GREENVILLE — No. 9 East Carolina scored an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday to edge visiting Memphis, 8-7, and take a 3-0 lead in the American Athletic Conference series. With the score tied at 7, Bryson Worrell led off the last inning with a walk. Ben Newton showed bunt but slapped a single up the middle to put runners at first and second with none … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — East Carolina opened a four-game American Athletic Conference series with Memphis on Friday by sweeping a doubleheader at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The No. 9 Pirates (24-5, 6-0 AAC) won the first game, 12-2, in eight innings and held off the visitors, 5-3, in the second game. "We did a really good job in game one," said ECU coach Cliff Godwin. " ... Once we had … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — East Carolina took both ends of a doubleheader with visiting Cincinnati on Saturday to complete a four-game sweep of its opening American Athletic Conference series. The Pirates got a grand slam from Ryley Johnson in a 7-run fifth inning of the first game, a 13-3 win that concluded after seven innings in accordance with the 10-run rule. C.J. Mayhue (2-1) was … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — Gavin Williams and Carter Spivey combined for a shutout as East Carolina downed Cincinnati, 7-0, on Friday to take a 2-0 lead in their American Athletic Conference series. Williams (3-0) went six and two-thirds innings, allowing four hits. He struck out 13 and walked three. Spivey entered the game with two out and the bases loaded. He got a strikeout to end … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — Alec Makarewicz was at it again as East Carolina opened its 2021 American Athletic Conference schedule with a 5-4 win over Cincinnati on Thursday at Clark-LeClair Stadium. Makarewicz, who hit a game-tying home run and a game-winning RBI single in an 11-10 win over North Carolina on Tuesday night, had a 2-run homer to left for a 5-4 lead against the Bearcats in … [Read more...]