ORIGINAL STORY: East Carolina and UNC-Wilmington were waiting out an electrical storm on Sunday evening in the Greenville regional of the NCAA baseball tournament. The game went into a lightning delay with two out in the bottom of the fourth and ECU holding a 3-0 lead. The Pirates went ahead on a two-run single by Turner Brown in the top of the second inning. Alec … [Read more...]
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Baseball: NCAA Greenville RegionalUSC sends ECU to elimination game
GREENVILLE — East Carolina is looking at repeating history to make it out of the regional it is hosting as the No. 1 seed. In 2009, the Pirates had to beat South Carolina twice in order to advance to the Super Regional round. Devin Harris was the hero in a decisive 10-9 win in 10 innings on Monday, June 1, 2009, at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The Gamecocks put ECU in that … [Read more...]
Special Photo FeatureRegional Gallery #2
Bonesville’s W.A. Myatt captured this collection of photographs during ECU's rain-delayed NCAA Regional loss to South Carolina Saturday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium (Click any image for expanded view, caption & slide show.) [View Regional Gallery #1 vs. UNCW] … [Read more...]
Postgame Audio FeatureGodwin & Players
ECU coach Cliff Godwin and players Davis Kirkpatrick and Bryant Packard spoke with reporters after the Pirates fell to the South Carolina Gamecocks in a rain-delayed NCAA Greenville Regional game on Saturday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium (Recorded by W.A. Myatt) … [Read more...]
Baseball: NCAA Greenville RegionalPirates win regional opener, 16-7
GREENVILLE — A two-run homer by Connor Litton in the bottom of the first helped light the offensive fuse for East Carolina in a 16-7 NCAA regional win over UNC-Wilmington at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Friday night. The top-seeded Pirates (44-16) will meet second-seeded South Carolina (33-24) in the winners bracket on Saturday at 5 p.m. The Gamecocks topped Ohio State 8-3 in … [Read more...]