South Alabama’s baseball losing streak reached four on Friday night, as first-place Coastal Carolina claimed an 8-7 victory in 10 innings at Stanky Field.

Payton Eeles’ 2-out RBI single in the top of the 10th provided the winning run for the Chanticleers, who also got 3 2/3 shutout relief innings from closer Teddy Sharkey. The Jaguars put two runners on with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, but could not come up with the walk-off win.

With the loss and Georgia State’s win over Georgia Southern, South Alabama falls at least temporarily out of a tie for 10th place in the Sun Belt Conference standings at 11-14 in league play. The top 10 teams in the final Sun Belt standings qualify for the conference tournament, which begins May 23 in Montgomery.

On Friday, South Alabama (23-25 overall) trailed by scores of 5-2 and 7-4 before rallying to tie. The Jaguars scored three times in the seventh to knot the game at 7-7, getting Joseph Sullivan’s solo homer and Micah Morgan’s 2-run single off Coastal Carolina reliever Darin Horn before loading the bases with one out.

That brought on Sharkey, who struck out both Erick Orbeta and Austin Thrasher with 95-mph fastballs to end the inning. Sharkey got the Jaguars in order in the eighth, while South Alabama reliever Grant Wood set the Chanticleers (31-17, 18-7) down in order in both the eighth and the ninth.

The Jaguars threatened in the ninth, with Hunter Donaldson drawing a leadoff walk and Diego Altamirano getting hit by a pitch with two outs. Sharkey rallied, however, inducing an inning-ending groundout from Orbeta.

Wood (4-3) walked Zack Beach to start the 10th, but got two outs before Eeles lined a 1-2 pitch up the middle to score the go-ahead run. Sharkey (7-1) then set the Jaguars down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning to close out the game.

South Alabama led 2-0 after three on the strength of Thrasher’s RBI single and a Coastal Carolina error, but the Chanticleers tagged Jaguars starter Leif Moore for five runs in the fourth. Beach drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly, then Blake Barthol, Dean Mihos and Eeles delivered consecutive two-out hits to make it 5-2.

South Alabama got two runs back in the fourth off Coastal starter Riley Eickhoff, scoring on Morgan’s RBI single and Thrasher’s bases-loaded walk. Eickhoff allowed four four runs (three earned) on four hits with three walks and four strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.

After Caden Bodine led off the fifth with a solo homer to make it 6-4, Moore gave way to Jackson Boyd. The right-hander got out of that inning unscathed, but allowed Derek Bender’s RBI single in the sixth to put the Chanticleers up 7-4 before Wood came on in the eighth with the score tied.

Eeles and Bender each had three of Coastal Carolina’s 12 hits, while Bodine scored twice. Eeles and Mihos both drove in two.

Morgan drove in three of South Alabama’s runs, while Altamirano reached base four times on a walk and three hit-by-pitches. The Jaguars left 12 runners on base in the game, including the bases loaded in the fourth and seventh innings.

The series continues with a 2 p.m. game Saturday.