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Lamar is up 6-0 in the top of the eighth. It has been foggy since about the third inning and the fog has gotten thick enough that the coaches with the umpire have suspended the game until tomorrow afternoon. Lamar's starting pitcher, Olivier lasted 6.2 innings and looked pretty good.

The Cards open this year's season at home against Oakland University out of Michigan with a three-game series starting this evening and finishing up Sunday afternoon.

I know others have at least thought it. It's time for a new coach. I'll give Brooks credit as a recruiter, but Lamar has lost too many games because they got out coached and don't really have an offense.

Lamar down by four at the half, 37-33.

Cards host Northwestern St with seven games remaining including this one. Lamar is currently in seventh place and no chance to get to the top of the conference before the tournament. That said Lamar plays all four of the teams between them and third place in the remaining games, so Lamar can climb up the seeding chart. Apparently, Lee and Holifield are somewhat in the doghouse as neither of them started the game. To me Lamar is missing guys that will or can make the contested shot consitently.

Both women and men fall at SFA. Women fell on a last .8 second inbound long three-point shot following a Lamar free throw miss and a timeout to get the ball to half court for the inbound. Men fall by ten points but get an outstanding performance from East with thirty-three points and ten rebounds. Problem was no help from the normal scorers and apparently Brooks decided that three of the starters didn't deserve to play for most of the second half. Lee and Wilhite both ended the game with zero points and Holifield only scored five. Those three also each played eighteen or less minutes.

Looks good on paper, but we will have to wait until September to see how it transfers to the field.

29 new signees today. Some really good size on both lines and a qb with some real size 6-5 220.

Cards win 73-54. Although Lamar gets a win by a good scoring margin it still wasn't an easy or a smooth win. Lamar would get out to a seven-point lead or so and then go stale while SLU would work their way back to a close to even game until about a third of the way into the second half.

After dropping the last two games and falling to seventh place the Cards are at home looking to even the conference record. Lamar is up by five points at the half 31-26 despite shooting a slightly lower field goal percentage than the SLU.

Is the spring signing day this Wednesday?

Cards fall by one point 64-63.

2:06 left and McNeese has a four-point lead 57-53. Lamar has the ball.

Lamar has chipped away at the deficit and with 7:55 left in the game have a three-point lead 47-44. McNeese will be shooting free throws coming out of the timeout.

Men's game is close through almost all of the first half but McNeese gets the last seven points of the half including a half-court shot at the end of the half to take an eight-point lead into the half 31.23. Lamar shooting a poor 26% from the field.

Ladies unable to close the gap in the fourth quarter and fall 64-52. Lamar shoots a miserable 1-18 from the three-point line.

Lamar cuts the McNeese lead in half during the third quarter. Now down by eleven. 49-38

I didn't remember hearing that McNeese had hired the Southeastern La. head coach away from Southeastern. There must be some money being put up in Lake Chuck. Also, she brought several of her players from SLU with her. Explains the big turnaround from the past years.

Ladies tipped off at three PM and McNeese is out to a strong start forcing many turnovers leading 41-19 at the half. The only stat Lamar is leading in is rebounds.

Whether it is coaching or talent I don't know but Lamar still has big steps to take to get to the next level. I think expectations going into the season was twenty wins and in the top three for the regular season along with another trip to the championship game for the tournament. A top three finish is probably unreachable at this point, a twenty win season is also a big stretch as Lamar will need to win nine of the last ten games including away games at three schools they could have defeated at home but didn't and repeat games against both of the top two teams in the conference standings.

Lamar stays out of foul trouble in the second half and slowly builds a lead to get an 82-61 lead. Lee leads the way scoring 28 points, East gets a double double. Holifield just misses double figures. Couple of observations, first haven't seen Barrs play since Christmas break, is he injured or has he left the team. Also Knight has missed both of the last two games. Now for those that have played, Lamar needs their bench players to score. Lowe passes up wide open shots, mid-way through the shot clock and the Cards end up forcing a shot as the clock runs out. The other non-starters need to make their shots. Gambrell and Knight both shooting less than 35%.

After a good shooting and scoring start Lamar hangs on for a two-point lead at the half 35-33. East picked up his second foul with about 13:30 left in the half and Lee picked up a second foul with ten minutes left in the half. Both of them sat out the remainder of the half and Lamar's offense went stale and the shooting percentage went down also.

Cards off to a good start making three three-pointers in the first four minutes and out to a 14-5 lead.

SFA comes back with another three pointer to retake the lead following a timeout.

With 12:17 left in the game Lamar is up by one point 58-57 on a Lowe three pointer, a steal and a dunk by Pennebaker. Big move by Lamar.