CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina baseball team will wrap up a four-game road trip this weekend, May 13-15, at Troy for a three-game Sun Belt Conference series in Troy, Alabama.
  • Friday, May 13 – 7 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
• Saturday, May 14 – 4 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
• Sunday, May 15 – 2 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
  • All three Sun Belt Conference games will be video streamed live on ESPN+.
• All three weekend contests will also be carried live at WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
• Links to live stats, video, and audio coverage of the game can be found on the baseball schedule page at www.GoCCUsports.com.
• Fans can also follow along on Twitter at @CoastalBaseball.
  • Coastal Carolina enters the SBC series at Troy at 29-16-1 overall, 16-7-1 in Sun Belt play, and 11-10 on the season in true road contests.
• The Chanticleers have won 13 of their last 16 games and 11 of their last 12 conference games with sweeps over Appalachian State (April 14-16) and UTA (April 22-24), a 2-1 series win on the road at Georgia Southern (April 29-May 1), and a home sweep over Little Rock (May 6-8).
• Coastal is coming off its worst loss of the season, a 14-2 defeat in seven innings on the road at UNCG (May 11) in midweek play.
• Five Chants in Tyler Johnson (.385), Eric Brown (.318), Austin White (.303), Dale Thomas (.293), and Kameron Guangorena (.293) are all hitting over .290 on the season, while six different Chants have driven in 30 or more RBIs on the year.
• The Chants' pitching staff has posted a 4.82 ERA on the season and struck out 414 batters over 398.0 innings while also holding the opponents to a .259 batting average.
  • Troy enters the weekend at 29-18 overall and 13-11 in Sun Belt Conference play.
• While the Trojans have lost four consecutive games, they are 19-6 overall at home this season at Riddle-Pace Field.
• As a team, the Trojans are hitting .273 with 46 home runs, nine triples, 86 doubles, 311 runs scored, and 282 RBIs this season.
• Troy has 12 different players with two or more home runs and 11 different players with double-digit RBIs on the season.
• The Troy pitching staff has posted a 4.80 ERA on the season with 462 strikeouts over 416.0 innings pitched while walking just 194 batters and holding their opponents to a .261 batting average.
  • Coastal Carolina and Troy are all tied up at 8-8 in the all-time series.
• The series has been one of streaks lately, as Troy enters the weekend on a four-game winning streak over the Chanticleers dating back to 2019, while prior to that the Chants had won five-straight games over the Trojans over 2018-19.
  • Coastal and Troy are even in several categories when looking at the all-time series.
• The all-time series between the Chants and Trojans is even at 8-8.
• As conference foes, the series between the two teams in conference play is even at 6-6.
• Over the last 10 meetings between the two squads, the record is even at 5-5.
• At Troy, the Chants are an even 3-3 all-time.
• In fact, the runs scored by both teams over the 16 games are nearly identical, as Coastal has tallied 102 runs while Troy has scored 98.
  • Coastal and Troy have played six common Sun Belt Conference foes this season with very different results.
    Opponent                          CCU                    TROY
    vs. UTA............................. 3-0-0...............      1-2
    vs. Little Rock..................  3-0-0...............     1-2
    vs. ULM............................. 1-1-1...............     3-0
    vs. Arkansas State..........  3-0-0...............      1-2
    vs. Georgia State............   0-3-0...............      3-0
    vs. Georgia Southern.....    2-1-0...............      0-3
    TOTAL............................ 12-5-1............... 9-9
  • Coastal will wrap up its road season this week with four consecutive road games at UNCG (May 11) and Troy (May 13-15).
• The Chants are 11-10 on the road this season and have won nine of their last 12 road games.
• After starting the season losing each of their first four road games (0-4), all of which came in the state of North Carolina, the Chanticleers have won eight of their last 12 road bouts, including wins at then-No. 20 Clemson (March 22), at then-No. 9 Texas State (March 26), and three games each at Arkansas State (April 1-3) and Appalachian State (April 14-16).
• The Chants had won six consecutive road games to start the month of April before falling at Charlotte (April 19) in midweek play.
• CCU got back on the winning track on the road on a Tuesday night (April 26) with a 17-7 win at the College of Charleston and then took two of three games on the road at then nationally-ranked Georgia Southern (April 29-May 1).
• However, CCU kicked off this final four-game road trip with a 14-2 loss at UNCG (May 11) in midweek action on Wednesday.
  • Coastal enjoyed #ThePalace for the first eight games of the season and the month of February.
• After playing four games on the road in the first week of March - at UNCW (March 2) and North Carolina (March 4-6) - the Chanticleers returned home for what turned out to be a seven-game homestand versus Wake Forest (March 8), Xavier (March 11-13), and ULM (March 18-20).
• Coastal suffered a three-game series sweep at home to Georgia State (April 8-10) but most recently bounced back to record a sweep of its own with three consecutive wins over UTA (April 22-24), posted a 16-1 blowout win over UNCW (May 3) in midweek play, and then trounced the Little Rock Trojans in a three-game series sweep (May 6-8) last time out.
• The Chanticleers are 18-6-1 at home this season.
  • Coastal heads into play this week fourth in the Sun Belt Conference regular-season standings at 16-7-1 overall and just 3.5 games out of first place with two weekends of conference play remaining.
• The Chanticleers have an RPI of 47 with seven games to play, which is the third-highest in the Sun Belt behind Georgia Southern (10) and Texas State (37).
• With that said, the Chants control their own conference postseason and NCAA Regional destiny by just winning.
• The top six seeds in the regular-season standings will avoid the single-elimination play-in game for the 2022 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship Tournament.
  • The Chanticleers immediately turned heads in the Sun Belt Conference in their first season in the league in 2017, going 22-7-1 in conference play to win both the Sun Belt Conference East Division and Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season championships.
• Coastal went on to repeat in 2018 and added the Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship title, posting a 23-7 regular-season conference record along the way.
• Despite slipping to 15-13 in conference play and finishing fifth in the regular-season standings in 2019, the Chanticleers ran through the Sun Belt Conference Tournament to repeat as tournament champions.
• After 2020 was canceled, the Chants had their worst conference season in over 25 years in 2021, finishing the conference regular-season slate at 9-12 overall.
• This year, CCU is 16-7-1 in Sun Belt Conference play which includes four Sun Belt Conference series sweeps over Arkansas State, Appalachian State, UTA, Little Rock, and a road series win at nationally-ranked Georgia Southern.
  • With the Sun Belt Conference regular-season schedule winding down, the Chanticleers' Sun Belt Conference weekend series this weekend at Troy (May 13-15) is pivotal.
• Coastal enters the weekend in fourth place in the regular-season conference standings at 16-7-1 and 3.5 games out of first place.
• However, the Chants are just 0.5 games out of third place and just 1.5 games out of second.
• With a series win over Troy this weekend, the Chanticleers could at best climb as high as second place in the regular-season standings, but with a series loss could fall to as low as fifth.
 
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