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Wd 4TTJ in Sports The Battalion Page IB • Thursday, March 4, 2004 SPORTS IN BRIEF Iklahoma beats ngies, 86-60 pe University of Oklahoma vis basketball team got one I closer to an NCAA tourna- it bid while Texas A&M took more step towards a winless jrd when Oklahoma defeated i 86-60, Wednesday night in man, Okla. 1| loss is the 15th straight the Aggies (7-19, 0-15 Big who - unless they can beat 12 champion Oklahoma tein Stillwater — will become second team in Big 12 his- ftogo winless in conference lylor University first met distinction in the 1998-99 in. Sooners (17-9, 7-8) went Ja21-2 run to start the game on M<i f the first 9:37 on their way 35-20 halftime led. ahoma junior forward lie Gilbert led the Sooners 12 points in the half, a eer-high. ilbert finished the game A&M loses by 1 in last home game tureofH irst reels foi g none, ti 12 points and 5 rebounds. u-Prince :s tiopeik would ebels % are ton i protect id they! :o protect we w ilippe rture came out q U j ck j n the )een ®l ! ;ond half pulling within 11 (its on a three-point field ,con [ llllli j] by sophomore guard/for- & if. rd Antoine Wright, his first of the game. light finished with 12 points, was as close as the would get as the Sooners with a 124 run. ,J ieshman guard La Keith nks had 11 points and a srtiigh seven rebounds for Aggies while senior forward setting led A&M with 13 rtsandsix rebounds. I will take on Oklahoma at 12:3 p.m. Saturday at iaglier-lba Arena. By Jordan Meserole THE BATTALION The Texas A&M women’s basketball team’s season finale Wednesday was like a movie: The outcome of the game was decided by a single shot as time expired. The ending wasn’t happy for the Aggies, though, who lost 61-60 to the University of Missouri. After handing the Aggies (9-18, 2-14 Big 12) the loss, the Tigers (16-11, 7-9) also spoiled the scheduled senior night and A&M head coach Gary Blair appre ciation night. “I’m sorry for my seniors that they didn’t finish off on a high note,” Blair said. “I, however, am not sorry for the show we gave to the fans.” The Aggies started-the game by jump ing out to a quick 6-0 lead over the Tigers. But Missouri slowly caught up to the Aggie pace, eventually tying the score 10 minutes into the first half. Two free-throws by Missouri senior guard Tracy Lozier gave the Tigers the lead, which they didn’t relinquish the rest of the half. Blair said A&M let Missouri grab the lead because the team wasn’t rebounding well. The Tigers had 10 more rebounds than A&M in the first half, with nine on the defensive side. “You don’t have to be taller or bigger to rebound - it’s all attitude,” Blair said. “We didn’t grab them when we should have and it hurt us.” The Aggies came out strong in the sec ond half, cutting Missouri’s lead to three points in the first five minutes. A&M would battle with the Tigers, until recap turing the lead after a layup by A&M jun ior guard Mindy Garrison. The lead would change sides four more times in a two minutes. Missouri senior guard Evan O'Connell • THE BATTALION Texas A&M senior forwards Lynn Classen and Janae Derrick and guard Toccara Williams are honored before the Aggies’ last home game of the season Wednesday. A&M lost to Missouri, 61-60. MyEsha Perkins, who finished the night with a team-high 16 points, kept the game close by scoring all of Missouri’s points in that two-minute span. “I really like the way we answered them,” said Missouri head coach Cindy Stein. “They would go up. but we would show that we weren't going to quit. Any time you play a Gary Blair team it’s going to be a battle.” The Tigers held a lead until the last minute of the game, when A&M junior guard Charlette Castile nailed a wide- open three pointer to tie the game at 58. With Missouri ahead by a point, A&M senior guard Toccara Williams attempted a layup with two seconds remaining, but was whistled for a charging foul. Blair said a foul should have been called on Missouri when A&M senior forward Lynn Classen was knocked to the ground instead of the charging call on Williams. “I’m not saying a thing about the offi ciating at all,” Blair said. “I’m just say ing it’s a foul one way or the other.” oftball games stponed Feds were told Bonds, others received steroids A&M softball’s double- scheduled for 5 p.m. I p.m. against the smayi* 0 * Texas-Arlington aim t)ii feday has been post- 44, a |2- ueddueto rain in Arlington. commaiLlie doubleheader will be s." Muled for 5 p.m. and 7 :o rebuii i, Tuesday to be played at 1995,a luSaxe Field in Arlington. 20,00(1 lie No. 23 Aggies lost to litaryw a S state University, 9-6, in emocrati Hast game Tuesday. :ndence. :r cities a lis agree daratii .ssador By Rob Gloster THE ASSOCIATED PRESS From spring training club houses in Florida and Arizona to the Park Avenue office of major league baseball, everyone was talking about steroids — 1 except for Barry Bonds and a few other players. Bonds was silent when asked about a report that he received steroids and human growth hor mone from a nutritional supple ments lab implicated in a drug- distribution ring. Also avoiding the subject were fellow stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield. In New York. Congressman John E. Sweeney went to the steps of the baseball commis sioner’s office to discuss his legislation to criminalize some steroidlike substances and to say players “involved in illegal substances” should have an asterisk placed next to their names in the record book. Citing information it said was given to federal investiga tors, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday that Bonds was given the substances by his personal trainer — who got them from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. According to the newspaper, investigators also were told that steroids were given to New York Yankees stars Giambi and Sheffield, three other major lea guers and one NFL player. Trainer Greg Anderson gave the players the drugs from BALCO, according to infor mation given to the govern ment and shared with the newspaper. The report did not say how federal investigators received the information. Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield repeatedly have denied using steroids, and last week Bonds said baseball could “test me every day if they choose to.” All testified last year before the grand jury that indicted Anderson and three others in the alleged steroid-distribution ring. THG, one of the steroids in the investigation, was not made illegal until recent months, and while the possession and sale of human growth hormone without a prescription is a crime, its per sonal use is not. Steroids were not banned by major league baseball until late 2002 and testing with penalties didn’t begin until this month. Human growth hormone is not banned by baseball because there is no test for it, according to Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president for labor relations. 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