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CARTER BAUMFor the Oklahoma Daily

As April approaches in Oklahoma, so do spring showers and thunderstorms, and one OU program is gearing up to help prepare emergency managers across Oklahoma for the severe weather outbreaks to come.

The OK-FIRST program, an outreach program of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, teaches public safety officials how to detect severe weather and the potential for severe weather using weather radar information and data, said Christopher Fiebrich, associate director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.

OK-FIRST courses help train emergency managers from around Oklahoma on various weather hazards like severe storms, flooding, and winter weather so they can make bet-ter decisions for their communities, Fiebrich also stated.

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Sooners have until Friday to com-plete early bird registration for OU’s National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education this May.

The conference has taken place for

26 years and will be held from May 28 to June 1 in New Orleans, La., said Justin Lincks, an OU program coordinator for the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, which launched the conference.

“This conference excites me because we address a wide range of issues,” Lincks said.

It’s different from other confer-ences because it is an open forum, Lincks said. Instead of the government

choosing the topics, the attendees pick what they want to hear.

Anyone interested in race or ethnici-ty is encouraged to attend, Lincks said.

“Students, faculty, advisors, anyone is welcome. We have a very dynam-ic group of people every year,” Lincks said.

The conference is expected to see a rise in attendance and hasn’t seen a decline since a recession in 2008, Lincks said.

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NADIA J. ENCHASSICampus reporter

On the way to class, Chr is Johns on taste d copper in his mouth. He was sweating and breath-ing abnormally. He had felt a little off all day and struggled to keep him-self together. It had been a full 24 hours since he’d run out of his medication.

B e f o r e h e even had time t o g e t c o n -c e r n e d , h e blacked out.

Johnson ex-p e r i e n c e d a seizure around 5 p . m . o n We d n e s d ay , M a r c h 6 during a social m o v e m e n t s c o u r s e i n Copeland Hall, room 244. Emergency ve-hicles arrived at the site within 10 to 15 minutes of the incident, and he was carried out on a stretcher.

“My classmates, profes-sor and the paramedics were all so responsive and comforting,” Johnson said.

Johnson has a history of non-epileptic seizures, but he was sure he wouldn’t make it out of this one alive, he said.

“I’ve never been more scared in my life,” Johnson said.

A seizures is a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain that affects how a person acts or behaves for an amount of time, accord-ing to the epilepsy website. In some cases, people pass out. In other cases, they just

feel abnormal. Most seizures last a few seconds to a few minutes, a c c o r d i n g t o the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

This time, like the last t imes, Jo h n s o n w o ke up. His tongue h u r t a n d w a s bleeding. He had sensitive spots all over his body

that would later bruise. He couldn’t recall much of what happened before or after the incident, yet countless thoughts raced through his mind.

“I couldn’t even remem-ber what month it was,” Johnson said. “I mostly just thought about all the things I would have missed out on – growing spiritually, getting

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Two OU researchers have se-quenced the genome of some of the most primitive living vertebrates to understand how characteristics of more advanced species developed and to possibly help scientists under-stand cancer.

The sea lamprey is an eel-like fish with a soft skeleton, very rudimen-tary jaws and two dorsal finfolds, ac-cording to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute website.

These characteristics are exactly what make this species so important to the researchers who sequenced its genome — Sandra Clifton, faculty re-search scientist for the department of chemistry/biochemistry, and biology professor David McCauley.

McCaule y was charg e d w ith gathering samples from the liv-e r s o f 1 5 m a t u r e l a m p r e y s a t California Institute of Technology, he said. Those samples were sent to Washington University, where the se-quencing was actually done.

Lampreys and hagfish are the only living vertebrates that don’t have jaws, making them the most primi-tive, McCauley said. Scientists study-ing vertebrate development find it important to study lampreys to see how more advanced characteristics developed in vertebrates.

Lampreys also lack a sympathetic nervous system and myelin on their nerves, despite having most of the proteins required for the creation of myelin, McCauley said.

Sea lampreys are easier to study than other primitive species because they are very easy to find, McCauley said. They are an invasive species in the great lakes, so there is an eco-nomic and ecological reason to study them.

Despite the abundance of samples, there were some difficulties with the project because of the highly repeti-tive nature of the lamprey genome, Clifton said. The more repeating se-quences there are in a genome, the harder it is for the computer to pro-cess it. Thirty percent of the lamprey genome repeats, which is more than four times as much as a human’s, Clifton said.

