East Carolina seemed very much in control on Sunday night, leading rival UNC-Wilmington 5-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth inning. The Pirates had come back from a five-hour, nine-minute rain delay and scored a pair of runs to take that 5-0 lead into the frame. That fifth inning rocked ECU to the tune of an earlier than expected exit from the NCAA Greenville Regional … [Read more...]

East Carolina’s exhilarating 2018 baseball season came to a stunning end Sunday with a soggy 9-7 loss to UNC-Wilmington in the loser’s bracket of the NCAA’s Greenville Regional. If the festive atmosphere at Clark-LeClair Stadium wasn’t dampened enough by the five-plus hour rain delay that turned the afternoon game into a long day’s journey into night, it was doused even … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — A fragmented NCAA regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium ended for top-seeded East Carolina on Sunday night with a 9-7 loss to fourth-seeded UNC-Wilmington. The Seahawks (39-22) scored all nine of their runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. ECU (44-18) finished the season as the visiting team in the regional for the second time in three games, including a 4-2 … [Read more...]

Bonesville’s W.A. Myatt captured this collection of photographs during ECU's weather-interrupted NCAA Greenville Regional loss to UNCW Sunday afternoon into Sunday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The outcome ended the Pirates' season. (Click any image for expanded view, caption & slide show.) [View Regional Gallery #1 vs. UNCW | View Regional Gallery #2 vs. South Carolina] … [Read more...]