Junior Guard Willie Rooks scored 19 points while Reggie Reid added 16 and Aaron Horne 11 as The 18th ranked Texas A&M-Commerce Men’s Basketball team pushed their record to 12-1 overall and 5-1 in LSC play with a 73-62 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville Thursday night at University Fieldhouse in Commerce. The Lions will face another…
Arteajah Gay put in 17 points and Melanie Ransom added 14 points as the Texas A&M-Commerce women’s team moved their record to 7-5 overall and 4-1 in LSC play with a convincing 63-48 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville. The Lady Cagers of TAMUC started fast and never looked back leading 33-25 at the half before keeping…
Per Lionathletics.com, Colby Carthel’s contract has been extended through the year 2021. Great news and needed to be done. Dr. Ray Keck’s thoughts on signing Carthel to another year: “Colby Carthel’s leadership of our football program has transformed our institution in ways we have never experienced,” Keck noted. “To celebrate a national championship has our proud…
A Roaring Start-The Lions have started the season 11-1 and have started in this fashion for the past 3 seasons. With a ranking at # 18 in the country, strong showings in the Heartland/LSC Challenge and in the Angelo State Invitational, they have built a strong out of conference resume. Their lone loss was a…
Overall, the Ladies are 6-5. Now, looking at the out of conference record, it is 3-4. Here is something to be optimistic about; those 3 of those 4 losses were lost by an average of 4 points. These games were not blowout losses. They were close losses, and the fact that this team is close…
Next, onto a group that contends year in and year out, The TAMUC Lions Soccer team. When excellence is your standard, it can be kind of hard to accept a 12-4-1 record when you fall short of your goals, which is to get into the National Tournament each year and compete for a LSC title.…
This is Part 1 in a 4 part series wrapping up the Fall Sports season. We also want to say to those who participated in Volleyball, Soccer, Cross Country, and Golf, we apologize for not covering you all as much as we should have and would have liked. The Lion Wire is adding a final…
This is Part 2 in a 2 part series on the thoughts about the Lion Football season This section covers the effect on the University and institution as a whole. Winning a national championship for a school usually means big time pride and good feelings all around. The first thing that this season did was…
Many Happy Holiday wishes, Lion Fans, and it has indeed been a happy one for all of us. We at The Lion Wire would like to take a look back at the happiest of seasons, on that will be remembered forever, and talked about for a very long time. It’s been 45 years since the…
Exactly 45 years and 7 days ago, The Lions of East Texas State University lofted their first National Title Trophy. The game was in Commerce and the town celebrated for days. For years, it was something for the Lion program to hang their hat on. Last night, the ups and downs that have happened since…
Drink it in Lion Fans! Revel in it. An extremely Happy Morning After tomorrow, but from now on, your Lions are…….THE CHAMPIONS.
15 minutes to go, Lion fans! Great defensive effort to overcome a costly fumble, and then the 2017 Harlon Hill Award winner does what he does. Take heart, Lion fans.
Sloppy second quarter….Lions miss on a couple of scoring opportunities, and allow a touchdown pass to Ashley shortly before the half, but maintain a 20-14 lead. Take heart, Lion Fans…..this team has shown an amazing ability to adjust at halftime. Let’s hope they do it again.
So far, so well…..other than a fake punt going awry, the Lions are off to a great start.
Here we are, Lion Fans…..Game Day. The day for which we have hoping and dreaming has arrived. It all comes down to 60 minutes of football to decide the Championship.(Note: Due to unforseen technical difficulties, the venerable Brian Pate will be unable to post the Pre Snap read or Quarter updates, so I’ll be filling…
Versus When: Saturday, December 15, 5 PM Where: Children’s Mercy Park Stadium, Kansas City, Kansas Weather: 60 Degrees and Sunny at Kickoff TV: ESPN2 Radio: Lions Sports Network via 88.9 KETR (Commerce) or KETR.org Live Stats: http://www.ncaa.com/game/football/d2/2017/12/16/west-fla-tex-am-commerce Starters QB-Luis Perez, 6’3 220 LBS, SR, San Diego, CA RB-Carandal Hale, 5’11 190 LBS, R-FR, Greenville, TX WR-D’Arthur…
Well Lion fans, here we are….where we have longed for, and deserve to be, after a 45 year wait, the Lions are home again, in the National Championship Game. The journey that began on a sweltering night in North Alabama all comes down to this. 60 minutes to determine a champion. We’ll take an overall…
Good evening, Lions fans….with less than 48 hours to go before what truly is the biggest game in Lion football history, let’s take a look at the matchup between the Lion offense and Argonaut defense, along with special teams. This looks to be very intriguing. With that said, let’s get to it…. Tale of the…
Well Lion fans, the day we have longed for and dreamed about after a 45 year wait, has arrived. One game for the National Championship. All the off season work, August practices in the Texas heat, all the work has come down to 60 minutes of football. Earning the right to be called Champion.…
It’s Here. The week many of us thought we might never see. The week where Texas A&M-Commerce plays for the National Championship. Whenever there is uncharted territory for a team, the best thing a team can do in my opinion, is to keep the schedule the same and not let anything be distracting or take…
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