Troy University Athletics
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Troy Baseball Run Rules No. 12 Coastal Carolina to Sweep Nationally Ranked SBC Foe
4/28/2024 5:23:00 PM | Baseball
CONWAY, S.C. – Complete and total domination summarized game three for Troy baseball as it completed the sweep over No. 12 Coastal Carolina Sunday afternoon with a 15-3 run-rule victory at Springs Brooks Stadium to claim sole possession of the No. 2 spot in the Sun Belt.
All nine Trojans (31-14, 14-7 SBC) in the starting lineup reached base, with Brooks Bryan and Ben Arnett leading the day by going 3-for-3 – Bryan also earned two walks. Meanwhile, Kyle Mock and Will Butcher combined for six RBIs with three apiece, while Grayson Stewart (2-2) earned his second win through six innings with four strikeouts and just two earned runs.
Troy took an inning to get started as Brooks Bryan battled to a full-count walk and advanced to third on a passed ball and ground out. All Mock needed to do was put the ball in play as he grounded out to second, scoring Bryan, 1-0, for Troy's first run. Kole Myers pushed the lead to two, 2-0, in the top of the third when he blasted a solo shot to right field on a full count – marked his eighth of 2024.
Coastal (27-17, 11-10 SBC) tacked one on, 2-1, after Ty Dooley earned a 4-1 walk and Sebastian Alexander singled through the right side down 0-2 in the count – put Dooley on third. A wild pitch for Troy allowed Dooley to capitalize and score.
The floodgates began to pour open in the fourth for the Trojans when Arnett got HBP and advanced on a wild pitch. With Arnett at second, Peyton Watts battled to a 2-2 count and shot one straight back at the pitcher and up the middle to bring No. 12 home, 3-1. Watts stole second, and Ethan Kavanagh got HBP to put two runners on. A wild pitch proceeded the HBP, but it didn't matter as Butcher connected with a full count to end a nine-game drought for homers on his fifth career three-run home run, 6-1.
A scoreless fifth was met by the first nine-run inning for the Trojans in over a decade (March 23, 2024 – ULM). The inning started with a full-count walk for Kavanagh, followed by an HBP on Butcher and a 1-2 single to first base for Bryan to load the bases. Tremayne Cobb Jr. stepped up to bat and put the ball in play to third base, forcing the error and scoring Kavanagh, 8-1. After a wild pitch scored Butcher, 9-1, with Mock batting, No. 7 secured his lone hit via a two-RBI double to right center, 10-1, as Cobb Jr. and Bryan came home.
The bases reloaded two batters later when Aidan Gilroy got HBP and Arnett singled to left field. On a 1-2 count, Myers put the ball in play to first base, forcing the throwing error and bringing Mock and Gilroy around, 12-1. The second walk of the inning on Kavanagh loaded the bases for the third time, and a full-count walk on Bryan scored one, 13-1. Cobb Jr. forced a Coastal error for the second time in the inning, sending the ball to the pitcher, who couldn't complete the throw to bring the eighth (Myers) and ninth (Kavanagh) run of the sixth in for Troy.
The Chanticleers waved the white flag, sending nothing but pinch hitters to the plate, and it paid off after Stewart put two quick outs on the board in the sixth. Cameron Sebuck grabbed the 2-2 double and allowed a 0-2 single to left field by Walk Mitchell to score one, 15-2. Coastal managed one more run, 15-3, in the seventh on a walk with the bases loaded, but it wasn't nearly enough as Troy run-ruled the No. 12-ranked team in the country for its first sweep over a top-25 opponent in the program's recorded history.
Head Coach Skylar Meade
"Just a tremendous day. Tremendous weekend in totality. The guys came out with constant attacks, scoring in four of the seven innings played today. Add in Stewart's competitiveness and his execution with pitches was really good. The defense was solid, and they made great reads throughout. We finished it off right. All parties offensively had a great day. If you didn't get the hit, you took the walk or ran the bases well. It'll be a fun bus ride back. The guys most certainly deserved it. We still got more work to do, so we'll reset Monday and get ready for Alabama State on Tuesday."
Up Next
Troy returns to Riddle-Pace Field on Tuesday to host Alabama State at 6 p.m., closing the month of April.
Series Stats
• With Myers' homer in the third, the Trojans have hit a home run in five straight games – fourth time the Trojans hit a homer in five-plus consecutive games.
• Troy's sweep over Coastal Carolina marked the first sweep over a top-25 opponent since it was recorded.
• For the first time since the third inning on March 23, 2014, the Trojans scored nine runs in a single inning, dropping nine in the top of the sixth.
• Troy seized its 70th home run of 2024 on a three-run bomb from Butcher, marking the 14th time it eclipsed 70-plus homers in program history.
• The Trojans capitalized on a season-high four errors by the opposition.
• After run-ruling No. 12 Coastal Carolina in the seventh, Troy completed 11 run-rule victories through 2024 – first since game one against App State, 17-2 (8).
• Butcher ends a nine-game drought without a home run with a three-run shot in the fourth – marked his 12th.
All nine Trojans (31-14, 14-7 SBC) in the starting lineup reached base, with Brooks Bryan and Ben Arnett leading the day by going 3-for-3 – Bryan also earned two walks. Meanwhile, Kyle Mock and Will Butcher combined for six RBIs with three apiece, while Grayson Stewart (2-2) earned his second win through six innings with four strikeouts and just two earned runs.
