ECU continues streak against Princeton

By Al Myatt
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GREENVILLE — East Carolina took its fifth straight win by beating Princeton 11-2 at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Tuesday evening.

The Pirates (14-6) have scored 60 runs during the streak.

Winning pitcher Jimmy Boyd's support included two hits each from Reid Love, Luke Lowery, Eric Tyler and Kirk Morgan. Travis Watkins had one hit and three RBIs.

Boyd (2-3) went seven innings, yielding six hits and two earned runs while walking two and striking out three.

Mason Keen and Joe Ingle each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.

Lowery, the current national Player of the Week, singled for the Pirates to lead off the bottom of the second inning. A single by Tyler advanced Lowery to third.

Lowery took home on a delayed double steal, putting ECU ahead to stay at 1-0. Garrett Brooks reached on an error before Morgan's bunt single scored Tyler for a 2-0 Pirates advantage.

Charlie Yorgen, Bryce Harman, Tyler, Watkins and Morgan had RBIs in a five-run fifth inning.

Watkins had a two-run single in the sixth to put ECU ahead, 9-0.

Yorgen singled and later scored on a wild pitch in the eighth before Lowery had an RBI single to score Harman with the final run for the Pirates.

The Tigers (1-10) had nine hits as Carrboro (NC) High School product Peter Owens went 3-for-4 and Billy Arendt was 2-for-3.

Today's starting time for Princeton and the Pirates has been moved up to 5 p.m. to accommodate the ECU women's basketball team as it plays a home game with Radford in the WNIT at 7 p.m.

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