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SPORTS SHORTS: Lamar Cardinals| Week of Feb. 2

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.

Sports Shorts: Lamar Cardinals

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.

SPORTS SHORTS: Week of Jan 12

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.

Sports shorts: Week of 9/29/22

Museum of the Gulf Coast The Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur welcomed four new members into the Hall of Fame on Saturday, Sept. 24, including three into Sports and one into Notable People. Jason Tyner, a West Brook graduate, is a former Texas A&M and Major League Baseball player.

Sports Shorts: Lamar Cardinals

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.

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 (.

Get to know LU at Cardinal 'Boo'

Lamar University, which is now home to more than 17,000, students, was founded in 1923, just a few blocks from its current location and known as “South Park Junior College” and enrolled only 125 students.