CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina baseball team will look to get back on track this week with a three-game Sun Belt Conference road series at Appalachian State on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 14-16, in Boone, N.C.
  • Thursday, April 14 – 6 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
• Friday, April 15 – 6 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
• Saturday, April 16 – 1 p.m. ET (WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM / ESPN+)
  • Coastal Carolina hits the road for a three-game weekend series on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday versus Appalachian State at Boone, N.C.
• Coastal is 16-13-1 overall and 5-6-1 in Sun Belt Conference play after being swept by the Georgia State Panthers last weekend (April 8-10).
• The Chants return to the road where they are 5-7 overall but have won each of their last three road games, having swept Arkansas State in Jonesboro, Ark. (April 1-3).
• The Chanticleers are hitting just .276 this season with 35 home runs, five triples, 52 doubles, 187 RBIs, and 212 runs scored.
• The bullpen has posted a 5.02 ERA and fanned 283 batters over 260 innings pitched. The Chants are also holding their opponents to a .257 batting average on the year but have given up 32 home runs, two triples, and 41 doubles on the season.
• Over the last two weeks, which included two Sun Belt weekend series, the Chants have hit just .266 with 34 RBIs and 43 runs scored in the six conference games.
• The Chanticleer arms have gone 3-3 with one save and a 4.50 ERA over the last six games, allowing 38 runs on 48 hits, 23 walks, and 71 strikeouts over 54.0 innings pitched.
  • Appalachian State enters the series with the Chanticleers at 11-19 overall, 3-9 in Sun Belt Conference, and 4-6 home this season.
• The Mountaineers snapped a six-game losing skid, all of which were losses in conference play, with a 17-9 home win over the High Point Panthers on Tuesday (April 12).
• The App State offense is hitting .249 with 18 home runs, seven triples, 47 doubles, 144 RBIs, and 156 runs scored.
• At the plate, the Mountaineers have struck out 255 times compared to just 104 walks and stolen just 19 bases out of 28 stolen attempts.
• The pitching staff has posted a 5.62 ERA, having allowed 165 earned runs over 264.0 innings pitched, and has struck out 262 hitters compared to 158 walks on the season.
  • Coastal Carolina leads the all-time series with Appalachian State at 9-2 overall, including going 2-1 all-time in Boone, N.C.
• The Chanticleers won the first two meetings between the two teams in 2002 and 2016 before joining the Sun Belt Conference in 2017 and winning each of the first five conference contests between the two teams to give Coastal a seven-game win streak.
• Since the seven-game win streak by the Chants, the two teams have split the last four games at 2-2, trading wins back-and-forth.
• CCU has won each of the three Sun Belt Conference series between the two teams since 2017.
  • The Chants and Mountaineers have played three common opponents thus far this season in UNCW, North Carolina, and Texas State.
    Opponent                          CCU   App State
    vs. UNCW............................ 0-1............... 2-1
    vs. North Carolina............... 0-3............... 0-1
    vs. Texas State................... 1-2............... 0-3
  • The Chanticleers will look to snap a current three-game losing streak as they head into action this week at Appalachian State (April 14-16).
• The last month of the season has been an up-and-down roller coaster for the Chanticleers. Coastal posted back-to-back wins in a doubleheader over Xavier (March 13) before going 1-1-1 in a three-game series at home versus ULM (March 18-20) and posting a road win at then-No. 20 Clemson (March 22).
• The next four games saw CCU go 1-3 with road games at then-No. 9 Texas State (March 25-27) and Wake Forest (March 30), only to see the Chants right the ship with three wins on the road at Arkansas State (April 1-3).
• However, CCU followed the sweep at A-State by dropping three consecutive games last weekend at home to Georgia State (April 8-10).
  • Last weekend, the Chanticleers were swept at home in a three-game series by Georgia State.
• With the three losses, CCU was on the losing end of a three-game sweep at home for the first time this season and only the second time in the last two years, having been swept by Troy at home May 7-9 of last year.
• Prior to the two sweeps at home over the last two years, the Chanticleers were last swept at home in a three-game series in 2000 versus Kent State on March 24-26, 2000.
  • Coastal Carolina's 2022 schedule has been a challenging one, as the Chanticleers have played five top-30 nationally-ranked teams and teams out of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten, and the Big 12.
• The Chanticleers enter play this week with the 42nd-best strength of schedule at .5519, the third-strongest schedule in the Sun Belt Conference.
*courtesy of WarrenNolan.com (* as of April 13)
 
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