Coastal Carolina is a win away from winning the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship and giving the NCAA Regional selection committee something to think about.
The Chanticleers, who hope to host a regional and would presumably be a contender – or certainly a No. 2 team elsewhere – defeated South Alabama 3-1 Saturday in a game that featured a nearly four-hour weather delay.
Coastal freshman righthander Zach McCambley didn’t allow a hit in his 4 2/3 innings before the delay and the Chants got a pair of runs in the fourth and one in the eighth.
Coastal improved to 3-0 with its second win over the Jaguars in three days and have won its three games by a combined 24 runs.