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Arkansas State Baseball Travels to Coastal Carolina for SBC Weekend Series

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• A-State is now 17-8 on the season and 5-1 in the Sun Belt after taking two of three from South Alabama and defeating Southeast Missouri State 11-2 Tuesday. The Red Wolves are off to their best start in the Sun Belt Conference since the 2012 campaign.
• Nate Alberius tossed the first complete game of the year for the Red Wolves in Sunday's matchup against South Alabama. The senior gave up just one run on five hits while striking out seven and walking none. The complete game marks the third of Alberius' career.

• In the weekend series vs South Alabama, A-State recorded 20 runs on 24 hits with 18 RBIs, two doubles and one triple.
• Nate Alberius was named the Sun Belt Pitcher of the week by the league office concluding his completegame performance at Tomlinson Stadium. The Red Wolves closed the series 8-1 over South Alabama.

• Drew Tipton's 22 stolen bases ranks No.1 in the Sun Belt and No. 2 nationally. Tipton is one stolen base away form breaking top-10 in Arkansas State's all-time stolen bases list. Last weekend he jumped GrantHawkins for the 12th spot, who had 19 in 2017. A-State currently has a total of 30 stolen base on the yearwhich surpasses 2018's total stolen bases (25).

• Zach Jackson logged his second quality outing of the season against Troy, where he pitched seven innings allowing only three runs on eight hits. Jackson punched out nine while only walking two.
• The Arkansas State bullpen only allowed one run through 14 innings pitched in the series sweep over Troy last weekend.
• Kyle MacDonald ranks top-100 nationally in Toughest batters to strikeout at 56. Alex Howard ranks No.1 in the SBC in HBPs and top-5 nationally in HBPs (12).
• Kollin Stone currently has five saves on the season, which is good for second best in the Sun Belt and20th in the nation.
• A-State and Coastal Carolina have one common foe thus far this season in the Troy Trojans. Coastal Carolina took two of three games over Troy, winning 4-2 and 9-7 on Friday and Saturday before droppingthe series finale on Sunday 10-8.
• The Red Wolves ignited Sun Belt play with a three-game series sweep of the Trojans by scores of 9-3, 10-6 and 10-4.

"COASTAL CAROLINA HISTORY"

• A-State trails the all-time series with the Chanticleers 0-6 after getting swept by Coastal in Conway, S.C., in 2017 and at Tomlinson Stadium in 2017. The Red Wolves dropped the opener by a score of 5-0 after Alex Cunningham hurled a complete-game, one-hit shutout. Tobias Johnson got the team'sonly hit. A-Stat dropped game two 11-6 despite four hits from Alex Howard, including his first career home run, and three hits by Grant Hawkins. The Red Wolves fell in the finale 6-1.

• Arkansas State has only faced one other team from South Carolina with a 1995 matchup versus Clemson in Arlington, Texas at the UTA Invitational. A-State lost the game 7-2.
• Coastal Carolina enters the weekend 18-6-1 overall and 5-1 in Sun Belt action. CCU recently split ahome and home with UNC Wilmington by dropping the first contest in Wilmington 4-5 before bounc- ing back Wednesday to win 9-2 at Spring Brooks Stadium.
• Wednesday, Matt Eardensohn (2.0 IP, 3 K) and Dylan Gentry (1.0 IP, 1 ER, 3 BB) kept the Chants in the game over the next three-plus innings out of the bullpen, as runs were hard to come by.
• Freshman Alaska Abney (1-2), who had a win and a save over the weekend versus Troy, was saddled with the loss as he gave up an unearned run on three hits and two strikeouts in 1.1 innings of work after pitching out of trouble in the eighth.

"THE LAST TIMEOUT"

• In 2018, Both pitching staffs set school records in walks with A-State walking 18 and the Chan- ticleers issuing 12. The 30 combined walks were the most in a NCAA Division I game since Rice and Texas Southern on Feb. 22, 1995, and also tied for the second most in a single game. The 40 combined runs were the second most in an A-State game since the team defeated Memphis 28-13 in 1992.

• Patrick Orlando earned the win for Coastal Carolina with 2.1 innings out of the bullpen, while Trev-or Damron earned a save by pitching the final four innings. Woodall, Jr., had three hits for the Chants and knocked in six runs along with five runs scored. Kyle Skeels registered four hits, three RBI, andscored three runs.

• A-State starter Coulton Lee lasted three innings and began the fourth, but couldn't get an out as heallowed seven runs (all earned) with five walks and two strikeouts. The Red Wolves would go on to use six more pitchers, including Blake Wynn with his first career appearance on the mound. A nativeof Star City, Ark., Wynn put the only zero on the board with a perfect ninth inning.

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