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BASKETBALL RECRUITING |
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Pirates shore up backcourt |
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 Three-star
shooting guard Raquan Wilkins of
state champion Atlanta (GA) Westlake
High School entertained offers from
a number of schools before choosing
to join ECU coach Jeff Lebo's
recruiting class of 2016-17. ...
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates foiled in sweep bid |
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GREENVILLE — Houston took a 6-1
win at East Carolina on Sunday
to keep East Carolina from
sweeping a three-game American
Athletic Conference series. The
Cougars (17-10, 1-2 AAC) scored
three runs in the top of the
second in support of winning
pitcher Mitch Ullom (4-1), who
went seven and one-third
innings.
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BASEBALL |
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Boyd leads Pirates to series win |
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 GREENVILLE
— Jimmy Boyd lost a shutout bid
in the top of the ninth inning
but East Carolina won its
American Athletic Conference
series with Houston by topping
the Cougars 5-1 at Clark-LeClair
Stadium on Saturday. Freshman
Dwanya Williams-Sutton had three
RBIs and Joe Ingle got his
seventh save as ECU improved to
19-8 overall and 2-0 in the AAC
with a crowd of 2,966 looking
on.
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Pictured: Winning pitcher Jimmy
Boyd focuses on his breathing
exercises in the ECU half of the
eighth inning during the
Pirates' 5-1 American Athletic
Conference win over Houston on
Saturday at Clark-LeClair
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Pirates take AAC opener |
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 GREENVILLE
— Bryce Harman, Parker Lamm and
Kirk Morgan had RBIs in support
of winning pitcher Evan
Kruczynski before Joe Ingle got
his sixth save as East Carolina
topped visiting Houston 3-1 in
the American Athletic Conference
opener for both clubs on Friday
night. A crowd of 2,603
converged on Clark-LeClair
Stadium.
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Pictured: Both head coaches,
Todd Whitting of Houston (red
cap) and Cliff Godwin of East
Carolina, converse with home
plate umpire David Buck during
Friday's American Athletic
Conference opener at
Clark-LeClair Stadium following
an ejection of ECU's Bryce
Harman in the sixth inning for
an illegal slide. (W.A. Myatt
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BASEBALL |
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Clean-cut Pirates host Houston |
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 East
Carolina baseball personnel
shaved their mustaches on
Thursday afternoon at
Clark-LeClair Stadium. The
Pirates grew mustaches in March
to support awareness of ALS,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
Lou Gehrig's disease, the
infirmity that took the life of
former ECU baseball coach Keith
LeClair in 2006.
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Pictured: WNCT-TV sports
director and Bonesville
columnist Brian Bailey ends
Mustache March for ECU skipper
Cliff Godwin. The Pirates
sported the mustaches during the
month of March to raise money
for ALS research. (Photo by W.A.
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California juco bolsters line |
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two months after signing day, East
Carolina has added some talent to
its offensive line. Hartnell
College's Branden Pena, a first-team
Golden Coast All-Conference
performer, has pledged to join the
Pirates for the 2016 season. ...
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Staff report
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ELON — East Carolina scored
two runs on a pair of wild pitches in the top of the 11th inning for a
7-5 win at Elon on Tuesday night.
Travis Watkins, Eric
Tyler and Bryce Harman all walked with one out in the final frame to
load the bases before a wild pitch from Joe McGullicuddy (0-2) on a
third strike to Brady Lloyd allowed Watkins to score the go-ahead
run.
Another wild pitch
enabled Tyler to come home for a 7-5 Pirates lead.
Joe Ingle (4-2) retired
the Phoenix in order in the bottom of the 11th, striking out the
first two batters before a pop-up to ECU freshman shortstop Turner
Brown ended the game and evened the nonconference season series at
1-1.
Elon (10-18)
won 8-7 in 10 innings on March 2
in Greenville.
Pirate pitchers had 19
strikeouts. Starter Nick Durazo fanned nine over four and two-thirds
innings. Durazo did not allow a hit while walking two.
Matt Bridges struck out
three in a two-inning middle relief stint. Ingle had seven
strikeouts over the last four innings.
Watkins had an RBI
single in the first that scored Parker Lamm to put the Pirates ahead
1-0.
A solo home run to left
center by Dwanya Williams-Sutton extended the lead to 2-0 in the
fifth and Charlie Yorgen had a sacrifice fly later in the inning for
a 3-0 advantage.
Williams-Sutton's RBI
single in the sixth that brought in Tyler gave ECU a 4-0 lead.
Watkins came home on a passed ball in the seventh inning after the
Phoenix had scored twice in the sixth.
A 3-run homer by Elon's
Nick Zammarelli tied the score at 5 in the bottom of the eighth.
Brown and
Williams-Sutton each had three hits for the Pirates. Tyler was
2-for-4 as the Pirates (20-9) outhit their hosts, 12-7.
ECU starts a three-game
American Athletic Conference series at Tulane at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Chalk up another series win for East Carolina as the Pirates took two
out of three from American Athletic Conference preseason favorite
Houston. In a battle of nationally-ranked teams the Pirates took the
first two games of the series before falling on Sunday.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guests this week
were ECU baseball coach Cliff
Godwin (left) and
WNCN
sports
anchor Todd Gibson (right):