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Softball splits day one in Hattiesburg with a loss to Jackson St and a victory over La Tech moving to nine and seven on the season.

Lamar wins 68-49 to secure their third straight twenty-win season. Davis ends the game with eighteen points and thirteen rebounds to lead the Cards. This leaves Davis six short of the all-time Lamar total rebound records. Lamar has two games left for the regular season with McNeese on Saturday to close out the home season and then travel to Corpus next Wednesday to finish the regular season.

Nicholls manages to trim three off of the Lamar lead in the third quarter 46-34. Taylor hasn't played since going out with the injury.

Nicholls plays better offense in the second quarter scoring twelve points, but Lamar keeps the pressure on scoring fourteen points to take a 32-17 lead into the half. Taylor went out with a knee injury in the second quarter and Denley picked up her second foul and sat out the latter part of the quarter.

Women open their next to last home game with an 18-5 opening quarter over Nicholls.

Ladies' comeback from a 3-1 deficit to score three runs in the top of the sixth inning and hang on for the 4-3 win at Sam Houston State to move to 8-6 on the season.

Cards hang on to win 6-5 bringing the record to 9-1 before the conference season begins this Friday.

Lamar falls 73-61. Only good news out of this evening is that NWST upset SLU so Lamar holds on to the second seed for now, but most likely will have to win both of the last two games to maintain that spot. At this point the shame of this season is that three of Lamar's five conference losses are against three of the five worst teams record wise in the conference.

Hamilton missed some big free throws and UIW hit a couple of big three-pointers to rebuild the lead. Lamar still fighting hard but down thirteen with just under two minutes left.

Lamar has been climbing and are down by eight points with 7:30 left in the game. Whereas UIW only had one turnover in the first half they have ten turnovers so far in the second half. UIW also not shooting as well this half.

Definitely a deep hole to try to climb out of trailing by eighteen points at the half. 41-23. UIW winning with good shooting making ten more field goals than Lamar including two more three-point attempts and only one turnover compared to seven for Lamar. It well take a large turnaround for Lamar to comeback.

UIW off to a hot shooting start leading 28-11 with nine minutes left in the first half. UIW shooting 67% from the field including four of seven from the three-point line. Lamar also has four early turnovers. Lamar needs to clean this up fast or it is going to be a long evening and a missed opportunity.

Lamar finishes the weekend sweep with a 5-3 win Sunday afternoon.

aCards run rule Albany 21-0 to improve to 4-1 on the season. Wrap up the series with Albany tomorrow.

Lamar wins at HCU.

Lamar taking care of business at HCU and are up 27-10 at the half. Not as fast moving and scoring game as some but still playing strong defense.

Lamar falls to host Chatanooga in their first game on Saturday 5-4. Will follow up with IU-Indy in about thirty minutes.

Lamar has first two games of the five-game event in Chatanooga canceled, now set to play three games starting Saturday at 11:30 AM.

Lamar wins a hard fought game, even though Lamar never trailed UIW managed to stop Lamar every time Lamar had a chance to blow the game open. Until just the last minute or two of the game it was a one possession lead. Final score 61.53.

Lamar had the lead from the beginning until the final possession of the third quarter when UIW tied the game. 44-44 going into the fourth quarter,

Cards take on the other Cards this evening. Lamar is in sole possession of second place and holds the tiebreaker over SFA but must keep winning. UIW is sitting at 10-6 and fourth place. The need the win to potentially, get a day one bye in the conference tournament. Tipoff is at 6:30 PM.

Cards get two wins in mid-week games versus North Dakota State to open the home season.

Lamar shoots exceptionally well in the second half and win the game by ten points 75-65. Holifield led all scorers with 22 points.

At the end of the first half the Cards are down by six 35-29. Lamar started out with a quick three-pointer to take the opening lead, but then between turnovers and missed shots NWST went on an eleven-point run to go up eight points before Lamar scored again. Lamar got down by as much as eleven points before finally starting to get stops and scoring themselves to come all the way back and get out to a five point lead. Then the Cards' got sloppy again and went down by eight before closing out the half down by six. Lamar doing good on the offensive boards, but too many turnovers (11) and too many times giving up baskets in the paint.

Cards bounce back with a 13-3 win on Sunday to head home with a 2-1 opening weekend record.