2015 East Carolina Pirates baseball team

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2015 East Carolina Pirates baseball
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Conference American Athletic Conference
2015 record 40–22 (15–9 The American)
Head coach Cliff Godwin (1st year)
Assistant coach Jeff Palumbo (1st year)
Pitching coach Dan Roszel (5th year)
Home stadium Clark–LeClair Stadium
Seasons
« 2014 2016 »
2015 American Athletic Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Houston †y 16 – 8 – 0   .667     43 – 20 – 0   .683
East Carolina‡y 15 – 9 – 0   .625     40 – 22 – 0   .645
Tulane y 13 – 11 – 0   .542     35 – 25 – 0   .583
South Floriday 13 – 11 – 0   .542     34 – 26 – 1   .566
Memphis 12 – 12 – 0   .500     37 – 21 – 0   .638
Connecticut 11 – 13 – 0   .458     35 – 25 – 0   .583
UCF 10 – 14 – 0   .417     31 – 27 – 0   .534
Cincinnati 6 – 18 – 0   .250     15 – 41 – 0   .268
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2015[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2015 East Carolina Pirates baseball team represents East Carolina University during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Pirates play their home games at Clark–LeClair Stadium as a member of the American Athletic Conference. They are led by head coach Cliff Godwin, in his first season at East Carolina.

Previous Season

In 2014, the Pirates finished the season 7th in Conference USA with a record of 33–26, 16–14 in conference play. They qualified for the 2014 Conference USA Baseball Tournament, losing in the second round, but failed to qualify for the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Personnel

Roster

2015 East Carolina Pirates roster[2]
 

Pitchers

  • 12 - David Kirkpatrick - Sophomore
  • 17 - Brandon Taylor - Senior
  • 18 - T.J. McDonald - Redshirt Freshman
  • 21 - David Lucroy - Redshirt Junior
  • 27 - Ross Gardner - Freshman
  • 31 - Nick Durazo - Junior
  • 32 - Reid Love - Senior
  • 33 - Jacob Wolfe - Sophomore
  • 34 - Mason Keen - Freshman
  • 35 - Evan Kruczynski - Sophomore
  • 36 - Joe Ingle - Freshman
  • 37 - Luke Bolka - Sophomore
  • 42 - Brandon Saunders - Redshirt Sophomore
  • 43 - Jimmy Boyd - Junior
  • 44 - Evan Voliva - Freshman
  

Catchers

  • 10 - Ryan Clinch - Freshman
  • 19 - Travis Watkins - Redshirt Sophomore
  • 24 - Luke Lowery - Junior
  • 25 - Eric Tyler - Sophomore

Infielders

  • 3 - Charlie Yorgen - Sophomore
  • 4 - Hunter Allen - Senior
  • 5 - Jack Owens - Freshman
  • 8 - Cameron Snow - Redshirt Freshman
  • 9 - Kirk Morgan - Sophomore
  • 11 - Tyler Strawn - Junior
  • 20 - Jackson Mims - Freshman
  • 26 - Bryce Harman - Sophomore
  

Outfielders

  • 2 - Garrett Brooks - Junior
  • 7 - Bailey Sugg - Freshman
  • 14 - Jeff Nelson - Junior
  

Coaching Staff

Name Position Seasons at
East Carolina		 Alma Mater
Cliff Godwin Head Coach 1 East Carolina University (2000)
Jeff Palumbo Assistant Coach 1 George Mason University (2004)
Dan Roszel Pitching Coach 5 University of North Florida (2000)

Season

February

The Pirates opened their season on February 13 against Virginia, as part of a home-and-home series. The Pirates traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia in 2014, and were swept in a three-game series. Once again, the Cavaliers swept the Pirates, this time over the first weekend of the 2015 season. The Pirates struggled offensively, and scored just five runs over the entire series. Josh Sborz collected two saves for Virginia.[3] The following Wednesday, the Pirates were scheduled to visit Old Dominion, but bad weather caused a postponement until April.[4] The following week, the Pirates' home game against the Monarchs on the 25th was also pushed until March 4.[5]

On the second weekend of the season, weather related issues caused a shakeup to the schedule of the annual Keith LeClair Classic hosted by ECU. All Friday games were cancelled, and Michigan, who was originally scheduled to participate (along with Liberty and St. John's), was replaced by UNC Greensboro. East Carolina went 1–2 on the weekend, defeating St. John's and UNC Greensboro, but falling to Liberty, to win the classic for the third consecutive year.[6]

The Pirates closed the month of February (and opened the month of March in the finale) with a three-game series against Albany. Originally, ECU was scheduled to play in the annual Irish Classic in Cary, North Carolina, but it was cancelled due to weather. The Pirates swept the Great Danes over the three game series, outscoring them by a cumulative score of 24–7.[7]

March

In the Pirates' first midweek game of March, they traveled to rival NC State and lost by a score of 0–7, extending their losing streak against the Wolfpack in Raleigh to five games.[8] The following day, the Pirates returned home and hosted Old Dominion in the makeup game of a February 25 postponement. In their 9–7 win, East Carolina broke a 5–5 deadlock with two runs in both the seventh and eight innings, and despite allowing a run in both the eight and ninth innings, held on for their sixth victory of the season.[9]

