Oct. 28, 2004

Lewis and Perry named to the Gulf Coast Athletic Pre-season All-Conference Team

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference released the 2004-05 men’s pre-season All-Conference Team today conference Sports Information Director Chuck Knight announced.

Senior center Gimel Lewis and senior forward Tramaine Perry of the University of Mobile were among the ten selections.

Lewis, who owns the University of Mobile career record for blocked shots with 171, shattered his own single season record of 53 blocked shots from his freshman year, with 90 blocks in 2003-04.

Perry, a native of Hammond, La., averaged 15.1 points per game last season while grabbing 6.4 rebounds a contest in helping lead the Rams to a regular season co-championship and an outright Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship.

Along with Mobile, Xavier University, Southern University New Orleans and LSU-Shreveport also had two players selected to the team.

Mobile, which begins the 2004-05 season ranked No. 4 in the NAIA Top 25 Pre-season poll, tips off its season on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at home against Trinity Baptist College at 7:30 p.m.

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