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* AGGIELIFE THE BATTALIOS » Links ! r r com Sports The Battalion Page 5 • Monday, March 3, Aggies surrender home loss to Oklahoma iewing can be intimidai- every potential employe site for executives, mao- e Wall Street Journal /helming, but Wall Streei e stories published ontk ?y most professionals and top of an employer’s lished in “How to get nee, and dewees succeed, the biggest interview tes Can Make a Good ;o find information about erbal messages that can d to look for in a poteniii t they look for today, ile, useful career tips frot. yees from being left —Sima Barn n forget the 1980s. Big vere a way of life, ocks and Converse sneaf left in people’s minds ditics and sports. ,ite features games, trivia wen offers visitors a iyout is also a step back the main color scheme, y the need for a VIP to anyone visiting, there :d. VIP membership to onth. Membership users the option tocreaif| vhile and remember a the membership fee. free sites if one is williiif —Denise Schoppi. an easily accessibldf campus informatiotf# entire month of actfy| ars with community'" the Brazos Valley, ming facilities, such as yet, students can click® about the food served® es, such as the campus il behavior statistics, ind interaction with J. ! t affairs. naps, a daily weather i lical contacts and even i idents and faculty can’t find what they're I Sooners’ guard Price leads Sooners in 69-64 victory By Blake Kimzey THE BATTALION If poster dunks counted for anything more than five points, Antoine Wright and the Texas A&M men’s basketball team (13-12, 5-9) would have walked out of Reed Arena on Saturday with a victory over the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners (20-5, 11-3). However, OU used the outside sharp shooting and tenacious defense of senior guard Hollis Price to ring in a 69-64 victory in front of 9,148 Aggies. A&M boasted a home record of 9-3 going into Saturday’s contest, and Sooner Head Coach Kelvin Sampson said he couldn’t be happier about his team’s ability to overcome Aggies at home. “The only teams that have beaten them here are the best teams in the conference,” he said. “This year is the best the Big 12 has ever been. For us to go 5-3 on the road this year, I'm very proud.” Despite a career game from A&M junior forward Tomas Ress, the Aggies found them selves in the midst of a 0-3 slide for the first time this sea son. Ress snared six boards and tied his career high for points (11) and blocks (4) as he swatted away anything within reach. Aggie Head Coach Melvin Watkins beamed with pride following the five-point loss as he discussed the consis tent play of Ress. “Tomas has been one of our steadiest players,” he said. “He's not getting enough credit. He's been playing a lot more minutes than we thought he would.” With Ress controlling the inside, OU looked to its perime ter players to put points on the board. Price and his Sooner teammates must have been inspired, as they were coming off their worst shooting per formance of the year. OU rebounded from a 27 percent outing against Missouri to scorch the Reed Arena nets with 49 percent shooting overall, and 53 percent from downtown. Senior A&M guard Bernard King said he met his match on Saturday with the assignment of guarding Price, who hit four out of five shots from behind the arc. Price slithered through the Aggie defense for 15 points in the first half, and 23 for the game. “He's pretty tough and he's quick,” King said. “Once you rest on defense, he's already shooting. I don't think that we respected him as much as we should have and he scored all those points in the first half.” King found a way to get his teammates involved as he dished out eight assists to go along with his 17 points, which shows why he is the only play er in the country to average at least 17.0 points, 5.5 assists , and 4,3 rebounds per game. Oklahoma’s Price said he is no stranger to King’s game, since the two played together in Amateur Athletic Union com petition. Price said what King has been doing, and especially against the OU defense, was impressive to watch. “This was my eighth time to play against Bernard,” Price said. “Going back AAU ball. See Sooners on page 7 JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION A&M center Tomas Ress blocks a shot from Oil's De’Angelo Alexander. A&M win extends streak to six games RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION A&IVl’s V/teni Walker returns a serve against No. 53 OSD. By Jeff Allen THE BATTALION There was only a 10 per cent chance of rain Saturday at the Texas A&M Tennis Center as the No. 33 Texas A&M women’s tennis team took on the No. 53 Oklahoma State squad in a Big 12 conference match. Still, darkening skies left no doubt that poor weather was on the way. Finally, after a three-and-a-half hour rain delay, part of a match that lasted just shy of seven hours, the Aggies (7-3, 3-1) defeated the Cowgirls (5-2, 1-2). The 5-2 win extended the Aggies’ current win