Lamar University basketball

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.

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 (.

LU men’s basketball reigns in new year with COVID struggles

Lamar University men’s basketball began the new year with COVID and other illnesses affecting their ability to fairly compete in WAC conference play. In a statement by Lamar Athletics on Jan. 20, the LU men’s basketball program “continues to battle through the WAC.

Sports Shorts: December 9, 2021

Racquetball Southeast Texas natives David Malain of Beaumont and Glen Childers Jr. of Orangefield won the 2021 Winter Splat Racquetball Tournament held in McKinney, Texas. Malain and Childers won five matches to earn the first-place medals.