Another problem was that in the beginning stages of its life, a lam-prey has more DNA than it does as an adult, and the researchers didn’t know about this before beginning the project, Clifton said.

“As the organism uses whatever genes it needs in that particular stage, then these two repeats come togeth-er, and they loop out unnecessary DNA,” Clifton said.

The genome loses about 20 percent of its DNA from fertilization to matu-rity, Clifton said.

This happens very early, at around three days of development, McCauley said.

With the data McCauley and Clifton have now, they could create a fairly decent genome, Clifton said.

“But there’s a lot more work that needs to be done,” Clifton said.

However, the data they have now could help them draw conclusions about other issues, Clifton said.

The chromosomal rearrangement that occurs in the early life stages of a lamprey is similar to the chromo-somal rearrangement that happens in cancer cells, Clifton said. Future studies of lamprey DNA could help in the study and understanding of cancer.

Lampreys are also rudimentary enough to be used for the study of the development of axes of symmetry, McCauley said.

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sea lampreythe sea lamprey, or Petromyzon marinus, is a primitive, jawless fi sh that lives in salt water but spawns in fresh water. in recent years, they have invaded the Great Lakes. they feed on large fi sh by latching onto their sides with their sucker-like mouths and feeding off of their bodily fl uids.

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“Our goal with this pro-gram is to train our emergen-cy managers how to make good decisions with weath-er information, especially with radar data,” said James Hocker, OK-FIRST program director.

The program complet-ed one of its certification training programs before spring break at the National Weather Center.

OK-FIRST has two training seasons during the year, one before the spring and one be-fore the winter storm season, Hocker said.

“We give them a lot of edu-cation on how to use weather radar to make good decisions during those tough spring and winter storm seasons,” Hocker said.

He also mentioned that graduates of the program walk away with access to the most recent weather infor-mation at their fingertips.

Once the managers com-plete the course, they have the certification and will be able to keep the communi-ty members safe, said Chris Wilkens, Quapaw tribe emer-gency manager.

“There’s a lot of informa-tion you’re receiving,” he said. “We do activities every-day and have critical events where we need to know what the weather is doing now, what it’s going to do, and also the prediction factor along with that.”

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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Big change is coming to the lives of the lesbian cou-ple at the center of the fight for same-sex marriage in California no matter how the Supreme Court decides their case.

After 13 years of rais-ing four boys together, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are about to be empty nesters. Their youngest two chil-dren, 18-year-old twins, will graduate from high school in June and head off to col-lege a couple of months later.

“We’ll see all the movies, get theater season tickets because you can actually go,” Stier said in the living room of their bungalow in Berkeley. Life will not re-volve quite so much around food, and the challenge of putting enough of it on the table to feed teenagers.

They might also get mar-ried, if the high court case goes their way.

P e r r y , 4 8 , and Stier, 50, set aside their lunch hour on a recent busy Friday to talk to The Associated P r e s s a b o u t their Supreme Court case, the evolution of their activism for gay rights and family life.

On Tuesday, they plan to be in the courtroom when t h e i r l aw ye r, Th e o d o re Olson, tries to persuade the justices to strike down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages and to declare that gay cou-ples can marry nationwide.

Supporters of California’s Proposition 8, represented by lawyer Charles Cooper, argue that the court should not override the democrat-ic process and impose a ju-dicial solution that would redefine marriage in the 40 states that do not allow same-sex couples to wed.

A second case, set for Wednesday, involves the part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that pre-vents same-sex couples who are legally married from re-ceiving a range of feder-al tax, pension and other benefits that otherwise are available to married people.

The Supreme Court hear-ing is the moment Perry and Stier, along with Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank, have been waiting for since they agreed four years ago to be the named plaintiffs and public faces of a well-fund-ed, high-profile effort to challenge Proposition 8 in the courts.

“For the past four years, we’ve lived our l i v e s i n t h i s hurry-up-and-wait, pins-and-needles way,” P e r r y s a i d , recal l ing the crush of court deadlines and the seeming-ly endless wait f o r r u l i n g s from a federal district judge,

the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also based there, and the California Supreme Court.

Stier said Olson told them the case could take several years to resolve. “I thought, years?” she said.

But the couple has been riding a marriage roller-coaster since 2003, when Perry first asked Stier to

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my degree, telling every-one how much I love them and going on at least one more date with this sweet girl named Kara.”

