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Smith shot 10-for-17 from the field and added
nine rebounds for Indiana (7-10), which won its fourth straight
game. Kelsey Mitchell scored 18 points, while Caitlin Clark
tallied 16 points and seven assists.
Aliyah Boston finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Katie
Lou Samuelson chipped in 10 points off the bench.
Tina Charles led Atlanta (6-8) with 24 points, followed by
Allisha Gray's 19. Haley Jones had 12 points for the Dream, who
have dropped four of five. Aerial Powers scored 10 off the
bench.
Facing a 16-point halftime deficit, Atlanta began the third
quarter on a 16-9 run, capped with Gray's three-pointer at the
5:18 mark to cut Indiana's lead to 66-57.
Clark stopped the run with a layup, and later knocked down a
stepback 3-pointer to put the Fever up 71-59 with 3:59
remaining.
Up 13, Boston and Smith scored the final four points of the
quarter, giving the Fever a 79-62 lead entering the fourth
quarter.
Charles and Gray began the fourth with back-to-back buckets for
Atlanta to cut the deficit to 79-66, but Lexie Hull's triple
started a 6-0 Indiana run. Naz Hillmon's three-point play and
Charles' jumper trimmed Indiana's lead to 85-71, but Atlanta
wasn't able to cut the lead to single digits.
Atlanta shot just 22-of-65 from the field (33.8 percent) and
4-for-18 on 3-pointers (22.2 percent). The Fever connected on 37
of 65 attempts from the field (56.9 percent), including an
11-for-21 mark from long range (52.4 percent). Clark went
4-for-8 from the arc.
In the first quarter, Powers' triple cut Atlanta's deficit to
24-23 before Indiana answered with a 9-0 run, jump-started by
back-to-back buckets from Mitchell and Samuelson. The Fever led
35-25 after the first.
From there, the Fever opened with a 7-0 run, taking a 42-25
advantage at the 6:58 mark. Jones' free throw briefly stopped
the run, but Clark followed with a 27-foot 3-pointer, giving the
Fever a 45-26 lead.
Another Clark triple put Indiana up 48-29 with 4:42 remaining,
before four straight free throws from Gray stamped an 8-0 Dream
scoring run.
Indiana led 57-41 at the half, led by Mitchell's 14. Charles had
15 for Atlanta.
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