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Lamar University football will play an 11-game schedule in 2023 highlighted by six home dates, and non-conference games against Idaho, UL Monroe and South Dakota.

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After dropping the doubles point, LU’s women’s tennis team rallied to win four of the next six matches to defeat former conference rival Sam Houston, 4-3, on Jan. 22 at the Beaumont Municipal Tennis Complex.  “I’m so proud of this team today,” said head coach David Wong.

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Both men’s and women’s basketball teams were defeated Jan. 14 by Texas A&M-Commerce. The men (5-13, 1-4) fell 81-66 and the women (8-8, 2-3) lost, 57-52. Both teams will play a double-header at home Thursday, Jan. 19, against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beginning at 5 p.m.

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High school basketball The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches released their Top 25 for each class Jan. 9 and several teams from Southeast Texas remained in place. On the boys’ side, Beaumont United is No. 2 in Class 6A with a 20-1 overall record. Silsbee remains at No.

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  Sports shorts for the week of Nov 3, 2022.  Rodeo It’s rodeo time as the El Mina Shriners will host “Saddling Up for Shriners Rodeo” on Nov. 10-12 at the Chambers County Arena at 410 Lilton Sonnier Ave. in Winnie. Tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite.com or at the venue, day of rodeo.

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  Sports shorts for the week of Oct. 6, 2022. ----------- Baseball Kelly graduate Ford Proctor became the 16th member of the San Francisco Giants to hit a grand slam as his first big league homer.

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Golf The Junior River Cup is a Ryder Cup style event that pits the best junior golfers in the state of Texas against the best junior golfers from Mississippi. One of Beaumont’s own, Reece Williams, who is a student at St. Anne’s Catholic School, was asked to compete.

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Femke Tjon-A-Joe has transferred to Lamar University from Western Michigan for her senior year of eligibility. “The transfer portal is the direction of collegiate athletics,” said women’s tennis head coach David Wong. “As coaches, we have to be able to adapt to the changing landscape.

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On Saturday, May 7, Lamar baseball will honor three of their icons in Jim Gilligan, David Bernsen and Kevin Millar. Food, live Zydeco music and fun begins at noon followed by the ceremony at 1:45 p.m. The first pitch between the Cardinals at UT Rio Grande Valley begins at 2 p.m.

Trailblazers use late surge to defeat LU

Senior Lincoln Smith scored a team-high 14 points and classmate C.J. Roberts added 12, but the story of the game was the late surge by Dixie State to hold off Lamar University, 71-55, Thursday evening from Burns Arena.   The Cardinals finished the night shooting 20-of-65 (.