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Bunt yields ECU win in 10th
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East Carolina's Drew
Reynolds gets the win with four shutout innings in relief in
his final game in Clark-LeClair Stadium. The all-purpose
senior also had two hits and capped off the day by scoring
the winning run on a seeing-eye bunt by Luke Lowery in the
10th. (Photo by W.A.
Myatt) |
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ECU seniors Zach Houchins
(16) and Drew Reynolds (7) celebrate with sophomore Luke
Lowery after Lowery's 10th inning bunt brought in Reynolds
for the winning run in the Pirates' 3-2 Conference USA
victory over Texas-San Antonio. (Photo by W.A.
Myatt) |
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GREENVILLE — With the score tied at 2 in the bottom
of the 10th, East Carolina's Luke Lowery bunted down the third base line
with Drew Reynolds taking a lead at third as ECU faced Texas-San Antonio on
Saturday.
The Roadrunners opted not to make a play on the ball,
hoping it would roll foul.
Reynolds had already raced home when the ball hit third
base and the Clark-LeClair Stadium crowd of 2,276 roared its approval with a
3-2 victory.
The Pirates won their last regular season game at home in
2014 and captured their final Conference USA series two games to one.
ECU will compete in the American Athletic Conference next
school year.
Reynolds (4-2) pitched the last four innings for the
Pirates in relief of starter Brett Mabry.
UTSA (33-24, 16-14 C-USA) scored twice in the top of the
fifth for a 2-0 lead. A two-out solo home run by John Welborn gave the
visitors a 1-0 lead. Consecutive singles by Horacio Correa III, R.J. Perucki
and Mike Warren put ECU behind, 2-0.
The Pirates got one run back in the bottom of the fifth.
Charlie Yorgen was hit by a pitch with one out and Reynolds walked. Yorgen
went to third on a fly ball by Zach Houchins and Dylan Brown's RBI single
brought ECU within 2-1.
Lowery doubled down the right field line in the sixth and
moved to third on a ground out by Bryce Harman. A fielding error by the
Roadrunners catcher allowed Lowery to score the tying run.
Mabry's six-inning stint included seven hits, two earned
runs, one walk and five strikeouts.
Reynolds yielded two hits, walked one and fanned four.
ECU outhit UTSA 11-9 with Lowery going 3-for-5 with his
sixth double of the season and the game-winning RBI. Reynolds and Hunter
Allen each had two hits for the Pirates (32-24, 16-14).
ECU is seeded sixth for the
C-USA Tournament at Southern Miss.
The Pirates meet the host Golden Eagles, the No. 3 seed, at 8:30 p.m. on
Wednesday.
Fifth-seeded Old Dominion and fourth-seeded Middle
Tennessee lead off the event at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Eighth-seeded Florida International plays top-seeded
Rice, the regular season champion, at 1:30 p.m. UTSA claimed the seventh
seeding and takes on second-seeded Alabama-Birmingham at 5 p.m. on opening
day.
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