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Pirates Please Herrion with 40-minute Win
From Associated Press Reports with Staff Contributions
Box Score
GREENVILLE — East Carolina is on a mini-roll,
if that's what you can call a two-game winning streak.
Erroyl Bing had 20 points and
seven rebounds to help the Pirates gain an 81-71 victory over Middle
Tennessee State on Thursday.
Bing was 7-of-14 from the floor, including two from 3-point range, to
lead ECU (4-6) in scoring. Kenyatta Brown and Travis Holcomb-Faye each added
19.
East Carolina, which has struggled around the basket while awaiting the
January 8 return of Gabriel Mikulas, its suspended frontcourt leader,
received a significant effort down low from agile 6-10 freshman Moussa
Badiane, who blocked five shots in addition to scoring 6 points.
The Pirates also got a physical inside presence from reserve Damane
Duckett, a defensive tackle from the Pirate football squad. The 6-6,
280-pound junior made his debut in an East Carolina basketball uniform one
night after ECU concluded its gridiron season in Wednesday night's GMAC
Bowl.
The Pirates shot 75 percent from the line for the game, hitting 12 of 16
attempted. The free throw shooting was led by Holcomb-Faye and Bing, who
were 5-for-7 and 4-for-6 respectively.
ECU head coach Bill Herrion was complimentary of his team's overall
effort and noted that the play of Holcomb-Faye, in particular, has a
significant bearing on the Pirates' effectiveness from game to game.
"It might have been our best 40 minute effort of the year from start to
finish," he said. "A real key to this basketball team is Travis
Holcomb-Faye. The better he plays, the better East Carolina plays."
Tommy Gunn had 22 points and eight rebounds to lead Middle Tennessee
State (5-5), and John Humphrey added 16.
ECU will have a chance to earn its third straight win when it hosts
Radford on Saturday night, December 22, at 7 p.m.
Box Score
EAST CAROLINA 81, MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE 71
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE (5-5)
Pippen 1-6 0-2 2, Mitchell 1-3 0-0 2, Nosse
5-10 3-3 14, Parham 1-4 0-0 3, Gunn 9-13 1-2 22, Wilkes 1-2 0-0 3, Jackson
0-0 0-0 0, Wilkerson 0-0 0-0 0, White 0-0 0-0 0, Glasper 0-1 0-0 0, Humphrey
6-9 0-0 16, Anderson 4-4 1-1 9. Totals 28-52 5-8 71.
EAST CAROLINA (4-6)
Moore 0-4 2-2 2, Bing 7-14 4-6 20, Badiane 3-6 0-0 6, Brown 8-12 0-0 19,
Holcomb-Faye 6-11 5-7 19, Duckett 0-0 0-0 0, Primus 1-3 0-0 3, Foxx 1-2 0-0
3, Hawkins 1-3 0-0 2, Boddie 0-4 0-0 0, Twitty 0-0 0-0 0, Howard 3-5 1-1 7.
Totals 30-64 12-16 81.
Halftime
— East Carolina 45-36.
3-Point goals
— Middle Tennessee St. 10-22 (Humphrey 4-7, Gunn 3-5, Parham 1-2, Wilkes
1-2, Nosse 1-4, Pippen 0-2); East Carolina 9-24 (Brown 3-6, Bing 2-3,
Holcomb-Faye 2-3, Foxx 1-2, Primus 1-3, Hawkins 0-2, Moore 0-2, Boddie 0-3).
Rebounds
— Middle Tennessee St. 27 (Gunn 8); East Carolina 33 (Bing, Holcomb-Faye 7).
Assists
— Middle Tennessee St. 15 (Gunn 5); East Carolina 16 (Holcomb-Fay 7).
Total fouls
— Middle Tennessee St. 16, East Carolina 12.
Fouled out
— None.
A
— 2,472.
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02/23/2007 10:59:44 AM
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