Johnson, 29, is a first-year graduate student in public administration and a graduate assistant to ca-reer services at OU.

“People who experience seizures are often so em-barrassed to the point that they stop going out and living their life,” Johnson said. “It shouldn’t be like that. Seizures are unfortu-nate and serious, but they just happen, and there’s nothing to be ashamed

about.”Epilepsy and seizures

a f f e c t a b o u t 3 m i l l i o n Americans of every age,

costing about $17.6 billion annually, according to sta-tistics from the Epilepsy Foundation.

Also, about 10 percent of the American population will experience a seizure sometime in their lifetime, according to the website’s statistics.

Johnson said he knows people with diagnosed ep-ilepsy who feel inferior be-cause of their condition. That sense of inferiority should be replaced with em-powerment, Johnson said.

“Each time it’s over is just another chance for us who experience seizures to be happy and thank God that we get to live yet another day,” Johnson said.

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Same-sex marriage may be allowed in Calif.

At A GLAnCeseizures• 300,000 people have a first convulsion each year.

• 120,000 people are under age 18.

• Between 75,000 and 100,000 of people are children under the age of 5 who have experienced a febrile (fever-caused) seizure.

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Jessica skrebes of Washington reads while waiting in line with others outside of the U.s. supreme Court in Washington saturday in anticipation of tuesday’s supreme Court hearing on California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, and Wednesday’s supreme Court hearing on the federal Defense of marriage act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

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“For the past four years, we’ve

lived our lives in this hurry-up-and-wait, pins-and-needles

way.”KrIs perry

marry her. They were plan-ning a symbolic, but not le-gally recognized, wedding when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered city officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex cou-ples in 2004. So they were married, but only briefly. Six months later, the state Supreme Court invalidated the same-sex unions.

They went ahead with their plans anyway, but “it was one of the sadder points of our wedding,” Perry said.

L e s s t h a n f o u r y e a r s later, however, the same s t a t e c o u r t ov e r t u r n e d California’s prohibition on same-sex unions. Then, on the same day Perry and Stier rejoiced in President Barack Obama’s election, voters ap-proved Proposition 8, undo-ing the court ruling and de-fining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

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Our View: Students’ comments on a public blog used in class should be treated with the same weight as comments made in the classrom.

A University of Central Oklahoma stu-dent says she was threatened with ex-pulsion after writing a post on her blog criticizing other students in her class. The post, entitled “An Open Letter To Obnoxious Girls: Stupidity Isn’t Cute!,” did not refer to specific students but was viewed as disruptive by the professor teaching the class.

On her blog, Olanrewaju Suleiman said, “If you’re ‘husband searching,’ keep that to yourself,” and “I’m pretty sure there are a good chunk of people that want to strangle you into silence.” The post since has been taken down, but you can see a screenshot of the post on a video on newsok.com.

It would be easy to say Suleiman’s post should be protected as free speech, but threatening lan-guage in a public forum about students in your class is inappropriate and dangerous. Students and faculty should treat public blog posts the same way they treat speech in the classroom.

An article on newsok.com says the post was on her “personal blog,” but Suleiman’s blog also was used for her blogging for journalists class. In the

post, she speaks about three unnamed “girls” in the blogging class, according to a report by the

Student Press Law Center. The teacher of the class, Terry Clark, and the department chair met with Suleiman and instructed her to remove the post and apologize to the students.

Suleiman says she was threatened with expulsion during the meeting, according to the newsok.com article and law center report. If she was, the teacher and admin-

istrator were clearly overstepping their bounds. Suleiman’s actions were inappropriate, but she certainly should not be expelled.

If the Suleiman’s post was made on a private Facebook page, it would certainly fall under free speech protections, but the blog was used for her class and should be treated as speech made in the class and in public. Suleiman addressed the post directly to three easily identifiable students who likely were to read the post because of its use in the blogging class. If any student went into class tomorrow and said, “I am sure there are some people who want to strangle girls who talk like idi-ots,” that student could expect disciplinary action.

UCO’s code of conduct supports this assess-ment. It explicitly forbids verbal abuse, threats

and bullying (verbal, physical or cyber).Suleiman’s post improperly degraded students

she thought acted dumb — this is intellectual bul-lying based on her perceptions of the womens’ behavior. The language in her post clearly shows Suleiman was not directly threatening the women in her class, but she did attempt to shame her classmates in a public forum.

