CONWAY - The Coastal Carolina softball team looks to add to their two-game winning streak this weekend, April 17-18, in a three-game Sun Belt Conference series as they travel to Georgia State at the Robert E. Heck Softball Complex.

The series kicks off on Saturday with a doubleheader at 1 p.m. and will wrap up with a single game on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

The Chanticleers come into the weekend with a 11-18 overall record and are in ninth place in the conference at 2-10.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

• The Chanticleers are on the road for the seventh time this season when they visit Atlanta, Ga., for the third time in three weeks as they visit the Georgia State Panthers. Coastal has an overall record of 11-18 this season, and on the road, it is  5-8 away from the friendly confines of St. John Stadium in 2021.
• CCU is batting .277 in 14 games at home compared to .281 in 13 games on the road this season.
• Junior Abbey Montoya leads the Chanticleers with a .389 batting average in 12 road games this season. The Chanticleer shortstop has tallied two home runs, nine RBI, and forced four walks in her 36 at-bats.
• Senior Makiya Thomas is batting .357 (15-for-34), five doubles, five walks, and five stolen bases in 13 Coastal's road games.
• The Chants pitching staff has an ERA of 5.02 in 14 home games compared to a 4.38 ERA in 13 games on the road this season.
• Senior Kaitlin Beasley-Polko leads the Chanticleer pitching staff with a 3.41 road earned run average in seven appearances

LOOKIN' BACK

• On Tuesday, Coastal swept the two-game series at the College of Charleston by scoring 28 runs. The Chants scored 14 runs in both halves of the doubleheader, their highest scoring output this season and the most runs they scored since February 14, 2020, against Northern Illinois.
• Freshman Riley Zana had a breakout game in the 14-3 game one win as she had a single and double with a career-high five RBI. Senior Ally Clegg picked up a career-high three walks in the win. As a team, the Chanticleers forced 12 Cougar walks in the five-inning win, the highest number accumulated since April 6, 2014, against Liberty.
• Junior catcher Mackenzie Beyer broke open the 14-2 CCU win in game two with a fourth-inning grand slam, her second of the season, and her eighth home run of the year.
• Five Chanticleers had at least two hits in the game-two victory, including Thomas and Montoya's team-high three. Beyer, Stavi Augur, and Paige Rivas added a pair of hits in the victory.

MASHING MAKIYA

• Tacoma, Wash., native Makiya Thomas has hit safely in 23 of the 29 Chanticleer games this season.
• Thomas is ninth in the conference with a .371 batting average, tied for fourth with 13 stolen bases, is tied for seventh with 10 doubles, 24th with a .539 slugging percentage, and 19th with a .422 on-base percentage.
• The senior outfielder had an eight-game hitting streak snapped last Saturday in a 9-1 game-one loss versus Georgia Southern. Thomas batted .444 (12-for-27) with two doubles, five walks,  and five stolen bases during her hitting streak.
• Thomas is leading the team in eight offensive categories, including; batting average (.371), at-bats (97), hits (36), multi-hit games (11), runs scored (22), doubles (10), total bases (52), and stolen bases (13).
• The left-handed batter is one of two Chanticleers to be selected to the 2021 preseason All-Sun Belt team.

BALLIN' BEYER

• In the last 16 games, junior catcher Mackenzie Beyer has raised her batting average from .231 to .319.
• During that time, Beyer had batted .372 with seven home runs, two doubles, forced six walks, and knocked in 13 RBI.
• Beyer leads the Coastal team with eight home runs this season.The sophomore catcher hit her second grand slam of the season in the second half of a doubleheader at the College of Charleston on  April 13.
• Beyer's walk-off homer versus Georgia Southern on April 9 was the first Chant come-from-behind victory of the season when trailing after four innings and the first since April 28, 2018, when then-senior Timi Tooley hit a walk-off versus South Alabama.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Georgia State is 13-21 overall and is in last place with a 1-12 in conference record.  The Panthers have lost 13 of the last 14 games, including Wednesday's 4-1 loss at home against Auburn.
• GSU's last win occurred last Saturday in game one of a doubleheader versus UT Arlington as Sophie Mooney went the distance, struck out nine, and allowed just two hits. Mooney had a no-hitter going through 5.2 innings before UTA finally broke into the hit column.
• Daisy Hess and Bailee Richardson are the lone .300 hitters on the Panthers squad. Hess leads the team with a .365 batting average (38-for-104), 10 doubles, one triple, eight home runs, and 33 RBI.
• Mooney leads the staff with five wins in 15 appearances and six complete games. In 66.0 innings of work, Mooney has struck out 47 batters.

HISTORY AGAINST

• The series dates back to 2017, Coastal's first year in the Sun Belt Conference.
• The longest win streak of any team is four, held by Georgia Southern from 2017 to 2018. The Chants won the last three games in their last faceoff in 2019.
• GSU holds the all-time series advantage, 5-6, but Coastal swept the season series in 2019 behind Abbey Montoya's 3-for-9 series, where the then-freshman had two home runs, two runs scored, and three RBI.
• Kaitlin Beasley-Polko added two complete-game victories in the sweep in 2019. Beasley-Polko pitched 14 innings, 14 strikeouts, and allowed just five hits in the series.