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Women Fall to No. 3 OCUOKLAHOMA CITY – The battle between the Sooner Athletic Conference’s top two scorers provided plenty of individual scoring. But the University of Science and Arts came up short in both areas last night as Katie Sterling finished five points shy of Oklahoma City’s Mariam Sy, and the team fell 75-47 Thursday night at Abe Lemons Arena. Sy, the SAC’s leading scorer, led all scorers with 23 points and 10 rebounds in 25 minutes of action. She scored nine of OCU’s first 13 points as USAO fell behind 13-7 through the first seven minutes of the game. OCU led by as many as 10 points early until three-pointers by Stephanie Russell and Christina Brown cut the deficit back down to four points midway through the first half. But during a six-minute stretch before halftime, eight different OCU players scored pushing its lead to 31-15 with 5:14 left. USAO trailed 42-23 at halftime and shot only 28 percent from the floor in the second half leading to the team’s second consecutive loss. Sterling, the conference’s second-leading scorer, finished with a team-high 18 points while Nikki Yager hit 5-of-6 from the floor including the first two USAO buckets to finish with 11 points. Brown knocked down two three-pointers on the night and posted eight points. USAO fell to 14-10 overall and 7-8 in the conference. The team returns to the USAO Fieldhouse on Saturday for the home finale against Oklahoma Christian beginning at 6 p.m. ### |