CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and the Liberty Flames will meet for the first time since 2016 on the baseball diamond this weekend, April 23-25, in a three-game non-conference series in Lynchburg, Va.
 
All three games will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and on the radio at WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
  • Game 1 – Friday, April 23 at 6 p.m. ET
• Game 2 – Saturday, April 24 at 4 p.m. ET
• Game 3 – Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. ET
  • Coastal enters the weekend three-game series at Liberty at 18-13 overall and on a two-game winning streak.
• The Chants, who are on a four-game road trip, are coming off a 6-3 midweek road win at North Carolina on Tuesday (April 20).
• Coastal has posted seven wins in road games this season, five of which have come in non-conference play. CCU has non-conference road wins over then-No. 16 Wake Forest (Feb. 23), two at West Virginia (March 19 & 21), at UNCW (April 14), and most recently at North Carolina (April 20).
• As a team, the Chanticleers are hitting just .249 on the season but have blasted 42 home runs and driven in 172 RBIs. The Chants lead the Sun Belt in home runs (42) and rank second in walks (147), on-base percentage (.363), and scoring (6.1).
• On the mound, the pitching staff posts a 4.61 ERA which is fourth in the Sun Belt this season, while in the field CCU ranks third in the conference with 23 double plays turned.
  • The Liberty Flames are 25-9 overall on the season and 14-1 at home this season.
• The Flames are coming off a 7-0 home loss to Duke on Tuesday (April 20), their first home loss of the season.
• Liberty is hitting .277 on the season but leads the ASUN in doubles (83), which is also second nationally, hits (322), home runs (33), sacrifice flies (15), slugging percentage (.449), and triples (9).
• The Flames' pitching staff has posted a 3.20 ERA overall on the year which leads the ASUN and ranks 10th nationally.
• Liberty has also recorded four shutouts, which leads the ASUN and is 14th nationally.
• In the field, Liberty has posted a .982 fielding percentage on the year which ranks first in the ASUN and eighth nationally.
  • Coastal leads the overall series with the Liberty Flames at 62-34.
• The 62 overall wins are the fifth-most wins over an opponent in CCU baseball history.
• The two teams' last meeting was in the 2016 Big South Baseball Championship title game where the Chants defeated Liberty 1-0 to win their 14th Big South Tournament title.
• The Chants have won six-straight over the Flames entering the weekend. However, prior to the current CCU winning streak, Liberty had won seven straight meetings.
  • The Chants and Flames have played three common opponents in 2021, all out of the ACC in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Duke.
• CCU is 1-0 versus both Wake Forest and North Carolina, and went 1-2 versus Duke, while Liberty is 1-0 versus Wake Forest, 2-0 over North Carolina, and 0-2 against Duke.
  • This weekend's non-conference three-game series with Liberty marks the fourth non-conference weekend series for the Chanticleers this season having hosted Duke for three games on Feb. 20-21, FIU for four games on March 12-14, and playing three games at West Virginia on March 19-21.
• The Chanticleers are 1-1-1 over those three non-conference weekend series, taking two of three games at West Virginia (March 19-21), tying FIU in the four-game series at 2-2 (March 12-14), and dropping two of three on Opening Weekend (Feb. 20-21) versus then-No. 16 Duke.
• Overall, the Chanticleers are 15-7 overall in non-conference play this season, including going 5-2 on the road.
  • The Chanticleers are returning to the state for Lovers for the first time in five years this weekend.
• Coastal last played a game in the state of Virginia in 2016, its last year in the Big South Conference.
• That season, the Chants went a combined 8-1 with three-game conference series sweeps of both Liberty (Lynchburg, Va.) and Radford (Radford, Va.), as well as a 2-1 series win over Longwood (Farmville, Va.).
  • The three-game weekend series at Liberty will be the final three games of four-straight road games for the Chanticleers following a three-game home series versus Georgia Southern last weekend (April 16-18).
• In fact, with the Chants' midweek road game at North Carolina on Tuesday (April 20) eight of the Chants' next nine games are slated to be on the road as CCU will play three games this weekend at Liberty (April 23-25), one of two midweek games next week at UNCW (April 27), and then a three-game Sun Belt Conference series at Georgia State (April 30-May 2).
  • While the offense has struggled this season for Coastal standards, the Chants have shown signs of a resurgence at the plate the last week in their three wins.
• Last Wednesday, April 14, at UNCW, the Chants had eight different players record a hit as the team hit .351 with eight runs on 13 base hits, five walks, three hit batters, and only seven strikeouts.
• In the Sunday series-finale win over Georgia Southern (April 18), six different Chants had at least one base hit as CCU hit five home runs, a season-high, and scored eight runs in the 8-6 come-from-behind win over the Eagles.
• All five home runs came from a different Chant in the win over the Eagles on Sunday (April 18).
• In their most recent win at North Carolina on April 20, the Chants had only six base hits but four of them were RBI extra-base hits in the way of three solo home runs and a two-run triple.
  • The Chanticleers used "Johnny Whole Staff" last time out in their 6-3 midweek road win at North Carolina on Tuesday night (April 20), as CCU used a total of nine pitchers.
• All nine Coastal pitchers recorded at least one strikeout on the night and not one of the nine Chanticleer arms threw more than 1.2 innings over the nine-inning road win.
• In fact, the Chanticleers have used six pitchers or more this season in 10 different games and have gone 6-4 overall in those contests.
 
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