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Markeisha Johnson
Markeisha Johnson notched her first double-digit rebounding effort as a Star on Saturday.
51
Oklahoma City OCU
74
Winner Texas A&M TAMU
Oklahoma City OCU
51
Final
74
Texas A&M TAMU
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Oklahoma City OCU 17 34 51
Texas A&M TAMU 42 32 74

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

OCU takes 74-51 exhibition loss to Texas A&M

Defending national champion Stars faced Texas A&M for fourth time in six years


COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Top-ranked Oklahoma City University suffered a 74-51 setback to Texas A&M on Saturday at Reed Arena.
Rateska Brown, a senior from Alvin, S.C., posted a game-high 19 points and four 3-pointers for the Stars, ranked No. 1 in NAIA Division I women's basketball. Tori Scott led Texas A&M, ranked fifth in NCAA Division I, with 13 points.
Oklahoma City's Kara Partridge, a freshman from Midwest City, Okla., added 10 points and a pair of treys. Markeisha Johnson, a junior from Mansura, La., pulled in a game-high 15 rebounds, seven on the offensive end.
The defending national champion Stars outscored A&M 34-32 in the second period. OCU scored the final points of the game when Cara Neighbors sank a 3 with 10 seconds left.
"We were very proud of our entire team's effort and hustle," OCU coach Latricia Trammell said. "Playing a team like Texas A&M gives us a chance to work on things offensively and defensively at a high pace against a team of high-caliber players."
Johnson's layup provided OCU with its largest lead of the game 4-2 at the 18:33 mark of the first half. The Stars last led 7-6 on Brown's trey with 17:10 left in the first.
"We played a little more zone than I wanted, but we needed to give A&M different looks defensively to help prepare them and prepare ourselves going into our season," Trammell said. "We saw a lot of exciting things about our team and things that we need to master to reach our team goals."
Partridge tied the game 10-10 with a 3. The Aggies answered with an 11-0 run. Scott had four points during the run. Taylor Cooper's trey extended A&M's lead to 19-10, then Jordan Jones scored in transition to put A&M ahead 21-10 with 7:51 left in the first.
The Aggies' lead grew to 27 points early in the second half. OCU cut its deficit to 21 on a couple of occasions.
"Oklahoma City has some very good, talented guards that handled our press pretty good, but we've seen what we have to work on," Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said. "I thought our press was pretty ineffective. I wanted to do the press for conditioning purposes, because we're going to need this against DePaul. They're going to press us for 40 minutes.
"Basically, we could've got a few more turnovers at the end if I would have stayed in it. By then, I wanted to see if we could play half-court defense in the last team minutes. They outscored us second half so obviously, we've got a little work to do."
OCU moves on to Austin, Texas, for a 2 p.m. exhibition against Texas on Sunday. Watch the game on Longhorn Network, which is Cox channel 274 in the Oklahoma City metro area.
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