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ECU leftie Jacob
Wolfe deals against
UConn during the
Pirates'
series-deciding 5-2
victory on Sunday.
Wolfe picked up the
win, improving to
4-1 on the season.
(Photo
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Tough Love lifts Pirates |
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GREENVILLE
Reid Love led East
Carolina's 5-4 win over Connecticut on
Saturday at Clark-LeClair Stadium as the
Pirates halted a two-game losing streak and
maintained a share of the American Athletic
Conference lead. Love (5-3) pitched a
complete game and was 2-for-3 at the plate
with two RBIs.
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Next: ECU
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UConn thrashes Pirates |
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GREENVILLE
Connecticut scored
five runs in the first two innings and went
on to a 13-2 American Athletic Conference
win at East Carolina on Friday night. The
Pirates dropped to 29-18 overall and 9-7 in
league play as the Huskies (29-18, 8-8)
evened the season series at 2-2.
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A week to remember |
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Monday of this past week I asked
first year East Carolina baseball
coach Cliff Godwin what a 5-0 week
would mean to his program. In
typical coach-speak fashion, Godwin
gave me the ole we take them one a
time speech. ...
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Pirates sweep UCF |
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GREENVILLE A four-run first inning that
included a three-run homer by Luke Lowery
put East Carolina ahead to stay as the
Pirates completed an American Athletic
Conference sweep of Central Florida with a
6-5 win at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Sunday.
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STORRS, CT East Carolina reliever Joe
Ingle struck out Central Florida's Dylan
Moore on a full count pitch with two out in
the top of the ninth inning on Saturday with
two runners in scoring position as the
Pirates took a 3-2 American Athletic
Conference win at Clark-LeClair Stadium ...
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Pirates nip UCF in 10 |
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STORRS, CT Eric Tyler's two-out RBI single
up the middle on Friday night provided East
Carolina with its third straight walkoff win
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Recruiting Wars: Wide Receivers |
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Football Bowl Subdivision coaching staffs
have done a better job identifying and
developing wide receiver talent than East
Carolina during the five seasons under
Ruffin McNeill's guidance. ...
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Recruiting Wars:
QB |
RB |
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By
Al Myatt
©2015 Bonesville.net
All rights reserved.
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GREENVILLE Charlie Yorgen
and Bryce Harman hit home runs in support of winning pitcher Jacob Wolfe
as East Carolina topped Connecticut 5-2 on Sunday at Clark-LeClair
Stadium to take the American Athletic Conference series two games to one
and maintain a tie for first in the league standings with Houston.
Yorgen had a two-run
homer in the bottom of the first for a 2-0 ECU lead. It was the
third roundtripper of his sophomore season.
After the Huskies
(29-20, 8-10 AAC) tied the score at 2, Harman launched his fifth
circuit clout of the year in the bottom of the second to put the
Pirates ahead to stay at 3-2.
An RBI single by Travis
Watkins in the sixth gave ECU a 4-2 lead, scoring Reid Love, who led
off the frame with a single to left.
Story continues
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ECU first baseman
Bryce Harman blasts
a solo home run in
the bottom of the
second inning to put
the Pirates up 3-2. (Photo
by W.A.
Myatt) |
Eric Tyler's sacrifice
fly in the eighth accounted for the last run of the day for the
Pirates. It scored Travis Watkins, who had doubled and moved to
third on a ground out by Harman.
Wolfe (4-1) allowed
three hits over seven innings. One of those was a two-run single in
the second by Aaron Hill of the Huskies.
Wolfe issued five walks
and struck out one. Joe Ingle worked the last two innings for his
third save. He didn't allow a hit and fanned three while walking
one.
Hunter Allen went
3-for-4 as ECU outhit the visitors, 10-3. Yorgen and Watkins each
had two hits. Garrett Brooks also had a hit as the Pirates improved
to 31-18 overall and 11-7 in the league.
A crowd of 3,012 saw ECU
win for the eighth time in its last 10 games.
The Pirates control
their fate in terms of the AAC regular season championship in their
first season in the league as they head to Houston for a three-game
series beginning Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Kinston
High School
basketball star
Brandon Ingram (near
right) and Kinston
High School coach
Perry Tyndall (far
right):
