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SAN ANTONIO – The St. Mary's Lady Rattlers returned to form Saturday afternoon at Bill Greehey Arena against Oklahoma Panhandle State, winning 59-48.
After dropping their last three games, which included a heartbreaking double overtime loss at the hands of the Newman Jets, the Rattlers bounced back in a big way.
Highlighted by 13 points and five rebounds from
Kathryn Galindo (Sr., San Antonio), both season highs, the Rattlers led throughout the contest with Aggies.
The closest OPSU (1-19, 1-12 in conference) got to the Rattlers was early in the second half, as the Aggies cut an eight-point deficit to four. However, from that point on it was all St. Mary's, outscoring OPSU 24-8 to increase their lead to 20.
In addition to Galindo was an impressive performance from
Jackie Woods (Sr., San Antonio), who scored 13 points, brought down six boards, and dished out three assists. Both Galindo and Woods were two of the four Rattlers that scored double figures.
Morgan Pullins (Jr., Franklin, Mich.) and
Bria Bell (Sr., Mesquite, Texas) recorded 11 and 10 points respectively while
Lia Kioa (Sr., Phoenix) and
Dezirae Elias (So., Chandler, Ariz.) had the hot looks as each tallied six assists.
St. Mary's improved to 14-5 on the season and 9-4 in conference play with the win to continue to hold the No. 2 spot in the league.
With seven games remaining on the season, St. Mary's looks to build on this victory as they travel to Rodgers State Thursday to take on the Hillcats at 5:30 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.rattlerathletics.com.
