WILLIAMSBURG, VA — East Carolina won its third straight with a high for run production this season in a 24-3 conquest at William & Mary on Wednesday.

Braden Burress went 4-for-5 with two doubles, a triple, four runs and three RBIs. He had one stolen base. He scored on a wild pitch in the first inning to give ECU a 1-0 lead.

The contest was declared final early in accordance with a rule that declares and end to a game in which a team leads by 10 or more runs after 7 innings.

“We stuck to the plan and didn’t try to do too much,” said the sophomore second baseman on the Pirate radio network.

Burress is hitting .418 going into a 3-game home series with Penn (2-8) that starts Friday at 6 p.m.

The Tribe took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first on a 2-run homer by Trey Christman, who drove in all three runs for W&M.

ECU went ahead to stay with three runs in the second. Colby Wallace had a score-tying RBI double. The Pirates went up, 3-2, when Wallace came home on a single by Burress. Grady Lanahan singled to score Burress after he had stolen second.

ECU began to pull away with four runs in the third and broke the game open with a 7-run fourth plus seven more in the fifth.

Austin Irby capped the scoring with a 2-run homer in the sixth as the Pirates improved to 10-7-1.

Irby had three hits and four RBIs. Wallace had three hits and drove in a pair of runs. Walker Barron had two hits and three RBIs.

Lanahan had two hits with an RBI. Matthew Lashley had a hit and four RBIs. Davin Whitaker contributed a hit and two runs driven in.

The Pirates outhit their hosts, 20-8.

Brett Antolick (1-0) started and went three innings for ECU. He allowed three hits and three runs (all earned) with two walks and five strikeouts.

Pitching one scoreless inning each were Charlie Hoagland, Joe Webb, Frank Ciccone and Jackson DiLorenzo.

Zach Boyd (0-2) was charged with the loss for the Tribe (5-10).