SAN MARCOS, Texas - The Coastal Carolina softball team dropped to 8-15 overall, and 1-7 in Sun Belt Conference play with a pair of losses on Thursday against the first-place Texas State Bobcats (22-3, 7-0 SBC) at Bobcat Stadium.

TXST 6, CCU 5

A pair of three-run home runs by AriAnn Bell and Tara Oltman was the difference in game one as the Bobcats defeated the Chanticleers by the score of 6-5.

In the bottom of the second inning, Oltmann and Haleigh McKay led off with consecutive singles against CCU starter Kaitlin Beasley-Polko. AriAnn Bell took advantage of the situation and hit her team's first long ball of the game, her sixth of the season, to give the Bobcats an early 3-0 lead.

Coastal bounced back in the top of the third inning to cut into the Texas State lead with a run of its own.

With two outs in the third, senior Makiya Thomas sent her team-leading ninth double of the year into left field off of TXST starter Jessica Mullins. The next batter, junior shortstop Abbey Montoya brought Thomas around to score with her 15th hit and sixth RBI of the season to cut the score to 3-1.

Just like the bottom of the second inning, Beasley-Polko allowed consecutive hits to the first two Bobcat batters of the third.

With runners on base, the Chants went to their bullpen for reliever Raelee Brabham, but the Moncks Corner, S.C., native was greeted by Oltmann's three-run home run, her seventh of the year, that extended Texas State's lead to 6-1.

Starting in the fourth inning, Coastal Carolina scored four unanswered runs off the righty Mullins to cut down the home team's lead to 6-5.

In the fourth, CCU catcher Mackenzie Beyer started a Coastal comeback with her fifth home run of the season and her second in three games to make the score, 6-2.

Two innings later, Coastal had four consecutive batters reach base safely as it cashed in on a three-run inning.

With one out in the sixth, Beyer legged out a double down the left-field line. The next batter, Sydney Guess, brought pinch-runner Michaela McAuley around to score from second base for the Chants. Two batters later, after Mullins plunked Ally Clegg, senior Stavi Augur chased Mullins from the game with an RBI single, her third of the season. Coastal capped off a three-run inning when senior Taylor Sweigart grounded into a RBI fielder's choice to cut the score 6-5.

Megan King closed the door on the CCU rally as she pitched the final 1.2 innings, and she struck out three of the five Chanticleer batters she faced to earn her second save of the season.

Mullins earned her 11th victory of the season as she worked the first 5.1 innings and allowed five earned runs.

Beasley-Polko dropped to 5-7 on the season in game one as she lasted 2.0 innings, allowed six hits and five runs.

Thomas, Montoya, Beyer, and Guess collected two hits apiece, the first time in a game this season where four batters collected multiple hits in a contest for Coastal.

Brabham pitched the final four innings for Coastal, her longest outing since Feb. 27 against Lipscomb University. The sophomore allowed four hits, allowed one run with three strikeouts on the afternoon.

TXST 5, CCU 1

The Chanticleers fell behind early in game two, 2-0, on wild pitches in the first and second innings from starter Iyanla De Jesus.

De Jesus gave up three more runs in the fourth inning that extended the Texas State lead to 5-0.

Bobcat Cat Crenek led off the fourth for TXST as she connected on her second home of the season, and then back-to-back fielding miscues by the Chanticleer defense led to two more maroon and bronze runs.

With two outs in the top of the sixth inning, Makiya Thomas extended her season-high hitting streak to six games with an RBI double off of Bobcat starter Megan King that scored Taylor Sweigart from first base to cut the deficit to 5-1.

King improved to 6-1 on the season as she went the distance in game two. The righty allowed just one run on five hits.

Kylie George had a game-high three hits in game two for Texas State.

De Jesus dropped to 2-5 on the season as she allowed five runs, three earned runs, nine hits on 105 pitches. It was the second consecutive start the sophomore went the distance for CCU.

Coastal Carolina and Texas State wrap up the Easter weekend series on Friday at 1 p.m. ET.