{"id":151576,"date":"2026-02-05T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151576\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:34:09","slug":"garcia-scores-16-as-east-texas-am-downs-northwestern-state-74-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151576\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia scores 16 as East Texas A&#038;M downs Northwestern State 74-68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP)  Damian Garcia scored 16 points as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TAMC\/east-texas-am-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Texas A&amp;M<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NWST\/northwestern-state-demons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northwestern State<\/a> 74-68 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia also contributed six rebounds and five assists for the Lions (9-15, 4-10 Southland Conference). Gianni Hunt scored 16 points and added five rebounds and six assists. Vinny Sigona finished 5 of 9 from 3-point range for 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>Micah Thomas led the Demons (6-17, 4-10) in scoring, finishing with 23 points and two steals. Willie Williams added 10 points and eight rebounds for Northwestern State. The Demons have now lost six straight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) Damian Garcia scored 16 points as East Texas A&amp;M beat Northwestern State 74-68 on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,21418,21852,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-151576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-east-texas-am-lions","tag-northwestern-state-demons","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151576","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=151576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}