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Sabrinaionesque flirt with another triple-double Friday night for the New York Liberty. The New York Liberty never beat the Atlanta Dream 89-77 at College Park, Georgia. The second career triple-double on June 12th ended on Friday, Liberty (8-10) with 21 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists. New York improved to 7-3 this month.
Natasha Howard increased 19 points and 10 rebounds, and Marine Joanes added 17 points to the rebound.
AD Durr scored the game's highest 23 points in Dream (8-9), which dropped five of the last six games. Rhyne Howard scored 19 points, reduced eight rebounds and Arimak Donald added 12 points.
In the first quarter, Ionesk scored the last six points of the 12-0 run, which gave Liberty 17-4, in a three-point and three-point play. Lead. The dream went 0-5 from the field in sales during the surge in New York.
Liberty topped 33-16 at the end of the first day, taking the biggest lead when Sami Whitcomb opened its second quarter at Rayup. When Durr scored 5 points with a 7-0 lead and narrowed the New York lead to 42-34, Dream was missing and reduced the deficit to a single digit.
Dream dragged 53-43 in half, leading Liberty's lead three times four times before Cheyenne Parker's free-throw pair cut the gap to 63-59 with 2:10 remaining. I reduced it to points.
Beatrice Mompremier ejected a pair of free throws to pull Atlanta within 68-64 at the end of the third round. Parker and Dahl each missed the jumper in the first quarter, after which Crystal Dangerfield sank three points towards New York.
Dreams drew two more possessions two more times, ending with a Durr jumper at 74-68, with 6:12 remaining. Whitcom answered with three pointers, and Liberty led the remaining nine.
– Field-level media
