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Page 4 University Press Friday, February 21, 2003
A MID-TERM
GOLF
Men
STRENGTHS: The Cardinals have
won back-to-back Southland
Conference Championships, earned
back-to-back automatic bids to the
NCAA Central,
Women
STRENGTHS: Sophomore Casey
Cain and senior Jacque Bennight have
led the Cardinals against top schools in
the nation, such as the University of
Nebraska, the University of Arkansas
and the University of Oklahoma. Their
recent success at the Lady Bronco
Intercollegiate Classic at the Los Lagos
Golf Club is their second team win this
season. The majority of their players
are seasoned athletes, giving them
focus and better chances at having con-
sistency at their game. The Lady Cards
have shown significant progress in
their putting and driving ability.
WEAKNESSES: The Lady Cardinals
team lost talented freshman player
Holly Glover and senior player Catrin
Joyce. Only until last season did the
SLC start sponsoring a woman’s con-
ference championship because four
other SLC schools created a woman’s
golf program. That means the competi-
placed back-to-back top-20 rankings
in the nation and are on pace to
three-peat. SLC player and coach-of-
the-year repeats Chris Stroud and
Brad McMakin are staying consistent.
U.S. 2002 Amateur qualifiers Shawn
Stefani and Chris Davis have never
played better. Matt Larson and Mark
Cooper have matured and bolster the
team.
WEAKNESSES: If you can find one,
let us know. Seriously, if you can even
find these guys, let us know. An
enormous amount of traveling, if
that can be considered a weakness,
is the only unconventional prac-
tice known to this reviewer.
PROSPECTS: The future has
never looked brighter.
Although the Cardinals will
^ lose Davis and Larson to
graduation, the rest of the
mature team will be in its
prime. That includes Stroud,
the SLC’s only repeat No. 1
player.
tion is low and last season’s third-
place-finish out of five teams leaves
more to be desired.
PROSPECTS: The team gets better
every year, and now the Southland
Conference is sponsoring a woman’s
conference championship. Last season,
the Lady Cards hosted the first SLC
tournament and placed third over all.
Although the placing was not reflective
of the talent on the squad, Lamar has
the longest history of women’s golf in
the SLC and has the most experienced
staff and players — who can take the
tournament title.
REPORT ON THE
BASKETBALL
BAS
Women
STRENGTHS: The Lady Cards have
just three wins, but several individuals
stood out as the season progressed.
Forwards Rashekii Howard and
Andrea Samuel and guard Karen
Bryant are the team’s three leading
scorers, and all three will return next
season. Defensively, Samuel leads the
team with 6.7 rebounds, and fresh-
man center Megan McDougald
averages more than two blocks a
game and is the team’s leader
in field goal percentage at
48 1/2 percent.
WEAKNESSES:
Offensive exe-
cution. Only
three players
on the roster
shoot above
40 percent
from the field,
and the team
as a whole shoots
36 percent. The Lady
Cards average 8.5 assists a
game, last in the Southland, and
commit 22.5 turnovers a game to go
with it. The team’s two best playmakers,
Bryant and Howard, must make better
decisions with the basketball, as both
average more than four turnovers a
game.
WEAKNESSES: 1
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PROSPECTS: New head coach
Leonard Drake’s team may have a gem
in McDougald; Her two blocks a game
combined with a team-leading field goal
percentage make her a potential force
on the interior. The team should have
experience going into next season. How
Men
STRENGTHS: The Cardinals are in the
top 15 in the nation in defensive field
goal percentage. Led by senior forward
Lewis Arline’s five double-doubles, the
Cardinals have had one of their best sea-
sons in recent history in the low post.
Senior swingmen Damany Hendrix and
Ron Austin lead the team in scoring,
averaging more than 15 points a game
each to go with several big shots late in
games.
WEAKNESSES: While Arline is a fre-
quent double-figure rebounder, Lamar
has struggled to find another rebounder
while Arline has played away from the
basket. Against Southwest Texas, point
guard Eddie Robinson grabbed 11
rebounds, many coming past the foul
line because they were not secured
down low. However, Lamar’s shooting
from the perimeter has been the most
inconsistent, with shooting percentages
ranging from below 30 percent to above
60 percent. Robinson must become
more consistent in hitting the outside
jumper so the middle will open up.
PROSPECTS: The Cardinals are tied
for fifth in the Southland Conference
standings but are just one game back of
third place. If the Cardinals find their
touch from the outside, the team has the
talent to win two road games and
advance to the NCAA tournament. But
it needs to happen this year, as the team
loses four of five starters for next sea-
son.
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Kutac, Dennis. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 2003, newspaper, February 21, 2003; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500845/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.