTS
• Coastal Carolina is 7-3 this season and has won five-straight games entering play versus the Charlotte 49ers on Tuesday.
• The Chanticleers are coming off a three-game weekend series sweep over the Maryland Terrapins, in which the Chants outscored the Terps 29-5 in the three wins.
• All 10 of the Chants' games this season have come at home at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 
ABOUT THE 49ERS
• Charlotte is 8-4 on the season and is coming off a three-game weekend series sweep over St. John's at Hayes Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
• The 49ers have won seven of their last eight games with the lone loss coming last Tuesday, Feb. 25, in a 6-4 defeat on the road at UNC Greensboro.
• Charlotte is 0-2 in road games this season with losses at Tennessee and UNCG.

ALL-TIME SERIES HISTORY WITH THE 49ERS
• Coastal Carolina and Charlotte have split all-time series right down the middle at 11-11.
• The Chanticleers have won each of the last two meetings between the two teams, both of which came back in 1994.
• The longest winning streak in the series is four-straight games which has been done three times - twice by Charlotte (1981-85 and 1990-92) and once by Coastal (1986-88).
 
IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME
• Coastal Carolina and Charlotte will be facing off on the baseball diamond on Tuesday for the first time since 1994.
• The two teams played almost every year from 1980 to 1994 with the lone exception being from 1982 to 1984.
 
ABOUT THE WOLFPACK
• NC State is a perfect 11-0 on the season, which includes an undefeated 8-0 mark at home at Doak Field in Raleigh, N.C.
• As a team, the Wolfpack are hitting .327 with 19 home runs and 95 RBIs over just 11 games in the 2020 season.
• The Pack are coming off three-straight wins at the Cambria College Classic in which NC State defeated Iowa (10-6), Purdue (6-0), and Minnesota (11-7).
• NC State is ranked in all six national top 25 polls this week, coming in as high as No. 7 in the USA Today Baseball Coaches Poll, NCBWA Poll, and the Collegiate Baseball poll.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES HISTORY WITH THE PACK
• The Chanticleers are just 14-18 all-time versus NC State but won the last meeting between the two teams last year at Doak Field, 7-6 (April 10, 2019).
• Both of last year's meetings, which the two teams split, were decided by one run.
• Wednesday's contest will mark the seventh-straight game between CCU and NC State in which the Wolfpack was ranked in the top 25 nationally.
• Coastal has won three out of the last four matchups between the two teams in Raleigh, N.C., which included winning two of three games over the Wolfpack at the NCAA Raleigh Regional in 2016.
 
ROAD SEASON BEGINS
• Coastal Carolina's 2020 road slate will begin on Wednesday, March 4, at Doak Field in Raleigh, N.C.
• The Chants' first road contest was originally scheduled for Feb. 18 at UNCW. However, the game was postponed and moved to Springs Brooks Stadium on Feb. 19 due to heavy rain.
• CCU's second scheduled road game, which was to be played at the College of Charleston on Feb. 26, was postponed due to inclement weather as well.
• This week's road contest will be the first of eight-midweek road bouts this season for the Chanticleers which also includes midweek road matchups at Clemson (March 24), at Charlotte (March 31), at UNCW (April 7), at North Carolina (April 14), at Wake Forest (April 21), at Georgia (April 28), and at College of Charleston (TBA).
• Last season, the Chanticleers went 10-12 overall in true road contests and 12-14-1 in games played away from Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, S.C.
 
HOME SWEET HOME
• Following this weekend's series sweep over Maryland at Springs Brooks Stadium, the Chanticleers played the entire month of February at home. In fact, CCU's game versus Charlotte on Tuesday, March 3, will be the 11th-straight home game to open the season.
• The Chants' originally scheduled two road games - at UNCW on Feb. 18 and at College of Charleston on Feb. 26 - were impacted by the weather and moved to Springs Brooks Stadium or postponed to a later date.
 
STREAKING CHANTS
• After starting the season at 2-3, which included back-to-back losses to Saint Joseph's (Feb. 21) and Illinois (Feb. 22) at home, Coastal has run off five-straight wins.
• The five consecutive wins are the most this season for the Chants and the most since CCU won five-straight to win the 2019 Sun Belt Championship title last season.
• Coastal's longest winning streak last season was seven games when the Chants won seven-straight to open the season.
 
TAKING OFFENSE
• Coastal Carolina's offense has come to life over the Chants' five-game winning streak.
• Over their first five games of the season, the Chants scored just 21 runs, including scoring a combined nine runs over a four-game stretch.
• In the last five games, Coastal's offense has hit .360 with 56 runs on 62 hits and has driven in 48 RBIs.
• A total of 11 different players have hit over .300 during the five-game span with five starters hitting over .400 in BT Riopelle (.571), Cooper Weiss (.500), Makenzie Pate (.429), Fox Leum (.412), and Eric Brown (.400).
 
PITCHING = WHERE IT'S AT FOR CCU IN 2020
• The Coastal pitching staff has been superb early this season, posting a 2.10 ERA over 90.0 innings pitched.
• CCU's arms have given up just 31 runs over the first 10 games, an average of 3.1 per contest, including only 21 earned runs in 90.0 innings pitched.
• The Chants' hurlers have struck out 91 batters compared to just 27 walks, a 3.4-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
• Coastal's arms have held its foes to a .224 batting average on the year, and have allowed just 13 extra-base hits.
• Thus far this year, the Chants have not allowed more than five runs in a single game.
 
ON THE HORIZON
• The Chanticleers will host the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders for a three-game weekend series at Springs Brooks Stadium on March 6-8
 
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