SAN ANTONIO — The St. Mary's University Men's Basketball pair of senior
Lachlan Bofinger and junior
Damani Claxton were named on Monday to the NABC South Central All-Region Second Team. The All-District honors are voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division II.
The pair led the Rattlers (20-10) back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 years and combined to average 30.6 points, 11.9 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 2.5 steals per game and were both honored on the Lone Star All-Conference First Team, and the D2CCA All-Region Second Teams.
They are the first basketball players at St. Mary's to earn All-Region honors since Marvin Binney was an NABC Second-Team honoree in 2014-15, and it is the first time in the school's NCAA history two players have earned honors in the same season.
Bofinger, a senior forward from Sydney, Australia, recorded 12 double-doubles this season, which ranks 18th in the nation. He was the only player in the Lone Star Conference this season to average a double-double, and he ranked 22nd in the nation with 9.6 boards a night. He also ranks in the top 10 in the Lone Star statistics in assist-to-turnover ratio (9th,1.63), blocks (8th, 0.79), field goal percentage (7th, 50.8), defensive rebounds (1st, 6.52), offensive rebounds (2nd, 3.08), and total rebounds (1st, 9.6).
Claxton, a junior from the Bronx, N.Y., ranks third in the conference with 17.1 points per game, seventh in free throw percentage at 80.4 percent and ninth with 1.58 steals per game. He scored in double figures in 29 of the team's 31 games and has 10 games of 20-plus points. He is only the second player in StMU Division II history to score more than 500 points in a season, ending the year with 530, joining Hall of Famer Kevin Kotzur, who accomplished the feat twice.
Colorado School of Mines, DBU, and St. Mary's all had two players selected to the two teams, while DBU's Blake Flickner was named the region's Coach of the Year.
South Central
First Team
Majok Deng, Colorado School of Mines
Ethan Duncan, Lubbock Christian
Cameron Kahn, Dallas Baptist
Ricky Lujan, Dallas Baptist
Ahamed Mohammed, West Texas A&M
Second Team
Lachlan Bofinger, St. Mary's
Damani Claxton, St. Mary's
Mason Gibson, Midwestern St.
Chase Mayo Harmon, Regis
Riley Schroeder, Colorado School of Mines
Coach of the Year: Blake Flickner, Dallas Baptist
