Angelina College Basketball Teams Prepping for Conference Tournament

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Call it “The Big Dance” or “March Madness”, but whatever one’s preference in terminology, the Region XIV Conference Basketball Tournament is here, and both Angelina College teams will get their shots at advancing to their respective national championships taking place later this month.

The conference tournament will run from Tuesday, March 7 through Saturday, March 11 at John Alexander Gymnasium in Jacksonville. The men’s opening round takes place on Tuesday, while the women will wait until Wednesday before tipping off.

AC’s Roadrunners will enter the men’s bracket as the sixth seed and will face Jacksonville College, a team with which the ‘Runners split the season series. AC beat the Jaguars 89-76 at home on Jan. 25 and lost in Jacksonville 79-72 on Feb. 18. The Roadrunner closed out the regular season with a win at Coastal Bend College on Saturday, with Isaiah Bailey’s 19 points leading the way in AC’s 80-79 win over the Cougars.

That win gave head coach Kyle Manary a 20-win season in his first year at the helm. AC finished the season 20-10, 12-7.

Jacksonville ended the regular season on a three-game losing streak, falling 65-64 in overtime to Blinn College on Saturday.

The winner of Tuesday’s game will face Trinity Valley College at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

The Lady Roadrunners (15-15, 8-12) square off against top-seeded and 12th-ranked Trinity Valley College at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The Lady Cardinals swept the season series by nearly identical scores, taking a 77-42 win in Athens and a 79-42 win in Lufkin. The winner of that matchup will face the winner of the Tyler College/Blinn College game.

Tuesday’s men’s quarterfinals full schedule includes Lamar State College-Port Arthur vs. Blinn College at 1 p.m., Tyler College vs. Navarro College at 3 p.m., Paris College vs. Bossier Parish College at 6 p.m. and the Roadrunners vs. Jacksonville College at 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s women’s quarterfinals schedule includes the Lady Roadrunners vs. Trinity Valley College at 1 p.m., Tyler College vs. Blinn College at 3 p.m., San Jacinto College vs. Jacksonville College at 6 p.m. and Panola College vs. Kilgore College at 8 p.m.

Both the men’s and women’s championship games will take place on Saturday, March 11. The women’s finals tip off at 5:30 p.m., and the men’s finals follow at 8 p.m. Winner of the women’s title will advance to the national championships in Lubbock; the men’s winner will advance to the national championships in Hutchinson, Kansas. Both those tournaments run from March 20-25.

All Angelina College games will be available for live streaming. Visit www.angelina.edu and click on the Athletics link to catch all the game action.

The e-mail address for AC’s Sports Information Director is gstallard@angelina.edu.

The Angelina College men’s basketball team opens the Region XIV Conference Tournament on Tuesday at Jacksonville. The Roadrunners take on Jacksonville College at 8 p.m. Pictured are (front row, L-R) Carlos Simpson, Kyndall Powell, Gary Blackston, Angel Bullock and Corinthian Ramsey; and (back row, L-R) Robert Lewis, Victor Bell, Malcolm Evans, Quentin Bush, Jason Towery and Isaiah Bailey. (AC Press photo/Gary Stallard)

Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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