Baseball To Hold Purple-Gold World Series
October 04, 2010 | Baseball
Oct. 4, 2010
Purple-Gold Roster (as of 10/04/10) 
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina baseball team will conclude its fall practice this week with their annual Purple-Gold World Series at Lewis Field inside Clark LeClair Stadium starting Tuesday, Oct. 5.
The Pirates, who started fall practice on Sept. 8, will play a nine-inning game on Oct. 5 starting at 7 p.m., which will be followed by another nine-inning affair on Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. before concluding the annual event on Thursday, Oct. 7 with a seven inning contest beginning at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to all Pirate fans.
Sixth-year head coach Billy Godwin has announced that seniors Seth Maness (Pinehurst, N.C.) and Zach Woods (Virginia Beach, Va.) will toe the rubber for the first game. Senior Brad Mincey (Wilmington, N.C.) and junior Kevin Brandt (Fuquay Varina, N.C.) will go in game two and redshirt-sophomore Shawn Armstrong (New Bern, N.C.) and junior Mike Wright (Laurinburg, N.C.) will throw in game three.
The Pirates, who have made 10 NCAA Regional appearances in the last 12 seasons, return 23 letterwinners including 2010 Conference USA Pitcher-of-the-Year and three-time first-team selection Seth Maness. Joining Maness are all-league performers Zach Woods (2010 Newcomer-of-the-Year/2nd-team), Brad Mincey (2nd-team/ '09), Corey Thompson (2nd-team/ '10), Trent Whitehead (1st-team/ 2009) and John Wooten (freshman team/ '10).
Also stepping onto the diamond are 13 new faces, which consist of junior college transfers MIchael Ussery (Ohlone) and Timothy Younger (St. Petersburg), as well as 11 true freshmen: Jacob Baker, Austin Blake, Austin Chrismon, William Connerley, Ben Fultz, Jonathan Holt, Joshua Lovick, Chase McDonald, Jack Reinheimer, Drew Reynolds and Dario Santangelo.
Purple & Gold World Series (free to public)
Game 1: Tuesday, Oct. 5 (7 p.m.)
Game 2: Wednesday, Oct. 6 (7 p.m.)
Game 3: Thursday, Oct. 7 (4:30 p.m.)
