The Lakeland men's basketball team traveled to Owens Community College to face the Express in OCCAC action. The Lakers battled and came away with a hard fought 69-57 win. With the victory, the Lakers improve to 15-3 on the season and 8-0 in the OCCAC. Coach Eskridge commented, "Owens played extremely hard and made it very difficult on us. Owens is always a tough place to play." The teams battled back-and-forth throughout and the Express led 31-29 at the break. Eskridge continued, "As the game wore on, we settled down a bit and played more of our game. We played pretty good defense and were able to get some stops. That was a good hard fought win - both teams played hard."

Lakeland had three players score in double digits. Jaidon Lipscomb led the Lakers with 24 points and Elhadji Thiam finished with 18 points. Jaden Woods added 11 points while Dondi Harper II and Zach Wartley each added 5 points in the win. Landon Tillman collected 4 points for the Lakers.

Next Up: The two teams will battle each other again on Wednesday night at Lakeland. The game is scheduled to tipoff at 7:30 pm.