Laredo, Texas - Another career night from Tayjanna McGhee-Pleasant, topping Thursdays night's performance with 28 points and ten rebounds, leading the Rambelles to a 95-74 victory Saturday afternoon inside the TAMIU Kinesiology and Convocation Building.
 
The Rambelles Improved to 6-3 on the season and 2-0 in Lone Star Conference play. Texas A&M International would fall to 8-1 and 1-1 in LSC action.
 
40 Minute Rundown

• Sawyer Lloyd scored the team's first seven points in the first four minutes of action.
• The Rambelles, starting at the 6:43 mark, went on a 5-0 run, ending with five minutes left in the quarter with a layup by Marija Bakic extending its lead to 13-7
• The remaining five minutes of action in the first quarter was back and forth until Tay McGhee-Pleasant hit a three within the last minute to give the Rambelles going into the second quarter with a two-point lead, 22-20. 
• The Rambelles opened the second quarter on a nine-to-one run in the first four minutes of the quarter to extend its lead to ten, 31-21.
• Texas A&M International kept the game in reach for the remainder of the half.
• Sawyer Lloyd hit a layup with a few seconds left on the clock to give the Rambelles a 43-34 lead going into halftime/
• In the first seven minutes of action in the third quarter, the Rambelles went on a 19-10 run to open the lead-up,64-44.
•  With 38 seconds remaining in the third quarter, a free throw by Tay McGhee-Pleasant gave the Rambelles the largest of the night, 75-50.
• In the third quarter, the Rambelles scored 32 points.
• The Dustdevils could not make much of the fourth quarter, being down by 20 points for the entire quarter.

GAME STATS

• McGhee-Pleasant lead the way for the Rambelles, recording a career-high 28 points and ten rebounds on 62 percent shooting from the field.
• The Rambelles had four different scorers in double digits: McGhee-Pleasant (28), Sawyer Lloyd (23), Madeline Stephens (14), and Keniah Williams (14)
• The Rambelles had ten different scorers.
• The Rambelles shot 52.9 percent (37-70) from the field, 33 percent (5-15) from behind the arc, and 16-21 from the charity stripe.
• The Blue and Gold would outrebound the Dustdevils, 39-30
• Tay McGhee-Pleasant would record her second consecutive 20-point game in a row.
• Sawyer Lloyd would record her second 20-point game of the year with 23 points.
•  The Belles would have 20 second chance points.
• The Rambelles would create 27 fast break points.
• The Belles would have 52 points in the paint, with over half the team points coming from the paint.

NEXT UP
The Belles return home on Dec. 7th, hosting UAFS, with tip-off slated for 5:30 p.m.