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 Tim Corbin to hold their premier … [Read more...]

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, 2019, in the Greenville regional before traveling to Louisville for a … [Read more...]

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 crowd of 5,017 stayed to see the … [Read more...]

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 the score at 5. One-out walks to Alec Makarewicz and Zach … [Read more...]

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 game from Spartans left-hander James Deloatch (7-3) and muscled … [Read more...]