Fever eliminate Mystics, win 81-74 in overtime (AP)

Indiana 81, Washington 74 1 minute ago on Saturday night to sweep their best-of-three Eastern Conference semifinal series. Catchings had 24 points, 16 rebounds, five assists, four steals and four blocked shots before a noisy Conseco Fieldhouse crowd of 9,655. Point guard Bevilaqua scored six of her 13 points and had three rebounds in overtime to spark the Fever, who travel to Detroit on Wednesday to start the conference finals. “I call her Mighty Mouse,” Catchings said of 5-foot-7 Bevilaqua. “Lindsey Harding had five fouls. We wanted to get her out. We didn’t get her out, but Tully attacked her, took away some of her offense.” Tammy Sutton-Brown scored 16 points and Katie Douglas 13 for Indiana, which made five of its first seven shots and then just 18-of-65 the rest of the way to finish at 32.4 percent. “We did not shoot as... [read full story]                    

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