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10.26.06: Tickets
for Troops promotion expands ... Another C-USA honor for
ECU's Icenhower ... Report: Davis would have interest in
Heels |
10.25.06: Ex-Pirate
Adams attempts PGA qualifying ...
C-USA names football players of week ... Tar Heels will
retain many football recruits |
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10.24.06: New
thumbnails: Baker, Byrd and Thompson ... Ore golden in
Hokies' win over Southern Miss ... Unbeaten start for ECU
swim teams ... Tar Heels picked first in ACC hoops |
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10.23.06: Jenkins'
three lifts Gold in scrimmage ... ECU volleyball takes sixth
straight C-USA win ... Bools finishes sixth in Lady Pirate
golf |
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10.22.06: Pirates
volleyball on record streak ... Mountaineers handle Huskies,
stay unbeaten ... Georgia golfer gets call to play in South
Africa |
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10.21.06: Report:
UNC-Chapel Hill's Bunting to resign ... Coaches' challenges
yield few reversals ... Southern Miss prepared for Hokies |
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10.20.06: ECU's
Roach nominated for Draddy Award ... Memphis picked first in
C-USA basketball ... 4th-ranked UTEP runners coming to
Greenville |
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10.19.06: Koren
Robinson suspended by NFL ... Miami broadcaster axed over
brawl comments ... Dartmouth, Holy Cross row gets
investigation |
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10.18.06: League
teams busy; ECU ends homestand ... C-USA names football
players of week ... ECU's Krug captures C-USA weekly honor |
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10.17.06: ACC,
Miami announce additional suspensions ... More suspensions
also on Sun Belt's agenda ... Duke lacrosse under "60
Minutes" scrutiny |
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10.16.06: Coker
suspends eight Miami players after brawl ... Pirate
volleyball continues roll at UCF ... Szilard leads ECU
women's soccer win ... Harris Poll's top 5 varies from BCS
Standings |
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10.15.06: Stokes
convenes season's first hoops practice ... Pirate volleyball
wins third straight ... ECU women open basketball practice
at Rose |
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10.14.06: EA
Sports video game features ECU baseball stadium ... Pirates
announce Tickets for Troops drive ... Six C-USA gridders in
All-American Classic |
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10.13.06: Pirate
basketball gets national TV dates ... ECU women's hoops
getting tube time, too ... East Carolina baseball to host
winter camp |
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10.12.06: ECU
hoops scrimmages set for Homecoming ... Camels stun No. 3
UNC-Chapel Hill in soccer ... ECU picked 7th in C-USA
women's hoops |
10.11.06: Dougherty
gets
C-USA special teams honor ... Pirate promotions abound for
Tulsa game ... UCF versus Pitt on TV Friday night |
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10.10.06: Tulsa
netter Brugues takes national title ... Miami (OH) reeling
after sixth loss ... Pirates host unique diving competition |
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10.09.06: Buckeyes,
Trojans, Gators top Harris Poll ... Denny O'Brien's Harris
Poll ballot ... Gators continue success in Swamp ... Pirates
stun Memphis in volleyball ... ECU soccer shuts out Herd |
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10.08.06: Jeff
Blake bows out of hall induction ... NCAA's tax status under
investigation ... North Dakota challenges NCAA mascot policy |
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10.07.06: Amato
continues mastery of Seminoles ... ECU volleyball triumphs
at home over UAB ... Millican continues bid for spot on LPGA
Tour |
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10.06.06: Big
Ten announces fines, reprimands ... Central Florida wins
late field goal battle ... Millican shoots 74 in qualifying
event |
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10.05.06: Gold
captures ECU World Series with 8-7 win ... Tulsa runs past
Southern Miss ... Former ECU golfer Millican in LPGA
qualifying |
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10.04.06: TV
exposure continues for C-USA teams ... Former UVa stars make
$1 million gift ... SMU takes two of three weekly league
honors |
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10.03.06: Curry
to receive Stagg award ... Inspired by fallen teammate, Rice
whips Army ... ECU women's golf team finishes 11th |
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10.02.06: Takeaways,
sacks mean good things for UVa ... Gators pull even with WVU
in Harris BCS poll ... Swofford presented with Homer Rice
Award ... Tulsa win streak continues at ECU's expense |
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10.01.06: Cavs
blast Duke 37-0 in Durham ... Vols deal Memphis a resounding
defeat ... Pirate women's cross country wins meet |
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News Nuggets, 10.27.06
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Rice's
Almond named Wooden candidate
Rice senior Morris Almond
is one of 50 players selected as candidates for the 2006-07 John R.
Wooden Award All-American team and for the the John R. Wooden Award,
which is presented annually to the outstanding collegiate basketball
player, according to an announcement on the Conference USA website.
This is the first time since
1982, when Ricky Pierce was a member of the Wooden Award All-American Team,
that an Owl basketball player has been recognized by the Wooden Award
Selection Committee. Almond is the only player from C-USA to be selected in
the top 50.
Pirates
hosting C-USA cross country
The 2006 Conference USA cross
country championships will be held in Greenville and hosted by East Carolina
at Overton Lake Kristi on Saturday.
The championships will feature
the women's 5K race at 10:30 a.m., to be followed by the men's 8K race at
11:30 a.m.. Nine runners will compete from each men's and women's team,
according to an ECU athletic media relations release.
This is the second time that
East Carolina will have hosted the C-USA championships at Lake Kristi. The
last time ECU hosted the event was in 2001 when the men finished ninth and
the women placed fifth.
The Pirates, led by Nicole
Briggs on the women's squad and Stephen Tausend on the men's team, will look
for their first league title. The highest finish for the men and women's
teams was fifth place, which occurred in 2004 and 2001, respectively.
The first 15 men and women to
cross the finish line at the conference championships will be named to the
C-USA All-Conference first, second or third teams, according to their order
of finish.
East Carolina, Houston,
Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Tulsa, Central Florida and Texas-El Paso each have
a men's and women's team. Southern Methodist, Southern Mississippi, Tulane
and UAB have women's teams only.
The 2006 C-USA cross country
championship is shaping up to be one of the strongest in recent years as
four men's and four women's teams are ranked in the latest United States
Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association polls.
On the men's side, UTEP holds
a No. 4 national ranking and a No. 1 Mountain Region ranking. The Miners
have won all four meets they have competed in this season. In the South
Central Region, Rice is currently ranked sixth and Houston 12th. Tulsa has a
10th place ranking in the Midwest.
ECU
freshman Bools shares C-USA honor
East Carolina
freshman Abby Bools was named Conference USA women's Co-Golfer
of the Week, according to a release from the league media
relations office.
Bools, a native of Hickory,
posted her first collegiate top-10 finish by tying for sixth place at the
2006 Pirate Fall Invitational. She carded a two-over par 220 (72-77-71) and
led the entire field with 13 total birdies, while the Pirates as a team had
34. In par-5 scoring, she ranked second with a 4.58 stroke average. On the
season Bools has an 18-hole stroke average of 77.67.
The host Pirates placed 10th
in a field of 20 teams despite playing without sophomore sensation Lene Krog,
the 2006 C-USA championship medalist, first-team All C-USA selection and
freshman of the year, who was participating in the Women's World Amateur
Championships in South Africa.
The lady Pirates will be back
in action next week when they travel to Kiawah Island, SC, to participate in
the Edwin Watts/Palmetto Invitational on Oct. 30-31.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from electronic services and other sources. Copyright 2006
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