{"id":265684,"date":"2026-04-25T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:49:10","slug":"coastal-carolina-tops-texas-state-6-2-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265684\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Carolina Tops Texas State 6-2 in Series Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/texas_state_200x200.png\" alt=\"Texas State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Texas State<\/p>\n<p>4\/25\/2026 | 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        WRXZ 107.1 \/ iHeart Radio&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 25 (Sat) \/ 2 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/texas_state_200x200.png\" alt=\"Texas State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Texas State&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/texas-state\/69\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"395\" data-start=\"215\">CONWAY, S.C. \u2013 Behind a dominant outing from sophomore right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/luke-jones\/19723\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19723\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Jones<\/a>, Coastal Carolina defeated Texas State 6-2 in Friday night&#8217;s series opener at Springs Brooks Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"621\" data-start=\"397\">Jones was in control from the start, tossing six scoreless innings while allowing just two hits. The sophomore worked around three walks and struck out six, keeping the Bobcats off balance and limiting any extra-base damage.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"945\" data-start=\"623\">The Chanticleers (29-12, 16-3 SBC) gave Jones all the support he would need in the fifth inning. Holding a slim 1-0 lead, <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brice-estep\/19623\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19623\" target=\"_blank\">Brice Estep<\/a> extended the advantage with a solo home run, his seventh of the season, to make it 2-0. Later in the frame, <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/blake-barthol\/19611\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19611\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Barthol<\/a> added to the cushion with a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1064\" data-start=\"947\">Coastal continued to add on in the seventh, plating two runs to extend the lead to 5-0 and put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1211\" data-start=\"1066\">At the plate, Estep paced the Chants, going 3-for-4 with a double and a home run, while driving in two runs. <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ty-barrango\/19610\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19610\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Barrango<\/a> added a pair of singles.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1292\" data-start=\"1213\">The Chanticleers will look to secure the series on Saturday at 2 p.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Texas State 4\/25\/2026 | 2 p.m. &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; WRXZ 107.1 \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-265684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}