East Carolina and North Carolina State are solely separated by about 80 miles so it’s at all times chippy when the their two school soccer groups get collectively. An all-out brawl broke out between the Wolfpack and the Pirates within the Navy Bowl on Saturday evening!
It was an unpleasant scene that resulted in eight ejections— 5 for NC State and three for ECU.
Officers obtained tied up within the melee and school soccer umpire Rod Tucker obtained a reduce underneath his eye that was bleeding fairly closely. He took a helmet to the face after an East Carolina participant got here from out of nowhere.
East Carolina participant comes speeding up from behind to shove the NC State participant, with the referee taking a helmet within the face
Ridiculous pic.twitter.com/8n6KDhyHri
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) December 29, 2024
Happily, they obtained him cleaned up and he was in a position to fulfill his duties to the fullest extent. Rod is warrior on the market!
The entire thing began when freshman large receiver Yannick Smith stole a towel from North Carolina State nickleback Tamarcus Cooley. Cooley took exception to Smith’s shenanigans.
ECU dude #15 stole the NCST man’s towel…
and it ignited a full area brawl the place refs have been reduce & bleeding & 8 gamers have been ejected pic.twitter.com/LpDSCq7Eil
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) December 29, 2024
All of it escalated from there.
East Carolina and NC State gamers have a complete eight months to stew on this earlier than assembly on the sector in Week 1 of the 2025 school soccer season ????
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— Oliver Hodgkinson (@ojhodgkinson) December 29, 2024
Each groups have been requested about this recreation earlier this week. Particularly about what it means. There have been truly just a few East Carolina gamers who mentioned that this particular matchup with North Carolina State will not be a rivalry recreation. Clearly, that’s not true.
We additionally get to see these video games in only a few weeks, kind of. The Pirates will open their 12 months on the highway at Carter-Finley Stadium, residence of the Wolfpack. Raleigh is situated roughly 60 minutes from Greenville so there’s lots of unhealthy blood between the 2 faculties whether or not they wish to admit it or not… Although certainly now they are going to admit it as a result of all of us noticed it play out on the sector in Maryland on Saturday.
North Carolina State and East Carolina are going to run this again as quickly as attainable after the brawl… The rivalry is SO on!
