Pirates prevent sweep with 7-3 win
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NEW ORLEANS — Parker Lamm had a
two-run single as East Carolina scored five times in the sixth inning of
a 7-3 win Sunday that kept Tulane from sweeping a three-game series.
Lamm went 4-for-5 with three RBIs as
ECU improved to 21-11 overall and 3-3 in the American Athletic
Conference.
Jacob Wolfe (4-3) started for the
Pirates and went seven and two-thirds innings. He allowed seven hits and
three runs, two earned, while striking out six without a walk.
Sam Lanier got the last out of the
eighth for ECU with a whiff and Joe Ingle fanned three in the ninth as
ECU pitchers totaled 10 strikeouts.
Lamm had an RBI single in the fifth
to tie the score at 1 after Jake Rogers had given the Green Wave (21-10,
3-2) a 1-0 lead with a home run in the first.
A one-out single by Bryce Harman got
the Pirates started in the sixth. Travis Watkins followed with a single
to center.
Harman scored on a double by Garrett
Brooks to give ECU a 2-1 lead.
Watkins was out at the plate on a
grounder to first by Turner Brown before Dwanya Williams-Sutton singled
to right to bring in Brooks and put the Pirates ahead, 3-1.
Charlie Yorgen walked. Lamm singled
to score Brown and Williams-Sutton. Yorgen came home on a wild pitch for
a 6-1 advantage.
Grant Brown homered in the seventh
and Lex Kaplan had an RBI single in the eighth as the Wave closed within
6-3.
The Pirates added a run in the ninth
on an RBI double by Eric Tyler.
After a strikeout in the bottom of
the ninth, Ingle hit a batter and walked one before wrapping up the game
with a pair of strikeouts.
Williams-Sutton and Harman each went
2-for-4 as ECU outhit its hosts, 13-7.
The Pirates play the fifth of eight
straight road games at UNC-Wilmington on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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