Coastal Carolina redshirt senior Reid VanScoter was named the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year, while a total of four Chanticleers garnered All-Sun Belt team honors the league office announced on Monday.
For the seventh time in the last 10 games, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers recorded double-digits runs, as the Men in Black and Teal defeated the South Alabama Jaguars 11-2 on Thursday night in game one of the three-game Sun Belt Conference series at Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, S.C.
Highlighted by the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Outdoor Track Performer in Melissa Jefferson, a total of 17 Chanticleers were tabbed for All-Sun Belt postseason accolades, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday afternoon.The 17 all-conference selections exceed the previous high of 15 honorees back in the 2017 season.
In front of the largest crowd inside Springs Brooks Stadium this season with 3,516 fans in attendance, the home-standing Coastal Carolina Chanticleers did not disappoint, scoring early and often in a 17-2 win over the Clemson Tigers on Tuesday night in Conway, S.C.
The Chanticleers drove in double-digit runs for the sixth time over their last 12 games to complete the series sweep of the Trojans with an 11-7 win on Sunday afternoon in 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.
Coastal Carolina University Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and University Recreation Matt Hogue announced Thursday afternoon that head men’s golf coach Jim Garren has resigned his position to pursue other coaching opportunities.
Coastal Carolina walked nine UNCG Spartan hitters, seven of which came around to score, as the Chanticleers fell on the road 14-2 in midweek action at UNCG on Wednesday afternoon in Greensboro, N.C. The loss dropped CCU to 29-16-1 overall and 11-10 on the road this season, while the win propelled the Spartans improved to 23-25 overall on the year.
With the win, CCU will now advance to the double-elimination round and take on the top-seed and No. 25 nationally-ranked Louisiana on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET.
Omidvar joins the Coastal men’s basketball program after spending last season as the director of operations at Fordham University where he was responsible for team travel, scheduling, budgets, championship arrangements, on-campus recruiting, and video coordination.
Brown helped lead the Chants to a 4-0 week, as the outfielder hit a team-high .667 (8-for-12) with two home runs, including a 10th-inning walk-off home run in Saturday’s win over Little Rock, three doubles, nine RBIs, and five runs scored.
The Coastal Carolina softball team was represented by two student-athletes in Makiya Thomas and Iyanla De Jesus as the Sun Belt Conference announced its softball all-conference honors on Monday. Thomas was named to the All-Sun Belt first team, while De Jesus was named to the All-Sun Belt second team.
Beasley-Polko claimed two of the three victories in Coastal Carolina’s series sweep of Appalachian State, limiting the Mountaineers to a single run and just four hits while throwing her seventh and eighth complete games of the season in 14.0 innings of work.
Johnson continued his torrid pace at the plate last week, as the senior hit .538 (7-for-13) with four home runs, two doubles, 15 RBIs, and six runs scored. He posted a 1.615 slugging percentage and a .611 on-base percentage while totaling a team-high 21 total bases in CCU’s 4-0 week.
Coastal Carolina baseball erased a 9-3 deficit with an eight-run inning and scored 16 unanswered runs to defeat the Little Rock Trojans 19-9 in seven innings on Sunday afternoon at Springs Brooks Stadium. The win completed the Sun Belt Conference series sweep for the Chanticleers, their fourth of the season.
The win pushes Coastal to 28-15-1 on the season and 15-7-1 in league play, while with the loss the Trojans fall to 21-21 overall and 9-13 in the conference.
Coastal Carolina matched their season-high with four home runs in the series opener, as the Chanticleers scored double-digit runs for the second consecutive game with a 15-4 win over Little Rock on Friday night at Springs Brooks Stadium.
The sophomore from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had a strong performance at the University of North Florida Invitational last weekend. She crossed the line first during the 400-meters in 52.11 seconds, which set both a new personal best and school record.
Coastal Carolina scored two runs or more in every inning from the second through the seventh inning to roll to a 16-1 home win over the UNCW Seahawks in non-conference midweek action on Tuesday night in Springs Brooks Stadium.
Last Friday, VanScoter recorded his seventh win and seventh quality start on the season by holding the nationally-ranked Eagles to just three runs, one of which was earned, on six hits, no walk, and five strikeouts over 6.0-complete innings.
Coastal Carolina baseball head coach Gary Gilmore has announced that the Chanticleers will host the UNCW Seahawks in a rescheduled game on Tuesday, May 3, at 6 p.m. ET at Springs Brooks Stadium.
