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Pirates seek consistency in Orlando |
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team has a dream as
the American
Athletic Conference
starts its
basketball
tournament at the
Amway Center in
Orlando this
afternoon. East
Carolina (12-19,
4-14) opens play as
the No. 8 seed and
will face No. 9
South Florida (7-24,
4-14) at 3:30 p.m.
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates sweep Patriots |
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GREENVILLE — Three East Carolina
pitchers combined for a shutout and the
bottom of the Pirates lineup had a
productive day as ECU completed a two-game
sweep of George Mason with a 6-0 win on
Wednesday.
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Friday, 7 pm |
Saturday, 3 pm | Sunday, 1:30 pm |
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
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East Carteret star
picks Pirates |
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Carolina's push to begin assembling
its recruiting class of 2017 got off
to a promising start this week when
three-star wide receiver Dashaun
Johnson committed to pursue his
college football career with the
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates take first
game with GMU |
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GREENVILLE —
Garrett Brooks,
Charlie Yorgen and
Luke Bolka each had
two hits with an RBI
as East Carolina
defeated George
Mason 8-1 on
Tuesday. The Pirates
are ranked in five
polls this week,
including No. 16 by
D1Baseball.com.
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Pirates got a lift from No. 23 |
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Carolina’s 4-3 win over Maryland on
Sunday clinched the title for the
Pirates in the 13th annual Keith
LeClair Classic. The Pirates and
Maryland both finished 2-1 in the
event, but the Pirates claimed the
crown by virtue of their
head-to-head defeat of the
Terrapins. ...
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BASEBALL: KEITH LECLAIR CLASSIC |
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ECU tops Terps for Classic title |
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GREENVILLE —
East Carolina
claimed its fourth
straight Keith
LeClair Classic
championship with a
4-3 win over
Maryland on Sunday.
The Pirates and
Terps each finished
2-1 in the 13th
annual event with
ECU claiming the
title by virtue of
Sunday's
head-to-head result.
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By
Al Myatt
©2016 Bonesville.net
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ORLANDO — South Florida
ended East Carolina's season with a 71-66 setback in the first round of
the American Athletic Conference tournament at the Amway Center on
Thursday afternoon.
The Pirates were without
junior forward Caleb White due to illness. White was the second
leading scorer on the team, averaging 12.5 points.
ECU (12-20) tied the
score at 42 on a jumper by B.J. Tyson, assisted by Lance Tejada,
with 12:05 to play.
The Bulls (8-24) took
the lead for good at 44-42 with 11:04 remaining on a layup by
6-feet, 11-inch Jaleel Cousins.
South Florida had a 9-1
run to lead 51-43 but the Pirates closed within 69-66 on two free
throws by Prince Williams with 14 seconds left.
The Bulls answered with
a pair from the line by Nehemias Morillo with 12 seconds to go for
the final margin.
USF took its second win
in three meetings with ECU this season and will meet top-seeded
Temple (20-10) at noon today.
Tyson led the Pirates
with 19 points but was 0-for-10 beyond the arc. Tejada provided some
long range firepower as he went 5-for-9 on threes in scoring 17
points.
Mike Zangari had 14
points and 10 rebounds in his last game for ECU. Michel Nzege also
had 10 rebounds as the bigger Bulls held a slight 43-41 advantage on
the boards.
Senior Prince Williams
had nine points and four assists. Tyson also had four assists.
Angel Nunez had 19
points and 11 rebounds for USF.
The Pirates minimized
the scoring of Jahmal McMurray and Morillo in
a
52-39 win at USF on March 2, limiting McMurray
to five points and holding Morillo scoreless after the duo combined
for 39 points in
a
69-52 win in Greenville on Feb. 16.
Morillo had eight points
and four assists in the third matchup with ECU. McMurray had nine
points and three assists.
"We did some good
things," said Pirates coach Jeff Lebo. "Our inability to make a
perimeter shot with Caleb out was a factor. Even if he doesn't shoot
the ball, he spaces the floor. Our starting backcourt was 1-of-16
from three and we still have a chance to win."
White led ECU in
3-pointers this season, hitting 70 of 184 for 38 percent.
Kentrell Barkley, who
was sick and sat out of the last game with the Bulls, was not fully
recovered. A 10.3-point per game scorer coming in, the AAC
All-Rookie team selection managed just three points in 24 minutes.
"They hurt us obviously
in the paint," Lebo said. "We were just overmatched in there against
their size."
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guest this week was
ECU
basketball color commentator Si
Seymour (right):