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After last Saturday’s shooting performance, when the Bossier Parish Community College basketball team couldn’t throw it in the ocean, there was only one direction for the Cavaliers to go.

They zoomed to life Wednesday night in a 90-77 win over Lamar State College-Port Arthur in a Region XIV game at Billy Montgomery Gym.

BPCC hit 55 percent of its overall shots including 17 of 34 from 3-point range, and sank 9 of 12 at the free throw line to counterbalance a dreadful day last Saturday at Angelina College, when the Cavaliers scored only 33 points in a 29-point loss with 28 percent shooting including 17 percent from distance.   

The winners had a pair of 25-point scorers, Tony Montgomery and Drew Cooper. Montgomery went 7 of 14 overall, 4 of 8 on 3s, and made 7 of 11 at the line while getting five rebounds and making five assists. Cooper had the hot hand, sinking 10 of 15 including 5 of 8 from distance. Dustin Welch pitched in 18 points, making 7 of 12 overall including 4 of 7 on 3-pointers.

Cooper scored 21 in the first half to keep BPCC close as LSC-PA took a 43-36 lead. Montgomery had 23 after halftime while the Cavaliers erupted for 54 points.

Moore said the abysmal outing last Saturday provided a spark for his first BPCC team, which has 11 freshmen.

“What a reat team win at home,” he said. “We were really connected as a team. Tonight we had players really step up off the bench and as a whole we knocked down open shots.

“We talked about this the last couple days — we are not here to compete with each other but to COMPLETE each other as a team,,” he said.  

BPCC (10-17 overall, 4-15 Region XIV) will wrap up its home schedule Saturday afternoon at 4 against Blinn CC., when the program will honor its three sophomores: Minden product Stafford Bailey, Yoav Botzer and Mazin Lumori.

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