In her response to the incident, Suleiman said she took down the blog post even though she didn’t think she had done anything wrong, calling the post a “lighthearted joke,” according to the law center’s report. But the women targeted by the post weren’t laughing.

It is surprising Suleiman, a journalism student, would be flippant about the power of the written word. Actions have consequences. As students of a university, we share some responsibility for the safety of those around us.

The comments of the women in Suleiman’s class, although annoying, did not threaten her in any way. But Suleiman’s comments talking about physical violence crossed the line.

Bullying, in any form, cannot be tolerated from any student.

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Overprescribed? Maybe, but anti-depressants and

other modern medicines don’t deserve the bashing they have received in the past few years. It is easy to find the horror stories of an Attention Deficit Disorder patient developing an Adderall addiction, but discounting life changing medicines because of side effects and worst-case scenar-ios is short sighted. Antidepressants and other mental health medications are medicine, and like other medi-cines, they help control and cure real and harmful diseas-es and disorders.

Rather than leave me worrying over change, the explo-sion of prescription drugs over the past few decades ex-cites me.

It is easy to appeal to the sentiment that antidepres-sants are a shortcut to mental stability or that medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a sign of

our society’s decreasing attention span. However, it also is possible that these drugs are helpful and that depres-sion and attention focus disorders are real, biological conditions.

Nearly 8 percent of adults age 18 to 25 suffer from se-rious mental illness, according to a 2008 study by the National Institute of Mental Health. The institute found almost 35,000 people committed suicide in 2007 alone, three times more than drunk driving fatalities for the same year.

These numbers are especially disturbing considering less than 60 percent of sufferers receive any kind of men-tal health treatment, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

No, we don’t know the best way to solve these prob-lems, but it doesn’t mean we can’t try.

Doctors have determined that the relatively small risks of prescription drugs are outweighed by the potential life changing (or saving) effects, according to the World Federation for Mental Health, and who am I to disagree with them?

I look forward to a better understanding of the human consciousness and anticipate a medical revolution

focused on improving the quality of life. Psychotherapy alongside psychiatric medications will

become more advanced, accurate, and gain the ability to improve millions of lives. And no substance should be off the table.

Doctors researching the use of MDMA, a form of ec-stasy, to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be allowed to expand their findings into legal practices and the same can be said for those researching the use of LSD or ayahuasca to treat alcoholism. We should be exploring new ways to treat mental illness, not curtailing the use of drugs we know are effective.

We are probably doing some things wrong, but progress into the understanding of human life is an ongoing effort. Depression is ugly and there is no perfect cure, but what we have can save lives.

There is no reason why a ‘natural’ life is better than one aided with prescriptions, and as cultural stigma associat-ed with antidepressants erodes, the future only becomes brighter.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh is a University College freshman.

Nobody plays with me anymore. Sometimes, I sit

and stare at my favorite shoelace, lifelessly draped over the handrail of the rarely used treadmill in the spare bedroom. There was a time when I would have tapped it with my paw and brought it to life myself, but these days I just don’t have the motivation to do so.

Things that used to bring me pleasure now just seem like reminders of my loneliness. I don’t feel like playing.

Last month, I barely moved. I got up once a day or so to relieve myself in the potted plant in the living room, but then I went right back to the arm of the sofa. My servants, the large, beige things that wait on me, barely noticed. They constantly used to clean me, feed me and entertain me, but nowadays I’m starting to think I’m nothing more than a litter box to clean and a food bowl to fill as far as the help is concerned. I’m invisible, and why shouldn’t I be? I even bore myself.

The smallest beige thing, the one with the squeaky voice, likes to throw my jingle ball across the floor from time to time, but lately I just ignore it.

It can chase the jingle ball itself if it thinks chasing things is so great; I don’t have the energy, and even if I did, what would be the point? Life would be dull and uninteresting again as soon as the game was over. The jingle ball is a waste of time.

Last week, the big servant, the one who usually feeds

me, put me in a box and took me on a car ride. Instead of putting up a loud fight and moaning in discontent like I used to do, I let it do whatev-er it wanted with me. Nothing could be worse than this place, though I seriously doubt any-place else is going to be any better.

