AUSTIN — Practice makes progress.
San Marcos dropped a tight game to Lake Travis inside the Snake Pit less than a month ago but the Rattlers returned the favor with a 62-59 win over the Cavaliers on the road Friday. Before Friday’s game, the purple and white prepared for the type of unfriendly environment they knew they’d face.
Drenched in highlighter-yellow safety vests, the Lake Travis student section made it a hostile atmosphere from the tip-off to the final buzzer. In the third quarter, chants of “overrated’’ rained down on Malik Presley while the four-star junior forward took a pair of free throws. But he felt comfortable blocking out the noise because of practice time — Presley knocked down both foul shots to silence the crowd.
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