Marion vs Crystal City | Basketball

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Marion Crystal City

Bulldogs

Javelinas

The Crystal City (TX) varsity basketball team lost Friday's home playoff game against Marion (TX) by a score of 81-72.

Game Details: Devine HS

This game is a part of the "2024 UIL Texas Boys State Basketball Championships - 2024 Boys BB 3A Reg. 3 & 4" tournament.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Marion	28	15	20	18	81
Crystal City	19	22	12	19	72

Final score provided by A. Ramirez.

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Game Stats

Marion (23-24)

Marion has not entered stats for this game.

Crystal City (23-24)

Crystal City

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	72	25	65	38	46
0	Jayden Rousseau (So)	6	2	7	29	36
2	C. Mena (So)	18	7	16	44	50
5	Nick Vargas (Jr)	1	0	0
10	Abran Palomo (Sr)	9	3	11	27	41
11	Dakota Rivera (So)	10	4	8	50	63
12	Eli Mata (Sr)	24	7	14	50	57
23	Isaiah Mata (So)	2	1	6	17	17
24	Jesus Arenas (Jr)	2	1	3	33	33

Crystal City

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	72	10	39	26	12	29	41	15	26	58
0	Jayden Rousseau (So)	6	1	5	20	1	4	25	1	2	50
2	C. Mena (So)	18	2	9	22	2	8	25	5	7	71
5	Nick Vargas (Jr)	1	0	0	0	1	2	50	0	0	0
10	Abran Palomo (Sr)	9	3	8	38	0	0	0	0	3	0
11	Dakota Rivera (So)	10	2	5	40	0	0	0	2	3	67
12	Eli Mata (Sr)	24	2	5	40	8	15	53	5	9	56
23	Isaiah Mata (So)	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	100
24	Jesus Arenas (Jr)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	100

Crystal City

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	72	16	12	28	18	14	2	7	20
0	Jayden Rousseau (So)	6	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	5
2	C. Mena (So)	18	1	3	4	7	3	0	1	2
3	Bobby Castillo (Fr)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
5	Nick Vargas (Jr)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
10	Abran Palomo (Sr)	9	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
11	Dakota Rivera (So)	10	4	5	9	4	1	0	1	3
12	Eli Mata (Sr)	24	8	2	10	4	5	2	2	4
23	Isaiah Mata (So)	2	1	1	2	1	3	0	1	1
24	Jesus Arenas (Jr)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Crystal City

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Blk:PF
	Team Totals	2.57	2.00	0.70	0.10
0	Jayden Rousseau (So)	2.00	1.00	0.20	0.00
2	C. Mena (So)	7.00	3.00	1.50	0.00
10	Abran Palomo (Sr)	0.00	1.00	0.33	0.00
11	Dakota Rivera (So)	4.00	1.00	0.33	0.00
12	Eli Mata (Sr)	2.00	2.50	1.25	0.50
23	Isaiah Mata (So)	1.00	3.00	3.00	0.00

Recap Video

Marion vs Crystal City Game Highlights - Feb. 23, 2024 1:05

Game Story

Texas High School Basketball - Marion over Crystal City

February 23, 2024: Crystal City, TX 78839

Fans at Friday's non-league challenge between the Marion Bulldogs (Marion, TX) and the host Crystal City Javelinas (Crystal City, TX), saw Marion's basketball squad overcome Crystal City by a tally of 81-72.

With the victory, Marion improves its record to 23-9 on the campaign. The Bulldogs travel to Poth (Poth, TX) to confront the Pirates in a non-league challenge on Monday, February 26. The Pirates come into the challenge with a record of 20-5. Poth won 65-49 in their recent non-league challenge against Rice Consolidated (Altair, TX)

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Players of the Game

Marion (23-24)

Marion has not selected any Players of the Game.

Crystal City (23-24)

Congratulations to #12 Eli Mata for being selected the Crystal City Basketball Player of the Game.

Rankings & Records

Marion (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
637	108	57

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
23-10	6-4	7-5	9-4	7-1	.697	.600	1,946	1,493

Crystal City (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
722	128	69

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
23-13	9-1	7-3	9-4	7-6	.639	.900	2,456	2,281

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Marion	16.0	14.4	14.8	12.9	59.0
Crystal City	17.0	15.7	17.8	16.8	68.2

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Team Stat Comparison

Marion		Crystal City
45.6	Points Per Game	68.3
21.4	Rebounds Per Game	32.7
9.9	Assists Per Game	17.6
7.5	Steals Per Game	13.8
1.5	Blocks Per Game	2.6

Team Leaders

Marion		Crystal City	National Avg.
#5 Richard Rayos15.0	Points Per Game	#2 Christopher Mena19.6	4.9
#3 Jaiden Riley5.0	Rebounds Per Game	#11 Dakota Rivera6.5	2.6
#5 Richard Rayos3.5	Assists Per Game	#2 Christopher Mena6.1	1.0
#2 Braeden Fleming2.2	Steals Per Game	#12 Eli Mata2.9	0.8
#13 Travis Randle0.5	Blocks Per Game	#0 Jayden Rousseau1.0	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Marion	3-4		Crystal City	1-3

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/28/23	Marion	Blanco	(W) 74-33	12/29/23	Crystal City	Blanco	(L) 69-57
12/9/23	Marion	Poth	(L) 49-38	1/5/24	Crystal City	Poth	(L) 65-46
2/27/24	Poth	Marion	(L) 70-59
1/23/24	Marion	Randolph	(W) 66-39	12/29/23	Randolph	Crystal City	(W) 60-50
2/9/24	Randolph	Marion	(W) 56-45
1/26/24	Marion	Cole	(L) 49-43	1/2/24	Crystal City	Cole	(L) 86-47
2/13/24	Cole	Marion	(L) 47-35

Record Breakdown

Marion (23-24)		Crystal City (23-24)
23-10	Overall	23-13
6-4	League	9-1
6-3	Non-League	5-5
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
3-4	Common Opponent	1-3
7-5	Home	7-3
9-4	Away	9-4
7-1	Neutral	7-6
2-1	Playoff	1-1
22-10	In-State	23-13
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0