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Vela Harlingen

Sabercats

Cardinals

The Harlingen (TX) varsity basketball team won Saturday's neutral tournament game against Vela (Edinburg, TX) by a score of 72-60.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Vela	21	12	7	20	60
Harlingen	14	15	16	27	72

Final score provided by L. Rodriguez.

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Game Stats

Harlingen (23-24)

Vela

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	60	23	57	40	44
1	S. Sepulveda (Sr)	4	2	8	25	25
3	Jp Olivarez (Jr)	11	3	13	23	27
4	J. Bustamante (So)	14	5	11	45	50
5	Diego Salinas (Sr)	5	2	6	33	42
10	Ej Avelar (Sr)	9	3	8	38	44
11	Aiden Lopez (Sr)	6	3	4	75	75
23	Axel Garza (Sr)	11	5	7	71	71

Harlingen

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts
	Team Totals	52
3	Luis Rodriguez (Jr)	22
5	Andrew Galdamez (Sr)	13
13	Aiden Flores (So)	2
14	Ashton Barajas (Jr)	10
22	E. Aleman (Jr)	5

Vela

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	60	4	19	21	10	10	100	19	38	50
1	S. Sepulveda (Sr)	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	6	33
3	Jp Olivarez (Jr)	11	1	8	13	4	4	100	2	5	40
4	J. Bustamante (So)	14	1	3	33	3	3	100	4	8	50
5	Diego Salinas (Sr)	5	1	3	33	0	0	0	1	3	33
10	Ej Avelar (Sr)	9	1	2	50	2	2	100	2	6	33
11	Aiden Lopez (Sr)	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	75
23	Axel Garza (Sr)	11	0	1	0	1	1	100	5	6	83

Harlingen

#	Athlete Name	Pts
	Team Totals	52
3	Luis Rodriguez (Jr)	22
5	Andrew Galdamez (Sr)	13
13	Aiden Flores (So)	2
14	Ashton Barajas (Jr)	10
22	E. Aleman (Jr)	5

Vela

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	60	10	15	25	12	7	3	13	17
1	S. Sepulveda (Sr)	4	3	2	5	1	3	0	2	1
3	Jp Olivarez (Jr)	11	1	1	2	4	2	0	2	0
4	J. Bustamante (So)	14	2	0	2	1	2	0	3	4
5	Diego Salinas (Sr)	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1
10	Ej Avelar (Sr)	9	2	4	6	2	0	0	0	5
11	Aiden Lopez (Sr)	6	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	2
23	Axel Garza (Sr)	11	1	5	6	4	0	2	4	4

Harlingen

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts
	Team Totals	52
3	Luis Rodriguez (Jr)	22
5	Andrew Galdamez (Sr)	13
13	Aiden Flores (So)	2
14	Ashton Barajas (Jr)	10
22	E. Aleman (Jr)	5

Vela

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Blk:PF	Chr	Defl
	Team Totals	0.92	0.54	0.41	0.18	2	9
1	S. Sepulveda (Sr)	0.50	1.50	3.00	0.00	0	2
3	Jp Olivarez (Jr)	2.00	1.00	2.00	0.00	0	2
4	J. Bustamante (So)	0.33	0.67	0.50	0.00	0	2
5	Diego Salinas (Sr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0	0
10	Ej Avelar (Sr)	2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1	3
23	Axel Garza (Sr)	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.50	1	0

Misc Totals

Harlingen has not entered any misc totals stats.

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Game Story

Texas High School Basketball - Vela thwarted by Harlingen

December 9, 2023: Edinburg, TX 78539

The Vela Sabercats basketball squad (Edinburg, TX), was beaten 71-59 in Saturday's non-league outing with the visiting Harlingen Cardinals (Harlingen, TX)

The Cardinals (18-3) will now prepare for their outing against Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (San Juan, TX). The Bears go into the non-league outing with a 7-12 record. In their last outing, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo thwarted Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Memorial (Alamo, TX), 57-52, in a non-league outing.

The Sabercats now own a 11-5 record. They play next when they travel to Sharyland for a 5A Region IV District 31 outing on Tuesday, December 12. Vela will clash with a Rattlers squad coming off a 52-51 non-league loss to King (Corpus Christi, TX). The Rattlers record now stands at 4-7.

Rankings & Records

Vela (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
122	17	29

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
36-6	18-0	11-0	11-0	14-6	.857	1.000	2,824	1,968

Harlingen (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
255	42	117

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
32-7	7-3	9-2	11-2	12-3	.821	.700	2,370	1,859

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	OT2	Final
Vela	16.7	18.1	16.6	16.6	-	-	67.2
Harlingen	13.2	13.7	16.5	16.9	0	62.0	60.8

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Team Stat Comparison

Vela		Harlingen
67.2	Points Per Game	55.5
30.0	Rebounds Per Game	1.2
15.8	Assists Per Game	-
12.5	Steals Per Game	-
2.4	Blocks Per Game	-

Team Leaders

Vela		Harlingen	National Avg.
#23 Axel Garza16.0	Points Per Game	#3 Luis Rodriguez13.9	4.9
#23 Axel Garza8.5	Rebounds Per Game	#22 Ernesto Aleman 0.4	2.6
#3 Jp Olivarez4.0	Assists Per Game	-	1.0
#23 Axel Garza2.2	Steals Per Game	-	0.8
#23 Axel Garza1.2	Blocks Per Game	-	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Vela	6-1		Harlingen	6-2

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/16/23	Vela	Katy	(L) 70-65	11/18/23	Harlingen	Katy	(L) 62-51
11/18/23	Vela	Eastlake	(W) 68-48	11/16/23	Harlingen	Eastlake	(W) 65-55
11/18/23	Vela	Edinburg North	(W) 55-40	12/28/23	Edinburg North	Harlingen	(W) 42-39
11/28/23	Vela	United South	(W) 59-56	12/19/23	Harlingen	United South	(W) 62-60
12/8/23	Vela	Hanna	(W) 64-47	12/1/23	Harlingen	Hanna	(W) 47-39
				1/26/24	Harlingen	Hanna	(L) 48-45
				2/13/24	Hanna	Harlingen	(W) 71-61
12/9/23	Harlingen South	Vela	(W) 59-53	11/27/23	Harlingen	Harlingen South	(W) 50-49
2/19/24	Harlingen South	Vela	(W) 69-24

Record Breakdown

Vela (23-24)		Harlingen (23-24)
36-6	Overall	32-7
18-0	League	7-3
3-0	Non-League	9-1
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
6-1	Common Opponent	6-2
11-0	Home	9-2
11-0	Away	11-2
14-6	Neutral	12-3
4-1	Playoff	1-1
36-6	In-State	31-7
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0