Rattlers Strike Venom in the Lobos in a dominant victory 

By Jerry Castro

KTSW Sports Reporter

SAN MARCOS, Texas- The San Marcos Rattlers defeat the Lehman Lobos 64-42 in a bigtime win in the Snake pit. 

The Rattlers and Lobos were evenly matched in size this game, so it was looking to be a barn burner in the snake pit. This game started off back and forth as both teams were trading buckets and not giving each other any room to run away with a lead.  

Peter Aguilar finished with a contested layup to give the Rattlers a 13-10 lead to head into the second quarter. With this momentum, the Rattlers wouldn’t look back. From here, the Rattlers never gave up the lead and were very physical inside. Including a ridiculous 360 behind the back pass from Cameron Bundage to set up his partner Tytan Crayton for the wide-open layup. And once again Peter Aguilar ends the quarter scoring for the Rattlers with a corner three. 

This gave the Rattlers a 31-19 lead to head into the half, and they made sure to keep the same energy to finish off this game. 

The third quarter was real grindy as the Rattlers mainly got their offense from going inside and drawing fouls. They also kept the same intensity on defense with Jerimiah Josiah anchoring the team. Josiah had a monstrous presence in the paint with multiple blocked shots and leaving the Lobos shaking to go inside the paint. 

When asking head coach Dan Miller about Josiahs performance he said, “He played hard, blocked shots, and helped when other guys got beat”. 

The Rattlers would end the third quarter with a 48-33 lead with Jermiah Josiah getting a emphatic block and the Rattlers heaving a full court pass to Harvard Johnson for the easy layup.  

The fourth quarter would be the same song and dance with the Rattlers handling business in the snake pit with a 64-42 victory to give them momentum for tournament play. 

The Rattlers will head into a three-game tournament, and head coach Dan Miller says he wants to see consistency with this ball club. “We are a little up and down, but this is a young team mixed with freshman and seniors so this team will keep on getting better and better.” 

The Rattlers will face the Harlandale Indians for their first matchup of the tournament on December 11th  at 10:30 a.m.