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Golden Eagles fly away
from Pirates
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Southern Miss outscored
East Carolina 34-13 in the final 12:24 to seize control of what had been
a back-and-forth contest and claim a 68-53 Conference USA victory
Saturday evening in Hattiesburg.
Junior forward Gary
Flowers, junior guard R.L. Horton and junior forward Torye Pelham each
scored 12 points and senior guard Buchi Awaji and junior guard Sai'Quon
Stone added 10 apiece for the Golden Eagles. Horton, Pelham and Awaji
came off the bench to make their contributions.
A jumper by Flowers
ignited the surge that converted USM's six-point deficit into the
comfortable final margin. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for
the Golden Eagles (11-8, 1-4 Conference USA).
Junior forward Jamar
Abrams scored a game-high 18 points and freshman guard Corvonn Gaines,
making his first start, had 9 points for East Carolina, which lost its
fifth game in a row and seventh of its last eight.
Southern Miss
out-rebounded the Pirates 34-21 and won the scoring battle in the paint
42-20.
The Golden Eagles led at
the half 28-26, but after intermission trailed on four occasions and was
tied on two others before exploding to take command of the game.
For the
third straight game, ECU was without
the services of sophomore forward Darrius Morrow and freshman guard
Wakefield Ellison, who were suspended on Jan. 13 by ECU coach Mack
McCarthy for a violation of team rules.
The Pirates (6-13, 0-5)
have little time to retrench as they make the quick hop from Hattiesburg
to New Orleans for a Sunday afternoon game (3 p.m.) against league foe
Tulane.
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BOX SCORE
SOUTHERN MISS 68, EAST
CAROLINA 53
Date: Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010
Place: Reed Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, MS
Attendance: 3,684
Officials: K.C. Ely, Quinton Reece, James Barker
Technical Fouls: None
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina
26 27 - 53
Southern Mississippi
28 40 - 68
EAST CAROLINA PIRATES (6-13, 0-5
C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
33 Wynn............... c 3-3 0-0
2-2 3 8 14
10 Young.............. g 2-6 0-1
1-2 4 5 39
11 Gaines............. g 4-4 1-1
0-4 3 9 32
21 Abrams............. g 6-10 4-7
2-2 3 18 36
23 Straughn........... g 0-5 0-3
0-0 4 0 24
03 Sargent.............. 2-5 2-4
0-0 0 6 15
24 Sherrod.............. 0-2 0-1
0-0 0 0 12
34 Salzano.............. 1-1 0-0
0-0 0 2 1
42 Joyner............... 2-6 0-0
1-2 3 5 27
TEAM....................
1
TOTALS.................. 20-42 7-17 6-12 21
53 200
PERCENT................. 47.6 41.2 50.0
SOUTHERN MISS GOLDEN EAGLES (11-8,
1-4 C-USA)
PLAYER FG 3PT FT R PTS MIN
04 Flowers............ f 5-14 0-2
2-3 6 12 35
14 Stone.............. f 4-4 0-0
2-2 4 10 26
01 Bolden............. g 0-3 0-1
4-5 5 4 14
13 Ortiz.............. g 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 0+
23 Johnson............ g 1-5 1-3
1-2 3 4 35
05 Pelham............... 5-5 0-0
2-2 5 12 19
15 Horton............... 6-11 0-2
0-0 2 12 37
25 Awaji................ 4-9 1-4
1-2 4 10 22
32 Stephens............. 1-3 0-0
2-4 0 4 12
TEAM....................
5
TOTALS.................. 26-54 2-12 14-20 34
68 200
PERCENT................. 48.1 16.7 70.0
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01/25/10 02:29 AM.
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