Marshall suppresses Pirates
From staff and
electronic reports
Poor shooting played a
part in keeping East Carolina winless in Conference USA as the Pirates
lost to Marshall 56-52 Wednesday night in Huntington, WV.
ECU shot an anemic 28.8
percent (17-59) from the field in falling to 0-7 in the league, 5-15
overall. The Thundering Herd converted 40.9 percent (18-44) and improved
to 3-4 in C-USA, 8-13 in all games.
Markel Humphrey scored 17
points and had seven rebounds to pace Marshall, which also got
double-figure scoring from Mark Dorris with 12 points.
Courtney Captain led the
Pirates with 18 points while Darrell Jenkins added 13 and Cory Farmer
scored 10.
It was East Carolina's seventh straight loss and the 14th loss in its
last 15 games.
East Carolina will be on
the road again Saturday for an 8:05 p.m. conference contest at Rice.
BOX SCORE
MARSHALL 56, EAST CAROLINA
52
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007.
Site: Cam Henderson Center, Huntington, WV.
Attendance: 3,347.
Officials: Kyle Neve, Brent Hampton, Tim Gattis.
Technical Fouls: None.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina
17 35 - 52
MARSHALL
23 33 - 56
EAST CAROLINA (5-15, 0-7
C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Ramsey 15 0-1
0-0 0-0 2 0
Dillard 17 1-5
0-0 0-0 5 2
Farmer 23 3-11
2-6 2-2 5 10
Captain 37 7-19 4-11
0-2 8 18
Jenkins 40 4-13
1-6 4-4 3 13
Gagnon 7
0-2 0-0 0-0 1
0
Ingram 15 1-3
1-3 1-2 3 4
Fields 15 0-0
0-0 1-4 3 1
Sargent 0+ 0-0
0-0 2-2 0 2
Blair 25
1-4 0-0 0-0 5
2
Evans 6
0-1 0-0 0-0 1
0
TEAM
8
TOTALS 200 17-59 8-26 10-16
44 52
PERCENT
.288 .308 .625
MARSHALL (8-13,
3-4 C-USA)
PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT
R PTS
Aikens 30 0-4
0-3 1-2 6 1
Bro Grebe 23 2-4 0-0
0-0 1 4
Ross 34
2-5 1-2 0-0 4
5
Humphrey 33 7-13 1-4
2-3 7 17
Dorris 23 4-6
3-5 1-2 3 12
Merthie 13 0-4
0-2 1-2 1 1
Whitted 16 0-4
0-3 8-11 3 8
Jackson 2 0-1
0-0 0-2 0 0
Marshall 11 1-1
0-0 1-1 1 3
Wilkerson 15 2-2 0-0
1-2 4 5
TEAM
1
TOTALS 200 18-44 5-19 15-25
31 56
PERCENT
.409 .263 .600
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02/23/07 11:45 AM.
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