Topic: HZ: Herd Defense a Real Hit in Run to Title Game

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By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – In what many expected to be a nail-biting battle for the Conference USA East Division football championship, East Carolina’s Pirates played like they didn’t know what hit them.

Maybe that’s understandable.

Most of the playmakers on Marshall’s defense weren’t at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on the ECU campus one year ago, when the Thundering Herd’s bowl hopes were dashed in a shootout.

One year earlier in those Bucs’ backyard, Marshall scored 59 points … and lost in double overtime.

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