CONWAY, S.C. – The Chanticleers will jump back into Sun Belt Conference play with a three-game series on the road at Georgia State on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 30 – May 2 in Atlanta, Ga. The three-game series is part of a four-game road trip and seven of eight games on the road away from Springs Brooks Stadium.
All three games will be video streamed live on ESPN+ and on the radio at WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
SCHEDULE
• Game 1 – Friday, April 30 at 6 p.m. ET
• Game 2 – Saturday, May 1 at 4 p.m. ET
• Game 3 – Sunday, May 2 at 1 p.m. ET
CHARTING THE CHANTS
• Coastal Carolina is 19-17 overall this season and 3-6 in Sun Belt Conference play.
• The Chants are in the midst of a season-long three-game losing streak having dropped each of their two midweek contests versus UNCW (April 27 & 28) this week.
• CCU is jumping back into Sun Belt Conference play after playing a three-game non-conference series on the road at Liberty (April 23-25) last weekend.
• The Chanticleers have not won a Sun Belt Conference series this season, having won one of three games in conference weekends at Louisiana (March 26-28), at UTA (April 10-12), and at home versus Georgia Southern (April 16-18).
• The Chants' offense is hitting just .245 overall as a team on the season which is ninth in the Sun Belt Conference.
• On the mound, the pitching staff posts a 4.71 ERA, which ranks seventh in the Sun Belt.
SCOUTING THE PANTHERS
• The Georgia State Panthers are 11-32 overall and 6-9 in Sun Belt play this year.
• The Panthers are coming off a 4-3, 14-inning win versus Wofford (April 27) last time out after being swept at South Alabama (April 23 & 25) last weekend in Sun Belt play.
• However, of their 11 wins, the Panthers have beaten in then-No. 14 West Virginia twice (Feb. 20), then-No. 2 Vanderbilt (Feb. 26), and then-No. 10 Georgia Tech (March 3).
• The Panthers are hitting .244 on the season as a team that ranks 10th in the Sun Belt and leads the nation and Sun Belt in strikeouts with 440.
• On the mound, the Seahawks hold a 6.42 ERA, which also ranks 10th in the Sun Belt.
ALL-TIME SERIES
• Coastal leads the all-time series over the Panthers at 7-2.
• Prior to last season, which was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two teams had played a three-game conference series every year since 2017 with the Chants winning all three series.
• CCU is 5-1 all-time at the GSU Baseball Complex in Atlanta, Ga., and set a program record with 27 runs in a 27-2 win on April 27, 2019.
SWING AND A MISS
• This weekend will feature the top-two teams in the Sun Belt in terms of strikeouts at the plate.
• Georgia State leads the Sun Belt and the nation with 440 strikeouts, while Coastal is second in the Sun Belt and fifth in the nation at 379 punch-outs at the plate this year.
SUN BELT SLUMP
• For the first time since joining the Sun Belt for the 2017 season, the Chanticleers have dropped their first three three-game conference weekend series with series losses at Louisiana (March 26-28), at UTA (April 10-12), and at home versus Georgia Southern (April 16-18).
• Entering this season, Coastal had won 21 of its 30 Sun Belt Conference series since joining the league, including winning nine of its 10 conference series in 2018.
• Prior to this season, the Chants had lost just seven series in conference play since joining the Sun Belt entering the 2021 season and had lost back-to-back conference series just once (2019).
THREE-GAME SKID
• The Chanticleers enter the weekend Sun Belt series having lost three games in a row.
• The three-game skid is the first of the season for the Chants and the longest since a three-game losing streak back in 2019 oddly enough from April 28 through May 4.
• That losing streak started with a 15-11 loss at Georgia State.
LINE CHANGE
• While the Chanticleers have had only 15 different players start in the lineup in at least one game this season, head coach
Gary Gilmore has written out 30 different batting lineups on the year.
• In fact, Gilmore has used just two lineups more than once this season (reference page 14).
WINS COME AS THE BATS GO
• The Chanticleers' offense is key in whether or not CCU is victorious this season.
• Coastal is 13-2 this season when the offense out hits the opponent. However, CCU is just 6-15 when the opponent matches or records more hits in the game than the Chants.
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