This 2017 Pirate baseball season is certainly not for the feint of heart. The Pirates went 4-1 this past week, sweeping the two games at the College of Charleston and then taking two out of three from Charlotte back at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The week opened with a 12-7 win over Charleston. The Pirates fell behind early but came back behind home runs by Spencer Brickhouse, … [Read more...]

Make if five in a row for East Carolina in the Keith LeClair Classic. The Pirates swept the field this past weekend for Cliff Godwin's third consecutive LeClair Classic title in as many years. ECU also won the event in 2013 and 2014. Sixteenth-ranked St. John's went 2-1 in the event. Appalachian State was 1-2 and Western Carolina went 0-3. It was the Catamounts, … [Read more...]

The same La Salle team that battled East Carolina into the late innings on Friday looked more like the Bad News Bears on Sunday. La Salle pitchers couldn’t find the strike zone and suffered through a long day in the series finale. The Explorers came to town this weekend in search of their first win of the season. That search will continue into this week after a Pirate … [Read more...]

Three blown leads and three closes losses left a bad taste in East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin's mouth this past weekend. Godwin's homecoming to Oxford,  where he was an assistant coach for three seasons at Ole Miss, didn't go like he had hoped it would. The perennial SEC power rode the momentum of great, rowdy crowds for three days to a series sweep of the … [Read more...]

The most anticipated season in the history of East Carolina baseball begins on Friday. The Pirates open the 2017 season with a three-game series against Southeastern Conference power Ole Miss. The goal is Omaha. It is this year and it will be every year that Cliff Godwin heads the ECU program. Godwin is like the late Keith LeClair in the way he leads this program. These … [Read more...]