SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Southeastern drops its first road contest of the season to (RV) St. Mary's 74-64 on Thursday evening in the Bill Greehey Arena.
SE ended the game shooting 45.3 percent from the field and were 12-31 from beyond the arc. The blue and gold struggled at the glass, as the Rattler outrebounded the Storm 41-to-24. Southeastern made four trips to the charity stripe and converted all four shots, while StMU went 14-17 from the foul line.
Ethan Scott and
Santiago Camacho Gomez led the Savage Storm with 12 points, with Scott going 4-8 from beyond the arc.
Ethan Wilkerson and
Saxon McWilliam chipped in 11 points each, while
Chandler Dickinson passed around six assists.
Southeastern (0-3, 0-0 GAC) remains in the Lone Star State on Saturday, November 22, against Texas A&M- Kingsville.
Gomez got the Storm going in the first half, scoring the team's first five points on two baskets, including a triple. After a back-and-forth start in the opening minutes, the pace slowed down over the next four minutes with just three baskets between the two sides after Scott connected from deep with the blue and gold trailing by one, 9-8.
The Rattlers soon found their rhythm and built a 13-0 run to surge ahead 22-8. SE replied with a 7-0 burst, including a second three-pointer by Scott, who later made a third triple to slash the gap to eight, 29-21. The hosts would find the basket one more time before the final buzzer to carry a 32-21 edge into halftime.
The Storm were fast out of the gates to begin the second half, stringing together a 10-0 run, featuring five points from both McWilliam and Wilkerson to cut it to a three-point game. From there, SE and StMU matched each other in scoring, as the Rattlers continued to hold a four-point lead, but that would soon grow to ten, 49-39.
St. Mary's kept on the front foot, with its advantage growing to 54-39 before a Wilkerson basket ended a two-minute scoring drought. SE found its range beyond the arc for two more treys from
Augusto Toledo and
Deondre Dunn to shrink the gap to 10, and not long after, Gomez would drain a triple, down 67-55. The Rattlers controlled the final minutes of the game to win 74-64.
