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BASKETBALL: AAC
TOURNAMENT |
Pirates fall to
South Florida |
ORLANDO — South
Florida ended East
Carolina's season
with a 71-66 setback
in the first round
of the American
Athletic Conference
tournament at the
Amway Center on
Thursday afternoon.
The Pirates were
without junior
forward Caleb White
due to illness.
White was the second
leading scorer on
the team, averaging
12.5 points.
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BASKETBALL |
Pirates seek consistency in Orlando |
Every
team has a dream as
the American
Athletic Conference
starts its
basketball
tournament at the
Amway Center in
Orlando this
afternoon. East
Carolina (12-19,
4-14) opens play as
the No. 8 seed and
will face No. 9
South Florida (7-24,
4-14) at 3:30 p.m.
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BASEBALL |
Pirates sweep Patriots |
GREENVILLE — Three East Carolina
pitchers combined for a shutout and the
bottom of the Pirates lineup had a
productive day as ECU completed a two-game
sweep of George Mason with a 6-0 win on
Wednesday.
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Next: ECU at
Rice |
Friday, 7 pm |
Saturday, 3 pm | Sunday, 1:30 pm |
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
East Carteret star
picks Pirates |
East
Carolina's push to begin assembling
its recruiting class of 2017 got off
to a promising start this week when
three-star wide receiver Dashaun
Johnson committed to pursue his
college football career with the
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BASEBALL |
Pirates take first
game with GMU |
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.
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BASEBALL |
Pirates got a lift from No. 23 |
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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Bonesville staff report
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HOUSTON —
Eric Tyler led off the eighth inning with a solo homer to left and East
Carolina added five more runs in the frame to win 10-1 at Rice on Friday
night.
ECU's Evan Krucyznski
(2-0) scattered seven hits in seven innings.
Game two of a three-game
set is scheduled for 3 p.m. (ET) today.
Krucyznski allowed one
earned run while striking out three and walking one.
Nick Durazo yielded two
hits in the eighth with one whiff.
Freshman Matt Bridges
gave up one hit in the ninth.
Kirk Morgan went 3-for-5
for the Pirates with three RBIs. Travis Watkins had a double and two
RBIs.
Turner Brown and Jeff
Nelson each had two hits with an RBI.
The Pirates took a 1-0
lead in the top of the first inning as Charlie Yorgen scored on a
single to center by Morgan.
An infield hit by Nelson
brought home Garrett Brooks for a 2-0 ECU lead in the fifth.
A sacrifice fly by
Watkins scored Brown and Nelson came home on a wild pitch as the
Pirates took a 4-0 lead in the seventh.
Dayne Wunderlich led off
with a single for Rice in the seventh and scored on a wild pitch.
A one-out double by
Brooks after the home run by Tyler was followed by an RBI single by
Brown in ECU's big eighth. Nelson and Parker Lamm drew walks with
two out.
Yorgen had an RBI
single, Watkins had a run-scoring double and Morgan delivered a
two-run single for a 10-1 Pirates lead.
Ryan Chandler had three
of Rice's 10 hits as the Owls dipped to 6-7.