Lamar State crushes Blinn College, 101-55

[LamarStatesports]

Wednesday night’s game between the Lamar State College-Port Arthur Seahawks and the Blinn College Buccaneers started out slowly with the teams trading leads for the first three minutes.

But then, like a tsunami, the Seahawks started to roll and never looked back, leading by 14 points (54-30) at half-time and ending the game up 46 points, 101-55.

Sophomore forward Ahyaro Phillips led Lamar State with 20 points. Five other Seahawks hit for double figures – Roman Vaughn (16), Keenan Coleman (15), Von Jones (13), Dion Waiters (10) and Kavon Rose (10).

Lamar State’s trapping defense once again made the difference as Blinn struggled to bring the ball up the court.

Marquis Tolliver paced the Buccaneers with 13 points, while the Seahawks held Blinn’s 2009 1st team All-American, Kahlil McDonald, to just nine points.

McDonald led the conference and was averaging 24.3 points per game coming into tonight’s contest.

The victory is Lamar State’s third straight and moves the Seahawks to 18-9 overall and 8-8 in conference action, virtually assuring them a place in the March 5-8 Region XIV post-season tournament.

Lamar State will be on the road Saturday at Jacksonville College, and then will close out the regular season at home against Panola College on Feb. 24 and Lee College on Feb. 27.

[ST413]

How has Nick Walters been doing lately?

[w518991]

Congrat's Seahawk on making conference tourney!

[LamarStatesports]

Nick Walters started several games this season, but mostly he has been giving the Seahawks sold defense and deadly outside shooting in a reserve role.

He's been averaging around 13 minutes per game and is the most accurate 3-point shooter on the team, hitting 25 of 61 attempts (.410 percent).

I haven't seen the official stats from last night, but I know Nick hit two 3-pointers against Blinn at pivotal times in the game. The Bucaneers had to keep at least one player, and sometimes two, on him when he got near the corner on offense, which allowed the Seahawks to penetrate and score easily from in the paint.

The coaches love Nick's work ethic. He usually is the first player on the court for practice and the last one to leave.

[ST413]

He was one of my favorite if not the favorite Tiger last year for those reasons.  Thanks for the info.