It is certainly the week to get back to work for this guy! August brings with it the start of football in Eastern North Carolina. There is simply no better time of the year. High school football practice kicked off on Monday. That season begins on August 17th and we at WNCT-TV are all set for another season of Touchdown Friday. East Carolina fans are hoping for lots of … [Read more...]

East Carolina seemed very much in control on Sunday night, leading rival UNC-Wilmington 5-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth inning. The Pirates had come back from a five-hour, nine-minute rain delay and scored a pair of runs to take that 5-0 lead into the frame. That fifth inning rocked ECU to the tune of an earlier than expected exit from the NCAA Greenville Regional … [Read more...]

For the first time since 2009 and for only the second time in school history, East Carolina will host an NCAA baseball regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium. All told it is the sixth time that ECU has earned a top seed in a regional, dating back to 1999. Those six top seeds run down like this: 1999 – Baton Rouge, LA 2000 – Lafayette, LA 2001 – Wilson, NC 2004 – … [Read more...]