The PJC Lady Dragons basketball team — Top row (left to right): Head coach Sean LeBeauf, manager Kamiqua McDonald, Brea Castro-Gambrell, Adrienne Small, Voche’ Martin, Karmyn Jackson, Ashley Johnson, Kardriunna Young, assistant coach Shakira Nettles. Bottom row: Rickeya Williams, Lea Holt, De’Ottia Robinson, Shanice Hill, Kelsei Ewings, Shanice Vaughan, Maeghan Scott. (PJC Photo)
By CHARLES RICHARDS
eParisExtra.com
The men’s and women’s basketball teams from Paris Junior College are in the metroplex this weekend for scrimmages against other junior college teams as they continue their preparations for the official start of the season in November.
The Dragons of coach Chuck Taylor are one of six teams in Lancaster on Saturday for the Cedar Valley Elite Jamboree. The other teams in the field are host Cedar Valley College, McLennan College, Mountain View College, Jarvis Christian College, and Jacksonville College.
The Dragons will play Cedar Valley at 10 a.m. and Jarvis Christian at 1 p.m. PJC’s men opened exhibition play last weekend at Frisco, beating Pratt, Kan., tying Missouri-Western Plains, and losing to Redlands, Okla.
The Dragons will go to Richardson on Tuesday, Oct. 25, to scrimmage Richland College, coached by former PJC head coach Bill Foy; and to Commerce on Saturday, Oct. 29, to scrimmage Texas A&M-Commerce.
The Lady Dragons of coach Sean LeBeauf will join four other Region 14 Conference teams and 19 other junior colleges in the Women’s JUCO Showcase at Frisco on Friday, and all nine of the conference’s women teams are in a 50-team field in the SAWBC Super Scrimmage at Carrollton on Saturday.
PJC’s women will start and end their exhibition play this weekend with three scrimmages on Friday and three scrimmages on Saturday. Five of the six contests are from teams in Region 5 (North Texas and West Texas).
The Lady Dragons’ scrimmages on Friday at Frisco are at 11 a.m. vs. Northern Oklahoma-Enid, at 2 p.m. vs. Howard College, and at 5 p.m. vs. Weatherford College. On Saturday at Carrollton, the PJC women scrimmage Ranger College at 9 a.m., Frank Phillips College at 11:20 a.m., and Southwestern Christian College at 1:40 p.m.
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Both the men’s and women’s teams will open the season at the Hunt Center on the PJC campus on Saturday, Nov. 3, against Murray State. The Lady Dragons will play at 4 p.m. and the Dragons at 6 p.m.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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