Coastal Carolina head coach Gary Gilmore had a decision to make Friday: throw College World Series star Andrew Beckwith or season-long ace Alex Cunningham in the Chanticleers’ opening game of the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship.
Things went so poorly he ended up using both pitchers, and the defending national champions now hope they have done enough in the regular season to garner an at-large berth into an NCAA regional.
Beckwith started and was both wild and hit hard, the Chants played poorly behind him and Texas State knocked the top seed from the tournament with a 7-5 win at J.