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Pirates primed for
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 Ol'
Gomer
Pyle
would
have
smiled
from ear
to ear
and
hollered
out:
“Surprise,
surprise,
surprise!”
That's
how East
Carolina's
baseball
team
celebrated
its 2015
American
Athletic
Conference
championship
last
season.
Nobody
expected
the
Pirates,
with a
first-year
coach,
to post
40
victories
and walk
off with
the
league's
top
trophy. ...
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Pictured: Projected
opening day starter
Evan Kruczynski
deals last season in
a solid performance
against No. 2
Virginia. The junior
lefthander posted an
8-4 record with a
3.17 ERA in 2015. (Photo
by W.A. Myatt) |
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East Carolina |
Friday, 4 pm |
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Snow signals baseball season |
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 Ice and snow… Freezing temperatures… Welcome to baseball season at East
Carolina! The Pirates opened game week on Monday with freezing rain
falling, causing treacherous driving conditions all over eastern North
Carolina. ...
More from
Brian Bailey...
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Walk waived in Wave win |
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A photographic trail
indicates that the
outcome of last
Wednesday's East
Carolina-Tulane game
may have been
different if the
officiating crew had
blown the whistle on
a pivotal play by
the Green Wave's
Louis Dabney. The
play in question,
which prevented the
Pirates from winning
in regulation, set
the stage for Tulane
to prevail in extra
periods. ...
More, including a
10-frame
animation... |
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Bearcat bigs help
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CINCINNATI —
Octavius Ellis and
Gary Clark each had
double-doubles to
lead Cincinnati to a
75-60 American
Athletic Conference
win over East
Carolina before
12,513 at Fifth
Third Arena on
Saturday.
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Howe a prize catch for
Pirates |
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 Hussein Howe may
not be a football prodigy, but he
certainly was ahead of his time at
University Christian High School.
Howe was so talented as an eighth
grader at the private school of
about 700 students in Jacksonville,
FL, that coach David Penland
promoted him to the varsity squad
near the end of the 2011 season.
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Sammy Batten... |
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Green Wave sinks Pirates in
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GREENVILLE —
The East Carolina basketball
team must have a stout heart
because it got broken – again –
on Wednesday night. The Pirates'
latest venture into
disappointment was a 100-92
triple overtime loss to Tulane
in Williams Arena at Minges
Coliseum. ECU slipped to 10-14
overall and 2-9 in
the American
Athletic Conference
despite leading
49-36 with 14
minutes left in
regulation. The
Pirates had a
five-point advantage
in the last two
minutes of the first
extra period.
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pictures... |
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Pictured: Tulane's
Louis Dabney had 32
points in the Green
Wave's triple OT win
over East Carolina
Wednesday night,
including this hoop
at the end of
regulation that sent
the game into extra
periods. (Photo by
Al Myatt) |
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By
Al Myatt
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GREENVILLE — South Florida
had a 13-2 run Tuesday night after East Carolina had taken an initial
5-0 lead and the Bulls went on to a 69-52 American Athletic Conference
win in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum.
The visitors went ahead
to stay at 6-5 on a layup with 15:01 left in the first half by
Jahmal McMurray, who led USF (6-21, 3-11) with 21 points.
The Pirates fell to
10-16 overall and 2-11 in the league with their fifth straight loss.
Shooting struggles were
a big factor for ECU, which made 18 of 53 field goal attempts (34
percent), seven of 23 behind the arc (30.4 percent) and nine of 19
at the line (47.4 percent).
"We couldn't make a
shot," said Pirates coach Jeff Lebo. "Even at the end of the game,
when they weren't even trying to guard us, we couldn't make a shot.
"We've got to make 10 or
12 threes against a team that's zoning us because we're limited
inside."
ECU frontcourt players
Michel Nzege, Kanu Aja, Clarence Williams and Mike Zangari combined
for four points in a total of 54 minutes.
Only one Pirate managed
to shoot better than 50 percent, sophomore guard Lance Tejada, who
made his lone attempt, a 3-pointer.
Caleb White led ECU with
13 points. Freshman Kentrell Barkley had 10 points and a team-high
seven rebounds.
The Pirates were within
44-41 after a jumper by Barkley with 13:25 to go.
Prince Williams and B.J.
Tyson added nine points each in the setback.
Nehemias Morillo had 18
points for USF. Jaleel Cousins had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
"Give them credit," Lebo
said. "Late in the clock, their guards made key jump shots. They
made key plays.
"They really hurt us on
the glass, too."
The Bulls led 44-30 in
rebounding. USF held a 34-20 advantage in points in the paint.
ECU has some time to
regroup for a 2 p.m. game Sunday at Southern Methodist. The Mustangs
are 21-3 overall and 9-3 in the AAC going into a Thursday night game
at Connecticut (18-7, 8-4).
SMU
won 79-55 at ECU on Jan.
13.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guest this week was
ECU
assistant
baseball coach Jeff Palumbo: