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TAMPA — Freshman Frank
Robinson scored 19 points and East Carolina snapped an eight-game losing
streak with a 59-57 victory over South Florida on Tuesday night.
ECU's win ended its string of 20
straight C-USA road losses, a hex that started immediately upon the
Pirates' entry into the league's powerful basketball alignment two
seasons ago.
South Florida went on a
15-3 run in the final seven minutes, tying the game at 57. But Robinson
hit a pair of free throws with 11.5 seconds left to close the scoring.
Konimba Diarra's desperation shot at the buzzer missed the mark, sending
the Bulls to their sixth straight loss.
Senior Derrick Wiley had
14 points and 11 rebounds for East Carolina (8-9, 1-7 Conference USA)
and Erroyl Bing, also a senior, added 10 points and 10 rebounds. But it
was first-year player Robinson, a guard out of Maine Central Institute,
who provided the heroics at vital times for the Pirates.
Brian Swift scored 20 points for South Florida (6-11, 0-6), which is on
its longest losing streak in five years. Bradley Mosley had 15 points
for the Bulls. Gerrick Morris added 12 points, six rebounds and five
blocked shots, and Terrence Leather had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Next up for ECU is a home
game and a chance for payback against in-state conference rival
Charlotte on Saturday at 7 p.m. The
49ers dispatched of the Pirates 81-65 on Jan. 10 in
Charlotte.
BOX
SCORE East Carolina
59, South Florida 57
Records: East Carolina 8-9, 1-7;
South Florida 6-11, 0-6.
EAST CAROLINA
Player FG FT
PTS
Wiley
4-13 5-7 14
Bing
2-5 6-14 10
Badiane
2-6 2-2
6
Robinson 7-10
2-3 19
Cook
3-12 1-2
7
Rivers
0-0 0-0
0
McNeil
0-2 0-0
0
MacKay
0-2 0-0
0
Grindley 1-3
1-2 3
Totals
19-53 17-30 59
SOUTH FLORIDA
Player FG FT
PTS
Graham
0-0 0-0
0
Leather 4-10
1-4 10
Morris
3-6 6-7 12
Swift
7-13 0-0 20
Mosley
6-17 1-3 15
Brigman
0-1 0-0
0
Diarra
0-1 0-0
0
Totals
20-48 8-14 57
Halftime: East Carolina 25-21.
3-point goals: East Carolina
4-13 (Robinson 3-4, Wiley 1-2, Bing 0-2, McNeil 0-2, MacKay 0-2,
Cook 0-1); South Florida 9-27 (Swift 6-11, Mosley 2-11, Leather
1-5).
Fouled out: Graham, Morris.
Rebounds: East Carolina 36
(Wiley 11); South Florida 37 (Leather 11).
Assists: East Carolina 7 (Cook
3); South Florida 17 (Swift, Mosley 7).
Total fouls: East Carolina 15;
South Florida 22.
Technical fouls: Mosley,
Grindley.
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02/23/07 11:01 AM
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