The Lady Eagles do it again. Pick your verb — lambasted, destroyed, annihilated, shattered, smashed — that’s what the Lady Golden Bears served up last night.

It was a serious battle in the war of the CIAA women’s basketball season. The Lady Eagles are on their way to the top with an 8-3 overall record.

“We knew they were coming out against us and with our assistant coach on the sideline it gave us more willpower to do well,” Sophomore guard Teketia May said.

Former Lady Eagles assistant coach Stephen Joyner now coaches the Lady Golden Bears.

In the first half, the Lady Eagles Jumped out on the Lady Golden Bears by a 35-20 first half margin behind the scoring of junior guard Casey Daniel, who scored 11 points.

“We didn’t want to overdo it,” NCCU head coach Joli Robinson said. “We wanted to allow a lot of our players to play.”

With over half the team feeling under the weather, the Lady Eagles still managed to score another 33 points in the second half, rounding out a final score of 68-55 against the Lady Golden Bears.

The Lady Eagles displayed great teamwork as they spread across the court in the second period, earning another win for the season.

“Our energy level was not there. Everybody’s fighting a cold, but we still did our best,” Robinson said.

“They came out hard, but the way we play is different. We were prepared,” sophomore point guard Tonia Roundtree said. “Coach makes us think the opposing team is better so we don’t take our win for granted.”