Handful of key Pirates return to ECU Baseball for next season

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - ECU Baseball has announced Saturday that Brett Antolick, Colby Wallace, Braxton Tramel, Alex Peltier, Brayden Bachman and Jack Vogele are coming back for the 2027 season.

On Friday, they announced that Braden Burress, Grady Lenahan, Nick Parham, Thomas Paxton, Ryan Towers, Sean Jenkins, and Ethan Rose will all be returning for next year also.

The news comes days after Michael Kalinich, Austin Irby, Carlos Jacome, Matthew Lashley, and a few others left for the transfer portal.

ECU made it back to the final round of Regionals for the 7th straight season this spring, losing to North Carolina in Chapel Hill.