Coastal Softball Advances to 2019 Sun Belt Championship Game 

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SAN MARCOS, TEXAS – The No. 6-seed Coastal Carolina softball team's (39-21) storied run ended on Saturday afternoon in the 2019 Sun Belt Softball Tournament at Bobcat Stadium. The Chanticleers were able to stave off elimination with a 4-2 extra-inning win over the No. 8-seed ULM Warhawks, but then fell in the title game to the No. 1-seed Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns 1-0.
 
Freshman Abbey Montoya led off the top of the second with a walk off the ULM starting pitcher Adrianna Chavarria. After senior Chelsea D'Avilar moved Montoya over to second base, freshman Sydney Guess gave the Chanticleers a 1-0 lead with her 15th RBI of the season on a single to right center field that plated Montoya.
 
Senior Natalie David extended the Chanticleer lead to 2-0 in the top of the third with her 17th run batted in of the season on a groundout that scored junior Kassidy Smith. Smith would open the inning with a double down the left field line.
 
The Warhawks answered in the bottom of the third with one run to cut the Coastal lead to 2-1. Leadoff batter Sydney McKay tripled down the left field line and then came around to score on Jayden Mount's sacrifice bunt.
 
ULM would tack another run on in the bottom of the fourth to tie the score. Bailey Thibodeaux led off the inning with a single through the left side. After Kylie Page was hit by Chant starter Ashley Guillette's 1-2 pitch, both Warhawk runners would move up on a steal but the throw to third base by CCU catcher Mackenzie Beyer would go into left field allowing the pinch Victoria Pederson to tie the score 2-2.

Both Guillette and Warhawk combination of Chavarria and Jesse Watts were excellent over the next four innings of play as neither side would give up a run.
 
In the top of the ninth, the Chanticleers broke through on the Monroe reliever Watts. Montoya and fellow freshman Adrienne Visintine got back-to-back hits off Watts to give CCU runners in scoring position with one out. Back-to-back sacrifices from senior Chelsea D'Avilar and Guess gave the Chanticleers a 4-2 lead.
 
The two-run lead was too much for the ULM batters to come back from on Guillette. 

Guillette finished off the Warhawks in the bottom of the ninth as she got Megan Shaw to pop up to Smith to end the game and move on the Sun Belt Championship game.

In the game one win, the Oxford, Ct., native improved to 16-6 as she pitched nine innings, allowed four hits, gave up two runs, one earned, and struck out five batters.

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Coastal Rewind 
March 31, 2020: 2014 Big South Volleyball Championship
April 3, 2020: 2013 FCS Football Playoff Win at Montana
April 7, 2020: Coastal Football Beats Kansas for First-Ever Power 5 Win
April 10, 2020: Women's Basketball Defeats Troy in Shootout for First-Place
April 14, 2020: 2014 Big South Men's Basketball Championship Game
April 17, 2020: 2003 Men's Soccer Season
April 21, 2020: Women's Lacrosse Wins 2015 Big South Tournament Game Over Campbell
April 24, 2020: Coastal Baseball Walks-Off Clemson to Give Gilmore His 900th Win