Saturday March 6, 2021

Men's Basketball: Eunice, LA

A hot shooting night from behind the arc helps the LSUE Bengals down the Baton Rouge Bears 83 to 66 this afternoon in the HPRE Center.

In the first five minutes, both teams were back and forth feeling the other out. In those five minutes, the game saw four lead changes and one tie. The game was tied at 8 a pieces with 15:57. The Bears struggled to find their offense while LSUE started getting hot from behind the arc. The Bengals biggest lead of the first half would be 12 with three minutes to play.  At the half, the Bengals had a 41 to 30 lead.

In the second half, the Bengals opened in a defensive press that forced the Bears into some turnovers and kept their offense out of sync. While the Bears were struggling the Bengals were raining three pointers. For the game the Bengals would connect on 11 three pointers.  LSUE would grow their lead to 26 points with six minutes left in the game; 70-44.  A bright spot for the Bears, in the second half, was the play of freshman guard Jayhlon Young. Young was aggressive on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. In the end the Bengals were too much for the Bears to handle as they would earn the 83 to 66 victory.

Jonathan Cisse led the Bengals with 20 points. 

LSUE forced 17 Bears turnovers that led to 23 points for the Bengals. The Bears shot 37.1 % from the field compared to 49.1% for the Bengals.

With the victory the LSUE Bengals improve to 7-0, 5-0 in conference play, while Baton Rouge falls to 4-6, 2-4 on the season.

Next up for the Bears will be a road trip to Shreveport on Wednesday March 10 to take on conference rivials Southern Shreveport Port City Jags at 7 pm at Booker T Washington High School.