Herd Baseball Falters in Series Opener to No. 15 Coastal Carolina

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Baseball team (13-11, 5-2 SBC) dropped its series opener 11-9 to the No. 15 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (18-7, 7-0 SBC) Friday night at Jack Cook Field.

Seven of MU's nine runs were scored with two outs.

"Tough loss for us," Herd Baseball Head Coach Greg Beals said. "I thought our guys competed really well. Give them (Coastal) credit. They're a good ball team. They had a real good approach off Bryce Blevins and was able to get to him. But we stayed in the fight pretty well. Our free bases ended up costing us."

The top of the lineup with Evan Bottone, Tyler Kamerer and Jackson Halter all recorded two-hit games with Halter also drawing a pair of free passes. Halter, Cooper Hinson and Oliver Service all had two RBI in the contest.

The Herd jumped on top early as Kamerer scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the first.

The Chanticleers answered with four runs in the top of the third to put Marshall at a 4-1 disadvantage. However, RBI doubles from Halter and Hinson with RBI singles from Service and Cleary Simpson in the bottom half of the frame, saw the home side grab a 5-4 lead after three innings.

Coastal rallied with three runs in the top of the fourth with another in the sixth to go up 8-5. Halter cut into the deficit with a sacrifice fly to score Jack Smith in the bottom of the sixth to see the score at 8-6.

The Chanticleers tallied three runs in the top of the eighth to take an 11-6 lead. The Herd answered in the bottom of the frame with Havrilla being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded with Hinson and Service drawing bases-loaded walks to cut it to a two-run ballgame, 11-9. However, the Herd stranded the bases loaded to end the inning and couldn't mount a comeback in the ninth as it fell in the series opener.

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The Herd looks to even its series against Coastal Carolina on Saturday at Jack Cook Field. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Herd Baseball Falters in Series Opener to No. 15 Coastal Carolina

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Team Stats

Evan Bottone

Tyler Kamerer

Jackson Halter

Cooper Hinson

Players Mentioned

Bryce Blevins

Evan Bottone

Jackson Halter

Cooper Hinson

Tyler Kamerer

Oliver Service

Cleary Simpson

Jack Smith

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