TCU Hosts East Carolina For Easter Weekend Baseball Action
4/17/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 17, 2003
TCU (23-15, 10-5 C-USA) vs. East Carolina (24-13-1, 10-5 C-USA)
Friday, April 18 * 6:30 p.m. * KTCU 88.7 FM
Saturday, April 19 * 6:30 p.m. * KTCU 88.7 FM
Sunday, April 20 * 1 p.m. * KTCU 88.7 FM
Less than a week after completing an impressive three-game sweep at UAB, TCU embarks on yet another critical Conference USA series when it welcomes East Carolina to Lupton Stadium and Williams-Reilly Field this weekend. Game time for the three-game set are slated for 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. Easter Sunday.
TCU (23-15, 10-5 C-USA) and East Carolina (24-13-1, 10-5 C-USA) come into the weekend tied for second place in the C-USA standings, a game behind league-leading Southern Miss.
The Horned Frogs and Pirates will each bring thoughts of revenge into this weekend's series. TCU swept three games from No. 20 ECU last March 22-24 in Greenville, N.C. by scores of 5-1, 8-4 and 7-2. However, the sixth-seeded Pirates struck the last blow, as they dropped the No. 3-seed Horned Frogs 5-1 in the first round of the 2002 C-USA Tournament, en route to the league tourney title for ECU.
TCU is flying high after a weekend in which UAB did not score a run against the Horned Frog pitching staff until the eighth inning of Sunday's series finale between the two squads. In all, TCU pitchers turned in 26 consecutive scoreless innings while C-USA Pitcher of the Week Clayton Jerome has a personal 16-inning scoreless streak still intact heading into this weekend versus ECU.
Besides Jerome claiming his third C-USA Pitcher of the Week award of the season, TCU also earned an impressive team distinction, as CollegeBaseballInsider.com named the Horned Frogs college baseball's Team of the Week for the three-game sweep in Birmingham.
East Carolina has earned its second-place tie with TCU in the C-USA standings by virtue of winning two-of-three games in each of its first five league series this season.
The Pirates have played five games in the past seven days, including winning two of three games versus league-foe Memphis last weekend. In the midweek, ECU won at Campbell 6-3 before dropping an 8-4 decision at home to North Carolina.
