GREG VACEK'S DAILY WEB ROUNDUP
Monday, October 21, 2019

East Carolina VB Vanquishes Tulane 3-2 In Stirring Comeback…Soccer Pirates Fall At SMU…ECU Baseball Sweep Liberty in Fall Scrimmage…Pirates’ rally leaves lasting impression…No. 18 Cincinnati Football Controls it’s Bowl Game Destiny…No. 16SMU will face a Houston team this week that isn’t doing everything it can to win…Memphis football returns to Amway Coaches Poll at No. 25…49ers beat Redskins in ugly 9-0 game to improve to 6-0

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Insights from Brett
Roused Pirates follow new script Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• East Carolina VB Vanquishes Tulane 3-2 In Stirring Comeback
• ECU WGolf Closes Out Fall With 11th Place Finish At Cardinal Cup
• Soccer Pirates Fall At SMU
• ECU Baseball Tops Liberty 12-6 In Fall Scrimmage

Greenville Daily Reflector

• WOODWARD: Pirates’ rally leaves lasting impression
• Homecoming kicks off today with concert downtown
• ECU investigating student death
• ECU’s Program for Maritime Studies dives into history

ECU Baseball Sweep Liberty in Fall Scrimmage  WNCT 9

October 20th, 11 p.m. Sports; East Carolina Baseball beats Liberty in exhibition game WCTI 12

247 Sports

• True Freshmen Report: ECU vs. UCF
• Betting line released for USF-ECU game

The East Carolinian

• Pirates’ comeback falls short in 41-28 loss
• Women’s tennis doubles down in Charlotte
• ECU falls to Houston 1-0

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• WOMEN’S SOCCER ON ADN – ECU at SMU
• Cincinnati Knocks Off Houston In Five-Set Nail-Biter
• Viens Breaks Conference Record for Career Goals

SB Nation

• Cincinnati Football Controls it’s Bowl Game Destiny
• Cincinnati Defense Dominates Again as Bearcats Beat Tulsa for 6th Win

Cincinnati football moves up to No. 18 in AP Top 25 Cincinnati Enquirer

UCF podcast: A tale of two halves against East Carolina Orlando Sentinel

Temple beaten in all areas in 45-21 loss at SMU Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Anthony: UConn’s move to the Big East should be celebrated, but the AAC doesn’t have to be remembered as some kind of athletic hell Hartford Courant

Tulane hopes to rebound from lopsided loss just like Memphis did last year NOLA.com

SMU will face a Houston team this week that isn’t doing everything it can to win Dallas Morning News

What you need to know: Houston vs. No. 16 SMU Houston Chronicle

Memphis football returns to Amway Coaches Poll at No. 25 Memphis Commercial Appeal

TU football analysis: With time running out on bowl eligibility it’s “Tulsa versus everybody” Tulsa World

Niumatalolo deserves credit for directing dramatic turnaround Annapolis Capital

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

BATTLE FOR N.C.: UNC skips over Duke  Greenville Daily Reflector

Winston Salem Journal

• 5 final takeaways from Wake Forest’s win against Florida State
• 5 takeaways from No. 21 App State’s win against UL Monroe.

Hokies’ six-OT conquest of UNC the epitome of Coastal Division chaos Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Columbia The State

• No plane ride home for Clemson defender who threw punch vs Louisville
• Muschamp spoke to SEC about calls vs Florida: ‘We all saw what happened’
• The GoGamecocks Podcast: Officiating looms over USC’s loss to Florida

College football is lavished in senselessness after upsets of Georgia and Wisconsin Washington Post

Can Colleges Police Sports Betting? Some Are Trying New York Times