07.09Atlanta Chalks Up Second Win
Atlanta has won their second straight game, beating the Minnesota Lynx, 73-67, Wednesday night.
Betty Lennox led the Dream with 24 points with 17 of those in the second half. Ivory Latta and Jennifer Lacy added 11 each. This is their second win all season.
“We lost enough games for a lifetime,” Lacy said. “We’re just resilient. We keep fighting and we find a way to come back. We make scrappy plays, we somehow find baskets. That’s been a character of our team the whole season, it’s just that now we’re finding a way to pull out those W’s.”
Minnesota came out in the first quarter to lead 19-6. Atlanta shot only 16.7%.
“We just looked at each other and we’re like ‘not again,’ and we kept fighting and fighting and pushing and pushing and getting stops,” Lacy said.
At half time, Minnesota had a 38-26 lead over the Dream.
In the second half the Dream played big.
Minnesota went on a 15-4 run in the 3rd but by the end of the of the quarter Atlanta had come within 5, 54-49.
Down by 6 points with just over 3 minutes left, the Dream rallied a 13-1 run, shooting 71%, for the win. Jennifer Lacy hit a 3 and Tamara Young made a layup off a long pass from Kristine Haynie. Haynie then scored on a drive with 35 seconds left in regulation to gain a lead of 71-67.
With just 24 seconds Allison Bales, a new acquisition from Indiana last week, blocked a shot by Nicole Ohlde. Bales also had 11 rebounds.
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