Coastal Carolina pitcher Jaxon Appelman threw six strong innings and the 14th-ranked Chanticleers scored twice in the ninth inning to defeat The Citadel 3-2 on March 31 at Riley Park.<\/p>\n
Appelman turned in a career performance on the mound, tossing a career-high six hitless innings while allowing just one earned run on one walk and striking out a career-best eight batters. The right-hander faced minimal traffic throughout his outing, keeping the Bulldogs (12-15) off balance as neither team recorded a hit through the first five innings.<\/p>\n
Trailing 1-0 in the sixth inning, the Chanticleers broke through as Rex Watson launched a solo home run to right field, his team-leading ninth of the season, to even the score at 1. Watson finished the night with two of Coastal’s four hits.<\/p>\n
The game remained tied until the bottom of the seventh when The Citadel capitalized on a Coastal error. With runners on the corners, Christian Stratis drove in a run on a Chanticleer fielding miscue to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Coastal responded in the ninth inning. With a runner on third, Cruz Harlan raced home on a wild pitch to tie the game at 2. Moments later, Dean Mihos delivered the decisive blow, driving in Colby Thorndyke, who reached earlier in the inning on a throwing error and later stole second, with the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n
Colby Richardson earned the win in relief, while Scott Doran picked up the save by recording the final three outs to secure the victory. As a team, the Chanticleers held the Bulldogs to just two hits.<\/p>\n
With the win, Coastal Carolina extended its winning streak to eight games, improving to 21-7 overall on the season.<\/p>\n
College of Charleston 15, Winthrop 5<\/p>\n
ROCK HILL \u2014 Sophomore Alex LaCoste went 5-for-6 with two home runs as College of Charleston defeated Winthrop on March 31.<\/p>\n
Redshirt senior Ethan Plyler also had a home run for the Cougars, who handed the Eagles just their third home loss in 20 tries this year.<\/p>\n
Charleston (11-17) came out swinging, putting six runs on the board before Winthrop (21-8) came to the plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coastal Carolina pitcher Jaxon Appelman threw six strong innings and the 14th-ranked Chanticleers scored twice in the ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,15890,648,58967,1694,2341,6392,69214],"class_list":{"0":"post-655993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-coastal-carolina","10":"tag-college-baseball","11":"tag-college-of-charleston","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-baseball","14":"tag-south-carolina","15":"tag-the-citadel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116327956143735058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}