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Insights and Observations
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Henry's Highlights
Monday, February 27, 2006
By Henry Hinton |
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Pirates prospering, except
on Sundays
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If Billy Godwin can avoid
Sunday games, his Pirates may well go on to have a banner year.
Three weeks of baseball
are in the books for East Carolina and all three of the team's losses have
occurred on Sunday.
The Pirates (7-3)
finished another successful weekend of baseball in an exciting Keith LeClair
Classic. The weekend started with a thrilling
4-3 win over Penn State on a walk-off sac
fly on Friday. Then came an
11-2 shellacking of UNC-Wilmington on
Saturday.
But on Sunday the Pirates
had another whoops, falling to a Virginia Tech team that had failed to
scratch in the 'W' column in its previous two LeClair Classic outings. The
Hokies� 5-1 victory improved their record
to 3-2 overall.
Shane Mathews suffered
his first loss of the season in the game, allowing three runs on three hits
in 5 1/3 innings. Scott Andrews gave up two runs, one earned, on five hits,
while striking out two in three innings. Carter Harrell finished the final
2/3 of an inning.
Stephen Batts was the
lone Pirate to collect multiple hits, going 2-for-4 at the plate with an
RBI.
On Saturday the Pirates
attacked the Seahawks early and often. Jake Smith led the Pirates� offensive
attack, going 3-for-5 at the plate with four RBI's and a run scored.
Dale Mollenhauer had his
best performance of the season, going 2-for-4 with three RBI's and two runs
scored, while Jake Dean and Harrison Eldridge each finished 2-for-3.
In addition to
Mollenhauer, Eldridge and Drew Schieber also scored two runs apiece.
Friday�s round provided
the most exciting finish of the weekend. Smith�s sacrifice fly with the
bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth scored Drew Schieber to break a 3-3
tie as East Carolina beat the Nittany Lions.
Godwin�s squad gets just
one day off before hosting Duke for the second time in a week on Tuesday at
4 p.m. The Pirates defeated the Blue Devils handily 19-5 last Tuesday.
ECU hosts Stoney Brook
for a three-game series next weekend.
The
following table summarizes the results of all games in the 2006 Keith
LeClair Classic and provides links to recaps and/or box scores of games
involving ECU:
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