LSC Roundup 12-3

Basketball Headlines
Bennett lifts Rams to defeat Rattlers
The Angelo State University men's basketball team escaped San Antonio with a 65-60 win over St. Mary's on Tuesday night in Greehey Arena to start the season 4-0 for the first time in nine years.

UCO overwhelms Mustangs, 106-57
EDMOND, Okla. — Highlights were hard to come by for Midwestern State Tuesday night at Hamilton Fieldhouse. But the highlights were plentiful for No. 11 Central Oklahoma as the Bronchos scorched Midwestern 106-57 to improve to a perfect 5-0.

Football Headlines
Column - Greg Jaklewicz: Firing isn't the solution to WT's defensive woes
Mass firings are not what West Texas A&M needs.
Better defense, yes.
WT football coaches on the recruiting trails know it. WT players returning for the 2009 season know it. And, of course, sports fans from coast to coast know it.
WT athletic director Michael McBroom also knows it. His response to calls for defensive coordinator Colby Carthel's job?
"I think that's crazy."

Letter: ...have short memories
Letter: West Texas A&M, Carthel critics...
A couple of rebuttals to a recent letter in the AGN that was pretty negative toward the WT defensive coaching.

Javs' Perkins, Smith named all-super region
KINGSVILLE — Texas A&M-Kingsville safety Jabir Perkins was named to the first team on the Daktronics All-Super Region 4 Division II Team released Tuesday by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Meanwhile, Perkins' teammate, punter Cody Smith, was a second-team honoree.

Bronchos duo honored
Lineman Jermelle Cudjo and linebacker K.C. Asiodu both earned second-team honors on the elite squad that was voted on by sports information directors of Super 4 Region institutions, which includes schools in the Lone Star Conference, Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

McCoy, Sawyer Win Region Award
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Ruzell McCoy and Joe Sawyer continued to win wide-spread acclaim for their performances on the football field for the recently completed season.McCoy, a senior from Frederick, Okla., was voted to the first-team Daktronics All-Super Region 4 team at linebacker while Sawyer, a junior from Ogden, Utah, was a second-team choice at tight end.