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Tierra Dark
Sidney Jackson
78
Winner Alabama A&M AAMU_W 8-7, 3-1 SWAC
52
Univ. Arkansas at Pine Bluff UAPB 3-7, 0-3 SWAC
Winner
Alabama A&M AAMU_W
8-7, 3-1 SWAC
78
Final
52
Univ. Arkansas at Pine Bluff UAPB
3-7, 0-3 SWAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Alabama A&M AAMU_W 24 13 22 19 78
Univ. Arkansas at Pine Bluff UAPB 13 11 14 14 52

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | aamusportsinfo

McKee posts season-high, Women's Basketball runs past Arkansas-Pine Bluff

PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Watching from the sideline, Margaret Richards and her Alabama A&M coaching staff spotted the trend early.

Lauren McKee was poised for a big night.

The coaches knew what they were seeing. They had witnessed it before.

And they were right.

McKee scored a season-high 14 points as Alabama A&M ran past Arkansas-Pine Bluff 78-52 Monday night in a Southwestern Athletic Conference women's basketball game.

Alabama A&M (8-7, 3-1 in SWAC) now has won six of its past seven games and is tied for the lead in the conference standings.

"Our players did a great job tonight," Alabama A&M coach Margaret Richards said. "We played extremely well."

Alabama A&M also continued to prove that it has one of the conference's most balanced rosters — a team where every member really is capable of leading the Bulldogs in scoring on any given night.  

During the past nine games, eight different players have led Alabama A&M in scoring.

At Arkansas-Pine Bluff, it was McKee's night to shine — with some significant contributions from another trio of unsung heroes in Kenya Pye, Tierra Dark and DeShawna Harper.

Pye finished with 13 points, while Dark and Harper each added 10 points and five rebounds.

The result was a lopsided win where Alabama A&M shot a season-best 57.1 percent from the field and 41.2 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.

"We shot the ball extremely well," Richards said. "That's probably the best we've shot it since I've been here. Tonight, we saw some really good things from our team."

Alabama A&M led almost the entire game, building a 20-point cushion by the midway point of the third quarter, and stretching the lead to 30 by early in the fourth.

McKee was almost perfect.

The junior guard made five of seven attempts from the floor while draining four 3-pointers. It was McKee's first double-figure performance since scoring 23 against Prairie View A&M on Feb. 26 of last season.

Alabama A&M continues conference play on Saturday when the Bulldogs host rival Alabama State in Birmingham at Bill Harris Arena. Tipoff is at 3 p.m.
 
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