Greatest Moments in ECU Football History

[Music] in the fourth quarter pit built a 2316 lead and with 332 to play in the contest the pirate offense face their toughest challenge of the season third down and 17 big play here receivers out wide left and Blake is back to pass flushed out of the pocket roll and left he's in the end zone Got Away Jeff's going to throw on the run up the field it's caught by Hunter gallore at the thir yd line he's out of bounds first down Pirates first down and 10 at the 15 yd line pirate threaten and here's Blake looking throw it left it's caught hter gallamore to the one yd line oh my what a catch by gallamore let's see what the play call is here with 49 seconds remaining boy everybody in this stadium is standing nobody's left Dave Daniels in motion to the right side here's Blake on the option the keeper he's got daylight he's in touchdown 46 seconds to go Jeff Blake takes it in from two yards out on the option to the left side Pittsburgh 23 Pirates 22 46 seconds left and now the play Call of the year there's no doubt in my mind bill would go for it here two-point conversion attempt 2322 is our score 46 seconds to go pirates go for two to Win It Jeff Flake brings them out eye formation receivers left and right gets the snap back rolls right on the option looking for the End Zone fakes the pitch ni he's in twoo conversion just BL two-point conversion oh my 46 seconds to go pirates 24 Panthers 23 what a goody move by je Blake on that play Jeff lake is absolutely on the ground being hugged by numerous teammates right now B pel looking left still looking left in the pocket time running out two seconds 1 second it's caught time Runs Out time run down you can take this one purple pit didn't take the football they threw it in the middle of field CR instead of going to the sideline and that cost him the ball game defense led by senior Greg Gil held the wolf pack at Bay while Jeff Blake tossed a pair of first half scoring strikes including this one just before the half he's going to go deep got a man out there and and the ball is caught touchdown Pirates touchdown Pirates NC State managed to score three touchdowns putting ECU behind 34 to 17 with over 13 minutes left on the clock at its Darkest Hour the Pirates and the pirate fans called on the magic of We Believe to work one last time and with Jeff Blake throwing perfect strikes and with the ECU defense denying NC State the Pirates pulled out one of the most spectacular comebacks in full history a comeback that is now known as the rally at the 31 yd line Dion is sow under Guna away to the 40 45 to the 50 Dion to the 45 Json to the 42 yd line of NC State back on the football BL is looking looking still looking frow and it is caught by the Pirates in the in touchdown e Carolina touchdown e Carolina they're going to try a field goal they're going to try and tie this thing a 49 yd field goal attempt they wouldn't fake it here would they 49y field goal attempt Damon Hartman will play for the tie the wolf pack will play for the tie folks Hartman will kick it it is up and it is no good Pirates win you can paint these pinkest purple oh my it came down to the last play one more [Applause] time ever since I could remember everything inside of me just wanted to fit in I was never one for Pretenders and everything I tried to be just wouldn't settling if I told you what I was would you turn your back on me and if I seem dangerous would you be scared I get the feeling just because everything I touch isn't dark enough that this problem lies in me I'm only a man with a k ever look at me I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me I'm monster a monster I turn into a monster a monster a monster ands can ience for a 52 yd field goal attempt to give North Carolina the lead they fake it ECU SNS it out East Carolina SNS out the Pirates will get the football back in a tie game with 51 seconds left in the fourth quarter only time that East Carolina has beaten the Tar Heels on the football field was 1975 Ben Hartman the sophomore kicker who has missed three times from 40 yds and in now a 39 yd attempt for the win [Applause] [Music] he got it East Carolina wins 3431 Ben Hartman Nails the 39 yd field goal and East Carolina beats the North Carolina Tor [Applause] hesy still in at quarterback Chris Johnson bounces off one he's still up Johnson to the outside has a chance foot race goodbye back and tight end and putting him a nice job leading with his block at the goal line touchdown DJ Harper pass under Center Johnson cuts back ball is loose Boise State got the football padman up with it bringing it back he may go all the way how about this touchdown Boise State can you believe that four receivers set Johnson alone set back Cass rifles it up complete to Bryant inside the 30 brought down at the 25 don't want to give one away here though with 23 in counting