It’s been ten days since we folded up our chairs and trudged quietly out of the Jungle, shell shocked by the events of an East Carolina-UNC-Wilmington baseball game that lasted nine hours on paper but, in truth, was decided in about thirty minutes. If I still feel an ache, I know that the die-hard Diamond… [ Continue Reading ]

More than 400 East Carolina student-athletes started the 2017-’18 school year after a summer of training, full of hopes for their upcoming season. After campaigns for 18 different sports with varying degrees of success, only two are still competing. Hosting a regional didn’t end the way the baseball team or the Pirate Nation had hoped,… [ Continue Reading ]

Corey Gloor has spent most of his life in the Midwest — childhood and college in Illinois followed by a stint in Wisconsin. Baseball is his favorite sport to call, and he has worked games from high school up to minor leagues. But Gloor has never experienced, or even imagined, a baseball environment like the… [ Continue Reading ]

It’s possible that junior Davis Searcy, who grew up in Pitt County and is both the president of the Minges Maniacs and one of the founding members of the LeClair Lunatics, has seen as many East Carolina sporting events as any fan his age. But he has never seen anything quite like the American Athletic… [ Continue Reading ]

The margin between the second place East Carolina Pirates and the third place Cincinnati Bearcats at the American Athletic Conference Women’s Track and Field Championship was a half of a point. Put another way, the difference maker in ECU’s top team result ever in the American was less than the difference between an eighth and… [ Continue Reading ]

May, which every mother of school-aged children knows is at least twice as hectic as the more hyped December, is the month of awards. Academic awards days, athletic banquets, graduations and every other stripe of ceremony to honor anything from straight A’s to congeniality to perfect attendance. So as reams of certificates are printed and… [ Continue Reading ]

NCAA regional appearances aren’t exactly new to the East Carolina women’s golf team; the Pirates have qualified for the first level of the postseason tournament eight times in the past ten years. But the 2018 version of the team has two distinctions that head coach Kevin Williams has never seen in one of his squads… [ Continue Reading ]