East Carolina University
38-23-1
Texas Tech University
46-18
ECU's Season Ends With 11-0 Loss To Texas Tech
June 13, 2016 | Baseball
LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech scored three runs in the first, third and seventh innings and cruised to an 11-0 win over East Carolina Sunday afternoon in game three of the Lubbock Super Regional at Dan Law Field inside Rip Griffin Park.
With the win, the Red Raiders improve to 46-18 and advance to their second College World Series appearance in the last three years. For the Pirates, the season comes to a close with a record of 38-23-1 and were one game away from making their first-ever College World Series.
Erikson Lanning (3-3) picked up the win tossing seven scoreless innings where he allowed two hits, struck out six and walked two for the Red Raiders. Hayden Howard closed the game with two scoreless frames of relief with a pair of strikeouts.
Jacob Wolfe (6-4) suffered the loss allowing three runs (all earned) on three hits with a pair of walks and one strikeout. From there, ECU used six pitchers getting outings from Chris Holba (2.0 IP, 3 Rs), Matt Bridges (1.2 IP, 3 Ks), Denny Brady (2.0 IP, 3 Ks), Davis Kirkpatrick (0.2 IP, 3 Rs), Cam Colmore (1.0 IP) and Evan Voliva (0.1 IP).
Texas Tech jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back. Tyler Neslony's bases loaded walk and Eric Gutierrez' two-run single with the bases juiced accounted for all three runs in the frame. Stephen Smith led off with a walk, took second on Orlando Garcia's single and moved to third when Tanner Gardner reached on a bunt single setting up the games first run n Neslony's walk.
Two innings later, TTU put three more runs on the board extending its lead to 6-0. With one out in the third and the bases loaded, Hunter Hargrove laced a double to left center that scored Cory Raley and Neslony just before Gutierrez crossed home on a Holba wild pitch.
TTU added single runs in the sixth and eighth innings. The Red Raiders pounded out 14 hits, the most by an ECU opponent in this year's NCAA Tournament. Hargrove had a team-high three hits and drove in four runs, while three others in Garcia, Gutierrez and Neslony each added two base knocks.
ECU managed just two hits getting singles from Turner Brown and Parker Lamm.Â
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lanning, Erikson (3-3)
L: Wolfe, Jacob (6-4)
Batting:
2B: Garcia, Orlando 1 ; Neslony, Tyler 2 ; Hargrove, Hunter 2
RBI: Garcia, Orlando 1 ; Neslony, Tyler 1 ; Gutierrez, Eric 3 ; Hargrove, Hunter 4 ; Floyd, Tyler 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Smith, Stephen 2 ; Garcia, Orlando 2 ; Gardner, Tanner 1 ; Raley, Cory 1 ; Neslony, Tyler 2 ; Gutierrez, Eric 2 ; Hargrove, Hunter 1
CS: Hargrove, Hunter 1 ; Floyd, Tyler 1
HBP: Davis, Zach 1 ; Gutierrez, Eric 2
