CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina baseball team will open up its 2024 season with the Baseball at the Beach on Opening Weekend, Feb. 16-18, at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 
SCHEDULE
Friday, Feb. 16
11 a.m. ET – Duke vs. Indiana
4 p.m. ET – George Mason vs. Coastal Carolina (ESPN+ / 105.5 FM Hank)
 
Saturday, Feb. 17
11 a.m. ET – George Mason vs. Duke
3 p.m. ET – Indiana vs. Coastal Carolina (ESPN+ / WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM)
 
Sunday, Feb. 18
11 a.m. ET – Indiana vs. George Mason
3 p.m. ET – Duke vs. Coastal Carolina (ESPN+ / 105.5 FM Hank)
 
ROTATION FOR COASTAL
Friday, Feb. 16
CCU - RHP Riley Eikhoff (3-1, 4.43 ERA) vs. MASON - RHP Chad Gartland (7-2, 3.39 ERA)
 
Saturday, Feb. 17
CCU - RHP Alexander Meckley (N/A) vs. INDIANA - TBD
 
Sunday, Feb. 18
CCU - RHP Ryan Lynch (N/A) vs. DUKE - RHP Aidan Weaver (3-3, 4.86 ERA)
 
HALL OF FAMER
• Coastal Carolina head coach Gary Gilmore is in his 29th and final season at the helm of the Chants' program.
• Gilley enters the 2024 season with a total of 1,335 career wins over 34 seasons, which includes 1,082 wins as the head coach at CCU.
• With his 1,335 career wins, Gilley ranks 22nd all-time in NCAA Division I and is fourth among all active NCAA Division I coaches.
 
BASEBALL AT THE BEACH
• Coastal Carolina will open up the season with the annual Baseball at the Beach tournament.
• This marks the 25th year that the Chants have hosted the Baseball at the Beach event, with the first coming all the way back in the 2000 season.
• All three teams in this year's Baseball at the Beach field have competed in the annual event. Mason is 7-26 at Coastal on the diamond, while Indiana leads the all-time series 3-1 and Duke won the 2023 Conway Regional.
 
HOME. SWEET. HOME.
• This season, Coastal is scheduled to play 34 home games versus teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference, ASUN, Big Ten, Big 12, Mid-American Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Atlantic 10, Southern Conference and the Sun Belt Conference.
• In fact, the Chants' first 20 games will come at home at "The Palace" to start the season.
• Since 2000, the Chants have recorded 20 wins or more at home in all but four years, one of which was the shortened 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Since Coastal joined the Sun Belt Conference in 2017, the Chants have posted a record of 147-69-2 (67.4 percent) at home at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 
CHALLENGING 2024 SCHEDULE
• CCU's 2024 schedule includes games versus teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big East, Conference USA, Atlantic 10, and the new look Sun Belt Conference.
• The 2024 schedule will once again be a challenging one, as head coach Gary Gilmore's team will play 13 teams that made the 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Tournament last year in national seeds Wake Forest and Clemson, as well as NC State, North Carolina, Campbell, Southern Miss, Louisiana, George Mason, Duke, Ball State, Indiana, UNCW, and Troy.
 
FAMILIAR FACES
• Overall, the Chants have 20 returning players from a year ago, 11 position players and nine pitchers, led by fifth-year Chant Graham Brown and returning starters Derek Bender, Zack Beach, , and Caden Bodine, as well as pitchers Riley Eikhoff, Will Smith, and Bryce Shaffer.
 
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