BUIES CREEK, N.C. – East Carolina and Campbell combined for just eight hits Tuesday night at a chilly Jim Perry Stadium as the Camels scored two runs in the seventh to rally past the Pirates 3-2 in an early-season midweek affair.
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Kenan Bowman and Austin Irby both registered base knocks for ECU (2-2) who took advantage of three Campbell (1-2) errors, but the home side ended up outhitting the Pirates 6-2 as six different Camels accounted for one apiece.
WATCH: “We’ve got to do a better job of being on time.” ECU Baseball Coach Cliff Godwin after the loss to Campbell on the Pirates’ offense. Watch the full postgame on YouTube – https://t.co/lQ7LkpVwf5 pic.twitter.com/5Ln7z2akcn
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Jett Music (1-0) was credited with the win after tossing 2.2 scoreless and hitless innings with six strikeouts against no walks. Brad Pruett (0-1) took the loss, allowing one run on two hits with five strikeouts in two frames.
Buccaneer Scoreboard – ECU Baseball drops the first midweek game of the season at Campbell. Comments from Coach Cliff Godwin coming up. pic.twitter.com/V7Ct86fuvu
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Campbell threatened with one out in the home half of the first inning as a fielding error and walk put two runners on, but Kenan Bowman corralled a pair of fly balls at the warning track in left to keep the Camels off the scoreboard. ECU had an opportunity to crack the board in the top of the second itself as Jack Herring and Alex Peltier drew free passes of their own before moving into scoring position with two outs, but Charlie Meglio handled a grounder to third and threw across the diamond in time to terminate the frame.
🏴☠️⚾️ Brad Pruett in for Lance Williams. ECU Baseball holding a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. pic.twitter.com/6nbRpDsz4X
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The home side kept the pressure on in the bottom of the second, loading the bases with no outs via three consecutive singles, but reliever Ethan Young took the mound and limited the damage in a big way. A sac fly off the bat of Darnell Parker afforded Campbell the lead, but Young responded with another fly ball out and a strikeout to escape the inning.
🏴☠️⚾️ Lance Williams in for Ethan Young. ECU Baseball looking to hang on to a 2-1 lead in a tight contest. pic.twitter.com/m4OWKWo0gL
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A trio of costly Camel errors in the top of the fourth resulted in two runs and the Pirates’ first lead of the contest, but East Carolina was unable to muster much more offense from there. Campbell would snatch the upper hand back in the bottom of the seventh thanks to an Andrew Schuldt RBI double and a run-scoring groundout before the Pirates went down in order in both the eighth and ninth innings.
🏴☠️⚾️ Purple Gold chants in Buies Creek as ECU Baseball takes a 2-1 lead over Campbell in the 4th inning! pic.twitter.com/gEI3zy7mhP
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🏴☠️⚾️ ECU Baseball ties it up at 1 all in the 4th inning as Colby Wallace scores on the Campbell error. pic.twitter.com/ecdcb107vG
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- East Carolina dropped its fifth consecutive one-run decision to Campbell dating back to 2023.
- The respective pitching staffs combined for 25 strikeouts against just three walks each.
- The Pirates and Camels were 1-for-17 with two outs on the board while neither side recorded a two-out RBI.
- Only five total hitters for either club reached base to lead off an inning.
- Pruett has struck out 14 batters in 5.1 frames this season and is holding opposing hitters to a .211 batting average.
🏴☠️📸 Game Day Pics by Michels & Gauquie – https://t.co/h4axvytx1k – Pirate Nation on hand to support ECU Baseball on the road at Campbell. See all of today’s fan pics here – https://t.co/KA73S5WUHQ pic.twitter.com/HEV9N3ZOeg
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Up Next: East Carolina is slated to host No. 6 North Carolina Friday at 5 p.m. inside Lewis Field at Clark-LeClair Stadium in the opener of a three-game traveling series.
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