Ben Hartman News

The UH Cougars had talked all season of achieving their No. 1 goal by winning the Conference USA championship.

Skip Holtz and several of his players have likened Houston's high-octane offense to one that might be found in a video game.

East Carolina kicker Ben Hartman, who set the school career record for field goals made during ECU's 25-20 win over Southern Miss on Saturday, has been named Conference USA's Special Teams Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.

ECU holds on to win 25-20 with the help of a blocked extra point returned to the end zone by C.J. Wilson and a 47-yard field goal by Ben Hartman.A East Carolina has extended their lead over Southern Miss to 20-14 in the fourth quarter on Ben Hartman's 18-yard field goal.

C.J. Wilson returned a blocked extra point for the tiebreaking defensive two-point conversion that lifted East Carolina past Southern Mississippi 25-20 on Saturday and back into the Conference USA championship game.

East Carolina leads Southern Miss 17-7 at halftime at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. After giving up a first-quarter touchdown to the Golden Eagles, the Pirates scored two unanswered touchdowns, the latest coming from defensive lineman/fullback Linval Joseph, who dove over the line from the 1-yard line for his first career touchdown.

I need to be careful just what I say about East Carolina football. Two years ago after the Pirates beat North Carolina 34-31 in Greenville, I wrote what I thought was a fairly complementary column about the ECU football program, only to have the Dispatch sports department inundated with angry e-mailers telling me how stupid I was.

Patrick Pinkney threw for 250 yards and three touchdowns, as the East Carolina Pirate defeated the UAB Blazers, 37-21, in a Conference USA battle at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

No crowd: Tulsa's attendance was officially announced at 17,453 during Sunday's 44-17 loss to East Carolina.

Dominique Lindsay ran for a career-high 172 yards, Darryl Freeney had a career-best 152 yards receiving and East Carolina maintained its lead in Conference USA's East Division with a 44-17 victory over Tulsa on Sunday night.

Third time was not the charm for ECU as the Pirates dropped their third and final non-conference bout 16-3 to Virginia Tech on Thursday night.

Senior defensive back Received first-team all-conference honors as a junior. Rated C-USA's "hardest hitter" by The Sporting News.

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Tyrod Taylor ran for a touchdown and Matt Waldron kicked three field goals Thursday, carrying No.

Losing three games in a row is not something No. 23 Virginia Tech is use to and thanks to their 16-3 win over East Carolina, the Hokies will never know how it would have felt.

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Tyrod Taylor rushed for a touchdown and threw for 137 yards, as the 22nd-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies beat the East Carolina Pirates, 16-3, in a non-conference matchup at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

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Pat Pinkney rushed for a pair of touchdowns and threw for another score, as East Carolina handled Memphis, 38-19, in Conference-USA action at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

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