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The Brian Bailey
Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on
Mondays at 6:30
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 Brian's
guests this week
were broadcasters
Jeff Gravley of WRAL
(left) and Todd
Gibson of WNCN
(right):
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
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Long-term recruiting effort
lands DT |
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 A
connection with East
Carolina that didn't
originally pay off for the
Pirates helped produce an
important late addition to
the football recruiting
Class of 2015. Junior
college defensive tackle
Darius Commissiong became
the 19th member of the ECU
Class of '15 ...
More from Sammy Batten... |
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates finish sweep |
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GREENVILLE — East
Carolina scored two runs in
the seventh inning for a 3-2
win over Monmouth on Sunday,
completing a three-game
series sweep of the Hawks.
Reid Love singled to lead
off ECU's half of the
seventh. An error by the
Monmouth first baseman on a
sacrifice bunt by Parker
Lamm put runners at first
and second. A sacrifice bunt
by Eric Tyler moved both
runners into scoring
position. Bryce Harman's
sacrifice fly tied the score
at 2 and an RBI single up
the middle by Travis Watkins
scored Lamm ...
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Next: ECU vs.
Campbell | Tuesday,
6:30 pm |
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BASKETBALL |
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Cougars top ECU |
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GREENVILLE — Behind
50 percent field goal
shooting, host Houston
evened its American Athletic
Conference regular season
series with East Carolina by
pulling away to a 72-54 win
Sunday. A layup by Devonta
Pollard, who had 14 points
and 11 rebounds, put the
Cougars ahead to stay at
11-9 with 13:33 left in the
first half. Houston (12-18,
4-14) was on top 35-24 at
the half. ...
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Next: AAC Tournament
No. 8 East Carolina
vs. No. 9 Central
Florida
Thursday, 3:30 pm |
TV: ESPNU
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The Season
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Tournament Bracket
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates post pair of
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GREENVILLE — East
Carolina defeated Old
Dominion 9-7 on Wednesday as
2,155 made their way to
Clark-LeClair Stadium on a
great afternoon to be
outside. The Pirates (6-5)
scored twice in the seventh
inning to snap a tie score
at 5 and ECU maintained the
lead. ...
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Next: ECU vs.
Monmouth | Sunday, 1
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FOOTBALL |
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Smith shoulders
responsibility |
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 Rick
Smith had an agonizing 2014
football season and it
wasn't just the heartbreak
of losses to Cincinnati and
Central Florida in the final
seconds that stressed East
Carolina's defensive
coordinator. ...
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BASKETBALL |
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Temple wins on ECU's Senior
Night |
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 GREENVILLE
— Temple overcame a fast
start by East Carolina on
Senior Night to take a 70-56
American Athletic Conference
win over the Pirates in
Williams Arena at Minges
Coliseum on Thursday night.
A 3-pointer by Terry
Whisnant gave ECU an 11-3
lead with 17:14 left in the
first half, but the Owls
(21-9, 12-5 AAC) rallied to
go ahead to stay, 30-27, on
a 3-pointer by Will Cummings
with 5:20 left in the first
half. ...
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Pictured: Caleb
White drives to the
basket in a 70-56
loss to Temple
Thursday night. The
sophomore guard led
the Pirates with 13
points. (Photo by
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By
Brian Bailey
©2015 Bonesville.net
All rights reserved.
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For the second straight weekend, first-year East Carolina baseball coach
Cliff Godwin had a little smile on his face.
The Pirates
swept Monmouth in a three-game set which finally
featured baseball-type weather.
East Carolina won a pair of close games in the series, sandwiched around
a 9-0 rout in game two of Saturday’s doubleheader.
“Anytime you can sweep in college baseball is huge,” said Godwin. “I
told our guys before the game that it wasn't going to be easy and it
wasn't. You know, we had to battle from behind and Reid Love just did a
tremendous job.”
Godwin is using his ace lefthander pretty much on an as needed basis.
His hopes were to give Love a start against Campbell tomorrow night, but
as Godwin said after Love picked up the win in relief in the final game
of the Monmouth series, you have to win the game you’re playing first.
Love was perfect in four innings of work against the Hawks. No hits, no
walks, no errors. Absolutely nada.
“I felt like just getting ahead in the count, that's what really helped
me,” said Love after the game. “I really just needed to relax and not
take every pitch so seriously. Just relax and play baseball and just let
it come to me.”
His catcher certainly agreed.
“Reid had everything working,” said Travis Watkins. “His change-up was
really good. His curve ball was good to the lefties and his fastball was
spotting up on both sides of the plate. I mean that's fun to catch back
there when we got guys out there just pounding the zone.”
Monmouth left town with perfection the other way on their ledger. The
Hawks are off to a 0-9 start under former Pirate Dean Ehehalt. Ehehalt
has had great success with the New Jersey school, and his team was
certainly competitive most of the weekend.
Godwin said the close games will help his team down the road.
“It's good to be in those tight run games because it's going to be
one-run games once we start conference play a lot,” he said. “For them
to be able to win that game and walk off and feel confident is huge. We
executed really well. You saw the bunts that we got down and then drove
the guys in, Bryce with a sac fly and then Travis with [a] two-out RBI,
so that's what it's going to take as we move forward.”
The Pirates host Campbell tonight and then UNC-Greensboro on Wednesday
before traveling to Elon this weekend.
Tough Sunday
East Carolina’s men and women’s basketball teams suffered big losses on
Sunday.
The men
fell at Houston 72-54 in the regular season finale.
ECU will now head to Hartford, Connecticut as the eighth seed in the
American Athletic Conference tournament.
The Pirates will take on Central Florida on Thursday at 3:30. They swept
the Knights this season. If ECU can get the win on Thursday, it would
then take on top seed Southern Methodist in the first quarterfinal on
Friday.
The women fell in their AAC semifinal matchup with top ranked UConn. The
Huskies won the game 106-56.
UConn’s two wins in the tournament have come by a total of 109 points.
Huskie’s coach Geno Auriemma continued to throw compliments East
Carolina’s way, despite the blowout.
“Our guys look like they play at a certain pace, and it works for us
against every team we play,” Auriemma told the media after the game.
“But when we play a team that is athletic and physical like East
Carolina, because our guys kick it into another gear, it almost looks
like they’re not nearly as athletic as they looked last night (in the
Pirates' win over Temple)… It makes them look less than they are, and
that’s why we do what we do and why we practice the way we practice.”
Junior forward I’Tiana Taylor led the Pirates with 17 points. Jada Payne
had 15 in the loss.
The Pirate women now await word about the postseason, most likely in the
WNIT.
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