Troy took an inning to get started as Brooks Bryan battled to a full-count walk and advanced to third on a passed ball and ground out. All Mock needed to do was put the ball in play as he grounded out to second, scoring Bryan, 1-0, for Troy's first run. Kole Myers pushed the lead to two, 2-0, in the top of the third when he blasted a solo shot to right field on a full count – marked his eighth of 2024.
Coastal (27-17, 11-10 SBC) tacked one on, 2-1, after Ty Dooley earned a 4-1 walk and Sebastian Alexander singled through the right side down 0-2 in the count – put Dooley on third. A wild pitch for Troy allowed Dooley to capitalize and score.
The floodgates began to pour open in the fourth for the Trojans when Arnett got HBP and advanced on a wild pitch. With Arnett at second, Peyton Watts battled to a 2-2 count and shot one straight back at the pitcher and up the middle to bring No. 12 home, 3-1. Watts stole second, and Ethan Kavanagh got HBP to put two runners on. A wild pitch proceeded the HBP, but it didn't matter as Butcher connected with a full count to end a nine-game drought for homers on his fifth career three-run home run, 6-1.
A scoreless fifth was met by the first nine-run inning for the Trojans in over a decade (March 23, 2024 – ULM). The inning started with a full-count walk for Kavanagh, followed by an HBP on Butcher and a 1-2 single to first base for Bryan to load the bases. Tremayne Cobb Jr. stepped up to bat and put the ball in play to third base, forcing the error and scoring Kavanagh, 8-1. After a wild pitch scored Butcher, 9-1, with Mock batting, No. 7 secured his lone hit via a two-RBI double to right center, 10-1, as Cobb Jr. and Bryan came home.
The bases reloaded two batters later when Aidan Gilroy got HBP and Arnett singled to left field. On a 1-2 count, Myers put the ball in play to first base, forcing the throwing error and bringing Mock and Gilroy around, 12-1. The second walk of the inning on Kavanagh loaded the bases for the third time, and a full-count walk on Bryan scored one, 13-1. Cobb Jr. forced a Coastal error for the second time in the inning, sending the ball to the pitcher, who couldn't complete the throw to bring the eighth (Myers) and ninth (Kavanagh) run of the sixth in for Troy.
The Chanticleers waved the white flag, sending nothing but pinch hitters to the plate, and it paid off after Stewart put two quick outs on the board in the sixth. Cameron Sebuck grabbed the 2-2 double and allowed a 0-2 single to left field by Walk Mitchell to score one, 15-2. Coastal managed one more run, 15-3, in the seventh on a walk with the bases loaded, but it wasn't nearly enough as Troy run-ruled the No. 12-ranked team in the country for its first sweep over a top-25 opponent in the program's recorded history.
Head Coach Skylar Meade
"Just a tremendous day. Tremendous weekend in totality. The guys came out with constant attacks, scoring in four of the seven innings played today. Add in Stewart's competitiveness and his execution with pitches was really good. The defense was solid, and they made great reads throughout. We finished it off right. All parties offensively had a great day. If you didn't get the hit, you took the walk or ran the bases well. It'll be a fun bus ride back. The guys most certainly deserved it. We still got more work to do, so we'll reset Monday and get ready for Alabama State on Tuesday."
Up Next
Troy returns to Riddle-Pace Field on Tuesday to host Alabama State at 6 p.m., closing the month of April.
Series Stats
• With Myers' homer in the third, the Trojans have hit a home run in five straight games – fourth time the Trojans hit a homer in five-plus consecutive games.
• Troy's sweep over Coastal Carolina marked the first sweep over a top-25 opponent since it was recorded.
• For the first time since the third inning on March 23, 2014, the Trojans scored nine runs in a single inning, dropping nine in the top of the sixth.
• Troy seized its 70th home run of 2024 on a three-run bomb from Butcher, marking the 14th time it eclipsed 70-plus homers in program history.
• The Trojans capitalized on a season-high four errors by the opposition.
• After run-ruling No. 12 Coastal Carolina in the seventh, Troy completed 11 run-rule victories through 2024 – first since game one against App State, 17-2 (8).
• Butcher ends a nine-game drought without a home run with a three-run shot in the fourth – marked his 12th.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Stewart, Grayson (2-2)
L: Shaffer, Bryce (1-4)
Batting:
2B: Mock, Kyle 1
HR: Myers, Kole 1 ; Butcher, Will 1
RBI: Myers, Kole 2 ; Butcher, Will 3 ; Bryan, Brooks 1 ; Cobb Jr., Tremayne 1 ; Mock, Kyle 3 ; Watts, Peyton 1
SH: Watts, Peyton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Myers, Kole 2 ; Kavanagh, Ethan 3 ; Butcher, Will 2 ; Bryan, Brooks 2 ; Cobb Jr., Tremayne 1 ; Mock, Kyle 1 ; Gilroy, Aidan 1 ; Arnett, Ben 2 ; Watts, Peyton 1
SB: Watts, Peyton 1
HBP: Kavanagh, Ethan 1 ; Butcher, Will 1 ; Gilroy, Aidan 1 ; Arnett, Ben 1
Batting:
2B: Sebuck, Cameron 1 ; Galason, Anthony 1
RBI: Zientek, Corey 1 ; Mitchell, Walker 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sebuck, Cameron 1 ; Galason, Anthony 1 ; Dooley, Ty 1
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