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WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNCW and nationally-ranked Coastal Carolina meet for the second and final time this season when the two programs take the field on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. start at Brooks Field.

Coastal Carolina (26-12, 12-3 SBC) is ranked as high as 20th in the national polls and leads the Sun Belt's East Division with a 12-3 mark after winning 2-of-3 at Troy over the weekend. The Chanticleers won the first game of the home-and-home series with UNCW by a score of 10-5 in Conway in late Feb.

The Seahawks (21-14, 5-4 CAA) dropped 2-of-3 over the weekend at defending CAA champion Delaware. UNCW blanked the Blue Hens, 10-0, behind six strong innings from CAA Rookie-of-the-Week Gage Herring, who lost his no-hit bid with one out in the sixth inning. It was the only hit he surrendered and one of two hits for UD on the afternoon.

Wednesday's starting pitchers are RHP Zach McCambley (1-0, 6.75 ERA) for the Chants and LHP Blake Morgan (1-0, 0.44) for the Seahawks.

The Seahawks are opening an eight-game homestand with Wednesday's contest and return to CAA play this weekend when they host Towson for three games beginning on Friday.

THINGS TO KNOW
- Gage Herring was named CAA Rookie-of-the-Week for a second time this season on Monday … UNCW has had three players earn CAA Rookie honors with Landen Roupp and Noah Liles also do so
- Mason Berne (.372) and Ryan Jeffers (.358) lead the CAA in batting average … Berne paces the nine-team circuit with 35 runs batted in …  Jeffers also leads the CAA with 16 doubles and in slugging percentage (.732) and on base average (.484)
- Blake Morgan made his first start for the Seahawks last week and held nationally-ranked NC State to one hit over three shutout innings
- Coastal Carolina capitalized on five Seahawk errors for a 10-5 win in Feb. … The Chants held a 5-4 lead entering the bottom of the fifth when they exploded for three runs in the inning and added two more in the sixth
- Berne owns UNCW's longest current hitting streak at 16 games and his mark of reaching base safely in 29 consecutive games ranks in a tie for 10th all-time at UNCW
- UNCW's homestand includes a mid-week game with Campbell next Wednesday and then closes out with three conference games against Elon

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