Rhyne Howard made two foul shots before 9.7 seconds and raised Atlanta Dream to 91-90 victories against Indiana Fire in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
Fire threw the first basket of the game, and then Aliyah Boston never leads again until he made one of the two free throws 21.7 seconds before the advantage of 90-89. Dream entered the fourth quarter with 11.
After Boston’s foul shots, Rhyne Howard entered the strip and foul by Kelsey Mitchell. Following Rhyne Howard’s two successful free throws, Natasha Howard of Indiana made a shot by Nia Coffey. Natasha Howard took chance once again, but missed a 12 -meter experiment.
Dream defeated the fire for the first time in the last six meetings, while winning 30 points in the first and third quarters.
Atlanta (1-1), Indiana (1-1) of the second period of 10 points after cutting control of the third period seized control.
Rhyne Howard opened the third with a 3-point bucket and extended the edge to 53-42 in the first one and a half minutes.
Rhyne Howard finished with 20 points and sank all six free throws to balance the 5 -to -5 firing night for 17. Britney Griner was the top scorer dreaming of 21 points and eight rebounds before being polluted at the last minute.
Brionna Jones of Atlanta added 19 points and 13 rebounds. Allişha Gray scored 16 points and made six assists.
Indiana was accelerated by Caitlin Clark, who scored 27 points, hit 5 out of the 3 -point December and distributed 11 assists. Boston added 24 points and 10 rebounds for Indiana and scored 24 points in 9 of Mitchell 15.
Fire hit 48.5 percent in total (33 of 68) and made 8 of the 17 -point attempt, but made 14 turnover and struck only 16 (61.5 percent) of 26 of the foul line.
Atlanta 42.6 percent of the ground (29 of 68) and 3 -point December (26.7 percent) 30 of 30 hit the ball away from the ball 11 times.
Fire and Dream will meet again this time in Atlanta on Thursday.
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