CLINTON, S.C. ? The Presbyterian College baseball team had a chance to take an early lead after loading the bases in the first but failed to do so as the team eventually lost the contest to No.19 Coastal Carolina 8-3 in the series finale.

The Blue Hose now stand at 10-31 on the season and 5-18 in Big South Conference play. The Chanticleers stand at 32-12 overall and 12-5 against conference competition.

PC had a chance to cause some early destruction but could not convert a one-out bases loaded situation in the first. With one down, Mack Hite singled. He was followed up by Cory Lyda, who was hit by a pitch. Jared Combs reached on a fielding error to fill the bases. However, Kenny Bryant fouled out and Jesse Harmon struck out to end the threat.

The Chanticleers jumped on top in the third on a bunt by Rico Noel. Kenny Bryant fielded the ball, tagging Noel in the process. However, Tucker Frawley was running on the play, scoring easily for the 1-0 lead.

Ahead 2-0, the visitors tried to add to their lead. Tyler Bortnick singled to right field as David Anderson tried to score from second. Gabe Grammer raced toward the line, gathered the ball and fired a dart toward home plate. Nate Horton took the ball off one hop, turned to his left, surged and tagged Anderson just prior to him touching the plate to end the inning and keep the deficit at two.

After loading the bases in the top of the fifth, Coastal took a 3-0 lead when Bortnick reached on an error, which would have ended the inning. Mitchell Odom forced the next batter into a fielder's choice to limit the scoring to just one in the stanza.

Coastal went back to work in the seventh, tacking on another run. With runners on second and third, Rico Noel laced a shot to Combs, who snagged the one hopper and threw it home. Horton gathered the ball and tagged Frawley out, saving a run.

With the score 4-0, Andrew Foushee came in to relieve Daniel Hill. He forced a pop-up in foul territory to end the inning with the bases loaded. A sacrifice fly in the seventh put the score at 5-0.

PC struck in the bottom half of the seventh stanza. With one away, Horton singled. After moving to second on Grammer's grounder, he came home on Andrew Williams' single, making the score 5-1.

The Blue Hose struck again in the eighth. Lyda roped a ground rule double over the right field fence before eventually coming home on Harmon's RBI single up the middle.

Coastal thwarted any hopes that PC had of coming back as the visitors plated three runs, two of which came on a homer, while staking a six-run lead (8-2) heading into head coach Elton Pollock's team's last at bat.

The Blue Hose scored a run when Combs reached on an infield single but Bryant's fielder's choice ended the contest with the bases juiced.

For the game, the Chanticleers notched eight runs on 16 hits with two miscues. PC tallied three runs on nine hits, but committed five errors.

The Blue Hose have a few days off for exams until the team takes on Georgia Tech May 1 at 7 p.m.