Southeastern Heads to Texas – Southeastern Louisiana University Athletics
Story Links HAMMOND, LA. – The Southeastern Louisiana University women’s basketball team has a two-game trip to Texas this weekend. The Lady Lions will play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Thursday night at 5:00 PM in Corpus Christi and UIW on Saturday at 1:00 PM in San Antonio.
Both games will be broadcast on ESPN+ and live stats can be accessed at www.goislanders.com and www.uiwcardinals.com.
SLU got off to a strong start in Southland Conference play after opening with a road win against Nicholls 57-49 back on December 31st. The Lady Lions would then go on a two-game winning streak in their 63-58 victory over HCU. The winning streak would be snapped by Lamar as it posted a 57-47 victory over Southeastern.
Hailey Giaratano led the Lady Lions with 19 points against HCU with Cierra Cunningham following with a season-high 18. Natalie Kelly would chip in with 11 rebounds and Alexius Horne finished with three assists. Giaratano would go on to lead the Lady Lions with 11 points over Lamar. Chrissy Brown finished the game with six rebounds and Horne would follow with five.
The first road game this week for the Lady Lions will be against the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders (8-6, 3-0 SLC). TAMU-CC is currently one of two undefeated teams left in the Southland Conference and is on a three-game winning streak after wins against Northwestern State 65-50, UIW 59-51 and 65-58.
The second game before heading home will be against UIW (5-8, 0-3 SLC). The UIW Lady Cardinals lost their last two games to TAMU-CC in the first week of January and are on a four game losing streak.
Southeastern will return home for a three-game stretch with games against Northwestern State, (Jan. 19) Texas A&M-Commerce (Jan. 21) and New Orleans (Jan. 26) before taking on New Orleans (Jan. 28) at home his native. .
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PURE POLICY OF CASTES
Southeastern Athletics has instituted a clear bag policy for all ticketed events, which will go into effect with the start of the football season. For more information on the clear bag policy, visit www.LionSports.net/clear.
