CONWAY, S.C. - The Coastal Carolina softball team travels to Boone, N.C. for the final weekend of Sun Belt Conference play as they take on Appalachian State at Sywassink/Lloyd Family Stadium.

The regular season series finale will kick off on Thursday, May 6, at 6 p.m. ET with a single game. On Friday, the two teams will wrap up the series with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. ET.

The Chanticleers (19-22) enter into the weekend in seventh place of the SBC with a 7-11 record. The Mountaineers (25-15) start the weekend right above CCU in sixth place with a conference record of 7-10.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

• Coastal wraps up its regular season on the road versus at Appalachian State.
• CCU has won its last four of five road games. The Chanticleers recently earned a road victory in non-conference action at UNCW (April 28) as they won 12-5 and collected 14 hits, the best output in any game this season.
• CCU is batting .269 in 22 games at home compared to .294 in 17 games on the road this season.
• Senior Makiya Thomas leads Chanticleers with a .364 (24-for-66) batting average, 14 RBI, six doubles, scored 16 times, forced six walks, and stole seven bases in 19 Coastal's home games.
• Graduate Kayla Rosado is batting .333 (18-for-54) at St. John Stadium this season with two doubles, five home runs, nine walks, and 14 RB in 19 home games. Rosado has hit safely in 15 of her 19 home contests this season.The Chants' pitching staff has a 4.76 in 22 home games compared to a 4.21 ERA in 17 games on the road this season.
• Senior Kaitlin Beasley-Polko leads the Chanticleer pitching staff with a 3.62 ERA on the road with 12 appearances this season.

WHAT'S AT STAKE

• Coastal Carolina sits in seventh place with a conference record of 7-14 (.333), while Appalachian State's conference record is 7-10 (.441). To move ahead of the Mountaineers in the standings, CCU will need to sweep the opposition.
• If the above scenario occurs and the third-place Texas State Bobcats can sweep their three-game series versus fifth-place UTA (9-11), the Chanticleers will secure the fifth seed in the 2021 Sun Belt Softball Championship due to having the better winning percentage of the three teams.
• If App State wins one game this weekend, they will retain the sixth seed in next week's conference tournament.

LOOKIN' BACK

• The Coastal Carolina softball team got swept by No. 13 Louisiana last weekend at St. John Stadium by the scores of 7-2, 7-0, and 10-2.
• Graduate student Kayla Rosado batted .429 (3-for-7) with a home run, an RBI and scored two runs versus No. 13 Louisiana.
• After trailing 3-0 early in game one, Rosado brought the Chants within two runs, 3-1, with her seventh home run of the season. It wasn't enough as the Cajuns' scored four more times in the final three innings to defeat CCU, 7-2.  In game three, after trailing 3-0, the Chanticleers scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning as they got a pair of RBI from junior Mackenzie Beyer and sophomore Iyanla De Jesus and a pair of hits from Rosado and De Jesus. Louisiana scored six times over the final two innings to win 10-2 and the conference's regular-season championship.

STEWIN STAVI

• In her last 16 games, senior Stavi Augur has hit safely in 12 games with a .322 batting average, five doubles, two home runs, 12 runs scored, and 11 RBI.
• Augur started the season below a .100 (.098) batting average and has raised her batting average to .235 during the 16 game span.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Appalachian State dropped a three-game series, 2-1, to the UTA Mavericks last weekend in Arlington, Texas.
• The Mountaineers lost both games of last Saturday's doubleheader to the Mavericks as they could not score a run off the home team's pitching staff.
• The Mavs' Jo Jo Valencia received the win for UTA, while Allie Gardiner came on in the sixth to receive her fourth save of the season.
• Kenedy Hines earned the game two win for UTA as she threw a complete-game shutout while giving up three hits.
• The Mountaineers managed to pick up the game three victory the following day as starting pitcher Kenzi Longanecker earned her fifth shutout of the season as she gave up only three hits on the day, struck out one, and allowed three walks. Keri White added two hits, while teammates Kayt Houston and Mary Pierce Barnes tallied a hit apiece.

HISTORY AGAINST

• The Chanticleers hold a 15-6 all-time advantage in the series and hold the longest win streak of seven games from 2014-2018.
• The only series on the road in Boone, N.C. for CCU took place in 2018, where Coastal Carolina went 2-1 at Sywassink/Lloyd Family Stadium
• The last time the two teams met was the final weekend of 2019 when CCU took the series from the Mountaineers at St. John Stadium. Then-senior Natalie David led the Chants to the 2-1 series win as she batted 5-for-10, tallied three RBI, with a double and home run in the series. Kaitlin Beasley-Polko pitched in two of the three games for CCU and ERA of 2.25.  The right-hander went 1-0 in the series, struck out eight batters, allowed seven hits, four runs, three earned, four walks, and a home run.
• Like this weekend's series, Coastal needed to sweep and take all three games of the 2018 season-finale to advance into the Sun Belt tournament. Coastal won the first two, 5-2 and 4-2, but Appalachian State spoiled the Chanticleers' chances as they took the third game, 6-4.

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