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CLEARWATER, FL —
South Florida continued its role as
American Athletic Conference nemesis
for East Carolina on Wednesday with
a 4-2 win over the Pirates in ECU's
league tournament opener.
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Pirates head into AAC Tournament |
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 East
Carolina goes into the American
Athletic Conference baseball
tournament at Bright House Field
in Clearwater, Fl, with a
three-game winning streak
despite a scare in the bottom of
the ninth inning of an 8-7
squeaker at Central Florida on
Saturday.
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Pirates take chip into USF
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East Carolina baseball team is in
Clearwater, Florida, for the
American Athletic Conference
tournament, hoping to go back to
back at the beach. ECU won the
league championship a year ago and
enters this year's tournament as the
number two seed.
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING |
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Pirates land a center with
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could call John Spellacy a
product of tradition. He's
part of a prestigious
Cleveland, Ohio-area family
that has a long history of
public service. Like the
majority of males in his
family, John attends St.
Ignatius High School
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Pirates take series at UCF, 7-1 |
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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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Hawaii guard moving back East |
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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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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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CLEARWATER, FL — A 5-4 loss
to Memphis on Thursday knocked East Carolina out of the American
Athletic Conference Tournament.
The second-seeded
Pirates (34-21-1)
fell 4-2 to seventh-seeded South Florida on
Wednesday before the sixth-seeded Tigers
(20-38) took the elimination game.
ECU will await the
announcement of the NCAA Tournament pairings on Monday at noon.
The two-day performance
at Bright House Field was a stark contrast to
the Pirates' run to the league tournament
championship last season. A
three-game sweep at Central Florida
preceded the AAC tournament.
Darien Tubbs hit a
two-run homer off ECU starter Jimmy Boyd in the bottom of the first
for a 2-0 Memphis lead.
The Pirates tied the
score in the top of the second with a pair of runs. Garrett Brooks
had a one-out single, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a
hit by Eric Tyler. A pair of Memphis errors allowed Tyler to come
home.
Chris Carrier reached
on an error by ECU second baseman Charlie Yorgen in the second and
Trent Turner was hit by a pitch. A sacrifice bunt by Jake Overbey
moved the runners to second and third. Carrier scored for a 3-2
Tigers lead on a ground out to first by Jason Santana.
Jacob Elliott had a
two-run single in the third for a 5-2 Memphis lead. The hit down the
right field line brought in Jake Little, who had singled, and Tubbs,
who had walked. Boyd (7-5) had two wild pitches in the inning.
The Pirates got lone
runs in the fifth and eighth innings.
Parker Lamm was hit by
a pitch in the fifth, Turner Brown walked and Travis Watkins had an
RBI single through the right side to draw ECU within 5-3.
Watkins had a one-out
single to left in the eighth and Brooks singled before the Tigers
went to side-arming right-hander Nolan Blackwood.
Pinch hitter Kirk
Morgan reached on a fielder's choice that scored Watkins to cut the
lead to 5-4 before Blackwood got Zack Mozingo swinging to strand
runners on the corners.
Boyd lasted two and
one-third innings, yielding five runs, all earned.
Freshman Sam Lanier
pitched four and two-thirds for the Pirates, allowing one hit, no
walks and striking out six. Freshman Matt Bridges allowed one hit in
the eighth.
Alex Hicks (1-2) got
the win in relief of starter Matt Ferguson. Blackwood notched his
seventh save.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guests this week
were ECU assistant baseball
coach Jeff Palumbo (left), Pitt
Community College baseball coach
Tommy Eason
(right)
and D.H. Conley High School
softball coach Wayne Deans: