Sports shorts for the week of November 10, 2022

Sports shorts for the week of November 10, 2022 

Baseball

The 10 Under Piranhas won the 11U SETBA Fall Invitational on Nov. 5-6 at Ford Fields. The Piranhas went 5-0 and defeated Champion Baseball 11-0 in the championship, thanks to a stellar pitching performance by Christopher Anderson, who threw a complete game shutout.

Coached by Mack McPhatter, Austin Collins and Dusty Evans, the Piranhas are DJ Walker, Camden Goode, Greyson Spencer, Boone Collins, Wyatt Hill, Madden McPhatter, Parker Evans, Christopher Anderson, Korbin Dugas, Hudson Weinacker and Owen Weber.

Cross country

LC-M senior Annabelle Fisher competed in her third UIL 4A State Cross Country Championship on Nov. 4 and finished 77th out of 152 runners with a time of 13:05. Sophomore Avery Brown, from Canyon High School, won gold in 11:36.

College signings

West Orange-Stark senior T’Era Garrett signed to play college softball at Blinn College in Brenham on Nov. 7.

Seven Hardin County student-athletes signed national letters of intent to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level Nov. 9.

Six Lumberton High School seniors signed, including four girls, to play soccer.

Mandi Boudreaux and Anna Mae Holeman signed to play women’s soccer at Texas State University, while Meris Cody signed to play at St. Edward’s University and Averie McFarland signed to play at McNeese State University.

LHS’s Tine Hampshire signed to play baseball at the University of Houston and Carson Rea will play baseball at Panola Junior College.

Silsbee senior Logan Simmons signed to play baseball at the University of Houston.

Lamar Cardinals

Just a day after winning the Southland Conference Championship tournament receiving the league’s automatic bid, the soccer team will play No. 8 seed LSU on Friday, Nov. 11, at 5:30 p.m. in Baton Rouge.

“It’s just a fantastic opportunity,” said head coach Nathan Kogut. “I can’t say enough about how excited we are just to be a part of the NCAA tournament, to win the double, and to have a chance to be one of 64 teams still standing. It’s awesome. The girls are pumped to be able to go play a Power 5 school closeby, so people can come watch. It’s a great opportunity and one of those things we’re looking forward to. Any time you get to play in November, it’s a big deal.”

This will be the third meeting between the Cardinals and Tigers. LSU is 3-0 vs. Lamar and have outscored LU 9-0 in those three matches.
Should the Cardinals win, they would face No. 1 Florida State or Florida Gulf Coast.

The men’s basketball team got a scare Nov. 7 from Division III St. Thomas, but the Cards walked away with a thrilling 63-61 victory to open the season 1-0.

Junior Chris Pryor led the team with 23 points and was joined in double figures by classmate Jakevion Buckley (17).
LU will next play at No. 14 TCU on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m.