Rhine Howard submerged two dishonest shots with 9.7 seconds remaining, raising Atlanta’s dream for a 91-90 win over Indiana fever on Tuesday in Indianapolis.
Fever made the first basket of the game, never led to re-led until Aliah Boston created one of two free throw with 21.7 seconds for the benefit of 90-89. Sapna was entering 11 in the fourth quarter.
After Boston’s foul shots, Rhine Howard ran into the lane and fouled by Kelsey Michelle. Following two successful free throw of Rin Hoved, Natasha Howard of India blocked a shot by Nia Coffee. Natasha Howard got one more chance, but missed out on trying 12 feet.
In the last six meetings, the first and third quarters had 30 points in the first six meetings.
Atlanta (1–1) appeared to control in the third period after Indiana (1–1) (1-1) entered HafTime to cut a second-digit deficit to 44–42.
Rhine Howard opened a third with a 3-point bucket trio, which increased the edge to 53–42 within the first and one and a half minutes.
Rhine Howard ended with 20 points, drowned to offset all six -free throwing for 5 -for -17 shooting night. Britney was the top scorer for Grinner Dream, matching 21 points and eight rebounds before exiting in the last minute.
Briya Jones of Atlanta added 19 points and 13 rebounds. Alisha Gray scored 16 points and got six assistance.
Indiana was depicted by Cateline Clarke, who scored 27 points, hit 5 out of 11 from the 3-point range, and provided 11 assistance. Boston scored 24 points for Indiana and 10 rebound pairs, Michel scored 24 points on 9-15 shooting.
Fever shot 48.5 percent (33 out of 68) in total and tried 8 out of 17 3-point, but turned 14 and shot only 16 out of 16 (61.5 percent) from the foul line.
Atlanta distanced 42.6 percent (29 out of 68) and 3-point range (26.7 percent) 11 times from the floor 11 times out of 30.
Fever and Sapna will face again on Thursday, this time in Atlanta.
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