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Pirates take series at UCF, 7-1 |
ORLANDO
— Jimmy Boyd pitched seven innings
and freshman Matt Bridges added two
scoreless innings of relief as East
Carolina clinched its American
Athletic Conference series at
Central Florida with a 7-1 win
Friday.
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BASKETBALL RECRUITING |
Hawaii guard moving back East |
East Carolina coach Jeff
Lebo has received a verbal
commitment from Delaware product
Isaac Fleming, a 6-3 guard with
3-point shooting skills who
logged significant playing time
and averaged more than 9 points
per game over the last two
seasons at Hawaii. ...
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BASEBALL |
Pirates take opener at UCF |
ORLANDO
— East Carolina scored two runs on
two Central Florida errors and the
Pirates never trailed in a 5-3
American Athletic Conference win
Thursday. The game started at 11
a.m. and today's game is scheduled
to get under way at 11 this morning
as well to avoid potential rain
later in the day.
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BASEBALL |
Senior recognition adjusted |
East
Carolina's baseball seniors were
scheduled to be recognized when
the Pirates hosted Campbell on
Tuesday night but that game was
rained out. ECU's upperclassmen
still had their Senior Night
under modified circumstances.
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BASEBALL |
Campbell-ECU game canceled |
East
Carolina's nonconference home
baseball game with Campbell on
Tuesday night was canceled due to
rain and was not scheduled to be
made up. The Pirates, 31-19-1
overall and 12-8-1 in the American
Athletic Conference, return to
action Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at
Central Florida
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BASEBALL |
Borders beats Pirates again |
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GREENVILLE — For the second straight
game a home run by Luke Borders
proved decisive as South Florida
topped East Carolina 6-5 Sunday to
take a 2-1 American Athletic
Conference series win.
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Pictured: ECU head coach Cliff
Godwin gets ejected after a
borderline strike three call in
the bottom of the ninth inning
of the Pirates' AAC
series-deciding loss to USF on
Sunday at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
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USF evens series with HR in 9th |
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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.
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Pictured: ECU right-hander Jimmy
Boyd delivers against South
Florida on Saturday. The senior
from Raleigh limited the Bulls
to four hits over 8 and 1/3
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ORLANDO — East Carolina
didn't get its desired help from Houston on Saturday night, finishing
second to Tulane in the American Athletic Conference regular season
standings.
The Green Wave topped
the host Cougars 4-3 in a rain-delayed contest to improve to 37-17
overall and 15-7 in the AAC, clinching the regular season title.
A Houston win would
have given the Pirates the regular season crown.
Earlier Saturday, ECU
closer Joe Ingle yielded six runs in the bottom of the ninth inning
before his bases-loaded strikeout preserved an 8-7 Pirates win at
Central Florida.
The win completed a
three-game ECU sweep of the Knights and put the Pirates at 34-19-1
for the season and 15-8-1 in the conference going into the league
tournament, which starts Tuesday at Bright House Field in
Clearwater.
The second-seeded
Pirates will open play at 11 a.m. Wednesday against seventh-seeded
South Florida,
which took two of three in Greenville May
13-15. [View
complete AAC tournament schedule]
On Saturday, ECU had
built an 8-1 lead in the series finale with the Knights before the
dramatic comeback by UCF (25-31, 8-16 AAC).
The Pirates took a 3-0
lead in the second inning and maintained the upper hand.
Eric Tyler and Bryce
Harman had hits before Garrett Brooks got aboard on a throwing error
on a bunt to load the bases.
Tyler came home on wild
pitch by Cre Finfrock (4-6) for a 1-0 ECU lead. Another wild pitch
brought Harman home to put the Pirates ahead 2-0.
Parker Lamm had an RBI
single off reliever Chris Williams for a 3-0 ECU advantage.
The Pirates scored
twice in the fourth for a 5-0 lead. Dwanya Williams-Sutton hit his
fifth home run of the season and Travis Watkins had an RBI single to
score Turner Brown, who was hit by a pitch and scored from second
after advancing on a failed pickoff attempt.
A double by Tyler and
an RBI single by Harman gave ECU a 6-0 lead in the seventh.
The Knights scored in
the bottom of the seventh as Matt Diorio doubled and came home on
Sam Tolleson's single.
The margin increased to
8-1 in the eighth. Williams-Sutton, who was 4-for-4, singled up the
middle and was brought in by a double by Brown. Watkins singled to
drive in Brown.
Sam Lanier (1-0) was
credited with his first win as he pitched one and two-thirds innings
in relief of starter Jacob Wolfe, who went three and one-third.
Chris Holba pitched two
innings and Matt Bridges held the Knights in the eighth before Ingle
came on.
Eli Putnam hit a
leadoff homer in the bottom of the ninth to set the tone for the
comeback.
Ingle threw 55 pitches
in his lone frame. He allowed six hits and six runs, all earned. He
walked three and struck out two. UCF scored five runs with two out.
The Pirates outhit the
Knights 15-14 as Tyler went 3-for-5. Watkins and Harman had two hits
each.