Nineteenth-ranked East Carolina got the baseball season off to a great start with a series sweep of William & Mary this past weekend. The Pirates took all three games in the series in very different ways. ECU had to rally late on Friday. William & Mary struck first on opening day when the Tribe’s Brandon Raquet hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh inning … [Read more...]

College baseball is a long season and a lot can — and probably will — happen between now and tournament time in mid-May. But it’s always good to get off to a fast start. And coach Cliff Godwin couldn’t have dialed up a better one than the result his team produced this weekend. It wasn’t just that East Carolina swept a season-opening three-game series against a good … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — No. 19 East Carolina halted a William & Mary threat in the top of the eighth to complete a season-opening 3-game sweep of the Tribe with a 7-4 win at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Sunday. After RBI singles by Thomas Francisco and Connor Norby in the bottom of the seventh had given the Pirates a 7-2 lead, the visitors answered with a pair of runs in the eighth and … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — East Carolina took Cincinnati to overtime on Sunday before falling 70-67 in the American Athletic Conference contest in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. Jayden Gardner of the Pirates drove with ECU trailing 69-67 and there was contact but the call was out of bounds to the Bearcats with four seconds remaining. ECU fell to 10-16 overall and 4-9 in the league … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — After struggling to produce runs on Friday, East Carolina got untracked offensively for an 11-3 win over William & Mary at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Saturday. Matt James hit the first home run of the season for the Pirates (2-0) and right-hander Tyler Smith (1-0) struck out six in five innings. Zach Agnos had an RBI single up the middle to score Connor … [Read more...]