Coastal Picked In 2012 Big South Baseball Poll

Chants Favored Yet Again… CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – For the fifth consecutive year, Coastal Carolina University‘s baseball team has been voted the Big South Conference’s preseason favorite by the League’s Head Baseball Coaches, it was announced today by the Conference office.� In addition, the coaches voted Presbyterian sophomore catcher/first baseman Brad Zebedis (Rock Hill, S.C.) the Conference’s Preseason Player of the Year and Coastal Carolina junior Josh Conway (Smithsburg, Md.) the League’s Preseason Pitcher of the Year. Coastal was the near-unanimous selection to win the Big South crown in 2012, as the Chants received 10 of the 11 first-place votes and finished with 120 out of a possible 121 total points.� Coastal Carolina is coming of its fifth consecutive Big South Championship (League record) and NCAA Tournament berth.� Led by 17-year head coach Gary Gilmore — the Big South’s second-winningest baseball coach with a record of 650-324 ( =66.7 percent), the Chanticleers went 42-20 overall and 20-7 in Conference play in 2011.� The Chants return eight starters (four position players, four pitchers) and nine total letterwinners from last year’s club. Liberty was second in the preseason poll with 98 points and received the remaining first-place vote.� Radford was picked third [...]

Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2012/01/27/coastal-picked-in-2012-big-south-baseball-poll/

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