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05.31.06: Owls,
Herd, Pirates pace C-USA academics ... ECU's Witter inks
baseball deal with Giants ... Hamrick discusses NCAA
baseball selections |
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05.30.06: Rice
leads four CUSA teams into NCAA playoffs ... ECU's Cotto
hurdles to NCAA title meet ... 'Horns' title ring goes on,
then off eBay |
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05.29.06: Rice
rolls in Conference USA baseball finale ... ECU 4x100 relay
qualifies for NCAA title dash ... Huggins takes disciplinary
action at K-State |
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05.28.06: O'Leary
gets lengthy deal at Central Florida ... City rivals set for
C-USA baseball showdown ... Duke women golfers defend NCAA
title |
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05.27.06: Alumnus
Wharton returns to lead Pirate Club ... Sampson subjected to
NCAA sanctions ... C-USA athletes selected for leadership
forum |
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05.26.06: SMU's
Turner to co-chair Knight Commission ... Blazers golf
recruit wins national juco title ... Former ECU player
Kilgore inks with UTEP |
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05.25.06: Large
Houston recruiting class becomes larger ... Duke women's
lacrosse supports men's team ... Wolfpack hands Heels ACC
Tournament loss |
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05.24.06: Jake
Smith headlines ECU's all-league picks ... ECU softball's
Krista Jessup inks pro deal ... SMU football gains award for
100% grad rate |
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05.23.06: Hart
may nix FSU recruit's grant after arrest ... Memphis, Rice
players take weekly awards ... Lady Vols coach rewarded with
fat new deal |
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05.22.06: Rice
hosting C-USA baseball; ECU starts early ... Inman gets
two-game suspension at UGa ... Tide linebacker booked on
multiple charges |
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05.21.06: 'Ride
with The Voice' fundraiser set for June ... Ga. Tech to host
Irish and ESPN Game Day ... Smith, Bowden, Paterno headed for
I-A Hall |
05.20.06: 'Big
House' set for $226 million makeover ...
C-USA lands seven on preseason football list ...
Decades-long coaching career ends for Sutton |
05.19.06: Holland
heads up hoops scheduling task force ... Houston, Rice
hurlers on
10-man Clemens list ... Tucker turns away from Texas,
retains agent |
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05.18.06: Navy,
NCSU limit tickets for ECU fans ... C-USA trio invited to
USA Baseball tryouts ... Wolfpack's Brackman to sit out rest
of season |
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05.17.06: Houston
hurler gets national pitching honor ... Former UVa grid
coach Blackburn dies at 93 ... Three players leaving Ole
Miss hoops program |
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05.16.06: Former
ECU slugger Tracy inks mega-deal ... C-USA announces weekly
baseball awards ... Third Duke lacrosse player indicted |
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05.15.06: Frasure,
Cotto pace ECU in C-USA track & field ... Tulsa headed to
Fresno softball regional ... Texas RB nabbed with pot-filled
backpack |
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05.14.06: Southern
Cal cager shot and killed ... ECU's Hewett moves into C-USA
sprint finals ... Tulsa wins softball crown on walkoff homer
... Black college football pioneer Robinson dies |
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05.13.06: ECU's
Eric Frasure wins C-USA hammer throw ... ECU's Jake Smith in
running for Bench Award ... Houston boots Pirates from
softball tourney ... Illini plan major renovations of
football stadium |
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05.12.06: Pirates
still alive in C-USA softball tournament ... ECU women tied
for 20th in golf regional ... St. John's receives ruling on
infractions |
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05.11.06: Harrell
makes first team All C-USA ... Danger of spearing in
football cited ... Prep star says dream led him to Jayhawks |
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05.10.06: Vols
sign multi-sport standout Mattingly ... 2006 College
Football Hall class announced ... Ducks tab Casey Martin to
guide golf team |
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05.09.06: ECU's
Harrell honored on eve of tournament ... Washington's Romar
to guide USA under-18's ... Cavs, Terps take aim on NCAA
lacrosse title |
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05.08.06: Mountaineers
to be recognized in Raleigh ... Towe to join Lowe at NCSU
... 'Noles edge Deacs in record setter |
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05.07.06: N.C.
State's long hunt officially over ... ECU gains berth in
C-USA Softball Tourney |
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05.06.06: Hoops
rule committee looks at 3-point distance ... Blue chipper
makes late commitment to Duke ... Colorado cage coach faces
season in limbo |
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05.05.06: Lowe
and behold, Pack fills its vacancy ... Horns, Sooners extend
deal with Cotton Bowl ... Mascot lands 7th-seeded Illini on
the road |
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05.04.06: ECU's
Harrell snares another C-USA award ... 'Bama okays hefty new
contract for Shula ... Downey heading from Bearcats to
Gamecocks |
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05.03.06: ECU's
Chris Moore signs deal with Saints ... NCSU represented on
World Cup team ... Politics: Shuler projected to face Rep.
