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Lamar athletes garner weekly SLC honors

It was a good week for Lamar athletes as senior Leigh Lattimore was named the Southland Conference Women’s Cross-Country Athlete of the Week, and seniors Kimmy Albeno and Bailey Fontenot swept the SLC Soccer Players of the Week.

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Lamar Loop: Lamar football to host Mississippi College on Saturday

The Lamar football team hosts the Mississippi College Choctaws (0-2) on Saturday at 7 p.m. LU is 16-11 (.593) at home since the return of football, but is 0-1 all-time against Mississippi College.

All youth football players who show up in uniform will get in for free. The first 1,000 fans will get Lamar megaphones, and the first 400 will also get Lamar replica jerseys.

Last Saturday, LU hung 73 on Texas College while putting up 561 yards of offense to improve to 2-1 on the year.

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The Bottom Line: Time for Lamar football to remove patsies from schedule

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It’s a pretty common occurrence in college football — schedule teams that you know you can beat. They all do it, year in and year out. But many teams have that luxury.

Take, for instance, Texas A&M. The Aggies play in arguably the toughest conference in all of football — the Southeastern Conference. So their non-conference schedule this season includes Lamar, Rice, SMU and University of Louisiana-Monroe. The reason is because their conference schedule includes LSU, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Mississippi State, Missouri and Ole Miss.

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Coop's picks for Evangeline Downs - Wednesday, Aug. 27

 

 

 

 

Chad Cooper (The Examiner sports editor)
Winners: 239-763, .313
Best Bets: 26-44, .590
Longshots (hitting the board): 32-75, .426
Top 3 picks in the $: .539

Morning Line (opening odds)
Winners: 232-763, .304
Best Bets (9/5 or lower): 56-121, .462
Top 3 picks in the $: .542

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Coop's picks for Evangeline Downs - Saturday, Aug. 16

 

 

 

 

Chad Cooper (The Examiner sports editor)
Winners: 225-716, .314
Best Bets: 26-44, .590
Longshots (hitting the board): 32-68, .470
Top 3 picks in the $: .542

Morning Line (opening odds)
Winners: 221-716, .308
Best Bets (9/5 or lower): 54-112, .482
Top 3 picks in the $: .541

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