Texan football checks in... In their own words...

Here is what three of the Texan football players had to say about checking in at the 2010 Texan Fall Camp.

Jamaal Steamer



Nick Stephens



Jonathan Arnold

"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Well if you weren’t at Saturday’s game, you missed a good one. We played Texas A&M Kingsville, whom we lost to a couple weeks ago down in Kingsville, and we were definitely ready for some revenge.

We started the game off strong and Kingsville just couldn’t keep up. We went into halftime up by 34 points and we finished the game with every person on the team scoring.

It was a very special night for us as our lone senior, JoAnne Jones, played her final game in Wisdom Gym. She is such a huge aspect to this team and we are definitely going to miss her next year. But, the season isn’t over for her at all!

With the win Saturday, we clenched a spot in the Lone Star Conference Tournament and as it looks right now, we will be playing Southeastern Oklahoma for our first game. This is the only team in our cross-over games that we fell to, so we will be very happy to get a second chance at them. But we will take it game by game and right now we have a week off before playing our final conference game against Angelo State. We are going to work hard this week and really focus on getting better.

Thanks for all the support thus far this season and we hope you continue to follow us on the road for the rest of the season!

"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Heading to Midwestern!!! We are exactly halfway through conference with two losses on our hands, falling to West Texas A&M and Texas A&M Kingsville. Both were close games, that we just couldn’t pull out at the end. It has really been a learning experience because there were so many things in both of those games that could have gone differently. But no reason to dwell, we just have to get ‘em back in our home territory!

On Wednesday we faced MSU at home. We started the game off strong and jumped to a 10-2 lead in the first few minutes of the game. From there, our lead eventually turned into about 20 going in to halftime. We didn’t come out quite as strong as we should have and they ended up making a little run on us, but we quickly got back on track and ended with the win. As part of rivalry week, we head t o Wichita Falls to play them again tomorrow. We all know that this game is going to be totally different at their place and therefore have to come out even stronger and work even harder than before.

After Midwestern we head to Eastern New Mexico on Wednesday where we will be faced with another very tough challenge! It is time to put our road games to the test!!

"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Conference is off and running!!! We faced Angelo State Saturday night in our first conference game of the season and came away with a great victory. We started off the game pretty much neck and neck with them but late in the first half we had a huge spark defensively and went into the locker room up by 14. We knew we had to come out strong the second half because this is a very tough team to play. We ended up doing a great job the second half and really had a great game defensively.

Speaking of defense, we worked hard on it all week after our loss to University of Texas Permian Basin on Monday in Odessa. This was a tough loss for us and we really had a break down defensively. Therefore, we knew that if we wanted to get back on a winning streak we would have to work much harder on defense. The UTPB game was definitely a controversial ending with the clock not starting, but it is like Coach Hearne told us after the game, we really should have never let it get to that point. On a positive note, I think it was good for us to be in a close game at the end and hopefully we will learn from that game and make it worth something.

We head to Denton on Monday to make up the game from over Christmas break, and then we are back at home against Eastern New Mexico on Wednesday to continue conference play. I appreciate everyone that came out last night and I know the rest of the team does too!! Go TexAnns!

"Courtside" with Sonya Sundberg

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Before the Christmas break we traveled to Oklahoma to face East Central on the 12th and Southeastern Oklahoma on the 14th. We had a slower start in the East Central game, but came out of halftime with a different mind set and pulled out the win. Southeastern gave us our first and only loss of the season thus far. It was a close game all the way through but they got the better of us in the end. We concluded the month of December with two wins at home against Southwestern Oklahoma and Cameron.

We all enjoyed about 6 days off from basketball, and returned the 28th for practice. We have had a very tough week of practices and are ready to start playing in games again. We start off the New Year with a game against Texas Wesleyan tomorrow evening, January 2nd at 5 pm. We hope you come out and see us start 2010 off right!!