File:Doak Field.jpg
Doak Field, home field of NC State

In their first weekend series in March, the Pirates hosted Monmouth. After the game scheduled for Friday, March 6 was pushed back to Saturday, March 7, as part of a doubleheader, ECU swept the doubleheader against the Hawks, shutting out Monmouth in both games. In the first game of the doubleheader, a 2–0 victory, Evan Kruczynski threw a complete game, two hit shutout. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Pirates scored six runs in the first inning to coast to a 9–0 win. ECU completed the sweep with a 3–2 win on Sunday.[10]

In the second week of March, the Pirates opened with a pair of midweek games. They lost the first game to Campbell 4–9, before rebounding to defeat UNC Greensboro, 8–1. It was the Pirates' second win over UNC Greensboro on the season, after having defeated them on February 21.[11] Over the weekend of March 13, the Pirates traveled to Elon, North Carolina, to play a three-game series with Elon. For the second straight weekend, the Pirates picked up a three-game sweep, after sweeping Monmouth the previous weekend. East Carolina scored 41 runs in the series.[12]

The Pirates hosted Princeton, out of the Ivy League, for a two-game midweek series from March 17–18. The Pirates swept the Tigers over the two game series to improve their record on the season to 15–6 and extended their winning streak to six games.[13] Following the midweek series against the Tigers, ECU hosted VCU, a traditional midweek opponent, for a three-game weekend series. The Pirates dropped both the first and last games of the series, dropping their first weekend series since opening weekend against Virginia.[14]

Schedule

Legend
  East Carolina win
  East Carolina loss
  Postponement
Bold East Carolina team member
2015 East Carolina Pirates Baseball Game Log
Regular Season
April
Date Opponent Rank Site/Stadium Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record AAC Record
April 2 Tulane Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 3–0 Love (3–2) Merrill (1–3) 2,213 18–12 2–2
April 3 Tulane Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 11–4 Boyd (3–7) Rankin (3–1) 2,411 19–12 3–2
April 4 Tulane Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC L 6–8 Massey (2–2) Lucroy (2–2) Duester (2) 2,261 19–13 3–3
April 7 at Campbell Jim Perry Stadium • Buies Creek, NC W 7–5 Wolfe (2–1) Long (3–1) Love (4) 828 20–13 –
April 10 at South Florida USF Baseball Stadium • Tampa, FL L 1-2 Herget (6-1) Love (3-3) Peterson (11) 862 20-14 3-4
April 11 at South Florida USF Baseball Stadium • Tampa, FL L 0-10 Mulholland (4-4) Kruczynski (5-2) 868 20-15 3-5
April 12 at South Florida USF Baseball Stadium • Tampa, FL W 6-0 Durazo (2-0) Cavallardo (3-1) Boyd (1) 517 21-15 4-5
April 15 at Old Dominion Bud Metheny Baseball Complex • Norfolk, VA W 4-2 Boyd (4-7) Mathesson (2-6) Durazo (1) 445 22-15 -
April 17 at Connecticut J. O. Christian Field • Storrs, CT W 7-3 Kruczynski (6-2) Cross (7-2) Durazo (2) 71 23-15 5-5
April 18 at Connecticut J. O. Christian Field • Storrs, CT L 3-7 Kay (6-3) Lucroy (2-3) Ruotolo (5) 305 23-16 5-6
April 19 at Connecticut J. O. Christian Field • Storrs, CT W 4-3 (10) Voliva (1-0) Darras (2-2) Wolfe (1) 287 24-16 6-6
April 21 NC State Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 6-5 Voliva(2-0) O'Donnell (5-3) 3821 25-16 -
April 22 Duke Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 3-2 Boyd (5-7) Koplove (1-2) 3271 26-16 -
April 24 UCF Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 6-5 Durazo (3-0) Hukari (4-3) 2446 27-16 7-6
April 25 UCF Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 3-2 Love (4-3) Finfrock (6-4) Ingle (1) 2441 28-16 8-6
April 26 UCF Clark–LeClair Stadium • Greenville, NC W 6-5 Wolfe (3-1) Howell (4-6) Voliva (1) 2069 29-16 9-6
April 29 Liberty Liberty Baseball Stadium • Lynchburg, VA L 0-5 Pennington (1-1) Lucroy (2-4) 791 29-17 -
Post-Season
NCAA Tournament – Coral Gables (Fla.) Regional
Date Opponent Rank Site/Stadium Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record NCAAT Record
May 29 (2) Columbia Mark Light Field • Coral Gables, FL L 3–6 Thanopoulos (6–5) Durazo (5–1) Cline (2) 1845 40–21 0–1
May 30 (4) FIU Mark Light Field • Coral Gables, FL L 0–2 Dopico (3–4) Love (7–4) 1929 40–22 0–2

All rankings from Collegiate Baseball.

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