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LAREDO, Texas — The Rattlers sure could use some home cookin' these days.
The road continues to be a sore spot for the St. Mary's men's basketball team, falling for the fifth straight time away from home to the University of Texas-Permian Basin on Thursday night.
The second round of Heartland Conference play did not favor St. Mary's in a 68-60 loss to the Falcons, who dropped St. Mary's into a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference standings.
Hitting all four of the Rattlers' (12-6, 4-4 in Heartland) total 3-pointers for the night,
Moses Sundufu (Sr., Hopkins, Minn.) led with 16 points to go along with two steals, while
Kevin Kotzur (RS-Sr., La Vernia, Texas) went 5 of 6 from the field for 13 points and a team-high six rebounds. In his 11 minutes played, senior
Brad Hubenak (Kennedale, Texas) scored a season-high 10 points, also going 5 of 6 from the floor.
Kotzur's 13 points moved him past Ken Sampson for the No. 4 spot on the Rattlers' all-time scoring list with 1,771 career points.
St. Mary's and UTPB left the court in a 22-22 deadlock at the half, before a 70-percent shooting effort from the Falcons (8-9, 4-4) took the game in the second. Although the Rattlers remained close throughout much of the second half and did capture a one-point led twice, the Falcons outscored the Rattlers 46-38 after going 14 of 19 from the field.
The Rattlers will try to shake their luck on the road towards victory as they face Oklahoma Panhandle State University on Saturday in Goodwell, Okla. The tip is at 4 p.m.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.stmarytx.edu/athletics.
