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Champions: ECU wins the 2025 American Tournament

·1 hr 13 min·4 clips

Riley Johnson went 5-for-18 with six RBIs and changed ECU’s entire lineup and defense.

The episode opens with a special championship edition after ECU wins the American Athletic Conference Tournament Championship. The result still feels hard to believe, so the conversation moves fast. Steven Igoe, Jonathan Wagner, and Scott Lorbacher lead the discussion. Scott gets immediate credit for calling the run. The panel frames the title as a sharp turn after what they describe as quite possibly the worst regular season in recent memory, definitely since 2017. That contrast drives most of the reaction. They keep coming back to how much can change in six days. The sweep is treated as the moment that rewrote the season. They also make room for the live audience. Chat comments become part of the rhythm, and the hosts joke with viewers, read reactions aloud, and answer questions as they go. A long detour follows into Super Chats and how to send them. That turns into a mix of instruction, fundraising, and teasing. The background behind Wags becomes its own running joke. The show stays rooted in ECU even when it wanders. They also point toward the next stage of the postseason. Another show is coming Monday night at 9 to react to the regional field. The back half keeps the same loose, talk-radio pace. There are more shoutouts to listeners who contributed. The episode closes by thanking the audience and signing off after the championship celebration. The whole thing lands like a live, local victory lap with a lot of personality.

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A lively ECU championship recap that balances celebration, debate, and live chat energy.

Hoist the Colors treats ECU's title run as both celebration and postmortem, which fits a tournament championship that followed what the hosts call a rough regular season, at least in recent memory and definitely since 2017.

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