Spring game preview: Part Two of Two | VIEW PART ONE Mike Houston promised position competition when he took over the East Carolina football program the week after the Pirates finished 3-9 for the third straight season. As the Pirates head into a potentially-rainy spring football game this afternoon, Houston stopped short of saying rising sophomore Holton Ahlers from … [Read more...]

LOS ANGELES — Top-ranked UCLA rallied from a 5-2 deficit on Friday night to top No. 8 East Carolina 7-5 in the opener of a 3-game series. The Bruins (25-6) got home runs from Noah Cardenas and Michael Toglia. A 3-run homer by Toglias tied the score at 5 in the sixth. Toglia had a 2-run double off Evan Voliva (4-2) in the eighth for the winning margin. The Pirates … [Read more...]

Spring game preview: Part Two of Two | VIEW PART TWO Mike Houston took over as coach of a program that has experienced four straight losing seasons, including three consecutive 3-9 campaigns. The new coach doesn't have any magic dust to transform the Pirates into winners again, but he feels good about the direction that has been taken in East Carolina's first spring … [Read more...]

Kim McNeill’s motivation for taking the head coaching job at East Carolina was the same motivation that prompted her to move back east twelve years ago after she tried living in California. Family. Berkeley, California was too far away from her biological family, so in 2007 McNeill moved back closer to home and took an assistant’s job at the University of Georgia, where … [Read more...]