Great Plays from Cowboys lead to 84-64 Win

Box Score LAS VEGAS, N.M.- The Cowboys started conference play with an impressive game by beating Western New Mexico 84-64. The Cowboys had four players in double-digits with Jonathon Mines leading the group with 20 points and 10 rebounds to give him a double-double. In addition, electrifying dunks by Ron Lawton and Marlon Johnson helped the Cowboys build their lead in the second half.
 
Trailing the Mustangs Saturday night was not in the Cowboys' plans as the boys lead from the very beginning. After being up 7-6 the Cowboys would go on 10 point run with Lawton leading the run with a strong dunk.
 
Despite the momentum, the Mustangs would fight back to bring the score to 24-20 Cowboys. After a couple of missed shots, the Mustangs would tie the game up at 24. Lawton would then score the next five points to gain the lead again. The boys would hold the lead and go into the locker room 39-35.

Johnson would start the Cowboys' scoring in the second half with four points. The Mustangs again would score to bring the score to 46-44 Cowboys with 15:35 left in the half.

The Cowboys would have a small lead until Marlon Johnson exploded through the lane with a ferocious dunk that got the everyone up and gave the Cowboys momentum. After free throws from the Mustangs, Lawton would join the club with a monster dunk of his own to help the Cowboys start a 19-0 run. With 2:33 left in the half, the Cowboys were up 82-57. The Cowboys would dominate at the end to win the game 84-64.
 
 

	New Mexico Highlands	Western New Mexico
Field Goal Percentage	43.8% (28-64)	33.3% (18-54)
Three Point Percentage	35.7% (10-28)	28.6% (6-21)
Free Throw Percentage	85.7% (18-21)	75.9% (22-29)
Rebounds	50	27
Turnovers	15	12
Leading Scorer	Jonathon Mines 20 Ron Lawton 20	Steven Loucks 15 Jordan Enriquez 15

Thoughts from Coach Craig Snow:

"I couldn't be happier for our team.  We have been thru the ringer with as difficult a non conference schedule as I could possible imagine and our young men responded tremendously to being at home in front of our fans. Western is a dangerous team, we have a lot of respect for them. We were very concerned about controlling the backboard and to finish +23 is better than we could have imagined. I'm very pleased with how we shared the basketball offensively, 17 assists is our season high.  We were finding open guys and midway thru the 2nd half our offense really started opening up. We had 2 stretches in the game where we had 9+ stops and if we can buy in to defending like that we have a chance to be a pretty good basketball team."