SAN ANTONIO – The Trinity University men's basketball team earned a regular season series split with an 83-56 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win over Schreiner University on Monday night.
The Tigers evened their SCAC record to 1-1 and upped their overall record to 8-3 with tonight's win, while Schreiner falls to 8-3 and 1-1 with the loss. The Mountaineers earned a narrow 84-81 win less than a week ago in Kerrville, Texas. Trinity forced 30 turnovers and recorded 23 steals in the game, while also holding Schreiner to less than 35% shooting overall and 20.8% (5-for-24) from three-point range. The Tigers scored 33 points off those turnovers and held a 48-28 advantage in points in the paint.
Christian Green (San Antonio, Texas / Veterans Memorial) led three Trinity players in double digits with 21 points on 10-of-19 shooting, while also tying for the team lead with six rebounds.
Jacob Millhouse (Plano, Texas / Independence) hit a pair of threes and finished with 15 points, while
Carter Ruck (Southlake, Texas / Carroll) nailed 3-of-6 from distance and finished with 12 points. Millhouse also led Trinity with four assists and tied for the team lead with five steals.
Jacob Harvey (Huffman, Texas / Hargrave) finished with five steals and seven points, adding three assists and three rebounds to his stat line.
Zach Fenn (Covington, La. / Saint Paul's) came off the bench and scored eight points, while
William Bronson (Dallas, Texas / Jesuit) finished with six points and six boards in just 14 minutes.
The Rundown
The first several minutes were tightly contested with both teams holding small leads at times and the game was tied four times in the first 12-plus minutes. Schreiner took a slim 20-19 lead on a three-point basket just under the nine-minute mark, but the Tigers answered with the first big run of the game for either team. Ruck scored four points and both Harvey and Green notched layups during an 8-0 spurt that made it 27-20. Schreiner answered with four points in less than 30 seconds, but Trinity came right back to take the lead up to 32-24 with 4:08 left in the half. After the visitors pulled within five with under two to go, Trinity ran up a 10-0 run to close the period and take a 45-30 lead at the break. Green started things off with back-to-back dunks, then Fenn and Ruck hit two threes in the final 23 seconds to finish the furious finish.
Schreiner came out determined in the second half and whittled the lead down to single digits at 51-42 just ahead of the under-16 media timeout. Trinity exited that break and put together a back-breaking run to change the game for good. The Tigers held Schreiner scoreless for more than eight minutes, while also scoring 12 unanswered points to make it a 21-point margin with 8:30 to play. Six different Trinity players scored two points each during the run that put the game out of reach. The lead never dipped below 19 points after that and Schreiner wound up scoring just 14 points over the final 16-plus minutes.
Up Next
Trinity resumes SCAC play this weekend by hosting McMurry University (TX) and Concordia University (TX) on Friday and Sunday. Friday night's game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. start, while Sunday is set to tip off at 2:00 p.m.
