SOCCER: Lamar favored to repeat as Southland regular-season champ
Published 3:23 pm Thursday, August 9, 2018
Southland Conference head coaches and sports information specialists for soccer have predicted Lamar will repeat as regular-season conference champions.
The Cardinals received 20 first-place votes out of 24 overall and earned 240 voting points to top the Southland’s annual preseason poll. They won the regular-season and conference tournament championships a year ago, the latter being the first in Lamar’s soccer history.
In 2016, Lamar was 1-7-3 in the Southland.
Second- through 12th-place predictions are, in order: Stephen F. Austin (two first-place votes) with 212 points, Abilene Christian (two) with 182, Central Arkansas with 172, McNeese State with 169, Houston Baptist with 161, Sam Houston State with 124, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with 102, Southeastern Louisiana with 85, Northwestern State with 61, Nicholls State with 41, Incarnate Word 35.
Lamar won a home exhibition over Rice, 3-2, Wednesday and will begin its season in Beaumont against Grambling State on Aug. 17.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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