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PIRATES ON THE AIR ... PROBABLE STARTERS (2021 Stats) ... Radio: .......................................... Pirate Sports Properties Tuesday: ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO Flagship: ........................................... 94.3 FM The Game ECU: Tyler Smith (RH) 4.08 0-0 4 4 0 0/0 0 17.2 12 8 8 6 16 Play-by-Play: ................................................ Corey Gloor UNC: Will Sandy (LH) 4.26 1-0 3 2 0 0/0 0 6.1 5 4 3 5 6 Color Analyst: ....................................Dr. Gary Overton TuneIn App: ......................Pirate IMG Sports Network INDIVIDUAL QUICK HITS ... Live Stats: .............................................. ECUPirates.com Stream: .................................... ACC Network (Tuesday) • Seventh-year head coach Cliff Godwin stands third on ECU’s all-time wins list with 230 .............................................. Sam Ravech (Play-by-Play) victories ... He passed his college coach and ECU Hall of Famer Keith LeClair (212) on March .....................................Xavier Scruggs (Color Analyst) 8, 2020 with a 4-1 win at Charlotte in the series finale ... Heading into the season, he stood 15th in win percentage among active NCAA DI head coaches (page 10, bio on page 5). • Tyler Smith, a 2018 all-conference performer, owns an 18-3 career record (85.7 win pct.) INSIDE THE SERIES ... with one save in 65 games (34 starts) ... Tallied six career quality starts. ECU vs. UNC: UNC leads, 50-30 • Dating back to 2020, Jake Kuchmaner has won six of his last nine starts posting a 6-0 Last ECU Win ......................... 9-5 at UNC (2019) record ... In 2019 he tossed the 31st perfect game in NCAA DI history at Maryland on March 17. Last UNC Win ......................................* 5-4 (2018) • Seth Caddell leads the team in home runs (eight) and RBI (24) ... Nationally he ranks ECU Streak ............................................................W2 fifth in HRs and 14th in RBI. * = game played at DBAP • Connor Norby was named AAC Player-of-the-Week (March 15) ... He is a two-time AAC Honor Roll selection and currently owns a 26-game on-base streak heading into this weeks action ... Currently leads the nation in hits (36), eighth in hits per game (1.89), 28th ‘21 STAT COMPARISONS ... in batting average (.450), 45th in slugging percentage (.750) and 63rd in RBI. • Freshman Carson Whisenhunt earned AAC Pitcher-of-the-Week honors (March 15) after ECU UNC tossing a career-best seven shutout innings with nine strikeouts in ECU’s series clinching 2021 Record 16-3 12-6 win against Charlotte ... In five outings he has fanned 41 batters to lead the conference and Conference 0-0 8-4 rank 19th nationally ... He has struck out multiple batters in an inning 14 times thus far ... 2021 RPI -- -- Became the first pitcher since Brooks Jernigan (1998) to record double-digit strikeouts in 2021 National Ranking 8 24 consecutive games ... His 11 punch outs is tied for third all-time among freshman hurlers in (D1) (D1) a single-game ... He is a two-time AAC Honor Roll selection, named a Collegiate Baseball National Player-of-the-Week on Feb. 22 and picked up NCBWA National Pitcher-of-the- HITTING Month accolades on March 3. Average .290 .253 • C.J. Mayhue, a NCBWA Stopper-of-the-Year Watch List candidate, has four saves on the At-Bats 659 594 season which stands 12th nationally ... Earned his fourth save on Sunday, March 21 working Runs 135 94 three scoreless innings againt Illinois State ... On the season he owns a 1-1 record in 11 outings Hits 191 150 with 26 strikeouts to six walks ... In two games vs. Duke this year he is 1-0 with a save and Doubles 33 27 has tossed 7.1 scoreless frames with 10 strikeouts. Triples 2 5 • Thomas Francisco had his 12-game hit streak come to an end in the series finale against Home Runs 27 23 Charlotte (ended at 14 games), however he has reached base safely in all 19 games this RBI 121 90 season heading into Tuesday’s game at UNC ... Hit a pair of home runs in the Pirates 4-3 Walks 86 81 extra-inning win vs. Illinois State ... Named to AAC Weekly Honor Roll on March 22. Hit By Pitch 9 19 • Seniors Matt Bridges and Cam Colmore return for their sixth year ... Combined, they have Strikeouts 159 184 appeared in 139 games, with an 12-4 record, eight saves with 186 Ks in 184.2 IPs. SF-SH 4-12 7-5 • Junior Gavin Williams made his first start of the season in the series opener against Illinois SBs-Att. 28-37 15-21 State working five innings where he allowed one run and struck out seven ... He owns a 1-0 Errors 17 11 record with a save in three appearances this season with a 1.32 ERA. Fielding % .976 .982 PITCHING TEAM QUICK HITS ... 