LSUE on nine-game win streak

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LSU Eunice stretched its win streak to nine games as the Bengals cruised past Louisiana College in a 98-62 win.
The victory gives LSUE 12 wins on the season, a new single-season best under head coach Amanda Clemons.
LSUE opened the game with a 27-22 battle over the Lady Wildcats junior varsity, sparked seven points from Arianna Dargin (Iowa), six points from Whitney Landry (Iota) and five points from Riley James (Basile).
Lakedra Franklin led LC with seven points in the first frame.
The Lady Bengals used (12-2) a critical 22-2 run at the start of the secondquarter to stretch a five-point lead to a 25-point advantage.
James scored 10 of her game-high 21 points in that span.
The sophomore has scored 20-plus points in four of the last six games.
Landry added a career's best 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting in 19 minutes of work.
LSUE used that second quarter spurt to take a 51-37 edge into intermission and used another big run in the third to put away the Wildcats for good.
The Bengals closed the third on a 19-6 run to swell the lead to 28 points, 79-51, going in the final period.
LSUE saw five players in double figures including Dargin (15 points) and JaNaijia Marks (DeRidder) (11 points) off the bench.
Jaleya Gold's (Bolton) 10 points rounded out the high scorers for the Bengals.
The Bengals travel to Pearl River Saturday and Mississippi Gulf Coast on Jan 8 before returning home on Jan. 19 for the start of a two-day set against Lone Star College-Cy-Fair.