Seahawks begin hoop season Monday at home

[LamarStatesports]

The Lamar State College-Port Arthur men’s basketball team kicks off their sixth season of intercollegiate competition next Monday and Tuesday with back-to-back non-conference games against Southern University-Shreveport and Lone Star College-Kingwood.

Southern U comes to Port Arthur on Monday for a 7 p.m. tipoff in the Carl Parker Center.

Lamar State is on the road Tuesday for a 4 p.m. matchup in Kingwood.

The Seahawks had only nine wins overall and two conference wins this past season in their first Division I campaign. One of those wins was the season opener in Shreveport, where the Seahawks handed the SU-S its first home loss since 2004.

Lamar State’s first-year head coach Matt Cross expects his team to post a much improved mark this year.

“I was pleased to see this young group go undefeated in our preseason scrimmage games,” Cross said. “The guys are working really hard every day to improve. So, hopefully, we can carry our momentum into the regular season.”

In addition to the two opening games, the Seahawks have five other non-conference games before beginning Region XIV play Nov. 21 at home against Lon Morris College, last season’s regular season conference champion.

Five of Lamar State’s first seven games are at home.

“We are fortunate to have the majority of our non-conference games at home in front of our fans,” Cross said. “We welcome everyone to come out and watch some exciting college basketball this year in the Parker Center.”

Lamar State will close out the first week of the season by hosting the first annual Seahawk Classic Tournament, which includes Coastal Bend College, Lone Star College-Kingwood and the Dallas Diesel, an all-star team from the Dallas metro area.

[Titreld09]

DJ, why bother talking to those senseless teams from that other division.