LamarStatesports Posted January 29, 2008 Report Posted January 29, 2008 The Lamar State College-Port Arthur men’s basketball team travels to Dallas on Wednesday for a 7 p.m. conference game at Mountain View College. The Seahawks are 9-11 overall and 2-3 in Metro Athletic Association play after losing, 66-53, this past Saturday at North Lake College in Irving. “We have to be ready to play because this is a conference in which any team can beat any other team on a given night,†said Lamar State head coach Don Bryson. “Eastfield, which is 4-1 in conference play, previously beat Brookhaven, the No. 2 team in the country. But they lost this past Saturday to Cedar Valley, which is 2-4. Mountain View has one conference win, and that was over Eastfield. Anything can happen. We just need to take care of the ball and play our game.†Lamar State couldn’t come up with much offense against North Lake. The Seahawks shot an anemic 15-of-56 (27 percent) from the field, including five-of-24 from beyond the three-point line. The Seahawks trailed by only five points at the two-minute mark of the first half, but allowed the Blazers to score 12 unanswered points and surge to a 16-point lead at half-time. Lamar State’s season scoring leaders, Noah Cole and George Williamson, couldn’t get the ball to drop Saturday. Cole went 0-for-9 from the field, while Williamson hit one of 11. Sophomore forward Sam Stelly from Beaumont West Brook High School continues to be a bright spot in the Seahawks’ lineup as he recorded his ninth straight double-figure game with 20 points and a team-leading 13 rebounds. Stelly averaged 17.8 points per game in the last nine games and scored 20.8 ppg in five conference games. Mountain View (8-12, 1-4) is coming off four straight losses, the latest a 94-85 defeat at home Saturday against conference rival Cedar Valley College (10-11, 2-4). The Seahawks return home Saturday, Feb. 2, for a 2 p.m. conference rematch with Cedar Valley.
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