Texas State (20-4 in conference) hosting Louisiana (17-7)
Little Rock (9-14) hosting Georgia Southern (18-6)
Troy (13-11) hosting Coastal (16-7-1)
South Alabama (13-11) hosting ULM (6-17-1)
Arkansas State (5-18) hosting Georgia State (12-12)
UTA (6-18) hosting APP State (7-17)
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Hofstra hosting James Madison
Old Dominion hosting Marshall
Southern Miss hosting UTSA

https://goccusports.com/news/2022/5/12/b...ekend.aspx
PIVOTAL CONFERENCE SERIES
• With the Sun Belt Conference regular-season schedule winding down, the Chanticleers' Sun Belt Conference weekend series this weekend at Troy (May 13-15) is pivotal.
• Coastal enters the weekend in fourth place in the regular-season conference standings at 16-7-1 and 3.5 games out of first place.
• However, the Chants are just 0.5 games out of third place and just 1.5 games out of second.
• With a series win over Troy this weekend, the Chanticleers could at best climb as high as second place in the regular-season standings, but with a series loss could fall to as low as fifth.

ALL-TIME SERIES HISTORY WITH TROY
• Coastal Carolina and Troy are all tied up at 8-8 in the all-time series.
• The series has been one of streaks lately, as Troy enters the weekend on a four-game winning streak over the Chanticleers dating back to 2019, while prior to that the Chants had won five-straight games over the Trojans over 2018-19.

CALL IT EVEN
• Coastal and Troy are even in several categories when looking at the all-time series.
• The all-time series between the Chants and Trojans is even at 8-8.
• As conference foes, the series between the two teams in conference play is even at 6-6.
• Over the last 10 meetings between the two squads, the record is even at 5-5.
• At Troy, the Chants are an even 3-3 all-time.
• In fact, the runs scored by both teams over the 16 games are nearly identical, as Coastal has tallied 102 runs while Troy has scored 98.

COMMON FOES
• Coastal and Troy have played six common Sun Belt Conference foes this season with very different results.
Opponent CCU TROY
vs. UTA............................. 3-0-0............... 1-2
vs. Little Rock.................. 3-0-0............... 1-2
vs. ULM............................. 1-1-1............... 3-0
vs. Arkansas State.......... 3-0-0............... 1-2
vs. Georgia State............ 0-3-0............... 3-0
vs. Georgia Southern..... 2-1-0............... 0-3
TOTAL............................ 12-5-1............... 9-9

ABOUT THE CHANTS
• Coastal Carolina enters the SBC series at Troy at 29-16-1 overall, 16-7-1 in Sun Belt play, and 11-10 on the season in true road contests.
• The Chanticleers have won 13 of their last 16 games and 11 of their last 12 conference games with sweeps over Appalachian State (April 14-16) and UTA (April 22-24), a 2-1 series win on the road at Georgia Southern (April 29-May 1), and a home sweep over Little Rock (May 6-8).
• Coastal is coming off its worst loss of the season, a 14-2 defeat in seven innings on the road at UNCG (May 11) in midweek play.
• Five Chants in Tyler Johnson (.385), Eric Brown (.318), Austin White (.303), Dale Thomas (.293), and Kameron Guangorena (.293) are all hitting over .290 on the season, while six different Chants have driven in 30 or more RBIs on the year.
• The Chants' pitching staff has posted a 4.82 ERA on the season and struck out 414 batters over 398.0 innings while also holding the opponents to a .259 batting average.

ABOUT THE TROJANS
• Troy enters the weekend at 29-18 overall and 13-11 in Sun Belt Conference play.
• While the Trojans have lost four consecutive games, they are 19-6 overall at home this season at Riddle-Pace Field.
• As a team, the Trojans are hitting .273 with 46 home runs, nine triples, 86 doubles, 311 runs scored, and 282 RBIs this season.
• Troy has 12 different players with two or more home runs and 11 different players with double-digit RBIs on the season.
• The Troy pitching staff has posted a 4.80 ERA on the season with 462 strikeouts over 416.0 innings pitched while walking just 194 batters and holding their opponents to a .261 batting average.

USM has lost 2 consecutive weekend series and lost midweek to Ole Miss. A 4 game lead in CUSA is down to 2 with a hot second-place UTSA coming to Hattiesburg, with hosting a regional very much in doubt now. Either they turn it around quickly starting tonight or it will be a stunning collapse.

