East Carolina fans can be excused if they feel as though they’ve climbed into a shiny DeLorean, revved it up to 88 MPH to generate the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of energy and been transported back to 1995. With the return of Dave Hart as the de facto athletic director and the hiring of Joe Dooley… [ Continue Reading ]

As if it wasn’t already obvious enough to anyone who knows the difference between Greenville, North Carolina and it’s namesake South of the border, a recent event confirmed East Carolina’s status as an elite national baseball program. And no, it wasn’t the 44 wins this year’s team rang up, the NCAA regional the Pirates just… [ Continue Reading ]

East Carolina’s exhilarating 2018 baseball season came to a stunning end Sunday with a soggy 9-7 loss to UNC-Wilmington in the loser’s bracket of the NCAA’s Greenville Regional. If the festive atmosphere at Clark-LeClair Stadium wasn’t dampened enough by the five-plus hour rain delay that turned the afternoon game into a long day’s journey into… [ Continue Reading ]

There’s a line in one of my favorite movies, Shawshank Redemption, in which Andy Dufresne reminds his friend Red that “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of the things. And no good thing ever dies.” That might be the truth. But for East Carolina sports fans, hope has been on life support these… [ Continue Reading ]

East Carolina’s baseball regular season was a resounding success, regardless of how you define success. Coach Cliff Godwin and his young Pirates not only shooed away the ghosts of last year’s disappointment by winning 39 games against a brutally difficult schedule and spent most of the past two months ranked in or around the nation’s… [ Continue Reading ]

It’s hard to get excited about a 2-15 record. And Amanda Barnes certainly isn’t doing any celebrating. But she’s also anything but disappointed about the performance of her East Carolina women’s lacrosse team during its inaugural season. Despite all the losses, including a 21-8 setback at the hands of Duke in the final game two… [ Continue Reading ]

Cliff Godwin is, if nothing else, a man of his word. Last Sunday, after watching his team get swept at home by American Athletic Conference rival Houston in what he said was “as uninspired a game” as he’s ever been associated with at East Carolina, the coach vowed that his Pirates would “play inspired baseball… [ Continue Reading ]