Hurricane Florence put the brakes on the sports schedule in Eastern North Carolina in a big way. The southern counties in WNCT-TV's viewing area were hit the hardest. There is no telling when some of those counties will get back in school and back to playing games. Greenville and East Carolina dodged a real bullet with Hurricane Florence. It was a nasty four days of wind … [Read more...]

Instead of traveling to Blacksburg for its scheduled game against Virginia Tech on Saturday, the East Carolina football team headed south to ride out Hurricane Florence in the safe harbor of Orlando, FL. It was a logical move given the severity of the storm and the experience school officials gained from previous natural disasters, including Hurricane Matthew just two years … [Read more...]

This just didn’t look like the same team on the field at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The same team that never got things cranked up against North Carolina A&T dominated play against North Carolina from the ACC in a 41-19 win. It was East Carolina's third straight win over UNC-Chapel Hill. “I love beating the Tar Heels,” ECU head coach Scottie Montgomery said after … [Read more...]

East Carolina was a 16½-point underdog against North Carolina on Saturday, so technically its 41-19 drubbing of the Tar Heels at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium was an upset. But anyone familiar with the dynamic of the rivalry between the Pirates and either of its UNC System cousins from the Triangle knows that the result was anything but a surprise. In fact, it was almost as … [Read more...]