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PINEVILLE, La. – The No. 21-ranked Louisiana College football team will look to celebrate Homecoming in style, and honor some of their own, Saturday when the Wildcats host Sul Ross State.

The game will begin at 4:30 p.m. and be broadcast live at www.ihigh.com/louisianacollege as well as 1055kbuck.com and on the local airwaves of 105.5 FM KBCK Alexandria. Live Twitter updates will also be provided through @LaColAthletics.

As part of the Homecoming activities, four former LC athletes will be inducted into the school's sports hall of fame.

Among the honorees will be Justin Charles, a former standout defensive back and return man for the Wildcat and the team's current secondary coach.

Charles, a native of Houston, came to Louisiana College in 2000 as part of the first recruiting class after the rebirth of football. He started for four years and was a multiple-time all-conference performer. He was named American Southwest Conference Special Teams Player of the Year in 2002 and 2003. He was twice named to the All-Louisiana Team and was named an NCCAA All-American in 2001 and 2002.

In his career, he amassed 227 total tackles, 24 tackles for loss, 12.5 sacks, 9 interceptions and 3 interceptions returned for a touchdown. He also amassed 1,416 kick return yards and five kick return touchdowns, the career record for all colleges and universities in the state of Louisiana. 

Being honored alongside Charles are the other Wildcats who had equally-impactful careers: Sandi Clark-Webb (softball), Louis Hanson (football, baseball and basketball) and Jesse Hickman (baseball).

Few players in the history of Louisiana College softball had careers to match that of Clark-Webb, a standout pitcher and batter on the 2003 NCCAA National Championship team and multiple-time NCCAA All-American and American Southwest Conference Pitcher of the Year.

She came to Louisiana College in 2003 after a distinguished high school career at Oak Hill High School in Hineston, La.  In her four years with Louisiana College, Clark-Webb struck out 556 batters and compiled a 67-17 record as a starter. Her strikeouts and wins totals stood as conference records until 2011.

Additionally, Clark-Webb posted a career ERA of 1.09 and hurled 35 career shutouts. At the plate, Clark-Webb batted .290 for her career with 11 homeruns, 37 doubles, 141 hits, 95 RBI and 66 runs scored. After graduating from Louisiana College, she went on to earn her doctorate in the field of Pharmacology from Louisiana-Monroe and began a career as a pharmacist in the Pineville area where she lives with her husband, former Louisiana College football player Justin Webb.

Hanson is the embodiment of a Louisiana College athlete, phenomenal on the field and in the community. He was born in Hornell, N.Y., and attended Haverling High School in Bath , N.Y., where he lettered in both baseball and football.
After graduation he was offered a scholarship to play football at Louisiana College. He eventually lettered in football, baseball and basketball for the Wildcats.

After serving with the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942-45, he returned to Louisiana College to complete his B.A. Degree before moving to Basile to serve as a coach and teacher at that community's high school. He began the first six-man football program in Basile then moved briefly to Colorado, where he earned his master's degree and lettered in football at Colorado State College.

He returned to Basile in 1948 and remained a teacher and coach at the school until 1961. During his time at Basile, he started programs in football, baseball and wrestling. His football teams captured Six-Man state titles in 1950 and 1953. From 1954-60, with Basile fielding an 11-man team, Coach Hanson's squads amassed a combined record of 62-18 and won five district titles. His overall record at Basile was 111-36.

Hickman came to Louisiana College on a baseball scholarship in 1957. Hickman pitched three years for the Wildcats, boasting a 92-mile-per-hour fastball and helping Louisiana College defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks for its first home win in 1958.

Hickman made history after his junior year when he was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies and became the first Louisiana College player to be drafted into Major League Baseball. He played professionally until 1967. Jess and his father, Elbert Hickman, helped Coach Billy Allgood build the baseball field still in use at Louisiana College.

As for the Homecoming game, the Wildcats, ranked 21 in the country by D3Football.com and 25th by the American Football Coaches Association, will attempt to extend their current winning streak to three games while Sul Ross will try to end a four-game skid.

