Exceptional Community Baseball League Day with East Carolina is always one of the best days of the season. This year it was made even better as it was preceded by Sunday's 6-5 walk-off win for ECU, which puts the Pirates squarely in the conversation of a host's roll in the upcoming NCAA baseball regionals. The Pirates trailed Cincinnati 5-0 as late as the 6th inning in … [Read more...]

Sweeps are hard to come by in the American Athletic Conference in baseball. That’s why last weekend’s Houston sweep of East Carolina was so stunning. Winning three games on the opponent’s home field is extremely difficult. Fast forward a week and the Pirates were able to do the same to Tulane. This same ECU team that couldn’t come up with the big hit against Houston did … [Read more...]

The big knock. The clutch shot. The one key hit that would have made the difference in all three games eluded the Pirates all weekend long. Houston came to town to battle for first place in the American and took all three games in the series. In all three games East Carolina certainly had its chances. The weekend got off to a bad start on Friday, when ECU ace Chris Holba … [Read more...]

Every time you win a college baseball game it’s a big deal. Those aren’t my words. They are the words of East Carolina baseball coach Cliff Godwin. One glance at the weekend sweep at Memphis solidifies that statement. All three wins were grinders, where the tougher of the two teams came out on top. The Pirates were coming off a big win over a Duke team that was ranked … [Read more...]