Morgen Cvetko

April 8, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko This past weekend the Coastal Carolina Softball team travelled to Mobile, Ala, for a weekend of softball against the Southern Alabama Lady Jaguars.  The first game was held on Friday, April 5 and the Chanticleers won 4-3. Courtney Dean, center fielder, hit her 12th homerun of the season in the top of the fifth inning, scoring three and bringing the Chanticleers to the lead. Kaitlin Beasley-Polko pitched 6 innings in the game and only gave up seven hits and three runs.   The Chanticleers wasted no time in getting runs in during their second game of the weekend on Saturday as junior first baseman Kassidy Smith hit a home run in the top of the first inning. Smith would go yard again in the top of the sixth inning, this time bringing in two runs and bringing the Chanticleers to the lead. Abbey Montoya scored again in the top of the seventh inning, bringing the final score of the game to ...

January 23, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko The beginning of spring semester also means the beginning of spring sports for Coastal Carolina University. The Coastal Carolina women's lacrosse team is one of the many teams excitingly waiting for the season to start.  Head coach Kristen Selvage is also excited for the season and is hoping to win the conference championship this year.   “I am beyond excited – I live for it,” Selvage said.  Madeline Bromley, senior attacker and team captain, is also excited.  “We have back our entire line up minus on, so we are picking up right where we left off, I am very excited,” Bromley said.  The women lacrosse team will take on Old Dominion University on Feb. 9th, at Brooks Stadium. The ladies last saw Old Dominion in 2017, where they were defeated by one. The CCU ladies are hoping for a different outcome this season.  There was a lot of talk of rings ...

January 29, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko The 2018 Coastal Carolina softball season was a crazy one for sure.   The Lady Chants opened the season 10-2, scoring five or more runs in six of those games. And then the team dropped six of their next nine games to enter Sun Belt conference play 13-9. The first half of conference play was not a great one as the Lady Chants went 2-11 in the first half of conference play, getting swept twice.  Coastal found themselves in a deep hole but managed to end the year at 26-28 and won the last seven of their 13 conference games to be 9-17 in Sun Belt play. However, the Chanticleers did miss out on playing in the Sun Belt tournament.  The 2019 Coastal Carolina softball team hopes to turn that all around in the upcoming season.  The Chanticleers look to build off the momentum they built at the end of last season winning three of their last five series. Coastal Carolina wil...

February 21, 2018 | Morgen Cvetko The Coastal Carolina baseball team finished Sunday with a 3-0 record to start the 2018 season after a crushing opening day win over Virginia Tech and back-to-back walk-off wins against #19 Oklahoma and Kansas State.  The Chanticleers opened their season with a 17-2 win over Virginia Tech, the same scoreline that the 2016 National Championship team opened that season with.  Woody Woodall opened the scoring for the Chanticleers in the first inning with a two-run home run. Woodall talked about what it was like to get a home run on his first swing of the season.  “It felt great,” Woodall said. "I’ve been feeling great in intrasquads leading up to the season, just kind of ready to face some new guys, honestly. I had a chance to do that and felt great in the box."  Kieton Rivers extended the lead for the Chanticleers with a solo home run in the fourth and Cameron Pear...

February 21, 2018 | Morgen Cvetko The Coastal Carolina Women’s Softball team came out on top this weekend in the Battle at the Beach tournament - winning five of the six games they played.  The tournament began on Thursday, and the ladies walked away with two wins under their belts to start off the weekend. However, on Saturday, they lost their first game, but won the second thanks to a walk off home run by Alexis Alvino, a junior on the team.   Head Coach Kelley Green talked about the momentum that that walk-off gave the team.  “Someone came up clutch,” said Green. "And that was all we needed."  Saturday was a totally different ball game though.   "We showed up with great attitudes and we didn't dwell on the Friday games," said Green.   The ladies ended the weekend with two major victories over Connecticut and Robert Morris.  In the first game, freshman infielder Court...