{"id":177794,"date":"2026-02-24T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:05:17","slug":"bethea-helps-houston-christian-hold-on-for-69-68-victory-over-east-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177794\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethea helps Houston Christian hold on for 69-68 victory over East Texas A&#038;M"},"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\/1771902848_770_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>COMMERCE, Texas (AP)  Demarco Bethea scored 15 points to help <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/HOUBP\/houston-christian-huskies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian<\/a> fend off <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> 69-68 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bethea added nine rebounds for the Huskies (11-18, 7-13 Southland Conference). Mambourou Mara totaled 13 points, seven rebounds and five steals. D&#8217;Aundre Samuels also scored 13.<\/p>\n<p>Gianni Hunt finished with 25 points and four steals for the Lions (11-19, 6-14). Damian Garcia added 15 points and Noah Pagotto pitched in with eight points and three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Bethea put up seven points in the first half for Houston Christian, who led 36-23 at the break.<\/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) Demarco Bethea scored 15 points to help Houston Christian fend off East Texas A&amp;M 69-68&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,21418,56,20675,58,57],"class_list":["post-177794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-basketball","tag-east-texas-am-lions","tag-houston","tag-houston-christian-huskies","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177794","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=177794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177794\/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=177794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}