3.29 4.10 ERA • ECU opened up its 87th season of collegiate baseball (1932-42, 1946-present) with a three- Innings 175.0 158.0 game sweep of Rhode Island (Feb. 19-21). 139 125 Hits Allowed • The Pirates have made a regional appearance in 16 of the last 21 seasons, including four of Runs 73 79 five under Godwin (2015, ‘16, ‘18, ‘19) - no post-season in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. Earned Runs 64 72 • Heading into this weeks action, ECU has been ranked or received votes in at least one 207 171 Strikeouts national poll for 48-straight weeks (began in 2018 preseason). Walks 60 74 • The Pirates led the nation (2020) in fielding percentage ( ) and sac bunts ( ) ... They .216 .217 .990 23 Opp. Ba. Avg. also finished in the Top 10 in batting average .317( ) and hits (183). • ECU currently ranks among the national leaders in home runs (11th/27), K-to-BB ratio (17th/3.45), stolen bases (23rd/28), ERA (30th/3.29), slugging percentage (31st/.467) and scoring (49th/7.1). • This season the Pirates have fanned 207 batters in 19 games (10.9 kpg) and last year av- eraged 10.1 per contest (171 Ks in 17 games). • ECU has five two-way players on its roster ... Dubbed #2WayU by Godwin, the five players are Zach Agnos, Skylar Brooks, Cam Clonch, Ryder Giles and Austin St. Laurent. Feel free to call us East Carolina or ECU. • For the second-straight week, the Pirates are as a consensus Top 10 team for the seventh However, we respectfully ask that the errone- time under Godwin ... Back in 2019, five of the final six weeks leading up to the Super ous designation of Eastern Carolina or flawed Regional’s, they garnered at Top 10 designation in all six major collegiate baseball polls. abbreviations such as E. Carolina, East Caro., ECaro, EC never be used. EAST CAROLINA 1 BASEBALL 2021 SCHEDULE/RESULTS FEBRUARY OPPONENT LOCATION SITE TIME (ET) Feb. 19 (Friday) Rhode Island Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 3-2 (11 inn.) Feb. 20 (Saturday) % Rhode Island Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 7-1 Feb. 21 (Sunday) Rhode Island Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 12-4 Feb. 23 (Tuesday) (25) Duke Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 6-1 Feb. 26 (Friday) Georgia Southern Statesboro, Ga. J.I. Clements Stadium W, 6-4 Feb. 27 (Saturday) Georgia Southern Statesboro, Ga. J.I. Clements Stadium L, 10-7 Feb. 28 (Sunday) Georgia Southern Statesboro, Ga. J.I. Clements Stadium W, 9-2 MARCH OPPONENT LOCATION SITE TIME (ET) Mar. 3 (Wednesday) Old Dominion Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium L, 6-5 (12) Mar. 5 (Friday) $ App State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 13-2 Mar. 6 (Saturday) $ App State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 5-2 Mar. 7 (Sunday) $% App State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 10-2 Mar. 9 (Tuesday) Duke (ACCNX) Durham, N.C. DBAP W, 11-5 Mar. 12 (Friday) % Charlotte Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 7-4 Mar. 13 (Saturday) Charlotte Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 3-1 Mar. 14 (Sunday) Charlotte Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 3-1 Mar. 17 (Wednesday) UNCW (FloBaseball) Wilmington, N.C. Brooks Field L, 10-2 Mar. 19 (Friday) Illinois State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 4-3 (11) Mar. 20 (Saturday) Illinois State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 11-5 Mar. 21 (Sunday) Illinois State Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium W, 11-8 Mar. 23 (Tuesday) North Carolina (ACCN) Chapel Hill, N.C. Boshamer Stadium 6 p.m. Mar. 26 (Friday) % St. John’s Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 6:30 p.m. Mar. 27 (Saturday) St. John’s Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 4 p.m. Mar. 28 (Sunday) St. John’s Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 1 p.m. Mar. 30 (Tuesday) North Carolina Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 6:30 p.m. APRIL OPPONENT LOCATION SITE TIME (ET) April 1 (Thursday) # Cincinnati Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 4 p.m. April 2 (Friday) # Cincinnati (DH) Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 1 p.m. April 3 (Saturday) # Cincinnati Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 1 p.m. April 9 (Friday) # Memphis (DH) Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 1 p.m. April 10 (Saturday) # Memphis Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 4 p.m. April 11 (Sunday) # Memphis Greenville, N.C. Clark-LeClair Stadium 11:30 a.m. April 16 (Friday) # Houston (DH) Houston, Texas Schroeder Park 3 p.m. April 17 (Saturday) # Houston Houston, Texas Schroeder Park 3 p.m. April 18 (Sunday) # Houston Houston, Texas Schroeder Park 12 Noon April 23 (Friday) # UCF (DH) Greenville, N.C.