The Blue and Gold basketball team put together a comeback that\nsliced an 18-point deficit to one, but fell to the No. 8 St. Edward\u2019s Hilltoppers,83-76.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10 seconds into regulation, Tre Flowers kicked off scoring\naction with a two-handed slam. The Hilltoppers responded swiftly with a 9-0 run.\nFlowers would break the Javelinas from their scoring lull, sinking his first\nattempt from beyond the arc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilltopper Corey Shervill followed Flowers with a\nthree-pointer of his own, but sophomore Will Chayer quickly answered from\nthree-point land, cutting the St. Edward\u2019s advantage to 12-8. The four-point\ndeficit would be the shortest lead of the half for the Hilltoppers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Edwards\u2019s strung together an 8-2 run that led to a 20-10,\nHilltopper advantage at the 15-minute mark. Strong defense by both teams kept\nthe scoreboard still for two minutes, but the dry spell was broken by a jumper\nfrom junior Dayante McClellan. A three-point play from Chauncey Thomas closed\nthe Javelina deficit to 21-15, but the visitors spent the next three minutes\nstringing together a 10-3 run that extended their advantage to 31-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flowers and teammate\nDaniel Severo piled up the next six points for the home team, cutting the\ndeficit to 31-24. The Hilltoppers would command the last six-and-a-half minutes\nof first half action, outscoring the Blue and Gold 21-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Down 52-31, the Javelinas got on the board first in the\nsecond half with a free throw from Chayer and a Severo-layup. The opponents\nsplit the next two-and-a-half minutes 12 points evenly, the Hilltoppers holding\nthe lead at 58-40. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the following five minutes, the visitors would score 10\nof the next 18 points. A Flowers\u2019 jumper at the 11:29-mark jumped off a\nJavelina run that saw the hosts score 17 unanswered points and close the Hilltopper\nlead to 66-65. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flowers scored ten during the 17-0 run and was helped out by\nsenior Rashon Thomas and Chayer who added 5 and 2 points, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A layup from Hilltopper Ryan Garza ended the host\u2019s run with\nseven-and-a-half left to play in regulation. The ensuing 12-3 run by the\nHilltoppers extended their advantage to 78-68. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Severo answered for the Blue and Gold, sinking two at the penalty\nline. John Mouton added a layup thirty seconds later, cutting the Hilltopper lead\nto 78-72. A layup by August Hass and three penalty shots sealed the deal for St.\nEdward\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four Javelinas placed double digits in the scoring column. Flowers\nled the offensive attack with 19 points, shooting 100% from the foul line.\nSevero added 18 of his own and also had a perfect night from the line sinking\nall eight of his attempts. Rashon and Chauncey Thomas helped out with 13 and 12\npoints, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Javelinas hope to rebound on February 15th<\/sup> in\ntheir homestand against Lone Star Conference-foe Texas A&M International. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Blue and Gold basketball team put together a comeback that sliced an 18-point deficit to one, but fell to the No. 8 St. Edward\u2019s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[182],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":182,"user_id":31,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dylan-dozier","display_name":"Dylan Dozier","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/fea1cc1fe742527221bdb9ee0ed32d0d.jpg?ver=1776215706","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}