Lady Chaps defeat the Lady Wranglers in a thriller, while the Chaps power to victory over the Wranglers in a top-10 matchup.<\/p>\n
MIDLAND, Texas \u2014 Midland College men’s and women’s basketball earn the doubleheader sweep Monday over rival Odessa College.<\/p>\n
The Lady Chaps held off the Lady Wranglers 60-58 after an 18-2 run by Odessa College erased a 15-point Midland College lead in the fourth quarter. Lady Wranglers had a chance at the end to tie and send it to overtime, but it was short. It’s the Lady Chaps first win in the series since 2023.<\/p>\n
Diana Szakolczi led the Lady Chaps with a game-high 15 points. Aniyah Mayberry had 13 points and eight rebounds off the bench, while Latisha Wilson added 10 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n
Jazmine Hansley helped lead the Odessa College comeback with a team-high 14 points, four assists, three rebounds, and three steals. Arminda Joaquim also ended in double figures with 10 points and four rebounds.<\/p>\n
The men’s matchup featured a top-10 showdown between undefeated No. 2 Midland College and No. 8 Odessa College.<\/p>\n
It was tight early, but Antoine “Bo” Hurns was scorching hot to start for the Chaparrals with 17 of his game-high 19 points, including five-made 3-pointers, in the first eight minutes of action. Hurns also finished with six assists and five rebounds.<\/p>\n
Solomon Ominu finished with 18 points and three rebounds, while Cayden Reed had an efficient 15 points, four assists, and three steals.<\/p>\n
Ahmere Carson led the Wranglers with a team-high 14 points, JD Bradford added 11 points, six rebounds, and three assists off the bench, and Jaiden Reynolds had 10 points.<\/p>\n
Midland College next heads to Frank Phillips College, while Odessa College goes to Western Texas College on Thursday, Jan. 15 with the women at 5:45 p.m. and the men soon after at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady Chaps defeat the Lady Wranglers in a thriller, while the Chaps power to victory over the Wranglers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-121613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121613","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=121613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}