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Deja Vu all over again…
The score was similar, and the opposing team jerseys read ‘Carolina,’
Like Yogi Berra once famously quipped, “It’s like deja vu all over again.”
Junior pitcher Alex White was allowed to stay in the game until he notched his personal best 12K’s against East Carolina in the first game of the Chapel Hill Super Regional before retiring to the dugout to the appreciative applause of the sellout crowd in Boshamer Stadium. White’s 128 pitches were the biggest reason the Tarheels took the game 10-1, but the Pirates had their chances to retire him early. ECU managed nine hits against the ballyhooed righty, but also left nine runners on base.
If all of this seems familiar to Pirate fans, it should. The game is reminiscent of last Saturday’s 12-2 blowout to South Carolina in the Greenville regional. Pirate Soph Seth Maness was the starter in both contests, and each week he gave up six earned runs. Maness (9-3), while brilliant through the heart of Conference play, has struggled in the post season, notching three straight losses (Southern MIss, USC, UNC).
Last week the Bucs bowed up and won the regional in dramatic fashion, including taking two from those same Gamecocks, but Sunday’s Game Two will tell the tale.
Either East Carolina will get another strong outing from Kevin Brandt (who pitched 8.1 innings and had 10K’s in a 4-0 Pirate victory in April) and ECU can force a Game 3, with a winner take-all scenario that would give ECU their best chance ever to reach the College World Series, or it’s gonna be the wrong kind of deja vu, going 0-2 in Super Regional play for the third time in as many tries.
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By pope
June 7, 2009 1:09 PM | Link to this
What does the woman keep yelling during the game? I can’t make it out - she’s relentless!