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02.14.06: Frasure
rewriting ECU record book ... Another weighty matter for the
Pirates ... ECU softball duo gets C-USA honors ... Sutton
benched for season after DUI citation ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.13.06: Marshall
assistant heading for Louisiana Tech ... Missouri, Snyder
reach settlement ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.12.06: ECU-Maryland
rainout spawns Sunday twinbill ... Spurrier staff undergoes
renovations ... Sutton misses game after auto accident ...
Throng flocks to Lambeau for college hockey ... C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.11.06: McMahon
departing ECU for Saints ... NCAA may grant replay
challenges to coaches ... Snyder steps down, Watkins steps
up at Mizzou ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.10.06: East
Carolina steps up football schedule ... Play ball! Pirates,
Terps open baseball season ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard &
Schedule |
02.09.06: Circuitous
journey finds Erickson back in Idaho ... Colorado State
athletic director steps down ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard
& Schedule |
02.08.06: Carter
joins East Carolina football staff ... C-USA Basketball
Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.07.06: Key
suspensions deplete Pirates' ranks ... ACC officiating crew
benched for botched call ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard &
Schedule |
02.06.06: Ole
Miss coaching legend Vaught dies ... C-USA guards in running
for Cousy Award ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.05.06: Bass
may be in line for new ECU post ... SMU AD Copeland calling
it quits ... Bunting experiences technical difficulties ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.04.06: Here
come Cougs and fully-cognizant Penders ... Wolfpack bats
light up for A-Rod ... History of the NCAA now in print ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.03.06: FSU
blue chipper says analyst advocated Irish ... Golden Eagles
work the home front ... Pirate softball hurler gets
preseason honor ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.02.06: Bailey
heads for Starkville via Iraq ... Texas A&M gridders vie in
"Big Splash" ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
02.01.06: Marshall
crash will become film theme ... Memphis soccer faces
professional team ... Green Wave gets Omaha rings ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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News Nuggets, 02.15.06
NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
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Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
D-III slugger accomplishes cycle times two
A single. double, triple and home run
the cycle is a baseball rarity. It happens less frequently than a no
hitter, they say.
How rare is it then when a player hits
for the cycle in back-to-back games, on back-to-back days, versus the same
team, but in different ballparks?
That happened to junior Tyler Dean this
weekend. The starting centerfielder for Chapman University's No. 4-ranked
NCAA Division III baseball team needed just four at-bats to accomplish the
feat on Friday, Feb. 10, at Hart Park in Orange, CA.
Dean took care of the most difficult
'leg' first by tripling down the right field line in the first inning of
Chapman's 7-2 win over visiting Pomona-Pitzer Colleges. He doubled in the
third, then homered in the fourth before singling to leadoff the sixth
inning to complete the first cycle in six years at Chapman.
The Panthers went to Pomona on Saturday
to beat up on the Sagehens 17-4. Dean was actually hit by the first pitch he
saw, but the message didn't get through.
He doubled in the third, grounded out
in the fourth and tripled in the sixth. It took Chapman batting around in
the sixth for Dean to come up again in the seventh when he singled. Eight
more batters came to the plate in the seventh, allowing Dean to bat again in
the eighth, needing a home run to accomplish a feat as rare as Johnny
Vandermeer's back-to-back no-hitters.
Dean hammered a 1-0 offering from
Sagehens reliever Tom Church over the left field fence completing his second
cycle in as many days.
Rice
rookie gets national hitting honor
Rice freshman outfielder Aaron Luna was
named national hitter of the week by The National Collegiate Baseball
Writers Association (NCBWA) for the period ending Feb. 14.
Arkansas sophomore left-handed pitcher
Nick Schmidt was named national pitcher of the week for the awards sponsored
by Pro-Line caps.
The NCBWA Board reviews candidates from
each Division I Conference each week and names winners each Tuesday
throughout the season.
SIU coach Kill tells of kidney cancer surgery
Southern Illinois University football
coach Jerry Kill said this week that he had a cancerous tumor surgically
removed from a kidney in January, according to a Tuesday report in The
Southern Illinoisan newspaper.
Kill, 44, said he has more tests
scheduled Thursday with a St. Louis-area surgeon. He emphasized he will
remain coach and said he hopes to be at "full strength" by the start of
spring practice March 29.
"I have kidney cancer," Kill said. "At
this point in time, they feel very confident that they got everything. They
run tests to make sure it hasn't spread. There has never been an indication
from anyone that it has spread."
Only a tight circle of family and
associates knew of Kill's battle with cancer. The coach informed the Salukis
football team of his condition last week.
C-USA Basketball Standings, Scores & Schedule
(Updated
through Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006)
CONFERENCE USA STANDINGS
TEAM
C-USA ALL
Memphis
9-0 23-2
Texas-El Paso
9-1 16-6
UAB
7-2 17-5
Houston
6-3 16-6
Rice
4-5 10-12
Tulane
4-5 9-13
Central Florida
4-4 10-11
Tulsa
4-5 9-13
Southern Methodist 3-6 11-11
Marshall
2-7 9-13
Southern Miss
2-8 8-17
East Carolina
1-8 7-15
----- SCORES -----
TUESDAY, FEB.
14
Memphis 80,
Southern Mississippi 41
Texas-El Paso 60, Alabama A&M 44
SATURDAY, FEB.
11
Tulsa 80, Rice
73 (OT)
Memphis 91, Marshall 81
Texas-El Paso 77, Southern Mississippi 72 (2OT)
Central Florida 72, Tulane 51
Houston 69, Southern Methodist 57
UAB 72, East Carolina 64
----- SCHEDULE -----
WEDNESDAY, FEB.
15
Houston at
Central Florida, 7:30 pm
Marshall at Southern Methodist, 8 pm
East Carolina at Rice, 8:05 pm
Tulane at UAB, 8:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEB.
16
No games
scheduled.
FRIDAY, FEB.
17
No games
scheduled.
SATURDAY, FEB.
18
UAB at Southern
Mississippi, 3 pm
Marshall at East Carolina, 7 pm
Tulsa at Houston, 8 pm
Central Florida at Southern Methodist, 8 pm
Memphis at Tulane, 8 pm
Rice at Texas-El Paso, 9:05 pm
SUNDAY, FEB.
19
No games
scheduled.
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
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