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Does the roll continue? You betcha!
From staff and wire reports
Box Score
GREENVILLE — Hoops history in the making at East
Carolina? Who would've thunk it after the school's hardwood miseries
over a period that has spanned decades?
The Pirates ran their record to 7-0 with a dominating
90-62 win over visiting Mount Olive Saturday night to match the
program's best start in almost half a century.
Freshman Belton Rivers scored 21 points, while sophomore
Moussa Badiane added 19 and generally wreaked havoc around the lane
during the 21 minutes he was in the game, as ECU dismantled the
previously unbeaten Division II Trojans.
East Carolina hasn't sprinted out of the gates on a
similar pace since 1953 — and by one important measure, that comparison
doesn't match up. That long ago campaign, by then-NAIA member East
Carolina College, began with victories over Belmont Abbey (twice),
Lenoir-Rhyne (twice), Catawba, Elon and Guilford. The current
season-opening run has come against a more formidable slate of foes, including
Ole Miss of the SEC and Virginia Tech of the Big East.
In another sign that the times, they are a'changing,
ECU is now the lone undefeated team in Conference USA. DePaul,
which also had an unblemished record heading into Saturday, fell to
10th-ranked (AP) Notre Dame.
Badiane, who connected on 7 of 8 from the floor, also
added four blocks, seven rebounds and three steals. Dubbed the French
Flyswatter, Badianne is already ECU's all-time career leader in
blocks, and the native of Paris currently leads C-USA in that category
for the current season.
Dameion Baker led Mount Olive (5-1) with 20 points and
Marcus West had 10 points and nine rebounds before fouling out.
ECU held the Trojans to 28 percent shooting and forced
23 turnovers, while hitting 51 percent of its own shots. In the second
half, East Carolina was 16-for-28 (57 percent) and took command of the
game.
With exams winding down, the Pirates will take Sunday
off, according to ECU coach Bill Herrion, and then begin preparing for a
home game Thursday with George Mason of the Colonial Athletic
Association.
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BOX
SCORE East Carolina
(7-0) 90, Mount Olive (5-1) 62
Mount Olive (62)
Player FG
FT PTS
Baker 4-12
10-15 20
West
3-10 3-5 10
Young 3-8
0-2 6
McDougald 1-2
0-0 2
Greene 3-9
1-2 9
Horton 0-6
2-2 2
Johnson 2-3
0-0 5
Jefferson 1-1
0-0 2
Galarza 1-6
2-2 5
Barnett 0-2
0-0 0
Broering 0-2
1-2 1
Giovannoni 0-1 0-0
0
Mack 0-2
0-0 0
Totals 18-64
19-30 62
East Carolina (90)
Player FG
FT PTS
Bing 2-3
2-4 6
Holcomb-Faye 2-7 0-0
5
Mikulas 3-5
2-3 8
Rivers 8-14
2-4 21
Wiley 3-9
3-4 9
Rouse 2-2
2-6 6
Boddie 1-4
3-4 6
Badiane 7-8
5-11 19
Moore 0-5
6-6 6
Twitty 0-0
0-0 0
Grindley 2-2
0-0 4
Totals 30-59
25-42 90
Halftime: East Carolina 39, Mount
Olive 28.
3-point goals: Mount Olive 7-28
(Greene 2-6, Baker 2-7, Johnson 1-1, West 1-3, Galarza 1-4, Barnett
0-1, Mack 0-1, McDougald 0-1, Horton 0-2, Young 0-2); East Carolina
5-13 (Rivers 3-7, Holcomb-Faye 1-1, Boddie 1-2, Wiley 0-1, Moore
0-2).
Rebounds: Mount Olive 45 (West
9); East Carolina 48 (Rouse 8).
Assists: Mount Olive 6 (Greene
4); East Carolina 13 (Holcomb-Faye 6).
Total fouls: Mount Olive 32;
East Carolina 24.
Fouled out: West; Galarza;
Barnett.
Technicals: None.
Attendance: 5,711. |
02/23/2007 10:56 AM
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