SAN ANGELO, TX \u2014 The Angelo State Rambelles continued their late-season hot streak with a 65-58 win over No. 23-ranked Lubbock Christian on Thursday night at the Junell Center.<\/p>\n
It was the night straight win for ASU, which has shaken off a 5-9 start to the season to climb into a tie for fourth place in the Lone Star Conference standings.<\/p>\n
The Belles are now 14-9 overall and 12-5 in the LSC.<\/p>\n
ASU took the lead for good at 39-38 with 2:18 left in the third quarter on a jumper by Taylor Grona.<\/p>\n
The Belles led by as many as nine points before LCU rallied back to within one point in the final minutes.<\/p>\n
After the Lady Chaps pulled within 59-58 with 2:21 remaining, the Belles closed the game on a 6-0 run to seal the win.<\/p>\n
Majik Esquivel had a game-high 24 points, followed by Landry Morrow with 16 points and three steals. Grona added 12 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n
LCU fell to 20-6 overall and 12-5 in the LSC.<\/p>\n
ASU will play its final home game at 1 p.m. Saturday against Midwestern State (7-16, 4-13). The Belles will then close the regular season with back-to-back road games at No. 8 West Texas A&M and Eastern New Mexico next weekend.<\/p>\n
The LSC Tournament will be held March 6-8 in Frisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANGELO, TX \u2014 The Angelo State Rambelles continued their late-season hot streak with a 65-58 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-176052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}