BALTIMORE -- As she loaded the team bus to head to the airport Thursday morning, Amaya Scott was promptly "kicked off" it by Blair Blair-Lewis, the coach's son.

"Okay, but that means it's up to you to guard the other team's best player," Scott told Blair-Lewis.

Give Blair a break. He turned five on Sunday.

Give Scott credit for knowing her role on one side of the court and expanding her contribution on the other.

In addition to holding the opponent's leading scorer under average for the second time in three games, the Bethune-Cookman sophomore elevated her scoring presence with a career-high 23 points, including the go-ahead bucket with 1:22 remaining in overtime that helped the Lady Wildcats pull off a 73-69 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference road win at Morgan State.

With a determined drive to the basket and an occasional sweet kiss off the glass, Scott went 7-13 from the field and an even more impressive 9-10 from the line with nine rebounds as BCU (10-8 overall,3-3) continues to cobble together a line-up devastated by the season-ending losses to Ashanti Hunt and Kiana Williams.

Every opponent in the league's going to come up with some box-and-one or triangle-and-two variant to contain leading scorer Angel Golden. That means someone else is going to have to step up and deliver offense to a squad whose output in its first five conference games was 12 points a game lower than its non-conference totals.

Golden's going to have find other ways to score -- she did it Saturday by going 11-12 from the line capitalizing on an unusual officiating effort that helped sent BCU shoot the most free throws (35)  in five years, and then there's Chasimmie Brown delivering the nightly double-double from the post. There's simply going to have to be a third scoring option.

Welcome to the next level, Ms. Scott.

"I know I've held back, now that I know what I can do, I can explode," Scott said. "Coach [Vanessa] Blair-Lewis told me about stepping up and that's my role now."

Blair-Lewis always thought Scott had a game like Saturday's in her. Her freshman season was spent backing up Lyndsey Edwards and hasn't been called upon to be a scorer. In fact, Scott's been delighted to simply be casted in the Hunt role as defensive stopper .. until now.

"I knew she had so much more in her," Blair-Lewis said of Scott. "In some cases when surrounded by players who demand that situation, you play your role. Amaya has started has come into her role."

The long-term benefit from this situation is that the extra touches and experience Scott's gaining now will help her once the Goldens and Hunts have moved on.

 "You want players  to come in and develop," Blair-Lewis. "Amaya's doing it at a faster pace."

Scott's averaging 8.6 points and 5.5 rebounds so far this season.

BCU plays Coppin State Monday at 5:30 p.m.