Brittanie Taylor-James, coming off of her first MEAC Player of the Week honor, had another stellar game with 22 points and five rebounds on 8-for-14 shooting as the Lady Aggies defeated Coppin State 75-57 at the Coppin Center Monday night. Amber Bland added 16 points, and Lamona Smalley had 16 points and six rebounds off the Aggies bench. 

The Aggies put enough pressure on the Eagles to force them into 28 turnovers. A good portion of the Eagles offense came from their 24 offensive rebounds that translated into 22 second chance points.

Whitney Cunningham, who finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds, kept the Eagles relatively close. But Taylor-James hit back-to-back pull up jumpers to give the Aggies a 45-31 lead with 15:24 to play and the blowout was on.

The Aggies would score eight more points during the 12-0 run to put the Eagles away.

The Eagles suffered their worse conference loss since losing to the Aggies by 21 in 2003. Although the Aggies were able to beat their nemesis from a year ago, they know there are more games to play.  The Aggies (9-5, 3-0) will host Maryland Eastern Shore Saturday night at Corbett Sports Center at 2 p.m.

“I was happy to see us play well and I was happy for this win,’’ said Bibbs. “They out-rebounded us, but this is a great rebounding team. And we showed toughness tonight against a great rebounding team.”