Looking for road win at Corpus Christi
1/21/2011 10:06:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Bearkat men's basketball team completes its two-game mid-January Southland West Division road trip Saturday night when they take on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 7 p.m. at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi.
Sam Houston will be looking to rebound from a 95-91 loss to Texas State in San Marcos Wednesday. The Bearkats stand 9-8 for the year and 2-2 in Southland action.
A&M-Corpus Christi sports a 6-12 season mark and are 1-3 in league play. The Islanders are led by 6-7 junior Demond Watt who is averaging 14.9 points per game. Other top players include 6-8 Justin Reynolds who is scoring 9.7 per contest and 6-2 Terence Jones who owns a 8.7 scoring mean.
Sam Houston leads its all-time series with A&M-Corpus Christi eight victories to three. The Bearkats won both meetings last year, 70-58 in Corpus Christi and 90-74 in Huntsville. SHSU is 3-2 against the Islanders in Corpus Christi.
Texas State outscored the Bearkats 18-8 in the final five minutes to rally for a 95-91 victory Wednesday night at Strahan Coliseum. Gilberto Clavell led Sam Houston (9-8, SLC 2-2) with 26 points and seven rebounds. Josten Crow added 23 points and Marcus Williams scored 12.
The Bearkats led 49-45 at intermission and were up 83-77 with 5:24 to play after a free throw by Williams. But the Bobcats, who went 27-of-37 from the free throw line fought back to take the lead on a Travis Jones three-point shot with 3:48 to play.
Clavell is the Southland's second-leading scorer (19.3 points) and stands fifth in the league in rebounding (7.5). He has scored in double figures in 16 of the Kats' 17 contests this year.
With 891 career points in 50 games since transferring to Sam Houston from Collin Country Community College, Clavell is 109 points away from becoming the first junior college transfer to score 1,000 career points for the Bearkats in two years of action at the NCAA Division I level.
Clavell and fellow seniors Josten Crow and Lance Pevehouse are the co-captains and leaders of the 2011 Sam Houston squad. Crow is the only four-year player on the team. The 6-4 forward has scored 630 points in 101 career games. Pevehouse is in his third season at SHSU with 584 career points in 79 appearances.
The Bearkats return to Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum for a showdown with 2011 Southland Conference favorite Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday, January 26. The 7 p.m. contest marks a rematch of last year's Southland tournament final in which SHSU knocked off SFA to earn an NCAA "March Madness" berth in New Orleans.
The Kat-Jack "Piney Woods" matchup January 26 is The Villas On Sycamore "Spirit Night" with great prizes up for grabs by students who compete in a contest to show their Bearkat spirit.
Prizes include a Sony Bloggie video recorder, a Coolpix S4000 touch screen digital camera and an iPad. The first place contestant will take a half court shot for $10,000 during a timeout in the second half.
