STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern baseball team fell 16-4 to the 20th-ranked Coastal Carolina Chanticleers on Sunday afternoon at J.I. Clements Stadium.

The Chanticleers (24-11, 9-6 SBC) got on the board in the top of the first with an RBI-triple, then took a 2-0 lead on an RBI-fielder's choice in the top of the third inning.

Georgia Southern (19-17, 9-6 SBC) took to the board in the bottom of the fourth inning starting with a wild pitch, bringing Kent Schmidt home. JD Kaiser cleared the bases with his team-leading sixth homer of the season, a 365 foot bomb over the Blue Monster to take a 3-2 lead after four frames. 

Coastal Carolina responded with six runs in the fifth, one in the sixth, one in the seventh, and six in the eighth inning to take a 16-3 lead over the Eagles. Georgia Southern got one back in the bottom of the eighth inning when pinch-hitter Corey Dowdell knocked an RBI-single to score Kaiser, but the deficit was too much for the Eagles to overcome, sealing the game in the eighth inning at 16-4.

Coastal's Alexander Meckley was tabbed with the win after 2.2 innings of one-hit baseball, while Ty Fisher was marked with the loss.

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The Eagles will play the next week all on the road, starting with a game at Kennesaw State on Wednesday before taking on James Madison in a three-game conference series starting on Friday.