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FOOTBALL |
Pirates building for
the future |
GREENVILLE
— Whether it was the product
that new football coach Scottie
Montgomery and staff are
developing on the field or the
recently-formulated plans to
renovate the south side of
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, which
were unveiled Saturday on the
big scoreboard screen at
halftime of the Purple-Gold
game, it's obvious that East
Carolina has launched into a
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First-year
East
Carolina
head coach
Scottie
Montgomery
addresses
the team
prior to the
Purple-Gold
Spring Game.
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BASEBALL |
Pirates clinch
series at Memphis |
An 8-2 win at Memphis on
Saturday afternoon assured an American Athletic Conference series win
for East Carolina. Parker Lamm followed up on a six RBI performance in
an 8-1 Pirates win on Friday night by going 4-for-5 with a run driven in
and scoring twice ...
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Next: ECU at Memphis
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FOOTBALL |
Pirates go on public
display |
Pirate
Nation will get its most
meaningful look to date at the
football program since the
coaching transition that
followed the 2015 season when
East Carolina holds its
Purple-Gold scrimmage at
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on
Saturday at 2 p.m.
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BASEBALL |
Baseball is a frequent flyer |
The
ECU baseball team left early
Thursday morning for an AAC
series that starts at Memphis at
7:30 tonight. Last weekend, the
Pirates jetted off to New
Orleans for a series with
Tulane.
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BASEBALL |
Pirates prevent
sweep with 7-3 win |
NEW ORLEANS — Parker
Lamm had a two-run
single as East
Carolina scored five
times in the sixth
inning of a 7-3 win
Sunday that kept
Tulane from sweeping
a three-game series.
Lamm went 4-for-5
with three RBIs as
ECU improved to
21-11 overall and
3-3 in the American
Athletic Conference.
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BASEBALL |
Tulane takes series with 3-0 win |
NEW ORLEANS — Tulane's 3-0 American Athletic
Conference win over East Carolina on
Saturday had some similarities to the Green
Wave's 5-3 win over the Pirates on Friday
night.
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BASEBALL |
Tulane walks off on three-run homer |
NEW ORLEANS — An outstanding pitching effort
by East Carolina junior left-hander Evan
Kruczynski went unrewarded as Tulane rallied
for a 5-2 American Athletic Conference win
Friday night. The Green Wave scored five
runs in the bottom of the ninth inning,
ending the game with a three-run homer by
Hunter Williams.
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BASEBALL |
Nova executed ECU script |
Villanova's
77-74 win over North Carolina in
the NCAA Tournament final in
Houston on Monday night bore a
strong resemblance to East
Carolina's 77-74 win at Weber
State three years and two days
beforehand in the title game of
the CIT
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BASEBALL |
Pirates win wild one
in 11th |
ELON — East Carolina
scored two runs on a
pair of wild pitches
in the top of the
11th inning for a
7-5 win at Elon on
Tuesday night.
Travis Watkins, Eric
Tyler and Bryce
Harman all walked
with one out in the
final frame to load
the bases
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MEMPHIS — An 8-2 win at
Memphis on Saturday afternoon assured an American Athletic Conference
series win for East Carolina.
Parker Lamm followed up
on a six RBI performance in
an 8-1 Pirates win on Friday night
by going 4-for-5 with a run driven in and scoring twice in game two
with the Tigers (12-23, 3-5 AAC).
Lamm has nine hits in
ECU's three-game winning streak and has raised his average to .371.
Travis Watson went
3-for-5 for the Pirates (23-11, 5-3) with three doubles and four
RBIs. Eric Tyler was 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.
ECU led 4-0 after four
innings. After the Tigers scored twice in the sixth, the Pirates
answered with four runs in the seventh.
The offensive support
made Jimmy Boyd (5-2) a winner as he went five and two-thirds
innings. The senior right-hander allowed six hits, two earned runs
and walked one while striking out two.
Sam Lanier got the last
out in the sixth before Matt Bridges went the final three frames for
his first save. Bridges yielded two hits, walked one and struck out
four.
Turner Brown's RBI
single in the second put ECU ahead to stay. Watkins' double to left
in the third scored Lamm and Tyler for a 3-0 Pirates lead. Lamm had
an RBI single in the fourth.
Tyler singled to score
Lamm in the seventh. Watkins drove in a pair with a double and
Garrett Brooks had a sacrifice fly to give ECU an 8-2 advantage.
ECU outhit the hosts
11-7 and played errorless defense.
Game three of the series
is scheduled for 1 p.m. today.