The Greenville bracket of the NCAA tournament was announced with the field of 64 on Monday. Host East Carolina (43-15) is the top regional seed and the No. 16 national seed. The Pirates will take on fourth-seeded Evansville (35-20) in the opening game of the double-elimination event on Friday at 1 p.m. (ESPN+). Wake Forest (38-20), the No. 2 regional seed, plays … [Read more...]
BASEBALL NEWSPirates named regional host for NCAA tournament
East Carolina was named one of 16 sites on Sunday night to host a regional in the NCAA baseball tournament. Play will begin at Clark-LeClair Stadium in the Greenville regional with two games on Friday. The bracket for the tournament and the teams that will be playing in Greenville will be announced on Monday at noon (ESPN2). ECU (43-15) won the American Athletic … [Read more...]
BASEBALL NEWSPirates split with Shockers, head home
CLEARWATER, FL — East Carolina split a pair of games with Wichita State in the American Athletic Conference Tournament at BayCare Ballpark on Saturday. ECU took a dramatic 5-4 win over the Shockers in the morning on a game-ending steal of home by Dixon Williams, but a 12-2 loss in eight innings later in the day knocked the AAC regular season champions out of the league … [Read more...]
BASEBALL NEWSECU holds off Rice in elimination game
CLEARWATER, FL — East Carolina withstood a Rice threat in the ninth inning for an 8-7 win in an elimination game in the American Athletic Conference tournament at BayCare Ballpark on Friday. The Pirates (42-14) will meet Wichita State (31-27) on Saturday at 9 a.m. ECU will need to win the morning matchup with the Shockers and take a subsequent contest with Wichita State … [Read more...]
BASEBALL NEWSLivingston lifts Shockers past Pirates
CLEARWATER, FL — Josh Livingston was primarily responsible for Wichita State's 14-4 win over East Carolina in the winners bracket of the American Athletic Conference tournament on Thursday. Livingston helped the Shockers overcome a 3-1 ECU lead with a 3-run homer in a 7-run sixth inning and a grand slam in the eighth against the pitching-depleted Pirates (41-14), who will … [Read more...]