Box Score
KERRVILLE, Texas – Opening the regular season and American Southwest Conference play on the same day and on the road seems to have agreed with the Louisiana College men's basketball team. The Wildcats started their 2011-12 season in style, notching a 95-90 win over Schreiner.

Louisiana College (1-0, 1-0 ASC) enjoyed a 49-39 lead at the half and, despite 51 second-half points by the Mountaineers, were able to hold on for the win.

While the top two scorers in the game wore Schreiner jerseys, Travis Pflughaupt with 27 and Darren Smith with 21, it was a balanced attack by the Wildcats that proved the difference.

Six LC men scored eight or more points, five in double figures.

Senior point guard Jelani Mithcell (St. Martinville, La./St. Martinville HS) was good for a team-high 19. Junior post Derrick Gardner (St. Martinville, La./St. Martinville HS) went for 17 and pulled down nine rebounds.

Junior wing Phillip George (Baton Rouge, La./Family Christian Academy) went 12-for-12 from the free-throw line and finished with 18 total points and senior post Korey Salmon (Deville, La./Buckeye HS) put up 14.

Two more wings, senior Jarrod Jackson (Albany, La./Albany HS) with 12 and junior Danny Sumner (Baton Rouge, La./Central HS) with eight, rounded out the bulk of the LC offense.

Louisiana College will round out its conference-opening road trip Monday with a visit to Texas Lutheran.