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Page IB • Thursday, March 4, 2004
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Iklahoma beats
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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.
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lie Gilbert led the Sooners
12 points in the half, a
eer-high.
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setting led A&M with 13
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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
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aim t)ii feday has been post-
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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.
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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.
Still, major league baseball
was concerned about the impli
cations of the newspaper report.
“We are very distressed
about any situation that calls
See Steroids on page 3B
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