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Pirates run afoul in Hattiesburg
From staff and
electronic reports
A 20-point deficit at the
free throw line was more than enough to spell defeat for East Carolina
Wednesday night as the Pirates fell to Conference USA foe Southern Miss
83-72 in Hattiesburg.
The Golden Eagles
converted 27 of 39 shots from the charity stripe while the Pirates
struggled to convert 7 of only 16 free throw opportunities, drastically
skewing what otherwise might have been a different end result.
Craig Craft and Sai'Quon
Stone scored 19 points apiece to pace USM, which improved its record to
13-5, 3-2 in C-USA. Stone recorded 17 of his points on 20 chances from
the free throw line.
The Golden Eagles had two
other players in double figures, Jeremy Wise with 15 and Courtney
Beasley with 12.
Junior guard Darrell Jenkins was 5-of-9 from three-point range and
scored a game-high 25 points for ECU (5-13, 0-5 C-USA), which also got
20 points from senior guard Courtney Captain. Junior guard Cory Farmer
added 10 points for the Pirates.
East Carolina outscored
Southern Miss 39-18 from behind the arc, making 13 of 27 (48.1 percent)
from long range while the Golden Eagles connected on 6 of 16 (37.5
percent.)
Jenkins and freshman
forwards John Fields and Gabe Blair fouled out of the the game as ECU
committed 29 fouls to USM's 20.
Jenkins' three-pointer
just before the halftime buzzer sent the Pirates into the locker room
trailing only 30-28, but Southern Miss outscored the Pirates 21-8 in the
first 9:15 of the second half to take control of the contest.
East Carolina, which has
lost five games in a row and 12 of its last 13, returns home for a C-USA
battle with UAB on Saturday (7:00 p.m.)
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BOX SCORE
SOUTHERN MISS 83, EAST
CAROLINA 72
Date: Jan. 24, 2007.
Site: Reed Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, MS.
Attendance: 3,383.
Officials: Kelly Self, Bobby Jacobs, Jeff Malham.
Technical Fouls: Gabe Blair.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 28 44 - 72
Southern Miss
30 53 - 83
EAST CAROLINA (5-13,
0-5
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Fields 26 4-6
0-0 1-4 7 9
Blair 27
3-8 0-1 0-2 6
6
Farmer 34 3-8
2-4 2-2 2 10
Captain 35 7-14 6-11
0-0 3 20
Jenkins 39 9-17
5-9 2-6 4 25
Dillard 11 0-0
0-0 0-0 2 0
Gagnon 9
0-0 0-0 2-2 2
2
Ingram 5
0-3 0-2 0-0 0
0
Sweeley 0+ 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Ramsey 7
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Sargent 3 0-2
0-0 0-0 1 0
Evans 4
0-0 0-0 0-0 1
0
TEAM
4
TOTALS 200 26-58 13-27 7-16
32 72
PERCENT
.448 .481 .438
SOUTHERN MISS (13-5,
3-2 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Beasley 21 6-9
0-0 0-0 7 12
Stone 35
1-5 0-1 17-20 4 19
Bain 26
2-3 0-0 2-3 6
6
Green 20
1-2 0-1 0-4 0
2
Wise 33
4-11 1-4 6-8 4
15
Craft 27 7-11
3-5 2-2 4 19
Hill 24
3-8 2-5 0-0 1
8
Stephens 14 1-3
0-0 0-2 5 2
TEAM
7
TOTALS 200 25-52 6-16 27-39
38 83
PERCENT
.481 .375 .692
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02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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