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I was wondering if anyone has gone to a spring football practice. I got an email blast saying to email somebody named Diaz if I wanted to attend practice. I emailed him and in typical LU fashion, I got no response. I would be interested to hear thoughts on practice if anyone has gone by.

Softball drops game one 7-3. Game two starting in a little while. Baseball gives up two runs in the first, bats come on strong getting five runs in the bottom of the first and then Lamar gives up two more runs in the second.

The ORU C/F has grown to 6-8, 250 lbs. Clover averaged 2.1 PPG and 2.2 RPG as a sophomore. In HS, he was a 3 star recruit. Ranked as the 13th best prospect in the state of Texas. He was on a PA Memorial team that won the 5A state championship. (teammate of Kenneth Lofton) Prior to committing to ORU he was recruited by former Lamar head coach Tic Price. Nate entered the transfer portal today, I am interested to see if coach Brooks and staff will make contact with Clover. At 6-8, 250 lbs, there are not many forward/center who can physically match up with Nate Clover in the SLC.

LU wins game one 4-2.

Lamar defeats Texas Southern 9-2 on Tuesday evening. Lamar used their usual midweek multiple pitcher game plan. Starter went three innings followed by seven more pitchers over the remaining six innings. Lamar held Texas Southern scoreless until the ninth inning. Lamar will return to the diamond Friday at 6:00 PM against UNO for a conference weekend series.

3 pm in Columbia. Missing snow by a day. Gonna freeze their arses off in St Louis this weekend. do we try? Or throw out 9 different pitchers?

3 pm in Columbia. Missing snow by a day. Gonna freeze their arses off in St Louis this weekend. do we try? Or throw out 9 different pitchers?

Hires former LSU head coach Will Wade.

The Friday night game has been a pitchers dual through five innings. Still 0-0, Lamar has three more hits than UCR and have left more men on base, but haven't scored yet.

Lamar splits first two conference games with Northwestern St.

Lamar up by ten at the end of the first quarter versus McNeese. Ladies shooting 59% from the floor and have nearly doubled up on rebounds. Lamar had some early turnovers, but cut down on those later in the quarter.

Through the first two innings the first game is a pitchers dual. Penn got one hit but Caple got two strikeouts so there was no damage.

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Cards are at Nicholls this evening to end the 22-23 regular season. Ladies tipped off at 5 PM and were down by four at the half 29-25. Men will tip off approximately thirty minutes after the Ladies game ends.

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Lamar defeats Alcorn State 11-2 for their ninth straight win to open the season and tie the school record. Lamar returns to the field Friday at 6PM.

The Cardinals are RED HOT! Who all is heading to Sugar Land to see them play? Their RPI is sitting in the 20s. They knocked off a top-5 team in their house then returned home to play another undefeated, top team in the RPI. There's no one who will be there that is seen as better than us right now. Sure, it's a small sample size, but we can keep building on it! I'm busy with work stuff or I'd be there (I'll make up for it by being at the Rice game in April)

Last home games for the year see the ladies tipping off at 3 PM followed by men at six. Ladies still have a chance for a one or two seed in the conference tournament, but will need help as both Southeastern and Corpus will need to loose one of their last two games. Corpus is currently up by about thirty today and will play Commerce this coming week. Southeastern is in a battle with McNeese today. Lamar men need to win for themselves. Most likely they are playing in preparation for next year although Lamar can still make the conference tourney.

Lamar men and women take on Southeastern Louisiana this evening. The women are looking to continue their winning streak and perhaps move up a place in the conference standings with a win over the conference leaders. Lamar gave SELA one of their three losses earlier in the year. The men are probably in a must win situation going against currently fourth place SELA who the men took to overtime early in the year. Women tip off at five PM

End of 1st: score 0-0; K-St 1 hit, LU 2 hits

Middle of the 4th, game tied 2-2.

Oakland University of Michigan takes on the Cardinals this weekend with the first game of the series at 6:00 PM.

Lamar takes on Houston Christian today and Saturday. Today's games are in Beaumont with Saturday's in Houston. Women tip off at 5:00 PM with men following. Saturday tip off is 2:00 PM followed by the men at 7:00 per the schedule.

Ladies tip off at 1:00 PM

Lamar WBB defeat UIW 74-67. The men play in 30 minutes.