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East Carolina wins Highest Scoring Game in C-USA History
ECU-Marshall

	Justin Hardy

Nov. 23, 2012

GREENVILLE, N.C. -- Shane Carden's one-yard touchdown run in the second overtime Friday lifted East Carolina over Marshall 65-59 and kept the Pirates' Conference USA title hopes alive.

The Pirates (8-4, 7-1) will advance to play Tulsa for the league championship if UAB beats UCF on Saturday in Orlando.

Carden scored after East Carolina stopped a Marshall possession when Chrishon Rose forced a fumble by Essray Taliaferro and Derrell Johnson recovered it.

A 25-yard touchdown pass from Carden to Andrew Bodenheimer gave East Carolina a lead on the first play of overtime, but the Thundering Herd (5-7, 4-4) answered with a 4-yard Blake Frohnapfel scoring pass to Antavious Wilson after Taliaferro converted a fourth-and-1 with a 4-yard run.

Justin Hardy caught a career-high 16 passes for 171 yards for the Pirates, scoring a touchdown for the 10th time in 12 games this season. Marshall sophomore Tommy Shuler caught 14 passes for 141 yards to finish the season with 110 receptions, the second-most in C-USA history. he is just the fifth player and the first underclassmen to catch 100 passes in a season.

Marshall rallied for 17 fourth-quarter points, including a 51-yard scoring run by Frohnapfel after he replaced injured starting quarterback Rakeem Cato.

The 124 combined points were the most ever in a Conference USA game.