For the second time in as many weeks and the third time this outdoor season, Coastal Carolina’s Melissa Jefferson has been named the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday morning.
The former Chant is a lock to hear his name called during the draft which gets underway on Thursday. Likely has visited with all 32 teams in some capacity and could potentially come off the board on Friday during the second or third round.
The Douglasville, Ga. native played three seasons for coach Pederson at Lander, where she was a two-time WBCA All-American, two-time D2CCA Honorable Mention All-American, two-time Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year, two-time first-team All-PBC, and CoSIDA second-team Academic All-American.
The Coastal Carolina University men’s golf team shot an 11-over 299 in Tuesday’s final round of the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Men’s Golf Championship at the Mystic Creek Golf Club in El Dorado, Ark., to finish fifth with a three-round total of 905 (316-290-299). While CCU had the third-best round over the final day of play, the Chants came up one shot short in moving into the match-play round which will feature the top four times in stroke play.
The Coastal Carolina baseball team had four players with three RBIs or more and scored eight runs in the second inning alone to blow out the College of Charleston Cougars 17-7 on Tuesday night at Patriots Point in Charleston, S.C.
VanScoter had his best collegiate outing last Friday night versus UT Arlington yet did not factor in the decision. The lefty went a career-long 8.0-complete innings and took a 2-1 lead into the ninth. He allowed just one run on three hits, zero walks, and struck out six batters.
Coastal Carolina’s Tyler Johnson hit a solo home run to tie the game up at 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning before Eric Brown hustled down the first base line to leg out an infield single with the bases loaded to score the game-winning run and give the home-standing Chanticleers a 4-3 walk-off win over the UT Arlington Mavericks on Friday night at Springs Brooks Stadium.
Coastal Carolina’s Jeffrey Gunter is one week away from having a childhood dream come true. The former Chant will hear his name called in next week’s NFL Draft which will mark the beginning of his journey as a professional athlete.
For the second time this outdoor season, Coastal Carolina’s Melissa Jefferson has been chosen as the Sun Belt Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday morning.
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers had one home run each from Christopher Rowan, Jr. and Tyler Johnson, but left 10 runners stranded in an 11-3 non-conference road loss to the Charlotte 49ers on Tuesday night in Charlotte, N.C.
The Coastal Carolina University women’s golf team shot a 16-over 304 over the final 18 holes at the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Golf Championship on Tuesday to finish second overall for the 54-hole championship event with a 35-over 899 (303-292-304).
Coastal Carolina University Athletics is excited to announce the promotions for the upcoming 2022 home football schedule. The 2021 Tailgreeter Cure Bowl Champions will host seven home games on the “Surf Turf” inside Brooks Stadium in the program’s 20th season.
The CCU women’s basketball team and athletic staff introduced Kevin Pederson as their new head coach on Wednesday afternoon at the HTC Center. Pederson comes from Lander University in Greenwood, SC where he spent 17 years becoming the school’s all-time leader in wins during that span.
The Coastal Carolina baseball team played a complete game on Friday night. The Chanticleers’ offense picked up six runs on 10 hits, the pitching allowed just one run and struck out eight, and the defense came up with some key plays in the field to lead the Chanticleers to a 6-1 road win over Appalachian State on Friday night in Boone, N.C.
The Coastal Carolina baseball team snapped a three-game losing skid in a big way on Thursday night, as the Chanticleers used a nine-run ninth inning in a 14-3 blowout win on the road at Appalachian State in game one of a three-game Sun Belt Conference series in Boone, N.C.
Deneen walked on the men’s golf team as a senior and won the 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament. He will now make his PGA Tour debut at the 2022 RBC Heritage this Thursday, April 14th in Hilton Head, S.C.
Coastal Carolina committed five errors and allowed 10 unearned runs all in the first four innings to fall behind early in a 14-8 loss to the Georgia State Panthers on Friday night in the Sun Belt Conference weekend series opener at Springs Brooks Stadium.
Coastal Carolina baseball led the College of Charleston 7-2 midway through the seventh inning when the game was suspended due to lightning and rain on Wednesday night in Conway, S.C.With the game suspended, it is not an official game until it is completed at a later date.The game will continue with the Chanticleers hitting in the bottom of the seventh inning with a 7-2 lead.
The new-look Sun Belt Conference—including new members James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss—will gather in-person at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans.
The Coastal Carolina men’s soccer team in conjunction with the Sun Belt Conference announced Wednesday, April 6, that the Chanticleers will return to Sun Belt Conference play as the league will sponsor men’s soccer beginning in fall 2022.