Taylor |
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05.02.06: ECU's
Baker inks free agent pact with Steelers ... ECU women
golfers headed for East regional ... UAB's Hackney signs
with Browns |
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05.01.06: Giants
take ECU's Whimper in fourth round ... Memphis back Williams
selected by Panthers ... More names popping up in N.C. State
search |
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News Nuggets, 06.01.06
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Pirates announce kickoff times, TV games
Official kickoff times for 11 of East
Carolina's 12 football games have been announced at
ecupirates.com.
ECU's nationally-televised matchup
against West Virginia, scheduled for Sept. 23 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, has
not been assigned a start time yet by ESPN.
East Carolina's home schedule, which
includes a six-week stretch of five consecutive games, will open with a 7:00
p.m. start against Conference USA rival Memphis on Sept. 16, the Saturday
before the Pirates welcome the Mountaineers to Greenville.
Atlantic Coast Conference-member
Virginia will make its first-ever visit to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium two weeks
later on Oct. 7 for a 6:00 p.m. contest which will be aired by CSTV.
Tulsa and Southern Methodist will
close out the long homestand with consecutive 3:00 p.m. kickoffs on Oct. 14
and Oct. 21, respectively. Three weeks later, ECU hosts its final home game
of the season when Marshall visits for 1:00 p.m. kickoff on Nov. 11.
The first three Pirates' road games
have been scheduled as night contests as ECU will meet Navy on Sept. 2 (5:30
p.m.), UAB on Sept. 9 (7:00 p.m.) and Southern Mississippi on Oct. 28 (8:00
p.m.) under the lights. The matchups against the Midshipmen and Golden
Eagles will be carried by CSTV.
After playing Central Florida on Nov.
4 in Orlando beginning at 4:00 p.m., East Carolina will finish its league
schedule with its first trip to Rice on Nov. 18 (3:00 p.m.).
The Pirates will wrap up the regular
season with a road trip to Carter-Finely Stadium to face ACC member North
Carolina State at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 25.
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2006 EAST CAROLINA FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
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DATE
OPPONENT
TIME TV
Sep. 02 at Navy
5:30 pm CSTV
Sep. 09 at UAB
7:00 pm
Sep. 16 Memphis
7:00 pm
Sep. 23 West Virginia
TBA ESPN
Sep. 30 Open Date
Oct. 07 Virginia
6:00 pm CSTV
Oct. 14 Tulsa
3:00 pm
Oct. 21 Southern Methodist
3:00 pm
Oct. 28 at Southern Miss
8:00 pm CSTV
Nov. 04 at Central Florida
4:00 pm
Nov. 11 Marshall
1:00 pm
Nov. 18 at Rice
3:00 pm
Nov. 25 at N.C. State
1:00 pm
Bold denotes Conference USA game;
All times Eastern and subject to change.
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ECU
excels among C-USA's academic elite
Thirty-five East Carolina
student-athletes earned the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal
during the 2005-06 academic year. The medals are give to athletes in the
league who earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or above during the
academic year, according to a release at
ecupirates.com.
Of the 12 schools in the
conference, ECU had the second highest number of student-athletes to be
awarded the medal with 35. Memphis had the most honorees with 37.
The East Carolina men and
women's cross country teams and softball team each had four medal
recipients, while the women's golf, women's soccer, women's swimming and
women's tennis teams each had three players to earn the accolades.
Fourteen of ECU's 17
conference-sponsored sports teams had at least one student-athlete receive
an academic medal.
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EAST CAROLINA MEDAL WINNERS, BY SPORT
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Men's
Cross Country (4) - William Collins, James McLellan, Jarrett
Newby, Stephen Tausend.
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Women's
Cross Country (4) - Hayley Flynn, Caitlin Littlefield,
Jennifer Perrino, Jessica Raphael.
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Football
(2) - Shawn Levesque, Joseph Sloan.
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Men's
Golf (2) - Elliott Jones, Markus Leandersson.
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Women's
Golf (3) - Jessica Hauser, Lene Krog, Michelle Williams.
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Men's
Soccer (1) - David Levine.
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Women's
Soccer (3) - Madison Keller, Nicole Moore, Mary Puckett.
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Softball
(4) - Sarah Bibee, Jessica Johnson, Jessica Potter, Joyce
Roodenburg.
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Women's
Swimming (1) - Ashley Gelsomin, Abbey Hiller, Kelly Swain.
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Men's
Tennis (2) - Britton Steele, Henrique Viana.
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Women's
Tennis (3) - Logan Beam, Hannah Priest, Alex Smith.
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Men's
Track & Field (1) - Nicholas Boerio.
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Women's
Track & Field (2) - Jheri Godfrey, Grace Pelerin.
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Volleyball (1) - Heidi Krug.
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Rice's Degerman makes Academic All-America
Rice senior pitcher Eddie
Degerman has been named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America
team for baseball, according to announcement by the national Collegiate
Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA).
Degerman was one of 12
players, only two of whom were pitchers, from across the country selected to
the Division I Academic All-America first team.
This season on the mound,
Degerman is 11-1 with a 1.80 earned run average, registering 136 strikeouts
in 105 innings of work. A native of Granada Hills, CA, Degerman has been
just as successful in the classroom, juggling baseball and the books to
maintain a 3.37 grade point average as an Economics major.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from other sources. Copyright 2006
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