Recent history has favored Louisiana College, which has won 10 straight against the Lobos, and has won the last three meetings by an average of 18 points.

PREGAME CAPSULE
Sul Ross State (1-5, 0-4 American Southwest Conference) at No. 21 Louisiana College (5-1, 3-1 ASC)
Kickoff: 4:30 p.m., Saturday
Where: Pineville, La. (Wildcat Stadium)
TV: None
Watch Online: www.ihigh.com/louisianacollege
Listen Online: www.1055kbuck.com
Local Radio: 105.5 KBCK Alexandria
Rankings: Sul Ross State, n/a; LC, No. 21 in D3Football.com poll, No. 25 in AFCA poll.
Mascots: Sul Ross State Lobos, Louisiana College Wildcats
Coaches: Sul Ross State, Wayne Schroeder; LC, Dennis Dunn
All-Time Series: LC leads 10-1.
Last Week: LC defeated Howard Payne 42-14, Sul Ross lost 64-39 to Hardin-Simmons
Last Year: LC won 56-46.
Last win for Sul Ross: 42-11 in 2000
Series Notes: Louisiana College has won 10 straight over Sul Ross State but lopsided wins have not been the norm. In 11 years, the average final score has been  28-16 ... In five of the last 10 meetings, the game between LC and Sul Ross has been decided by one possession. Three of those games were one-point decisions, all in favor of Louisiana College ... Sul Ross' lone win over LC came in the year 2000, the year the football was reinstituted at Louisiana College after a 32 year absense.
Sul Ross State Notes: Sul Ross has lost four straight heading into this weekend's game ... The average final score for Lobos games this year has been 35-21 in favor of the oppoenent ... Sul Ross' lone victory this season was a 13-12 Week 2 win over Bacone College, an NAIA school from Muskogee, Okla. .... Tailback Dominique Carson is averaging 5.5 yards per carry for the Lobos. Through five games, he's rushed 76 times for 419 yards (sixth in the ASC) and three touchdowns ... Quarterback Scotty Walden has completed 95-of-177 passes for 1,196 yards (third highest in the ASC) and eight touchdowns with four interceptions ... Receiver Lee Caruthers leads the American Southwest Conference in both receptions and receiving yards per game. He's averaging seven catches and 106 yards per game ... Sul Ross is averaging 331 yards of total offense (eighth in the ASC in total offense) while allowing an average of 373 (sixth in the ASC in total defense).
Louisiana College Notes: The Wildcats' 5-1 start matches the teams best start in school history. A win this week would constitute the best start in school history. The 1951 LC team began the season 5-1 but finished 5-6 ... LC is outscoring opponents 37-19 this year ... The Wildcats are the No. 1 statistical team in the American Southwest Conference in both total offense and total defense but are second to McMurry in scoring offense and second to No. 4 Mary Hardin-Baylor in scoring defense ... The LC defense leads the conference in total sacks with 22 through six games ... Running back Ryan Montague is fourth in the ASC in rushing with 548 yards on 70 carries. He isaveraging 91.3 yards per game and 7.8 yards per carry and has scored six touchdowns ... Quarterback Jamie Bunting is second only to McMurry's Jake Mullin in passing the ASC. On the year bunting has passed for 1,468 yards and 14 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. Mullin has passed for 2,343 yards and 20 touchdowns with eight interceptions ... Three LC receivers - Darnell Williams (fifth with 74.3), Dayne Reeves (eighth with 65.7) and D'Mario Parker (10th with 62.8) - are in the ASC's top 10 for receiving yards per game ... Sophomore defensive end Terrance Bratten is fourth in the ASC in sacks with four. Three other Wildcats - Peter Ford (3.5), Wyreax Bradley (3.0) and Richard Logan (2.5) - are in the conference's top 20 ... Sophomore defensive end Peter Ford is second in the ASC in tackles for loss with 13. Richard Logan is ninth with nine.