Clutch play by Antanasia Armstrong helped Southeast Arkansas College earn its first women’s basketball victory in more than a month Thursday.
Armstrong completed a 3-point play late, and the Sharks made free throws down the stretch to hold off South Arkansas College 72-69 at UAPB’s H.O. Clemmons Arena. SEARK ended a 2-game skid and won for the first time since Dec. 12, when they defeated Arkansas State University Mid-South in West Memphis.
Armstrong, a power forward from Bastrop, La., scored 6 of her 13 points in the third quarter. Za’Nyah LeFear led SEARK (7-5, 3-2 Region 2) with 18 points, followed by Amethyst Price with 14.
Cammi Christie led El Dorado-based SouthArk (5-8, 2-3) with 19 points. A.J. Person added 18, Jacie Bishop scored 12 and Allena Milton had 9.
The Sharks moved up to third in Region 2 standings behind National Park College (14-3, 6-0) and Southern Arkansas University Tech (4-2, 2-1). SEARK will face National Park at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Hot Springs.
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MEN: SouthArk 87, SEARK 83
Also at H.O. Clemmons Arena, No. 21 SEARK suffered its first loss as a nationally ranked team in NJCAA Division II, falling at home to defending Region 2 and Central Plains District champion SouthArk.
Lavion Owens scored 16 of his 26 points in the second half to lead the Stars (10-4, 5-1 Region 2), who broke a first-place tie with SEARK with the win. Jakourion Key had 22 and Braylon Haynes scored 11 in the win.
Recent Pine Bluff High School graduate Braylen Hall scored 9 points and Watson Chapel alumnus Keshun Brown had 5 for the Stars.
Tobias Prall led SEARK (12-3, 4-2) with 22 points, draining five 3-point baskets in the process. Derek Magwood dropped in 17 points, Israel Malone 13, Torey Caswell 10 and Jehu Wright 8 in his first game of 2025 for the Sharks. Jalen Brown, one of the Sharks’ leading scorers at 16.7 points per game, did not play.
SEARK will take on National Park at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Hot Springs.