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Nova executed ECU script |
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 Villanova's
77-74 win over North Carolina in
the NCAA Tournament final in
Houston on Monday night bore a
strong resemblance to East
Carolina's 77-74 win at Weber
State three years and two days
beforehand in the title game of
the CIT
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Pirates win wild one
in 11th |
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ELON — East Carolina
scored two runs on a
pair of wild pitches
in the top of the
11th inning for a
7-5 win at Elon on
Tuesday night.
Travis Watkins, Eric
Tyler and Bryce
Harman all walked
with one out in the
final frame to load
the bases
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BASKETBALL RECRUITING |
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Pirates shore up backcourt |
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 Three-star
shooting guard Raquan Wilkins of
state champion Atlanta (GA) Westlake
High School entertained offers from
a number of schools before choosing
to join ECU coach Jeff Lebo's
recruiting class of 2016-17. ...
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Pirates foiled in sweep bid |
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GREENVILLE — Houston took a 6-1
win at East Carolina on Sunday
to keep East Carolina from
sweeping a three-game American
Athletic Conference series. The
Cougars (17-10, 1-2 AAC) scored
three runs in the top of the
second in support of winning
pitcher Mitch Ullom (4-1), who
went seven and one-third
innings.
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Boyd leads Pirates to series win |
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 GREENVILLE
— Jimmy Boyd lost a shutout bid
in the top of the ninth inning
but East Carolina won its
American Athletic Conference
series with Houston by topping
the Cougars 5-1 at Clark-LeClair
Stadium on Saturday. Freshman
Dwanya Williams-Sutton had three
RBIs and Joe Ingle got his
seventh save as ECU improved to
19-8 overall and 2-0 in the AAC
with a crowd of 2,966 looking
on.
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Pictured: Winning pitcher Jimmy
Boyd focuses on his breathing
exercises in the ECU half of the
eighth inning during the
Pirates' 5-1 American Athletic
Conference win over Houston on
Saturday at Clark-LeClair
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Pirates take AAC opener |
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 GREENVILLE
— Bryce Harman, Parker Lamm and
Kirk Morgan had RBIs in support
of winning pitcher Evan
Kruczynski before Joe Ingle got
his sixth save as East Carolina
topped visiting Houston 3-1 in
the American Athletic Conference
opener for both clubs on Friday
night. A crowd of 2,603
converged on Clark-LeClair
Stadium.
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Pictured: Both head coaches,
Todd Whitting of Houston (red
cap) and Cliff Godwin of East
Carolina, converse with home
plate umpire David Buck during
Friday's American Athletic
Conference opener at
Clark-LeClair Stadium following
an ejection of ECU's Bryce
Harman in the sixth inning for
an illegal slide. (W.A. Myatt
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Staff report
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NEW ORLEANS — An outstanding
pitching effort by East Carolina junior left-hander Evan Kruczynski went
unrewarded as Tulane rallied for a 5-2 American Athletic Conference win
Friday night.
The Green Wave scored
five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, ending the game with a
three-run homer by Hunter Williams.
Kruczynski pitched into
the ninth. He scattered four hits and struck out 13 without allowing
a walk.
Jake Rogers was hit by a
pitch to start the bottom of the ninth. Grant Witherspoon followed
with a two-strike single through the right side that moved Rogers to
third and finished the night for Kruczynski.
Joe Ingle (4-3) came in,
walking Hunter Hope to load the bases. An infield single by Lex
Kaplan scored Rogers, and Grant Brown, who was pinch running for
Witherspoon, came in with the tying run on a throwing error.
Hope tried to score on a
pitch that got past ECU catcher Tyler Watkins but Watkins tossed to
Ingle for a tag out at the plate for out one.
Jeremy Montalbano walked
and Jake Willsey struck out before Williams homered to right field
on a 2-0 pitch.
Williams improved his
average to .118 with a 2-for-4 night.
The Pirates (20-10, 2-2
AAC) outhit Tulane (20-9, 2-1) by an 11-6 margin.
Luke Bolka homered to
left for a 1-0 ECU lead in the second.
The Pirates went ahead
2-0 in the seventh as Jeff Nelson scored on a bunt by Charlie Yorgen.
Getting two hits each
for ECU were Yorgen, Bolka, Eric Tyler and Dwanya Williams-Sutton.
Ross Massey (4-2)
pitched a complete game for Tulane, which hosts the Pirates at 5
p.m. (Eastern time) today.
Chalk up another series win for East Carolina as the Pirates took two
out of three from American Athletic Conference preseason favorite
Houston. In a battle of nationally-ranked teams the Pirates took the
first two games of the series before falling on Sunday.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guests this week
were ECU baseball coach Cliff
Godwin (left) and
WNCN
sports
anchor Todd Gibson (right):