CONWAY, S.C. – The No. 20 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will travel to No. 14 Wake Forest in a non-conference midweek matchup on Tuesday, April 9, with the first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. ET. It will be the second meeting between the two programs this season.
ROTATION
Tuesday, April 9
CCU - RHP Alexander Meckley (3-2, 6.31 ERA) vs.
WF - RHP Ben Shenosky (3-2, 5.14 ERA)
ABOUT THE CHANTS
• Coastal Carolina enters the week 22-9 on the season and 7-5 in Sun Belt play.
• Coastal hit 57 home runs on the season with
Blake Barthol leading the team and is 12th in the NCAA with 14 bombs while
Zack Beach has added 12 blasts.
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Sam Antonacci leads the team with a .405 batting average, 33 walks, and hit-by-a-pitch 15 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.
• Defensively, the Chanticleers are third the NCAA and lead the Sun Belt Conference with 35 double plays turned.
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Cameron Flukey leads the team with 48 strikeouts, has three starts on the season has given up 14 runs on 23 hits with just 14 walks.
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Alexander Meckley will get the start versus the Demon Deacons is 3-2 on the year and is second on the team with 33 strikeouts.
ABOUT THE DEMON DEACONS
• Wake Forest enters play at 21-10 overall and 7-8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and have won four straight games.
• The Demon Deacons opened the 2024 season as the No. 1 ranked team in the NCAA and won 11 of their first 12 games.
• The WF pitching staff has allowed 40 home runs and has struck out 370 opposing batters and issued 200 free bases. Batters are hitting just .221 against the Deacons.
• The Deacs' Chase Burns anchors the pitching staff with a 6-1 record and a 3.37 ERA. He has thrown 50.2 innings, allowing 19 runs on 31 hits with 97 strikeouts.
• Tuesday's starter Ben Shenosky is 3-2 on the year with a 5.14 ERA in 21.0 innings of work. Opponents are hitting .154 against the right-handed pitcher.
• Wake Forest is hitting .279 and has blasted 56 home runs, six triples, and 67 doubles for 237 RBIs.
• Adam Tellier (.359) and Jack Winnay (.340) lead the Demon Deacons at the plate and the only two batters hitting over .340.
• Nick Kurtz and Winnay lead Wake Forest with 11 home runs, with Winnay leading the team with 33 RBIs.
ALL-TIME SERIES HISTORY WITH WAKE FOREST
• The Chanticleers are 28-16 overall versus Wake Forest on the diamond, with Coastal Carolina winning the last meeting 17-9 at home earlier this season.
• CCU has a 20-9 record versus the Deacs home but is 8-7 on the road at Wake Forest, it is the 45th time the two programs will meet on the diamond.
• Coastal had an eight-game winning streak against Wake Forest from March 2018 to March 2022.
• The Chants and Deacons first played in Winston Salem, N.C., in March 1982 with Wake winning 10-4 after the first eight games were played in Conway, S.C.
• Coastal is 8-2 in the last 10 meetings but is 2-2 in the last four games.
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