CONWAY, S.C. – The No. 13 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will return to Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, S.C., for a Sun Belt Conference three-game series with the Troy Trojans Friday through Sunday, April 26-28, with the first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. ET on Friday, 2 p.m. ET on Saturday, and 1 p.m. ET on Sunday. The game will be streamed on ESPN+ or fans can listen live on WRNN 99.5 Hot Talk.
ROTATION
Friday, April 26
CCU – RHP Riley Eikhoff (5-0, 4.84 ERA) vs.
TROY – Garrett Gainous (1-2, 4.21 ERA)
Saturday, April 27
CCU – RHP Cameron Flukey (2-1, 4.84 ERA) vs.
TROY – Luke Lyon (5-2, 3.51 ERA)
Sunday, April 28
CCU – TBA vs.
TROY - TBA
ABOUT THE CHANTS
• Coastal Carolina enters the week 27-14 on the year and 11-7 in Sun Belt play, having dropped a pair of midweek games to Creighton.
• Coastal has hit 65 home runs on the season with
Blake Barthol and
Zack Beach tied for the team lead and are 49th in the NCAA with 14 bombs while
Graham Brown has added 11 blasts.
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Sam Antonacci leads the team with a .392 batting average, 41 walks, and hit-by-a-pitch 19 times to get the offense started from the top of the lineup. He has reached base safely at least once in every game played this season for a team-high .565 on-base percentage.
• Defensively, the Chanticleers are fourth in the NCAA and lead the Sun Belt Conference with 42 double plays turned.
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Riley Eikhoff has made 10 starts, for an ERA of 4.84 having given up 29 runs on 56 hits while striking out 35 batters with a 5-0 record.
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Cameron Flukey is 2-1 on the year with 13 appearances and five starts. Flukey has an ERA of 4.84 having given up 20 runs on 32 hits while striking out a team-high 58 batters.
ABOUT THE TROJANS
• Troy enters play at 28-14 overall and 11-7 in the league and won the series with Georgia State 2-1 in its last outing.
• The Trojan pitching staff has allowed 45 home runs and has struck out 356 opposing batters and issued 225 free bases. Batters are hitting .260 against Troy.
• Troy's Noah Manning anchors the pitching rotation with a 6-0 record. Manning has thrown 27.1 innings in 14 appearances, allowing 10 runs on 25 hits with 23 strikeouts.
• Luke Lyon and Clete Hartzog have identical 5-2 records on the mound. Lyon has thrown 51.1 innings, allowing 22 runs on 43 hits with 39 strikeouts. Hartzog has allowed 20 runs on 26 hits while striking out 43 batters over 41.0 innings.
• The Trojans are hitting .300 and have belted 63 home runs, 10 triples, and 90 doubles for 345 RBIs.
• Ethan Kavanagh (.378) and Kole Myers (.374) are the only Troy hitters hitting over .378. Kavanagh has hit two home runs and 10 doubles for 40 RBIs, while Myers has belted eight home runs, four triples, and eight doubles for 30 RBIs.
ALL-TIME SERIES HISTORY WITH TROY
• The Chanticleers lead the overall series at 11-9 with Troy on the diamond, with Coastal winning the 2023 regular season series 2-1 on the road.
• CCU is 4-5 at home versus Troy, while going 6-3 on the road.
• The Chants and Trojans first met in Troy, Ala., in April 2007 with Troy winning two of the three games in the series.
• Coastal is 5-5 in the last 10 games versus the Trojans and 3-2 in the last five contests.
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