Virginia completes sweep
By
Al Myatt
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GREENVILLE — Second-ranked Virginia
completed a sweep of its three-game season-opening series at East
Carolina by taking both ends of a doubleheader on Lewis Field at Clark-LeClair
Stadium on Saturday.
The teams played a pair of games
because of the forecast of cold weather Sunday.
The Cavaliers had a five-run second
inning and took advantage of five errors by the Pirates for a 9-2 win in
the first game. Virginia scored twice in the eighth inning to take a 4-2
win in the second game.
ECU had a brief 1-0 lead in the first
game with a run in the bottom of the first. Hunter Allen got aboard on
an error and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Parker Lamm before
Luke Lowery delivered an RBI single to right.
Three errors by the Pirates
contributed to four unearned runs in the top of the second inning.
Travis Watkins had an RBI single to
drive in the second run for ECU in the bottom of the ninth.
Connor Jones struck out eight in six
innings in getting the win. Jacob Wolfe made his first start for the
Pirates and went four and two-thirds innings. Only two of the eight runs
scored during his mound stint were earned.
ECU rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the
second game to knot the score after the Cavaliers tallied a lone run in
each of their first two turns at the plate. Matt Thaiss had a solo home
run for the visitors in the second.
A run-scoring single by Garrett
Brooks brought the Pirates within 2-1 in the second after hits by Jeff
Nelson and Charlie Yorgen.
ECU loaded the bases before scoring
the tying run in the fifth inning on a ground out to first by Kirk
Morgan. Lamm had singled, Eric Tyler was hit by a pitch and Watkins
walked with one out.
David Lucroy started and worked five
and one-third innings for the Pirates in the second game. He allowed
four hits, two runs, both earned, walked two and struck out two.
Virginia's decisive eighth in the
second tilt included a go-ahead RBI on a ground out by Robbie Coman and
a run-scoring single by Thaiss.
The Pirates played errorless defense
in the second game. Yorgen had two of ECU's eight hits.
East Carolina visits Old Dominion for
a 3 p.m. game on Wednesday.
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02/15/15 04:59 AM.
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