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Owls overtake East Carolina
From staff and
electronic reports
Rice went on a 13-2 run in
the early stages of the second half to erase a six-point deficit, then
kept East Carolina in the rear-view mirror the rest of the way to record
an 83-74 Conference USA victory Saturday night in Houston.
Senior guard Morris
Almond, the Owls' prolific offensive threat, scored seven of his
game-high 34 points during the spurt, which wiped out a 51-45 lead that
had been held by ECU at the 16-minute mark.
Senior guard Lorenzo
Williams added a season-high 20 points for Rice, which improved to
11-10, 5-3 in C-USA.
East Carolina was led by
senior guard Courtney Captain's 21 points while junior guard Cory Farmer
and freshman forward John Fields each scored 15.
Led by Captain's 13
first-half points, the Pirates twice built nine-point leads and went
into intermission with a 42-37 advantage.
In a facet of the game
that affected the outcome, East Carolina was called
for 27 fouls compared to Rice's 19, and the Owls converted 30 of 38 free
throws while
ECU made 11 of 17.
The loss, its 8th in a row
and the 15th in its last 16 outings, dropped ECU to 5-16 overall, 0-8 in
the league.
East Carolina will aim to
reverse its fortunes in a home game with conference foe Central Florida
that will tip off at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
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BOX SCORE
RICE 83, EAST CAROLINA
74
Date: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007.
Site: Autry Court, Houston, TX.
Attendance: 1,543.
Officials: Jeff Malham, Greg Rennegarbe, Warren Evans.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina 42 32 -
74
Rice
37 46 - 83
EAST CAROLINA (5-16, 0-8
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Fields 29 5-6
0-0 5-7 6 15
Blair 28
2-5 0-0 1-2 7
5
Farmer 35 5-8
3-4 2-3 4 15
Captain 33 8-14
5-9 0-0 2 21
Jenkins 20 3-7
0-2 0-0 2 6
Dillard 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Gagnon 19 2-2
0-0 3-4 2 7
Ingram 16 1-4
1-2 0-0 2 3
Sweeley 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Ramsey 3
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Sargent 1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0 0
Evans 14
1-2 0-0 0-1 0
2
TEAM
2
TOTALS 200 27-48 9-17 11-17
27 74
PERCENT
.563 .529 .647
RICE (11-10,
5-3 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Britton 25 3-5
0-0 2-3 2 8
Packevicius 28 2-3 0-0
5-7 4 9
Williams 33 4-10 2-6
10-12 4 20
Almond 31 10-16
2-3 12-14 7 34
Pflieger 13 1-3
1-3 0-0 1 3
Hagan 22
0-2 0-2 0-0 1
0
Foster 23 0-3
0-3 1-2 1 1
Belton 3
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
0
Ghoram 4
0-0 0-0 0-0 1
0
Perka 18
4-4 0-0 0-0 4
8
TEAM
1
TOTALS 200 24-46 5-17 30-38
26 83
PERCENT
.522 .294 .789
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PAGE UPDATED
02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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