NO. 4 COASTAL CAROLINA (45-7, 23-0, L1) at RADFORD (29-22, 15-9, W1)

Thursday, 3:00 p.m. - Live Stats
Radford TBA vs. LHP Cody Wheeler (10-0, 3.56 ERA)
Friday, 3:00 p.m. - Live Stats
RHP Eddie Butler (6-3, 4.67 ERA) vs. RHP Anthony Meo (11-1, 1.78 ERA)
Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - Live Stats
RHP Bobby Bolling (2-2, 5.75 ERA) vs. Coastal Carolina TBA

Radford plays its final series of the 2010 season and plays host to a top-ten foe, as the Highlanders welcome No. 4 Coastal Carolina for a three-game Big South series beginning on Thursday.

The series, like all others in the league, runs Thursday through Saturday since the Big South Tournament begins next Tuesday (May 25).

Entering the weekend, no standings/seed positioning is on the line for either team – the Chanticleers have already wrapped up the 2010 regular season title, after going through their longest unbeaten stretch to open a Big South season.  Radford locked up the third seed for the upcoming tournament by taking two of three from Gardner-Webb and staying three games in front of VMI and High Point, teams that the Highlanders own tiebreakers with.

Radford enters the series with Coastal Carolina at 7-3 in the month of May and winners of five consecutive Big South sets, dating back to April 16-18 at High Point.  

The 2010 Highlanders are also looking to make history – one more victory would match the most single-season wins in program history, established by the 1995 squad.   The 29 wins makes the 2010 team just the third to reach that mark, joining the 1993 and '95 teams.

Coastal has the nation's best winning percentage and enters the weekend ranked fourth in three of the major college baseball polls (Baseball Writers', Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, ESPN/USA Today).  The Chanticleers own the most victories in the land and are within five wins of their fourth 50-win season since 2005.  Since March 31, Coastal only has two losses: at top-ranked Virginia (April 27) and Tuesday at home against the College of Charleston.

Like the Highlanders, Coastal Carolina entered the week in the nation's top ten in stolen bases.  Radford had 137 steals, fourth in the country, while Coastal had 131, good for seventh.   Rico Noel (47) was second individually, while Scott Woodward (44) was tied for third.  Tyren Rivers was tied for 14th, and Reggie Keen was tied for 20th.

WEEKEND NOTEBOOK:
•    In addition to being within striking distance of the overall wins record, a pair of Big South victories would tie the league wins record of 17
•    Radford is scheduled to play games 52-54 over the weekend: only the 1995 team and 1997 teams played 54 regular season games
•    Entering the weekend, Joe Raccuia's record as head coach of the Highlanders is at 79-78 – in his time as a Radford player (1994-95), assistant coach (1996) and head coach (2008-10), Raccuia has been a part of 155 Radford wins, 31 percent of the program's all-time victories (502)
•    That record includes two of the Highlanders' winningest seasons (1995 – 30; 2010 -29)
•    Brad Wimmer needs one more appearance to tie the school record of 30 in a single season, set in 1994 by Travis Toms
•    His 2.92 ERA is fourth-best in a single season at Radford among pitchers with a minimum of 20 innings
•    For the third time this season, the school's single-game triples record has been matched – Matt Mack had a pair in Tuesday's win over Marshall
•    Matt Hillsinger had a pair of two-triple games, back-to-back efforts against UNC Asheville (March 19-20), to tie the mark established by John Gilbert on March 28, 1987 against Clarkson
•    Mack's record is the fourth individual single-game program record either bested or tied this season
•    Hillsinger carries a 13-game hitting streak into the weekend (20-for-56, .357)
•    Brett Mollenhauer has been the hottest hitter at the plate entering the weekend, batting .441 (15-for-31) over his last 10 games with a .578 on-base percentage
•    Mollenhauer is 10th in batting average in league-only games (.393)
•    Entering the weekend, Rivers is the single-season stolen bases leader with 32; his 68 are the most in school history
•    Rivers' 225 at-bats are four away from matching the single-season record he set in 2008
•    Keen's career .357 average is currently fourth-best in school history
•    Radford will honor its seniors – Andrew Cook, Rick Hoogstraten, Reggie Keen, Tyren Rivers, Aerik Taylor and Raphael Turner – prior to Saturday's regular season finale