Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Halo’s Late Homer Helps ECU Even Series At Wichita State…Carson And Forbrigd Named To American All-Conference Team…Agnos delivers during emotional night  …SEC, American Athletic Conference form scheduling alliance …App State football team schedules Charlotte in four-game series…As Svechnikov’s rapid return approaches, a call for prudence and patience…Avalanche rout Flames in Game 5 to win first playoff series since 2008…An Underappreciated Tobias Harris Steals the Show as the 76ers Take a Playoff Lead

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

VIEW FROM THE EAST
Is Houston the second coming of Holtz? Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Halo’s Late Homer Helps ECU Even Series At Wichita State
• Carson And Forbrigd Named To American All-Conference Team
• Pirates Head To The American Men’s Golf Championship

Agnos delivers during emotional night  Greenville Daily Reflector

The East Carolinian

• ECU women’s tennis loses final match of the season
• Pirates fall short in AAC Championship
• No. 12 ECU takes game one against No. 18 UConn at home

Halo’s late homer helps ECU Softball evens series at Wichita State WITN 7

Sixth Inning Home Run Snaps Shockers’ Win Streak KSN

ECU Post-Spring Positional Power Rankings 247 Sports

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Baseball: Houston evens series with 3-1 win over Cincinnati
• USF Completes Sweep; Tulsa Wins Fifth Straight Series on Friday
• Temple, USF, Wichita State, UCF Reach Men’s Semifinals
• Houston and UCF Earn Women’s Golf Major Awards

SEC, American Athletic Conference form scheduling alliance USA Today

SEC, American agree to scheduling alliance; potential matchups we’d like to see Sporting News

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Cincinnati Bearcats football: End of spring turns out special
• Nysier Brooks: UC Bearcats center enters transfer portal

College Football Rankings: No. 128 UConn stuck at bottom of American Athletic Conference Orlando Sentinel

Tulane to play only a doubleheader at Memphis after another rainout New Orleans Times Picayune

Wichita State baseball snaps six-game skid; softball wins sixth straight AAC game  Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Washington Post

• For Maryland’s new assistants, rebuilding program starts with developing relationships
• UNC women’s hoops coach Sylvia Hatchell resigns amid allegations of berating players, racial remarks
• St. John’s ends its ‘bizarre’ coaching search by hiring Mike Anderson

Justin Fuente wants Hokies to embrace Tiger’s comeback mindset Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Why did App State’s Kaleb Bowman grow out his hair? To honor his mother, a two-time cancer survivor. Winston Salem Journal

App State football team schedules Charlotte in four-game series Watauga Democrat

Columbia The State

• Weather postpones South Carolina-Texas A&M baseball
• How an injury in 2018 might have helped the draft stock of Clemson’s Austin Bryant
• ‘You can call it swagger,’ the big turnaround USC expects in 2019

Duke lands 5-star basketball recruit Matthew Hurt Fayetteville Observer

The Associated Press

• Plenty of coaching changes around SEC during offseason
• 7 Big Ten teams will extend QB competitions into preseason
• ACC teams look to answer questions at quarterback
• To slow flow of grad transfers, NCAA could constrain schools