SOFTBALL: Cardinals picked ninth in Southland
Published 8:13 pm Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Lamar is predicted to finish ninth in the Southland Conference preseason softball poll.
The Cardinals are coming off a tumultuous 28-28 season that included an 11-16 record in Southland play. Former University of Texas assistant Amy Hooks was hired as head coach in June, and she’ll have 12 returning players from last season’s team, five of whom were starters.
The predicted order of finish is defending champion Nicholls State, which had 18 first-place votes, McNeese State (6), Central Arkansas, Southeastern Louisiana, Stephen F. Austin, Northwestern State, Sam Houston State, Abilene Christian, Lamar, Incarnate Word, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Houston Baptist.
— I.C. Murrell
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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