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Pirates 5-0 for first time since '54
From staff and wire reports
Box Score
NORFOLK, VA — The start keeps getting better for East
Carolina's basketball team.
Gabriel Mikulas scored 22 points as the Pirates extended their
season-opening run to five games by holding off a second half Old
Dominion surge to defeat the host Monarchs 75-67.
The game also marked ECU's third straight road win after a lengthy dry
stretch in foreign arenas spanning all of last season and a portion of
the previous season.
It's the first time East Carolina has jumped out of the gates to a 5-0
start since the 1554-55 season when the Pirates were members of the old
North State Conference, a collection of NAIA-affiliated small colleges.
That season's squad, coached by Howard Porter, opened 6-0 with wins over
Guilford, Catawba, Lenoir-Rhyne, Erskine, Appalachian State and
Presbyterian before finally losing to Elon en route to a 16-8 campaign.
Mikulas's offensive heroics included two key free throws with 16 seconds
to play, giving East Carolina a cushion at crunch time after ODU had
threatened to erase the Pirates' blistering start.
ECU (5-0) shot 62 percent in the first half and led 45-37 at the break.
Th Pirates maintained at least a 6-point lead until the final minutes,
when a 6-0 run pulled the Monarchs (1-4) to within 70-67 with 19 seconds
left.
After Mikulas nailed the pair of free throws, Derrick Wiley was 3-for-4
from the line in the final nine seconds, helping to keep the Pirates
unbeaten.
Wiley added 20 points for East Carolina and Travis Holcomb-Faye scored
11.
The Monarchs got 25 points from Rasheed Wright and 14 from Alex
Loughton.
Next on the Pirates' slate is three straight home games,
starting with a Monday night visit by Virginia Tech. ECU will host Mount
Olive next Saturday and George Mason on Thursday, December 19.
East Carolina
(5-0) 75, Old Dominion (1-4) 67
East Carolina (75)
Player FG
FT PTS
Bing
4-10 0-0 9
Mikulas
8-13 6-7 22
Rivers
1-5 2-2 4
Wiley
8-11 3-4 20
Holcomb-Faye 5-10
0-0 11
Boddie
2-2 0-0 5
Badiane
0-2 2-2 2
Moore
0-2 2-4 2
Totals
28-55 15-19 75
Old Dominion (67)
Player FG
FT PTS
Marsh
3-9 2-2 8
Wright
9-12 5-7 25
Loughton 7-14
0-0 14
Hunter
2-12 1-2 5
Waller
3-11 1-4 9
Morris
0-2 0-0 0
Nance
1-4 0-0 3
Thomas
1-4 0-0 3
Principe 0-0
0-0 0
Mrksic
0-0 0-0 0
Totals
26-68 9-15 67
Halftime: East Carolina 45, Old
Dominion 37.
3-point goals: East Carolina
4-10 (Wiley 1-1, Boddie 1-1, Bing 1-2, Holcomb-Faye 1-2, Rivers 0-2,
Moore 012); Old Dominion 6-22 (Wright 2-3, Waller 2-6, Nance 1-3,
Thomas 1-3, Loughton 0-1, Morris 0-1, Hunter 0-5.)
Rebounds: East Carolina 29
(Bing 12), Old Dominion 46 (Marsh 11.)
Assists: East Carolina 14 (Bing
5), Old Dominion 16 (Hunter 4.)
Total fouls: East Carolina
19; Old Dominion 18.
Fouled out: None.
Attendance: 5,135. |
02/23/2007 10:56 AM
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