Coastal Carolina: Exposed
The Baseball Gamecocks put themselves through to next weekend's Super Regionals Sunday night. Yesterday we learned who they're going to play.
Conway, S.C.'s own Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, hosts of their own regional weekend, charged into their final yesterday afternoon to determine who gets to face the Yardcocks. A drama-filled tilt with the College of Charleston ended 11-10 in favor of the Chants (Shonts) with the Cougars threatening late heroics.
So put on your jorts, Gamecocks. We're heading down to the Strand.
Little is known about the Chanticleers. A small school, they are the national no. 4 seed, after strong conference play that saw them steamroll high-powered competition like Conway, Socastee, Carolina Forest and Aynor Gardner-Webb, Liberty, Presbyterian, Radford and VMI. And now they're two wins away from Omaha.
They wear teal. Located in Conway, the Gateway to MYRTLE BEACH, their own ballpark is small and so their regional was played in Myrtle Beach at BB&T Coastal Field, home of the Class A-level Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
The Chants were formerly part of the USC system until going it alone beginning in 1993. The rooster-centric nickname carried over, but what is a Chanticleer? It's tough nailing down a firm definition aside from being another name for a rooster. The reference is commonly found in literary works, a la Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Merriam-Webster says the word is originally French from the 14th century, but again from the literary world. Fancy.
So let's recap: Conway and the Grand Strand, the "Redneck Riviera" and home of copious jorts and cut-offs. A fancy literary figure with French origins. Again, what is a Chanticleer?
From P-Shops
A Chanticleer is clearly a gay rooster.
Go 'Cocks.
Conway, S.C.'s own Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, hosts of their own regional weekend, charged into their final yesterday afternoon to determine who gets to face the Yardcocks. A drama-filled tilt with the College of Charleston ended 11-10 in favor of the Chants (Shonts) with the Cougars threatening late heroics.
So put on your jorts, Gamecocks. We're heading down to the Strand.
Little is known about the Chanticleers. A small school, they are the national no. 4 seed, after strong conference play that saw them steamroll high-powered competition like Conway, Socastee, Carolina Forest and Aynor Gardner-Webb, Liberty, Presbyterian, Radford and VMI. And now they're two wins away from Omaha.
They wear teal. Located in Conway, the Gateway to MYRTLE BEACH, their own ballpark is small and so their regional was played in Myrtle Beach at BB&T Coastal Field, home of the Class A-level Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
The Chants were formerly part of the USC system until going it alone beginning in 1993. The rooster-centric nickname carried over, but what is a Chanticleer? It's tough nailing down a firm definition aside from being another name for a rooster. The reference is commonly found in literary works, a la Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Merriam-Webster says the word is originally French from the 14th century, but again from the literary world. Fancy.
So let's recap: Conway and the Grand Strand, the "Redneck Riviera" and home of copious jorts and cut-offs. A fancy literary figure with French origins. Again, what is a Chanticleer?
From P-Shops
A Chanticleer is clearly a gay rooster.
Go 'Cocks.