Bearkats Edges Cardinals 14-3
Courtesy: Brandon K. Scott
/SHSU Athletics
Sam Houston State opened Southland Conference action with a 14-3 win against Lamar on Saturday.
Senior quarterback Brian Bell ran for a touchdown in the second quarter and threw for another in the third quarter for the game’s only touchdowns.
Lamar made only two trips to the red zone before a two-hour lightning delay stalled action with 4:30 left in the fourth quarter.
A 47-yard field goal by Alex Ball was the Cardinals’ only score.
Lamar’s defense held all-time Southland Conference leading rusher Timothy Flanders to 83 yards on 28 carries, his lowest output since the Kats season opener against Houston Baptist.
The SHSU defense held Lamar to just five yards of total offense in the third quarter.
After a scoreless first quarter, Bell ran for a 45-yard touchdown with 7:53 to go in the half.
Ball connected on the field goal with 10 seconds to spare until halftime.
In the third quarter, Bell found sophomore wide receiver Stephen Williams in the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown toss.
The Bearkats improved to 5-1, 1-0 in conference play.
SHSU holds the longest active home winning streak at 19.
The last time SHSU dropped a game at Bowers Stadium was against McNeese State in 2010.
Bearkat Volleyball Remains Undefeated In Southland Conference
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
Led by Deveney Wells-Gibson and Haley Neisler, Sam Houston State remains unbeaten in Southland Conference play with a four-set victory over Lamar in
Wells-Gibson totaled 20 kills and Neisler added 13 in the Bearkats’ 19-25 25-21 27-25 25-22 victory over the Cardinals.
The win keeps defending Southland champion Sam Houston in first place in the 2013 league race with a perfect 6-0 record.
Winners of five consecutive matches and seven of their last nine contests, SHSU now stands 9-6 for the year.
Lamar became the first Southland team to take a set off the Bearkats, breaking a 10-10 tie with a 15-9 run.
The Cardinals held an early 12-9 lead in the second set.
Tied 15-15, Krista Koopman came up with two kills to start a 10-6 run to pick up the set.
Sam Houston saw a 17-10 lead in the third stanza erased as Lamar tied the match 23-23.
Four points later, back-to-back kills by Lauren Bohlen and Neisler earned a second set for the Kats.
The Bearkats earned the victory rallying from behind one last time to take the third set and the match 25-22.
Breanna Homer and Tayler Gray totaled 23 and 13 digs, respectively.
Gray assisted on 50 of Sam Houston’s 56 kills.
The Bearkat volleyball continues its Southland road swing next week, playing Thursday at Incarnate Word and Saturday at Abilene Christian.
Sam Houston’s next home match is Thursday, Oct. 17, against New Orleans.
Everyone Are Influencers
By Cheval John
One of the first advice many will hear if they are starting out their podcast would be to get a major influencer on the show.
Like this article, “How To Get Successful People To Answer Your E-mails” featured in Brazen Life and syndicated by Aol.com, showcases the step-by-step advice on how the author got a major New York Times best-selling author to answer his e-mail.
The above advice would apply to ambitious entrepreneurs who are starting out their business for the first time.
Another part of the advice is that they would have the opportunity to showcase their expertise to your audience.
The advice of reaching out to influencers would be good if you were the only one trying to get their attention.
The problem is that many newbie entrepreneurs and/or podcasters are doing the exact same thing in trying to get the attention of major influencers.
In the same way of how half of professional athletes are using steroids to be successful in their respective sports, the ones who are taking the above advice are looking for shortcuts to achieve success in their business.
In the case of podcasters, you will not achieve immediate success if you have major influencers in the initial stages of your show unless you are the first to host a seven day a week show like John Lee Dumas in your specific podcast niche.
Instead of going after the major influencers in your specific industries, do this one thing instead:
BE A GIVER
Find a way to help someone else succeed in their business if you want to succeed in life.
The person who is just starting out in their business in the same manner as you, are looking for strategies to grow their business.
If you have a podcast and are on the same level as that person who has a business, you can give the much needed boost for them to take their business to the next level and in the process build a strong and lasting friendship.
Kami Huyse of Zoetica Media, told me a story of how a late Houston area business person and community leader would ask everyone he got in contact with this question, “How Can I Help You?”
His giver’s mentality made the area a thriving community and probably led to the Southland Conference Basketball Tournament being held at the Merrell Center indirectly.
And I can say that Mrs. Huyse is a giver too because she built one of the most popular networking events with the Social Media Breakfast Houston that meets once a month and brings some of the most popular social media influencers in the city of Houston.
Now you can ignore the advice and continue to go about chasing the major influencers.
If you do keep on chasing the “major influencers”, you will come across as a person who is looking to only use them to build your business.
I can guarantee that the “major influencers” will know if you are one of the energy vampires that are taking from them because they can sense a fake from a thousand miles.
You must understand that these “major influencers” were once in your shoes and they had to work extremely hard for years in order to be successful in their business and build a strong and loyal following.
If they can build a successful business and a loyal audience, so can you because at the end of the day, everyone are influencers.
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