Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017

Pirates fall in Kruczynski’s return…Softball Posts First-Ever AAC Series Sweep With 2-1 Win Over Connecticut…Sweeping into first place! Tulane rallies to defeat UConn again, move atop AAC standings …The faces of national champions: 7 titles for Gamecocks, all in past 15 years …Former Virginia Tech athletes and coaches reflect on 10th anniversary of shootings…Capitals lose Game 2 to Maple Leafs on Kasperi Kapanen’s double-overtime goal

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

Baseball: UCF completes sweep Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Earn 4-3 Win in AAC Play
• ECU Posts First-Ever AAC Series Sweep With 2-1 Win Over Connecticut
• Knights Complete Sweep Of Pirates, 7-0
• ECU Finishes 14th At The Maxwell

Pirates see ace return in shutout by UCF   Greenville Daily Reflector

Pirates fall in Kruczynski’s return 247 Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

2017 American Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Championship Set for This Weekend  theamerican.org

New Orleans Advocate

• Sweeping into first place! Tulane rallies to defeat UConn again, move atop AAC standings
• Jarrod Franklin gives Tulane bigger presence at nickelback

UCcoach Luke Fickell reviews spring game Cincinnati Enquirer

UCF linebacker Shaquem Griffin eager to top elite 2016 season Orlando Sentinel

UH’s Major Applewhite plans to name starting QB early in camp Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Former Virginia Tech athletes and coaches reflect on 10th anniversary of shootings Roanoke Times

Columbia The State

• The faces of national champions: 7 titles for Gamecocks, all in past 15 years
• Another SEC series slips away from Gamecocks
• Columbia, Colonial Life Arena set to discover NCAA men’s regional future
• C.J. Fuller leads Clemson running backs out of spring

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Monarchs’ spring game features plenty of offense
• Zoran Talley dismissed from Monarchs basketball team

Way too early, but … the odds for UNC, Duke to win 2018 basketball title look good  Charlotte Observer

Washington Post

• New NCAA recruiting rules could split National Signing Day circus in two
• Cardale Jones didn’t go to Ohio State to ‘play school.’ Now he’s graduating.

 

• Capitals lose Game 2 to Maple Leafs on Kasperi Kapanen’s double-overtime goal
• Wizards-Hawks Game 1 preview: Time, channel, lineups, analysis
• Nationals’ bullpen issues persist in 4-2 loss to Phillies
• Redskins linebacker to play Sean Taylor in TV show about his murder