Game Day Central: No. 20 ECU Travels To High Point
April 20, 2016 | Baseball
| No. 20 East Carolina at High Point (Game 37) | |
| Date: | April 20 |
| Time | 6 p.m. (ET) |
| Location | High Point, N.C. (Williard Stadium) |
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - No. 20 East Carolina (24-12) returns to action tonight with a road game at High Point (24-13), which is slated for a 6 p.m. (ET) first pitch at Williard Stadium.
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAME
• The Pirates are coming off an impressive 15-3 home win against No. 8 NC State where Turner Brown, Bryce Harman and Zack Mozingo each belted home runs and drove in four runs ... The Panthers are coming off a 17-16 win against Elon in midweek action … ECU owns a 16-6 record at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium, while posting an 8-6 ledger on the road.
• ECU is ranked in the national polls for the eighth consecutive week with their No. 20 ranking by D1Baseball ... They first entered the polls after picking up a road series win over No. 4 Virginia (Feb. 27-29) - the first over a Top 5 program since 2002 … The Pirates are also receiving votes in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and USA Today Coaches poll.
PIRATE QUICK HITS (prior to Wednesday night)
• Davis Kirkpatrick will make his second start of the season (other vs. Monmouth) when he takes the hill at High Point ... The right-hander has appeared in nine games posting an 0-1 record with a 5.09 ERA ... It will be his second career start against the Panthers (other May 13, 2014) where he picked up the win after tossing a career-best 5.1 innings with 10 strikeouts.
• Parker Lamm is batting a team-best .368 entering tonights action ... At Memphis, he batted .538 (8-for-13) with eight RBI and scored a pair of runs on his way to AAC Honor Roll accolades ... Tallied a career-best six RBI in the series opener and in game two collected four hits (tying career-high/other vs. Tulane on 4/10) ... Recorded at least one hit in 27 of 32 games where he has an official at-bat, while reaching base safely in 28 contests.
• Dwanya Williams-Sutton ranks second on the team and in the AAC with a .358 batting average ... Leads league with a .442 on-base pct. and is third with a .558 slugging percentage ... Belted 2 HRs (JAX, Elon) ... Recorded his third GW RBI against Houston (4/2) ... Named to AAC Honor Roll (2/29).
• Eric Tyler is a two-time AAC Honor Roll selection (3/28 & 4/4) ... Batting .319 ... Leads the club in HRs (4), RBI (27), TBs (65) ... First career multi-HR game vs. JAX (3/26) setting an ECU & AAC single-game record with 8 RBI ... Personal-best four hits vs. UNCW (3/29).
• Joe Ingle recorded AAC-best seventh save at Elon (4/5) working a career-high 4.0 innings with 7 Ks in a win ... Fanned career-high nine batters vs. Maryland (3/6) ... Owns a 4-3 record with a 2.79 ERA in 17 appearences ... Recorded 15 career saves, which is tied for fifth all-time at ECU ... Named to NCBWA Stopper-of-the-Year Watch List.
• Travis Watkins batting .324, which is good enough to rank among the top-10 in the AAC ... Leads team in doubles (13) and runs (28) ... Has 2 HRs and 22 RBI ... Laced three doubles at Memphis (4/16), which hadn't been done since Trent Whitehead in 2011 .. At least one hit in 30 games ... 2015 Johnny Bench Award semifinalist ... Four-time Bench Watch List candidate (2013-16).
• Turner Brown is batting .295 with 20 RBI and 18 runs scored ... Named to AAC Honor Roll (2/22) ... Delivered game-winning hit (walk-off) against SE Louisiana (3/4) with a two-RBI single in the ninth ... Belted 2nd home run of the year vs. No. 8 NC State (April 19)
• ECU's starting pitching boasts a 2.36 ERA ... Allowed 68 runs (52 earned) with 143 Ks to 46 BBs in 198.0 innings ...The bullpen has surrendered 69 runs (59 earned) in 125.1 innings for a 4.24 ERA ... They have allowed 39 of 83 inherited runners to score (47.0 percent).
PROBABLE STARTERS
Wednesday: RHP Davis Kirkpatrick (0-1, 5.09 ERA) vs. RHP Michael Hennessey (2-2, 6.91 ERA)
ECU'S HISTORY ON THE DIAMOND
• In its storied history, the Pirates won the 1961 NAIA National Championship, have claimed 24 conference titles (13 regular season/ 11 tournament), made 27 NCAA Regionals and advanced to three Super Regionals (2001, 2004 and 2009).
GODWIN AT A GLANCE
• Cliff Godwin, who was named the 16th head coach in school history on June 25, 2014, was a four-year letterwinner for the Pirates from 1998-2001 ... He has been a part of eight NCAA Regional and two College World Series teams at the Division I level as an assistant coach and head coach ... Godwin guided the Pirates to a 40-win season, an American Athletic Conference Tournament title and a berth in the Coral Gables Regional -- its first NCAA Regional since 2012 -- in his first year at the helm ... Named 2015 AAC Coach-of-the-Year and was inducted into the George Whitfield Hall of Fame in January of 2016 ... Currently owns a 64-34 overall record (.653 percentage) as a head coach ... Third fast coach to reach the 50-win plateau, which he did in 75 games (Earl Smith and Dr. Gary Overton did it in 65 games) ... As a player, he helped former ECU skipper Keith LeClair's teams post a 169-76 four-year ledger, including 46-plus wins in each of his final three seasons (16-16 in '99, 46-18 in '00 and 47-13 in '01) ... ECU won a pair of CAA Tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Regionals every season from 1999 to 2001 ... The Pirates were the top seed in their regional all three years, including a No. 7 national seed in 2001 where they advanced to the Super Regional round before being eliminated by Tennessee.