going to keep it inside the 20 down to the 17 end of the game field goal attempt situation hon trying to ice the kicker SK Holts trying to break the ice with his kicker Harman from 34 yd for the game and good and Skip Holtz can truly [Applause] smile well Bud Foster to see how his young defense is going to react against an experienced offensive unit here in the final basically two minutes of this ball game can they hold up against Patrick Pinkney in this East Carolina Pirates offense bden gets it blocked and it's picked up by TJ Lee East Carolina takes the lead touchdown Pirates second and goal from the five Williams room to run touchdown and they made it look easy on that white looking for someone to throw to underneath lost the ball Dakota Marshall was on the tackle and Van ESD is the guy who's going to come over bitley for the End Zone touchdown Taylor [Applause] Williams just pow his way in against a defensive lineman and when you've got a running back that is backing up D lineman and Lou said the day will come when I am known as skip Holtz father 527 yards and five touchdowns this one to LJ Castile pulls the Cougars within five but ECU answers rough in once again working his way towards the sideline and leaps into the end zone we takeen out less than a minute trying to be the first team in his conference to win back to back Conference USA titles and right now Houston down six has got 50 seconds left in the ball game looking going to go long for the end zone and the ball is bounced and intercepted ESD the six starters returning the fewest in Conference USA talk about a prevent defense huh they're back at the goal line now with 5 Seconds to go this is a fourth down play so Davis has to make it good Ball's up in the air it's going to the end zone it's bed down it's it pull in the big fella Justin Jones you called it the 68 2 52 [Applause] Pounders well it sure did at the beginning when they really came out fast well and these highlights say it all they attacked the whole field uh Dominic Davis very dominant performance and then uh of course the second quarter uh NC State taking advantage of the young secondary of East car Carolina the quarterback sneak the Run game the line I thought very dominant for uh North Carolina State throughout the day and then uh Here Comes eth Carolina yeah and then it went through overtime and Dominic Davis with his great third effort to get into the end zone Green's the running back he's going to get the call nothing going over there lost of a couple Migel Brooks third down and 12 Wilson looking down the middle picked off the Freshman David magazu and East Carolina has come up with the 3327 [Applause] victory card number five what a career he's having and what a season he's having well the way he distributed the football I mean he had nine different players catch passes throughout the game he made plays with his legs here nothing open ran for two touchdowns but his command and just the ability to put the ball in the end zone when they got in the Red Zone almost perfect throughout the entire game when they got inside the 20 yd line and just a different ways that they scored and moved the football was so impressive he was 23 of 30 on on the day 255 yds what a day for Shane yarden of the ECU offense score for morale 4228 East Carolina on top in the first half of course Shane carton was magnificent in this game well right out of the box he gets his Justin Hardy as big time receiver the football here's Lance Ray scores and they're immediately got two touchdowns on the board now against the ground game cranked up Harden carried the carton carried the ball there for a touchdown here's a quarterback draw for aou down they were scoring easy and often another Zone re his third rushing touchdown of the day he was phenomenal but he wasn't the only guy Cooper catches the football out of the back field here on the screen Steve he was dynamic in the rushing game as well 35 rushes 186 yards but Nar a touchdown for bavius Cooper they didn't need him to score touchdowns he just had to move the sticks they shut the door defensively and then for good measure Shane carton reaches out and finds Lance for another touchdown Lance R scores his second touchdown today score from Chapel Hill on Saturday East Carolina comes in and vanquishes North Carolina 55-31 you follow him wherever he goes you run right behind him he's going to take you to the end zone all right hold on that ball tied okay all right all right break it down Noah ready Pirates on three ready you got it one two three Pat we go [Applause] man that was uh that was pretty emotional I got a little tead watching that man what a great great thing our we didn't really even rehearse it either our kids were just so excited to do it and it tells you tells you what kind of kids we have here and how much they think of Noah and you know in his fight right now