Morgen Cvetko

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...

September 18, 2017 | Morgen Cvetko Mary Matalin, a highly-known political contributor, joined the Coastal Carolina University community to talk about the language of politics in the 21st-century. Her expertise comes from her time working under President Ronald Regan and serving as an assistant to George W. Bush.  Her lecture was based around three words: Populism, polemics and polarization.  Matalin believes one of the issues with politics is that both sides have different meanings for politic words.   Populism is defined that ordinary people are working toward the concerns of ordinary people. Polemics is a debate tactic; in which it seems like the only goal of one of the speakers is to undermine everything their opponent has to say.   Matalin is optimistic that this will change because people do not like to constantly argue, it is not ...