It all ended in heartbreak for Coastal Carolina. The team lost to LSU in game 2 of the College World Series Championship. However, the real shocker is that their coach wasn’t there with his team when the season ended. Early in the game, during the first inning, Kevin Schnall was tossed out for arguing with the home plate umpire, Angel Campos, over the strike zone. In fact, Carolina’s first base coach, Matt Schilling, was ejected too.
It was certainly a controversial call. And well, not only because of how pivotal the game was, but more because both ejected coaches would have missed the deciding third game.
Coastal Carolina’s Kevin Schnall on what led to first part of ejection. “I think as a head coach I deserve an explanation of why we got warned. I’m 48 years old, I shouldn’t get shooed by another grown man…”
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Schnall, post his ejection, opened up about it during the press conference. “I’m 48 years old and I shouldn’t get shooed by another grown man. When I came out, I was told it was a warning issued for arguing balls and strikes, and I said it was because you missed three. At that point, I was ejected. If that warrants an ejection, I’m the first one to stand here like a man and apologize.”
“I’m not sorry for what happened… I’m sorry for this being over. I’m sorry for how it ended,” he added.
For Carolina, more painful than falling 5-3 short to LSU, was the fact that they had been wronged rather than defeated.
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