Due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the ECU men’s basketball team announced Sunday it has canceled its upcoming trip to the Gulf Coast Showcase in Fort Myers, Fla.
Tyler Snead scored two touchdowns, including a 95-yard kickoff return, and East Carolina beat Temple 28-3 on Saturday in a game delayed nearly an hour because of COVID-19 concerns.
Get ready for ECU football’s eighth and final road game of the season against Temple at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday, Nov. 21 (12 ET on ESPN+) with WITN Sports coverage throughout the week.
Kinston's Dontrez Styles and Farmville Central's Terquavion Smith highlighted the first day of college athletics' early signing period Wednesday afternoon across Eastern North Carolina.
Get ready for ECU football’s seventh game of the season against No. 7 Cincinnati at Nippert Stadium on Friday, Nov. 13 (7:30 p.m. on ESPN2) with WITN Sports coverage throughout the week.
Holton Ahlers threw for 351 yards and three touchdowns. Thirteen of his 27 completions went to Blake Proehl for 182 receiving yards and two scores, one of which was a 75-yarder with 5:07 left to play.
Get ready for ECU football’s sixth game of the season against Tulane at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 7 (12 ET on ESPN+) with WITN Sports coverage throughout the week.
The American Athletic Conference said Saturday that replay officials in the East Carolina-Tulsa game erred when overturning a fumble call that would have ended what turned out to the the Golden Hurricane’s game-winning drive.
Tulsa’s 11-play, 75-yard final drive was aided by two questionable replays — a fumble that was overturned and a fourth-down catch that appeared to hit the ground.
The ECU athletic department will be temporarily furloughing some employees and implementing salary reductions for its entire staff, ECU Director of Athletics Jon Gilbert announced Monday in his “From The Helm” online message forum to Pirate Nation.
ECU freshman Mason Garcia made his first start in place of Holton Ahlers, who, along with a handful of other Pirates, had to sit following COVID-19 contract tracing.
The ECU men’s basketball team held a virtual media Thursday to provide some insight into how the 2020-21 college basketball season could look like from the Pirates' perspective.
Holton Ahlers threw for three touchdowns and Rahjai Harris ran for two scores and East Carolina beat South Florida 44-24 on Saturday night. With the win, ECU ended a six-game skid against the Bulls.
Holton Ahlers was 29-of-50 passing for 242 yards with no scores and three interceptions for ECU (0-2), which rushed for only 50 yards. Tyler Snead made 11 catches for 111 yards.
Holton Ahlers threw for 215 yards and three TDs for the Pirates (0-1, 0-1), who were making a delayed start to the season after coronavirus-related scheduling changes.
If you ever attended a Farmville Central football or basketball game, you probably know the name Ronald Reid. He sadly passed away on August 7 at the age of 59.
ECU football’s season-opening game against UCF on Saturday, Sept. 26 inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium will be closed to the public due to continued COVID-19 concerns.
What seemed like the entire ECU athletics department — student-athletes, coaches, staff, and other personnel — organized a ’unity march’ from Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to the Cupola on campus Monday afternoon.
The AAC announced Tuesday that it will postpone all competition and conference championships in men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball until the spring of 2021.
ECU Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson said late Sunday morning he is confident Pirate football will play its home opener September 12th against Marshall.
After being held to just one touchdown in ECU's first scrimmage less than a week ago, the Pirates’ offense reached the endzone four times and added three field goals during the program’s second intrasquad contest Friday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
The non-conference football game between Marshall and East Carolina, originally set to be played August 29 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, has been rescheduled for Sept. 12.
Out of 1,212 coronavirus tests conducted among ECU athletics staff, coaches and student-athletes, 26 have come back positive, WITN Sports confirmed with ECU athletics Friday afternoon.
After practice Tuesday night, ECU head football coach Mike Houston told the media via Zoom, “We’re going to fight like hell to make sure we have a ball game sometime in September.”
