FORT WORTH, TX - Texas Wesleyan Women's Basketball (8-2, 3-0 SAC) held Oklahoma Panhandle State (4-7, 0-3 SAC) to five first-quarter points Thursday night at the Sid Richardson Center in a 80-58 rout. No. 1 Oklahoma City and (RV) Mid-America Christian are the only other unbeatens in conference play remaining.

Tied at four, the Lady Rams went on a 12-0 run to open the scoring up and never looked back. OPSU went 8:20 without a field goal in the first half - nearly a quarter of action without a field goal. The Aggies were seventh in the nation in three-point shooting percentage and fourth in three pointers made per game coming into the night, but started cold from deep (2-for-13). Panhandle State got it together from outside in the second half (10-of-19) but the only time the Aggies threatened came off of a Shaylynn Choate trey that cut the Aggie deficit to 16, 65-49, with 5:44 left to play. OPSU took a timeout to re-group and never got closer than 16 points.

Four players scored in double figures for TXWES. Destiney Winkfield owned the first half, scoring 10 of her 14 points early while Jordan Brightwell found some offense with six of her ten points in the second half. Nicole Gleason led the way with 15 points and seven rebounds and Alexus Brigham had 14 points off the bench on 6-of-10 shooting. The team had 15 assists collectively on 30 made baskets.

Through the first three quarters, Texas Wesleyan out-scored OPSU off turnovers 15-0 and only committed nine turnovers in the entire game, the least amount of turnovers in a contest since January 24, 2019. The bench out-scored the Aggies 31-9.

TXWES shot 12-of-13 from the line, the most free throws attempted with only one miss since the squad went 16-of-17 against Southwestern Christian on February 7 of last year.

After losing the first two games against Oklahoma Panhandle State this decade, the Lady Rams have now won three straight against OPSU. The offense has been on a tear, scoring over 80 points in back-to-back games for the first time since November 8 and November 11 in 2014.

Wayland Baptist comes to town Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Flying Queens carry the No. 6 ranking in the NAIA, with their only two losses in the 2019-2020 run coming to No. 1 Oklahoma City and No. 8 Central Methodist. Wayland topped Southwestern Assemblies of God Thursday night in Waxahachie 74-55.