The mission wasn’t quite accomplished; still this East Carolina football team was thrilled to get back home early Sunday morning. The Pirates fell to South Florida, 20-13, after that two-week odyssey in Orlando to flee Hurricane Florence. “It’s good to be back in Greenville,” said ECU coach Scottie Montgomery at his weekly news conference Monday afternoon. “We got back … [Read more...]

Hurricane Florence put the brakes on the sports schedule in Eastern North Carolina in a big way. The southern counties in WNCT-TV's viewing area were hit the hardest. There is no telling when some of those counties will get back in school and back to playing games. Greenville and East Carolina dodged a real bullet with Hurricane Florence. It was a nasty four days of wind … [Read more...]

This just didn’t look like the same team on the field at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The same team that never got things cranked up against North Carolina A&T dominated play against North Carolina from the ACC in a 41-19 win. It was East Carolina's third straight win over UNC-Chapel Hill. “I love beating the Tar Heels,” ECU head coach Scottie Montgomery said after … [Read more...]

East Carolina football fans went from “ARRGGHH to UUGGGGHHHH” in one bizarre weekend at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Saturday’s weather forecast was for pop up storms in the afternoon with a 40 percent chance of rain. One of those storms hung up about ten miles away from the stadium, forcing several different delays for lightning in the area. Finally, an hour and 15 minutes … [Read more...]