CHARLESTON, S.C. --- The College of Charleston baseball team hopes to extend its seven-game winning streak with a critical two-game set on Tuesday and Wednesday against a No. 19 East Carolina squad that took a three-game series from No. 6 North Carolina on the second weekend of the season. First pitch on Tuesday is set for 6:30 pm, with junior Brian Rourke (Germantown, Md.) taking the ball opposite ECU freshman Alec Burleson.
 
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Probable Pitchers
Tuesday | 6:30 pm: RHP Brian Rourke (1-1, 3.72 ERA, 9 K) vs. LHP Alec Burleson (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 10 K)
Wednesday | 2:30 pm: TBA vs. LHP Jake Agnos (0-1, 8.22 ERA, 7 K)
 
Series Preview 
The Cougars and Pirates meet for the 14th time on Tuesday, with East Carolina leading the all-time series by a 9-4 margin. The Pirates took both games of the season series in 2017 at Patriots Point.
 
Last Time Out   
The Cougars pushed their win streak to seven with a series sweep of Georgia over the weekend, and held the Bulldogs to just six runs - only four of them earned - while pushing across 17 runs on 24 hits.
 
Making History
The Cougars accomplished a program-first in dramatic fashion on Sunday, when Joey Mundy and Luke Manzo sparked a two-out rally in the eighth to lead Charleston to a 6-4 come-from-behind win over Georgia to secure the program's first-ever sweep of a Power Five school.
 
Hart Of The Problem     
Dupree Hart gave the Bulldogs fits on both sides of the ball this weekend, finishing the three-game set with a .467 (5-for-9) batting average, a .692 on-base percentage, and a perfect fielding record in 14 attempts. The 5-foot-7 second baseman reached base in each of his first six plate appearances, and eight of his first nine in the series.
 
Sophomore Stalwart     
Sophomore starter Griffin McLarty delivered one of the most memorable performances on the mound in recent memory for the Cougars on Saturday, scattering six hits and tying a career-high with seven strikeouts in the program's first complete game shutout since 2014. The 6-foot-3 right-hander is now tied with Jakob Frishmuth and Carter Love with a 2-0 record, and ranks second on the team with a 0.49 earned run average.
 
Scouting East Carolina  
East Carolina enters the fourth week of the season ranked 19th in the D1 Baseball Top 25 Poll, down from 18th last week after dropping contests to Pepperdine and No. 28 Missouri State over the weekend.
 
Bryant Packard and Spencer Brickhouse have combined for five home runs and 23 RBIs to lead the attack for the Pirates, while Jake Washer paces ECU with a .480 batting average. Tuesday starter Alec Burleson has not allowed a run and struck out 10 in seven innings over four appearances thus far.