With the start of baseball season against Rhode Island at Clark-LeClair Stadium coming up on Feb. 19, East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin talked about his team's state of preparedness via Zoom earlier this week. During the pandemic, Godwin is as concerned with bubbles, testing and protocols as he is with the things that he deals with during the lead-up to a season under normal … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EAST‘Pig’ will help Pirates in epic matchup
East Carolina has a huge opportunity to get its struggles in 2021 reversed as the Pirates host No. 5 Houston tonight at 6 p.m. (ESPN+). The Pirates are 0-5 since the calendar flipped to the new year. They've been fast breaking through a COVID minefield that left lengthy gameless spans in the January schedule and put the Pirates in a short-handed predicament when they did … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTPirates building up antibodies
Baseball stats have expanded significantly in recent years but East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin mentioned a new number this week as the Pirates prepared to start official practice for the 2021 season opener at home against Rhode Island on Feb. 19. "Because a lot of our guys went through COVID and COVID protocols in the fall, right now we have 18 guys with antibodies," Godwin … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTDooley walks dogs as Tigers loom
In some ways life seems pretty normal for East Carolina basketball coach Joe Dooley as he goes through a quarantine period during the pandemic. "I'm good," Dooley said. "So far, so good." Dooley has been asymptomatic since testing positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. He answered his cell phone on Thursday afternoon. "I'm actually out walking the dogs right now," he said. … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTPirates turn page to 2021
The notion that the new year of 2021 might be better than its predecessor took a hit on Thursday with the announcement that East Carolina was pausing basketball activities due to positive COVID-19 tests within the program. With the postponement of games on Saturday with Temple and Jan. 20 at South Florida, the Pirates have had eight of 18 scheduled games called off or … [Read more...]