East Carolina players greet Connor Litton after his first-inning homer (Aaron Fitt)

Greenville Dispatches: ECU’s Onslaught

INSIDE:
• East Carolina pounds UNC Wilmington in front of frenzied crowd
• Danny Blair’s unlikely heroics lead South Carolina past Ohio State

GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina and UNC Wilmington faced off twice during the regular season, and the Pirates won both tightly contested affairs, 6-4 and 5-4. So these teams had plenty of respect for each other, but there’s a difference between a midweek game in early April and a regional opener in front of 4,700 fired-up fans who have been waiting since 2011 for another home regional game at Clark-Leclair stadium.

And East[…]