When it opened my box, another beige blob in a white coat looked at my eyes with a light, stole a vial full of my blood and stuck a ther-mometer in my butt. The last time this hap-pened, I scratched the servant in the white coat with all my indignant fury, but this time I just grumbled. Whatever.

For the last couple of days, after eating my dinner, the servants have been holding me down and shoving a little yellow ball down my throat. Either they are trying to kill me or they think I’m one of them. Typical.

I’ve noticed that, since I’ve started taking the balls, I feel like playing a bit more. Just yester-day I took it upon myself to knock my jingle ball across the kitchen floor and chase it. I almost purred but stopped myself.

After they forced the ball down my throat today, I had an epiphany. Maybe it’s not I that is boring; maybe it’s they. Maybe I’m not the lazy one; maybe they just took me on as a responsibility when I was little and cute, and now that I’m grown and exert my own inde-pendence, they don’t want to take the time to play with me like they should. Maybe the balls are enabling them to con-tinue to be lazy, selfish things.

I guess if I’m to be ignored, the balls are better than

nothing. It seems absurd, though, considering all I really want is to be exercised and mentally stimulated properly. Oh well. If they were smarter, they wouldn’t be my ser-vants, would they?

Trent Cason is an English literary and cultural studies senior.

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OUDaily.com ››“Olympus Has Fallen” creates a realistic vision of the destruction of the U.S. government through modern warfare.

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Freddie Highmore plays Norman Bates in the new A&E series “Bates Motel.”

at a gLance‘Bates Motel’

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A&E’s new series “Bates Motel” premiered March

18 featuring a modern Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) psychopath on the loose.

The new drama, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960), has all the similarities of the genre-de-fining original. However, the narrative of the new TV show takes place in cur-rent time, iPhones and all other modern technologies included.

Ever wondered how infa-mous Norman Bates ended up at that spooky motel in California? “Bates Motel” focuses on Norman’s life as a teenager working at the motel with his moth-er, Norma (Vera Farmiga). After her husband un-explainably dies, Norma moves to sunny California with her son in hopes of a better life … but we all know how their story ends.

Unfortunately for the Bates, new beginnings ar-en’t so easy. Norman’s val-iant efforts aren’t enough to satisfy his over-bearing and controlling mother. Norman tries to build some

kind of a social life, sneaks out of the house and ends up at a party with pretty girls, but before long, a ruthless intruder attacks Norma in her new home. After several torturous moments, Norman finally comes to rescue his mother from a brutal rapist.

Angry with Norman for leaving her alone at home, Norma takes out her frus-trations on her attacker. She charges the man with a knife in a scene closely resembling that famous shower scene in the origi-nal film.

This series appears to be more intense than I had an-ticipated. If you are expect-ing the show to be a thriller, you may be surprised at

what is yet to come with the series. In the pilot epi-sode, Norman finds a book of drawings of tortured Asian women, probably something we can expect Norman to do to his new fe-male friends.

It seems as though A&E is trying to compete with other successful horror shows like “American Horror Story,” “The Walking Dead” or “Dexter.” If that’s your kind of thing, then you might want to stick with the show and see where it goes.

Erica Laub is a film and media studies and sociology junior.

For a man, dress-ing well isn’t always about

wearing the coolest new fashions or the most ex-pensive clothing. Most of it comes down to skill, knowledge and taste. Style must be honed, and among the most import-ant aspects to master is

how to properly layer your clothing.This is what separates the men from the boys. If you

want to look good, you must learn to layer, because you can only do so much with your random shirt and mis-matched jacket. It’s also a great way to deal with the fluc-tuating temperatures of Oklahoma weather.

The first thing to understand about layers is the order in which they’re worn. As a general rule, the thinnest, most comfortable items go closest to your body, and as you work your way out, the clothing should get thicker. A great example is the classic three-piece suit. On the inside is the shirt, beyond that is the vest and on the out-side is the jacket.

Beyond the order, color and pattern are of utmost importance. Make sure your colors complement. You should stick with three or four major colors in your outfit, and none should clash. For instance, don’t wear red and burgundy together. Regarding patterns, keep things sim-ple. Though the current trend puts pattern on pattern, this look has its limits. Pairing two or more loud patterns can look downright tacky.

When layering, there are a number of solid outfits to work with. The simplest is one of the most casual, but it can work well. Start with a T-shirt base, add a collared shirt and then a jacket. If it warms up, you can strip to your T-shirt, but if you get cold, you can close up your jacket. Flannel shirts and other thick materials work well in this case. As for the jacket, just about any type can look good.

