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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
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BASEBALL |
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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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GENERAL |
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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
tie for 24th. ...
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Varner at one-under after 54
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CHARLOTTE — Former East Carolina
golfer Harold Varner III shot a
two-over par 74 on Saturday for
a 54-hole total of 215 in the
Wells Fargo Championship at
Quail Hollow. Varner was in a
tie for 19th with 16 other
players, including Rory McIlroy
and Phil Mickelson ...
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Pirates take pair at UConn |
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STORRS, CT — East Carolina took
a 4-3 win over Connecticut on
Saturday in a game that was
suspended on Friday and followed
up by downing the Huskies 11-9
in Saturday's
regularly-scheduled contest.
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ECU, Huskies halted |
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STORRS, CT — After three rain
delays Friday, the opener of
East Carolina's three-game
American Athletic Conference
series at Connecticut was
suspended. The contest was
scoreless through six innings
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BASEBALL |
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Day games at UConn |
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 Connecticut's
J.O. Christian Field is sort of
the Wrigley Field of yesteryear
among college baseball
facilities. There are no lights
so the series opener for East
Carolina and the Huskies is at 3
p.m. today.
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BASEBALL |
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Pirates want no more kisses |
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 East
Carolina had plenty of chances to
take the deciding game in its
American Athletic Conference series
with first-place Cincinnati last
weekend. When you mix in Sunday's
noon start with a 94-minute rain
delay, add in a 4 p.m. travel curfew
and end up with a 3-3 tie, it leaves
you thinking about the what ifs.
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GENERAL |
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Pirates gathering to back Varner |
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When
former East Carolina golfer
Harold Varner III tees off on
No. 10 at the Quail Hollow Club
in Charlotte at 1 p.m. today for
the Wells Fargo Pro-Am, he will
have a group of followers
wearing purple shirts. ...
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By
Al Myatt
©2016 Bonesville.net
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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 tie for 24th.
Varner won $62,232 of
the event's $7,300,000 purse. That put his earnings for the year at
$870,095.
He was at two-under
after 16 holes Sunday but bogeyed the 17th and 18th.
Varner had five bogeys
and five birdies in the closing round.
James Hahn and Roberto
Castro had a playoff for the championship after each finished at
279, nine-under par.
Hahn made par on the
first extra hole, No. 18, for his second PGA Tour title after
Castro's second shot went into a spectator's shoe and he made bogey.
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30
p.m. Brian's guests this week
were ECU baseball coach Cliff
Godwin (left) and New England
Patriots
free agent signee Bryce Williams
(right):