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Page 7 • Thursday, February 25, 1999
&M drops Oklahoma, 74-72
&M wins final home game of season on last-second puthack
BY SANTOSH VENKATARAMAN
The Battalion
was an historic night at Reed Arena as
ihefTexas A&M Men’s Basketball Team de
led the University of Oklahoma for the
I rst lime ever, 74-72, on junior guard Jerald
■vn’s short jumper at the buzzer. The
ame marked the final home game for senior
■ward Shanne Jones and senior guard
fehm Clayton.
Bfter OU forward Ryan Humphrey scored
dfan offensive rebound to tie the game at 72
Ivitf 7 seconds left, junior guard Clifton Cook
dribbled the ball upcourt looking for the
He’s final shot.
Hook drove into the lane and missed an off-
balance jumper off the backboard. The ball
jcaromed to Brown to the left of the lane who
iqukkly gathered himself, looked at the clock,
Hbanked in the game-winner.
Referee Dick Paparo emphatically declared
■basket good, touching off a celebration
Tmgthe Aggies. Sophomore forward Aaron
facl ran triumphantly down the sideline and
jumped up on the press table to salute the
Irlvd of 3,397 fans as various Ags exchanged
bugs and high-fives on the court.
■Everything happened for a reason,” Cook
said. “Fortunately J.[BrownJ was there to
lake that last-second shot.”
“I was really surprised, first of all, with
how much time I had when I was going up,”
Brown said. “Coach told us in practice to kiss
A&M Men's
Game Leaders
Points leader:
Clifton Cook (19)
Rebound leader:
Shanne Jones (8)
Assists leader:
Clifton Cook (6)
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it off the backboard when you’re that close
to the block, so I said ‘Go for the backboard,
it never fails.’”
It was Jack’s tip-in off a Cook miss with
51 seconds left that gave A&M its first lead
in the second half at 71-69. Cook had tied the
game at 69 on a three-point play with 1:39
left.
A&M had trailed by as many as 11 and was
down, 57-47, following OU forward Eduardo
Najera’s three-point play with 11:30 left to
play. Najera finished with a game-high 22
points.
A&M then went on a 9-0 run, triggered by
a Clayton three-pointer. Clayton assisted on
a three by sophomore guard Michael
Schmidt, and Cook hit two free throws to cap
the run.
A jumper and put-back off an offensive re
bound by Clayton brought A&M within two
points with 4:48 left. Clayton finished with
12 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor.
Shanne Jones finished with eight points and
a team-high eight rebounds in his Reed Are
na finale.
“It feels great,” Jones said. “Me and Chris
are seniors, and to go out on a good note is
just amazing, especially against a team that is
one of the top teams in the conference.”
Cook scored a team-high 19 points and
dished out six assists, while Schmidt finished
with nine points and seven rebounds to help
pace a balanced Aggie attack. Brown and
freshman center Joe White had eight points
each, while Jack scored eight points and pro
vided effective physical play throughout the
game.
“The payoff is when you walk in the lock
er room and see how happy the kids are,”
A&M coach Melvin Watkins said. “Tonight,
we didn’t have any quit in us.”
TERRY ROBERSON/Thk Battalion
Aggie freshman center Joe White goes up for the rebound during A&M’s 74-72
win against the University of Oklahoma Wednesday at Reed Arena.
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Aggie women fall to Sooners
22-3 run by OU, turnovers undermine A&M in first half
TERRY ROBERSON/The Battalion
#ii i Eto ., _|i or guard Kerrie Patterson recorded a team-high four assists in the Aggies’ 95-69 loss to
(the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., Wednesday night.
BY AARON COHAN
The Battalion
The University of Oklahoma was just
too much for the Texas A&M Women’s
Team Wednesday as the Sooners over
whelmed the Aggies, 95-69.
The Aggies were able to keep it close
until midway through the first half,
when Oklahoma went on a 22-3 run.
Most of the points came off A&M’s 15
first-half turnovers.
A&M coach Peggie Gillom felt the
team’s intensity level was just not as
high as the Sooners’.
“We just didn’t crank it up in the be
ginning, and they did,” Gillom said.
“That was just an old-fashioned butt-
kicking tonight.”
It was freshman LaNeisha Caufield
pacing the way for the Sooners with 20
first-half points. But her shooting was not
the only thing hurting the Aggies in the
first period, as they were unable to hit a
basket for the final 3:15 of the first half.
The second half was not much dif
ferent for A&M, as Oklahoma came out
firing. The Aggies found themselves
down by as many as 28 points thanks
to the shooting skills of Sooner forward
Phylesha Whaley, who tallied 18 of her
23 points in the second half.
A&M Women's
Game Leaders
Points leader:
Prissy Sharpe (23)
Rebound leader:
Prissy Sharpe (9)
Assists leaders:
Kim Tarkington (4)
Kerrie Patterson (4)
Coach Gillom said the Aggies’ defen
sive letdown was a major concern.
“We just didn’t get down on defense,”
she said. “We just waved at the ball as
it went by, and when they shot, we just
stood there. ”
For the Aggies, junior forward Prissy
Sharpe hit nine of 17 shots from the floor
for 23 points. Senior guard Brandy Jones
also contributed with 12 points off the
bench to keep the Aggies within striking
range.
The Aggies will finish their regular sea
son Saturday at Reed Arena when they
host the University of Colorado at 2 p.m.
A&M might be looking ahead to the
Big 12 Tournament next week for a prob
able rematch with the Sooners. The Ag
gies, who will hold the No. 12 seed in the
tournament, might get a taste for re
venge if certain Big 12 games go their
way Saturday.
Gillom said she was not sure how to
feel about a final rematch between A&M
and Oklahoma.
“I thought we were ready tonight,”
she said. “Playing them again worries
me, because if we play good tonight, I
don’t think that it is hard to beat a team
three times. Now I don’t know what to
think. ”
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