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News Nuggets, 04.12.05
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Compiled from staff reports
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Legendary Gaylord Perry set
for ECU mound duty
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04.08.05: Hawaii
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04.07.05: Rouse,
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04.06.05: The
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04.05.05: Williams
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Baseball America & Collegiate Baseball Polls ...
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04.04.05: Title
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to elite status after 4-year climb ...
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04.03.05: Little
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unleash tear gas on disruptive Michigan State fans ...
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04.02.05: UNC-G
coach beats out Herrion for Siena job ... Terps assistant
Dickerson named coach at Tulane ... 'P.H.D.' Pitino gets
life in perspective at U of L ...
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04.01.05: Gamecocks
capture NIT title in thrilling finish ... Coaches pushing
for more distant 3-point arc ...
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03.31.05: Preparations
in place for closed ECU scrimmage ... Texas legislature
maneuvers to reign in BCS ... NIT master Odom leads USC into
title game ...
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03.30.05: Night-time
football on the menu for Pirate fans ... Gamecocks top Terps
to reach NIT title game ... Hawks halt Memphis in NIT
semifinal battle ...
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03.29.05: East
Carolina southpaw takes Conference USA honor ... Beale
Street helps Memphis star cure the blues ...
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The latest forecast for Wednesday
night's East Carolina-North Carolina baseball game at Clark-LeClair Stadium
calls for a 40 percent chance of rain.
If the wet weather stays away, the
evening's special guest has been known to bring along a little precipitation
of his own.
Williamston native and Major League
Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry said to have been the preeminent practitioner
in his heyday of the fine art of surreptitiously applying moisture to a
baseball is scheduled to throw out the first pitch.
ECU announced Perry's appearance,
including his participation in an hour-long pre-game autograph session, in a
Monday press release. A $10.00 donation per item signed will
benefit the Pirate Club, said the announcement.
It is unknown how sizable
the donation must be in order to entice Perry into giving the item one of
his secret spitball treatments.
Fans are instructed to bring their own
baseballs, caps, programs or other items they wish for Perry to sign. The
autograph session will begin Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. and last until 6:45 p.m.
The start time for East Carolina's
game with the
7th-ranked Tar Heels is 7 p.m.
Perry won two Cy Young awards (1972 and
1978), combining with his brother Jim Perry who captured the honor in 1970
as the only brothers to each win a Cy Young Award.
In his 22-year career in the big
leagues, Gaylord Perry was a five-time all-star, earning 314 career wins and
compiling an ERA of 3.10 in over 5,000 innings pitched.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, in 1991.
Compiled from an
ECU Athletics report.
Baseball America & Collegiate Baseball Polls
Released 04.11.05.
(View
previous
week's rankings)
(For both polls below, Conference USA teams
including future members and
Carolinas teams in bold; East Carolina opponents in
red.)
BASEBALL AMERICA
TOP 25
DURHAM The top 25
teams in the Baseball America poll with records and
previous ranking (voting by the staff of Baseball America:
1. Texas 29-6 1
2. Cal State Fullerton 23-8 2
3. Tulane 29-5 3
4. Georgia Tech 26-7 4
5. Florida 25-8 5
6. Arizona 24-10 6
7. North Carolina 27-6 7
8. South Carolina 28-5 12
9. Miami (FL) 27-9 13
10. Arkansas 27-6 14
11. Oregon State 26-5 16
12. Baylor 22-12 15
13. Missouri 26-6 23
14. Stanford 19-11 10
15. Rice 23-12 11
16. Long Beach State 24-11 21
17. Nebraska 27-6 17
18. Alabama 24-10 NR
19. College of Charleston 26-5 19
20. Florida State 32-8 20
21. Mississippi 22-10 9
22. Louisiana State 23-11 8
23. Tennessee 23-9 25
24. Mississippi State 20-8 NR
25. Southern California 21-9 NR
COLLEGIATE
BASEBALL TOP 30
TUCSON The top 25
teams in the 2005 Collegiate Baseball (Baseball News) poll with records, points and previous ranking voting by coaches, sports writers and
sports information directors:
1. Tulane 29-5 488 2
2. Cal State Fullerton 23-8 486 1
3. Texas 29-6 484 5
4. Georgia Tech 26-7 482 3
5. South Carolina 28-5 480 10
6. Arizona(24-10 478 11
7. Florida 25-8 477 6
8. North Carolina 27-6 475 7
9. Florida State 32-8 474 8
10. Nebraska 27-6 472 4
11. Oregon State 26-5 469 15
12. Miami (FL) 27-9 468 14
13. Missouri 26-6 465 19
14. Long Beach State 24-11 464 13
15. Arkansas 27-6 461 17
16. Baylor 22-12 457 21
17. Alabama 24-10 455 22
18. Stanford 19-11 453 12
19. Louisiana State 23-11 452 9
20. Coll. of Charleston 26-5 450 18
21. Louisiana-Lafayette 29-6 449 20
22. Mississippi State 20-8 447 24
23. Auburn 22-13 445 16
24. Tennessee 23-9 442
25. Southern Cal 21-9 439 29
26. Central Florida 30-8 438 25
27. Evansville 27-8 435
28. Mississippi 22-10 433 23
29. Pepperdine 22-10 430
30. Creighton 26-7 426
News Nuggets are
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
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