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Cincinnati holds off Pirates |
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— East Carolina trimmed a
16-point Cincinnati lead to
56-54 with five minutes
remaining before absorbing a
65-56 American Athletic
Conference loss from the
Bearcats before 4,841 in
Williams Arena at Minges
Coliseum on Saturday afternoon.
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Pictured: ECU's
Kentrell Barkley drives against Cincinnati on Saturday. The freshman
swingman played all 40 minutes and had 14 points, 13 rebounds and
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Pirates rally to defeat 2015 champs |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA —
East Carolina ended
a nine-game losing
streak to Virginia
with an 8-5 win in
10 innings over the
defending College
World Series
champions on Friday.
The Pirates pushed
across a tying run
in the top of the
ninth on a sacrifice
fly by Charlie
Yorgen before
scoring three runs
in the 10th.
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Challenge escalates for Pirates |
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 East Carolina's baseball
team is off to a 4-0 start with three wins over Longwood last
weekend and an 11-2 victory over North Carolina A&T on Tuesday. The
circumstances will be more challenging this weekend as the Pirates
visit Virginia
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Tyson lifts Pirates
to win at Tulane |
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NEW ORLEANS — B.J.
Tyson led four East
Carolina players in
double figures with
22 points as the
Pirates stopped a
six-game losing
streak with a 79-73
American Athletic
Conference win at
Tulane on Wednesday
night.
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Pirates defeat N.C. A&T, 11-2 |
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GREENVILLE — East Carolina outhit
North Carolina A&T 15-5 in an 11-2
nonconference win on Tuesday afternoon. The
game was originally scheduled for Wednesday
but was moved up due to the threat of severe
weather today.
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Marathon season starts on right
note |
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 Break
out the brooms. East Carolina opened
the 2016 baseball season with a
sweep of Longwood at Clark-LeClair
Stadium. The season is a marathon
and not a sprint. Still, second-year
head coach Cliff Godwin and the
Pirates were more than excited to
get the opening weekend sweep.
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Pirates come back for sweep |
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GREENVILLE — East Carolina faced its first
deficit of the young season and responded by
rallying for a 5-3 nonconference win over
Longwood on Sunday afternoon before 3,067 at
Clark-LeClair Stadium.
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Bonesville staff report
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Luke
Bolka had a 3-run homer and finished with four RBIs to lead East
Carolina to a 6-1 victory at Virginia on Saturday for a series win over
the defending College World Series champions.
The Pirates improved to
6-0 and go for the series sweep at 1 p.m. today. Virginia, ranked
No. 8 by the National College Baseball Writers Association, fell to
3-3.
ECU followed up on
an 8-5 win in 10 innings
on Friday by taking a 3-0 lead on Bolka's blast to left with Dwanya
Williams-Sutton and Eric Tyler on base.
Williams-Sutton scored
on a ground out by Bolka in the fourth as the Pirates took a 4-0
lead.
A triple by
Williams-Sutton scored Tyler for a 5-0 ECU advantage in the sixth. A
line-out to left by Wes Phillips allowed Williams-Sutton to score
later in the inning to push the Pirates' lead to 6-0.
The Cavaliers scored an
unearned run in the bottom of the sixth.
Williams-Sutton, a
freshman, finished 3-for-3 with a pair of triples to lead an 8-hit
attack.
Travis Watkins had two
hits with a double.
Jacob Wolfe (2-0) went
six innings. He allowed four hits with two walks and two strikeouts.
Wolfe's pitch count reached 91 with 62 strikes. Nick Durazo picked
up his first save with three innings of work. He allowed two hits
while striking out three. Durazo delivered 38 pitches with 27 in the
zone.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guest this week was
ECU
pitching
coach Dan Roszel: