LeClair rites to be broadcast and live-streamed

From staff reports
©2006 Bonesville.net

Due to the anticipated turnout of mourners who will be paying their respects to deceased former East Carolina baseball coach Keith LeClair on Friday, WNCT-AM Talk 1070 and the ECU Athletic Department have arranged to carry the memorial service over the radio and on the Internet.

Talk 1070, operated by Hinton Media Group, will broadcast the afternoon service, and the audio feed will be streamed over the Web on ecupirates.com and through the facilities of Bonesville.net on the station's talk1070.com Website.

The funeral service will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Oakmont Baptist Church in Greenville. The family will receive friends this evening between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. at S.G. Wilkerson and Sons Funeral Home on 5th Street in Greenville.

The Hinton Media Group's local television property, Cable 7, will air the service on tape delay on Friday at 9:00 p.m.

LeClair served as the Pirates' head baseball coach from 1997 to 2002. He died at his home Monday following an extended battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease. He had been battling the disease for the past five years.

An member of ECU's sports hall of fame, LeClair was 40 years old.

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02/23/2007 11:24:50 AM