Saturday, October 29
Greenville, N.C.
Noon
East Carolina University
vs
Virginia
ECU Hosts Virginia Saturday For Fall Scrimmage
October 27, 2022 | Baseball
GREENVILLE, N.C. – East Carolina continues its fall schedule Saturday, Oct. 29, when it hosts Virginia for a pair of seven-inning exhibition games at Clark-LeClair Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for Noon.
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Admission to both contests is free of charge and concessions will be available throughout the afternoon.
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The Pirates and Cavaliers last met back on June 4th at the NCAA Greenville Regional where host and No. 8 national seed ECU downed the Cavaliers 4-2 to advance to the regional finals.
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After facing Virginia, East Carolina wraps up its fall practice schedule Nov. 4-6 with the Purple-Gold World Series. Game times and team rosters will be announced next week.
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About East Carolina
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Admission to both contests is free of charge and concessions will be available throughout the afternoon.
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The Pirates and Cavaliers last met back on June 4th at the NCAA Greenville Regional where host and No. 8 national seed ECU downed the Cavaliers 4-2 to advance to the regional finals.
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After facing Virginia, East Carolina wraps up its fall practice schedule Nov. 4-6 with the Purple-Gold World Series. Game times and team rosters will be announced next week.
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About East Carolina
- ECU captured its third-straight American Athletic Conference regular season championship in 2022, finishing the campaign with 46 victories - its most since a 47-victory campaign in 2019. East Carolina posted a 20-4 record in league play, outpacing second-place UCF by six games.
- The Pirates hosted an NCAA Regional for the fourth-straight season, joining Stanford as the only team to do so.
- ECU earned the No. 8 national seed, its highest since it was the No. 7 national seed in 2001 and hosted a regional in Wilson, N.C.
- The Pirates finished at No. 8 in the final 2022 NCAA RPI ranking.
- Ninth-year head coach Cliff Godwin was tabbed the AAC Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his career.
- East Carolina returns the American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year and Third-Team All-American RHP Carter Spivey as well as freshman All-America selection and AAC Baseball Championship Most Outstanding Player outfielder Jacob Jenkins-Cowart and the 2022 squad's leader in batting average outfielder Lane Hoover.
- ECU welcomes back six All-AAC honorees to this year's squad: Lane Hoover (First Team), Carter Spivey (First Team), Cam Clonch (Second Team), Alec Makarewicz (Second Team), Garrett Saylor (Second Team) and Jacob Starling (Second Team).
- The Pirates finished among the top 40 nationally in 12 statistical categories in 2022, ECU was third among NCAA Division I squads in both fielding percentage and sacrifice flies.
- East Carolina is the only team in the nation to have won 40 games the last four seasons, host four-straight NCAA Regionals and play in three-straight NCAA Super Regionals.
- ECU checked in at No. 22 on D1Baseball's recently-released Top 100 collegiate baseball programs.
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