The Coastal Carolina baseball team will be on a mission this year, and that mission began in earnest Friday with the team’s first official practice of the 2018 season.
After winning the national championship in 2016, the Chanticleers were left out of the NCAA tournament last season despite winning the Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship in their first year in the league with a record of 37-19-1 and 20-7-1 in the conference.
The Chants would like to take the decision out of the selection committee’s hands this season by winning a conference tournament title and/or being more dominant in the regular season to secure an NCAA berth for the 10th time in the past 12 seasons.