{"id":165263,"date":"2026-02-15T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:46:08","slug":"garcia-scores-21-mcneese-defeats-east-texas-am-97-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165263\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia scores 21, McNeese defeats East Texas A&#038;M 97-54"},"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\/1770874211_627_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>COMMERCE, Texas (AP)  Jovohn Garcia had 21 points in <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/MCNSE\/mcneese-cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McNeese<\/a>&#8216;s 97-54 win against <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> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia shot 8 for 12, including 5 for 8 from beyond the arc for the Cowboys (21-5, 14-3 Southland Conference). DJ Richards scored 15 points while going 5 of 10 (5 for 8 from 3-point range). Garwey Dual had 14 points and went 5 of 7 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-point range).<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Harrison Jr. finished with 19 points for the Lions (10-17, 5-12). Noah Pagotto added 12 points and seven rebounds for East Texas A&amp;M. Damian Garcia also had eight points.<\/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":"COMMERCE, Texas (AP) Jovohn Garcia had 21 points in McNeese&#8216;s 97-54 win against East Texas A&amp;M on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,21418,55725,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-165263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-east-texas-am-lions","tag-mcneese-cowboys","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165263","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=165263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165263\/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=165263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}