From a negative came a positive for Jason Shuford and East Carolina’s football program. Shuford, a defensive lineman from Statesville (NC) High School, had settled on continuing his football career at national junior college powerhouse Independence Community College in Kansas after falling just shy of NCAA academic requirements that would have earned him a scholarship… [ More… ]
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Football Recruiting
ECU secondary secures Bama grad transfer Knott
Tim Shramek still considers it one of the best high school football games he’s witnessed. And that’s saying a lot for a guy who’s been a prep coach in Mississippi for almost 30 years, including the past nine as the head man at Germantown High in Madison. Shramek’s Germantown squad was facing off against Oxford… [ More… ]
VIEW FROM THE EAST
Would 2020 have been the year?
Pirate Nation and the college baseball world will never know how good East Carolina might have been in 2020 before the response to the coronavirus pandemic caused the remainder of the season to be canceled. “We had a really good start to the season,” said Pirates coach Cliff Godwin. “We were 13-4 with a team… [ More… ]
Football Recruiting
ECU wins battle for coveted safety Clyatt
Tom Crowell has been a high school football coach in Montgomery County, Maryland, for most of the past five decades. During that span, Crowell has helped develop some special football talents, including current National Football League players such as receiver Stefon Diggs of the Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins’ cornerback Kendall Fuller. Now the head… [ More… ]
Flashback to History: The Battle for East Carolina
Leo’s Field General Tells All
(Editor’s note: Robert Morgan passed away on July 16, 2016, at age 90. This article, originally published in the 2007 edition of Bonesville The Magazine, recounts the battles he and others waged decades ago against North Carolina’s entrenched political and news media establishments to transform East Carolina College into East Carolina University and establish a… [ More… ]
Football Recruiting
Grad transfer Chase rekindles ties with ECU
East Carolina and Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium made an indelible impression on Justin Chase on a late September afternoon back in 2015. Then a highly regarded offensive line recruit from Chesapeake, VA, who had already made a verbal commitment to play for the Pirates, Chase had driven to Greenville with his father to watch ECU face Atlantic… [ More… ]
VIEW FROM THE EAST
Adjustments the new normal for Pirates
College football is in an unprecedented phase of inactivity due to efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus. East Carolina coach Mike Houston and staff are doing their best to cope, continuing to recruit and develop players despite unanticipated limitations. Houston conducted a teleconference on Tuesday. “We hope we can get out on the… [ More… ]
COLLEGE SPORTS NEWS
ECU athletics on hold
East Carolina was scheduled to take on Memphis in the American Athletic Conference basketball tournament in Fort Worth, TX, on Thursday at 10 p.m., but that event was canceled Thursday morning. Numerous conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament were called off in attempts to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In addition, it was… [ More… ]
Baseball News
Pirates’ winning streak ends on walk-off homer
WILMINGTON — Matt Suggs hit a 3-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give UNC-Wilmington a 5-2 win over No. 19 East Carolina on Wednesday night. Suggs was 0-for-4 in the nonconference contest before connecting with the first pitch from Ryder Giles (0-1) and sending it over the fence in left center. A… [ More… ]
Baseball News
ECU rallies past Elon
GREENVILLE — East Carolina overcame a 3-0 Elon lead to top the Phoenix, 7-4, on Tuesday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The visitors went up 3-0 in the second with the help of a 2-run homer by Adam Spurlin. The Pirates, ranked as high as No. 19 nationally, got a run with two out in the… [ More… ]
Baseball News
ECU completes sweep at Charlotte
CHARLOTTE — East Carolina took a 4-1 win at Charlotte on Sunday to complete a 3-game sweep of the 49ers. Jake Kuchmaner started and went five innings in improving to 4-0. Alec Burleson went 2-for-4 with a home run. Matt Bridges turned in two and two-thirds scoreless innings for his second save. Burleson’s blast to… [ More… ]