streak to six games. “You never know what will happen after a rain delay,” said A&M Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke. “But, we were mentally tough and were able to work through and handle the situation.” Things started well enough for the Aggie women. The ladies claimed the doubles point with rela tive ease, capturing the matches at courts two and three with scores of 8-2 and 8-3, respectively. The duo of senior Ashley Hedberg and sophomore Lauren Walker was not able to overcome the No. 26 OSU doubles team of junior Linda Faltynkova and sophomore Katia Kolodynska. The point was important for the Aggies, as last year the ladies dropped the point in Stillwater, which cost them the match. Last year’s loss was the second in a row for the Aggies against the Cowgirls. The pair of losses had come on the heels of a seven-match winning streak against the Big 12 foe in 2002. Coming out of the break on Saturday, as the skies began to look a bit more threatening, the Cowgirls were able to make the Aggies uncomfortable. Oklahoma State captured leads at one and two, while keeping the match close on most other fronts. Junior Linda Faltynkova was able to push out to a quick 6-1 lead against Aggie opponent Jessica Roland. “(Faltynkova) played flawless in the first set,” Kleinecke said. See Streak on page 7 Woods sweeps Match Play Championship By Doug Ferguson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARLSBAD, Calif. — Tiger Woods completed his sweep of the World Golf Championships on Sunday, building a big lead and Ihen holding off a gritty comeback from David Toms to win the Match Play Championship. Leading by as many as five holes, Woods finally closed out Toms with a 3-foot par putt on the 35th to win, 2 and 1. “It was a tough day for all of us,” Woods said. It figured to be a breeze for Woods, especially after he had a 5-up lead and had 8 feet for birdie on the second hole. Toms rolled in a 35-foot birdie putt to swing the momentum, and slowly pieced together a charge that made Woods look vulnerable. Woods won a record three straight U.S. Junior Amateur titles and three straight U.S. Amateurs, but he was 0-4 as a professional. That changed during a dominant week at La Costa, where he made only five bogeys on a tough course and played only 112 holes, the fewest of any winner in the five-year history of the tournament. He also became the first player to win all four of the World Golf Championships since their inception in 1999 — three times the NEC Invitational, twice the American Express Championship and the 2000 World Cup with David Duval. The missing piece was the Accenture Match Play Championship, a format Woods enjoys the most. He finally showed why, hitting smart shots down the- stretch when his game was off and making Toms come after him. Woods won for the 36th time on the PGA Tour and earned $1,050,000, his largest paycheck on tour. Since returning from knee sur gery after a two-month rehab. Woods has won twice and tied for fifth. His game looks better than ever as he starts preparing for the Masters. Toms, who missed the cut his pre vious two tournaments, made $600,000. “Tell me this: If we’re all on our games and they’re hitting three less clubs than me, who’s got the better chance?” Toms said at Hazeltine after playing the first round with Woods and Ernie Els. That’s exactly how it shaped up at La Costa. SPORTS IN BRIEF Women's basketball team falls to Lady Bears in final home game The Texas A&M women's basketball team was blown out by Baylor University in the Aggies' final game at Reed Arena this season. The 97-54 loss was the fourth straight for A&M (10-16, 3-12 Big 12). Aggie seniors Lara Classen and Tressie Mason were honored prior to the game, as it was the last home game for the pair. Baylor (18-9, 6-9 Big 12) kept itself in position for a postseason berth with the victory. The Lady Bears led by as many as 27 points against A&M. BU's Sophia Young provided 26 points and 12 rebounds for her team. No. 21 Aggies win tournament, Collins breaks home run record A&M junior Lindsey Wilhelmson led the Aggies' softball team to its third straight tournament victo ry at the Stanford Classic when she hit a bases- clearing double in the top of the eighth inning. The hit gave A&M a 3-1 victory over No. 12 Georgia University along with the tournament title. Senior catcher Selena Collins broke A&M's school record for home runs over the weekend. Collins hit two long balls during the tournament, moving her self to 35 in her career. Collins broke the A&M record previously set by Liz Mera from 1985-1988. Baseball team loses to Arizona The Texas A&M men's baseball team lost Game 3, 17-1, to Arizona on Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. The win was the Wildcats second in a three-game series with the Aggies. The Aggies scored first on Sunday when single by senior Jordy Mitchell scored junior Matt Alexander in the top of the first inning. 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