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Rice scuttles Pirates

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East Carolina was no match for Morris Almond and the Rice Owls Saturday night. The Pirates fell behind little more than five minutes into the game and never seriously threatened the rest of the way in absorbing a 64-47 defeat in Greenville.

Almond recorded his eighth career double-double, scoring a team-best 18 points and grabbing 10 rebounds as Rice improved to 8-7 overall, 2-0 in Conference USA.

The loss dropped the Pirates to 5-10 in all games, 0-2 in the league, heading into home games Wednesday with Tulane (7:00 p.m.) and Saturday versus Memphis (6:00 p.m., CSTV.)

Senior guard Courtney Captain was ECU's only double-figure scorer with 18 points. Freshman forward John Fields hauled in a game-high 13 rebounds for the Pirates.

Almond, the nation's second-leading scorer at 28.8 ppg, got offensive support from Lorenzo Williams (17 points) and Patrick Britton (10 points) as the Owls out-shot the Pirates from the field 42.6 percent (23 of 54) to 26.7 percent (16 of 60.)

Rice led at the half, 34-18, and stretched the margin to as much as 25 (64-39) with 3:27 left in the game.

BOX SCORE

RICE 64, EAST CAROLINA 47

Date: Jan. 13, 2007.
Site: Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC.
Attendance: 4,902.
Officials: Kyle Neve, James Durham, Mike Ashurst.
Technical Fouls: None.

SCORE BY PERIODS   1   2 FINAL
Rice              34  30 - 64
East Carolina     18  29 - 47

RICE (8-7, 2-0 CONFERENCE USA)
PLAYER      MIN    FG   3PT    FT   R  PTS
Packevicius  25   0-0   0-0   1-2   6    1
Killings     23   2-4   0-0   0-0   6    4
Hagan        19   2-6   0-2   0-1   2    4
Williams     26  6-10   3-6   2-2   3   17
Almond       31  5-15   5-7   3-4  10   18
Bailey        2   0-0   0-0   0-0   0    0
Foster       13   1-4   0-2   0-0   0    2
Belton       14   1-3   0-0   0-2   3    2
Pflieger     19   2-4   1-2   1-2   3    6
Ghoram        6   0-2   0-0   0-0   1    0
Britton      22   4-6   0-0   2-6   7   10
TEAM                                1
TOTALS      200 23-54  9-19  9-19  42   64
PERCENT          .426  .474  .474

EAST CAROLINA (5-10; 0-2 C-USA)
PLAYER      MIN    FG   3PT    FT   R  PTS
Fields       28   0-5   0-0   0-2  13    0
Blair        28   2-7   0-0   0-0   7    4
Captain      32  6-15  4-11   2-2   5   18
Ingram       16   0-5   0-4   0-0   2    0
Jenkins      31  2-11   2-7   0-0   1    6
Dillard      19   2-4   0-0   2-5   3    6
Farmer       25   0-5   0-2   0-0   4    0
Gagnon        3   2-2   0-0   0-0   1    4
Ramsey        2   0-0   0-0   0-0   0    0
Sargent       3   0-2   0-2   2-2   1    2
Evans        13   2-4   1-2   2-2   1    7
TEAM                                4
TOTALS      200 16-60  7-28  8-13   42  47
PERCENT          .267  .250  .615

PAGE UPDATED 02/23/07 11:45 AM.

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