KINGSVILLE, Texas- The Texas A&M-Kingsville Women's Basketball Team returned home to the Steinke Physical Education Center and faced off against Western New Mexico for Pack the House Night Thursday where they fell to the Mustangs in a barnburner 55-57.
"I thought it was a tough hard game." said coach
Michael Madrid. "Really thankful for all the people that came to watch us play, obviously pack the house is a big event for us having students back on campus so, thankful for them and thankful for them and what they did coming in. A ton of credit to Western New Mexico I thought they played extremely hard. Looking at the stats I thought they really out hustled us in a lot of areas, 15 offensive rebounds, it seemed like they got every 50/50 ball, and we were kind of a step behind. Hopefully we can learn from this we've got to get better on the offensive end we've got to be more efficient, we're just super inefficient right now offensively and hesitant and hopefully we can figure that out moving forward".
Junior
Mia Rivers shined for the Javelinas this time out able to put together an 11 point, 6 assist, 2 steal, 2 rebound performance. Also performing well in the game for the Javelinas was
Georgia Ohiaeri, also with 11 points, grabbing 2 rebounds, 2 assists, and a block to her line.
TAMUK was only able to outmatch their opponent in Free Throw% (70.6%-57.9%), Assists (14-13), Steals (11-5) and Blocks (4-3) solidifying the good defensive game played by the hometown Javs. The Mustangs would lead in all other major categories.
The game itself would start out slow as it would take a full two minutes and 30 seconds of game time before a singular basket was made, that basket being a
Shelby Ray three putting the Javelinas in front 3-0 with 7:30 left in the first. The Mustangs would respond going on a three minute and four second 8-0 run putting it at 3-8 with 4:26 left in the quarter.
Ray would hit a three again putting the Javelinas within two before the Mustangs would respond by putting up a jumper moving the score to 7-10.
Aina Maynou would sink a couple free throws, but the Mustangs would not go away as they drain a three of their own, putting it at 8-13 with 1:50 left in the quarter.
Devon Williams was also able to sink both from the charity stripe, cutting the deficit to three 10-13, and
Veyda Lake would tie things up before the buzzer with a three-point play sending the game into the second all tied up at 13.
The second would start a little quicker than the first as the Mustangs scored almost immediately taking only 19 seconds to break the tie with a layup making it 13-15 with 9:41 left. The Javelinas would then go on a 7-1 run spending the next 2 minutes and 21 seconds taking the lead via a
Georgia Ohiaeri layup and 5
Mia Rivers points. A Mustang three would tie things before the back and forth battle began starting with a
Bella Sipowicz layup. The Javelinas would go in to the half up as they would spend the last 4 minutes and 4 seconds of game time going on a 6-4 run, sending things to the locker rooms 28-26
The Javelinas came out of the locker room hot as they would spend the first 2 minutes and 57 seconds of game time creating a 7-point gap via a 7-2 run leaving things at 35-28 Javelinas on top with 7:03 left in the third. The Mustangs however would go on a lengthy run of their own spending almost half of the third on a 15-0 run, taking 4 minutes and 31 seconds to do so putting the game at 35-43 WNMU.
Jayde Tschritter would do some damage control stopping the run with a three to put things at 38-43, before three Mustang free throws would send things into the fourth Western New Mexico up 38-46
The fourth looked to be the nail in the coffin as the Mustangs would start the quarter with a three and a jumper putting the game at 38-51 with 9:10 left to go. The Javelinas, however, would wake up and take off going on a 14-2 run using seven minutes to do so gathering 4 from
Jayde Tschritter, 4 from
Veyda Lake, a three from
Mia Rivers, a layup from
Georgia Ohiaeri, and a free throw from
Shelby Ray to put things at 52-53 with 2:10 to go. A battle of free throws and hack-a-shaq's would ensue as the Mustangs would still lead 53-56 with 20 seconds left in the game.
Ohiaeri would make a layup with 5 seconds on the clock, and then the mustangs would be sent to the line with 4.3 seconds where they would go 1-2. 4.3 seconds left and the Javelinas would have one last shot that just didn't fall, ending the game 55-57.
The Javelinas are back out again at the SPEC Saturday January 27
th, where they will host the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds, tip off slated for 1:00 P.M.
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