If you want to look more formal, try going for a collared shirt, a cardigan or sweater and a blazer. This combina-tion looks sharp, but stays casual, particularly if you pair it with jeans. I find this outfit also is practical, as you will look put-together whether you keep the jacket and the

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Junior first baseman Matt Oberste’s hit streak sits at 26 games, one shy of tying an program record.

Jono GrecoAssistant Sports Editor

The No. 17 Oklahoma baseball team made its first statement toward Big 12 su-premacy after defeating TCU, 4-3, in 10 innings Sunday to sweep the series.

The conference’s coaches voted the Sooners (22-4, 3-0 Big 12) and Horned Frogs (9-14, 1-5 Big 12) during the pre-season to finish first and sec-ond in the conference, with the Sooners tabbed to take home the Big 12 crown. And when the two teams met this weekend, it was coach Sunny Golloway’s squad that came out on top.

The Sooners completed the mission they set out to accomplish, sweeping the series — winning 3-2 in 12 in-nings Friday and 3-1 Saturday — as a step toward, as many players said Saturday and Sunday, winning the Big 12 championship.

“(The Horned Frogs) came in expecting to be the big dog, and we put it on them three games in a row,” freshman left fielder Hunter Haley said.

Haley sent Sooner f a n s h o m e hap py in the bottom of the 10th when he lifted a 1-2 pitch into deep center to score ju-nior first baseman Matt Oberste for the game-winning run.

“I was trying a little too hard the first two swings,” said Haley, who finished the day with two hits. “The last one, I had two strikes; I just shortened it up like I normal-ly do and put a good swing on it.”

After falling behind, 3-0, through four innings and div-ing into the bullpen early, the Sooners found themselves in a do-or-die situation when TCU loaded the bases to start the fifth. Senior pitcher Jake Fisher got out of the jam by recording three straight outs to start the turn of the tide.

The bats completed the momentum swing, thanks to speed.

Freshman center fielder Craig Aikin plated OU’s first run on a two-out infield sin-gle that continued the fifth in-ning. If he did not beat out the slow roller to second, the run would not have scored, and the Sooners may not have scored the three runs needed to force extras.

“ T h a t ’s j u s t s p e e d ,” Golloway said. “That’s just God-given ability the way

Aikin gets down the line.”

Freshman catcher Anthony Hermelyn drove in the game-ty-ing run in the sixth in-ning with a two-run double, and the bull-pen — a combination of Fisher, junior Ethan Carnes and freshman

Jacob Evans — held TCU’s bats at bay.

The bullpen was need-ed during crucial middle and late-inning situations because redshirt freshman Adam Choplick was pulled

after allowing two runs on two hits in three innings.

His outing was not in line with junior pitchers Jonathan Gray and Dillon Overton outings. The two combined to allow three runs — two earned — on 10 hits while striking out 16 batters.

Overton’s outing was cut short because he continues to be battling a blister on his middle throwing finger.

“I was just trying to gut through it for the most part and try to go as long as I could for my team,” he said. “I’m just going to let it heal and do its course.”

While Saturday’s game saw a quick celebration for what seemed to be Oberste set-ting the program’s all-time

hit streak record, Sunday af-ternoon saw that record go away as a technical error was discovered.

L a s t s e a s o n ’s S u p e r Regional stats were not rec-ognized in OU’s computer system, so Oberste’s three straight games with a hit in the Regionals were the last recorded stats. He did not get a hit in either Super Regional game against South Carolina, so his hit streak re-cord dropped from 28 games to 25 games.

B u t O b e r s t e’s e f f o r t s to reclaim the record did not fall short. His single in

the bottom of the seventh Sunday extended his hit streak to 26 games, which is one game shy of tying former OU player Marty Neff ’s re-cord of 27 straight games that was set in 1991.

No comment was made about the matter.

The weekend series con-cluded OU’s homestand in which it went 10-0.

The Sooners head to the road for a midweek matchup against Oral Roberts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Tulsa.

Jono Greco, [email protected]

BaseBall

Haley’s single seals sweep Maple wins national title in 141-pound division

wrEStling

For the first time in eight years, the Oklahoma wrestling team claimed an individual national champion-ship when junior Kendric Maple defeated edinboro sopho-more Mitchell Port for the 141-pound title saturday in des Moines, iowa.

