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 Almost three months after signing
day, East Carolina has addressed a
pressing need that arose
unexpectedly with Kurt Benkert's
decision to transfer to Virginia.
Gardner Minshew of national champion
Northwest Mississippi Community
College will enroll at ECU and
contend with Philip Nelson for the
starting quarterback position. ...
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Cincinnati rallies for tie |
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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.
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Next: ECU at UConn | Friday, 3 pm |
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Pirates hold off Bearcats, even
series |
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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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BASEBALL |
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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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By
Al Myatt
�2016 Bonesville.net
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When former East Carolina
golfer Harold Varner III tees off on No. 10 at the Quail Hollow Club in
Charlotte at 1 p.m. today for the Wells Fargo Pro-Am, he will have a
group of followers wearing purple shirts.
Doug Groome, ECU Class
of 1979, has been promoting support of Varner through the Charlotte
chapter of the Pirate Club.
Groome has been a long
time supporter of athletics at his alma mater,
organizing the Virtual Bowl
as a fundraiser at the conclusion of an uncharacteristic 1-10
football season in 2003.
There has been nothing
virtual about Varner's play on the PGA Tour thus far this season.
He's been the real thing.
The 2012 ECU graduate
in marketing has won $807,863 on tour in 2016, making the cut 10
times in 17 starts with three top-10 finishes. He is currently 71st
in the FedEx Cup rankings.
Varner booms it,
averaging 302.8 yards driving, 19th on tour.
He was tied for eighth
in the rain-shortened Zurich Classic in New Orleans, which was
completed Monday.
Varner hails from
nearby Gastonia, graduating from Forestview High School. New Pirates
football coach Scottie Montgomery, who graduated from Burns High, is
from the same neck of the woods.
"I want to play well in
front of the people I love," Varner said in anticipation of support
from family and friends this week.
Groome and company will
be there to show him some love in return.
"We hope to follow him
like a huge Purple blob," Groome said.
ECU fans are encouraged
to join Varner's gallery and wear their purple.
