WAXAHACHIE, TX - Texas Wesleyan Women's Basketball is 5-1 for the first time since the 2014-2015 season and stands atop the Sooner Athletic Conference with a 2-0 record after a 24-point fourth quarter helped the Lady Rams beat Southwestern Assemblies of God (4-3, 1-1 SAC) 76-66.

The Lady Rams clamped down on the conference's leading scorer Lexi Rich, who finished just 4-for-15 from the floor with 15 points and three turnovers. That, plus the fourth quarter heroics, was a team effort.

SAGU shot just 5-for-21 in the fourth frame while TXWES was a reliable 8-of-15. Texas Wesleyan got points from Jordan Brightwell (six), Nicole Gleason (four), Dior Dioum (five), Hailee Walls (four), Destiney Winkfield (three) and Alexus Brigham (two) in the final ten minutes, six of the eight players that played in the quarter.

Winfkield led the team with 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting adding five boards and a couple of steals. Walls added 12 points off the bench. Evie Whorley grabbed a season-high 11 rebounds and four assists to go along with six points, while Gleason fell just short of her fourth double-double in a row with eight points and eight boards.

The Lady Rams out-scored the Lions 20-10 in the second frame to pull ahead just before the half, erasing a 10-point deficit from late in the first quarter. TXWES prevented SAGU from a single fast break point, out-worked the Lions in the paint 36-24 and had the better and deeper bench with a 33-23 edge once the starting five began shuffling in and out of action.

It's the second-straight season the Rams have won the first two conference games, a feat the program hadn't accomplished before last season since the 2011-12 season when it competed in the Red River Athletic Conference. The victory also snapped a three-game skid against the Lions.

Texas Wesleyan will have an exhibition against NCAA Division I program Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Saturday December 7 before facing Mary Hardin-Baylor in ten days, December 13 - also on the road. The seven-game road trip that lasts over a month will continue in Florida to celebrate the holidays in the Sunshine State against Florida Memorial and Johnson and Wales December 17 and 18, respectively.