Lamar Basketball versus Northwestern St

[geezer]

Lamar men play at 6:30 in Natchitoches and the women play in Beaumont at 7:00. NWST men are winless in conference and 3-19 overall. The lady demons are 2-9 in conference and 7-15 overall. Should be two games that Lamar can win easily, but especially the men have had a bad habit of playing down to the competition level and dropping these kind of games over the last several years.

[geezer]

Game starting out with Lamar shooting poorly and defense not getting good stops either. At the first media time out Lamar is down 7-0. by the second media time out LU has gotten a little offense going and the defensive intensity has picked up and now are down by four at 13-9. Edited February 8, 2018 by geezer

[geezer]

Third media time out with 7:54 left in the first half and Lamar has gotten back to a one score game, down by two points at 19 - 17. The Cards did tie the game at 17 before a foul by Harrison put NWST on the line where they converted two free throws.

[geezer]

At the under four minute time out and Lamar has taken the lead by four at 31-27 with Bosha going to the free throw line for two shots.

[geezer]

Half time and Lamar is ahead by seven at 39-32. A total of 24 fouls called in the first half with twelve on each team. Cards have three players, Harrison, Bosha and Garth with two fouls each. NWST has five player including three starters with two fouls each. Cards have forced NWST into 11 turnovers while the Cards have committed 8.

[geezer]

Ladies game has Lamar up by six at the end of the first quarter 18-12.

[lu cards]

I wanna punch that lady yelling over the radio broadcast.😘

[geezer]

Lady Cards are up by twelve at the half, 37-25.

[geezer]

At the under twelve minute time out Lamar is up by nine.

[lu cards]

Southland refs are in full force tonight

[geezer]

Coming out of the under twelve time out, Lamar goes into their scoring drought to allow NWST to close the score to 61-58. Got to take good shots and play solid defense.

[geezer]

Lamar gets settled down as Harrison hits two three point shots to get Lamar back to a nine point lead. Nzeakor fouls out with about 4:30 left in the game and the Cards get to the under four minute time out with a six point lead at 68-62.

[geezer]

Men are down to a two point lead with 18 seconds to play and NWST has the ball after a Frechwood offensive foul. Frenchwood gets a steal and gets fouled with 2.7 seconds left.

[geezer]

Frenchwood hits both free throws to seal the win 79-75.

[geezer]

Lady Cards have a twenty point lead at the end of the third quarter.

[geezer]

Lady Cards win 71 -44.

[geezer]

Northwestern State men may be tough next year as they played at least six freshmen a lot of minutes over the course of the game. They were bigger at every position and according to the post game discussion between Price and the Lamar announcer have out rebounded most everyone they have played. Also one of their leading scorers tonight missed multiple games with a leg injury from about the start of conference to maybe last week. Glad Lamar won't play them again this year.

[SportsGuy]

Any road win is a good win! That being said, the men need to steal two of three out of SHSU, SFA, and McNeese... and this is assuming they can beat HBU on the road and win out at home.