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East
Carolina received a bid to the NCAA
Tournament on Monday and will be
returning to Virginia's Davenport
Field where the Pirates won two of
three against the Cavaliers in a
series Feb. 26-28.
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
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Pirates stock up at quarterback |
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the month since starting quarterback
contender Kurt Benkert transferred
out of the program, East Carolina
coach Scottie Montgomery has busied
himself replenishing ECU's reservoir
of talent at the position.
Highly-regarded prep signal callers
Kingsley Ifedi (left) and Mic Roof
(right) are the latest talents to
make their pledges to the Purple and
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East Carolina exits early |
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CLEARWATER, FL —
A 5-4 loss to Memphis on Thursday
knocked East Carolina out of the
American Athletic Conference
Tournament. The second-seeded
Pirates (34-21-1) fell 4-2 to
seventh-seeded South Florida on
Wednesday before the sixth-seeded
Tigers (20-38) took the elimination
game.
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CLEARWATER, FL —
South Florida continued its role as
American Athletic Conference nemesis
for East Carolina on Wednesday with
a 4-2 win over the Pirates in ECU's
league tournament opener.
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Pirates head into AAC Tournament |
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 East
Carolina goes into the American
Athletic Conference baseball
tournament at Bright House Field
in Clearwater, Fl, with a
three-game winning streak
despite a scare in the bottom of
the ninth inning of an 8-7
squeaker at Central Florida on
Saturday.
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Pirates take chip into USF
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East Carolina baseball team is in
Clearwater, Florida, for the
American Athletic Conference
tournament, hoping to go back to
back at the beach. ECU won the
league championship a year ago and
enters this year's tournament as the
number two seed.
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Pirates land a center with
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could call John Spellacy a
product of tradition. He's
part of a prestigious
Cleveland, Ohio-area family
that has a long history of
public service. Like the
majority of males in his
family, John attends St.
Ignatius High School
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By
Brian Bailey
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East Carolina will head back to the scene of its
first road series of the year for NCAA play as the Pirates travel to
Charlottesville for the NCAA regionals.
ECU will be the third seed in the regional and will
take on second seed Bryant on Friday at 6 p.m. in the second game of the
first day of the Charlottesville Regional.
The Pirates
took two out of three
from Virginia back in February. Those two wins vaulted ECU in the
national rankings and the Pirates stayed in the polls for most of the
2016 season.
East Carolina finished second in Charlottesville in
2011, falling to top seed Virginia 13-1 in the first game of the
championship series.
Most of the late season projections had ECU in the
Raleigh regional as the two seed.
D1baseball.com had that same
projection as late as Monday morning.
The NCAA tournament committee had other ideas, and
the Pirates will now pack for the return trip to Charlottesville.
"I'm just happy for our guys," said head coach Cliff
Godwin at the team's NCAA selection show party held at the Mello
Mushroom in Greenville. "Our guys have worked extremely hard this year
to put ourselves in the position to make the postseason. I really didn't
care where we went. I just want to keep playing."
The Pirates take on Bryant in their first game. The
Bulldogs won 47 games against just ten losses this season.
"I know that they have a really good head coach,"
Godwin said. "He's been there for a long time and they have a great
club. We will need to be on our A-game."
The Pirates limp into the regionals after an 0-2 run
in the American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship. It was the
first time since 1995 that an East Carolina team failed to win a game in
its league's postseason tournament.
At the American tournament Coach Godwin questioned
his team's toughness. He says a couple of long workouts may have helped
his squad improve in that area.
"Saturday we had an extended scrimmage for about ten
innings because we knew we had some weather coming in," said Godwin. "It
was one of the best scrimmages that I've been a part of that late in the
season. Our guys really got after it. I would hope these guys have a
little chip on their shoulder. I think they are excited to play in the
postseason."
Fourth seed William and Mary will take on top seed
and host UVa in the first game of the regional at 1:00 o'clock Friday
afternoon. The Pirates and Bryant will then follow at 6:00.
The NCAA regionals are 16 separate, four-team,
double-elimination tournaments. The Charlottesville regional is paired
with the Lubbock regional, with Texas Tech hosting as the number five
national seed. If the Red Raiders win, they would then host the
Charlottesville regional winners in the super regionals.
This will be East Carolina's 28th trip to the NCAA
regionals. The Pirates have more regional trips then any other school
that has yet to participate in the College World Series in Omaha.
That trip to Omaha is, and will always be, the goal
for this program. This year the journey starts in Charlottesville.
BB
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guests this week
were ECU assistant baseball
coach Jeff Palumbo (left), Pitt
Community College baseball coach
Tommy Eason
(right)
and D.H. Conley High School
softball coach Wayne Deans: