Pirates hold off Seahawks
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GREENVILLE — East Carolina
topped UNC-Wilmington 9-6 on Tuesday night after leading the Seahawks
8-1 through six innings at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
The Pirates (17-8) got a quality
start from Jacob Wolfe before Joe Ingle picked up his fifth save.
Eric Tyler, who had a school record
eight RBIs in
a 13-0 win over Jacksonville on Saturday,
stayed hot as he went 4-for-4 with a double and a run driven in.
Zack Mozingo continued to produce
with a 2-for-4 night that included an RBI and left him with a .400
average. Parker Lamm and Travis Watkins each had two hits and an RBI.
The hosts held a 14-12 lead in hits.
Bryce Harman put ECU ahead to stay
with a single to right in the second inning that scored Tyler. Dwanya
Williams-Sutton scored on a sacrifice bunt by Kirk Morgan in the second
for a 2-0 Pirates lead. Parker Lamm got an infield single that scored
Harman as ECU went ahead 3-0 in the second.
After the Seahawks (15-7) closed
within 3-1 with a run in the top of the third, the Pirates answered in
the bottom of the frame as Mozingo singled and later came home on a wild
pitch.
Mozingo and Tyler had RBI singles to
extend the lead to 6-1 in the fourth. Kirk Morgan doubled in the fifth
and scored on a balk after a grounder by Turner Brown moved him to third
as the Pirates pushed the lead to 7-1.
Travis Watkins homered to left in the
sixth for an 8-1 ECU lead.
Nick Feight had a two-run double in a
three-run eighth for UNCW.
An RBI double by Garrett Brooks gave
the Pirates a 9-5 lead in the eighth.
The Seahawks scored an unearned run
in the ninth before Ingle got the final out on a grounder to first.
Ingle didn't yield a hit, walking one as he struck out three in an
inning and one-third.
Wolfe (3-2) went six and one-third
innings. He allowed six hits and two runs, both earned, while striking
out five without a walk.
"Jacob Wolfe went out there and was
Jacob Wolfe and then Joe Ingle shut it down," said ECU coach Cliff
Godwin. "We gave up some runs but a win is a win. We'll get ready for
Houston now."
The Pirates begin American Athletic
Conference play at home against the Cougars with a three-game series
that starts Friday at 6:30 p.m.
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03/30/16 03:44 PM.
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