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Pirates hold off Bearcats, even
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GREENVILLE
� East Carolina ended an
offensive lull and evened its
American Athletic Conference
series against visiting
Cincinnati with a 6-4 win
Saturday. ECU had scored just
eight runs in its previous six
games. The Pirates took a 6-0
lead into the top of the ninth
Saturday but the league-leading
Bearcats created some anxiety
for a Clark-LeClair Stadium
crowd of 2,915 before Joe Ingle
recorded his ninth save.
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Pictured:
ECU junior
Luke Bolka
slides into
home after a
Charlie
Yorgen
ground out
to the right
side of the
infield in
the third
inning of
the Pirates'
6-4 AAC win
over
Cincinnati
on Saturday
at
Clark-LeClair
Stadium. (W.A.
Myatt photo) |
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Cincinnati tops Pirates, 3-0 |
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GREENVILLE
� Cincinnati extended its lead
in the American Athletic
Conference with a 3-0 win over
East Carolina at Clark-LeClair
Stadium Friday night in the
opener of a three-game series.
Tulane's 10-6 loss to Houston
put the Bearcats 1.5 games ahead
of the second-place Green Wave.
Andrew Zellner (6-2) and A.J.
Kullman, who got his second
save, combined for the shutout
of the Pirates.
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Pictured:
The view
from 'The
Jungle'
during ECU's
Friday
evening loss
to American
Athletic
Conference
opponent
Cincinnati.
(W.A. Myatt
photo) |
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Exams and tests for Pirates |
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 The
term student-athlete is
descriptive of the players in
the East Carolina baseball
program and will be especially
applicable over the coming days
as spring semester exams
coincide with a home series
against Cincinnati
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Changed call boosts Wolfpack |
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RALEIGH
� East Carolina's recent search for
offense continued with a 6-1 loss at
N.C. State on Monday night. Since
beating the Wolfpack 15-3 in
Greenville six nights earlier, the
Pirates have managed just eight runs
in five games, going 2-3 in those
contests. NCSU evened the season
series with the help of a three-run
home run by Evan Mendoza in the
second inning that was initially
ruled a foul ball..
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Pirates take series with UConn |
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GREENVILLE � A two-run homer by
Travis Watkins in the bottom of
the fourth inning on Sunday
lifted East Carolina to a 3-2
win over Connecticut in the
deciding contest of a three-game
American Athletic Conference
series. Watkins' blast overcame
a 2-1 Huskies lead. ECU pitchers
Jacob Wolfe, Sam Lanier and Joe
Ingle kept UConn scoreless the
rest of the way.
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Pictured:
ECU catcher
Travis
Watkins and
teammates
shake hands
after taking
an AAC
series with
UConn with a
3-2 win on
Sunday at
Clark-LeClair
Stadium. The
junior
captain gave
the Pirates
the lead for
good with a
two-run shot
to left
field in the
4th inning.
(W.A. Myatt
photo) |
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UConn, Pirates split
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 GREENVILLE
� East Carolina split its
American Athletic Conference
doubleheader with Connecticut at
Clark-LeClair Stadium as the
Pirates took a 2-1 win in the
first game before the Huskies
prevailed 5-1 in the nightcap.
Parker Lamm singled in the third
and scored on a double by Eric
Tyler as ECU took a 1-0 lead in
the third inning of the second
game.
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Pictured:
Junior Evan
Kruczynski
deals
against
UConn in
game one of
an AAC
doubleheader
on Saturday
at
Clark-LeClair
Stadium. (W.A.
Myatt photo) |
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Staff report
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Post-game
audio: Godwin,
Boyd, Bolka...
GREENVILLE � East Carolina
ended an offensive lull and evened its American Athletic Conference
series against visiting Cincinnati with a 6-4 win Saturday.
ECU had scored just
eight runs in its previous six games.
The Pirates took a 6-0
lead into the top of the ninth Saturday but the league-leading
Bearcats created some anxiety for a Clark-LeClair Stadium crowd of
2,915 before Joe Ingle recorded his ninth save.
ECU gave Jimmy Boyd
(6-3) some early run support as the Pirates improved to 27-16
overall and 8-6 in the AAC.
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Senior
Jimmy Boyd toes the rubber against Cincinnati. The
Raleigh product tossed six scoreless innings in ECU's
6-4 AAC win over Cincinnati on Saturday. (W.A. Myatt
photo) |
Luke Bolka was
hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the
first to stake ECU to a 1-0 lead.
Parker Lamm, Eric Tyler
and Travis Watkins had singles in the opening frame as the Pirates
outhit Cincinnati, 13-8.
The league-leading
Bearcats fell to 21-22 on the season and 9-5 in league play.
Bryce Harman walked to
start a two-run second inning for the Pirates. An error on a
sacrifice bunt by Charlie Yorgen put runners at second and third for
ECU.
Harman scored on a
ground out to second by Lamm and an infield single by Turner Brown
brought in Yorgen.
Bolka led off the
bottom of the fourth with a double down the left field line. He went
to third on an infield hit by Jeff Nelson. Yorgen's ground out to
first allowed Bolka to come home for a 4-0 Pirates lead.
Zack Mozingo had a
two-run single in the sixth for a 6-0 ECU advantage.
The Pirates needed
those runs as the Bearcats scored four runs in the ninth after a
leadoff walk to Cam Alldred. An RBI double by Woody Wallace spoiled
the shutout.
A single to left center
by Devin Wenzel brought in Wallace and cut the Pirates lead to 6-2.
Cole Murphy's two-run
homer closed the gap to 6-4 before ECU summoned Ingle.
The sophomore
right-hander retired three straight to seal the win for the Pirates.
"Joe reminded me he had
a 1-2-3 inning," said Pirates coach Cliff Godwin. "That's good.
He'll be available (Sunday)."
Boyd allowed four hits
over six innings with no runs, two walks and six strikeouts.
Freshmen Matt Bridges
and Chris Holba each yielded two runs in the ninth.
The top three in ECU's
batting order � Lamm, Brown and Tyler � each had two hits.
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Teammates
congratulate ECU senior Parker Lamm (6) after an RBI in
Saturday's contest. (W.A. Myatt
photo) |
"Our guys were
ready to play today," Godwin said.
Murphy went 2-for-4 in
the loss.
The deciding game of
the series is scheduled for noon today.
Just
when you thought the quarterback
position at East Carolina was
stabilized, junior QB Kurt Benkert
stunned the Pirate nation by
announcing plans to transfer out of
the ECU program.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's
guests
this week was ECU wide receivers
coach Phil McGeoghan (right):