Eagle Baseball Drops 2019 Sun Belt Championship Game, 9-7

Sunday, May 26

Conway, S.C.

1 p.m.

Georgia Southern University

35-24

Coastal Carolina

35-24-1

Coastal Carolina

Georgia Southern

5/26/2019 6:14:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Georgia Southern finishes 2019 campaign with a 35-24 mark

CONWAY, S.C. – Six runs in the first two innings were not enough for Georgia Southern Baseball who dropped the 2019 Sun Belt Baseball Championship Game, 9-7, to the host Coastal Carolina. The Eagles got a run in the first, followed by five in the second, but Coastal would rattle off nine runs between the fourth and seventh innings to take their second-straight league title.

Steven Curry reached to start the bottom of the first on a fielding error at third base, followed by a ball that rode up and in on Mason McWhorter to put runners on first and second. Jason Swan drove Curry in as the Eagles sprung out to an early lead.

The Eagles hung a crooked number in the second inning, plating five off four hits. Christian Avant scored on a wild pitch from third to make it a 2-0 lead. Nolan Tressler replaced McWhorter who couldn't continue after being hit in the first inning. The sophomore pinch hitter clubbed a two run home run. After a Tyler Martin double, Noah Ledford clouted a two run home run of his own to make it a 5-0 lead.

Coastal began its run in the fourth inning, scoring three runs off three hits to put the Eagles on notice. The Eagles, however, got one back in the bottom half of the inning when Swan drove in his second run of the game.

A leadoff home run in the fifth ended Seth Shuman's outing. The junior went four innings on three days rest, allowing four runs off five hits with five strikeouts in five plus innings of work.

Coastal hit a three-run home run in the sixth, followed by a bases clearing double to take an 8-7 lead. The Chanticleers added a run in the seventh to take the final 9-7 lead.

Three Eagles were named to the Sun Belt Championship's All-Tournament Team. Nick Jones, Tyler Owens and Jason Swan were picked to the team for their work in Conway.