“it’s a feeling of absolute, total satis-faction,” Maple said in a news release. “it’s a great honor to be here, in this spot. i just love this sport.”

in addition to winning the national title, Maple finished the season as a two-time All-American with a 31-0 record.

“it’s a wonderful accomplishment,” said coach Mark Cody in the same release. “it defi-nitely sets the benchmark for the future of the pro-gram. With all the young guys in our program, and all the new ones coming in, we have to make a statement. if they’re going to come to the university of Oklahoma, they have the potential to become a national champion.”

Maple is the sooners’ 66th individual national champion and first since teyon Ware in 2005.

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Matt Oberste’s record put on hold

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The OU men’s basketball team’s season came

to an end Friday night in a 70-55 loss to San Diego State in the NCAA Tournament.

It was a somewhat de-flating way for the season to end for the Sooners, who finished 20-12. They lost their last three games of the year, including a shocking 70-67 upset by TCU, a hard fought 73-66 defeat to Iowa State and the aforementioned set-back against San Diego State.

However, even though the team didn’t finish this year strongly, it is poised to come back as good or even better next year.

While the departure of senior guards Steven Pledger and Sam Grooms and of senior forwards Romero Osby and Andrew Fitzgerald un-doubtedly will be a huge loss, the team is struc-tured so there are plenty of people ready to step into leadership roles.

The unquestioned leader next year most likely will be junior forward Amath M’Baye. He was an integral part of the Sooners this year, averaging 10.1 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game.

Also stepping into the spotlight of leadership will be junior forward Cameron Clark — the Sooners’ sixth man this season — who had the second-best field goal per-centage on the team this year.

Finally, OU will be bolstered by its trio of freshman guards, Je’lon Hornbeak, Isaiah Cousins and Buddy Hield.

Another year of action and increased roles on the team should be good for Hornbeak, Cousins and Hield, and they should thrive as they become more accustomed to playing the college game.

Aside from the players, coach Lon Kruger will be in his third year, which means his culture will be ingrained al-most completely in the team, paving the way for improve-ments in teamwork.

Add those factors to the potential for a good recruit-ing class, and you have a recipe for a good basketball team, one that potentially could surpass this year’s achievements.

Garrett Holt is a journalism sophomore.

Dan GelstonThe Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — San Diego State did nothing spectacular and may not find its play on many tournament video clips.

Leave the stylish dunks to other games around the bracket.

The Aztecs found a way to play another game, and that’s all that mattered.

“We don’t think about the highlights and everything,” guard Chase Tapley said. “A win is a win and we’ll take it any way we can get it.”

Jamaal Franklin scored 21 points, James Rahon had 17 and San Diego State beat Oklahoma, 70-55, on Friday night to earn its third NCAA tournament victory.

T h e s e v e n t h - s e e d e d Aztecs (23-10) will play No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast on Sunday in the South Regional. The Eagles intro-duced themselves to the col-lege basketball world with a 78-68 win over Georgetown.

After that thriller, this game never stood a chance.

San Diego State traveled 2,732 miles to play in the NC AA tournament. The Aztecs surely didn’t mind delaying their return trip home.

Beat the Eagles, and they’ll be in the round of 16 for the second time in three years. Coach Steve Fisher was proud Franklin, Rahon, and Tapley had been a part of the program for all of the Aztecs’ NCAA victories.

“We are hungry to add to it and proud of the fact that we got one tonight,” Fisher said.

The Aztecs outrebound-ed the 10th-seeded Sooners 40-29 and used a modest 8-0 run late in the second half to snap a tie game and take control. The Aztecs are in the tournament for the fourth straight season but they had only won games in 2011 when they reached the round of 16.

Built around upperclass-man, the Aztecs firmly be-lieved they had a deep run ahead and wanted to send out seniors like Tapley and DeShawn Stephens (11 re-bounds) as winners. They treated the game like a busi-ness trip and played like it.

“You just want to go to your teammates and just hug them,” Tapley said. “We just accomplished something. Let’s keep on going.”

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Senior guard Jasmine Hartman eyes a jump shot against TCU on Jan. 30 at Lloyd Noble Center. Hartman played 14 minutes against Central Michigan on Saturday.

