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High drama ends in East Carolina win

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East Carolina forced extra innings with a last-gasp, three-run rally, then closed the deal three frames later for a 5-4 Conference USA road victory over Houston Friday night.

With two outs and the bases empty in the 9th, Chase McDonald stirred the Pirates’ bats with a home run. Philip Clark and Jonathan Holt followed with singles, then came across the plate on an off-the-wall triple by Ben Fultz that knotted the score at 4-4.

ECU (26-12, 7-6 C-USA) punctuated its positive reversal of fortunes with classic offensive strategy. Jack Reinheimer walked to start off the 12th, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Corey Thompson and was brought home for what turned out to be the decisive run by a Trent Whitehead single.

The Pirates got effective pitching from starter Mike Wright and closer Seth Simmons. Wright logged a career-high 9 innings, giving up only 6 hits and striking out 7.

Simmons fanned 5 and surrendered only one hit in blanking the Cougars (19-20, 6-4) over the final three frames. He finished off the clutch relief job and improved to 5-1 by whiffing Landon Appling to strand runners at the corners in the bottom of the 12th.

The teams will face off tonight at Cougar Field at 7:30 p.m. in the second game of the three-game series.

 

COLLEGE BASEBALL BOX SCORE

2011 Game No. 38

EAST CAROLINA 5, HOUSTON 4 (12)

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 • UH SID GAME STORY


Date: Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011.
Place: Cougar Field, Houston, TX.
Attendance: 843.
Records: ECU Pirates 26-12 (7-6 Conference USA); UH Cougars 19-20 (6-4).
 

EAST CAROLINA         AB  R  H BI
Ben Fultz lf.......... 6  0  2  2
Jack Reinheimer ss.... 5  1  1  0
Corey Thompson 3b..... 5  0  1  0
Zach Wright c......... 6  0  1  0
Trent Whitehead cf.... 6  0  3  1
John Wooten 1b........ 6  0  0  0
Chase McDonald dh..... 4  2  2  1
Chris Gosik pr........ 0  0  0  0
Philip Clark rf....... 5  1  2  0
Tim Younger 2b........ 1  0  0  1
Austin Homan ph....... 1  0  1  0
Mike Ussery pr/2b..... 0  0  0  0
Jonathan Holt ph...... 1  1  1  0
Drew Reynolds 2b...... 1  0  0  0
Mike Wright p......... 0  0  0  0
Seth Simmons p........ 0  0  0  0
TOTALS................47  5 14  5

HOUSTON               AB  R  H BI
Ryan Still 2b......... 4  1  1  0
Caleb Ramsey rf....... 4  1  1  0
Chase Jensen ss....... 5  1  1  0
M.P. Cokinos 1b....... 5  0  2  2
John Cannon c......... 5  1  2  0
Matt Creel dh/p....... 3  0  0  0
Codey Morehouse 3b.... 5  0  0  0
Joel Ansley lf........ 5  0  0  0
Landon Appling cf..... 5  0  0  0
Jared Ray p........... 0  0  0  0
Dustin Fuerst p....... 0  0  0  0
Dakota Dill p......... 0  0  0  0
Chase Wellbrock p..... 0  0  0  0
TOTALS................41  4  7  2

 

 

SCORE BY INNINGS 1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9 10 11 12 -  R  H  E
EAST CAROLINA... 0 0 1  0 0 0  0 0 3  0  0  1 -  5 14  2
HOUSTON......... 0 0 0  0 1 3  0 0 0  0  0  0 -  4  7  1

E - Fultz(1); Reinheimer(12); Jensen(20).
DP - UH 3.
LOB - ECU 10; UH 5.
2B - Whitehead(13); McDonald(6); Cokinos(11).
3B - Fultz(3).
HR - McDonald(2).
SH - Thompson(2); Ramsey(8); Creel 2(2).
SB - Clark(9).

ECU PITCHING      IP  H  R ER BB SO
M. Wright....... 9.0  6  4  3  1  7
Simmons......... 3.0  1  0  0  0  5
 
UH PITCHING       IP  H  R ER BB SO
Ray............. 4.0  3  1  1  0  1
Creel........... 6.0 10  3  3  1  4
Fuerst.......... 0.1  0  0  0  1  1
Dill............ 0.2  0  1  1  1  0
Wellbrock....... 1.0  1  0  0  0  0

Win - Simmons (5-1).
Loss - Dill (0-2).
Save - None.
WP - M. Wright 2(7); Fuerst(1).
Umpires - HP: Jim Garman;
          1B: Mark McDonald;
          3B: Tim Henderson.
Start: 6:30 pm; Time: 2:51.
Attendance: 843.

PAGE UPDATED 04/23/11 04:44 AM.

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