LAKE CHARLES--  McNeese State's women's basketball team picked up its second consecutive Southland Conference victories in as many games with a 68-54 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi here Saturday at Burton Coliseum. 
    

Senior Shante' Perry led a trio of McNeese players who scored in double figures with 19.  Perry also led the Cowgirls with nine rebounds.  Perry was 7 of 18 from the field including three treys in 26 minutes.  Kendra Wells added 13 pints and was 4 of 9 from the field and five of six from the charity stripe.  Wells was second on the team with six rebounds.  Ashlyn Baggett closed out the double figure scoring for the Cowgirls with 12 points.  Baggett was 4 of 11 from the field, three field goals came from behind the arc.  A big plus for the Cowgirls today was that 12 players saw playing time. 
    

McNeese scored 24 points in the paint and scored 21 off 20 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi turnovers and got 34 points from the bench.
    

Both teams got off to a slow start in the first half but the Cowgirls went into the locker room with a 22-19 halftime  lead.
    

McNeese began the second half on a 25-5 run to hold its largest lead of the game at 47-24 with 11:01 left in the game.  After a bucket by the Islanders, Wells hit a layup to put the lead back to 23.  Texas A&M-CC would cut the Cowgirl lead to eight (57-49) with 3:09 left but another scoring outburst by the Cowgirls would hold off the Islanders to improve to 12-13 overall and 4-8 in the SLC.  The loss dropped the Islanders to 11-14 overall and 5-7 in the SLC.
    

McNeese ended the game shooting 31.9 percent from the field (15-47), 43.8 percent from three-point land and 77.3 percent from the free throw line.  McNeese also tied its season low with seven turnovers.  McNeese was credited with 12 steals and freshman guard Brooke Froeba led the Cowgirls with three.