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Flowers, Golden Eagles
overpower Pirates
From electronic and staff reports
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All rights reserved.
Senior forward Gary
Flowers scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed a game-high 11
rebounds to lead Southern Mississippi to an impressive 72-55 Conference
USA victory over East Carolina Saturday evening in Hattiesburg.
In postgame quotes on the
USM athletic department's Web site, Golden Eagles coach Larry Eustachy
called the win "probably the best overall performance that we have had
all year. ... This is probably the most pleased that I've been with our
team all year."
The Pirates (13-13, 5-7
C-USA) didn't have an answer for Flowers, who was 13 of 20 from the
field. He scored 21 of his points in the first half, helping the Golden
Eagles (20-6, 9-4) claw to a hard-fought 36-30 halftime lead.
Southern Miss pulled away
after intermission, building its advantage to as much as 20 points on
two occasions.
Senior guards Brock Young
and Jontae Sherrod scored 18 and 12 points, respectively, for East
Carolina.
Junior guard Maurice
Bolden, who had 11 points, was the only Golden Eagle other than Flowers
in double-figures.
Southern Miss
out-rebounded the Pirates 41-29.
The victory secured the
Golden Eagles' second 20-win season in a row and kept them within
striking distance of league-leading Texas-El Paso.
East Carolina will try to
halt a three-game skid and keep a winning season within reach when it
hosts UTEP on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Senior guard Randy Culpepper scored 33
points to propel the Miners (20-6, 8-3) into sole possession of first
place — half a game ahead of USM and UAB — with a 76-64 win over Houston
on Saturday.
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BOX SCORE
SOUTHERN
MISSISSIPPI 72, EAST CAROLINA 55
Date:
Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011.
Place: Reed Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, MS.
Attendance: 3,793.
Records: ECU 13-13, 5-7 Conference USA; USM 20-6, 9-4.
SCORE BY PERIODS 1
2 FINAL
East Carolina
30 25 - 55
Southern Mississippi 36 36 - 72
EAST CAROLINA PIRATES
(13-13,
5-7
C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
01 Darrius Morrow...... f 3-8 0-0
1-1 9 7 36
11 Corvonn Gaines...... g 1-4 0-2
0-2 4 2 30
21 Jamar Abrams........ g 3-5 1-3
0-0 6 7 27
23 Erin Straughn....... g 2-4 0-1
0-0 2 4 20
24 Jontae Sherrod...... g 4-12 1-5
3-3 2 12 29
03 Petar Torlak.......... 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 0+
10 Brock Young........... 5-12 3-7
5-6 0 18 33
12 Robert Sampson........ 2-4 1-3
0-0 0 5 11
30 Wakefield Ellison..... 0-3 0-2
0-0 0 0 8
34 Evan Salzano.......... 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 1
35 Darius Morales........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 5
TEAM.....................
6
TOTALS................... 20-52 6-23 9-12 29
55 200
PERCENT.................. 38.5 26.1 75.0
SOUTHERN MISS
GOLDEN EAGLES (20-6,
9-4
C-USA)
# PLAYER FG 3PT FT
R PTS MIN
04 Gary Flowers........ f 13-20 4-8 2-4
11 32 36
01 Maurice Bolden...... g 4-9 1-3
2-2 6 11 19
15 R.L. Horton......... g 2-9 1-4
2-2 5 7 33
23 Angelo Johnson...... g 2-5 1-4
0-1 0 5 28
33 D.J. Newbill........ g 3-4 0-0
2-3 9 8 35
00 LaShay Page........... 1-4 0-2
0-1 1 2 10
03 Josimar Ayarza........ 2-7 0-0
3-3 5 7 22
14 Sai'Quon Stone........ 0-2 0-0
0-0 1 0 17
31 Kayland Partee........ 0-0 0-0
0-0 0 0 0+
TEAM.....................
3
TOTALS................... 27-60 7-21 11-16 41 72 200
PERCENT.................. 45.0 33.3 68.8
Officials: Hal
Lusk, Bret Smith, Terry Moore.
Technical Fouls: East Carolina Team.
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02/20/11 04:43 AM.
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