Coastal Carolina (7-3, 1-2 Big South) will take the pitch for a Big South Conference game against Radford University, Oct. 6th at 5 p.m. in Radford, Va, in their only game of the week. Coastal has dropped their last two conference games after posting a 10 game winning streak over the last two seasons over its conference rivals. Over the weekend Coastal participated in the Clemson/Nike Invitational where they won a thrilling game, 3-2 on Friday afternoon, Oct. 1st, and dropped a game to Virginia Tech, Oct. 3rd, 2-0 on Sunday, Oct. 3.

Radford comes into the contest with a 2-3-3 record and a 0-2-1 record in the Big South Conference. RU dropped a game over the weekend to Big South rival Birmingham Southern, 4-2. The Highlanders are led by junior Romain Maudire who has tallied four goals and an assist for nine points.Junior Patrick Colas has had a solid season with three goals and two assists for 8 points on the season.

The Coastal Carolina (7-3, 1-2 Big South) men’s soccer team fell to Virginia Tech, 2-0, at the Clemson/Nike Invitational in Clemson, SC on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 3.The game was scoreless until nearly 25 minutes into the action (24:38) when Virginia Tech’s freshman forward Kevin Edwards, took the feed from fellow freshman Brandon Miller, off the corner kick from senior Bailey Allman and headed a ball past Chanticleers goalkeeper Aaron Weant. The game remained 1-0 until late in the second half (76:39) when sophomore Hokie midfielder Ben Nason took a pass from fellow sophomore David Brown, off a steal, and sent a diagonal shot from 12 yard out to the far post for the second tally of the game. Coastal actually outshot the Hokies 16-13, but were limited to five shots on goal compared to the Hokies eight. Coastal Carolina also tallied eight corner kicks to the VT’s four, but in the end could not top Virginia Tech on the scoreboard. Leading the Chants in defeat was freshman Lachlan Cahill who tallied four shots, with three being on goal. Senior midfielder Mubarike Chisoni also tallied four shots.

The Coastal Carolina (7-2, 1-2 Big South) men’s soccer snapped their personal two game losing streak in exciting come from behind fashion, over Hofstra in the Clemson/Nike Invitational on Friday evening, October 1st, at Clemson University. The game started slowly for Coastal as Hofstra’s sophomore midfielder Arman Osooli scored the first goal of the game less than 15 minutes into the game (14:37) off the feed from junior Billy Chung. Hofstra’s Michael Todd would tally the second goal of the game off the feed from Osooli. That lead would hold until after halftime, when CCU would begin to storm back, junior Peter Louis took the feed from senior Boyzzz Khumalo and Jordie Hughes (62:53) to cut the deficit to one, 1-2. Coastal’s quick strike offense would attack again (74:26) when Khumalo took a feed from Hughes and freshman Kevin Van Den Berg to tie the game up at two with 15 minutes to play in the game.The Chanticleers offense would untie the game (84:29) when senior defender Dario Grassini scored his first goal of the season, off the feed from freshman Lachlan Cahill for a 3-2 lead, which would be the final margin of victory. Sophomore Jeremy Wolfgang won his first game of the season by registering five saves.The Chants outshot the Pride, in the closely fought game,16-13, while trailing 1-4 in corner kicks.