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60
Talladega TC 1-1
77
Winner St. Mary's (TX) STMU 4-3
Talladega TC
1-1
60
Final
77
St. Mary's (TX) STMU
4-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Talladega TC 30 30 60
St. Mary's (TX) STMU 27 50 77

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | RattlerAthletics.com

Huge second half lifts Men to fourth straight victory

By Heather Kennedy | St. Mary's Athletics Communications

SAN ANTONIO – Nine three-pointers in the second-half helped lift the St. Mary's men's basketball team past the visiting Talladega Tornadoes, 77-60, on the opening night of the annual River City Classic.

The Rattlers have now won four-straight games to improve to 4-2 on the season, while the Tornadoes are 1-1.

The Blue & Gold scored a season-high 50 points in the second-half, shooting a red-hot 57.1 percent from the field (16-for-28) and 60 percent from the arc (9-for-15). The team was also hot from the free throw line, making 9-for-11 in the second half (81.8 percent) and 13-for-16 in the game (81.3 percent). They out-rebounded their fourth-straight opponent, winning the battle of the boards on Friday night, 34-22, a margin of +12.

Junior Markques Houston (Houston, Texas) led the team and game in scoring, garnering 17 points, while senior guard Skyler Brooks (Seguin, Texas) scored 16 and both senior guard Dimitri Peterson (San Antonio) and freshman guard Caleb Jordan (Midlothian, Texas) each added 11. Peterson also notched a double-double on the night, grabbing 10 rebounds. It is his second-straight double-double of the year. Jordan led the game with six assists and the freshman played just under 36 minutes with no turnovers. In fact, the entire team had a positive assist-to-turnover ratio with 21 assists and 15 turnovers. It is the fourth time in six games this season the Rattlers have had more assists than turnovers.

Talladega was led by Myles Howard with 14 points and Ramon Johnson with 13 points and seven rebounds.

The Tornadoes jumped out to the early 9-4 lead, with all four points for the Rattlers coming from senior forward Petar Radojicic (Ljubovija, Serbia). Houston and Banks each made jumpers, but they were sandwiched around a triple for TC to make the score 12-9 with 14:33. Neither team would score until the 10:46 mark when TC would double its lead with a triple to 15-9 and then make the and-one for the 16-9 advanatge. They'd tack on four more in the run for the 20-9 tally before Radojicic scored two more in the paint for the 20-11 score. A pair of free throws stretched the lead back to a dozen for the Tornadoes before back-to-back fast break layups cut the lead down to eight for StMU, 23-15 with 5:56 to play. TC scored on an old-fashioned three-point play, Houston hit a triple and four-straight free throws built the TC lead back to 12 for the Tornadoes. After over two minutes without any scoring, the Rattlers closed the half on a 7-0 run with junior forward Matej Gaspert (Zagreb, Croatia) making two free throws and sophomore guard Noah Laing (Boerne, Texas) scoring all five of his points in the game.

The Tornadoes quickly came out of the locker room after half time and scored 10 straight points to build the lead back to 13 points, 40-27, with 15:45 remaining. It was their biggest lead of the game, but the Rattlers answered with a 10-point run of their own, which included five-straight by Gaspert a huge fast-break dunk by Peterson and a fast-break three-pointer by Houston to bring the scoreboard to 40-37 with 14:25 to go. After a TC basket, Brooks nailed a triple and Peterson had another fast-break basket, this one off a steal to tie the score at 42-42 with 13:23 to play. The two teams briefly traded leads until the media timeout at 11:27. Out of the break, Brooks hit another three and the Rattlers were off to the races. The team never trailed again and they built a final lead of 17.

St. Mary's faces Southeastern Oklahoma State in the final game of the River City Classic on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., while Talladega plays Texas A&M International at 3 p.m.
 
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