WILMINGTON — Bryce Harman, Luke Bolka and Dwanya Williams-Sutton provided the power as East Carolina won 9-5 at UNC-Wilmington on Tuesday night. After his RBI single tied the score at 1 in the second inning, Harman had a two-run homer in the fourth that put the Pirates (20-18) ahead to stay. Bolka had a three-run homer in a four-run fifth. The run support made a winner … [Read more...]
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From the Anchor DeskPirates losing the mind game
These are unprecedented bad times for East Carolina baseball. This is a baseball season that absolutely no one saw coming. Add in injuries, bad luck, poor play at times, it still wouldn't add up to the season this ECU baseball team is suffering through as we head to the latter part of April. It wasn't so long ago that the team was the talk of the preseason. Coming off … [Read more...]
Insights from BrettPirates have options: ‘No Quarter’ or surrender
There’s no one on the East Carolina baseball roster named Murphy. Given the way this season has gone so far, there probably should be. To say that everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for the Pirates, might be overstating things a little. But not by much. The seemingly endless series of unfortunate events began on the opening weekend, when despite leading at … [Read more...]
BaseballUCF completes sweep
GREENVILLE — East Carolina senior left-hander Evan Kruczynski returned from a fractured leg sustained March 3 and pitched effectively for five innings but Central Florida completed an American Athletic Conference sweep with a 7-0 win Saturday. Kruczynski (0-2) threw 65 pitches. He allowed three hits and one run, which was earned, while striking out two without a walk. The … [Read more...]
BaseballUCF wins with huge 8th
GREENVILLE — Central Florida trailed 2-0 going to the eighth inning of Friday night's American Athletic Conference game at East Carolina but the Knights erupted for nine runs in the frame en route to a 9-4 win. Freshman right-hander Trey Benton held UCF scoreless through seven innings but was pulled with one away in the top of the eighth when he hit Kam Gellinger with a … [Read more...]