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Los Angeles Sparks forward
Nneka Ogwumike (30) drives HOP
to the basket against Min-
nesota Lynx's Maya Moore
in the first half of a single
elimination WNBA basketball
playoff game, Tuesday, Aug.
21, 2018, in Los Angeles. The
Sparks won 75-68.
Associated Press
L.A. Sparks

eliminate

defending

champion

Lynx 75-68

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chel-
sea Gray scored 26 points,
helping the Los Angeles
Sparks beat the defending
champion Minnesota Lynx
75-68 Tuesday night to ad-
vance to the second round
of the WNBA playoffs. It
was the fourth straight year
Los Angeles and Minneso-
ta have met in an elimina-
tion playoff game — with
each team winning the
past two WNBA champion-
ships. The Lynx hadn't been
eliminated in the first round
since 2004.
After Minnesota's Maya
Moore missed two free
throws with 1:56 remaining,
Gray sank a long jumper to
extend Los Angeles' lead
to 70-65. Minnesota turned
it over on its next posses-
sion and Nneka Ogwumike
hit two free throws. Allen's 2 catches help Bieber,
Temi Fagbenle made an
open corner 3-pointer to Indians beat Red Sox 6-3
pull Minnesota to 72-68
with 52.4 seconds to go,
but Moore was off on a
contested 3-pointer on Cleveland Indians' Jose Ramirez (11) is forced out at second base as Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts turns the double play on
the next possession and Yandy Diaz during the ninth inning of a baseball game in Boston, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018.
Ogwumike sealed it at the Associated Press
free-throw line.q Page 20