{"id":183292,"date":"2026-02-18T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:51:36","slug":"hamilton-leads-eastern-washington-against-sacramento-state-after-24-point-showing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183292\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton leads Eastern Washington against Sacramento State after 24-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Washington takes on the Sacramento State Hornets after Alton Hamilton IV scored 24 points in the Eagles&#8217; 84-66 win over the Weber State Wildcats&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Washington Eagles (9-17, 7-6 Big Sky) at Sacramento State Hornets (9-16, 5-8 Big Sky)<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Washington faces Sacramento State after Alton Hamilton IV scored 24 points in Eastern Washington&#8217;s 84-66 win over the Weber State Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets are 9-2 in home games. Sacramento State ranks sixth in the Big Sky with 13.0 assists per game led by Mikey Williams averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles have gone 7-6 against Big Sky opponents. Eastern Washington ranks fourth in the Big Sky with 9.0 offensive rebounds per game led by Hamilton averaging 2.5.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State is shooting 42.1% from the field this season, 6.1 percentage points lower than the 48.2% Eastern Washington allows to opponents. Eastern Washington has shot at a 46.6% clip from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points greater than the 45.9% shooting opponents of Sacramento State have averaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets and Eagles square off Thursday for the first time in Big Sky play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Prophet Johnson is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 7.8 rebounds for the Hornets. Mark Lavrenov is averaging 13.2 points and 8.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is averaging 12.7 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Eagles. Isaiah Moses is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 5-5, averaging 81.8 points, 30.8 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 7.9 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles: 6-4, averaging 78.3 points, 29.2 rebounds, 12.5 assists, 5.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.1 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastern Washington takes on the Sacramento State Hornets after Alton Hamilton IV scored 24 points in the Eagles&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-183292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}