ORU Golden Against Bearkats
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
One week ago, Sam Houston State appeared ready to run away and hide from the rest of the Southland Conference women’s teams, holding a 9-1 record after six consecutive victories.
But a 90-40 beat down by Oral Roberts Thursday changed the scenario in the race for the Southland Conference title.
Sam Houston and Lamar are tied for first with 9-3 league records.
Oral Roberts remains in the regular season title mix with a 10-4 Southland mark.
ORU upped its season record to 12-11 with Thursday’s win while the Bearkats dropped to 13-11.
Two long scoring runs in the first half put the Eagles in command. After Britni Martin gave the Kats their only lead of the night, 5-0 just 1:53 into the contest, ORU went on a 15-1 run.
Sequeena Thomas gave Sam Houston its first field goal in a nine minute span at 9:39 to cut the lead to 15-6.
The Kats got no closer than eight points the rest of the period.
After ORU ended the half with a 9-0 run in the final four minutes, the Eagles held a 36-19 lead.
Life got no better in the second half as ORU started the period with a 13-6 run to go up 49-25 at the first media timeout.
The Eagles led by as many as 51 per the contest ended as ORU outscored Sam Houston 54-21 in the second period.
Sam Houston posted its worst field goal shooting night of the season, going 10 of 51 from the field for just 19.6 percent.
The Kats were 2-of-15 from three point range.
Oral Roberts, led by Jaci Bigham with 17 points, shot 43.5 percent (30-of-69).
Three other Eagles scored in double figures.
Martin was Sam Houston’s scoring leader with 10 points.
The Bearkats face another challenge Saturday at 2 p.m. in Conway, Ark., against the Central Arkansas Bears.
Bearkat Bowling “Strikes” Again
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
The No. 8 ranked Sam Houston State women’s bowling team added another trophy to its collection of 2012-13 tournament titles Saturday as the Bearkats took the title at the Southern Invitational.
Rolling 5-0 through the quad baker match competition Saturday, Sam Houston highlighted the day with victory over No. 1 ranked Central Missouri.
The event was held at the International Training & Research Center of Team USA.
The Bearkats ended the two-day event with nine victories in 10 matches to up their season record to 72-21.
Saturday, Sam Houston defeated Tulane 857-705, Central Missouri 774-733, Southern 771-605, Texas Southern 837-790 and Florida A&M 919-770.
“Our ladies did a great job of taking care of business today,” Sam Houston head coach Brad Hagen said. “Nothing was easy, even after the big win over Central Missouri. Texas Southern was up by 45 pins through two games but we came firing back. We were down 46 pins in the last match as well but rallied for the win.”
“We still have a lot of matches to take care of but this was a perfect way to kick off February for us with a bang.”
The Sam Houston women’s bowling team rolled to a 4-1 start in team match play Friday on the first day of the Southern Invitational in Arlington.
The Bearkats began the day with a 1049-728 win over host Southern University. Sam Houston followed up with victories over Tulane 974-910, Texas Southern 1005-816 and Florida A&M 1055-866.
In the final match of the day, No. 1 ranked Central Missouri edged past the Kats by only seven pins in a 999-992 duel.
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