Sport Recap: Fever Sweep Common Season Collection In opposition to Mercury
Sat, Aug 17, 2024, 3:23 AM
INDIANAPOLIS – Within the staff’s first recreation again following the Olympic break, the Indiana Fever (12-15) defeated the Phoenix Mercury, 98-89, in its highest scoring recreation of the season at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. With the win, Indiana completed 3-0 within the common season sequence in opposition to Phoenix and swept the Mercury for the primary time for the reason that 2015 common season.
Friday was the fourth consecutive recreation Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell and NaLyssa Smith all scored in double figures with Boston, Clark, Mitchell and Smith all scoring double figures by halftime on Friday evening.
Clark led Indiana in scoring and recorded her tenth double-double of the season with 29 factors, 10 assists and in addition pulled down 5 rebounds. Clark went 9-of-10 from the free throw line and made 4 3-point area objectives. Mitchell tied a season-high 28 factors and notched a season-high six made 3-point area objectives, passing Allie Quigley for seventeenth on the all-time made 3-point area objectives listing. Mitchell additionally grabbed 5 rebounds and dished out three assists. Friday’s matchup marked Clark’s eleventh recreation scoring no less than 20 factors this season and Mitchell’s eighth 20-point scoring effort this season.
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Boston and Smith mixed for 27 factors within the win, as Boston recorded 14 factors and Smith tallied 13. Each gamers additionally pulled down 9 rebounds every.
The Fever went on a 22-9 run for greater than 5 minutes within the first quarter and outscored Phoenix, 33-16, going into the second quarter. Within the first quarter, Clark pitched in 13 of her 29 factors and 10 of Mitchell’s 28 factors helped Indiana race out to the lead. Indiana’s first quarter run prolonged into the second quarter because the Fever went on a 23-8 run for greater than six minutes and ended the primary half up, 54-37, which was its second largest lead on the half this season. The Fever went on a 12-3 run towards the tip of the third quarter and Fever ahead Katie Lou Samuelson hit a 3-point area purpose on the buzzer, placing Indiana up, 73-65, going into the fourth.
Indiana outscored Phoenix in paint factors, 34-10, bench factors, 11-6, and led by as a lot as 28 factors midway by the second quarter.
On Phoenix’s finish, 4 Mercury (14-13) gamers scored in double figures, led by Kahleah Copper’s game-high 32 factors. Copper added eight rebounds and 6 assists as effectively. Mercury guards Natasha Cloud and Diana Taurasi adopted with 19 and 16 factors, respectively, and Cloud tallied a season-high 5 made 3-point area objectives. Cloud and Taurasi mixed for six rebounds and 6 assists. Mercury heart Brittney Griner added 10 factors and 4 rebounds.
UP NEXT
The Fever host the Seattle Storm on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Sunday’s recreation shall be broadcast on ABC.