Rusty MilleRThe Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joanna McFarland had 18 points and a career-high 17 rebounds and Aaryn Ellenberg scored 18 of her 22 points in the sec-ond half Saturday to lead sixth-seeded Oklahoma to a 78-73 victory over Central Michigan in a first-round NCAA women’s tournament game.

T h e s i x t h - s e e d e d Sooners (23-10) advance to Monday night’s sec-ond-round game against UCLA at Ohio State’s St. John Arena.

Despite 24 turnovers, the Sooners had just enough to hold off the Chippewas (21-12), who were making their third trip to the NCAA and first since 1984. Crystal Bradford had a sen-sational game for CMU with a career-high 36 points (on 14 of 31 shooting from the field) with 14 rebounds and seven steals.

Ellenberg, who held Oklahoma’s season (103) and career (272) records for 3-pointers made, hit 4 of 5 in the second half to rally her team, which was struggling to hold onto the lead. None was bigger than her shot behind the arc with 3:11 left and late in the shot clock to extend the lead to 71-60.

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Sooners survive and advanceOklahoma to face UCLA in second round of NCAA Tournament

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Season ends in Round of 64Sooners made 39.7 percent of their shots in loss

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Senior forward Romero osby (24) led the Sooners in scoring (22 points) and rebounds (eight) in oklahoma’s 70-55 loss against the San Diego State aztecs in the NCaa Tournament on Friday.

(20-12).Basketball fans looking for

YouTube worthy highlights in this game to go with the big upsets and eye-popping plays had to turn to the rest of field. Most of the crowd of 20,125 — perhaps spent from watching the Florida Gulf Coast-Georgetown upset — left by the time the Aztecs wrapped this one up.

There was nothing spec-tacular about the way the Aztecs constructed their win. They just methodically picked apart OU’s defense one open look at a time.

Tapley snapped a 50-all tie with a layup and Stephens made a fantastic out-of-no-where tip in off a missed layup during a routine 8-0 run that, fittingly, was the difference.

Osby broke up the fun with a 3 to keep the Sooners with-in striking distance

But Rahon hit a 3 and Franklin buried a long jump-er for a 10-point lead. Rahon jogged off the court during a substitution to an apprecia-tive ovation from the fans be-hind the bench. Coach Steve Fisher slapped him on the

back for job well done.Franklin said nothing has

topped the run to the region-als semifinals in 2011. But he’d like to try.

“I have so many memories that I can’t say this memory is the best I have,” he said. “I’m just thankful to be on the San Diego State basket-ball team.”

No other player hit dou-ble digits for the Sooners. Lon Kruger became the first coach to lead five different programs to the NCAA tour-nament. He brought Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and UNLV into the tournament.

Osby, their first-team All-Big 12 senior guard was their lone sense of hope. Every

time the Aztecs seemed they might stretch their lead even more, Osby was there with a short jumper or tough basket inside. Osby couldn’t carry them alone and left the court with a loss in his final game.

“I want to leave a stamp of, hey, this program is back and we’re on to bigger and better things,” he said. “We just don’t want to look back from here.”

Once the Aztecs broke through and took the lead for good, they simply made the parade of free throws in the final minutes to seal it. A small pocket of fans chant-ed “Coach! Coach! Coach!” as Fisher walked off a win-ner. The Aztecs made 16 of 17 free throws; OU was just 4 of 8.

Behind Osby, Oklahoma l e d 3 3 - 3 1 at t h e b re a k. With no other support, the Sooners couldn’t keep it going another 20 minutes. The Sooners shot 37 per-cent in the second half and missed 16 of 21 3-point attempts.

“The timing of not making shots was not good,” Kruger said.

PLAYER PROFILEJoanna McFarlandYear: senior

Position: Forward

Statistics: scored 18 points and pulled down 17 rebounds against central michigan

“I want to leave a stamp of, hey, this program is back, and we’re on to

bigger and better things. We just don’t want to look back

from here.”ROmERO OsbY,

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23.8The sooners’

3-point percentage in loss.

17 The number of points

the sooners were outscored by in the second half.

22 The number of points scored

by senior forward romero osby.

Source: soonersports.com

Amath M’Baye, forward

points per game: 10.1

FG percentage: 46.1

Cameron Clark, forward


FG percentage: 51.3

Je’lon Hornbeak, guard


FG percentage: 37.4

Buddy Hield guard


FG percentage: 38.8

Source: soonersports.com

AT A GLAnCE Next year’s key returners

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Oklahoma poised for another run

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