A loss can have value when teams learn from it. Since a 2-1 setback at Elon on Saturday, March 27, the East Carolina baseball team has won five straight, a streak that includes a comeback win over North Carolina and a four-game American Athletic Conference sweep of Cincinnati. Pirates coach Cliff Godwin called his colleague, Tim Corbin of Vanderbilt, for some reassurance … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — East Carolina took both ends of a doubleheader with visiting Cincinnati on Saturday to complete a four-game sweep of its opening American Athletic Conference series. The Pirates got a grand slam from Ryley Johnson in a 7-run fifth inning of the first game, a 13-3 win that concluded after seven innings in accordance with the 10-run rule. C.J. Mayhue (2-1) was … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — Gavin Williams and Carter Spivey combined for a shutout as East Carolina downed Cincinnati, 7-0, on Friday to take a 2-0 lead in their American Athletic Conference series. Williams (3-0) went six and two-thirds innings, allowing four hits. He struck out 13 and walked three. Spivey entered the game with two out and the bases loaded. He got a strikeout to end … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — Alec Makarewicz was at it again as East Carolina opened its 2021 American Athletic Conference schedule with a 5-4 win over Cincinnati on Thursday at Clark-LeClair Stadium. Makarewicz, who hit a game-tying home run and a game-winning RBI single in an 11-10 win over North Carolina on Tuesday night, had a 2-run homer to left for a 5-4 lead against the Bearcats in … [Read more...]

Pirate Nation was on a downward spiral. There was a 2-1 baseball loss at Elon on Saturday, an unexpected jolt for an East Carolina team ranked as high as No. 8 nationally. ECU had dispatched the Phoenix, 15-0, on Friday night but the Pirate bats did an about face the next day as Elon pitchers recorded 14 strikeouts. Then the news came Monday that All-AAC basketball … [Read more...]