Staff Writer Saint Garcia

The Richland men’s basketball team lost after a hard fought match against Collin College 77-64 on Nov. 8.

From the start, the T-Ducks were running at a very fast pace. Although the Cougars kept the ball in their possession, it seemed as if Richland could not find the answer in the first half as the opposing team kept drawing fouls and hitting their outside shots, keeping them ahead throughout the game. That put the T-Ducks behind at 41-23.

Richland came out in the second half with a new found energy as could be seen in each key matchup. The key to any chance at a come- back would be have to be defensive stops. Each time the Cougars got possession, the T-Ducks would chant “D-up, d-up, d-up,” encouraging teammates to not let the score be run up any more than it already had been.

Richland was down by 15 with 13 minutes left in the game when they made key steals and defensive stops that lead to transition layups drawing fouls and converting the and-one.

The T-Ducks closed the gap to within 5 points in their stretch and hoped to take the lead, but somehow the Cougars adjusted and came back with their own set of 3-point shots from behind the arc, leaving the T-Ducks coming up short in their comeback effort.