Conway, SC – Coastal Carolina pounded out 17 runs on 17 hits, including five home runs, Friday afternoon at Spring Brooks Stadium to take a 17-5 victory over the Stetson Hatters.

Stetson (12-12) will try to salvage the final game of the Easter weekend series on Saturday. The Hatters and Chanticleers (15-9) are scheduled for a 1 p.m. game.

The Hatters used a total of seven pitchers in the game on Friday, with only a couple managing success against the Chanticleers' high-powered offense. The five home runs Coastal hit on Friday was one shy of the total allowed by Stetson this year coming into the series. The Chanticleers have hit seven long balls in two games.

While the Coastal Carolina offense was slugging away, junior right-hander Alex Cunningham (4-1) kept the Stetson bats quiet for most of the day. The Hatters got a pair of runs off Cunningham in the first inning, and another in the fifth, but that was it over Cunningham's seven innings. He allowed just six hits while striking out four.

After Stetson senior Jack Machonis got the Hatters off to a good start with his first home run of the year in the opening frame, the Hatters got an RBI single from Kirk Sidwell for a 2-0 lead.

That lead was gone almost in the blink of an eye in the bottom of the inning.

Hatters starting pitcher Brooks Wilson (2-4) walked Anthony Marks to start the bottom of the frame, then committed a throwing error to put two runners in scoring position. After a ground out scored the first run, Zach Remillard delivered an RBI single to tie the game at 2-2.

Following a strikeout, Coastal's Tyler Chadwick, who hit his second home run of the year on Thursday, blasted his third on a 2-0 pitch from Wilson, giving the Chanticleers a 4-2 lead.

Coastal added three runs in the second inning, two on a home run by G.K. Young, and then, after a 1-2-3 third, opened the fourth with a solo homer from Michael Paez to end the day for Wilson.

Freshman Erik Wiebke came on in relief and surrendered a single, a double, a walk and a grand slam to Chadwick, pushing the Chanticleers' lead to 12-2.

That wasn't all in the inning for Coastal. Joey Gonzalez came on to pitch and, after getting two outs, hit a batter, surrendered a single and then a three-run homer to Paez, his second of the inning.

The eight-run inning for Coastal Carolina was their second in as many days.

The rest of the game was filled with pinch hitters and pitching changes. Billy Cooke hit a solo homer off Gonzalez to open the sixth inning and then the Chanticleers added a final run in the seventh off Griffin Fuller before Tyler Keller came in to strike out consecutive hitters and end the inning.

The Hatters got a solo home run from Vance Vizcaino in the fifth and then, in the eighth inning after Cunningham was lifted, scored a pair of runs against reliever Cole Schaefer. Singles by Cory Reid and Mike Spooner set the table for Sidwell, who double for his third hit and second run batted in of the day. Charlie Watters then plated a second run with a ground out.

The Hatters finished with 10 hits in the game, including the three from Sidwell and two from Vizcaino. Coastal had three hits each from Paez (who drove in four and scored four), Young (three runs and three RBI) and Remillard (three runs, one RBI). Chadwick drove in six with his two home runs.