Shooting down Cancer: AC Basketball Teams Sponsoring Three-Pointer Pledge Events to Support American Cancer Society

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By GARY STALLARD

AC Athletics

If others will do their part, the Angelina College Lady Roadrunners and Roadrunners will do theirs.

AC’s basketball teams in February are sponsoring a Three-Point Challenge, and the teams are asking fans to provide the assists by pledging money for every three pointer a player makes throughout the month. Each swish of the net leads to more money for cancer research.

Those accumulated donations in turn will go toward the American Cancer Society in the constant battle to help shoot down the disease. The teams then will make a presentation to ACS during Coaches vs. Cancer events taking place on Saturday, Feb. 24 at Angelina College.

For the entire season, the Roadrunners have connected on 133 three pointers, while the Lady Roadrunners have knocked down 123.

To pledge, simply visit pledgeit.org/cvc18-angelina-college and click on the PLEDGE NOW button. For further information, contact AC’s Janice Huffman at jhuffman@angelina.edu.

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

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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