Pls beat UTSA lol

GS has to take care of their own business for it to mean anything, but Go Troy and Go UL!!!

Maybe Georgia State can be terrible this weekend and make us feel better about ourselves.

(05-13-2022 12:54 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Maybe Georgia State can be terrible this weekend and make us feel better about ourselves.

That wouldn't happen. We would just feel worse about Georgia St.

Coastal beats Troy 10-6.

Look to take the series tomorrow.

Amazing the run we are on in conference.

TXST takes game 1, 7-5

I can remember when we couldn't beat the Cajuns in baseball to save our necks

(yeah, sometimes my memory actually works)

For the ULM fans watching, we won’t have the replay and on screen stats and stuff we typically have. We are hosting the softball tournament so a lot of resources and replay equipment are over there. But at least we are still airing baseball.

GS all over Little Rock in opener. Top half of the league is doing some work the last few weeks.

(05-13-2022 10:06 PM)CC Eagle Wrote:  GS all over Little Rock in opener. Top half of the league is doing some work the last few weeks.

Agreed ,The top half of this league is an excellent baseball league. Very tough teams. I think when USM and ODU come in, this will be a scary good league.

(05-13-2022 08:28 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  USM has lost 2 consecutive weekend series and lost midweek to Ole Miss. A 4 game lead in CUSA is down to 2 with a hot second-place UTSA coming to Hattiesburg, with hosting a regional very much in doubt now. Either they turn it around quickly starting tonight or it will be a stunning collapse.

Stunning collapse it is...

Cajuns fall to TXST 7-5.

Good game, Bobcats.

TxSt is the real deal for sure. Great game last night.

First off, some old business to take care of...


https://goccusports.com/news/2022/5/14/b...-game.aspx
CONWAY, S.C. – Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston's suspended game on April 6 has now been deemed an official completed game. With just one week remaining in the regular season before the conference championship tournaments, the two teams will not be able to finish the game.

The contest was suspended in the bottom of the seventh inning due to lightning and rain with the Chanticleers leading 7-2.

The offense was powered by a three-run home run from Zack Beach (1-for-2, HR, HBP, 3 RBIs, run) and a pair of RBIs from both Derek Bender (2-for-2, HR, BB, 2 RBIs, run) and Graham Brown (1-for-2, 2B, BB, 2 RBIs, run).

https://goccusports.com/news/2022/5/13/b...k-win.aspx
TROY, Ala. – Coastal Carolina erased a 6-2 deficit and scored the last eight runs of the game to pick up a 10-6 come-from-behind win in the series opener versus the Troy Trojans on Friday night at Riddle-Pace Field in Troy, Ala.

The win pushed CCU to 31-16-1 overall and 17-7-1 in league play, while the loss extended the Trojans' longest losing streak of the season to five consecutive games and put them at 29-19 overall and 13-12 in SBC play.

Entering the game in the bottom of the seventh inning trailing 6-4, reliever Reece Maniscalco (2-1) was dominant in throwing 3.0-scoreless innings to shut down the Troy offense and allow his team to battle back in the late innings in the win. Maniscalco surrendered one hit, walked one, and hit one batter while striking out six Troy hitters over the final three innings to pick up the win.


Next Game:
at Troy

5/14/2022 | 4 p.m. ET

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Little Rock beats Georgia Southern (ouch) and Texas State took game 2 against the Cajuns. It looks like a regular season title is Texas State’s for the taking. Georgia Southern’s RPI falls out of the top 10 with the loss.

Glad we could take this series. If we somehow managed the sweep, it'd be icing on the cake.

(05-14-2022 10:40 AM)El Chanto Wrote:  First off, some old business to take care of...


https://goccusports.com/news/2022/5/14/b...-game.aspx
CONWAY, S.C. – Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston's suspended game on April 6 has now been deemed an official completed game. With just one week remaining in the regular season before the conference championship tournaments, the two teams will not be able to finish the game.

The contest was suspended in the bottom of the seventh inning due to lightning and rain with the Chanticleers leading 7-2.

The offense was powered by a three-run home run from Zack Beach (1-for-2, HR, HBP, 3 RBIs, run) and a pair of RBIs from both Derek Bender (2-for-2, HR, BB, 2 RBIs, run) and Graham Brown (1-for-2, 2B, BB, 2 RBIs, run).

That's nice.