{"id":187837,"date":"2026-03-03T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:23:09","slug":"williams-scores-19-to-lead-texas-am-corpus-christi-past-east-texas-am-84-71-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187837\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams scores 19 to lead Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi past East Texas A&#038;M 84-71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)  Sheldon Williams scored 19 points and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TXAMCC\/texas-amcorpus-christi-islanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi<\/a> beat <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> 84-71 on Monday night to close out the Southland Conference regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Williams also had seven rebounds for the Islanders (17-14, 13-9). Nick Shogbonyo added 16 points and eight rebounds, sinking 4 of 9 from 3-point range. Daniel Michelini-Jackson scored 12.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Pagotto and Vinny Sigona both scored 17 to lead the Lions (11-21, 6-16) in scoring, finishing with 17 points, six rebounds and four assists. Pagotto added six rebounds and four assists. Ronnie Harrison Jr. scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Williams scored 12 points in the second half to help the Islanders turn a 37-36 halftime lead into a comfortable victory.<\/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":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) Sheldon Williams scored 19 points and Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi beat East Texas A&amp;M 84-71&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2692,155,157,156,21418,23635],"class_list":["post-187837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-college-basketball","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-east-texas-am-lions","tag-texas-am-corpus-christi-islanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187837","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=187837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187837\/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=187837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}