Medley, Florida – Lunar Owls and Rose have the most heated rivalry in unrivaled women’s basketball.
And the best part on this subject: they could potentially compete again in the finals unequaled later this month.
The Lunar Owls won the last match of the brewing rivalry, returning to beat the rose 66-56 in the second of the two games Friday evening to start the last weekend of the League.
THE Lunar Owls already has seed n ° 1 In the playoffs, which start with two semi-final games on March 16 before the final of March 17.
And they already have their eyes on the money price – Undoued announced on Friday that the players of the championship team will earn $ 50,000 each.
“We are a public enemy No. 1,” said Courtney Williams, Lunar Owls goalkeeper during an post-match interview on the field.
“It’s not a great bowl for us. It’s like another rodeo. We will continue stacking days, and we will continue to eliminate any team in front of us, because we will get these 50 groups. »»
Napheesa Collier struck the end of match shot to finish with 16 points, but the “Mob bench” of the Lunar Owls of Williams and Shakira Austin won the match in the third quarter.
No team led by more than four points until the Lunar Owls transform a deficit of four points in eight points before the fourth quarter, and extended it to 12 points during the fourth quarter.
Austin finished 17 points in less than 14 minutes, while Williams scored 12 points in almost 12 minutes while the lunar owls improved at 12-1.
“Me and the court, we entered and had this fire,” said Austin. “We tried to set our own tone. Not only based on what beginners have done, but also to have their guard stayed a little more. »»
“Shakira and Courtney gave us incredible minutes,” said Lunar’s OWLS coach Dj Sackmann. “They are both beginners, and they can play in any team in the world and get a lot of minutes. We all know it.
The fierce and animated competition between the two teams – triggered by the fact that each club was already fighting once this season – was obvious throughout the match.
Rose goalkeeper Brittney Sykes and the lunar owls Skylar Diggins-Smiths were competitive against both sides of the ground. Austin and Rose Center Angel Reese entered several brief dust under the basket. Reese was called to an offensive fault when his elbow seemed to strike necklace in the face in the third trimester.
The rose remains in second place unmatched with a file of 7-6, already winning one of the four places in the playoff series. Reese and Sykes each scored 17 points, while Chelsea Gray had 10 points in defeat.
“You look at these teams from top to bottom, and you only see passionate and competitive players. So when you put this type of format with players that we have in our teams, respectively, it will be a dog fight each time, “said Sykes.
“You want that. We knew that coming in this match, it was going to be a type of game with an eliminatory atmosphere. Obviously, we hate that we have lost this evening. No one likes to lose, but we also have a taste of what the playoffs could potentially be. … By all means, we would like to see them again. “”
The Lunar Owls beat the rose 79-70 on January 18, and the Rose presented to the Lunar Owls its first defeat of the season, 72-63, February 21. The Lunar Owls used their advantage from 24-16 to the third quarter on Friday to take the third match between the two teams.
On Friday in the first match, the laces beat the Phantom 73-59. Kayla McBride scored 22 points and the 3 -point pointer winning, Jackie Young collected 18 points and Stefanie Dolson added 16 points on the bench in the victory. The Phantom (3-10) was eliminated from the connection of the eliminatory series with the loss.
The laces (6-7, n ° 3) will face the mist (5-7, n ° 4) in the first of the two games on Saturday, from 6 p.m. he. The vinyl (5-7, n ° 5) will face the Phantom in the second match at 7 p.m. he.
Monday, the regular season of Invalided will end with the owl lunar meeting the mist at 7:30 p.m. he, and the vinyl playing the rose at 8:30 p.m. he.
Only two other clubs will join the Lunar Owls and have raised themselves in inaugural eliminations of Invalided.
This article originally appeared on USA Today: Unparalleled female basketball: Lunar owls beaten pink in a heated battle
