NCAA Baseball : Recap & Box Score : East Carolina 16, Houston 1 (7 innings) [Ba-040612]

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2012 Game No. 30 \Jump to Box Score/

ECU hammers Houston, Joyner sparkles

From staff and electronic reports

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Junior lefthander Tyler Joyner surrendered only six hits and East Carolina battered a parade of six Houston pitchers for 15 hits as the Pirates overwhelmed the Cougars 16-1 in a Conference USA matchup at Clark-LeClair Stadium Friday night.

Joyner (5-0) went the distance in the truncated affair, which was called in the bottom of the seventh in keeping with the league's 15-run mercy rule. Joyner struck out five, walked one and hit one batsman.

Sophomore first baseman Chase McDonald, junior outfielder John Wooten and senior catcher Zach Wright launched homers for East Carolina. Wooten had a particularly fruitful day, going 4-for-4 with 3 RBIs and scoring four runs.

Houston (11-18, 1-7) held a brief lead after squeezing out a run in the first on a single, a wild pitch and back-to-back bunts, but the Pirates (22-8, 6-2 C-USA) responded with five runs in the bottom of the inning and the rout was on.

East Carolina, which defeated the Cougars 10-3 on Thursday, will go for the sweep in the three-game series on Saturday (10 a.m.).

BOX SCORE #30

East Carolina Pirates 16, Houston Cougars 1 (7 innings*)

• ECU SID GAME STORY
• UH SID GAME STORY

Date: Friday, April 6, 2012
Venue: Clark-LeClair Stadium, Greenville, NC
Attendance: 2,519

Records: ECU 22-8, 6-2 Conference USA; UH 11-18, 1-7.

HOUSTON AB R H BI
Landon Appling cf...... 4 1 2 0
Jake Runte 2b.......... 3 0 1 0
Chase Jensen ss........ 2 0 0 1
Codey Morehouse 1b..... 3 0 1 0
Jared Ray dh........... 0 0 0 0
Jonathan Davis ph/dh... 3 0 0 0
Price Jacobs lf........ 3 0 0 0
Cory Kay c............. 3 0 0 0
Jacob Lueneburg rf..... 3 0 2 0
Taylor White 3b........ 2 0 0 0
Jordan Lewis p......... 0 0 0 0
Chase Wellbrock p...... 0 0 0 0
Logan Piper p.......... 0 0 0 0
Aaron Stewart p........ 0 0 0 0
Ryan Vruggink p........ 0 0 0 0
Jordan Mannisto p...... 0 0 0 0
TOTALS.................26 1 6 1

EAST CAROLINA AB R H BI
Younger, Tim 2b......... 4 2 2 0
Reynolds, Drew dh....... 4 2 1 0
Thompson, Corey 3b...... 5 3 2 0
Wooten, John lf......... 4 4 4 3
Cannon, Jay rf.......... 1 3 1 2
Gosik, Chris ph......... 0 0 0 0
Wright, Zach c.......... 3 1 2 5
Thompson, Nick ph....... 1 0 1 0
McDonald, Chase 1b...... 3 1 1 4
Bass, Bryan ph.......... 0 0 0 1
Reinheimer, Jack ss..... 4 0 1 0
Fultz, Ben cf........... 4 0 0 0
Joyner, Tyler p......... 0 0 0 0
TOTALS..................33 16 15 15

SCORE BY INNINGS....... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - R H E
HOUSTON................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 * * - 1 6 1
EAST CAROLINA.......... 5 0 3 2 0 3 3 * * - 16 15 1

Note*: 1 out, 3 runners LOB in bottom of 7th when game
called in keeping with C-USA's 15-run mercy rule.

E - Jensen(9); Reinheimer(13).
LOB - UH 7; ECU 8.
2B - C. Thompson(7); Reinheimer(5).
HR - Wooten(6); Wright(2); McDonald(2).
HBP - White; Gosik.
SH - Runte(3); Jensen(1).
SF - Wright(2); McDonald(2).

UH PITCHING IP H R ER BB SO
Jordan Lewis........ 2.0 5 8 8 2 2
Chase Wellbrock..... 2.0 5 2 2 0 3
Logan Piper......... 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Aaron Stewart....... 0.0 2 3 3 2 0
Ryan Vruggink....... 1.1 1 3 3 2 1
Jordan Mannisto..... 0.0 1 0 0 1 0

ECU PITCHING IP H R ER BB SO
Joyner, Tyler....... 7.0 6 1 1 0 5

Win - Joyner (5-0).
Loss - Lewis (3-5).
Save - None.
WP - Vruggink 2(2); Joyner(1).
HBP - by Joyner (White); by Vruggink (Gosik).
Umpires - HP: Stan Johnson; 1B: Eddie Newsome; 3B: Darrin Sealy.
Start: 6:01 pm; Time: 2:20.
Attendance: 2,519.
Notes: Lewis faced 3 batters in 3rd;
Stewart faced 4 batters in 6th;
Mannisto faced 2 batters in 7th.

Page updated: 04/07/2012 03:34 AM.

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