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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.
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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.
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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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Staff report
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GREENVILLE — Cincinnati
scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning for a 3-3 tie with host
East Carolina on Sunday.
The contest was not
completed because of the American Athletic Conference's deadline for
finishing Sunday games.
The Bearcats and
Pirates began the third game of their series at noon but rain
delayed the contest for one hour, 34 minutes.
The series finished
1-1-1 leaving ECU at 27-16-1 overall and 8-6-1 in the league.
The Bearcats (21-22-1,
9-5-1 AAC) got a run-scoring triple from Manny Rodriguez to pull
within 3-2 in the eighth. Connor McVey's infield single with the
bases loaded scored Rodriguez with the tying run.
ECU freshman
right-hander Sam Lanier left the bases loaded with Bearcats in the
eighth. The tying runs were charged to Joe Ingle.
Jarod Yoakam retired
the Pirates in order in the bottom of the eighth and the game was
called.
The AAC's curfew rule
allows visiting teams to schedule and make their return flights on
the last day of a series.
Kyle Mottice led off
the game Sunday with a home run off ECU starter Jacob Wolfe to give
the Bearcats a 1-0 lead.
The Pirates scored a
tying run in the third and took a 3-1 lead in the seventh.
Charlie Yorgen reached
on a fielder's choice in the third after a single by Bryce Harman.
Parker Lamm doubled before Yorgen scored on a ground out to second
by Turner Brown.
Dwanya Williams-Sutton
singled and later scored the go-ahead run on a single by Yorgen in
the seventh. A sacrifice bunt by Lamm scored Brady Lloyd, who had
come in as a pinch runner for Harman, for a 3-1 ECU lead. Yorgen was
out at the plate on the play.
Harman went 2-for-3 as
the Pirates had a 7-6 edge in hits.
Wolfe allowed three
hits over four and two-thirds innings. He yielded one earned run
while walking three and striking out one.
ECU has an exam break
before starting a three-game AAC series at Connecticut on Friday at
3 p.m.
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):