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Saturday: ECU at
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BASKETBALL: AAC TOURNAMENT |
No. 20 SMU survives Pirates |
HARTFORD, CT — Top-seeded
Southern Methodist withstood
a challenge from
eighth-seeded East Carolina
for a 74-68 quarterfinal win
in the American Athletic
Conference tournament Friday
afternoon at the XL Center.
The Pirates (14-18) attacked
from beyond the arc ...
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ECU's Season
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Tournament Bracket
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BASEBALL |
Pirates take opener at Elon |
GREENVILLE — East
Carolina used home runs from
Luke Lowery, Bryce Harman
and Charlie Yorgen in a 10-3
win at Elon on Friday
afternoon. Evan Kruczynski
(4-1) pitched seven innings
as the Pirates improved to
11-6. He allowed three runs,
two earned, on nine hits
with a pair of strikeouts.
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Next: ECU at Elon |
Saturday, 4:30 pm |
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BASKETBALL: AAC TOURNAMENT |
Pirates edge UCF in OT |
HARTFORD, CT — East Carolina survived and
advanced in the first game of the 2015
American Athletic Conference tournament with
an 81-80 overtime win over Central Florida
at the XL Center on Thursday afternoon. The
Pirates (14-18) used a balanced scoring
attack that included 19 points from freshman
B.J. Tyson and a career high 18 from
Marshall Guilmette, 13 each from Michel
Nzege and Caleb White and 11 from Paris
Roberts-Campbell. ...
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BASEBALL |
Slam sends Campbell by ECU |
GREENVILLE
— Cole Hallum's grand slam
in a six-run sixth inning
helped Campbell to a 9-4 win
over East Carolina at Clark-LeClair
Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Camels (14-2) won their
11th straight game and
halted a four-game winning
streak for ECU (9-6).
The
Pirates
outhit
the
visitors
16-11
but
loaded
the
bases
with
none out
in the
fifth
without
adding
to a 3-1
lead.
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Pictured: East
Carolina second
baseman Charlie
Yorgen makes a play
on a ground ball in
a 9-4 midweek loss
to Campbell. (Photo
by W.A. Myatt) |
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Audio: The Brian
Bailey Show |
The
Brian Bailey Show
airs on Pirate Radio
1250 on Mondays at
6:30 p.m. Brian's
guests this week
were broadcasters
Todd Gibson of WNCN
(left) and Jeff
Gravley of WRAL
(right):
Replay
show... |
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
Long-term recruiting effort
lands DT |
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 ...
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BASEBALL |
Pirates finish sweep |
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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By
Al Myatt
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ELON — East Carolina used
home runs from Luke Lowery, Bryce Harman and Charlie Yorgen in a 10-3
win at Elon on Friday afternoon.
Evan Kruczynski (4-1)
pitched seven innings as the Pirates improved to 11-6. He allowed
three runs, two earned, on nine hits with a pair of strikeouts.
Reid Love put the
Phoenix (8-7) down in order in the eighth to extend his string of
consecutive retired batters to 15. Ross Gardner worked a scoreless
ninth.
Harman had a two-run
triple and Lowery had a two-run homer as the Pirates pushed their
lead to 7-2 with four runs in the top of the fifth inning. The blast
to left center was Lowery's sixth this year.
Yorgen's first homer of
the season staked ECU to a 1-0 lead in the first.
Jimmy Boyd's sacrifice
fly scored Eric Tyler in the second for a 2-0 Pirates lead.
Runs in the second and
third for the Phoenix evened the score at 2 before ECU went ahead to
stay in the fourth on Harman's homer to right, his first of the
year.
Tyler's double in the
eighth scored Lowery, who had walked and stole second, for an 8-3
Pirates advantage.
ECU's two-run ninth
started with singles by Kirk Morgan and Hunter Allen. Morgan scored
on a sacrifice bunt by Yorgen and Lowery had an RBI single to left.
Lowery and Morgan
totaled three hits each as the Pirates outhit their hosts, 14-9.
Harman and Tyler had two hits apiece.
Additional matchups in
the three-game series at Elon are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. today and
1:30 p.m. on Sunday.