CONWAY - The Coastal Carolina softball team extended their winning streak to seven games as they swept the UT Arlington Mavericks (14-28, 7-10 SBC) on Sunday at St. John Stadium by the scores of 6-1 and 5-2.
 
Coastal improved to 18-19 overall this season and 7-11 in Sun Belt Conference play. Win the two Sunday wins, CCU earned their first conference sweep since 2019 at South Alabama.
 
The Chanticleer bats combined to hit four home runs on the day to go along with a pair of complete games by sophomores Iyanla De Jesus and Raelee Brabham.
 
CCU 6, UTA 1 (Game 1)
 
De Jesus earned her fourth complete game of the season to improve to 4-6 as she allowed six hits, one run, no earned, allowed five hits, and tied her career-high with seven strikeouts.
 
In the top of the first inning, the Mill Creek, Wash., allowed three walks to start the game, but the righty worked her way out of trouble by striking out Madison Miller and Courtney Ogle, and induced a ground out of opposing starting pitcher Kenedy Hines.
 
The sophomore stranded 11 in runners in scoring position throughout game one and allowed runners in scoring position in five of the seven innings but gave up just one run..
 
The three, four, and five hitters for CCU batted 3-for-6 and five RBI in the game one win.
 
The Chanticleers scored three times the bottom of the first on a three-run homer by Mackenzie Beyer, her team-leading ninth long ball of the season.
 
On her senior day, number three hitter Stavi Augur batted 1-for-3 in game one with a two-out RBI single to score Taylor Sweigart and put the Chants up 4-0.
 
After CCU's Sydney Guess extended her team's lead to 5-0 in the top bottom of the third, the Chants picked up their final run of the game on cleanup hitter Kayla Rosado's fifth home run of the season.

The Mavericks' KJ Murphy knocked in the lone run for UTA in the 6-1 loss with an RBI single in the top of the sixth against De Jesus.
 
Hines drops to 4-11 this season for Arlington as she allowed four hits, five runs, three earned in three innings of work.
 
CCU 5, UTA 2 (Game 2)
 
Brabham matched her fellow sophomore within the circle in game two as she picked up her second complete game of the season and improved to 5-6. The Moncks Corner, S.C., native scattered 12 hits, allowed two runs, one earned on 115 pitches.
 
Just like De Jesus did in game one, Brabham allowed the Mavericks to put runners in scoring position in five of the seven innings but stranded double-digit (10) runners on base.
 
UT Arlington's Reagan Hukill was responsible for the pair of runs in game two for UTA, with a pair of RBI singles in the top of the first and third.
 
UTA starter Jo Jo Valencia took a 2-1 lead going into the bottom of the fourth inning, but the Chants' Makiya Thomas put the teal and bronze ahead, 3-2, with her third home run of the season.
 
Rosado hit her second home run of the day in the bottom of the sixth with her two-run homer to left field to seal the Chanticleers' seventh consecutive victory.
 
Thomas and Augur led CCU at the dish in the game with two hits apiece.

Valencia drops to 3-5 on the season for UTA as she allowed four hits, three runs, two earned in 3.1 innings of work.

The Chanticleers will play six games this coming week starting with UNCW in Wilmington, N.C. on Tuesday, April 27. They will then travel to Rock Hill, S.C. for a April 26 doubleheader at Winthrop, and then will wrap up the weekend with nationally-ranked Louisiana  at St. John Stadium May 1-2.

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