CHARLESTON, SC - A frustrating football season for the Charleston Southern Buccaneers came to an unceremonious end on Saturday as the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers handed the Bucs a 48-14 loss at Buccaneer field.

Coastal Carolina (6-5) secured a winning season in their first season of competition by building a 35-0 halftime lead, taking advantage of four CSU turnovers in the first two quarters. The Chanticleers rolled up 227 yards rushing and made the most of their four pass completions, hitting two for touchdowns.

"Coastal Carolina did a very good of executing their offense in the first half and we didn't help ourselves very much with the four turnovers," said CSU head coach Jay Mills. "Give credit to Coastal Carolina. They were playing for a winning season and they came out and played well. I thought we showed great moments throughout the day but we just never sustained anything consistently. That's been the story of this season."

Charleston Southern closes out Mills' first season at 1-11. Aside from six turnovers, CSU had one of their better days offensively, finishing with 354 total yards.The Bucs had their second best rushing day of the season, finishing with 157 net yards. Freshman Robert Adams gained 77 yards on 11 carries to pace the ground game.

Freshman quarterback Collin Drafts completed 18-of-33 passes for 191 yards while senior receiver Aaron Dunklin caught 10 passes for 122 yards. Late in the game, Dunklin set a CSU single-season record for all-purpose yardage, finishing the season with 1,250 yards. He also set school records for receptions in a season (80), receptions in a career (125), and receiving yards in a season (1,063). His 19-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter was the 12th of his career, tying the career touchdown reception record at the school.

Coastal Carolina put two scores on the board in the first quarter as Aundres Perkins scored from four yards with 4:36 left and from nine yards with 1:44 remaining. Demetrius Morant scored from a yard out with 10:38 remaining in the second quarter, putting the Chants up, 21-0.

CCU quarterback Tyler Thigpen connected with Eric Outlaw on a 22-yard pass with 3:07 left in the second quarter, then followed a CSU turnover with a 22-yard scoring toss to Darnell Williams with 2:33 left in the half for a 35-0 lead.

Coastal iced the game away with two scores in the third quarter, the first coming on Ren McKinnon's 39-yard run with 13:02 left. Morant's five-yard run with 7:01 remaining put the Chanticleers' up, 48-0.

Charleston Southern put two touchdowns on the board in the fourth quarter. Dunklin's 19-yard reception came with 11 minutes left in the game. Travis Mays scored on a four-yard run with 3:56 to play to close out the scoring.

"We're disappointed with the season that we had, but we're not discouraged," said Mills. "Some of the problems we had were unavoidable and some of the problems we had were on us. We're looking forward to recruiting and then to spring practice. We're still very excited about the future of our program."