LamarStatesports Posted February 5, 2008 Report Posted February 5, 2008 The Lamar State College-Port Arthur men's basketball team has a bye from Metro Athletic Conference play this Wednesday and will return to action Saturday at Eastfield College in Mesquite. The Seahawks will use the extra practice time to put last Saturday's controversial 65-64 loss to Cedar Valley behind them. The Seahawks man-handled Cedar Valley, 96-78, in their first meeting, the Jan. 9 conference opener in Lancaster. But last Saturday's game didn't go the same way. As LSC-PA coach Don Bryson saw it, Cedar Valley's winning field goal came after the buzzer ending the game. Lamar State led by one point with eight seconds left. During a time-out, one of the referees came to Lamar State's bench and asked Bryson if he knew the foul situation. Bryson told the referee his team had one foul to give and they were going to give it as soon as the Thunderducks took the ball out of bounds. Cedar Valley inbounded the ball at half court, and two Seahawks attempted to foul the player with the ball, but the referee didn't call a foul. That player threw the ball to a teammate, who fired an air ball just before the buzzer sounded. A Cedar Valley player under the basket grabbed the miss and put it in the basket. The referee signaled the shot counted and the game was over with Lamar State on the short end of the score. If the Seahawks had made a couple of the free throws they missed near the end of Saturday's game, the final scenario never would have happened. "It's still a loss no matter how you look at it," Bryson said. "We just have to go on and prepare for Eastfield. which is tied for the conference lead with Brookhaven and Northlake. They're all 5-2. We would have been 4-3, just one game back, if we had won last Saturday. But we're still in a position to get a good seed in the conference tournament, rather than having to play the No. 1 or No. 2 teams like we had to last year." Eastfield (18-6 overall, 5-2 conference) is coming off two straight conference wins against Mountain View and Northlake. The Harvesters also have a 109-106 win over Brookhaven (20-3, 5-2) this season. Eastfield defeated Lamar State, 81-75, in Port Arthur on Jan. 16. The Seahawks will be back at home Wednesday, Feb. 13, against Brookhaven.
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