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Saturday 4 auguSt 2018

Travel

woes force BIRDMAN

cancellation

of Aces-

Mystics

game

By DOUG FEINBERG, AP
Basketball Writer
The game between the
Las Vegas Aces and Wash-
ington Mystics on Friday
night has been canceled.
The decision was made
about 1 1/2 hours before
the scheduled tip-off in
Washington.
Las Vegas had an adven-
ture getting to Washington
with travel woes causing
the team to arrive in D.C.
at 3 p.m. They were sched-
uled to take off from Las
Vegas on Thursday after-
noon, but their flight was
delayed more than eight
hours before being can-
celed.
The team scrambled to get
on overnight flights that
got the players to Dallas on
Friday morning where they
could connect to Wash-
ington.
The Aces then had to split
their team up into groups
to get on different flights
in Texas with the last set of
players boarding a flight
that gets into Washington
around 3 p.m. The WNBA
moved the original tipoff
back an hour to 8 p.m.
"I'm really disappointed
that the Las Vegas play-
ers and organization didn't
come to compete," Mys- Fleetwood hits seven birdies
tics coach Mike Thibault
said in a phone interview
Friday night. "If you're there to share the lead at WGC
and in the city and can
play, you should show up
and play."
Thibault recalled a story
that when he was coach-
ing in Connecticut in 2003
the team was in Cleveland
when a massive blackout Tommy Fleetwood, from England, watches his putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf
hit the east coast. tournament at Firestone Country Club, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, in Akron, Ohio.
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