Southern Miss 51, East Carolina 10

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Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	14	23
Total Yards	178	383
Passing	181	119
Rushing	-3	264
Penalties	3-19	10-78
3rd Down Conversions	4-14	6-13
4th Down Conversions	2-3	3-4
Turnovers	1	0
Possession	24:13	35:47

Individual Leaders

East Carolina Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Pinkney 18/33 181 1 0	Southern Miss Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Carter 6/9 84 2 0 Young 2/3 35 0 0
East Carolina Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Brown 6 34 0 11 Johnson 11 23 0 14 Robinson 1 -6 0 -6	Southern Miss Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Moore 13 75 1 16 Harris 12 69 2 18 Thomas 10 53 0 13
East Carolina Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Johnson 7 73 1 29 Good 4 42 0 18 Roach 3 31 0 13 Howard 2 14 0 9	Southern Miss Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Young 2 42 0 38 Williams 2 32 1 23 Courington 2 30 1 26 Hardy 1 9 0 9

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				ECU	USM
	TD	11:16	WAYNE HARDY 4 YD RUN (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 80 yards.	0	7
	TD	1:13	ANTHONY HARRIS 2 YD RUN (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 1 plays, 2 yards.	0	14
SECOND QUARTER				ECU	USM
	TD	14:01	DAMION CARTER 1 YD RUN (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 3 plays, 18 yards.	0	21
	TD	4:30	ANTHONY HARRIS 13 YD RUN (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 14 plays, 74 yards.	0	28
	TD	1:23	SHERRON MOORE 8 YD RUN (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 2 plays, 1 yards.	0	35
THIRD QUARTER				ECU	USM
	FG	11:10	CAMERON BROADWELL 44 YD FG Drive info: 10 plays, 53 yards.	3	35
	TD	9:10	ANTWON COURINGTON 4 YD PASS FROM DAMION CARTER (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 4 plays, 16 yards.	3	42
	TD	3:41	TAVARRES WILLIAMS 23 YD PASS FROM DAMION CARTER (DARREN MCCALEB KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 49 yards.	3	49
FOURTH QUARTER				ECU	USM
	TD	11:24	CHRIS JOHNSON 3 YD PASS FROM JAMES PINKNEY (CAMERON BROADWELL KICK) Drive info: 20 plays, 84 yards.	10	49
	S	6:14	TEAM SAFETY	10	51

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Damion Carter threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and Southern Mississippi held East Carolina to minus three yards rushing in a 51-10 win Saturday night.

Carter threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Antwon Courington and a 23-yard scoring toss to Tavarres Williams to give Southern Miss (5-1, 4-0 Conference USA) a 49-3 lead entering the fourth quarter. Six different players scored for Southern Mississippi, including Anthony Harris, who scored on runs of two and 13 yards.

Southern Miss led 35-0 at the half.

East Carolina (1-5, 1-3) had trouble running the ball and protecting quarterback James Pinkney. Pinkney, who threw for 181 yards and one touchdown, was sacked seven times.

Southern Mississippi had 13 tackles for losses.

The Golden Eagles took their opening possession 80 yards on eight plays with Wayne Hardy capping it off with a 4-yard touchdown run.

Southern Miss took at 14-0 lead when Antoine Cash picked up fumble on a sack and ran it 62 yards to East Carolina's 2-yard line. Harris scored on the next play, a 2-yard TD run with 1:13 remaining in first quarter.

A fake punt by East Carolina deep in its own territory gave Southern Miss its next score. The Golden Eagles had a short field after the botched attempt, getting the ball at East Carolina's 18-yard line. Three plays later, Carter scored on a 1-yard run to extend the lead to 21-0.

Sherron Moore added an 8-yard touchdown run with 1:23 left in the first half to provide halftime margin.

Pickey found Chris Johnson in the middle of the end zone with a 3-yard pass to cap 20-play, 84-yard drive with 11:24 remaining to give East Carolina its only touchdown.

Southern Miss has won 13 straight conference games, dating back to last season.