Duke at ECU Game Notes

*** Junior LB Kendral Felder, senior DE Justin Kitchen, senior OG Jim Moravchik and senior TB Cedric Dargan served as team captains for today's game

*** Sophomore TB Ronnie Drummer returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown in the opening quarter for his first career special teams touchdown and second overall TD ... The 100-yard return for a touchdown matches the longest such return in Duke history since the NCAA began recording official statistics in 1938 ... Other 100-yard returns since 1938 came from Greg Boone (vs. Tennessee in 1982) and Leroy Gallman (vs. Tennessee in 1993) ... Ace Parker owns the school standard with a 105-yard return against North Carolina in 1936

*** Sophomore WR Jomar Wright caught three passes for 64 yards on the day for an average of 21.3 yards per reception ... All three of his grabs produced first downs, with two of them coming on third down plays ... For his career, Wright has now caught 21 passes for 387 yards (18.4 ypc) with 15 of the receptions producing first downs

*** Junior TE Ben Patrick extended his streak of consecutive games with at least one pass reception to 17 dating back to the 2003 campaign ... Patrick finished the day with a team-best four receptions for 13 yards, and now has 53 career receptions in 22 contests

*** Sophomore Patrick Bailey, playing LB for the first time in his career after spending the 2004 season at DE, caused two fumbles in the opening half ... He finished with a game-high 11 total tackles

*** Sophomore TB Justin Boyle scored the third touchdown of his career on a one-yard plunge in the second quarter, and later added his fourth career TD in the fourth quarter ... Boyle finished the day with a team-high 53 yards on 19 carries ... Boyle's two-touchdown effort on the ground is Duke's first since TB Cedric Dargan scored twice on the ground in a 30-22 win over North Carolina on November 22, 2003

*** Freshman K Joe Surgan scored the first points of his career with three PAT conversions

*** Freshman QB/ATH Marcus Jones caught the first pass of his career, a 13-yard reception in the third quarter

*** Senior P Chris Sprague punted for the first time in his Duke career, averaging 39.4 yards per kick on five punts

*** Duke players receiving the first starting assignments of their careers were LT Lavdrim Bauta, C Matt Rumsey, QB/ATH Marcus Jones, LB Codey Lowe, LB Patrick Bailey and S Chris Davis ... Two Blue Devils ? FB Malcolm Ruff and OT Demetrius Warrick ? started for the first time on offense in their respective careers after earning prior starts on defense (Ruff ? 9 career starts at LB; Warrick ? 5 career starts at DT)

*** Seven true freshmen played in the game: QB/ATH Marcus Jones, TB Re'quan Boyette, CB Glenn Williams, K Joe Surgan, LB Michael Brown, WR Ryan Wood and DT Clifford Respress ... Six redshirt freshmen played saw action: S Andreas Platt, S Adrian Aye-Darko, LB Charles Robinson, OG Rob Schirmann, OG Fred Roland, and OT Cameron Goldberg

*** With the win, East Carolina evens the all-time series between the two schools, 5-5 ... The Pirates have now won both meetings played in Greenville, also winning by a 27-9 margin in 1999

*** Duke falls to 54-36-3 all-time in season openers

Players Mentioned

Re'quan Boyette

Marcus Jones

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