Rice scuttles Pirates
From staff and
electronic reports
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
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02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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