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ECU right-hander
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his second win of
the season, allowing
two earned runs in
seven innings of
work in a Tuesday
night victory over
Princeton. (Photo by
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FOOTBALL |
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Macy & Company aim high in WNIT |
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 For
the third consecutive postseason,
East Carolina will play in the
womens version of the National
Invitational Tournament. The WNIT
features a 64-team field, and Pirate
coach Heather Macy thinks she has a
team that can win it all. ...
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from Brian Bailey... |
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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
guest this week was
former ECU
basketball coach
Mike Steele (right):
Replay
show... |
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BASEBALL |
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ECU continues winning streak |
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 GREENVILLE
East Carolina took its
fifth straight win by
beating Princeton 11-2 at
Clark-LeClair Stadium on
Tuesday evening. The Pirates
(14-6) have scored 60 runs
during the streak.
Winning
pitcher Jimmy Boyd's support
included two hits each from Reid
Love, Luke Lowery, Eric Tyler and
Kirk Morgan. Travis Watkins had one
hit and three RBIs. ...
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Pictured: ECU senior
co-captain Hunter
Allen turns a 6-3
double play against
Princeton Tuesday
night. (Photo by W.A.
Myatt) |
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Wednesday, 5 pm |
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BASEBALL |
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ECU blasts Phoenix |
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ELON East Carolina completed a sweep of
its three-game series at Elon by pounding
out 22 hits in a 20-4 win on Sunday. The
Pirates (13-6) led 8-0 before erupting for
seven runs in the sixth inning. ECU added
five more runs in the seventh before the
Phoenix (8-9) closed the scoring with two
runs in the seventh and two more in the
eighth. ...
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Pirates rally to clinch series |
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ELON East Carolina was down to its last
out and trailed 8-7 at Elon on Saturday
afternoon before rallying for four runs in
the top of the ninth and an 11-8 win. With
two down and nobody on in the ninth, Pirates
pinch hitter Luke Bolka reached base on an
error and the comeback unfolded from there.
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Next: East
Carolina at Elon | Sunday, 1:30 pm |
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No. 20 SMU survives Pirates |
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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 |
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Pirates take opener at Elon |
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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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Pirates edge UCF in OT |
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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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By
Al Myatt
©2015 Bonesville.net
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GREENVILLE East Carolina
took its fifth straight win by beating Princeton 11-2 at Clark-LeClair
Stadium on Tuesday evening.
The Pirates (14-6)
have scored 60 runs during the streak.
Winning pitcher
Jimmy Boyd's support included two hits each from Reid Love, Luke
Lowery, Eric Tyler and Kirk Morgan. Travis Watkins had one hit
and three RBIs.
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ECU sophomore
Travis Watkins belts a sacrifice fly in an 11-2 win
over Princeton Tuesday night at Clark-LeClair
Stadium. (Photo by W.A. Myatt) |
Boyd (2-3) went
seven innings, yielding six hits and two earned runs while
walking two and striking out three.
Mason Keen and Joe
Ingle each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.
Lowery, the current
national Player of the Week, singled for the Pirates to lead off
the bottom of the second inning. A single by Tyler advanced
Lowery to third.
Lowery took home on
a delayed double steal, putting ECU ahead to stay at 1-0.
Garrett Brooks reached on an error before Morgan's bunt single
scored Tyler for a 2-0 Pirates advantage.
Charlie Yorgen,
Bryce Harman, Tyler, Watkins and Morgan had RBIs in a five-run
fifth inning.
Watkins had a
two-run single in the sixth to put ECU ahead, 9-0.
Yorgen singled and
later scored on a wild pitch in the eighth before Lowery had an
RBI single to score Harman with the final run for the Pirates.
The Tigers (1-10)
had nine hits as Carrboro (NC) High School product Peter Owens
went 3-for-4 and Billy Arendt was 2-for-3.
Today's starting
time for Princeton and the Pirates has been moved up to 5 p.m.
to accommodate the ECU women's basketball team as it plays a
home game with Radford in the WNIT at 7 p.m.
