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News Nuggets, 05.24.04
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
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Compiled from staff reports
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Weekend in the limelight for Pirates and Bunn
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East Carolina and one of its stable of ace pitchers,
Greg Bunn, grabbed the biggest headlines of Conference USA's climactic
regular season weekend.
The right-handed Bunn kept normally hard-hitting
Southern Mississippi off balance for 8 innings as the Pirates shut out the
Golden Eagles 9-0 on Thursday to settle the C-USA regular season race in the
first game of the three-game series between the teams.
After winning two of three from USM, including a
punctuating 11-0 clampdown in Saturday's final matchup, ECU claimed the
championship by four games and will be the No. 1 seed at the
C-USA Tournament which begins
Wednesday in Houston.
The nationally 4th-ranked Pirates finished with a
25-5 record in conference play, establishing a new mark for league wins.
At 47-9 overall, ECU owns the best record in
division I baseball for the fourth week in a row.
For his sterling performance against Southern Miss,
Bunn was named C-USA Pitcher of the Week. Designated hitter Ryan McKinnon of
Louisville, ECU's opening round foe in the tournament, was selected Hitter
of the Week.
C-USA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER OF THE WEEK: Ryan McKinnon, Junior DH,
Louisville, Hamilton, Ontario
McKinnon helped the Cardinals to a sweep at USF and
a spot in the conference tournament by slugging two home runs and two
doubles, while driving in eight runs in three games. He posted a .933
slugging percentage and .438 on-base mark with 14 total bases. McKinnon's
grand slam was the difference in Thursday's 9-5 win. He went 3-for-5 with a
two-run home run, a walk and a double, plating three in Friday's 13-4
victory. McKinnon drove in a run with a bases-loaded single and then scored
the game-tying run in the Cards' eight-run rally in the ninth inning on
Saturday.
PITCHER OF THE WEEK: Greg Bunn, Junior, RHP, East
Carolina, Wake Forest, NC
Bunn threw eight shutout innings at Southern Miss,
holding the league's second-best hitting team to just five hits as East
Carolina clinched the regular season C-USA title with a 9-0 win. He struck
out six and walked three in raising his season record to 8-0. It was Bunn's
fourth combined shutout this season.
C-USA Tournament Vitals &
Schedule
May 26-30, 2004
Houston, TX
Hosted by: Houston Cougars
Venue: Cougar Field (Capacity 3,500)
Ticket Orders: 713-GO-COOGS (462-6647)
Hotel Information
Hyatt Regency Houston
1200 Louisiana
Houston, TX
Phone: 800-233-1234 or 713-654-1234
C-USA has reserved a fan block of rooms.
Daily Schedule:
Wednesday May 26:
9:00 a.m. Game 1 - (6) Memphis vs. (3) USM
12:30 p.m. Game 2 - (7) UAB vs. (2) Tulane
4:00 p.m. Game 3 - (8) Louisville vs. (1) ECU
7:30 p.m. Game 4 - (4/5) TCU vs. (4/5) Houston
Thursday May 27:
9:00 a.m. Game 5 - Loser 1 vs. Loser 2
12:30 p.m. Game 6 - Loser 3 vs. Loser 4
4:00 p.m. Game 7 - Winner 1 vs. Winner 2
7:30 p.m. Game 8 - Winner 3 vs. Winner 4
Friday May 28:
3:00 p.m. Game 9
6:30 p.m. Game 10
Saturday May 29:
9:00 a.m. Game 11
12:30 p.m. Game 12
4:00 p.m. Game 13 (if necessary)
7:30 p.m. Game 14 (if necessary)
Sunday May 30
1:00 p.m. - Championship Game
C-USA Standings & Postseason
Schedule
(Final regular season standings; includes games played through May
22.)
CONFERENCE OVERALL
TEAM
W L T Pct W L T
Pct
X# ECU 25 5
0 .833 47 9 0 .839
# Tulane 21 9 0 .700
38 17 0 .691
# USM 21 9
0 .700 40 15 0 .727
# Houston 19 11 0 .633
28 27 0 .509
# TCU 19 11 0
.633 33 23 0 .589
# Memphis 15 14 0 .517
28 26 0 .519
# UAB 13 16 0
.448 28 27 0 .509
# Louisville 13 17 0 .433 26 28
0 .481
USF 12 17
0 .414 31 24 0 .564
Charlotte 9 21 0 .300
20 32 0 .385
Cincinnati 6 24 0 .200 15
40 0 .273
Saint Louis 5 24 0 .172 14 41
0 .255
X — Won regular season title.
# — Earned berth in C-USA Tournament.
POSTSEASON SCHEDULE
Wednesday-Sunday, May 26-30
Conference USA Tournament (Houston, TX)
Friday-Sunday, June 4-6
NCAA Regionals (Sites TBD)
Friday-Sunday, June 11-13
NCAA Super Regionals (Sites TBD)
Friday, June 18-Monday, June 28
College World Series (Omaha, NE)
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools, and from Associated Press and
other reports. Copyright 2004
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