Baseball News: Nashville Super Regional
ECU’s season ends with 4-1 loss to Vandy
NASHVILLE — There will be 63 moments in the NCAA Tournament such as the one East Carolina experienced with a 4-1 loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday. It is that time when aspirations must be reconciled with the reality that a season is over. For ECU, the pain is compounded by the fact that the Pirates… [ More… ]
ECU Baseball News
Godwin on LSU list
Cliff Godwin’s success at East Carolina and his Southeastern Conference connections have made him a coach of interest in LSU’s search for a successor to Paul Mainieri. Godwin was an assistant at LSU from 2006 to 2008. D1Baseball.com has reported that former Oregon State coach Paul Casey has moved to the top of the field… [ More… ]
Baseball News: Nashville Super Regional
Vandy deals Pirates loss in pitchers’ duel
NASHVILLE — East Carolina will try again to get going offensively in game two of its Super Regional at Vanderbilt on Saturday after the Pirates took a 2-0 loss to Kumar Rocker and the Commodores on Friday. ECU (44-16) was limited to three hits, but Gavin Williams turned in a strong performance in a duel… [ More… ]
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VIEW FROM THE EAST
ECU takes on defending national champs
NASHVILLE, TN — Staff aces Gavin Williams of East Carolina and Kumar Rocker of Vanderbilt are listed as the probable starters for the best-of-three Super Regional that gets started at noon today at the Commodores’ Hawkins Field. It will be a strength-on-strength matchup unless the 60 percent chance of rain causes coaches Cliff Godwin or… [ More… ]
VIEW FROM THE EAST
Pirates head to Vandy for high noon showdown
East Carolina is scheduled to start its Super Regional at Vanderbilt on Friday at noon. Pirates coach Cliff Godwin was all right with the game time during a Zoom conference on Tuesday. “It’s much better this year than it was two years ago,” Godwin said. The Pirates had to win twice on Monday, June 3,… [ More… ]
Baseball News: Greenville Regional
Pirates top Maryland for regional title
GREENVILLE — In his sixth year in the East Carolina baseball program, Matt Bridges’ last game at Clark-LeClair Stadium was special. Bridges got a strikeout at 12:56 a.m. on Monday to complete a 9-6 win over Maryland (30-18) for an NCAA regional championship. Bridges became the starting point for the ensuing dogpile. Much of a… [ More… ]
Baseball News: Greenville Regional
Spirited crowd sees ECU rally past 49ers
GREENVILLE — Lane Hoover is one of the smallest players on the East Carolina roster, but the little right fielder from Lincolnton came up huge in a 7-5 comeback win over Charlotte on Saturday night. Bryson Worrell set the stage for Hoover’s heroics as he ripped an eighth-inning RBI double to right field to tie… [ More… ]
Baseball News: Greenville Regional
Pirates subdue Norfolk State, pivot to 49ers
GREENVILLE — The lights beamed at Clark-LeClair Stadium throughout top seed East Carolina’s 8-5 win over No. 4 seed Norfolk State on Friday afternoon, but it took awhile for the Pirates to get the power turned on. The biggest surge came in the sixth inning when Thomas Francisco turned on the final pitch of the… [ More… ]
VIEW FROM THE EAST
Pirates set sail in Greenville regional
East Carolina is in a familiar position as regional host as the Pirates begin NCAA Tournament play today at noon against Norfolk State. ECU alumnus and coach Clif Godwin has been preparing his 41-15 team, the No. 13 national seed, for the event, but potential disruptive weather is not a factor within his control. “We’re… [ More… ]
Baseball News: NCAA Postseason
Pirates seeded at top of Greenville Regional
For the eighth time in school history East Carolina will be at the top of the pecking order in an NCAA baseball regional after being awarded the No. 1 seed in the Greenville Regional. The Monday announcement by the NCAA selection committee came a day after the committee selected the Pirates to host one of… [ More… ]
Baseball News: NCAA Postseason
ECU named regional host
For the sixth time in program history, East Carolina has been selected to host one of the 16 NCAA baseball regionals, the school announced on Sunday. The Pirates and three other teams to be announced by the NCAA selection committee will compete in the Greenville Regional over four days (Fri., June 4-Mon. June 7) to… [ More… ]
Baseball News: AAC Tournament
Pirates bow out of AAC Tournament
CLEARWATER, FL — Central Florida took advantage of an East Carolina fielding mix-up in the top of the ninth to score what proved to be the winning run in a 2-1 Knights victory that knocked the No. 11 Pirates out of the American Athletic Conference Tournament on Saturday. ECU had downed UCF, 5-2, earlier Saturday… [ More… ]
Baseball News: AAC Tournament
Pirates vanquish Memphis
CLEARWATER, FL — East Carolina rolled into Semifinal Saturday in the American Athletic Conference tournament with a 12-0 win in seven innings over Memphis on Friday at BayCare Ballpark. Gavin Williams (10-0) was in control throughout for the Pirates (40-14). The junior right-hander allowed four hits with two walks and 10 strikeouts. The Tigers (18-30)… [ More… ]