Road to title begins

Athens Review, Athens, Texas

November 23, 2009

Road to title begins

Lady Cards open conference vs. LMC tonight

Region XIV Conference play begins for the 10th-ranked Trinity Valley Community College Lady Cardinals at home Tuesday night.

TVCC (6-3) is scheduled to face Lon Morris in a 5:30 p.m. tipoff at Cardinal Gym.

The Lady Cardinals went 2-0 last week, posting non-conference wins over McLennan (89-53) and Weatherford (73-60).

Lon Morris is 4-5 on the season after going 2-0 over the weekend in the Baton Rouge Community College Classic.

They started the season 4-0 but dropped three straight games on a road trip to Florida. Those losses included overtime defeats at the hands of No. 1 Gulf Coast and No. 13 Pensacola and a loss to No. 22 Chipola.

First-year coach Bill Damuth’s Lady Cardinals were made the preseason favorite by conference coaches to win the league championship, which would be their ninth straight.

Kilgore and Panola tipped of the conference schedule Saturday with Kilgore hanging on for a 63-52 win.

The Lady Cardinals are also scheduled to be at home Saturday in a non-conference tilt with Dallas Diesel. Game time is 2 p.m.

Next week, the Lady Cardinals travel Wednesday to Paris for a 5:30 p.m. start and are at home on Saturday against Panola at 2 p.m. Both are conference games.