Lamar State hoop team set for final tune-up Saturday

[LamarStatesports]

The Lamar State College-Port Arthur men’s basketball team will play a final tune-up scrimmage at Kilgore College this Saturday to prepare for their first regular season in a Division I conference, which begins Nov. 3.

Lamar State faced three Grayson County College, Eastern Oklahoma State College and Clarendon College at the Oct. 11 Dallas Jamboree, a scrimmage tournament featuring 55 teams from across the nation.

This week, the Seahawks will face a Kilgore team that last year went 15-15 overall and 7-15 in conference play to finish 10th in the 12-team Region XIV.

Lamar State went 13-15 overall this past season and finished fourth in their final year in the Division III Metro Athletic Conference with a 6-6 record.

Lamar State head coach Jerre Cole isn’t taking anything for granted as he prepares for Kilgore.

“Although Kilgore is picked to finish 10th again, I’m certain first-year head coach Brian Hoberecht will field a talented team. This will be a very tough test for our group this close to beginning the season.â€

Cole’s team, which includes only three veterans, is learning very complex offensive and defensive systems never seen in Region XIV competition.

On paper, Lamar State has more talent on the roster since the program began in 2004, when Lamar University’s first All-American, Don Bryson, came out of retirement to take the reins of the Seahawks for their first four seasons.

Translating that talent to performance is the challenge facing the team now, Cole said.

“I think our group has some serious questions to answer early in the season that will dictate how we end up,†Cole said. “We need to be more focused on the task at hand, and our competitive toughness must improve.â€

The Seahawks start this season with non-conference road games at Southern University-Shreveport (Nov. 3) and at Lone Star College-Kingwood (Nov. 6).

Lamar State’s home opener is a non-conference rematch with Southern U-Shreveport on Nov. 11.

The Seahawks begin Region XIV competition Nov. 22 at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville. 

[shorttexas1]

We know they went to dallas... Now they go to Kilgore... But no one every puts the stats or outcomes on here!

[LamarStatesports]

That's because the games at the Dallas tournament and this Saturday at Kilgore College are scrimmages, and therefore are very loose. We don't keep the results or stats. This is just an opportunity for the coaches to see their players in action against other teams, as opposed to seeing them play against themselves in practice.

Stats, results and news for the Seahawks will commence with the first regular season game on November 3, when they travel to Shreveport to play Southern University-Shreveport.

Information about outcomes, stats, etc. should be available on-line within a day or so after games at the college website:

www.lamarpa.edu

and on the National Junior College Athletic Association website:

www.njcaa.org/schmain.cfm?sid=6&divid=0&slid=2&gender=m&menu=11&schmenu=1&cid=1758

[Guest baseball25]

Whatever u always keeps stats in all the games if its scrimmages and so forth and i bet you have the stats. They prob just played horrible

[Guest baseball25]

Man all I am saying is that they take stats....SO you need to post them. When someone plays a Exhibition thats just like a scrimmage they do stats.....LLC International University (exhib.) Who in the hell is that team????Its a team that colleges plays for exb and they take stats for those games. I am sure PA take shooting perc. reb. block shots. TO, and everything else and so don't tell me they didn't do stats they have them and we want to know how there doing.....

[Guest baseball25]

Hey i just know some of the players and just wanted to see how they did. Heck yeah i want them to be good bec that helps lu after they play there 2 yrs