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Trinity is 3-0 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play and 10-2 on the season.
Maggie Shiple led the Tigers with 26 points and four assists. Mollee Priddee hit four 3-pointers in the first half and finished with 17 points.
Maggie Robbins had 12 points and Carly Leong had 11.
Trinity improved to 11-2 on the season and 3-1 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Hailey Coleman, a senior center, had a double-double for Trinity with 21 points and 10 rebounds.
Sophomore guard Ava Limonciello had 17 points and sophomore guard Maggie Robbins had 10 points.
Trinity plays at home again Thursday at 3 p.m. against LeTourneau.
AJ Clark had 18 points and 6 rebounds, Ben Hanley had 15 points and Kaleb Jenkins had 10 points and 3 steals for the Tigers.
Trinity is 10-2 on the season. The Tigers play their next game on the road on Dec. 30 at Incarnate Word.
Jordan finished with 16 points and 10 assists as the Rattlers won their 2021-22 home opener 97-70 over Huston-Tillotson on Saturday.
Josh Brewer led St. Mary’s with 21 points, Kobe Magee had 13, C.J. Washington had 12 and Ryan Leonard had 11.
The Rattlers evened their record to 2-2 with road games coming up against UT-Permian Basin on Dec. 11 and Angelo State on Dec. 13. St. Mary’s plays its next home game on Dec. 18 against A&M-International.
The Rattlers take on Huston-Tillotson at 4 p.m. at Greehey Arena.
St. Mary’s is coming off a 75-65 road loss to UTSA on Monday. The Rattlers trailied most of the game but were within five points with less than three minutes remaining in the game.
Caleb Jordan led St. Mary’s with 17 points, Mamady Djikine had 15 points and 8 rebounds, Kobe Magee 11 points and Emmanuel Ewuzie had 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Longtime head coach Buddy Meyer was at the Rattlers’ helm and Jim Zeleznak was the top assistant coach when they claimed the 1989 championship trophy in Kansas City. Both were former St. Mary’s players. Meyer had been a member of the Rattlers’ first team to reach the national tournament.
All these years later, the St. Mary’s coaching staff has a familar look.
Zeleznak is in his 17th season as the Rattlers’ head coach, having taken over when Meyer retired after 27 years.
Meyer’s son Bubba, who played for his father at St. Mary’s, is in his 21st season as the team’s assistant coach.
And Monday, when St. Mary’s made the short road trip to the north side of San Antonio to play UTSA, Buddy Meyer was in the stands right behind the Rattlers’ bench.
Enzo Sechi, a junior forward from Houston, led the Tigers with 20 points, nine rebounds and four assists.
Brown, a sophomore guard from San Antonio, finished with 14 points. Jacob Harvey, a freshman guard from Huffman, Texas, scored 14 points off the bench.
Henson was introduced as the new head coach at UTSA five years ago today, April 9, 2016.
UTSA records under Steve Henson the past five seasons:
Year...........Season Conference 2020-21........15-11 9-7 2019-20........13-9 7-11 2018-19........17-15 11-7 2017-18........20-15 11-7 2016-17........14-19 8-10
UTSA won both of its back-to-back Conference USA games against Southern Miss on Friday and Saturday at the Convocation Center.
After the UTSA men’s basketball team lost five of its first six conference games, Roadrunners coach Steve Henson made the change to a bigger lineup on Friday, inserting Adrian Rodriguez into the starting five.
The Roadrunners responded by beating Southern Miss 70-64. Jhivvan Jackson led UTSA with 25 points, Keaton Wallace had 18, Jacob Germany had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks, Eric Parrish had 8 points and Jordan Ivy-Curry had 8.
UTSA finished the sweep with a 78-72 victory over Southern Miss on Saturday. Jackson led UTSA with 24 points. Ivy-Curry had 14 points off the bench. Germany had 13 points, eight rebounds and two blocks and Wallace had 12 points.