It may have been Sunday night and it may have been close to 11 p.m., but it didn’t matter. East Carolina baseball fans were out late to welcome their Pirates home. ECU took two out of three from Wichita State over the weekend. The 6-1 win on Friday clinched the Pirate’s first ever American Athletic Conference regular season title in any sport. First-year ECU Director of … [Read more...]

The East Carolina baseball team clinched the American Athletic Conference regular season championship and won its seventh straight league series this weekend by taking two of three at Wichita State. But those might not be the most significant things to happen to the Pirates over the past six days. Far more meaningful was Wednesday’s 9-5 victory against North Carolina in … [Read more...]

WICHITA, KS — East Carolina topped Wichita State 7-3 on Sunday to take the American Athletic Conference series two games to one. Jordan Boyer stole home in the first inning to give the Shockers a 1-0 lead, but the Pirates scored four runs in the third and maintained the advantage. Eighth-ranked ECU improved to 39-12 overall and 18-3 in the AAC. The surge in the third … [Read more...]

WICHITA, KS — Wichita State's Clayton McGinness pitched a complete game in a 3-1 American Athletic Conference win over East Carolina on Saturday. McGinness (5-4) allowed five hits and one earned run while walking one with four strikeouts. The Pirates (38-12, 17-3 AAC) took a 1-0 lead in the sixth after a leadoff single up the middle by Thomas Francisco. A sacrifice bunt … [Read more...]

WICHITA, KS — Jake Agnos pitched seven scoreless innings and Alec Burleson was 3-for-4 with four RBIs as No. 8 East Carolina opened an American Athletic Conference series at Wichita State with a 6-1 win on Friday night. The outcome clinched the AAC regular-season title for the Pirates. Agnos (8-2) started and allowed four hits while walking five and striking out … [Read more...]