Too little, too late for
Pirates
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East Carolina mounted a
frantic second half rally but ran out of momentum before it could dig
out of a mammoth hole and prevent Marshall from escaping Williams Arena
with a 78-65 Conference USA victory Saturday evening.
Junior guard Damier Pitts
scored a career-high 28 points to help the Thundering Herd (16-9, 4-6
C-USA) settle accounts for
an 82-81 loss to ECU on Jan. 22
in Huntington, WV.
Marshall out-shot,
out-rebounded and generally out-played the Pirates, cruising to a 34-21
halftime lead and accelerating to a 27-point advantage over the first
six minutes of the second frame before ECU (13-11, 5-5) began climbing
out of the abyss.
A 3-pointer by senior
guard Brock Young ignited a 30-8 East Carolina run that lasted 9
minutes. The comeback attempt lost steam after a jumper by Young cut the
deficit to 5, at 58-53, with 5:09 left.
Pitts converted a layup to
launch a game-ending 20-12 surge by Marshall that sealed the outcome.
Senior guard Jontae
Sherrod scored 19 points, Young had 18 and sophomore guard Erin Straughn
contributed 10 for the Pirates.
Pitts got offensive
support from junior guard Shaquille Johnson, who had 14 points, and
freshman guard DeAndre Kane, who added 12.
The Thundering Herd hit
56.8 percent from the floor, including 50 percent from 3-point range.
ECU converted 39.7 percent of its field goal attempts, 28.6 percent from
behind the arc.
Marshall dominated the
backboards 44-22.
The Herd's victory margin
could have been much larger but for a huge discrepancy in favor of the
Pirates in terms of turnovers. ECU had 28 takeaways while giving the
ball up only 11 times.
The attendance of 6,741
marked ECU's biggest home crowd of the season, surpassing the 6,567
benchmark set the previous Saturday when the Pirates
defeated Central Florida 68-61.
The Pirates continue
league play on Wednesday with a visit to Tulsa for an 8:05 p.m. matchup.
The Golden Hurricane is 13-11 overall, 6-4 in the conference, after
coming out on the short end of a 58-57 thriller at Central Florida
Saturday evening.
BOX SCORE
MARSHALL
78, EAST CAROLINA 65
Date:
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011.
Place: Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC.
Attendance: 6,741.
Records: ECU 13-11, 5-5 Conference USA; Marshall 16-9, 4-6.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
Marshall
34 44 - 78
East Carolina 21
44 - 65
MARSHALL THUNDERING
HERD
(16-9,
4-6
C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
00 Johnny Thomas....... f 4-9 0-1
1-2 5 9 38
30 Tirrell Baines...... f 2-6 0-1
2-2 8 6 24
11 Nigel Spikes........ c 0-0 0-0
1-2 7 1 15
03 Damier Pitts........ g 8-12 5-8
7-8 2 28 35
24 DeAndre Kane........ g 4-6 1-3
3-4 7 12 19
04 Johnny Higgins........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 2
10 Dago Pena............. 1-3 1-2
0-1 2 3 19
21 Orlando Allen......... 1-1 0-0
0-0 2 2 10
23 Shaquille Johnson..... 4-5 2-3
4-6 4 14 27
25 Aundra Williams....... 1-2 0-0
1-2 5 3 11
TEAM.....................
2
TOTALS................... 25-44 9-18 19-27 44 78 200
PERCENT.................. 56.8 50.0 70.4
EAST CAROLINA
PIRATES (13-11,
5-5
C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
01 Darrius Morrow...... f 2-8 0-0
3-5 2 7 34
21 Jamar Abrams........ f 1-1 1-1
0-0 1 3 15
11 Corvonn Gaines...... g 3-7 1-3
1-5 4 8 30
23 Erin Straughn....... g 3-6 3-6
1-2 3 10 27
24 Jontae Sherrod...... g 7-14 1-6
4-7 2 19 37
03 Petar Torlak.......... 0-1 0-0
0-0 0 0 1
10 Brock Young........... 7-15 2-7
2-4 0 18 28
12 Robert Sampson........ 0-6 0-5
0-0 6 0 17
30 Wakefield Ellison..... 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 8
35 Darius Morales........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 1 0 3
TEAM.....................
3
TOTALS................... 23-58 8-28 11-23 22 65 200
PERCENT.................. 39.7 28.6 47.8
Officials:
Kipp Kissinger, Steve Divine, Charles Robinson.
Technical Fouls: Damier Pitts, Brock Young.
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