Cliff Godwin's success at East Carolina and his Southeastern Conference connections have made him a coach of interest in LSU's search for a successor to Paul Mainieri. Godwin was an assistant at LSU from 2006 to 2008. D1Baseball.com has reported that former Oregon State coach Paul Casey has moved to the top of the field of candidates to replace Mainieri after Florida … [Read more...]

NASHVILLE — East Carolina will try again to get going offensively in game two of its Super Regional at Vanderbilt on Saturday after the Pirates took a 2-0 loss to Kumar Rocker and the Commodores on Friday. ECU (44-16) was limited to three hits, but Gavin Williams turned in a strong performance in a duel with Rocker. "It was a really well-pitched game by two studs," said … [Read more...]

NASHVILLE, TN — Staff aces Gavin Williams of East Carolina and Kumar Rocker of Vanderbilt are listed as the probable starters for the best-of-three Super Regional that gets started at noon today at the Commodores' Hawkins Field. It will be a strength-on-strength matchup unless the 60 percent chance of rain causes coaches Cliff Godwin or Tim Corbin to hold their premier … [Read more...]

East Carolina is scheduled to start its Super Regional at Vanderbilt on Friday at noon. Pirates coach Cliff Godwin was all right with the game time during a Zoom conference on Tuesday. "It's much better this year than it was two years ago," Godwin said. The Pirates had to win twice on Monday, June 3, 2019, in the Greenville regional before traveling to Louisville for a … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — In his sixth year in the East Carolina baseball program, Matt Bridges' last game at Clark-LeClair Stadium was special. Bridges got a strikeout at 12:56 a.m. on Monday to complete a 9-6 win over Maryland (30-18) for an NCAA regional championship. Bridges became the starting point for the ensuing dogpile. Much of a crowd of 5,017 stayed to see the … [Read more...]