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65
Our Lady of the Lake OLLU 0-3
84
Winner St. Mary's (TX) STMU 5-4
Our Lady of the Lake OLLU
0-3
65
Final
84
St. Mary's (TX) STMU
5-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Our Lady of the Lake OLLU 33 32 65
St. Mary's (TX) STMU 33 51 84

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

Several career nights lift Men's Basketball to victory

By Heather Kennedy | St. Mary's Athletics Communications

SAN ANTONIO – Sharing is caring and the St. Mary's men's basketball team distributed the ball extremely well on Monday night in its 84-65 victory over cross-town foe Our Lady of the Lake. The Rattlers amassed 24 assists on 33 made baskets and four different players recorded at least four in the game.

Freshman Caleb Jordan (Midlothian, Texas) posted a career- and team-season high eight assists. He also had a career-high with four rebounds and scored in double figures for the sixth-straight game with 14 points.

Senior Petar Radojicic (Ljubovija, Serbia) led the Rattlers (5-3) with a season-high tying 24 points on an almost perfect night from the field. The forward was 10-for-11 on the night, scoring 24 for the second-straight game and notching double figures for the sixth time this year. Fellow senior Skyler Brooks (Seguin, Texas) recorded his first double-double of the year with 19 points and 12 rebounds, both of which were season highs and his 12 boards are a career-best. He also was second on the club with five assists, tying his season-high. Junior transfer Lamont Traylor (Las Vegas, Nevada) came off the bench to score a Blue & Gold career-best 10 points.

Senior guard Dimitri Peterson (San Antonio) notched double figures in rebounds for the fourth time this season with 10, while junior Markques Houston (Houston, Texas) also brought down 10 boards, tying his season-high. The Rattlers more than doubled-up the Saints in rebounds, grabbing 59 compared to just 25 for the Saints.

After shooting just 37.5 percent (12-for-32) in the first half, St. Mary's came out much stronger in the second half and shot 61.8 percent (21-for-34). They struggled from beyond the arc all night, ending the game just 4-for-23 (17.4 percent), but made 14-for-19 at the free throw line (73.7 percent). The Saints shot just 28.8 percent from the field for the game (19-for-66), which included 33.3 percent in the first half and 24.2 in the second half. Our Lady of the Lake was a little more accurate from long distance, making 8-of-25 three-pointers (32 percent) and they hit 19-of-25 free throws (76 percent).

As he seems to most games, Radojicic got the scoring started for the Rattlers, scoring back-to-back buckets for the early 4-0 lead. The Saints got on the board with a jumper in the paint and a little over a minute later, Jordan capitalized on a second-chance possession with a three-pointer for the 7-2 advantage with 17:34 to play. OLLU answered with a triple of its own, but Brooks found Radojicic under the basket for a layup and a four-point lead. Back-to-back three-pointers for the Saints sandwiched around a hook shot by Radojicic saw the first tie of the game at 11-11 with 15:05 on the clock. An old-fashioned three-point play by Traylor and a jumper by junior Nikau McCullough (Hamilton, New Zealand) extended the lead to 16-11 for the Rattlers, but the Saints quickly went on a 9-0 run to take a four-point lead, 20-16 with 10:09 to play in the first half. Brooks stopped the run with a jumper in the paint and the teams would eventually knot the score at 22-22 on a fast-break jumper in the paint by Houston. He was fouled on the shot and made his free throw to give the lead back to the Rattlers. The two teams went back-and-forth the remainder of the half and were all square at 33-33 at halftime, the sixth tie of the half.

The teams were tied three more times at the start of the second stanza, and a jumper in the paint by Peterson with 16:12 remaining put the Rattlers on top 45-44 and they never relinquished the lead again. Leading 56-55 with 11:34 left, StMU went on a 13-0 run that the Saints were never able to recover from. During the run Jordan made a jumper, Radojicic hit a jumper and a triple, McCullough scored on a jumper and Traylor made a jumper in the paint and capped off the run with a fast-break dunk at 7:53 to give the Blue & Gold a 69-55 lead. The Rattlers would eventually lead by as many as 19, which was the final spread, 84-65.

St. Mary's returns to the court on Thursday to host Texas A&M International in the Heartland Conference opener for both teams. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m.
 
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