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Pirates cruise in hoops
opener |
 GREENVILLE — East Carolina
rolled past North Carolina
Wesleyan 99-81 to open the
2014-15 basketball season at
Williams Arena in Minges
Coliseum on Friday night.
The Pirates won their first
game of the season for the
15th consecutive time. ...
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Pictured: Sophomore
forward Michel Nzege
compiled a
double-double with
18 points and 12
rebounds in ECU's
season-opening win
over N.C. Wesleyan.
The native of
Geneva, Switzerland
sat out last season
after transferring
from Winston-Salem
State. (Photo by W.A.
Myatt.) |
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Time to deal with tough loss |
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CINCINNATI —
The schedule will soon compact
for East Carolina's 2014
football team with three games
in 13 days.
The Pirates will host Tulane on
Saturday, Nov. 22 to start the
close to the regular season.
They'll play at Tulsa the
following Friday before
returning home to face Central
Florida on Thursday, Dec. 4. ...
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FROSTY
AFFAIR: That
masked man
bearing up
against the
bitter cold
at Paul
Brown
Stadium in
Cincinnati
is East
Carolina
mike
linebacker Zeek Bigger. ©Bonesville.net.
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Myatt photo] |
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Audio: Ruff Post-game |
  ECU
coach Ruffin McNeill spoke
with the press after the
Pirates' loss on the road to
Cincinnati on Thursday night (recorded
by Al Myatt; file photo):
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By
Al Myatt
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GREENVILLE — UNC-Asheville's
Andrew Rowsey stands 5 feet, 10 inches but he was huge on Sunday
afternoon.
Rowsey, a sophomore,
scored 28 points to lead an 83-79 nonconference basketball win at
East Carolina.
"Congratulations to UNC-Asheville,"
said fifth-year Pirates coach Jeff Lebo. "I thought they played well
and they had the best player on the floor, no doubt about it, in
Rowsey. He's a terrific player and watching him play last year and
this year, you really get a great appreciation of how tough he is,
how smart and crafty he is. He's got everything in his game, except
what God hasn't given him is any size. He dominated the game."
The Pirates (1-1) surged
back after trailing 58-42 with 10:16 remaining to get within four
points. The Bulldogs (1-1) made 10 of 12 free throws down the
stretch.
The visitors were 28 of
34 at the line for the game.
Five players scored in
double figures for ECU, led by sophomore Caleb White, who tied his
career high with 24 points. Freshmen Lance Tejada and B.J. Tyson
added 14 and 12 points, respectively. Transfer Terry Whisnant scored
11 and Marshall Guilmette tallied 10.
White kept ECU within
striking distance with a pair of 3-pointers in the final 29 seconds.
The Pirates were beaten
43-27 on the boards.
"Rebounding is going to
be an issue for us all year," Lebo said. "Our best offensive team is
our poorest rebounding team, so when we got down we had to put the
best offensive guys out there and it's not a terribly good
rebounding team because we're so small."
ECU made 16 of 29 field
goal attempts in the second half after trailing 38-28 at the break.
"We shot much better in
the second half," Lebo said "Fifty-five percent is certainly a
winning percentage. We had some odd fouls off the ball at crucial
times when we had some momentum and that took that momentum away
from us. I thought we battled to the end, extended the game very
well and had chances at the end if we could have gotten a stop or
two. If they had missed a foul shot or two we would have maybe had a
different outcome. Give them credit. They were better than us
tonight."
The Pirates host
Virginia-Lynchburg on Thursday at 7 p.m.
