RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros men's basketball team fell to the Seattle U Redhawks 102-62 on Wednesday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse in front of a crowd of 1,618.
Graduate student
Marek Nelson led the Vaqueros (7-19, 2-12 WAC) with 18 points and five rebounds. Freshman
RayQuan Taylor scored 13 points with seven rebounds, two steals and two blocks. Junior
Justin Johnson scored 11 points with seven rebounds and four assists. Junior
LaQuan Butler scored nine points with four rebounds.
Cameron Tyson led the Redhawks (20-6, 11-2 WAC) with 30 points while hitting nine 3-pointers and recording eight rebounds.
Darrion Trammell scored 19 points with eight assists and two steals.
Kobe Williamson scored 11 points with two steals.
Riley Grigsby scored 10 points with six rebounds.
The Redhawks scored the first eight points of the game before graduate student
Mike Adewunmi came off the bench and on his first touch buried a 3.
The Redhawks restored their eight-point lead at 16-8 before Nelson converted a 3-point play to make the score 16-11.
Then, with the Vaqueros down 19-11, a Johnson 3-point play and layup brought the Vaqueros within three.
The Redhawks responded with an 8-0 run to go up 27-16.
The Vaqueros scored five of the next seven points to pull within 29-21 on a pair of Taylor free throws, but the Redhawks scored the next 16 points as part of a 22-3 run to take command of the game.
UTRGV hosts Sam Houston for the homecoming game on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Bert Ogden Arena. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at
BertOgdenArena.com. Doors open at 6. Those unable to attend the game in person can watch in the United States on
ESPN+ or internationally on the
WAC Digital Network.
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