SAN DIEGO, Calif.\u2014 The Lobos used a 13-2 run to rally back from an 11-point deficit in the third quarter of Wednesday\u2019s game at San Diego State to tie the game at 47 and trailed 50-47 at the end of the quarter, but the Aztecs outscored the Lobos 23-9 in the fourth quarter for the 73-56 final.<\/p>\n
Destinee Hooks<\/a> led all scorers with 18 points, the 17th time this season reaching double figures and sixth time leading the team in scoring, with Laila Abdurraqib<\/a> scoring 13 points behind three, three-pointers and was the sixth game scoring double digits.<\/p>\n Both teams entered the game as the top two three-point shooters in the Mountain West, with the Aztecs making 14 three-pointers and the Lobos making eight. The Lobos outrebounded the Aztecs 35-28 (14 offensive rebounds for UNM) with Nayli Padilla<\/a> leading the team off of the bench with six rebounds.<\/p>\n UNM scored the first five points of the game with the Lobos winning the tip and Cacia Antonio<\/a> finding Emma Najjuma<\/a> for a layup five seconds in. Hooks added a three-pointer on the next possession and SDSU missed its first four shots before getting on the board with a three 2:50 in.<\/p>\n An Abdurraqib three put the Lobos up 11-5, which extended to nine at 14-5 on a Padilla three with 2:59 remaining in the quarter. The Lobos led 16-10 at the end of the first with Hooks scoring five points and UNM outshooting SDSU 37.5% to 30.8%.<\/p>\n SDSU responded with a 9-0 run over a span of 2:54 to start the second quarter to take a three-point lead and its first lead of the game. An Abdurraqib jumper off of an Antonio offensive rebound ended the run but a second run of 6-0 put the Lobos in a 25-18 deficit. The Lobos closed within three at 27-24 on a Kaia Foster<\/a> three before the Aztecs made three consecutive field goals to stretch the margin to nine at 35-26. Hooks closed the quarter with a three-pointer as the Lobos trailed 35-29 at the break with Hooks leading all scorers with 12 points.<\/p>\n An Aztecs three and basket out of the half extended the gap to 11 with Foster hitting a jumper from the free-throw line to start the Lobo scoring. A 6-0 run with an Abdurraqib three cut the gap to five at 45-40, and after an Aztec jumper, an Abdurraqib layup, Jessie Joaquim<\/a> layup off of an offensive rebound and a Drew Jordon<\/a> three tied the game at 47 with 44 seconds left. SDSU hit a corner three to close the quarter with the Lobos trailing 50-47.<\/p>\n Abdurraqib scored eight points in the third quarter on 3-4 shooting including two three-pointers with the bench scoring 15 of UNM\u2019s 18 points in the quarter.<\/p>\n SDSU scored the first five points of the fourth to take the 55-47 lead with 8:19 remaining to force a Lobo timeout, with Alyssa Hargrove<\/a> hitting a jumper out of the timeout. A 13-3 SDSU run extended the deficit to 16 points at 68-52 with Padilla making a layup, the Aztecs scoring five consecutive points to stretch the margin to 19 before Joana Magalh\u00e3es<\/a> made the final shot for the Lobos on a layup with 26 seconds left for the final score.<\/p>\n The Aztecs went 9-11 and 4-5 from three-point range in the fourth quarter with the Lobos going 4-12 and 0-4 from three-point range.<\/p>\n UNM (12-6, 4-3 MW) returns home to host Grand Canyon on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on FS1.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif.\u2014 The Lobos used a 13-2 run to rally back from an 11-point deficit in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[14415,14416,547,13688,74,76,75,14414],"class_list":["post-140018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-lobos","tag-lobos-athletics","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico-lobos","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-university-of-new-mexico-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}