For the first time since 2009 and for only the second time in school history, East Carolina will host an NCAA baseball regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium. All told it is the sixth time that ECU has earned a top seed in a regional, dating back to 1999. Those six top seeds run down like this: 1999 – Baton Rouge, LA 2000 – Lafayette, LA 2001 – Wilson, NC 2004 – … [Read more...]
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Audio FeatureGodwin talks Regional
East Carolina baseball coach Cliff Godwin spoke with reporters at a "Greenville Regional Party" at the Mellow Mushroom on Monday. The Pirates were selected as the top seed and will host this weekend's NCAA regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium. ECU will compete with No. 2 seed South Carolina, No. 3 seed Ohio State and No. 4 seed UNC-Wilmington for the right to advance to the super … [Read more...]
Insights from BrettHart eyes spillover effect from baseball success
There’s a line in one of my favorite movies, Shawshank Redemption, in which Andy Dufresne reminds his friend Red that “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of the things. And no good thing ever dies.” That might be the truth. But for East Carolina sports fans, hope has been on life support these past couple of years as the football team has suffered through back-to-back … [Read more...]
Audio FeatureCliff Godwin Postgame
East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin spoke with Brian Bailey about the meaning of winning the American Athletic Conference championship after the Pirates defeated Connecticut 4-3 in Saturday's title game. The outcome positioned ECU to claim a host spot in next weekend's NCAA Regionals. (Recorded by Brian Bailey) … [Read more...]
Baseball: AAC ChampionshipsPirates win AAC title
CLEARWATER, FL — A three-run fifth inning put East Carolina ahead to stay and the Pirates claimed the American Athletic Conference tournament championship with a 4-3 victory over Connecticut at Spectrum Field on Saturday. Tournament MVP Spencer Brickhouse had an RBI single that brought in Turner Brown in the fifth for the first run of the game. Brown walked to start the … [Read more...]