The Harlandale Indians posted their closest victory yet this season on Friday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Winn 66-63. Having run the score up that high, both teams probably have some extra defensive drills coming up.
Leading Harlandale to victory were Jonathan Regalado and Sebastian Vasquez. Regalado dropped a double-double on 19 points and 11 rebounds, while Vasquez scored 16 points along with six rebounds and four steals. That's the first time this season that Vasquez scored 15 or more points. Another player making a difference was Gabriel Garcia, who scored ten points.
Loss or not, Winn got some senior leadership from David Rodriguez and Jovan Jimenez. Rodriguez scored 14 points along with five rebounds and five steals, while Jimenez. scored 19 points along with nine rebounds and two steals. Rodriguez is on a roll when it comes to steals, as he's now grabbed two or more in the last seven games he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Humberto Mu?oz, who scored eight points along with eight rebounds.
Harlandale has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a massive bump to their 10-11 record this season. As for Winn, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 11-14.
Harlandale will head out on the road to take on Southwest at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Southwest has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 625 points over their last eight matchups. As for Winn, they will look to defend their home court on Tuesday against Southwest Legacy at 6:30 p.m. Hopefully Southwest Legacy focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 11 on Friday.
