Post-Game Individual Notes

East Carolina Pirates vs. Florida Gators Jan. 3, 2015 • Historic Legion Field • Birmingham, Ala. • Game Day Captains: Shane Carden, Justin Hardy, Warren Harvey, Chrishon Rose and Brandon Williams ... • Consecutive Start Streaks Extended: Shane Carden (37), Justin Hardy (31), Chrishon Rose (23), Detric Allen (20), Taylor Hudson (14) ... • Shane Carden set a single-game school record with 66 passing attempts (previous record: Dominque Davis 65 vs. Navy on Nov. 6, 2010) ... Carden completed 34 passed for 427 yards with a pair of passing scores and two INTS ... Closed out career with ninth 400-yard passing game, also has authored 15 contests over 350, 21 over 300 and 31 over 250 yards ... Threw TD strikes of three (Hardy) and four yards (Worthy) ... Twenty-eight of 86 career TDs have been thrown to Hardy ... Finished season with 4,736 passing yards extending single-season record ... Posted 23 career multi-TD passing games and eight multi-INT contests ... Owns programs longest starting streak (37 games) ... Thrown a pass in 33 of his last 35 games ... Accounted for both of ECU’s TDs pushing career numbers to 110 of 169 offensive TDs ... Converted 4 of 7 RZ opportunities (2 TDs, 2 FGs) closing out career with 169 of 194 ... First QB in school history to pass for over 10,000 yards in a career (11,991) and one of 89 players at the FBS level to accomplish the feat (passed for 3,000 yards three-straight years and 4,000 in consecutive seasons) ... Committed to play in the 2015 Reese’s Senior Bowl alongside Justin Hardy (Jan. 24th in Mobile, Ala.) ... • Justin Hardy broke his own single-season record for receptions with his eight-yard grab in the second quarter ... Finished the season with 121 receptions, which ranks second in FBS this year behind Alabama’s Cooper (124) ... Caught 11 passes for 160 yards ... Posted 17th career 100-yard games (5/2012, 4/2013, 8/2014) and 15th career double-digit catch game (2/2011, 2/2012, 5/2013, 6/2014) ... Started 31-straight games dating back to Oct. 27, 2014 (vs. Navy) ... Extended FBS streak with at least two receptions to 49-straight games with his four catches for 20 yards in the first quarter - streak started vs. South Carolina on Sept. 3, 2011... Caught at least one TD in 21 of 49 career games played ... Hauled down 35 career TD passes with his 3-yard score in the first quarter (has 36 career TDs - one of them a rush) ... Moved into third place all-time on FBS career receiving yards list with 4,541 yards ... Extended FBS career receptions to 387 - a mark he broke against Tulane earlier this season ... Finished career seventh on ECU’s all-time scoring list with 216 points ... 2014 Winner (award will be given to the collegiate player who began their career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field) ... Committed to play in the 2015 Reese’s Senior Bowl alongside Shane Carden (Jan. 24th in Mobile, Ala.) ... • Warren Harvey connected on both PATs pushing career numbers to 168 of 171 (both school records) ... Was 2-for-3 on FGAs (made: 24/3Q, 24/4Q; missed: 42/2Q) pushing his career totals to 44 for 67 ... Scored eight points on the day (2 FGs, 2 PATs) extending career record to 300 points ... • Cam Worthy caught his fourth TD of the season in the third quarter (four yards) pushing his career total to six ... Hauled down eight balls (career-high) for 130 yards, which was his fifth career 100-yard game - all have come in 2014 ... • Isaiah Jones added 64 receiving yards on six catches to go with on KOR (18-yards) ... • Fred Presely recorded his sixth sack of the season (seventh of career) in the second quarter dropping Harris for a three-yard loss ... Recovered first career fumble in the fourth quarter ... Finished with four tackles (three solo) ... • Brandon Williams booked a game-high 11 tackles (five solo) .. Tallied 3.0 TFLs and a half sack on the afternoon ... Booked multiple stops on 27 occassions and at least one in 30 of 31 contests ... Tallied double-digit tackles six times in his career (1/2014, 5/2014) ... • Montese Overton teamed up on a one-yard TFL in the second quarter with Brandon Williams ... Added consecutive TFLs to open the third quarter (3 and 1 yards) ... Finished with eight tackles (five solo) with 2.5 TFLs ... • Kurt Benkert experienced action in the second quarter rushing twice for six yards ... It was his first action since UNC game on Sept. 20, 2014 ... • Josh Hawkins picked off his fifth pass of the season and seventh career in the third quarter (first since USF game) ... Caused first career fumble in the fourth quarter ... • Travon Simmons caused UF’s second TO of the games in the third quarter, which was recovered by Detric Allen ... • Zeek Bigger recorded a season-low six tackles (three solo) in the game - finished year with 140 tackles, the most since Chris Moore (148) in 2003 ... Post-Game Team Notes

East Carolina Pirates vs. Florida Gators Jan. 3, 2015 • Historic Legion Field • Birmingham, Ala. East Carolina Records and Streaks (with loss): • Qualified for 10 bowl appearances since 2000 (eight of the last nine years) ... • Had three-game win streak at Legion Field snapped ... • Has won six of the last nine games vs. non-conference opponents ... • Has lost eight of the last 10 games vs. SEC opponents ... • Has lost five of the last six (and seven of the last nine) bowl games ...

Other East Carolina Notes: • Attendance: 30,083 • Has received the opening kickoff in 35 of the last 37 contests (South Carolina/’14, UCF/’14 are the lone exception) ... • Extended active streak of not suffering a shutout to 219 games on Justin Hardy’s three-yard pass from Shane Carden in the first quarter - a school record (17 points at Rice in ‘06 surpassed the previous mark of 110 set from ‘71 to ‘81) ... The last time the Pirates were blanked was on Oct. 4, 1997 (56-0 at Syracuse) ... ECU’s 217-game run currently ranks 14th among all active FBS streaks and is the 24th-longest in the all-time annals ... Florida currently sits atop the active leaderboard with 334 (began in 1988) ... • Has thrown at least one TD strike in 42 of their last 45 games with Shane Carden’s 3-yard TD pass to Justin Hardy in the first quarter ... ECU did not record passing score vs. North Carolina/2012, Marshall/2013 and Temple/2014 ... • Has trailed at the half seven times in the last 26 games (Marshall/’13, South Carolina/’14, USF/’14, Temple’14, Cincinnati/’14, UCF/’14, UF/’14) ... • Defense allowed its third 100-yard rushing effort by an opponent this season on Lane’s 109 yards (Davis/South Carolina; Stanback/UCF) ... • The defensive unit allowed just seven points in the fourth quarter against Florida ... Overall (13 games), the Pirates have enjoyed an 164-70 edge in the final 15 minutes - a +96 margin that ranks first in FBS nationally ... • Ran 101 plays from scrimmage marking the third time in school history with 100-plus plays in a game (UNC/2012, UCONN/2014) ...

Opponent Notes: • Brian Poole’s 29 yard INT return for a score (1Q) was the first since by an opponent since Gary Thompsn’s (Marshall) 5-yard pick-6 on Nov. 29, 2013 - a span of 14 games ... • Ahmad Fulwood’s 86-yard TD reception in the third quarter is the second-longest pass play of the year against the Pirates - other was 88-yarder from UConn that also resulted in a TD (third quarter) ...