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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – For the second-straight week, the HBU women's basketball team will take on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, but this time from the Dugan Wellness Center in Corpus Christi Saturday. Tip-off is set for a noon start.

TAMUCC leads the all-time series, 3-0, and won last week's meeting in Sharp Gym, 74-62.

HBU (11-15 overall, 7-8 SLC) dropped its second-straight game with the loss to the Islanders. TAMUCC scored 13-straight points to lead the Huskies, 13-2, and went on from there to shoot 51 percent from the floor and 57 percent from beyond the arc.

Shanice Steenholdt and Tayler Jefferson each scored 13 points, while Rachel Arthur added 10. Heidi Sihvola scored nine points and Ekemini Essien scored a career-high eight points.

Steenholdt is third in conference scoring with 17.7 points per game and fifth in conference rebounding with 9.6 boards per game. Arthur averages 11.3 points per game on the season, followed by Erin McGarrachan with 9.3.

Last Saturday's win was the fifth straight for TAMUCC (15-11 overall, 8-7 SLC).

Shola Adebayo scored a career-high 26 points, while Alissa Campanero and Brittany Mbamalu chipped in with 14 and 11, respectively. Ashley Darley pulled down a game-high nine rebounds. The team's leading scorer, Jasmine Shaw, was held scoreless.

Shaw leads the Islanders with 15.6 points and is second with 5.2 rebounds per game. Darley has pulled down a team-best 5.7 boards per game. Mbamalu is averaging 10.2 points per game.

With Northwestern State's win at Southeastern Louisiana Thursday night, the standings now show TAMUCC and NWST tied for sixth place and SLU in eighth place. HBU currently sits tied-for-ninth with Oral Roberts. The top eight teams make the conference tournament. HBU own the tiebreaker over NWST, but SLU owns the tiebreaker over the Huskies. HBU and ORU split their season series.