{"id":116693,"date":"2026-01-09T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:51:11","slug":"texas-a-men-lose-tight-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116693\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M\u2013San Antonio women win big 93-58; Men lose tight battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Texas A&amp;M University\u2013San Antonio Jaguars hosted the Louisiana Christian Wildcats on Thursday night, with the women\u2019s team looking to extend its four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Jaguars jumped out to an early lead when Tamaya Whitemon connected from 3-point range to give Texas A&amp;M\u2013San Antonio a 20-14 advantage. In the fourth quarter, the Jaguars pulled away as former Judson standout Kierra Sanderlin came up with a steal at midcourt and converted an and-one layup to make it 80-45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Texas A&amp;M\u2013San Antonio cruised to a 93-58 victory over Louisiana Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe made some shots from the outside and were able to set up our press,\u201d head coach Chris Minner said. \u201cWe dictated the tempo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to show that all 15 of us, 17 of us can hoop,\u201d said Sanderlin, a junior forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The win extended the Jaguars\u2019 streak to five games. Texas A&amp;M\u2013San Antonio will return to action at 1 p.m. Saturday against LSU Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The men\u2019s team also hosted Louisiana Christian on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Dezmon Dudley, a John Paul II alum, opened the scoring for the Jaguars with a steal and fast-break layup. Later in the first half, Texas A&amp;M\u2013San Antonio broke the Wildcats\u2019 press as Xzavier Brown drove to the basket and completed a three-point play to pull the Jaguars within one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Louisiana Christian, however, closed strong and defeated Texas A&amp;M\u2013San Antonio 78-76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The men\u2019s team will also host LSU-Alexandria on Saturday. Tipoff is set for 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Texas A&amp;M University\u2013San Antonio Jaguars hosted the Louisiana Christian Wildcats on Thursday night, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,154,37231],"class_list":{"0":"post-116693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-texas-am-san-antonio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}