MOBILE, Ala. | South Alabama fell behind early before dropping the final game of its Sun Belt Conference series with No. 8 Coastal Carolina 16-10 at Eddie Stanky Field on Senior Day.

Coastal Carolina (33-17, 20-7 SBC) scored 11 runs in the first inning before South Alabama (23-27, 11-16 SBC) chipped away at the lead over the next eight innings including four innings in which it scored multiple runs. The Jags had the bases loaded in the ninth before the final out was made.

Caden Homniok (1-2), the first of eight pitchers used on the day, suffered the loss working 0.2 innings and allowed seven runs on four hits. At the plate, Will Turner finished 3-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and a double, while Jackson Howard and Tyler Borges each picked up a pair of hits.
 
How It Happened

• (T1) Caden Bodine doubled to left to score Payton Eeles from second after he was hit by a pitch and stole second before Derek Bender hit a two-run home run to center. Jake Books singled home Nick Lucky to extend the lead before Eeles reached on an infield single to drive in another run. The Chanticleers kept the inning alive when Graham Brown hit a bases-clearing single to left before Bender delivered an RBI single. Lucky kept the inning alive with two hits with another RBI single up the middle before Books recorded an RBI single to right center, Coastal Carolina 11-0.
• (B2) Diego Altamirano delivered a two-run double to right center to score Joseph Sullivan and pinch runner Ryan Storey, Coastal Carolina 11-2.
• (B3) Will Turner scored on a wild pitch before Micah Morgan drove in Jackson Howard with a sacrifice fly to center, Coastal Carolina 11-4.
• (T6) Lucky reached on an infield single allowing Bodine to score before Books singled to left center to drive in another run, Coastal Carolina 13-4.
• (B6) Will Turner reached on a bunt single to drive home a run before the Jags added another on a throwing error on the same play, Coastal Carolina 13-6.
• (B7) Tyler Borges drove in Sullivan on a fielder's choice, Coastal Carolina 13-7.
• (T8) Dean Mihos laid down a bunt to score Lucky from third before Eeles singled to left to score Tanner Garrison, Coastal Carolina 15-7.
• (B8) Hunter Donaldson drove home Turner with a sacrifice fly to left, Coastal Carolina 15-8.
• (T9) Zack Beach scored on a wild pitch, Coastal Carolina 16-8.
• (B9) Howard singled up the middle to score Altamirano and Austin Thrasher, Coastal Carolina 16-10.

Up Next
South Alabama hits the road to face Southeastern Louisiana on Tuesday night before closing out the regular season on the road at Arkansas State beginning on Thursday.

Quotable, head coach Mark Calvi
General statement …
"We just got behind early like we have all weekend, we fought to stay in the game. We gave up 11 runs in the first, it's not like Caden walked five or six guys, they hit him and got to him. Give them credit, they jumped us early and we won the next eight innings, they won the first one and sometimes you lose the game in the first and sometimes you lose it in the ninth. Today we lost the game in the first today. But give our guys credit, we fought like crazy and hung in there, got to within six where they had to go to their closer in the end."

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