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Pirates power up, go Super |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA � Two-run homers
by Charlie Yorgen, Travis Watkins
and Eric Tyler keyed East Carolina's
8-4 win over William & Mary on
Sunday, clinching the NCAA regional
championship. The Tribe (31-31) had
edged 2015 College World Series
champion Virginia 5-4 in an
elimination game earlier in the day
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Walkoff wallop whips Wahoos |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA � A three-run
homer by Travis Watkins capped a
five-run ninth inning for East
Carolina and provided an 8-6 walkoff
win over Virginia in the winners'
bracket matchup Saturday at
Davenport Field.
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Pirates pull away in eighth |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA � East Carolina
broke open a pitching duel with
seven runs in the eighth inning to
defeat Bryant 9-1 in the Pirates'
NCAA Tournament opener on Friday.
Third-seeded ECU (35-21-1) advances
to play top-seeded Virginia (38-20)
at 6 p.m. today.
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Regional represents redemption |
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 The Bryant
Bulldogs have momentum going
into the Charlottesville
regional. East Carolina's first
round opponent at 4 p.m. today
has won 10 in a row. Momentum is
not a factor in the Pirates'
favor as ECU is coming off an
0-2 showing in defense of its
2015 championship in the
American Athletic Conference
tournament
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
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Dual-threat QB plans to
enroll early |
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Kingsley Ifedi to start turning
heads in his varsity debut as Vance
High School's starting quarterback
last August. Ifedi had served as the
backup to senior Omar Baker,
Jr., the year before as a
sophomore after transferring
to Vance from Phillip
O'Berry Academy
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Pirates return to Charlottesville |
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East
Carolina received a bid to the NCAA
Tournament on Monday and will be
returning to Virginia's Davenport
Field where the Pirates won two of
three against the Cavaliers in a
series Feb. 26-28.
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Pirates stock up at quarterback |
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the month since starting quarterback
contender Kurt Benkert transferred
out of the program, East Carolina
coach Scottie Montgomery has busied
himself replenishing ECU's reservoir
of talent at the position.
Highly-regarded prep signal callers
Kingsley Ifedi (left) and Mic Roof
(right) are the latest talents to
make their pledges to the Purple and
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East Carolina exits early |
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CLEARWATER, FL � A 5-4 loss to
Memphis on Thursday knocked East
Carolina out of the American
Athletic Conference Tournament. The
second-seeded Pirates (34-21-1) fell
4-2 to seventh-seeded South Florida
on Wednesday before the sixth-seeded
Tigers (20-38) took the elimination
game.
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ECU's nemesis strikes again |
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CLEARWATER, FL � South Florida
continued its role as American
Athletic Conference nemesis for East
Carolina on Wednesday with a 4-2 win
over the Pirates in ECU's league
tournament opener.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA �
Two-run homers by Charlie Yorgen, Travis Watkins and Eric Tyler keyed
East Carolina's 8-4 win over William & Mary on Sunday, clinching the
NCAA regional championship.
The Tribe (31-31) had
edged 2015 College World Series champion Virginia 5-4 in an
elimination game earlier in the day and took a 2-0 lead in the top
of the third against ECU (37-21-1).
The Pirates answered
with four runs in the bottom of the third after Tyler led off with
an infield single. Bryce Harman singled through the right side.
Parker Lamm's one-out
double down the left field line tied the score at 2. Yorgen's
two-run homer to right gave ECU a 4-2 lead.
Zach Pearson's sacrifice
bunt scored Josh Smith as William & Mary closed within 4-3 in the
fourth.
The Tribe tied the game
in the fifth with consecutive singles by Ryder Miconi, Cullen Large
and Charley Gould.
Yorgen reached on an
error to lead off the bottom of the fifth and Watkins launched a
two-run homer to left with two away to put the Pirates ahead to stay
at 6-4.
Garrett Brooks singled
up the middle before Tyler's homer to left completed the scoring.
Sam Lanier (2-1) pitched
the last five innings for the win. The freshman right-hander allowed
one hit and walked one while striking out seven in holding the
Colonial Athletic Association tournament champions scoreless.
Tyler went 4-for-4 as
ECU outhit William & Mary, 14-10.
Watkins, whose three-run
homer in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday
lifted the Pirates to an 8-6 win over Virginia,
was named Most Outstanding Player of the regional.
ECU's selections on the
all-regional team included Yorgen, Tyler, Brooks and Evan
Kruczynski, the winning pitcher in
a 9-1 victory over Northeast Conference
champion Bryant on Friday.
�Regional champions,
that sounds pretty good," said ECU coach and alumnus Cliff Godwin.
"We started out this season in the summer of last year. The guys
worked their butts off to be tough and this season hasn�t been easy
for us. There have been a lot of ups and downs and I felt like it
prepared us for this regional. There were so many great teams in
this regional. ... Any one of those teams could have won this
regional. Our guys played their hearts out. We�re lucky, but our
guys earned it.
"I�m so happy for East
Carolina University � all these players, all the former players and
former coaches at East Carolina. That�s what East Carolina is about.
We are a baseball school and we wanted to get it back on the map.�
The Pirates will meet
the winner of today's 3 p.m. Lubbock regional game between Dallas
Baptist and Texas Tech in a best of three Super Regional for a berth
in the College World Series in Omaha.
"East Carolina deserves
to go to Omaha," Godwin said. "Will it be this year? I hope so, but
we�re going to get there sometime.�
The Pirates are
scheduled to return to Clark-LeClair Stadium for a welcome around
1:30 p.m. today.
East
Carolina will head back to the
scene of its first road series
of the year for NCAA play, as
the Pirates travel to
Charlottesville for the NCAA
regionals.