East Carolina will open the 2018 season at home against North Carolina A&T, on Sept. 1, at 6 p.m., but the Aggies will not be playing their first game when they travel to Greenville. A&T, coming off a 12-0 season on the Football Championship Subdivision level that included a 21-14 win over Grambling in the… [ Continue Reading ]
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The Bradsher Beat
Pirate Football 2018 by the numbers
In my newspaper days, my coworkers and I were fond of calling out, “Warning: Journalists doing math,” but the truth is numbers do find their way into my stories frequently, especially sports-related numbers. It’s hard to spend much time in sportswriting without having to dust off your middle school math skills from time to time.… [ Continue Reading ]
Football Recruiting
West Charlotte receiver sees ECU as path to NFL
Devontez Walker first talked the talk, then walked the walk when it came to playing wide receiver. Walker had shown promise at defensive back for West Charlotte’s junior varsity as a freshman during the 2015 season. But a desire to play receiver prompted Walker to make a request of the coaching staff as his sophomore… [ Continue Reading ]
Insights from Brett: Hart Q&A Part 1
Dave Hart travels back to the present
East Carolina fans can be excused if they feel as though they’ve climbed into a shiny DeLorean, revved it up to 88 MPH to generate the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of energy and been transported back to 1995. With the return of Dave Hart as the de facto athletic director and the hiring of Joe Dooley… [ Continue Reading ]
View from the East
All hoops hands on deck next week
Joe Dooley has been working with the under-18 national team, but will begin to get an idea next week how his developing group of Pirates will shape up for his first season back on the East Carolina sideline. Dooley returned in early April to a program he guided to a 57-52 record from 1995-96 to… [ Continue Reading ]
The Bradsher Beat
Pirate Nation’s baseball fanatics still undaunted
It’s been ten days since we folded up our chairs and trudged quietly out of the Jungle, shell shocked by the events of an East Carolina-UNC-Wilmington baseball game that lasted nine hours on paper but, in truth, was decided in about thirty minutes. If I still feel an ache, I know that the die-hard Diamond… [ Continue Reading ]
Insights from Brett
Godwin sends signal about program’s status
As if it wasn’t already obvious enough to anyone who knows the difference between Greenville, North Carolina and it’s namesake South of the border, a recent event confirmed East Carolina’s status as an elite national baseball program. And no, it wasn’t the 44 wins this year’s team rang up, the NCAA regional the Pirates just… [ Continue Reading ]
View from the East
Godwin extols Pirates’ accomplishments
East Carolina vaulted into the national rankings in February after taking two of three games from North Carolina in a multi-site series. The Pirates remained among the country’s elite during an exceptional season. ECU (44-18) was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in a regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium that included lengthy delays from Mother Nature… [ Continue Reading ]
The Bradsher Beat
One ECU team’s season is still alive
More than 400 East Carolina student-athletes started the 2017-’18 school year after a summer of training, full of hopes for their upcoming season. After campaigns for 18 different sports with varying degrees of success, only two are still competing. Hosting a regional didn’t end the way the baseball team or the Pirate Nation had hoped,… [ Continue Reading ]
Football Recruiting
ECU lands a power back with speed in Thompson
Call it love at first sight for Shemar Thompson and the East Carolina Pirates. ECU running backs coach Jason Nichols evaluated video of Thompson in early December last year during a stop at Walter M. Williams High School in Burlington, NC. Nichols was so impressed by what he saw of the 6-foot-1, 205-pound running back… [ Continue Reading ]
From the Anchor Desk
Bad inning doesn’t erase championship season
East Carolina seemed very much in control on Sunday night, leading rival UNC-Wilmington 5-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth inning. The Pirates had come back from a five-hour, nine-minute rain delay and scored a pair of runs to take that 5-0 lead into the frame. That fifth inning rocked ECU to the tune… [ Continue Reading ]
Insights from Brett
Plenty to relish after dreary ending
East Carolina’s exhilarating 2018 baseball season came to a stunning end Sunday with a soggy 9-7 loss to UNC-Wilmington in the loser’s bracket of the NCAA’s Greenville Regional. If the festive atmosphere at Clark-LeClair Stadium wasn’t dampened enough by the five-plus hour rain delay that turned the afternoon game into a long day’s journey into… [ Continue Reading ]
Baseball: NCAA Greenville Regional
Seahawks stun ECU with big inning
GREENVILLE — A fragmented NCAA regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium ended for top-seeded East Carolina on Sunday night with a 9-7 loss to fourth-seeded UNC-Wilmington. The Seahawks (39-22) scored all nine of their runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. ECU (44-18) finished the season as the visiting team in the regional for the second… [ Continue Reading ]