HOUSTON — East Carolina improved to 6-0 in the American Athletic Conference with an 8-5 win at Rice on Sunday as the Pirates scored in each of the first five innings and added two runs in the seventh. ECU improved to 18-10 overall going into a game at UNC Wilmington (14-14) on Tuesday at 6 p.m. A steady stream of offense began Sunday as Ryley Johnson got his first RBI of … [Read more...]

HOUSTON — East Carolina trailed Rice, 3-0, through seven innings before coming back to take the American Athletic Conference series with a 5-3 win in 11 innings on Saturday. Jake Hunter (2-2) stood out in the comeback, pitching two and two-thirds innings of perfect relief to close the contest. Hunter also got a hit in his first career at-bat in the 11th and scored the final … [Read more...]

HOUSTON — Alex Bouche put East Carolina ahead to stay with a sacrifice fly in the second inning and he hit a 2-run homer in the fourth as the Pirates won, 4-2, at Rice on Friday night. ECU improved to 16-10 overall and 4-0 in the American Athletic Conference with an opening win in its first AAC road series. Rice (6-21, 1-3 AAC) hosts game two of the series on Saturday at 5 … [Read more...]

DURHAM — Duke withstood an East Carolina comeback to take an emotionally-charged 6-4 nonconference win Tuesday night. Coaches Cliff Godwin of ECU and Chris Pollard of Duke were ejected during a verbal altercation in the bottom of the eighth inning. The Blue Devils (17-9) broke a tie at 2 with a sacrifice fly by Macon Winslow in the third that put the hosts ahead to … [Read more...]