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 top 10, they also made a definitive … [Read more...]

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 Sundays ago, there was plenty for the young … [Read more...]

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 in New Orleans” in its next weekend series at Tulane. Did they … [Read more...]

There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Last week was almost a forgettable one for the East Carolina athletic program. It started with an unpopular cancellation of Tuesday’s much-anticipated baseball showdown at N.C. State and went downhill from there. From ace pitcher Chris Holba’s untimely illness to the three close losses to Houston that followed; from the softball team’s Senior … [Read more...]

Officially, East Carolina was the visiting team for last Tuesday’s top 11 showdown against Duke. But you never would have known it by the atmosphere at Durham’s Jack Coombs Field. Among the announced crowd of 1,015, a majority of those in attendance were wearing purple or gold and pulling for the Pirates. While that may or may not have played a role in ECU’s impressive … [Read more...]