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 East
Carolina’s 4-3 win over Maryland on
Sunday clinched the title for the
Pirates in the 13th annual Keith
LeClair Classic. The Pirates and
Maryland both finished 2-1 in the
event, but the Pirates claimed the
crown by virtue of their
head-to-head defeat of the Terrapins. ...
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Memphis ruins Pirates' Senior Day |
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 GREENVILLE
— This has been a subpar season
for Memphis by the program's
traditional standards, but the
decline was not evident in an
83-53 win on Senior Day at East
Carolina on Sunday.
The
Tigers improved to 17-14 and
8-10 in the American Athletic
Conference by hitting 34 of 63
shots from the field for 54
percent.
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Pictured: Former
manager Drew Bost
got a start for the
Pirates on Senior
Day. (Photo by Al
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March 10-13
— No. 8 ECU vs. No.
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BASEBALL: KEITH LECLAIR CLASSIC |
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ECU tops Terps for
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GREENVILLE —
East Carolina
claimed its fourth
straight Keith
LeClair Classic
championship with a
4-3 win over
Maryland on Sunday.
The Pirates and
Terps each finished
2-1 in the 13th
annual event with
ECU claiming the
title by virtue of
Sunday's
head-to-head result.
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Vols take advantage
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GREENVILLE —
Two East Carolina
errors in the top of
the first inning
helped Tennessee to
a 3-0 lead and the
Volunteers went on
to take a 5-2 win in
the Keith LeClair
Classic on Saturday.
Three of Tennessee's
runs were unearned
as the Pirates
committed four
errors.
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Pirates prevail after 9th-inning drama |
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GREENVILLE —
Turner Brown's
two-run single with
one out in the
bottom of the ninth
lifted East Carolina
to a 2-1 win over
Southeastern
Louisiana on the
first day of the
13th annual Keith
LeClair Classic on
Friday.
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Pirates pay homage to legend |
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 Even
before former East
Carolina baseball
coach Keith LeClair
succumbed to Lou
Gehrig's disease in
2006, a means of
honoring the memory
of the man who
envisioned the
Pirates playing in
the College World
Series was sought.
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ECU pulls away at South Florida |
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TAMPA, FL — East Carolina made a series of
successful adjustments for a 52-39 American
Athletic Conference win at South Florida on
Wednesday night. Pirates coach Jeff Lebo
used a deeper rotation than in the previous
game with Cincinnati
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Bonesville staff report
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GREENVILLE —
Garrett Brooks, Charlie Yorgen and Luke Bolka each had two hits with an
RBI as East Carolina defeated George Mason 8-1 on Tuesday.
The Pirates are ranked
in five polls this week, including No. 16 by D1Baseball.com. ECU
improved to 9-3 while the Patriots, who took a 1-0 lead in their
first turn at the plate, slipped to 2-9.
The Pirates evened the
score in the bottom of the first on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by
Bryce Harman that scored Brooks, who had led off with a single.
Two runs in the second
put ECU on top to stay. Doubles by Bolka and Brooks produced the
go-ahead run. Yorgen's RBI double provided a 3-1 lead.
Wesley Phillips homered
to left field to start the Pirates in the fourth. Jeff Nelson
singled and stole his way to third. Nelson scored on a wild pitch
for a 5-1 lead.
Kirk Morgan and Bolka
had RBI singles in the fifth for a 7-1 ECU advantage.
Ryan Littlefield tripled
in the eighth for the Pirates and scored on a double play for the
final run.
Freshman right-hander
Chris Holba (2-0) made his first start and went three innings for
the win. He allowed two hits and one earned run while walking one
and striking out two.
Sophomore righty Evan
Voliva turned in four solid innings, yielding three hits. Freshman
righty Matt Bridges pitched the last two frames. He gave up one hit
and had one strikeout.
ECU outhit the Patriots,
12-6.
The teams meet again at
4 p.m. today at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guest this week was
ECU
basketball color commentator Si
Seymour (right):