SAN ANGELO, Texas – In a competitive contest that came down to the last second, the Angelo State women's basketball team defeated Lubbock Christian 53-51 after Tayjanna McGhee-Pleasant drained a step back jumper with under a second remaining to give the Lady Chaps their second conference loss.
 
The Rambelles improve to 12-3 on the year and are now 8-1 in Lone Star Conference action after winning their seventh consecutive contest. The Lady Chaps fall to 11-5 overall and 6-2 in LSC play.
 
40 MINUTE RUNDOWN

• McGhee-Pleasant scored the first four points of the contest as the Rambelles jumped to an early lead Saturday afternoon.
• Landry Morrow hit a triple to give the Rambelles an early eight-point lead, 11-3, with 3:29 still in the first.
• Keniah Williams scored four points down the stretch as the Rambelles took a 17-10 into the second.
• The Lady Chaps came out hot in the second, scoring the first eight points to take their first lead 18-17.
• Madeline Stephens converted on a fast break opportunity to keep the Rambelles within one, trailing 24-23 with just under three minutes to play.
• LCU put up four more before the break to take a 28-23 lead into the half.
• The Lady Chaps kept the momentum through the first half of the third quarter, leading 38-30 with 5:08 to go.
• Buckets by Sawyer Lloyd, McGhee-Pleasant, and Stephens down the stretch pulled the Rambelles back within two, trailing 41-39 entering the fourth.
• McGhee-Pleasant scored four straight for the Rambelles to tie the contest up 43-43 with 7:33 remaining.
• Both teams would lose their mark from the field as only five points were scored over the next four minutes, LCU still leading 46-45.
• The teams would battle back and forth for the lead, Briley Merket hit a layup to pull the Rambelles ahead 50-49 with 1:21 to go.
• The Lady Chaps tied the game 51-51 with nine second remaining  before McGhee-Pleasant hit a step back jumper with only .9 seconds left to give the Rambelles the 53-51 victory.

 
GAME STATS

• Stephens dominated the paint again and was the Rambelles leading scorer with 18 points and nine rebounds.
• McGhee-Pleasant scored 16 points and pulled in 11 rebounds for her sixth double-double this season, her second in a row and fourth in the last five games.
• Lloyd again was huge for the Rambelles defensively, she scored five points, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished out seven assists, and had six steals.
• Morrow again played big minutes off the bench, scoring seven points and playing crucial defense down the stretch.
• Both offenses struggled from the field, the Rambelles shot 35 percent from the field while the Lady Chaps were held to just 30 percent.
• The Lady Chaps bright spot was from beyond the arc as they shot 30 percent from downtown.
• The Rambelles edged the Lady Chaps in rebounding, grabbing 42 to the Chaps 41.
• This is just the second time the Rambelles have beaten the Chaps in their last ten contests, but the Rambelles have won two of the last three.

 
NEXT UP
The Rambelles continue their homestand next week, welcoming Midwestern State to the Junell Center Thursday, Jan. 12^th at 5:30 p.m. for another LSC contest.