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Home Of Champions|73 National Championships
Daniela Wallen
Daniela Wallen produced 22 points and 13 rebounds.
65
Oklahoma City OCU
75
Winner Texas A&M TAMU
Oklahoma City OCU
65
Final
75
Texas A&M TAMU
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Oklahoma City OCU 12 19 26 8 65
Texas A&M TAMU 21 17 16 21 75

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Texas A&M rallies past OCU 75-65

Stars hold five-point lead with 8:59 left in contest

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Oklahoma City University fell short to Texas A&M 75-65 on Saturday at Reed Arena in a women's basketball exhibition.
Oklahoma City built a seven-point lead with 1:05 left in the third quarter and a five-point edge with 8:59 remaining in the game. Daniela Wallen, a senior from Caracas, Venezuela, powered the Stars, ranked 19th in NAIA Division I, with 22 points, 13 rebounds and three steals.
Daniela Galindo, a junior from Shattuck, Okla., provided OCU with 14 points, four rebounds and six assists, while Brooke Irwin, a junior from Mustang, Okla., added 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.
"I really thought we handled their pressure well early in the game," Oklahoma City coach Bo Overton said. "We need to be able to not turn the ball over to give them easy baskets. We got off to a pretty good start, but we have a lot of work to do."
The Stars shot 48.2 percent from the field in the game and 52 percent in the first half. OCU outrebounded Texas A&M 23-20. The Aggies hit 43.7 percent of their shots from the floor in the game and 39.5 percent in the second half.
"Brooke and Alexis Hill did a good job helping us on the inside," Overton said. "Daniela Galindo and Daniela Wallen made plays, and I was impressed with Mariana Duran. I am proud of NaShyla Hammons having to step in and help because of injuries. I thought Leah Cheney gave us good minutes at the point."
Danni Williams tallied 19 points to lead Texas A&M, ranked 23rd in the NCAA Division I USA Today coaches poll. Texas A&M had five double-digit scorers.
"Give them a lot of credit," Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said. "They were running their offense, spreading the floor, doing a good job and we were just allowing the passes to be made. The Wallen kid, she's a D-I player. She's playing NAIA, but that kid could play Division I for a lot of teams and just give that kid a lot of credit."
The Stars went on a 13-0 run early in the third quarter. Irwin fueled the OCU uprising with six points. Wallen added four points, including two free throws to give her team a 44-38 lead at the 4:33 mark of the third. Galindo's transition bucket provided the Stars their largest lead at 55-48 with 1:51 to go in the third quarter.
Texas A&M outscored OCU 21-8 in the final period. Wallen's fastbreak jumper made the Stars' lead 62-57 with 8:59 to go. A&M responded with a 16-0 burst. Curtyce Knox's free throws put the Aggies ahead for good, breaking a 62-62 tie with 7:15 left.
"I think adversity is what this team is going to have to respond to, and I think we did a good job late in the third quarter," Blair said. "I started calling Danni's number, because everybody else was missing wide open shots. Danni started that string at the end of the third quarter and carried on to the fourth, and so I just kept calling the number."
The Stars play their second and final exhibition of the season against Oklahoma, ranked 16th in the NCAA according to the Associated Press, at 7 p.m. Monday in Norman, Okla.
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