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BAILEY'S TAKE
ON PIRATE SPORTS
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From the Anchor Desk
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
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By Brian Bailey |
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Lady Pirates get set to go
dancin’
By Brian Bailey
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Sharon Baldwin-Tener’s smile
as the clock hit triple zeros said it all on
Championship Sunday in Conference USA
women’s hoops.
Once again, her Lady Pirates
had dug themselves out of a hole, and this time the prize was as big as it
gets for her young program.
For the first time in 25
years, the East Carolina women will head to the NCAA basketball tournament.
The team arrived back in
Greenville shortly after noon on Monday. Several fans greeted the ladies
upon their arrival back in town.
“I think it’s great,” said
C-USA Tournament MVP LaCoya Terry. “To get all of these fans out here when
people have to work, I’m really excited.”
Jasmine Young scored 23 points
in the
79-70 win over Rice in the title game.
“It feels great and it’s
wonderful to see all of this support,” said Young. “I hope we can get more
people to our games next year.”
For Lady Pirate coach Sharon
Baldwin-Tener, the rebuilding project is now complete.
“This was a huge win for our
program,” said Baldwin-Tener. “Hopefully it will take us to the next level.
When we got here we were at the bottom and it has taken us five years to get
to the top, but we’ve finally gotten there."
The ladies won’t be able to
make their travel plans until this coming Monday night, when the NCAA
Women’s field is announced.
ESPN.com had East Carolina as
a No. 13 seed playing in Los Angeles in one of their projected brackets.
That same Web site had N.C. State as a No. 4 seed, playing in Raleigh. I
would think that if ECU is a 13 and if N.C. State is a 4, then those two
would hook up at the RBC Center. We’ll see.
Congratulations to Coach
Baldwin-Tener and the Lady Pirates and best of luck in the NCAA Women’s
Tournament.
Pirates 'win' Keith LeClair
Classic
Even though there wasn’t
really a trophy, East Carolina essentially took home the title in the 4th
annual Keith LeClair Classic.
ECU and Pepperdine both
finished with 2-1 records. ECU would get the tiebreaker by virtue of that
5-4 win over the Waves on Friday.
N.C. State and Western
Carolina were both 1-2. The Wolfpack’s lone win on the weekend was that
5-4 thriller over ECU on Saturday,
played in front of the largest crowd to ever see a college baseball game in
the state of North Carolina.
On offense, Brandon Henderson
was the star. Henderson hit .573 for the weekend. He topped off that
performance with his dramatic RBI double in the bottom of the 9th that
produced the
3-2 victory against Western Carolina.
Against the Catamounts, Josh
Dowdy did a great job in going 8 innings and keeping the Pirates close. T.J.
Hose was great in the win over Pepperdine, and Dustin Sasser had a gem going
for a while in the loss to N.C. State. Billy Godwin is certainly getting the
pitching he needs to win.
If you’re a baseball fan you
had to enjoy this past weekend’s Classic. Quite simply, it was just great
baseball. That’s what you get when you schedule great teams. You get great
competition.
Here’s looking forward to the
weekend, when 9th-ranked Cal State Fullerton comes to Clark-LeClair!
Pitt off to 12-0 start
Former ECU great Tommy Eason
has his Pitt Community College Bulldogs off to a 12-0 start.
Eason’s squad swept Wilkes
Community College in a four-game series this past weekend.
Pitt’s roster is dotted with
many players that you would recognize from the area.
“The guys are working hard and
we’re real pleased with our start,” said Eason. “We play a good brand of
baseball, and we hope folks can come over and check us out sometime.”
Eason’s intensity is worth the
price of admission, for sure!
BB
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