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GREENVILLE
— East Carolina scored nine runs
in the sixth inning in defeating
South Florida 14-7 on Friday
night in the opener of a
three-game American Athletic
Conference series. The Pirates
improved to 31-17-1 overall and
12-6-1 in the AAC going into a 4
p.m. game today with the Bulls
(21-28, 6-13).
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Pictured: ECU centerfielder
Garrett Brooks stands in a
blanket of fog in the Pirates'
Friday night matchup with USF.
The senior captain was 2-for-4
with two RBIs in ECU's comeback
win. (W.A.
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Next: USF at ECU
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Transition to adidas approaching |
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 East
Carolina will become an adidas
program in July after a lengthy
association with Nike. The deal
with adidas is for 10 years and
$16.5 million. "For everybody at
East Carolina, it means that
we're going to get more stuff,"
ECU head baseball coach Cliff
Godwin said. ...
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Tar Heels down ECU, 9-1 |
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CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina scored five
runs on one hit in the sixth inning and
defeated East Carolina 9-1 on Tuesday night.
UNC (31-17) got the benefit of five walks, a
hit batter and two wild pitches in its big
frame.
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RECRUITING |
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ECU working on two recruiting
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East
Carolina is having ongoing success
luring talent to both its 2016 and
2017 recruiting classes. Decorated
junior college quarterback
Gardner
Minshew (left) and
Cal-Berkeley graduate transfer
running back
Jeffrey
Coprich (middle) will be
eligible to play for the Pirates
this fall, while Ohio prep lineman
John Spellacy
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Williams-Sutton, Wolfe power
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STORRS, CT — Dwanya
Williams-Sutton hit a three-run
homer and Jacob Wolfe pitched
the first complete game of his
career as East Carolina
completed a three-game American
Athletic Conference sweep at
Connecticut with a 3-2 win
Sunday.
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Varner finishes one-under |
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CHARLOTTE — Harold Varner III
shot an even-par 72 for the
final round of the Wells Fargo
Championship at Quail Hollow on
Sunday. The former East Carolina
golfer finished at one-under par
287, which put him in a four-way
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Staff report
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Post-game
audio: Godwin,
Brown, Ingle...
GREENVILLE — Luke Borders
hit a three-run homer in a four-run ninth inning for South Florida on
Saturday for a 5-1 win over East Carolina that evened a best-of-three
American Athletic Conference series at one win each.
The deciding game is
scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
The Bulls scored the
first run with two out in the sixth. Kevin Merrell had an infield
single and scored on a play at the plate on a single to center by
Garrett Zech.
Turner Brown of the
Pirates tied the score at 1 with a leadoff homer to right field in
the bottom of the seventh.
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ECU
freshman Turner Brown gets some dap from head coach
Cliff Godwin after a solo home run in the seventh inning
to tie the game at one. (W.A. Myatt
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Jimmy Boyd
(6-4) pitched into the ninth inning for ECU (31-18-1, 12-7-1
AAC).
Boyd hit two batters
with pitches with one out in the ninth before Joe Ingle came in.
Borders homered to
right on a full-count pitch for a 4-1 USF lead.
Duke Stunkel had a
double and came home on a single by Joe Genord for the final run of
the game.
"Joe made a bad pitch
and the guy (Borders) put a good swing on it," said Pirates coach
Cliff Godwin. "The wind was blowing out to right. ... Jimmy was
tremendous. I feel bad for him. Last night was so offensive."
ECU had season-high 17
hits in
a
14-7 win over the Bulls on Friday night.
The Bulls (22-28, 7-13)
outhit the Pirates, 7-5, on Saturday.
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ECU
leftfielder Zack Mozingo makes a diving catch in
Saturday's contest. (W.A. Myatt
photo) |
Brandon Lawson
(5-4) went eight innings for USF. He allowed three hits
while walking three and striking out six.
Tommy Eveld pitched the
ninth for the visitors. He gave up two hits with one whiff.
East
Carolina coach Cliff Godwin said his
team would play even better when
exams ended. It’s all baseball now,
and the Pirates opened this new
stage of the year with three huge
conference wins at Connecticut.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guest this week was
Pirate Radio Network color
commentator and former ECU
baseball
coach Gary Overton (left):
