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News Nuggets, 02.17.04
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East Carolina has started off its 2004
baseball season with a bang and the payoff didn't end with the final out of
the Pirates' three-game sweep of UNC Asheville.
ECU's Greg Bunn was named Conference USA
pitcher of the week for his dominating Saturday performance in which he rang
up eight strikeouts in just five innings as the
Pirates pummeled the Bulldogs 8-0 in
the middle game of their season-opening series.
Brett Cooley of Houston earned the league's
hitter of the week honors for batting .500 at the Minute Maid Park College
Classic, including a 4-for-4 performance against No. 4 Texas.
The awards were announced Monday by the
league office. Here are the summaries of the performances of C-USA's players
of the week for the period ending Feb. 15:
PITCHER OF THE WEEK
GREG BUNN, EAST CAROLINA
Junior, RHP, Wake Forest, NC
Greg Bunn earned C-USA Pitcher of the Week
for his efforts in one of the Pirates’ three wins over the weekend. In his
first career start at East Carolina, Bunn registered his first victory in
dominating fashion on Saturday. The junior struck out eight batters, two shy
of his career high, in only five innings of the Pirates 8-0 win over UNC
Asheville. The right-hander only walked two batters and gave up only one
hit. After giving up a single to the first batter he faced, Bunn retired 13
of the next 15 batters.
HITTER OF THE WEEK
BRETT COOLEY, HOUSTON
Senior, DH/RHP, Round Rock, TX
Cooley batted .500 (7-for-14), collecting
four doubles and four RBI in the Cougars 1-2 opening weekend at the Minute
Maid Park College Classic. Cooley recorded at least one run, blasted at
least one double, posted at least one RBI and drew a walk in all three
games. Against No. 4 Texas, Cooley tied his career high with four hits
(4-for-4) and scored the game-tying run in the seventh inning after starting
the Cougar rally with a one-out double. Against Kansas State, the senior
gave UH a three-run cushion with a two-out, two-run double in the sixth
inning. Cooley also threw 0.2 innings of relief against Texas Tech and was
named to the Minute Maid Park College Classic All-Tournament Team.
Notre Dame alumni group calls for change
SOUTH BEND — More than 400 Notre Dame
alumni signed a letter to the school saying the football program needs to
make significant progress next season or "a coaching change will become
necessary." The letter is dated Jan. 26 and was sent to Notre Dame's board
of trustees.
"We have 100,000 alumni and we hear from
any number of them on any number of topics. We take virtually all of them
seriously," Notre Dame spokesman Matt Storin said Monday. "Whether the board
of trustees will respond, I can't say, but it is doubtful they would debate
these matters in the media."
The letter is critical of the football
program, saying Notre Dame has made several poor coaching hires and placed
more importance on making money than winning games. It also asked that
someone from outside the university be appointed to the vacant position of
executive vice president and concentrate on finances, administration and
athletics. The Rev. Edward Malloy, university president, has been handling
those duties since 2002.
"The key point of this is that we feel that
the football program itself is an integral part of what the university is
all about," Tim Kelley, a 1964 graduate who co-wrote the letter, told The
Indianapolis Star. "It's not just football for football's sake."
Kelley said the letter is not asking that
coach Tyrone Willingham be fired. He said a similar letter was sent to the
board three years ago, when Bob Davie was coach. The Fighting Irish started
8-0 in 2002, Willingham's first season as coach. Since then, they have gone
7-10.
AP Basketball Poll
The top 25 teams in The Associated
Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
records through Feb. 15, total points based on 25 points for a first-place
vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
[Conference USA and Carolinas teams in
bold.]
Rank/Team/Record/Points/Previous
1. Stanford (64) 21-0 1,791 2
2. Saint Joseph's (8) 22-0 1,721 3
3. Duke 21-2 1,613 1
4. Mississippi State 21-1 1,541 6
5. Pittsburgh 23-2 1,491 4
6. Gonzaga 21-2 1,481 7
7. Oklahoma State 19-2 1,394 10
8. Connecticut 19-5 1,225 5
9. Kentucky 17-4 1,153 8
10. Louisville 17-4 1,005 9
11. Texas 17-4 964 11
12. Wisconsin 17-4 915 17
13. North Carolina State 16-5 884 21
14. Arizona 16-6 869 16
15. Wake Forest 15-6 652 20
16. North Carolina 15-7 638 14
17. Cincinnati 17-4 620 13
18. Georgia Tech 18-6 580 15
19. Providence 17-5 441 24
20. Southern Illinois 20-2 376 23
21. Kansas 15-6 319 12
22. Texas Tech 18-6 244 18
23. Memphis 18-4 240 _
24. LSU 17-4 227 _
25. South Carolina 20-5 213 25
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 194,
Utah State 117, Air Force 94, Illinois 87, Oklahoma 59, Florida 57, Dayton
40, Seton Hall 40, Charlotte 26, Kent State 26, Western Michigan 25,
Michigan State 14, Boston U. 8, Maryland 6, Nevada 6, DePaul 1, East
Tennessee State 1, Hawaii 1, Manhattan 1.
Baseball America Poll
DURHAM — The top 25 teams in the
Baseball America poll with records through Feb. 15 and previous ranking
(voting by the staff of Baseball America):
[Conference USA teams — present and
future — and Carolinas teams in
bold.]
Rank/Team/Record
1. Rice 2-1 1
2. LSU 2-1 2
3. Miami 2-1 3
4. Stanford 8-1 4
5. Georgia Tech 2-0 5
6. Texas 9-0 6
7. South Carolina 3-0 7
8. Long Beach State 4-2 9
9. Tulane 2-0 10
10. Auburn 3-0 12
11. Clemson 0-0 11
12. Baylor 2-1 13
13. Arizona 5-1 15
14. Cal State Fullerton 4-5 8
15. Wichita State 0-0 14
16. Arizona State 5-1 16
17. North Carolina 0-0 17
18. Mississippi 0-0 18
19. Notre Dame 0-0 19
20. Florida 3-2 20
21. Texas A&M 3-0 21
22. Florida Atlantic 7-0 22
23. Nebraska 0-0 23
24. N.C. State 1-0 24
25. Florida State 3-3 25.
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