On Monday night the North Carolina A&T women’s basketball team lost their second game this season to a MEAC opponent.

A&T was defeated 73-69 and dropped to 13-2 in the MEAC.

MEAC Player of the Week Ta’Wuana Cook led the Aggies with 27 points.

Jaleesa Sams recorded 11 points and 9 rebounds, and Amber Calvin added 11 points.

Erin Hawkins led the Bears with 23 points, and Corrin Adams added 18 points, seven assists and eight steals.

With 9 minutes to play in the first half the Aggies were down 21-12 and by halftime they found themselves on the losing end of a 10-point deficit; the Bears led A&T 42-32.

Morgan State would extend their lead to 13 before A&T went on a 16-2 run to gain a 48-47 lead.

During that span, Cook scored 12 points alone.

A three-pointer by Hawkins gave the Bears a 71-69 lead and eventually the game.

A&T had a chance to tie the game but Cook missed three free throws, which sealed the victory for Morgan State.

“This is tough on Tweet because it came down to her free throws,” said A&T head coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs.

“She has meant so much for this program, and this is the type of thing that will motivate Tweet as we go into the tournament.”

“This could have been a game in the tournament, and we would have been out.”

On Saturday night the Aggies clinched the regular season MEAC title with a 72-53 victory over the Coppin State Eagles at the Physical Education Center in Baltimore.

This title marks the Aggies third straight.

“People really didn’t believe we could pull this off because we didn’t have our big guns coming back,” said Bibbs.

“I treasure all three titles, but I appreciate this one a little more because we’ve gone through a lot as a team this year, but the ladies hung tough, and we got it done.”

In a commanding victory, Tu’Wuana Cook led the Aggies with a career-high 33 points, including 26 in the first half in 10 for 15 shooting, including six three pointers. Jaleesa Sams added 11 points for A&T.

Coppin State was led by Jeanine Manley with 17 points and seven rebounds.

Lakeytah Irving recorded 10 points.

Cook’s 33 points pushed her ahead of former A&T player Amber Bland on the Aggies’ all-time scoring list and became the second player in A&T history to score more than 1,600 points.

Cook is now A&T’s second all-time leading scorer.

“One thing I’ve learned about Tweet, when you need her to come through, she will come through,” Bibbs said.

“We’ve had tremendous play from our seniors,.”

“But we’ve also managed to get everyone involved.”

“You make it difficult on teams when they don’t know who to stop from game to game.”

• Lauren Morgan