{"id":167243,"date":"2026-02-16T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167243\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:28:29","slug":"ut-arlington-movin-mavs-sweep-3-game-tournament-defeat-dallas-wheelchair-mavericks-adaptive-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167243\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Arlington Movin\u2019 Mavs sweep 3-game tournament, defeat Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks | Adaptive Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A wheelchair basketball player in white reaches up to shoot the ball.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1645\" height=\"1260\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6991101c8e3d8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"153\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Junior Lionel Tamoki attempts to shoot the ball during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb. 14 at the Physical Education Building. Tamoki scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UTA men\u2019s wheelchair basketball beat the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks 68-60 Saturday at the Physical Education Building. <\/p>\n<p>UTA took the lead quickly, going up 20-9 in the first quarter. From there, the team did not relinquish the lead, never letting the deficit go below eight. <\/p>\n<p>Movin\u2019 Mavs head coach Aaron Gouge said he believed his team performed well on both sides of the ball and stuck to the game plan. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Wheelchair basketball players cheer on the sideline.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1607\" height=\"1290\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6991102069b60.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"161\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Nadav Menachem, left, freshman Shawn Simmions, center, and sophomore Jensen Blaine cheer after the Movin\u2019 Mavs score during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb. 14 at the Physical Education Building. The team won 68-60.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really worked hard. They&#8217;ve got some really great players, a couple gold medalists on their team,\u201d Gouge said. \u201cWe worked really hard to take the ball away from them as much as possible and force some other players to beat us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Freshman Mitchell Bond led the Movin\u2019 Mavs with 20 points in the game, with eight coming in the fourth quarter. He praised the performance of the whole team and said this win will help build momentum and chemistry as the season continues. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A man in a royal blue UTA shirt speaks to wheelchair basketball players.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6991101ec46b8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Gouge, Movin\u2019 Mavs head coach, talks to the team during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb. 14 at the Physical Education Building. The women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s wheelchair basketball teams will move to the College Park Center as part of their shift to UTA\u2019s Athletics department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really set a standard for ourselves to show us what we&#8217;re capable of,\u201d Bond said. \u201cThere&#8217;s probably small mistakes here and there that we had, but we didn&#8217;t let them bog us down and turn into another one and snowball.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Junior Lionel Tamoki had a double-double in the game, posting 14 points and 10 rebounds. He said the performance was affected by how much UTA and Dallas have played each other. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A wheelchair basketball player in a white uniform holds the ball.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1636\" height=\"1267\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69911021e0d98.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"155\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Freshman Shawn Simmions looks for an opening during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb. 14 at the Physical Education Building. The team will play again in the Auburn March College Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played Dallas a lot, so we know what to do, and we know how great they are. They&#8217;re a very good team, they give us a great fight,\u201d Tamoki said. \u201cWe just stuck to what we wanted to do, gave the ball to whoever wanted to shoot, and offensively, we just stuck together and had confidence in ourselves and our teammates.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Later during the day, UTA also beat Bayou City, 70-61, and the Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch (WWAR) Generals, 62-61. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A wheelchair basketball player in a blue and royal blue jersey yells on the sidelines.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6991101dc7925.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Freshman Shawn Simmions cheers for the team during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb. 14 at the Physical Education Building. The team won against Bayou City and the Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch Generals later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Samarie%20Goffney\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Movin\u2019 Mavs\u2019 next tournament will be on the road, as they play in the Auburn March College Tournament starting March 6 at the Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum in Auburn, Alabama. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these teams have guys that have a bunch of international experience,\u201d Gouge said. \u201cPlaying against that level of talent only helps us as a team and puts us in tough situations that can be a learning situation towards the end of the year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>@TyRoland06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/sports\/adaptive_sports\/ut-arlington-movin-mavs-sweep-3-game-tournament-defeat-dallas-wheelchair-mavericks\/mailto:sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Lionel Tamoki attempts to shoot the ball during a game against the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks on Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30104,150,152,151,20662],"class_list":{"0":"post-167243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-adaptive_sports","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-men_basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167243","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=167243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}